WEBVTT 00:00:10.730 --> 00:00:13.589 Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that 00:00:13.589 --> 00:00:16.550 takes the classic mixtape approach to building 00:00:16.550 --> 00:00:19.329 a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn. 00:00:19.429 --> 00:00:22.089 Joining me tonight from the Fox & Friends podcast 00:00:22.089 --> 00:00:25.390 is Ed Kennard, who you may recall was my guest 00:00:25.390 --> 00:00:30.089 all the way back on Episode 3, The Ultimate Songs 00:00:30.089 --> 00:00:33.570 of 1993 playlist. Ed, welcome back, my friend. 00:00:33.810 --> 00:00:36.850 Brian, it's so good to see and hear you quasi 00:00:36.850 --> 00:00:39.820 -in -person over the internet again. Well, tonight 00:00:39.820 --> 00:00:42.479 we are talking about a topic that I'm going to 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:45.619 guess is near and dear to you as your former 00:00:45.619 --> 00:00:49.700 podcast. The greatest song ever sung poorly was 00:00:49.700 --> 00:00:53.240 a dedication to the art of karaoke and thus a 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:56.679 topic that I'm safely assuming you're comfortable 00:00:56.679 --> 00:01:01.719 crafting a mixtape for. I think I have the requisite 00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:05.760 CV. to be a valued guest on this one. I might 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:08.200 be living in the punk rock world now, but karaoke 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:11.739 is and always will be my first love. Amen. So 00:01:11.739 --> 00:01:16.500 let's talk karaoke PSAs and cliches. What were 00:01:16.500 --> 00:01:19.439 you looking to bring to the table for this side 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:23.620 of the coin? Well, Brian, you tend to be overall 00:01:23.620 --> 00:01:26.140 a little bit more positive than I am when it 00:01:26.140 --> 00:01:27.959 comes to things sometimes. I can be harshly critical. 00:01:28.670 --> 00:01:32.290 But with karaoke, I am not. I love every performance, 00:01:32.430 --> 00:01:34.349 whether it's good or bad, whether it's a song 00:01:34.349 --> 00:01:38.730 I like or a song I hate. Now, that said, to talk 00:01:38.730 --> 00:01:40.950 about the cliches, the things you see at karaoke 00:01:40.950 --> 00:01:43.329 all the time and things that, you know, might 00:01:43.329 --> 00:01:46.409 not go over so well. I just kind of brought a 00:01:46.409 --> 00:01:49.510 this is some advice on if you want your karaoke 00:01:49.510 --> 00:01:52.829 night to go well. It's no condemnation of these 00:01:52.829 --> 00:01:56.629 songs or these singers, but there are things 00:01:56.629 --> 00:01:59.019 that. one should probably keep in their mind 00:01:59.019 --> 00:02:01.579 before they're starting their karaoke journey 00:02:01.579 --> 00:02:04.239 for the evening. And I think that's the same 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:07.019 approach I took because some of the songs that 00:02:07.019 --> 00:02:12.199 made my cliches list are songs I absolutely genuinely 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:15.729 love. And I love seeing them performed. And it's 00:02:15.729 --> 00:02:18.930 not a one size fits all approach here. Some of 00:02:18.930 --> 00:02:21.150 these things work well in one room and not in 00:02:21.150 --> 00:02:23.530 the other. So it's kind of just guidelines, if 00:02:23.530 --> 00:02:26.669 you will, from somebody who's done karaoke many 00:02:26.669 --> 00:02:29.990 and many a times. Now, on the other side of that 00:02:29.990 --> 00:02:33.770 coin, Ed, we have home run songs. What was your 00:02:33.770 --> 00:02:36.889 mindset there? Well, Brian, I was trying to think 00:02:36.889 --> 00:02:38.909 because, I mean, karaoke is a regional thing. 00:02:39.069 --> 00:02:40.770 Karaoke. And when I say regional, I mean, it 00:02:40.770 --> 00:02:44.250 could be the actual. geographic region, like 00:02:44.250 --> 00:02:47.870 a state or a territory. It can also be like based 00:02:47.870 --> 00:02:50.569 on the age range of the people who are in that 00:02:50.569 --> 00:02:52.810 bar. And so the way I figured it would make the 00:02:52.810 --> 00:02:54.550 most sense is since I'm here with you and we 00:02:54.550 --> 00:02:57.169 are both men of a certain age, I am treating 00:02:57.169 --> 00:02:58.889 this like we are going to a bar that is highly 00:02:58.889 --> 00:03:03.729 populated by late Gen X, early millennials. So 00:03:03.729 --> 00:03:05.930 not like the 21 year old crowd, not the 70 year 00:03:05.930 --> 00:03:08.509 old crowd. And songs that I think would go over 00:03:08.509 --> 00:03:10.770 well that don't get done a lot, but are still 00:03:10.770 --> 00:03:12.990 not like super obscure that no one knows what 00:03:12.990 --> 00:03:15.610 they are. All right. That's pretty much the approach 00:03:15.610 --> 00:03:19.050 I took as well. And then I also thought about 00:03:19.050 --> 00:03:24.379 songs that invite the crowd. to join in because 00:03:24.379 --> 00:03:26.919 karaoke, while it feels like you're up there, 00:03:26.979 --> 00:03:29.800 quote unquote, performing, the audience is just 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:33.479 as much a part of the vibe as the person on stage. 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:36.680 So the songs I picked for that side of the spectrum 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:39.340 are the ones that really invite everybody to 00:03:39.340 --> 00:03:42.659 sing along with you, no matter what genre of 00:03:42.659 --> 00:03:45.080 music we're talking about. I think that's a really 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:47.990 good strategy. Well, let's get down to business. 00:03:48.050 --> 00:03:50.169 Tonight, as I mentioned at the top of the show, 00:03:50.409 --> 00:03:53.389 Ed and I will be curating the ultimate karaoke 00:03:53.389 --> 00:03:59.069 101 PSAs, cliches, and home runs mixtape, and 00:03:59.069 --> 00:04:02.009 we'll use the old cassette deck approach. Ed, 00:04:02.030 --> 00:04:04.550 as my special guest, will begin side A with his 00:04:04.550 --> 00:04:07.189 first song choice, and then I'll add a song that 00:04:07.189 --> 00:04:10.150 I feel best follows up that choice. We'll then 00:04:10.150 --> 00:04:12.289 flip -flop choosing songs until we've mapped 00:04:12.289 --> 00:04:15.930 out 10 songs for side A. We'll then give our 00:04:15.930 --> 00:04:18.509 mixtape a proverbial flip and we'll map outside, 00:04:18.670 --> 00:04:21.230 be only this time I'll kick things off with Ed 00:04:21.230 --> 00:04:24.290 choosing second. Our overall goal for the episode 00:04:24.290 --> 00:04:28.009 is to craft the best karaoke 101 mixtape possible 00:04:28.009 --> 00:04:32.490 with only 10 songs for each of our dual topics. 00:04:32.970 --> 00:04:35.209 At the end of the show, you can take our conversation 00:04:35.209 --> 00:04:38.110 to the next level by visiting the episode page 00:04:38.110 --> 00:04:41.569 at myweeklymixtape .com to give our final mixtape 00:04:41.569 --> 00:04:45.110 a listen via the embedded playlist. And if you 00:04:45.110 --> 00:04:46.970 like what you're hearing on the show, you can 00:04:46.970 --> 00:04:49.310 help me out by either telling a friend, leaving 00:04:49.310 --> 00:04:51.230 the show a five -star review wherever you're 00:04:51.230 --> 00:04:54.509 tuning in, or becoming a Patreon mixtaper at 00:04:54.509 --> 00:04:58.670 patreon .com forward slash myweeklymixtape. There 00:04:58.670 --> 00:05:00.709 you can enjoy ad -free episodes of the show, 00:05:00.910 --> 00:05:04.170 become a future guest, and so much more. And 00:05:04.170 --> 00:05:06.329 a few of the Patreon mixtapers chimed in with 00:05:06.329 --> 00:05:09.389 the songs they would use to kick off our Karaoke 00:05:09.389 --> 00:05:12.069 101 mixtape, and I want to give a few quick shout 00:05:12.069 --> 00:05:15.170 -outs. Tom Hutchinson chimed in with tequila 00:05:15.170 --> 00:05:18.810 for his karaoke cliche, saying he's seen it performed 00:05:18.810 --> 00:05:23.050 more than any other song. And he also chimed 00:05:23.050 --> 00:05:26.509 in with build me a buttercup for a karaoke home 00:05:26.509 --> 00:05:29.670 run. Philip Bergman chimed in saying he used 00:05:29.670 --> 00:05:32.110 to work at a bar restaurant that had karaoke 00:05:32.110 --> 00:05:35.870 twice a week. So this will be cringe for him. 00:05:35.949 --> 00:05:39.629 But La Bamba is still a jam despite being butchered 00:05:39.629 --> 00:05:43.360 by so many drunks. He then proceeded to ask if 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:46.060 I was recording the episode with Ed. So, Ed, 00:05:46.220 --> 00:05:50.720 your reputation precedes you, my friend. Seeker 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:53.360 chimed in saying he's not much of a karaoke singer, 00:05:53.500 --> 00:05:55.860 but when he does, he's most comfortable with 00:05:55.860 --> 00:05:59.579 Gold by Spondau Ballet. And he's not even sure 00:05:59.579 --> 00:06:02.459 if it's cliche or not, but it's his personal 00:06:02.459 --> 00:06:05.899 home run. And finally, Jen Fink chimed in with 00:06:05.899 --> 00:06:09.180 Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive, saying if you 00:06:09.180 --> 00:06:11.779 can get someone that could really sing, it's 00:06:11.779 --> 00:06:15.879 a home run. And I'll also say if you can get 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:18.920 somebody who's maybe not the best singer, you 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:22.120 could pivot from that and use Cake's version 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:25.040 and do it a little bit more monotone and kind 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:27.040 of bring the key down a little bit. So it's something 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.050 that anybody could really. Pull out a good one. 00:06:30.089 --> 00:06:32.370 So I like that pick a lot. I might be revisiting 00:06:32.370 --> 00:06:34.870 that one when we get to the home runs side of 00:06:34.870 --> 00:06:37.449 the mixtape. But once again, if you want to chime 00:06:37.449 --> 00:06:40.449 in for future My Weekly Mixtape episodes, please 00:06:40.449 --> 00:06:42.970 become a member of the Mixtaper family at patreon 00:06:42.970 --> 00:06:47.689 .com forward slash My Weekly Mixtape. So, Ed, 00:06:47.769 --> 00:06:49.870 with that musical food for thought out in the 00:06:49.870 --> 00:06:52.050 atmosphere, I'm officially pressing the record 00:06:52.050 --> 00:06:55.110 button on our mixtape and handing the karaoke 00:06:55.110 --> 00:06:58.290 mic over to you. Why don't you dive into the 00:06:58.290 --> 00:07:04.089 first? PSA and cliche for side A, okay? Thanks, 00:07:04.110 --> 00:07:09.730 Brian. I'm calling this one, If You Don't, Don't 00:07:09.730 --> 00:07:14.490 Worry, Someone Else Will. And this song is ubiquitous 00:07:14.490 --> 00:07:18.129 in karaoke bars. It is the closest thing on this 00:07:18.129 --> 00:07:20.569 list to one that I would prefer personally not 00:07:20.569 --> 00:07:23.310 to hear just because of how often I have heard 00:07:23.310 --> 00:07:27.389 it. It's a duet. It's a little country, sort 00:07:27.389 --> 00:07:30.990 of. And it is Picture by Kid Rock and Sheryl 00:07:30.990 --> 00:07:35.470 Crow. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That is one that definitely 00:07:35.470 --> 00:07:41.529 has become a mainstay for a guy and a girl to 00:07:41.529 --> 00:07:45.230 go up and do it together. Because honestly, if 00:07:45.230 --> 00:07:47.069 you think about it, how many of those type of 00:07:47.069 --> 00:07:51.290 songs do you have from the late 90s on? Maybe 00:07:51.290 --> 00:07:54.689 Evanescence, Bring Me to Life. Currently, the 00:07:54.689 --> 00:07:56.870 runner up for this, and I know this is not going 00:07:56.870 --> 00:07:58.990 to... Step on our toes later, so I don't mind 00:07:58.990 --> 00:08:01.670 mentioning it. The new picture is Shallow by 00:08:01.670 --> 00:08:03.610 Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. I'm not sure if 00:08:03.610 --> 00:08:04.990 you're aware of that. That's the new version 00:08:04.990 --> 00:08:08.069 of that. But we are men of a certain age, and 00:08:08.069 --> 00:08:09.910 I figured that one would resonate with you and 00:08:09.910 --> 00:08:14.410 maybe inspire a choice. Yeah. So, hmm. Coming 00:08:14.410 --> 00:08:18.569 out of picture by Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow. Okay, 00:08:18.629 --> 00:08:21.050 you went with, if you don't, don't worry, someone 00:08:21.050 --> 00:08:26.230 else will. Okay. So for my first PSA and cliche. 00:08:27.230 --> 00:08:32.529 I think I'm going to go with the yes, we know 00:08:32.529 --> 00:08:36.750 category. And that would be Starland Vocal Band's 00:08:36.750 --> 00:08:40.490 Afternoon Delight. Because yes, I've seen Anchorman 00:08:40.490 --> 00:08:43.789 for my fellow movie fans out there and for my 00:08:43.789 --> 00:08:48.190 TV fans out there. Yes, I've seen Arrested Development. 00:08:48.750 --> 00:08:53.669 A lot of people have. So the ironic nature of 00:08:53.669 --> 00:08:57.230 doing it just to try to out comedy. Some of the 00:08:57.230 --> 00:08:59.070 greats that were in both that movie and that 00:08:59.070 --> 00:09:02.049 TV show, I think sometimes falls flatter than 00:09:02.049 --> 00:09:04.889 a couple of beers might indicate. Yeah. In all 00:09:04.889 --> 00:09:07.470 fairness, I do love that as a song. Oh, of course. 00:09:07.529 --> 00:09:11.049 Great tune. Yeah, it's a great tune. But no, 00:09:11.110 --> 00:09:13.370 you're right. I mean, no one is singing it because 00:09:13.370 --> 00:09:16.750 they're a very, very big fan of the Starlight 00:09:16.750 --> 00:09:20.529 vocal band. Let's be honest. Following that, 00:09:20.649 --> 00:09:22.549 that kind of that kind of leads into my next 00:09:22.549 --> 00:09:24.350 choice. So that's that's good synchronicity. 00:09:24.669 --> 00:09:28.830 My next category is. Oh, you changed the words. 00:09:29.570 --> 00:09:33.149 And this one is also getting, I believe, a movie 00:09:33.149 --> 00:09:36.309 or TV reference, although the source escapes 00:09:36.309 --> 00:09:40.110 me right now. But that is Total Eclipse of the 00:09:40.110 --> 00:09:43.509 Heart by Bonnie Tyler. Because I promise you, 00:09:43.610 --> 00:09:46.509 it's not a radio edit. That word is just not 00:09:46.509 --> 00:09:48.509 actually in the song, and you're putting it in 00:09:48.509 --> 00:09:52.070 there. I think I know exactly where that started. 00:09:52.190 --> 00:09:55.889 The Dan Band, when they did their cover. laced 00:09:55.889 --> 00:09:58.429 with profanity anytime someone goes up there 00:09:58.429 --> 00:10:01.490 they try to do that version again to kind of 00:10:01.490 --> 00:10:04.950 imitate the comedy from the dan band's version 00:10:04.950 --> 00:10:06.830 and my favorite thing about that song though 00:10:06.830 --> 00:10:09.230 is it wasn't like even originally written for 00:10:09.230 --> 00:10:11.509 her it was supposed to be in like a vampire musical 00:10:11.509 --> 00:10:14.990 as a duet it was written by jim steinman right 00:10:14.990 --> 00:10:18.549 yes yes and you get that like bad out of hell 00:10:18.549 --> 00:10:22.409 meatlo vibe from it he was very theatrical it 00:10:22.409 --> 00:10:25.549 feels like you're hearing a rock musical with 00:10:25.549 --> 00:10:28.549 every one of his songs but it's done so seamlessly 00:10:28.549 --> 00:10:32.549 and so effortlessly he's one of the great songwriters 00:10:32.549 --> 00:10:36.889 okay so you change the words uh i'm gonna go 00:10:36.889 --> 00:10:40.649 with the same thought process for my song choice 00:10:40.649 --> 00:10:43.970 but add a little bit of a spin to it and this 00:10:43.970 --> 00:10:48.029 is the read the room category now while total 00:10:48.029 --> 00:10:50.250 eclipse of the heart people throw f -bombs and 00:10:50.250 --> 00:10:53.830 it's perfectly fine if it's 11 p .m. on a Saturday 00:10:53.830 --> 00:10:56.370 night and you want to drop a bunch of F -bombs 00:10:56.370 --> 00:10:59.649 into a song, whether they have them or not, great. 00:10:59.990 --> 00:11:04.809 Enjoy it. Have fun. However, if it's 1 o 'clock 00:11:04.809 --> 00:11:07.750 in the afternoon at an outdoor event that has 00:11:07.750 --> 00:11:11.149 families walking around, maybe picking up something 00:11:11.149 --> 00:11:15.710 like Tenacious D's Effort Gently, Adam Sandler's 00:11:15.710 --> 00:11:20.250 At a Medium Pace, or my pick, Gary Lee and Showdown's 00:11:20.250 --> 00:11:23.879 The Rodeo Song, might not be the best decision. 00:11:24.100 --> 00:11:28.080 So if there are kids and family still in the 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:30.840 establishment, just read the room and save it 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:33.700 till later. We don't need little Billy going 00:11:33.700 --> 00:11:35.820 to kindergarten on Monday morning singing, well, 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:37.940 here comes Johnny. Yeah, we don't need that. 00:11:38.779 --> 00:11:41.379 Just read the room and don't make it awkward 00:11:41.379 --> 00:11:44.120 for the poor karaoke DJ that's got to skip over 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:48.240 your pick because he's reading the room and seeing 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:50.600 that that would not be the appropriate time to 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:53.779 do it. My only caveat with that, and I have seen 00:11:53.779 --> 00:11:57.700 this, is if it's 11 p .m. and it's a bar and 00:11:57.700 --> 00:11:59.759 there's a kid there, you know what? Do it because 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:02.240 those parents are very bad parents having their 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:05.240 child at a bar at 11 p .m. And that's not going 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:06.740 to be the worst thing that kid hears that day. 00:12:06.860 --> 00:12:10.419 I was about to say, of course, 100%. I'm just 00:12:10.419 --> 00:12:12.539 talking about like if there's a karaoke booth 00:12:12.539 --> 00:12:16.100 at the town fair, that might not be the best 00:12:16.100 --> 00:12:21.990 song choice. Not ideal, no. you know the room 00:12:21.990 --> 00:12:26.470 and doing things with a song and things like 00:12:26.470 --> 00:12:29.970 that i want to change it to actual um proficiency 00:12:29.970 --> 00:12:32.809 for for this one if you wouldn't mind i'm calling 00:12:32.809 --> 00:12:36.710 this how hard can hip -hop be now this is one 00:12:36.710 --> 00:12:39.509 of my personal like karaoke peccadillos if you 00:12:39.509 --> 00:12:41.710 will i started doing karaoke by doing hip -hop 00:12:41.710 --> 00:12:43.830 actually it took me a long time to be able to 00:12:43.830 --> 00:12:45.509 hit a note and it's questionable whether i do 00:12:45.509 --> 00:12:48.409 or not now but there are people who think that 00:12:48.860 --> 00:12:51.860 Rapping is just talking over a beat and you need 00:12:51.860 --> 00:12:55.919 a much better developed sense of rhythm than 00:12:55.919 --> 00:12:59.179 just talking over a beat to rap in general or 00:12:59.179 --> 00:13:02.460 karaoke. And so my pick for that is the one that 00:13:02.460 --> 00:13:04.379 I have seen people get tripped up on the most 00:13:04.379 --> 00:13:05.960 because they're like, of course I know this song. 00:13:06.059 --> 00:13:07.620 And they start doing it and they're like, oh, 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:09.919 wow, no, this is harder than I thought. And that 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:13.000 song is Baby Got Back by Sir Mix -N -Up. Ah, 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:17.840 yes. My personal advice for doing hip hop and 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:21.059 karaoke is do not do a hip hop song that you 00:13:21.059 --> 00:13:23.360 need to look at a screen for. If you need to 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:26.500 look at a screen, you shouldn't do it. Crawl 00:13:26.500 --> 00:13:29.200 before you walk. For this category, if I was 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:31.840 picking a song, the first one that comes to mind 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:35.019 is Eminem's Godzilla with Juice WRLD. Because 00:13:35.019 --> 00:13:38.320 sure, people on TikTok have nailed it impressively, 00:13:38.379 --> 00:13:41.919 like mind blowing. But if you're a six pack deep 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:45.259 and you've never gone up to a karaoke mic before. 