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Encore: Christmas Songs of the 1980s · Children of the 80s

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  Speaker 1: Whether you would prefer a blue, white merry or happy Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: then this episode is for you. Stay tuned as we
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  Speaker 1: dive into our favorite eighties Christmas songs.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up next, Welcome back to Children of the Eighties.
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  Speaker 3: I am one of your hosts, Jim, and I am
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  Speaker 3: joined as always by the lady who just wants to
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  Speaker 3: simply have a wonderful Christmas time. It's my co host, Lindsay.
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  Speaker 1: But instead we continue to have a hard candy Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: We do.
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  Speaker 1: Year after year.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like there's a lot more than twelve days
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  Speaker 3: of Christmas. As we wind down, I can tell you that.
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  Speaker 1: Much woo many days of Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: We never ever ever have a white Christmas down here.
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  Speaker 1: No, and boy, I wish that we could just one year,
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  Speaker 1: one time, one year, one time. And you know, our
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  Speaker 1: our friends in Minnesota are rolling their eyes at us
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 3: Because they probably never not have a white cris I'm sure,
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  Speaker 3: but I can't relate to that at all, and I
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  Speaker 3: would like to.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 3: I grew up in Saint Louis, you know, where it
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  Speaker 3: snowed quite a bit. I'm not, obviously, not as much
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  Speaker 3: as Minnesota or Wisconsin or North Dakota or anything like that,
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  Speaker 3: but it snowed quite a bit. But I can honestly
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  Speaker 3: only remember three or four maybe white Christmas is where
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  Speaker 3: there was actually snow on the ground on Christmas Day.
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  Speaker 3: Really yeah, it just didn't happen that often. One of
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  Speaker 3: them was actually when I was an adult and I
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  Speaker 3: went back home to visit and it snowed Christmas Eve.
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  Speaker 1: Growing up in Atlanta or north just north of Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: you can dart outside, say and check your mailbox in
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  Speaker 1: the cold. You don't have to like gear up to go, say,
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  Speaker 1: take your trash out or whatever. But I remember my
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  Speaker 1: godfathers was from Wisconsin, and I remember my godmother telling
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  Speaker 1: my mom that when they would go back home to
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  Speaker 1: visit his family, that you had to bundle up to
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  Speaker 1: take out the trash. And my mom, you know how
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  Speaker 1: simple and sweet my mom was, she couldn't get that.
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  Speaker 1: She could not wrap her head around, and she would
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  Speaker 1: bring it up all the time. You know, people in
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  Speaker 1: Wisconsin they have to put on snow boots to take
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  Speaker 1: their trash out.
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  Speaker 3: So I went to college in southern Missouri, and there
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  Speaker 3: were times where I would walk across campus with like
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  Speaker 3: a light coat or maybe even a coat, but maybe
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  Speaker 3: not zipped up, just trying to get to my car
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  Speaker 3: or whatever, and the wind would blow and it would
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  Speaker 3: just like cut you through the bone. Really, it just
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  Speaker 3: literally made you miserable and it hurt. That's how cold
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  Speaker 3: it got at times. Oh wow, And so yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: understand the you got to bundle up to go outside.
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  Speaker 3: Not here now were sometimes here. I've walked around in
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  Speaker 3: shorts on Christmas Day.
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  Speaker 1: I had a friend stop by the other night to
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  Speaker 1: drop something off, and it was cold outside. The sun
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  Speaker 1: had gone down and it was cold. But I went
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  Speaker 1: outside in like a T shirt and stood in the
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  Speaker 1: driveway and talked to her for a few minutes.
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  Speaker 3: You're not doing that Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 5: No, I know.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I'm saying. I might not survive in Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: or Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 3: No, Illinois, any of that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, I might not make it. So probably if
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  Speaker 1: we go anywhere, probably should head south from here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't like Christmas with palm trees, unless we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna be in Hawaii for Christmas. Hawaii where I would
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  Speaker 3: say melikaliki maka.
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  Speaker 1: You think you're so cool when you say that, I do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you think that you're Hawaiian.
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think I'm not don Ho.
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  Speaker 6: Jim Ho.
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  Speaker 3: Oh goodness. I think maybe if I had taken the
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  Speaker 3: name of some of my ex girlfriends, that might have
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  Speaker 3: been my new gim Oh that was fun.
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  Speaker 1: You got anything else for it?
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  Speaker 3: I'm done A stick a fork in me? But so
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  Speaker 3: anything else going on, any feedback from last episode or anything.
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  Speaker 1: I got nothing?
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  Speaker 3: You got No, that's not true.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I got nothing. Well, here's what I'm worried about.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the episodes that I feel like, oh, this is
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  Speaker 1: creative and this is going to really bring back the
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  Speaker 1: memories and it just comes across like a thud with people.
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  Speaker 1: So I enjoyed doing our episode. It really gave me
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  Speaker 1: the warm fuzzies from remembering my childhood. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 3: I heard back from some people and they agreed, and
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  Speaker 3: some of them have even said, I want to go
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  Speaker 3: back and look through my wish books.
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  Speaker 1: They have their wish books I had to buy hours.
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  Speaker 3: Or maybe they'll get online and find out.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but do you know what that wish
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  Speaker 1: book cost us? A fortune? Can we write that off
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  Speaker 1: on our tax.
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  Speaker 3: We can write that off on our taxes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, that's good because it was not cheap. I'm
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  Speaker 1: totally distracted tonight because we had new windows put in.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't plan so we didn't budget for new blinds,
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  Speaker 1: so we don't have blinds on these windows.
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  Speaker 3: On some of the windows.
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  Speaker 1: And you and Emmy have set up like a landing
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  Speaker 1: strip in the front yard for Santa. And that's all
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  Speaker 1: I'm catching out of the corner of my eye, flashing
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  Speaker 1: these flashing like land here lights.
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  Speaker 3: I can text her and tell her to go turn
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  Speaker 3: it off if it's that much of a distraction.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, it'll be fine.
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  Speaker 3: Are you sure? Because you keep looking out there? Are
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  Speaker 3: you sure it's gonna be fine?
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  Speaker 1: Actually really like it. I just looked back to be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of cool.
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  Speaker 3: There's actually nine different modes on that bad Boy, so
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  Speaker 3: we can change it up. You can do like the
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  Speaker 3: Nine Days of Christmas. I love that, all right? So
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  Speaker 3: you ready to get to today? So wait for you
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  Speaker 3: more stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But we did hear from a new listener, Chuck Bryan.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, we had heard from him last time, right.
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  Speaker 3: He said that he had discovered us or he was
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  Speaker 3: listening to our show while sticking four hours worth of
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  Speaker 3: traffic or three hours worth of traffic or whatever. But
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  Speaker 3: then you know, when we mentioned him last week on
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  Speaker 3: the podcast, he actually replied to you and said, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you actually do have a new listener. So that's cool.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks Chuck for listening.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Chuck, you know what, stick with us for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Buddy and I.
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  Speaker 3: Also want to throw a shout out. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: talk about a lot of similar podcasts to us, and
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  Speaker 3: there's one that's ish right similar ish to our podcast,
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  Speaker 3: But that's our good buddy, Sean with Smoking Sounds podcast. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Sean is so supportive of the podcast community and his friends.
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  Speaker 3: He's always promoting us on x or Instagram or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: and not just us, but the group of friends that
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  Speaker 3: we've basically made. He's always throwing it out there to us.
