2025 Kickoff: New Year's Eve Polka-palooza!

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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Welcome everybody to the first episode of the Beer Doud
Podcast of the Year twenty twenty five. First of all,
I can't believe that the year twenty twenty five is
a thing that actually happens. But anyway, we're here with
the show about two of the greatest things in the world,
Beer and Weirdow. And you know what I don't I

(00:56):
don't want to set a precedent that this show is
going to be huge for the rest of the year.
But I'm literally sitting in a room staring at three
other people in here with me to talk about this.
So the first episode of the beard Au Podcast of
the Year twenty twenty five is about the five four

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three two one New Year song that weird Aw did
with Jimmy Fallon, and I have in the room with me,
three actual live humans looking at me in the face. Russ,
you were here most of the time.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Hello time, Hello Hello when you said that thing about
the year at the beginning, and I'm going to get
the year wrong. But there's a John Mulaney stand up
where he's like, when we are doing our mortgage, they
were like, we're going to show you all your payments,
for example, in the year twenty thirty six, this will
be your payment, and I was like, I'm not gonna
write you a check in twenty thirty six. I'm gonna

(01:53):
be on the moon drinking moon juice with President Jonathan
Taylor Thomas.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
As soon as you said that, I was.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Like, that, that's what that is. I love that. Did
you know that the word mortgage comes from the French
for death agreement? Yes, and those other two people that
you hear laughing or saying that they didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
I said, I had no idea. I know.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Are two of my other favorite humans in the world,
Chris Hollister and Bob Oaks, who have I don't even
know how to introduce you both because you're both just
like I was like, those.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Are my dudes, So well start with.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
I guess I'll start with the podcast that Chris is on.
You're right, this is why you're here, Russ. So, Chris
is a founding host of the Trivial Warfare podcast and
he is here in house with me today as one
of my dearest friends and also just one of the
biggest weird ol people that ever probably existed.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
And so Chris, welcome, Hey, thank you. It's good to
be back. I tell you what, Yes, thankfully for trivial Warfare.
I got a chance to meet you, and that was
fantastic because we met your awesome friend Trish at a
trivia show and that there's awesome things. And we saw
Trisha last night as a matter of fact, while we
were celebrating y'all's awesome son, Zach, and so that was
very cool and got to see I got the wave

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with Bob, he was on the other side of it.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
I got the wave with Chris.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
There was a lot of people there.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
There were a lot of people well like we're pretty cool.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
Yeah, I know, right for sure, but I never have
too many friends.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
But honestly, it's so good to be back on the
Weird Bearded Out podcast. Almost said weirded out, but the
Bearded Out Podcast. Uh. We were talking beforehand and I
was like, I think it was on like one of
the first like two or three or five episodes or yeah, seven,
you were.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
The first guest I think that ever happened on the show.
We talked about the Hamilton Polker, yes.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Which of course I'm a huge Hamilton nutt and so
of course I had to talk about the Hamilton.

Speaker 6 (03:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
So it was.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Fantastic, but really and truly glad to be back. Of course,
anytime I get to hang out with Lauren us, it's
always a good thing. And then Bob, you see, it's
my favorite name because you could say it backwards. Bob
always a good time to hang out with you, Sir.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Wells the only person in the room who weird aw
wrote a song about.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
And I have had the opportunity to thank him for
writing a song about me.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh so, welcome back to podcast.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Oh gosh, God, there's Bob's everywhere. Yeah, you're like way
in deeper than the rest of us.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
And also, I think it's cool that Bob created a
human being just so that she would fall in love
with weird Al just as much as he does.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
Yes, and as we talked today, her name will come up. Yes,
my daughter Megan is a big weird El fan.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I love it. She's my buddy.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
She's awesome. She is such a I mean, and I'm
slowly converting her into a board gamer. Also, you are trying,
yes I am.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Oh it's so beautiful. So Chris, first of all, thank
you for segueing me into Bob and Bob welcome back.

Speaker 5 (04:59):
Yeah, I was gonna say I don't have a podcast
promote or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
I'm just Bob.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
You say my name backwards, could say backwards.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Your claim to fame in the weird al community is
larger than the rest of us.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Well, that's true.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Like some some people might say that he was talking
about another Bob in that song, but we know the truth.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
It's all about me. It's all about me. My life's
a palindrome. So yeah, honestly for weird weird Out, I've
been at double digit concerts, much like Lauren. I've traveled
for concerts. I yeah, I love this community.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
I think my favorite thing personally that's happened to me
in literally all of my weird alt fandom, after you know,
meeting Lauren, I always tell people, I'm like, yeah, I
heard a podcast and I liked it so much. I'm
married the host. But my favorite thing that's happened is
her mom, very genuinely as a parent, when you're like

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asking around you know, was like, now, are you a
genuine weird al fan? Like did you like Weardel before Lauren?
And I was like, I literally bought my first Weardel
album the year before she was born. So she has
had no influence on my weird Al fandom, Like I

(06:21):
bought N three D in nineteen eighty four, then she
happened in nineteen eighty five, and then.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
We're here now.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
By the way, Fantastic has said you happened.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
And no, I happened, that was happening, That wasn't happening.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
I mean, she could have been hatched.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
But then what you were saying about your daughter too,
like my son were actually going up to Detroit in
July to see this next Weirdal.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Tour the better than ever.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
I'm very excited to go because I get to take
Lauren to a venue that I've been to nice over
five hundred shows at Like I used to be able
to walk there in the I used to live within
a half mile of it, and so I could just
walk even if I didn't have tickets to a show.
In the nineties, we'd just go hang out the parking line.
You can hear it Clear's day wow. And so I mean,

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if you can name there was a week in nineteen
ninety four in July where I didn't realize until Sunday
night that I had tickets to every show at that
venue Sunday.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Through Saturday, Wow.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
It just like to be clear, it was for sure
there was Metallica twice, like two nights in a row,
and then Depeche Mode and Steve Miller Band were also
in the roster for that week. But like, I'm the
only guy that would have been at all those shows,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
So I'm jealous of nineteen ninety four Russ. Oh, I
also saw it.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
I also know what you were doing as a job
to be those.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
No brother back to back then.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, back then the lawn tickets were eleven dollars or
metallicaus Man. Yeah, I saw Metallica, Guns and Roses and
Faith No More a year before that for twenty six
dollars on the floor. So yeah, but that no, that's
the tip of the iceberg in ninety four. But I
saw Pin Floyd twice that year, like it's see, that
was my year. But but I'm excited to take Lauren

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to that venue because she's she's never been. But what
I was getting at Megan was my son is so
stoked because he bought just a bunch of lawn tickets
for it and had no trouble filling them in. Like
the people he knows are now like way too, you
have any tickets left, and he's like no, and they're

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like damn it.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
You know.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
So he's excited because he's super stoked about the show
and everybody else he knows. And it's again, it's a
term for me because back then, right you know, when
I went and saw where now, First of all was
up the road at the Mental Brook Music Theater, which
is a quarter of the size of Pineknob. Second of all,
the day of the show, you walk into a gas

(09:02):
station and just pick up free weird Al tickets and
go walk.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
To the show.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
And now it's like like, okay, if you go on
social media, and I know this has nothing to do
with the sort we're having more, we're having more of
a chat in a chat right now.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
I love it anything.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
If you go on social media right now, have you
looked at like the weird Al, the sponsored ads and stuff,
the comments, you know, like when you're scrolling your Facebook
feed and you'll see weird ELL's going on tour. Okay,
look at the comments. There's comments in the Year of
Our Lord now twenty twenty five that are like would
have gone, but prices are through the roof. On stub Hub,

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and I'm like, what, Like, that's a that's amazing to
me in.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
The best way.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Like we I used to literally there was a gas
station at uh you know, we'll be there. I'm fifteen
and I seventy five where you used to just stop
and pick up free tickets to whatever was in town
that that they couldn't sell out. Every single time whird
Ow was in town. When I was a teenager, we
would just stop there and pick up the tickets and go.
And now we're living in an era where the Facebook

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comments are like, boy, I'd love to see word Out,
but it's so expensive on the resale market, And I'm like, ah, gotcha, bitches.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
It's crazy.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
I want here in Jacksonville. Ten dollars to go see
word Out. Yeah ten a ten dollars ticket and it
was a good seat. Yeah, ten dollars to go see
wird Well that's how it was.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
The free tickets up there was you would ticket and
you could spend five or ten bucks and they'd put
you in the billion or the free ticket.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
You would just walk in a lot.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
I just but like the fact that people on social
media are complaining about Weirdell ticket prices just makes it
I told her. I told her about a month ago.
I said, I think I'm about to be a weird
Al hipster. I'm pretty excited about it. I will have
the nerve to be like to walk in the show
and be like, oh you've this is your first time
seeing him?

