When You Hear THAT Song

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Laugh with Me

Episode: "When You Hear THAT Song"

Host: Jeremy Odom

Release Date: April 15, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of "Laugh with Me" dives deep into that universal, almost magical moment when you hear a song for the first time—and it immediately becomes your entire identity. Host and comedian Jeremy Odom, with sidekick Johnny, uses his own sudden obsession with Alkaline Trio’s "Radio" as a springboard for a funny, relatable, and surprisingly heartfelt discussion about music-induced personality takeovers, the thrill of musical discovery, and the lengths we'll go to relive that first-listen high.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Sudden Song Obsession

• Jeremy recounts losing hearing in his left ear (03:10), humorously noting, "This train just keeps on moving. Whether you can hear on the right, on the left, out of both, or if you're just reading along, I guess this train just keeps on going."
• Main Theme Intro (04:45): Everyone, at some point, hears a song and instantly feels it’s a piece of their soul. Jeremy describes that accelerating process where a new song becomes an all-consuming personality trait, comparing it to "[wanting it] injected straight into your veins as bad as I need iron right now."
• Jeremy’s latest musical obsession is "Radio" by Alkaline Trio, a song he’d never heard before but immediately felt connected to—“I felt like I freaking wrote the song." (07:00)
• Describes the unique, brief magic of the "first listen"—an accidental discovery on Spotify leading to "staring into space like I just saw a ghost." (07:35)

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The Sharing–Evangelizing Phase

• The ritual of sending the song to friends:
  • "I immediately send the song to my main group chat ... and of course Kyle's been listening to this shit since middle school." (08:49)
  • The disappointment of late discovery and the faux-betrayal of friends for not introducing you to the song sooner.
• The Song Loop: Repetition is inevitable ("You don't listen to the song once. No, no, no. You listen to it over and over and over again.") (09:00)
• The Psychology:
  • Not only do you loop the song, but you also start "creating instruments that aren't even real" and "by the 30th listen, I'm pretty much a part of the band now." (09:00–10:00)

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Song as a Personality & Lifestyle Shift

• Jeremy admits to a baseless grudge against Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba because of the Blink-182/Skiba/DeLonge drama—openly acknowledging, "I held that for no reason, just stupidity," but he's come around to appreciate Skiba's work. (14:14)
• Comical changes in behavior: “You start walking different, talking different. You're looking out the window more... You start dressing like the song. Like, I don't know how you dress like a song. But I've tried, trust me.” (15:40)
• Forcing the song on others:
  • "You can't just sit on this all by yourself. ... You have to hear this. You're texting people links ... Did you listen? ... What'd you think?" (16:30)
  • The deep need for validation and the letdown when friends are unmoved: “This song changed who I am as a person for the next 14 days. And you're giving me ‘good’?!” (17:14)

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True Obsession—and Comedic Regret

• The Record Store Story:
  • Jeremy and his brother Kyle visit a Chicago record store where Kyle spots the Alkaline Trio vinyl but doesn’t alert Jeremy. This is retold with mock drama—“That’s a felony in at least three states. And I don’t know which ones, but it felt wrong.” (17:50–18:30)
  • The regret is painted humorously—“Like you ever miss out on something, it just ruins your entire day.”
• Reprieve via Italian Beef Sandwich:
  • At Giordano’s, a legendary Italian beef sandwich distracts Jeremy from his vinyl-less wound:
    • “The sandwich didn't just feed me. It healed me from the wound of not having radio on vinyl for at least five minutes.” (20:44)
    • “This sandwich is competing with the song. ... This is the kind of beef that you dream of.” (21:00)

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Reflections & The Song’s Afterlife

