mobanmarketBEL AIR, MD — Two Harford County women who know their music appeared on Fox’s game show “Beat Shazam.” The episode, which they taped in January, aired at 8 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 5.
Stacey Huber and Katie Corun have been best friends since 2015, when they met working at an outpatient surgical center in Bel Air.
“I’ve always wanted to be a DJ. That’s been my lifelong dream,” Corun, who lives in Fallston, told Patch. “I’ve always wanted to be Katie Kate on the 1s and 2s. I’ve loved music for as long as I’ve remembered.”
She said she can’t tell you what she had for breakfast but knows what song she was listening to at various points in time.
She also admits she is “notorious for getting on stage,” and recently went on a Ship Hop cruise thanks to her husband where artists like Coolio, Salt-N-Pepa, Vanilla Ice, Biz Markie and others were performing. “It was the best time ever,” she said.
Her friend also shares her love of music but does not necessarily want to be behind the turntables.
“I’ve always had an innate ability to hear a song once and tell you the title of it, and I can tell you who sang it,” Huber said.
For the show, teams hear a song and must correctly identify it before other teams of two buzz in with the answer. Then the team with the most points competes against the song identification app Shazam for the chance to win $1 million.
The Harford County duo flew to Los Angeles in January for the taping, after Huber got a call-back about the application she had submitted for the show around Labor Day 2018. Before being selected to go to Hollywood, they had some Skype auditions as well.
Both friends had submitted applications but Huber said she put hers in after there had been no response because she was sure Corun was being modest about telling her story.
“During nursing school, Katie was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor,” Huber told Patch. “They said she had six weeks to six months [to live], and to get her affairs in order.”
Corun was featured in a three-part series on Patch in 2013 after she was diagnosed with a brain tumor that disappeared after treatment.
“She was definitely written off by local facilities, and she is a gleaming example of [what can happen] if you keep looking for other options,” Huber said.
Although she was prepared to start planning her funeral after the prognosis she was given in Maryland, Corun sought a second opinion at a brain cancer center at Duke University in North Carolina. After receiving treatment, a brain scan showed that the tumor was no longer visible. The tumor is currently dormant.
“She grabs life by the horns because she was faced with death,” Huber said. “She has these blow-out parties every year around the time she was diagnosed. She speaks about her tumor and shares her story with others going through the process.”
Said Huber: “In my video application [for ‘Beat Shazam’], I talked about why I had chosen Katie. She is a source of inspiration for people.”
Corun said her mindset is “work hard and play harder. I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow.” She added: “I definitely had the positivity before, and it brought it to the surface.”
The two friends say they balance one another out.
“I don’t have anything exciting or tragic that has happened in my life that made me who I am,” Huber told Patch. “I’m the boring one, but I swear I’m a lot of fun.”
A few years ago, she said someone approached her at the Maryland State Fair who was casting for another game show, called “The Wall,” because they saw her playing practical jokes on a friend.
“I’ve always been a prankster,” she said. “With Katie being a party planner and a social butterfly,” she said they made a good team. “We make our patients laugh too. We have a good time.”
One time at work in Bel Air, Huber hid in a laundry bag for patient linens so when her friend went to put something in, she popped out instead. Of course, she captured the reaction on camera.
“She loves to play jokes on me,” Corun said. “She videotapes these, and sent them to ‘Shazam.’ She’s put Tootsie Rolls in the bed, so I would think it’s poop. They were aerating the ground outside, and she brought in a piece of the soil” to look like fecal matter, she recalled.
Practical jokes serve a practical purpose for Huber, who is a nurse and mother of a 6-year-old.
“It started when I worked in the ICU,” Huber told Patch.
“It’s a very sad situation and stressful on you,” Huber said of her time working on the intensive care unit in Baltimore County. “I’ve always done things to kind of get a laugh once in a while, for people there, nurses and doctors.”
She said “Beat Shazam” host Jamie Foxx really liked her video clips of practical jokes, although she’s not sure they will make it onto TV.
Will They Win $1 Million?
The Harford County contestants could not talk about what happens on the show before it is broadcast. Huber said that her favorite part was “by far the makeup, hair, wardrobe — getting all done up by Hollywood” and “being treated like we were the stars.”
She said she won’t be getting her hair fluffed by any stylists before the episode airs, but she and Corun will be wearing dresses and hosting a party to celebrate their prime-time appearance.
They held a watch party at The Main Street Tower in Bel Air for family and friends, including doctors who helped Corun survive the tumor.
“We are excited to share the news and watch the episode with our friends and family,” Corun said. “I thought it would be something positive to share to the community as well.”
The two Harford County stars were on “Beat Shazam” at 8 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 5. The show is on the Fox network.
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