Speaker 3 (10:57):
How quaint?

Speaker 6 (10:58):
Right?

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Quaint Bob is sitting right now with one, two, three
weird Al autographs behind him on my weird Alt Wall
of Fame. And that's not even all the weird Al
autographs I have in this house.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
I know that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
I love looking back at you with that, Bobby. It's like,
this is where you belong, this is.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Where I belong. I agree.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
But yeah, the point of everything I said, just now
tighten with your kid. I just love that my kid.
I just love that my kid is like share it
having some people off for well, Megan, your.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Daughter, Bob, Meghan has has she is. She was a
shining part of my memory of the first concert where
I got to meet weird al right, because uh she was.
She was my bathroom buddy.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
She was. I appreciate that, you know, which is a
special bond.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
It was a special bond. And like I've got so
many great pictures of her from that night. It was
twenty nineteen, so it's not even you know, we're entering
twenty twenty five now, so this is a while ago, right,
It is like a world away. And yeah, we had
that great moment at that Weird Al concert together.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
I loved that concert.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, I'm glad. I'm so glad you did.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
It's funny though, hearing y'all talk about it, because like
my first interaction with Weird Owl was my dad brought
home the uh, the n three D cassette tape for it,
and uh, and I listened to it and basically stole
it from him and whatnot. But I didn't go to
as many concerts as y'all did. One my parents weren't
really into concerts too much. And also I lived in

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Gainesville and there's really only one venue in Gainesville at
that time that you can go to concerts too, and
so it was very difficult. And I just I didn't
really get into live music nearly as much. But I
listened to every cassette tape or every vinyl that I
could get my hands on, every eight track, and I mean,
and I think I love it. I mean, you know, yeah, absolutely,
you can't go wrong with an eight track, for sure.

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But I just I love hearing you guys talk about
these concerts. I've been to two Weird Al concerts, so
I and the I know I'm the awe now. But
the cool part about it is the first time I went.
The reason why I went was and Bob, I think
you've met my buddy Andy, because yes, yes, yeah, because
of because Megan and his daughter Tessa are yes very much.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
And also Tessa is a huge weird alfan because guess what,
her dad and her grandfather are both very big weird
Al fans. And so my first concert was Andy saying
I'm taking you to this concert. You do not have
to pay for the ticket. You're just got to show up. Yeah,
And I was just like, abso freaking loutely. I mean,
you didn't have to turn I mean it was just

(13:38):
like usually the only reason why I turned down and
going to stuff is it's because it's a financial thing,
and it's just but I mean, if you tell me
I'm going for free, heck yeah, if it's as our
friend Ben would say, if it's for free, it's for me,
so yes, and so yeah, but and that was that
and that was at the Florida Theater here in Jacksonville,
and so and and the Florida Theater is a great venue,

(13:59):
I'm mean. And this was before all the remodeling actually happened.
And so the seats, I'm a big guy, these seats
were extra tiny. I somehow shoved my body in there
and could not get up. Everybody was standing up and
enjoying themselves. I couldn't literally get out because I was
jammed in that seat. But I was mesmerized. I was
absolutely mesmerized. And and then I got to go again

(14:20):
a couple of years later, and and just again.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Weird at the Florida Theater. Also.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
I believe this was like two thousand and six, two
thousand and seven.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Okay, I guess I saw in the Mandatory Fund at Florida,
So it was later than that, it was. It was, Yeah,
I still have.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
The ticket somewhere. I need to find it to see
what concert it was.

Speaker 5 (14:43):
I was definitely there, because every time he's been at
Florida Theater since ninety.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Five, I love it.

Speaker 5 (14:51):
I was there, I mean at ninety every time he's
been in Florida Theater since ninety five, I've been there
I've even been on the front row, which is my favorite.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
But it's uh yeah, I was there, Chris.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
And one of my favorite weird Ol stories actually involves
me not going to and not going to a concert
because what happened was a couple of years ago, you,
Lauren said, Hey, I want to take you to a
weird I want to take you to the weird Ol concert.
I want you to get the MVP package in the
whole bit, And I said yes, and I did the
I did the faulty thing of being married and I

(15:28):
did not ask my wife ahead of time, Hey do
we have anything going on on this particular day, which
we ended up doing, and I had to say, I'm sorry,
I can't go. But it ended up being a great
thing because you were able to get Russ to go
with you that more time, because he bought a ticket
but was going to be in another row and another
section and the whole bit and wasn't able to And
I mean, and this was when you guys were just

(15:49):
starting just start a relationship and everything, And it ended
up being a great thing that I could not go. Yeah,
I mean really and truly because Russ was able to
sit next to you. You guys were able to sell his
ticket to somebody that really wanted to go, and which
was awesome. I remember the whole bit. It was a
whole bit, but the frustrating part was the not being
able to go part. But then it made it awesome

(16:10):
because you were able to go. And and now I
adore Rush just as much as I adore you, and
so it's just like that makes me happy.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
I love it. Oh my god. But we really need
to talk about the song.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
But I love something up, so I'm going to share.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Okay, you do that make this part of the bonus
bonus the first episode.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
We're all getting a bonus that's just to drive the start.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Just to drive the point home about like the difference
and how excited I am for what's coming up is
I just googled this right quick. So Meadowbrook Amphitheater was
the place that we'd always plays in Metro Detroit and
has since I was I don't know eight. The capacity
at that place, including the pavilion andalon, is seven thousand.
The place he's playing on this tour is just under

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six teen thousands.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Wow. And they're gone and.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
All the tickets are gone and people are now talking
to my kid being like, are you sure I can't
get one of those? And the fact that I used
to like literally the day of just be like, well,
I know I can stop at the gas station and
just walk in at a seven thousand seater to where
we're at now. It's like, I know a lot of
weird al fans feel this way, but like for me,
it's like a very much an ownership thing.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Like it's huge, And the fact that he's playing Madison
Square Garden and that he's got like eight nights in Vegas,
like this is this is one of the most amazing
weird al things that's ever happened. Twenty twenty five is
the year, the year of the year.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
And there's an easy segue for you to be like
and it all kicks.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Off, and it all kicks off with this, and so
weird All did a New Year's Eve song with Jimmy
Fallon on his holiday seasoning album. It's a five four
three two one the New Year's song, Happy New Years,
And so we've got a lot, there's a lot. There's
a lot happening here. For the last a minute and

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a half, it's it's quick hold on, I will tell
you exactly what it is five four three two one.
It's one minute and forty two seconds, and there's a
lot to it in that and I like that that
it in the context of the album that it's on.

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It's not exactly the shortest song. It is far from
the longest. But there's nothing on this that's any more
than really like three ish minutes, So it's not like
it's competing with you know, songs on There's a lot
of songs on this album.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
And if you look at the there's even more so there's.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Even more songs. Yes, so we have there's a lot
happening here. Too much, too much, some might say.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
It's not.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
So We've got this New Year's eve Polka that we
are here to talk about today. And first of all,
I need to I guess I need to put this
in context for any listeners that may not know what's
going on. But if you don't know what's going on,
you're probably not listening to the show. But I feel
like you know the context I need to give it

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just in case there's somebody out there.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
Born in all fairness you are a weird ol historian.
First and foremost, let's just be honest here that's what
this podcast is. Not only is it is it a
love for weird out, but it's also wanting to be
historical about it and put it in context and make
sure that it's out there for not only the people
who listen to it now, but to listen in twenty
thirty forty plus years.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Thank you for that. I would like to be part
of the annals of weird alist that.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
Word again, Okay, all right, just make sure all.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Right, yes, our conquest, thank you, thank you, Yes, and
I I think that's pretty true. So Jimmy Fallon put
out this holiday seasoning album on November one of twenty
twenty four, and it was recorded over the span of
like three years between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty four,
because there are tracks. There was a single from this
album every year from twenty twenty one through twenty twenty four.

