December 19, 2025 • 57 mins
It’s a holly-jolly Weird Al family Christmas once again 🎄
This episode originally dropped last year, but it’s back for a 2025 holiday encore — and it’s still a full house of Robinsons. Lauren’s here. Russ is here. Zakk is here.
We’re diving into “Christmas at Ground Zero,” “The Night Santa Went Crazy,” and plenty of other offbeat holiday classics, with all the Weird Al cheer (and chaos) you’d expect.
Settle in and enjoy this festive family conversation — it holds up just as well the second time around.
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This episode originally dropped last year, but it’s back for a 2025 holiday encore — and it’s still a full house of Robinsons. Lauren’s here. Russ is here. Zakk is here.
We’re diving into “Christmas at Ground Zero,” “The Night Santa Went Crazy,” and plenty of other offbeat holiday classics, with all the Weird Al cheer (and chaos) you’d expect.
Settle in and enjoy this festive family conversation — it holds up just as well the second time around.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beer-d-al-podcast--5439475/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Ho ho ho.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Folks, welcome to yet another of my beard Al anthology
series and keep them with the holiday spirit. On account
of the fact that Chris Moose is just around the corner.
You get to enjoy a very very special episode from
this time last year. That's right, it's when the Robinson
gang all gathered in a room to talk about weird
(00:54):
Al's Christmas songs. So you get to listen to me,
Russ and Zach talk about Christmas at Ground Zero.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
The night Santna went crazy and overall, just have a
ho ho ho ho ho.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Holiday good time. I said a lot of hoes there,
but I am Santa's favorite ho. But with that, you know,
I help you enjoy this. And just so you know,
I'm gonna be coming at you very shortly and after
the start of the new year, where we are going
to kick off our look into the album. Even worse,
I've got some fun guests lined up. I've got people
(01:31):
even saying they want to come on for maybe even
more than.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
One episode of this particular series.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So who the heck knows what's gonna happen, but I
know that it's gonna be a very very good time.
So be on the lookout for that coming up once
we get into twenty twenty six, can you believe it?
I don't know what I'm gonna have to do on
the show and we get into twenty twenty seven on
account of the twenty seven of it all, but I
have a whole year to figure that out. Anyway, enjoy
the Robinson's having some goofy holiday fun last year by.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Ho Ho Ho, everybody welcome to do you whoa whoa?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
What?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Did you? You?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Whoa?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Whoa?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You call hit that? Who me?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
You? And at least one other person like I'm not
going to virtue a signal right at the top of
the episode, but like, I wouldn't call somebody that whoa whoa?
Whoa whoa?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, this is already starting to sound like a kind
of conversation that you would have at a family Christmas. So
welcome to the oop So Robinson's Christmas episode of the
beard Alt podcast podcasts. Are we talking about two the
greatest things in the world beer and weird Now And
as alluded to.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All the Robinsons are here.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm Lauren, Hello, Hello, Hello, Russ you're here, and Zach
is also here.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's a rare episode that I'm here, oh.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Here you go, and the rarest of all things occurring
because it is Christmas. Russ and I are splitting some
matt Elf from Troges Brewing, which is what happens on
this show at Christmas time.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
So I'm not anywhere like I used to think of
myself as a beer snob 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
(03:56):
bit of a beer snob, you know. So where 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
(04:19):
bragging about two 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 2 (04:24):
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 4 (04:32):
It's such a good beer.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's such a good so Trug'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
(04:53):
once on 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 1 (05:06):
What was happening? What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You want me to shut the door?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
No, no, chuck the door.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
We don't have much of what the kids are calling
an agender.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
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 going to hit some of Weird Al's Christmas music
and just kind of talk about it. We collectively kind
of listen to all of Weird Al's Christmas stuff together
as you do, because it is Christmas time. So this
(05:33):
is 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.
(05:57):
And 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 4 (06:13):
I feel the opposite. Really, yeah, I think most people
think of the Knight sand I Went Crazy first. I
mean personally, I think, uh, Christmas ground Zero is orders
of magnitude better than the Knight sand I Went Crazy.
And I will die on that hill and I will
explain in depth why throughout this conversation that we're here.
(06:37):
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 night sand I Went Crazy. I
think even casual fans know That's.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
What about the business casual.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
They know the Night Santa Went Khaki. Oh, I'm not
gonna lie. That's a singer, that's a good one. I
expect at least one comment from Noah acknowledging.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Noah acknowledge him.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
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 2 (07:30):
No? Because there's an official video for Christmas at ground Zero.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You think that's what's holding people back from making videos
for Christmas at ground Zero.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I don't think that's necessarily what's holding people back.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I'm just saying, Sandraise.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
So in the in this uh in this song versus song,
I'm a little bit biased because The Knight Sanda Went
Crazy is one of the first Red Hell songs I heard. Okay,
it is for a lot of people too, and I
love it. It's easy, dislike every at all to be clear,
even just like at all, you just if you're doing
a one on one battle between this and ground Zero
(08:05):
for weird al Christmas songs.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I think ground Zero destroys say I went crazy on
every level, But I think more people know the Nights
and I went crazy And I can't say why other
than like I said, if you go on YouTube and
you go, uh 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 2 (08:28):
Yeah, okay, I'm not I'm not disagreeing, and I'm not
arguing any of this.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I'm just saying that, uh, well, is.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
It a family holiday?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Unless there's arguing, No, it's true. Okay, how about this.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
If you're making a Christmas playlist and you want to
slip a weird al song in there, I.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Would put on Christmas and ground zero because it's orders
of magnitude better than the other.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
See I would put I would put nights and went Crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
The night Stand went Crazy. Does not sound like.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
A Christmas You're going to notice it.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I mean, yeah, but if we have a playlist with
like the classics, right, you're Nat King Cole being bing Crosby,
you know all that, right, all the stuff okay you
can throw on that are ground zero in there, and
no one's gonna notice like you put you put went
(09:16):
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
like solosyum?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Oh, Santa?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Why why?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I asked the same questions as everyone else.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, okay, so that's fair. Now that we've gotten all
that out of the way, I think I'm gonna sneeze.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Maybe yep, unless you.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Appropriate for Christmas time and blessings.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
True, it was a Christmas blessing. It might happen again, yep,
I don't even know.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
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 3 (10:18):
Family friend Christmas? Family friendly? Christmas?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Am? I what is happening right now?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
What I think this is beard out going r rated?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Is ed you about to walk in? It's a little weird.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
It's a little weird.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I mean, we're still coming down from last week, so
be a flight to w takeover where we actually had
curse words on.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
The program program this program.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
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 The video
for this song is the first music video that Weird
Out directed himself, which I think is very very cool.
And the old, you know, footage that's in it is.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Kind of disturbing.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
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
kind of thing that you experience in the visual cavalcade
that is a a massive weird Al Yankovic shell. So
I'm like, okay, this makes all of the sense in
the world. The song itself, I think the way it
(11:33):
starts and the way that it ends is absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I think the bridge is the best thing in it
go on everywhere the range of but then it did.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh that that baritones.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
It's that's like an ex how this guy reached into
the annals of Christmas anals 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,
(12:10):
which is my number one complaint against Santawa crazy is
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 2 (12:27):
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 4 (12:40):
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 one set of Christmas classics, because
like for like a thousand years people have been seeing
have yourself a little Merry Little Christmas and you know,
sleigh ride and silver bells and all that stuff and this,
(13:03):
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
that we're at war and that they're all depressed and
(13:24):
you know, their brothers and sisters and sons are dying.
