December 5, 2025 • 58 mins
We’re unwrapping a classic Beer’d Al gem for the Beer’d Al Anthology series! This festive favorite originally dropped a couple years ago, and we’re thrilled to bring it back just in time for the holidays. (Don’t fret—we’ll be back with brand-new episodes once we roll into the new year!)
Andy “Brak and other things” Merrill returns to help us spread some serious holiday cheer. Expect laughs, songs, seasonal ramblings, and maybe even a little magic. Lauren’s here with Russ, and our buddy Stevie “Midnight Smoke” pops in for a moment that’s nothing short of legendary.
If you love joy, you’ll love this episode. If you hate joy… well, you might be a monster. IT’S CHRIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAAS!!! 🎄✨
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Andy “Brak and other things” Merrill returns to help us spread some serious holiday cheer. Expect laughs, songs, seasonal ramblings, and maybe even a little magic. Lauren’s here with Russ, and our buddy Stevie “Midnight Smoke” pops in for a moment that’s nothing short of legendary.
If you love joy, you’ll love this episode. If you hate joy… well, you might be a monster. IT’S CHRIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAAS!!! 🎄✨
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beer-d-al-podcast--5439475/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Welcome to yet another episode from the beard All anthology.
This time about two years ago. We had our good
friend Andy Merrill, who you may better know as Brack
and to enjoy us, you know, and to enjoy some
holiday frivolity with us for an extended period of time.
(00:55):
There's no rhyme or reason to any of this. And
actually during this episode, our friends Midnight Smoke from the
bfy tw podcast also popped in to join in on
the fun. So if you want some holiday goofiness with
a voice from your childhood and two voices that you
know from your adulthood, that'll be me and Russ, then
(01:15):
you know you're gonna want to enjoy this. So pop
yourself some megnog or whatever it is that you happen
to be enjoying to drink during the holiday season, and yeah,
let's get down with some Brack holiday goodness.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Ha ha. That's the night Sand went crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Uh huh, that is delightful.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I downloaded weird off of uh Apple TV, thinking that
maybe eventually they'll put the extras on the digital copy.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh, maybe they will.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I pre ordered the It's Bare Bones Tonight is eggnogued with.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh that's a good whiskey.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
That's the moment you smoked maple.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
That's delightful. I have the beer right, always have it Christmas.
It's a matt elf from Trogues.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
It's their holiday ale brood with cherries and honey. And
it's just it's a beer. But it's eleven percent, so
that's good for a beer. It is a good, strong beer.
This is this beer is what Christmas tastes like to me.
I put the the link to this out to you know,
some folks on our podcast network and some other podcasters
(03:28):
and folks like that that I know. So people may
pop in if you know, as their their time allows
and things like that. But I figured, also we'll just
have a good fun Christmas time talking about Christmas songs
and doing stuff. There's puppets.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I just made a cameo for somebody and I took
saying it's clothes off and I put them on. Brack.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Who wait, there we go, Marry christ everybody. Oh that's allow.
Santa looks like this.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Santa looks like crazy naked old man. Crazy naked old man.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Old naked guy. And I'm crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Now'll give you some can hey, merry Christmas everybody.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
It's like what the old year looks like when New
Year's comes around. New Year, Yeah, the old year.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I'm twenty twenty three, everybody, and it's over.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh that's great, toasted four already. Yeah, I know. So,
I mean, I'm kind of I'm just recording on my
end over here. So everything is fine, We've got all
of it. And uh, this is gonna be like the
most casual of episodes that I think has or existed
of any podcast. Casual. It will be very casual. I
(05:04):
came up with a great idea today and I put
it on Twitter, and I don't know how to make
this kind of thing happen, but I feel like I
absolutely need to. I saw people like the you know,
the Advent calendars that they do for all sorts of things,
you know, Like I saw somebody have like a whiskey
Advent calendar, and then there's obviously there's like candies and
wines and stuff, and so I'm like, if there was
a weird al Advent calendar, a weird Aldvent calendar, like
(05:28):
what would be in it? And I just don't know,
but what I'm by one of my buddies of the
show and listener. He was like, do you want me
to see if any of my designer friends can like
draw something like that for you. I'm like, yeah, that
would be super cool to at least get an idea down.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
But also on his mailing list.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I don't know. I don't think so, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I mean I might be. Did you get get this? No? Not?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
No, I have not. That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Every year he sends a Christmas card that's like his family. Yeah,
was the best though, because it was he wasn't in
the picture. It was just his wife and his daughter
and a Christmas scene with Daniel Radcliffe. Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I saw people post about that online, and I think
that's absolutely that's absolutely wonderful. I know I am because
I had Eric Appel on the show and we got
talking about you know, weird Al's Christmas cards, and he
was also talking about how like Paul Rubens was like
so great for sending people like texts and like messages
and stuff on their birthday and how it's just kind
(06:43):
of like that's the kind of person that remembers all
of these kind sort of sort of things. And so
I mentioned that on that episode and then my buddy, uh,
Jeff who's the guy who sorts weird Al's fan mail
emailed me like the other day and was like, what's
your address? No reason, and I'm like, hmm, okay, so
(07:04):
I don't know. There we go, Okay, I hear you, Smoke, yay, yay.
I'm sorry it was so weird.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You know that yourself audio go away? You know it
was I'm gonna do what I did the last last
(07:37):
podcast I did, and just do Christmas Mary, Okay, christ
Christmas Classics.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I think that's a delightful way to do it.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I thought, shout time now, Marry, did you know.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Boy one day walk on Water Mary?
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Did you know your baby boy Bunny baby Boy Jay Daughter?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Did you know the baaby boy come to my want
you to live?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You know?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
This is great. So while we're that was beautiful, it
really was so Now the people are some people are
popping in. I've got no midnight Smoke Stevie from our
fellow friends over at the b F Y t W podcast,
who we always have a delightful time with. And I
was like, actually, Smoke is the one who uh andy
(08:53):
edited the episode that you were on last time. Because
I was just like, I yeah, so Smoke got to
hear it before anybody else did, and h spoiler alert,
you're probably gonna be eniting this one too.
Speaker 8 (09:05):
Oh sweet? Thank yeah. No, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
It was nice because I was already a fan, like
I love Space Ghost Coast A Coast like I was.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
I was that generation when that stuff came.
Speaker 9 (09:15):
Out, So I got to listen to the episode like
three or four times before anybody else did.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
It was kind of great.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, so you're like, he was like my litmus test
for how my audience is going to to react out
all that.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
He took out all the sea words in that box. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
I try to keep it professional, you know. I kept that.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
I kept the Beans song and all that fun stuff,
and that's true.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, but the only sea words I will put up
with today heard like.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Christmas heard the British trio of Women. They sing a
song called yeah you love that.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Oh. I just actually just sent that to Russ and
some of his friends the other day, like its Christmas
trying not to be a you know, bump cake.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, And like I love when stuff like that, like
that kind of humor comes from unsuspecting packages.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And you have to do it in a British accent,
of course.
Speaker 10 (10:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Why are some words not offensive with the British accent?
But they are offensive.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Because it's a more common word.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And I guess here, I guess I don't know more. Yeah,
that's true. They're a little more flippant with it over there,
which is fine.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
So as long as you have an insulting accent with it,
you're good to go.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Here in America, it's more of a Karen word.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yes, you know what smoke. Since you're here, I'm asking
you a question because we're talking about Christmas music. Do
you have a favorite Christmas song? And if so, what
is it?
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (10:54):
Man, I can tell you it's not that stupid Christmas
shoes song.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Christmas we will mess you up.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
I've heard, well, I've been listening to our on our
show and they played that song like you want to
hear something depress and they play that, and then like
the next four episodes were other songs that were made
Christmas songs that were worse than that song.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
It's messed up.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
So all I've been hearing lately is really sad, depressing
Christmas songs.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Yeah, but I have to say dominic me too.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
That's up there for me.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Man.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
It was my dad's favorite. My my grandfather is from.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
Sicily and stuff, so my dad loves that song, so
I like love to growing up.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I was in the car the other day Christmas time.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I stood in and another line trying to buy the
last chifter, not really in the Christmas move, and then
right in front of me little boy way anxiously pacing
around like little boy do and his hands the hell
(12:06):
guess what.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Parrish and his clothes world more day from her to toe.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
When it came his time to pay, I couldn't believe
what I hurt.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Sir, I want to body shoes my mama's.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Christmas.
Speaker 10 (12:40):
You're just.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Sir that, he says.
Speaker 10 (12:49):
There's not time.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
You say, sheep been taken.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Loaded shoes will pay water to look dudeful.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
His mom.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
You know what, Andy, you you made a song I
completely despise, actually kind of lovable, so you know what,
I appreciate it and thank you for the Christmas gift.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
They counted pennies for what seemed like that my enp here.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Then he turned in and looked at me. That mama
made Christmas cook at our house.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
That most cute. She just did without from me.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Sah, I got in dud somehow, I've gotta buyer the
Christmas shoes.
