December 20, 2024 • 55 mins
It's a holly jolly Weird Al family Christmas over here today! It's a full house of Robinsons! Lauren is here! Russ is here! Zakk is here!
We're talking about "Christmas at Ground Zero" and "The Night Santa Went Crazy" and a whole bunch of other holiday goodness.
Sit back and enjoy a fun family holiday convo!
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We're talking about "Christmas at Ground Zero" and "The Night Santa Went Crazy" and a whole bunch of other holiday goodness.
Sit back and enjoy a fun family holiday convo!
Beer'd Al is a very merry member of the OddPods Media Network.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beer-d-al-podcast--5439475/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
H ho ho ho, everybody to whoa whoa?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
What?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
What did you just call me?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Not you?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Whoa whoa?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
You can't call him that?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Who me? You? And at least one other person like
I'm not going to virtue your signal right at the
top of the episode, but like I wouldn't call somebody
that whoa whoa whoa whoa?
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Well, this is already starting to sound like a kind
of conversation that you would have with a family Christmas. So
welcome to the oop Saw Robinson's Christmas episode of the
beard Al podcast podcast. Are we talking about too? The
greatest things in the world beer and weird hell, and
as alluded to, all the Robinsons are here. I'm Lauren, Hello, Hello, Hello,
(01:24):
Russ you're here, and Zach is also here.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It's a rare episode that I'm here.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Oh, here you go, and the rarest of all things
occurring because it is Christmas. Russ and I are splitting
some matt elf from Trogues Brewing, which is what happens
on this show at Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
So I'm not anywhere Like I used to think of
myself as a beer snab only because I hung out
on the West side of Michigan a lot, which I
think is like fair, like when you have access to
the headquarters for like bells and founders like regularly, I
feel like you can kind of be like, I'm a
(02:04):
bit of a beer snob, you know. Somewhere along the line,
I tried so many different beers that I just was like,
I don't know, there's too much, Like I don't I
know the basics, and that's it, right, Like I backed
myself down from being a snub. Trogues is the type
of brewery that I would go around bragging about two
(02:28):
people like I would be like have you been there?
And if they're like no, I'm like, you have not
had beer?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Then that's true. That's true. It's this is very much
a Christmas tradition. It is not Christmas for me until
matt Elf happens.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's such a good beer, it's such.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
A good so drug's brewing in Hershey, Pennsylvania, not sponsored
of this show yet yet, whoa I know, But I'll
tell you what I will say that matt Elf is
the beer that has appeared on this show more than
any other beer every Christmas, and at least once on
(03:02):
an off season where it was just like, well, I've
got this and if you hear any squeaking Belladonna has
a toy. Because it's the holidays and we're here doing
what we're doing, and actually we don't even really have
much of a game plan for this.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
What was happening? What are you saying?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
You want me to shut the door?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
No, don't shut the door.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
We don't have much of what the kids are calling
an agender.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
No, we don't have an agenda. The show is very agender.
I don't know what that even means. But basically, we're
just gonna hit some of Weird Aw's Christmas music and
just kind of talk about it. We collectively kind of
listen to all of Weird Owl's Christmas stuff together as
you do, because it is Christmas time. So this is
(03:41):
not anything that we prepared extra four or anything like that.
We just said, well, let's listen to these because we
like them, and now we're going to talk about them.
So first on the dock. Yet I'm going chronologically in
my brain. Here is the Christmas at Ground Zero, which
is off of nineteen eighty six's Polka Party album. And
(04:06):
for a lot of people, I think a lot of
this is very age dependent, But there are so many
people for whom this is like the quintessential weird Al
Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I feel the opposite. Really, yeah, I think most people
think of the Knights sand I went crazy first. I
mean personally, I think Christmas Ground zero is orders of
magnitude better than the Knights. Sand I went Crazy. And
I will die on that hill and I will explain
(04:41):
in depth why throughout this conversation.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
That's why we're here.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
But I think that if you talk to the average
weird Al fan or the weird the casual weird Al fan,
and you go, did you know weirdow did a Christmas song?
I feel like nine times out of ten they're gonna
be like, yeah, the Knights, sand I went Crazy. I
think even casual fans, that's.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
What about the business casual.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You know the night Sanda went Khaki. I'm not gonna
lie that's a singer. Oh yeah, that's a good one.
I expect at least one comment from Noah acknowledging.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Noah acknowledge him.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But yeah, I I feel like most weird Now fans,
even I feel like casual weird Al fans. Let me
put it this way, are there any fan made videos
for Christmas at ground Zero on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
No, because there's an official video for Christmas at ground Zero, you.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Think that's what's holding people back from making videos for
Christmas at ground Zero.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I don't think that's necessarily what's holding people back.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
I'm just saying, Sandraise, so in the in this uh
in this song versus song, I'm a little bit biased
because The Night Santa Went Crazy is one of the
first Red Hell songs I heard say.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
It is for a lot of people too, and I
love it.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It's easy dislike everything at all, to be clear, even
just like it at all. You just if you're doing
a one on one battle between this and ground Zero
for weird al Christmas songs, I think ground Zero destroys sad.
I went crazy on every level. But I think more
people know the nights and I went crazy, And I
(06:25):
can't say why other than like I said, if you
go on YouTube and you go look for videos, there's
an official video for the one, and then there's a
lot of fan made videos for the other.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Yeah, Okay, I'm not I'm not disagreeing, and I'm not
arguing any of this.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I'm just saying that, Uh, well.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Is it a family holiday, unless there's.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Arguing no, it's true. Okay, how about this.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
If you're making a Christmas playlist and you want to
slip a weird al song in there, I.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Would put on Christmas and ground Zero because it's orders
of magnitude better than the other.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
See I would put I would put Nights and Went Crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
The Night sand It does not sound.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Like a Christmas You're gonna notice it.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I mean, yeah, but if we have a playlist with
like the classics, right, you're Nat King Cole being being Crosby,
you know all that, right, all the stuff okay you
can throw on, then are ground Zero in there and
no one's gonna notice unless you like you put you
(07:24):
put Went Crazy in there, and as soon as it starts,
people are going to be like, this is what is?
This is not a Christmas song. It doesn't sound like
a Christmas song. Yeah, it sounds like a solo Asylum song,
is what it sounds like, which is weird because on
that same record he does a straight up parody of
Soul Asylum. So Ever since I bought Bad Hair, Dad,
I've been like, but why though, why does that sound
(07:44):
like solo? Soyum?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Oh Santa? Why why why.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I asked the same questions as everyone else.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, okay, so that's fair.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Now that we've gotten all that out of the way,
I think I'm gonna sneeze maybe yep, less.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You, thank you appropriate for Christmas time and blessings.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's true, it was a Christmas blessing. It might happen again.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yep, I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Also, I'm not trying to be rude, but is this
the second time that you're calling names? Did you just
say a Jew who like.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Family friend Christmas? Family friendly Christmas?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Am? I what is happening right now?
Speaker 8 (08:33):
What I think this is beard out r rated?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Is ed you about to walk in? It's a little weird.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
It's a little weird, and we're still coming down from
last week some be a flight to w takeover where
we actually had curse words on the program program this program. Yeah,
so okay, so let's but let's seriously talk about Christmas
background zero for a little while. It's wonderful again, just
because chronologically it comes first. It's the video for this
(09:05):
song is the first music video that weird Al directed himself,
which I think is very very cool. And the old
you know footage that's in it is kind of disturbing.
It's disturbing, and it's also telling you the kind of
thing that's to come, you know, ten years later on
the Weird Al Show, you know, with the with the
little educational films and stuff and that, and it's the
(09:27):
kind of thing that you experience in the visual cavalcade.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
That is a a massive weird Al Yankovic shell.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
So I'm like, Okay, this makes all of the sense
in the world. The song itself, I think the way
it starts and the way that it ends is absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I think the bridge is the best thing in it
go on everywhere the range of but then it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Oh that that baritones.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
It's that's like an how this guy reached into the
annals of Christmas and was like, here's the thing that
sounds like. It's like his Christmas pastiche. It sounds like
every single Christmas song while still being original. Yes, which
(10:18):
is my number one complaint against Santama crazies. It doesn't
sound like a Christmas song at all. Right, right, this
song sounds like every single Christmas song you've ever heard,
including the bridge, and completely different at the same time.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Yeah, it harkens back to that like that Golden age
of Christmas songs, which before we started recording you were
kind of talking about, and I feel like that's an
important piece of context to kind of throw into this,
you know.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, Well, I saw a YouTube video and this is
going to be like wildly barely remembering and sort of
quoting it, but it was a YouTube video about like
why we only have why instead of Christmas classics, because
like for like a thousand years, people have been seeing
have yourself a merry Little Christmas and you know, sleigh
(11:08):
ride and silver bells and all that stuff and this,
and it is something I never thought of until I
saw the title of the YouTube video and I was like, yeah,
why why Why do we only have that? And it's
basically because of war. And the US government went to
the record labels and was like, hey, you need to
come up with these songs that will make people forget
(11:30):
that we're at war and that they're all depressed and
you know, their brothers and sisters and sons are dying.
And so the record labels, of course, uh never want
to have anything to do with morals, were like, yeah,
right on it, We'll get right on it. So they
had stuff like silver bells and Santa Claus Is coming
to town and White Christmas and all that junk written,
(11:50):
and then the idea was like, oh, okay, well we'll
cheer the nation up at the same time and we'll
make a bunch of money, right, And then like then,
by the next year, the World War had ended, and
so they were like, hey, do you want more Christmas songs?
And the government was like, now we're good, people, Like
nobody's people are good now. Like everybody who died, who's
going to die, they're dead, So like we're good now.
(12:11):
And so people were just like, oh, well, I guess
we'll listen to all the Christmas records we bought last year.
And the record labels again never wanted to be like,
you know, like hey, let's do the right thing, just
started reshooting them like crazy. Every year. They'd be like, oh,
I remember you needed by this, you know, And then
years later you'd end up with things like the Elvis
Presley Christmas Record, which is like incredibly famous and in
(12:32):
everybody else in the world's done. They would all just
do the same songs, right, And that's why like one
gets through the cracks like every decade or so, because
you know, people are like, oh, here's a good new
Christmas song. Nobody's motivated to write new ones because the
green is in cutting the same old music that made
(12:55):
all that money the first year. There's no green in going, hey,
I'm gonna write all these new Christmas songs. So even like,
for example, todight we were making dinner, we were listening
to Kelly Kelly Clarkson's Christmas and she has what I
would think is the latest that has become a standard
like other people do underneath the tree now, but that
(13:16):
record has a built in safety net of like here's
this song, but then here's all the other ones, you know,
just in case, right, like in case that didn't become
a hit, right, And even the gold standard for the
past twenty years is Mariah that record. No one knows
the rest of that record, but it's all the usual
Christmas standards, right yeah, And it was launched on All
(13:38):
I Want for Christmas is You. But the safety net
is there in case that didn't become a hit. They
could be like, ah, but it's herd doing soilher bells,
you know, silver bells, right, yeah, you know, yeah, So
that's any Christmas record that's come Out, Like like exactly
before we went we record, you were talking about Michael Booble,
same thing. He's got a couple of like newer Christmas songs,
(14:00):
but no one remembers them. They remember what that record
was anchored on. Well, just have yourself marry little Christmas
and you know, or as Jimmy Fallon's impersonation of Michael
Bubla the jingle bells jingle bells over pronouncing all the
words yeah but well and thus finishes me impersonating Jimmy
(14:23):
Fallon impersonating Michael boo black beautiful but yeah. So I
for me though, and this is probably putting too much
on the shoulders of Christmas Sat Crown zero, But this
is how people could do it if they wanted to.
