September 15, 2025 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Lucky. You're so lucky. Lucky Dip time, it's mal a Monkey.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
How's it gone, Monty?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah? Good. I'm excited for today's Lucky Dip because I'm
not the one leading it. I like when I can
kick back and you just dig your hand into the
Lucky Dip bowl and pull out a topic.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I dug deep this week. That's not like you, very strange. Okay,
how do you feel about karaoke?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well, last Christmas, I did karaoke with my girlfriends and it,
I know, we went out for lunch and then I'm like,
I'm not ready to go, Let's go and do karaoke.
It was a karaoke bar that you suggested it. I said,
I don't know why. I don't know why, but you
could hire the rooms. Normally I hate that ship, but
because there was only the five of us, you couldn't.
(00:52):
They didn't have alcohol there though, so our guzz was
wearing off. But we got so into it, like just really,
and I just got a new found respect for singers
because I'm like, this is so hard. Singing a whole
song as hard as you can is so hard.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, I hate karaoke. People love it. I hate it.
I don't even I don't even like watching it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
No, no, no, it was fun for it. We just
went into it. It was like we just kept drunk
because it was so weird, you know, something so weird.
You're like, what are we experiencing here?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, well this is very weird. So in the Philippines
they love carryoke, love karaoke, mad for it. My sister
in law was born in the Philippines, right, she's mad
for it. Yeah, I can taste to it. Actually, you
know what, that's a lie. Her family are mad for it.
I've never actually seen her do it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, does it with the family? Does your brother do it?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Oh? My brother is like crazy for it? Is he
loves it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Guy, I thought you were going to say the opposite.
That's lurious anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
But in the Philippines there was this spate of murders
called the my Way murders, and it came off the
back of this song, Frank Sinatra's my Way.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Classic song, classic funeral song, very common funeral song.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I think I said this once in a podcast, but
it's so true. I was like, that is the least
a suitable song for me to have, because I don't
do anything mine It's like dope, I do everything according
to everyone else's expectations.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yes, yeah, I am a peep. Please, I know, I'll
make you a song. I did it your okay, I
just got bar.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Oh my god. Well, anyway, this is a song that
people in the Philippines love doing for karaoke.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So, in two thousand and seven, a twenty nine year
old Filipino man named Romy Balagula probably butchered that name,
was shot and killed while singing My Way in a
karaoke bar. The reason was because he was singing off
key and a security guard couldn't take it anymore. He
pulled out a gun and fired a fatal shot.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Wow, that's aggressive for singing out a key. Thank god.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But that was just one episode. Apparently, singers have been
stabbed for hogging the microphone, beaten for singing the song
on repeat for.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Hours, Oh that would get a bit march.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Oh my god, or targeted for even daring to perform
My Way.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Now. What is the protection to Frank Sinatra's My Way?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I don't know. I guess people think it is just
such a moving, incredible song that how dare you try
and replicate it? I don't know, but I'm like, isn't
that what karaoke is? It's almost like unless you can
sing it, yes, amazingly you can't. Don't even try.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So there were reportedly during this period ten deaths. Ten
people died from my singing singing my way in karaoke.
They think that. The New York Times wrote an article
about it, and their theories were that, you know, it
was people's poor singing ability that triggered the violence, and
that even as I just said, even trying to sing
(04:20):
it was arrogant, right, and they didn't they don't like that.
The last known incident was in June twenty eighteen, a
sixty one year old sixty one year old man, sixty
one year old Jose Boss me On Junior, was stabbed
to death by his neighbor who during a birthday party
as he was about to sing the song. It started
(04:42):
like he grabbed the microphone off him, like, no, you
can't do my way, you're not doing like, tried to
wrestle the microphone off him. They got into a fistfight
and he ended up stabbing him to death. I don't know,
Frank Sinatra would be very happy with this legacy.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Fo rules and yeah, totally stabbings, punchings. It's a very
people are obviously very attached to the song. Also a
very boring song to sit through during karaoke.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I agree. I actually don't rate that song.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Nah, I mean at all. I think for a funeral
it's it is lovely, But I do think sitting there
during karaoke, like, what the fuck are you meant to do?
You can't dance to it, You just you'd be too
scared to sing along to it, Like you just got
to sit there and watch the indulge the person singing. Well.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Anyway, many karaoke bars in the Philippines have actually removed
the song from the playlists to avoid the issue, and
in twenty eighteen, the government even proposed a ten pm
curfew on karaoke bars because of the possibility.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
People getting too fired up over people singing.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, I guess they you know, they start drinking, they
get more drunk, then they get more violent. Wow, someone
pulls out Sinatra and the night and their life is over.
