Speaker 1: 0:03

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Speaker 2: 1:03

Well, it's uh it. It's February, which means it's typically the coldest month and we're already experiencing that, I think, in both of our environments today and it also means that the Super Bowl is coming up right around the corner.

Speaker 1: 1:15

Yeah, and I don't know if we can actually say Super Bowl without getting in trouble.

Speaker 2: 1:19

Oh you're right. Yeah, we'll bleep that out.

Speaker 1: 1:21

Maybe we're not big enough yet, but it is so funny around this time to see so many references to the big game. You know it's like best buy will be like it's the big game sale. It's like wow you're right, don't know what you're talking about. Like that's enough of a cover legally to like get away with whatever you're doing.

Speaker 2: 1:41

Okay, well, I do have the written consent. No, I don't have the written consent of the. Nfl and its broadcast partners.

Speaker 1: 1:50

Roger Goodell's a family friend. I put in a call we're good, we're good, but yeah, we're going to do a little Super Bowl mix here. If you go back and listen to last year's Super Bowl mix, we took songs from the cities of the two participants, so last year Cincinnati and Los Angeles this year. I don't know how you felt, but I feel like, from a music standpoint, like a lot more choices Philadelphia and Kansas City have have rich musical histories.

Speaker 2: 2:19

They really do. Yeah, I was kind of surprised. I mean, philadelphia I wasn't surprised by because, you know, it's like it's a large city and that's a little bit typically easier to find like musicians coming from that. But Kansas City was. I was like, wow, there's, there's like a really long list of well-known musicians and bands, and that's why it's funny. I really like this exercise because it's kind of a random way to discover, like, where people are from and and you know what their origin story was and, um, I think you know all across the country this is my takeaway people come from everywhere and I think that's like the magic of of the united states is it doesn't really matter where, where you're born, like you can, you can become a talent and a force, uh, in your industry.

Speaker 1: 3:01

So it's really yeah, really neat, just all the different people from these places, all the songs that have been written about these cities, so really cool. The other cool thing I mean actually I hate it because I'm a Dallas fan, but I mean the city of Philadelphia. They went to the MLS Cup final, they went to the World Series. Now they're going to the Super Bowl. The 76ers have a chance to go into the nba finals this year. I mean that's just incredible, like the run that they're having in that city with their sports teams and in kansas city. It's their third super bowl in five years.

Speaker 1: 3:35

So I mean it's really I know it's crazy, these two uh meeting here, that one of them's going to get, um, really another championship, because both have recently won Super Bowls, but also just other titles.

Speaker 2: 3:47

Yeah, philly is definitely having such a run. On SNL the other day they had a skit where Kenan Thompson was like oh, south Philly's on fire, which means that the Eagles lost or they won, like you just never really know, but they're always out there.

Speaker 1: 4:07

they've got a great fan base well, speaking of philadelphia, they're going to start off our mix here because your first pick um was some guys pretty clearly from the city of philadelphia.

Speaker 2: 4:20

The song is motown philly by boys to men yeah, this was a top of mind pick for me. Whenever, you know, I had to pick songs from Philadelphia. This was actually off of our first guest mix, so Mary Padian put this on her mix way back in season one. I think that was our third or fourth episode of the entire show. Still a great episode, Always worth checking out and seeing the great mix that she put together for us. I mean, it's been.

Speaker 2: 4:45

Yeah, it's been a while since I've listened to it and, just like I think I said on that first episode, every time I listen to it I'm like this is a great song. It's like it's still awesome today. I think it's a song that is just lasted the test of time. It just sounds so smooth. It has like such a great rhythm. You know the lyrics are awesome. I really like that. Basically, the song is just them describing how they became a group and like their own musical history. So, like in verse two, you know he sings like. Back in school we used to dream about this every day. Could it really happen? Or do dreams just fade away? Then we started singing and they said it sounds so smooth and we started a group. And here we are kicking it just for you and it's like that's great, what a nice little musical history right there in the song.

Speaker 1: 5:28

I didn't have to dig very far it's like the opening theme to a tv show, right where they explain everything that you're about to see like here's the whole backstory. We don't have to get creative with the script. Right like everything's right there a lot of exposition.