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  Speaker 3: So I just want to throw some out there to
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  Speaker 3: him and say, hey, listen, if you're looking for a podcast,
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  Speaker 3: you like good music, you're into cigars, or even if
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  Speaker 3: you're not into cigars, we just like good music. He
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  Speaker 3: talks a lot of wrestling, but it's just good conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Go check them out. Smoking Sounds, great podcast, better person.
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  Speaker 1: Sean deserves all of the good things that the podcast
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  Speaker 1: world may offer. Indeed, you ready let's go. This is
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  Speaker 1: a podcast that looks back on the decade of the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighties. We talk about things that were important to
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  Speaker 1: us as children and what we look back on with
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  Speaker 1: fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a nostalgia podcast and.
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  Speaker 3: This episode is all about Christmas music, as you mentioned
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  Speaker 3: earlier before we open the show. Really and because of
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  Speaker 3: Christmas music, I know how to say Merry Christmas in
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  Speaker 3: five languages. Did you know that?
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was just Hawaiian?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I do know Hawaiian melkaliki macha.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 3: That's the thing to say on a bright hawai and
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  Speaker 3: Christmas day. You didn't know. At least that's what Bing
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  Speaker 3: tells me. Merry Christmas. Obviously, English, well.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't count.
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  Speaker 8: Language.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get to count.
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  Speaker 3: English is a language. To our UK listeners, Happy Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: That's a different form of English, the Queen's English, I
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  Speaker 3: believe they call it. To our Italian listeners bon Natali.
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  Speaker 3: And to our listeners in Mexico and Panama police navidad.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Now I have a question Mexico and Panama.
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  Speaker 3: I mean why because we have listeners there. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know that listeners in El Salvador.
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  Speaker 1: Well, why did you specifically call out Panama because.
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  Speaker 3: Panama absolutely love that song about you guys. All right,
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  Speaker 3: so we both love Christmas music. So give me, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, maybe your top five Christmas songs that you like.
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  Speaker 1: Someone, Well, I didn't used to like Christmas music. Do
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  Speaker 1: you remember when we first met.
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  Speaker 3: You hated Christmas? You were there.
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  Speaker 1: I was the Grench. I was very anti Christmas, anti
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  Speaker 1: Christmas music. My gifts I didn't want to receive. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I would have received a gift.
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  Speaker 3: It was because your heart was two sides is too small.
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  Speaker 1: It was so I oh my love for Christmas to
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  Speaker 1: you and your family.
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  Speaker 5: Woo.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So with that being said, what was your question?
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  Speaker 3: What are your top five favorite Christmas songs? You need
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  Speaker 3: like the exact top five, but just give you know
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  Speaker 3: songs that you love.
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  Speaker 1: Well, don't don't at me all I want for Christmas?
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  Speaker 3: Mariah? Okay, I would agree with.
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  Speaker 1: That Baby It's Cold Outside, any.
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  Speaker 8: Version, not just the Dean Martin version, any version.
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  Speaker 1: I love Baby It's Cold Outside now post me too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure how okay that song is that songs fine,
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  Speaker 1: but I enjoyed the song bowatly, It's Merry Christmas to you. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that was that King Cole.
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  Speaker 3: He was singing it with somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why. I'm not Italian, obviously, I love
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  Speaker 1: that song. The first time I heard it, I instantly
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  Speaker 1: was like, put that on repeat.
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  Speaker 3: Yes you did. You loved it immediately, which was funny
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  Speaker 3: to me. But it is a good song. It's a
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  Speaker 3: fun song for sure.
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  Speaker 1: What is that Darlene loves song when she's.
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  Speaker 3: Like, Christmas Baby, please come home.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I love that one.
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  Speaker 3: I think we'll be talking about that one a little
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  Speaker 3: bit next week due.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's the one that I'm afraid you're gonna leap
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  Speaker 1: across the table to come at me over.
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  Speaker 8: Santa, tell me, Santa, tell me.
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  Speaker 1: Arianna Grande, I'm sorry, don't don't be mad. That's a
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  Speaker 1: really good catchy tune. I'm gonna say something.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Give this song twenty years, and I bet it's a classic.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what I know. I know when I first heard
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  Speaker 3: Mariah Carey's like the very first time I said it,
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  Speaker 3: I said that one's already a Christmas classic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I feel like hers might be as well.
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  Speaker 1: I got one moraphoria.
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  Speaker 3: Before you go on. The person that neck King Cole
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  Speaker 3: was singing Bonatali with was Anthony Hamilton.
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  Speaker 1: It was another guy. Yes, Why did I think there
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  Speaker 1: was a female voice in there? Okay, I guess it's
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  Speaker 1: my female voice probably. Okay, I got one more. I
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  Speaker 1: saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus with the Jackson five. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: because little Michael's voice.
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  Speaker 9: I did.
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  Speaker 1: I did, Yes, I absolutely love that. And every time
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  Speaker 1: I hear it, I go around then imitating him. I'm
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  Speaker 1: waiting for you or Emmy to be like stah nah,
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  Speaker 1: but he's always like I did.
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  Speaker 3: I did a Christmas time. This is the twenty five
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  Speaker 3: to twenty nine days of the year that I'm actually
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  Speaker 3: in a good movie.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I love it? So what about you?
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  Speaker 3: So I would say, oh, holy night the net King
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  Speaker 3: Cole version love that one. Do you see what I see?
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  Speaker 3: Or do you hear what I hear? I forget they
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  Speaker 3: say them both, but I would hear that. I worked
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  Speaker 3: at a place that is now defunct when I was
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  Speaker 3: in college called Frank's Nursery and Crafts, and it was
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  Speaker 3: kind of like a Michaels and a Pike's Nursery combined
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  Speaker 3: and so they would play Christmas music NonStop, and I
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  Speaker 3: would always hear the Johnny Mathis version, but I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know it was Johnny Mathis, and so I spent most
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  Speaker 3: of my adult life trying to find that version. That
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  Speaker 3: is my favorite version. I believe we may be talking
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  Speaker 3: about that next week too, because next week we're reviewing Grimlins,
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  Speaker 3: and I believe it's the Johnny Mathis version that's in
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  Speaker 3: that movie, along with Darlene Love's Christmas Baby, Please Come Home.
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  Speaker 3: So I would say those two, just out of the
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  Speaker 3: top of my mind, stick out for sure. After that,
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  Speaker 3: I can pick and choose. I love to hear a
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  Speaker 3: choir seeing angels we have heard on oh yeah, because
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  Speaker 3: that reminds me of high school. I was in my
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  Speaker 3: fourth period Spanish class and I guess choir had class
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  Speaker 3: right below us, and during Christmas time they would be
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  Speaker 3: practicing that and just over and over and over and
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  Speaker 3: over again. So that takes me back to that, and
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  Speaker 3: then I don't know, I don't I can't really pick anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Those are the ones that really stick out of my head.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, depending on the day and my mood, my
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  Speaker 1: list could vary.
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  Speaker 3: And of course I already said it, but I'll say
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  Speaker 3: it again, Mariah carries All I went for Christmas is you?
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  Speaker 3: That was yeah, like I said, an instant classic for me.