Speaker 11 (14:02):
I just have to help him out. I never forget
the look on his face when he said, bottom soul.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
That's great, Oh my god, with a bad romance. But
I can't find the key.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Oh that's fun, Oh my god. See see smoke.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Now that songs were like live performances, tonight this is
have a favorite song though, just because I listened to
a lot I have, like, I have a lot of
novelty stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I love a good like novelty Christmas song, right I did.
We went to karaoke last week and I did I
want a hippopotamus for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
My favorite thing just happened to karaoke, and at least
six months happened. So you're off, you're all familiar with
the song and the vocal on it. So and and
you know when you go to karaoke and stuff, and
you see if if somebody gets up and they start
like belting out Whitney Houston or something, and people go, oh, damn,
you know or whatever. Right, So Lauren gets up and
(15:21):
she starts singing the song, and she sounds exactly like
the original vulcle.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
The woman next to me, completely uniernically gets this look
of sheer awe on her face, grabs my arm and
she goes, is your wife classically trained? And I literally
I like pointed it Lauren and pointed. The woman pointed Laurens,
and I was like, because of this song, like you know,
(15:49):
like Lauren can sing, you know, she's I didn't know
if maybe she heard her singing like other stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
You know, that's the classic I want to hippopotamus.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, obviously at Julliard, that's I would imagine that's involved.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Right, Gala pevi. It should be everybody's top vocalist.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
It's the bar, that's where it starts.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, got a barking dog now uh?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Now Small has to pick a new uh least favorite
Christmas song because his least favorite s now been turned
into a favorite.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Oh man, you've got a custom verse, you know?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Hey, you know what, I'll volunteer, mind, do you know
what my least favorite Christmas song is? I will get
violent over the song.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I actually do. Oh I do wonderful Christmas time?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
It is. It hurts my soul.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
It's a lot for Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I usually don't take sides in songwriter battles, but I
am on John's side about that one. That's a terrible song.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I like it. I like it.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Everyone likes it. Literally everybody likes that song with me.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I have to remove it from my Christmas playlist.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And John sorry, and John, I don't. Oh, you know
what I hate. There's only like three couples that that
can do it, maybe four, But I hate baby It's
Cold outside. Mm hmm hmm.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That's fair.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
There's there's maybe four versions that are good. There's a
Louis Jordans and uh Ella Fitzgerald. That one's good. There's
one with Pearl Bailey. The best one is with Pearl Bailey. Okay,
she's she improvs through the entire song. It's as maybe
(17:46):
Sam Sammy Davis Junior and I can't remember her name. Uh.
And then there's a Louis Armstrong one that's pretty good.
Other than that, stop it, nobody else that's true.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And I think you know and that they're trying to
make that song like it's a product of its time,
and like if you actually really dig into the lyrics,
like it's a very empowering song for the woman right,
but then you get like modern interpretations of it, like
I know, yeah, I know you love your girl Kelly Clarkson,
but she did it with John Legend where he woke
(18:25):
afies like the man part, like you know you have agency,
but I'm John Lennon and Legend blah blah, and it's like, oh.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
No, Amy Grant and Gloria Estefan had no business moving
Christmas albums. They suck. Nobody asked for a Christmas album
by Train. I don't know who else.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Everyone doesn't. Everybody at some point puts out a Christmas record.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I think it's like a legal obligation.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It's money.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Oh yeah, and if you put money too.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I enjoyed, uh. I enjoyed Seas Christmas album for some reason.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Oh interesting. I heard like a song or two off
of it. I will tell you this much, though, I
am very much stuck in the like the glam seventies
Christmas songs like I could listen to Slade Merry Christmas
and Wizard. I wish it could be Christmas every day,
back and forth at nauseum as my only Christmas music,
and like I'd be fine with it.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
You don't like the I never liked the Carpenters.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Oh really.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Green and Carriacs a man just like change the channel.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
My mom feels that way about, like that style of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Song way about most things to do.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Is aggressive with a lot of that stuff. Yes, I agree,
but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
I get music before I go to sleep.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
Yeah, I just like.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
The chord transition some of the.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, I mean, she's a very talented songwriter. I'll check
out her stuff. I mean Kelly clark Is Clarkson's actual
Christmas the first one would we like? That's good? But no,
I I kind of dove deep into like weird Christmas
songs this time around. And you know Brenda, who we
(21:00):
all know for rocking around the Christmas Tree, she has
some other Christmas music. And I found the song uh,
I'm gonna last Oh Santa Claus. And I think that's
kind of kind of great because it's basically pulling the
(21:20):
She's like going on Robin Hood on Santa Claus. It's like,
why do some kids get more presents than others? Like,
what's the deal with that? I'm gonna lasso Santa Claus.
And this is because I'm like, oh, okay, you get it,
you get it.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I can never find the one that I really like
right it goes Uh. I think it was in the
Christmas Story. It's just this singing cowboy just going hurry hurry.
Oh here the Mary slide jingling jing jingling, jingling, saying
is on his Way? Yeah, just because I think when
(21:58):
I was a kid, any song that mentioned Sannah on
his Way, I think just got me so excited and
hyped up for Christmas time that I couldn't stand it.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah. Yeah, well I think that's you know.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
The anticipation is the whole thing, especially as a child,
and then just it's a build up before actually that
morning and everything. So yeah, even that dopamine kick right
before it happens.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
I get the.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Real hard to do that.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I believed in Santa Claus so much as a kid,
and I grew up in a Christian home where I
would pray out loud every night before going to bed.
It would always I would always end my prayer with
UH and blessed Frosty and Santa. Yes, like not at
(22:55):
Christmas time, That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
When I was in college, I took a class called
Rhetorical Analysis and Nonfiction Prose Writing and I mostly took
it because it was abbreviated on the schedule as rhet anal.
But I digress with that. I took the class and
it was about, you know, just like report writing and
things like that. And our first big assignment in this
class was to write a paper proving the existence of something. Right,
(23:24):
so all my peers are like proving the existence of
you know, misogyny, or like racial bias, or like this,
that and the other, like these intangibles. I wrote a
seven page paper proving the existence of Santa Claus as
a social construct. And I was the only student in
my class to get an A because I just didn't.
I I took it very seriously, but I literally proved
(23:45):
that Santa Claus existed. And that was probably my finest
achievement in my collegiate career. Y, you know, and I.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Never understand parents who get their kids to a certain
age and tell them that is over. And my brother
did that. I think my sister's crappy ex husband did
that at an early age with his kids. I never thought.
(24:15):
I always wanted I always wanted my child to just believe,
you know, and and never once do we say he's
not real, because and it's fun when your child gets
to the age where it's a mystery of whether they believe.
(24:36):
Even with that mystery, you just keep it going and
you keep leaving the cookies out and making them go
to bed, and even when they're like fifteen years old,
you're you know, still behind the presence and putting them
under the tree and Christmas Eve and stuff like that.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
Yeah, that's the Christmas magic right there.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yep. My parents never told me. I think when I
was twelve ish I figured it out. But I also
didn't like call them out on their you know, Santa
propaganda or anything like that, you know, but I was
also scared to lie. Okay, so I came up with
something again, I'm twelve. My mom asked me, do you
(25:24):
believe in Santa Claus. I was like, I believe in
the Christmas Spirit. That was my answer.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It is I think when I was twelve, though, I
think I would have still said yes.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I probably I should have. It would have been easier.
But I was also like this, I can ride this out, though, like,
because the Christmas Spirit is the thing.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I can't say for sure the exact moment where I
stopped believing, you know, uh yeah, I don't. I don't remember.
I think this is this is crap. My world is over.
I've never I've never thought that. I don't know. I
(26:10):
think I know basically, like with you, I believe. I
always believed, at least in the Christmas spirit. And yeah,
Christmas was always a my favorite time of year.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, I am Christmas has exploded all over our house.
Speaker 9 (26:30):
Oh, I don't know what you guys are all talking about.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Man, I saw Santa like no joke, like a couple
of days ago. I know the dudes there, like he
gave me.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
It's like, if I try hard enough, I could do
the cheese and chunks sketch with with the smoke right now.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
You like when I speak Spanish, I'm waiting.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
For a smoke to be like I'm him. Man, he
didn't know any tunes.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
I just I haven't watched some season song.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I was just watching an episode of Family Ties the
other day where Alex was well into his twenties. I
still believed in Santa, and like Jennifer was like said
something about uh, Santa not being real, and Alex, Alex
very genuinely was like what are you talking about? Like
you know, like he very much believed in Santa still,
which I thought was cute that they did that such
(27:23):
a such an analytical character.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah yeah, very good job with that stuff.
Speaker 8 (27:28):
Fact. Then, man, I had to do this to you all,
but I need to head out.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah it's okay.
