How to Get Rid of an Earworm

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

An earworm expert explains how to unstick that song that’s stuck in your head, and why it got lodged there in the first place. Plus, your earwormholes — the songs that transport you through time and space. To hear the songs featured in this episode, head over to our Spotify playlist. http://www.elt.show/earworm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You have reached the Every Little Thing Helpline.
0:05.0	Please leave your message after the tone.
0:07.0	Who called the helpline?
0:09.0	Who?
0:10.0	Who called the helpline?
0:12.0	Who, who, who, who, who, who, who, Who called the helpline?
0:13.0	Who, who, who, who?
0:15.0	I could not sleep last night because I had Justin Timberlake running over and over in my head. My question is this morning, how
0:26.6	the songs get stuck in your head and how can we get them out of our head. Hello?
0:35.0	Hey Shelby, it's Flora from every little thing.
0:39.0	Hi Flora.
0:40.0	You said you had a Justin Timberlake song running over and over in your head. Are you a big JT fan?
0:47.0	It's kind of a new found love.
0:50.0	Really? Yes. You just dropped in for his later years. I did like I think I remember some of like his really really early stuff and then my daughter I have two kids and about a year ago she was really into the movie
1:07.4	Trolls. Is he in Trolls? Is he a Troll? He is J troll. I'm going to Google this.
1:16.0	Justin Timberlake troll. He has blue hair and wears like a leaf vest I think. Oh and he sings. Yeah that's him. Shine in my pocket got that good soul in my feet.
1:33.4	I feel that happened in my body when it drops.
1:36.5	This is going to be stuck in my head the rest of the day.
1:39.2	So trolls got you into JT.
1:41.8	Yep. And JT led you to E.L.T.
1:45.0	Because I was laying in bed for like three hours I could not sleep.
1:51.0	And it was this stupid song I'm sorry JT if you're listening to this
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