The Incomparable

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00:00:31 ◼   ► the incontrovertible number 173 December [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► 2013 welcome back everybody to the [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► uncomfortable i'm your host Jason still [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► and it's still the holidays as we record [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► this and release this and we're going to [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► talk about holiday stuff again it's [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► another holiday themed episode and in [TS]

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00:00:54 ◼   ► music which I know is a little bit of a [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► departure for me but i think this should [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► be a fun holiday topic you'll be the [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► judge of whether it was actually fun as [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► you listen I have a very nice collection [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► of people here to talk about holiday [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► music things we like things we don't [TS]

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00:01:12 ◼   ► welcome auntie Ashley hi Monty hi are [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► you having a holly jolly christmas i set [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► up a tree yesterday but I got a bigger [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► tree that I have ornaments for it so [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► it's really kind of sparse right now [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► do you have Holly no do you have jolly [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► yes okay [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► halfway there just get some molly and [TS]

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00:01:32 ◼   ► Steve let's is also here hi Steve hey [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► Jason that yes I'm here and I'm ill [TS]

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00:01:38 ◼   ► as usual [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► good we'll get more letters then so [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► that's it thanks I feel lonely when [TS]

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00:01:46 ◼   ► you've ruined the podcast so that the [TS]

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00:01:52 ◼   ► Erica and sinus back we only receive [TS]

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00:01:57 ◼   ► podcast hi Erica shucks [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► hi you like the anti Steve Corino and [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► we're on the same podcast together [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► shouldn't things be exploding it that we [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► just keep things evened out give it time [TS]

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00:02:10 ◼   ► give it time david lawrence also here hi [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► David hello there [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► Holly and jolly and I z2 excellent [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► Wow holly jolly would eat ivy too [TS]

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00:02:23 ◼   ► holiday wow yeah and Tippecanoe and [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► Tyler wait a second that has nothing to [TS]

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00:02:33 ◼   ► Voice you heard Lisa's miser who is also [TS]

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00:02:46 ◼   ► belt and and Phillip Michaels joins us [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► our the world's foremost expert on [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► holiday music night I wouldn't say that [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► I I get when I yeah but i know in a [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► minute i notice that i'm also only on [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► the podcast with their 12,000 other [TS]

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00:03:05 ◼   ► what's up with that I can carry a show [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► you know I can your magnetic because we [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► just didn't feel we must be here when [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► you're here mr. Michaels will now spend [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► the next 20 minutes discourses on [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► holiday music by himself go and we'll [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► just listen we're just here to listen [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► man and also you're here to balance that [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► Steve so you know yeah now i feel like [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► when I'm when Phil's on the podcast i [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► don't actually have to say much because [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► you will carry the weight I i would like [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► letter writers of the future to know [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► that i have two pages full of notes [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► flights a podcast it's true he does so [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► you're really callup counterbalancing me [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► who has is ill-prepared but i have no [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► Holly because she split in what I have [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► notes and my twitter handle has Holly in [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► it so dang ok point2 Erica alright fair [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► enough [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► yeah but this is a holiday season it's [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► not about who wins or who loses and we [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► know he's gonna lose so it doesn't [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► really matter so Steve stars skinflint [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► column country christmas carol for the [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► previous episode for more information [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► about that and you can write letters if [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► you like [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► anyway so holiday music I i wanted to [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► start there's so much in holiday music [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► so much good so much terrible i thought [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► maybe we would start on me on the on the [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► positive side and talk about what what [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► makes us like holiday music and the [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► things about it that we actually like [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► but I suppose as always i should ask [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► especially for those who have many pages [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► of notes if anyone has any opening [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► remarks Johnson style this would be a [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► good time I I guess I I don't really [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► have any opening remarks aight aight i [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► have a mixed relationship with holiday [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► music some of it as he say I I like [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► although the stuff that i like is [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► and i'm sure this is fairly typical of [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► everyone else on the one in the stuff i [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► like is the the stuff that is particular [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► to my personal taste I I like bluesy [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► bluesy and-and-and country and and sad [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► music and so the holiday music I like [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► tends to be blues and country and sad [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► but I don't really care for is the just [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► by way of background here in San [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► Francisco we have a radio station kait [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► kait yes that the day after thanksgiving [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► the day of thanksgiving right on [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► Thanksgiving this year they did it the [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► day before thanksgiving there there [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► stick is that they play nothing but [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► Christmas on the month's worth of [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► christmas music but their playlist is [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► like 24 songs [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► yeah because it has the front the [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► problem with with stations like koi Dory [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► or your local mega mall or our or [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► anything is that the wash FM for people [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► who might be living in Washington DC as [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► the same so now we've covered two cities [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► are there any other radio stations in [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► this country that play radio how can [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► someone let me google that ok you google [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► that and I'll keep talking this is [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► movable has been to and they started the [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► day before thanksgiving so this is a [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► scourge that across the country perhaps [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► the world know you and and what you want [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► when you're when you're picking holiday [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► music for a mass-market you want things [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► that are happy and upbeat and happy and [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► don't really mention God too much [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► because that might put people off and [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► don't don't and mention lots of snow [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► even if like you're living in a portion [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► of the country that if it snows on [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► Christmas it's a sign of the apocalypse [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► something's gone horribly wrong but [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► anyhow um a lot of the christmas music [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► out there is quite terrible and for a [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► while I collected it until I came to my [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► senses and and now and it's allowed me [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► to seek out things i actually like so [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► that there are you know a couple dozen [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► songs i would I have a playlist of 24 [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► songs to Lisa and and accept the things [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► that I like and not like Neil Diamond [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► doing his christmas album as it was a [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► few years ago I i really love that Neil [TS]

