A Very Merry Friday Night Karaoke Christmas

With the kids doing belling and everyone telling you be of the cheer

“It's the most wonderful time of the year”

It's the hell happy to see you in a hole With those holiday greetings and gave me meetings when friends come to home It's the hell happy to see you in a hole There'll be parties hosting marshmallows for toasting and caring out in the snow There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the worries of Christmas is all about the war

It's the most wonderful time of the year

You'll be much more telling and hope to be glowing with love once I'm near

“It's the most wonderful time of the year”

There'll be parties hosting marshmallows for toasting and caring out in the snow There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the worries of Christmas is all about the war It's the most wonderful time of the year There'll be much more telling and hope to be glowing with love once I'm near

It's the most wonderful time, yes the most wonderful time of the year

But that's the most wonderful song to start the Friday night karaoke podcast with It definitely is the most wonderful time of the year Mike

“You know why that time is it is Christmas time it is FNK Christmas time and it really is my favorite time of the year”

It really is it's awesome like the drinks the drinks more the drinks the food. I mean I'm like that's Love it all I love it all absolutely that was starting off with it's the most wonderful time of the year by Andy Williams and let me tell you that's a little 1963 action. I love that song by the way It's a kind of like the period where most of like the Christmas songs we all love come from you know like the 50s and 60s really Yeah, the most of them are classic Christmas

Yeah, really so she absolutely crushed that and you know brought it home like She actually won the Friday night karaoke theme of the week recently like the X-Miss theme of the week We're we're basing this entire podcast on so this podcast is called a very merry karaoke Christmas and We are featuring songs from the Friday night karaoke community from the very merry karaoke Christmas theme of the week Where the community members posted their favorite Christmas songs and put on some holiday cheer and put on some holiday gear

And rocked out. Yep Exactly and you can hear my dog making a guest appearance in the background now. See here nice you get this this beautiful studio It's soundproof like you could like like like like have like 30 dogs behind that wall and no one would hear you But maybe I got my two dogs and they're like hey when you're recording because I've been saving up this bark like Yeah, you know what but it gives it some flavor it does it does give a sense of realism

Like people yeah, like think that we have this big professional recording studio and this big thing like but we're not we're actually just a small production People don't know that and then if you really think that we have some favorite food you know yeah, it's like the set of friends like Track in the background like we got three camera shoot. It's really good. It's really Even me here, but we don't where we're just we're regular people just like just like you and me You leave me hanging man. I know you're doing over there. Okay. You're pushing the wrong way high five is forwards

But that works me you're over there for me. I know you're on the opposite side for me. You're this is all messed up I don't even know how this works We have trouble with traction so once again Bonnie and Rachelle it's the most wonderful time of the year to kick off the fight I like karaoke podcast this episode 75

in store for you today Yeah, let's see Great, so it's yeah

“All right, let's hear a couple before we screw this up even further”

So coming up next we have an FNK moderator

Man these moderators do so much work. That's the last work. Yeah, this year's been amazing and you know with all these new members

have been coming into the mix and you know joining the group and posting up their songs and you know they've just been keeping it negativity free and It's been awesome. They just they put in the time and this moderators been with us since near the beginning She is an absolute rock star in every way we've mentioned this a million times before but you know she's like the queen of that post modern

jukebox jazzy style singing but she's taken that out and just bringing that holiday vibe this time around and she's given us a little

Santa baby from Earth a kid. This is not only the car in pavka, have cough. Oh, I almost got the entire air. So close man. So that was this one's name up. Get her pavka. Here it is. Give it a listen. Santa baby. So hurry down to me tonight Santa baby. A 50 for convertible too. Light blue. I'll wait up for you dear Santa baby. So hurry down to me tonight

“I think of all the fun I've missed think of all the fellas that I haven't kissed”

Next year I could be just as good if you check off my Christmas legs Santa baby. I won a yacht and really that's not a lie Then an angel all year Santa baby. So hurry down to me tonight Santa honey one little thing I really need the deed to appear in the mine Santa baby. So hurry down to me tonight Santa cutie and fill my stocking with a duplex and checks

Sign your ex on the line Santa cutie and hurry down to me tonight

“Come and trim my Christmas tree with some decoration but I tip on me”

I really do believe in you. Let's see if you believe in me Santa baby forgot to mention one little thing I'll ring I don't mean on the phone Santa baby. So hurry down to me tonight Hurry down to me tonight Hurry