Speaker 2: 5:43

Yes, a lot of it's. It's really evident what they're talking about here, although I'm certain that someone on the internet thinks that this is a song about sex or drugs. Of course, right, of course there's gotta be, it's gotta be.

Speaker 1: 5:57

But yeah, this song. It's also really unique for their catalog too, because their massive hits ended up being these really smooth r&B songs, you know, like End of the Road and One Sweet Day, the collaboration with Mariah Carey, like they did so many of these, and their voices are incredible. So I mean it should be that way. But, yeah, this one still works, but it is so different, like. So, if this was I know this was my first introduction to Voiced Men. It was everybody, everybody's. This was their first massive hit, and then you get into their album and everything's very different from this song. So it really shows their range. But also it's interesting because this is how everyone was introduced to them and then we had a very different experience from there.

Speaker 2: 6:38

Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. All right. So the way that we've done this mix is we've done Philadelphia and then we're going to bring in a Kansas City song, so it's kind of a versus throughout.

Speaker 1: 6:47

So this is your first Kansas City pick and it is I'll Never Fall in Love Again, by Mr Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello this version that is from the third Austin Powers movie, Because Austin Powers has, you know, Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello just randomly show up and sing this song. And I mean Burt Bacharach, if you've never heard of him and some people may not have out there but, like, just do a deep dive into his songwriting catalog because I guarantee there's a song that you love or know really well that he has written. He's written so many great songs and so this is one of them. And, yeah, you get the help of Elvis Costello's voice on there making it.

Speaker 1: 7:34

I don't know, maybe even better, but that's what kind of Bird Backer Act did. But I also thought thematically it works too, because I mean, if you've ever had a team that you root for lose in the championship, like the heartache is just. I mean you really do feel like you'll never fall in love again, like you just don't want to be that deeply invested in a team when they let you down right.

Speaker 1: 7:56

I mean you're talking to every single dallas cowboys fan right now, I think guys every season we go through this and there's so much hope in the preseason and there's always that one game where they like beat a good team during the year right, we think this is it, and then and then, here we are.

Speaker 2: 8:13

There's two different I know super bowl. I know, yeah, fire all the coaches, let's do it again. Um, yeah, I, I immediately thought of austin powers whenever I hit play on the song. I know the exact scene. I think they're on top of a bus and he just randomly appears on this tour bus and he's got the piano there and everything.

Speaker 2: 8:33

But, yeah, what's funny is that I really like this song and I always thought of it as like a happy song, but then the lyrics are kind of rough right, because it really is like he's just thinking like oh, what good is love? You know what do you get? You just get lies and pain and sorrow. Um, although I do like that, at the very end he, he ends it by saying so, at least until tomorrow, I'll never fall in love again. And to your point, I I think like that is the journey of a lot of fans. It's like you can really really be down on your team and you're like that's it, I'm never gonna root for them again. And then next season, you're like okay, this, this is our year, this is, this is gonna be it, that's right, you want you watch the hard knocks documentary on hbo.

Speaker 1: 9:12

You're like yeah, we really got our act together this year.

Speaker 2: 9:14

They've edited this well, this is great might need a new point after kicker, though just yeah there's talk of maybe a new kicker who?

Speaker 1: 9:25

knows right, it doesn't really matter, does it? Um, all right, well, track three we go back to philadelphia, and your pick was disparate youth by santa gold yeah, so I didn't know.

Speaker 2: 9:38

Santa gold is from philadelphia, so this was a cool discovery, um, and has such a catchy opening beat it just pulls you right into the rest of the song. It's always my experience with the song. This is, you know, a category of artists that I'm always like. Oh yeah, I really really like her music, like I, and it's not it's not a top of mind artist for me, just in my own library, but every time I rediscover her, her catalog, I have a lot of fun listening to it. So I spent some time listening to a lot of her. You know a lot of her songs as I was making this mix.

Speaker 2: 10:07

But the reason I like this one too, you know, in the context of, of sports, is this one is really just about overcoming adversity, as she says, and defining who you are rather than who others say you should be.

Speaker 2: 10:19

So I really like that.