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00:06:53 ◼   ► christmas carol well and and this is [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► because you can practically hear i'm [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► thinking come on back out its well and [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► and this is the other thing about about [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► a lot of christmas music is cool [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► really a cash grab it we rarely someone [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► came to to the the the the superstar of [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► the day or the the fading legend and [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► said hey hey baby love what you're doing [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► but they are you better you better crank [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► out a Christmas album because people [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► people will buy it parts people's brains [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► will will see and I thought this was [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► gonna start in positive and it's totally [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► my mom I think it's gonna stay here with [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► friends like people's brains are are are [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► disconnected i think when it comes to [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► buying christmas music versus other [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► users like oh it's called the holidays [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► what you mean Brian carry as christmas [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► album she has more than 100 by the mall [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► and in there like logic escapes you and [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► you're like the holiday season yay and [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► then you you ask yourself oh god what if [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► i don't i have found that i am the [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► opposite of that i was i was doing a [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► little research for today because weezer [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► actually has a couple of Christmas songs [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► that I like so i was trying to find them [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► and it turns out they did an entire [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► christmas album but the Christmas album [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► it's just them doing Christmas carols so [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► I i looked at the song list and [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► immediately when I do not want that i [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► will not know no research Steve people [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► actually do it [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► what I found with my own Christmas [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► carols is if I have a strong sentimental [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► attachment to the song because I spend I [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► associate with a really specific event [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► or or or time in my life it doesn't [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► matter that it's bad when I think [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► perhaps the best example of this and [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► this also shows how old I am is I'm a [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► huge sucker for band for the band-aid do [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► they know it's Christmas and I can't [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► help it but it comes on and all this and [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► i'm singing along with everyone like now [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► you Paul you know King least there will [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► be no snow in Africa this chris yeah [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► have you ever sat down and dissected the [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► lyrics of people that's perfect nothing [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► wrong with the clanging times of doom [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► okay i have it's it's it's the lyrics [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► make no sense whatsoever and and but I [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► can just remember being in seventh grade [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► and watching the videos like a thousand [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► my closest girlfriends at all of us like [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► passing out in excitement over watching [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► george michael or Simon Lebon or what [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► have you and so every time i hear that [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► song was that little bit of adolescent [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► rush when the boundaries of your [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► Christmas are just beginning to expand [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► from family to you know your water [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► community to your to your girlfriend's [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► to the digital resource rituals you have [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► with your friends and fit [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► I was never a big George Michael found [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► always preferred duran duran but it but [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► no like and I know objectively speaking [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► I know the song is terrible [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► objectively speaking it's really [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► embarrassing every time I sing along [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► with bonduel tonight thank god it's them [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► and yet every time it comes on i am [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► building along the top of my lungs in [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► the car [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► how can you even do that there's no [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► melody to the song it's just kinda [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► meanders here and there and it until it [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► gets to feed the world which is actually [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► pretty catchy that makes it easy for [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► this was a limited musical talent having [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► no melody is probably a gift so I'm on [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► Lisa side i'm a big fan of do they know [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► it's Christmas [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► it's that dumbest song the planet and [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► yet i really like it i came into that [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► song already a fan of bob geldof because [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► i love the Boomtown Rats that was [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► excited that he was getting some more [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► public exposure and then he became super [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► famous there's less fun although the [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► version of do they know it's christmas i [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► have on my Christmas playlist is [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► actually by the comedy death-ray choir [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► from the podcast comedy death-ray high [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► so it's got things like Ryan Poston and [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► Doug Benson oh wow really the only [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► musical thing to recommend that person [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► is the one line that car funko notes do [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► so weird al on it [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► I the version that i have on my playlist [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► is by the custard kings and mashes up [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► that and Snoopy's Christmas and it's [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► called do they know it's Snoopy's [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► Christmas why have you not play by play [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► that for you under the same every year i [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► play it for you you can block it out [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► because you're like waiting for Simon [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► Lebon to show up and take you away from [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► all this [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► it's true like I am he can we all agree [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► that that Vince Geralt ease uh Charlie [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► Brown soundtrack is classic christmas [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► music do you give me that [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► oh yeah yes listen to that year-round [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► best Christmas out my own and I own [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► quite a few i agree although the music [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► is not really christmas-related right [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► now is interesting [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► my friend group who had never seen the [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► Charlie Brown Christmas special and she [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► got introduced to the album is an adult [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► and she's like at least be called I [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► can't hang on i don't like it so I [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► wonder again I think objectively [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► speaking it's it's I like his piano [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► style i like the arrangements but i also [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► wonder how much of it is also is [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► strongly says [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► it with seeing and enjoying that the [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► specialist as a child to doesn't matter [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► i haven't seen that in years I don't [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► even remember them you know there's an [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► adorable cartoon characters dancing in [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► your head [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► our daughter is currently obsessed with [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► the Charlie Brown and special so what [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► we've seen it every night for the past [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► five nights I think it's pretty well all [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► I remember that age [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► oh yeah it's a great though it's a great [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► album it I i enjoy it a lot that's [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► present wrapping music that's that's [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► what I put on when i go to wrap presence [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► and it's it's just that's what puts me [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► in the spirit that's the official start [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► of the Christmas season for me [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► ok so Steve you say you've got a lot of [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► christmas music what what's the stuff [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► that you have that you like oh there's [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► actually you know I'm i was going to say [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► I was surprised because i sat down to do [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► my usual intensive preparation for this [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► might get em and and I was expecting to [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► dig out a couple dozen songs that I [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► really really didn't like and I found a [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► few but mostly as I was kind of [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► strolling through the Christmas genre of [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► my ipod I i just kept finding song after [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► song that I'd that i would say oh hey I [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► like that song it's pretty good [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► oh yeah that was a classic oh yeah this [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► is great and it eventually I had like [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► maybe 30 songs written I'd like which I [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► will not go into detail on here but it [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► surprised me a little bit because I i do [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► generally kind of think of a lot of [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► christmas music is being overly small [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► tea and no really sakura and kind of all [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► buy a template and yet there's a lot and [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► it's not just stuff that I remember [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► hearing when I was a kid although [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► there's an aspect of that but there's a [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► lot of holiday music that I really enjoy [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► so i was very surprised by that [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► wow your heart grew three sizes that day [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► Steve it really did [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► yeah you know I very ready to come [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► there's a combination of nostalgia [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► there's the stuff that you were around [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► when you when you were a kid and that's [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► that's a part of it because especially [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► as a as a child in the holidays I mean [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► that you're obviously form a lot of [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► impressions then but then there's the [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► there's the you know your shift to the [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► pop music kind of kind of Christmas and [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► I i remember for me people of a certain [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► age and this is a little bit like saying [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► do they know it's christmas but when [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► that a very special Christmas anthology [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► came out in the was that the mid to late [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► eighties [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► nothing like that something like that [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► was that was that moment like who pop [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► stars are making christmas music and i [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► think i have the one on iTunes and yeah [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► yeah and that was my that was that was [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► that moment where it's like oh there's [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► this whole leverage on route there and [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► and so I have you know I've got I've got [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► a little from column A&A little from [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► column B right I've got some stuff that [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► I consider sort of classic and standard [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► and those are more nostalgic and older [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► and then I've kind of like over the [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► years collected christmas songs and [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► holiday songs from bands i like or you [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► know or songs I heard and I thought were [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► pretty cool and that's like a in a [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► totally different different categories [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► so it's a little a little from each is [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► sort of what I would make some my my [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► playlist [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► I don't even have a playlist how do you [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► know it's Christmas Bob Geldof would [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► like to know because there's no snow in [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► Africa money doesn't yet know as soon as [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► there's no snow in Africa you know it's [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► Christmas [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► mhm that make sense yeah I don't really [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► do anything that's all that Christmassy [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► we don't even really exchange gifts in [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► our family anymore we just sort of get [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► together and have dinner [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► haha wow not that i don't like it i I'd [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► enjoy the