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  Speaker 3: The first time I heard that, I'm like, wow, this
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  Speaker 3: is fantastic. And so, yeah, those are my four. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so you know there are. But there's only a handful
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  Speaker 3: of Christmas songs, right, maybe forty or fifty, but everybody
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  Speaker 3: sings them. So is there a version of some song
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  Speaker 3: that maybe you didn't mention that sticks out to you?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? So I'm an old lady, but anytime Perry Como
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  Speaker 1: sings a Christmas song, I'm there for that's funny. Gene Autrey,
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  Speaker 1: sign me up.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. So it's funny that you mentioned gene Autry because
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  Speaker 3: he does up on the housetop yep. Or no, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 3: he does that too, But he does Here Comes Santa Claus.
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  Speaker 3: I believe he was the first one to do it,
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  Speaker 3: or he wrote it or something like that. I actually
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  Speaker 3: prefer Elvis's version of Here Comes Santa Claus.
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  Speaker 1: Elvis does fantastic Christmas songs.
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  Speaker 3: So I am thinking of one that you absolutely loved
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  Speaker 3: that I wasn't sure of the first time I heard it.
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  Speaker 3: But now I love it The Temptations Silent Night Man.
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  Speaker 1: If y'all haven't heard that, they bring it home.
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  Speaker 3: And then I know that typically the most popular version
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  Speaker 3: of White Christmas is done by Bing Crosby because of
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  Speaker 3: the movie Yep, White Christmas. But I am going with
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  Speaker 3: the Drifters in the movie home alone singing White Christmas
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  Speaker 3: with Kevin singing it to his comb in the mirror.
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  Speaker 3: So that is my favorite version of White Christmas is
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  Speaker 3: the Drifters, all right, So before we get to the list,
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  Speaker 3: I just want everybody to know that, and you to
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  Speaker 3: remember that we were supposed to actually do this episode
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  Speaker 3: last year.
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  Speaker 1: Man, last year around this time, boy, it fell apart.
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  Speaker 3: You contracted RSV.
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  Speaker 1: I got RSV in the new year. But I was
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  Speaker 1: sick leading up to you.
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  Speaker 3: I believe you probably had RSV leading up and we
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  Speaker 3: didn't know well, y'all. I almost died well And every
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  Speaker 3: time I left the room, this is what I said
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  Speaker 3: to you, I'll be right back. Don't you go dying
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  Speaker 3: on me.
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  Speaker 1: Like we were singing about Baby Jesus, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: I should go see Baby Jesus. I'm glad. I hope
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  Speaker 1: to see him one day. Glad I didn't go last
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  Speaker 1: year before Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: So our theme for today's show is Christmas song from
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  Speaker 3: the eighties. This can mean one of a few things.
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  Speaker 3: These are brand new Christmas songs that had not been
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  Speaker 3: written or performed before the nineteen eighties, or these were
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  Speaker 3: older songs that were done by an eighties artist and
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  Speaker 3: typically done in a different style than what had been
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  Speaker 3: performed before. And there are a few songs on here
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  Speaker 3: that were released for Christmas of seventy nine, but really
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  Speaker 3: became popular in the eighties because most people aren't going
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  Speaker 3: to know them in nineteen seventy nine, right, yep. So
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  Speaker 3: you're ready to get to the list, I'm ready. I'll
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  Speaker 3: let you take away the first song.
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  Speaker 5: The spirit Z.
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Time, Christmas, Wonderful Christmas Time. Paul McCartney. Yeah, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of Paul. This week is the anniversary of John Lennon's death.
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  Speaker 1: Can you believe that? Has it been for four years?
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  Speaker 1: Forty four years?
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  Speaker 3: He was shut down at forty years old.
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  Speaker 1: That's the heartbreaking part of all of this. Anyway. So
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  Speaker 1: it's maybe wasn't a wonderful Christmas Time that year, but.
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  Speaker 3: It was a wonderful It was a wonderful Christmas time
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  Speaker 3: when Paul released this in nineteen seventy nine.
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  Speaker 1: I have a question for you, how can we cover
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  Speaker 1: this song if it was released in seventy nine. We
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  Speaker 1: are children of the eighties because.
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  Speaker 3: It actually peaked in the charts in January of nineteen eighty.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. When you decided that you want to
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  Speaker 1: use something, you will find a workaround.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I do, don't you know. That's what I
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  Speaker 3: do for a living. That's what I've done since I
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: was a kid. Uh, find a workaround, beat the system.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, So I know you're big on your stats. You
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: got any for me?
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: So this hit number six in the UK, number seven
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: in Germany. I'm not sure if it was East or
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: West because it didn't give me that information, eight and
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Hungry and Ireland, ten in Australia, and it was twenty
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: eight on the US Billboard Hot one hundred, which is
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: really surprising because Christmas songs don't usually get up that high,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: and number twenty nine on the Adult Contemporary chart, and
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: to me, this song kind of sounds like an adult
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: contemporary song.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: But did you know that there is a US holiday
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Hot one hundred.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I had no idea neither did I.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: But this hit number fifteen on that So what are
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: your thoughts.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: About I love I love this song. I feel like
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: there's a synthesizer going on in the background. Yes, I
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: love the poppy, upbeat, fun like it. I just love
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: everything about it. It's not your typical Christmas song is that?
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Definitely not Perry Como over here singing. But I love it.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: It's a classic.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: So this was a song that I didn't know as
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: a kid. I probably discovered as a teenager. Yeah, maybe
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: in college. Maybe my college roommate had a version of
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: this or something. Right, me too, And so I didn't
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: know a whole lot about this as a kid. And
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: when I heard it in college, I'm like, eh, it
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: seems kind of simple or whatever. But it's really grown
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: on me. You know. It's much better than John Lennon's
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Christmas song where he's like, I hope you can have
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: a wonderful Christmas while people are dying over in Vietnam.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, he kept it in perspective.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Wait here for to bring it down? Bring down the
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: time there, John. But yeah, some of the lyrics, I mean,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: it's it's just simple, right. Yes, the kids have practiced
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: all year long for their Christmas song and all they
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: sing is ding dong ding dong, Like did they have
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: to practice all year for ding dong ding dong ding dong?
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: No, that's not all what it sounded like. No, I'm sorry,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: that's okay. It's a good song and to me, it
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be Christmas if I couldn't hear if you.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Couldn't hear it. Yeah, well, we've got it on our
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: list and we've got it on my playlist, so that's
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: always fun.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Oh and that's right. Listeners can always go to what
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Spotify and find from each episode. If we've talked about music,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Jim has created a playlist for each episode and you
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: can go and listen to the songs there.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: I feel like you just gave me a whole lot
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: more work to do, because I've only done that, like
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: the last five or six or seven music episodes. I
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: haven't done them forever. Get on it, I guess. So,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: I guess I know what my Christmas project was exactly.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, next song.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: Swimming for Calling Birds?