Speaker 2: 10:21

You know, in the context of achieving anything like it's, we thematically talk a lot about songs that kind of push you to be who you are and kind of break free and let yourself be you and let all that shine through. So I really really like that. But I just love the love, the sound of the song and I think her voice is great, you know, and she wrote this many, many years ago and then, I think in 2012, she had an interview where she was talking about kind of reflecting on the song and in that time period and just saying like she felt that things were changing and there was like a lot of tension under the surface, um, and things were happening and like an awakening was happening. We needed to fix a lot of things and, as I always say, whenever we look back at songs written a while ago talking about things needing to be fixed, I'm happy to report we fixed everything. Like you know, these, 11 years later, everything is perfect everything's perfect now yes, we're happy to report that yeah, that is great.

Speaker 1: 11:19

Yeah, this one's really cool and and I think just the uh, you know you talk about sort of forgetting about this. I find that happens to me when it's someone whose genre does not kind of fit a standard box and I feel, like that's.

Speaker 1: 11:32

Maybe her music here is that you know you're not necessarily going to hear a lot of it on the radio or anything like that, but such a cool sound and, yeah, perfect thematically for, you know, super Bowl participants here. And you know you gotta, you gotta get after your dreams and and make them happen all right, so on to your one.

Speaker 2: 11:51

This one could be like a chant that that happens at the at the super bowl itself, but it is kansas city.

Speaker 1: 11:57

Hey, hey, hey, hey by the beatles yeah, the beatles, of course, from kansas city, missouri naturally yeah hold on.

Speaker 1: 12:05

I'm being handed a note here that, okay, sorry, they are not actually from Kansas city, Missouri. Okay, I apologize. Um, no, the Beatles have always said like, if you've seen any of their documentaries or read up on them, they were so heavily influenced by Chuck Berry and little Richard, Like they, they love that music. And I heard this song and I was like, yeah, this is like their tribute, their attempt to kind of replicate that you know, and you get Paul McCartney like trying to, you know, make his voice sound like little Richard. It was really amazing. Now I looked this up, Our friends at the Ranking the Beatles podcast actually did an episode about this very song in November and they had this as the number 132 best Beatles song.

Speaker 1: 12:54

So that's the middle of the pack, right Right. I was like this is pretty good and I enjoyed listening to it, but it was not one that I knew about firsthand until I started researching music about Kansas City and I stumbled upon this song. But yeah, they ranked it pretty highly, but I think it was because of the clear influences of some people they've, you know, always cited in their history.

Speaker 2: 13:19

Yeah, I mean I can safely say I had no idea this song existed. This is not a top of mind Beatles song. You know, for someone who's not like a super hardcore Beatles fan, like, obviously I'm super aware of them, I've listened to a lot of their music, but I think no one would really go to this song whenever they, you know, think of the Beatles. But it is really interesting. It's very different from a lot of stuff. So you definitely see the influence in them trying to bring in like the Little Richard sound and that big sound into their own music thing. You know, I think we've said this before but it really is incredible how short-lived the Beatles were as a band but how monumental an impact they were on music and what they were able to do in these handful of albums really in a number of years. So it's pretty impressive.

Speaker 1: 14:06

Well, it's also amazing too how, even in that short time span and I don't know if that was a function of the time period or just them like they churned out a lot of work, whether it was actually published on studio albums or not, like there's just a lot of material there. And yeah, that's what I wonder when we dig into some of these bands sometimes it's just like how many songs are out there that they've got recordings for that just never saw the light of day? You know, I just think that's fascinating sometimes.

Speaker 1: 14:36

All right, so your next pick and everyone should know this one, it is the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, by DJ Jazzy, jeff and the Fresh Prince.

Speaker 2: 14:45

Yes, I mean this was how could this not go on a Philadelphia based mix? We can. We can all relate to. You know, being born and raised in West, in West Philly. So DJ Jazzy Jeff, of course, is a Philly native has a lot of great songs. I picked this one just because it's probably one of the most well-known songs that has his name attached to it. You know, I think what's really funny now is the. So the lyrics of the song and the whole premise of the show, the fresh prince of bel-air, is that he gets into a fight in philadelphia. So then his you know, his mom sends him to go live in la. But now I would argue that maybe because of what happened in la, he needs to go, needs to go back to Philadelphia, because it seems like he got into a pretty famous fight. Okay, I love this I love this.

Speaker 1: 15:34

Okay, so, because Peacock has this new version of like the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, they created like this dramatic version of it, right, but you're proposing, like the real fresh Prince, will Smith, like gets in trouble after this Oscar incident and get shipped back to West Philadelphia.