(20:19):
The first one was it was a Masked Christmas, which
is him and Jimmy Fallon and Megan These These Stallion
and Ariana Grandez the Stallions.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yes, and Glinda the Goodwitch Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
And then the twenty twenty two single was with him
and Dolly Parton almost too Early for Christmas. And then
twenty twenty three was Wrap Me Up, which I believe
was with Mega Trainer, so.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
It makes it sounds like a Megan Trainer song.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Wait, Megan, Meghan Theee Trainer.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
I just need to know you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
And then Holiday is the single from twenty twenty four
with Look At Jonas Brothers, so.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
The Jonas Brothers, the Jonas Brothers.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
And Holidays hold On go back to that originally originally Sunday.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Night, hold On You Keep Moving, No No Go Ahead.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Vision is a song in the vein of the Vein
of the Jackson's Blame It on the Boogie with an
added influence by Chic. Yeah, that song is gonna rule,
Like I don't care. That's song gonna be called poop
and it's gonna be awesome.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Holiday is a bop. I actually it's Blaming It on
the Boogie with Chic. So those are two great things.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
I have actually heard that in the wild and a
gas station I was working in the other day and
that came on.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
I was like, Oh, this is a bop and this
is gonna get played. We are going to hear this.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
I just I glanced over there and saw that and
I was like, well, those are two things that go
together very well.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yeah, so that's the thing with this whole Jimmy Fallon
Christmas Holiday album, right and I and so, I I
don't have a whole lot of like historical factual information
about the weird Al track on this because it's it's
a weird al polka on a Jimmy Fallon holiday album.
But the what's happening around it is really quite interesting

(22:22):
because again, like you said that Jonas Brothers collab holiday
song was envisioned in the vein of blame it on
the Boogie by the by the Jacksons with some chic
to make it sound like a roller disco song. And
then of course you've got the weird al polka that's there,
and then Coquito, which is an offbeat regatron track, and

(22:45):
then One Glove with Weird Will Ferrell was inspired by
Warren Zevon and I will say as I will that
that track is probably my favorite non weird Al track
on this album, the one, the one Glove with Will Ferrell.
I think it's the funniest thing. Weird Cousin is a
low fi jam a la Weezer and Thanksgiving Eve is

(23:12):
made to sound like a Bob Dylan song. And my
problem with that is that Bob exists, right, which is
the best weird no no, no, no no. But I mean,
if if somebody's going to do something in the style
of Bob Dylan.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
But if we're going to say that a comedy record
can't do something in the style of another artist because
Weirdal did it better than all comedy music has.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Done, that's fair. Weird All did it better. But this
is fine.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
I mean, my biggest complaint with that is just the
word Weezer being involved.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
I will also tell you that I got a couple
of good chuckles out of the the Hallmark movie song.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
That's the one that was fantastic.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
That's the one that makes me laugh every time.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
I was every I'm well pleased because it hits home
so hard.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, because it starts out like, oh no, this is
so sweet, this is lovely, this is all the hallmarks
of a Hallmark movie. And then oh no, there's a knife,
and I think the mayor is Santa. I think it's
very funny.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
We're watching there's one of my favorite YouTube channels. It's
called pitch Meeting. And if you haven't seen them, I
will send you a couple of pitches that are just amazing.
I'll send you a couple. They're like three four minute
videos and they're just amazing. Anyways, they did a pitch
meeting for those Hallmark type Christmas movies and the guys like,
you know, it's one of those movies that's so bad
it's good. And the guys like, one year, we should

(24:37):
make a movie that's so good it's good. And the
guy was like, well, why should we mess with the
FOURK for Yeah, So that's how I like. Those Hallmark
movies are just just so bad, but they're also good.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
They're candy. Yeah, that's all it is.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
Which is fine with me.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
It's bad for your teeth, but you know what, you
enjoy it. You enjoy it as you're in as you
enjoy it.

Speaker 5 (25:00):
So if you're going to listen to one song that's
not the weird alse song on this album, try Hallmark
Movie because that is funny.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
I you know, so, Bob, this is very interesting. Like
you told me that there was one song on this
outside of the weird al one that you were like, oh,
this is worth it, though I'm like, I don't know.
I was listening through it. I was like, it's probably
this one. Like if Bob's been like one of them,
it's probably this one. So I'm glad. I'm glad I

(25:30):
was right there with you on it.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
So because because this, oh, no, go ahead, this is
the one. Because honestly, I did not think I was
gonna like this album, because that first song on the album,
ding Dong Christmas just was not.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
My cup of tea at all. I thought it was terrible.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
I'm gonna do this, yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
So I was like, if the rest of the songs
are like this, I'm not listening.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
I also watched the special it aired on TV. She
was so mad, so mad about.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
It, and when it was done, she was like like
normally she's like, hey, I'm gonna let the dogs out,
and I'm like, okay, she was done with that, and
she was like, I'm gonna let the dogs out and
I was like.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
Oh crap, was theshold mad? You know?

Speaker 2 (26:17):
I fell asleep because it was awful and uh And
I was like, oh, I'm sorry it was the special man.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
She was like yes.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
I was like, I didn't like it. I didn't like it.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
I told you this too. I'm a fallin guy, like
I like, there's so much people complain about with Jimmy
Fallon that I think it's just so dumb. But when
he misses the mark, he like misses it so wide
of the mark.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
But that's the typical s performer for you though.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yeah. Yeah, for sure. When they're on, they're on. Yeah,
and when they're not, you're like, oh, who let you
do comedy? Yeah? Exactly right.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
But I was gonna say the one song that you
didn't talk about Dolly Parton, well no, not you talked
about Dollar Partner, but the Chipmunks, and not just because
he was channeling his inner, his inner Paul McCartney on
that song. Absolutely Yah. If you don't hear his Paul
McCartney imitation voice on that song, yeah, then it's just.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
I get more more royal Orbison out of that than anything.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah, but it's that you gotta remember everyone, everyone at
that time, from say sixty eight to seventy four was
doing that.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, that's fair, But no, that song, that song, that's
nothing I want.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
To hear less than wonderful Christmas time. So trust me,
I didn't want to hear Paul McCarty.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
It's so funny. I love that song so I can't.
I mean, that's that time. Yeah, that's my Hallmark Christmas
movie that song right then?

Speaker 3 (27:39):
No, yeah, I get that. I get that.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
But because like when he actually a couple of years
ago he was the musical host with Martin Short on
SNL and played it and was just I loved everybody,
you lost your mind. I really kind of.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
Talking about the album and bringing it back to where
it out.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Okay, fine, What.

Speaker 5 (27:59):
I would say is, did you notice the placement of
the polka.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
On the album?

Speaker 1 (28:06):
It's where it should be.

Speaker 5 (28:07):
It's exactly where it should be, because where does weird
Out put his polkas on the album? At the end
of side A before you flip the side B, and
this is song number eight out of sixteen songs, it
is exactly where it's supposed to be.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
It is so perfect.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
So you're gonna, I'm lady, you make that the segue
into our things. We think work about this section.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
That's where I messed up because I listened to DeLux
version and that has twenty five songs on the time.
I didn't catch it.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
I got I got that, So yes, yes, that is
where a weird Al polka should be.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Absolutely the end.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Of side one. Yes, absolutely, and as kudos to Jimmy
Fallon's holiday seasoning for putting the weird Alpoka where it
should be.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
You know, I'm sure Jimmy knew at the beginning this
is where the polka is going to go. This is
where the polka is going, this is where it has
to go. And so because Jimmy is a fan, he's
a huge fan.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Jimmy is a fan. I saw in preparation for this,
I watched a Jimmy Fallon interview on the Howard Stern Show,
which you know is what it is, but I will,
I will lead with this. Howard Stern said, and I
quote Weirdankovic. Yeah that's a weird guy anyway. Uh wow,

(29:38):
that sounds.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Like, yeah, what a brilliant question. You get paid to speak,
how Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, he's no, he's weird, but he's a good way.
He's like, he's weird in a good way. And then
Jimmy Fallon brought it back basically saying like yeah, no,
like I got I essentially got to have one of
my heroes on one of my albums. And and the
the the the the whole idea is that it's bringing

(30:06):
a positive spin to a I guess a holiday that
hasn't had a positive holiday song about it, and he
brought it there and so you know, Jimmy Fallon is
very very excited about that. But he did say that
weird Out was the first concert he ever went to.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Yes, and it was.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
It was, it was a much of it was a
big nerd moment, you know, Jimmy Fallon having weird Out
on his album do this and it's like, well, okay, yeah, as.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
This makes me like Jimmy Moore should So now, did
Jimmy write the song or did Al write this song?