If you wanted to write a new Christmas classic, it's
not that hard. Like where all made a song that
(14:43):
sounds like every Christmas classic you know of, except you
just made it about blowing each other up.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yep. I.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I at some point on this program, somewhere in the
nearly five years that the show has existed, in the
anals the of of beard Out History, I said that
this song is walking in a nuclear winter Wonderland.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's that's fact. That's the only
gripe I have against this show. This this show, well
laundry list of gripes against the show, starting with effect
that on this very program someone called me a ho
ho ho it started, and then and then there was
some Jew talk. But the only problem I have with
(15:32):
Christmas at ground zero is the quality of Elle's vocal.
If you're going to do a Christmas why there isn't
a wall of reverb on his vocal that sounds like
as like like I'm looking for like Ronnie Specter, Darlene Love.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Like, oh, that's interesting, like if you listen.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
To and I know, haha, the Jew thing, the Christmas
time for the Jews. Yes, sorry, Darlene loves vocal on
that is produced, Yes, perfectly. Yeah, that's the only complaint
I have at Christmas to ground ero is weird. Al
sounds just like he's singing living with Ernia or addicted
(16:15):
to spots off the same record like they needs like
that wall of reverb on his voice, and it would
be Chef's kiss. It would just be. That's the only
reason you you if you put it on a Christmas playlist,
The only reason anybody in the party would do the
rca dog like. At some point somebody would somebody would
be like getting the candy bacon and they'd be like,
(16:36):
wait is it. The only reason why they do it
is because the vocal doesn't sound like a Christmas phone.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
That's okay, that's totally totally fair, totally fair. So now
Christmas music subject matter wise, I.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Find myself, you know, hearing a lot of Christmas songs
and say, you.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Say to yourself self, because that's a lot of people,
that's what she goes by here. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yeah, the topic of a lot of your classic go to.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Christmas songs not so holly jolly once you really start
thinking about them.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Okay, well that goes back to that.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Goes back to this. I found myself in a little
rabbit hole. Actually earlier today I mentioned walking in a
Nuclear Winter Wonderland. But we know the song walking in
a Winter Wonderland. Yeah, the actual song. That's probably, now
that I know what I know, one of the most
depressing Christmas songs that exists. Because the lyricist was a
(17:45):
man border raised near where I grew up, northeast Pennsylvania.
He contracted tuberculosis in the early nineteen thirties Nice and
wrote the lyrics to Winter Wonderland whilst look out the
window of his room at the Sanatorium at Central Park
(18:06):
in Homesdale, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I would argue that's how a lot of love songs
are written, Like someone who is longing for something. Yeah,
Like that's a guy literally sitting there being.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Like, man, I wish I could walk in the snow.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah, like and I would. I mean, it's a love
letter to the holidays.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Careless Whisper.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
We were just talking about George Michael wrote that when
he was sixteen.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Also it's pronounced carless whisper.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Whisper byam bye wham. But we were just talking about
how somebody longing for something and he's very much trapped
in in his sexuality at the time and learning Yeah,
and he's longing. Yeah, but like it's it's a very
much one of the best love songs ever written.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
But I just say, yeah, but yeah, it's that someone
sitting around longing for something and it doesn't like I,
you know, as a person who grew up in a
home without celeb Christmas, that's a thing that I never
understood un till years later. Like when you know what
the origin of that song is you're like, you're like, oh, like, like,
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for example, I never missed anything to do with Christmas.
Like when I grew up, everybody would always go, oh
my god, it's so terrible. Oh I can't be that.
Oh how do you get by? And I was like, well,
we just go and love each other all year.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yeah, we do this like crazy thing where we like
don't go, oh, I have to buy you something, or
like we have to put that up for the neighbors.
Like we do this crazy thing where we just like
buy each other things because we think of each other
all year. And uh so, but I never knew what
it was like to like long for the holidays. And
when you listen to something like that, you're like wow,
(19:40):
and it's uh. In many ways, it's the same thing
where a lot of the most Christmas music is like
the basic theme of most Christmas music is we're not
thankful all year. We should probably stop and be thankful
right now. That's the basic theme of most Christmas music, right,
even if it's not preachy, even if it's not outright
(20:03):
saying that that's what they mean, right uh. And that
one is like just this side of boy, I wish
you would enjoy this because I can't, right.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yep, yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
So to that kind of that to that point, Christmas
at ground zero, even lyrically, is not far off from
what your average Christmas song actually is because it's slightly
more on the nose. Yeah, it's like, this terrible thing
is occurring, let's try and put a positive spin on
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something for what we do have.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, I think it's a little more cynical. I think
it's a very uh even if the world was ending,
commercialism would matter more stone because I remember, yeah, this
came out way. I don't know why. I always think
of both parties slightly earlier than it was anyways. Yeah, well,
(21:07):
I mean, if there's what's the thing, the lyrics going
to escape me and I'm not going to get it
right there, we'll go and see the new mutations on.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Oh yeah yeah, well.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Like people still being like, well, we'll all go do
this big thing like you know, like because that's when
when I was having lived through it. Nothing about the
holidays in the eighties had anything to do with togetherness
or love or all of it was like you all
need to buy I mean, you know, go to YouTube
and look up a cabbage Patch kid rush or you
(21:42):
know what I mean? As I had nothing to do
with loving your kids so much. You just wanted to
prove to your kid that you were better than other parents,
you know. Yeah. Uh, And I feel like that's the
deal with that part. At the end of it is
like even after everything blows up, no one will care
about everyone else else, just be like, oh neat, We're
all gonna go do this other thing together. I'm gonna
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be the first to see the new mutations. You know.
That's that's how I take it.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, and that's totally fair. What do you think, Zach?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
So what you're did? Bad hair Day come out.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Nineteen ninety six, so these are almost these are exactly
ten years correct.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
So weird al said, let me circle back to Christmas.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Ten years later.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
I feel like that's why they take a different tone
as well, because it's a different time period that both
of these songs are being released in.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I feel like that The Night Santa Went.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Crazy has a little bit more of a upbeat message ish.
I mean, it's still a pretty it's still a.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
You aren't going to have a hard time justifying next.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
So I feel like it's it's a less about like screw.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
You because of commercialism, because it's not nineteen eighty six anymore.
And don't get me wrong, the nineties weren't I wasn't there,
but from what I know, they weren't much better. But
I feel like it is a lot more just of
a fun song than a statement song like Christmas at
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ground zero.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I think what I think. I know what you're trying saying,
and I agree to you a certain extent. I think
that The Night Sanda Went Crazy is more of a
straight up parody of the topic of Christmas, whereas I
think Christmas ground zero is more of a statement.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Yes, I feel like that was more.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
I feel like The Knight Santa Went Crazy was more
of a parody of Christmas and Ala having an idea
and thinking about how to flip something out of ted
rather than I'm going to make a statement about how
Christmas is about commercialism.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Fun fact, when The Knight Santa Went Crazy came out,
I was mildly offended by it for at least like
a year or two. Uh, and not like oh yeah,
Santa's a show. No, he got the German luguer like
I'm not an idiot like I'm not like easily offended.
I grew up near Royal Look, Michigan, and the Royal
Loock post Office is where the term going postal comes from.
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Like that was literally the thing where the guy like
walked into the post office or post post office worker
walked in and made a lot of people sad that
day at the avoid the censoring. And that happened in
the early nineties, and I lived ten minutes from there.
And yes, a lot more worse things have happened since then,
(24:39):
that's all of our fault. But at the time that
was still a very fresh thing. And so the idea
of someone losing it and even if it's Santa, and yes,
I understand humor. At first, I was just like, this
isn't that funny? And then there's and then to cap
it off was that they all got jobs of the
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postal service, and I was like, not cool, dude, Like
I was really unhappy about this song for like a year,
And I want to be clear though, like, you know,
I understand how how the world works, Like I'm not
still mad about that. I understand humor. I get that,
you know. In the time since I've become a big
fan of a comedian named Anthony Jeselneck who has a
(25:22):
whole bit about how there's no such thing as too soon,
which I totally agree with. But at the time, for
like a year, I was like, boy, that new album
is awesome except for that ship at the end. But
I want to be clear that it has nothing to
do with my thoughts on I still all the way
across the board, I think zero is a way better.
(25:45):
I mean, Zero's about everybody dying, but I feel like
it's just overall it's still the better song. But for easy,
for at least a year, year and a half, I
was like, not cool, dude, you know, but again, that's proximity.
You know, people across the rest of the US didn't
the same way. Yeah, like unless you live near the
(26:07):
McDonald's where that happened in the eighties, you were like,
you know, upset when someone said that about you know
what I mean. So I was just, if anything, I
think it was the first time that I was ever like,
I don't think where now meant that to come out
the way it came out, you know what I mean? No,
I know, well yeah, I know, yeah, but I didn't
know any better time. So anyways, I think that. I
(26:32):
think the biggest defense the night Santa went Crazy commits
it's it doesn't sound like a Christmas song. It's about Christmas. Well,
it's not even about Christmas. It's about the symbol of
Christmas and things going awry. It's not It's just not
a Christmas song to me. I think just because it
(26:53):
has Santa and the title doesn't make it a Christmas song.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
That's fair.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
And you know we can revisit this on the flip
side of these as.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
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hope the things that I google regularly when I post
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Speaker 9 (27:21):
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Speaker 3 (27:44):
Hey, I'm Pants and Saren.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
This is Stevie and I'm Aggie and we are bfytw
podcast all about playing games and having fun.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Our games are usually based on British panel shows and
game shows, but we'll play anything that captures our attention
and imagination.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Why it's right there in the.
Speaker 9 (27:59):
Tight You'll never guess what the F stands for.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Man the can get back in that can I'm attempting.
Have you ever Zach and I realized I'm using showtime
for this? Have you ever seen the thing? The reason
why we do that? The the and we're back, We're done.