Speaker 3: 15:52

It's just like well, we don't want to need it. This is like a this is like a better thing.

Speaker 1: 15:59

Maybe he ends up in like Omaha, Nebraska. Right, right, you got to rebuild there, you know that could be a really good spinoff.

Speaker 2: 16:07

That's awesome. All right, peacock, if you're listening.

Speaker 1: 16:10

We're here, yeah, and will be all right, I'm guessing he's listening and, uh, you know, he might need a project, kind of a pick me up, like let's go back into comedy.

Speaker 2: 16:18

Well, the other thing I really appreciated about this song is that it has like the full story of how he got over. I was always bothered in the show credits where basically, like will smith gets into a cab and then it's kind of unclear because it seems like the cab took him all the way from philadelphia to los angeles and I'm like, well, that's not how cabs work, like there's no way. But in this song he explains that he's actually on a first class flight over there and then he gets the cab and it's like well, okay, you know that seemed that makes a lot more sense.

Speaker 2: 16:51

But anyway, I'm glad that that that was finally answered for me as as a fan of the show yeah, yep, episode one.

Speaker 1: 16:58

They play the full version, so you get the full exposition, almost like motown philly being boy got it first single.

Speaker 2: 17:04

So it's like we're gonna tell you everything right here.

Speaker 1: 17:07

And then from then on it was shortened, because obviously they can't run a full-length song at the beginning of a television show every week. But yeah, you're right, full exposition. I mean, this is the second Philly reference we've had here where they just write this song that's telling you everything about their lives.

Speaker 2: 17:24

And maybe there's a little maybe that's where all the anger comes from. There's a lot of oversharing in Philadelphia. Yeah, perhaps All right. Well, let's bring it back to Kansas City here with the appropriately named title again Kansas City by Wilbert Harrison.

Speaker 1: 17:40

Yeah. So this song was really interesting because I've always known this song right Like this was on the oldie stations growing up. So this was written by two guys named Jerry Lee, were in Mike Stoller, and it was released in 1952. These two guys had never been to Kansas city but what they were trying to do is replicate what they called the Philadelphia sound. And so really interesting tie-in to the mix because here's a song titled Kansas City, about the city Kansas City, but it was influenced by the Philadelphia Sound. So I just thought it was really interesting that these guys are too tied in and specifically they cite Big Joe Turner, who makes an appearance later on the mix. So I thought that was really interesting that there was this tie-in.

Speaker 1: 18:29

But this song has been re-recorded by, like you know, fats Domino, little Richard, james Brown, all these big artists. But it is this version, the Wilbert Harrison version, that ended up being like the top charting single version of this song and kind of, I think, the one that's made me last the most because I think anyone who knows this song and kind of I think the one that's that's made me last at the most because I think anyone who knows this song. This is the version that you think of.

Speaker 3: 18:55

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Speaker 2: 19:35

Yeah, it is. I'm not sure if I'd heard this or not. It sounded vaguely familiar to me, but I really enjoyed it. I love the sound of it. It's like a time capsule song of the 50s. I think that's exactly where I kind of jumped to. I really enjoyed it. I didn't realize that connection with the Philadelphia Sound being written about Kansas City. Having never gone to Kansas City, that's great, all right. So we're going to kind of flip order a little bit, but we're staying with Philadelphia versus Kansas City. So your next Philadelphia pick is Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John.

Speaker 1: 20:17

Yeah, this was the first song that came to mind when I thought of Philadelphia. Right, it was Philadelphia Freedom. First of all, it's off the album with maybe one of the greatest album names ever. It's called Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. It's really good. It's really good, right, like that's a really good album title. So Elton John's longtime writing partner, bernie toppin. They wrote this in 1976, which was around the time the united states turned 200 years old.

Speaker 1: 20:48

Okay, so that was some of the influence here.

Speaker 1: 20:50

Was this this bicentennial celebration?