• Sponsors as Bit:
  • Johnny turns the Italian beef experience into a parody ad: “Not a brand, not a chain, just the sandwich. Because sometimes food is so good, it just doesn’t need marketing.” (25:36)
• The fallout of song addiction:
  • The song seeps into everyday life; Jeremy jokes that he’s quoting lyrics in casual conversation, declaring, “Every other song's now garbage. Like Spotify tries to play something else and you're just like, no, we don't do that anymore. We're a radio only household.” (27:00)
  • Eventually, the obsession fades, but the memory remains: “It becomes one of those songs, the ones you go back to years later and go, oh yeah, this one. And then suddenly you’re back.” (28:20)
  • Advice: “If you’re in that phase right now where one song has taken over your entire existence, just embrace it…” (29:15)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the initial magic:
  • "That first listen, man, that first listen's magical. ... For the next two weeks, you're basically a walking Spotify playlist with just the one track on it." — Jeremy Odom (04:45, 06:55)
• On being late to legendary songs:
  • “This song came out 26 years ago. People have been enjoying it, living their normal lives, and I just discovered it. Like, it's like I found fire." — Jeremy Odom (07:53)
• On the need for validation from friends:
  • “If you are engaging here with somebody who has just had their life completely changed by a song and they ask you to listen to it, give them more than good. Okay? ... You don't need to be the topic of discussion at their therapy session, because you said the song was 'yeah, it's good.'” — Johnny (17:14)
• On food as obsession rival:
  • “This sandwich didn't just feed me. It healed me from the wound of not having radio on vinyl for at least five minutes.” — Jeremy Odom (20:44)
  • “Before this, I thought I liked sandwiches. I didn’t. I was in a relationship with sandwiches. This—this is marriage. This is commitment.” — Jeremy Odom (Italian beef ad bit, 25:40)
• On the lasting effect:
  • “It instantly becomes like a checkpoint in life, like a core memory of sorts. Anytime I want to remember it, I just turn on ‘Radio’… So if you’re in that mix, don’t send [a new song] to me. ... I’m still feeling the effects of ‘Radio.’” — Jeremy Odom (29:15)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 03:10 – Jeremy’s hearing trouble and segue into the power of music discovery
• 04:45 – What it feels like to hear "your song" for the first time
• 07:00 – Discovery of "Radio" by Alkaline Trio and instant connection
• 08:49 – Ritual of sending the song to the group chat
• 09:00–10:00 – Descent into song repetition, from listening to “becoming part of the band”
• 14:14 – Admitting to unfair music grudges (Matt Skiba/Alkaline Trio)
• 15:40 – When a song takes over your whole personality and look
• 17:50–18:30 – Comic recounting of missing the chance at the perfect vinyl
• 20:44 – Italian beef sandwich in Chicago nearly eclipses song obsession
• 25:36 – Mock sponsor ad: Italian beef sandwich as life-changing experience
• 27:00 – The world becomes “Radio”-only and the struggle to listen to anything else
• 28:20 – Reflection: the song as a life checkpoint
• 29:15 – Closing advice and self-aware warning to listeners

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Conclusion

Jeremy Odom crafts a hilarious, self-deprecating, and deeply relatable narrative about the all-consuming thrill of music discovery—when a new song becomes more than a tune, briefly morphing your entire outlook, wardrobe, and social existence. Whether you’re currently living through a two-week musical identity crisis or fondly remember your last, "Laugh with Me" delivers the laughs and camaraderie with signature warmth and comedic flair. If you’ve ever forced a song link on a friend, or had food so good it made you question your life choices, you’ll find a bit of yourself in this week's episode.

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Transcript

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[Johnny]

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[Johnny]

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[Leigh Ann]

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[Johnny]

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[Johnny]