There's a whole started live sketch with the whole. It's
Jimmy Fallon and Ben Affleck and they're doing competing radio
shows at the same time. This is like before your time,
(28:28):
but there that's how radio used to be. Was the
whole Like we're back w r I of what a
lot And you're listening to you know the wild man
Ricky and you know his friend Dave and whatever you
know and uh, you know before them, there were more
talented people before David Chuck called dred Mike anyways, and uh,
(28:50):
there's a brilliant SNL sketch. We'll get there. Uh that
is sends up all that at once, and you'll see
is the and we're back otherwise and you'll get it
when you see the sketches. The man in the can
get back in.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Yeah, you know, I mean I think most of you
listening to this note we're talking about at this point
because we do it.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah. But also it wasn't it fun for them to
hear me explain it to my child as if he's
never seen it.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I love it well as if because.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
No, I know, yeah what I'm saying it went. I
took him on a wild ride. I think you think
that's going to make a noise, and it's not going to.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I'm trying to pull a cork out of a beer bottle.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
Oh it did make a noise.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Sean Michael's treatment.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
There on a bourbon barrel aged man elf once again
from drugs.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
H straight from But also, can we take a second
here to talk about the world's best dad and the
world's best father in law, because why do we have
that drugs down here?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Because I have the world's best dad and you're the
world's best father.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Because he hand delivered them.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
No, he takes his extra time and wraps them up
gently I assume lovingly for sure, and sends them to
us every year.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
What a great guy.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Best scrap in the world.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
You got sharing right. Sorry about my language the vault.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Nobody knows what that means.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
But uh so where we're at, we're moving squarely into
the nights. Went crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yeah, sure, because you were.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Oh you guys, take it because I have nothing but
bad things to say.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Well, no, you're talking about say anything at all.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I don't. I don't dislike it at all.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Sounds a lot like you did.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I know it does. I don't dislike it. I just
don't love it like I don't think of it. If
you were saying to me, does where all have a
Christmas song? The very first thing I would say is, yeah,
Christmas is ground zero.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
And yes, I get a get what you're coming from there.
I get where you're coming from because it sounds like
a Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Which is a good thing to have when you're looking
for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
When you're looking for a Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yes, wow, that Beatles song sure does sounds like a
Beatles song.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Yeah, sure does. I'm just trying to I'm comparing the labels.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Let her mumble, what were you singing?
Speaker 8 (31:22):
No, she's fine, But I think that the I think
that I'm always gonna look look at the Knights Sandia
went Crazy through Rose Color Glasses because it was one
of the first ones I heard. Right, But I feel
like if you put both of them together and you said,
pick which song you're gonna listen if you picked one
weird al Christmas song to listen to you forever, I'd
(31:44):
pick the nice handwa crazy every.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Time it's nuts. I'm also weird. I should back up
and say something. I want to make this Clayer. I
think The Knight's Anama Crazy is a fantastic weird al song. Yes,
I love that song. That's a great song. I have
nothing again. I just if we're going to discuss these
two songs though, and I would I want someone to
(32:06):
come at me and tell me, how do you think
the Night saying what crazy sounds like Christmas? You know
it doesn't sound like a Christmas song.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
Yeah, it's got a I think it is Christmas themes.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yes it does, including the word Santa repeatedly. It doesn't
sound like a Christmas Well, we established earlier if you put
one or the other on a playlist of quote unquote
regular Christmas songs, then you can get away with one
and not the other.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
We had this discussion not too long ago, and people
be covering this now for on Christmas albums, and it's
absolutely not a Christmas song. My favorite things from the
sound of music, rain Drops on Roses and whiskers.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
That is not a Christmas song Christmas, but people cover it.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Youple cover it on Christmas album look like it doesn't
even sound few of my feet.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Boy, sure is getting all up at the about things
that don't It's not like Christmas songs. It would it
would appear that the shoe is on the other arm.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
You want to know, you wan don't know.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
A song that's not a Christmas song but sounds like
a Christmas song might just because I watch ELF every
year Pennies from Heaven, that song is a Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
It's because you watch every year.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
That song is a Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Elf.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
So it sounds I feel like it has the Christmas
song because I watch I understand.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yeah. Uh but okay, so you mentioned this song. I'm
gonna swing it back to Christmas permission to have people
cover ground Zero on their Christmas album. People be covering
each other all the time. Kelly Clarkson covers home by
uh Boo bla boo Blay covers you know everything that
(33:50):
was done before him. Why has no one come on
like they gotta know? It's funny? I would argue, and
I think you and I were talking about this earlier.
I would argue that Kelly Clarson probably doesn't even know
Christmas at ground Zero exists. He's just not in her bubble. Well, no,
it's just not in her bubble, you know. I'm sure
she lives in a very like I know of rock
(34:13):
stars I won't say their name on the air, who
literally their managers don't let them have their phone like
they're like children. So these people live in a bubble.
She probably doesn't even know that song exists. I feel
like if she did know it exists, she would be like,
I am covering that on my next Christmas album. Y'all right? Yeah, yeah,
(34:34):
like I wish someone would. I think it's gross that
more people don't know Christmas at grounds.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
God, I'd love to hear Michael do it anyone and
it's Christmas ad ground zero.
Speaker 8 (34:46):
I will say about the it not being a people's bubble,
so a lot of people hey Bubbly and the Ham
and Bubbly, But I feel so there's a one of
my friends who I'm going to the Weird Al show
with you guys. I've been introducing him to more weird
(35:06):
Al and it's like almost every other song will like
he'll hit immediately like what's.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
The name of the song about? And in my playlist.
Speaker 8 (35:14):
Because it's just not in his bubble, Like the majority
of weird House catalog is not in his bubbles, and
so when he's listening to it, he's immediately a latchy
onto it, which is what I feel like is what
you're saying that people will do. And that's like the
majority I wouldn't say the majority, but the majority of
people I know in my genu weird Al.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Yeah, I mean we're fighting the same battle on this one.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Yeah, and we're imported to this is really interesting And
I like your perspective on this honestly because I live
in my own space where like, I don't trust you
if you don't know and love weird Well, when you.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Were saying you live in your own space, I was
gonna say, three years ago, would you have agreed with
me if I said that anyone is making good pop
music the younger generation? No, how do you feel about
that today?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
You come at me about Sabrina Carmer their own space? Yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
And so I still I still very much part of
my my personal bubble is like, like you have to
know and appreciate where it now, Like like who are
you if you don't like that's not right?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
You know, right?
Speaker 9 (36:22):
But what I.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
Was just saying that, like Zach's perspective on this is
interesting because you're not going to associate with like bad people,
but they did.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
This is not part of their lived experience. And I
appreciate that you're like saying like, no, hey, this is.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
A cool thing, and that's a good litmus test for
those that accept it and those that don't.
Speaker 8 (36:48):
And well, I well, I I say this is the
this is the best part that I say, at least
in my brain to make it make sense with Red,
how there's a difference between being ignorant and stupid, Yes,
because you could be ignorant and learn and you can
be stupid and not learn.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Yeah, if you just look, well, now we're just flat
out defending Wordell, but hey, you know we're to do that,
if you, if you, Okay. I recently played one of
my favorite Weirdell parodies for someone who, uh it, knows
(37:26):
next to nothing about Weirdell and like doesn't really understand
what he does. And I was like, I think you'll
get it with this, and I played Confessions Part three
and they were like, oh my god, that was hilarious.
And I was like, okay, let me take this a
step further. Did you know that like him and his
band re like this is not karaoke, Like him and
his band like recreated the entire song and he wrote
(37:48):
all this stuff and he's doing all the harmony, so like,
whatever you think of Rsure, like him and his band
redid that and made it like brilliantly funny. Okay, now
apply that to Paradise and teen Spirit and and and
uh white and nerdy and all this other stuff that
you know of and then know that there's like ten
(38:11):
times that out there. And this dude was like, in
our backseat, it's the whole thing. We're running around town
with a bunch of out of town folks. And he
was like, he was like, dude, you blew my mind.
Like he was like I never thought about that, and
I was like, uh huh, So you get that, and
then you get people that are like, yeah, but it's
(38:31):
just he's just making fun of stuff. It's dumb, that's stupid. Yes,
that's exactly my point.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
People who accept it, like, once they accept that, you
don't even have.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
To like weird out, like you know, like it cannot
be your thing. Like if you're like, okay, but we
already have confessions, so why do we need weird else confessions? Yeah,
and that's okay, but like to not go to not
under to not admit that there's brilliance there that makes
you an idiot.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
Yeah, because weird Als is sanely smart and there's like like, oh,
like you like if you listen to a weird Alse song,
Oh I could have done that?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
No you could, right, No, you could. So to bring
it back to what the episode is the topic of
the episode, Oh, let me ask you this, which is
your all time favorite weird Al Christmas song? And why
is it Christmas at ground zero? Well that's not remember
how are you just talking about ignorant and stupid?
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Well done, well done, well done, So zach I will
say that The Night Santama Crazy I heard before I
heard Christmas at ground Zero because Bad Hair Day was
my first Weird Al album, so I absolutely knew and
heard Christmas the Night Santama Crazy and and all of
(39:53):
that stuff. And the first time I saw Weird Al
in concert, he performed The Night Sanna Went Crazy and
he ended up there was snow, but it was bubbles
and he did the extra gory version. And I very
much remember sitting there in the front row and Hershey
Park in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which happens to be where trouges
(40:13):
is brewed, and I said, the extra gory stuff is happening,
and I remember sitting there being like, I know this song,
but these aren't the words that I know. So I
very much had like a crazy like moment with it
because you know, it wasn't you know, Santa's doing time it?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Santa Claus is dead. Oh and have you not heard
the extra gory version?
Speaker 3 (40:36):
No? Not?
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Oh well, we're going to have to take care of that. Also.
Speaker 10 (40:40):
Our reaction video that is coming out till tomorrow. Wait,
this episode of recording right now is coming out on Friday. Okay,
so yes, tomorrow morning. Yeah, turned into it.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Yes, so that's the version, and you'll see in the
reaction video. We didn't know which version it was going
to be, so both of us are like, oh, well,
we're and then you'll see the moment that we're like, oh,
it's the extra ry version.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
The regular version, better medium rarities, which is we have
it on a squeeze box, which is half the reason
I married him.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
You know.
Speaker 8 (41:17):
There.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
I remember when you got that box set.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
I had to order it like seven months in advance.
Speaker 8 (41:24):
I still think it's one of the coolest like packaging
for a box set ever.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
It won the Grammy for Packages.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Each We're here trying to do like seven episodes. It's like, hell,
so we're gonna talk about sweets box.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Well, I will tell you this much.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Well, I'm only here so often this episode.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
I'm not doing coke, but one in the fridge for
you do go get a coke.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Okay, I'm gonna do coc on it. It's got it on.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yeah, No, we're well, it's on the top shelf of
the fridge, top top.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
What were you saying.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
I don't even know. Oh boy, I lost my trainin.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
People listening to this are like you were talking about this,
like they're.
Speaker 5 (42:04):
Like, they're going to Lauren, what were you talking about?
