Do We Have the New "Worst of All-Time" National Anthem Performance?

Episode Transcript

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I'm trying to set the record forBowl Polini references this month. The Penguins,
right, yeah, Youngstown you yeah, Yukstown State. Keep talking for
a second, right is the YoungstownState? Yeah, Youngstown State Penguins.
The Penguins, Yeah, keep talking. Okay, Bowl Polini and the Penguins,
you know, did some good things, had some things. He wish
you would have had back. Butfor the most party did some good things.

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And he's not there anymore. OnceLSU didn't go well, Thanks appreciate.
I wish him well. By theway, Cincinnati did get a winter
earlier today this morning. So Cincinnatiand Youngstown both winning at about five hour
window. That's pretty cool. Allright. Did you watch the homer in
Derby last night? I did not, didn't catch it. Come on,
man, come on. You know, it's been a while for me since

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I watched the Derby. It's beensince I was a kid. They did
a new format. I kind ofliked it. It took a while still
they used to have. Okay,so back in the glory days of the
Derby, it's ten outs. Everyswing that you take that you don't hit
a home run isn't out. Yeah, And the way that it worked was
eight guys would do it. Topfour I think would move on to the
second round, and then after thatit would be the top two out of

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the semi finals and then they wouldgo head to head and I think after
the second round they would reset thethey reset the number of homers. Anyway,
for some reason, they felt likeit was not a great TV product.
It took too long. So whatthey did was they put a timer
on it. So like the lastI don't know, probably ten years almost,

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but now there's been like a fourminute timer with one timeout, and
for four minutes you can hit asmany home runs as possible. But I
don't know, it just kind ofseemed boring and the guys are just trying
to hit as fast as they could. And then they also introduced bracket play,
so they would see the guys basedon the number of home runs they
had, and then it would justbe like an eight man bracket to finish
figure it out. They changed allthat this year. They went into a

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three minute timer, no bracket untilthe semi finals. The first round was
not bracketed, just the top fourscores made it to the semis and then
after the three minutes with one timeoutand the timeouts like thirty second song.
After the three minutes, they hadthree outs that they could get as hit
as many home runs as they couldon the three outs. If they hit
a home run four hundred and twentyfive feet or longer, then they would

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get a fourth out and then havethe ability to hit them runs. It
was kind of fun. It waskind of an unsuspecting winner. Ta Oscar
Hernandez from the Dodgers defeated Bobby WittJunior in the finals. I kind of
liked the format. It was fine. But all anybody was talking about about
this event in Texas was the factthat the national anthem was very memorable.
Matt, did you grab a pieceof this? I don't want to play

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the whole thing, so don't feellike you have to stand up and salute
or anything like that. I'm justgonna play a piece of this for the
performance itself. Not I'm not Thenational anthem of the United States of America
is a very difficult thing to do. It's a hard song to sing.

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Four time Grammy nominated artist Ingrid Andrisor Andres. I don't know her.
She's a country singer. She wasselected to sing this anthem and had the
entire stadium in the palm of herhand when she began to sing this song.
Here's a part of what we heardof. Okay okay, okay,

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okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, boy, it really takes
off. I just want to knowthe organizer of this event and Major League
Baseball as she's going on. Thisis again, a four time Grammy nominated
artist, and what they're thinking asthis is going on. There, like,
okay, so we still have tohit the cues on the rockets,

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red glare, fireworks and pirate.Maybe she was in a jet while singing
We can't well. I mean thatthe new stadium that they have basically looks
like an airplane hanger. Holy moly, it was bad. The whole thing
was bad. It starts out innocentlyenough, and you're just like, Okay,
maybe she can't hear herself, ormaybe she's just off key. It
just got worse and worse and worseas everything was going on, and oh

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man, they were people were roastingthis girl. She's in her early thirty
so she's not like a young girl. But she in one of those like
spinny rides while she was singing.No, she's just standing there all by
herself. Well, I'll give youthe context here and then we'll talk about
terrible anthems. Was she being loweredto a pool of sharks while singing?