Speaker 9 (27:34):
I wanted to thank you guys very much for having
me come in and like say hi and seeing everybody
and listening to some amazing Chris's music. I hope everybody
has a wonderful evening. Be safe this holiday season. We
need more people around, right, so watch love everybody.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Bye smoke, but it is and poof, he's out in
a cloud of smoke.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And I was saying, I was saying to you a
couple of weeks ago, I miss when Sirius XM merged,
they got rid of all of like the really cool
like XM channels because I started listening to satellite radio
and I listened to XM, and they had like the
(28:21):
best channel, at least for me. It was called Special
X and it was nothing but weird al and novelty
music present in past. And at Christmas time they had
Special X mess where it was like nothing but novelty
Christmas Music's right, and it was just like chalk full
(28:44):
of stuff that I had never heard before, and I thought,
how would it be possible to bring something like that back? Well,
I wonder if even like we brought in the power
of Doctor Demento or something like that. I don't know,
(29:05):
try and put it in view. Because he he has
like faithful subscribers that that listened to his show every week,
because he still does his show out of the shed
in the back of his house every week.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
It's just such a beautiful mental.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Picture and and so, uh, you know, you know, I
don't know. Well, so it just nice to both give
him a venue again and to bring something like that
back for us weirdo.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I was thinking about it. And you know, because Russ
has done a couple like DJ sets, there's an app
called uh station head right where you can basically be
your own DJ, you know, and you set up account.
You got to get people fall to follow you and
like send the link around and stuff. Right, it's not
like a radio station that people can just fly to
(30:00):
most in most cases, right, yeah, it's an outing saw.
But anyhow, where I at some point this holiday season,
so by the time people are hearing this, maybe I've
already done it or I will still yet to be
doing it, but I'm gonna do like a couple hours
of like a little tiny radio set on this app
of me with just like my random crazy like novelty
(30:21):
Christmas music, And so that could be something to play
around with to at least like, you know, see if
there's an audience for it, get a get a format
down and stuff. Because I also have just my.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Link because I've got just like a poop ton of
the weirdest music ever, and it'd be fun to get
somebody like Dana Snyder in on it. Also because he
also is a purveyor of weird music. He does a
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thing at conventions every once in a while, I don't
where he'll just like sit in front of the group
in a panel and just play the weirdest stuff on
his iPad that he's found.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
He and I were together at one one of the
cons and we had kind of a crappy song off
who had the crappiest song on their phone. So yeah,
that's funny to do.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm literally sending you this link right
now so that I because I will forget to do
it if I don't send it to you at this
moment in time, because yeah, I mean, like I said,
it's a it's an interesting place, and it's an interesting
thing to do, and it's very intuitive to use. And
I've had fun every time i've I've done it, and
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I have to do my Christmas one.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
So all right, that's no one a lot for Christmas.
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There is just one thing I need.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
I don't care about the present underneath the Christmas dream.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I just want you for my more than you could
ever know.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Make my wish come. Ah want for baby's I love that.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I love that. Yeah, yeah, classic. I think you've improved
that song for me.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I've improved over the year a little. I've been like
putting out these stupid cover songs for like a year now,
and I think my playing has gotten a little better.
I've learned a few more chords. I think. The last
con I went to, the music was a little loud
on the loud speakers, so I couldn't like mess around
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that much, so I challenged. I thought, I'm gonna try
and play everything that's playing over the speaker, so I
would just look up the song and just play along
with it.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
That's delightful, That's delightful. So like, speaking of these cons
and conventions and stuff, I know you've got a couple
at least one or two things on deck for yourself
in the coming year, because I know the people listening
to my show are interested and if they're nearby, is
there anywhere where people can come see you?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
The next one I'm at is in Pensacola, Florida, Pensacon,
and there's a lot of good people at that one.
I was most excited because I just did Disney's Kiff
last summer. It's a new show, think about twenty episodes
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or streaming on Disney Plus now and I was just
cast in the as one of the family members. So
I noticed Kiff is going to be at Pensacon, so
I'm excited I get to meet her. And then I'm
the musical guest of honor at Mars Khan in Minneapolis
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in March.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
That's why you can't come to our reception.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yes exactly, it's that exact weekend, so urb excuse me,
That's what I'll do it giving me a forty five
minute set. So then in June, trying to figure out
when my daughter goes to a high school that doesn't
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hasn't listed when the graduation weekend is yet this like
the second weekend of June, I'm supposed to be somewhere
outside of San Francisco at a calm And then there's
one in July that's in Oregon, which is kind of
I'm kind of excited about because who gets to go
to Oregon?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
You know, right right, it's the other Portland.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
You want me to do this?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
No, what do I want?
Speaker 4 (35:46):
My hunt in Budapest, my treasure chest, nice golden grand piano,
my beautiful castillo, for you alive, well, for you.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
All little see. I can do it with people listening,
but if I do it without people listening, it takes
me a few It takes because I start crying.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Oh no, it's such a pretty song, that is.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
It's not a Christmas song.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
No, it's not a Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
It's not a Christmas Well yeah, but if you give
him like another fifteen years on his career, he'll probably
rewrite it as a Christmas song for his Christmas album.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
My Bed and Bed.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Nice thank You.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
A couple songs that I have in my Christmas list
that aren't traditional Christmas songs I found out long ago.
Speaker 7 (37:03):
Long Way Now, Holiday Road, Holiday, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Think that song is.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Christmas va case, it's it is festive.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
We actually we both on Christmas case.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
We both have these robes that are like Santa robes.
I'm actually wearing mine right now, and usually when we
put them on, one of us will inevitably go, I
gotta get my holiday rope.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
We truly believe Lindsay would have wanted one.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah, there's a famous song from the original Willie Walk
in the Chocolate Factory.
Speaker 12 (37:46):
Who can take a time ride, colaborate with Chocolate Man
America or dude Candy Man.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Can man? That's in my Christmas Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Mike used to play the Sammy Davis version of that
all the time.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
That was And then there's another Sammy Davis song that
they did a lot in the seventies. It wasn't just
Sammy Davis Junior, but it was a lot of people
did this on variety shows in the seventies.
Speaker 12 (38:19):
And it was we Lucky made out of gingerbread brown
picking them gingerbread.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
I can't think about rain whether or not I've done
they got my golf together?
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Now, job for paint, sweet red name Sweet ginger redmin
You ever heard that one?
Speaker 12 (38:54):
Man?
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I don't think so by Sammy Davis.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Yeah, well, yours is now my definitive verse of that song.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
So, uh, Sammy Davis Junior, I think recorded. I don't
know where you can find it, but that's that's the
recording that I have. But it's it's it's from the
late sixties early seventies. Uh. And it starts out the
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music accompaniment behind it starts out. It sounds like a
sesame street song.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
I think that's the best.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Uh, sweet sweet gingerbread man, you don't like.
Speaker 7 (39:51):
Bread.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
I can see why that would be a Christmas song.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
And then the second verse is I'm twirling a cane
made of peppermint.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
So why was that not a Christmas song? It's just odd.
I missed the times when we could just get away
with like songs about silly stuff like gingerbread men and
peppermint sticks.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
And gum gum drop gooey. Stop it.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
You've got a dog. You just want to I know
we allow dogs on this show.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
He got stuck with her butt.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
That was her a butt him. We don't all know
that we've got one sleeping on the floor in here
and another one probably out in the living room.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I think whenever i'm talking to somebody on the phone
or in a atmosphere like this. She thinks I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
To her because she doesn't hear what's.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
I don't have guests up here very often, so.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I get that. See, we do enough of this in
this house where the dogs don't mind us talking to ourselves.
You know. It's like, oh, they were gone into that room.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
They can't bear with the door being closed. But yes,
other than that, they're fine.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Yeah, so we live our lives.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Okay, So you've seen Weird with a commentary. I'm jealous.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Yes I have. And we literally watched it the day
that the day came in the mail they had arrived here.
You know, it was like, get you. It was his
idea too, he was like, no, let's.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Put it in. So it's been so long that it
just it was a surprise when they finally said it's
out because I had been waiting so long to see
it without commercials. You know, yeah too, because it I
really enjoyed the movie. But you'd see on Roku they
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would have at least the premiere night would have played
it without commercial interruption.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
But you'd think, but yeah, I mean I admitted this
to Eric Appel. I adjusted the time zone on my
Roku device to be as far east as possible into
Europe so that I could watch it like early. So
it totally worked.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah, and my Roku is still set to that time,
but that's okay, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
One of those fancypns or whatever. No.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
I just adjusted the like it said location, and I
just I said, okay, how far can I go? You know,
because the movie was going to debut a like midnight
or whatever, and I was like, well, I don't have
time for that. So I was able to like you
get to like the UK that's like six hours ahead
of me, and then so on and so forth. So
I think I was able to watch it and like
you know, like seven pm or something like that because
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I Roku devices.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
I wonder where bought because of that.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
That's a good question. I literally bought a Roku device
to watch that movie.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Yeah. We we have so many other things that we
didn't need that at all, and it was like, well,
we want to watch this movie.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
So you know, so anybody out there, I have a
Broku device. If you'd like a Roku device, yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
You can assign it and sell it and say it
was you know, the one you watched.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Yeah weird, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Right, this is the I was Roku at the house
in California, and then when I moved out on my own,
I went totally Apple.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
So nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
I saw one of my old Roku devices that I
used to watch it see that.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
I was just like, I we have a Roku TV
in the bedroom, but I wanted to watch it like
in the living room on the big TVs. I was like, well,
I need one of these Roku things to plug in
so that I can watch it where I want to
watch it. I could have watched it without buying anything extra,
but I didn't want to do that. I wanted the
full home theater experience because well.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
Being as familiar with where it El's life story as
we were, we knew that all the things with Castro
were going to happen, and everything at the end of
the film, like the big you know what I mean, Yeah,
all the action sequences and whatnot, And you can't watch
that on a twenty some inch TV.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
It's got to be on a right right. His legacy
deserves that, like we owed it to him and his memory.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
Yeah, well I mean that, and the scenes with Madonna.