How about that banger of a think song from the Pepper Spray Singers? Always good to have them bring the jams for us. From what I can hear of it anyhow. You know, I. As you've know, if you listen to the podcast, I have Crohn's disease. And one of the things that does happen to me sometimes is I lose the hearing in my left ear. It's, it's, it's hard to explain. The doctors have not been able to explain it to me, at least from what I hear on the right side. And the thing is, it just, you know, Woke up at 3am and had like, my ear wouldn't pop and I spent the entire 3 o' clock hour trying to like pop and clear and normally it just, it will, you know, it does. It's just not. And this is a problem that I've had before. I, I don't know what to tell you. I've. I've spoken to the doctors about this and, and you know, I am, I'm anemic currently. So I do need some irony, some blood pumping and you know, hopefully once I get that here soon I'll be able to hear again. But man, right now, I'll tell you what, I am only hearing you out of the right side and it is, it messes with you. It messes with the, with the equilibrium, that's for damn sure. So we're gonna give it our best, Johnny. We. There's no stop to this, baby. This train just keeps on moving. Whether you can hear on the right, on the left, out of both, or if you're just reading along, I guess this train just keeps on going. Oh, but boy, does it suck. But today's episode, we've got something that I know you, everybody has dealt with and that's not hearing loss. No, this is the quite opposite. This is something you've listened to, something that you've Heard, okay. It's something that's very powerful, so it's very dangerous. And that's hearing a song for the first time and immediately deciding that's who you are now, you know, you ever heard just. You've heard a song and you're like, this is it. I've never felt more attached to a song ever in my life. This is me. Suddenly. It's not just music. It's your personality, it's your identity. It could become your whole brand at some point. And for the next two weeks, you're basically a walking Spotify playlist with just the one track on it. I had that happen to me. Guys, that song is Radio by the Alkaline Trio. And let me tell you something. It was a feeling of familiarity that you can only have with something special. Like, I. I was listening to it. It just. It was one of those things where you played a song and I don't even remember what song I played, but it was on Spotify. And then once that song was done playing, you know, it started generating a playlist of songs that it thinks I will like or like artists or whatever. And radio comes on, and I instantly had this feeling of, I know this song, but I didn't know this song. Like, I felt like I freaking wrote the song. Like, I just wanted to sing along, but I didn't know the words. And my brain just couldn't handle easing into it. Like, I had to have it all at once. Like, my brain was like, oh, this is the greatest thing ever created. Cancel everything. No plans, Cancel everything. Responsibilities irrelevant. You have a personality before this song. Not anymore. It is radio. And now I'm just the guy walking around screaming. If you've heard the song, you. Thanks, Johnny. But this is it. This is my entire contribution to society now is like listening to this song and talking about this song and then. And the song isn't even what this episode's about. This episode is just about that feeling, you know, that feeling of hearing something, seeing something, and just knowing you want that. Just injected straight into your veins as bad as I need iron right now. That's how bad you need that song just injected into your veins. That first listen, man, that first listens. Magical. You don't know when it's coming. Like, you're just not ready for it. You're just going about your life and you're like, all right, new song starts. Never heard of before. I'll give it a try. Here you see the title. I don't know this one. 4 minutes and 40 seconds. Later, I'm staring into space like I just saw a ghost. Like, I just. Where has the song been my whole life? And then immediately, why hasn't anybody told me about this? Like it's somebody's fault. Like it's everybody's fault. Frankly, this song came out 26 years ago. People have been enjoying it, living their normal lives, and I just discovered it. Like, it's like I found fire.

[Ryder Strong and Will Friedle]

So I immediately.

[Johnny]

I do it. What we everybody should do, right? I immediately send the song to my main group chat. That's what Kyle and Eric. I said it to them. And of course, Kyle's been listening to this shit since middle school. The disappointment I had in not knowing this song for the past 20 years. I know. Could be felt through that text. And the blame. The blame I wanted to put on him. Then comes the loop. You don't listen to the song once. No, no, no. You listen to it over and over and over again. You even listen to the song so many times, you start noticing things that aren't even real. He's like, you hear that? No. Exactly. That's what makes it brilliant. He just start creating instruments that are in the song, parts of the. The symphony within. That's beautiful. You're in your car, playing it on repeat like you're just studying for an exam. You just have to know every single moment. By the 10th listen, you're singing along. By the 20th listen, you're performing it. By the 30th listen, I'm pretty much a part of the band now.

