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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
I AM six forty, The Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. So, you know those kids
that you've heard about growing up, like the rich kids
who could, I don't know, crash a car and dad
would make a call and get away with it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Or dad would like pay their way out of trouble.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Kid gets in trouble at school and suddenly it just
disappears like we've all heard those stories. We've read the books,
we've seen the movies. It was part of why, you know,
Donald Trump got elected in twenty sixteen. People were tired
of the elite running the country.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The people who.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Had those tickets just go away, or all of their
troubles just go away because they had money. They're blue
blooded Americans that just kept rising to the top.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And what about everyday people.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Now, we know what it feels like to be one
of those kids, right, Donald Trump paid our way.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Out of that red card. Now, it makes no mistake.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Money was exchanged and dad bribed us.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Out of trouble.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
He said he just asked for a review. Balls, That's
all there was.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
FIFA loves to take money for silly things like this.
That's actually a great point, and they have a long
story to history. Donald Trump wrote an MF and check
or he promised an MF and check down the line.
Money was talked about, money was exchanged, the promise of
money being exchanged was made. And man, it does feel
good to get away with something, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
FIFA has had.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
FIFA has enjoyed a spectacular tournament so far, and it
has been a really first of all, we talked about
it last week, very well done, very little in terms
of negative coverage of anything except for this kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I would even argue that maybe, if you want to
play conspiracy theory that FIFA knew what it was doing
handing out a BS foul call red card to America
so that they could get a payday because they knew
it would piss off Trump.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well, it definitely does add some allure to this game
that's coming up tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The thing about it that doesn't usually it would bother me.
Usually you would have an air of Houston astros to me.
But it doesn't because that foul was such a wobbler.
It was such a it could have been a foul,
could it could have been a yellow card.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It could have been a no foul.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I don't think it certainly was a red card, especially
if you're gonna play What about ism to look at
other fouls that have happened in the tournament and how
egregious it was. It wasn't, so I don't feel like
it was deserving of the red card, which makes me
feel a little bit better about Dad making it go away.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, listen, the only people who are upset about it
is everybody else in the world. The fans of the
United States team. We shrug our shoulders and go, yeah,
that was a bad card. It was a bad foul.
It was a bad call. Even with video review, they
gave him the red car. All of that was bad.
It just wasn't fair. That's not the way that, like
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you said, the other matches have been reft. So okay. Now,
of course Belgium has appealed and we'll talk about a
little bit later what the process is, because there is
still technically a possibility that full Belogan does not play
in that game tonight. But that's part of the drama
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and this is uh, that's why it's fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I mean, followerin Belogren. I'm doing probably as good as
Trump did it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I've heard him regard him.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
They call him flow flow Okay, but how do you
say his full name correctly?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Fularen Belogan? Fularen Belogan? Nope, I'm pronouncing it wrongen, damn it.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Amy.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
You should know this, I know, but you know what
everybody is getting used to trying to say the name.
And I've I've been listening to TV stations. They're all
mispronouncing it where I mean. It's just because it's new
to us and it's an unusual This is a.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Team America guy. Where is he from? Is he from Peoria? President?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Born in New York? I understand after his mom was
denied a plane flight, ah back to England.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Lauren Bulligan. Anyway, there you go.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
It's fun. It'll be a fun time tonight. Kickoff, first pitch,
base off?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
What is it called tip off? They play on the pitch.