I don't know the extra the differences between the regular
version and version.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Don't go into great detail because I want him to
be surprised. I strongly prefer the original though, Yeah why
I First of all, I don't think I don't think
the verses are well, super well written, okay on the
extraory version. And also it just is a thing to
be a thing.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
You feel like it's just done for sure.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
I don't think weird Al does much just to do it,
and that to me sounds like he did it just
to do it.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
That's fair, That's totally fair. Correct that coke can't open?
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Hey coke?
Speaker 5 (42:47):
Santa Coke, Sana Coke, top shelf, Coke, top shelf, Santa Coke.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Oh ho hoen, somebody I know? I really am?
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Can I ask?
Speaker 5 (42:58):
This?
Speaker 3 (42:59):
Isn't it time for a third weirdl Christmas?
Speaker 8 (43:02):
So so.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
On the next episode of this podcast.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
Weird Else going to debut it. Holy everyone you know
should hit subscribe and share right now, Share with a.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Ch yeah, share right nobody hit share.
Speaker 5 (43:25):
On the very next episode of this podcast, We're going
to have our two friends Bob and Chris Chris from
the Trivial Warfare podcast.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
And Bob who Bob from our friendship, Bob.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
From our being friends with us and now Bob's one
of the biggest weird Al fans.
Speaker 9 (43:41):
I know.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
Bob takes weird Al very seriously serious and I love it.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
I do too.
Speaker 5 (43:48):
So we're actually going to have them here to the
house to record the next episode of this show. And
it's about the five four three two one holiday New
Year's Eve polka that Weird Al did with Jimmy Fallon
on Jimmy Fallon's latest holiday album. So we are going
to talk about that. It's I it is not a
Christmas song. It is a polka about.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
New Year's Eve.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
So it's a holiday song.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
It's a holiday song, but it is not a Christmas song.
I'll take it, Oh, we'll take it.
Speaker 5 (44:18):
We're gonna have things to say about it, I'm sure,
but I agree with you. I believe that we are
far overdue from a proper weird Al Christmas song because
there is so much, so much he could do. There's
there's so many Christmas tropes that he hasn't touched yet.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
He can do so many things.
Speaker 8 (44:42):
I think that the most I think I think it
was the most recent Poka he released really showed how
long it's been here. Yeah, how long it's been, because
like I was listening to it with one of my
friends and.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
It was like, holy, yeah, that song came.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Out like a long time ago.
Speaker 8 (45:02):
One of the songs that came remember which one of
which one of them it was, But he's like, holy
crap forever.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
During a decade of music in one polka.
Speaker 8 (45:09):
Yeah, And I was and I was like, yeah, it's
been that long since he released since he released music.
I was like, happy by Farrell was still a big
thing when he when he released music.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
Yeah, and he was like, oh my god. That really
puts into perspective.
Speaker 5 (45:23):
Well, because the latest Poka Pokemonia ends with shake It
Off by Taylor Swift, which is from her nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
That's and that's the oldest.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
Four records since then. Two of them were good at
least no four really yeah, and two of them were good.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
Okay, I'm not going to talk about Taylor Swift, No,
we don't have to. I'm just saying that the polka
ends with.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Well, it will sure help you in the algorithm if
you say your name a lot.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
So Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift. Oh,
Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Oh no, she just showed up? Is that what?
Speaker 8 (45:58):
No?
Speaker 3 (45:59):
She hold on Nope, she doesn't sing any better in
person than she doesn't know you know, you know, living
in this house. What do I say? What do I say?
Every single time she shows she's forced on me on
my phone?
Speaker 5 (46:15):
Please stop feeding me information about this mildly talented white woman.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
That's what I say every single time.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
And it's fair.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
I don't dislike her, no, but she's just not that great.
So we're now should be as or more popular than
she is.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
You are the only person I know.
Speaker 8 (46:35):
I've seen you on YouTube, but your scroller YouTube like
hit the not interested stuff and you still get fed
that stuff. You're the only person I've ever seen that
does that. And the algorithms to I think he just
wants to play with you. It's like, hey, I know
you don't like this person.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
No, my thing. It's not even that I don't like her,
it's that there's only so many times I can see
the same fake surprise face, or so many times I
can see yeah, yeah, there's only so many times I
can see the same like and again, you know, I
say I say this that I say this to you
all the time as a person who like loves the
Monkeys and loves the Beatles and MJ. Like I can't
(47:10):
get on a high horse and go I don't like
manufactured pop like you know what I mean, Like you
can't like but like you've gone too far with her,
like you got to get her out of my face
all the time.
Speaker 5 (47:22):
Oh no, no, trust trust I get it. And I
feel like you know, has she hasn't done any Christmas music?
Speaker 2 (47:30):
Has she?
Speaker 3 (47:30):
Hope hopefully not? Lord in a world where target all
in a world war, Kelly regularly sings Christmas. I sure
don't want to.
Speaker 5 (47:42):
I'm just saying like she's one of those few people
that's been around for as long as she has.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Oh yeah, don't worry. It's because will you just summoned it.
She heard the idea.
Speaker 5 (47:51):
She's like, oh, oh my god, I'm really sorry. I
need to remember that I need to use this platform
for good because I I conjured into existence the weird
movie on this show. We brought forth the four k.
Speaker 3 (48:07):
Eat it on the show, which came out before beat
it in four K, which is gross.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
The estate is well, you know, look at see. So
what we have done here is exactly what we set
out to do here.
Speaker 5 (48:22):
This is rooted in a discussion about weird house Christmas music,
but it was ultimately just.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Like you're hanging out with us talking about music at Christmas.
Speaker 8 (48:33):
You were part of the Robinson family get together.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Hu husaw.
Speaker 5 (48:38):
So I'm gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, you know, put
a pin in this. We're gonna wrap it up here.
But I want to leave people listening to the show
with a couple of well wishes and ho hos. I've
said too many times, but no, seriously, I get you know,
(49:00):
the holiday season is a lot and it can be
a lot for a lot of people. And hopefully this
has been a bit of a of a light for
you for whatever it happens to be. And just know
that the show is still here. We're going to continue
bringing you some wonderful, magical things as we get into
twenty twenty five. For the new year, we're going to
finish up our there to be stupid deep dive. I've
(49:24):
got some pretty fun guests lined up for that. Lily
Hirsh is going to be back. Uh, Jeff will be
with us, and he will probably talk some about his
weird al burlesque documentary.
Speaker 3 (49:36):
What a fun name.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
I know, he's the he's the man, He's the man.
Speaker 5 (49:42):
And yeah, we got some some fun things happening on
the b side of there to be stupid. And then
who knows, who knows where we go from here.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
We're just gonna what.
Speaker 5 (49:52):
We're gonna move into pokea party, right, I know, Yeah,
we're gonna get into Poka party.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
So we're gonna talk about Christmas at ground zero again.
Speaker 3 (50:02):
Probably if we play your cards right, it could be
Christmas Christmas.
Speaker 5 (50:04):
Time, or it could be Christmas in July, or could
be around Christmas time, depending on how things go.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
But anyway, do either of.
Speaker 5 (50:11):
You, gentlemen, have anything that you'd like to add here
at the end for the people listening at the holidays?
Speaker 3 (50:16):
No? No, just you know you and I have watched
more than a few Christmas movies recently that have left
me with more grinch than Christmas spirit. And no, you
know this because a lot of what I see in
these Christmas movies as a person who grew up without
Christmas in this home a ton of what I see
in these Christmas movies is like entitlement and you owe
(50:39):
me and expectations. If you're listening to this and you
know anyone who's like, oh, you have to you have
to bring this to the party because so and so
you know said so, or you have to do this
or put this up on your house because you know
other people will be no, no, no, no, no, no no.
It's the season of giving, So at a bare minimum,
(51:02):
other people should be giving you grace and acceptance and forgiveness.
And people shouldn't say to you, oh, you're just going
to ruin the holiday for you know, Miphy and Biffy
if you don't do this, that and the other thing,
or you don't make this cake, or you know, no, no, no,
no no, tell Miphy and Biffy that they are going
to ruin Christmas for everyone else if they don't give
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me grace and forgiveness and love and acceptance. And that's
all I hope for people. I hope that people understand
that like sometimes showing love means setting boundaries and don't
be afraid that at the holidays you're not going to
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get love from people because the people who love you
unconditionally are going to love you unconditionally. They're not going
to say things like you have to put this up,
or you have to bring this, or you have to
give that. So uh and if you do have in
your circle only people like that, then come be part
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of our circle.
Speaker 2 (52:07):
Yeah, we've got a very open circle.
Speaker 3 (52:09):
So because I just don't, I have no forgiveness in
my heart for people who make other people feel like
they owe them anything, let alone love.
Speaker 5 (52:19):
I love your perspective on Christmas, by the way, and
thank you for saying that, especially, you know, because for you,
we're making Christmas what we want to make of it.
Speaker 3 (52:28):
Right, we do this crazy thing where we like love
people yep, just where they are. We've not said to
anybody William that you always answer you have to do this,
or oh, it won't be Christmas if you don't go
through jump through these hoops for us, like, no, it'll
be I assure you it'll be Christmas. I assure you
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it'll still be Christmas, you know.
Speaker 4 (52:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
So I just you know, if you are in a
position to where you feel like you are not having
receiving the love that you think that you just deserve,
you're probably not. And I think that you should examine
your inner circle and if you need to expand that,
then talk to people like us or anyone else in
the world who is ready to see things from a
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different perspective other than what they've been told to tell
others to expect.
Speaker 2 (53:18):
I love it. Yeah, life shouldn't be stressful. Christmas shouldn't
be stressful.
Speaker 3 (53:26):
A lot of people shouldn't be. That's part of the thing.
And the night crazy. It's like, finally, this dude was like,
all right, knock it off. The whole world.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
You're expecting too much of me.
Speaker 3 (53:38):
You know, it sounds crazy to me, but you know,
as you know, I grew up without Christmas movies and
I've watched one more than a few where I've been like,
y'all are the worst Christmas with the craks. That's the one.
That that's one.
Speaker 4 (53:51):
That's that's where I grew up with that.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
I I didn't grow up with.
Speaker 4 (53:54):
I didn't grow up with the whole even I watched
a go like a movie review of it, and then
I went and watched its, like, you can't be that bad.
Speaker 3 (54:00):
I watch everybody, what the hell everybody in that movie?
That's not Tim Allen and uh Jamie Lee Curtis also
and you enjoy their lives.
Speaker 8 (54:09):
Yeah, how do you get a movie with that much
star power and they do nothing with it? Like that
movie was a that's what Christmas has become.
Speaker 3 (54:17):
That's the thing. They made that movie for the times
people are like, yeah, everyone, anyways, you should cut us
off for Also, people are gonna be like Christmas.
Speaker 2 (54:28):
If you take nothing from this.
Speaker 3 (54:30):
Be nice and kind to people and actually be nice
and kind. That's my message.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
Be nice and kind of people. Actually be nice and kind.
And watch Hot Frosty.
Speaker 3 (54:38):
Yes, yeah, yeah, please watch, And a bunch of three
ho ho.
