Charlotte Squawks is one big city-wide inside joke and everyone should get in on it

Headlined by my beloved public radio morning talk show host Mike Collins (big fan), the 2-hour, 26-song show remixes popular music with hyperlocal lyrics that poke fun at everything (and everyone) from Restaurant Week and The Panthers to Speed Street, our impending I-77 tolls and that little transgender bathroom debate.

Of course not even Governor Pat McCrory, who was in attendance Friday night, escaped mention. In fact, he plays himself in a series of pre-recorded Matthew McConaughey Lincoln commercial parodies wherein he drives through the streets of Charlotte waxing on poetically to himself. It’s so funny.

My biggest complaint about the show is that I can’t access it online after the fact to share links to the best performances. I suppose that’s the whole point of live theatre, but seriously… the material is viral gold and needs to be streamed online. They’d reach a whole new market. My friend Jen and I noted we were among the youngest in the audience by about 20 years and yet we are very much the target market for this.

So twenty- and thirty-somethings of Charlotte, get to this show. They might be making fun of you or your job or your favorite event and you don’t even know it.