And so the record labels, of course, 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, and
then the idea was like, oh, okay, well we'll cheer
(13:45):
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.
And uh so people were just like, oh, well, I
guess we'll listen to all the Christmas records we bought
(14:07):
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
everybody else in the world's done. They would all just
(14:27):
do the same songs. Yeah, 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 all that money the first year. There's no green
(14:50):
in going, hey, I'm gonna write all these new Christmas songs.
So even like, for example, today we were making dinner,
we were listening to Kelly Kelly cl since 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 record has a built in safety
net of like, here's this song, but then here's all
(15:12):
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 it was launched on all I Want for Christmas
is you, But the safety net is there in case
(15:34):
that didn't become a hit. They could be like, ah,
but it's her doing silver 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 where we record, you
were talking about Michael Buble, same thing. He's got a
couple of like newer Christmas songs, but no one remembers them.
They remember what the record was anchored at. Well, just
(15:56):
have yourself merry little Christmas and you know, or as
Jimmy Fallon's impersonation of Michael Boobla jingle bells, jingle bells
over pronouncing all the words yeah but uh and thus
finishes me impersonating Jimmy Fallon impersonating Michael boo black.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Beautiful but yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
So I for me though, and this is probably putting
too much on the shoulders of Christmas Saint 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 it all made a
song that sounds like every Christmas classic you know of,
except he just made it about blowing each other up.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yep. I I at some point on this program, somewhere
in the nearly five years that the show has existed,
in the anals, in the Anals of beard Ou History,
I said that this song is walking in a nuclear
winter wonderland.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
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
(17:24):
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
ass like like I'm looking for like Ronnie Specter Darlene Love.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Like that's interesting, like if you.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Listen to and I know, the Jew thing, the Christmas
time for the Jews, Darlene Loves vocal on that is
produced perfectly. That's the only complaint I have at Christmas
to ground zero is weird aw sounds just like he's
singing living with Ernie or addicted to spots off the
(18:07):
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, wait is it.
(18:30):
The only reason why they do it is because the
vocal doesn't sound like a Christmas phone.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's okay, that's totally totally fair, totally fair. So now.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Christmas music subject matter wise, I find myself, you know,
hearing a lot of Christmas songs and eat say.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
You say to yourself self, because that's that's a lot
of people. That's what she goes by here. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah, the topic of a lot of your classic go
to Christmas songs not so holly jolly.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Once you really start thinking about them.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Okay, Well that goes back to.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
That 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.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Because the lyricist.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Was a 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 looking
out the window of his room at the sanatorium at
Central Park in Homesdale, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
That's how a lot of love songs are written, like
someone who is longing for something, Like that's a guy
literally sitting there.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Being like, man, I wish I could walk in the snow.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yeah, like and I would. I mean, it's a love
letter to the holidays.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Careless Whisper. We were just talking about George Michael wrote
that when he was sixteen.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Also it's pronounced carless whisper whisper bym 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.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, but like it's it's a very much one of
the best love songs ever written.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
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 celebrating Christmas. That's the thing that I never
understood until years later. Like when you know what the
origin of that song is, you're like, you're like, oh,
(21:00):
like like, 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. 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
(21:21):
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. And it's in
many ways, it's the same thing where a lot of
the most Christmas music is like the basic theme of
(21:42):
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 saying that, that's
what they mean, right Uh. And that one it's like
just this side of boy, I wish you would enjoy
(22:05):
this because I can't.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Right yep, yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
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.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It's slightly more on the nose.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, it's like, this terrible thing is occurring, let's try
and put a positive spin on something for what we
do have.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Yeah, I think of a little more cynical. I think
it's a very Uh, even if the world was ending,
commercialism would matter more Stone because yeah, I remember, yeah,
this came out way five four. Yeah. I don't know
why I always think of both parties slightly earlier than
(22:56):
it was anyways. Yeah, well, I mean the if there's
what's the thing, the lyrics going to escape me and
I'm not gonna get it right there, We'll go and
see the new mutations.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
On Oh yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Like people still being like, well, we'll all go do
this big thing like you know, like because that's when
when I'm 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 know
(23:34):
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 bowls up, no one will care
about everyone else. They'll just be like, oh neat, We're
all going to go do this other thing together. I'm
(23:55):
going to be the first to see the new mutations.
You know. That's that's how I take it.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, and that's totally fair. What do you think, Zach
So what you' did? Bad hair Day come out nineteen
ninety six, so these.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Are almost these are exactly ten years correct.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
So weird al said, let me circle back to Christmas
ten years later.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I feel like that's why they take a different tone
as well, because it's a different time period than both
of these songs are being released in. I feel like
that The Night Santa Went Crazy has a little bit
more of a upbeat message ish. I mean, it's still
a pretty it's still a.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
You aren't gonna have a hard time just paying next.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
So I feel like it's it's a less about like
screw 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
(24:56):
more just of a fun song than a statement song
like Christmas at ground Zero.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I think what I think, I know what you're trying saying,
and I agree to 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 3 (25:25):
Yes, I feel like that was more. 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 1 (25:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Fun fact, when the Knight Santa Went Crazy came out,
I was mildly offended by it for at least like
a year or two and not like, oh, yeah, Santa
is a show. No, he got the German luguer like
I'm not an idiot, Like I'm not like easily offended.
H I grew up near Royal Looke, Michigan, and the
Royal Loock post office is where the term going postal
(26:06):
comes from. Like that was literally the thing where the
guy like walked into the post office post office worker,
uh 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.
(26:27):
And yes, a lot more worse things have happened since then,
that's all of our fault. But at the time that
was still a very fresh thing. And uh so the
idea of someone losing it and even if it's ana
and yes, I understand humor. At first, I was just like,
(26:48):
this isn't that funny? And then there's and then to
cap it off was that they all got jobs at
the 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
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get that, you know. In the time since I've become
a big fan of a comedian named Anthony Jesselneck who
has a 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
(27:31):
has nothing to do with my thoughts on I still
all the way across the board, I think zero is
a way better. 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 you know, proximity. You know, people across
(27:54):
the rest of the US didn't have the same way. Yeah, Like,
unless you live near the mcdonnal 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,
(28:17):
I know, yeah, but I didn't know any better time.
So anyways, I think that I think the biggest defense
the night Santa went Crazy commits it is 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
(28:38):
and things going awry. It's not It's just not a
Christmas song to me. I think just because it has
Santa and the title doesn't make it a Christmas song.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
That's fair. And you know what, we can revisit this
on the flip side of these as.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Oh dear God ads you say, boy, yeah, I sure
hope the things that I google regularly when I post
on social media about the opposite don't come back to
haunt me in these ads. In just a couple of seconds,
are you calling me dumb?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Now?
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Come on, we'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Hey, I'm pants and Saren This is Stevie and I'm
Aggie and we are b F Y t W a
podcast all about playing games and having fun. Our games
are usually based on British panel shows and game shows,
but we'll play anything that captures our attention and imagination.
Why it's right there in the title.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You'll never guess what the F stands for.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Man the cat, get back in that cat, I'm attempting.
Have you ever heard Zach and I realize I'm using
showtime for this? Have you ever seen the thing the
reason why we do that? And we're back, We're done.
There's a whole 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,
(29:57):
but 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 Drew and Mike. Anyways, Yeah,
(30:18):
and uh, there's a brilliant SML sketch. We'll get there.