I was always hoping that there was going to be
like something in there that would give us like a
bit of hope of bringing her to justice. You know,
so I want to see as much detail as I could,
but as far as I'm aware, she's still at large,
which I think is awful.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Madonna really does need to be brought to justice.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
She does.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Yeah, I mean, so you watched it. You watched the movie, and.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
I watched it last year and then I and then
I got it digitally at like one am the other night,
and I was like, well, I guess I'm doing this,
And so I watched it in my bedroom where I
have a short throw projector so my screen's a little
bigger in the bedroom, but it's better quality here in
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the living room.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
So yeah, it's a it's a solid movie. The commentary
was weird because we were we get like, kept having
deposit so we could talk to each other without hearing,
you know, Al and Eric talk over the movie. We
didn't want to talk over them talking over the movie.
And it's a lot going on.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
But there was more than a few times where we
would pause it say some things and then unpouse it,
and then Eric and Al would say make the same
observation we just made, which I thought was fun.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Yeah, it was cool. It was very cool. They do
like they did a lot more talking that I was
expecting in the in the commentary, Like there's very few
moments where it's you're just left to watch the movie
for a little bit. They're basically having a conversation over
almost the entire thing.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
I remember doing commentary way back then when for like
Space Ghost and The Brac Show and Awkuite and yeah,
we tried to we tried to leave no space you know, huh,
no debt there, just because we like to hear ourselves talk.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yeah, that's great. That's why do we do what we
do here. You know, I think half of my life
is listening to myself talk. But it is what it is.
It is what it is. So I thought for sure
my dad would probably end up showing up. I'm gonna uh,
he might.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
Be several drinks deep.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Now I don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
He's a whiskey man.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
Now, he is a whiskey man now, so who even knows.
But that's okay, that's okay, And I like I'm glad
Smoke showed up. Yeah see there you go, there you go.
This I just wanted to have a fun little back
at Christmas party. And you know, I know your name
is Andy, but your Braack in my heart and now
you're back on your hand.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
You want to just talk to him now? Bomb run
bum bomb bomb?
Speaker 12 (47:23):
Uh nay, oh yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
Yeah, I know. Uh huh keep talking. Yeah, this is
like yeah, uh okay, that's how it's gonna be.
Speaker 6 (47:54):
You're so good.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
I was like if I was I was thinking to
myself earlier today, like if I were going to actually
like properly introduce you on this episode, I would have
been like Andy the voice of Laurence Childhood Meryl. Because
fracking a Christmas outfit, I don't even know what to do.
Speaker 12 (48:17):
It's hard to put the shirt on because I got
rods in my hands and Santa doesn't.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
Oh my god, I bet that was a lot.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
I can be the ghost of Chrismiths yet to come.
That's very funny. Anything he just points.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
No, he does, yeah, he just points. I think I
think if Brack were to be any of the voices.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
What is to become a maid?
Speaker 12 (48:52):
And then you see him go hmmm, screoge sticking up
your butt?
Speaker 1 (49:01):
What I think I Brack feels brack, feels more ghost
of Christmas Present than anything.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Wow. The outfit, yeah no.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
But I think the character.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
Still.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
I think the character you know, in general, feels more
of that to me. Anyway.
Speaker 12 (49:21):
If I lick my shirt, you'll the want and the
other kid whatever, the other kids.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
That's delightful, thank you.
Speaker 12 (49:30):
No, at some point, like Christmas Present lifts up his
garment and shows these two sickly kids and Scrooge is like,
who's that?
Speaker 2 (49:41):
And then Christmas Present like that is want and green
or whatever?
Speaker 4 (49:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Huh oh, they're your children.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
It depends. I see, I'm mostly familiar with the Muppet version.
Oh yeah, that's the definitive version for me.
Speaker 12 (50:00):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
I like all Christmas Carol.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Most of them.
Speaker 2 (50:06):
We just watched American Christmas Carol the other day with
Henry Winkler and it wasn't that bad. Huh. Was actually.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Put that on our list.
Speaker 2 (50:18):
He watched the one watched the really dark one that
I did BBC and FX put out and Andy serkis
is the spirit of Christmas Past? That one is really good?
Speaker 1 (50:31):
Yeah, it is very dark, though we watched we watched.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
Awkwardly dark one the other day.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
I'm very partial to the musical Scrooge. Okay, have you
seen that one?
Speaker 1 (50:46):
There's too many adaptations of this, like we do, we.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Need to watch the one with Albert Finnie.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
Noted, noted dually noted.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
I think it, I don't want to. I think it
was written by the people who also, you know, put
together the musical Oliver. Maybe not.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
That's one that the Albert Finnie one is when I
know of and I just don't. I don't think I've
ever got around watching it, but I know of it.
Speaker 2 (51:16):
That one I've always loved since like a since I
was a kid. Now came out in nineteen seventy. It's
got a lot of really good music. It's it's got
some good twists to it. I like, I like the
whole like yet to come part. It's got one of
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the best songs in it, thank you very much. And
beyond that, it really gives Scrooge a reason to, you know,
come to Jesus, you know, because he's when when he
is exposed to his grave, he is sent down to hell,
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so he sees what hell will be like for him.
Oh that really like stirs him up and wants him
to makes him want to become a good person.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
It's a nice like. I like that the bones of
the story are open to so much interpretation, but that's
also that can also be bad. Earlier this Christmas season,
we watched a movie called A Christmas Karen, which.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
Which was terrible. It's terrible, like that we went into
knowing it was gonna be terrible.
Speaker 12 (52:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:31):
The one we watched the other night, I can't think
of the name of it, with the pop star who died, yeah,
and then caused the whole Christmas Carol thing to kick
in was the weirdest thing I've seen in forever ever.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
Yeah, that came out. That was like a twenty ten
ish something like that.
Speaker 3 (52:49):
Christina Milion was in it, so it would have been
around that time.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
Okay, I guess I started riding last year and tried
to start a podcast so people would sign up and
hold my butt to the fire to make me finish
the story. So I haven't finished this story, but I
started writing. It takes so far. What I've written takes
(53:15):
about an hour and a half to read. But it's
it's like a take on the spirits of Christmas and
how they root out, like who they're going to haunt
every Christmas, Like they get letters not from kids, but
from from like the Marlies, the different Marlies that are
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in Hell, and so they have to decide from all
of these letters who they're going to pick to be, like,
who's the biggest asshole on earth that they're going to
go and haunt that year to make him become a
good person. So initially it was a story of mistaken identity.
They get somebody with the same name as the bad
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guy who's like the best person. But while I was
riding it, I thought, I really like this Marley character,
and I was gonna like kind of make it a
redemption story for him and how he they help him
get out of hell. But I, you know, I haven't
finished it yet.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
So that sounded I think I need you to finish that.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
I kind of need to too. And now that I'm out.
Speaker 12 (54:29):
With with my ankle, oh yeah, how's your ankle?
Speaker 2 (54:37):
I can walk without crutches now, hooray. So I have
three more weeks of not working, so who knows what's
going to happen.
Speaker 12 (54:52):
It's like I got the whole holiday to myself and
it's lonely.
Speaker 2 (54:58):
And boring in depressing. I'm sorry everybody.
Speaker 1 (55:06):
That's great, I know well, hey, you got to hang
out for a little while and sing some Christmas songs
and stuff.
Speaker 3 (55:12):
And I think he made Smoke's entire holiday.
Speaker 1 (55:16):
You did make smokes entire holiday.
Speaker 3 (55:17):
Do you know what the best thing about Smoke is?
Is tomorrow or the next day, or even for the
next week, he's gonna be like, I had the wildest dream.
He's not even gonna know that this all happened and I.
Speaker 2 (55:28):
Woke up and I couldn't believe it didn't happen, or
did it.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
Yeah, he'll know it really did happen when I sent
him the file.
Speaker 2 (55:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
Oh, he'll be like, oh, dude, I was there.
Speaker 3 (55:42):
Yeah, I know, Phil, we were there. That's one good
dude though.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
Yeah, he's solid. I love this Brack.
Speaker 2 (55:50):
I put on a sand suit because I started.
Speaker 12 (55:54):
I actually did a cameo today, so I'm doing one
tomorrow too for somebody.
Speaker 1 (55:58):
That's awesome. That's awesome. I know a ton of people
that would enjoy a Brack cameo. I'll probably have to
notify those those people. I sure will do it. I will,
I will do it.
Speaker 12 (56:16):
The video I just made for whoever it's up on cameo,
I didn't I didn't set it to private. So yeah,
oh golly, it's just such a Oh what a video, Oh.
Speaker 2 (56:32):
What a video you'll get. I'm George Santos, but you
know I do that's.
Speaker 11 (56:41):
Great, you know.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
Can you do me a favor? And I know you
said Merry Christmas as Brack before, but I feel like
I need like a really perfect thing to end this
episode on. So you know, give me some holiday well
wishes from Brack to end this episode. Please.
