Let's Chat with Will & Tony
Let's Chat with Will & Tony
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Ever found yourself tapping your foot to a song from the past, but just can't pin down the title? Prepare for a laugh-out-loud trip down memory lane with us, your hosts Will Kesley and Tony Pack, as we go head-to-head in a playful "name that tune" challenge that hits all the right nostalgic notes. Our latest episode is a joyful jaunt through the soundtracks of our lives, where '80s anthems reign supreme and the likes of Cat Stevens call forth memories as vivid as vinyl. We're spinning tales from youth camps where melodies bridged gaps between strangers, and discussing how a shared love for music can turn family bonds into unbreakable steel cables.
But the harmony doesn't stop there. We wax sentimental about the echoes of encouragement that propelled us from shy, shower singers to scholarship winners, all thanks to the persistent nudges from family matriarchs. The laughter also flows as freely as the creativity in our homes, where we fashioned our own language of jokes and traditions that continue to bring us together. And as the record spins to life's flip side—starting families and aging gracefully—we share candid advice and heartfelt insights that will resonate whether you're picking out nursery rhymes or fine-tuning your retirement playlist. So, pull up a chair, pour a nostalgic drink, and let's celebrate the music and milestones that compose the symphony of our lives.
Get out of your rut and into your groove. Let's chat with Will and Tony on News Talk 107.9. Now here's Will Kesley and Tony Pack. Welcome to the show. Hey, how's it going, will? So fine, so fine. You blow my mind. Ooh-ooh, you blow my mind. I think this is a country song. Yeah, I think that's something. Then it was something. Isn't there a song out there? Ooh-ooh, you blow my mind. You blow my mind. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2:Isn't there, but you're talking to the person who knows nothing about me. I'm like anything you said. I'd be like ah, yeah, that sounds familiar.
Speaker 1:Today's show is about name that tune of which I will crush you, Tony, Crush you.
Speaker 2:I would forfeit. Yeah, that's not easy. Huh, no, it's brutal. It's like I'm that guy who you know I'll sing half words and half tones and it's just a mess. It's a total mess.
Speaker 1:My wife and I love to do this when we're traveling in the car and we're just kind of bored, we'll play name, that tune and there was a time when I could just rock it and he's like I gotcha, I gotcha. It'd be like 200 to two Right yeah Hand to give name and artist, which makes it even harder, especially when you're going to like the stations that played stuff from like the 80s.
Speaker 2:You know, it's like what was the name of that.
Speaker 1:You can't remember that, but it's a fun little game. So we just poked around the radio, just went country, didn't matter what it was, yeah, so I named that song. But now that girl can rock it, man, she's like picked it up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, see, I'm terrible. Especially if you go to artist, it's like You're gone. Yeah, I'm terrible, I'm truly terrible.
Speaker 1:But for me, in my earlier years I've worked in radio and worked on stations that were going to CHR's contemporary radio, and so we played a lot of the artists of that era 80s and stuff like that. So those songs are just beat into your head because you played them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you sat there and listened to them. Every two hours, every day, you're on the air, and over and over you hear them like 10 times more than anybody else would ever hear. I have one artist that anytime his stuff comes on, I know it.
Speaker 1:Cat Stevens, oh, cat Stevens, cat Stevens comes on, I'm like oh, cat Stevens, cat Stevens and my wife, this guy wasn't an artist.
Speaker 2:My wife last sat me because I'm always like oh Cat, because it's like the one I know, whatever.
Speaker 1:I just offended two listeners.
Speaker 2:Oh don't, Cat's the man.
Speaker 1:You and somebody else that liked Cat Steve. What did he sing?
Speaker 2:He said like moon shadow.
Speaker 1:Oh, moon shadow, We'll play some moon shadow.
Speaker 2:What's the now? You put me on the spot, see. This is why I'm so bad at this.
Speaker 1:Just text into Tony. Say Tony, give him a clue. Hey, tony, here's a couple of Cat Stevens songs that I'm sure you don't remember, because nobody does Whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, watch movies. Yeah, it's always showing up in movies.
Speaker 1:Interesting topic, though, by the way. Music is a fascinating thing. What makes people like a certain radio station? It has to do with the music they grew up on in high school and early college. That zone, huh, that zone, and so radio station will go well if we want to go to people that are 45 to 55, when did they graduate? Oh, play that music. It's a group of music and that's what people will attract to.
Speaker 2:Well, what about me? So I'm the, obviously I'm an open, but well, I know I like Cat, but I'm like, have this really broad, like I'm the same way, I like stuff, some of the stuff in high school, I mean I'm like I'm like rap, I like country, I like you, like rap, yeah a little bit, I'm okay with the rap, Not all rap but Ghetto is kind of different, right the ghetto sound which is kind of you come on over.
Speaker 2:I'm like there's certain rap I love and there's other that I'm like, yeah, I don't need this.
Speaker 1:I'm a rap artist, exactly. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2:This is a show where we get an embarrassed Tony on a show long on my ineptitude. And we're talking about families.