Tonight Man Now you say you see a gold digger

She's got a killer voice dude. She always crushes it with the the cruning sounds like you

mentioned the postmonitor juice box. She's always crushing it with those oh yeah

and yeah of course we hold each other that song every day all the time I'd

“during season and like months before this season but you know I really listened to it this time”

and I just realized how horrible it is it's just like give me shit give me more give me more yeah dude it's it's really like you know what it's gonna give me if Santa's gonna give me a duplex and checks in my in my stocking you know a yacht you know or maybe I was Karen Pavkov Pavkov Pavkov I'm swear I'm gonna get this

Karen Pavkov it's not hard

with Santa baby by earth a kid and again no Karen has been a moderator for a long time for years I mean I think like four years with Friday night karaoke and just been massively supportive to the group as a whole and just a great singer all around and by the way you mentioned moderator to a growing group how big is this group now well I'm glad you ask thank for asking that was a full loader number and I'm 146.9000

members so wow 27000 members to yeah whatever you're trying to tell how good things are

“you round up and you're gonna minimize how bad things are you round down exactly that's how it works”

so we are at 47 freaking thousand members it really is there's hundreds of posts every single day of people just expressing themselves through music and song and it's all negativity free it's all ad free just go to Facebook you type in Friday night karaoke you click on that little this will invite will be a little join button and you join you there's three questions just answer the question so we know you're a real person and you are in baby you have access

all this great stuff and it doesn't cost you a penny and it never will so I'm glad you

dropped the gimmick free you say it's gimmick free I'm like no it's not we got this whole thing's just like let's do a podcast and then like let's call theme of the week that's our gimmick this week is Christmas like I was like dude we're not gimmick free you like this whole all we try to do is like put in like fun gimmicks and stuff like prizes and and my job competitions and yeah we're always doing fun things why I sure do so come on up next come on up next I love this song I love the original

from 1966 and I love just about every version that has come out since then and this version is no exception this is going to be angel luck with are you ready for it you're a mean one who it's a grinch this is a classic all this song and anyway she completely crutches it here it is you're a bad banana with a grici black me you're a monster Mr. Grinch your heart's an empty hole your brain is full of spiders you got garlic in your soul

Mr. Grinch I wouldn't touch you with a 39 and a half a pound you're a foul one Mr. Grinch you have termites in your smile you have all the tenderness weakness of a seasick crocodile

“Mr. Grinch given the choice between the two of you I think I'd pick the seasick crocodile”

you naziate me Mr. Grinch with unmasherous super moss you're a quick good nerdy jockey and you're riding a crack and horse Mr. Grinch you are a three-decker sour crown toad stole sandwich

your heart's a dead tomato splotch with moldy purple spots Mr. Grinch

“your soul is an appalling dopey overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish”

imagine above mangled up and tangled up nuts your vow on Mr. Grinch you're unmasky who has keeps gunk your heart is full of unwashed talks your soul is full of gunk Mr. Grinch the three words that best describe you are as fun as and I quote stink stink stink stink you know what didn't stink stink stink that back to her oh man dude she I love that she just just isn't singing she acts out the entire song every song she does

she is in full costume like full she gets fully emerged into every song that she does and acts it out

her face was a one year like read like a doctor's shoes book or something like that you know I read

“doctor's shoes books to my son you know he's not like that and you know I do it with voices and”

I do it very expensive and I'm like I was thinking like she would rock that yes like I should have like all the voices and like the different tones and like the loud and the quiet and the the lead up and the you know the build up man my god he's so good you see her in high school like acting out like that and just biology class and she's like that it's like she must have been fucking hilarious you guys both shop at the same hat store though we do we do I was I was

wondering I'm like oh my goodness this is embarrassing like I didn't realize did you know that that song was originally written by Anakin Skywalker I eat Darth Vader really Darth and that he wrote that on the Death Star most people don't know this I did not know that he did if you listen you can hear his voice in the original really yeah there's something I don't know I'm waiting for this

“joke to like land sometimes I know I know it's ours I got oh I think it's guy I don't know”

remember we have that big studio we just fired all my orders out of the problem so you just you right that was the issue you know we we got the extra space but we couldn't afford the script writers any more so right like oh man remember during remember like during COVID when all like the comedy shows I couldn't have and they couldn't get their script writers so right there were none of them were funny for like an hour so we're hiring writers yes send your resume to Mike at