They don't throw out the right?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Oh yeah, right?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Tip off is at six pm? Is that what they
call it? Kickoff? Kickoff?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Kickoff?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That I should I should be able to get it. Sorry,
football is coming. It's new to all of.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Us, right six pm, five pm.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Five pm, unless it gets delayed like the game so
many of the games get weather delayed, which is weird.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I would imagine lightning would delay it, but rain, I
don't think should delay a soccer game. Yeah, I agree,
And it's Seattle. It's gonna be eighty two and clear
in Seattle. It's beautiful because it's after the fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It's going to be you guys, you guys. I just
want to announce that the NFL kicks off one month
from today. The Hall of Fame game is Thursday, August sixth, guys,
So real football?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I was wondering why I was in such a great
mood today. The heart keeps the clock sometimes.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Are you liking the other football that we're experiencing?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
So I watched my first minutes last night with the
Mexico game.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Great game.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It was a lot of fun. My husband walked in,
He said, why are you watching this in Spanish? I said,
why wouldn't I?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Also?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I exactly, I understand as much about this game in
Spanish as I would in English, so it does not matter.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
You didn't even realize that's great. The other game today
is Spain Portugalo play at noon. Big week. This is
going to be a big we'll talk about what's going on.
Presidents headed to NATO for a summit. He had some
words about what happened when it comes to this now
non red card. Oh you got into it.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You got to hear it.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Did you ever hear Shane Gillis's story also about Trump
and the head of FIFA.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Oh, man, I think it was. I think it was
at the SP's last year. He told this story of
meeting Trump and they had a fena a FIFA and
how Trump just ordered him around, like hey you this
is the president of soccer and then walked away. It's
a great story.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Also, the music, this Country Roads thing is going viral again.
It's having its moment. They were singing Country Roads in
the Atlanta Braves game and someone hit a home run.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Now we heard a lot from you, but we want
to hear more about if you're upset or you don't
like Country Roads as the World Old Cup's theme song
here in America, what do you think the theme song
should be? I also thought of us over the weekend
and I took a screenshot because there was science. The
neuroscientists sat down and did the math on happiness when
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it comes to musical elements. Doctor Jacob Joji ran a
study measuring the quantitative musical elements that make human beings
feel genuinely happy. Tempo, pitch keys, lyrics, chord progressions. All
of it related to a reduced to a mathematical formula
for pure joy. So he has published a list of
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the ten happiest songs on Earth.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Oh, okay, excellent, we'll do that.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I have the list of them right.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (07:51):
How was your fourth It was wonderful. It was chill
down by the beach. All the fireworks. Fallujah died down
about twelve thirty in the morning, which was nice. Didn't
go all night.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I felt like I.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Got Newport beach right. No, okay good.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I heard there were some issues.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
In Newport, four hundred and two arrests.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
It made me sad when I saw Lake Tahoe had
to shut down. It's each other beachcause of a holes. Well,
and it was it was out and I think Tahoe
would tell you this. It was out of town a
holes apparently. Yes, they had been there since Wednesday and people.
I get trying to camp and you can't do that there.
It gets real uncomfortable really quick because there is so
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few spots along the lake especially.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
One of the biggest events they do in Tahoe every
year is the July fifth cleanup of the campgrounds and
beaches that are available. And there was a time a
few years ago, I want to say, twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
they collected eight thousand pounds of trash. Yeah, how do.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
You We.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Were taught differently. I feel like it seems like being
okay with just leaving your crap everywhere. It's awful. It
makes me very sad for Tahoe.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
But yeah, no, I didn't see I.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Thought we handled the Fourth of July and all the
I saw the fireworks at the White House, the biggest,
largest display ever. Yeah, I feel like, and maybe this
is just me being a contrarian. It was a little
too big for me. It was a little too much.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I had too little freedom overdose.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
You know, fireworks are special because you see them once
a year, right, and it's fun to go to a
big fireworks display. But sometimes maybe it's a little too
much makes it less special.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
It can be overwhelming I could see that, and I
mean we saw it obviously on television. If you were
anywhere close to that, that would be yeah, that would
be nuts.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
And I don't know if it would be overwhelming or
my fomo of not being close to it hereopset.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, it did get serious here. We already mentioned the
four hundred and two arrests. And for all those a
holes throughout Newport Beach who then looted up pavilions, I
believe that's very southern California. A man has been arrested
after that explosion of fireworks on d Street in Chino
on eight thirty Saturday night. They were initially called because
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they said was a vehicle fire, but it turns out
that this thing was a house chalk full of fireworks.
