WEBVTT - Upgrade your background music

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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<v Speaker 1>tip is to upgrade your background music. If you're listening

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<v Speaker 1>to your favorite podcast or album while you're driving or

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<v Speaker 1>making dinner, by all means continue, But if you're just

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<v Speaker 1>listening to something to listen to something, consider starting a

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<v Speaker 1>listening project to make this time feel a little more satisfying.

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<v Speaker 1>So longtime listeners know that each year I undertake a major,

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<v Speaker 1>year long project. Normally it's been a reading project, like

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<v Speaker 1>all the works of Jane Austen, but this year I

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<v Speaker 1>decided to do something a little different. I am listening

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<v Speaker 1>to all the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. I love

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<v Speaker 1>box music, and he was prolific. So this winds up

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<v Speaker 1>working out to about thirty to forty minutes of listening

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<v Speaker 1>each day. I started on January first, and a few

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<v Speaker 1>weeks in, I can tell you it has been amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll be making a kid toast in the morning and

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<v Speaker 1>listening to an intricate organ fugue. I am stretching out

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<v Speaker 1>tight muscles after running, and I'm listening to a soprano

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<v Speaker 1>trill her way through an almost operatic aria in a cantata.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's just say that this elevates the experience of daily

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<v Speaker 1>life tremendously, and it's been pretty easy. There are recordings

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<v Speaker 1>of basically all of Bach available on YouTube, so I

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<v Speaker 1>just find one hit, play and go about my day.

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<v Speaker 1>If you are a Bach fan too, maybe you'd like

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<v Speaker 1>to start listening in the car while waiting for your

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<v Speaker 1>plane to board. When I began this project, I quickly

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<v Speaker 1>realized that I had a lot of potential listening time

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<v Speaker 1>in my day. Most days, I've been able to listen

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<v Speaker 1>to all of my assigned Boch before it's even nine am.

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<v Speaker 1>But whether you are into Bach or not, you might

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<v Speaker 1>choose something else that would let you listen with purpose.

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<v Speaker 1>There are lots of other composers. Beethoven comes to mind.

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<v Speaker 1>You could listen to all of Wagner's operas. You could

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<v Speaker 1>listen to all of Gershwin's works, or Stephen Sondheim's musicals.

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<v Speaker 1>A performer like Duke Ellington would be fantastic, or the Beatles,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, their greatest hits. But maybe it's worth listening

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<v Speaker 1>to everything, the good and the more run of the

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<v Speaker 1>mill stuff that shows you how they whoelm their way

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<v Speaker 1>to the great stuff. Or Hey, maybe you're going to

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<v Speaker 1>a Tailor Swift concert and you want to listen to

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<v Speaker 1>everything before you go. You might explore a genre you've

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<v Speaker 1>heard of but know little about. I'd certainly like to

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<v Speaker 1>learn more about jazz now that a couple of my

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<v Speaker 1>kids are in a jazz band. Or maybe it's the

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<v Speaker 1>music of Brazil or indigenous music from a certain part

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<v Speaker 1>of the world. There are a ton of possibilities. Maybe

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<v Speaker 1>think about a place you are visiting or would like

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<v Speaker 1>to visit, or think about a historical character who fascinated you,

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<v Speaker 1>and listen to music from that time. The beautiful thing

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<v Speaker 1>about the Internet, plus the various streaming services, is that

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<v Speaker 1>you can find pretty much anything. I remember as a

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<v Speaker 1>kid going to the library and checking out various CDs

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<v Speaker 1>of say, traditional Brazilian music in my hunt to find

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<v Speaker 1>interesting material. But I had to get someone to drive

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<v Speaker 1>me there, and I had to rely on what my

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<v Speaker 1>local librarian elected to add to the collection. These days,

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<v Speaker 1>you just need to look on your phone. I think

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<v Speaker 1>all time is valuable. We have a lot of time

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<v Speaker 1>in life that we spend in transition or not really

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<v Speaker 1>doing all that much Upgrading your background music is one

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<v Speaker 1>way to make this time feel more rich and full.

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<v Speaker 1>I am so excited to be listening to Bach instead

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<v Speaker 1>of what is randomly on the radio. I bet you

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<v Speaker 1>would enjoy this life upgrade too. In the meantime, this

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<v Speaker 1>is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the

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<v Speaker 1>most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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<v Speaker 1>If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach

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<v Speaker 1>me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast

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