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You get to this part right here, and I don't want to know,
Okay, all right, it justsounded like it to me. I could
buy it if you told me that. If you said this woman's being lowered
to a pool of hungry sharks whilesinging, I would have said, makes
sense to me. Yeah, okay, Well, anyway, she was being
absolutely roasted. There's no way youcould have interpreted this as a good national
anthem performance. Well Ingrid went onour social media accounts today and said,

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I'm not gonna bs y'all. Iwas drunk last night. I'm checking myself
into a facility today to get thehelp I need. That was not me
last night. I apologize to MLB, all the fans in this country I
love so much for that rendition.I'll let y'all know how rehab is.
I hear it's super fun xo Ingrid. So this is my big, my

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big thing, and a lot ofpeople are saying this. If you were
close to this person, do notlet her on social media because she is
going to see nothing but people justdestroying her for her career and she sings
for a living. Yeah, therewere time Grammy nominated artist. Well it
didn't take long. Less than sixteenhours after this whole thing, she's posting
that she's going to rehab because shewas drunk last night. I've been drunk

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before. I've sang karaoke before.I've sang karaoke like boy band songs and
stuff like that. I know you'rea carryo guy. Yeah, I've never
butchered a song anywhere close to thatbadly, especially when I knew what it
was supposed to sound like this tome. Yeah, sure, she might
have been drunk. You think shecouldn't sing this song regularly as a professional

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artist. No, I think thiswas an attempt to have a very unique
rendition of the national anthem that wentsouth quickly and she couldn't recover it really
Fergie style. Remember Fergie at theAgain. I don't want to badger people,
but if you're curious, you cango find it. Fergie at the
NBA All Star Game probably like tenthis years ago now, Maybe not ten,

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maybe like seven or eight, oh, and it was like she's trying
to scat the national anthem, right, She's like going for a moment here,
It's like, oh, unique nationalanthem. How often has somebody done
a unique national anthem and it worked? Anybody? Does anybody like heck Jack
black not Jack black Jack White fromthe White Stripes. Dude's great guitar player,

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big time baseball fan, loves theDetroit Tigers. He did Opening Day
on his electric guitar and it wasvery white stripey sounding. And I know
it's a guitar, it's not avoice, but even then, I was
like the whole time, I wasjust like, oh, Jack, we
are coloring a little outside the lines. Remember Steven Tyler did a Patriots game
once watched the lyrics intentionally, Oh, intentionally watched the lyrics toward the end.

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Now that would happen today. Peoplewould be canceled this guy on social
media. Okay, every super greatnational anthem was done pretty much, very
well in the way that the anthemgenerally is supposed to go, with maybe
a few liberties taken in a coupleof parts. This is one of the
hardest songs to sing. It reallyis the range that you need to sing
it. Well, not easy.I'm not going to pretend it is.

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There was a woman in Des Moines. She I'll tell you my personal anecdote
with the national anthem and one ofthe regulars that would sing the national anthem
for the local hockey team that Iworked for in Des Moines. I'll tell
you about that, and we cankind of talk about some of the great
or poor national anthems. Ever.Coming up next on news radio eleven ten
kfab. Emory on news radio eleventen KFAB. I just listened to one

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song and it was their biggest song. And I can't remember what the name
of it was a little lower register, probably, yeah, it was.
It was not like I listened toit and I thought, well, you
know, this song doesn't really youknow, the Star Spangled Banner is not
the easiest song. It's one ofthe hardest songs to sing, like it
notably, Yeah, if it exposesthose who can't handle it. Yeah,
I mean, like, okay,so I can sing the national anthem with

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some decency, but I have tostart lower than I'm comfortable with. And
this is why I'll never go afteranybody about this. This was different because
she already admitted to being drunk.She said she's going to rehab getting the
help that she needs. She knowsthat it was terrible for the publicity that
you know, she had an opportunityfor her to become a household name.

