Just Give Me a Reason

tomato tomato i've heard it both ways

my song choice um i don't do this often i normally just kind of go with a song that i'm enjoying but uh you're the one who's like this song fits like the theme the moment you know sometimes a title or lyric i'm saying you do it more than i do um so but i am going that route here i'm going with pinks just give me a reason Just give me one.

The bar is so low.

Do one thing right and I will be your hype king.

All right, back on May 7th, 2013, As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis walked into a Barnes & Noble to talk to a hit man, supposed hit man, named Red, and this is what America was listening to on that day according to the Billboard charts.

Number one, Just Give Me a Reason, Pink.

Last week, one.

Peak position, one.

That wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from my Mellotron called Jacked Induced MK I. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to Just Give Me a Reason by Pink, featuring Nate Reese.

And why would I play you that specific slice of strangely spelled Reese cheese could I afford it? Because that was the number one song in America on May 7th, 2013, and that was the day that As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis walked into a Barnes & Noble thinking he was hiring a hit man to murder his wife, when in fact he was walking into a San Diego Sheriff's Department sting operation.

[rock music] On this episode, fake hit men and phony Christians, second chances, lost faith, charlatans, and As I Lay Dying.

Still incredible.

Uh, but this was, like, Thrift Shop, Blurred Lines, Radioactive, Just Give Me a Reason, Get Lucky.

This was, like, a real lush power pop kinda era, and there is nothing about this that is lush.

And, and listening to it, like, one of the things that has been happening in my head as we do this show is I have been starting to think of, "Oh, this song and that song are the same song," and, and I almost think that maybe we should, like, start doing episodes about that.