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Coffee Break: Come fly with me

A fly lands on Vice President Pence's head during the debate.
A fly lands on Vice President Pence's head during the debate.Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images, via NPR

by Jill Riley and Anna Weggel

October 08, 2020

A fly hung out for two minutes on Vice President Mike Pence's head during the VP debate last night and it's all anyone can talk about.

Maybe because the debate was decidedly more civil than the Presidential debate, maybe because there weren't as many knockout moments of disagreement or "one-liners" for people make t-shirts out of, or maybe because the entire country needed something - light - to focus on, one thing seems certain...this is a "flypartisan" issue that brought many smiles and giggles last night and has become the one part of the debate that everyone is obsessed with.

For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention 'fly'?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs played

The Cramps - Human Fly
Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
Goldfrapp - Fly Me Away
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
U2 - The Fly
Rhythm Heritage - S.W.A.T. TV Theme
Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly