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Tim. Tim, how are you doing

0:50

this week? I'm hungover. You're a a little

0:52

worse for wear. Yeah, my voice

0:54

is a little hoarse. Yeah. That's that's gonna

0:57

be annoying. gonna be it hoarse because

0:59

you drank too much last night or

1:01

because you were or you drank too

1:03

much and then you were too

1:05

loud? too much and then you were too loud? Both.

1:07

reasons. reasons. It's, I drank too much

1:09

much then like, you know, I

1:11

was at a party. yeah I was

1:13

I was doing a lot like a

1:15

for the, the mind you work

1:17

the mine you Yeah. the quarry yeah And

1:19

so they were playing, uh, hits

1:21

of the day and I

1:24

just, I day to tell people I

1:26

needed this song! like I like

1:28

this song this good, right?

1:30

right if if they couldn't tell

1:32

from your dancing that you liked

1:34

it. Yeah, exactly. I just

1:36

wanted to reinforce that. And then

1:38

also to reinforce that hours last night.

1:40

slept like three hours last night great How are

1:42

you doing this week? Are you

1:44

Are you hung over? I'm not I'm

1:46

not hung You get over. You don't I

1:48

can get I Because you

1:50

never sober up. because you You're

1:52

like, was that movie? you're like,

1:55

what was that movie? Oh, yeah, where

1:57

they're drunk all the time

1:59

all the time. Yeah. the guy that

2:01

I like. Mads Mikkelsen. Yeah, good old

2:03

Mads, another round. Another round,

2:05

yes, yes. round, yes, yes. great

2:07

movie about the idea of

2:09

what if you keep a

2:11

low if all day? level might

2:13

say, that sounds like alcoholism

2:15

and you might be surprised

2:17

that the movie comes you conclusions.

2:19

that the movie comes similar But

2:22

no, I was no, I was hung

2:24

over like somewhat recently

2:26

around Thanksgiving. Because

2:28

I think it actually was the day after Thanksgiving. a

2:31

day after Thanksgiving because

2:33

too many beers over the

2:35

course of. over the entire

2:37

day. Yeah. day. Yeah. But he But

2:39

it But But you didn't get

2:41

like belligerent drunk. No, it

2:43

And he was just kind

2:45

of like I woke up I

2:47

I was a little I

2:50

get was drunk a and then

2:52

your nephew So and then your nephew, you know,

2:54

argued with you? And you

2:56

were just like, like I think

2:58

we should kick everybody out.

3:00

Yeah, yeah yeah my my my my old left

3:02

leaning nephew nephew who doesn't. you in

3:04

a in the yeah you he's always looking to

3:06

start trouble with me about start trouble with

3:08

me about politics he it comes

3:11

to of He watches a lot

3:13

of those videos about what

3:15

to say to your holiday so he's he's

3:17

so he's just got things

3:19

locked and loaded. They stopped those

3:21

videos and articles, right? people are oh

3:23

I people don't like fighting with

3:26

their uncle anymore. They're tired

3:28

of it. They anymore, they're either not

3:30

go to Thanksgiving or they'll

3:32

just like either not about football. or they'll

3:34

they probably did I to that

3:36

probably did this point. of

3:39

at this point, yeah. Anybody who's gonna

3:41

argue with their uncle about

3:43

politics at at holidays has done

3:45

it, it? and it's happened enough

3:47

times that there's now some resolution.

3:50

That resolution. the uncle doesn't

3:52

come anymore. come anymore. Right. All right,

3:54

nephew doesn't come anymore,

3:56

or or they both, or there

3:58

was like big incident. and like else

4:00

had to go to the

4:02

hospital to now they've agreed that That's

4:05

just a weird that silence a weird

4:07

over every holiday meal. holiday meal. So yeah

4:09

this is one of those situations. So

4:11

I was mad at my nephew and

4:13

and a little little hungover from drink, but

4:15

I was actually surprised. Like I

4:18

woke up feeling hungover hung over and

4:20

went I'm hungover. hung And within like

4:22

an hour or two, was gone.

4:24

Wow I I was just really thirsty.

4:26

really thirsty. Because that's the

4:28

the problem you get older,

4:30

older like you get been I've been

4:32

hung over You know know, within

4:34

the last few years, to to

4:36

the point where it's like,

4:38

oh, I'm oh, I'm for two days

4:40

two days now Oh, that's the standard

4:42

for me. and a raw and that

4:44

sucks. it sucks But once you deal if

4:46

you ask me. sucks, but it and

4:48

it's a lot better once

4:51

you embrace it and anticipate it

4:53

up be like, because when you

4:55

wake up that second day

4:57

and it's a surprise a then

4:59

you're like, oh then like oh no I

5:01

Is like, He's like, you're just, well, yeah,

5:03

kind of. But, but not immediately, probably, yeah.

5:05

Yeah, I that's what it is.

5:07

Yeah, I guess that's what it is.

5:09

Just now that I know I can't bounce I know

5:11

I can't bounce back, so I

5:13

plan accordingly. Yeah, just, well, I have some damn

5:15

water. maybe don't I have some water

5:17

and don't drink so much and

5:19

then make sure you don't have

5:21

anything too important to do the

5:23

next day. do the next day. Uh, did you you

5:26

ask me how I was doing?

5:28

How you this week, Tom? week, I'm

5:30

anxious. I'm Oh my gosh, what are

5:32

you anxious about? these dang drones.

5:34

About these dang drones? you say.

5:36

Yeah, have you not been watching

5:38

the news? you not been watching the news?

5:40

No. Tim, place. You know

5:42

what? I haven't. I really,

5:44

I'm checked out on

5:46

the news. out And look

5:48

at me, I'm thriving. look at

5:51

me, I'm thriving. Yeah, there's all these all

5:53

these drones, mostly in

5:55

New Jersey. okay, But some

5:57

have been have in, in

6:00

Brooklyn and Staten

6:02

Staten Island. little are

6:04

like a little it's like a where it's

6:06

like, ah, a couple of people

6:08

saw them, are all but there are all

6:10

these drones that have been appearing

6:12

in New Jersey. sell have a lot

6:14

of people have drones these days. noticed you

6:16

noticed this, anybody? knows everybody Yeah, this like

6:18

seems like everybody these days

6:20

has a drone Well, but here's but

6:22

here's the problem with that,

6:24

Tim. Tim. is these people are

6:26

saying that these drones are

6:29

the size of cars. You

6:31

can't buy those. They can't

6:33

buy those. at They don't

6:35

sell those at the

6:37

store. the government. This is on the

6:39

real the government, on the is on

6:41

news. real news. This is on

6:43

the real news. OK, like

6:45

on it, I think, starting today,

6:47

it started becoming more of

6:49

a national story. OK, but it's

6:51

been on like the local

6:53

news. news. around here here New New

6:55

Jersey. Jersey New Jersey the have

6:58

the public on see that's what

7:00

see, that's what I was

7:02

public. the on edge. You're John

7:04

Q. Public over here. Yeah,

7:06

so it is very, is very

7:08

confusing, very very strange,

7:10

because these, it doesn't make sense

7:12

It doesn't make sense what people

7:14

say seeing. Because aren't, some people

7:17

are saying are I'm seeing weird lights.

7:19

I'm seeing, you know, I'm seeing, UFO,

7:21

UAP type thing. UAP then But we

7:23

talk about a UAP? Like, you

7:25

can at this point in the

7:27

game at what we're calling in the game

7:29

change what we're You can, UFOs. aerial phenomena.

7:32

Yeah, but that aerial Like, I

7:34

get Yeah, more accurate to like what

7:36

it might actually be. We've been

7:38

calling it like what fun, UFOs are

7:40

fun. No, but here's the thing.

7:42

it a UAP, I think kind

7:44

of a fun. shifts the the mindset a

7:46

little bit of like don't just this isn't

7:49

science like like this is is, what know

7:51

what, actually, we're not sure it's

7:53

an object. an object but I

7:55

think most people are like. people

7:57

are like they call it now, called

7:59

now You know, UFOs. Well, and it's

8:02

fine. It's not like it's offensive

8:04

to call them UFOs. I thought

8:06

you were like, that is outdated

8:08

language, sir. Yeah, it's not. That

8:10

might have been okay when you

8:13

were a kid. But yeah, but

8:15

some people nowadays would take incredible

8:17

offense to that. No, it's fine.

8:19

But so that's what, you know,

8:22

the majority people are saying, like

8:24

I'm seeing lights. But then people

8:26

are seeing and taking videos and

8:28

pictures of. like what look like

8:30

big drones like you know the

8:33

quadcopter like hover drones but again

8:35

they're the size of cars which

8:37

you can't you they nobody makes

8:39

those except the military like different

8:42

militaries and you know who's probably

8:44

doing it who the military no

8:46

because they said they weren't well

8:48

it wouldn't make sense for them

8:50

to be doing it you know

8:53

like why why would they test

8:55

it over a populated area they're

8:57

doing something yeah I mean it

8:59

could be because the government's response

9:01

has been extremely weird which is

9:04

this is not military aircraft doesn't

9:06

belong to us We don't know

9:08

what it is, actually, at all.

9:10

And it's fine, don't worry. Which

9:13

is not sitting well with a

9:15

lot of people. Right. And like,

9:17

I think it's more interesting that

9:19

it's- But you're just saying, well,

9:21

they said it's not them, so

9:24

they're off the list of suspects.

9:26

Oh, yeah, no, I mean, it

9:28

could be them. It could be

9:30

the- Diabolical. Well, but I think

9:33

that would be- weird for the

9:35

US government to be like flying

9:37

it over a civilian area and

9:39

then saying like no that's not

9:41

us because like these things have

9:44

lights on them you know why

9:46

would they do that unless they

9:48

are like testing a public response

9:50

or something like that but uh...

9:53

Why did it smell like maple

9:55

syrup in New York City? That's

9:57

true. Yeah, they never figured that

9:59

out. Yeah, and the military is

10:01

like, oh, that wasn't us. Yeah.

10:04

So it might be, but the,

10:06

because the military has also said

10:08

that they're concerned because these things

10:10

have appeared over military bases. And

10:12

some perfect crime. So it's happening

10:15

to us too. Well, it's weird.

10:17

Like I say, it's weird just

10:19

because they're. It's not being really

10:21

thought of as a UAP thing.

10:24

It's being seen as like, you

10:26

know, that people are like, no,

10:28

I saw it. It was 150

10:30

feet above my house. It was

10:32

the size of a car and

10:35

it looked like, you know, a

10:37

drone on steroids. Yeah. What is

10:39

that? And Alf was in the

10:41

driver's seat. No, they said that

10:44

they're not. sending any signals that

10:46

they're not getting like an RF

10:48

signal from these things. Nobody's tried

10:50

to shoot it down yet. Well

10:52

that's the thing that that's what

10:55

people are saying that they're like

10:57

find out shoot one of these

10:59

down find out where they're because

11:01

nobody knows where they're taking off

11:04

or landing and the government said

11:06

well we've tried but as soon

11:08

as we get close to them

11:10

they turn their lights out and

11:12

they go dark and we can't

11:15

see them. Come on. Come on.

11:17

That's what's going on and now

11:19

some congressman has come out and

11:21

said I've I know I have

11:23

like intelligence that it's an Iranian

11:26

drones from an Iranian mother ship

11:28

out in the ocean like like

11:30

a aircraft carrier or something that's

11:32

like sending these out. So in

11:35

the government then the White House

11:37

had to come out and be

11:39

like No, it is not, you

11:41

know, because people are like, oh

11:43

shit, Iran's got a, they're the

11:46

ones flying the drones. So that's

11:48

what's interesting about it because, um,

11:50

there's this congressman also saying that's

11:52

why we must. it a war

11:55

with Iran. Yeah probably but that's

11:57

what's interesting about it that there's

11:59

like a legit hey I'm not

12:01

talking about UFOs I'm I'm I'm

12:03

seeing a big drone right that

12:06

looks like it could easily carry

12:08

a hundred hundred and fifty pound

12:10

bomb and you're telling me you

12:12

don't know who's that is but

12:15

it's fine don't worry about it

12:17

because they know what it is

12:19

yeah it's fucking aliens okay Might

12:21

be. Saw an alphan there, I

12:23

heard. It could be an alphan

12:26

there. I heard a report of

12:28

an alphan there. But it's just,

12:30

I don't know, it's very interesting

12:32

because it's been happening for like

12:34

a couple of weeks now. Yeah,

12:37

are you legitimately anxious about this?

12:39

I'm a little bit anxious just

12:41

because they're, like it just feels

12:43

like something is going to happen

12:46

with this. I guarantee you. This

12:48

is my promise. Famous last words.

12:50

Nothing will happen about this. In

12:52

a week you'll forget all that.

12:54

Next week's episode doesn't come out

12:57

because we're all in a fucking

12:59

alien prison. I remember leaving your

13:01

apartment in early March of 2020.

13:03

Oh yeah. And like giving a

13:06

big speech I was drunk. I

13:08

was like... I'll see you next

13:10

week because like there's no way

13:12

the flu is going to bring

13:14

down society. You gave it the

13:17

the Tim curse. Yeah. Now it

13:19

is going to happen. Now it's

13:21

going to. They call it the

13:23

idiots curse. And now, uh, there's

13:26

a fucking moron. Tomorrow there's going

13:28

to be a press conference from

13:30

Biden like, yeah, it's aliens and

13:32

we can't do anything about it.

13:34

I mean, that's kind of the,

13:37

you know, what. people that are

13:39

into this stuff think that it's

13:41

like oh that is cranks that

13:43

is some kind of unknown thing

13:45

and either the government doesn't know

13:48

what the hell it is either

13:50

which is very likely or and

13:52

saying it's fine it's safe because

13:54

they're like oh shit we we

13:57

like tried to shoot it down

13:59

and we couldn't. Um.

14:02

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waiting for you. Well, Tim,

16:11

enough droning on. Although I

16:13

am, I'm very mad that

16:15

you're not taking this more

16:17

seriously, that you're not out

16:19

there. trying trying to catch

16:21

catch one of these one

16:23

of these drugs. I'm the

16:25

best muck raker you know

16:27

I'll get to the bottom

16:29

of this. But uh... This

16:31

week we're talking about Christmas

16:33

songs. Yeah, but not just

16:35

Christmas. Yeah, because we're not

16:37

fucking old, funny duddies. We're

16:40

not going to be talking

16:42

about, oh, the crooners, oh,

16:44

the great crooners of America.

16:46

Yeah, although I did admit

16:48

to you before we started

16:50

that I do kind of

16:52

like Bing Crosby. Yeah. I

16:54

think I like Bing Crosby

16:56

because he's a crooner that

16:58

like really leans into being

17:00

a crooner. You know? They

17:02

all do. Yeah, I don't

17:04

know. Down place, they're crooning

17:06

the best. Really? All the

17:09

crooners, this might be offensive.

17:11

All crooners sound exactly the

17:13

same to me. I think

17:15

Bing sounds a little different.

17:17

I'm bringing up top 125

17:19

Bing Crosby songs. Jesus Christ!

17:21

All right, well, we'll get

17:23

through these and then we'll

17:25

do. You'll never guess what

17:27

uh, number one is. What

17:29

is it? It's from 1936.

17:31

Is it White Christmas? No,

17:33

Penny's from Heaven. Oh. This

17:35

top Christmas song is, um,

17:37

number six on the chart.

17:42

I think maybe that's why I

17:44

like Bing Cross, because I think

17:46

of him as a Christmas crooner,

17:48

more than a. Yeah, I mean,

17:50

very few, oh, Rudolph the Red

17:52

Nose Reindeer. Yeah, yeah, that's a

17:54

good one. Yeah, not his version,

17:57

though. What version? No, I like

17:59

his version. Oh yeah, I was

18:01

gonna say, do you remember when

18:03

you were a kid? I never

18:05

thought of that as like a

18:07

song that has been crooned. Yeah.

18:09

Because it's so fun. Yeah, sometimes

18:11

crooning can be fun. Did they,

18:13

so the reindeer were all there.

18:16

Yeah. And then some guy just

18:18

came up with Rudolph. I'm gonna

18:20

add one on top of it.

18:22

I was gonna say, do you

18:24

remember when you were a kid?

18:26

like when you learn like, oh,

18:28

Rudolph's like a new IP, like

18:30

that he was in part of

18:32

this original. Yeah, I thought he

18:35

was like the leader the whole

18:37

time. No, it was everybody looked

18:39

at those eight reindeer and they

18:41

were like, we should do like

18:43

a spinoff. But we'll come up

18:45

with a new reindeer. It worked.