Speaker 1: 20:53

But on top of that, the philadelphia freedom were part of what was called the world, was a world world team, tennis, was this league, right, where they had all these like tennis stars, you know, going around and it was almost trying to create like an NFL version of tennis, you know, and I think they even have something today like that. But that was the name of their team in Philadelphia Philadelphia Freedom. And the best player on the team was also the best player in the world and a good friend of Elton John, and that was Billie Jean King. And so Billie Jean King and Elton John were like friends, and so he wrote this song and the name was inspired by the Philadelphia Freedom, which was this tennis team, and anyway it's just a great song. I love the energy. It's also got kind of that Philadelphia sound to it, like that was definitely an influence, but I think it often gets mistaken based on the release date for like just the super patriotic song. But it was really more of a tribute to Billie Jean King and the Philadelphia Freedom.

Speaker 2: 21:55

Yeah, no, that makes a lot of sense. I didn't know about the tie into the Bicentennial, but definitely was reading about the tie into Billie Jean King, the thing that makes me always laugh about you know songs like this where you've got like Elton John being friends with you know Billie Jean King, a famous tennis player, and he's, you know, a famous musician. It's like is there just like a chat room that all these famous people are in together and just becoming like we're becoming friends with one another, like I? I don't understand how this works, but they seem, they seem to all know each other.

Speaker 1: 22:27

That is funny. Yeah, I wonder, if you know, you get to a certain level where it's like all right, well, hey, you're ready to meet Tom Cruise? Come on, it's like.

Speaker 2: 22:41

Oh my God. It's like oh my god, this is whoa. This is happening. I'm that famous, you've unlocked.

Speaker 1: 22:43

You've unlocked tom cruise level and yeah, it's like a leveling thing in video games, if you just kind of work your way up celebrity wise and then it's like, oh well, now you know this guy.

Speaker 2: 22:51

Of course who, who would be at the top, like morgan freeman is like the last person you meet, like because he's always like the voice of god, right I? I think he's got such a it's such a long career. Maybe he's the. He's the last one?

Speaker 1: 23:04

Yeah, that would be interesting who is the last person on that level? Because obviously there are some who are maybe older, who are legendary but might have fallen ill, so you don't really want to meet them. You know that that sounds bad, but I think everyone understands what I mean there. And then you've got um, yeah, who is that person? Am I morgan freeman's a good one?

Speaker 2: 23:27

yeah, that was top of mind for me. Yeah, as far as that would be really cool to me.

Speaker 1: 23:32

Yeah, then we'd have to think about that one. Um, all right. So, speaking of celebrities, who all just know each other, this next song has a number of them, and you go with Face Off by Tech N9ne, joey Cool, king Iso and Dwayne the Rock Johnson.

Speaker 2: 23:48

He might actually be the last level. He might be like the most, the most impressive person to meet once. You're very famous. I mean we've talked about the rock before. What a dude Like. He does everything. It's kind of amazing he's. I actually think he'd make a great guest on Shark Tank like a great guest shark, because you know they bring on random like other successful people in various industries and he's definitely very successful. And here he is. You know, as we talked about whenever this first came on the mix featured a little while ago, I think, on a new music mix, um, kicking off his rapping career. You know like who? Why not? Why not throw in a rapping career on top of everything else? That?

Speaker 2: 24:26

he's done, he's got nothing else going right yeah, exactly, but you know, tech nine is from kansas city, which I learned I did not know that. Um, I absolutely love tech nine's. This is another group where, every time I'm reminded of it, I end up just spending like an hour listening to a lot of his music, especially if you've got like kind of a, let's say, an angrier energy, like a more, a more excited state. His music is great for that. Like, I feel like you just want to like lift weights whenever you listen to his music. You just want to get the energy out and then start going. So I think that that's, you know, very appropriate for for a Superbowl mashup. What I really especially love you know to pick on the Rock here in this one is that he ends it by drinking his tequila again and like plugging that because he's just always, he's always selling and it's awesome. So I respect that.

Speaker 1: 25:23

That is true. Yeah, I mean he could have just come in. I wonder if that was a condition for him coming in right. It's like right, I'm gonna come and do the verse and I'm gonna give a shout out to my tequila at the end and of course he's gonna be like no way, man, I gotta draw the line exactly because he's got like a trillion like instagram followers or whatever so it's like it's gonna be good for you for him to be on this track, right.

Speaker 1: 25:48

And then, on top of the fact, he's like six, four, three hundred pounds, right.