Uh that is sends up all of that at once,
and you'll see is the and we're back in the
otherwise and you'll get it when you see the sketches
the man that can get back in that.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
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 4 (30:40):
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 1 (30:45):
I love it well as if because no.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I know, ye know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
They went, I took him on a wild ride it
I think you think that's going to make a noise,
and it's not.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Going to don't know, I'm trying to pull a cork
out of a beer bottle.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Oh it did make a noise. Sean Michael's treatment there on.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
A bourbon barrel aged man elf once again from.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Drugs um 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
trunks down here?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Because I have the world's best dad in you, the
world's best.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Father, and.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
He had delivered them.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
He takes his extra time and wraps them up gently
I assume, lovingly for sure, and sends them to us
every year.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
What a great guy, best grampa in the world.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Pretty you got staring right, Sorry about my language the vault.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Nobody knows what that means.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
But uh so where yet we're moving squarely into the night.
Sente went crazy.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yeah, sure, because you were.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Oh you guys, take it because I have nothing but
bad things to say.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Well, no, you're talking about don't say anything at all.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
I don't. I don't dislike it at all.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Sounds a hell of a lot like you did.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
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 weird? I'll have a
Christmas song. The very first thing I would say is, yeah,
Christmas is ground zero, And.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Yes, I get I get what you're coming from.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
There.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I get where you're coming from because it sounds like
a Christmas song.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Which is a good thing to have when you're looking
for Christmas, when you look for Christmas song. Yes, wow,
that Beatles song sure does sound like a Beatles song.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah right, sure does. I'm just trying to I'm comparing
the labels.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Let her mumble, what were you saying?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
No, she's fine, But I think that the I think
that I'm always gonna look look at the Santama 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 picked
(33:13):
the Knights Handwa Crazy every time.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
It's nuts. But also 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,
like I love that song. That's a great song. I
have nothing against it. I just if we're going to
discuss these two songs though, and I would I want
someone to come at me and tell me, how do
(33:37):
you think the Knight's Anima Crazy sounds like Christal? You
know it doesn't sound like a Christmas song.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, it's gotta I think it is Christmas themes.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Yes, it sure 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, you get away with one
and not the other.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
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 rops on Roses and whiskers.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
That is not a Christmas song Christmas song, but people
cover it, People cover.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
It on Christmas album look like it doesn't even sound Christmas.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
A few of my face is getting all up at
you about things that don't sound like Christmas songs. It
would it would appear that the shoe is on the
other arm. You want to know, you don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
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 4 (34:45):
It's because you watch every year.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
That song is a Christmas song. Yea, so it sounds
I feel like it has the Christmas song because I
watch I understand.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
But okay, so you mentioned this, so I'm going to
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 U
boot Blay Boo Blz covers you know everything that was
(35:19):
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 Clarkson probably doesn't even know Christmas
at ground Zero exists. It'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
(35:42):
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. Okay, 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 next Christmas album. Y'all right? I
(36:04):
wish someone would. I think it's gross that more people
don't know Christmas grounds.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
God, I'd love to hear Michael Goole do it anyone, Well,
it's Christmas ad ground Zero.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I will say about the it not being a people's bubble,
so a lot of people, Hey, Bubbly and ham and Bubbly,
But I feel so there's one of my friends who
I'm going to the Weird Al show with you guys.
I've been introducing him to more Weird Al and it's
(36:35):
like almost every other song will like he'll hit immediately,
like what's the name of the song A man in
my playlist 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
laschy onto it, which is what I feel like, is
(36:56):
what you're saying that people will do. And that's like
the majority would say the majority, but the majority of
people I know in my in my.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
General Yeah, I mean we're we're we're fighting the same
battle on this one.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yeah, and we're apportate.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
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 loved well.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
When you were saying you live in your own space,
I was going to say, three years ago, would you
have agreed with me if I said that anyone is
making good pop music of the younger generation. No, how
do you feel about that today?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
You come at me about Sabrina Carmen right their own space?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Yeah for sure. And so I still I still.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Very much part of my my personal bubble is like,
like you have to know and appreciate weird out, Like, like,
who are you if you don't like that's not right?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
You know, right?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
But what I'm I 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. This is
not part of their lived experience, and I appreciate that
You're like saying like, no, hey, this is a cool thing,
(38:12):
and that's a good litmus test for those that accept
it and those that don't.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
And well, I well, I say this is the this
is the best part that I say, at least in
my brain to make it make sense with weird 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 4 (38:34):
Yeah, if you just look, well, now we're just a
flat out defending word.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Ow.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Well, hey, you know we're in a safe thing to
do that if you, if you Okay, I recently played
one of my favorite weirdel parodies for someone who, uh.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
It knows next to nothing about wordell 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
(39:16):
he wrote all this stuff and he's doing all the harmony,
so like, whatever you think of ursure, like him and
his band redid that and made it like brilliantly funny. Okay,
now apply that to Paradise and teen Spirit and white
and nerdy and all this other stuff that you know of,
(39:38):
and then know that there's like ten times that out there.
And this dude was like, in our backseat, it's the
whole thing. We were 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
(39:59):
are like, yeah, it was just he's just making fun
of stuff. It's dumb, that's stupid.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Yes, that's exactly my point. People who accept it, like
once save what accept that.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
You don't even have to like weird Ol, like you
don't 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? 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 3 (40:28):
Yeah, because weird Else is insanely smart and there's like
he like, oh he's like you like if you listen
to a weird House song, Oh I could have done that.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
No you couldn't, right, No you could. So to bring
it back to what the episode is the topic of
the episode, let me ask you this, which is your
all time favorite Weirdol Christmas song? And why is it
Christmas at ground zero? Well it's not. Remember how were
you just talking about ignorant and stupid?
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Done? Well done, well done.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
So Zach, I will say that the night Santament Crazy
I heard before I heard Christmas a ground zero because
Bad Hair Day was my first Weird Al album, so
I absolutely knew and heard Christmas The Night Santa Went
Crazy and all of that stuff. And the first time
I saw weird Al in concert, he performed The Night
(41:29):
Santa Went Crazy and he ended up there was snow,
but it was bubbles and he did the extra gory version.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
And I very much remember sitting there in.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
The front row and Hershey Park in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which
happens to be where troges 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,
(41:58):
it wasn't you know Santa is doing time and Santa
Claus is dead and have you not heard the extra
gry version of Oh well, we're going to have to
take care of that.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
Also, our reaction video that.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Is coming out till tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
Wait, this episode of recording.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Right now is coming out on Friday.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
Okay, so yes tomorrow morning. Yeah turned into it. 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 going
and then you'll see the moment that we're like, oh,
it's the Extra Glory version.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Yes, 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 (42:43):
You know, I remember when you got that box set.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
I had to order it like seven months in advance.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
I still think it's one of the coolest like packaging
for a box set.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Ever, it won the Grammy for Packages.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
Zach. So we're here trying to do like an episodes.
It's like, hell, so we're gonna talk about.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Sweets box Well, I will tell you this much.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Well, I'm only here so often this episode. I'm not
doing coke?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
What one in the fridge for you do? Go get
a coke?
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Okay, I'm gonna do coke on it's got it.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Yeah, No, we're well, it's on the top shelf of
the fridge.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Top to.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
What were you saying?