Speaker 12 (57:00):
Oh that thing, dude, that's now and my horse open
play or.
Speaker 13 (57:07):
That builds we go laughing all the way. Oh dingle bells.
Speaker 12 (57:18):
Merry Christmas, everybody, from me Brack to you and this
guy moving his mouth behind me.
Speaker 2 (57:29):
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 12 (57:31):
Happy Holidays to you and yours on behalf of me.
Santa Brac The Brack of Christmas Present, Harry Christmas
Welcome to yet another episode from the beard All anthology.
This time about two years ago. We had our good
friend Andy Merrill, who you may better know as Brack
and to enjoy us, you know, and to enjoy some
holiday frivolity with us for an extended period of time.
(00:55):
There's no rhyme or reason to any of this. And
actually during this episode, our friends Midnight Smoke from the
bfy tw podcast also popped in to join in on
the fun. So if you want some holiday goofiness with
a voice from your childhood and two voices that you
know from your adulthood, that'll be me and Russ, then
(01:15):
you know you're gonna want to enjoy this. So pop
yourself some megnog or whatever it is that you happen
to be enjoying to drink during the holiday season, and yeah,
let's get down with some Brack holiday goodness.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Ha ha. That's the night Sand went crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Uh huh, that is delightful.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I downloaded weird off of uh Apple TV, thinking that
maybe eventually they'll put the extras on the digital copy.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh, maybe they will.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I pre ordered the It's Bare Bones Tonight is eggnogued with.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh that's a good whiskey.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
That's the moment you smoked maple.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
That's delightful. I have the beer right, always have it Christmas.
It's a matt elf from Trogues.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
It's their holiday ale brood with cherries and honey. And
it's just it's a beer. But it's eleven percent, so
that's good for a beer. It is a good, strong beer.
This is this beer is what Christmas tastes like to me.
I put the the link to this out to you know,
some folks on our podcast network and some other podcasters
(03:28):
and folks like that that I know. So people may
pop in if you know, as their their time allows
and things like that. But I figured, also we'll just
have a good fun Christmas time talking about Christmas songs
and doing stuff. There's puppets.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I just made a cameo for somebody and I took
saying it's clothes off and I put them on. Brack.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Who wait, there we go, Marry christ everybody. Oh that's allow.
Santa looks like this.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Santa looks like crazy naked old man. Crazy naked old man.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Old naked guy. And I'm crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Now'll give you some can hey, merry Christmas everybody.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
It's like what the old year looks like when New
Year's comes around. New Year, Yeah, the old year.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I'm twenty twenty three, everybody, and it's over.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh that's great, toasted four already. Yeah, I know. So,
I mean, I'm kind of I'm just recording on my
end over here. So everything is fine, We've got all
of it. And uh, this is gonna be like the
most casual of episodes that I think has or existed
of any podcast. Casual. It will be very casual. I
(05:04):
came up with a great idea today and I put
it on Twitter, and I don't know how to make
this kind of thing happen, but I feel like I
absolutely need to. I saw people like the you know,
the Advent calendars that they do for all sorts of things,
you know, Like I saw somebody have like a whiskey
Advent calendar, and then there's obviously there's like candies and
wines and stuff, and so I'm like, if there was
a weird al Advent calendar, a weird Aldvent calendar, like
(05:28):
what would be in it? And I just don't know,
but what I'm by one of my buddies of the
show and listener. He was like, do you want me
to see if any of my designer friends can like
draw something like that for you. I'm like, yeah, that
would be super cool to at least get an idea down.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
But also on his mailing list.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I don't know. I don't think so, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I mean I might be. Did you get get this? No? Not?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
No, I have not. That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Every year he sends a Christmas card that's like his family. Yeah,
was the best though, because it was he wasn't in
the picture. It was just his wife and his daughter
and a Christmas scene with Daniel Radcliffe. Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I saw people post about that online, and I think
that's absolutely that's absolutely wonderful. I know I am because
I had Eric Appel on the show and we got
talking about you know, weird Al's Christmas cards, and he
was also talking about how like Paul Rubens was like
so great for sending people like texts and like messages
and stuff on their birthday and how it's just kind
(06:43):
of like that's the kind of person that remembers all
of these kind sort of sort of things. And so
I mentioned that on that episode and then my buddy, uh,
Jeff who's the guy who sorts weird Al's fan mail
emailed me like the other day and was like, what's
your address? No reason, and I'm like, hmm, okay, so
(07:04):
I don't know. There we go, Okay, I hear you, Smoke, yay, yay.
I'm sorry it was so weird.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You know that yourself audio go away? You know it
was I'm gonna do what I did the last last
(07:37):
podcast I did, and just do Christmas Mary, Okay, christ
Christmas Classics.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I think that's a delightful way to do it.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I thought, shout time now, Marry, did you know.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Boy one day walk on Water Mary?
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Did you know your baby boy Bunny baby Boy Jay Daughter?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Did you know the baaby boy come to my want
you to live?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You know?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
This is great. So while we're that was beautiful, it
really was so Now the people are some people are
popping in. I've got no midnight Smoke Stevie from our
fellow friends over at the b F Y t W podcast,
who we always have a delightful time with. And I
was like, actually, Smoke is the one who uh andy
(08:53):
edited the episode that you were on last time. Because
I was just like, I yeah, so Smoke got to
hear it before anybody else did, and h spoiler alert,
you're probably gonna be eniting this one too.
Speaker 8 (09:05):
Oh sweet? Thank yeah. No, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
It was nice because I was already a fan, like
I love Space Ghost Coast A Coast like I was.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
I was that generation when that stuff came.
Speaker 9 (09:15):
Out, So I got to listen to the episode like
three or four times before anybody else did.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
It was kind of great.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, so you're like, he was like my litmus test
for how my audience is going to to react out
all that.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
He took out all the sea words in that box. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
I try to keep it professional, you know. I kept that.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
I kept the Beans song and all that fun stuff,
and that's true.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, but the only sea words I will put up
with today heard like.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Christmas heard the British trio of Women. They sing a
song called yeah you love that.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Oh. I just actually just sent that to Russ and
some of his friends the other day, like its Christmas
trying not to be a you know, bump cake.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, And like I love when stuff like that, like
that kind of humor comes from unsuspecting packages.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And you have to do it in a British accent,
of course.
Speaker 10 (10:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Why are some words not offensive with the British accent?
But they are offensive.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Because it's a more common word.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And I guess here, I guess I don't know more. Yeah,
that's true. They're a little more flippant with it over there,
which is fine.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
So as long as you have an insulting accent with it,
you're good to go.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Here in America, it's more of a Karen word.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yes, you know what smoke. Since you're here, I'm asking
you a question because we're talking about Christmas music. Do
you have a favorite Christmas song? And if so, what
is it?
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (10:54):
Man, I can tell you it's not that stupid Christmas
shoes song.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Christmas we will mess you up.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
I've heard, well, I've been listening to our on our
show and they played that song like you want to
hear something depress and they play that, and then like
the next four episodes were other songs that were made
Christmas songs that were worse than that song.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
It's messed up.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
So all I've been hearing lately is really sad, depressing
Christmas songs.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Yeah, but I have to say dominic me too.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
That's up there for me.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Man.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
It was my dad's favorite. My my grandfather is from.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
Sicily and stuff, so my dad loves that song, so
I like love to growing up.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I was in the car the other day Christmas time.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I stood in and another line trying to buy the
last chifter, not really in the Christmas move, and then
right in front of me little boy way anxiously pacing
around like little boy do and his hands the hell
(12:06):
guess what.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Parrish and his clothes world more day from her to toe.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
When it came his time to pay, I couldn't believe
what I hurt.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Sir, I want to body shoes my mama's.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Christmas.
Speaker 10 (12:40):
You're just.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Sir that, he says.
Speaker 10 (12:49):
There's not time.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
You say, sheep been taken.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Loaded shoes will pay water to look dudeful.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
His mom.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
You know what, Andy, you you made a song I
completely despise, actually kind of lovable, so you know what,
I appreciate it and thank you for the Christmas gift.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
They counted pennies for what seemed like that my enp here.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Then he turned in and looked at me. That mama
made Christmas cook at our house.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
That most cute. She just did without from me.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Sah, I got in dud somehow, I've gotta buyer the
Christmas shoes.
Speaker 11 (14:02):
I just have to help him out. I never forget
the look on his face when he said, bottom soul.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
That's great, Oh my god, with a bad romance. But
I can't find the key.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Oh that's fun, Oh my god. See see smoke.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Now that songs were like live performances, tonight this is
have a favorite song though, just because I listened to
a lot I have, like, I have a lot of
novelty stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I love a good like novelty Christmas song, right I did.