Is so weird. Oh my god. Some Filipinos, even those
who loved the song, will just not sing it in
public because it'll be scared. Yeah, it's become a full superstition,
(06:06):
and it has reportedly been taken off playlists on karaoke
machines in bars across Manila, but even Bangkok and Tokyo.
My god, and I didn't know this. This is just
a little tag on at the end, karaoke rage is
a real thing. In August two thousand and seven, a
karaoke singer in Seattle, Washington was attacked by a woman
(06:29):
who wanted him to stop singing coldplays Yellow.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
So that at is, it's a full thing. It gets
really under people must take it like a seriously as
a professional sport and just get ouncy and can't wait
their turn and can't handle people singing it badly like
karaoke rage.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Listen to this. In March two thousand and eight, a
man was arrested in Thailand for shooting eight people to death,
including his brother in law, in a dispute stemming from
several carry offerings, including repeated renditions I shouldn't laugh, it's
not funny of John Denver's take Me Home Country.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Roots, Oh my God, take Me Home, Great song road.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah died in a plane crash.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Did he did it with Richie Valance and stuff like that?
Or no? Completely them okay, but karaoke rage, CARRIAOKEI rage?
Who knew what would be your karaoke song? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I think a good karaoke song probably has to have
a communal element to it.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Clapping like you hate a communal clap, I reckon a
communal clap, Like we.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Say a little Prayer. I love that song, say a
little prefer You.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, I mean that's a fun song. Yeah, I'm trying
to remember the ones we did. I think we did
a bit of Spice Girls and stuff like that. Like
the songs were a bit that they are a bit average,
but I mean, I'm yeah it was, and we just
fucking got into it was like you get into a zone.
So I see, me understand the rage because you do.
(08:09):
You go into a whole other world. You have to,
because there's nothing worse than seeing somebody not confident doing karaoke,
Like you've got to embody it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Imagine everyone's there waiting to have their turn and someone
singing take Me Home Country Roads like ten times, play
it again, Play it again, gild you so mad, so mad?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
All right, everyone, thank you so much for listening. Show
and Tell Podcast is where you can find us on
Instagram or read all your messages and love hearing from you.
We have a Patreon, Patreon dot com, forward slash Show
and Tell online. The links to everything is always in
the show notes. If you want to just follow any
of that there and we'll touch you soon.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
How love you,
Lucky. You're so lucky. Lucky Dip time, it's mal a Monkey.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
How's it gone, Monty?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah? Good. I'm excited for today's Lucky Dip because I'm
not the one leading it. I like when I can
kick back and you just dig your hand into the
Lucky Dip bowl and pull out a topic.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I dug deep this week. That's not like you, very strange. Okay,
how do you feel about karaoke?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well, last Christmas, I did karaoke with my girlfriends and it,
I know, we went out for lunch and then I'm like,
I'm not ready to go, Let's go and do karaoke.
It was a karaoke bar that you suggested it. I said,
I don't know why. I don't know why, but you
could hire the rooms. Normally I hate that ship, but
because there was only the five of us, you couldn't.
(00:52):
They didn't have alcohol there though, so our guzz was
wearing off. But we got so into it, like just really,
and I just got a new found respect for singers
because I'm like, this is so hard. Singing a whole
song as hard as you can is so hard.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, I hate karaoke. People love it. I hate it.
I don't even I don't even like watching it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
No, no, no, it was fun for it. We just
went into it. It was like we just kept drunk
because it was so weird, you know, something so weird.
You're like, what are we experiencing here?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, well this is very weird. So in the Philippines
they love carryoke, love karaoke, mad for it. My sister
in law was born in the Philippines, right, she's mad
for it. Yeah, I can taste to it. Actually, you
know what, that's a lie. Her family are mad for it.
I've never actually seen her do it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, does it with the family? Does your brother do it?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Oh? My brother is like crazy for it? Is he
loves it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Guy, I thought you were going to say the opposite.