fact that people are excited [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► are you on this episode to do X us is [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► that what you're not have that turkey [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► that's as big as the boy she's a crypto [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► Christmas fascist a sleeper cell in the [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► war on Christmas this is the festivus [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► songs episode right I actually i only [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► found songs that I like they didn't come [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► up with anything i dislike so I mean I'm [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► definitely not not bah humbug and you [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► know it is guys i'm just lazy [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► christmas is work I'm with you on that [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► one [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► yeah so I don't wrap presents and I [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► don't I don't you know decorate anything [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► but i enjoy all the Christmas lights [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► that are all around but not other people [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► hit up [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► yeah you can tune to that radio station [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► yeah alright so it's so to answer your [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► question Jason which we kind of got away [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► from us and and i'm not going to go [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► through my whole list because then that [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► the draft forever [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► yes there's a draft and God knows we [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► don't want to draft so a few from the [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► the nostalgia category i'm a big fan of [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► holly jolly christmas which you already [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► brought up mainly because Burl Ives [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► voice is the sound of Christmas to me [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► he's got just an utterly magical voice [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► and is probably the closest we'll ever [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► come to having Santa Claus [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► yes a Christmas song i am no longer the [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► anti Steve because I completely go see [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► fill it fill their exchanges here it's [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► every yeah let's stay positive for now I [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► want to hear what Steve likes and we'll [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► go around and get Phil will probably [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► disagree with all my other ones too and [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► then we can Duke it out later okay no in [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► the heart of the holidays sure this one [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► a bit of a guilty pleasure i'm a fan of [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► the chipmunk song i was god dammit we [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► are doing the same wavelength here but [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► there's a specific reason for that [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► though and that is I remember one [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► Christmas as a lab we were dropped on [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► your head [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► waking pats haha there is that that's [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► okay see this will be great when they [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► read the angry letters about you on this [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► episode some compromise right that it [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► just being up at two in the morning not [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► being able to sleep and trying to find [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► something to do and that came on the [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► radio and just being so so happy and in [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► anticipation for what the morning would [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► bring and there was this goofy song with [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► the you know Alvin Simon and Theodore [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► and you know just made me really happy [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► and it still does [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► that's one of those ones that can bring [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► me back as candy barking dog version of [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► jingle we do not think i might be [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► trolling us [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► I can't wait to hear what songs you [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► don't like yeah it that it came on our [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► Lord how can you not like the barking [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► dogs doing jingle bells i have ears [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► yeah I don't love it as a song but i [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► love it as a as if you say the Porky Pig [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► version of blue christmas i am going to [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► read a study the microphone [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► ok let's see well let's let's will [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► happen if we go through the classics [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► here then and if there's a lot more [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► modern ones we can talk about those like [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► later because i don't want to just take [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► over the podcast alright with my awful [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► yeah not and then there are the classics [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► i will bring up the classics as well and [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► mainly for me the the classic Christmas [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► songs that really really work are the [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► two nights [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► oh holy night and Silent Night both of [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► which are just just have such a [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► beautiful kind of sad sounding melody [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► and you know i've been i've been an [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► awful atheist for my entire life but for [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► some reason those songs both kind [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► choked me up a little bit because a [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► hinge hinge on the interpretations [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► heavily on the singer [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► yeah that's true so that's an especially [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► oh holy night that is extremely you were [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► absolutely right there but when done [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► properly both of those songs can make [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► this non-believer feel almost moved [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► which is what you're referring to share [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► their i am referring to share also [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► Mariah Carey does a version of a holy [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► night which she seems well enough but [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► it's it's basically we'll listen to my [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► my multi octave range and despair [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► humanity loud is the new girl yeah it's [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► it's it's really quite quite a bombastic [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► whereas you know silent night that's it [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► that's a high particularly enjoy the [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► Dinah Washington version i like the [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► Mahalia Jackson one [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► well beautiful David you have some [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► favorites oh god yes I mean I always [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► loved Christmas music because I grew up [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► with you know my mother was a choir [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► director church so every year yet all [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► the classic hymns and you know trying to [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► figure out what modern stuff you might [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► work in there and so I mean I'll just [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► assume all the traditional Christmas [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► carols [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► but then the more I got into theater and [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► doing sound design and theater and every [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► year you have a Christmas show of some [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► sort so i just i would gather more and [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► more christmas music and find all kinds [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► of cool stuff and so I mean Vince [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► obviously the diet diana krall christmas [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► album became a perennial as soon as that [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► came out like the whole family just like [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► who i like that and you know when when [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► you have a three-year-old going play the [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► jazz album play the jazz I'm okay you [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► got it and i love the new england [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► Christmastide collections which are [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► classic Christmas carols played on [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► antique instruments and authentic [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► instruments from the period when the [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► songs are written which is kinda cool [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► and a couple years ago we did a show [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► where I just decided to to use the Blind [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► Boys of Alabama as the music had nothing [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► to do with the story had nothing to do [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► with the setting but it was like this is [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► fantastic these people need to hear it [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► and actually the the owner of the venue [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► where we performed after the show she [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► came up to me and said I respect a man [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► who knows exactly how to use the blind [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► boys [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► oh cool see their their album go tell it [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► on the mountain is just fantastic and [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► then the the one odd one that I love pdq [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► bach has a concert of Christmas carols [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► which are three songs good king kong [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► looked out a little town of Hackensack [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► and my personal favorite throw the you [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► logo on Uncle John I actually quite like [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► a lot of those sort of they're not [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► classics but they're not particularly [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► new song sort of the the middle era that [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► Johnny Marx wrote a ton of Christmas [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► songs he was Jewish but apparently he [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► specialized in christmas songs [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► go figure Irving Berlin like Neil [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► Diamond yeah he wasn't busy on December [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► 25th so he did a lot of songwriting that [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► I don't love Jingle Bell Rock it's just [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► one that i am ok with but stuff like [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► rockin around the Christmas tree that [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► that was Johnny mark song he also wrote [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer which is [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► fine and weirdly enough to run Rudolph [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► run which chuck berry recorded which is [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► not one of my favorite songs but I those [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► are the kind of radio christmas songs [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► that I'm a more ok with then some of the [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► more obnoxious papi [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► mariah carey style ones but but what I [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► really like is bands that I like writing [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► christmas songs because so often they [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► are not in any way [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► traditionally Christmassy or not even [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► necessarily happy i mentioned earlier a [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► couple of of Wheezer songs they have to [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► christmas songs one is called the [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► Christmas song and one is called [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► Christmas [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► celebration and they are both incredibly [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► depressing which is something you might [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► expect if you know how rivers cuomo [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► works when he's writing songs but the [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► the Christmas song is about a fellow who [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► is waiting for a girl [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► uh who didn't show up even though she [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► said she was going to like one of the [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► main lines of the song is here i sit [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► waiting beside the tree all by myself [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► like that's my kind of christmas huh [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► depressing and christmas celebration is [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► just kind of about how annoying [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► Christmas can be and it refers to Santa [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► is that man is so because he can't get [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► out the door it's just it's just not [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► nice but but i do like some of the [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► happier type of those songs as well [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► fountains of wayne has a song called i [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► want an alien for Christmas you know [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► which is just it's just upbeat and fun [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► and it's the the narrator of the song is [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► basically asking for an alien the way a [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► little kid would be asking for a puppy [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► written for Hanson and never recorded by [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► boy band Hanson so they record that [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► themselves which is why it's very [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► kid-like you know and it's just it's [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► charming and delightful and wonderful I [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► I like a few of the classic Christmas [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► carols as well like for some reason up [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► on the housetop was always my favorite [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► song to sing one else who's an [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► elementary school my mom was an [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► elementary school music teacher so [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► occasionally we would get her to play [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► the piano and we can have little [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► sing-alongs in the basement but my dad [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► really hated Christmas carols so for the [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► most part we didn't listen to them in [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► the house a whole lot but we did get to [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► hear the Nutcracker Suite over and over [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► again because my mom loved that my dad [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► was