We went to karaoke last week and I did I
want a hippopotamus for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
My favorite thing just happened to karaoke, and at least
six months happened. So you're off, you're all familiar with
the song and the vocal on it. So and and
you know when you go to karaoke and stuff, and
you see if if somebody gets up and they start
like belting out Whitney Houston or something, and people go, oh, damn,
you know or whatever. Right, So Lauren gets up and
(15:21):
she starts singing the song, and she sounds exactly like
the original vulcle.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
The woman next to me, completely uniernically gets this look
of sheer awe on her face, grabs my arm and
she goes, is your wife classically trained? And I literally
I like pointed it Lauren and pointed. The woman pointed Laurens,
and I was like, because of this song, like you know,
(15:49):
like Lauren can sing, you know, she's I didn't know
if maybe she heard her singing like other stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
You know, that's the classic I want to hippopotamus.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, obviously at Julliard, that's I would imagine that's involved.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Right, Gala pevi. It should be everybody's top vocalist.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
It's the bar, that's where it starts.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, got a barking dog now uh?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Now Small has to pick a new uh least favorite
Christmas song because his least favorite s now been turned
into a favorite.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Oh man, you've got a custom verse, you know?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Hey, you know what, I'll volunteer, mind, do you know
what my least favorite Christmas song is? I will get
violent over the song.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I actually do. Oh I do wonderful Christmas time?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
It is. It hurts my soul.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
It's a lot for Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I usually don't take sides in songwriter battles, but I
am on John's side about that one. That's a terrible song.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I like it. I like it.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Everyone likes it. Literally everybody likes that song with me.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I have to remove it from my Christmas playlist.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And John sorry, and John, I don't. Oh, you know
what I hate. There's only like three couples that that
can do it, maybe four, But I hate baby It's
Cold outside. Mm hmm hmm.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That's fair.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
There's there's maybe four versions that are good. There's a
Louis Jordans and uh Ella Fitzgerald. That one's good. There's
one with Pearl Bailey. The best one is with Pearl Bailey. Okay,
she's she improvs through the entire song. It's as maybe
(17:46):
Sam Sammy Davis Junior and I can't remember her name. Uh.
And then there's a Louis Armstrong one that's pretty good.
Other than that, stop it, nobody else that's true.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And I think you know and that they're trying to
make that song like it's a product of its time,
and like if you actually really dig into the lyrics,
like it's a very empowering song for the woman right,
but then you get like modern interpretations of it, like
I know, yeah, I know you love your girl Kelly Clarkson,
but she did it with John Legend where he woke
(18:25):
afies like the man part, like you know you have agency,
but I'm John Lennon and Legend blah blah, and it's like, oh.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
No, Amy Grant and Gloria Estefan had no business moving
Christmas albums. They suck. Nobody asked for a Christmas album
by Train. I don't know who else.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Everyone doesn't. Everybody at some point puts out a Christmas record.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I think it's like a legal obligation.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It's money.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Oh yeah, and if you put money too.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I enjoyed, uh. I enjoyed Seas Christmas album for some reason.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Oh interesting. I heard like a song or two off
of it. I will tell you this much, though, I
am very much stuck in the like the glam seventies
Christmas songs like I could listen to Slade Merry Christmas
and Wizard. I wish it could be Christmas every day,
back and forth at nauseum as my only Christmas music,
and like I'd be fine with it.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
You don't like the I never liked the Carpenters.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Oh really.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Green and Carriacs a man just like change the channel.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
My mom feels that way about, like that style of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Song way about most things to do.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Is aggressive with a lot of that stuff. Yes, I agree,
but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
I get music before I go to sleep.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
Yeah, I just like.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
The chord transition some of the.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, I mean, she's a very talented songwriter. I'll check
out her stuff. I mean Kelly clark Is Clarkson's actual
Christmas the first one would we like? That's good? But no,
I I kind of dove deep into like weird Christmas
songs this time around. And you know Brenda, who we
(21:00):
all know for rocking around the Christmas Tree, she has
some other Christmas music. And I found the song uh,
I'm gonna last Oh Santa Claus. And I think that's
kind of kind of great because it's basically pulling the
(21:20):
She's like going on Robin Hood on Santa Claus. It's like,
why do some kids get more presents than others? Like,
what's the deal with that? I'm gonna lasso Santa Claus.
And this is because I'm like, oh, okay, you get it,
you get it.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I can never find the one that I really like
right it goes Uh. I think it was in the
Christmas Story. It's just this singing cowboy just going hurry hurry.
Oh here the Mary slide jingling jing jingling, jingling, saying
is on his Way? Yeah, just because I think when
(21:58):
I was a kid, any song that mentioned Sannah on
his Way, I think just got me so excited and
hyped up for Christmas time that I couldn't stand it.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah. Yeah, well I think that's you know.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
The anticipation is the whole thing, especially as a child,
and then just it's a build up before actually that
morning and everything. So yeah, even that dopamine kick right
before it happens.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
I get the.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Real hard to do that.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I believed in Santa Claus so much as a kid,
and I grew up in a Christian home where I
would pray out loud every night before going to bed.
It would always I would always end my prayer with
UH and blessed Frosty and Santa. Yes, like not at
(22:55):
Christmas time, That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
When I was in college, I took a class called
Rhetorical Analysis and Nonfiction Prose Writing and I mostly took
it because it was abbreviated on the schedule as rhet anal.
But I digress with that. I took the class and
it was about, you know, just like report writing and
things like that. And our first big assignment in this
class was to write a paper proving the existence of something. Right,
(23:24):
so all my peers are like proving the existence of
you know, misogyny, or like racial bias, or like this,
that and the other, like these intangibles. I wrote a
seven page paper proving the existence of Santa Claus as
a social construct. And I was the only student in
my class to get an A because I just didn't.
I I took it very seriously, but I literally proved
(23:45):
that Santa Claus existed. And that was probably my finest
achievement in my collegiate career. Y, you know, and I.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Never understand parents who get their kids to a certain
age and tell them that is over. And my brother
did that. I think my sister's crappy ex husband did
that at an early age with his kids. I never thought.
(24:15):
I always wanted I always wanted my child to just believe,
you know, and and never once do we say he's
not real, because and it's fun when your child gets
to the age where it's a mystery of whether they believe.
(24:36):
Even with that mystery, you just keep it going and
you keep leaving the cookies out and making them go
to bed, and even when they're like fifteen years old,
you're you know, still behind the presence and putting them
under the tree and Christmas Eve and stuff like that.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
Yeah, that's the Christmas magic right there.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yep. My parents never told me. I think when I
was twelve ish I figured it out. But I also
didn't like call them out on their you know, Santa
propaganda or anything like that, you know, but I was
also scared to lie. Okay, so I came up with
something again, I'm twelve. My mom asked me, do you
(25:24):
believe in Santa Claus. I was like, I believe in
the Christmas Spirit. That was my answer.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It is I think when I was twelve, though, I
think I would have still said yes.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I probably I should have. It would have been easier.
But I was also like this, I can ride this out, though, like,
because the Christmas Spirit is the thing.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I can't say for sure the exact moment where I
stopped believing, you know, uh yeah, I don't. I don't remember.
I think this is this is crap. My world is over.
I've never I've never thought that. I don't know. I
(26:10):
think I know basically, like with you, I believe. I
always believed, at least in the Christmas spirit. And yeah,
Christmas was always a my favorite time of year.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, I am Christmas has exploded all over our house.
Speaker 9 (26:30):
Oh, I don't know what you guys are all talking about.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Man, I saw Santa like no joke, like a couple
of days ago. I know the dudes there, like he
gave me.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
It's like, if I try hard enough, I could do
the cheese and chunks sketch with with the smoke right now.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
You like when I speak Spanish, I'm waiting.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
For a smoke to be like I'm him. Man, he
didn't know any tunes.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
I just I haven't watched some season song.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I was just watching an episode of Family Ties the
other day where Alex was well into his twenties. I
still believed in Santa, and like Jennifer was like said
something about uh, Santa not being real, and Alex, Alex
very genuinely was like what are you talking about? Like
you know, like he very much believed in Santa still,
which I thought was cute that they did that such
(27:23):
a such an analytical character.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah yeah, very good job with that stuff.
Speaker 8 (27:28):
Fact. Then, man, I had to do this to you all,
but I need to head out.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah it's okay.
Speaker 9 (27:34):
I wanted to thank you guys very much for having
me come in and like say hi and seeing everybody
and listening to some amazing Chris's music. I hope everybody
has a wonderful evening. Be safe this holiday season. We
need more people around, right, so watch love everybody.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Bye smoke, but it is and poof, he's out in
a cloud of smoke.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And I was saying, I was saying to you a
couple of weeks ago, I miss when Sirius XM merged,
they got rid of all of like the really cool
like XM channels because I started listening to satellite radio
and I listened to XM, and they had like the
(28:21):
best channel, at least for me. It was called Special
X and it was nothing but weird al and novelty
music present in past. And at Christmas time they had
Special X mess where it was like nothing but novelty
Christmas Music's right, and it was just like chalk full
(28:44):
of stuff that I had never heard before, and I thought,
how would it be possible to bring something like that back? Well,
I wonder if even like we brought in the power
of Doctor Demento or something like that. I don't know,
(29:05):
try and put it in view. Because he he has
like faithful subscribers that that listened to his show every week,
because he still does his show out of the shed
in the back of his house every week.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
It's just such a beautiful mental.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Picture and and so, uh, you know, you know, I
don't know. Well, so it just nice to both give
him a venue again and to bring something like that
back for us weirdo.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I was thinking about it. And you know, because Russ
has done a couple like DJ sets, there's an app
called uh station head right where you can basically be
your own DJ, you know, and you set up account.