Friday night karaoke dot com yeah don't do that because that will go anywhere so once again that was Angel Lark with your own mean one mr. Grinch from the Grinch who stole Christmas and who stole our hearts oh right right I try to bring it bring it back then you're then you're Vader joke yeah you know I was gonna go somewhere with it you know I had it in my head I'm like no what this is a good start let's start here and I'm gonna figure it out as I go and I just started

down that road and I didn't realize you know like when like the roadrunner or whatever they put up like a yeah yeah a big or like a wily coyote or whatever it is puts up like that big like painting of like a road in a pressure wall you know well and the roadrunner you know he's hoping to run up to it smash the face and do it that's exactly what happened to me like roadrunner knows not to run through it but uh I just ran up to it oh my god and I just kept going I smack my face right

into it no that joke at far far away from you yeah all right so I've never heard this song before

you probably know it but I've never heard this song before and let me tell you not just the song but the the artist inside Friday and I karaoke here was covering it just completely owns it and I don't need to hear the original ever forever like this dude absolutely love when that happens by the way yeah crushed it I am a new fan of a a new song here at least for me a new song in the song from like 99 but uh this is gonna be George straight with Christmas cookies all right

and this dude just completely owns it give it a listen you're gonna love it

“Merry Christmas y'all stop for some cookies Christmas”

cookies things the walls it looks like Santa Claus Christmas trees and bells stars I'll show you like those Christmas cookies babe now Christmas cookies are special treat the more she base the more I and sometimes I can't hit myself to stop for some time she'll wait till I'm asleep she'll take the ones that I didn't eat and put those little sprinkly things on the top I show you like those Christmas cookies sugar

I show you like those Christmas cookies babe the walls hit the black Santa Claus Christmas trees and bells stars I show you like those Christmas cookies babe now those

frankly things just make things worse as it makes them taste better than they did at first

and they're absolutely impossible to resist well some disappeared a who knows where but I'm sure that I get my share and those kids just and they're waiting for the ones I miss I show do like those Christmas cookies sugar I show do like those Christmas cookies babe well she gets mad from there all gone before she gets the icing put on I show do like those Christmas cookies babe now there's a fin of it all of this that you may have over the

door missed so now let me tell you the best part of it all well every time she sticks another

“batch in the oven there's 15 minutes for some kissing and a hug that's why I eat Christmas cookies”

all year long oh take it away boy don't get you some cookies there might be a few left I show do like those Christmas cookies sugar I show do like those Christmas cookies babe long to look like Santa Claus Christmas trees and bells stars I show do like those Christmas cookies babe I show do like those Christmas cookies babe oh now I'm hungry me too I'm like did he just hands at the empty I did oh okay I was like

tell you mark cross in single handedly making me interested in the country

genre and cookies and well no I mean I've always been a fan of cookies sorry okay I can't trip you

I love of cookies do you mark cross I'm sorry but you know I'm solely coming around on country if you remember from earlier pots yeah I was like yeah country whenever you know but now I'm just like you know the more I hear this dude singing these song you know I'm like oh baby I like country

“I think you too I think a lot of people don't like country have never heard country yeah you know I think”

that's fair thing to say you know they you'd have never given it a shot you know it's like you know I don't like broccoli and you know you look at it and like the whole tree thing you know it doesn't look good I don't I don't like it and then you pretend you're a dinosaur then you're like broccoli's awesome well anything's better when you pretend you're a dinosaur to be fair you know like when I play guitar and I pretend to be a dinosaur I'm like this you're like that was my cross with Christmas

cookies my George straight and yeah I had never heard that song before and I'm a fan like I

am totally going to learn it one day and try to sing it myself because it would be fun for a future Christmas theme you should by the way George crushes everything that he does again like we have

member of FNK yet I don't think he's joining but Mark cross on the other hand crushes everything that he does I he's posted a lot of songs and they are all amazing and he has an all coming over acts and like dresses up and gets into it and full he he really does it he does a great job yeah they're they're not all country they're like all the way you know it's all across the map yeah remember he dressed up like I'm like a mad scientist or something for something for Halloween I