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: All right? So that is the Twelve Days of Christmas
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: by the Muppets. This was obviously an old song it's
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: not a new song, right, so it was an old
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: song that was recorded for the nineteen seventy nine special
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: John Denver and the Muppets a Christmas Together.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: It's hard to describe how much the Muppets meant to
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: kids that grew up in the late seventies and early eighties.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: I agree, like I don't.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I can't convey to Emmy the importance of the Muppets, right.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: They had their own variety shows for four or five
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: years and that's what this was on. And then of
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: course you go on to the Muppet Baby cartoons in
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: the eighties and they're still doing Muppet Baby cartoons, although
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure how good they are now a little bit.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: But to me, this song the Twelve Days of Christmas,
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: it's painful unless the Muppets are doing it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, because the song goes on forever.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Drones on on, it's the same thing. But when you've
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: got twelve different Muppet characters are possibly more, yeah, all
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: joining in to sing the song, it's fantastic. So I
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: love the miss Piggy but bum bum So when.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: We listen to this song, I throw that in early
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: early just to irritate. Yes, yeah, it.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Comes after nine when Beeker and Not in My bun
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Center are singing about the U nine ladies dancing. That's
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: the first time she does the badump bump bump, and
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: then on the last verse she or the second to
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: last verse, she does it really angry.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Why does she get angry? Is she angry or she
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: just into it?
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: One of the two. Either she's just really gotten into
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: it or she's angry because this song is going on forever.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: And then on the last verse, the twelfth day of Christmas,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: the whole Muppet gang joins in on the dump bump bump.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: So I am not a John Denver fan, but John
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Denver's full.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Man, but.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I love this song. Yes, I wouldn't listen to him
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: do this song on his own.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: No, no, no. So you know it's funny because John
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Denver was kind of a seem to be all around
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: when I was a younger. You want too on whether
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: it's the Muppets or doing some kind of other hell
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: special just singing his songs. I think he was in
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Oh Godbook two. Yes, so John Denver was always seemed
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: to be around.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: And have I shared before about why I don't like John.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: DEVI Yeah, you have, but I don't think you have
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: with the I don't think you have with the listening
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: audience you've shared with me.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: It's generational, right, because my parents used to go to
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: concerts all the time back in the mid to late seventies,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: maybe early eighties. So John Denver came to town and they
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: went to see him. They loved Johndale and they loved
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: John Denver. And my mom swears by this story that
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the audience was singing along with him to one of his.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Songs, probably country Roads take Me Home.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Probably, and he stopped mid song and told everybody to
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: stop singing because people had paid the money to hear
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: him sing. And that ticked my mom off. And they
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: had gone with like my uncle and somebody. She made
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: my dad leave and they went and said in the
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: car till the concert was over and they can go home.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Because that angered her so much and shed her and
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: she held that grudge for the rest of her life,
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: never let it go. No, because I heard that story
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: not only from you, but also from her, Yes, well, yes,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: and I couldn't believe it. I wondered if maybe she
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: didn't get like a contact high and misunderstood.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Possibly do we have a list of the muppets that
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: sing this song we do.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Would you like me to start from one or start
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: from twelve?
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Maybe one?
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Okay? So one? John Denver sings a partridg Jinnipa Tree
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: sings at first verse. The second verse is done by
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Fozzy Bear with the two turtle doves, then Gonzo with
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: the three fringe hens, of.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Course, because he loves chickens.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Ye yes, I never put that together. But good call
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Robin the Frog. Yeah, that's so we're calling birds. Is
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: that Kermit's like nephew or something? Okay? Miss Piggy obviously
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: does the five gold Rings, Scooter does six geese a
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: laying lose Zealand does seven swans a swimming.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Is he in the band?
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: I think he's in the band. Yeah, Ralph the Dog,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: eight Maids of Milking, Bunsen and Beaker do the nine
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Ladies dancing, Statler and Waldorf do the ten Lords a
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: leaping bow. Regard does eleven pipers piping was bow Regard.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: You'll have to look him up. I can't give you
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: all this stuff.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, he seems like he might be important because
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: he gets the spot next to Kerma.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Well, no, Kerma gets the top spot.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Why nobody's next to him?
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: KM And then, as I said, each muppet joins John
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: in the Partridge in a Pear Tree once they have
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: joined the song. So the first time it's just John Denver,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: the second time it's John and Fozzy, the third time John,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Fozzy Gonzo, and then so on and so forth. I
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: think that's pretty cool.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I think the Muppets represent a simplicity in life that's
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: long gone, and of course people that weren't there can't
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: relate to. But it's a grating sample of how awesome
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the early eighties were.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, late seventies, early eighties. It doesn't get much
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: better than that.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: That's right, all right?
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Are we ready to move on to the next song.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: Grandma got run over by rain there walking on from
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: our house.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: Ristmasy, you can say, there's no such thing. I signed up.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: Last for me and Grandpa.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: We believe.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: She'd been drinking too my jagnog and we begged her
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: not to go.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Grandma got run over by a radio.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Patsy and Elma also nineteen seventy nine.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, how did this get in?
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Because these songs were released at Christmas of nineteen seventy nine,
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: which is seven days before nineteen eighty. I'm not cutting
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: off a song for seven days, not to mention. Like
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: I said at Christmas in nineteen seventy nine, people didn't
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: know these songs, right, So nineteen eighty rolls around, yeah,
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: and they're like, oh, yeah, I remember that song, and
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: they probably start singing along a little bit, and people
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: probably cracked up as much as I did as a
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: little kid when I first heard Grandma got run over
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: by a reindeer.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: So this song was not released by a record company.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: It was released by Patsy and Elmo, not the Red Muppet.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: They were a comedy duo husband and wife team. Patsy
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: does not sing on the record, but she does get
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the credit.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: I wonder why, well, because she's the woman.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: She's smart. Uh oh. After their.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Why do you have the Giggles? Though, because that was
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Carl Lewis oh oh.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Uh oh, things went south after their divorce.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know why you can't get through this, but
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: I'll help you out, okay. After their divorce, Elmo was
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: selling forty fives from the stage who.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: The song became a seasonal hit by the early eighties,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: first on country music stations and then on top forty station.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: That's why it's in our eighties countdown.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: You can't get past the after they're.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Probably because she took credit for not singing.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: So it hit the holiday charts and charted at number
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: one in eighty three, eighty four, and eighty five. It
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: also hit ninety two on the US Hot Country Singles
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: chart in nineteen eighty four.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: So ninety two in nineteen eighty four, five years after
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: it was made, it hits in the top one hundred.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: That it's impressive.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Yes, So I think this song was funny as a kid,
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: and I still think it's funny as an adult.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Oh. I love this song as a kid. So we
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: had our Christmas festivit as a kid kicked off on
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: what we called Christmas Eve.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Eve, which we will keep that tradition going this.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Day this year. I know, I'm excited about that. So
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: my godparents would come over and Papa and nanny who
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: lived next door, they would come over. Well, Papa was
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: much more of an eaten run type of a guy,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: so once dessert was served, he was going back home
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: to get in his easy chair.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: He wasn't a big talker, right, He was not a.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Big talker, not a big socializer. He was just happy
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: in his lazy boy. Nanny, on the other hand, loved
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: to socialize, so she would walk home way past him.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: So it was my job to stand outside and watch
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Nanny go from our house to her house to make
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: sure that she got home safely in the dark. I
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: sang this song like in my head every year as
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I watched her walk across the yard to her house.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Now that's funny. I love that story. I just think
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: about Grandma having claws marks on her back as she
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: lays face down in the snow. Right, But Grandpa watching football,
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: drinking beer and playing cards with cousin Mel. Would your
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: papa have drank beer and played cards with cousin Mel
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: had your nanny been found face down in the I
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: think he might have.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Remember I told you the story about the time. This
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: was before cell phones. We went on vacation for like
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: a week, and we came home and Nanny had spent
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: like the bulk of that week in the hospital with
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: some kind of heart problem. Papa never trying to reach us,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: never tried to contact us. He walked down to our
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: house when he saw us come home, eating a ham sandwich,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: to tell us he had a ham sandwich in hand,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: to tell us that nanny had been in the hospital
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: for a whole week with a heart problem.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: I bet your dad was furious when we were.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: So mad at him. I felt kind of bad for him.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, so let's get on to song number four.