Speaker 5 (54:43):
Hosts were the Hot all right, Merry Christmas from the
beard Out podcast and and in the words.
Speaker 3 (54:51):
Of Smoky Robinson happy chinaka.
Speaker 8 (54:55):
Yeah very Christmas from the Robinson's and the beard Podcast.
Speaker 3 (55:02):
Tweets and Smokey Robins and Smokey Robinson Robinson one of us.
Have you never seen a picture he looks just like
that's oh yeah, that's true. Okay, bye bye, my
H ho ho ho, everybody to whoa whoa?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
What?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
What did you just call me?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Not you?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Whoa whoa?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
You can't call him that?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Who me? You? And at least one other person like
I'm not going to virtue your signal right at the
top of the episode, but like I wouldn't call somebody
that whoa whoa whoa whoa?
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Well, this is already starting to sound like a kind
of conversation that you would have with a family Christmas. So
welcome to the oop Saw Robinson's Christmas episode of the
beard Al podcast podcast. Are we talking about too? The
greatest things in the world beer and weird hell, and
as alluded to, all the Robinsons are here. I'm Lauren, Hello, Hello, Hello,
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Russ you're here, and Zach is also here.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It's a rare episode that I'm here.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Oh, here you go, and the rarest of all things
occurring because it is Christmas. Russ and I are splitting
some matt elf from Trogues Brewing, which is what happens
on this show at Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
So I'm not anywhere Like I used to think of
myself as a beer snab only because I hung out
on the West side of Michigan a lot, which I
think is like fair, like when you have access to
the headquarters for like bells and founders like regularly, I
feel like you can kind of be like, I'm a
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bit of a beer snob, you know. Somewhere along the line,
I tried so many different beers that I just was like,
I don't know, there's too much, Like I don't I
know the basics, and that's it, right, Like I backed
myself down from being a snub. Trogues is the type
of brewery that I would go around bragging about two
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people like I would be like have you been there?
And if they're like no, I'm like, you have not
had beer?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Then that's true. That's true. It's this is very much
a Christmas tradition. It is not Christmas for me until
matt Elf happens.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's such a good beer, it's such.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
A good so drug's brewing in Hershey, Pennsylvania, not sponsored
of this show yet yet, whoa I know, But I'll
tell you what I will say that matt Elf is
the beer that has appeared on this show more than
any other beer every Christmas, and at least once on
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an off season where it was just like, well, I've
got this and if you hear any squeaking Belladonna has
a toy. Because it's the holidays and we're here doing
what we're doing, and actually we don't even really have
much of a game plan for this.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
What was happening? What are you saying?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
You want me to shut the door?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
No, don't shut the door.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
We don't have much of what the kids are calling
an agender.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
No, we don't have an agenda. The show is very agender.
I don't know what that even means. But basically, we're
just gonna hit some of Weird Aw's Christmas music and
just kind of talk about it. We collectively kind of
listen to all of Weird Owl's Christmas stuff together as
you do, because it is Christmas time. So this is
(03:41):
not anything that we prepared extra four or anything like that.
We just said, well, let's listen to these because we
like them, and now we're going to talk about them.
So first on the dock. Yet I'm going chronologically in
my brain. Here is the Christmas at Ground Zero, which
is off of nineteen eighty six's Polka Party album. And
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for a lot of people, I think a lot of
this is very age dependent, But there are so many
people for whom this is like the quintessential weird Al
Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I feel the opposite. Really, yeah, I think most people
think of the Knights sand I went crazy first. I
mean personally, I think Christmas Ground zero is orders of
magnitude better than the Knights. Sand I went Crazy. And
I will die on that hill and I will explain
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in depth why throughout this conversation.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
That's why we're here.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
But I think that if you talk to the average
weird Al fan or the weird the casual weird Al fan,
and you go, did you know weirdow did a Christmas song?
I feel like nine times out of ten they're gonna
be like, yeah, the Knights, sand I went Crazy. I
think even casual fans, that's.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
What about the business casual.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You know the night Sanda went Khaki. I'm not gonna
lie that's a singer. Oh yeah, that's a good one.
I expect at least one comment from Noah acknowledging.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Noah acknowledge him.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But yeah, I I feel like most weird Now fans,
even I feel like casual weird Al fans. Let me
put it this way, are there any fan made videos
for Christmas at ground Zero on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
No, because there's an official video for Christmas at ground Zero, you.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Think that's what's holding people back from making videos for
Christmas at ground Zero.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I don't think that's necessarily what's holding people back.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
I'm just saying, Sandraise, so in the in this uh
in this song versus song, I'm a little bit biased
because The Night Santa Went Crazy is one of the
first Red Hell songs I heard say.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
It is for a lot of people too, and I
love it.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It's easy dislike everything at all, to be clear, even
just like it at all. You just if you're doing
a one on one battle between this and ground Zero
for weird al Christmas songs, I think ground Zero destroys sad.
I went crazy on every level. But I think more
people know the nights and I went crazy, And I
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can't say why other than like I said, if you
go on YouTube and you go look for videos, there's
an official video for the one, and then there's a
lot of fan made videos for the other.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Yeah, Okay, I'm not I'm not disagreeing, and I'm not
arguing any of this.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I'm just saying that, Uh, well.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Is it a family holiday, unless there's.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Arguing no, it's true. Okay, how about this.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
If you're making a Christmas playlist and you want to
slip a weird al song in there, I.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Would put on Christmas and ground Zero because it's orders
of magnitude better than the other.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
See I would put I would put Nights and Went Crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
The Night sand It does not sound.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Like a Christmas You're gonna notice it.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I mean, yeah, but if we have a playlist with
like the classics, right, you're Nat King Cole being being Crosby,
you know all that, right, all the stuff okay you
can throw on, then are ground Zero in there and
no one's gonna notice unless you like you put you
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put Went Crazy in there, and as soon as it starts,
people are going to be like, this is what is?
This is not a Christmas song. It doesn't sound like
a Christmas song. Yeah, it sounds like a solo Asylum song,
is what it sounds like, which is weird because on
that same record he does a straight up parody of
Soul Asylum. So Ever since I bought Bad Hair, Dad,
I've been like, but why though, why does that sound
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like solo? Soyum?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Oh Santa? Why why why.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I asked the same questions as everyone else.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, okay, so that's fair.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Now that we've gotten all that out of the way,
I think I'm gonna sneeze maybe yep, less.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You, thank you appropriate for Christmas time and blessings.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's true, it was a Christmas blessing. It might happen again.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yep, I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Also, I'm not trying to be rude, but is this
the second time that you're calling names? Did you just
say a Jew who like.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Family friend Christmas? Family friendly Christmas?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Am? I what is happening right now?
Speaker 8 (08:33):
What I think this is beard out r rated?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Is ed you about to walk in? It's a little weird.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
It's a little weird, and we're still coming down from
last week some be a flight to w takeover where
we actually had curse words on the program program this program. Yeah,
so okay, so let's but let's seriously talk about Christmas
background zero for a little while. It's wonderful again, just
because chronologically it comes first. It's the video for this
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song is the first music video that weird Al directed himself,
which I think is very very cool. And the old
you know footage that's in it is kind of disturbing.
It's disturbing, and it's also telling you the kind of
thing that's to come, you know, ten years later on
the Weird Al Show, you know, with the with the
little educational films and stuff and that, and it's the
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kind of thing that you experience in the visual cavalcade.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
That is a a massive weird Al Yankovic shell.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
So I'm like, Okay, this makes all of the sense
in the world. The song itself, I think the way
it starts and the way that it ends is absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I think the bridge is the best thing in it
go on everywhere the range of but then it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Oh that that baritones.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
It's that's like an how this guy reached into the
annals of Christmas and was like, here's the thing that
sounds like. It's like his Christmas pastiche. It sounds like
every single Christmas song while still being original. Yes, which
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is my number one complaint against Santama crazies. It doesn't
sound like a Christmas song at all. Right, right, this
song sounds like every single Christmas song you've ever heard,
including the bridge, and completely different at the same time.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Yeah, it harkens back to that like that Golden age
of Christmas songs, which before we started recording you were
kind of talking about, and I feel like that's an
important piece of context to kind of throw into this,
you know.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, Well, I saw a YouTube video and this is
going to be like wildly barely remembering and sort of
quoting it, but it was a YouTube video about like
why we only have why instead of Christmas classics, because
like for like a thousand years, people have been seeing
have yourself a merry Little Christmas and you know, sleigh
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ride and silver bells and all that stuff and this,
and it is something I never thought of until I
saw the title of the YouTube video and I was like, yeah,
why why Why do we only have that? And it's
basically because of war. And the US government went to
the record labels and was like, hey, you need to
come up with these songs that will make people forget
(11:30):
that we're at war and that they're all depressed and
you know, their brothers and sisters and sons are dying.
And so the record labels, of course, uh never want
to have anything to do with morals, were like, yeah,
right on it, We'll get right on it. So they
had stuff like silver bells and Santa Claus Is coming
to town and White Christmas and all that junk written,
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and then the idea was like, oh, okay, well we'll
cheer the nation up at the same time and we'll
make a bunch of money, right, And then like then,
by the next year, the World War had ended, and
so they were like, hey, do you want more Christmas songs?
And the government was like, now we're good, people, Like
nobody's people are good now. Like everybody who died, who's
going to die, they're dead, So like we're good now.
(12:11):
And so people were just like, oh, well, I guess
we'll listen to all the Christmas records we bought last year.
And the record labels again never wanted to be like,
you know, like hey, let's do the right thing, just
started reshooting them like crazy. Every year. They'd be like, oh,
I remember you needed by this, you know, And then
years later you'd end up with things like the Elvis
Presley Christmas Record, which is like incredibly famous and in
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everybody else in the world's done. They would all just
do the same songs, right, And that's why like one
gets through the cracks like every decade or so, because
you know, people are like, oh, here's a good new
Christmas song. Nobody's motivated to write new ones because the
green is in cutting the same old music that made
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all that money the first year. There's no green in going, hey,
I'm gonna write all these new Christmas songs. So even like,
for example, todight we were making dinner, we were listening
to Kelly Kelly Clarkson's Christmas and she has what I
would think is the latest that has become a standard
like other people do underneath the tree now, but that
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record has a built in safety net of like here's
this song, but then here's all the other ones, you know,
just in case, right, like in case that didn't become
a hit, right, And even the gold standard for the
past twenty years is Mariah that record. No one knows
the rest of that record, but it's all the usual
Christmas standards, right yeah, And it was launched on All
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I Want for Christmas is You. But the safety net
is there in case that didn't become a hit. They
could be like, ah, but it's herd doing soilher bells,
you know, silver bells, right, yeah, you know, yeah, So
that's any Christmas record that's come Out, Like like exactly
before we went we record, you were talking about Michael Booble,
same thing. He's got a couple of like newer Christmas songs,
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but no one remembers them. They remember what that record
was anchored on. Well, just have yourself marry little Christmas
and you know, or as Jimmy Fallon's impersonation of Michael
Bubla the jingle bells jingle bells over pronouncing all the
words yeah but well and thus finishes me impersonating Jimmy
(14:23):
Fallon impersonating Michael boo black beautiful but yeah. So I
for me though, and this is probably putting too much
on the shoulders of Christmas Sat Crown zero, But this
is how people could do it if they wanted to.