Speaker 1 (43:25):
I don't even know. Oh boy, I lost my train
of thought.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
People listening to this are like you were talking about this.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
Like they're like they're going to what Lauren, what were
you talking about I don't know the extra the differences
between the regular version and the version.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4 (43:42):
Don't go into great detail because I want him to
be surprised. I strongly prefer the original.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
Though, Yeah why I First of all, I don't think
I don't think the verses.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
Are well, super well written, okay on the extra version.
And also it just is a thing to be a thing.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
You feel like it's just done for shure.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
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 1 (44:09):
That's fair, That's totally fair. Correct that coke can't open?
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Hey coke, Santa Coke, Santa Coke, top shelf, Coke, top shelf,
Santa Coke.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Oh ho ho a somebody I know? I really am?
Speaker 4 (44:26):
Can I ask? This? Isn't it time for a third
Weird now Christmas Son.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
So on the next episode of this podcast.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
We'd else going to debut it. Holy everyone you know
should hit subscribe and share right now, share with.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
A h yeah, share right nobody hits share.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
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 4 (45:01):
And Bob who Bob from our friendship, Bob.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
From our being friends with us and now Bob's one
of the biggest weird Al fans.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
I know. Bob takes weird Al very seriously serious and
I love it.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
So we're actually going to have them here to the
house to record the next episode of this show.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
And it is about the five four three two.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
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
New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
So it's a holiday song.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
It's a holiday song, but it is not a Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Oh, we'll take it.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
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 1 (46:09):
He can do so many things.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
I think that the most I think I think it
was the most recent Poka he released. It really showed
how long it's been since he was Yeah, how long
it's been, Because like I was listening to it with
one of my friends and he was like, holy crap,
that song came out like a long time ago. One
(46:31):
of the songs I came remember which one of them?
Which one of them it was? But he's like, holy crap,
forever wearing.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
A decade of music in one polka.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
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. Yeah, and I
and he was like, oh my god. That really puts
into perspective.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Well, because the latest Poka Pokemania ends with shake It
Off by Taylor Swift, which is from her nineteen eighty nine.
That's and that's the oldest She's.
Speaker 4 (47:01):
Put four records since then. Two of them were good
at least no four really yeah, and two of them
are good.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Okay, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
Going to talk about Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
No, we don't have to. I'm just saying that the
polka ends.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
With well, sure help you in the algorithm if you
say your name a lot.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
So Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Oh no, she just showed up, is that what? No?
Speaker 4 (47:30):
No, 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? What do I say? Every
single time she shows she's forced on me on her
on my phone.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
Please stop feeding me information about this mildly talented white woman.
Speaker 4 (47:49):
That's what I say every single time.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
And it's fair.
Speaker 4 (47:52):
I don't dislike her, No, but she's just not that great,
so weird al should be as or more popular than
she is.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
You're the only person I know. 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. Yep, 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 4 (48:16):
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 stick 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
(48:39):
can't 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 gotta get her out of my face all
the time.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
Oh no, no, trust trust I get it.
Speaker 2 (48:53):
And I feel like, you know, has she hasn't done
any Christmas music?
Speaker 4 (48:59):
Has she hope hopefully not Lord in a world where Target,
in a world where Kelly regularly sings Christmas, I sure
don't want to.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
I'm just saying like she's one of the few people
that's been around for as long as she has.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
Oh yeah, don't worry. It's because you just summoned it.
She heard the idea.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
She's like, oh, oh my god, I'm really sorry.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
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
ka Eat It on the show.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
Which came out before Beat It in four k which
is gross.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
The estate is well, you know, look at see So
what we have done here is exactly what we set
out to do here. This is rooted in a discussion
about weird house Christmas music, but.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
It was ultimately just.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
Like you're hanging out with us talking about about music
at Christmas.
Speaker 3 (50:02):
You were part of the Robinson family get together.
Speaker 1 (50:04):
Huzza, husa, husa.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
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 ho hos.
I've said too many times, but no, seriously, I get that.
(50:29):
You know, 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 gonna
continue bringing you some wonderful, magical things as we get
into twenty twenty five. For the new year, we're gonna
(50:49):
finish up our dare to be Stupid deep Dive. I've
got some pretty fun guests lined up for that. Lily
Hirsh is gonna be back. Uh, Jeff will be with us,
and he will probably talk some about his weird al
burlesque documentary.
Speaker 4 (51:05):
What a name.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
I know, he's the He's the man, He's the man.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
And yeah, we got some some fun things happening on
the b side of there to be stupid.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
And then who knows, who knows where we go from here?
We're just gonna whatre move into.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Poke party knows I know, Yeah, we're gonna get into
pokea party. So we're going to talk about Christmas a
ground zero again.
Speaker 4 (51:31):
Probably if we play your cards right, it could be
Christmas Christmas.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
Time, or it could be Christmas in July, or could
be around Christmas time, depending on how things go.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
But anyway, do either.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
Of you, gentlemen, have anything that you'd like to add
here at the end for the people listening at the holidays?
Speaker 1 (51:45):
No?
Speaker 4 (51:45):
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 moeries as a person who grew up without Christmas
in his home A ton of what I see in
these Christmas movies is like entitlement and you owe me
(52:08):
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, other
(52:31):
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, Miffy 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 me grace
(52:54):
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 get love
(53:16):
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 and if you do have in your circle only
people like that, then come be part of our circle.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
Yeah, we've got a very open circle.
Speaker 4 (53:38):
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 2 (53:48):
I love your perspective on Christmas, by the way, and
thank you for saying that, especially, you know, because.
Speaker 1 (53:54):
For you, we're making Christmas what we want to make
of it.
Speaker 4 (53:57):
Right, we do this crazy thing where we like love people.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
Yep, just where they are.
Speaker 4 (54:03):
We've not said to anybody William that you always 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 it will still be Christmas, you know. Yeah, So
I just you know, if you are in a position
to where you feel like you are not having receiving
(54:27):
the love that you think that you 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 different perspective
other than what they've been told to tell others to expect.
Speaker 1 (54:47):
I love it. Yeah, shouldn't be stressful. Christmas wouldn't be stressful.
Speaker 4 (54:54):
As a people shouldn't be That's part of the thing.
In the night sound crazy, It's like the finally this
dude was like, all right, knock it off. The whole world.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
You're expecting too much of me.
Speaker 4 (55:07):
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.
Speaker 3 (55:16):
Christmas with the craiksh my god.
Speaker 4 (55:18):
We just watch that's the one that that's one.
Speaker 3 (55:20):
That that's where I grew up with that I I
didn't grow up with. I did grow up with my
whole ement. I watched a we got like a movie
review of it, and then I went and watched Us like,
you can't be that bad, and I watch everybody.
Speaker 4 (55:30):
What the hell everybody in that movie? That's not Tim
Allen and uh Jamie Lee Curtis also you enjoy their lives.
Speaker 3 (55:38):
Yeah, how do you get a movie with that much
star power and then do nothing with it? Like that
movie was.
Speaker 4 (55:43):
That's what Christmas has become. That's the thing they made
that movie for the times people are like, yeah, everyone, anyways,
you should cut us off or else people are gonna
be like, wow, Christmas if you take nothing from this
and kind to people and actually be nice and kind
that's my message, be nice.
Speaker 1 (56:03):
And kind of people, Actually be nice and kind. And
watch Hot Frosty.
Speaker 4 (56:07):
Yes, yeah, yeah, please watch, and a bunch of.