00:13:46.019 --> 00:13:49.240 It's probably a cold, hard reality that you're 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:53.480 not going to spit fire like Eminem. And I don't 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:56.080 know, maybe start with like an ice ice baby and 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:59.559 work your way up to the goat, because even the 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:01.700 rhythmic nature that you talked about with Sir 00:14:01.700 --> 00:14:04.039 Mix -a -Lot, one of my favorite hip hop songs 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:07.659 to do when I go to karaoke is Naughty by Nature's 00:14:07.659 --> 00:14:12.700 OPP. The reason I love doing that song is because 00:14:12.700 --> 00:14:16.340 it involves the room as much as possible. You're 00:14:16.340 --> 00:14:19.679 down with OPP. Yeah, you know me. There you go. 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:22.399 And that's what you bring to that atmosphere. 00:14:23.100 --> 00:14:26.419 It took me years of listening and rapping along 00:14:26.419 --> 00:14:28.940 with that song to know that I could walk up on 00:14:28.940 --> 00:14:32.399 stage without Tretch's vocal track and be able 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:34.759 to deliver it. And that's what I love about that 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:37.980 song is the rhythmic delivery, the flow, if you 00:14:37.980 --> 00:14:40.580 will, of how the words come out. If you know 00:14:40.580 --> 00:14:43.379 a song really well, hip hop and karaoke can be 00:14:43.379 --> 00:14:46.300 some of the greatest songs of the night. However, 00:14:46.300 --> 00:14:50.539 you lose that rhythm. Oh, good God. Now, doing 00:14:50.539 --> 00:14:52.899 karaoke with Brian Colburn is now higher on my 00:14:52.899 --> 00:14:55.259 bucket list than it was before because I'm impressed 00:14:55.259 --> 00:14:56.759 that you can do Tretch because that man will 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:59.620 double and triple on a beat and that will trip 00:14:59.620 --> 00:15:01.500 people up. So I'm going to have to come out to 00:15:01.500 --> 00:15:04.519 your state and we're going to have to go out 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:06.159 some night. Oh, dude, we're going to have to. 00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:09.259 My old cover band used to do OPP as well. The 00:15:09.259 --> 00:15:12.200 only time I ever tripped up on the song when 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:14.929 our. drummer was just feeling the room a little 00:15:14.929 --> 00:15:20.110 too much and instead of it being it was more 00:15:20.110 --> 00:15:24.230 like i couldn't keep up with the flow at that 00:15:24.230 --> 00:15:27.529 pace and i totally lost the song that night but 00:15:27.529 --> 00:15:31.190 other times at the correct speed i could nail 00:15:31.190 --> 00:15:34.029 that one anyway at a medium pace there you go 00:15:34.029 --> 00:15:38.350 touche well i'm gonna follow up how hard could 00:15:38.350 --> 00:15:42.870 rap be with the Ever so popular, how hard could 00:15:42.870 --> 00:15:47.230 metal be category? And for this one, I'll just 00:15:47.230 --> 00:15:49.409 go with something because you can go with any 00:15:49.409 --> 00:15:52.850 heavy song here. So just for lack of an argument, 00:15:52.850 --> 00:15:56.289 a song that most people would be familiar with 00:15:56.289 --> 00:15:58.529 when you talk about a metal song. Let's just 00:15:58.529 --> 00:16:00.830 go with Metallica's Enter Sandman for this one. 00:16:01.169 --> 00:16:03.610 This is the song that I've actually seen get 00:16:03.610 --> 00:16:06.909 butchered more times than not. And it's not for 00:16:06.909 --> 00:16:10.480 the fact that. People don't get the melody and 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:13.460 rhythm and vocal lines of the song. It's that 00:16:13.460 --> 00:16:16.120 they think they need to get up there and cup 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:21.179 their hand over the microphone and scream as 00:16:21.179 --> 00:16:26.200 loud as they can into the literal ball of the 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:31.259 mic to the point where it's distorting out of 00:16:31.259 --> 00:16:35.240 the speakers and people in the karaoke bar are 00:16:35.240 --> 00:16:40.309 covering their ears. If you can't scream musically, 00:16:40.470 --> 00:16:44.289 don't scream the song, just sing it and people 00:16:44.289 --> 00:16:46.549 will get into it and sing along with you. And 00:16:46.549 --> 00:16:49.190 that'll bring that heft. But if you're just going 00:16:49.190 --> 00:16:52.269 to go up there and yell and kind of miss the 00:16:52.269 --> 00:16:55.309 melody of the song, as funny as it might seem, 00:16:55.570 --> 00:16:58.669 Enter Sandman is five minutes long. The joke 00:16:58.669 --> 00:17:02.389 wears thin very quickly. So that's like my PSA 00:17:02.389 --> 00:17:05.470 for that one. And metal singing is actually like 00:17:05.470 --> 00:17:07.950 its own talent. can i give a little shout out 00:17:07.950 --> 00:17:10.130 to a bar in cincinnati that i love and adore 00:17:10.130 --> 00:17:13.710 sure go to mixwell's in the north side of cincinnati 00:17:13.710 --> 00:17:15.869 if you want to do like punk rock or heavy metal 00:17:15.869 --> 00:17:17.970 to have a really appreciative crowd for that 00:17:17.970 --> 00:17:21.430 my friend amber she's in a metal band the night 00:17:21.430 --> 00:17:23.809 that i met her she actually did that like legitimate 00:17:23.809 --> 00:17:27.309 metal growl at this place totally appropriate 00:17:27.309 --> 00:17:30.069 for the place and also i was like I don't understand 00:17:30.069 --> 00:17:32.750 how you physically make that noise. I'm not going 00:17:32.750 --> 00:17:34.750 to be able to learn to make that noise. I'm not 00:17:34.750 --> 00:17:37.329 going to try. But I was so impressed. And, like, 00:17:37.349 --> 00:17:39.730 that's a place where stuff like that would go 00:17:39.730 --> 00:17:41.690 over really well. But also, she's not just doing 00:17:41.690 --> 00:17:44.369 a scream. Like, she's doing the actual metal 00:17:44.369 --> 00:17:47.690 sing noise thing with her throat. Like, I don't 00:17:47.690 --> 00:17:50.309 understand how it's humanly possible to do. But 00:17:50.309 --> 00:17:52.490 she gets it. And, I mean, there's a reason that 00:17:52.490 --> 00:17:55.569 she fronts a metal band called Vile Sanctum. 00:17:55.670 --> 00:17:59.359 That's why. Because she can do that. I cannot 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:02.519 and I don't front any bands. And there's a reason 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:04.619 for that as well. And the other part of that 00:18:04.619 --> 00:18:08.259 is, believe it or not, if you're yelling loudly 00:18:08.259 --> 00:18:12.079 into the mic, you could conceivably blow this 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:17.140 karaoke DJ speakers, blow a cone. Sometimes if 00:18:17.140 --> 00:18:19.420 he's got the level set too high, it could overload 00:18:19.420 --> 00:18:22.359 the speakers. You know, if you're really going 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:25.890 to go for it, give the guy a heads up. Cause 00:18:25.890 --> 00:18:27.730 he could bring the mic down. And even if you're 00:18:27.730 --> 00:18:30.990 screaming, it's not going to like blow patrons 00:18:30.990 --> 00:18:33.529 ears out because that might be what those patrons 00:18:33.529 --> 00:18:37.309 take away from the night. And it might put a 00:18:37.309 --> 00:18:40.029 bad reputation on that karaoke DJ at the same 00:18:40.029 --> 00:18:42.130 time. Yeah. If you, if you want to do that, find 00:18:42.130 --> 00:18:44.390 your metal friendly bar, don't do it at your 00:18:44.390 --> 00:18:47.309 local Italian restaurant, family place that also 00:18:47.309 --> 00:18:49.789 has karaoke on the weekends. Maybe just throwing 00:18:49.789 --> 00:18:52.480 that out there. All right. Well, we're throwing 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:55.680 back to you now. Track seven on our PSAs and 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:58.680 cliches. And we're talking about just vocal stuff 00:18:58.680 --> 00:19:02.240 now, right? So I'm calling this one. I mean, 00:19:02.299 --> 00:19:05.559 it's great, but it's acapella. And the reason 00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:08.259 I chose that is there's not a lot of songs that 00:19:08.259 --> 00:19:11.039 this plays into. I can think of the song The 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:13.519 Scotsman for one, which I'm sure some listeners 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:16.019 are familiar with, but not enough people are 00:19:16.019 --> 00:19:17.940 familiar with it for me to make that my choice. 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:20.859 So my choice for this is. Mercedes -Benz by Janis 00:19:20.859 --> 00:19:24.799 Joplin. Ah, yes. Great song, but is it karaoke 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:28.599 if you are just singing and there's no accompaniment? 00:19:28.660 --> 00:19:32.400 I mean, karaoke means empty orchestra in Japanese, 00:19:32.500 --> 00:19:34.259 if you pronounce it correctly, which I do not. 00:19:34.539 --> 00:19:37.039 But that's what it means. And there is no orchestra 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:40.809 playing to Mercedes -Benz. There's the foot stomp. 00:19:40.829 --> 00:19:43.730 Is that? I don't think that's in the karaoke 00:19:43.730 --> 00:19:45.289 track of it, but maybe it is. I might have to 00:19:45.289 --> 00:19:47.170 listen to it without a bar full of people to 00:19:47.170 --> 00:19:50.049 find out. I'd be curious because that's like 00:19:50.049 --> 00:19:53.950 that faint stomp that you hear on that live recording. 