If you wanted to write a new Christmas classic, it's
not that hard. Like where all made a song that
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sounds like every Christmas classic you know of, except you
just made it about blowing each other up.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yep. I.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I at some point on this program, somewhere in the
nearly five years that the show has existed, in the
anals the of of beard Out History, I said that
this song is walking in a nuclear winter Wonderland.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's that's fact. That's the only
gripe I have against this show. This this show, well
laundry list of gripes against the show, starting with effect
that on this very program someone called me a ho
ho ho it started, and then and then there was
some Jew talk. But the only problem I have with
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Christmas at ground zero is the quality of Elle's vocal.
If you're going to do a Christmas why there isn't
a wall of reverb on his vocal that sounds like
as like like I'm looking for like Ronnie Specter, Darlene Love.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Like, oh, that's interesting, like if you listen.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
To and I know, haha, the Jew thing, the Christmas
time for the Jews. Yes, sorry, Darlene loves vocal on
that is produced, Yes, perfectly. Yeah, that's the only complaint
I have at Christmas to ground ero is weird. Al
sounds just like he's singing living with Ernia or addicted
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to spots off the same record like they needs like
that wall of reverb on his voice, and it would
be Chef's kiss. It would just be. That's the only
reason you you if you put it on a Christmas playlist,
The only reason anybody in the party would do the
rca dog like. At some point somebody would somebody would
be like getting the candy bacon and they'd be like,
(16:36):
wait is it. The only reason why they do it
is because the vocal doesn't sound like a Christmas phone.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
That's okay, that's totally totally fair, totally fair. So now
Christmas music subject matter wise, I.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Find myself, you know, hearing a lot of Christmas songs
and say, you.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Say to yourself self, because that's a lot of people,
that's what she goes by here. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yeah, the topic of a lot of your classic go to.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Christmas songs not so holly jolly once you really start
thinking about them.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Okay, well that goes back to that.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Goes back to this. I found myself in a little
rabbit hole. Actually earlier today I mentioned walking in a
Nuclear Winter Wonderland. But we know the song walking in
a Winter Wonderland. Yeah, the actual song. That's probably, now
that I know what I know, one of the most
depressing Christmas songs that exists. Because the lyricist was a
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man border raised near where I grew up, northeast Pennsylvania.
He contracted tuberculosis in the early nineteen thirties Nice and
wrote the lyrics to Winter Wonderland whilst look out the
window of his room at the Sanatorium at Central Park
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in Homesdale, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I would argue that's how a lot of love songs
are written, Like someone who is longing for something. Yeah,
Like that's a guy literally sitting there being.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Like, man, I wish I could walk in the snow.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah, like and I would. I mean, it's a love
letter to the holidays.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Careless Whisper.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
We were just talking about George Michael wrote that when
he was sixteen.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Also it's pronounced carless whisper.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Whisper byam bye wham. But we were just talking about
how somebody longing for something and he's very much trapped
in in his sexuality at the time and learning Yeah,
and he's longing. Yeah, but like it's it's a very
much one of the best love songs ever written.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
But I just say, yeah, but yeah, it's that someone
sitting around longing for something and it doesn't like I,
you know, as a person who grew up in a
home without celeb Christmas, that's a thing that I never
understood un till years later. Like when you know what
the origin of that song is you're like, you're like, oh, like, like,
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for example, I never missed anything to do with Christmas.
Like when I grew up, everybody would always go, oh
my god, it's so terrible. Oh I can't be that.
Oh how do you get by? And I was like, well,
we just go and love each other all year.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yeah, we do this like crazy thing where we like
don't go, oh, I have to buy you something, or
like we have to put that up for the neighbors.
Like we do this crazy thing where we just like
buy each other things because we think of each other
all year. And uh so, but I never knew what
it was like to like long for the holidays. And
when you listen to something like that, you're like wow,
(19:40):
and it's uh. In many ways, it's the same thing
where a lot of the most Christmas music is like
the basic theme of most Christmas music is we're not
thankful all year. We should probably stop and be thankful
right now. That's the basic theme of most Christmas music, right,
even if it's not preachy, even if it's not outright
(20:03):
saying that that's what they mean, right uh. And that
one is like just this side of boy, I wish
you would enjoy this because I can't, right.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yep, yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
So to that kind of that to that point, Christmas
at ground zero, even lyrically, is not far off from
what your average Christmas song actually is because it's slightly
more on the nose. Yeah, it's like, this terrible thing
is occurring, let's try and put a positive spin on
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something for what we do have.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, I think it's a little more cynical. I think
it's a very uh even if the world was ending,
commercialism would matter more stone because I remember, yeah, this
came out way. I don't know why. I always think
of both parties slightly earlier than it was anyways. Yeah, well,
(21:07):
I mean, if there's what's the thing, the lyrics going
to escape me and I'm not going to get it
right there, we'll go and see the new mutations on.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Oh yeah yeah, well.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Like people still being like, well, we'll all go do
this big thing like you know, like because that's when
when I was having lived through it. Nothing about the
holidays in the eighties had anything to do with togetherness
or love or all of it was like you all
need to buy I mean, you know, go to YouTube
and look up a cabbage Patch kid rush or you
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know what I mean? As I had nothing to do
with loving your kids so much. You just wanted to
prove to your kid that you were better than other parents,
you know. Yeah. Uh, And I feel like that's the
deal with that part. At the end of it is
like even after everything blows up, no one will care
about everyone else else, just be like, oh neat, We're
all gonna go do this other thing together. I'm gonna
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be the first to see the new mutations. You know.
That's that's how I take it.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, and that's totally fair. What do you think, Zach?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
So what you're did? Bad hair Day come out.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Nineteen ninety six, so these are almost these are exactly
ten years correct.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
So weird al said, let me circle back to Christmas.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Ten years later.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
I feel like that's why they take a different tone
as well, because it's a different time period that both
of these songs are being released in.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I feel like that The Night Santa Went.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Crazy has a little bit more of a upbeat message ish.
I mean, it's still a pretty it's still a.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
You aren't going to have a hard time justifying next.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
So I feel like it's it's a less about like screw.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
You because of commercialism, because it's not nineteen eighty six anymore.
And don't get me wrong, the nineties weren't I wasn't there,
but from what I know, they weren't much better. But
I feel like it is a lot more just of
a fun song than a statement song like Christmas at
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ground zero.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I think what I think. I know what you're trying saying,
and I agree to you a certain extent. I think
that The Night Sanda Went Crazy is more of a
straight up parody of the topic of Christmas, whereas I
think Christmas ground zero is more of a statement.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Yes, I feel like that was more.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
I feel like The Knight Santa Went Crazy was more
of a parody of Christmas and Ala having an idea
and thinking about how to flip something out of ted
rather than I'm going to make a statement about how
Christmas is about commercialism.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Fun fact, when The Knight Santa Went Crazy came out,
I was mildly offended by it for at least like
a year or two. Uh, and not like oh yeah,
Santa's a show. No, he got the German luguer like
I'm not an idiot like I'm not like easily offended.
I grew up near Royal Look, Michigan, and the Royal
Loock post Office is where the term going postal comes from.
(24:15):
Like that was literally the thing where the guy like
walked into the post office or post post office worker
walked in and made a lot of people sad that
day at the avoid the censoring. And that happened in
the early nineties, and I lived ten minutes from there.
And yes, a lot more worse things have happened since then,
(24:39):
that's all of our fault. But at the time that
was still a very fresh thing. And so the idea
of someone losing it and even if it's Santa, and yes,
I understand humor. At first, I was just like, this
isn't that funny? And then there's and then to cap
it off was that they all got jobs of the
(25:00):
postal service, and I was like, not cool, dude, Like
I was really unhappy about this song for like a year,
And I want to be clear though, like, you know,
I understand how how the world works, Like I'm not
still mad about that. I understand humor. I get that,
you know. In the time since I've become a big
fan of a comedian named Anthony Jeselneck who has a
(25:22):
whole bit about how there's no such thing as too soon,
which I totally agree with. But at the time, for
like a year, I was like, boy, that new album
is awesome except for that ship at the end. But
I want to be clear that it has nothing to
do with my thoughts on I still all the way
across the board, I think zero is a way better.
(25:45):
I mean, Zero's about everybody dying, but I feel like
it's just overall it's still the better song. But for easy,
for at least a year, year and a half, I
was like, not cool, dude, you know, but again, that's proximity.
You know, people across the rest of the US didn't
the same way. Yeah, like unless you live near the
(26:07):
McDonald's where that happened in the eighties, you were like,
you know, upset when someone said that about you know
what I mean. So I was just, if anything, I
think it was the first time that I was ever like,
I don't think where now meant that to come out
the way it came out, you know what I mean? No,
I know, well yeah, I know, yeah, but I didn't
know any better time. So anyways, I think that. I
(26:32):
think the biggest defense the night Santa went Crazy commits
it's it doesn't sound like a Christmas song. It's about Christmas. Well,
it's not even about Christmas. It's about the symbol of
Christmas and things going awry. It's not It's just not
a Christmas song to me. I think just because it
(26:53):
has Santa and the title doesn't make it a Christmas song.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
That's fair.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
And you know we can revisit this on the flip
side of these as.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
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Speaker 9 (27:21):
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Speaker 3 (27:44):
Hey, I'm Pants and Saren.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
This is Stevie and I'm Aggie and we are bfytw
podcast all about playing games and having fun.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Our games are usually based on British panel shows and
game shows, but we'll play anything that captures our attention
and imagination.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Why it's right there in the.
Speaker 9 (27:59):
Tight You'll never guess what the F stands for.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Man the can get back in that can I'm attempting.
Have you ever Zach and I realized I'm using showtime
for this? Have you ever seen the thing? The reason
why we do that? The the and we're back, We're done.