Speaker 1 (30:51):
According to Jimmy Fallon on The Howard Stern Show, he
wrote it, okay, well, and then.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
Let's not forget Also the Root Sore credited also on there,
and I mean because they did they did them, I
mean because of the They did a lot of the
music on there. And even though if you listen to
it it doesn't really sound like a Roots song at all,
they really truly went to their weird al place on
that for sure.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
According to Wikipedia, for the song, it was written by
Jimmy Fallon essentially the Roots and Weirdo, so it was
a collaborative effort and weird All did have a big
hand in producing this.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Probably normal sized hand.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
I was going to say, I have a weird All
sized hand in producing the album for Jimmy. But what
is another interesting thing about this, and I feel like
it bears in having part of our conversation is that
before putting this album together the way that it was,

(31:55):
Jimmy Fallon had several people kind of going at and
basically being like, you should do the regular Christmas album
thing that people do, where it's just regular, you cover
the Christmas standards, right. And we had a conversation about
this actually on the last episode of the beard Out podcast,
where you were like, people put these one loan holidays

(32:19):
standard songs out as their singles, and everything else is
Christmas songs that you already know, like they're putting that
one thing out there in hope so that it will work.
And this Jimmy Fallon Holiday seasoning album has nothing that
you know on it. There is nothing, There are no
standards on this. And Jimmy Fallon absolutely did this on purpose,

(32:41):
he said in that interview with Howard Stern where he
was like, that didn't feel correct to me. I recorded,
I recorded Silent Night, I recorded, you know, chestnuts roasting
on an open fire or all this other stuff. I
did these and they did. He was like, I felt stupid.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
I was like one on Earth it would expect a
sincere vocal from like, uh, I don't know if if
you all know this, but Seth MacFarlane has a incredibly
awesome side career as a genuine cruioner being can do
and I don't know how he pulled it off, but

(33:23):
nobody questions his work in swing and big band. It's
all very genuine. At this point in the game, no
one on Earth is going to take Like when if
you hear Jimmy Faillon start with chesna that's roasting, You're
the whole song. You're gonna be waiting for the bit,
do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, right, Whereas if

(33:44):
Seth starts singing it, you're like, oh, this version is
gonna be amazing. You know where it's Jimmy fallon. You're
just expecting the whole time, So why not make the
whole album the bit.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
It's like watching a Will Ferrell movie and never finding
the joke right, like the when he does a drama
and it's like you're waiting for the joke because it's
Will Ferrell has got to be a joke.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
It's Jimmy Fallon. There's got to be a joke.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
And this.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
The album does deliver on the fun and the funny
and the clever.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
And death and also and in Jimmy Fallon form though
it's every song, as we talked about earlier, is under
a certain amount of time because he wants to do
those bits that people can post on social media to
be able to see it real quick. He's been I mean,
that's what the Tonight Show has become for him. It's
just like it's those It's not the interviews anymore. It's

(34:38):
not the the old Carson like trying to do the
interview or trying to have the person do the funny stuff.
It is these two to three minute bits so that
it can go on social media and everybody can enjoy
it for a little bit. It's it's those. It's the
hershey kiss of comedy right now, because it's like, oh,
you know, it's gonna be what it is. It's a
hirshey kiss. It's gonna you're gonna enjoy it, and then
it's over with after two seconds. It's the same thing

(35:00):
these bits and that's what the songs and that's what
I really felt like these songs are. It's just like
and hearing you talk about Okay, well, these songs came
from twenty twenty one and this one came from twenty
twenty two. It makes perfect sense because he did those
things for the show and now he's compiled it on
for a last better term a best of holiday album.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
It does right, I respect us, no, and I totally
get it because one of the lead singles off of
it was it was It's it Was a Mask Christmas
and that's with Ariana Grande and Meghan the Stallion, which
came out in twenty twenty one, the one the the Stallion.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
And now that you told me that, that song makes
much more sense when I was listening to her.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
They recorded that right after COVID where it was like,
oh no, we're taking our masks off. Now I'm gonna
kiss everybody because my mouth can be out in the world.
So yeah, And I guess it's odd that there are
tracks on this that were released as like one off
holiday singles years prior that you know don't fit. You're like,

(36:07):
oh oh, oh, oh oh, that's when that happened, right,
you know. But to the weird Awl New Year's Eve
Polka five four three two one, weird Al did say
on The Howard Stern Show that this was one of
those things where they felt that there were no happy
New Year's Eve songs and they wanted to add one.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
In there spoiler for the second half of the show.
I agree with Chris, uh, there still aren't.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
I find this song to be just there.

Speaker 4 (36:38):
Well, and it's interesting that he said that because one
of weird because I actually did a little research today
because Bob, when I were talking to this, He's like,
I did research, and I need to come with this
at least with one nugget in my pocket. And one
of Weird Owl's heroes, Spike Jones, actually did a New
Year's song and it's just and I and I listened

(37:01):
to it and it's very funny. I mean, it's just
like it's typical Spike Jones humor without a shadow of doubt.

Speaker 6 (37:07):
I mean, and.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
I've just so it surprises me to hear that he
said that because one of his musical heroes did a
it did a song that's out there. I mean, now,
mind you is a memorable song. Prob maybe not because
but I mean.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Know about it, Yeah, I would think so speaking, this
is just uh, something that occurred to me just now
when we were talking about like where now would know
about Spike Jones and so on the day we're recording
this earlier, very early this morning, by way of a
long story, in casual conversation, my son said to me, Hey,
have you ever heard of Alan Cassello who's on first?

Speaker 3 (37:48):
And my reply to him was, who do you think
you're fooling with? You know what I mean?

Speaker 7 (37:53):
Like what.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
You know?

Speaker 2 (37:56):
So anyways, he was exciting because he said he has
a friend of his that memorized it, and I can
do the whole thing. That's awesome, you know. But it
was just funny to me. I was like, yeah, why
would you think I wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
Yeah, like George Carlin's football and baseball.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Started.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
So yeah, there's the Spike Jones and his City Slickers
Happy New Year song.

Speaker 4 (38:20):
Yeah, and it's it's a fun song, I guess. Is
it super memorable? Not really, I mean it's not all
I want for Christmas my two front teeth that he did,
but it's still a fun.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Obviously, fallon didn't remember it well.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Obviously, obviously, obviously. Yeah, I think this is a good
time for an end break, because we've probably talked about
all we really really enjoy about it. Unless, Bob, do
you have something you.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Wrote ten nine, eight, seven, six, five four three two one.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Perfect. We'll catch you on the other side of the
sad break.

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Speaker 1 (39:55):
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Speaker 3 (39:59):
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Speaker 1 (40:02):
So we hope you have time to think about what
you had to think about this New Year, because we're
coming on the flip side with I guess it's not
really the wamp wamp portion of the show because we've
kind of alluded to it, like there's there's a lot
happening in this whole situation. So weird as the New
Year's Eve Polka four three two one. It's admitted in

(40:23):
forty two seconds, and it's part of Jimmy Fallon's Holiday
Seasonings Holiday album, which I'm going to throw my first
negative on the pile, and I will say I'm very
glad that we did not purchase this. We saw it
at Target for forty American dollars and I was literally

(40:51):
going to buy it because the weird al song.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Was on it and this is vinyl.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
Yeah, oh okay, okay, that makes a little more sense.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
Yeah, a little more sent But I did it because
of the fore more.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
For the format, because I'm finding vinyl nowadays is a
lot harder. It's a lot more expensive than it used
to be for sure. So anyway, I'm sorry, No, you
didn't know.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
It's fine, I'm just saying that we we we saw
it on vinyl for forty American dollars.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Well, my thing was she was like, oh, this is
forty bucks and it's got the weird else on. I
was like, all right, you know, I didn't know anything
about it. I flipped it over and like, yeah, the
talent roster on this record is not forty dollars worth
of talent. Like I just was like, nope, I'm not
paying this much for all these people, like period, Like

(41:39):
I barely know anything any of these folks, like you
know what I mean, Like, I'm not like and as
much as I love weird Al, he's not thirty eight
dollars worth because two dollars is what I would be
paying everyone else.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Yeah right, So so so that was that. So the
bummer for me, I guess this is one of the
one of the weird al things, is that like we have.
I caamelessly joke on the show that I married Russ
because he had the Squeeze box box set weird Al vinyl.
But to add on to that, this is one of

(42:13):
the very few weird al things that we're not going
to have on vinyl because it just doesn't make sense.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Well we can get I would argue, this is not
a weird al thing. I mean, like he's on the track,
but if he didn't write it, this is not it. Yeah,
I coming into this tonight, I did no research, So
thank you both for doing all the research. I would
have been sitting here conspiracy theory guy going mmm, I
don't know if his names are on the credit, that's fine,

(42:42):
but I don't think he wrote most of us. So
to have it confirmed that he didn't write most of
this is good for me. Yeah, I don't count it
as a weird al thing.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
If he didn't write it, and he probably added a
few little things into it, that makes perfect sense. But
it's just one the biggest the few frustrations I have
with the song is one unlike unlike most of the
other almost every other weird l song that I've heard,
he repeated the lyrics are repeated over and over again,
and that's normally not the case. Yes, of course the

(43:10):
chorus is repeated. That makes perfect sense, but I'm talking
about the bridge and everything was repeated quite a few times,
and it's just to me that didn't make Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
But it's such a long song, Chris, right, there's a
lot of room for that.

Speaker 4 (43:26):
It's one hundred and one hundred and six seconds.