00:19:54.109 --> 00:19:57.029 That's the one thing that made it feel so real. 00:19:57.150 --> 00:19:59.890 It's in the distance. It doesn't sound mic'd 00:19:59.890 --> 00:20:02.009 up. It's just her tapping her foot, it sounds 00:20:02.009 --> 00:20:05.569 like. And it adds such a heft to that performance. 00:20:05.869 --> 00:20:08.289 But anyway. Not talking about the song. Yeah, 00:20:08.349 --> 00:20:11.230 that's not something I've seen very often. So 00:20:11.230 --> 00:20:13.910 I'd almost be curious because if you have the 00:20:13.910 --> 00:20:17.589 chutzpah to go up there and pick a song and sing 00:20:17.589 --> 00:20:20.529 it without musical accompaniment, chances are 00:20:20.529 --> 00:20:23.609 you could probably nail it. My favorite is when 00:20:23.609 --> 00:20:25.430 I get tripped up and I forget that a song starts 00:20:25.430 --> 00:20:27.069 without anything. And I'm like, oh, it's just 00:20:27.069 --> 00:20:30.210 me for this little bit. Oh, no. Oh, no. Because 00:20:30.210 --> 00:20:31.670 I don't want to hear me. You probably don't want 00:20:31.670 --> 00:20:33.230 to hear me. No one wants to hear me. I'm terrible. 00:20:34.220 --> 00:20:36.599 I haven't seen you perform karaoke, but if your 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:40.380 podcasting prowess is any indication, I am sure 00:20:40.380 --> 00:20:43.680 you're fantastic at it. You flatterer. But with 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:47.799 that, I am going to follow up acapella with a 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:50.779 category I'd like to call, how high are you? 00:20:51.240 --> 00:20:55.160 And hear me out. I don't actually mean the green 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:59.019 high. I'm talking about the vocal range high. 00:20:59.420 --> 00:21:02.240 Because let's be honest, when you take a song 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:05.180 like The Darkness. I believe in a thing called 00:21:05.180 --> 00:21:08.420 love, which is my pick. If you can't hit the 00:21:08.420 --> 00:21:11.059 vocal stratosphere, the way Justin Hawkins does 00:21:11.059 --> 00:21:15.619 for the darkness, three to four drinks in, even 00:21:15.619 --> 00:21:19.519 though you believe you can, chances are you can't. 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:22.759 And I think this also goes for songs like more 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:26.259 than a feeling by Boston. I'll never let you 00:21:26.259 --> 00:21:30.180 go by steel heart or the BG staying alive. Like. 00:21:30.779 --> 00:21:34.700 If you can't even falsetto in your car, it'll 00:21:34.700 --> 00:21:37.559 probably end up being a cringe performance if 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:41.599 you try to pull it off. So think twice before 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:45.619 getting too high at the karaoke bar. But if you 00:21:45.619 --> 00:21:48.559 can pull it off, you know, hats off to you. My 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:50.519 bass baritone will not stretch to that. I have 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:53.779 some friends who will do that song or Grace Kelly 00:21:53.779 --> 00:21:56.339 by Mika and absolutely, you know, you always 00:21:56.339 --> 00:21:58.410 want something you can't have. I'm never going 00:21:58.410 --> 00:22:00.529 to hit that note. I'm stretching to hit tenor. 00:22:00.789 --> 00:22:04.109 I have one song for the karaoke home run side 00:22:04.109 --> 00:22:07.450 that might fall under this range be damned category. 00:22:07.789 --> 00:22:10.470 It just happens to be one that I can hit, but 00:22:10.470 --> 00:22:14.450 we'll get to that later. Coming out of the darkness, 00:22:14.609 --> 00:22:16.970 I believe in a thing called love. How high are 00:22:16.970 --> 00:22:19.789 you? What do you got next? So you're taking distance 00:22:19.789 --> 00:22:22.990 and going up with high. I'm taking distance and 00:22:22.990 --> 00:22:27.849 going out with length. And so this one is. That's 00:22:27.849 --> 00:22:31.650 like a two for one, my guy. Karaoke should be 00:22:31.650 --> 00:22:34.109 egalitarian. Karaoke should be so everybody has 00:22:34.109 --> 00:22:37.450 a chance. When you do an eight minute plus song, 00:22:37.690 --> 00:22:40.630 you're functionally taking a song out of the 00:22:40.630 --> 00:22:43.789 night, out of the rotation. And for that reason, 00:22:43.930 --> 00:22:47.849 American Pie by Don McLean at eight minutes and 00:22:47.849 --> 00:22:52.180 36 seconds. That's the length of four punk rock 00:22:52.180 --> 00:22:56.220 songs, if you think about it that way. But eight 00:22:56.220 --> 00:22:59.859 minutes and 36 seconds of just you? Nah. Yeah, 00:22:59.940 --> 00:23:02.119 I feel that. Now, I have one that falls under 00:23:02.119 --> 00:23:04.319 this category, but I'd like to phrase it to you 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:07.940 as a question. Paradise by the Dashboard Light. 00:23:08.750 --> 00:23:11.809 You're getting two singers up there. Does that 00:23:11.809 --> 00:23:14.470 count as one song for each or do you give that 00:23:14.470 --> 00:23:17.990 a pass? So I very rarely host karaoke. I host 00:23:17.990 --> 00:23:20.089 karaoke in a pinch if somebody pays me enough 00:23:20.089 --> 00:23:24.130 and I have nothing else going on. I do not like 00:23:24.130 --> 00:23:26.710 hurting drunks, which is what hosting karaoke 00:23:26.710 --> 00:23:30.569 turns into by 2 a .m. That said, I mean, like 00:23:30.569 --> 00:23:32.630 in my ideal world, that would count as a song 00:23:32.630 --> 00:23:35.509 for each singer and then sure, fair. But I will 00:23:35.509 --> 00:23:38.779 say this. The absolute best karaoke performance 00:23:38.779 --> 00:23:41.900 I've ever seen was that song. And it wasn't for 00:23:41.900 --> 00:23:44.700 the best reasons. There was a guy at a bar in 00:23:44.700 --> 00:23:49.019 central Pennsylvania who went to every woman 00:23:49.019 --> 00:23:51.940 in the bar and asked to duet that song with him. 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:54.779 And everyone said no. And he's still committed 00:23:54.779 --> 00:23:57.420 to doing it. But instead of singing both parts, 00:23:57.579 --> 00:24:00.500 maybe altering his voice for the female vocal, 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:03.900 when it came to her vocal part, he just looked 00:24:03.900 --> 00:24:06.500 down at his feet real sad. And then picked it 00:24:06.500 --> 00:24:09.339 back up when it was Meatloaf again. And by the 00:24:09.339 --> 00:24:12.819 end of that, he won that bar over because he 00:24:12.819 --> 00:24:15.220 committed to the bit. Now, in all fairness, in 00:24:15.220 --> 00:24:16.980 all fairness, this is going back to how hard 00:24:16.980 --> 00:24:20.079 hip hop can be. I personally break this rule 00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:23.200 once a month or at least by doing Rapper's Delight 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:25.359 by myself. But again, it goes back to I'm not 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:26.880 looking at the screen. I'm going to make this 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:29.299 a show. It has to be the right night. And I have 00:24:29.299 --> 00:24:30.980 to feel like it's acceptable for me to take up 00:24:30.980 --> 00:24:34.019 eight karaoke minutes. I try to make that as 00:24:34.019 --> 00:24:36.500 rare as possible. But yeah, like overall, like 00:24:36.500 --> 00:24:39.160 the goal is to not do songs that take up two 00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:41.019 spots in the rotation. But I mean, I'm a hypocrite. 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:44.539 I do it every once in a while. All right. Well, 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:49.880 to close outside a my last category is hit you 00:24:49.880 --> 00:24:55.299 with an irony fist. And that is tequila by the 00:24:55.299 --> 00:25:00.539 champs. Yes. The song has one word for its entire 00:25:00.539 --> 00:25:04.650 lyrics. I'm sure the first person that ever came 00:25:04.650 --> 00:25:06.730 up with that idea to throw that into a karaoke 00:25:06.730 --> 00:25:09.910 night probably tore the roof off the place with 00:25:09.910 --> 00:25:12.230 laughter. Kind of like the first time somebody 00:25:12.230 --> 00:25:15.529 yelled out, play Freebird at a cover band. Big, 00:25:15.589 --> 00:25:20.069 big laughs. The sixth and 700th time, not so 00:25:20.069 --> 00:25:22.970 much. One of my favorite jam bands, Mo, has a 00:25:22.970 --> 00:25:26.509 song that's 48 minutes long. It's a studio cut. 00:25:26.650 --> 00:25:30.019 It's called Meat. And over the course of 48 minutes, 00:25:30.140 --> 00:25:33.480 it's a progressive instrumental wicked jam that 00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:36.079 they do. But they say the word meat twice over 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:38.319 the entire length of the song. If you're going 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:41.059 to commit to the bit, go full on Andy Kaufman 00:25:41.059 --> 00:25:43.740 and put in Moe's Meat for your karaoke jam and 00:25:43.740 --> 00:25:47.160 see how that one goes over. But yeah, this falls 00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:51.579 under the irony fist category. You would think 00:25:51.579 --> 00:25:53.579 that after that one guy did that on America's 00:25:53.579 --> 00:25:56.380 Got Talent that it would be played out. Yeah. 00:25:56.500 --> 00:25:58.819 But I guess it still happens. And I think that 00:25:58.819 --> 00:26:00.880 one inspired more people to do it. I think it 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:04.059 really made the joke mainstream. Like, I don't 00:26:04.059 --> 00:26:05.980 even know how more mainstream you could get at 00:26:05.980 --> 00:26:09.380 this point. Now, I will say this. If you go up 00:26:09.380 --> 00:26:13.299 there and do the song while doing the Pee Wee 00:26:13.299 --> 00:26:16.779 Herman dance from Pee Wee's Big Adventure, then 00:26:16.779 --> 00:26:19.259 it's an A -plus performance. But if you just 00:26:19.259 --> 00:26:22.059 stand there waiting, it's not as funny. Now, 00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:24.200 back in the day before that was like super ubiquitous. 