They believe a large quantity of fireworks ignited that caused
an explosion. At least one woman died. Three people were hurt,
including a kid.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Is that your phone?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Oh yeah, that sounds serious. Nobody usually calls during the show.
Is it a doctor?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Uh no, because it's a woman's name.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Oh, maybe we need to hear more about your weekend.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
That was a joke and you didn't get it. Oh
the reason I know it's not a doctor.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The thing is is, I didn't even question it. I
didn't like. That's how entrenched sexism is in my mind.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I have a a doctor's appointment this week with my
female doctor. And she's not my female doctor.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Who is a woman doctor of education or something, doctor
of music? You mean an actual medical doctor.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Not funny, speaking of women. Tillie Norwood has got a
role in her first feature film. Are we doing this?
Tilly Norwood is the AI actor is set to star
in her first feature film.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's called Misaligned.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Who's going to watch that? And it's about from what
I understood I saw the little blurbon it this morning.
It's about an AI thing, in this case Tilly Norwood,
who is encouraged by a dark web AI guy to
break out of her computerized world or something.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
It's the first full length AI feature film from Particle
six is the AI AI.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Company behind it.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
It is a hybrid production, they say, using traditional film
and TV professionals, including directors, writers and editors working alongside
AI specialists. They say AI training and mentorship will be
built into the production itself.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Wow, I just have zero desire to see I mean,
it's amazing to see the technology advance the way that
it has. But I feel like there's a point where
you have to say no. That's what old people would say,
is yes, yes, I heard it.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I thought I just let it lie.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
All right, happiest songs. We'll talk about that. Of course,
there there now there is Taylor Kelsey. Is that she
going by?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I think Taylor Swift, Kelsey Tavis? Is that what I read?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
No, I don't want. I don't want. They don't need.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
That, Tasey. I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It sounds like they wanted all of the stars, every
single star at their wedding except for Blake Lively, and
that's what they were gonna do.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 3 (13:27):
A bunch of stuff going on. President Trump is going
to be headed to Turkey for the NATO meetings this week.
I believe they start tomorrow. While that's been going on,
explosions have hit the capital city of Kiev once again
on the eve of this NATO summit. Zelenski, President Zelenski
of Ukraine is expected to go to this NATO summit,
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but he wrote in a social media post that twelve
people were killed in this latest Russian attack, sixty four
others wounded. Authorities, by the way, in Turkey have been
cracking down on public life. You may have seen the
headline from last week. They've arrested more than two hundred
people during raids across Anko, Turkey in the last month,
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jailing a comedian who makes fun of the Turkish government
blocking a cruise ship that was carrying gay passengers from
docking in the capitol. So they're doing what they believe
is needed to clean up the streets there in Anchor, Turkey.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
It's been called the game of their lives tonight to
US Men's Team one. It's group and the World Cup
exceeded the number of games it won in a single tournament.
Team beat a European opponent for the first time and
at least this group's time together. Now a new challenge.
This is a Belgium team that is stacked with talent
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and experience at the highest level.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
The resume well known. What can we expect from Team USA.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Well, this is a probably one of the most watched
matches of the entire tournament up to this point, not
just because of the fact that it is a round
of sixteen, but also because of this red card controversy.
Foul Blugan is the striker for the United States and
has been spectacular, but got a red card in that
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game against Bosnia Herzegovina, which means he's kicked out of
the game and suspended for the next game until Big
Daddy sees what's going on and decides to place a
phone call.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
So I saw the play, and I'm a person that
loves sports, and it was a good athlete, good athlete,
and I understand sports really.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Well, really well, really well, And that wasn't a foul.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
That wasn't even an infraction. There was two guys running
full speed that happened to crash into each other. You
can't take your foot and properly place it on somebody
else's foot when you're going No, these are two great
athletes that got tangled up.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Now, he says he was only asking for a review.
