'Thinking Out Loud' by Ed Sheeran

Punch Up The Jam

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Music, Comedy, Music Commentary

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

You want romance? How about a list of geriatric ailments? Oh, swoon! Yep, this song is probably the front runner for "most played as a wedding first dance", and it's in serious need of a punch up. Evan & Andrew, first of all, solve the mystery of 17 vs 70, and then go on to break open a series of other earth-shaking quandaries like, Does Ed Sheeran know about smizing? Did James Blunt prevent WWIII? And what do Marvin Gaye and Marilyn Manson have to do with this treacly ballad?

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0:00.0	This is a head gamma rigial.
0:06.2	So on this fine August day, haven't you feel like your legs are still working like they used to?
0:15.1	Do your legs still work like they used to?
0:17.1	We have frankly no
0:19.9	I don't really want to be reminded of it that I'm now
0:24.2	Approaching if not in my middle age. Yeah, my knees are creaky your legs don't work like they used to my legs don't start though
0:32.2	Like I'm not sure my legs work like they used to when I was
0:36.1	26 I was my prime shape was probably my early 20s
0:40.0	Was I already over the hill at age 26 was I already over the hill and the eyes of Ed Sheeran in this song?
0:46.9	His legs were at peak leg functioning at age 23
0:50.3	Yeah, so it was his heart at peak loving performance. Yeah, when was his his heart is loving his legs are working?
0:56.8	Well his cheeks are smiling. Here's it. Here's a good. I mean was he at peak loving at age 23 when this song came out
1:04.3	Just guess Evan just looking to your heart and guess is Ed Sheeran
1:09.7	Still with the person the song was written for oh no way absolutely not
1:14.7	You're right Sheeran he thought he was at peak loving
1:19.2	You're right
1:21.2	Thought he peaked
1:23.6	He's just thinking out loud. Let's punch it
1:42.6	This is punch up the jam the podcast in which we take the greatest hits of all time in which this is
1:48.2	Indubitably one of those by any metric and we make them even greater
1:53.2	I'm Evan Gregory one of your hosts and I'm Andrew Gregory Evan's brother and co-host
1:59.6	So arguably the greatest love ballad of the modern era and he's not so with the lady he wrote it for kind of this kind of sad
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