Birthday Mix Built On Squares

SPEAKER_01 0:48

Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix. My name is Matt Sethome alongside my co-host and co-founder of Super Awesome Mix, Sam Abu Sabi. Sam, how are we doing this week?

SPEAKER_03 0:59

You know, I'm doing well, but how are you doing given that it is your birthday? Happy birthday.

SPEAKER_01 1:05

Hey, thank you. Yes, indeed. This is uh my birthday mix show. Birthday was a few days ago, but you know, hey, better late than never. Um I'm doing great. I'm doing great, feeling great, excited about another birthday, um, and excited about this mix I put together.

SPEAKER_03 1:25

Yeah, um, I tried to explain, I tried to explain it to Sarah. Um, and she was like, wait, what? So maybe I was like, look, he's got an undergraduate degree in mathematics. Yeah. And even still, she was like, What? So how I'll let you explain. I'll let you explain.

SPEAKER_01 1:45

Okay, so I'm titling this a mix for squares. All right. That's my that's my title for this.

SPEAKER_03 1:51

Great title.

SPEAKER_01 1:52

Um, I just turned 49, which of course is the number seven squared. Or maybe not, of course. Maybe some people are out there going, oh, it is. Um get a calculator, figure that out. Seven squared, 49. Um, so then when I look back on my life, I'm like, all right, well, this is interesting. When were the other ages where you hit a square number? Okay, of course, there's age one, there's four, nine, sixteen, twenty five, thirty-six, and now forty-nine. And then it got me thinking, this is pretty rare because if you think about it, eight squared, okay, everybody out there quick. Okay, 64. 64, okay. I know somebody out there was shouting at the uh at your uh car radio. Um, 64, right? So that's the next time I could do a mix like this. Then after that, God willing, it's 81. 9 squared is 81. And then kind of the maximum number of times you can do a mix like this. 10 squared is 100.

SPEAKER_03 2:54

All right. Look, I'm gonna be the first person to reach 11 squared, all right? Yeah, I mean it's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

I mean, I think I'll be like 130 when that happens. So I don't know if I'll be your co-host at that point, but maybe some AI version of me will exist. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:15

I'll just resurrect you. That's fine. He'll probably be easier to work with.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

Um much more nimble scheduling these things with my AI mat bot. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:29

It'll just be him and it'll be me shouting into the microphone being like, what? My hearing will be long gone at that point. Long gone.

SPEAKER_01 3:41

My AI is gonna be so frustrated with your lack of hearing.

SPEAKER_03 3:44

Um I I love the idea. It's very unique. You know, we mentioned on my uh birthday mix that we're kind of running out of ideas of what to do for our birthday mixes. I just had one for mine next year, which is songs released in February. I think that's what I'm gonna do for my next one. Oh, great call. Yeah, great call.

SPEAKER_01 4:04

And I'm just gonna copy that and do April. Okay. There you go. All right, so we're set for 2027. I mean, we're just looking at next season. We just punted a problem two years down the road. So how's that for efficiency? I want to see Claude do something like that, right?

SPEAKER_03 4:21

Yeah, your move.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

Yeah, your move, AI. Um, so here's what I did. Um, I decided to go back to those ages that I've passed so far, which happened to be six of them, six of these square milestones, and pick songs from the year that I turned that age. And I just picked a couple songs from each one, came up with 12. The math worked out perfectly. I was like, this has got to be it, right? Uh, this worked out too well. Um so yeah, I mean, kind of uh I had a lot of fun with this actually, because it was cool looking back and and thinking about those ages in my life and what I was doing, and then um kind of picking out a couple songs that might be appropriate for that time. So obviously it's my mix. Sam's gonna introduce every song, so I'll just hand it off to him to start introducing these.

SPEAKER_03 5:06

Yeah, and honestly, it's a great mix. I mean, one of the one of the better ones we've had on the show in in the 17 and a half years that we've been doing this. Um I've lost count.

SPEAKER_01 5:20

This is episode 5,000. Thanks for everybody tuning in to all of them. Yes.

