180. Kenancore with Earth Kenan

JD Ryznar (0:00)

It's Friends of the Tens, and we have our first genre where the friend is a genre, and the genre is the friend. This is Kenancore.

Steve Huey (0:12)

Beyond Yacht Rock 2000

JD Ryznar (0:17)

Welcome to Beyond Yacht Rock 2000, the greatest music podcast in the internet. We make up new musical genres and count on the best songs in those genres from 10 to one. I'm JD Ryznar.

Steve Huey (0:26)

I'm Hollywood Steve.

SPEAKER_3 (0:27)

Hi, I'm Hunter.

Steve Huey (0:28)

I'm Dave.

JD Ryznar (0:29)

Of course, we're friends in the 10 So we have a friend with us, Earth Kenan Salazar, who has come to us via people submitting his songs on our Yachter Yacht podcast.

The guy has an ear for yacht rock. And hello, Kenan.

Earth Kenan Salazar (0:46)

Hello, I'm glad to be here.

JD Ryznar (0:49)

You're coming to us from New Jersey?

Earth Kenan Salazar (0:51)

Yes, sir, that is correct. South Jersey to be specific.

JD Ryznar (0:55)

I don't know what that means. How is that different from North Jersey?

Earth Kenan Salazar (1:00)

It's not the New York part. I'll tell you that. It's further south.

David B Lyons (1:03)

What do you got, David?

SPEAKER_3 (1:04)

Near Delaware?

David B Lyons (1:05)

Trenton, the state capital?

Earth Kenan Salazar (1:06)

Yeah, it is the state capital, but I'm like an hour from Trenton South even. So I like to call the part of Jersey that I live in, the Philly part of New Jersey. As you might be able to tell by the Eagles Jersey, that's like right behind me.

David B Lyons (1:21)

Yeah, so like Camden-ish.

SPEAKER_3 (1:25)

Stop throwing his dachshund, Dave.

David B Lyons (1:27)

So what's your phone number?

Earth Kenan Salazar (1:29)

I think if you look me up somewhere, some news outlet in New Jersey has listed the exact town that I live in.

David B Lyons (1:36)

Was it our friend, Philly Matt, who's actually in New Jersey? Because I know he interviewed you.

Earth Kenan Salazar (1:41)

I believe he actually is the first guy who put my exact town.

David B Lyons (1:48)

All right, we'll tune him up. I'll be seeing him soon enough. That's all good.

Earth Kenan Salazar (1:52)

I don't keep it a secret.

JD Ryznar (1:54)

Like I said up top, when we go out to our friends to be on the 10s, we say, give us any genre you want. Make something up, something that inspires you, something that you think is funny, something that's like our genres that we do, or just like your favorite songs. And that's kind of what you've given us today, which I'm kind of excited about because it helps us get to know you better and also you're a huge music nerd and you're going to teach us a thing or two because this is a very complicated, challenging playlist.

SPEAKER_3 (2:24)

It's also very entertaining. I jumped in on a live stream that he had just to say hello. Very warming, very welcoming, very warm person.

He made sure that my ID was correct. He was like, yep, that's him.

David B Lyons (2:41)

Yep.

SPEAKER_3 (2:42)

And so I can verify that he's going to embarrass us with his music knowledge.

David B Lyons (2:48)

Well, I can tell you about your ID right now because we're on a Zoom and this doesn't play well over the podcast, but your ID is wrong. It's got JD's name on it. It's true.

Steve Huey (2:56)

What a bozo.

JD Ryznar (2:58)

All right. Well, excuse me. We like to start each podcast by throwing a bone to a genre we've created and we created a genre called Yacht Rock. And I'm going to embarrass you a little bit because you've made a Yacht Rock song.

And I want to play it here so people understand if they don't listen to the other podcast, they know what you do. And one of the most amusing things you do is take songs that aren't Yacht Rock at all and find a way to make them yachty, which is a magic trick that I find extremely impressive.

Steve Huey (3:27)

And you're not doing it with AI.

JD Ryznar (3:29)

I don't think that other guy.

David B Lyons (3:30)

Absolutely not.

Earth Kenan Salazar (3:32)

Absolutely not.

JD Ryznar (3:34)

This is your cover of Good Luck Babe by what's her name?

David B Lyons (3:38)

Chappell Rhone.

JD Ryznar (3:39)

Chappell Rhone.

Yeah, this is the yachtiest track of yours we've rated. We've done a few. This one was 68.25 on the yachtsky scale.

David B Lyons (3:48)

Congratulations.

Earth Kenan Salazar (3:50)