Speaker 3 (56:11):
Three ho ho hosts.
Speaker 2 (56:13):
Host all right, Merry Christmas from the beard Out Podcast.
Speaker 4 (56:18):
And and in the words of Smoky Robinson, happy chinaka yeah.
Speaker 3 (56:28):
Merry Christmas from the Robinson's and the beard Podcast.
Speaker 4 (56:31):
And Smokey Robins and Smoky Robins one of us. Have
you never seen a picture it looks just like that's yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 1 (56:41):
Okay, Bye La
Ho ho ho.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Folks, welcome to yet another of my beard Al anthology
series and keep them with the holiday spirit. On account
of the fact that Chris Moose is just around the corner.
You get to enjoy a very very special episode from
this time last year. That's right, it's when the Robinson
gang all gathered in a room to talk about weird
(00:54):
Al's Christmas songs. So you get to listen to me,
Russ and Zach talk about Christmas at Ground Zero.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
The night Santna went crazy and overall, just have a
ho ho ho ho ho.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Holiday good time. I said a lot of hoes there,
but I am Santa's favorite ho. But with that, you know,
I help you enjoy this. And just so you know,
I'm gonna be coming at you very shortly and after
the start of the new year, where we are going
to kick off our look into the album. Even worse,
I've got some fun guests lined up. I've got people
(01:31):
even saying they want to come on for maybe even
more than.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
One episode of this particular series.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So who the heck knows what's gonna happen, but I
know that it's gonna be a very very good time.
So be on the lookout for that coming up once
we get into twenty twenty six, can you believe it?
I don't know what I'm gonna have to do on
the show and we get into twenty twenty seven on
account of the twenty seven of it all, but I
have a whole year to figure that out. Anyway, enjoy
the Robinson's having some goofy holiday fun last year by.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Ho Ho Ho, everybody welcome to do you whoa whoa?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
What?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Did you? You?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Whoa?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Whoa?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You call hit that? Who me?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
You? And at least one other person like I'm not
going to virtue a signal right at the top of
the episode, but like, I wouldn't call somebody that whoa whoa?
Whoa whoa?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, this is already starting to sound like a kind
of conversation that you would have at a family Christmas. So
welcome to the oop So Robinson's Christmas episode of the
beard Alt podcast podcasts. Are we talking about two the
greatest things in the world beer and weird Now And
as alluded to.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All the Robinsons are here.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm Lauren, Hello, Hello, Hello, Russ you're here, and Zach
is also here.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's a rare episode that I'm here, oh.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Here you go, and the rarest of all things occurring
because it is Christmas. Russ and I are splitting some
matt Elf from Troges Brewing, which is what happens on
this show at Christmas time.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
So I'm not anywhere like I used to think of
myself as a beer snob 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
(03:56):
bit of a beer snob, you know. So where 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
(04:19):
bragging about two 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 2 (04:24):
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 4 (04:32):
It's such a good beer.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's such a good so Trug'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
(04:53):
once on 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 1 (05:06):
What was happening? What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You want me to shut the door?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
No, no, chuck the door.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
We don't have much of what the kids are calling
an agender.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
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 going to hit some of Weird Al's Christmas music
and just kind of talk about it. We collectively kind
of listen to all of Weird Al's Christmas stuff together
as you do, because it is Christmas time. So this
(05:33):
is 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.
(05:57):
And 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 4 (06:13):
I feel the opposite. Really, yeah, I think most people
think of the Knight sand I Went Crazy first. I
mean personally, I think, uh, Christmas ground Zero is orders
of magnitude better than the Knight sand I Went Crazy.
And I will die on that hill and I will
explain in depth why throughout this conversation that we're here.
(06:37):
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 night sand I Went Crazy. I
think even casual fans know That's.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
What about the business casual.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
They know the Night Santa Went Khaki. Oh, I'm not
gonna lie. That's a singer, that's a good one. I
expect at least one comment from Noah acknowledging.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Noah acknowledge him.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
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 2 (07:30):
No? Because there's an official video for Christmas at ground Zero.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You think that's what's holding people back from making videos
for Christmas at ground Zero.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I don't think that's necessarily what's holding people back.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I'm just saying, Sandraise.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
So in the in this uh in this song versus song,
I'm a little bit biased because The Knight Sanda Went
Crazy is one of the first Red Hell songs I heard. Okay,
it is for a lot of people too, and I
love it. It's easy, dislike every at all to be clear,
even just like at all, you just if you're doing
a one on one battle between this and ground Zero
(08:05):
for weird al Christmas songs.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I think ground Zero destroys say I went crazy on
every level, But I think more people know the Nights
and I went crazy And I can't say why other
than like I said, if you go on YouTube and
you go, uh 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 2 (08:28):
Yeah, okay, I'm not I'm not disagreeing, and I'm not
arguing any of this.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I'm just saying that, uh, well, is.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
It a family holiday?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Unless there's arguing, No, it's true. Okay, how about this.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
If you're making a Christmas playlist and you want to
slip a weird al song in there, I.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Would put on Christmas and ground zero because it's orders
of magnitude better than the other.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
See I would put I would put nights and went Crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
The night Stand went Crazy. Does not sound like.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
A Christmas You're going to notice it.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I mean, yeah, but if we have a playlist with
like the classics, right, you're Nat King Cole being bing Crosby,
you know all that, right, all the stuff okay you
can throw on that are ground zero in there, and
no one's gonna notice like you put you put went
(09:16):
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
like solosyum?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Oh, Santa?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Why why?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I asked the same questions as everyone else.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, okay, so that's fair. Now that we've gotten all
that out of the way, I think I'm gonna sneeze.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Maybe yep, unless you.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Appropriate for Christmas time and blessings.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
True, it was a Christmas blessing. It might happen again, yep,
I don't even know.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
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 3 (10:18):
Family friend Christmas? Family friendly? Christmas?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Am? I what is happening right now?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
What I think this is beard out going r rated?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Is ed you about to walk in? It's a little weird.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
It's a little weird.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I mean, we're still coming down from last week, so
be a flight to w takeover where we actually had
curse words on.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
The program program this program.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
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 The video
for this song is the first music video that Weird
Out directed himself, which I think is very very cool.
And the old, you know, footage that's in it is.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Kind of disturbing.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
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
kind of thing that you experience in the visual cavalcade
that is a a massive weird Al Yankovic shell. So
I'm like, okay, this makes all of the sense in
the world. The song itself, I think the way it
(11:33):
starts and the way that it ends is absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I think the bridge is the best thing in it
go on everywhere the range of but then it did.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh that that baritones.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
It's that's like an ex how this guy reached into
the annals of Christmas anals 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,
(12:10):
which is my number one complaint against Santawa crazy is
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 2 (12:27):
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 4 (12:40):
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 one set of Christmas classics, because
like for like a thousand years people have been seeing
have yourself a little Merry Little Christmas and you know,
sleigh ride and silver bells and all that stuff and this,
(13:03):
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
that we're at war and that they're all depressed and
(13:24):
you know, their brothers and sisters and sons are dying.
And so the record labels, of course, 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, and
then the idea was like, oh, okay, well we'll cheer
(13:45):
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.
And uh so people were just like, oh, well, I
guess we'll listen to all the Christmas records we bought
(14:07):
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
everybody else in the world's done. They would all just
(14:27):
do the same songs. Yeah, 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 all that money the first year. There's no green
(14:50):
in going, hey, I'm gonna write all these new Christmas songs.