Speaker 5 (43:29):
So what I will point out if you look at
the format of the song is it's a poem. It's
a poem. Rhymes it is, it's a poem. It's got
it's it's uh each three lines and the last word
of rhymes. Everything rhymes with one and so and so
according to un Gun up till the sun, so it runs,

(43:53):
so it's it's a point, so it rhymes. It's a
poem if you really sit down and look at it,
it's like a kid's poem that I used to in
first grade. We used to have to write the poem
that was up on the on the board every day
to practice our writing skills. And this reads like a

(44:15):
poem that first graders would have to copy. So they
added in all the different sounds and all the different effects.
But it's basically a poem that they've turned into a polka.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
So that's a really good point. I I don't know
this because all I can see is that it's, you know,
Jimmy Fallon, some other folks and then Weird out writing
this song. I wonder who did the lyrics.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
It's not Al.

Speaker 5 (44:46):
I guarantee Al didn't do that. I bet you Al
put in the accordion, put in the polka music, but
I guarantee he didn't write the lyrics because they're way
too simple.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
Simple thing.

Speaker 5 (45:02):
They're almost I mean, honest to goodness, listening to some
of the other songs on the album, they're almost too
simple for Fallon, to be honest with you, because it's a.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
It's a one note trick. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
So so to that point, and I love this, And
I really wanted this conversation to steer this direction. This
is where I wanted it to go. I'm so good
to happen. Where do we think?

Speaker 2 (45:30):
What?

Speaker 1 (45:31):
How do I want to put this? What do we
think this means for? Like what we're going to get
from Weird after this meeting?

Speaker 3 (45:36):
Oh, it's all gotta be uphill from here.

Speaker 4 (45:40):
But also it's just going to be You know what,
there are so many artists that just like say, hey,
I'll jump in and help you out with this song.
I mean, it's just like because you I mean because
again let's talk about uh, let's talk about beat it.
Because again, Michael Jackson, I mean Quincy Jones asked Eddie
Van Halen to play the I mean the opening part
of it. And so it just that I think that

(46:02):
happens all the time. And it's just like he just said, hey, hey,
al you're here, would you be interested on doing this
and whatnot? And I could see him going absolutely because again,
in all fairness too, Jimmy Fallons really helped his career
out just a bit too, because it's like they're really
and I say that because it's just like anytime that
he's releasing a song, where is he releasing it on?

(46:23):
He's not going to Kimmel, He's not going to Stephen Colbert.
He's going He's going to Jimmy Fallons Tonight show to
be able to release that song. He's done that like
three additional times over the last what five years that
I can remember.

Speaker 5 (46:36):
So he So something I'll bring up is weird out
bringing them back to the podcast that Chris is on.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
When they when Chris the podcast, When Chris and my.

Speaker 5 (46:48):
Brothers started that podcast, there weren't any trivia podcasts out there.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
There just were not.

Speaker 5 (46:53):
There weren't any trivia podcasts asking questions at all. And
so they started that and since then they have been
very supportive of other trivia podcasts. They've encouraged him, they've
brought him on the show, they've let him advertise, they've
they've been very encouraging of that. Al is the godfather
of comedy music and he is going to and.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
He is Jimmy. You want to do this, Yeah, let
me be a part of it, Let me lend my
name to it, let me help.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Yeah, that's a really good that's a really good point.
And I love that about this. Like I am going
to say that I owned Jimmy Fallon's On the Bathroom
Wall album on CD as a as a high school
person who had a big crush on Jimmy Fallon, who
made myself an iron on T shirt that said future

(47:47):
Missus Randy Goldman. I did that. I did that, and
I loved Jimmy Fallon. And so it's been very interesting
for me as a human to watch Jimmy Fallon's career
happened the way it's happened in a lot of ways,
Like I've liked a lot of it, I've disliked some
of it, and I'm like, okay, well, all right, Jimmy Fallon,

(48:09):
you you be Jimmy Fallon, right. And one thing that
I think brings it all back to this is very
much where where where where Bob was at was like,
this is the evolution of comedy music, and so weird

(48:31):
Al has to make sure that he's part of it
in some way.

Speaker 4 (48:34):
But so it puts a stamp of approval.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
On a it's a stamp of approval absolutely, but from
a if we switch gears just slightly, just just slightly,
and back get back to what weird Al is actually doing.
From a standpoint of what he's done lately, are we

(49:02):
hungry for something other than a polka? Like, because the
Hamilton Poka was a delight, it was okay, poke media
absolutely something refreshing, you know, covering music from the past
ten years. And then there's this New Year's Eve five
four three two one. When are we getting something that's

(49:25):
not a polka?

Speaker 4 (49:25):
But he's doing stuff that he wants to do, and
maybe Polka is really really wants to be.

Speaker 5 (49:32):
That's fair, and I'm just I'm just sick, and I
will mention he has reinvented end credits for a movie
in this timeframe.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
That's fair.

Speaker 5 (49:44):
He has completely reinvented me, now, I know. Yeah, so,
but I agree with you. Okay, we've got three Polkas.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Let's I I know he's ever going to give us
another album.

Speaker 4 (50:01):
We know this, Yeah, and I'm surprised there's more bands
that haven't just said we're not going to do any
more albums because you can release three or four song
bits on online all the time. I mean, it's just
like one of my favorite artists is Brad Paisley. Brad Paisley,
who I like a lot for a couple of things.
One good country artists, amazing guitar player, but also because

(50:24):
he's funny is all get out. I mean, he's absolutely hysterical.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
Yeah he's a funny guy, Yes he is.

Speaker 4 (50:29):
But he only releases like three or four songs every
I mean, he'll do like these little EPs or not
ep whatever the term is. Yeah, I think it is
EP and then okay, hey occasionally anyway, but he does
that and it's just and I appreciate that because again,
that's the way to get the music out. And I
think if that's what Al is wanting to do is

(50:52):
just hey, I'm going to do a song here or there.
It's better than not having anything. And I know that
probably is true and not true all at the same time,
but from personally, it gives us. It gives me a
chance to go, you know what, I want to go
back and listen to all his pol because again, I
want to be able to go back and listen to X,
Y and Z all over again, and and and that's

(51:12):
the end, and that's what that's what I get out
of it. It's like when he releases something, it's like, okay, now,
let me go back and try to compare it with
the other stuff. But the good part about comparing it
is you have to listen over again. You have to
kind of agree or disagree. Do I like this or
do I not like this?

Speaker 1 (51:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (51:29):
Yeah, I was gonna say, we've also gotten deja vu
all over again, which yeah, which is is what it is.
I would love to hear Al do something creative, get
back to his roots, do something. I'd love another album
and I.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
Don't think we're ever going to get it.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
It is a much longer discussion for a different time.
But Laura Lauren will tell you I am continually shocked
into Paul by how just we have made music as
a society, like we have conditioned people, very very strongly

(52:11):
over the past twenty years that music is disposable and
not an art form to be revered at all, and
it's gross. And part of the problem with that is
that we now have to lie in that bed, and
lying in that bed means that we lose an artist
like weird L, because weird Al strongly depends on music

(52:36):
as an art form being valued. You can't have a
full album of things from the past five years that
people go, oh, I remember that, and we danced to
that at our wedding, or that was my friend and
I song. If you have made music into a completely
disposable art form, nobody remembers anything. So in the time
that it takes WEIRDL to record one parody and then

(53:01):
another ten, no one will remember these songs. I happen
to be a big fan of Chapel Roone and a
big fan of Sabrina Carpenter. You know who's gonna remember
those people in three years.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
Nobody. How long does it take? Weird, I'll make a
record too long. That's our fault. So you're not You're
not wrong. Oh I know you're not here. This is amazing.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
No, dude, here's my thing. I don't want to be right,
you know what I mean, Like, I hate being right
about this.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
You are right, though.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
My whole life has been centered around music as an
art form, mattering and having worth and weight. And we
have literally since about nineteen ninety nine. Uh, just condition
people over and over and over the music that's worthless.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
Ish ish Yeah, I mean, honest to goodness.

Speaker 4 (53:56):
Well, this is where I'll disagree with you on that.
And again we're getting I know we're getting. Well, we know.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
We're talking about why.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
But one of the most prolific artists all of us
in this room, Love has put out a trickle Trickle
after after capping off a brilliant career.