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She became a household name, justin the wrong way. And so I
sat there listening to this and Ihad my own flashbacks. There was a
woman that's your heart. She wasone of a few rotating regular national anthem
singers from the hockey team that Iworked for in Central Iowa. And I

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was there every game doing different stuff, and one of the women that would
be introduced, and I always regretted. I always just like, oh no,
I don't like it when this womansings it because I get so embarrassed
for people so easily. And whathappened was she would start normally, you
know, Okay, so where doyou start the national anthem? Can you
sing it? I have to startat the very bottom of my registerant I

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can't get down there. Yeah,Like, I don't know where. I've
never really sung the whole thing allthe way through for people. Right,
I try, It's not going tobe good, but you have to start
as low as you can yeah,oh say, okay, right there,
but you can sing that that soundsokay. I kind of quiver at the
bottom because I can't get low enoughto get there because I know I'm either

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quivering down low or I'm going toquiver up. I don't have the rain.
Yeah, oh say, like Ihave to start there. Okay,
that is as good as that's evergonna sound for me, And then you
know, you sing the whole songand you have to go all the way
up. This woman that I'm talkingabout from this hockey team, who again,
she probably sang this anthem eight toten times a year for this team

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out of the thirty home games thatwe'd have bro she would key change at
and the Rockets Red Glare. Shewould intentionally key change the song at and
the Rockets Red Glare. Okay,that's a challenging part of the song.
You're going up right? Mm hm. She would be singing in one key
like gallant Lee streaming in the RocketsRed Glare like she would like intentionally step

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it down a couple and it's sonoticeable. It just doesn't sound like the
song. Obviously it's more comfortable forher to sing it that way, but
it's not this way the song issupposed to be sung. And I just
couldn't figure out why the people inthis hockey team kept bringing her back and
not having the conversation of like,maybe we should just like have auditions for
people who can sing this song.They have another couple of people that actually

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can sing the song that they wouldhave to bring in. You know what
I'm saying, mm hmm. It'sa hard song to sing. I'm not
trying to villainize anybody, but it'sjust how did we vet this woman?
How was she the one? She'sfrom Michigan. This was played in Texas.
It was like hometown girl. Butyou made a good point. Somebody's
gonna bring her back. She's gonnaget out of rehab and she's gonna have
to sing this song again. Yeah. I think that that's the arc for

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me that come out of rehab singit again, be practice. Yeah yeah,
but don't mess with it. There'sno reason to mess with it after
that. So so you think thatshe was trying to do something differently,
I was, okay, I'd haveto listen back. That was not my
first impression. I just thought,my guy, get I get what you're
saying there's no way she sings thatpoorly. My guess is she was really

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going for something special and different,and she her inebriation just told her to
keep going, keep going. Yougot this. This is gonna sound great.
And that's what my fear is isthat this. Yeah, you know,
Brian's on her phone four oh two, five, five, eight to
eleven ten, Brian, welcome tothe show. What are you thinking about
today? I just think by showof hands on the radio, I wonder
how many people like me unfortunately justmuted the television. Like you said,

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I get really embarrassed for other peopleas well. And as much as I
love and respect the national anthem,after a few notes of hers last night,
I had to mute it. Icouldn't. I couldn't bear to watch
that anymore. And I stepped out, stepped away from the radio just long
enough to apparently miss that. Youdid see that she said she was drunk

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and going to rehab. So yeah, I hope she gets whatever help she
needs, because that was not agood experience. And then also I just
wanted to add also that when youare when you just now were practicing your
ohs, you actually sounded really good. Oh, keep it up, keep

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practicing, you'll get there. Andthen one of these days you can somebody
who listening somewhere. Oh, thatwould make me super nervous, Brian,
don't I can talk to people inpublic for a large crowd. I definitely
have never sung for anybody outside ofa karaoke bar, but I appreciate the
kind words. Buddy, thanks forlistening to us today. Absolutely, have

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a good day. Thank you youtoo. All Right, we are going
to finish up well, we're finishingup the hour right now. We'll have
more. We can talk more ofa natural anthem if you'd like. We
can talk about the best versions you'veheard, the worst versions you've heard,
and talk more about how hard ofa song that is. On news radio
eleven ten KFAB