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Josh's Global Sports Show - Episode One: "The Rise and Fall of Gotham City Karaoke League"

Josh's Global Sports Show

English - July 22, 2021 22:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MB
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In the mid 2010's The City of New York discovered a phenomenon known as performative karaoke leagues, which were groups of people who would come together to perform karaoke in small sketch situations. 

Gotham City Karaoke League, the largest New York City based league ran from 2013-2017, in it's hay day it was featured in National press organizations like The Wall Sttreet Journal and even mentioned on "Jeopardy!". 

What happened to make the fun disappear? What happened that the trend of karaoke leagues just evaporated?

This is the tale of Gotham City Karaoke League, as Josh Eisenberg investigates on the first episode of his podcast, "Josh's Global Sports Show".