Speaker 1:We're talking about families and in families. It's interesting because we have all kinds of different music and in our home we had this prethra of music. I mean it was all over the place and that made it fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, made it super fun. And then my kids. Today they seemed like the 80s more than anything. I'm like really it's the 80s where we just had a lot of fun music in it and listeners are like, hey, I want to add something cool. Add in name that tune and play that tune when you're driving down the road. You'd be shocked. And if your kids like mom that makes stupid, just sit back and relax and enjoy the show, kids, because this is real music.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we had a blast. Everybody's singing along and doing the thing. Yeah, you remember that youth group camp out? Yeah, tony and I, we're at this.
Speaker 1:Tony and I are at this youth group up in the hills and all week long. Yeah, we've been there for a whole week, whole week, and the last night we have this camp out. All the guys are together, they're all hanging around the camp out just hanging out, and all of a sudden it's like somebody wanted to sing a song or something. So somebody brought their phone, had a little boom box.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they had one of those Bluetooth speakers and they started playing songs that were from all genres all over the place, and these kids were just having a blast.
Speaker 2:Oh, we sat around that fire. It was like a flash dance. Yeah, it was. And next.
Speaker 1:You know that group.
Speaker 2:There was a group that was like a flash mob. Yeah, flash mob.
Speaker 1:There was a group of camping kids that were half a block away. Next, you know, they show up at our camp.
Speaker 2:And everybody's dancing and singing, and it was. It was hilarious. So don't give me this one. So there you go.
Speaker 1:These kids like this was every kid from every kind of walk of life all enjoying all these same songs.
Speaker 2:And they all knew the hits. Yeah, and we were. We were playing everything from the 50s to the most recent hit yeah, that was fun. I remember that Well it was a cold night, it was a cold night.
Speaker 1:So Tony and I we do this. Take some kids, we go up these camp outs and we have a great time. The same place. We've been camping and had a kind of like a spring. Yeah Right, that was cold, that was just going to say and we all, just we're going to go to the spring. And the deal was would you jump in the spring? Oh my, no, that's that's so cold water.
Speaker 2:But every kid remembers that spring, don't they? Oh yeah, every kid remembers they couldn't breathe when they got in.
Speaker 1:If you ever jump in cold water you can't breathe. No, you can't. You come out and you're like and then they panic, like I can't breathe. I got to get out of the water. It's like I told everyone when you jump in, you're not going to be able to breathe. No, those same kids.
Speaker 2:They talk about that all the time. Good, good, good fun. Jumping in good fun.
Speaker 1:And when we talk about like let's chat with Will and Tony, we're talking about things that it's okay to let loose a little bit, right, like this camp out there were, there was, there were some other adults and some other groups were like, hey, this is a little You're being a little bit loud. You know some people need to sleep. You're going to wake the bears. You're like no, the bears are singing too. The bears are out there.
Speaker 2:They're. The coyotes were having a good time.
Speaker 1:We were keeping the bears out of the camp, that's it. They know you're there. It works good. But it's okay to kind of, you know, let it go a little bit and just go with the mood a little bit. It's okay. We sometimes get too stringent on stuff.
Speaker 2:Don't allow kids to be kids. You know I think that's an important thing. You know I do a ton of work with youth and everybody's always asked me how do you connect with the youth? How do you connect with the youth?
Speaker 1:And I say start with setting really stiff rules.
Speaker 2:That's the exact recipe right, right, and I always tell them no. The way you connect with the youth is you get down on your level and you treat them like you treat them like a human being. That doesn't mean you don't be the adult, right, but you can let down and enjoy a fun time with them in the right environment. You know, if you're going to go play basketball, don't sit on the sideline and talk to the other adult. Get out there and play basketball. Yeah, you might be terrible and you losing half a lung as you're running down the court, like I am, and five pounds, but they will remember that you got out there and played with them. If you just sit on the sideline there and like I'm just here to supervise this youth group that's hanging out, well, now you. Now you're just, you're gonna be separate, you're gonna be the supervision. So get in there and enjoy it with them. You can still be the adult.
Speaker 1:You don't have to like it can still be reverent, it can still be correct, it can. All those things need to be there. They'd like to know what their boundaries are.
Speaker 2:That's okay there and enjoy, but yeah, but sometimes gonna let your hair down.
Speaker 1:Let it happen. Well, that wasn't part of our show today, but it started because we talked about cool music. Yeah, so do you remember any artists when you're super little, super?
Speaker 2:in your home. Did you guys play music? Little is little. Well, that's up to you to decide, tony, I Don't know. I mean in high school I listened some Garth.
Speaker 1:Neil Diamond In my home.