“think yeah it was great so I think just about every song has the Texas flag behind it which is”

yeah yeah yeah yeah for sure no matter what the theme he's got that flag behind him yeah yeah we'll be down in Texas we'll be in Austin no we're going to march right yeah March for South by Southwest so all you people down in Austin or down near Austin or if you're going to South by Southwest definitely look us up or send us a note and we'll be there we'll be there March

for basically the entire event so I'm sure we'll be running karaoke like we always do so feel free to

think that's and we will be coming in like a wrecking ball in January next month in Orlando oh that's right oh I was like why did you pick that little thing to say coming in like a wrecking ball and now I see what it was pre-meditated it was pretty done thank you thank you you know sometimes I land you know what nicely done you know and if this isn't your Santa Claus I don't care this is no that's actually not looking at this video my beard is getting so white lately

almost looking like that yeah yeah but you know what you would look different has swinging from the ball so I would like like five or ten pounds lighter than just a little bit and Santa here but just like the beard is coming in I was referring to the beard the beard is looking yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and there it's much more white than gray it used to be more Wolveriney and that was more pepper less salt and now it's a little more salt less pepper yeah yeah here you go

so we will be in Orlando for a big podcast conference like always in January every year

we always announced this and we always have had a great turnout from the Friday net karaoke community this year it will be on the 16th of January so next month on the 16th we will be hosting a big karaoke party with like a hundred and some odd people at oh sucks in Orlando on the international drive it's gonna be from like 8pm until really really late just pop into Friday night karaoke the group and look for Mike Westin or Joe Rubin you know the admins hit in the group

and send us a quick note and let us know that you'll be in Orlando and you want to come and hang out and we got your drinks and food on us all night comes thing with us it was great I think last year we had like 170 and 180 that was insane dude that place was packed it was my favorite part about it is it is the preferred karaoke bar for the Disney staff members yeah they call them cast members so when they get out of work at Disney world they go in here and just let loose and you have

these people that have been you know they're like Disney singers they spend their day like singing songs you know at Disney and then they come out and you know to karaoke to just let loose drink

“and sing more songs dude remember that first year when we do that like some people say”

we're sitting there we're like what the fuck is going on here like this is this is too good this is this is crap you know and then we put it like oh it's the staff they're all singing a whole day it was amazing there's no cool and supportive anyway like you know like you get up there and like you know you try your best and they're like yeah like they're you're like they're you know they're very much Friday night karaoke we need to you know this year we need to make a concerted effort to like

sign every single one of them I'm going to bring a little iPad and just sign people up on this one what we should do is the stupid QR code thing that you know super socks I hate QR code but we should just I do what we're rambling here man like this let's talk about this off-line no this is this is how business gets done you want to you want to know how babies are made this is how it's done

this is not yeah baby you're going to slide to you dude this is what's done I never learned

QR code can I scan your QR code baby right that's a new pickup line for 2020 right

“that might be how babies are made nowadays actually now that I think about it right yeah you can't”

each ways what right you naughty I do want to say it is nine o'clock in the morning in Japan

but I have nothing going on today I'm in my new studio in my house and my wife's handling

everything with the kids today so my coffee has a little Christmas spirit inside cheers to you brother it's you brother we're happy about that all right play the next song yeah come on that's we actually have a really really interesting one so you know this is obviously a Christmas week but we didn't say that it had to be as Christmas song that everybody knows we didn't have to say we didn't say it had to be a popular Christmas song this person

“from the Friday night karaoke committee I believe he's new to the group or if he's not”

ashamed to say that this is the first song of her of his and I will definitely be going and

looking for many more but this is Daniel Kreetz and he actually wrote an original Christmas song really that he wrote in a written it's wrote in saying an original Christmas song it is called Santa's gone wild and it's a festive little cautionary tale because every holiday season need one it's about Santa decoration that started out cheerful while intention full of Christmas spirit and then immediately proved it could not be trusted once it was plugged in oh shit dude I know

“I'm sorry I'm sorry it's like super exciting so anyway here is this is gonna be Daniel Kreetz”

with an original song for Christmas Santa's gone wild let's give it a listen somewhere down south on the frosty holiday a sweet woman said a Santa out in practice play to look in that big caterpillar walk inside feeling proud didn't know her Christmas spirit was about to get real loud because that wind picked up messages like it had played on tonight Santa took off a road of light yeah I don't take him blind play it was on the road

give the days and after in life we can hit the street but cyclists are toppled little dowels on

“terrace by the season and Santa get back here you got responsibilities tonight”

the whole blasts are there she's running after him like a black Friday sale to members how to know the door you're the man he's getting away she comes blind out and slippers hollering Santa he's dead but that job run up more than about to live through the park taking out snowman left and right the forward even if it's dark now close around the corner what no homer clock would write who can play them well take him fly