[Diana Maria Riva]

Hey, I'm Diana Maria Riva. Actress, mother, lover, and a Gen X woman walking through life one hot flash and hormonal, crying jag at a time. You ladies know what I mean. I'll bet you a perimenopausal chin hair you do. So let's talk about it. Join me on my new podcast, how Hard Can It Be with Diana Maria Riva, where I call on my Gen X squads from Ohio to Hollywood as we navigate midlife's most fantastic bs. All of a sudden, I'd had hanging

[Leigh Ann]

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[Diana Maria Riva]

I was like, what the hell is that?

[Leigh Ann]

I was married when I had her,

[Johnny]

so I didn't even consider how empty that nest was going to be.

[Diana Maria Riva]

Mood swings, night sweats, fupas. Sex drive. Wait, what sex? Dating at 45. How high can it be? Getting naked at 50 with the new guy.

[Johnny]

That one's kind of hard.

[Leigh Ann]

No.

[Johnny]

Well, that's lighting.

[Diana Maria Riva]

They say we can't polish a turd, but we're sure going to try. So let's get blunt with laughs, tears or tears of laughter and dive into it unfiltered and unbothered and ask how hard can it be? I cannot believe I'm about to say

[Johnny]

this out loud in public.

[Diana Maria Riva]

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[Tom Boger]

American Soccer is about to explode.

[Tab Ramos]

The World cup is coming.

[Johnny]

Ramos sending on Ernie Stewart.

[Jeremy Odom]

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[Tab Ramos]

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[Tom Boger]

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[Tab Ramos]

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[Tom Boger]

The biggest decisions.

[Tab Ramos]

You're going to look at stats and numbers. He has no shot at making this World cup team.

[Tom Boger]

And the truth about the U.S. national team.

[Tab Ramos]

It wouldn't be a huge surprise if our team ends up in the quarterfinals or potentially a great run into the semifinals.

[Tom Boger]

The World cup is almost here. Experience it all with usa Listen Inside American Soccer with Tom Boger and Tab ramos on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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[Johnny]

And what sucks is Matt Skiba, the singer for Rockline Trio, is someone I actively avoided out of spite, like Skiba. All right, so he took over for Tom Delong in Blink 182 when Tom left the band, if you didn't know. So I held that for no reason, just stupidity. I held that against Skiba. Tom's the one that left the band, but I held it against Skiba for no reason of his own. And I just never got into those other Blink records or even Alkaline Trio. I just held it against him. Then Tom comes back to the band, and then I started listening to Skiba stuff. So I listen to all the old blank. I started listening to a little Alkali Trio. I missed out, dude. And I'm. And I'm Johnny. I'm ready to acknowledge that I was wrong. I should have been listening to it all along. And I should have appreciated Matt Skiba for the awesome songwriter and musician that he is. I look forward to seeing him play live this year. I just. I did. I did hold that against him. I feel really, really bad about it. Once you get through that, it's now, then it's the personality shift. This is where things get really weird because now the song starts affecting, like, how I act. Like you ever change your entire vibe because of one song. You start walking different, talking different. You're looking out the window more, just. Just thinking, just visualizing, thinking about that song. Even if there's nothing out there. You're just staring dramatically at a gas station parking lot. Like, yeah, this song gets me. You don't even know what the song means yet, but it gets you. You start dressing like the song. Like, I don't know how you dress like a song. But I've tried, trust me, I've tried to just completely flip my whole wardrobe and be like, this is it. Like, suddenly you need a jacket. You just gotta Wear a jacket everywhere you go. Even though it's Nebraska and The humidity at 72 is enough to wear shorts. I don't care. This is a jacket song. I walk with a limp now. No reason to walk with a limp. But, man, this song, it's. It's a feeling like no other. Of course, you gotta force it onto others. You can't just sit on this all by yourself. You got to become that person. You know, the one. The one you constantly say. You have to hear this. You're texting people links. I mean, that was literally the first thing I did was send the link to Kyle Nair. Listen to this. If they don't respond, I always follow up with, did you listen? Then you got to follow up with, so what'd you think? You got. We have to talk about the song. Did it change your life like it changed mine? Thing is, if they don't convert, if they don't have the back and forth, you're certainly harassing people about music. And that's. You don't want to be that guy. But that's what happens when you just. You have this feeling. You're, like, one step away from just showing up their house and just, like, sit down. We're gonna do this together. And then they listen to it like, yeah, it's good.