So even like, for example, today we were making dinner,
we were listening to Kelly Kelly cl since 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 record has a built in safety
net of like, here's this song, but then here's all
(15:12):
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 it was launched on all I Want for Christmas
is you, But the safety net is there in case
(15:34):
that didn't become a hit. They could be like, ah,
but it's her doing silver 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 where we record, you
were talking about Michael Buble, same thing. He's got a
couple of like newer Christmas songs, but no one remembers them.
They remember what the record was anchored at. Well, just
(15:56):
have yourself merry little Christmas and you know, or as
Jimmy Fallon's impersonation of Michael Boobla jingle bells, jingle bells
over pronouncing all the words yeah but uh and thus
finishes me impersonating Jimmy Fallon impersonating Michael boo black.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Beautiful but yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
So I for me though, and this is probably putting
too much on the shoulders of Christmas Saint 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 it all made a
song that sounds like every Christmas classic you know of,
except he just made it about blowing each other up.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yep. I I at some point on this program, somewhere
in the nearly five years that the show has existed,
in the anals, in the Anals of beard Ou History,
I said that this song is walking in a nuclear
winter wonderland.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
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
(17:24):
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
ass like like I'm looking for like Ronnie Specter Darlene Love.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Like that's interesting, like if you.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Listen to and I know, the Jew thing, the Christmas
time for the Jews, Darlene Loves vocal on that is
produced perfectly. That's the only complaint I have at Christmas
to ground zero is weird aw sounds just like he's
singing living with Ernie or addicted to spots off the
(18:07):
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, wait is it.
(18:30):
The only reason why they do it is because the
vocal doesn't sound like a Christmas phone.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's okay, that's totally totally fair, totally fair. So now.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Christmas music subject matter wise, I find myself, you know,
hearing a lot of Christmas songs and eat say.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
You say to yourself self, because that's that's a lot
of people. That's what she goes by here. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah, the topic of a lot of your classic go
to Christmas songs not so holly jolly.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Once you really start thinking about them.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Okay, Well that goes back to.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
That 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.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Because the lyricist.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Was a 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 looking
out the window of his room at the sanatorium at
Central Park in Homesdale, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
That's how a lot of love songs are written, like
someone who is longing for something, Like that's a guy
literally sitting there.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Being like, man, I wish I could walk in the snow.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yeah, like and I would. I mean, it's a love
letter to the holidays.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Careless Whisper. We were just talking about George Michael wrote
that when he was sixteen.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Also it's pronounced carless whisper whisper bym 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.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, but like it's it's a very much one of
the best love songs ever written.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
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 celebrating Christmas. That's the thing that I never
understood until years later. Like when you know what the
origin of that song is, you're like, you're like, oh,
(21:00):
like like, 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. 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
(21:21):
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. And it's in
many ways, it's the same thing where a lot of
the most Christmas music is like the basic theme of
(21:42):
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 saying that, that's
what they mean, right Uh. And that one it's like
just this side of boy, I wish you would enjoy
(22:05):
this because I can't.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Right yep, yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
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.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It's slightly more on the nose.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, it's like, this terrible thing is occurring, let's try
and put a positive spin on something for what we
do have.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Yeah, I think of a little more cynical. I think
it's a very Uh, even if the world was ending,
commercialism would matter more Stone because yeah, I remember, yeah,
this came out way five four. Yeah. I don't know
why I always think of both parties slightly earlier than
(22:56):
it was anyways. Yeah, well, I mean the if there's
what's the thing, the lyrics going to escape me and
I'm not gonna get it right there, We'll go and
see the new mutations.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
On Oh yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Like people still being like, well, we'll all go do
this big thing like you know, like because that's when
when I'm 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 know
(23:34):
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 bowls up, no one will care
about everyone else. They'll just be like, oh neat, We're
all going to go do this other thing together. I'm
(23:55):
going to be the first to see the new mutations.
You know. That's that's how I take it.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, and that's totally fair. What do you think, Zach
So what you' did? Bad hair Day come out nineteen
ninety six, so these.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Are almost these are exactly ten years correct.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
So weird al said, let me circle back to Christmas
ten years later.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I feel like that's why they take a different tone
as well, because it's a different time period than both
of these songs are being released in. I feel like
that The Night Santa Went Crazy has a little bit
more of a upbeat message ish. I mean, it's still
a pretty it's still a.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
You aren't gonna have a hard time just paying next.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
So I feel like it's it's a less about like
screw 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
(24:56):
more just of a fun song than a statement song
like Christmas at ground Zero.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I think what I think, I know what you're trying saying,
and I agree to 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 3 (25:25):
Yes, I feel like that was more. 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 1 (25:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Fun fact, when the Knight Santa Went Crazy came out,
I was mildly offended by it for at least like
a year or two and not like, oh, yeah, Santa
is a show. No, he got the German luguer like
I'm not an idiot, Like I'm not like easily offended.
H I grew up near Royal Looke, Michigan, and the
Royal Loock post office is where the term going postal
(26:06):
comes from. Like that was literally the thing where the
guy like walked into the post office post office worker,
uh 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.
(26:27):
And yes, a lot more worse things have happened since then,
that's all of our fault. But at the time that
was still a very fresh thing. And uh so the
idea of someone losing it and even if it's ana
and yes, I understand humor. At first, I was just like,
(26:48):
this isn't that funny? And then there's and then to
cap it off was that they all got jobs at
the 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
(27:08):
get that, you know. In the time since I've become
a big fan of a comedian named Anthony Jesselneck who
has a 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
(27:31):
has nothing to do with my thoughts on I still
all the way across the board, I think zero is
a way better. 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 you know, proximity. You know, people across
(27:54):
the rest of the US didn't have the same way. Yeah, Like,
unless you live near the mcdonnal 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,
(28:17):
I know, yeah, but I didn't know any better time.
So anyways, I think that I think the biggest defense
the night Santa went Crazy commits it is 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
(28:38):
and things going awry. It's not It's just not a
Christmas song to me. I think just because it has
Santa and the title doesn't make it a Christmas song.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
That's fair. And you know what, we can revisit this
on the flip side of these as.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Oh dear God ads you say, boy, yeah, I sure
hope the things that I google regularly when I post
on social media about the opposite don't come back to
haunt me in these ads. In just a couple of seconds,
are you calling me dumb?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Now?
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Come on, we'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Hey, I'm pants and Saren This is Stevie and I'm
Aggie and we are b F Y t W a
podcast all about playing games and having fun. Our games
are usually based on British panel shows and game shows,
but we'll play anything that captures our attention and imagination.
Why it's right there in the title.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You'll never guess what the F stands for.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Man the cat, get back in that cat, I'm attempting.
Have you ever heard Zach and I realize I'm using
showtime for this? Have you ever seen the thing the
reason why we do that? And we're back, We're done.
There's a whole 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,
(29:57):
but 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 Drew and Mike. Anyways, Yeah,
(30:18):
and uh, there's a brilliant SML sketch. We'll get there.