That's lurious anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
But in the Philippines there was this spate of murders
called the my Way murders, and it came off the
back of this song, Frank Sinatra's my Way.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Classic song, classic funeral song, very common funeral song.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I think I said this once in a podcast, but
it's so true. I was like, that is the least
a suitable song for me to have, because I don't
do anything mine It's like dope, I do everything according
to everyone else's expectations.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yes, yeah, I am a peep. Please, I know, I'll
make you a song. I did it your okay, I
just got bar.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Oh my god. Well, anyway, this is a song that
people in the Philippines love doing for karaoke.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So, in two thousand and seven, a twenty nine year
old Filipino man named Romy Balagula probably butchered that name,
was shot and killed while singing My Way in a
karaoke bar. The reason was because he was singing off
key and a security guard couldn't take it anymore. He
pulled out a gun and fired a fatal shot.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Wow, that's aggressive for singing out a key. Thank god.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But that was just one episode. Apparently, singers have been
stabbed for hogging the microphone, beaten for singing the song
on repeat for.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Hours, Oh that would get a bit march.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Oh my god, or targeted for even daring to perform
My Way.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Now. What is the protection to Frank Sinatra's My Way?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I don't know. I guess people think it is just
such a moving, incredible song that how dare you try
and replicate it? I don't know, but I'm like, isn't
that what karaoke is? It's almost like unless you can
sing it, yes, amazingly you can't. Don't even try.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So there were reportedly during this period ten deaths. Ten
people died from my singing singing my way in karaoke.
They think that. The New York Times wrote an article
about it, and their theories were that, you know, it
was people's poor singing ability that triggered the violence, and
that even as I just said, even trying to sing
(04:20):
it was arrogant, right, and they didn't they don't like that.
The last known incident was in June twenty eighteen, a
sixty one year old sixty one year old man, sixty
one year old Jose Boss me On Junior, was stabbed
to death by his neighbor who during a birthday party
as he was about to sing the song. It started
(04:42):
like he grabbed the microphone off him, like, no, you
can't do my way, you're not doing like, tried to
wrestle the microphone off him. They got into a fistfight
and he ended up stabbing him to death. I don't know,
Frank Sinatra would be very happy with this legacy.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Fo rules and yeah, totally stabbings, punchings. It's a very
people are obviously very attached to the song. Also a
very boring song to sit through during karaoke.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I agree. I actually don't rate that song.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Nah, I mean at all. I think for a funeral
it's it is lovely, But I do think sitting there
during karaoke, like, what the fuck are you meant to do?
You can't dance to it, You just you'd be too
scared to sing along to it, Like you just got
to sit there and watch the indulge the person singing. Well.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Anyway, many karaoke bars in the Philippines have actually removed
the song from the playlists to avoid the issue, and
in twenty eighteen, the government even proposed a ten pm
curfew on karaoke bars because of the possibility.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
People getting too fired up over people singing.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, I guess they you know, they start drinking, they
get more drunk, then they get more violent. Wow, someone
pulls out Sinatra and the night and their life is over.
Is so weird. Oh my god. Some Filipinos, even those
who loved the song, will just not sing it in
public because it'll be scared. Yeah, it's become a full superstition,
(06:06):
and it has reportedly been taken off playlists on karaoke
machines in bars across Manila, but even Bangkok and Tokyo.
My god, and I didn't know this. This is just
a little tag on at the end, karaoke rage is
a real thing. In August two thousand and seven, a
karaoke singer in Seattle, Washington was attacked by a woman
(06:29):
who wanted him to stop singing coldplays Yellow.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
So that at is, it's a full thing. It gets
really under people must take it like a seriously as
a professional sport and just get ouncy and can't wait
their turn and can't handle people singing it badly like
karaoke rage.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Listen to this. In March two thousand and eight, a
man was arrested in Thailand for shooting eight people to death,
including his brother in law, in a dispute stemming from
several carry offerings, including repeated renditions I shouldn't laugh, it's
not funny of John Denver's take Me Home Country.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Roots, Oh my God, take Me Home, Great song road.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah died in a plane crash.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Did he did it with Richie Valance and stuff like that?
Or no? Completely them okay, but karaoke rage, CARRIAOKEI rage?
Who knew what would be your karaoke song? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I think a good karaoke song probably has to have
a communal element to it.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Clapping like you hate a communal clap, I reckon a
communal clap, Like we.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Say a little Prayer. I love that song, say a
little prefer You.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, I mean that's a fun song. Yeah, I'm trying
to remember the ones we did. I think we did
a bit of Spice Girls and stuff like that. Like
the songs were a bit that they are a bit average,
but I mean, I'm yeah it was, and we just
fucking got into it was like you get into a zone.
So I see, me understand the rage because you do.
(08:09):
You go into a whole other world. You have to,
because there's nothing worse than seeing somebody not confident doing karaoke,
Like you've got to embody it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Imagine everyone's there waiting to have their turn and someone
singing take Me Home Country Roads like ten times, play
it again, Play it again, gild you so mad, so mad?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
All right, everyone, thank you so much for listening. Show
and Tell Podcast is where you can find us on
Instagram or read all your messages and love hearing from you.
We have a Patreon, Patreon dot com, forward slash Show
and Tell online. The links to everything is always in
the show notes. If you want to just follow any
of that there and we'll touch you soon.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
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