18:47

It did work. I mean, how

18:49

often does that happen where like

18:51

the like the scrapie do actually

18:53

becomes like the most beloved one

18:56

like, yeah. Yeah, because I remember

18:58

as a kid, like seeing, you

19:00

know, like Christmas decorations that didn't

19:02

have Rudolph, which I think is

19:04

like most of them, unless it's

19:06

from the Great Depression. No, because

19:08

I think most like, unless it's

19:10

like Rudolph theme, they don't have

19:12

Rudolph. I don't know that that's

19:15

true. Tom. I think you're making

19:17

up stories here. I'm trying to

19:19

see. Look, I don't know. I'm

19:21

just saying I remember seeing things

19:23

that didn't have Rudolph and saying

19:25

like, what's a deal with this?

19:27

Which one's Rudolph? And then I

19:29

was like, oh, yeah, I'm a

19:31

Rudolph guy, but then whenever I

19:33

tried to watch the specialists, like

19:36

he's a bit of like a

19:38

beta. Right. You like all the

19:40

other Alpha Raindiers. Yeah, the ones

19:42

that bullied him. Does somebody own

19:44

that trademark? Is that why big

19:46

cross me maybe you don't see

19:48

it? Anyway, we're talking about The

19:50

greatest rock and roll Christmas songs.

19:52

Yeah, we're rocking Yeah, Tim I've

19:55

I've got Rolling

19:57

Stones magazine right

19:59

here that I'm

20:01

reading it from.

20:03

Yeah, I love

20:05

Rolling Stones Rolling Stones

20:07

magazine and I live at Who

20:09

knows? Who knows Rock and Roll

20:11

Bear than those guys? Nick and

20:13

Keith, man. Yeah. I practically

20:16

practically live at the Rock

20:18

and Roll Hall of Fame Fame

20:20

and in Cleveland. Cleveland, Ohio. I but

20:22

every other week. other week. that's

20:24

bi-monthly. Have you ever been

20:26

there? there? No. Okay. Have you? No,

20:28

no. I've been to you? No, Yeah.

20:31

You I've been to Cleveland

20:33

once. Yeah. Roll Hall thing?

20:35

No, it's too and roll hall thing? No, I

20:37

was too busy doing all the other

20:40

fun stuff. I wonder if it's worth the Yeah, I wonder

20:42

if it's worth the trip. opened there, they were

20:44

I know when the hell, they were we were when

20:46

we were kids, they were hyping the

20:48

hell out of it. of it. All All

20:50

right, tell your parents you want

20:52

to go to Cleveland this summer. go to

20:55

go to roll is in Cleveland. summer. Yeah,

20:57

was that the commercial? Yeah, I think

20:59

so. so. But anyway, yeah. Is in the Rock

21:01

and Roll Hall. in must be and Roll

21:03

Hall? He must I I hope so. so. But

21:05

But I don't know. mean, the Rock

21:07

and Roll Hall of Fame is

21:10

one of Hall of got to be. one

21:12

But it's one of those things that, you

21:14

know, there are to be. people not in it of

21:16

those things that, you know, there are

21:18

according to... people

21:21

not in it still. Yeah.

21:23

According to Edge Induced Cohesion.

21:25

as of, of March of 2016,

21:28

the Rock are not in of Fame.

21:30

Hall of Fame. and Lewis

21:32

in the news. As of March

21:34

2016, okay, well. well. the newest That's the

21:36

newest information we have They keep

21:38

those lists top secret for some

21:40

reason. reason. I don't think think he's

21:43

in there. They They don't put

21:45

it out until years later, like

21:47

the JFK I mean if that if I

21:49

mean, got out who has been got out,

21:51

who has been inducted into

21:53

the Rock and Roll be be

21:55

riots in the streets. Then you get

21:57

a bunch of and roll guys start

21:59

getting biggie. because they're in the Hall

22:02

of Fame. But this list, Tim,

22:04

is from 2019. Oh, wow. There

22:06

we go. So it's, I think

22:08

it's, it looks like maybe 15,

22:10

16 songs? I don't know if

22:13

we'll get to them all. Let's

22:15

think about if there's been any

22:17

rock and roll Christmas songs that

22:19

we're aware of since then. That

22:22

like might not be captured by

22:24

this. Yeah. Not that have stuck

22:26

around I don't think. Does Kelly

22:28

Clarkson count as rock and roll?

22:30

I think it depends on, yeah,

22:33

I'd say she's rock and roll.

22:35

Are you one of these rock

22:37

and roll purists where like when

22:39

they let like a run DMC

22:42

into the rock and roll hall

22:44

of fame? You're like, that's not

22:46

rock and roll. Yeah, no, I

22:48

consider like rock and roll. basically

22:50

anything that's not like a true

22:53

yeah it's not a crooner and

22:55

not classical music and not jazz

22:57

it's rock and roll yeah you're

22:59

stopped to think about like especially

23:02

when people are like you hear

23:04

people get really upset about like

23:06

that's not what rock and roll

23:08

and roll what a dumb name

23:10

for something and it has no

23:13

definition yeah Everybody needs to calm

23:15

down. Well, I was going to

23:17

say, like, if you looked at

23:19

Kelly Clarkson's band, it's no different

23:21

than, you know, any other rock

23:24

and roll band, right? Yeah. Yeah,

23:26

it's probably a couple of guitars,

23:28

a bassist, a drummer, and then

23:30

probably keyboardists and various, maybe you

23:33

got some percussionists and stuff. But

23:35

it's like, well, that's the same

23:37

that, you know, the Rolling Stones

23:39

have when they're on tour. Right.

23:41

Okay, well I was asking because

23:44

that song underneath the tree, I

23:46

hear that all the time. I

23:48

hear that all the time. I

23:50

mean you're missing some of the

23:53

notes because you're voice. It's kind

23:55

of like she tried to, she

23:57

did the Mariah Carey thing where

23:59

she's like, I'm gonna make it

24:01

sound kind of like retro and

24:04

feel spectray. And like, you're like,

24:06

well. you know, lightning doesn't strike

24:08

twice there. It's like, nope, that's

24:10

like almost as popular. It's all

24:13

I want for Christmas as you.

24:15

But apparently that came out in

24:17

2013. So, oh, okay. So very

24:19

well, maybe on this list. We

24:21

don't know. Yeah, I don't know

24:24

if it is. Because this is

24:26

like, this isn't the most popular.

24:28

This is just their, you know,

24:30

subjective. Right. The first one, as

24:33

you mentioned, run DMC Christmas and

24:35

Hollis. On a very special Christmas,

24:37

do you remember that uh? That

24:39

tribute album that my parents had

24:41

in their car every Christmas? No,

24:44

it was on there. Yeah, it

24:46

also had like your rhythmic's doing

24:48

a weird version of winter wonderland.

24:50

Oh, or maybe it might be,

24:52

yeah, it might just be any

24:55

Linux. I don't know if it,

24:57

but like it's very sin-sy and

24:59

weird. There's, there's, uh. The Bruce

25:01

Prince would go, Merry Christmas, baby!

25:04

Yeah, we'll get to some of

25:06

that stuff. Tim, geez, you're spoiling

25:08

everything. I was telling me about

25:10

a very special Christmas. It's nice

25:12

and run the M6 Christmas on

25:15

there. I was obsessed with the

25:17

arithmetic, sweet dreams. Yeah. Like, I

25:19

was more into Marilyn Manson's version.

25:21

No, I guess I can remember

25:24

as a kid. I think it

25:26

was the kind of thing that

25:28

you're like, this song sounds kind

25:30

of spooky. Like this song's theory.

25:32

The lyrics are spooky. And then

25:35

the, whoa. Yeah. See, when Marilyn

25:37

Manson covered that, I thought it

25:39

was like an ironic cover, like

25:41

when like limp. biscuit covered faith.

25:44

And it's like, oh yeah, because

25:46

they're taking a pop song and

25:48

they're making, but like, and they're

25:50

making it hardcore as hell. Yeah,

25:52

but like Marilyn Manson, like, like,

25:55

I was like, oh, they took

25:57

like a cheesy 80 song into

25:59

this. It's like, no, he took

26:01

a scary 80 song. He took

26:04

a spooky song and he's a

26:06

spooky man. Yeah, he made it

26:08

even spookier. Yeah. Yeah, I don't

26:10

know any of their other music,

26:12

but I like the arithmics. I

26:15

like any. You gotta like, you

26:17

gotta hear this Winter Wonderland. I'm

26:19

gonna listen to it after this.

26:21

But Run DMC Christmas and Hollis,

26:23

one of RAP's first Christmas songs.