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:27.019 When I was in grad school, our one karaoke host, 00:26:27.220 --> 00:26:28.799 it killed me the first time I saw it. I mean, 00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:31.140 he did the bit a couple of times. I'm like, OK, 00:26:31.240 --> 00:26:33.759 we get it now. But he when it was the top of 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:36.480 the rotation and he always sang to indicate the 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:38.400 top of the rotation, he's like, all right, so 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:40.539 I'm trying a new song. I've I've been practicing 00:26:40.539 --> 00:26:43.279 for weeks. I think I finally have it. Let me 00:26:43.279 --> 00:26:45.700 know how I did. I'm a little nervous, but but 00:26:45.700 --> 00:26:47.500 like I'm ready to try. And then he did this song 00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:49.410 and like we all. thought it was hilarious but 00:26:49.410 --> 00:26:51.670 you know then he did the same joke a couple more 00:26:51.670 --> 00:26:57.130 times like get it like we get it well there you 00:26:57.130 --> 00:27:01.490 have it folks side a for our karaoke 101 mixtape 00:27:01.490 --> 00:27:05.529 psas and cliches which kicked off with if you 00:27:05.529 --> 00:27:09.410 don't don't worry someone else will picture by 00:27:09.410 --> 00:27:13.609 kid rock and cheryl crow in the yes we know category 00:27:13.609 --> 00:27:16.730 afternoon delight by the starlight vocal band 00:27:17.259 --> 00:27:20.819 In the Oh, You Changed the Words category, Totally 00:27:20.819 --> 00:27:23.819 Clips of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler. In the Read 00:27:23.819 --> 00:27:27.220 the Room category, The Rodeo Song by Gary Lee 00:27:27.220 --> 00:27:30.019 and Showdown. If you do go back and listen to 00:27:30.019 --> 00:27:32.839 this playlist, remember, not safe for work. In 00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:36.500 the How Hard Can Hip Hop Be category, Baby Got 00:27:36.500 --> 00:27:39.460 Back by Sir Mix -a -Lot. In the How Hard Can 00:27:39.460 --> 00:27:43.000 Metal Be category, Enter Sandman by Metallica. 00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:46.819 In the I Mean It's Great. but it's acapella category, 00:27:47.259 --> 00:27:51.160 Mercedes Benz by Janis Joplin. In the how high 00:27:51.160 --> 00:27:53.759 are you category, I believe in a thing called 00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:56.960 love by the darkness. In the that's like a two 00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:00.420 for one category, American Pie by Don McLean. 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:04.359 And hit you with an irony fist category, tequila 00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:07.920 by the champs. Head over to myweeklymixtape .com 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:10.019 to hear all the songs we've discussed in this 00:28:10.019 --> 00:28:13.480 mix through the playlist embedded on the episode 00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:17.769 page. Now, Ed, before we flip things over and 00:28:17.769 --> 00:28:20.369 get to side B, why don't you tell people a little 00:28:20.369 --> 00:28:22.450 bit about Fox and Friends and what you guys have 00:28:22.450 --> 00:28:24.910 got going on on the new show? Great. Thanks, 00:28:25.009 --> 00:28:28.029 Brian. So obviously, some people might be more 00:28:28.029 --> 00:28:29.869 familiar with me from the greatest song ever 00:28:29.869 --> 00:28:32.450 sung poorly. Karaoke podcast, my best friend 00:28:32.450 --> 00:28:35.009 and I did for a couple of years. But we kind 00:28:35.009 --> 00:28:37.369 of put that on a semi -permanent hiatus because 00:28:37.369 --> 00:28:40.630 he's a grown -up with a job and a wife now and 00:28:40.630 --> 00:28:43.029 a kid on the way, whereas I'm somebody who still 00:28:43.029 --> 00:28:45.609 just goes to bars and punk shows all the time 00:28:45.609 --> 00:28:48.930 because I'm having my midlife crisis, and that's 00:28:48.930 --> 00:28:51.990 what I do with it. A friend of mine who goes 00:28:51.990 --> 00:28:53.829 professionally by the name of Black Guy Fox, 00:28:54.170 --> 00:28:55.910 if you're familiar with that name, you might 00:28:55.910 --> 00:28:59.289 have seen him open for Frank Turner at Lost Evenings 00:28:59.289 --> 00:29:01.890 last year or seen him open for the Violent Femmes 00:29:01.890 --> 00:29:04.539 or for Dave House. He asked me, he's like, hey, 00:29:04.559 --> 00:29:06.039 I've been thinking about starting a podcast. 00:29:06.220 --> 00:29:07.940 Do you want to do a podcast with me? And I literally 00:29:07.940 --> 00:29:09.680 looked at him and I was like, are you asking 00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:11.339 me because I know where the podcast buttons are? 00:29:12.059 --> 00:29:14.019 And he goes, no, you're a really good friend, 00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:15.539 but yeah, you know where the podcast buttons 00:29:15.539 --> 00:29:20.039 are. So we talk to musicians and other creatives, 00:29:20.039 --> 00:29:23.660 mostly in the punk rock sphere about creativity 00:29:23.660 --> 00:29:26.380 and social justice and like causes they care 00:29:26.380 --> 00:29:29.619 about and their songwriting process and invariably 00:29:29.619 --> 00:29:33.170 their opinions on regional fast food. So, I mean, 00:29:33.190 --> 00:29:35.490 it's been a fun ride. I mean, I've got another 00:29:35.490 --> 00:29:37.670 chance to sit down with Frank Turner, Kaylee 00:29:37.670 --> 00:29:40.109 Goldsworthy, Micah Schnabel and Vanessa Jean 00:29:40.109 --> 00:29:42.849 Speckman, Cat Bite, like, all these artists that 00:29:42.849 --> 00:29:45.150 I just absolutely adore and love, A Day Without 00:29:45.150 --> 00:29:47.089 Love. I'm going to, like, I'll leave somebody 00:29:47.089 --> 00:29:49.210 off by, like, saying it, Chuck Reagan. I mean, 00:29:49.230 --> 00:29:51.470 like, the fact that, like, we get to talk to 00:29:51.470 --> 00:29:53.769 these people is fun for me just as, like, a semi 00:29:53.769 --> 00:29:56.869 -outsider who gets to just go along for the ride 00:29:56.869 --> 00:29:59.809 with my friend, the musician. You know, I get 00:29:59.809 --> 00:30:02.180 to tag along and... Again, I get to hit buttons, 00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:05.619 so that's nice. But mostly it's a chance to pal 00:30:05.619 --> 00:30:07.819 around with my buddy as his career is taking 00:30:07.819 --> 00:30:11.880 off. It's nice to see him be able to promote 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:15.180 shows and tours and things like that through 00:30:15.180 --> 00:30:17.980 the medium of podcasting and talking to other 00:30:17.980 --> 00:30:20.319 great musicians and some lesser -known ones, 00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:23.839 too. We're pretty indiscriminate with things 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:28.200 like that. If you're in that scene... You know, 00:30:28.259 --> 00:30:31.039 we love talking to you. It's always a fun conversation 00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:33.960 for us, which is really all he and I are looking 00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:36.640 for. So again, the name is Black Guy Fox. That's 00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:38.980 more important than the show itself. This music's 00:30:38.980 --> 00:30:41.160 available everywhere. You should listen. I'm 00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:44.059 a fan, but I'm biased. And if people want to 00:30:44.059 --> 00:30:46.190 find the show, where can they do that? It's on 00:30:46.190 --> 00:30:49.190 everything under Fox and Friends. The spelling 00:30:49.190 --> 00:30:52.309 there is important. F -A -W -K -E -S. It's Black 00:30:52.309 --> 00:30:54.809 Guy Fox, not Black Guy Fox like the animal, but 00:30:54.809 --> 00:30:57.950 Black Guy Fox like the gunpowder treason and 00:30:57.950 --> 00:31:01.309 plot. Fantastic. Well, now we're going to flip 00:31:01.309 --> 00:31:04.849 things over and hit the record button on our 00:31:04.849 --> 00:31:09.690 karaoke home runs side of the playlist. And I 00:31:09.690 --> 00:31:11.849 am going to kick things off with this first pick. 00:31:13.289 --> 00:31:15.410 Big surprise. I'm going to go with my favorite 00:31:15.410 --> 00:31:17.829 artist of all time. And I'm going to go with 00:31:17.829 --> 00:31:21.970 a song that I think is one of his most beloved 00:31:21.970 --> 00:31:25.269 sing -alongs. Because when you think about Tom 00:31:25.269 --> 00:31:28.190 Petty in karaoke, a lot of songs come to mind. 00:31:28.369 --> 00:31:32.930 Mary Jane's Last Dance, Refugee, Here Comes My 00:31:32.930 --> 00:31:38.069 Girl, Learning to Fly, American Girl. was probably 00:31:38.069 --> 00:31:40.750 one of the more popular ones. But the one I'm 00:31:40.750 --> 00:31:42.410 going to go with is the one that I think invites 00:31:42.410 --> 00:31:45.690 the biggest percentage of the room to join in 00:31:45.690 --> 00:31:48.750 on the sing along. And that is, I won't back 00:31:48.750 --> 00:31:52.230 down because everybody is going to sing the, 00:31:52.349 --> 00:31:57.069 Hey baby, like that part. Everyone's going to 00:31:57.069 --> 00:31:59.069 do it at the top of their lungs. It really brings 00:31:59.069 --> 00:32:02.670 the room together. It's a joyous song. Kind of 00:32:02.670 --> 00:32:05.690 brings a togetherness to the room. And, you know, 00:32:05.690 --> 00:32:07.289 sometimes you're at a karaoke night with your 00:32:07.289 --> 00:32:09.410 arm around some stranger, you know, drinking 00:32:09.410 --> 00:32:12.450 hand, singing along, having a good time. And 00:32:12.450 --> 00:32:15.329 you guys become a quote unquote community for 00:32:15.329 --> 00:32:16.990 that night. And this is one of those songs that 00:32:16.990 --> 00:32:19.650 I always have used throughout the years to get 00:32:19.650 --> 00:32:23.109 people to kind of join in the fun. If you call 00:32:23.109 --> 00:32:25.150 it that. That's a great choice for that. Like 00:32:25.150 --> 00:32:26.869 if we were talking about the cliche stuff, like 00:32:26.869 --> 00:32:28.990 everybody does free falling or Mary Jane's last 00:32:28.990 --> 00:32:31.250 dance. I won't back down though. That's a banger. 