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The Soundtrack of Our Lives: DJ Fattie B. Drops the Needle on Star 92.9
DJ Fattie B. stopped by the Star 92.9 studio to talk with morning hosts Mike and Mary about Drop The Needle, his new card game that turns the songs behind our memories into conversation. Along the way: a local podcast that became 1,000 boxes on a doorstep, a three-way love letter to “Thriller,” and some very honest middle-school slow-dance confessions.
From a podcast to 1,000 boxes
Drop The Needle didn’t start as a game. A couple of years ago, Fattie B. — Vermont DJ Kyle Thompson — launched 3Some, a podcast where local guests bring three songs that mean something to them and tell the stories that come with them.
The leap came from his sister. After hearing how strongly listeners were connecting with those song stories, she suggested, almost in passing, that the idea would make a great tabletop game. Fattie B. ran with it. He sketched out card prompts, crowdsourced more from friends, and about a year after that first conversation, a shipment of 1,000 game boxes landed at his door.
How a round works
The whole game runs on one idea: everyone has songs stitched into their memories, and most of us never talk about them unless somebody asks. Drop The Needle asks.
Prompt card
What’s a song that would be played at your first junior high dance?
Prompt card
What is the first music video you can recall being completely obsessed with?
- Draw. One player is the reader and judge for the round, and reads a prompt card aloud.
- Share. Everyone answers with a song and the story behind it.
- Pick. The reader chooses the answer that lands hardest — the funniest, the most nostalgic, the most surprising — and awards that player the card.
It works as a party game, but Fattie B. says it really shines one-on-one: a long road trip, an early date, anywhere you’d rather hear someone’s real stories than trade small talk.
- 150
- Prompt cards
- 2–10
- Players
- 16+
- Ages
Live on air: Mike and Mary draw a card
To show how it plays, Mike Czarny and Mary Cenci pulled a couple of prompts live in the studio. The throwbacks came fast.
The first music video you were obsessed with
No debate: all three landed on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” What hooked each of them, though, was completely different — which is exactly the point of the game.
- Mary was all about the dance, and admits she tried endlessly to copy the choreography.
- Mike was hooked on the special effects and that theatrical makeup transformation.
- Fattie B. loved that it broke the mold — less a music video than a mini-movie, with a real storyline building to that epic dance scene.
First slow dance
Mike went with Led Zeppelin’s eight-minute “Stairway to Heaven,” along with the very specific middle-school panic of figuring out what to do when the tempo kicks up at the end. Mary took it back to seventh grade and Bob Seger’s “We’ve Got Tonight.”
It’s not really about the song
Three people, one music video, three completely different memories. Every round of Drop The Needle works like that. The song is just the door; what comes through it is the story — and usually something new about someone you thought you already knew.
Game night, road trip, or first date — everybody has a soundtrack. This is how you hear it.
Recorded live on Mike and Mary in the Morning, Star 92.9 FM, October 6, 2026. Watch the full interview on YouTube.
Ready to share your soundtrack? Get your copy of Drop The Needle.