Uh that is sends up all of that at once,
and you'll see is the and we're back in the
otherwise and you'll get it when you see the sketches
the man that can get back in that.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
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 4 (30:40):
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 1 (30:45):
I love it well as if because no.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I know, ye know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
They went, I took him on a wild ride it
I think you think that's going to make a noise,
and it's not.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Going to don't know, I'm trying to pull a cork
out of a beer bottle.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Oh it did make a noise. Sean Michael's treatment there on.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
A bourbon barrel aged man elf once again from.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Drugs um 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
trunks down here?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Because I have the world's best dad in you, the
world's best.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Father, and.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
He had delivered them.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
He takes his extra time and wraps them up gently
I assume, lovingly for sure, and sends them to us
every year.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
What a great guy, best grampa in the world.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Pretty you got staring right, Sorry about my language the vault.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Nobody knows what that means.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
But uh so where yet we're moving squarely into the night.
Sente went crazy.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yeah, sure, because you were.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Oh you guys, take it because I have nothing but
bad things to say.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Well, no, you're talking about don't say anything at all.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
I don't. I don't dislike it at all.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Sounds a hell of a lot like you did.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
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 weird? I'll have a
Christmas song. The very first thing I would say is, yeah,
Christmas is ground zero, And.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Yes, I get I get what you're coming from.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
There.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I get where you're coming from because it sounds like
a Christmas song.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Which is a good thing to have when you're looking
for Christmas, when you look for Christmas song. Yes, wow,
that Beatles song sure does sound like a Beatles song.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah right, sure does. I'm just trying to I'm comparing
the labels.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Let her mumble, what were you saying?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
No, she's fine, But I think that the I think
that I'm always gonna look look at the Santama 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 picked
(33:13):
the Knights Handwa Crazy every time.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
It's nuts. But also 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,
like I love that song. That's a great song. I
have nothing against it. I just if we're going to
discuss these two songs though, and I would I want
someone to come at me and tell me, how do
(33:37):
you think the Knight's Anima Crazy sounds like Christal? You
know it doesn't sound like a Christmas song.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, it's gotta I think it is Christmas themes.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Yes, it sure 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, you get away with one
and not the other.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
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 rops on Roses and whiskers.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
That is not a Christmas song Christmas song, but people
cover it, People cover.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
It on Christmas album look like it doesn't even sound Christmas.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
A few of my face is getting all up at
you about things that don't sound like Christmas songs. It
would it would appear that the shoe is on the
other arm. You want to know, you don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
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 4 (34:45):
It's because you watch every year.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
That song is a Christmas song. Yea, so it sounds
I feel like it has the Christmas song because I
watch I understand.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
But okay, so you mentioned this, so I'm going to
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 U
boot Blay Boo Blz covers you know everything that was
(35:19):
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 Clarkson probably doesn't even know Christmas
at ground Zero exists. It'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
(35:42):
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. Okay, 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 next Christmas album. Y'all right? I
(36:04):
wish someone would. I think it's gross that more people
don't know Christmas grounds.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
God, I'd love to hear Michael Goole do it anyone, Well,
it's Christmas ad ground Zero.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I will say about the it not being a people's bubble,
so a lot of people, Hey, Bubbly and ham and Bubbly,
But I feel so there's one of my friends who
I'm going to the Weird Al show with you guys.
I've been introducing him to more Weird Al and it's
(36:35):
like almost every other song will like he'll hit immediately,
like what's the name of the song A man in
my playlist 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
laschy onto it, which is what I feel like, is
(36:56):
what you're saying that people will do. And that's like
the majority would say the majority, but the majority of
people I know in my in my.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
General Yeah, I mean we're we're we're fighting the same
battle on this one.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yeah, and we're apportate.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
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 loved well.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
When you were saying you live in your own space,
I was going to say, three years ago, would you
have agreed with me if I said that anyone is
making good pop music of the younger generation. No, how
do you feel about that today?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
You come at me about Sabrina Carmen right their own space?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Yeah for sure. And so I still I still.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Very much part of my my personal bubble is like,
like you have to know and appreciate weird out, Like, like,
who are you if you don't like that's not right?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
You know, right?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
But what I'm I 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. This is
not part of their lived experience, and I appreciate that
You're like saying like, no, hey, this is a cool thing,
(38:12):
and that's a good litmus test for those that accept
it and those that don't.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
And well, I well, I say this is the this
is the best part that I say, at least in
my brain to make it make sense with weird 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 4 (38:34):
Yeah, if you just look, well, now we're just a
flat out defending word.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Ow.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Well, hey, you know we're in a safe thing to
do that if you, if you Okay, I recently played
one of my favorite weirdel parodies for someone who, uh.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
It knows next to nothing about wordell 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
(39:16):
he wrote all this stuff and he's doing all the harmony,
so like, whatever you think of ursure, like him and
his band redid that and made it like brilliantly funny. Okay,
now apply that to Paradise and teen Spirit and white
and nerdy and all this other stuff that you know of,
(39:38):
and then know that there's like ten times that out there.
And this dude was like, in our backseat, it's the
whole thing. We were 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
(39:59):
are like, yeah, it was just he's just making fun
of stuff. It's dumb, that's stupid.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Yes, that's exactly my point. People who accept it, like
once save what accept that.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
You don't even have to like weird Ol, like you
don't 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? 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 3 (40:28):
Yeah, because weird Else is insanely smart and there's like
he like, oh he's like you like if you listen
to a weird House song, Oh I could have done that.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
No you couldn't, right, No you could. So to bring
it back to what the episode is the topic of
the episode, let me ask you this, which is your
all time favorite Weirdol Christmas song? And why is it
Christmas at ground zero? Well it's not. Remember how were
you just talking about ignorant and stupid?
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Done? Well done, well done.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
So Zach, I will say that the night Santament Crazy
I heard before I heard Christmas a ground zero because
Bad Hair Day was my first Weird Al album, so
I absolutely knew and heard Christmas The Night Santa Went
Crazy and all of that stuff. And the first time
I saw weird Al in concert, he performed The Night
(41:29):
Santa Went Crazy and he ended up there was snow,
but it was bubbles and he did the extra gory version.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
And I very much remember sitting there in.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
The front row and Hershey Park in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which
happens to be where troges 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,
(41:58):
it wasn't you know Santa is doing time and Santa
Claus is dead and have you not heard the extra
gry version of Oh well, we're going to have to
take care of that.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
Also, our reaction video that.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Is coming out till tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
Wait, this episode of recording.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Right now is coming out on Friday.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
Okay, so yes tomorrow morning. Yeah turned into it. 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 going
and then you'll see the moment that we're like, oh,
it's the Extra Glory version.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Yes, 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 (42:43):
You know, I remember when you got that box set.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
I had to order it like seven months in advance.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
I still think it's one of the coolest like packaging
for a box set.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Ever, it won the Grammy for Packages.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
Zach. So we're here trying to do like an episodes.
It's like, hell, so we're gonna talk about.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Sweets box Well, I will tell you this much.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Well, I'm only here so often this episode. I'm not
doing coke?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
What one in the fridge for you do? Go get
a coke?
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Okay, I'm gonna do coke on it's got it.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Yeah, No, we're well, it's on the top shelf of
the fridge.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Top to.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
What were you saying?
Speaker 1 (43:25):
I don't even know. Oh boy, I lost my train
of thought.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
People listening to this are like you were talking about this.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
Like they're like they're going to what Lauren, what were
you talking about I don't know the extra the differences
between the regular version and the version.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4 (43:42):
Don't go into great detail because I want him to
be surprised. I strongly prefer the original.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
Though, Yeah why I First of all, I don't think
I don't think the verses.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
Are well, super well written, okay on the extra version.
And also it just is a thing to be a thing.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
You feel like it's just done for shure.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
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 1 (44:09):
That's fair, That's totally fair. Correct that coke can't open?