00:32:31.699 --> 00:32:35.119 That's a good one. So I will I will let everybody 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:38.140 who listens to your podcast in on a secret. My 00:32:38.140 --> 00:32:41.880 secret to karaoke success is to give someone 00:32:41.880 --> 00:32:44.740 a dopamine rush, not by how well I sing, because 00:32:44.740 --> 00:32:47.319 let's face it, I don't do that well. But I like 00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:49.900 to give them a song they forgot they remembered. 00:32:50.380 --> 00:32:53.359 Right. So you have that like recognition that, 00:32:53.519 --> 00:32:57.279 oh, I know this. And a lot of the songs that 00:32:57.279 --> 00:32:59.019 I've chosen for this side are going to be songs 00:32:59.019 --> 00:33:02.589 that fit that category. might be forgetting or 00:33:02.589 --> 00:33:05.329 might not remember that they know and so for 00:33:05.329 --> 00:33:10.109 me uh the first one that when people are age 00:33:10.109 --> 00:33:13.210 might forget that they know and like the song 00:33:13.210 --> 00:33:17.869 is plowed by sponge oh nice and i mean i think 00:33:17.869 --> 00:33:19.769 one of the things that hinders that song at karaoke 00:33:19.769 --> 00:33:23.690 is that's not really the words that anyone thinks 00:33:23.690 --> 00:33:26.789 of when it comes to that song if i say plowed 00:33:26.789 --> 00:33:30.089 by sponge people might go i don't but they're 00:33:30.089 --> 00:33:34.670 like in a world of human wreckage oh no i know 00:33:34.670 --> 00:33:37.210 that song like yeah so that's i'm kicking it 00:33:37.210 --> 00:33:39.789 off with sponge and plowed coming out of tom 00:33:39.789 --> 00:33:42.289 petty musically that actually works i was expecting 00:33:42.289 --> 00:33:46.210 this side to almost unfold like a karaoke night 00:33:46.210 --> 00:33:49.789 where you'd go from just genre hopping like crazy 00:33:49.789 --> 00:33:51.589 because this is the one kind of episode where 00:33:51.589 --> 00:33:54.890 the musical flow of the mixtape really isn't 00:33:55.130 --> 00:33:57.369 the message here because you're never going to 00:33:57.369 --> 00:33:59.829 go to a karaoke room where someone's going to 00:33:59.829 --> 00:34:01.690 sing a song and someone's going to be like i'll 00:34:01.690 --> 00:34:03.930 follow that up with something in that genre no 00:34:03.930 --> 00:34:06.069 they're going to do what works best for their 00:34:06.069 --> 00:34:09.590 song pick i love when people pull out sponge 00:34:09.590 --> 00:34:12.530 and i'll use that for both plowed as well as 00:34:12.530 --> 00:34:16.130 molly which is 16 candles down the drain if people 00:34:16.130 --> 00:34:18.909 don't remember that song rotting pinata was such 00:34:18.909 --> 00:34:21.829 a great album man and so was wax ecstatic for 00:34:21.829 --> 00:34:24.679 that point but Plowed my old cover band used 00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:31.099 to do. And anytime that people just light up. 00:34:31.380 --> 00:34:34.659 So, yeah, I love that pick. And I think coming 00:34:34.659 --> 00:34:36.420 out of it, I'm going to stay with this kind of 00:34:36.420 --> 00:34:40.340 quasi 90s kind of vibe we got going here. And 00:34:40.340 --> 00:34:43.719 I'm going to bring in one that I have never personally 00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:47.079 performed. But anytime I've seen it performed. 00:34:48.039 --> 00:34:51.199 I knew that as soon as I heard the opening baseline 00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:54.760 in this song, kick in with the drums, that there 00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:57.139 was no way somebody was going to put this song 00:34:57.139 --> 00:35:00.860 in and not be able to crush it. And that is a 00:35:00.860 --> 00:35:05.840 lot of miles, black velvet. You hear that. And 00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:11.820 then from that opening kind of vocal run, every 00:35:11.820 --> 00:35:14.400 time I've heard it done, I've gotten goosebumps 00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:19.980 because that song. Really demands a range. You 00:35:19.980 --> 00:35:23.719 need to be soft and sultry and yet be able to 00:35:23.719 --> 00:35:27.840 belt. If you're stuck in one side, you can't 00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:30.840 pull off the song, which is why it isn't done 00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:33.719 very often. But I guarantee you, if somebody 00:35:33.719 --> 00:35:36.559 puts it in, they can hit both sides of it. And 00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:38.940 every time I've seen this done, it's been knocked 00:35:38.940 --> 00:35:41.340 out of the park. Unless it's me, because I have 00:35:41.340 --> 00:35:44.739 done that song. You have done it. My other secret 00:35:44.739 --> 00:35:47.420 is if you want to surprise people. Do a gender 00:35:47.420 --> 00:35:50.420 bend, but like do it honestly. Like when I do 00:35:50.420 --> 00:35:52.880 it, I don't try to sound like Alana Miles. I 00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:55.480 invariably sound like Johnny Cash had a couple 00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:57.019 too many drinks and try to sing a different song. 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.760 So I just like I just change it to my vocal range. 00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:03.099 I don't I don't ask them to just pitch or anything 00:36:03.099 --> 00:36:04.239 like that. I'm just like, no, I'm just gonna 00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:07.440 sing along with this where I can, which is, you 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:10.260 know. in a lower register. I'm going to kind 00:36:10.260 --> 00:36:13.000 of keep that going. Um, actually it's funny. 00:36:13.139 --> 00:36:15.219 Our side B is turning out to be more cohesive 00:36:15.219 --> 00:36:18.219 than I expected it to. But like, again, like 00:36:18.219 --> 00:36:20.940 people doing songs a lot, we covered total eclipse 00:36:20.940 --> 00:36:23.159 of the heart the first time I would proffer this 00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:25.599 as an alternative to total eclipse of the heart. 00:36:25.659 --> 00:36:27.239 That'll still hit that dopamine rush of people 00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:29.159 knowing that they know the song and just kind 00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:30.940 of like forgetting about it. I don't hear it 00:36:30.940 --> 00:36:33.300 at karaoke very often. And that song is kiss 00:36:33.300 --> 00:36:37.500 me deadly by Lita Ford. Nice. It's got that same, 00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:41.760 like, power rock thing to it but it's not as 00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:44.079 you know overdone as total eclipse of the heart 00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:47.159 or some other songs like that and the shock factor 00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:48.659 of hearing somebody like really nail that because 00:36:48.659 --> 00:36:51.099 that that's a belty song that's a borderline 00:36:51.099 --> 00:36:53.619 metal screamy song if you can do that like why 00:36:53.619 --> 00:36:55.340 are you not doing that all the time like i'm 00:36:55.340 --> 00:36:57.139 i'm envious you should you should do that song 00:36:57.139 --> 00:36:59.139 one of my good friends from high school nicky 00:36:59.139 --> 00:37:01.820 who sings with the band now we started bringing 00:37:01.820 --> 00:37:05.510 in some more female oriented songs for her part 00:37:05.510 --> 00:37:07.949 of the set list and at the end of the night i 00:37:07.949 --> 00:37:12.230 got the band to practice at home because i just 00:37:12.230 --> 00:37:14.610 said i got a feeling this will go over well and 00:37:14.610 --> 00:37:17.789 everybody learned the parts and just live in 00:37:17.789 --> 00:37:20.449 front of an entire audience at a winery the last 00:37:20.449 --> 00:37:23.210 song of the night we broke into kiss me deadly 00:37:23.210 --> 00:37:28.090 acoustically with the piano instead of the synthesizer 00:37:28.090 --> 00:37:31.110 sounds Place lost their frigging mind because 00:37:31.110 --> 00:37:33.530 it was just heavy enough that people were, quote 00:37:33.530 --> 00:37:37.309 unquote, rocking at a winery. But it wasn't heavy 00:37:37.309 --> 00:37:39.230 because of the acoustic guitars. So it almost 00:37:39.230 --> 00:37:43.789 gave it this MTV unplugged vibe and it worked 00:37:43.789 --> 00:37:46.710 so damn well. The place lost their shit. And 00:37:46.710 --> 00:37:50.010 I could see this song going over huge in a karaoke 00:37:50.010 --> 00:37:54.119 bar. Well. I'm going to stick musically with 00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:56.039 this Lita Ford vibe because the one thing I know 00:37:56.039 --> 00:37:59.579 is if you have a good karaoke DJ, he will try 00:37:59.579 --> 00:38:02.659 to pair a couple of songs together if they fit 00:38:02.659 --> 00:38:05.239 in a vibe, especially as you get towards the 00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:07.579 end of the night. And if we were at the end of 00:38:07.579 --> 00:38:10.380 the night and Kiss Me Deadly was played, and 00:38:10.380 --> 00:38:12.820 let's say you're in a regional bar to me, which 00:38:12.820 --> 00:38:16.199 is New Jersey, and there's a very good chance 00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:18.840 at some point of the night, whether you want 