Santa's on the road heading down it was clear kids again and I only am like these dogs and friends it's everywhere is a pebbermint bonus under it break a lights and crisps the set the cheese shop Santa slow it down you ain't cleared for driving in Amazon drive the higher saying people we don't ship that fast now we hear what your jingle bells don't panic it's just him rolling in that runaway flow getting unexpected lead so time down your decorations double check your stay

you're like a lion maker on the table never hold down laughing we play in that one

that goes out now it's a media he's gone viral title Santa why tonight let's just say not ever crazy is going this way but some of them turn out better that way my god man that was freaking awesome like let's make this famous that was heck man

and you know just kind of you know throw some gimmicky stuff up there it was like legit good it was like legit fun I was like it was funny it was good it was like a great Christmas song

“I honestly I just I just wanted to spotify looking to see if maybe it was up there and maybe put it”

out there and I couldn't find it so yeah Daniel creates again with Santa's gone wild original Christmas song I hope Daniel if you're listening I hope that you actually put that song out there and then give me a link to where you have it out in the wild and woke will help you get the

world to hear it before the holidays are over right here so we could do that one of the first

more dude I was thinking like I was like we should have had a lot of people just write their own song maybe we do have for now the future theme of the week there's like do a song make a song and like let's just throw original's up here one week you know yeah well we do have that I don't even remember what I called it but we have that like song generator and stuff but it's yeah it would be cooler if you just write your own though like you don't use AI and just like write something yourself

but that that was like legit like I bravo Daniel creates bravo so good you know he was using Smiel obviously to record as most people do and um had that Santa face you know like we're kind of lots of everything else which is a kind of fun you know at first when he first when I first listened to

it and I was going through it and I saw like the Santa face I'm like is this AI is this real and

then I realized it's a totally real like it's like totally his voice he's totally just talking and singing and you know the little nuance and it was great he did a great job yeah man I don't know I can't really tell the difference between what's AI and real now anymore yeah it's something different

“dude I'm like oh shit what the fuck is that I'm like no that can't be I think when he starts talking”

stuff you know there's a part it seems it seems real enough but I mean you know like you ever see some of these AI videos nowadays dude they're freakish man they're freakish like I know it's like it hurts like my brain I hate when they get me though like you know they'll show like like a meme of like you know it's the subtleties that you're not they'll expect that will prove that it's AI and they'll circle like these little things in the background and show like it will

be like a girl with her hands up on the table and like you're just looking like like a line in like the the bricks that isn't matching up or something way in the back and they have circled and you're just like oh I see but her hands are literally feet but that came more no no it happens on audio still like I still hear podcasts or something like that where you think it's real and somebody's talking like man this person's really good like really reading off the

teleprompter really really well and then they say something like like the other day got me they were talking about jobs and stuff and they mentioned like HVAC technicians but they were

“like if you want to be an HVAC technician and I'm like HVAC I'm like oh this is real I come on now”

you make it so much more glamorous I'm like you got me mother it was like it's like mega-mind exactly right so that's you see you're things like that that mess you up and I'm like whatever it's all good so last time that was Daniel Creed's with Santa Go and Wild and go check it out when it actually exists on the other part it might exist somewhere I'm whatever it's on I think hey go to our platform and listen to it yes

you just listen to this podcast you just heard it why do you send people to somewhere as you just heard it right here why do you know I don't know I'm being paid by Spotify what the hell what are you doing to hold on hold on let me call my Spotify I'm sending people to you Amy

I'm not gonna they're not gonna yeah there was nobody there we can send them 14 million people

and we got to check like 13 cents we know what that's 13 cents more than I had this morning that's true we would be we would be paid for this podcast finally would be yep that's 16 the cinnamon on top of this again we actually know they they they they do take out rid of the penny we wouldn't even get paid they'd have to run it down to zero that's a whole separate thing that's crazy though all right all right we're gonna go we're gonna go up track here we got more songs

we do have more it's Christmas I don't want to talk about the penny anymore that is one of the happy folks I won't say you know that that penny collection you've been holding on to you know that you're like oh look from your worth anything it's what's the penny no oh hang on to it a little bit longer right it's gonna be worth something at least for your kids it's gonna be worth something at some point you know I'm not gonna exist exactly stick come

up next is another Friday night karaoke moderator and this is another moderator it's been

I've ever heard ever you know and she is able to not just sing you know put on amazing vocal