[Ryder Strong and Will Friedle]

What do you think?

[Johnny]

Good. Good. This song changed who I am as a person for the next 14 days. And you're giving me good people who are on the flip side of this. If you are engaging here with somebody who has just had their life completely changed by a song and they ask you to listen to it, give them more than good. Okay? Just. We don't need. You don't need to be the topic of discussion. And at their therapy session, because you said the song was. Yeah, it's good. There's more to it than this. Okay. It goes deep. This brings us to this last weekend, okay. Spent a little trip in Chicago. So I'm out there, my brother Kyle, we're at this record shop, and apparently. Apparently the record store that we were at had the Alkaline Trio vinyl that this song's on. Kyle saw it. He looked at it. He made eye contact with it, and he said nothing. He said nothing. But he definitely said something at dinner, an hour or two later, he goes, oh, yeah, they had that vinyl back there. I'm asking him what he bought. Oh, they had that Alkaline Trio radio. Excuse me. You mean to tell me, while I was inside the building breathing the same air as this vinyl, we just walked Away. Like, that's not a missed opportunity. Dude, that's a crime. That's a felony in at least three states. And I don't know which ones, but it felt wrong. Like, you ever miss out on something, it just ruins your entire day. So I'm sitting there at dinner, hungry as hell, and I'm like, I could have had the. I could have had this record. Like, this song has changed my life, right? It is my life right now, and I don't own it. Instant regret. Kyle claims he didn't know where I was to tell me. But here's the thing. This record store was like the size of a small apartment. So he was close enough he could have smelled my farts. Like, he had to have known where I was at in the building. It wouldn't have taken much to look up. So this dinner, it was at Giordano's in Chicago. Okay, so we're at the restaurant. I'm thinking about the vinyl. But then the food arrives. That's when the vibe changes just a little bit. Because I just had the most amazing Italian beef sandwich I have ever had in my life. If you ever watch the show the Bear and the Bears restaurant, you know, it's the. It's the beef store. You know, he's got the. He's got the little sandwich. Drive up window or walk up window or whatever. Incredible sandwich. I could only imagine this tastes like that sandwich. Like it just. It had to. So incredible. Perfect mix with bell's peppers and spicy peppers. Juicy, messy. You gotta dip that baby in a jus. You need like eight napkins and a backup T shirt. The sandwich didn't just feed me. It healed me from the wound of not having radio on vinyl for at least five minutes. I could totally live in bliss without knowing I didn't have that vinyl. I mean, that's how good the sandwich is. Like, this sandwich is competing with the song. Like it was. It was a back and forth. I had two obsessions. This was when I could hear out of both ears. I had one. I had the sandwich in one ear and I had the radio in the other ear. So now I'm like, do I. Do I go back to the vinyl shop? Do I get this record or I order another sandwich? I mean, honestly, perfection would have been both. Pure happiness. This is the kind of beef that you dream of and are desperate to find once you get back home. I'm gonna try every beef in Omaha until I find one that compares to Giordano's. I mean, it was that freaking good. All Weekend. Just dreaming about getting this beef.

[Diana Maria Riva]

Hey, I'm Diana Maria Riva. Actress, mother, lover, and a Gen X woman walking through life one hot flash and hormonal crying jag at a time. You ladies know what I mean. I'll bet you a perimenopausal chin hair you do. So let's talk about it. Join me on my new podcast, how Hard Can It Be with the Ana Maria Riva, where I call on my Gen X squads from Ohio to Hollywood as we navigate midlife's most fantastic bs. All of a sudden, I had hanging

[Leigh Ann]

ness happening on my own.

[Diana Maria Riva]

I was like, what the hell is that?

[Leigh Ann]

I was married when I had her,

[Johnny]

so I didn't even consider how empty that nest was going to be.