You got to get people fall to follow you and
like send the link around and stuff. Right, it's not
like a radio station that people can just fly to
(30:00):
most in most cases, right, yeah, it's an outing saw.
But anyhow, where I at some point this holiday season,
so by the time people are hearing this, maybe I've
already done it or I will still yet to be
doing it, but I'm gonna do like a couple hours
of like a little tiny radio set on this app
of me with just like my random crazy like novelty
(30:21):
Christmas music, And so that could be something to play
around with to at least like, you know, see if
there's an audience for it, get a get a format
down and stuff. Because I also have just my.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Link because I've got just like a poop ton of
the weirdest music ever, and it'd be fun to get
somebody like Dana Snyder in on it. Also because he
also is a purveyor of weird music. He does a
(30:51):
thing at conventions every once in a while, I don't
where he'll just like sit in front of the group
in a panel and just play the weirdest stuff on
his iPad that he's found.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
He and I were together at one one of the
cons and we had kind of a crappy song off
who had the crappiest song on their phone. So yeah,
that's funny to do.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm literally sending you this link right
now so that I because I will forget to do
it if I don't send it to you at this
moment in time, because yeah, I mean, like I said,
it's a it's an interesting place, and it's an interesting
thing to do, and it's very intuitive to use. And
I've had fun every time i've I've done it, and
(31:48):
I have to do my Christmas one.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
So all right, that's no one a lot for Christmas.
(32:14):
There is just one thing I need.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
I don't care about the present underneath the Christmas dream.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I just want you for my more than you could
ever know.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Make my wish come. Ah want for baby's I love that.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I love that. Yeah, yeah, classic. I think you've improved
that song for me.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I've improved over the year a little. I've been like
putting out these stupid cover songs for like a year now,
and I think my playing has gotten a little better.
I've learned a few more chords. I think. The last
con I went to, the music was a little loud
on the loud speakers, so I couldn't like mess around
(33:32):
that much, so I challenged. I thought, I'm gonna try
and play everything that's playing over the speaker, so I
would just look up the song and just play along
with it.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
That's delightful, That's delightful. So like, speaking of these cons
and conventions and stuff, I know you've got a couple
at least one or two things on deck for yourself
in the coming year, because I know the people listening
to my show are interested and if they're nearby, is
there anywhere where people can come see you?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
The next one I'm at is in Pensacola, Florida, Pensacon,
and there's a lot of good people at that one.
I was most excited because I just did Disney's Kiff
last summer. It's a new show, think about twenty episodes
(34:26):
or streaming on Disney Plus now and I was just
cast in the as one of the family members. So
I noticed Kiff is going to be at Pensacon, so
I'm excited I get to meet her. And then I'm
the musical guest of honor at Mars Khan in Minneapolis
(34:49):
in March.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
That's why you can't come to our reception.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yes exactly, it's that exact weekend, so urb excuse me,
That's what I'll do it giving me a forty five
minute set. So then in June, trying to figure out
when my daughter goes to a high school that doesn't
(35:15):
hasn't listed when the graduation weekend is yet this like
the second weekend of June, I'm supposed to be somewhere
outside of San Francisco at a calm And then there's
one in July that's in Oregon, which is kind of
I'm kind of excited about because who gets to go
to Oregon?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
You know, right right, it's the other Portland.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
You want me to do this?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
No, what do I want?
Speaker 4 (35:46):
My hunt in Budapest, my treasure chest, nice golden grand piano,
my beautiful castillo, for you alive, well, for you.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
All little see. I can do it with people listening,
but if I do it without people listening, it takes
me a few It takes because I start crying.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Oh no, it's such a pretty song, that is.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
It's not a Christmas song.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
No, it's not a Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
It's not a Christmas Well yeah, but if you give
him like another fifteen years on his career, he'll probably
rewrite it as a Christmas song for his Christmas album.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
My Bed and Bed.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Nice thank You.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
A couple songs that I have in my Christmas list
that aren't traditional Christmas songs I found out long ago.
Speaker 7 (37:03):
Long Way Now, Holiday Road, Holiday, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Think that song is.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Christmas va case, it's it is festive.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
We actually we both on Christmas case.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
We both have these robes that are like Santa robes.
I'm actually wearing mine right now, and usually when we
put them on, one of us will inevitably go, I
gotta get my holiday rope.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
We truly believe Lindsay would have wanted one.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah, there's a famous song from the original Willie Walk
in the Chocolate Factory.
Speaker 12 (37:46):
Who can take a time ride, colaborate with Chocolate Man
America or dude Candy Man.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Can man? That's in my Christmas Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Mike used to play the Sammy Davis version of that
all the time.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
That was And then there's another Sammy Davis song that
they did a lot in the seventies. It wasn't just
Sammy Davis Junior, but it was a lot of people
did this on variety shows in the seventies.
Speaker 12 (38:19):
And it was we Lucky made out of gingerbread brown
picking them gingerbread.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
I can't think about rain whether or not I've done
they got my golf together?
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Now, job for paint, sweet red name Sweet ginger redmin
You ever heard that one?
Speaker 12 (38:54):
Man?
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I don't think so by Sammy Davis.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Yeah, well, yours is now my definitive verse of that song.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
So, uh, Sammy Davis Junior, I think recorded. I don't
know where you can find it, but that's that's the
recording that I have. But it's it's it's from the
late sixties early seventies. Uh. And it starts out the
(39:23):
music accompaniment behind it starts out. It sounds like a
sesame street song.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
I think that's the best.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Uh, sweet sweet gingerbread man, you don't like.
Speaker 7 (39:51):
Bread.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
I can see why that would be a Christmas song.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
And then the second verse is I'm twirling a cane
made of peppermint.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
So why was that not a Christmas song? It's just odd.
I missed the times when we could just get away
with like songs about silly stuff like gingerbread men and
peppermint sticks.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
And gum gum drop gooey. Stop it.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
You've got a dog. You just want to I know
we allow dogs on this show.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
He got stuck with her butt.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
That was her a butt him. We don't all know
that we've got one sleeping on the floor in here
and another one probably out in the living room.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I think whenever i'm talking to somebody on the phone
or in a atmosphere like this. She thinks I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
To her because she doesn't hear what's.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
I don't have guests up here very often, so.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I get that. See, we do enough of this in
this house where the dogs don't mind us talking to ourselves.
You know. It's like, oh, they were gone into that room.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
They can't bear with the door being closed. But yes,
other than that, they're fine.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Yeah, so we live our lives.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Okay, So you've seen Weird with a commentary. I'm jealous.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Yes I have. And we literally watched it the day
that the day came in the mail they had arrived here.
You know, it was like, get you. It was his
idea too, he was like, no, let's.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Put it in. So it's been so long that it
just it was a surprise when they finally said it's
out because I had been waiting so long to see
it without commercials. You know, yeah too, because it I
really enjoyed the movie. But you'd see on Roku they
(42:02):
would have at least the premiere night would have played
it without commercial interruption.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
But you'd think, but yeah, I mean I admitted this
to Eric Appel. I adjusted the time zone on my
Roku device to be as far east as possible into
Europe so that I could watch it like early. So
it totally worked.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah, and my Roku is still set to that time,
but that's okay, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
One of those fancypns or whatever. No.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
I just adjusted the like it said location, and I
just I said, okay, how far can I go? You know,
because the movie was going to debut a like midnight
or whatever, and I was like, well, I don't have
time for that. So I was able to like you
get to like the UK that's like six hours ahead
of me, and then so on and so forth. So
I think I was able to watch it and like
you know, like seven pm or something like that because
(43:03):
I Roku devices.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
I wonder where bought because of that.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
That's a good question. I literally bought a Roku device
to watch that movie.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Yeah. We we have so many other things that we
didn't need that at all, and it was like, well,
we want to watch this movie.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
So you know, so anybody out there, I have a
Broku device. If you'd like a Roku device, yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
You can assign it and sell it and say it
was you know, the one you watched.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Yeah weird, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Right, this is the I was Roku at the house
in California, and then when I moved out on my own,
I went totally Apple.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
So nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
I saw one of my old Roku devices that I
used to watch it see that.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
I was just like, I we have a Roku TV
in the bedroom, but I wanted to watch it like
in the living room on the big TVs. I was like, well,
I need one of these Roku things to plug in
so that I can watch it where I want to
watch it. I could have watched it without buying anything extra,
but I didn't want to do that. I wanted the
full home theater experience because well.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
Being as familiar with where it El's life story as
we were, we knew that all the things with Castro
were going to happen, and everything at the end of
the film, like the big you know what I mean, Yeah,
all the action sequences and whatnot, And you can't watch
that on a twenty some inch TV.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
It's got to be on a right right. His legacy
deserves that, like we owed it to him and his memory.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
Yeah, well I mean that, and the scenes with Madonna.