“performances but she's able to voices she's able to kind of just get outside the box and you know”

make it super freaking fun and she can also be very very serious so she has a huge range just an amazing person all around and a great moderator you know just great contributor to the group and really supportive to everybody and really fun to sing like duets way etc this is gonna be heavy Heather Gnary and she is singing Bob River song the chimney song and let me tell you let me tell you she puts on a voice and I'm I'm gonna we'll talk about it afterwards because I need you to

hear it first but she puts on a voice for this song and she is straight out of like a cart like

she needs to do voice over cartoons right like it's straight out of a cart like you're gonna

“be listening to this like I this is actually her I mean one hundred percent is it's definitely her”

but like you're gonna listen to it and be like is that too much commentary before the song man let's talk about it after the song I'm gonna use her after we hear them come on all right here it is Heather Gnary with the chimney song my ribbers give it a listen she's very Christmas there's something stuck up in the chimney and I don't know what it is but it's been there all week long well the dog keeps barking up the chimney so and we don't know

what we're gonna do because there's something in the chimney and it doesn't move or we're and it's been a week since Christmas there's something stuck up in the chimney and I don't know what it is but it's been there all month long well it's damn deep tight above the fire place now the house smells funny so take this grace the sub that's stuck up in the chimney and it doesn't talk it up and it's been there since last Christmas it's something stuck up in the chimney and I don't

know what it is but it's been there all year long I'll be waiting up for says and like I did last year but my brother says he's already here and he stuck up in the chimney and he doesn't say I'll work and he'll be here every Christmas and we'll have him every Christmas dude that was freaking hilarious right like the voice like the you know the makeup and the

fricking you know the presentation everything was just so freaking great dude if you didn't tell

if if there was no video you didn't tell me that was I never in a million years what have

“guessed up that was Heather and that's what I was trying to like I just wanted to allude to that”

before the actual video I was wanting you to you know let it spin around your head like what the how's he talking about because that was so good and like she wasn't just like she's putting on a voice she put on a voice and nailed it nailed it dude nailed it and by the way if you've never heard Heather actually sing a song she is fantastic an amazing singer like yeah and it is hilarious to hear her just completely do that that was what I was talking about here I do like I'm a good

ship lovely pop right I'm sorry sorry I'm sorry and sorry I was pronouncing your name Gunauri before it's Gunauri so Heather Gunauri if you hear this a little Shirley Temple please thank you thank you my request so once again that was Heather Gunauri with the chimneys song by Bob Rivers and just man so much fun and that's my favorite thing about like the karaoke group right so we have all these members 47 that was in members are posting hundreds of songs a

day and you know just you know expressing themselves and having fun you know it's very non-competitive it's just a safe place to go sing music negativity free as we said before and I love that it's not

production perfect and trying to you know just you know hit those you know those Mariah Carey songs

you know and now the you know the notes it's more just about like I'm gonna go explore the limits of everything and I'm like today I'm feeling like this this is what I'm gonna sing now I'm feeling like this and I'm gonna go Broadway now I feel like heavy metal and I'm gonna do that and you can and they do and it's awesome agreed you know though you know we did do a session a while back

“that was just one take remember that you're a poster first take it so yeah there's definitely”

something to be said for like yeah my scared that up I need to do another take and make this a little bit better and try to not yeah yeah yeah those drinking song I mean we said it was like a time when we did that pirate song and we're overdue we should do we should do the pirate song at podfest all right for our story okay night let's all right you don't have to sell anymore today already set him in I'm in you know I'm so excited let's do that yes that'll be the song that was like

hard or do I I'm totally in by the way I hope one of the songs you picked tonight is Mariah Carey all I won't for Christmas because now you said it now you have the way invoked her name do you know how much

“you can't stand Celine Dion that's how much I can't stand Mariah Carey shut up dude yep I'm sorry”

you don't like Celine Dion I don't like Mariah Carey I think she could just you know stop singing forever and I'll be okay all right that's fair yep so if you hear me put on a Mariah Carey song we're putting on the power of love after that wow all right you know I'll trade you with sweet sweet fantasy for the power of any you know what let's do a match up the power of Christmas fine

we also are trading cards who wins all right okay you'll never like real rap hellish from history like

real rap battles a mystery why are scary forces Celine Dion I love to see that girl that'll be awesome yeah so coming up next we only have two songs left unfortunately you know we're at the 47 minute mark and it's actually before we get into that it is 47 minutes in and I have neglected to acknowledge our lovely sponsor um sure microphones see these lovely microphones there's the black one there's the gray one and we have the gray one and the black one right there those are our