There's a whole started live sketch with the whole. It's
Jimmy Fallon and Ben Affleck and they're doing competing radio
shows at the same time. This is like before your time,
(28:28):
but there that's how radio used to be. Was the
whole Like we're back w r I of what a
lot And you're listening to you know the wild man
Ricky and you know his friend Dave and whatever you
know and uh, you know before them, there were more
talented people before David Chuck called dred Mike anyways, and uh,
(28:50):
there's a brilliant SNL sketch. We'll get there. Uh that
is sends up all that at once, and you'll see
is the and we're back otherwise and you'll get it
when you see the sketches. The man in the can
get back in.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Yeah, you know, I mean I think most of you
listening to this note we're talking about at this point
because we do it.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah. But also it wasn't it fun for them to
hear me explain it to my child as if he's
never seen it.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I love it well as if because.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
No, I know, yeah what I'm saying it went. I
took him on a wild ride. I think you think
that's going to make a noise, and it's not going to.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I'm trying to pull a cork out of a beer bottle.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
Oh it did make a noise.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Sean Michael's treatment.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
There on a bourbon barrel aged man elf once again
from drugs.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
H straight from But also, can we take a second
here to talk about the world's best dad and the
world's best father in law, because why do we have
that drugs down here?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Because I have the world's best dad and you're the
world's best father.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Because he hand delivered them.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
No, he takes his extra time and wraps them up
gently I assume lovingly for sure, and sends them to
us every year.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
What a great guy.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Best scrap in the world.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
You got sharing right. Sorry about my language the vault.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Nobody knows what that means.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
But uh so where we're at, we're moving squarely into
the nights. Went crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yeah, sure, because you were.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Oh you guys, take it because I have nothing but
bad things to say.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Well, no, you're talking about say anything at all.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I don't. I don't dislike it at all.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Sounds a lot like you did.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I know it does. I don't dislike it. I just
don't love it like I don't think of it. If
you were saying to me, does where all have a
Christmas song? The very first thing I would say is, yeah,
Christmas is ground zero.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
And yes, I get a get what you're coming from there.
I get where you're coming from because it sounds like
a Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Which is a good thing to have when you're looking
for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
When you're looking for a Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yes, wow, that Beatles song sure does sounds like a
Beatles song.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Yeah, sure does. I'm just trying to I'm comparing the labels.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Let her mumble, what were you singing?
Speaker 8 (31:22):
No, she's fine, But I think that the I think
that I'm always gonna look look at the Knights Sandia
went Crazy through Rose Color Glasses because it was one
of the first ones I heard. Right, But I feel
like if you put both of them together and you said,
pick which song you're gonna listen if you picked one
weird al Christmas song to listen to you forever, I'd
(31:44):
pick the nice handwa crazy every.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Time it's nuts. I'm also weird. I should back up
and say something. I want to make this Clayer. I
think The Knight's Anama Crazy is a fantastic weird al song. Yes,
I love that song. That's a great song. I have
nothing again. I just if we're going to discuss these
two songs though, and I would I want someone to
(32:06):
come at me and tell me, how do you think
the Night saying what crazy sounds like Christmas? You know
it doesn't sound like a Christmas song.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
Yeah, it's got a I think it is Christmas themes.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yes it does, including the word Santa repeatedly. It doesn't
sound like a Christmas Well, we established earlier if you put
one or the other on a playlist of quote unquote
regular Christmas songs, then you can get away with one
and not the other.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
We had this discussion not too long ago, and people
be covering this now for on Christmas albums, and it's
absolutely not a Christmas song. My favorite things from the
sound of music, rain Drops on Roses and whiskers.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
That is not a Christmas song Christmas, but people cover it.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Youple cover it on Christmas album look like it doesn't
even sound few of my feet.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Boy, sure is getting all up at the about things
that don't It's not like Christmas songs. It would it
would appear that the shoe is on the other arm.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
You want to know, you wan don't know.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
A song that's not a Christmas song but sounds like
a Christmas song might just because I watch ELF every
year Pennies from Heaven, that song is a Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
It's because you watch every year.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
That song is a Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Elf.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
So it sounds I feel like it has the Christmas
song because I watch I understand.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yeah. Uh but okay, so you mentioned this song. I'm
gonna swing it back to Christmas permission to have people
cover ground Zero on their Christmas album. People be covering
each other all the time. Kelly Clarkson covers home by
uh Boo bla boo Blay covers you know everything that
(33:50):
was done before him. Why has no one come on
like they gotta know? It's funny? I would argue, and
I think you and I were talking about this earlier.
I would argue that Kelly Clarson probably doesn't even know
Christmas at ground Zero exists. He's just not in her bubble. Well, no,
it's just not in her bubble, you know. I'm sure
she lives in a very like I know of rock
(34:13):
stars I won't say their name on the air, who
literally their managers don't let them have their phone like
they're like children. So these people live in a bubble.
She probably doesn't even know that song exists. I feel
like if she did know it exists, she would be like,
I am covering that on my next Christmas album. Y'all right? Yeah, yeah,
(34:34):
like I wish someone would. I think it's gross that
more people don't know Christmas at grounds.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
God, I'd love to hear Michael do it anyone and
it's Christmas ad ground zero.
Speaker 8 (34:46):
I will say about the it not being a people's bubble,
so a lot of people hey Bubbly and the Ham
and Bubbly, But I feel so there's a one of
my friends who I'm going to the Weird Al show
with you guys. I've been introducing him to more weird
(35:06):
Al and it's like almost every other song will like
he'll hit immediately like what's.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
The name of the song about? And in my playlist.
Speaker 8 (35:14):
Because it's just not in his bubble, Like the majority
of weird House catalog is not in his bubbles, and
so when he's listening to it, he's immediately a latchy
onto it, which is what I feel like is what
you're saying that people will do. And that's like the
majority I wouldn't say the majority, but the majority of
people I know in my genu weird Al.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Yeah, I mean we're fighting the same battle on this one.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Yeah, and we're imported to this is really interesting And
I like your perspective on this honestly because I live
in my own space where like, I don't trust you
if you don't know and love weird Well, when you.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Were saying you live in your own space, I was
gonna say, three years ago, would you have agreed with
me if I said that anyone is making good pop
music the younger generation? No, how do you feel about
that today?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
You come at me about Sabrina Carmer their own space? Yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
And so I still I still very much part of
my my personal bubble is like, like you have to
know and appreciate where it now, Like like who are
you if you don't like that's not right?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
You know, right?
Speaker 9 (36:22):
But what I.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
Was just saying that, like Zach's perspective on this is
interesting because you're not going to associate with like bad people,
but they did.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
This is not part of their lived experience. And I
appreciate that you're like saying like, no, hey, this is.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
A cool thing, and that's a good litmus test for
those that accept it and those that don't.
Speaker 8 (36:48):
And well, I well, I I say this is the
this is the best part that I say, at least
in my brain to make it make sense with Red,
how there's a difference between being ignorant and stupid, Yes,
because you could be ignorant and learn and you can
be stupid and not learn.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Yeah, if you just look, well, now we're just flat
out defending Wordell, but hey, you know we're to do that,
if you, if you, Okay. I recently played one of
my favorite Weirdell parodies for someone who, uh it, knows
(37:26):
next to nothing about Weirdell and like doesn't really understand
what he does. And I was like, I think you'll
get it with this, and I played Confessions Part three
and they were like, oh my god, that was hilarious.
And I was like, okay, let me take this a
step further. Did you know that like him and his
band re like this is not karaoke, Like him and
his band like recreated the entire song and he wrote
(37:48):
all this stuff and he's doing all the harmony, so like,
whatever you think of Rsure, like him and his band
redid that and made it like brilliantly funny. Okay, now
apply that to Paradise and teen Spirit and and and
uh white and nerdy and all this other stuff that
you know of and then know that there's like ten
(38:11):
times that out there. And this dude was like, in
our backseat, it's the whole thing. We're running around town
with a bunch of out of town folks. And he
was like, he was like, dude, you blew my mind.
Like he was like I never thought about that, and
I was like, uh huh, So you get that, and
then you get people that are like, yeah, but it's
(38:31):
just he's just making fun of stuff. It's dumb, that's stupid. Yes,
that's exactly my point.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
People who accept it, like, once they accept that, you
don't even have.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
To like weird out, like you know, like it cannot
be your thing. Like if you're like, okay, but we
already have confessions, so why do we need weird else confessions? Yeah,
and that's okay, but like to not go to not
under to not admit that there's brilliance there that makes
you an idiot.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
Yeah, because weird Als is sanely smart and there's like like, oh,
like you like if you listen to a weird Alse song,
Oh I could have done that?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
No you could, right, No, you could. So to bring
it back to what the episode is the topic of
the episode, Oh, let me ask you this, which is
your all time favorite weird Al Christmas song? And why
is it Christmas at ground zero? Well that's not remember
how are you just talking about ignorant and stupid?
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Well done, well done, well done, So zach I will
say that The Night Santama Crazy I heard before I
heard Christmas at ground Zero because Bad Hair Day was
my first Weird Al album, so I absolutely knew and
heard Christmas the Night Santama Crazy and and all of
(39:53):
that stuff. And the first time I saw Weird Al
in concert, he performed The Night Sanna Went Crazy and
he ended up there was snow, but it was bubbles
and he did the extra gory version. And I very
much remember sitting there in the front row and Hershey
Park in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which happens to be where trouges
(40:13):
is brewed, and I said, the extra gory stuff is happening,
and I remember sitting there being like, I know this song,
but these aren't the words that I know. So I
very much had like a crazy like moment with it
because you know, it wasn't you know, Santa's doing time it?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Santa Claus is dead. Oh and have you not heard
the extra gory version?
Speaker 3 (40:36):
No? Not?
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Oh well, we're going to have to take care of that. Also.
Speaker 10 (40:40):
Our reaction video that is coming out till tomorrow. Wait,
this episode of recording right now is coming out on Friday. Okay,
so yes, tomorrow morning. Yeah, turned into it.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Yes, so that's the version, and you'll see in the
reaction video. We didn't know which version it was going
to be, so both of us are like, oh, well,
we're and then you'll see the moment that we're like, oh,
it's the extra ry version.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
The regular version, better medium rarities, which is we have
it on a squeeze box, which is half the reason
I married him.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
You know.
Speaker 8 (41:17):
There.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
I remember when you got that box set.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
I had to order it like seven months in advance.
Speaker 8 (41:24):
I still think it's one of the coolest like packaging
for a box set ever.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
It won the Grammy for Packages.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Each We're here trying to do like seven episodes. It's like, hell,
so we're gonna talk about sweets box.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Well, I will tell you this much.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Well, I'm only here so often this episode.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
I'm not doing coke, but one in the fridge for
you do go get a coke.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Okay, I'm gonna do coc on it. It's got it on.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yeah, No, we're well, it's on the top shelf of
the fridge, top top.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
What were you saying.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
I don't even know. Oh boy, I lost my trainin.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
People listening to this are like you were talking about this,
like they're.
Speaker 5 (42:04):
Like, they're going to Lauren, what were you talking about?
I don't know the extra the differences between the regular
version and version.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Don't go into great detail because I want him to
be surprised. I strongly prefer the original though, Yeah why
I First of all, I don't think I don't think
the verses are well, super well written, okay on the
extraory version. And also it just is a thing to
be a thing.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
You feel like it's just done for sure.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
I don't think weird Al does much just to do it,
and that to me sounds like he did it just
to do it.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
That's fair, That's totally fair. Correct that coke can't open?
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Hey coke?
Speaker 5 (42:47):
Santa Coke, Sana Coke, top shelf, Coke, top shelf, Santa Coke.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Oh ho hoen, somebody I know? I really am?
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Can I ask?
Speaker 5 (42:58):
This?