26:26

And a tribute to the group's

26:28

hometown in Queens. It originally appeared,

26:30

I guess it was probably this

26:32

tape your parents had. alongside Christmas

26:35

by YouTube Bon Jovian Sting. It

26:37

was a CD, it was a

26:39

compact disc. 1987 charity disc that

26:41

benefited the special. Yeah, they didn't,

26:43

they didn't, they didn't, in the

26:46

Rolling Stone article, they don't name

26:48

the album. Yeah, well they don't

26:50

want to give them free sales.

26:52

Oh, that's why it was called

26:55

a very special Christmas. Oh, because

26:57

it benefited the Special Olympics. Yeah.

26:59

Hey. That makes sense. But also

27:01

like a disc in 1987 in

27:03

1987. People weren't buying that many

27:06

CDs in 87 yet. Where it

27:08

was, it was, it was, it

27:10

was the dawn, it was when

27:12

they were like, hey everybody, buy

27:15

Sergeant Pepper again on a new

27:17

phone. I guess in my mind,

27:19

CDs are later just because. Like

27:21

I didn't have a seat, like

27:23

my parents didn't have, they had

27:26

a record player, they weren't gonna

27:28

get a fancy pants CD player.

27:30

No, we were always on the

27:32

cutting edge of, oh yeah, your

27:35

dad's having gearhead. Yeah, and he's

27:37

a music head too, yeah, so

27:39

he's just like, yeah. He has

27:41

one of the biggest super CD

27:43

collections I've ever seen. Yeah, yeah,

27:46

remember that. format yeah and the

27:48

competitor to DVD audio yeah yeah

27:50

at that point I think we

27:52

tapped out as a family yeah

27:54

it was like oh no I

27:57

think actually we're good we figured

27:59

it out we figured out the

28:01

the best yeah you know the

28:03

highest quality digital sound you can

28:06

get So outside of that, it's

28:08

either, if you buy records, if

28:10

you like records, if you don't

28:12

really give a shit, you just

28:14

stream it. Yeah. No, and I

28:17

just, I remember that tipping point

28:19

of my dad being like, I'm

28:21

not gonna buy Sergeant Peppers again.

28:23

I spent $1,000 on Sergeant Peppers

28:26

in my life. But that was

28:28

after CDs. Yeah, yeah. CDs were

28:30

the last time though. Yeah, exactly.

28:32

Yeah. My dad had an old

28:34

jeep at one point. That had

28:37

a eight-track player Which was crazy

28:39

a very like specific time period

28:41

Jeep. Yeah, and like he bought

28:43

it in the 90s Like you

28:46

know it was a huge jeep.

28:48

It was you know like a

28:50

junky jeep that he fixed up

28:52

So it was weird not the

28:54

not the audio player no not

28:57

the audio play oh actually he

28:59

come out with like a big

29:01

box and be like I get

29:03

to break these babies out again

29:06

or something he did have some

29:08

eight tracks but I think I

29:10

think he did eventually no I

29:12

don't think he did I think

29:14

it was just and we used

29:17

the radio I remember the car

29:19

came with a few eight-trick like

29:21

it was the type of thing

29:23

where I think literally he like

29:25

went to fill up gas one

29:28

day and this guy had this

29:30

jeep and my dad was like,

29:32

ah, it's a really cool jeep

29:34

and the guy went, you want

29:37

it? 150 bucks? It's yours. And

29:39

he like bought it and took

29:41

it home. It's a dead body

29:43

in the back. Well, yeah, it

29:45

just had, it had like a

29:48

bunch of old a tracks. There

29:50

was like a rust hole through

29:52

it that was being covered by

29:54

a sticker by a sticker. But

29:57

it it was

29:59

neat. It was was

30:01

like, oh, it was so loud too.

30:03

But it was like a it was like

30:05

a cool old Jeep. Yeah,

30:07

that's cool. Yeah in track, people, people

30:09

people shit on at on 8Track. It's

30:12

not a bad idea. I don't know, I

30:14

know. I don't know the technology because

30:16

basically it's like a tape, but you

30:18

can but you can like a. Skip

30:20

to Oh, okay. In it. I it. think

30:22

that might even be what the

30:24

eight tracks are, like there can

30:26

be eight points. And I think

30:28

what it's doing is it's

30:30

just like moving the head moving the

30:33

head onto, you know, portions of the. of

30:35

the magnetic tape. I could tape I could be

30:37

completely wrong it might not even

30:39

have what I said ever Now we're

30:41

gonna get emails emails. Yeah, because I people are

30:43

really upset really upset about stuff

30:45

that I'm thinking more about it. I thinking

30:47

more about it. I also

30:49

think maybe the even player didn't

30:52

even work. it. I went, part

30:54

of it. by Rolling Stones contention

30:56

that it was intrigued by one of the

30:58

first rap that it was one

31:00

of the first do I know any

31:02

other of the first songs? So I

31:04

was like do I know I know

31:06

any other rap Christmas songs?

31:08

I I it it. And none

31:11

of than men'shealth.com

31:13

a list of

31:15

13. That's that's the authority.

31:17

Yeah. I don't understand.

31:20

I don't understand

31:22

publishing. Curtis Blow

31:25

had. Oh, I guess they said

31:27

Christmas wrapping. Yeah. yeah. that

31:30

was but that was probably about

31:32

wrapping presents. wrapping time, guess

31:34

what? Tom, guess you would

31:36

so, so. But wrapping a

31:38

W, R -A -P -P

31:41

-I -N. apostrophe.

31:43

Oh, cool. Yeah. cool. you know

31:45

it's informal. how you know

31:47

it's informal. feelings on Christmas

31:49

are your your feelings on Christmas

31:52

It's a I like it. It's

31:54

a fun song I hear that

31:56

time in time in Hollis Queens. Yeah.

31:58

But it's like a fun. like like

32:00

I like they use that movies

32:02

a lot nowadays I feel like

32:04

in TV is that in Die

32:07

Hard was at the beginning of

32:09

Yeah I think so yeah but

32:11

yeah it's just it's like a

32:13

nice you know so many Christmas

32:15

songs are like Dower yeah that's

32:17

like a nice upbeat song speaking

32:19

of Dower songs the next one

32:21

is John Lennon's happy Exmus war

32:24

is over is that Dower Well,

32:26

it's just like don't know I'm

32:28

no I'm thinking of a different

32:30

no, that's right. Yeah Yeah So

32:32

this is Christmas. Yeah, and what

32:34

have you done? Yeah, it's a

32:36

very accusatory song. It's like how

32:38

am I gonna stop a wars?

32:41

Well like war is over Yeah,

32:43

I mean that was his thing.

32:45

It's just like you know, just

32:47

yeah somebody else figured it out

32:49

John Lennon Look, we have to

32:51

have wars, all right? Look, you

32:53

hate this song because you love

32:55

war, you're a war reminder. Yeah,

32:58

yeah, and he's just, you know,

33:00

what is he doing? He's laying

33:02

in bed all day, like lazybones.

33:04

Yeah, his wife. I mean, that's

33:06

a valid criticism of his. Oh,

33:08

protesting, oh, what are you doing?

33:10

What kind of create a hunger

33:12

strike or something? I'm not getting

33:15

out of bed. I'm going to

33:17

go to a fancy hotel. Yeah.

33:19

Oh, it must be fucking nice.

33:21

I have to get out. I

33:23

bet I got to go to

33:25

work. But what worse have you

33:27

even stopped, Tom? What worse is

33:29

she stopped? I'd like to get

33:32

out of bed. I got to

33:34

get out of bed. I got

33:36

to go to work at the

33:38

war factory. Well, I'll tell you

33:40

what, Tim. I've stopped exactly as

33:42

many wars as Sean Lenin has.

33:45

I like that song although we

33:47

weren't alive at the same time

33:49

me and John Lennon or maybe

33:51

what when was he killed I

33:53

think 80 yeah okay now we

33:55

were never alive at the same

33:57

time so you might be John

33:59

Lennon I might be John Lennon

34:01

incarnated um I like that song

34:03

yeah yeah I like it when

34:05

I was a kid yeah I

34:07

think I just I just don't

34:09

like the like message the sneering

34:11

of like yeah we're all you're

34:13

all complicit not me John Lennon

34:15

you you are the one look

34:17

I'm doing everything I can I'm

34:19

staying in bed I'm putting out

34:21

songs accusing other people yeah what

34:23

a real piece of shit using

34:25

other people yeah what a real

34:27

piece of shit Whoa, Tom. Well,

34:29

like I said, like you mentioned,

34:31

I worked at the war factory

34:33

and this guy tried to put

34:35

a... Yeah, I mean, he seemed

34:38

like an objectively like mean guy

34:40

from... Yeah, just like a petty

34:42

asshole that was a hypocrite about

34:44

basically everything. He beat his first

34:46

wife. I know, but everybody's like,

34:48

oh, did you know? It's like,

34:50

yeah. Yeah, but it's just like,

34:52

that's, I don't know. It's like,

34:54

no, I'm not dismissing that, but

34:56

everybody's like, yeah, he's an asshole.