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Hey coke, Santa Coke, Santa Coke, top shelf, Coke, top shelf,
Santa Coke.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Oh ho ho a somebody I know? I really am?
Speaker 4 (44:26):
Can I ask? This? Isn't it time for a third
Weird now Christmas Son.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
So on the next episode of this podcast.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
We'd else going to debut it. Holy everyone you know
should hit subscribe and share right now, share with.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
A h yeah, share right nobody hits share.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
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 4 (45:01):
And Bob who Bob from our friendship, Bob.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
From our being friends with us and now Bob's one
of the biggest weird Al fans.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
I know. Bob takes weird Al very seriously serious and
I love it.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
So we're actually going to have them here to the
house to record the next episode of this show.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
And it is about the five four three two.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
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
New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
So it's a holiday song.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
It's a holiday song, but it is not a Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Oh, we'll take it.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
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 1 (46:09):
He can do so many things.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
I think that the most I think I think it
was the most recent Poka he released. It really showed
how long it's been since he was Yeah, how long
it's been, Because like I was listening to it with
one of my friends and he was like, holy crap,
that song came out like a long time ago. One
(46:31):
of the songs I came remember which one of them?
Which one of them it was? But he's like, holy crap,
forever wearing.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
A decade of music in one polka.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
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. Yeah, and I
and he was like, oh my god. That really puts
into perspective.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Well, because the latest Poka Pokemania ends with shake It
Off by Taylor Swift, which is from her nineteen eighty nine.
That's and that's the oldest She's.
Speaker 4 (47:01):
Put four records since then. Two of them were good
at least no four really yeah, and two of them
are good.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Okay, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
Going to talk about Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
No, we don't have to. I'm just saying that the
polka ends.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
With well, sure help you in the algorithm if you
say your name a lot.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
So Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Oh no, she just showed up, is that what? No?
Speaker 4 (47:30):
No, 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? What do I say? Every
single time she shows she's forced on me on her
on my phone.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
Please stop feeding me information about this mildly talented white woman.
Speaker 4 (47:49):
That's what I say every single time.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
And it's fair.
Speaker 4 (47:52):
I don't dislike her, No, but she's just not that great,
so weird al should be as or more popular than
she is.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
You're the only person I know. 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. Yep, 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 4 (48:16):
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 stick 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
(48:39):
can't 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 gotta get her out of my face all
the time.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
Oh no, no, trust trust I get it.
Speaker 2 (48:53):
And I feel like, you know, has she hasn't done
any Christmas music?
Speaker 4 (48:59):
Has she hope hopefully not Lord in a world where Target,
in a world where Kelly regularly sings Christmas, I sure
don't want to.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
I'm just saying like she's one of the few people
that's been around for as long as she has.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
Oh yeah, don't worry. It's because you just summoned it.
She heard the idea.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
She's like, oh, oh my god, I'm really sorry.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
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
ka Eat It on the show.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
Which came out before Beat It in four k which
is gross.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
The estate is well, you know, look at see So
what we have done here is exactly what we set
out to do here. This is rooted in a discussion
about weird house Christmas music, but.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
It was ultimately just.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
Like you're hanging out with us talking about about music
at Christmas.
Speaker 3 (50:02):
You were part of the Robinson family get together.
Speaker 1 (50:04):
Huzza, husa, husa.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
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 ho hos.
I've said too many times, but no, seriously, I get that.
(50:29):
You know, 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 gonna
continue bringing you some wonderful, magical things as we get
into twenty twenty five. For the new year, we're gonna
(50:49):
finish up our dare to be Stupid deep Dive. I've
got some pretty fun guests lined up for that. Lily
Hirsh is gonna be back. Uh, Jeff will be with us,
and he will probably talk some about his weird al
burlesque documentary.
Speaker 4 (51:05):
What a name.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
I know, he's the He's the man, He's the man.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
And yeah, we got some some fun things happening on
the b side of there to be stupid.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
And then who knows, who knows where we go from here?
We're just gonna whatre move into.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Poke party knows I know, Yeah, we're gonna get into
pokea party. So we're going to talk about Christmas a
ground zero again.
Speaker 4 (51:31):
Probably if we play your cards right, it could be
Christmas Christmas.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
Time, or it could be Christmas in July, or could
be around Christmas time, depending on how things go.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
But anyway, do either.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
Of you, gentlemen, have anything that you'd like to add
here at the end for the people listening at the holidays?
Speaker 1 (51:45):
No?
Speaker 4 (51:45):
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 moeries as a person who grew up without Christmas
in his home A ton of what I see in
these Christmas movies is like entitlement and you owe me
(52:08):
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, other
(52:31):
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, Miffy 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 me grace
(52:54):
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 get love
(53:16):
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 and if you do have in your circle only
people like that, then come be part of our circle.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
Yeah, we've got a very open circle.
Speaker 4 (53:38):
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 2 (53:48):
I love your perspective on Christmas, by the way, and
thank you for saying that, especially, you know, because.
Speaker 1 (53:54):
For you, we're making Christmas what we want to make
of it.
Speaker 4 (53:57):
Right, we do this crazy thing where we like love people.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
Yep, just where they are.
Speaker 4 (54:03):
We've not said to anybody William that you always 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 it will still be Christmas, you know. Yeah, So
I just you know, if you are in a position
to where you feel like you are not having receiving
(54:27):
the love that you think that you 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 different perspective
other than what they've been told to tell others to expect.
Speaker 1 (54:47):
I love it. Yeah, shouldn't be stressful. Christmas wouldn't be stressful.
Speaker 4 (54:54):
As a people shouldn't be That's part of the thing.
In the night sound crazy, It's like the finally this
dude was like, all right, knock it off. The whole world.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
You're expecting too much of me.
Speaker 4 (55:07):
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.
Speaker 3 (55:16):
Christmas with the craiksh my god.
Speaker 4 (55:18):
We just watch that's the one that that's one.
Speaker 3 (55:20):
That that's where I grew up with that I I
didn't grow up with. I did grow up with my
whole ement. I watched a we got like a movie
review of it, and then I went and watched Us like,
you can't be that bad, and I watch everybody.
Speaker 4 (55:30):
What the hell everybody in that movie? That's not Tim
Allen and uh Jamie Lee Curtis also you enjoy their lives.
Speaker 3 (55:38):
Yeah, how do you get a movie with that much
star power and then do nothing with it? Like that
movie was.
Speaker 4 (55:43):
That's what Christmas has become. That's the thing they made
that movie for the times people are like, yeah, everyone, anyways,
you should cut us off or else people are gonna
be like, wow, Christmas if you take nothing from this
and kind to people and actually be nice and kind
that's my message, be nice.
Speaker 1 (56:03):
And kind of people, Actually be nice and kind. And
watch Hot Frosty.
Speaker 4 (56:07):
Yes, yeah, yeah, please watch, and a bunch of.
Speaker 3 (56:11):
Three ho ho hosts.
Speaker 2 (56:13):
Host all right, Merry Christmas from the beard Out Podcast.
Speaker 4 (56:18):
And and in the words of Smoky Robinson, happy chinaka yeah.
Speaker 3 (56:28):
Merry Christmas from the Robinson's and the beard Podcast.
Speaker 4 (56:31):
And Smokey Robins and Smoky Robins one of us. Have
you never seen a picture it looks just like that's yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 1 (56:41):
Okay, Bye La
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