Speaker 4 (54:13):
The only reason why I disagree with the streaming process
that you're saying in there is the good part about streaming,
and the good part about me having Apple Music that
I'm able to get every single month is I now
have the ability to have every single song at my
fingertips and be able to listen to it. Whereas before
as a poor kid who was trying to give money

(54:34):
to his mom because because we didn't have enough money
to be able to do things, I was not able
to buy CDs that I wanted to. I was not
able to buy tapes that I wanted to. And now
that I have the fact that I could, I can
message out to my nephew and say, hey, uh, I
know that you're a big Metallica fan. Have you listened
to this song over the course the last blah blah
blah amount of years. And he is able to go

(54:56):
out and listen to it now, And that excites me
that it makes me that we can actually that I
can introduce him to that song and then and I
agree with you to the disposable portion of it. I
mean a lot of these songs that are coming in,
it's just like are they memorable enough or not. There's
a fantastic podcast that I listen to on an every
month basis. I've talked about it on Trivia Warfarrell, I'll

(55:18):
talk about it on here. It's called Hip Parade. Hip
Parade is one of the best music conversations podcast that
I've ever heard in my life, because he's talking about
it from a billboard chart perspective and a history perspective.
And one of the things you know about me is
I love history. That's why I called you a weird historian,
because I appreciate the historian portion of it. Thank you anyway, Russ.

(55:39):
But it's just like I agree and I disagree with it.
And I think I disagree only because I don't know
nearly as much as you do. And I'm willing to
say that, but I just think that it may feel
disposable now, but we need to give it a little
more time to see if it's fully disposed. Does that
make sense?

Speaker 3 (55:58):
It does, But I'm so ready to come to argue this.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
I love it well, you know, giving you because I
don't want to be old man on Hill going at
the chapel disposable. It's not Tampan's disposable. Is the art
of music that we made disposable? And hold on, let
me let me put it back in you so take
me to school, I would argue. See now, when I
was a kid, the first Metallica record I ever bought
was in Justice for All Sure, and I had to save.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
To get it because it's a double LP with all question.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
Okay, So on CD it was eighteen bucks because even
though it was one CD, they still were like, you know,
Giants Film at eleven record label screws over fan like
you know Giants Press.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
So I just saved by it. Okay.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
So when I finally got Injustice for All on CD,
I savored every second of all seventy eight minutes of
that record. Now I understand the romance in going, Hey,
I'm gonna send my cousin this or nephew this this song?

(57:00):
Right sure, Hey, I don't know if that might. I
think the song one is around seven minutes and forty seconds.
How much do you think they're focused on that whole
seven minutes when they hear it.

Speaker 4 (57:09):
I think it depends on the person. I know, for him,
he's focused on all of it.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
But not see what I'm saying a lot of people
think think of think of how much happens in just
the song one before any lyrics occur, and how many
attention spans. Because of the way we present music to
people are going to stick with that, right It Just
that's how we've set people up with music. We're just

(57:34):
like this is the thing you don't earn, you don't
work for. You just play instantly and you know it's
I told Lauren I for years, I used to be
the guy that'd be like, oh, there's this version of
this you've never heard, and you have to get it
on a on the Japanese you know, version of the
CD or whatever, and you had to earn that.

Speaker 8 (57:51):
You know.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Now you just play it, and you play thirty seconds
and you go, all right, we're done, you know. And
I and that bringing this.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
All back to weird L.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
That's why we're at where we're at with weird L,
because his whole thing depends on music having value and
the audience having an attention span.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
So we have neither anymore.

Speaker 4 (58:15):
Let me ask you this, then, why doesn't he then
go back into the well and go for older songs
and go for songs that he that have been that
have stood to test the tong.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
Like okay, so like what's like when he's Spider Man.

Speaker 4 (58:29):
Because he did do that, Well, he did that for
the saga begins because he went, I mean he I
mean he went.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
So he does that for the movie songs, for the
for the movies. He'll he'll take an older song.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
From an artistic standpoint, if I'm al, I would be like,
it's not my fault.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
Y'all don't write good songs anymore, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (58:48):
Absolutely and and and besides saga begins, He's done that
with a few other songs, right Like, like I said,
I think it's uh, yeah, I forget what what what's
the name of it? The piano man, spider Man?

Speaker 3 (59:00):
Uh is it just a man? No, It's that's so
forgettable to me because because I would do a superhero. Yeah.
When I got that record, I was like, but but why,
but why though?

Speaker 1 (59:11):
You know what I mean, and you've got your your
your uh cat Stevens Pastiche with Jackson Park Express right,
which we love.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
I certainly would never presume to speak for right now,
but I feel like what's excited him a lot over
the past, you know, thirty forty years of his career
has been like keeping up with what's going on and
finding new ways to come up with things. And it
would be different to me. It would be a whole

(59:42):
different challenge for I would think to parody something that's
new and exciting and uh, completely different than just go
back and be like, well, I guess I'll do turn
the page because everybody knows that song, you know what.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
I mean, Because it's just I think Lauren just said
it very well right there. It's just like he could
do a pasty song on on a lot of these
because they do sound very similar. But also it's just
like you talked about Jackson Park Express, which is a
phenomenal song. I mean when I was when I was
thinking about it, I was thinking about Yoda because again
it's just like, yes, it was a parody song, but

(01:00:17):
also yeah, but yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
Right, the subject man was Star Wars.

Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
So I just it bums me out because where All
is one of my favorite artists of all time, and
I think that where he's at in his career is
reactionary to where the music business is, and so the
whole thing bums me out.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Well, speaking of things that bum us up, and Bob,
I'm gonna let you no got We're gonna we're gonna
take a little break here again. I'm gonna throw more
ads in here, because you know what, why you not?
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(01:01:28):
l song. Pretty sure that hasn't been done before.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
You gotta come out of it, Okay, you gotta come
out of that. You got to come out of that
break with Bob though, because there was like the last
ten minutes been like.

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
But I don't know you're gonna start this, Okay, that's
why you were a pen.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
It's a great point, Russ. It truly is a great point.
It's upsetting and well, we come back to me.

Speaker 5 (01:01:57):
To me, the x accessibility has actually pushed the disposability.
I told the fact that it's so accessible and the
fact that it's so accessible with streaming and Spotify and
beguinea song you want and okay, so you listen to

(01:02:18):
it once and then we go find another song, and
then you don't find another song.

Speaker 3 (01:02:22):
When we were kids and I wore out my weird
al cassettes, I wore them.

Speaker 4 (01:02:28):
But it also depends on the people that you're talking about. Yeah,
but I don't want to lump everybody into one thing.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
You can, though, because the generation that's coming up, they
have been taught that music is a disposable art form.

Speaker 3 (01:02:41):
And He's right, they have. They have been taught not
to not to value it. It's okay, we like this
song where.

Speaker 5 (01:02:49):
All everybody loves this song right now, and then we're
on to the next one, and it's there's not name
a song from the last fifteen years that that is
going to be as revered in fifteen more years, like Piano.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
Man or American Pie Hard.

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
But that's hard to say.

Speaker 10 (01:03:13):
That.

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
It is hard to say because what songs are being.

Speaker 4 (01:03:17):
What's going to be and what's going to be considered
awesome I mean later on down the line, because again
we're talking about from fifty years of perspective right now.
We can't talk about that until like.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
At least because when when I was a kid, people
knew piano Man. You know what I mean, like and
now you people there's people can't name artists from five
years ago, le alone songs from five years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
It's going to be a Taylor Swiss song. It's going
to be a Taylor's song.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
But Bob had a point that he wanted to come
out of the break with of regarding like the disposable
thing so cool. So I never remind you that because
Bob was trying really hard to get it where it no.

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Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
It's I mean, it's part three. I guess Electric Book
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point that he's been trying to make for like seventy
five minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
We're all good.

Speaker 5 (01:05:19):
So what I was going to say is to Russ's
point about disposability of music. I was going to say
that the fact that Chris made the point about the
songs are more accessible, and I actually think that leads
to songs being more disposable because you can listen to
a song and then a new song, and then you

(01:05:40):
move on to the next one. You're not When we
were kids, we would listen to I get cassette tapes.
That's how old I am, and I'd wear it out.
As a matter of fact, you could tell on the
cassette tape where I was flipping it over because I
wanted to get to the other side and you could
tell on a.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
Cassette tape that, oh that was a kid.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
I used to get so bummed because the Purple Rain
cassette was white, Like the cassette was right white classic,
and like you could tell how much you would listen
to it by the flip marks the other side of it. Yeah,
And so like, if you didn't have a Purple Rain
cassette that was like worn in, you like weren't really
a fan.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
So I wore out my cassette tapes and savoring the music.

Speaker 5 (01:06:24):
I mean, look, I've got weird out versus that are
just ingrain here that I will never ever, ever ever
forget because they're all here because I've heard them so
many times. Today, songs come out. We listen to a song,
it's hot for a month, two months, maybe three months,
then it's gone. And what I would say is is

(01:06:47):
And what I was during the break, I asked a question,
what song from the last fifteen years are we going
to remember in fifteen more years?

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
What song do we are we going to revere?

Speaker 5 (01:06:57):
Like an American pie a piano man, what songs out
there now that people are really gone to?