34:58

But everybody's like, yeah, he's an

35:00

asshole. But everybody, like, acts like,

35:02

did you know? If only people

35:04

knew this, it's like, I mean,

35:06

it's more like, knowing you did

35:08

that and then, like, like, like,

35:10

like, like, like, like, like, like,

35:12

like, like, like, like, like, like,

35:14

like, like, like, like, like, like,

35:16

like, like, like, like, like, like,

35:18

like, like, like, like, Burnin'

35:22

Apple. I'm gonna give you

35:24

the last word on John

35:26

Lennon, Tom. Well, it's always

35:28

more of a George Harrison

35:30

fan. Oh, no, talk about

35:32

hypocrite. George Harrison. Yeah. Yeah.

35:34

He was... He had slow

35:36

hands steal his wife, Tim.

35:38

He was all like, oh,

35:40

we're all, uh... tricked by

35:42

the material world and like

35:44

he lived in a he

35:46

bought a fucking castle and

35:48

like yeah well he was

35:50

chosen by God too he's

35:52

allowed to do that anyway

35:54

I like George Harrison too

35:56

I like their music I

35:58

don't know I don't like

36:00

anybody if I get to

36:02

know them well. Yeah, I

36:04

mean I guess like Paul

36:06

McCartney's. Seemingly kept like it

36:08

kept his nose pretty clean,

36:10

you know, but like in

36:12

the 80s that wasn't the

36:14

Yeah, but that was more

36:16

because he like had like

36:19

like like drug problems, right?

36:21

No, John, Paul McCartney. Yeah,

36:23

I thought everybody had drug

36:25

problems in the 80s. No,

36:27

it's just like people were

36:29

like, he's an opportunist and

36:31

like, you know, like he

36:33

really changed like he's just

36:35

like an excellent politician yeah

36:37

like and like and then

36:39

one of the greatest songwriters

36:41

of all time I think

36:43

I think that's what it

36:45

is though that's like I'd

36:47

rather a guy that's like

36:49

hey I'm Paul McCartney I'm

36:51

a character yeah then like

36:53

well let's say he and

36:55

Ringo or Ringo is always

36:57

but like Paul is like

36:59

I'm gonna be a cartoon

37:01

character now and like John

37:03

Land was like I'm serious

37:05

and George Harrison's like I'm

37:07

serious and I'm serious and

37:09

I'm serious but not enough

37:11

to put my money where

37:13

my mouth is Yeah, the

37:15

Beatles, ladies and gentlemen. The

37:17

Beatles, remember that, Ed Sullivan?

37:19

No. I wasn't around for

37:21

that. I was around for

37:23

that. Yeah, I remember that.

37:25

That was pretty crazy. Everybody

37:27

at Beatlemania. The next on

37:29

the list, Darlene Love, Christmas,

37:31

parentheses, baby please come home.

37:33

This song's a banger. What

37:35

a fantastic song, ruined by

37:37

you two. Oh yeah, I

37:39

forgot that they have a

37:41

cover of it. Yeah, and

37:43

it's it's one of those

37:45

covers where it's like you

37:47

didn't change the arrangement or

37:49

anything. You just like made

37:51

it annoying. This just sounds

37:53

like Bono doing the karaoke

37:55

version of this song. Like

37:57

why? It's not as good.

37:59

Yeah, she's cool. Yeah, I

38:01

don't know anything about her.

38:03

She used to come on

38:05

David Letterman every year and

38:07

uh... and sing this song.

38:09

It was a holiday tradition.

38:11

And then I think last

38:13

year, like David Letterman like

38:15

had her do it, like

38:17

they did a YouTube video.

38:19

Oh really? Yeah, that's fun.

38:22

Yeah, I never knew that.

38:24

And that's like a nice

38:26

holiday tradition. Like every year

38:28

I'm gonna have this, uh,

38:30

first to come on singing

38:32

this like Christmas song everybody

38:34

loves. Yeah. It's, it's, it's

38:36

a. It's a wonderful song.

38:38

Yeah, and it's like a

38:40

rockins. It's like a, you

38:42

know, a Phil Specter. Yeah.

38:44

Yeah. You, you're big. You

38:46

don't care for his music,

38:48

there's production. Oh, damn it.

38:50

That's what I was going

38:52

to say. I only like

38:54

this music, but you. You're

38:56

a fan of his personal

38:58

eccentricities. Yeah. Next on the

39:00

list, Bruce Springsteen's Santa Claus

39:02

is coming to town. You

39:04

know what? Town recorded at

39:06

a Long Island gig. Yeah,

39:08

that song stinks. Not the

39:10

Bruce Springsteen version, all of

39:12

it, right? Because like, the

39:14

original version is just a

39:16

better, yeah, you better. Santa

39:18

Claus is coming to town,

39:20

right? Like I'm gonna be

39:22

excited about Santa Claus coming

39:24

down. Yeah. What does he,

39:26

doesn't he ask like, doesn't

39:28

he like start telling this

39:30

band what Santa's gonna bring

39:32

them at some point? I

39:34

think he said like he

39:36

like Clarence gets like a

39:38

saxophone. Yeah, he's got saxophones

39:40

up to his ears, man.

39:42

You gotta start talking to

39:44

your band and learn what

39:46

their other interests are. Because

39:48

I think you're probably giving

39:50

Clarence a saxophone every year.

39:52

Oh, Clarence, you been you've

39:54

been rehearsing real hard now.

39:56

So Sant will bring you

39:58

a new saxophone? That's

40:01

what he asked him. But that

40:04

was it? He didn't ask anybody

40:06

else what they or tell anybody

40:08

else what he thinks. Do you

40:11

know this? Do you know this

40:13

this version? Yeah, yeah. The beginning?

40:16

I don't know if I know

40:18

the beginning. This is the spoken

40:20

intro. It's all cold down on

40:23

the beach. The winds whipping down

40:25

the boardwalk. Hey banned. You know

40:27

what time of year it is?

40:30

What time? What? What? Christmas time.

40:32

And this was recorded December 1975.

40:35

Yeah. All right. I mean that's

40:37

pretty cool because a lot of

40:39

times you know you know some

40:42

of our favorite Christmas songs are

40:44

recorded in the dead of summer

40:46

to get them ready for for

40:49

that year. But this is one

40:51

where he recorded it at Christmas

40:54

time. Yeah, drove it straight down

40:56

to WBLI. Yeah, but you can

40:58

hear the Christmas cheer coming through

41:01

this song more than most. Bruce

41:03

Springsteen is legitimately very excited about

41:05

Santa Claus. I don't think he

41:08

knows. Everybody? be cool yeah you

41:10

don't want to ruin it for

41:13

the boss yeah Bruce doesn't know

41:15

Clarence is sitting there like oh

41:17

yeah I hope Santa's getting me

41:20

a saxophone he's like yeah Santa

41:22

knows this guy man if that

41:24

was just they're all making eyes

41:27

to each other like oh boy

41:29

he's famously the most down-to-earth rock

41:32

star ever one thing that you

41:34

never do don't break don't break

41:36

don't break that don't break the

41:39

illusion of Santa Claus being real

41:41

Or else he's just gonna, I

41:43

don't know, he'll stop making music.

41:46

He'll be so upset. He played

41:48

it at Bonneru in 2009, that's

41:51

pretty cool. Bonner is still a

41:53

thing. It was in 2009. Yeah,

41:55

is it now? Oh, I'm sure

41:58

it is, yeah. Uh, the next

42:00

on the list, the beach boys,

42:02

Little St. Nick, Little St. Nick.

42:05

Yeah, well, which we just talked

42:07

about. Yeah, why were we talking

42:10

about it? Because we just see

42:12

an episode about St. Nicholas. Why

42:14

on earth were we have been

42:17

talking about it? I mean, you

42:19

know, I was fine. I knew

42:22

it was that we, yeah, whatever.