fine with classical music so that to [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► meet the nutcrackers is the sound of [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► christmas i'll have no up on the rooftop [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► in this household young lady [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► click click click new carolers taken [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► outside if you like stand out in the [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► yard and bring the boombox hearing it [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► right it will get no figgy pudding out [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► of me [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► I think that's actually how caroling [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► started as somebody said I don't want to [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► hear that stuff go outside walk around [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► and take into the diverse yeah maybe [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► they'll like it but actually my favorite [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► Christmas song r is from mystery science [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► 3000 it is a patrick swayze Christmas I [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► know Jason mentioned when he was not [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► talking about santa claus conquers the [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► options that was that was actually a [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► sing-along [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► my household for a few years I i was i [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► was a member of the fan club back in the [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► day I sent my money off the best brains [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► and in return [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► one of the perks i got was a videotape [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► with a plain white cover that was called [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► play misty for me and had a bunch of the [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► songs collected and I think that's the [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► only VHS tape that I saved when i move [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► that the only 1i still in the early days [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► of mystery science theater fandom I was [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► the first person to transcribe that for [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► all TV mst3k wow wow [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► most of the day's Monty what do you have [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► as favourites up [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► I like a mixture of what I'm going to [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► call classic Christmas songs like I [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► think all of the johnny mathis andy [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► williams or Dean Martin songs i have our [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► christmas songs like I can I can get [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► behind Tony Bennett saying singing [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► winter wonderland I'm pleased by that [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► yeah I don't want an actual winter [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► wonderland of snow is weird and foreign [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► to me but somebody else claiming to [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► enjoy i like and i also for some reason [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► really like kind of alternate funky [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► christmas songs [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► there's this one song the Christians and [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► the pagans by dr. Williams that is a [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► really good i think explanation of why [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► christmas is nice although it's also [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► explanation of why winter solstice is [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► nice and it's just about families [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► getting together and it makes me feel [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► warm and cozy nice but yeah I like [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► myself some Tony Bennett Randy Williams [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► just in this part of the year [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► yeah I've got many artists that are [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► those classic artists that I don't have [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► a lot of music of but I've got their [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► christmas stuff and I and I like it yeah [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► there's something about it's it's it's [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► good and and comforting in some way [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► nobody's mentioned to get so i will say [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► that fairytale of new york by the Pogues [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► with chemistry and online listen to talk [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► about hi there are nearly enough there's [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► the songs containing the phrase you're [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► an old slut on junk [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► I first heard that song like only like [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► four years ago or something I'd never [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► heard it before and Andy anarcho [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► actually because he done his website he [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► does his musical advent calendar every [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► year and I and that's a great song it's [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► like it's like you're taking a a journey [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► it's like a whole story that happens in [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► that song yeah it's pretty awful story [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► to that way it is but it's amazing [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► starts out in the drunk tank with the [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► guy dying next to him on the floor I saw [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► shane macgowan live a few years ago and [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► i could not make out a single word he [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► said yeah so it's free to pretend he was [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► doing all my favorite poems songs and [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► for some reason i noticed a lot of the [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► Christmas songs i have on my list aren't [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► actually about Christmas like let it [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► snow let it snow let it snow [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► no just regular thing yeah it takes [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► place during winter same for winter [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► wonderland for Frosty the Snowman well [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► there's that divide there's the [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► traditional religious you know and a him [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► based music and then there's the secular [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► holiday Winter Festival music and [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► they've all kind of push together in the [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► popular culture but they're definitely [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► two different genres and I and you know [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► you listen to the lyrics and if they're [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► very basically about a messiah then [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► perhaps there in the one camp and get [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► the half [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► have yourself a merry winter solstice [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► yeah I feel like there's three [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► categories there's this straight Jesus [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► type like do you hear what i hear or [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► silent knight riders Santa based [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► Christmas like say there's just been [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► going here its class Santa based [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► Christmas you're right you're also [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► you're also forgetting the Commerce the [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► Commerce bass songs like silver bills [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► and and and legal business look a lot [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► like Christmas yeah but I i agree with [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► Marty's basic do it [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► delineation of the the Christmas tax on [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► his Christmas yes right yes I'm glad we [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► structured Christmas so well Lisa what [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► about you what are the ones that work [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► for you what kind of stuff do you like [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► unfortunately film I don't have very [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► similar tastes in Christmas music [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► unfortunately I asked you first so you [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► gotta just great [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► yeah i should mention my dad was in the [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► mind my dad was basically that the Big [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► Ten ordeal in our church choirs growing [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► up and my brother always played in [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► Orchestra and band and jazz ensemble [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► know that so we grew up listening to a [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► lot of um orchestral arrangements and I [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► could probably come you the entire [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► Nutcracker Suite in my sleep but i still [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► really enjoy it and I enjoy the modern [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► mandolin quartets interpretation of the [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► Nutcracker Suite it's just this very [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► light very pleasant very sprightly take [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► its not excessively saccharine it [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► doesn't get all all-russian bombastic [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► it's it in its light and bright and [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► something that i can safely play in in [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► you know mixed create audiences as it [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► were and to me that's the quintessential [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► Christmas soundtrack some of the other [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► songs on my list i consider under [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► African skies by Paul Simon to almost be [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► a christmas carol or just because it's [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► got the beautiful verses about you know [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► Joseph Joseph and Mary usually christmas [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► songs about Africa idea that category [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► all ladysmith black mambazo um Jane [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► summaries got a beautiful song called [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► calling all angels that I like to play [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► around this time of the year for the [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► same reason [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► um it's just this really pretty i'm and [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► I've always played kind of tandem with [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► what are your friend nearby Dan Wilson [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► cause those arms or are about taking [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► stock of of your life is that as the as [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► the planet turns and we when we reset [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► the calendar neil finn has sweet secret [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► piece which i think is beautiful [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► I like to listen to that one too i love [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► nancy wilson version of what are you [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► doing New Year's Day like seven years [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► eve and this year i downloaded Curt [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► Smith formerly of Tears for Fears or [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► perhaps still of two structures I don't [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► keep up with them but he just called [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► this is Christmas that I i I've really [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► been enjoying to and for my daughter [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► there's an artist like listen to [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► elizabeth mitchell who has just released [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► a collection of old American folk carols [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► and there's like twenty four of them and [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► it'sit's just against very gentle very [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► focused very low key and that [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► that's some traditional ones like lo how [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► a rose e'er blooming Mary was the queen [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► of Galilee and children go where I send [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► the withdrawal classics that I like and [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► then I've got a couple there so they [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► hadn't heard of before but I've been [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► enjoying that album too so it's in other [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► words is pretty much the opposite of [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► what Phyllis all right Phil it's your [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► different levels of us have it in LIC [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► it's cranky uncle bastard's turn well [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► well let me tell you your children you [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► would not believe the negotiations we [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► have to go through when we when we try [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► to listen to music if it's alternating [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► it's well I'll play to type here and [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► he'll come unless the the the Christmas [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► songs I kind of dig that no youyou can't [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► necessarily play in mixed company [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► I like father Christmas by the kinks [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► oh yeah that's which is a wonderful song [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► about privation at the holidays and [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► robbery and robbery yes thank you money [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► I like i won't be home for christmas by [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► blink-182 which is a peppy little song [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► in which are our hero is thrown into the [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► clinic for for christmas i hate to see [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► Christmas come around by jimmy [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► witherspoon which is a nice little blues [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► song about oh I he's got troubles jimmy [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► witherspoon and you know it's that's [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► very enjoyable but I i also like songs [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► that don't make you want to open a vein [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► so I like mele kalikimaka chris isaak [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► version is quite quite Pepe and [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► delightful i mentioned Dinah Washington [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► silent night [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► it's not really a Christmas song at all [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► but hepcats holiday by cat and the [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► fiddle is is just it a delightful little [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► tune and that that gets me in the [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► holiday spirit [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► I won't say which holiday i like the [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► barenaked ladies Sarah McLaughlin not a [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► jam on God rest ye merry I like that one [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► too a lot [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► well there you go see we do like things [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► this is true like the whole it's a [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► Christmas year [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► we don't like that you were the one who [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► originally suggested that we actually [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► bring a whole bag full of an appropriate [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► instruments [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► I've met inappropriate instruments not a [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► jingle bell yeah i was gonna bring in [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► Morocco's in and a mouth harp [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► where's my open horn and today uh you [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► know please come home from christmas by [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► uh dad I think Charles Brown does the [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► version like bring that Cadillac back oh [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► this is back in the saddle christmas [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► songs by the dock back the orchestra [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► little woman you've done wrong me so [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► give me back that Cadillac I gave you is [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► basically the theme of that song sort of [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► us equal to santa baby [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► yes units if it's like it's like the the [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► bitter echo of santa baby quite right [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► Steve thank you and I like you're all i [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► want for for christmas by the [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► persuasions that's a really nice offer i [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► love it every time you play free makes [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► me happy so there there are those of the [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► proper Christmas songs to listen to you [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► didn't celebrate Christmas the Philip [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► Mike so noted so notice a fistful of [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► bourbon and a heart full of hate is ever [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► too yes you you know you want an album [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► called Christmas the film Michaels way i [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► do or cranky uncle bastard it could also [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► become our fist full of bourbon in there [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► and listen to that I've got a few that i [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► wanted to mention so I i have Frank [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► Sinatra's christmas album with with that [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► Frank Sinatra swing and christmas is [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► that it would be produced a lot of [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► christmas albums I i like to envision [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► Sinatra would walk into the studio and [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► like where we're doing this in one take [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► baby boom I've got a girl back in the [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► hotel room and storms out and so yeah he [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► got attacked the highlight come on i [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► have a jolly christmas from Frank [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► Sinatra which is is a couple of the [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► tracks are really great and are cure [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► Frank Sinatra voice & Christmas music [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► and it's just magic and then there are [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► the the ones where it's very much like [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► the producers like oh I don't know at [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► and it's totally laden with backup [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► singers [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► everything that's a sign of something [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► terrible right that is everything that [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► is every Sinatra christmas album because [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► i have a Christmas with Sinatra i think [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► it is and it's a lot of his early stuff [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► but it that their sons that the sominex [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► backup singers join about we're gonna [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► squirt anything it is quite dreadful you [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► really want to cover up Frank's voice oh [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► yeah especially is his early voice when [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► he could still saying and there's a [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► version there's a there's a cut on the [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► album that i have where it's Frank [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► Sinatra sings you the lord's prayer [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► which really does not school just not [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► forever regardless of what you think of [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► the Lord's Prayer and and i'm in favor [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► of it generally listeners but I not [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► really not really deserves that [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► no it is it is my uncle actually saying [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► the Lord he's an opera singer sing the [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► Lord's Prayer at a couple of funerals [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► and made me cry so I'll ok good it works [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► well your uncle is better than Frank [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► Sinatra's and Frank Sinatra doing is one [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► take and then storming out of the studio [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► to go Neal the gardener yeah yeah so [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► anyway that Frank Sinatra you take it [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► you take the rough you take the i [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► actually enjoy doing the shuffle that [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► includes the entire album because you [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► you'll get it you'll be like a Frank and [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► then a couple tracks later like 1000 [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► break no don't do it [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► so there's that I nat king cole's [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► christmas album I mean obviously you're [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► there for chestnuts roasting on an open [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► fire the Christmas song which is a [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► classic and that's one of those that [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► hits me you know right right in the [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► heart that's just that that that's [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► that's the sound of Christmas for me but [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► there's some other nice stuff on there [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► and that again is a nice traditional [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► christmas album lots of Chris lots of a [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► traditional songs and I like that one a [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► lot i'm not going to- yet so I'm not [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► going to mention that thing with several [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► some some songs that I like uh Eric [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► already mentioned fountains of wayne but [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► i really liked your song the man in the [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► Santa suit which is about a sweaty [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► backup Santa who was called into action [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► with because the first Santa has has a [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► gotten sick that's really enjoyable the [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► life of our department store Santa I i [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► enjoy Guster's carol of the meows which [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► in many ways be modern updated version [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► of the barking dogs [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► well then it's alright with me yeah [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► which is the carol of the bells except [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► with the young like cats [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► no son by men who are singing like I am [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► in my own the story the story's me I'm [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► yeah [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► history is that all rock are a kind of [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► all folk band cut Guster when they were [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► releasing one of their albums in the [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► heyday of Napster they released a [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► version of on the internet properly [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► labeled but what they did was they [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► replaced all the vocals on it with them [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► just now saying instead of the lyrics [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► and uh and it became actually kind of a [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► cult hit was later released as a meow [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► only album on itunes anyway they did [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► they [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► carol of the bells version with just [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► meows and it's actually delightful i [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► enjoy spinal taps Christmas with a devil [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► far more than I should and you know [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► that's there's nothing there's nothing [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► wrong with that [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► there'll be no father christmas because [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► its evils holiday that's you got it and [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► I feel so bad about Uncle John yeah [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► exactly [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► I i really enjoy uh a song called i hear [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► the bells by Mike Doty that is a kind of [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► fun christmas christmas song that i [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► really like I insist the bells are [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► ringing by they might be giants as a [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► christmas song even though other people [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► like Lex Friedman disagree i find a very [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► Christmasy and a and a condemnation of [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► Christmas commercialism and I i bought [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► John jonathan coulton John Roderick's [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► christmas album last year and I thought [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► it was a you know it's the batting [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► averages about half really good songs [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► and half kind of their songs but the [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► good ones are great including a [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► fantastic song called 2600 which is [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► entirely about me because it is about a [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► kid demanding only one thing for [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► Christmas and that's an atari 2600 so [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► those those songs that I like a lot [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► the day you go you all refused to adhere [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► to my totally arbitrary way of [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► partitioning out the podcast i now have [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► to sneak in later with more modern [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► sounds before although i forgot to [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► mention one that I like four as a kid [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► which is a John Denver and the muppets [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► doing oh yes is coming [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► yes it's a good song around with Miss [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► Piggy scooter and gonzo over this bouncy [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► little Caribbean rhythm some other that [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► it's a very good album some of the cuts [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► don't hold up so well and after the [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► years but that one is a that sensational [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► you know the song about screw [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► from up and christmas carol is very good [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► although I don't really think that's a [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► Christmas song i guess i should because [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► it's about screwed though I was always a [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► little disappointed they never did a [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► rendition of please daddy don't get [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► drunk this christmas it but I like [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► christmas is coming a lot and I don't [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► think Phil had heard that song untill [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► you married me [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► no I hadn't known i've grown I've [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► actually grown i used to not like it and [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► now I did kind of do [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► yeah what's all my god my father please [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► daddy don't get drunk this christmas is [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► as now I kinda like that what i love [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► about that song is the children's course [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► that kicks in at the fine anytime you [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► bring in children's chorus into the song [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► with potential for to go horribly wrong [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► is is just trembling on the precipice [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► but but everyone's well it's deployed to [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► great effect you know the thing with [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► please daddy don't get drunk this [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► christmas i don't know what the big deal [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► is I mean daddy gets drunk and mama [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► cries but he really doesn't do much [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► other than role in late knock over the [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► Christmas tree that maybe bar finish [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► stocking and pass out under the tree but [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► he heard no one let him be no no he [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► knocks over the tree Steve pay attention [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► to the lyrics he Christmas trees fall [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► over pretty easily mine fell over twice [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► follows putting it up and how much were [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► you drinking not okay come on [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► I think Steve's point is he's not an [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► angry drunk is kind of a is kind of a [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► light-hearted cordial trancas might be [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► invited on podcast it's probably better [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► that he gets drunk this christmas i'm [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► just thinking maybe mom is overreacting [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► just a little the others are some actual [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► modern stuff that I was gonna mention i [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► really like this tune by gorky's zygotic [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► monkey to Welsh band songs called [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► Christmas Eve and it's just the world's [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► prettiest little acoustic guitar melody [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► and and then at the very end they come [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► in with this sort of angelic sounding [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► vocal and all these things is the star [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► you fell in love to comes out on [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► Christmas Eve and and it just somehow [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► perfectly evokes standing out under the [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► stars in a snowy field with your with [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► your true love on christmas evensen just [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► a nice little song I've I enjoy a song [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► by Elvis called