• 31:00
  Speaker 10: Met my lover in the grocery store, the snoove's darling
• 31:06
  Speaker 10: Christmas Eve, the stove.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Behind her in the those in bloods.
• 31:13
  Speaker 10: And not touched her all the speed.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: She didn't recognize.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: The vait first.
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: But then her eyes than open wall. She went to
• 31:28
  Speaker 10: hunt me and just der verse and we laughed and
• 31:32
  Speaker 10: did we cry.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: That is same old lang Syne by Dan Fulko.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Good job of bringing us down.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Job well. So that is a song that I heard
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: a lot as a kid, and I'd always hear the
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: saxophone playing at the end with an old acquaintance be forgot,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: kind of like the New Year's Eve thing. And so
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: this was actually released as a single in nineteen eighty
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: and it was included on his nineteen eighty one album
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: The Innocent Age. And this is actually autobiographical song about
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: him truly meeting like his high school sweetheart at a
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: grocery store on Christmas Eve. He just happened to go
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: in there to buy a couple of things, and he
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: saw her, and you know, he went up to her,
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: and she kind of turned around and was like, you
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: know how it takes you a second to and then
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden you're like, oh my gosh, I
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: recognize you. Not everything that happened in the song happened,
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: but they hugged, They checked out, they bought a six
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: pack of beer and just kind of drank it in
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: the parking lot, talking to each other, catching up on
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: old times and reminiscing, talking about their lives now. And
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: then they went off and then he recalls the pain
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: that happened when they broke up in high school, and
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: about that time, the snow turns into rain. So it's
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: kind of melancholy, a.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Little bit of a sad song. We had both lived
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: a life before we met each other, so as somebody
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: who's who had kind of lived a full life already,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: this song really like it's a gut punt. But if
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: you tell me this song is a gut punch, I'm
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: gonna be pisty.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Oh I know, I know. We live in such a
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: double standard. So I would never meet an old flame
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: at the grocery store and then go drink No.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Now, listen, I don't think I would. Hope most people
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: wouldn't do that. But I'm talking about the emotions that
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: the song brings. Is a gut punch.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: I don't look at it as a gut punch, but
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: I do kind of like the emotions that it brings.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: It's kind of like that movie, one of my favorite
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: movies from the nineties, actually, Swingers, when Mikey's just struggling
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: with his breakup from his girlfriend for like six years
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: and then he's just in terrible pain for like six
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: eight months, and his best friend comes over. He's talking
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: to him. He's like, eventually it gets a little bit
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: better each day, each day, each day, and eventually you
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: miss the pain. And Mikey's like, what, you missed the pain? Why?
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: And he was like, because just for the same reason
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: you miss her, because you lived with it for so long.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Oh wow.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: I was like, Wow, that's that's poetry right there.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Deep.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: And so this song is really is really poetic, and
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: it's a kind of semi autobiographical, like I said, And
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: then you've got the song ending with old lang zine
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: as a soprano sexphone solo by Michael Bricker and I
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: love that sex phone at the end, anything else say
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: about this?
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I'm is sad now and I don't even know why.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: I'll make sure I don't download this. You don't like
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: feelings and emotions at Christmas time?
• 34:31
  Speaker 9: No?
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Why do you do?
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Not? Just like to simply have a wonderful Chris?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, which brings us to the number five song, which.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I think is very poetic to you, since we've had
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: a child.
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: Slackness last.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Christmas rapping by the waitresses.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Yes, love this song. I heard this song as a kid.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: They were a US new wave band, obviously, but yeah,
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: I remember the song as a kid, hadn't heard it
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: in a long time, and then picked it up again
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: and there it is.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: It was first released in nineteen eighty one on a
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: compilation album titled A Christmas Record. It later appeared on
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the band's eighty two I Could Rule the World if
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I could only get the parts I love that album
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: titled It was written and produced by Chris Butler and
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I want to know is that a relative?
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Not a relative?
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Okay? So the song received positive reviews. All Music described
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: it as one of the best holiday pop tunes ever recorded.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I felt like that was a little strong. Yeah, I
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: mean it's a good song, but one of the best
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: holiday pop tunes, I don't know. So I don't know.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: I name some other holiday pop tunes that are better
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: than that. I mean, Wonderful.
• 36:22
  Speaker 8: Christmas Time, yeah, exactly, and all I Want for Christmas.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: But up until that point, that hadn't been released Ryan Adams,
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: that hadn't been released by that point.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: So let me tell you how this song came to be.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: So in eighty one, the record company who was putting
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: together that compilation album asked each of its artists to
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: record a Christmas song to go on the album. So
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the waitresses were in the middle of a difficult tour
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: and the Christmas song commission was like the last thing
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: that they cared about, right. So Butler, not Jim Butler.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Butler wrote this song that August.
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: I wish I had written it, assembling.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: It from assordid, unused riffs that he had. He finished
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: the lyrics in a taxi on the way to the
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: recording studio to record the song. Really, yep, listen to
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: this though this might be my song, Butler said, The
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: lyrics came from his hatred of Christmas. Quote everybody I
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: knew in New York was running around like a bunch
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: of fiends. It wasn't about joy. It was something to
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: cope with. End quote.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean even the lyrics for it, right.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: So, but there is some good that comes out of it.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Can I give you my good?
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Give me the good.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Each season, Butler makes a donation to the Akron Summit
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: County Children's Library in the name of the first person
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: to tell him that they heard the song on the radio.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Really, yes, well that is good. Right. The lyrics kind
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: of hit home now that we're adults. I would have
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: never gotten it before. But all this year's been busy blur.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Don't think I have the energy to add to my
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: already mad rush just because it's the season.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Great, I mean that sounds like my life.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Don't you feel that way? The perfect gift for me
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: would be completions and connections left from last year.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, preach it.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: So, deck those halls, trim those trees, raise up cups
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: of Christmas cheer. I just need to catch my breath
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Christmas by myself this year.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: That is my song?
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Right? Oh?
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: If I had a Christmas theme song. That's it all right?
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Well, I think you're gonna take this next song too,
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: because this was your nomination and I didn't really know
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: a whole lot about it.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: This might be my favorite Christmas song and technically it
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: didn't originate as a Christmas song, it did not. But
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: play it for us, maybe a.
• 38:51
  Speaker 9: Maybe a lit some weight media, clem media, just.