I was always hoping that there was going to be
like something in there that would give us like a
bit of hope of bringing her to justice. You know,
so I want to see as much detail as I could,
but as far as I'm aware, she's still at large,
which I think is awful.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Madonna really does need to be brought to justice.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
She does.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Yeah, I mean, so you watched it. You watched the movie, and.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
I watched it last year and then I and then
I got it digitally at like one am the other night,
and I was like, well, I guess I'm doing this,
And so I watched it in my bedroom where I
have a short throw projector so my screen's a little
bigger in the bedroom, but it's better quality here in
(45:25):
the living room.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
So yeah, it's a it's a solid movie. The commentary
was weird because we were we get like, kept having
deposit so we could talk to each other without hearing,
you know, Al and Eric talk over the movie. We
didn't want to talk over them talking over the movie.
And it's a lot going on.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
But there was more than a few times where we
would pause it say some things and then unpouse it,
and then Eric and Al would say make the same
observation we just made, which I thought was fun.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Yeah, it was cool. It was very cool. They do
like they did a lot more talking that I was
expecting in the in the commentary, Like there's very few
moments where it's you're just left to watch the movie
for a little bit. They're basically having a conversation over
almost the entire thing.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
I remember doing commentary way back then when for like
Space Ghost and The Brac Show and Awkuite and yeah,
we tried to we tried to leave no space you know, huh,
no debt there, just because we like to hear ourselves talk.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yeah, that's great. That's why do we do what we
do here. You know, I think half of my life
is listening to myself talk. But it is what it is.
It is what it is. So I thought for sure
my dad would probably end up showing up. I'm gonna uh,
he might.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
Be several drinks deep.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Now I don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
He's a whiskey man.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
Now, he is a whiskey man now, so who even knows.
But that's okay, that's okay, And I like I'm glad
Smoke showed up. Yeah see there you go, there you go.
This I just wanted to have a fun little back
at Christmas party. And you know, I know your name
is Andy, but your Braack in my heart and now
you're back on your hand.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
You want to just talk to him now? Bomb run
bum bomb bomb?
Speaker 12 (47:23):
Uh nay, oh yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
Yeah, I know. Uh huh keep talking. Yeah, this is
like yeah, uh okay, that's how it's gonna be.
Speaker 6 (47:54):
You're so good.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
I was like if I was I was thinking to
myself earlier today, like if I were going to actually
like properly introduce you on this episode, I would have
been like Andy the voice of Laurence Childhood Meryl. Because
fracking a Christmas outfit, I don't even know what to do.
Speaker 12 (48:17):
It's hard to put the shirt on because I got
rods in my hands and Santa doesn't.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
Oh my god, I bet that was a lot.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
I can be the ghost of Chrismiths yet to come.
That's very funny. Anything he just points.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
No, he does, yeah, he just points. I think I
think if Brack were to be any of the voices.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
What is to become a maid?
Speaker 12 (48:52):
And then you see him go hmmm, screoge sticking up
your butt?
Speaker 1 (49:01):
What I think I Brack feels brack, feels more ghost
of Christmas Present than anything.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Wow. The outfit, yeah no.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
But I think the character.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
Still.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
I think the character you know, in general, feels more
of that to me. Anyway.
Speaker 12 (49:21):
If I lick my shirt, you'll the want and the
other kid whatever, the other kids.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
That's delightful, thank you.
Speaker 12 (49:30):
No, at some point, like Christmas Present lifts up his
garment and shows these two sickly kids and Scrooge is like,
who's that?
Speaker 2 (49:41):
And then Christmas Present like that is want and green
or whatever?
Speaker 4 (49:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Huh oh, they're your children.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
It depends. I see, I'm mostly familiar with the Muppet version.
Oh yeah, that's the definitive version for me.
Speaker 12 (50:00):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
I like all Christmas Carol.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Most of them.
Speaker 2 (50:06):
We just watched American Christmas Carol the other day with
Henry Winkler and it wasn't that bad. Huh. Was actually.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Put that on our list.
Speaker 2 (50:18):
He watched the one watched the really dark one that
I did BBC and FX put out and Andy serkis
is the spirit of Christmas Past? That one is really good?
Speaker 1 (50:31):
Yeah, it is very dark, though we watched we watched.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
Awkwardly dark one the other day.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
I'm very partial to the musical Scrooge. Okay, have you
seen that one?
Speaker 1 (50:46):
There's too many adaptations of this, like we do, we.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Need to watch the one with Albert Finnie.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
Noted, noted dually noted.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
I think it, I don't want to. I think it
was written by the people who also, you know, put
together the musical Oliver. Maybe not.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
That's one that the Albert Finnie one is when I
know of and I just don't. I don't think I've
ever got around watching it, but I know of it.
Speaker 2 (51:16):
That one I've always loved since like a since I
was a kid. Now came out in nineteen seventy. It's
got a lot of really good music. It's it's got
some good twists to it. I like, I like the
whole like yet to come part. It's got one of
(51:36):
the best songs in it, thank you very much. And
beyond that, it really gives Scrooge a reason to, you know,
come to Jesus, you know, because he's when when he
is exposed to his grave, he is sent down to hell,
(51:57):
so he sees what hell will be like for him.
Oh that really like stirs him up and wants him
to makes him want to become a good person.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
It's a nice like. I like that the bones of
the story are open to so much interpretation, but that's
also that can also be bad. Earlier this Christmas season,
we watched a movie called A Christmas Karen, which.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
Which was terrible. It's terrible, like that we went into
knowing it was gonna be terrible.
Speaker 12 (52:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:31):
The one we watched the other night, I can't think
of the name of it, with the pop star who died, yeah,
and then caused the whole Christmas Carol thing to kick
in was the weirdest thing I've seen in forever ever.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
Yeah, that came out. That was like a twenty ten
ish something like that.
Speaker 3 (52:49):
Christina Milion was in it, so it would have been
around that time.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
Okay, I guess I started riding last year and tried
to start a podcast so people would sign up and
hold my butt to the fire to make me finish
the story. So I haven't finished this story, but I
started writing. It takes so far. What I've written takes
(53:15):
about an hour and a half to read. But it's
it's like a take on the spirits of Christmas and
how they root out, like who they're going to haunt
every Christmas, Like they get letters not from kids, but
from from like the Marlies, the different Marlies that are
(53:40):
in Hell, and so they have to decide from all
of these letters who they're going to pick to be, like,
who's the biggest asshole on earth that they're going to
go and haunt that year to make him become a
good person. So initially it was a story of mistaken identity.
They get somebody with the same name as the bad
(54:01):
guy who's like the best person. But while I was
riding it, I thought, I really like this Marley character,
and I was gonna like kind of make it a
redemption story for him and how he they help him
get out of hell. But I, you know, I haven't
finished it yet.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
So that sounded I think I need you to finish that.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
I kind of need to too. And now that I'm out.
Speaker 12 (54:29):
With with my ankle, oh yeah, how's your ankle?
Speaker 2 (54:37):
I can walk without crutches now, hooray. So I have
three more weeks of not working, so who knows what's
going to happen.
Speaker 12 (54:52):
It's like I got the whole holiday to myself and
it's lonely.
Speaker 2 (54:58):
And boring in depressing. I'm sorry everybody.
Speaker 1 (55:06):
That's great, I know well, hey, you got to hang
out for a little while and sing some Christmas songs
and stuff.
Speaker 3 (55:12):
And I think he made Smoke's entire holiday.
Speaker 1 (55:16):
You did make smokes entire holiday.
Speaker 3 (55:17):
Do you know what the best thing about Smoke is?
Is tomorrow or the next day, or even for the
next week, he's gonna be like, I had the wildest dream.
He's not even gonna know that this all happened and I.
Speaker 2 (55:28):
Woke up and I couldn't believe it didn't happen, or
did it.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
Yeah, he'll know it really did happen when I sent
him the file.
Speaker 2 (55:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
Oh, he'll be like, oh, dude, I was there.
Speaker 3 (55:42):
Yeah, I know, Phil, we were there. That's one good
dude though.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
Yeah, he's solid. I love this Brack.
Speaker 2 (55:50):
I put on a sand suit because I started.
Speaker 12 (55:54):
I actually did a cameo today, so I'm doing one
tomorrow too for somebody.
Speaker 1 (55:58):
That's awesome. That's awesome. I know a ton of people
that would enjoy a Brack cameo. I'll probably have to
notify those those people. I sure will do it. I will,
I will do it.
Speaker 12 (56:16):
The video I just made for whoever it's up on cameo,
I didn't I didn't set it to private. So yeah,
oh golly, it's just such a Oh what a video, Oh.
Speaker 2 (56:32):
What a video you'll get. I'm George Santos, but you
know I do that's.
Speaker 11 (56:41):
Great, you know.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
Can you do me a favor? And I know you
said Merry Christmas as Brack before, but I feel like
I need like a really perfect thing to end this
episode on. So you know, give me some holiday well
wishes from Brack to end this episode. Please.
Speaker 12 (57:00):
Oh that thing, dude, that's now and my horse open
play or.
Speaker 13 (57:07):
That builds we go laughing all the way. Oh dingle bells.
Speaker 12 (57:18):
Merry Christmas, everybody, from me Brack to you and this
guy moving his mouth behind me.
Speaker 2 (57:29):
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 12 (57:31):
Happy Holidays to you and yours on behalf of me.
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