feliz navidad ax which [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► is a mash-up of Feliz Navidad which I I [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► think he just cannot be cheered up by [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► Feliz Navidad I'd and public image which [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► bizarrely works perfectly with Feliz [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► Navidad [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► so that's a good little tune I also a [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► big fan [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► of thanks for Christmas by i think they [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► call themselves the wise men but it's [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► actually just XTC which is just a [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► perfect pop christmas song it's got this [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► wonderfully be totally piece of music [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► that would've been a great too and even [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► without the Christmas elements but then [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► they also throw in that the bells and [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► the harp and this totally cheesy lyric [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► that nonetheless sounds kind of [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► heartfelt so I'm big fan of that one [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► and lastly i think i have to mention Bob [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► and Doug McKenzie doing the twelve days [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► of Christmas and beer beauty on the [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► first day of Christmas my true love gave [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► to me beer here in a 35 golden 264 [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► pounds back bacon three french toasts I [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► like that version because they speed the [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► song up penis [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► yeah they just gave up after like eight [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► I get pretty impatient with parodies of [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► twelve days of Christmas because it just [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► takes so long to get to each new line [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► towards the end of the song they get [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► today seven and I think they just jump [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► straight to welcome to day 12 i did [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► remember to other things [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► Duke Ellington has a fantastic [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► Nutcracker and his musics not bad either [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► but seriously no it's it's a wonderful [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► set of the Nutcracker and the Bob's too [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► many Santas is just a lovely album move [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► very silly songs including they have one [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► with jonathan katz as a guest vocalist [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► called Santa's got a brand new bag that [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► is [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► again just delightful alright attention [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► listeners this ends the part of the show [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► where we're positive about christmas [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► music if you don't want us to ruin your [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► happy feelings for warm fuzzy feelings [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► about the holiday season by tearing [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► apart some beloved holiday music you [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► should stop listening now consider this [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► the end of the show thanks for listening [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► happy holidays we love everything see [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► you next week [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► okay we've reversed the streams and now [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► we're going to talk about things that [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► are awful [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► thanks for sticking with us again if you [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► are a super positive person who doesn't [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► like anybody saying anything negative [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► about anything [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► abandon all hope can we get negative now [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► Steve oh yes weekend I'd like believe we [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► can do this in many ways is like a [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► Christmas gathering where everyone tries [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► to be nice for the first hour and then [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► sends and then everything goes to hell [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► that's right all right let's get [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► negative can I can I just posit at and I [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► realize this may be going out on a limb [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► but that that in Christmas it's a [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► marshmallow world is the worst Christmas [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► song ever written [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► I'll never heard of that no tell you [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► head-butted is quite bad [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► this is this is I'd never really heard [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► it before and then I was listening to my [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► my television provider also has you know [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► digital music channels and we had a tune [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► to the Christmas channel at course as [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► you do and this is a few years ago it's [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► like five or ten years ago and and the [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► song came on and and I i was [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► increasingly horrified the Dean Martin [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► version i'm thinking of is the laziest [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► Sallust most pathetic set of lyrics it's [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► it's yeah to to continue the Sinatra [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► metaphor where he storms into the studio [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► does one take and storms out Dean Martin [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► started staggers into the studio set a [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► pattern let's sing a song now and then [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► he does the the song and does this one [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► taken i was that there was a great okay [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► i'm at her ear and so the way I'm going [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► to well Frank nearly regard [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► yeah so marshmallow world christmas that [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► is that is Dean Martin at his Dean [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► Martin yeast yeah it's not a fan I think [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► that went bad that that actually is the [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► thing that I have the most impatient for [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► uh other other than yes the pop star pop [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► album where they take some song that had [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► some sort of nuance or meeting and they [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► built the heck out of it and they do a [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► lot of different runs and stuff to show [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► that their voices are great and compete [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► like you're talking about jessica [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► simpson i feel i was i was going to go [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► back to mariah carey but sure yeah that [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► works too jessica simpson track from [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► when we did the compilations of like the [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► worst and values do because we send out [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► see we have I saw Mommy Kissing Santa [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► Claus first I hate that Carol anyway [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► yeah yeah there's not a good version of [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► that but Jessica Simpson's brings it to [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► a whole new level of disgusting and full [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► yeah like to make it soulful know trying [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► to make it sexy [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► yeah she's kind of like she's kind of [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► that Santa will gesture over and then [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► we'll be some elbow you have to actually [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► if there is ever a song that you say you [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► know what let's not make this one sexy [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► it sighs softly kissing santa claus [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► let's not sex that one that time my kids [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► watch me wearing it [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► let's let's talk about I saw Mommy [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► Kissing Santa Claus for a minute because [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► for me that's probably the worst it's [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► pretty bad and I mean the Jimmy Boyd [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► original sounds like he's singing with [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► his huge old-timey close but in traffic [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► and neck and that's that's bad enough [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► but the spike jonze overhead which is [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► sung by grown man George work is utterly [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► egregious I implore you to listen to the [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► Jackson 5 version [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► yeah wit ya which is all right because [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► they're doing the Jackson 5 thing where [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► they're all spinning around and it's it [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► and and Michael's in and this is michael [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► and his end his youngest and cutest and [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► his belt and now nevermind quite weird [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► and then he's a buddy oh what goes weird [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► right at the end I'm gonna tell that it [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► was really you know you're thinking oh [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► god Joe Jackson's gonna beat his wife [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► and joe jackson is gonna be like [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► everyone singing a song with a sock full [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► of oranges they're the ones that should [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► be saying i hope that he doesn't get [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► drunk [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► yes yeah that's miss spike jonze [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► business though with the fake giggles [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► and the oh boy oh yeah creepy as hell he [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► sounds like he's being castrated as the [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► song is being recorded [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► even if there was a good version of that [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► dish the story that unfolds through [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► those lyrics oh god like santa baby [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► which is my other bugbear in a baby [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► didn't make a terrible team movie based [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► on the song I saw Mommy Kissing Santa [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► Claus I believe starting one of the kids [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► from home improvement of course they did [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► also a concern to a circle of how i [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► would say are the happen fide the lyrics [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► of something like i'll be home for [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► Christmas which is always found [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► offensive because that is a sad song [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► that is it that was a song [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► just happy version of that yeah Oh God [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► most of them have been happy fide I have [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► you know that it's i'll i'll be home for [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► christmas and you know you can count on [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► me and it's all like i'll be home for [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► christmas literally and significant oh [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► I'm on the united flight right now [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► yeah yeah and it were originally was [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► about servicemen like overseas not being [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► home for Christmas exactly except in [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► their dreams i know they changed the [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► words when that was a big cross B it [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► they rerecorded it with changed words to [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► make it more positive they also they [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► also do that with one of my favorite [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► switches have yourself a merry little [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► christmas because the original version [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► and as says song in meet me in st. Louis [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► is actually kind of Graham because it's [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► about a never going to see my loved ones [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► again because they're moving to [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► different places a exactly overall that [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► we're all being flung to the the for [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► current corners of the earth and death [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► waits for everybody but that the lyrics [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► get changed over the years I couldn't [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► think of a lot of things that I [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► absolutely hated except that i'm i'm [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► right with you Jason as far as the the [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► radio songs where it some pop star [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► showing off and thats and they don't [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► even know yeah it's just that they're [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► just they're singing but it's a modern [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► version of the Frank Sinatra swoops in [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► to record something where it's like oh [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► is this a song okay I've never heard it [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► before but i'll sing the heck out of it [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► okay I'm gonna go where's my paycheck [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► yeah exactly that bothers me and [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► actually speaking of radio stations that [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► play christmas music I was in edmonton [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► with my spouse last Christmas and they [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► have not one but two stations that play [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► christmas music while continually all [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► month long so as we were driving around [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► town which we did quite a bit [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► we are I like to flip through the radio [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► stations while anytime they're just kind [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► of get an idea for what the different [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► music is like in canada and it's not [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► that different but we heard a lot of [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► Christmas songs and almost every time I [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► just wanted to change the station right [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► away because it was often one of those [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► obnoxious songs but the one song that [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► that came to mind and he's gonna he's [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► gonna hate me because we would drive [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► around and Stephen would say I just want [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► to hear feliz navidad i just went [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► alright he was so excited and in my head [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► I'm going oh please don't play that the [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► one song i do not want to hear cuz I can [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► that stand it just gets on my nerves so [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► much yeah you're the NTC yeah we're back [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► to where I'm back to being anti Steve [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► good good all is right with the world [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► yes yeah I feel like I feel like we've [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► done a good thing here so i want to wish [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► you a Merry Christmas we wish you a [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► Merry Christmas we wish you a merry [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► christmas from the bottom of my MA [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► yes Steve high-five my spouse steven is [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► listening right now I'm sure you just [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► made his night huh and ruin everyone [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► else's you all right Steve the two songs [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► i hate the most [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► our unfortunately to that Erika said she [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► liked no jingle bell rock and rockin [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► around the Christmas tree that Yuri [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► eight let's talk about rockin around the [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► christmas tree i wanted to our jingle [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► bell rock let's talk about bowl okay [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► there's no parking in either one of them [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► there's certain ethical cynical songs [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► written by people who just wanted to [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► appeal to those darn teenyboppers said [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► well if we call it jingle bell rock [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► that's like writing a rock song look at [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► least Rocking song ever written for her [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► perhaps the worst Christmas song lyric [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► ever is giddy-up jingle horse pick up [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► your feet [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► I just argue with that it's just a [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► tattoo guy like catchy it is catching [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► it's evil but it's catchy [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► that's what we're saying Phil what is [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► your what is your grievance with rockin [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► around the Christmas tree [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► well I is it which one is the one that [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► whole notes does the borough jingle bell [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► rock that my grievances with that for [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► you are with me hunt down the nineteen [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► eighties video that whole notes did so [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► for for Chico Bell Rock away cuz god [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► bless our coats because he is going on [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► has thrown only 120 know that's the [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► director to say the director clearly [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► said to them all right [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► haulin oats ear this is very festive and [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► you're at a party then they're wearing [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► ugly sweaters and before that became an [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► ironic thing to do hey what you're [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► you're at a party and it's the best [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► party you've ever been [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► the note said oats took that direction [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► to heart because his face is not that [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► his face is frozen in this rictus of [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► merriment and his moustache might just [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► be weighing his muscles down its and [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► they are dancing around and having a and [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► having a grand old time and it will it [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► will haunt your dreams as you watch them [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► I I please find it now [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► pause this podcast active everyone [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► within the sound of my voice [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► go to youtube or go to the vh1 and find [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► haulin oats singing the song it does the [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► both of those songs have the feeling was [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► like hey the kids have this new thing [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► the rock and roll this is what Monty was [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► saying the teenyboppers it [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► let's do songs like that but but about [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► thought about the holidays then they [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► couldn't even be bothered to write a new [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► song in the case of jingle bell rock [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► just somebody's in an office somewhere [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► saying we need a christmas carol that [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► the kids will listen to you know [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► something like jingle bells but with Rob [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► I don't know [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► jingle bell rock and or roll David do [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► you have particular things that you [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► would like to complain about [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► well I have 21 which has bugged me for [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► well I close to 40 years i guess it's [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► it's almost that old Paul McCartney's [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► wonderful actress all my god the [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► landmine haven't been you know I mean [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► that's crap bout but it's lex friedman [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► least favorite song of all time you know [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► that dude could write a good song if he [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► wanted to [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► Steve yes simply wonderful christmastime [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► simply having a wonderful christmas time [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► repeat that your heart is actually ok [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► that that little melody is not horrible [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► but yes they're gonna rest of the song [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► that is a really lutely dreadful and and [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► you know it's like he had one line and [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► went hey that's good [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► ok and you know and it got to the point [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► where when when my wife and I were first [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► dating that was one of those things that [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► Bond's a couple you know it's like oh [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► that's all [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► brought together by hate that's like a [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► deal-breaker if they do like it [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► she made me write a parody of it and so [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► that was that's punishment enough for [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► both of you and that parody turned out [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► to be our wedding vows well actually no [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► I realized you could sing john lennon's [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► happy xmas war is over against simply [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► having a wonderful christmas time it's a [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► counterpoint it's really creepy so [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► lennon-mccartney there you go if you [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► work in ringo starr's I want to be Santa [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► Claus than you really hit the truck and [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► I'm still working on it i have a team [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► students that has a research grant for [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► that by the way christmas time is here [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► again by the beatles is actually a much [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► worse song and simply having a wonderful [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► christmas time the heat Ringo [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► declaration of that on his most recent [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► Christmas album it's just wanting to [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► Ringo would try to live off the glory of [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► the beatles it's kind of hard to believe [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► I don't like the phrase most recent [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► christmas album [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► yeah but i have to say i found a new [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► song or a relatively new song a couple [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► of weeks ago that I don't know it might [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► be even worse for me [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► christina aguilera's cover of the [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► Christmas song which oh it's I mean go [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► again if you can hear this go and listen [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► to it especially the holiday remix [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► that's the even better version as [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► opposed to go above and beyond holiday [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► remix of the Christmases it's I don't [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► know if if mel torme or nat king cole [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► like drowned her puppy when she was a [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► child because it's like she wants to [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► take this song and pummel it into [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► submission it it's every vocal trick x [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► 10 you know if she does a trail she'll [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► do 10 drills at once at the backbeat and [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► it i mean it's worse than all I have all [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► I want for Christmas is you i mean it is [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► suddenly mariah carey is not so bad [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► anymore [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► well I refuse your dad but another other [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► words i'm sorry the federal has no cells [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► to listen to it on when you push me for [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► I'm sure Mel Torme isn't that mad [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► because he wrote the songs what Lisa's [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► getting paid for what [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► but I think using different actually [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► succeed yeah that's when something [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► doesn't even have an opinion on his [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► errors or are not that man no you shut [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► up felt army isn't dead but we talking [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► about the velvet fog [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► yeah we are on the name he hated i [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► believe will live forever but is dead [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► wait a minute all right [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► hey Phil I believe you've got a whole [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► bucket of negativity coming [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► why don't you pour it out and let's all [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► just witness actually Jason I'm full of [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► love and happiness i'm very happy to [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► hear that but my wife is fuming and I [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► think he wants to talk about things that [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► she hates all right i feel you put me on [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► the spot here now I just wanted to talk [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► about how much I hate time santa baby [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► yet which is one of those songs that no [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► one can ever do right because the basic [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► and fundamental message of the song is [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► disgusting and gross that's true and yet [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► within that within that spectrum you can [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► do it really really really badly [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► yes you which is to have the affected [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► Betty Boop voice what level of office [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► and to maybe going to be because Madonna [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► awful [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► oh you know I think I heard you liek [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► Simpson to a cover of it was usually a [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► michelle those version of it now i don't [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► remember any ear every lady Shion to see [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► doesn't every lady chanteuse who's ever [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► desperately needs to know that she's [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► pretty doesn't cover of it [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► yeah you know it's validate me so i just [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► checked and you'll be glad to know glee [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► has done santa baby about a hapless yeah [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► ryan murphy is a force for evil I [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► wouldn't have done it so I just like [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► that 1i am have no opinion on baby it's [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► cold outside anymore because i always [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► keep you like that to rest with their [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► wonderful wonderful take off no no no we [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► need to discuss this [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► this is very important I was ready to to [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► let you know baby it's cold outside go [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► because you know everyone just say hey [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► this is connected with date right about [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► date rape URF URF over there that i was [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► going to know about that letter not yeah [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► a little bit I I think society had given [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► up on that song or I thought it had even [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► and then last year Lisa M didn't want to [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► get emotional on this podcast last year [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► john travolta oh that's a little [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► newton-john did it didn't happen [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► Christmas standards i really wasn't i [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► did baby it's cold outside of this [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► except except except John Travolta is [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► the person who's I hit ya gotta go and [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► within just got no I think it's gonna go [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► I think I think we're gonna we're gonna [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► get busy tonight and high [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► I've locked all the doors lock from the [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► outside didn't know your truck with my [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► judgments coming [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► I I don't really think if you can that [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► way and love you do John says grease is [TS]