• 38:57
  Speaker 11: Get drum up, mega.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Hard Candy Christmas, Dolly Park.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: So you talk about same old lang Syne.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Bringing you down, this song is fantastic.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: This song will bring you down so far that you'll
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: just want to jump off one of those Tennessee hills
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: into the holler and in your life.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: So this song was written for the musical The Best
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Little Whorehouse in Texas. So Dolly Parton's version of the
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: song was released as a single in October of eighty two,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: reaching number eight on the US Country Singles Chart in
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: January of eighty three. In ninety eight, nineteen ninety eight,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: the song re entered the country charts and peaked again
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: at number seventy three based on unsolicited airplay. So I
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: love this song because hard Candy Christmas refers to a
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: time when families struggled, not maybe the Depression era per se,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: but kind of back then when when times were very
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: lean and you didn't have a whole lot of money
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: to spend on Christmas, and.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Everybody didn't have credit cards going.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Here, yeah, just to go charge whatever they wanted to buy.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: My grandparents were originally farmers, so it was very normal.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: And I still try to keep this tradition going today.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: And Emmy and you kind of look at me like
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: I'm crazy, because you are. But we do not so
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: much hard candy anymore. But Santa brings oranges, apples, nuts.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: It's not unusual for Santa to put pecans or walnuts
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: in our stockings. And that's just a little bit of
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: a nod to where I come from. So our simplicity
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: of what life used to be.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: We had apples and oranges and our stockings growing up.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: Oh you did, Yes, we did not have nuts.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, So it's the nuts that gets you everything.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: Nuts to get me every year. The apples are the
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: oranges get any.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Oh and the oranges and the coconut. We always have
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: to have a coconae.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Ye see, we never had a coconut either, because we
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: weren't saying melch Macha.
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: So I love Dolly, but then Dolly's a national treasure.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Yes, she sure is. But I don't know. This song
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: is just always given me the warm fields.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: It gives me the depression. Yeah, well I need some
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Xanax now. So I'm gonna take this up a notch.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna get out of the depression and play our
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: next song. Fu See. I had to raise the level
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: of intensity in here.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: You needed to bring it back to the joyful side
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: of Yes, So.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: We're gonna have a little bit of a rock in
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: Christmas there with jingle Bell Rock by Daryl Hall and
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: John Oates, the greatest pop hit making machine of the
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: late seventies and early eighties. Those fellas could put out
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: a hit.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: I got something to admit.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: What's that I did not know?
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: This version was hallan Oates?
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: You did not, I didn't, But you like it?
• 42:37
  Speaker 12: Yeah?
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: So now you have to admit that you like a
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Hall of Oats song. You like more than one Hall
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: of Notes?
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: No, I just like this one.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: No, you like man Eater. So I heard this as
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: a little kid, and I think this was the first
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: version of jingle bell rock that I ever heard. I
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: think most people go to the Bobby Holmes version of it,
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: which kind of made it popular in the fifties and sixties.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: But I heard this and I remember I was it
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: was actually maybe spending Christmas Eve with my birth mom
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: and maybe spending the night. Maybe it was the night
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: before Christmas Eve. I don't remember, but I know I
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: was spent in the night and they had like this
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: real cool speaker system and the equalizer had like these
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: red and green lights, so they were flashing on and all.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: So I thought it was really Christmas Eve. I was
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: really excited and I heard this song and I remember
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: asking her what is this song. I've never heard it before,
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: and she tells me it's jingle bell rock and I
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: was like, oh, I really liked this song and I
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: was so into it. And so thank you Daryl Hall
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: and John Oates for giving me the only good memory
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: I have with my birth mom. So, yeah, I don't
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: have a whole lot to say about the song. I
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: didn't do a whole lot of research. I mean, it's,
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: like I said, many people have covered it, but in
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: the eighties Hall and Notes covered it, and it is
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: my favorite version.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: It's a good one.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: Do you have is it your favorite version or do
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: you have you known?
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: No, you're not going to get me on record saying
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: this is my favorite.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: Lindsay's favorite version, it's her favorite rock duo band.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Can't do it. Sorry, Moving right along, Jim, what's number eight?
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: Number eight is a little bit different.
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: Oh have a.
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: Blue at Christmas?
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: It'll be open here without you.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: Oh if you feel so blue?
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: Idiot?
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: Just thinking, Ubby, Hubby, Ubb about you? India decoratetions of.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: That is Blue Christmas by Seymour Swat.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: I will never forget the first time I heard that song. Yes, right,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: it blew my mind.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: You thought it was Porky Pig?
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Right, well, yeah, I thought it was somebody imitating Porky,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: but I thought my local radio station had done it
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: because of the lady or the person laughing in the background.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Right, No, it was U Seamore Swine. I think most
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: people confuse this and say this is Porky Pig, but
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: it is not. It is Seamore Swine and Seymore Swine
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: is voice actor Denny Brownlee and they recorded this parody
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: in nineteen eighty five for the John Boy and Billy
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: radio show. And obviously he channels his inner Porky Pig
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: by singing Blue Christmas but sticking to the Ovis version
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: of Blue Christmas. And I love the kazoo in the middle.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Oh oh, that's awesome. And then the person is it
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: a woman?
• 45:35
  Speaker 12: Now?
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Okay? She kicks up a notch with the laughing. Yeah,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: that gets me every year.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: Yes, So I'm thinking that this was probably a morning
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: radio show. They used to on the Bob and Tom Show,
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: which was famous in the Midwest. They had comedians that
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: would come on and sing goofy songs and you would
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: hear the whole morning show just cracking up, laugh and
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: it always put a smile on your face on your
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: way to work or school or whatever, and so I'd
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: imagine that's what happened here, right, But yeah, this is classic.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: This is something that's on our playlist that we play
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: every year. I know the first time we played it
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: for Emmy, she was dying laughing.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, And I'm not.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: Sure she even knew who Porky Pig was at the time,
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: but she just thought he had a funny voice. I
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: was like, why is the pig talking like that? So yeah,
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: love that one, all right, So are we ready to
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: move on to the next something.
• 46:28
  Speaker 13: About Christmas Time, something about Christmas Time? May see is
• 46:35
  Speaker 13: so was Christmas free day? See the joint the children's
• 46:43
  Speaker 13: eyes the way that the first time says it?
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: Christmas Forever Goway keeping up with the good mojo Christmas
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: Time by Brian Adams, nineteen eighty five.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: We've waited all through the year.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: I love this song too.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a good one, so I have in.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: My notes it was written by Brian Adams and Jim Vallance,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: And then my notes say it became Adam's most popular
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Christmas song. Did Brian Adams do another Christmas song like that?
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: The way that's worded, it's as if Brian Adams did
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: multiple Christmas songs and this one beat the others out.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: Maybe, I you know what? I don't know? I mean,
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: this is the only Christmas song I've heard Brian Adams do.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: It was originally released on a clear green vinyl with
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: a picture sleeve. Can you even imagine how cool that
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: would have been in nineteen eighty five?
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: That would have been really cool. I don't remember hearing
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: this song in nineteen eighty five.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Well me either, but I was but a young todd
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: so right.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure I remember hearing it. In the eighties,
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: they didn't play a whole lot of Christmas music on
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: the local radio until like Christmas Eve they did.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: They would wait until like halfway through the day.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: On Christmas Eve and then they'd start playing Christmas music,
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: so you didn't get to hear everything, and all you
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: really got to hear was if your parents had vinyl
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: or cassette tapes or maybe even CDs. So we weren't
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: listening to Brian Adams. Instead, we were stuck.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: With the Carpenters, yeah exactly, or the.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: Jackson five, which I wouldn't say we were stuck with
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: the Jackson five. That was actually pretty awesome.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: So Amy Grant did a Christmas album mid eighties, and
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: that's what we listened to at home on the cassette tape. Okay,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: twenty four to seven.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: Twenty four to seven. See, we'd hear some Nat King Cole,
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: we'd hear Elvis, we'd hear the Carpenters, Michael Jackson, or
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: I guess the Jackson five. That was pretty much it
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: unless you heard it on the radio. He did he did,
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: So speaking of things that we heard on the radio
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: in the eighties, this was not something that my parents
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: would have owned here's our next song.