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
Brother, you know, I'm right, that's not even that deep
of a song, but people remember it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
That's a really good question. Like, that's a really good question.
And I realized we're getting off of the weird.

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
But I feel like everything, that's all it might be.
We don't have more because of this.

Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
Right, everything to do with it, And so go ahead,
Christ No, the only thing I was going to say
on that is to kind of contradict a little bit
what you're saying, the dual leap of song levitating. I
asked a question on this on Trivia Warfare like a
couple of weeks ago when I was hosting it. When
I was hosting one of the episodes, that song was
on the Billboard Top forty chart for over fifty three weeks.

(01:07:46):
All right, So it's just I think it was fifty
three weeks. It may have been a little bit longer
than that. I'm just not thinking about it, right, But
it's just so, yes, you can say that they're here
and they're gone. But there are certain songs that are
going to stand the test of time. But the problem
is right now we have this small area where we
don't know how long that tests the time to be.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
That's fair, that's fair, but standing the test of time
versus being Okay, so levitating, Yeah, never hit number.

Speaker 4 (01:08:13):
One, No, it didn't number two, that's right, never hit.

Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
Number one, bubbled under it for a long time, right right,
So so I guess what I'm getting at is what's
the staying power of something like that?

Speaker 4 (01:08:29):
We can't we can't say that to contradict that though
c CR never had a number one song, every hit
that they had only went to number two at the highest.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
And the great only had one top forty hit.

Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
Okay, we're going.

Speaker 1 (01:08:45):
Nowhere where weird.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
Here's the thing, here's the thing I think maybe I guess,
maybe I'm I'm miss speaking. No, we're not talking about hits. Yeah,
we're talking about staying between hits and saying power. CCR's
career was done by nineteen seventy one, and you know
what they were listening to in two, three, four, five,

(01:09:08):
all the way through the eighties. Still CCR absolutely Okay,
there are folks who have come and gone in the
past five years that people are never going to hear
from ever again. And were number one, had a number
one album, had number one and no, no, they had
an album full of singles that everybody was talking about

(01:09:29):
for like five seconds and the difference is the there's
not any sort of conversation, there's there's not any sort
of value in it. Like again, okay, so, and I
can only go back from my personal experience. When I
first heard of Pink Floyd, I bought a double live

(01:09:50):
album that they put out because it had most of
like Floyd doesn't have hits, but the hits money, Breaking
the Wall, China and Crazy was all on this on record.
So then in order to listen to more Pink Floyd,
I had to wait till I could afford to go
buy another Pink Floyd record. And then when I got that,
it was like a treasure, Like even if it was bad,

(01:10:11):
I would be like, well, I have to really listen
to this whole thing because I bought it. Right, That's
not how people think about music anymore. They just go, oh, well,
it's Friday, there's gonna be a ton of new music,
and then they listen to thirty seconds of each track
and skip by. And by day I am generalizing, I
understand that not everybody is that way. My kid is

(01:10:32):
an exception, an exception to the rule. Your nephew as well.
Did we know we know exceptions to the rule but
that's not People used to go to the record store
to hang out in hopes of getting turned onto new
art that they would want to part with their money.
There's a thing if you do the Motown Museum tour,
they talk about when Barry Gordy was crafting the Motown sound,

(01:10:56):
they would have a song past the.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
Hot dog test.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
They would all sit in studio way and you'd have
and by they all were talking. Martha Reeves, the Thames, Smoking,
we're talking about people who wrote songs. Stevie and Smoking
Robinson are on this committee. You would do your whole song.
They would play the song for everybody and they would

(01:11:21):
go if you had a dollar left in your pocket,
would you and you were starving, would you buy a
hot dog or the song? And they wouldn't release the
song unless the majority ruled on starving to buy the song.
That's why you hear Dancing in the Streets and Sir
Duke and Fingertips and my Girl and my Guy.

Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
And go on and on and on.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
That's why you hear those songs because they passed that test. Today,
if you asked a kid, a general generalization, a kid,
you would you starve or buy this song? And they
would be like, wait, people pay for music, and that's
the major problem. And that's how it all ties into weird,
don't We don't get more weird ol because there's no

(01:12:04):
value in the general public on music.

Speaker 5 (01:12:07):
So I would yeah, I love this, So I would
say that to some degree, you're right, Taylor Swift does exist.
I agree, and Adele exists, and there's a couple of
more on that level that are producing just amazing music

(01:12:30):
that I don't think is disposable that I think. I
think Taylor Swift is going to be one of those
legends that last forever, that people in thirty years, that
young girls in thirty years, I know it's going to
be as relevant to them in thirty years as it
is right now. That that music, the songs like fifteen
are amazing and irrelevant.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
You're talking about stuff that you did before nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 3 (01:12:55):
Yeah, that's true the hold time. But see, but.

Speaker 5 (01:13:00):
Years old, Taylor Stift music right now is still relevant
to young girls. I am not in that classification. But
my daughter, on the other hand, is I would love to.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
Hear it is.

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
I would love to have a conversation with her about
what Taylor Swift music is relevant and what isn't. But
we don't have to have that on this show right now.
But anyway, continue Bob So.

Speaker 5 (01:13:23):
But what I would say is is there are artists
that I don't think are disposable. But I do agree
that there are plenty of what's what we're listening to
right now that is.

Speaker 4 (01:13:32):
But the one thing I want to again mention is,
and this is weird that I'm the guy that's actually
kind of champion streaming on this part here. I love
the fact that music, yet it could I disagree with
the disposable portion of it because again, I want to
look at it in a much longer time span than
we're currently in right now, before I could say that

(01:13:52):
a song is disposable? Could you be right? Absolutely, I'm
not discrediting that you're I don't think you're wrong. I
don't think any of y'all wrong. It's just I am
in the wait and see portion of it. I love it,
but I want the streaming portion. I like the streaming
part of it because it's making music accessible. Because again,
it frustrated me that I had to spend three hours

(01:14:14):
listening to the radio to record one song on my
cassette tape so that I can have it. Oh, it's
a good question. I probably did, honestly, You're right, I'm not,
and I was a treasurer. Yeah, absolutely absolutely. And do
I wish I had those tapes still? Absolutely? Are they
disintegrated now because I listened to him so freaking much? Absolutely?

(01:14:35):
But did I also record over them because I got
tired of that song that I like so much?

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
Yeah? Yeah, But you're also yeah, you're this is what
this is.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
This is very interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:14:45):
But I'm just saying that because I was that poor
kid that couldn't I mean, that couldn't afford it because
it was like, Okay, do we pay the light bill?
Or do we actually or do I And I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
Not saying saying is that makes your appreciation of it
grow fonder?

Speaker 4 (01:15:02):
Absolutely, without a question.

Speaker 2 (01:15:04):
Whereas here now today kids get put on their their
parents Spotify app yep, and then they have several lifetimes
of music in their pocket YEP. So for every person
in Lauren knows this because she deals with us more
than anybody when we're driving along, for every person like
me that goes, oh, holy crap, I have to play
this one cover by this one band you've never heard before, like,

(01:15:24):
I'm so thankful to have it on my phone, and
then we listen the whole thing, right, everyone else is
hearing ten seconds of one by Metallica and then skipping
the other seven minutes and thirty seconds.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
Yeah, and so I think that's what it is. And
I feel like to put to give credence to literally
everything everybody is saying, right exactly, like, yes, there is
absolutely like the the there's value in the idea that

(01:15:54):
you know, like I couldn't afford this before and I
can now, and this is amazing to have all of
this at my disposal. And on the it's not even
the flip side of that, but like part of the
same conversation is, you know, what does that do to
the value of music that anybody can get it at
any time, anywhere, like no matter what you know, to

(01:16:16):
put the casey case and what on it, you know,
like like and and and that's what it is, you know,
what is the value of music? And that's where we
get back to the weird al of it all. What
is the value of this the fact that we're in
now the hear of our Lord twenty twenty five, where
he put this out in twenty twenty four with Jimmy Fallon.

(01:16:37):
It's a minute in forty two seconds of weird now
basically saying like, here's a New Year's Eve song. Thank
you very much, joy your burrito and enjoy your burrito.

Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
Got something new, got something new, You've got something new.

Speaker 1 (01:16:49):
You're welcome. It's not different, it's not special, it's it's
just here.

Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
It's something new.

Speaker 4 (01:16:55):
And what was interesting was Bob go ahead. Actually I
was going to say time.

Speaker 5 (01:17:00):
No, No, I was gonna say, based on this conversation,
I think we're down needs to put out another song
to save the record and industry.

Speaker 3 (01:17:06):
It's about time we need another one of those out, please.

