30 Day Song Challenge - Days 9 - 14

Day 9 - Song that makes you happy 

Shipping Up to Boston

Take me home tonight

Paradise City 

I Wanna dance w somebody

All Night Long - Lionel 

Pour Some Sugar on Me

Celebration - Kool & the Gang

Dirty Water

Happy Together - Ernest Goes to Camp

I really like it - Ma$e and Harlem World

Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & the Waves 

Day 10 - song that makes you sad

Let her Cry - Hootie & the Blowfish 

Mandolin Rain - Bruce Hornsby

Hurt - Johnny Cash 

Pictures of You - the Cure 

Keep for getting we’re not in love anymore - Michael McDonald 

Amazing Grace - Bagpipes  - the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

Killing me softly - Roberta Flack 

Day 11 - review all of the songs above — 

Capital Cities - Safe and Sound? 

The Killers - Mr. Brightside 

Mandolin Rain

Paradise City 

Sweet Child of Mine

Shipping up to Boston

Down Under - Men at Work

What I Got - Sublime 

You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC 

Miss Jackson - Outkast 

The Bucket - Kings of Leon 

You Be Killin Em - Fabolous 

Changes - Tupac 

Your Love - Josie 

Juicy - Notorious BIG 

Day 12 - A song from your pre-teen years. 

Rosco - Nothing but a good time - Poison  

King of Wishful Thinking - Go West 

C’est la Vie - B*Witched - Steph Viano

All that She wants - Ace of Base 

1987 - Top 5 Billboard 

Walk like an Egyptian - The Bangles 

Alone - Heart 

Shake you Down - Gregory Abbott

I wanna dance with somebody - Whitney Houston

Nothing’s Gonna stop us Now - Starship 

1988 - Top 5 Billboard 

Faith - George Michael 

Need you tonight - INXS

Got my mind set on you - George Harrison

Never gonna give you up - Rick Astley

Sweet Child O’ Mine - Guns N Roses 

1989 - Top 5 Billboard 

Look away - Chicago 

My Prerogative - Bobby Brown 

Every Rose has its Thorn - Poison 

Straight Up - Paula Abdul

Miss you Much - Janet Jackson 

1990 - Top 5 Billboard

Hold on - Wilson Phillips

It must have been love - Roxette

Nothing compares 2 U - Sinead O’Conor

Poison - Bell Biv Defoe

Vogue - Madonna

1991 - Top 5 Billboard 

Everything I do, I do it for you - Bryan Adams

I wanna sex you up - Color Me Badd

Gonna Make you Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C+C music factory 

Four and Five were so bad — so 6 was EMF “Unbelievable” and 7 was “More than words” Extreme

1992  - Top 5 Billboard 

End of the Road - Boyz II Men

Baby got Back - Sir Mix-a-lot

Jump - Kris Kross

Save the best for last - Vanessa Williams

Baby-Baby- Baby - TLC 

Day 13 - song from the 70’s 

Brick House 

Jungle Boogie 

Stairway to Heaven? 

Sweet Emotion 

September - Earth, Wind and Fire

Because the Night - Patti Smith 

Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple 

Rolling Stones -Tumbling Dice

My Sharona - The Knack

Bee Gees- Stayin’ Alive

Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK

Gladys Night & the Pips - Midnight Train to GA

Marvin Gaye - What’s going on

Black Sabath - Paranoid

Al Green - Let’s Stay together

B52’s Rock Lobster

Jolene - Dolly Parton

Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed

Rapper Delight - Sugar Hill Gang

Stairway to Heaven

Thunder Road - the Boss

Superstition - Stevie W

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

Don’t Stop til ya get enough - MJ

I will Survive - Gloria Gaynor 

Any Donna Summer 

Day 14 - Song you’d like played at your wedding - Every little thing she does is magic vs. Faithfully. 

Gronk Traded to Tampa Bay - WOW

Lions are trading for and signing all of the Patriots nobody wants… The Bucs are getting Hall of Famers to fall into their laps

Andrew Patterson - Tweeted earlier today- let’s unpack that.

Also - school just got cancelled 

Cocktail Hour Memories, Red Sox losing Mookie is the worst & a near death experience

Cocktail Hour Memories and disliking the Red Sox ownership fiercely 

Places listening: France, US, Australia, Egypt, Canada, Russia, Indonesia, Ireland, Ukraine 

Paris, Springfield Mass, Sydney, Cork, Cairo and Toulouse

Andrew Patterson is back - first time in 2020 and man has he seen some changes since we last had him on the Freestyle 

Red Sox ownership - Jeremy Johnson felt this “reset” while painful to the fans and Mookie is ultimately something that makes sense - where do you come down on the Mookie Betts Trade?

Cocktail Hour Memories - one of the most daunting gauntlets of a wedding for the people getting married, is the cocktail hour. 

Which stinks cuz the best part of the wedding is the cocktail hour. 

Andrew only went to the cocktail hour - and he was sober - so any good stories from cocktail hour?

Andrew’s 2020 off to a crazy start — tell us about it. 

Best Man Speech Podcast Episode 7 - Live from a Philly Dive Bar

Episode 7 Larry Ricciardi and Dan Ruttle

Places listening USA, Australia, Canada, UK, Belgium, Russia, Spain, Brazil, Philippines and Zimbabwe

Australian City of Blacks Beach is #1, Mountain View CA is #2 and Burdell Australia is #3 and Penhurst Australia is tied for #5 with Philadelphia - Way to go Australia

Live from Callahan’s - Big Lar’s first show

Best Man Speech Podcast - Episode 6

best man speech podcast (founded Dec 6, 2018)


Episode 6 Adam Stockstill


Multi-time best man veteran. How many times have you been the best man?


Justin (high school friend), Bokor (College Roommate), Drew (step brother), Countryman (living legend), Graham (special guest),


What was your backstory for becoming the best man?


What was the lead up to the speeches as you prepared?


You wrote 2 different poems?


Making fun of the groom stories, do's and dont’s


How about The guys who do the “Self absorbed" best man speech. Or the guys who tell stories, even though there wren’t asked to speak?


Any tips for the actual execution/ delivery of the speech?


Other Advice for people? Any “don’t do it advice”?


Any tips/ definitely do it, advice?

Best Man Speech Podcast Episode 2 (guest Roy Barnum) - Filibuster Freestyle

best man speech podcast (founded Dec 6, 2018)

Episode 2 Roy Barnum ( the dude had props like a scroll)

Have you been best man besides Parker’s wedding?

What’s it like preparing for a speech about your twin?

What was your process in getting ready? 

Don’t do the following advice? Do the following advice? Anecdotes, etc 

Addressing the Bride well in your speech?