1978 Picks And Family Roots

SPEAKER_03 5:25

Yes, thank you. Um, let's kick this off. I mean, truly, every single one of these is a classic, amazing song. So well done. But this one is The Gambler by Kenny Rogers.

SPEAKER_01 5:34

Yeah, so anyone, again, I'm making you do a lot of math today, so I'll do the easy one. Okay, I was born in 1977, so I turned one in 1978. So these first two songs are from the year 1978. And uh, I chose the gambler. One, it kind of reminds me of my childhood. I feel like I heard the song a lot in my childhood. Whether that was because I grew up in Texas, I don't know. Um, I because I really didn't get into country music until maybe more high school. So it's not like I was a young country music listener, but um honestly, song kind of reminds me of my dad because uh he was always one, he loved gambling, right? Like, I mean, bought a lot of scratch-off tickets, you know, for good or bad. He was he was into that. He he'd make the occasional wager. Um, but also, I mean, talk about a gambler. I mean, he moved to the US in 1970 with my mom, didn't speak English. I mean, you know, moved to uh New York City. He was a cab driver who like didn't speak English. I mean, it was just a stereotypical type thing. Like every 80s comedian was making a joke about someone like my dad. Um, but yeah, I mean, talk about talk about a gamble, and I'm very uh thankful that he did that. And so, uh, because otherwise I I probably wouldn't, you know, have the life that I have now. I'd have, you know, not necessarily a bad life, but but obviously a very different life than than what I enjoy today. So I'm very appreciative of that, and uh love this song. So gotta go with the gambler.

SPEAKER_03 7:01

Yeah, no, I love that. That's a that's an awesome reason to pick this song, uh, other than just the song being a great song. I mean it's timeless, timeless message, fantastic song. This one just triggers. I think I may have even mentioned this before in one of our episodes, but this just triggers the office episode where they're going, it's beach day, and Kevin Malone starts singing this and then they all sing it together. That's the version I hear more than than Kenny Rogers' version, which is great. But you know, again, timeless message that you really you gotta know when to hold them, you gotta know when to fold them. You can apply that to pretty much everything that you do in life. Um, so it's great.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

Uh, you know, also, Leo, I want to call out this lyric because we're never gonna talk about the gambler again on this show, right? Um, but the seek, you know, he says every hand's a winner and every hand's a loser. And I think that's really important for everybody to keep in mind because it's like no matter what your situation is, like somebody's won out of that particular situation. Like someone's come out a winner. Yeah and someone's come out a loser. And I just think that's also kind of a cool message to come out of this because it really is true in cards. You're not playing the cards, you're playing the people. And uh it's a great uh it's a great thing to carry with you.

SPEAKER_03 8:13

That's uh yeah, I love that. Dropping some wisdom on us in your in your long years that you've got.

SPEAKER_01 8:19

Look, I've been around a while. There's a lot of wisdom coming here, okay? So everybody just hang in.

SPEAKER_03 8:25

All right, well, then I just gotta ask you, who are you? Uh, because that's track number two, and that is by, of course, the Who.

SPEAKER_01 8:32

Um, man, I love the Who. That might be a good candidate for an intro mix one of these days. Oh, yeah. Um, but yeah, they're awesome. And I just thought, hey, as a one-year-old, I mean, isn't this a great song to ask? Like, who are you? Who are you gonna be? And but also like kind of a good reflection song for your birthday, you know? Like it comes around, it's like, okay, who are you at this point? And who is it that you want to be, and and how can you get there? And uh, you know, how did you end up where you are? And and all of that. And I think certainly as you get along in years, who you are becomes a little bit more solidified, but that doesn't mean you can't change. And yeah, um, I don't know. This one really uh has always, I mean, I've again like you said at the beginning, I don't I'm not gonna sit here and repeat myself. I mean, these are all great songs, especially to me, but um yeah, I don't know. I just I just like the message here. I thought it was apt for uh certainly for a one-year-old.