Speaker 4 (01:17:09):
Help us anyway. But no, But it's interesting because you
guys were putting it in the whole music perspective. I
was just putting it into the holiday perspective. What songs
would be we we compare this too, because there's not
a lot of comedy Christmas slash New Year's slash Thanksgiving songs.
There's actually I think like one or two Chris Thanksgiving songs.

Speaker 10 (01:17:32):
Just y. I.

Speaker 4 (01:17:32):
By the way, I just found out the other day
that still are that uh that jingle jingle bells was
was originally a Thanksgiving song. What the crap.

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
That did not know that either?

Speaker 4 (01:17:45):
Yes, so, But but what I was thinking about was, Okay,
what are other comedy songs that are our holiday songs?
How to put it? And I've actually I wrote a list.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
Is a good place there's Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:17:58):
So the band Reliant Cake Christian Group or semi Christian
group now, but they did a great Christmas album called
Let It Snow, let It rein Deer and uh and
I love that, by the way. But they did a
song they did, we Wish You a Merry Christmas. But
they did a very comic comedy yes, absolutely. Then of
course Straight No Chaser did the Twelve Days of Christmas,

(01:18:18):
which is one of my is my favorite Christmas song
of all time right now, the live version, not the
not the en studio version that's boring, but the live
version is phenomenal. And then of course Spike Jones is
Happy New Year. I've got a chance to talk about
that for a minute. And then of course we got
bare Naked Ladies. They did a song called else Lament
with Michael Buble, which is a fantastic Christmas song, Okay,

(01:18:44):
And then of course you have the classic Elmo and
Patsy Grandma got ran over by reindeer, and it's just
like if you're comparing. And then the other two I
went is, of course the weird al song The Night
Sand Went Crazy. I have to listen to that at
Christmas time, even though you don't have to listen it
at Christmas time because it is a Christmas or a
non Christmas song on there. And then the last one

(01:19:05):
I wanted to put on there is as a person
you've probably none of you all probably hear. Her name
is Sarah Groves and not not our friend Nick's wife Sarah,
but she does a song called Toy Packaging and Take.
And trust me, if you are a parent that had
to open up toys and actually build the toys and
stuff like that from your kids, you will laugh your

(01:19:25):
head off at this song because it basically is talking
about how frustrated she is with the with the opening
up toys for her kids on Christmas Day. And I'm
just I was trying to compare this song to and
I just and honestly, every song I just mentioned to you,
I would put on a much higher plateau. Weird Now

(01:19:47):
did a much better job with the Night Santah Went
crazy than he did with this one. But to y'all's
point that you've said quite a bit, and and and
and very well said, I might add Fallon and whoever
wrote it, and he just said, you know what, I'm
going to lend credence to this and I'm going to
be on here because I like you, Jimmy, and I
want to do this and maybe I just want to

(01:20:07):
have a little bit of fun playing my accordion. And
you know what, ain't nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
There's nothing wrong with that. So thank you Chris for
bringing those other songs to the four for this, because
I mean, part of this was Jimmy Fallon saying, oh,
there's no there's no there's no New Year's Eve songs
bubbah blah blah blah blah. Yeah, of course, because there's not,
because you know, everybody's drinking on that holiday. You know
you're ringing in the new year.

Speaker 3 (01:20:29):
It is what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:20:30):
Besides, you got Dan Fogelberg super happy olaying Zion song.

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
Actually give us something fun. I mean, the whole point
of the song is fun.

Speaker 1 (01:20:41):
It's fun.

Speaker 3 (01:20:41):
It's fun. I mean, you listen to it, you hear
this stuff in the background, it's fun.

Speaker 1 (01:20:46):
It's fun and silly, and I guess this if you
listened to and this is part of the time as
a flat circle situation on the beard Out podcast where
the episode that came out just before Christmas where Russ
and Zach and I were talking about the night sent
I Went Crazy and Christmas at ground zero. We were
lamenting the fact that, like people don't cover Christmas at

(01:21:07):
ground zero on Christmas albums.

Speaker 4 (01:21:10):
I totally butcher and I just proved that to it
because I screw up. I didn't meant that on there.

Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
Exactly, and and you know, like those are the kinds
of songs that, like, you know what people could throw
in on their regular Christmas albums. But like we have
a whole conversation about that on that episode. But like,
you know what, there there is room for new Christmas
songs if we if we open our hearts to them

(01:21:37):
a new holiday song. So I think the only thing
we have to do is give the song a writing
on a scale of one to twenty seven. And based
off of everything that we've all said, this is a
minute and forty two seconds of for me, So I'm
gonna give it on a one to twenty seven. I'm
gonna give it a fifteen okay, rough ten or lower okay.

Speaker 3 (01:22:01):
Because I heard it this afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
My first thought was My first thought was well, I
actually yelled to you across the house and said, wait,
do I was that really just a minute and a
half because I thought I was hoping I had the
wrong track, and then before even looking at the credits
tonight and knew where it all didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
Write this song. So that's a ten or less for me.

Speaker 5 (01:22:27):
I'm gonna say I like it. It's fun. We played
it in the car for Megan, and Megan looked at
me and goes, that's good.

Speaker 8 (01:22:36):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:37):
So, you know what, it's a twenty for me, good
twenty twenty selling.

Speaker 4 (01:22:41):
It's a minute and forty two seconds, I'd say fourteen
point two. I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:22:46):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:46):
I like it, okay, perfect. So you know what, Bob's highest,
Russ's lowest, and we're all somewhere between ten and twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
So I'm high and Russ is low.

Speaker 4 (01:22:57):
First a median got it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:59):
Yeah, So somebody do the math. It's not me, no one,
no one do the math. Please, Noah, please do the math.
On the mediaan for this I'm just shouting out to
Noah because he's my guy. He'll do it. I know
a guy. You have a guy, I do. Yeah, his
name is Noah, so I know a guy. But anyway,

(01:23:22):
I feel like this is the end of this episode
because it's been quite a long time, and I would
like to thank Russ for rolling himself in here from
the living room, as he usually does, and I thank
you so much, so much. It's been a big deal.
And then we've got Chris and Bob who did a
little bit more than roll themselves from the living room.

(01:23:42):
They rolled themselves from their respective homes locally, but they're
here in person, and I think it's wonderful. So Chris,
if you have anything you'd like to share or promote
or do anything, please do at the end here absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:23:55):
Well, thank you again for having me on because always
a pleasure. And I tell you what, I always learn
something on the show. And you know something, I have
a dear friend of mine named Tim Oser who actually
very well and he's he famously says, every day is
a school day, and today was a school day. And
I appreciate Russ and Lauren and even Bob, you know
a little bit, but Uh, but anyway, I just again,

(01:24:19):
if you guys are interested in trivia, we have a
little podcast called Trivia Podcast. We've done over five hundred episodes.
We are I don't know if I call us a
big deal, but we are. We're pick Oh there you go,
thank you very much. But anyway, but yeah, definitely if
you if you like me a little bit, listen to

(01:24:39):
the show. And if you don't like me, then don't
ignore what I just said.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
So there you go, or just listen to the episode
of Chris Isn't On because the Trivial Warpayer podcast is
quite the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:24:48):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (01:24:49):
And then also, of course, if you did like what
I said, go back and listen to uh Lauren's episode
on on the Hamilton. That was one of the funnest
times I've had on any podcast.

Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:25:03):
Yeah, we did have a good time. Yep, yep, it's
a good show, Bob. So you don't have anything to promote.

Speaker 5 (01:25:09):
I don't have anything to promote, so I don't I
don't have anything to promote. Usually I get to promote
trivial warfare. And since my brother is kind of on it,
he thinks he's.

Speaker 3 (01:25:20):
A big deal. Bob's in general, so well for your
local Bob. What what always?

Speaker 5 (01:25:29):
What I say, and I've actually picked this up from
other people is be kind to one another. There's there's
so much out there of people being in each other's
business and being where.

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
They have no right to be.

Speaker 5 (01:25:43):
Just be kind to people. You will be surprised how
far a little bit of kindness will go. So please
just be kind. Rewind, I love you.

Speaker 3 (01:25:54):
I couldn't help it, and like, what would weird aw do?

Speaker 1 (01:25:58):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
What would wed now do?

Speaker 6 (01:26:00):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
I have been so happy to have three of my
favorite humans in the room with me to talk to,
talk word out, and to talk about to be on
the first episode of the Beard Doll Podcast of twenty
twenty five, So thank you very much, Hoot. And we're
gonna get back into the flip side of the There
to Be Stupid album soon as this year launches, and

(01:26:24):
as I said before, we got some fun guests on
for it, so you're you're in for a good time
as we flip the side on There to Be Stupid.
But anyway, I hope twenty twenty five treats you all
and anyway be awesome to each other and as Bob said,
you know, just be kind. Bewind bye,

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