[Diana Maria Riva]

Mood swings, night sweats, fupas. Sex drive. Wait, what? Sex? Dating at 45. How high can it be? Getting naked at 50 with the new guy.

[Johnny]

That one's kind of hard. No. Well, that's lighting.

[Diana Maria Riva]

They say we can't polish a turd, but we're sure gonna try. So let's get blunt with laughs, tears, or tears of laughter and dive into it unfiltered and unbothered and ask, how hard can it be? I cannot believe I'm about to say

[Johnny]

this out loud in public.

[Diana Maria Riva]

Listen to How Hard Can It Be with Diana Maria Riva as part of my Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you podcasts.

[Tom Boger]

American Soccer is about to explode.

[Tab Ramos]

The World cup is coming.

[Jeremy Odom]

Ramos sending on Ernie Stewart, the Chip Score usa.

[Tab Ramos]

I'm Tab Ramos.

[Tom Boger]

I'm Tom Boke. On our podcast, Inside American Soccer, you'll get the real storylines.

[Tab Ramos]

I'm not worried about Pulisic. I'm not worried about Baligan. I'm not worried about McKinney. My only concern is what happens in the back.

[Tom Boger]

The biggest decisions you're going to look at.

[Tab Ramos]

Stats and numbers. He has no shot at making this World cup team.

[Tom Boger]

And the truth about the U.S. national team.

[Tab Ramos]

It wouldn't be a huge surprise if our team ends up in the quarterfinals or potentially a great run into the semifinals.

[Tom Boger]

The World cup is almost here. Experience it all with us. Listen to Inside American Soccer with Tom Boger and Tab ramos on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Leigh Ann]

Why is everyone obsessed with romance right now? Like everyone, your co worker who quote unquote doesn't read is reading romance your mom booktok the entire Internet. I'm Sanjanah bhasker. I'm Tyler McCall. And this is Radio 831, a romance podcast. The books, the tropes, the adaptations, the drama, the discourse, and what all of it says about how we actually love, yearn and obsess. We're going to Wuthering Heights, which, for the record, is not a romance novel, and yet it has haunted the romance genre for 200 years. We're getting into dark romance age gaps, certain Russian hockey players, and sentient objects in love, which is a thing. That's the kind of conversation we're having every episode. Listen to the Radio 831 podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Ryder Strong and Will Friedle]

Hey, everyone, it's Ryder Strong and Will Friedle from Pod Meets World. And now the Pod Meets Twirl podcast. We're two men who were completely clueless to reality tv, who now have covered Dancing with the Stars, Traitors, and we're gearing up for the season finale of Survivor. So, yeah, now we're experts. I know we annoyed a lot of our listeners by our severe lack of Survivor knowledge. That is the point of the show. I'm just gonna remind you, I have watched some Survivor. I obviously haven't watched enough. Did people not like it? Like, yeah, just because we.

[Johnny]

Yeah.

[Ryder Strong and Will Friedle]

We'll be recapping the big conclusion of the 50th season, from the final attempts at gameplay to the desperate pleas of finalists to a bunch of ha, ooh,

[Johnny]

ha, ha ooh, ha, ooh.

[Ryder Strong and Will Friedle]

Again, we are experts, so make sure to tune into Pod meets Twirl for all our Survivor 50 takes. Listen to Pod Meets Twirl on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Johnny]