00:59:42 ◼   ► the word baby and it's like the [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► heartwarming version of misery [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► listen to that song and listen to John [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► your focus tired voice as he's just [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► cranky i really like signature sobs I [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► agree with you that sounds like it [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► sounds like a hostage video [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► yeah i agree with you there [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► yeah i agree with you there [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► however i am the video John Travolta's [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► thinking is distressed for I stand by my [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► stand by my search that key and Peele [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► have definitively the date-rape up [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► questions to rest with their takeoff [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► hmm and I I urge everybody to look for [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► for that on youtube because that's [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► awesome you know that same gender swap [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► two baby it's cold outside was done by [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► lady gaga and Joseph gordon-levitt in [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► what I'm sure you remember as lady gaga [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular from [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► like a week and a half ago I i get this [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► image is it just gordon-levitt is played [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► down for a lot more things than John [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► Travolta is that like he seems to me [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► like he's an adventurer shame and that [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► was maybe the only decent moment that [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► whole special gathers depressing special [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► there's also oh I really hate there's [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► one called mary did you know that comes [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► on occasionally and its basic and and [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► the whole premise of the songs mary are [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► you were that the baby that you're [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► holding is going to be horribly [TS]

01:00:52 ◼   ► crucified in approximately thirty-three [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► years and and do you realize what a [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► grave responsibility is to take this [TS]

01:00:58 ◼   ► tiny child and look at it and realize [TS]

01:01:00 ◼   ► that you're gonna watch and be tortured [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► to death for salvation [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► did you know that Mary are you okay with [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► that Mary sounds uplifting yes yes it's [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► like the dude who bought brought [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► murderer [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► yeah yeah and then she's giving birth in [TS]