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that we spend all this money on yeah we fire the the writers but we you know up the studio so we're perfect so unless stream yard decides to sponsor us we're blaming them anyway MV 7's definitely

“don't check them out if you want to sound awesome and that's short microphones all right so coming up next”

our second to last this is uh I wanted to go with another fun one here you know we just did the chimney song with or with another fun song you know unfortunately nobody that I could find in the group saying grandma got run over by a reindeer I was really hoping to hear that one and I was really hoping to feature that because like it's just one not growing up this is another one that I liked when I was growing up uh this is about the Italian root off can you guess what it is yes all right this is going to be

a little lumonti dominant the donkey all right from our lovely group member Patrick Holstein let's give it a yeah Harvard yeah it's Christmas I'm shopping here yeah I know hey sing it it's you it's time a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little friend his name is Dominic cute to sit or donkey and ever see him king but Santa visit his paisa with Dominic he'll be cuz the reindeer can I climb the hills a bit to leave hey she didn't change

it's Dominic the donkey she didn't change it's a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit

a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of

a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of Christmas Christmas and with your brother we got it what a great rendition of that song and yeah I agree with your sentiment at the end there Patrick yes it's a Christmas Christmas

“that was fun and you know what it is a classic song and it was funny and I think that”

I feel like if he's in Florida he needs to come down and mutial took a group version of that song

and he's to be like a whole place would be like six or seven people or eight people like a whole

thing just everybody just singing the whole thing he needs to come down to podcast there wouldn't be it would be the end of the entire place would sing that song from the beginning to the end there are certain songs at karaoke that once you start singing them you're no longer singing the song like you can totally watch it it doesn't matter the entire karaoke bar was exactly

“as long as you that's one of the songs that everybody was like oh I remember that when I was”

a kid and they're all going to be singing it right try to sing like don't stop believing in the karaoke bar like have nobody else sing like me Caroline yeah exactly live it on a prayer like like I mean every if you want everyone to sing with you and like that's that's the song by the way that's that's the trick if you're afraid of singing karaoke live in front of everybody just sing one of those songs that you know that everybody is going to sing along with you and it doesn't matter you just

it's just you up on stage and you're just you know guiding everyone you know that's all it is like you're you're you're just there you're like I picked the song and you're all just singing together

“every talking yeah yeah you know the single biggest mistake people make at karaoke I think”

is picking a song that meant a lot to them as a kid or something that nobody's ever heard of because at live karaoke it's cool that you know cool story bro that you like that song but nobody cares like you know people are there because they want to hear cool shit that they you know that they remember and they want to sing along and they want to jam along and

nobody cares about a song that they've never heard before in most cases I mean there's rare

exceptions but in most cases nobody cares so yeah in every case yeah in every case yeah yeah for live karaoke yeah make songs that people pick it all some songs that everybody's going to jam too yeah make them fun and you know most most times unless you are literally like a Reeth of Franklin you know don't don't pick the songs that are like just like all about the vocal you know don't don't don't over shoot alright that's that's enough karaoke tips for one night

we'll give you a weekly karaoke tips I don't know if I'm like qualified for that sure you are sorry I hit all the mistakes myself so I certainly can exactly you know you know definitely what you want to get that was Patrick whole same with Dominic the Donkey from Luminati 1660s the Italian root off so alright yeah so we only have one song left right you know we had this lovely podcast the podcast was a very merry karaoke Christmas

and we had seven wonderful singers kind of leading us up to this last moment and I thought we should probably end with like a nice good wholesome or smissy song you know not something funny this is something nice and wholesome and great and you know something to leave us with a nice

is going to be some 1953 Dean Martin it's gonna be let it snow by none other than Joe Rubin oh

“you didn't I sure did I sure that I there it is let's give it a listen oh the weather outside”

is frightful but the fire is so delightful simply no place to go let it snow let it snow let it snow it doesn't show signs of stopping and I draw some

corner popping the lights are turned way down those let it snow let it snow let it snow when we finally

just good night how I'll hit to go out in the store but if you really hold me tight all the way home I'll be warm the fire is slowly dying and my dear we're still good buying as long as you love me so let it snow let it snow let it snow let it snow let it snow let it snow let it snow let it snow