42:24

It always pissed me off that

42:26

it sounded just like little dude

42:29

scoop. Well, that's what it says

42:31

that it's little dude scoop with

42:33

different lyrics But has managed to

42:36

have a longer lifespan than the

42:38

original Do you think how do

42:41

you feel about? Bands coming up

42:43

or artists in general coming up

42:45

with like a Christmas version of

42:48

a song where they just changed

42:50

the lyrics Go ahead. I think

42:52

it's acceptable as long as you

42:55

have, you also add sleigh bells.

42:57

Yes, yeah, you have to add

43:00

a little, uh, something else there

43:02

to make it Christmas-y. But yeah,

43:04

I wish more, like that would

43:07

be a cool tradition if it

43:09

was like, and at Christmas-dealing of

43:11

your, of your, yeah. Yeah, and

43:14

why not? You can sell that

43:16

song again. Yeah, I think they

43:19

frequently did that in the past.

43:21

Yeah, well, I'm saying bring it

43:23

back. All right, I will Tom.

43:26

Sabrina Carpenter, that's that me espresso.

43:28

What could that be, Tim? Oh,

43:30

yeah. Oh, oh, it's Santa. That

43:35

doesn't hoe-hoe-hoe. It's Santa. Yeah,

43:38

it fits. Print it. Press

43:40

the disc. Shouldn't it end

43:42

in an O sound? Shouldn't

43:44

you end with the hoe-hoe?

43:46

What about this? Hoe-hoe-hoe. It's

43:48

Santa. Hoe-hoe-hoe. I don't know

43:50

if it's... It doesn't have

43:53

to rhyme with the original.

43:55

It should though. For the

43:57

hook. Little deuce coop doesn't

43:59

rhyme with little St. Nick.

44:01

Yeah, but. Oh, it's Santa.

44:03

Oh. Let's. Yeah, that one

44:05

didn't work. But it's Santa.

44:08

Oh, oh, oh. Hey, what

44:10

song do you think? Uh,

44:12

uh, Little Saint, what Beach

44:14

Boy's song? Do you think

44:16

Little Saint Nick? Yeah. Is

44:18

a reality. Oh, you're saying

44:20

it should be easier. Oh,

44:23

it's the syllables. If you're

44:25

just like, what Sabrina or

44:27

what song? Yeah, but it's

44:29

bullshit. Oh, oh, oh, oh,

44:31

Santa. But it's such a

44:33

bullshit. Little St. Nick, he's

44:35

not a little. I've never

44:38

heard that he's a little

44:40

before the beach boys came

44:42

along and we're like, oh

44:44

yeah, he's a little. No,

44:46

this is like, this is

44:48

different from the real Santa

44:50

Claus. It's a different guy.

44:53

It's different guy. It's a

44:55

different idea. Brian Wilson was

44:57

probably like, oh yeah, no,

44:59

this isn't about Santa. This

45:01

is about like a shadow

45:03

Santa. It was about a

45:05

little St. Nick. Not St.

45:08

Nicholas is a different different

45:10

guy entirely. Hey, how you

45:12

doing boys? Oh, St. Nick.

45:14

What other hit songs this

45:16

year that he can make

45:18

a Christmas song out of?

45:20

What were the what were

45:23

the big hits? That's at

45:25

Me Espresso. Mm-hmm. Brat. I

45:27

don't know any, everybody's like,

45:29

brat album of the year.

45:31

I mean, I'm not, uh,

45:33

yeah. Plugged in, but like

45:35

I don't know any Charlie

45:37

XXX, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Am

45:40

I this out of Touchtown?

45:42

That you don't know any

45:44

Charlie X&X songs. Man, 12-year-old

45:46

Tim would be so upset.

45:48

Yeah. year was

45:50

like when I

45:52

grew up

45:55

I'll know every

45:57

Charlie I grew up

45:59

I'll know every thing

46:01

is XZX song.

46:03

the only time

46:05

I listen

46:07

to time I listen to like

46:10

don't know. I don't know

46:12

or like know, pop music is

46:14

that in the car, I

46:16

the car I have much as

46:18

like much as like the default station. So

46:20

hear that, but they only

46:22

play the same 10 songs.

46:25

And a lot of times

46:27

of not playing stuff that

46:29

is necessarily is up on Spotify

46:31

or whatever. up on You know,

46:33

I'm I'm I'm getting like a

46:35

weird, so I'm getting some

46:37

of like the big like but

46:39

not all not them. all hits, got

46:41

a not blind spot I got a big

46:44

blind spot. Yeah. Sorry,

46:49

I'm just thinking, I'm just

46:52

stared into the distance.

46:54

I'm thinking, just the songs

46:57

I know, stared

47:00

into yeah, the

47:02

distance Okay,

47:04

what were what

47:06

are the songs I

47:09

know I know

47:11

that a Oh,

47:13

yeah, and

47:15

Donner. Yeah. Santa

47:17

Claus You know You know, Rome wasn't

47:19

built in a day. work work on

47:21

these We'll have our we'll Come back next

47:23

week. We'll have every hit song this

47:25

year. We'll have a Christopher. First a

47:27

have to learn some hit songs. songs

47:29

Yeah, we have what they are. We're at songs, hit find

47:31

out what they were, and then

47:33

we'll make up our own new make up

47:35

I'll tell you what, they'll be

47:37

a lot less filthy than the music

47:39

a it is. filthy than the I think

47:42

they could do a whole could version

47:44

of Chapel version of chapel Rhone. Yeah And they

47:46

they can make her. Oh, I thought

47:48

you were getting prepared to sing there. to

47:50

no. Her name, Her I

47:52

thought I had a good name.

47:54

what if they just call

47:56

her Santa Claus? just called her Santa

47:59

Claus? and in fairness it he's

48:01

got the same number of

48:03

syllables, so why not? I was like

48:05

all and they could just

48:07

put her could just out again, her

48:09

it's from Santa Claus but it's

48:11

from bells on Claus yeah I will

48:14

say, at least, I'm proud

48:16

of this, that I heard

48:18

another podcast recently. in fairness it

48:20

was not a it was not a music

48:22

podcast, I but it was like, all right,

48:24

these guys guys are Actually, little

48:26

younger than me. but they're

48:28

sounding a hell of a lot

48:30

older because they kept referring to

48:32

her as of a lot older because was like,

48:35

oh, come on, come on, fellas.

48:37

Tune I the news for come on.

48:39

There's drones flying around. They'll tell

48:41

you how to say the for God's

48:43

right. There's drones on the list, Chuck They'll

48:45

tell you how to say the pop star's names

48:47

right. name of the

48:50

song is list. Chuck Barry, yeah,

48:52

the lyrics are run, run,

48:54

Rudolph. Do you know, Santa's going

48:56

to catch you tonight. No, do

48:58

you know tonight. No, do you I've been

49:00

laughing about this. I've been laughing

49:03

while this for a while

49:05

now. beginning of the song. The Yeah.

49:07

Out of all the song. Yeah. you

49:09

know you're the mastermind. you

49:12

know you're gets better.

49:14

Run, run, Really, it

49:16

gets better. Run, run, Rudolph. Randolph!

49:18

It too far

49:21

behind. You

49:24

So Chuck Mary's up with

49:26

his own his own lore

49:28

around Rudolph. Yeah, on Uh

49:30

-huh. Yeah, which

49:32

explains. Yeah,

49:34

run, run, Yeah, Run

49:37

Run Rudolph Randolph Randolph. And

49:39

the excellent engineer is Randolph

49:41

is another one

49:43

of one of Santa's reindeer

49:45

that was for this.

49:48

made up for this. What did it

49:50

seem? Well somebody had

49:52

to say it but like

49:54

when they introduced Rudolph in

49:56

own song? song They list all

49:58

all the other ones. and they're like, but

50:00

do you recall the most famous one of

50:03

all? It's like, do I recall the most

50:05

famous one of all? the most And famous one of all?

50:07

And whatever. But like, Randolph, just mentioned in this

50:09

one and he's not mentioned

50:11

in the whole rest of the

50:13

song. Yeah. Yeah, I like to I like

50:15

to imagine that, Chuck. like, you

50:17

was like, the know, it started

50:20

the recording. a I've got a preamble.

50:22

I want to say want to say

50:24

before this. then probably was like insistent. Like no

50:26

put the part that I I

50:28

talk in in they're like, but that's

50:30

not really, like, it in there.