There is no appeal process for a red card in FIFA.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Right, But as I understand it, FIFA took a look
at its own rule books and found that, thankfully to
whatever financial contribution the president made, found that that place
should not have even qualified for the review that resulted
in the red card. There are a couple of things
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that have to happen in the protocol for it to
be reviewed to then get that red card, and it
did not meet those two things in the protocol.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
It was a surprise. I mean, there was a similar
what dinning up at a red card. But there was
a similar event last night in that Mexico England game
where Harry Kane was trying to kick the ball and
he actually accidentally kicked the guy's leg that was just
above his and since he never actually made contact with
the ball, he gets a yellow card. The guy wasn't hurt,
It wasn't a big deal. It was and they at
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the in the moment, neither one of those guys thought
it was worthy of a yellow card. But after a
review they go back and change it. Here's the other
part about this. The Belgians are pissed, obviously because they
wanted the opportunity to play without Belogan on the field.
For the United States, that makes perfect sense, but they
did what do they do then? What they asked for
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FIFA for what they asked for from FIFA was just
a hey, could you explain how according to your rules
this is supposed to work, and what FIFA said was, well,
we'll turn this into an appeal, so why don't you
give us written arguments about why the guy should not
be on the field. They're due at eight am Eastern
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time this morning, so I don't know what the plan
is going forward.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
The good news is that Belgium showed cracks against Senegal.
They had to go one hundred and twenty minutes that
they were losing until the eighty ninth minute. Belgium was
they dug deep. They found that game winner at the end.
But those legs are tired. They were just and the
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Americans avoided that in their round thirty two match. So
they've got fresher stems.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Fresher stems, that's right.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I just made that up. How's it sound.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
It's good.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I'm working on this whole soccer lexicon in my head
and well that's what I've got so far.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
What did you learn from the Spanish broadcast last night?
Passion la pelota? See see that's about all I will say.
Yeah and goal.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
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Speaker 7 (18:41):
Good morning, Gary and Shannon. Hello, I think I have
this correct the American soccer player has birthright citizenship.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
So I think it's really funny that Trump intervened. His
mother and father are Nigerian and his mother was not
allowed to board a plane when she was pregnant and
he was born here.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
They saw that that baby's right foot and they were like,
you're not leaving.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, let's keep you here for goming.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
We are keeping this baby. He is going to represent
our land.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
He was born to Nigerian parents who had been living
in London. Were visiting New York when mom was pregnant
with filurin full Fullarin Filaren Fluren with the baby boy,
and was so pregnant the airline staff did not allow
her to board the return flight to London, so they
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had to just wait it out. That's why he was
born in New York and lived here for about two months,
and now he's our star striker.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The Taylor Swift thing is finally over. You said they everybody,
but like lively, that's how it felt. And the number
of do they really know all those people or is
it just once you reach a certain level of celebrity,
the assumption is you're going to invite Jennifer Lopez and
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Tom Hank.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
It kind of reminded me of like my Safe Grad Night.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Back in the late nineteen hundreds, we had this thing
when you were getting ready to graduate high school and
it was called safe Grad Night because they didn't want
you to get drunk or high and get in the
car and kill yourselves or somebody else, because that had
happened before when kids were getting ready to graduate and
seniors were going nuts, and so anyway, it developed that
they had this thing where they would throw you in
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a gym and they'd keep you there all night long,
and there'd be different things to do. There'd be face painting,
and my Safe Grad Night had like a psychic and
different foods and like you know, you would bake different stuff,
so it's like a bake sale there. But they also
had normal food and pizza and just games and there
was something to do, and you would be in there
from like eight pm to like six in the morning,
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and they'd keep you up and you'd be up all night.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
And that's what.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
This reminded me of, which was my version of hell
to be stuck somewhere, stay up all night and be
stuck somewhere and have different activities forever. Like when I
was seventeen, I was like, oh my god, and now
as an adult it's even more so like, oh my god,
this thing goes on all night. They seem to have
games because I read that they gave away Cardier watches
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as to the game winners.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
They had, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Different sort of food trucks pull up. They had dessert trucks.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Don't at try. I mean they had everything at this thing.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
They had this indoor seating arrangement where they you saw
the engagement photos of them in like a garden, right,
those have been everywhere. It seems like that was the
theme of the wedding, where they'd turn Madison Square Garden
into at least in part, this garden where people who
went said they'd be sitting there in this ceremony seats
and you felt like you were in a garden, and
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you felt like it was an intimate wedding despite there
being one thousand people there or what have you, or
whatever the number ended up being that it didn't feel
like it was a big place. It felt like this
very intimate garden setting, no matter where you were seated,
which seems to be just a feat a designing feat
and I know we'll get all of the details long
windedly so throughout the days and weeks and years to follow.
