Pumped Up Kicks

That's funny.

What are pumped up kicks anyway? In my imagination, it's the ones that you can actually pump up.

You know, the one with the little fucking shit on the top.

Were those real or was that from like a sitcom or a weird? They were real.

I think it was pretend.

I feel like there's some sort of weird

sports-y movie where he has the pumped up kicks.

Like Mike? No.

Bonus bummers, as we call them.

Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People, which is about a school shooting.

The number one song on this list of people going, that's what that song's about? Because you would not notice unless you listen very closely to what the lyrics are.

And the other bonus is Jeremy by Pearl Jam, which I will say it's not clear if that's what the song's about.

But Pericles is gonna lead all the way.

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks.

You better run, better run, outrun my gun.

All the other kids with the-

And it did.

Because the moment I was thinking of what he was about to do, he just pulled up the song, pumped up kicks, and just started blasting it full volume.

And it didn't even hit me that he was playing that song until a few seconds later.

I was like, what the hell is even happening right now, bro? It didn't even feel real in the moment.

And at the number one spot, this song came out in 2010, so you may have heard this one as well, Andy.

Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People.

Mm-hmm.

This song is about a troubled young kid named Robert who has homicidal thoughts about shooting up a school.

Um, but I just had a top five songs that people sing along to that they don't understand.

So OLI, uh, Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People.

Yeah.

[upbeat music]

Lauren on her way in.

She got Mr. Brightside on the way, she wants to start off with Pumped Up Kicks.

She loves that song.

312-967-8300, that's how you reach out to Lauren, and that's how your takeaways came in today, as every day they do, at 312-967-8300.

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... too wi- too many wines, and thinking with my friends that we were really harmonizing to Pumped Up Kicks really well.

Exactly, exactly.

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We weren't harmonizing-

That's a good song

... to Pumped Up Kicks-

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