SPEAKER_03 9:25

Yeah, I I agree. I it's interesting. They did a study um at some point with people turning like a new decade, and regardless of what decade it was, and I think they did it all the way from like 20s into like 70s, everyone reports at the beginning of a new decade that they feel like they now know who they are. And like the previous decade, like, oh man, like so juvenile they had no idea, but now I know who I am. And I just find that so fascinating, and I think it's kind of cool. So definitely, you know, I take a message of hopefulness with that of just like you you can always just kind of discover who you are and and keep learning and growing and changing. Like you're not you're not a fixed object. So I think this is a great song and a great reminder of just kind of checking in with yourself every now and then. And it doesn't have to be every 10 years, it could be uh, you know, could be even every every week or two. Yeah. Why not? Maybe not every day. You might you might lose yourself.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

Yeah, you might drive yourself crazy.

1981 Pump Up Classics

SPEAKER_03 10:22

It might drive yourself crazy. All right. Uh track number three, classic, it says Tom Sawyer by Rush.

SPEAKER_01 10:28

All right, so we're gonna fast forward to 1981. I'm now four years old. I was not listening to Rush as a four-year-old.

SPEAKER_03 10:35

Okay, you weren't that cool.

SPEAKER_01 10:37

I wasn't that cool, but I did have an older sister, so I want to say, amongst my friends, I probably heard Rush, you know, earlier than a lot of other people. I will say that. Um, but man, I mean, this song, like from being both my songs from 1981, you kind of have to hit right from the beginning. And we'll get to the next one here in a second. But like when I when I get to the when I get to this song, like if it comes on the radio and it's right at the beginning, man, nothing gets me more pumped up. Like this is on your strut mix, your morning mix, your pump up. I don't know. And and some people have some strong feelings about rush or prog rock or whatever, but I just think this is an amazing song, and uh just kind of uh about uh about individualism, right? Which I also think is really cool and and just kind of being your own self.

SPEAKER_03 11:25

Absolutely. I mean, this could be easily one of my all-time favorite songs, and certainly in like the classic rock category. Um, it also triggers for me a memory of watching Futurama. There's an episode where they like spoof that actual space invaders come to the planet um and and Fry has to be the one to battle them off. And he's like, he's like built for this, right? Because he was like an 80s kid and now he's in the year 3000. So I think he says something along the lines of like, I've got my all-rush mixtape, a bottle of shasta, like I'm ready to go. And he plays this song as he's like battling Space Invaders, literally just like the video game, Space Invaders. And so that triggers this, or this song triggers that memory for me, which is really great because that's that's a great show. There's like a lot of good smart humor in it. Um, so I love that bottle of shasta in this song. You're you're set. What more can you do?

SPEAKER_01 12:16

You're set. You don't, you need nothing else.

SPEAKER_03 12:20

All right. Um, yes, I mean another amazing song, Don't Stop Believing uh by Journey.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

Okay, I'm gonna preface this by like I will concede this song can be a whip. Okay, so let me just just say like the setting in which I want to listen to this song is kind of in my car by myself. I do not like the you're going into a bar and someone throws this on and a hundred drunk people are singing along. I I kind of get beaten down by that, right? Sure. Um, but it's like when you hear this song from the beginning, I mean, it's so good and it gets you so fired up. There's a reason it's still played a bazillion times now and in every arena in the country and all of that. But it's just a great message, also, for the rest of your life. Like, don't stop believing, like, just keep hanging in there. And I mean, you know, don't stop believing that Tony Soprano is still alive, too. All right, like who just because David J says he died in that final scene, we don't know that. We didn't see anything. Screen went black.

SPEAKER_03 13:24

Talk about just like a frustrating way to end the show. Incredible. Just incredible.

SPEAKER_01 13:30

Extremely frustrating. I was watching that live too.

SPEAKER_03 13:33

Yeah, I think whenever we decide to wrap this podcast up, if we ever do, that's what we gotta do. Like middle of an episode, we're like two or three songs in, and then we just end it. I think that's the way to go.

SPEAKER_01 13:43

That'd be amazing. And people are like, we get like 15 comments.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

Did you guys have technical difficulties this week? Right. Nope. Nope. Just wrapped up. That was a series finale. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 13:54

Just listen, just listen to everything we said up to that point. It was all there.