00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:22.199 to or not, you will hear one of the... New Jersey 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:26.340 state anthems, which is Bon Jovi's living on 00:38:26.340 --> 00:38:29.780 a prayer. And there are some people from the 00:38:29.780 --> 00:38:31.960 state of New Jersey that will be vomiting right 00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:34.960 now that I even brought this song up. However, 00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:40.440 the woes in any karaoke bar in the country go 00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:43.400 over and you don't have to sing along with it 00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:45.599 because the chorus basically from the bridge 00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:48.900 on, we got to hold on to what everybody is singing 00:38:48.900 --> 00:38:52.579 along with that song. And if it's an acoustic, 00:38:52.699 --> 00:38:55.900 like mellower night for karaoke, throw a real 00:38:55.900 --> 00:38:59.099 curve ball. And if they have it, do the prayer 00:38:59.099 --> 00:39:01.900 94 slowed down acoustic version. If you really 00:39:01.900 --> 00:39:04.440 want to throw people for a loop, we've done that 00:39:04.440 --> 00:39:06.840 one with Colburn and company at the end of the 00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:09.119 night. And it, it almost causes like the cell 00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:11.920 phone lighters in the air. So. See, I need to 00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:13.579 come out for one of those Colburn and company 00:39:13.579 --> 00:39:15.860 gigs at some point. Yeah, dude, there are a lot 00:39:15.860 --> 00:39:18.000 of fun. We have so much fun because believe it 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:34.289 or not, your approach to karaoke. Actually, Brian. 00:39:46.809 --> 00:39:50.030 That was the number one song I had on my playlist 00:39:50.030 --> 00:39:53.489 as choices for this side. So I am going to make 00:39:53.489 --> 00:39:57.510 my next song Dishwalla's Counting Bars because 00:39:57.510 --> 00:40:01.010 I've been doing karaoke once a week for well 00:40:01.010 --> 00:40:05.929 over 15 years, and I can probably count on my 00:40:05.929 --> 00:40:08.530 hands how many times I've heard this song at 00:40:08.530 --> 00:40:11.349 karaoke. I don't think it's anyone's favorite 00:40:11.349 --> 00:40:14.389 song, but so many people know it and have some 00:40:14.389 --> 00:40:17.340 vague fondness for it. that it does hit that 00:40:17.340 --> 00:40:19.420 dopamine button. They're like, oh, I know this 00:40:19.420 --> 00:40:21.599 song. And like, if that is your favorite song, 00:40:21.699 --> 00:40:23.420 I am sorry. I have just never encountered somebody 00:40:23.420 --> 00:40:25.980 who said, no, Counting Blue Cars, Dishwalla, 00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:28.980 that's my jam. I've never heard that, but it 00:40:28.980 --> 00:40:32.099 works for karaoke. And I'll tell you, it works 00:40:32.099 --> 00:40:34.500 in a live acoustic setting because when you start 00:40:34.500 --> 00:40:36.840 with that song, a lot of people kind of look 00:40:36.840 --> 00:40:39.960 around, like you see this like, hmm, I know that 00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:42.159 riff. I know that riff. And even during the verse, 00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:44.599 they're going. Why do I know this? How do I know 00:40:44.599 --> 00:40:47.079 this? And as soon as they get to the tell me 00:40:47.079 --> 00:40:49.280 all your thoughts on God, you see a bunch of 00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:52.199 people kind of go like throw their arms up and 00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:54.539 go, that's it. And that's what we're going for 00:40:54.539 --> 00:40:58.400 with our whole set list. And I'm going to follow 00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:00.340 that up with a song that we do at the end of 00:41:00.340 --> 00:41:04.059 the night to get that same effect. After a three 00:41:04.059 --> 00:41:06.699 hour gig, my voice is usually starting to get 00:41:06.699 --> 00:41:09.619 shot and trying to hit songs in the stratosphere. 00:41:10.409 --> 00:41:12.469 Becomes tougher and tougher. And I know that 00:41:12.469 --> 00:41:14.269 there's one at the end of the night. That we 00:41:14.269 --> 00:41:18.650 always do. And that one does involve some. Stratospheric 00:41:18.650 --> 00:41:21.769 moments. So to give my voice a break. In the 00:41:21.769 --> 00:41:24.230 middle of the second set. But keep people losing 00:41:24.230 --> 00:41:27.789 their minds. I go with Violent Femmes Blister 00:41:27.789 --> 00:41:31.130 in the Sun. That opening acoustic guitar riff. 00:41:31.909 --> 00:41:36.230 Is punky. But it's a rock song. But it's got 00:41:36.230 --> 00:41:41.119 an indie vibe. It's just so many. fun things 00:41:41.119 --> 00:41:44.119 all mixed into one. And it's one of those songs 00:41:44.119 --> 00:41:48.960 that for a person who's new to karaoke, you don't 00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:52.539 have to really hit it all that well, because 00:41:52.539 --> 00:41:55.559 that's kind of the beauty of it. It's meant to 00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:59.260 be quirky and a little uncomfortable in the delivery. 00:41:59.440 --> 00:42:03.099 So to me, this is a great starter song. You don't 00:42:03.099 --> 00:42:05.480 even necessarily have to sing it. You can almost 00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:09.730 talk it. When I'm walking, I strap my stuff like 00:42:09.730 --> 00:42:13.630 that gets people smiling. It gets people singing 00:42:13.630 --> 00:42:17.550 along, especially the let me go wild in the chorus 00:42:17.550 --> 00:42:21.250 way to invite the room into the mix. And yeah, 00:42:21.309 --> 00:42:22.949 I'm getting a little bit of my punk edge out, 00:42:23.010 --> 00:42:26.329 but doing it in a way that. It actually hits 00:42:26.329 --> 00:42:28.530 the dopamine button for two different generations 00:42:28.530 --> 00:42:31.070 because the people that grew up with the Violent 00:42:31.070 --> 00:42:34.130 Femmes in the 80s are not the same age as the 00:42:34.130 --> 00:42:36.510 people that discovered the song when Claire Danes 00:42:36.510 --> 00:42:40.030 danced around in My So -Called Life in the 90s 00:42:40.030 --> 00:42:43.429 and the song became a hit from that show. So 00:42:43.429 --> 00:42:46.269 it's that dopamine button for two different generations 00:42:46.269 --> 00:42:48.989 as far as I'm concerned. Let me state first off 00:42:48.989 --> 00:42:51.110 that I absolutely love the Violent Femmes. I 00:42:51.110 --> 00:42:54.059 mean, they're folk punk icons. my podcast partner 00:42:54.059 --> 00:42:56.880 opened for them in connecticut on their 40th 00:42:56.880 --> 00:42:59.059 anniversary of that first album so got to hear 00:42:59.059 --> 00:43:02.099 the entire first album back to back but there 00:43:02.099 --> 00:43:03.380 was one night at karaoke where somebody told 00:43:03.380 --> 00:43:05.980 me man you sound just like gordon gaino and i'm 00:43:05.980 --> 00:43:08.900 like i don't know that that's complimentary but 00:43:08.900 --> 00:43:12.420 thank you um i actually had as an alternative 00:43:12.420 --> 00:43:15.760 on the side to blister in the sun kiss off because 00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:19.420 it's so fun enough people know it but you don't 00:43:19.420 --> 00:43:22.630 hear it a lot and i mean Like that great chant 00:43:22.630 --> 00:43:25.230 in the middle, like it's so much fun to do a 00:43:25.230 --> 00:43:27.869 karaoke, but it does get to that that one screamy 00:43:27.869 --> 00:43:29.869 part, which makes it a little bit more difficult. 00:43:30.769 --> 00:43:34.289 But yeah, no, I mean, that's a absolutely great 00:43:34.289 --> 00:43:36.289 choice. And now I'm trying to decide which of 00:43:36.289 --> 00:43:40.710 these songs would follow that best. And I'm going 00:43:40.710 --> 00:43:43.650 to actually go with like what I will have. I 00:43:43.650 --> 00:43:46.190 have always said the song is the most underrated 00:43:46.190 --> 00:43:49.309 song of the grunge era and the grunge era always 00:43:49.309 --> 00:43:52.150 tends to go over. Really well at karaoke, mainly 00:43:52.150 --> 00:43:54.550 because a lot of us are a lot of people at karaoke 00:43:54.550 --> 00:43:56.929 bars are in their late 30s to early 50s. So, 00:43:56.989 --> 00:44:00.349 I mean, it hits that that sweet spot. And one 00:44:00.349 --> 00:44:02.769 of the things to remember is like Brian and I 00:44:02.769 --> 00:44:05.489 are both guys. Like typically you'd expect us 00:44:05.489 --> 00:44:07.190 to pick a lot of guy songs. So I want to make 00:44:07.190 --> 00:44:10.329 a concerted effort to have more female vocals. 00:44:10.869 --> 00:44:13.050 So we're talking grunge. We're talking female 00:44:13.050 --> 00:44:16.469 vocals. We're talking cannonball by the breeders. 