• 48:56
  Speaker 13: You better watch shot, you better not try, you better.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: Not about I'm telling you what.
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: Sana Claus Is coming to town. Sea Clauses coming to town.
• 49:12
  Speaker 10: Santa Claus Is coming.
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: I know that's one of your favorites. That's Santa claus
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: Is coming to town by the Boss Bruce Springsteen.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: And don't leave out the ho ho ho. Well it
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: was that, Lindsay, Lindsay, Lindsay.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna talk about I'm gonna talk about that in
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: a minute. But this was the first rock and Christmas song.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: I remember hearing I guess jingle Bell rock by Hole
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: and its kind of rocked a little bit, but this
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: is like yeah, but this was true like rock and
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: Bruce Springsteen bringing a different sound to Santa claus Is
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: coming to town. Prior to that, it was a pretty
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: boring song and Leslie Jackson five sing it right, Jackson
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: five kind of got into it. Michael's it a little
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: loud and loud and proud. But the Boss came and
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: just brought the rock. And I remember on Who's the Boss,
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: Samantha singing this in the Bruce Springsteen style and Tony
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: kind of being like, no, you, we don't sing that
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: song that way. We sing in the traditional way. And
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: then something good happened into him as she leaves the room,
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: and then he starts singing it that way. I don't
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: remember that, I specifically remember that. I thought that was
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: funny as a kid. Probably you know cheesy now.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: But I love this song and I love the friendship
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: that Clarence Clemens and Bruce Springsteen had together. And Clarence
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: is obviously playing the saxophone on this.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: Song, right, and Bruce even asked him, you've been practicing
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: real hard. Santa going to bring in new saxophone. So
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: what we didn't know in the eighties and what we
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: know now thinks to digital music, was I would listen
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: to this song and it would get near the end
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: as he's repeating the Santa Clauses coming to town over
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: and over and over again, and I'm like, why does
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: he sound like he's laughing. I don't know why he's laughing.
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: Now that we have digital music, we know why he's laughing.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: And that is because in the background, in his deepest
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: best voice, Clarence Clemens is going, oh is Bruce is
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: trying to sing? And Bruce can't help it, like he
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: didn't expect that to happen, right, and he's just cracking up.
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: He's trying not to crack up and trying to sing
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: at the same time. And that's why you get that sound.
• 51:28
  Speaker 12: I love it me too, all right, Moving on to
• 51:37
  Speaker 12: our next song, the Rady.
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: You just let us know that this is not a test.
• 51:46
  Speaker 8: Everywhere the anam bomba dramin.
• 51:49
  Speaker 5: It's the end of all humanity Normada laugh.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: If I'm the baser, final leaf.
• 51:56
  Speaker 10: They let's dress mercy, their planning in the crowd, Weekend
• 52:05
  Speaker 10: Dodge the bree wild.
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: Trim, the tree underneath the mushroom cloud.
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: That is Christmas at Ground Zero by weird Al yank.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Of It my favorite weird Al song.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, you wanted to include this in our episode with
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: Brian Colburn of our Weird Al Happy Birthday episode.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you talked me out of it because.
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: I said we're playing it in too much.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was him too much, But that was hard
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: for me because this is my favorite weird Al song.
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: This song was released in nineteen eighty six on his
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: album Polka Party. The record company had been asking him
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: and asking him over and over and over again. Do
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: a Christmas album. Do a Christmas album, Do a Christmas album?
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: And he refused. He was like, no, I'm not doing
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: a Christmas album. I do parodies, you know, I'm not
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: gonna do that, and they wouldn't get off of them.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: So he wrote this as the most outrageous thing that
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: he could think of and turn it in and they
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: were like, na, no, nevermind, we don't want you to
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: do it a Christmas album. But he includes it on
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: this album and it has become at least a staple
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: in our house.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Oh it sure is. Why do I feel like it's
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: also a staple in Brian's house?
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, for sure, I guarantee it's it's a staple
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: in his house. And so this is a style parody
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: of Phil Specter type Christmas.
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: Of course.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: See I was sitting here like on the edge of
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: my seat because I wasn't sure. But of course that
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: makes perfect sense because you hear it.
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the bells and the happiness and everything, and
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: so it's set to such happy music. But then it's
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: basically about a nuclear war happening on Christmas Day, which
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: makes it funny personally.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: The words to this ang aren't the first thing that
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: I pay attention to. It's the tune. I like the tune.
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the tune's great because it's a Phil Spector style
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: Christmas song. So think about Baby Please Come Home Christmas,
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: or sleigh Ride by the Ronettes, you know that kind
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: of thing, or even though it's probably wasn't Phil Spector produced,
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: Mariah Carrees, All I Want for Christmas is You is
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: kind of that sound. And so you did not like
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  Speaker 3: this song at.
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  Speaker 1: First, No, because the whole Christmas at ground Zero I
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: felt the ground Zero I associate that term with the
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: World Trade Center site in New York City, so it
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  Speaker 1: held disrespectful.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, well, first off, this was released fifteen years right
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: before right nine to eleven. And secondly, ground zero is
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: just a name for any anything that happens at a
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: place of like disaster. And so there's so many lyrics
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: in this song that are funny. But here's just a
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  Speaker 3: few of them that I love. It's Christmas at ground zero.
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  Speaker 3: The button has been pressed the radio. Just let us
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: know that this is not a test. Now that may
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: not mean something to kids nowadays, but remember back in
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: the eighties they always did this is a test. This
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: is only a test. We can dodge debris while we
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: trim the tree underneath the mushroom cloud. You might hear
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: some reindeer on your rooftop or jack frost on your windowsill,
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: but if someone's climbing down your chimney, you better load.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: You're gunna shoot to kill. What a crazy fluke. We're
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: gonna get nuked on this jolly holiday. Oh so, those
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: are just some of the lines that make this a funny,
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: kind of disastrous sounding Christmas song that when I first
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: started playing with you and Emmy in the car, you
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: were like, oh, I don't like the song, and Emmy
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: was like, what is a song? And now it's a
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: song that both of you sing along to just pretty
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: much every word.
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  Speaker 1: We love it.
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna turn this next one over to
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: you because the weird al song was released in nineteen
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  Speaker 3: eighty six, and there was another one released in nineteen
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: eighty six.
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  Speaker 5: This Christmas, I give you my very next day, you
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  Speaker 5: give it Stevens Christmas.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: That is Wam's last Christmas.
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: That is a song that after hearing two or three times,
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: little seven year old Emmy, six year old Emmy knew
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  Speaker 3: every single word and just sings along with wham yeah
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  Speaker 3: every single time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah she knows.
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  Speaker 7: So.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: It was initially released in nineteen eighty four, and it
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: was re released then in nineteen eighty six. But after
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: its initial release in eighty four, Last Christmas spent five
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: consecutive weeks at number two on the UK Singles Chart,
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: and it was held off the top spot by the
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: band Aids. Do you know it's Christmas?