1986 Songs For Brothers And Dreams

SPEAKER_03 13:59

It was all there. Um, amazing song. Uh also, I mean, just you you kind of alluded to this, but it really is like probably a top karaoke pick, right? Like this is it's it would be you'd be hard-pressed not to have someone in your group be like, we gotta put on this song. Um, and just have everyone belt it out. But I agree with you. I think this is best listened alone and and just kind of amp yourself up. It's great, it's so fun. All right, track number five. This uh is You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon.

SPEAKER_01 14:30

All right, so we jump ahead. I'm nine years old, this is 1986. Um, and my brother's name is Al. Uh, and I thought it was the coolest thing that there was a song with his name in it, and then there was also this music video with what we thought was the funniest person alive at that time, Chevy Chase. Um, and Chevy Chase has done, don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say he's not. I mean, he's he's amazing, and a lot of his work is amazing. From everything you read, he's not the funnest person to work with, but right. Neither here nor there. Okay. Uh, but yeah, I mean, I had to include this one because I mean, my brother and I are like 18 months apart. We're not even like a full two years apart. So, you know, practically the same age at this point in our lives and uh been through a lot together. And uh, you know, he's always there for me. So yeah, yeah, I had to include this one on anybody's.

SPEAKER_03 15:21

I love that. That's that's really cool. Um, this is one of those moments where so my wife always asks me questions about your personal life. Yeah. Um, and I'm always like, I have no idea. And so I just learned your brother's name. So that's great. I got another one. We're like the stereotypical guy friends, and we just know nothing about each other.

SPEAKER_01 15:42

Yeah. And it's actually it's one of my favorite things. Yeah. It's like when people and it's not just you and every guy out there is kind of nodding his head. And it's like, my wife will tell me, like three days after I just talked to someone, hey, you know, it's his birthday the other day. And I'll be like, What? I just I just talked to him. He didn't mention it. And then I don't go back and go, hey man, happy birthday. I just kind of let it go. I don't make a mental note. I just kind of all right, well, moving on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:13

Like she's got your kids' names memorized, Sarah does. And I'm like, oh, cool, okay. I didn't know that. Um so yeah, it is what it is. It is what it is. Anyway, yeah. So I have a brother and his name is Al. There you go. That's great. I probably won't remember that next year, but here we are. That is okay now. Um, all right, let's move on to the halfway point here, track number six. It is Dreams by Van Halen.

SPEAKER_01 16:46

Okay, so Van Halen uh had the massive 1984 album, just two years prior to this one. This is their first album with Sammy Hagar, which our friend Jen Tully would argue is the better version of the band. Um, but they just continue to churn out hits. I actually had to double check because I was like, no way they were doing this two years after 1984, but sure enough, that's that's what they were doing. Um, I mean, this is I this is just a great like aspirational song, and and it really kind of signaled right away how the band would become much more, even more commercial than they were before, because in addition to this with Sammy Hagar, they had Standing on Top of the World and and Right Now, which I think all three of these were used in different points by like ESPN and NBC and their like sports coverage, right? Like it was just getting getting them out there is just a whole new era, but I don't know. And and I am just a big believer, you know, you gotta have dreams, you gotta have things you're shooting for. And um, I'm kind of with Jen. I'm always torn as far as which version of the band I like better uh when it comes to Van Halen. But this is an awesome song, and I'm glad they had a great song come out in 1986, so it fit this mix.

1993 Money Lessons And Prince

SPEAKER_03 17:55

Yeah, I mean this this screams, this song is belongs in the 80s, right? In the first few notes. Um like you're you're not misplacing where this goes in the decades list. Um and if I'm not mistaken, we also have done an intro to Van Halen. We have, yes, that's right. And and their evolution of all the various uh guitars. So um yeah, great song, just a classic 80s rock song. You know, there's nothing wrong with that. It's a lot of fun. All right, your next pick. I believe now we're advancing in age. Um, and here we are at If I had no loot by Tony, Tony Tony.