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But it sounds like they wanted every star there except
Blake Lively, and they wanted all the activities and everyone
to be comfortable and happy and realized it was the
best night of their lives. And everybody who showed up there,
and all of the receipts show that everyone had the
best night of their lives.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Adam Sandler was the officiant. Yeah, and he's getting a
lot of credit for whatever he said.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
He's great.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
They also had Austin Swift, Taylor's brother was the man
of honor, right, and that Jason Kelsey was best man us.
Good for them? Are you to judge? I'm not, And
that's why I say good for them. Listen there, But
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can we be done with it? I mean, I don't mean.
I mean we've talked about it because I'm a little
bit fascinated by the fact that we're a little bit
fascinated by it. I yeah, something to be said about it.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Well, it's why do the Royals sell all the magazines?
You put the Royals on the magazine, it flies off
the shelves of the pavilions before it's looted.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
It's the same thing with them. There are version of
the royals.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
We do this to celebrity couples from time to time,
sometimes political couples.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
And there is some sport in the poo pooing of
it as well. They're sport in the poo pooing and
there's also sport in that.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
How much does that cost?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Some figures say it was twenty million. I don't even
know if anyone's keeping track.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Well, twenty million on top of the money that they all.
They made a big deal out of giving to charity
the week.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Before, twenty six million to charity. But good for them.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I want nothing but happiness. However, could you imagine what
the album would sound like if he gets caught cheating
on her? Oh boy, hell, hath no fury?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Hey, good morning guys, I'll belated Happy fourth.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
You said you're going to do the happy songs, so
I have no idea, but one song it's gotta be
on there is Wouldn't it be nice by the Beach Boys?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I don't know. Anybody doesn't smile when they hear that
it is not.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
But there is a Beach Boys song on the top three.
Really so they're underage? Is that some of these song lyrics.
When we get back.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Into the I don't feel that way about that song
because that song is not a happy in the moment song.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
They're looking to the future. They're not living in the
present in that song.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Wouldn't it be nice? If it's not nice right now?
But wouldn't it be nice?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
To me?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
That's not true happiness. Well, they followed it up with
the it sure is nice right now.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I'm sure they did.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I wouldn't go to the Beach Boys for your life.
Lessons in the lyrics hidden in wouldn't it be nice?
You might want to I don't know. I don't know you.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I don't know what goes on. Do you want to
hear one of the songs on the top.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Ten, Yes? I do.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Do you want to hear top the number top ten,
the number ten? Yes, it is Walking on Sunshine. Here's
the thing about the top ten happiest songs. You know
every single one, You know all the words, not one
obscure track, not one deep cut. The scientists behind this,
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the neuroscientists, said the songs that make human beings happiness.
Are not complicated. They're not profound, they're not literary, they're
not groundbreaking. They just have the right tempo, the right key,
and the chorus that your body responds to before your
brain even processes what's happening.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
We're just big, dumb animals.
Speaker 7 (26:09):
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