Speaker 2: 25:51

So who's gonna be like, hey man, all right, just stand down okay yeah, he famously works out three times a day, wakes up at 430 every day Like, yeah, this is not someone you want to to argue with. Hey Dwayne. If you're listening, you know you're welcome to plug tequila on our show, all you want.

Speaker 1: 26:11

Yes, plug all the businesses. Okay, Zoa, the energy drink, the XFL, is coming out. I mean we will hit up all of it. Dwayne, if you want to come on the show, yes, yeah, no conditions, I mean we will hit up all of it, Dwayne, if you want to come on the show yes, yeah, no conditions. Whatever you want, no conditions. We should have a list of no conditions guests where it's like if they come on, we're just like, yeah, whatever they want to say, we don't care.

Speaker 2: 26:33

All right, track nine for your Philadelphia pick is a solid one. I had to be on the mix, as you said.

Speaker 1: 26:41

Eye of the yeah, so, um, I had you know. So samra and I were trying to come up with six philadelphia songs, six kansas city songs, so each of us could only pick three of each, and one of the songs that came to mind was streets of philadelphia by bruce springsteen. Right, of course, because I want to get bruce springsteen on the mix.

Speaker 1: 27:01

But then I'm like this is such a sad song, it's a very sad song, and it would have led to me excluding um rocky altogether from, uh, the philadelphia side of things, and so I was like I had to get this on, had to put eye of the tiger on here. And pretty appropriate, for I mean, I would say the philadelphia eagles, because super bowl champions, you know not too long ago, and then you know a couple years later they're one of the worst teams in the league. And then here they are back in the Super Bowl. Okay. As a Dallas Cowboys fan, I don't know how franchises do this. Okay and make this work where it's like you can go away and then come back. You know, I don't know why you don't just try to win 10 games every year and flame out in the playoffs. But whatever.

Speaker 1: 27:45

Right Like.

Speaker 3: 27:46

I guess it's a thing.

Speaker 1: 27:47

I guess it's a thing teams do anyway. I had the tiger the theme from rocky three I think was very appropriate here, and just an amazing song, um. It'll probably appear again down the line in like motivational mixes or whatnot for us, but um had to include it here as we talk about philadelphia yeah, it's definitely an evergreen song.

Speaker 2: 28:06

Like you can pop this on a lot of different things. I think like you could do a karaoke mix with this and people are gonna love it. Like it's pretty. It's pretty sing, sing, alongable. Um, I would be hard pressed to find also a more iconic opening to a song. You know, like this, these opening notes. Everyone knows what you're about to play and everyone like immediately understands the song and and like thinks of the scene and, um, like, the only other thing I could think of is like maybe acdc's, like thunderstruck or queens, we will rock you. Like both of those also have very, very iconic openings yeah um, but yeah, like absolutely love this one.

Speaker 2: 28:43

And you know, I also really started digging into the lyrics and I realized, like this one line where he sings so many times it happens too fast, you trade your passion for glory and that kind of like. I've never really paid attention to the words because, again, I'm only ever thinking about like the beat, but I really like that because I think that does happen. Sometimes it's like you, you do forget why you're doing something and you're just seeking the glory and then you kind of just hate it. So maybe that's different. So maybe maybe philadelphia is just a very, very passionate uh team and a very passionate sports fan, and maybe the problem of the cowboys is like they just uh, they want the glory and so they're trading their passion for it. So that's that's why they're not playing that way and on the field I don't know, maybe, maybe, I don't.

Speaker 1: 29:26

We're not here to dissect Dallas Cowboy problems.

Speaker 2: 29:28

Right, we're here to, although we could talk about it all day long.

Speaker 1: 29:31

Unfortunately, there's a lot to unpack there, but we, yeah, we'll try to stay focused. We'll try to stay focused. All right, so your next pick you go with Shake Rattle and Roll by Big Joe Turner.

Speaker 2: 29:45

So yeah, so this is a Kansas City resident and a very well-known one. This is like also kind of that turning point of like blues and jazz starting to kind of turn into rock and roll, and there's like covers of this song that really take that to that next level. This one, funny enough, is apparently a song about sex. So this one actually is like a song about sex and I had no idea. I used to love this. I used to listen to the oldies station a lot as a kid and I just love the beat of this one, especially the cover of this one that came a little bit later. Um, and yeah, I had no idea that that's kind of what what he's describing here, but it makes all the sense in the world now that I've read the lyrics. So, unlike many of the other songs internet, I do believe you when you say that this one is actually about sex. Well, and that was kind of the other songs Internet. I do believe you when you say that this one is actually about sex.