SPEAKER_01 18:31

Yeah, they they just did Tony Tony Tony. It was real simple. Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony Tony.

SPEAKER_03 18:36

But the E has the accent mark.

SPEAKER_01 18:38

I know, I know. All right, well, I wasn't really around in the 80s, so I no, you weren't, and this was not in the 80s, this was actually the early 90s. Like, let's fast forward. This is I turned 16 in 1993, and my two picks from 1993 kind of fall into your theme of the birthday mix, where it's like, I don't know where else to put these on any mix someday, right?

SPEAKER_00 19:00

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

Um, yeah, couple couple kind of random songs here, but this one's great. I feel like these guys are kind of underrated, they don't get a lot of do they're due for how great they were, but they had a lot of hits. Um, and I love this one. This one has always stuck with me just because these guys were getting to be pretty famous at this point, and they write this song where it's like, look, you you wouldn't really like me if I had no money. And um it's a good lesson to keep in mind for the young people out there that like as you become more successful, people are gonna over laugh at your jokes, and maybe you're not that funny. It's just kind of you know, because you're in the position you're in. Um, same thing with money, right? Like, if you have a lot of money, people are just gonna like you more. And doesn't mean that that you're a better person necessarily, it's just they want something from you. So not to be cynical, I'm just saying this is a great song and it's a good lesson.

SPEAKER_03 19:51

Yeah, I agree. Um, I had not heard this group. I obviously just misplaced when they were around um and also mispronounced their name. So just zero out of three, a total strikeout for me on that one. Um, but it had a really it had a nice beat. I enjoyed listening to this one. Oh goodness. Uh alrighty, I need more sleep. Uh, track number eight. And it's funny because it's called seven, and it's track number eight. I feel like it's a missed opportunity here. This is by Prince and the new power generation.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

Yeah, I kind of blew it there. Probably should have made that track seven, but you know what?

SPEAKER_03 20:27

Would have made my job easier. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 20:29

Whatever. Okay. Um, all right. So this is off. Like, okay, I don't know if you know a lot. Prince, another another candidate for an intro mix, right? But Prince had a lot of problems with his record label at one point in time, which is why he reverted to the like love symbol for his name for a while there. Um, and this album was called, like, it was just that symbol. Like that this that that was the name of that this album. And it came out in 1993. It was a it was a good album, actually. It's worth revisiting. And um, I picked seven because I really loved the song back then, and it was a kind of a big radio hit, but also uh seven was my wife's uh number when she played soccer growing up all through high school. Like that was her jersey number. And um, I just think it's funny that like I loved this song seven, and then later on I would, you know, love someone who wore number seven. I mean, it was just kind of a you know perfect sort of funny thing that happens in life. Um yeah, so anyway, um, but it's also a great song, and I I suggest you find you go find this album and listen to it because it's also really good.

SPEAKER_03 21:33

I know Prince is definitely an artist that I would actually really benefit from an intro to mix because obviously I'm very aware of who he is and his long-storied career and everything, and you know, and his impact in in the music world, but I am not familiar really with like his music. Um, you know, other than like Purple Rain and just some of the like really larger things that he's done. I'm I feel like I'm totally in the dark about about the music that he's done and the impact he's had. So I would love an intro mix.

unknown 22:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 22:01

I'll put it on my list. Yeah, we're filling out our our episodes. Yeah, it's great.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

This is awesome. Okay.

2002 Springsteen And 9 11 Echoes

SPEAKER_03 22:08

All right. Well, it wouldn't be a birthday mix without this fella being on it. Uh a birthday mix for you, that is, and this is The Rising by Bruce Springsteen.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