Speaker 3 (42:59):
Isn't it time for a third weirdl Christmas?
Speaker 8 (43:02):
So so.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
On the next episode of this podcast.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
Weird Else going to debut it. Holy everyone you know
should hit subscribe and share right now, Share with a.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
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Speaker 5 (43:25):
On the very next episode of this podcast, We're going
to have our two friends Bob and Chris Chris from
the Trivial Warfare podcast.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
And Bob who Bob from our friendship, Bob.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
From our being friends with us and now Bob's one
of the biggest weird Al fans.
Speaker 9 (43:41):
I know.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
Bob takes weird Al very seriously serious and I love it.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
I do too.
Speaker 5 (43:48):
So we're actually going to have them here to the
house to record the next episode of this show. And
it's about the five four three two one holiday New
Year's Eve polka that Weird Al did with Jimmy Fallon
on Jimmy Fallon's latest holiday album. So we are going
to talk about that. It's I it is not a
Christmas song. It is a polka about.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
New Year's Eve.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
So it's a holiday song.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
It's a holiday song, but it is not a Christmas song.
I'll take it, Oh, we'll take it.
Speaker 5 (44:18):
We're gonna have things to say about it, I'm sure,
but I agree with you. I believe that we are
far overdue from a proper weird Al Christmas song because
there is so much, so much he could do. There's
there's so many Christmas tropes that he hasn't touched yet.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
He can do so many things.
Speaker 8 (44:42):
I think that the most I think I think it
was the most recent Poka he released really showed how
long it's been here. Yeah, how long it's been, because
like I was listening to it with one of my
friends and.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
It was like, holy, yeah, that song came.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Out like a long time ago.
Speaker 8 (45:02):
One of the songs that came remember which one of
which one of them it was, But he's like, holy
crap forever.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
During a decade of music in one polka.
Speaker 8 (45:09):
Yeah, And I was and I was like, yeah, it's
been that long since he released since he released music.
I was like, happy by Farrell was still a big
thing when he when he released music.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
Yeah, and he was like, oh my god. That really
puts into perspective.
Speaker 5 (45:23):
Well, because the latest Poka Pokemonia ends with shake It
Off by Taylor Swift, which is from her nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
That's and that's the oldest.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
Four records since then. Two of them were good at
least no four really yeah, and two of them were good.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
Okay, I'm not going to talk about Taylor Swift, No,
we don't have to. I'm just saying that the polka
ends with.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Well, it will sure help you in the algorithm if
you say your name a lot.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
So Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift. Oh,
Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Oh no, she just showed up? Is that what?
Speaker 8 (45:58):
No?
Speaker 3 (45:59):
She hold on Nope, she doesn't sing any better in
person than she doesn't know you know, you know, living
in this house. What do I say? What do I say?
Every single time she shows she's forced on me on
my phone?
Speaker 5 (46:15):
Please stop feeding me information about this mildly talented white woman.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
That's what I say every single time.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
And it's fair.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
I don't dislike her, no, but she's just not that great.
So we're now should be as or more popular than
she is.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
You are the only person I know.
Speaker 8 (46:35):
I've seen you on YouTube, but your scroller YouTube like
hit the not interested stuff and you still get fed
that stuff. You're the only person I've ever seen that
does that. And the algorithms to I think he just
wants to play with you. It's like, hey, I know
you don't like this person.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
No, my thing. It's not even that I don't like her,
it's that there's only so many times I can see
the same fake surprise face, or so many times I
can see yeah, yeah, there's only so many times I
can see the same like and again, you know, I
say I say this that I say this to you
all the time as a person who like loves the
Monkeys and loves the Beatles and MJ. Like I can't
(47:10):
get on a high horse and go I don't like
manufactured pop like you know what I mean, Like you
can't like but like you've gone too far with her,
like you got to get her out of my face
all the time.
Speaker 5 (47:22):
Oh no, no, trust trust I get it. And I
feel like you know, has she hasn't done any Christmas music?
Speaker 2 (47:30):
Has she?
Speaker 3 (47:30):
Hope hopefully not? Lord in a world where target all
in a world war, Kelly regularly sings Christmas. I sure
don't want to.
Speaker 5 (47:42):
I'm just saying like she's one of those few people
that's been around for as long as she has.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Oh yeah, don't worry. It's because will you just summoned it.
She heard the idea.
Speaker 5 (47:51):
She's like, oh, oh my god, I'm really sorry. I
need to remember that I need to use this platform
for good because I I conjured into existence the weird
movie on this show. We brought forth the four k.
Speaker 3 (48:07):
Eat it on the show, which came out before beat
it in four K, which is gross.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
The estate is well, you know, look at see. So
what we have done here is exactly what we set
out to do here.
Speaker 5 (48:22):
This is rooted in a discussion about weird house Christmas music,
but it was ultimately just.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Like you're hanging out with us talking about music at Christmas.
Speaker 8 (48:33):
You were part of the Robinson family get together.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Hu husaw.
Speaker 5 (48:38):
So I'm gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, you know, put
a pin in this. We're gonna wrap it up here.
But I want to leave people listening to the show
with a couple of well wishes and ho hos. I've
said too many times, but no, seriously, I get you know,
(49:00):
the holiday season is a lot and it can be
a lot for a lot of people. And hopefully this
has been a bit of a of a light for
you for whatever it happens to be. And just know
that the show is still here. We're going to continue
bringing you some wonderful, magical things as we get into
twenty twenty five. For the new year, we're going to
finish up our there to be stupid deep dive. I've
(49:24):
got some pretty fun guests lined up for that. Lily
Hirsh is going to be back. Uh, Jeff will be
with us, and he will probably talk some about his
weird al burlesque documentary.
Speaker 3 (49:36):
What a fun name.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
I know, he's the he's the man, He's the man.
Speaker 5 (49:42):
And yeah, we got some some fun things happening on
the b side of there to be stupid. And then
who knows, who knows where we go from here.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
We're just gonna what.
Speaker 5 (49:52):
We're gonna move into pokea party, right, I know, Yeah,
we're gonna get into Poka party.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
So we're gonna talk about Christmas at ground zero again.
Speaker 3 (50:02):
Probably if we play your cards right, it could be
Christmas Christmas.
Speaker 5 (50:04):
Time, or it could be Christmas in July, or could
be around Christmas time, depending on how things go.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
But anyway, do either of.
Speaker 5 (50:11):
You, gentlemen, have anything that you'd like to add here
at the end for the people listening at the holidays?
Speaker 3 (50:16):
No? No, just you know you and I have watched
more than a few Christmas movies recently that have left
me with more grinch than Christmas spirit. And no, you
know this because a lot of what I see in
these Christmas movies as a person who grew up without
Christmas in this home a ton of what I see
in these Christmas movies is like entitlement and you owe
(50:39):
me and expectations. If you're listening to this and you
know anyone who's like, oh, you have to you have
to bring this to the party because so and so
you know said so, or you have to do this
or put this up on your house because you know
other people will be no, no, no, no, no, no no.
It's the season of giving, So at a bare minimum,
(51:02):
other people should be giving you grace and acceptance and forgiveness.
And people shouldn't say to you, oh, you're just going
to ruin the holiday for you know, Miphy and Biffy
if you don't do this, that and the other thing,
or you don't make this cake, or you know, no, no, no,
no no, tell Miphy and Biffy that they are going
to ruin Christmas for everyone else if they don't give
(51:24):
me grace and forgiveness and love and acceptance. And that's
all I hope for people. I hope that people understand
that like sometimes showing love means setting boundaries and don't
be afraid that at the holidays you're not going to
(51:45):
get love from people because the people who love you
unconditionally are going to love you unconditionally. They're not going
to say things like you have to put this up,
or you have to bring this, or you have to
give that. So uh and if you do have in
your circle only people like that, then come be part
(52:06):
of our circle.
Speaker 2 (52:07):
Yeah, we've got a very open circle.
Speaker 3 (52:09):
So because I just don't, I have no forgiveness in
my heart for people who make other people feel like
they owe them anything, let alone love.
Speaker 5 (52:19):
I love your perspective on Christmas, by the way, and
thank you for saying that, especially, you know, because for you,
we're making Christmas what we want to make of it.
Speaker 3 (52:28):
Right, we do this crazy thing where we like love
people yep, just where they are. We've not said to
anybody William that you always answer you have to do this,
or oh, it won't be Christmas if you don't go
through jump through these hoops for us, like, no, it'll
be I assure you it'll be Christmas. I assure you
(52:49):
it'll still be Christmas, you know.
Speaker 4 (52:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
So I just you know, if you are in a
position to where you feel like you are not having
receiving the love that you think that you just deserve,
you're probably not. And I think that you should examine
your inner circle and if you need to expand that,
then talk to people like us or anyone else in
the world who is ready to see things from a
(53:13):
different perspective other than what they've been told to tell
others to expect.
Speaker 2 (53:18):
I love it. Yeah, life shouldn't be stressful. Christmas shouldn't
be stressful.
Speaker 3 (53:26):
A lot of people shouldn't be. That's part of the thing.
And the night crazy. It's like, finally, this dude was like,
all right, knock it off. The whole world.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
You're expecting too much of me.
Speaker 3 (53:38):
You know, it sounds crazy to me, but you know,
as you know, I grew up without Christmas movies and
I've watched one more than a few where I've been like,
y'all are the worst Christmas with the craks. That's the one.
That that's one.
Speaker 4 (53:51):
That's that's where I grew up with that.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
I I didn't grow up with.
Speaker 4 (53:54):
I didn't grow up with the whole even I watched
a go like a movie review of it, and then
I went and watched its, like, you can't be that bad.
Speaker 3 (54:00):
I watch everybody, what the hell everybody in that movie?
That's not Tim Allen and uh Jamie Lee Curtis also
and you enjoy their lives.
Speaker 8 (54:09):
Yeah, how do you get a movie with that much
star power and they do nothing with it? Like that
movie was a that's what Christmas has become.
Speaker 3 (54:17):
That's the thing. They made that movie for the times
people are like, yeah, everyone, anyways, you should cut us
off for Also, people are gonna be like Christmas.
Speaker 2 (54:28):
If you take nothing from this.
Speaker 3 (54:30):
Be nice and kind to people and actually be nice
and kind. That's my message.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
Be nice and kind of people. Actually be nice and kind.
And watch Hot Frosty.
Speaker 3 (54:38):
Yes, yeah, yeah, please watch, And a bunch of three
ho ho.
Speaker 5 (54:43):
Hosts were the Hot all right, Merry Christmas from the
beard Out podcast and and in the words.
Speaker 3 (54:51):
Of Smoky Robinson happy chinaka.
Speaker 8 (54:55):
Yeah very Christmas from the Robinson's and the beard Podcast.
Speaker 3 (55:02):
Tweets and Smokey Robins and Smokey Robinson Robinson one of us.
Have you never seen a picture he looks just like
that's oh yeah, that's true. Okay, bye bye, my
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