50:32

I'm Chuck he's And he was

50:34

right, in there I'm Chuck Yeah, it

50:36

really sets a scene. right because it's

50:38

Yeah, a really sets a scene wrote

50:41

this line as, run, run, wrote

50:43

this can't be too far

50:45

behind. Vixen And be far

50:47

behind Okay, and Barry simply and Like

50:49

how confusing would that

50:51

be? that be? If there's like you're

50:53

teaching a kid there's

50:55

Rudolph and there's Randolph. they

50:58

have almost, one of of them

51:00

doesn't have a red

51:02

a red nose though. Well, and

51:04

also, we're presuming that that

51:06

Randolph's know. we don't know be some

51:08

guy. could just be some guy, You

51:10

know, and it's like, it's not really not really

51:13

to to Rudolph's lure. It was was

51:15

just an incident that night,

51:17

you know, Randolph had seen

51:19

Rudolph with his girl and

51:21

you know, he never ran He never ran

51:23

into Randolph again, but at that time,

51:25

yeah, he did need to run from Randolph.

51:27

All right, All right, I like

51:29

use this song in Home

51:32

Alone. Yeah. Yeah, I mean mean, all

51:34

these good songs they they Home

51:36

Alone. Home Alone. Yeah. Like Christmas please

51:38

come home. Home. Yeah, which Which

51:40

we already talked about. about Next

51:42

Adam Adam Sandler, a Hanukkah

51:44

song. Well, that's not a

51:46

Christmas song. a it's a holiday

51:48

song. I will say, song I

51:50

kind of amazing that. kind of

51:52

amazing that update update bit

51:55

yeah uh, universally

51:57

known and beloved

51:59

song. I don't think you

52:01

could say that about many

52:03

other weekend update bits. No,

52:05

except for Gilly. Was that

52:08

a weekend update thing? I

52:10

don't think Gilly was ever

52:12

on, or maybe she was,

52:14

but mostly I think it

52:17

was, you know, Gilly's own

52:19

sketches, yeah. What about the

52:21

guy who can't remember his

52:23

last name or something? A

52:26

bunch of characters like that.

52:28

The truth about the Hanukkah

52:30

song is it's just really

52:32

good and really funny. Like

52:34

it's a really good idea

52:37

for a song and it's

52:39

like perfectly executed. Yeah, you

52:41

know, it talks about in

52:43

the beginning that, you know,

52:46

Christian kids have Christmas songs,

52:48

but Jewish kids don't have

52:50

a song. Now they do

52:52

have a song. And the

52:55

conceit is just, yeah. It's

52:57

a very funny song. Yeah,

52:59

it's like, hey, you're famous

53:01

Jewish people. Yeah. Dredal, dredal,

53:03

dredal, I made you out

53:06

of clay. I know that

53:08

song too. But that's not

53:10

a rock and roll song.

53:12

Oh, I wonder if anybody's

53:15

done a rocket. I'm sure

53:17

some, but I mean, like

53:19

somebody. Kiss has? Like somebody

53:21

known. Yeah. I don't know.

53:24

Yeah. Like, uh, is, uh,

53:26

is, Gene Simmons is Jewish,

53:28

or is the band Jewish

53:30

or other members? I don't

53:32

know the, uh, I mean,

53:35

Gene Simmons wants to make

53:37

up of, uh, if he

53:39

wants to say we do

53:41

a kiss version of Dradle,

53:44

Dradle, Dradle, Dradle. Hmm, you

53:46

know, you might have Ace

53:48

freely being like, yeah, I'm

53:50

not, I'm not, I'm not

53:53

about. Yeah, but I mean,

53:55

I'm not Jewish, but if

53:57

I'm not Jewish, but if

53:59

I'm not Jewish, I'm not

54:01

Jewish, I remember like a

54:04

spinach rattle town. I yeah

54:06

I feel like we did.

54:08

I'm trying to remember where

54:10

we learned about it like

54:13

if it was in school

54:15

or in. classicism class, but

54:17

I do remember like, you

54:19

know, getting a spin one

54:22

and being like, yeah, it's

54:24

pretty neat. Yeah, it's got

54:26

like a little game. Yeah,

54:28

we just have a lot

54:30

of presents. Yeah, and a

54:33

cool like lore. Yeah, they're

54:35

probably like, well, trade, yeah.

54:37

The next, the Ronets, Frosty,

54:39

the Snowman. Yeah, it's a

54:42

good song. I wouldn't say

54:44

that's that's the best Ronette's

54:46

Christmas song though. What do

54:48

you think is their best

54:51

Christmas song? And then how's

54:53

it go? Frosty a snowman

54:55

is better known though. Yeah,

54:57

but like the other song

54:59

is a better. I don't

55:02

know. I like Frosty a

55:04

snowman. I like the bridge

55:06

to Frosty a snowman. What's

55:08

the bridge part? I'm thinking

55:11

of a different, I'm thinking

55:13

of Santa came to say

55:15

Rudolph. No, it's a different

55:17

song. No, the Ronets version

55:20

of Slayeride is. Awesome. Yeah.

55:22

I mean, I'm not disputing

55:24

you. But I would, but

55:26

I'm saying I think Frosty

55:28

a snowman is better known.

55:31

It was only three, they

55:33

record that three months after

55:35

Be My Baby. Be My

55:37

Little Baby. Yeah, good song.

55:40

Good, good group, the Ronets.

55:42

I love the Ronets. Yeah.

55:44

I don't think I've ever

55:46

really, like there's an in

55:49

bed here of like them,

55:51

you know, you know, in

55:53

black and white days. Mm-hmm-hmm.

55:55

Yeah, Ronnie Specter. Yeah. To

55:57

this day it's a key

56:00

part of Ronnie Specter. his

56:02

annual Christmas concert. He still

56:04

does the Christmas concert every

56:06

year? She. She? Oh, I'm

56:09

thinking a Phil Speck. Yeah,

56:11

no, it was Ronnie Specter

56:13

and the Ronets. Yes. Yeah,

56:15

that makes more sense. Next.

56:18

Frosty the snowman. That's another

56:20

thing. It's like, I don't

56:22

know, we didn't have to

56:24

do that. What you mean?

56:26

Have a song about him?

56:29

No, just like the whole,

56:31

the whole lore is just.

56:33

It's fun of snowman that

56:35

comes to life. Yeah. Next

56:38

Band-aid, do they know it's

56:40

Christmas? They were trying to

56:42

recapture, what's-ma-call it, we are

56:44

the world, right? No, this

56:47

pre-date. Yeah, we are the

56:49

world, saw what they did

56:51

here, and they were like,

56:53

oh, we can do that

56:55

much better. Yeah. There's another

56:58

dower, do they know it's

57:00

Christmas, like, just about... you

57:02

know people that aren't well

57:04

off do they even know

57:07

it's Christmas and it's like

57:09

no specifically in Africa in

57:11

Ethiopia yeah yeah tonight thank

57:13

god it to them instead

57:16

of you like that that

57:18

that's a clunky way of

57:20

saying like be thankful for

57:22

what you have but not

57:24

doing that to them god

57:27

Yeah, it's not. Because it

57:29

was either them or me,

57:31

so thank you for choosing.

57:33

Yeah, yeah, you're deciding to

57:36

have a famine somewhere. Yeah,

57:38

Bono, Phil Collins, Boy George,

57:40

Sting, George Michael, and many

57:42

other, very male heavy there.

57:45

Or at least the artist

57:47

mentioned here. Yeah. I feel

57:49

like that's a lot more

57:51

beloved in the UK. Yeah,

57:53

absolutely. Paul McCartney, wonderful Christmas

57:56

time. People hate this song.

57:58

The song rules. Paul McCartney

58:00

like McCartney playing what they

58:02

do with the knobs on

58:05

his synthesizer yeah and then

58:07

being like I'm gonna release

58:09

it it's a Christmas hit

58:11

yeah and it was a

58:14

Christmas I mean it's certainly

58:16

one of his biggest solo

58:18

songs Okay. Oh solo songs.

58:20

Okay. Yeah. Like Palm. Yeah.

58:22

Sorry for scoffing like an

58:25

asshole I mean yes even

58:27

if you include the Beatles

58:29

it's one of the biggest

58:31

songs No, but it's one

58:34

of Paul McCartney. Yeah. Solo

58:36

big most well-known songs. Maybe

58:38

it's most well-known. Do you

58:40

think? Mmm. Does wings count?