Yeah, okay, so fast forward here to 2002 when I turn 25. Um and most people connect this album, The Rising, with 911, and this song in particular. This is the title track from that album. Um, I'd obviously heard of Bruce Springsteen prior to the song, but this album was actually kind of the moment I did a real deep dive into all his music and just became the Massive fan that I am now. And this was right around the time. So he reunited with the E Street band in like the late 90s, like 99-2000 around then. And they came out with this HBO concert special that was like three hours long. And I had never seen Bruce live at that point. And I watched that concert special I don't know how many times. Like it was unbelievable. And then obviously 9-11 happens. He had been working on some new music. And then, you know, I mean, he tells the story of people being like, Bruce, we need you now, kind of thing, right? Like it was almost like he felt compelled to kind of come out with some new music. And he comes out with The Rising, and about half those songs were almost directly related to 9-11. Uh, the others are songs he was working on, but they kind of fit the album really well. But um anyway, this is this is an amazing song. It's gonna get you in the right mindset no matter what, and uh I mean the album, everything, but it was also the one that really got me hooked on Bruce Springsteen.

SPEAKER_03 23:41

I I really liked this song. Um, it's funny because again, like I as I've mentioned so many times before, I tend to listen to these without looking at the titles. I just like let them play. And as I was listening to this, I was like, this sounds so familiar, but I you know, I really like it. And then I checked and I was like, oh my god, it's Bruce. Um so I could kind of see how this could be like a good hook into being like, huh, like maybe I should check out more of his music. Cause I don't know, there's just something about it. And and maybe it was just the the raw emotion of everything that had happened. Yeah. Um and and just the song itself, like I it just it it's I really liked it. It almost sounded there was like a hopefulness to it in a way, like the sound of it. I'm sure that that was like what part of what he was trying to message. Um, so I really liked the song. Um, yeah, that's cool. I had no idea.

SPEAKER_01 24:29

Yeah, this this whole album, I I think, you know, you talk about the emotion of it. I and now that you say that, I I think that probably was it that kind of hooked me a little bit was just kind of he's I don't know, I just connected so much with it. Uh just this, I mean, and there's like 18 tracks on this album. It might be his longest album, um, as long as single album, I should say. Um, but yeah, no, it's it's great.

Eminem And A Grief Connection

SPEAKER_03 24:52

All right. Um, speaking of like lyrics that maybe I shouldn't have read because uh they really changed the song, but this is Without Me by Eminem.

SPEAKER_01 25:03

Okay, so kind of classic Eminem song. It's definitely not uh not for the kids out there if you're reading through all these lyrics. But um, I mean I could have picked any number of songs from the Eminem show because that was a great album. But you know, Eminem was someone that, you know, my best friend passed away four years ago. And he and I both were huge fans of his and listened to his stuff like right from the beginning. And when I got the call that my friend had passed away, I got in the car to go to the hospital where he was, where his body was at that point. And uh, this was the first song that came on when I turned on the car. And I was just kind of blown away. It was just one of those moments where it's like, all right, you know, someone's sending my sending me a message, but yeah, um, yeah. I mean, I don't know. So that's what I always think of now when I hear this song. I always think of him. Um, because you know, I mean, it's right there. I mean, with you know, it would feel so empty without me. And uh obviously he's gone. So um, I don't know. It's just kind of those weird moments in life that happen. And um, I just always think it's it's a weird song to kind of think about somebody to.

SPEAKER_03 26:08

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

But um, but yeah, that's what hits me.

SPEAKER_03 26:12

You know, I I love a lot of that. Uh I love the the like the harmony. Stephen King calls them harmonies in this book, um 1122 63, where it's like there's just kind of a weird connection between things, you know, that it really is like a harmony in it. So I always like think of those as a harmony of something appearing like that. And you just can't help but feel that there's not like a purpose to it, you know, that it's it's a little too coincidental for it to not be purposeful, right? Right. Um, so I really love that. But then also uh, you know, it just brings back a point that we always mention all the time of just like we we find our own meanings in songs, and so like you have this really deep, powerful meaning in a song that just has lyrics that I'm shocked that I listened to this when I was like in high school. Right, yes. Like that's right. What am I doing listening to this song in high school? Like it's it's so deeply inappropriate.

SPEAKER_00 27:04

Um deeply, yeah.

2013 Kids Dance And Carry On

SPEAKER_03 27:06

But it's great, that's awesome. All right, um, last two tracks here. Let's fast forward great picks. This is Can't Hold Us by McLamore and Ryan Lewis, featuring Ray Dalton.