Speaker 1: 30:28

Well, and that was kind of the funny thing about songs from like the 50s and 60s is that they all sound so innocent, right Like. I listen to the oldie station too and there's so many songs that I'm familiar with. You go back and listen to the lyrics and it's like, oh my, this is kind of dark, like this is, but again, there's not like the explicit nature of it that maybe some of the songs now have. So, yeah, I'd buy that. Listening to the song, I'm like, ok, yeah, that's reasonable. No one's digging too deep on that one. But yeah, similar to Wilbert Harrison's Kansas City I mean, this one was covered by and you kind of referred to or alluded to Bill Haley in the comments. I think was maybe the bigger version of this song, and then even elvis presley did a version of this song as well. But yeah, I like that you included the original one.

Speaker 2: 31:13

Big joe turner deserves a little love here yeah, absolutely all right home stretch here, track 11.

Speaker 1: 31:21

Uh, your final philadelphia pick is the i-76 by g love and special sauce yeah, so g love and special sauce are from philadelphia and pretty much just wrote this song about, you know, growing up in philly in their childhood and they make a ton of references to philadelphia and the philadelphia 76ers specifically who won the title in 83 and um, I mean I don't know, I just I just think it's a really funny song. I remember the first time I heard it I was like this is hilarious and just love the energy of it. And they even talk about how expensive it was to build I-76. And I don't know, I think it's just great and someone from Philly probably appreciates it, you know, a hundred times more than I ever would, but even I like I mean I've only been to philly like once even I love this song, yeah it's.

Speaker 2: 32:13

I think it's so funny. It could be like a civil engineers like anthem, because it's like song and entirely about an interstate it was like written by the city.

Speaker 1: 32:22

It was a commission to be like hey, we need people to use this road, we've built it okay the department of transportation absolutely commissioned this song.

Speaker 2: 32:31

I mean, like the chorus is because if you got to get downtown real quick then the only way to go is i-76 and then they're even like now.

Speaker 1: 32:38

If you want a more scenic view, okay, take the river. And it's like wait, what are you doing? Are you giving directions like?

Speaker 2: 32:44

what is happening? Exactly it's a very special song by by g love and special sauce so good, uh, all right, well, let's bring it home here.

Speaker 2: 32:56

Track 12 you went with blurry by puddle of mud yeah, oh my god, I was so excited to see that puddle of mud is from it's from kansas city because, I mean, I don't know when I would have ever brought in the fact that I used to listen to these guys like back in high school, with all the angst and the feels that come through. This is from 2001,. So I was definitely like right smack in the middle of high school. You know these lyrics, matt. They are. You talk about poetry and songs. I just want to read you the opening verse here Everything's so blurry and everyone's so fake and everybody's empty and everything is so messed up. I mean, if that doesn't hit you right in your heart, I, I don't know. Everything is so messed up, matt.

Speaker 1: 33:42

Well, and I thought I well done. First of all, the songs that were 20 years old, which I was like blown away by right, because I feel like this song I don't know I've always known this song right, it's everywhere, it's radio play. But also I was like you know what this works as the last song, because one of these two teams is going to be feeling that way at the end of this game right. Like you just lost the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2: 34:10

I mean mean, everything's blurry, right, that, can you make it go away, right? No kidding, um, crazy enough. This is actually about his struggles as a parent, um, and, and I guess you know specifically being like, uh yeah, just being a parent and struggling with that, and so another another potential mix of like father's day songs that are actually just really sad, struggling to be a father in this world.

Speaker 1: 34:33

I had no idea we still need to get on writing those more positive Father's Day songs that we always promised people.

Speaker 2: 34:39

Yeah, yeah, the world needs that. They do, they do. There are good dads out there.

Speaker 1: 34:43

There definitely are, all right. Well, there you have it Another super awesome mix for your collection, this time one to get you ready for super bowl. 57 philadelphia eagles and the kansas city chiefs, whichever side you're rooting for, um, you know. Either way, come back and listen to us because we're going to get ready for our next mix. So for sammer, this is matt and we'll see you next time.