“oh the weather outside is frightful but that fire is so delightful since we've no place to go”

let it snow let it snow let it snow it doesn't show signs of stopping and I draw lots of the corner popping the lights are all way down those let it snow let it snow let it snow let it snow

when we finally say good night how I'll hit to go out in the store but if you'll only hold me tight

all the way home I'll be warm the fire is slowly dying and my dear we're still good buying long as you love me so let it snow let it snow let it snow yeah you did it you some of a bitch you did it all right I guess that was pretty good yeah it was pretty good you got that that Dean Martin sound you got that you man you just you rocked that you had the sound you had the the presence you had everything yeah the all the ingredients to make a great Christmas song

and you brought it home so there's a lesson in how to karaoke for all you karaoke newbies out there

I do I do love the crunars I do love cruning it's been a while I haven't never recorded a song

“a while but I know I like featuring a song every now and then just to remind you that I know you should”

do this sometimes because you're good at it I should do it every now and then all right yeah yeah you know what you don't have a fancy new studio that's why you know that's why like this you have this I mean I do got the shirt microphone you do have the shirt microphone and you have the Yoda freaking Christmas shirt I do that I do yeah I got all the ingredients the season and alcohol oh alcohol is my favorite right this secret ingredient I know so once again that was show

room in with lettuce no by Dean Martin to round out the Friday night karaoke podcast this was episode number 75 technically season 4 and our second episode in season 4 we have been doing this for a long time now yeah wild you know we try to shoot for once a week and that haven't happened a very very long time so you know if we're trying to get a little bit more consistent with it so hopefully you'll be hearing these more regularly you know just kind of weekly or at least by weekly or

monthly or some type of regular schedule yeah exactly if you're lucky so thank you to all the wonderful artists that yes here you guys were absolute rock stars and thank you to everybody else that posted to the theme of the week and Friday night karaoke once again if you're not in the group and you're just listening to this on any of the major platforms like Apple Podcasts I aren't ready to spot if I cast box Google Podcasts Amazon audible any of those and you don't know

and you are with the best online negative video free ad free group of karaoke and music enthusiasts anywhere so great so anyway Merry Christmas wishing you and your family an amazing holiday season

have a great great evening no no no no no no you missed the most important part of the

end of the podcast so yeah new theme oh yeah all right yeah so we do a theme of the week in the group if you don't know we do a new theme of the week every single week we post that on Fridays and you have until Thursday at 11.59 p.m. Eastern to post up your theme of the week songs and you

“just hashtag your post with the theme of the week hashtag and that's how you get in the running”

we give like our $10 Amazon gift card to you know quote unquote winner and you know we kind of list the first second and third place singers or submissions every single week very much not a competition but very much just a fun way to engage and try some new things and you know try songs outside of your comfort zone that match the theme so obviously this week that we just

played was FNK X miss was the hashtag and we on the podcast in the past they've always come up with

the next theme at the end of the podcast so Joe and I will usually come up with something you know

“each and then we'll debate it and you know it's a little fun but I think it's a pretty straightforward”

it's the end of the year you know we just did our Christmas theme we're coming up on New Year's and I think and maybe you'll you could fight me on this one but I think FNK count down is the the hashtag and it's just like party songs to bring in the new year you know high energy or like

or maybe you know just it could be a countdown actually I think a countdown and it'll just be

party songs nice and easy I like that yeah just party songs high energy fun party songs things to you listen to New Year's Eve and not if you're like okay I'm gonna you know just sleep on

“the couch and listen to something like a little bit I'm talking like you're going out you got”

people over you're going to other people's house you're doing the party you're in time square you're somewhere awesome what's the party song what do you play exactly the songs that you're going to hear while the ball's dropping yes like like you know it's not going to be like you know some like lame boring I'm not saying slow songs are boring but in it with the ball dropping I like that yeah exactly all right so so high energy i'm going to make exciting something fun something

that you know those champagne bottles pop in yes you know yes we want to hear so it's going to be hashtag fnk countdown and then the theme of the week name will be countdown to 2026 all right out of standing yeah done all right great so from Friday you'll see that posted in the Friday and at karaoke group and as Joe was mentioning before from both of us married Christmas happy holidays thank you for being with us thank you for listening to us and if you did listen

we would love to know that you listened especially if you listen all the way in you're hearing me say this right now feel free to send us a note in just in the group like hey Mike and Joe love love your episode anything so that we know that you listen to the whole thing I agree and to all a good night that cheers tonight