Speaker 2:Neil Diamond. I knew Neil Diamond, the jazz singer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was the music. It's only record we had, record that really ages me, doesn't it vinyl? Neil Diamond, that's vinyl. That's straight up. So anytime a Neil Diamond songs come on, it's just like oh, that's a memory of home. That's my in the carpenters man. I didn't listen to the carpenters, no, carpenters in you. I learned how to sing. I got a scholarship. I paid for college with a vocal scholarship that I started by learning. I would sing along with the carpenters because I had the same way just Karen Carpenter effect.
Speaker 1:The Hurt of Voice was lower. Loved Karen Carpenter and my grandmother heard me one day singing to the song on the radio. She goes we're gonna go to the library, we're gonna get some Karen Carpenter, some albums for you, you know so we went to the library.
Speaker 2:Remember that place. You went and saw books. Actually, drive in and grab the book and find it. We went in and and we decimal system.
Speaker 1:We took out four albums of Karen Carpenter the carpenters and took them home and put them on the record player I can't believe I'm saying these words. The record player and those would play. My grandma was just like play them loud, baby. Play him loud, sing, get it out. She was a singer, really yeah, like big vocal singer, mm-hmm. And so she was just like this is how you learn. I was like six years old and she's like you just sing to your heart's content, girl. And she just encouraged it and I would sing.
Speaker 1:I went home and I'd get on the swing and I would sing, you know on top the world looking down on creation and you know, and singing all the carpenters songs and the next thing, you know, I'm in high school and I'm, you know all these musicals and singing the choir. And then I get a full-ride scholarship and vocals. And it all starts because I was just a little kid that my grandmother said just sing, just sing, just sing it out, just sing it out, just sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, and you kind of develop the talent, don't?
Speaker 2:you know there's something to that. You know you get that encouragement when you're little and you don't realize the. You know a lot of people won't sing out because they're embarrassed. They think, oh no, I you know, and let it sound bad. And how do you ever learn to sound good if you never just sing out? Yeah you're full sing out, yeah, right, and I mean, I know almost nothing about vocal lessons, but I know if you're hesitant it's never gonna sound like you can't let it go.
Speaker 1:Gotta let it go. All my kids were singers. My oldest wasn't really kind of in it but the rest were all in in these show choirs and it's funny how that kind of tradition carried on to the family. My youngest really wanted to sing and she had a little more of a struggle and she was younger kind of getting that, and then all of a sudden her voice came to fruition in high school and so all these younger years she really wanted to be a singer, like her older brothers and sisters, right perform on stage and, and you just kind of like oh it's coming, girl, just keep, keep keep working on it right and then all of a sudden come out, or sophomore year in high school, it started to come.
Speaker 1:now she works for Disney.
Speaker 2:She's a performer for Disney. That's great so fun little things you do at home, yeah, and so you know what we did, but so we weren't, we weren't big musical family.
Speaker 2:I mean, we did music here and there, but what we did, we listened to, was comedy, like you remember, like Abbot and Costello, and like Cheech and Sean mothers, brothers and like all these like Pre stand-up comedian, stand-up comedian type of stuff, johnny Carson and, and so you talk in my family and it's all about the Dialogue. Humor is kind of crazy. So, yes, we grew up on. We grew up on was joking.
Speaker 1:You remember Cheez Chong?
Speaker 2:I never listened to him. I repented for that years ago, and then we had a we had a comic, a comedian called poing dong. It was Hawaiian right. Who's Hawaiian?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and this I just hilarious. But it's funny how we remember these things at home. I was an adult. I guess the takeaway if you got take a break here real quick is that the things you do at home you kind of let your hair down, sing out loud. Go get the carpenters and play them in your house and tell you everybody will sing along. You can't help but sing along to Karen Carpenter. You would be shocked what will happen over time about your kids sing and perform and act and and have funny things and repeat, like we have movies in our home, that there are lines in those movies we use every day.
Speaker 1:I have we have the same thing. Fix the no post. It's like these are just lines out of movie. Wait, it makes fun at home and that's the idea. Don't make it so stringent, don't make it so. Those are traditions. And now, when the kids get together for Christmas, we do certain things we did all the time growing up and it's more special now than it ever was back then and you have your own kezli language.
Speaker 2:Yes, we do. Built up of Yep song titles.
Speaker 1:somebody came and stayed our house. They would go what is with these people? They say these weird things. It's like oh no, we got this language down, baby, I like it. All right, tony, it's less chaps, will Tony? Got to a quick break? We come back. We want to talk about having children, all right, and we're not gonna talk about the birthing process, but we're gonna talk about having children. We're gonna talk about what?
Speaker 2:what do you do before? Yeah, so we got this question, which is willing.
Speaker 1:Tony husband I talking about having a kid give us some advice. Wow, I don't know if they want our advice. Tony, I don't know, it's a big topic. We also want to talk about aging Really. Yep, if you're at that place, you just turn 50 or plus, or you're down to 60, turn plus. You'll understand when I talk about when it says you're aging, things change for you. We want to talk about.
Speaker 2:I'm still in denial. He's all right, keep going.
Speaker 1:All right, take a quick break back into it's less chaps. Will Tony on news talk 107, 9?