SPEAKER_01 27:20

All right, so um now we're in 2013, these last two tracks. So when I turned 36. Um, at this point in my life, I'd been married for a year and my daughter had just been born. Um, so I mean, I love this song, and I just thought it was perfect that it came out that year because you know, my daughter now is just full on into dance, and this is actually the song that she's doing like a tap solo to.

SPEAKER_02 27:45

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_01 27:46

So it's actually like kind of perfect when I was like picking a song and wanted something to connect to my kids. I was like, oh my gosh, this song came out in 2013. So um, not only is it just an awesome song and one you can listen to over and over, it's also something where I I think of her and she's doing what she loves, and that that's just you know, there's nothing better than that.

SPEAKER_03 28:07

That is so cool. That's I love that. This is like just one of the best high-energy songs out there, you know. Like it it will just get you going. Uh, I I feel so lifted every time that I listen to this song. I also um he was at ACL one year that I went way back in the day, and of course he played this song. And I mean the whole crowd just went nuts with it, right? I mean, it's just such a high-energy song, and so I always connect with that memory too. Uh, I I love it, it's a great one. All right, track number 12. Here we go, the last one, and it is Carry On by Fun.

SPEAKER_01 28:42

Okay, so Fun is a band, and I looked this up. They have not officially broken up, but interesting. Okay, they have not made any new music since 2015.

SPEAKER_03 28:52

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

They made just two albums, and interestingly enough, their three primary members: vocalist Nate Roos, uh, and Andrew Dost and Jack Antinoff. I had no idea this was a Jack Antinoff uh vehicle. Um, and of course, Antinoff's written a lot of songs with Taylor Swift and has his own project, Bleachers, which I bring on the show all the time because I love that stuff. But um, this song, I don't think it was their biggest hit. I think Some Nights was probably their biggest hit for for sure. But um, this one gained some popularity, and I thought it was a perfect one to kind of go out on because, you know, kind of like at the beginning when I was talking about the gambler, every hand's a winner and every hand's a loser. It's like here, it's like you got to carry on. Like, no matter what's going on, there's no point in shutting down or feeling sorry for yourself. You just got to keep pushing forward. Um, and this is this is kind of an awesome song for that. So, you know, who knows? Maybe fun will come out with some new music after this, right? Like maybe we're putting that into the universe and and that'll happen. But but if not, I mean, you know, they they did some great stuff while they were together.

SPEAKER_03 29:55

Yeah, I was just realizing you're gonna have to do some, I don't know, like for your 49th now, maybe your April new music mix. You'll just like uh two of them could have gone on this mix, then that'll work.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

Oh, that's a great point. That's a great point. Yeah, gotta do a little addendum or something.

SPEAKER_03 30:10

Exactly. Um, I loved that you ended on this note. I mean, just exactly what you said. I think this is a really hopeful song to end on, a great message to end on. Um, you know, the carry-on thing is something that I've definitely lived the last like six months of my life because you know, you you always hear about how much work newborns are, but then when you have one, you realize like you have no option. Like they are relying on you for everything. So my whole line um has always been like parenting is is an endurance sport. It's basically just one really long marathon, and you're just always at mile 19 and you're always exhausted, and you've got no choice but to just keep carrying on. Um, and so I really like that. It's a great message.

Listener Comments Reviews And Goodbye

SPEAKER_01 30:52

All right. Well, there you have it, another super awesome mix for your collection. This time in honor of my birthday. Um, hopefully I didn't confuse you too much with all the math today, but hey, if I did, leave us a comment at Super Awesome Mix on Instagram, threads, and of course YouTube. Let us know how we are doing um there. Uh, of course, you can leave us a five-star review, help people find the show. We are trying to get to that number one spot in the music podcast world by our 200th episode later this year. And so help us out, share the show, review all those things. Okay. In the meantime, hey, we've got plenty of, I mean, we gave you like three mix ideas during this show. So, of course, we got mixes we need to work on. So, for Sam, this is Matt. We'll see you next time.