This episode of Laugh With Me with Jeremy Odom is brought to you by the Italian beef sandwich. Not a brand, not a chain, just the sandwich. Because sometimes food is so good, it just doesn't need marketing. It just needs a warning label. Caution may change life expectations permanently. Let me explain something. You ever eat something so good it ruins every other version of that food forever? That's this sandwich. Before this, I thought I like sandwiches. I didn't. I was in a relationship with sandwiches. This. This is marriage. This is a commitment. This is me looking at every future meal like, yeah, but is it Italian beef? Because if it's not, what are we even doing here? This sandwich has everything. Juicy beef, perfect bread, that magical moment where it's somehow both soggy and still holding together, like it has a stronger work ethic than your manager. You take one bite and Suddenly you understand things about yourself you weren't ready to face. Oh, I've been settling. Not just for food, for everything. Your job, your hobbies, your personality. This sandwich is a wake up call. Italian beef sandwich. Because you deserve something better than whatever you were eating before. Side effects may include ordering a second one, immediately judging other people's food choices, Googling how to move closer to the sandwich, calling your family just to say you don't understand, and the biggest side effect of all, you trust the menu again, because now you know that's possible. And nothing else measures up. Italian beef sandwich. It's not just a meal. It's a turning point. But this is the peak. This is when the song fully takes over your life. Now you wake up thinking about it. You go to sleep with it playing. And I, I do. You accidentally start quoting lyrics. A normal conversation. Somebody's like, how's your day going? You and you. And I respond with, I've got a big fat bone to pick with you, my darling. Like, they're like, okay, just wanted to know what coffee you wanted. You just don't hear anything else. Every other song's now garbage. Like Spotify tries to play something else and you're just like, no, we don't do that anymore. We're a radio only household. But eventually, eventually it fades. Not completely, but slowly you'll start listening to other songs again. You regain your personality. You remember who you once were before the song. It does stay with you though. It becomes one of those songs, the ones you go back to years later and go, oh yeah, this one. And then suddenly you're back. There's just something very special and yet very weird about that couple of weeks. It instantly becomes like a checkpoint in life, like a core memory of sorts. Anytime I want to remember it, I just turn on radio Backline trio. So if you're in that phase right now where one song has taken over your entire existence, just embrace it, tell everybody, be annoying, send the link, listen to it 40 times in a row. Because honestly, it's one of the best parts about music. But if you do happen to see that vinyl in a record shop, freaking buy it immediately. And don't trust your brother to tell you about it later. Thank you, Johnny. That, see what he did to me was criminal. Criminal. Oh man. If you guys, I don't know, maybe some of you are listening to have that song, have that feeling right now. Maybe you're in the midst of your two week run with a song. I don't know that I'm ready for another one. So if you're in that mix, don't send it to me. I know I just told you. Send the link. Tell everybody. Don't tell me I'm. I'm just not ready like I'm. I'm still feeling the. The effects of radio like I'm riding to think of it. I'm still trying to figure out how to go back and get that record. I'm just kidding. Gotta tell me what is the song

[Jeremy Odom]

I'm ready to when the only sponsor is my broken heart we're hanging on this janky stream. Two weird voices in the glow of a screen. If the world won't sing, then let it laugh with me.

[Johnny]

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[Ryder Strong and Will Friedle]

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[Jeremy Odom]

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[Johnny]

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[Johnny]

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[Ryder Strong and Will Friedle]

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[Johnny]

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[Jeremy Odom]

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[Johnny]

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[Ryder Strong and Will Friedle]

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[Leigh Ann]

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[Johnny]

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[Diana Maria Riva]

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[Johnny]

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[Diana Maria Riva]

Hey, I'm Diana Maria Riva, and on my new podcast, how Hard can it Be? I call on my Gen X squad. From Ohio to Hollywood as we navigate midlife's most fantastic bs. Unfiltered conversations from night sweats to fupas to scheduling sex. Wait, what sex? Is it just me or does every woman my age want to look at Pinterest instead of having sex? Sometimes they say we can't polish a turd, but we're sure gonna try. So let's get blunt with laughs, tears or tears of laughter. Listen to How Hard can it Be With Diana Maria Riva on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Tom Boger]

American soccer is about to explode.

[Tab Ramos]

The World cup is coming.

[Johnny]

Ramer sending on Ernie Stewart.

[Tab Ramos]

I'm Tab Ramos.

[Tom Boger]

I'm Tom Bogie. On our podcast, Inside American Soccer, you'll get the real storylines, the biggest decisions, and the truth about the U.S. national team.

[Tab Ramos]

It wouldn't be a huge surprise if our team ends up in the quarterfinals or potentially a great run into the semifinals.

[Tom Boger]

Listen to Inside American Soccer with Tom Bogert and Tab ramos on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.