Songs we should retire
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🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Peter Sagole from NPR's Weight Weight Don't Tell Me. |
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| 0:22.5 | Hey everybody, it's all songs considered from NPR music, I'm Robin Hilton. |
| 0:26.5 | We're sharing some of our favorite episodes from over the years since long time host Bob Boylin |
| 0:31.4 | announced his retirement. |
| 0:33.3 | So this week we thought we'd share an episode we did a while back about songs that should |
| 0:38.1 | retire. |
| 0:39.2 | Songs that may be great, songs that we absolutely love, and they get overused and overplayed |
| 0:45.1 | way too much. |
| 0:46.8 | This was an episode we did just for fun within NPR music, Stephen Thompson and Tom Heisinga. |
| 0:52.7 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:54.2 | So about a week or so ago, I'm sitting in a restaurant in New Orleans here, right now |
| 0:59.3 | I'm sitting with Stephen Thompson and Robin Hilton, and music's playing as it does in restaurants, |
| 1:05.3 | most of which I often ignore or noise is so loud you don't hear. |
| 1:10.0 | But this song began to play. |
| 1:14.1 | You with it? |
| 1:19.1 | Oh yeah. |
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