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How To Do Everything

Wake Up and Eat Birthday Cake

How To Do Everything

NPR

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

How to wake up, celebrate your birthday properly, and shoot a free throw. This is not an April Fool's Day episode. Were we supposed to do an April Fool's Day episode?

Transcript

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0:00.0

You have choices with the alarm you choose maybe you pick a song but what is the most perfect sound for actually waking you up in the morning?

0:09.7

Philip Colvin may have found it he works at the Holiday Inn Resort in Panama City Beach, which is full of 2,000 college kids on spring break.

0:20.5

These are the hardest to wake up people in the world.

0:25.0

So here's what Philip does.

0:27.0

Every day at 11, he points a huge sound system at the balconies of the hotel

0:31.0

and at full volume.

0:33.2

So Philip, playing

0:33.4

So Philip, playing Circle of Life Life this was your idea and of course we're hearing it now but do you just want to sing a few bars so we get a sense for what appealed to you about the song? I'm not going to see it but it

0:57.0

basically came about because we knew that the ones that were staying with us in 2012, that movie would have been one of the first Disney movies that they'd ever seen.

1:07.0

But it was just an incredible response. They all loved it.

1:12.0

And from that day forward, We've had to do it every single morning.

1:16.0

I wonder if anyone, Philip when they if they've had maybe a little too much fun the night before and they wake up and they do feel like they're dead if then

1:26.5

they feel like that circle has been completed then.

1:30.3

Well I'm sure some of them probably cover their ears with their pillows and pretend like they have

1:38.6

completed the circle.

1:39.6

But usually the way it happens is most Spring breakers check in on a Saturday.

1:44.0

So Sunday morning is the first time they really hear it.

1:47.0

And on Sunday morning, the balconies are usually fairly empty when we start the music. The kids don't realize that they're

1:54.4

supposed to be out there for anything or that anything special is going to happen or

1:57.6

anything else. And then when that first beat hits all of a sudden you'll see a whole bunch of doors just fly open and

2:05.6

everybody comes rushing out to see what in the world's going on.

2:09.1

The funny thing that I've never quite understood is that somehow it inspires patriotism.

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