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: Which is a Christmas song that we do not have
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: on this list? So don't at me. I don't care
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: for that song. I know it was for a good cause,
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: Jim love cause, but I do not care for that song,
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: so it's not on this list. He loves it, don't
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: at me.
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  Speaker 1: After many chart runs in subsequent years, which included three
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: more weeks at number two and which saw the recording
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: become part of RCA Records catalog, the song finally reached
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: number one in the UK Singles Chart on New Year's
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: Day twenty twenty one. There we go, Isn't that crazy?
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: That's more than thirty six years after its initial release.
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: Do you know how many bands have covered this song?
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: Or people?
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: A ton a ton so? I wonder though, because it
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: it's a Last Christmas. Back during covid. Did we think
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: that was going to be our last Christmas?
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: I think so?
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: Is that why it charged?
• 58:06
  Speaker 7: No?
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: I think is that when George Michael passed away?
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: And possibly I don't know.
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: I don't have that in front of it on Christmas Day?
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: Let's see. No, he died in twenty sixteen. Okay, okay,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: so never mind. But what a good song?
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: Yes, but I mean he's singing about giving his heart away. Yeah,
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: someone else breaking it.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: But there's something like poppy and happy about it. I
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: don't know. It's a good song. I think.
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: This year to save him from tears, he's going to
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: give it to someone special.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: Well, I hope he finds that someone special.
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: All right, speaking of love, I don't know if that's
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: a good segue to this song.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: Probably not, but that's okay.
• 58:50
  Speaker 9: Santa Baby, the Stable under the Tree for me being
• 58:56
  Speaker 9: and awful good girl, Santa Baby her Eat down the
• 59:01
  Speaker 9: chimney too night. SI's a baby out of space. Convertible
• 59:10
  Speaker 9: to light blue. I'll wait up for you, d have
• 59:15
  Speaker 9: sants a baby and hur eat down the chimney too night.
• 59:20
  Speaker 9: Think along the fun I've missed.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: Santa Baby Madonna nineteen eighty seven. Why does she talk
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: like thing.
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: She's trying to sound like Betty Boop or.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: Some baby Santa Babydad. That just drives me crazy. And
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: I like the song, but I like the.
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: Song too, but I feel like she's trying to sound
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: like Betty Boobe.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: So this is a cover. It was originally performed by
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: Eartha Kit and was released in nineteen fifty three.
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: A twenty nineteen poll created by The Evening Standard, kits
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: of version of Santa Baby was voted the ninth most
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: annoying festive song by British listeners. Really I love this song.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: I mean I like Eartha Kit's version better. But this
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: was reported that Eartha Kit was displeased with Madonna's cover
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: of her single, once saying quote, I used to have
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun with this song and then Madonna sang.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: It really Yes, whoa Eartha Kit throwing.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: Some shit woo?
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe she did it like the Baby Boys.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: Well yeah, I don't think that she did. I think
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: she was like, I did a great job on this song,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: and I don't need Betty Boop coming in here in ruining.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: This kind of gets into the commercialism of Christmas, right right,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: This is what I want, you know, all I want
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: for Christmas is my two front teeth, though I want
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: to deed to a platinum mine.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: That's ridiculous, you know.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: Yachts and decorations from Tiffany, that kind of thing. So yeah,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: Kit's version sold more than six hundred and twenty dollsand copies.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: That's probably a lot for back in the day, right.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: But obviously Madonna did it in her her version, and
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: that's the version that I knew the best because it
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: was released in the late eighties, by about the time
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: that I was listening to my own Christmas music by myself.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: So it's also been covered by other than Madonna, Kylie Minogue,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: another eighties Darlin, Taylor Swift, Lindsay Sterling, Trisha Gearwood, Pussycat Dolls,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: Ariana Grande, Gwen Stefani, your favorite Gwen Stefani, and apparently
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: Michael Blue Blaye has done it and it's been named
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: multiple times as one of the worst Christmas songs ever.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, his version, yes yuck?
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: Right, all right, so we've got one more to go last,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: but not Lee You ready.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 14: How do you like this on Christmas? How'd you like
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 14: to hang his talking on a great big coconut?
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 6: Tree.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 14: How do you like to stay up place like the Islanders? Dude,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 14: wait for Santa too, save and with your presence in
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 14: a cannoe.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: So, speaking of crooners, how about Christmas Island by Leon
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: Redbone in nineteen eighty nine.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: What a fun song, I a What a funny looking guy.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: What a really unusual voice.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, I love his voice. So it seemed to me
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: like Leon Redbone was all over the place in the
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: eighties because of his the way he dressed. Yes, you know,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: his distinct look, his distinct voice, and you know he
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: sang the theme song for mister Belvidere.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: I always thought he looked like ground Joe Marx with
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: that that big bushy mustach.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: I would agree with that. But this is a song
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: that I think I had forgotten about. I had heard
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: just a few times, and I think I had forgotten
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: about until I saw Elf. Yes, and this song is
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: in ELF, and it brought it back, and I'm like,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: I have to download that song and put it on
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: my Christmas playlist now.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: So he does the voice of the Snowman in Elf?
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: Is that Leon the Snowman?
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: Yes, Leon the Snowman. Don't pay attention to Leon. He's
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: never been anywhere, he doesn't have any feet, So an
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: unusual guy.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: He's very mysterious, A lot of mystery around Leon Redbone.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: I just I loved his voice, like I said earlier,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: just he was like a character of the eighties, right.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: He was one of those people you'd see like Robert Goolay, yes,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: or Raleigh Fingers in a you know, in a co
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: or whatever.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: Because he did he did what a beer commercial I think,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: didn't he did?
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 9: Leon?
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 5: Right? I think so Land.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: He was laying on like a float in the some
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: kind of water pool ocean.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: I'm not right. He did various TV commercials Budweiser beer
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: where he laid on a surfboard singing this buds for you,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: the automobile Geo, you remember Geo's. Yeah, he did that
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: laundry detergents. So yeah, he was kind of all over
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: the place. And again he was one of those odd
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: looking characters and you just see it. It was just like, oh,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: I'm supposed to know this guy, right, He's a guy
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: I recognize. If I didn't recognize him, he's a guy
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: I didn't recognize. Well. That's our list of fourteen fantastic
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: eighties Christmas songs, wouldn't you say, I'm.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Still looking outside at the flesh.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, oh, my goodness, will you get over that already? Yeah,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: you're so distracted. I thought somebody was coming in our
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: house or something.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: I know, I know, I know.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed this.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah. We picked songs I think from each year of
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: the eighties, I.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: Mean, including seventy nine.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, seventy nine, eighty eighty one, eighty two, eighty three.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, we're going through, eighty four, eighty five, eighty six,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: eighty seven. I can count too, So let us hear
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: from you. We want to know what were some of
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: your favorite Christmas songs of the eighties, or really any
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: Christmas song.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 8: I'll take any We'll take any Christmas song.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: We love Christmas music. Hoping this heads home with you,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: Hoping it brings some memories back of songs that you
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: heard for the first time in the eighties. We know
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: we've got some Hall of Notes fans out there, so
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking they probably like jingle bell rock, you know,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: as kids. Like I said, everybody loved the Muppets. Yeah,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: so they're gonna probably love that one too. And Grandma
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: got run over by a raindeers A good We'll not
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: sure everybody's gonna love same old anxiety as much as
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: I do, but that's okay. But yeah, this was a
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: good one. This was fun.
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