58:43

No. I'm saying just Paul

58:45

McCartney Yeah. I think that

58:47

was wings too. But even

58:49

those songs, I don't think

58:51

are necessarily better known than

58:54

Wonderful Christmas Time. Living Let

58:56

Die is. There's some. I

58:58

don't, I don't know. Nowadays,

59:00

with the guns and roses

59:03

version floating around out there,

59:05

be able to listen to

59:07

an even crazier. Oh, baby,

59:09

let die. You're right. When

59:12

you're right, you're right. That

59:14

really hurt. Buddy Helms, Jingle

59:16

Bell Rock. That

59:19

sucks. Weird Al Yankovic, the Night

59:21

Santa went crazy. You remember that

59:23

song? Yeah. I mean it's not

59:25

one of his best, but I

59:27

love that that they included it

59:29

on this list. Yeah. Wait, hold

59:32

on. So yeah, this is like

59:34

a very violent song. The Night

59:36

Santa went crazy. Yeah. He picked

59:38

up a flame thrower. And he

59:40

picked up a flamethrower and he

59:42

barbecued. Yeah, but this took a

59:45

big bite and said it tastes

59:47

just like chicken. Yeah, but this

59:49

Said this article says he sings

59:51

it to the of Black Gold

59:53

by Soul Asylum. I don't, this

59:56

isn't a parody of Black Gold,

59:58

right? I don't think so, but.

1:00:00

It's like, it's kind of like,

1:00:02

you know how he does like

1:00:04

the, yeah, it does original. Yeah,

1:00:06

where it's like, oh, this is

1:00:09

supposed to sound. Like, Daredo, it

1:00:11

sounds like a devo song. But

1:00:13

it's not direct, yeah, you did

1:00:15

one with nine inch, nine inch,

1:00:17

one that was like, not a

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parody of a song sound, usually.

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Huh, I don't know. I'm gonna

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have to write a letter to

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the Rolling Stones. I think Mick

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might be off on this one

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Tom. Next, Darlene Love Christmas Time

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for the Jews. Oh, it was

1:00:35

a Saturday Night Live. Which is

1:00:37

another Saturday Night Live. Which that

1:00:39

just, that's like trying, I know

1:00:41

that song. Now that I think

1:00:43

about it. Oh, I don't. Yeah.

1:00:46

But I feel like that's also

1:00:48

trying to recap. Oh, was this

1:00:50

a Robert Smigel thing? Maybe. Yeah.

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He was like animated, right? Yeah,

1:00:54

that's what it was. Probably funny.

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Yeah. Kanye West. But does not

1:00:59

belong on a list alongside Mr.

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Kanye West's Christmas in Harlem. Yeah.

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Which I don't know. I was

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never a big Kanye guy. I

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had his number early on. But

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I don't know this song. And

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Kanye and John Lennon, Tom, you

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just don't. I had their numbers

1:01:16

from day one. She and him,

1:01:18

the Christmas wall. See you don't

1:01:20

hear about she and him anymore.

1:01:23

No, M. Ward and Zoe Dationel.

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Yeah, Zoe Dationel got with that

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property brother and was like, I

1:01:29

got all this property brother. I

1:01:31

don't need to be singing songs

1:01:33

anymore. They must have won a

1:01:36

lot of property. I don't know.

1:01:38

The property brothers? You don't know

1:01:40

if they own a lot of

1:01:42

property? Well, one of them does

1:01:44

and the other one just designs

1:01:47

it. Even still. And we don't

1:01:49

know, we'll never know which one.

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Yeah. She doesn't know which

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know it is. They keep us

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Yeah, it's one

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of the reasons

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guide where it's the most

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comfortable time of the year. time of

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reading a book that Forrest

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Gump himself wrote. Forrest Gump himself wrote. Yeah.

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it called? Hanks the making of

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another The picture another motion or

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something like that. Yeah, I

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think that might be it.

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Are you enjoying the book?

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I am, might be it. but I

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got big news am-ish, but I got

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big news on... How I'm consuming

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it on this episode. Wow, holy

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the last song on the list here? Yeah,

1:04:01

presumably, presumably number one. Yeah, Mariah Carey, all

1:04:03

I want for Christmas is you. I'm familiar

1:04:05

with it. Yeah, I've never heard that song

1:04:07

before. Must be pretty good if it ended

1:04:09

up number one here, but we'll never know.

1:04:11

Did you see, she like posted a thing

1:04:13

the other day? Oh, I think it was

1:04:16

like, you know, Spotify, like the Spotify wrapped.

1:04:18

You know how like artists artists thank you

1:04:20

videos. Yeah, she did thank you video and

1:04:22

people thought it was AI Oh really it

1:04:24

wasn't it was just like so photoshopped to

1:04:26

hell that like like such soft yeah just

1:04:28

like such soft focus and like she kind

1:04:30

of didn't like as she's talking she's like

1:04:32

hi it's Mariah Carey thank you so much

1:04:34

for listening to my music like her head

1:04:37

doesn't move so it did look Like something

1:04:39

was up and she sent you out. She's

1:04:41

a mad duck. I like her. Yeah, I

1:04:43

like that. She's nocturnal, you know this? I

1:04:45

forgot about that, but I do know that,

1:04:47

that she's nocturnal. Yeah, I, you know what,

1:04:49

that's one of the things I'm, I legitimately,

1:04:51

I'm looking forward to in Mariah Carey's ongoing

1:04:53

career. It's like her getting weirder and weirder

1:04:56

as she was older. I don't think people

1:04:58

appreciate how weird she is right now, but

1:05:00

like hey. That's what Divas do! Damn, I

1:05:02

really want to go, uh, she does a

1:05:04

Christmas tour every year now. Oh, yeah, that

1:05:06

makes sense, I guess. Yeah. And it's weird.

1:05:08

She must have to have a Santa's Helves

1:05:10

helper to plan that out to get around

1:05:12

to multiple cities in one day. Well it's

1:05:14

not, all the dates are not on Christmas.

1:05:17

Actually it starts like early November for like

1:05:19

the Tertiary cities or whatever. Yeah. Sorry Cleveland.

1:05:21

Well you know she performs right there at

1:05:23

the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Oh

1:05:25

that's pretty cool. But it's very funny because

1:05:27

like she like... Not just this

1:05:29

song. I feel like

1:05:31

she's very Christmas -y like her

1:05:33

album sold really well,

1:05:36

right? So she does a does

1:05:38

a whole show and

1:05:40

it's in December all the

1:05:42

lyrics to the songs songs Christmas

1:05:44

would be smart because

1:05:46

I looked up a

1:05:48

set list and she

1:05:50

does like and she does like

1:05:52

Christmas sets and then

1:05:54

she comes and does

1:05:57

a hit set and it's

1:05:59

just weird to be

1:06:01

like be like... I just like

1:06:03

You know an hour

1:06:05

and 15 minutes of

1:06:07

Christmas music and now

1:06:09

of singing like the

1:06:11

hits. Yeah, she's singing like, the hits.

1:06:13

Yeah, like, uh, fantasy and stuff. like

1:06:15

that would be weird

1:06:18

if you went to

1:06:20

a Mariah Carey show

1:06:22

and she didn't be weird

1:06:24

if you played all the

1:06:26

hits up front and

1:06:28

then and just Christmas sing

1:06:30

fantasy. she does she sets

1:06:32

of Christmas music up front

1:06:34

like a set of

1:06:37

just like like Yeah,

1:06:39

and then she just does

1:06:41

all have on for Christmas as you. She

1:06:43

should she should and close

1:06:45

with that, but that. you

1:06:47

imagine the build up

1:06:49

to that song? Yeah

1:06:51

to that song? Yeah. Yeah, so

1:06:53

many people when she

1:06:55

switches over she She's not

1:06:58

gonna play She's not Christmas

1:07:00

is you I want for

1:07:02

she know? popular Does she know

1:07:04

and then it is? know,

1:07:06

then, you know. Bam. Yeah, she's

1:07:08

making sure you're not

1:07:10

heading for the parking

1:07:12

lot early the parking lot early in

1:07:14

keeping it glued to

1:07:16

your seats, but glued to

1:07:19

your that that I like after

1:07:21

two sets of Christmas

1:07:23

songs, especially if it's

1:07:25

early November, you're like,

1:07:27

all right if it's early

1:07:29

also like, you know,

1:07:31

I paid right Yeah, or also you

1:07:33

know this ticket. for not

1:07:35

gonna ticket. Yeah, I'm not gonna hear

1:07:38

like I don't know hero Yeah, and a

1:07:40

hero comes along. Well that sounds about Santa

1:07:42

of Santa his name is Santa

1:07:44

Claus. you next week week.

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