00:44:16.789 --> 00:44:20.940 Nice. What an underrated song. And that's another 00:44:20.940 --> 00:44:22.119 one that starts off with that opening that's 00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:29.500 so iconic. I love that song, and I'm happy I 00:44:29.500 --> 00:44:31.280 got to include it on this list. I've done that 00:44:31.280 --> 00:44:34.420 one before, too. I've played Cannonball on bass 00:44:34.420 --> 00:44:37.360 with a band before, but I have never sang it. 00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:40.119 That is such a great one. The song that I had 00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:43.840 in that category was the Cranberry Zombie. Because 00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:46.880 obviously the song was huge in the 90s. So you 00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:49.639 still had the female population when I was going 00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:53.059 to a lot of karaoke bars in the late 90s, early 00:44:53.059 --> 00:44:56.059 2000s. That song got played a lot. But then with 00:44:56.059 --> 00:44:59.440 Bad Wolf's cover, it got a resurgence. And we 00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:02.239 were on stage one night on a night that our female 00:45:02.239 --> 00:45:04.780 singer didn't show up because she had another 00:45:04.780 --> 00:45:07.280 gig previously scheduled. So it was just a trio. 00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:11.340 And that song got requested. And I'm pausing 00:45:11.340 --> 00:45:14.809 and I'm tapping. my forehead and the keyboard 00:45:14.809 --> 00:45:17.170 player's looking at me and he goes you know it's 00:45:17.170 --> 00:45:19.469 a four chord charlie right i said yeah i know 00:45:19.469 --> 00:45:22.829 the song and the drummer goes i could do it and 00:45:22.829 --> 00:45:24.949 they looked at me and i i turned to the crowd 00:45:24.949 --> 00:45:27.769 and said look we'll do it under one condition 00:45:27.769 --> 00:45:30.130 every single one of you need to sing the chorus 00:45:30.130 --> 00:45:33.750 because i can't hit the entire chorus and let 00:45:33.750 --> 00:45:36.070 me tell you i did all the verses and when he 00:45:36.070 --> 00:45:39.030 hit the chorus everyone sang so loud I just got 00:45:39.030 --> 00:45:41.150 to back up off the mic and let them take it, 00:45:41.190 --> 00:45:43.329 and it was one of those feel -good moments. The 00:45:43.329 --> 00:45:47.170 Breeders, on the flip of that, is one of those 00:45:47.170 --> 00:45:50.269 songs that people are up dancing the whole time. 00:45:50.550 --> 00:45:53.769 So your final pick is Zombie by the Cranberries. 00:45:54.670 --> 00:45:59.389 Well, yeah. After all of that spiel about the 00:45:59.389 --> 00:46:01.670 Cranberries, I'm actually not going to go with 00:46:01.670 --> 00:46:05.210 that. Cranberries get an honorable mention. Woo! 00:46:05.489 --> 00:46:09.000 Sorry about that. For my last pick of the night, 00:46:09.139 --> 00:46:11.320 I had a song kind of earmarked for this spot 00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:14.440 because I did a sing along with Tom Petty's I 00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:16.900 Won't Back Down. It's a song Colburn and Company 00:46:16.900 --> 00:46:20.579 does. And so is my last pick of the night. And 00:46:20.579 --> 00:46:23.539 again, this is a song that's seen a resurgence 00:46:23.539 --> 00:46:27.380 in the last decade. So you get the 80s crowd 00:46:27.380 --> 00:46:31.780 that gets the dopamine hit. You get the 2020s 00:46:31.780 --> 00:46:34.730 crowd that get the dopamine hit. And everybody 00:46:34.730 --> 00:46:36.989 sings along at the same time with the high notes, 00:46:37.070 --> 00:46:39.809 which gives my life, makes it a little bit easier. 00:46:40.550 --> 00:46:44.289 And that is Toto's Africa or Weezer's Africa, 00:46:44.489 --> 00:46:47.530 depending on which version you go with. Having 00:46:47.530 --> 00:46:49.429 to hit those high notes at the end of the night, 00:46:49.489 --> 00:46:51.369 falsetto or not, after you've been singing for 00:46:51.369 --> 00:46:55.610 three hours is not an easy feat. And there are 00:46:55.610 --> 00:46:58.110 some nights where I do the Vince Neil and I point 00:46:58.110 --> 00:47:00.929 the mic to the crowd because I know that if I 00:47:00.929 --> 00:47:04.000 try to hit it, it's going to. ruin all the hard 00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:07.739 work we put in for the last three hours. But 00:47:07.739 --> 00:47:10.079 in karaoke, it's one of those ones that you could 00:47:10.079 --> 00:47:12.400 falsetto it. You could sing it however you want. 00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:15.940 You could go an octave lower and people are still 00:47:15.940 --> 00:47:18.800 going to be going nuts. So my last pick of the 00:47:18.800 --> 00:47:21.280 night is Toto's Africa. You know, I have, I'm 00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:23.219 happy that you went with a song that some people 00:47:23.219 --> 00:47:25.099 might even call like a karaoke cliche because 00:47:25.099 --> 00:47:26.699 it is that good of a karaoke song. And you're 00:47:26.699 --> 00:47:28.480 right. Like no matter what, you can't miss with 00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:30.800 that. The only Toto song I've ever done in karaoke. 00:47:31.309 --> 00:47:34.190 is uh rosanna but i have to tag somebody in to 00:47:34.190 --> 00:47:35.670 do the higher parts because i can't do it but 00:47:35.670 --> 00:47:37.989 i'll do the lower parts so i mean this is the 00:47:37.989 --> 00:47:40.929 last song of the mixtape brian yeah this is a 00:47:40.929 --> 00:47:43.590 big honor and this is a big responsibility and 00:47:43.590 --> 00:47:45.610 again pressure i used to have a karaoke podcast 00:47:45.610 --> 00:47:49.030 i literally have the word karaoke tattooed on 00:47:49.030 --> 00:47:51.329 my knuckles at this point in my life man yes 00:47:51.329 --> 00:47:54.369 so i have to like all eyes are on me for this 00:47:54.369 --> 00:47:57.170 choice this is this is a lot of pressure um you 00:47:57.170 --> 00:47:59.000 know i could go with a deep cut like I could 00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:00.480 go with something that hits that dopamine pop. 00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:02.760 I could, you know, there's so many songs I could 00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:05.380 go with, but I'm just going to go with the best 00:48:05.380 --> 00:48:09.739 karaoke song of all time. Possibly the best song 00:48:09.739 --> 00:48:12.659 of all time. It's possible. I'm not sure. I don't 00:48:12.659 --> 00:48:15.179 know how you would qualify that. I am not a musician. 00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:19.699 I don't know. But I have never failed to see 00:48:19.699 --> 00:48:21.719 this song get a good response, whether somebody 00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:24.659 sang it well, whether they sang it poorly. Whether 00:48:24.659 --> 00:48:27.760 they sang it in the original key or if they sang 00:48:27.760 --> 00:48:30.719 it the way that I would. And that song, my friend, 00:48:30.900 --> 00:48:37.300 is ABBA, Dancing Queen. Possibly the best pop 00:48:37.300 --> 00:48:40.260 song of all time. I'll stand by that. That is 00:48:40.260 --> 00:48:43.500 just, I see 21 -year -olds in my college town 00:48:43.500 --> 00:48:46.300 sing that. I see 78 -year -olds in Florida sing 00:48:46.300 --> 00:48:49.460 that. No matter what, it goes over well, whether 00:48:49.460 --> 00:48:51.139 they sing it well or whether they sing it like 00:48:51.139 --> 00:48:53.110 me, which is not so good. I mean, when you're 00:48:53.110 --> 00:48:57.110 talking about one of the biggest bands ever in 00:48:57.110 --> 00:48:59.849 the history of recorded music, I mean, for popularity, 00:48:59.909 --> 00:49:03.269 album sales, all of it. What a great pick. And 00:49:03.269 --> 00:49:05.449 it's something that, again, gets everybody in 00:49:05.449 --> 00:49:08.590 the room singing along. And because of the movie, 00:49:08.670 --> 00:49:11.809 again, jumping generations. So you're getting 00:49:11.809 --> 00:49:15.010 multiple generations to sing along. So even those 00:49:15.010 --> 00:49:18.670 outside of our demographic. have been exposed 00:49:18.670 --> 00:49:21.570 to this song and are into this song. And again, 00:49:21.610 --> 00:49:23.710 it invites that sing -along that's kind of been 00:49:23.710 --> 00:49:28.150 woven in and out of our incredible karaoke home 00:49:28.150 --> 00:49:32.869 runs, Side B, which kicked off with Tom Petty's 00:49:32.869 --> 00:49:37.070 I Won't Back Down, Sponge Plowed, Alana Miles' 00:49:37.349 --> 00:49:40.929 Black Velvet, Lita Ford's Kiss Me Deadly, Bon 00:49:40.929 --> 00:49:44.070 Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer, Dish Wallace' Counting 00:49:44.070 --> 00:49:47.110 Blue Cars, Violin Femme's Blister in the Sun, 00:49:47.579 --> 00:49:51.079 The Breeders' Cannonball, Toto's Africa, and 00:49:51.079 --> 00:49:54.659 ABBA's Dancing Queen. Head over to myweeklymixtape 00:49:54.659 --> 00:49:57.079 .com to hear all the songs we discussed in this 00:49:57.079 --> 00:50:00.280 mix through the playlist embedded on the episode 00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:03.400 page. Well, Ed, why don't you remind people once 00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:06.880 again where they can find Fox & Friends and maybe 00:50:06.880 --> 00:50:09.139 what you guys got coming up in the coming months 00:50:09.139 --> 00:50:11.429 at the show. The show is called Fox and Friends 00:50:11.429 --> 00:50:14.969 against F .A .W .K .E .S. as in Guy Fawkes, not 00:50:14.969 --> 00:50:17.110 Fox the animal, although we've had some hilarious 00:50:17.110 --> 00:50:20.750 misspellings of it over the years. The best thing 00:50:20.750 --> 00:50:23.389 to do is just to follow Black Guy Fawkes on social 00:50:23.389 --> 00:50:26.469 media because the show is a part of his creative 00:50:26.469 --> 00:50:28.429 endeavor. So the podcast itself doesn't have 00:50:28.429 --> 00:50:30.670 its own website. It's just it's all Black Guy 00:50:30.670 --> 00:50:33.989 Fawkes. I'm just the my job is filling the middle 00:50:33.989 --> 00:50:36.369 aged white guy. quota for the podcast and that's 00:50:36.369 --> 00:50:38.150 what i do that's what i bring to the table i'm 00:50:38.150 --> 00:50:41.030 a man in my 40s with no hair well you did that 00:50:41.030 --> 00:50:44.070 job tonight very well and thank you so much for 00:50:44.070 --> 00:50:46.250 joining me again on my weekly mixtape let's make 00:50:46.250 --> 00:50:49.469 this not another 70 episodes before we get you 00:50:49.469 --> 00:50:52.650 back on again i'm sure we can find a theme and 00:50:52.650 --> 00:50:55.269 remember mixtapers you can find my weekly mixtape 00:50:55.269 --> 00:50:58.389 on almost all the social media haunts at My Weekly 00:50:58.389 --> 00:51:01.070 Mixtape. You can also head to myweeklymixtape 00:51:01.070 --> 00:51:03.949 .com to check out the full catalog of My Weekly 00:51:03.949 --> 00:51:06.170 Mixtape episodes. 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