632 w/ Randy Makes Candy - Randy Bachman - Takin' Care of Christmas

632 w/ Randy Makes Candy - Randy Bachman - Takin' Care of Christmas: Chris, Nick, and Andy are joined by YouTube confectioner Randy from Randy Makes Candy to break down the title track from the 2014 album Takin' Care of Christmas by Randy Bachman. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:27):
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Speaker 1 (01:57):
You haven't a few weeks too.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, we're all naked under our clothes.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
There you go, Andy, somehow is the most naked.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, yeah, someone has to be.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Well, you know, it's like when you go to the
grocery store. We've talked about this many times and you
see like America's favorite pizza or whatever, Milk's favorite cookie.
Why can't I be the world's naked man.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Make the claim and put it out there.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Somebody's gonna have to prove that you're.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Not exactly that. Yeah, they will fail in court.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yeah, it'll be like Miracle on thirty fourth Street. It's
it's gonna fall through.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
They can't disprove it. That's it.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
You prove a negative, right exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
When they see how I show up for court, they'll say.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Although if you put that trial on pay per view,
I think you'd make even more money.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
There you go on Patreon.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, that will be the next the next tier cash
cow for us.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
They still have pay per view or is that just
an old guy thing.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
No, they still do. They do it for some a
little bit of wrestling, I think, some boxing, But it
seems like it's a dying thing.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
It's I think they're working out what it's going to
look like, right because that Mike Tyson, Oh yeah, that
was that was kind of a Yeah, that wasstical disaster.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
From what I understand, Netflix wasn't able to handle that
many news at once. Yeah, they got everybody curious, and
they couldn't handle the bandwidth.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Operating under the Apple business model, put something out to
market that just fucking doesn't work. People will pay for it,
you know, gladly accept the fact that they've got a
substandard product.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
I've never had a problem with my Apple rand you
an Apple man over.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
There, No, I've never got into.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
All right man, thank you?

Speaker 1 (03:50):
All right?

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Now, I know what this guy's.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Back split right down the middle.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, I need some backup against these diddo heads over here.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
All right, Well, let's go around the room and introduce
to everybody. He just stood up. He's getting ready. I
don't know what he's got going on, but I'm gonna
give him an extra second and I'm gonna adjust this
camera here because I don't know exactly what he's got,
something strange, something wild. I'm gonna let him warm up
as long as he possibly can.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
You can't really get that from here, but.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
It looks like stuff's falling over.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
He hit it with his uh Polish I couldn't remember
the name of his polish walking stick or whatever, and
lit up a festive display that says, pot of thunder. Wow,
look at that? Did you get that?

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Chris on your I believe.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
So in it a little? You can see it in yours?

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Here, get out of the way.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh yeah, maybe put it behind me if you can.
There it is.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
There, you go perfect, Yes, So there we go, pot
of Thunder. We're here. Nick's here. Welcome Nick, glad to
have you.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Thank you for having Yes, I've captured a video of
thirty three seconds long, not one second long.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Like last a.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Whoops, I don't know what happened there.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well, hey, it's Nick's immediate left. You want him. We
got him up to lift down and.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
They'll be just.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yes, put your hands together for the breakout star the
podcast medium. Chris ellis here. He is, He's ready, He's
ready for Pot of thunder and then he's ready to
immediately go to bed. That's what I'm gathering.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Oh yeah, yeah, it happens. Sometimes I'm my way up
the stairs, I just fall asleep.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
My daughter did that one day. I'm like, what are
you doing? I went up there, maybe fifteen twenty minutes
after sleeping on the landing. I'm like, it's not that
many more stairs.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Just couldn't make it, couldn't.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
I I could feel probably not of her complete right
mind at that point. Just yeah, I'm going that's it.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Well.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
I made her watch to think about how hard it
must be to be a shepherd, mostly the staying awake
through the inventory, you know.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, oh my goh yeah, difficult ladies and gentlemen. You
recognize that voice from a couple months back, maybe it
was a year ago. I'm sorry, we should have you
here more. But Randy makes candy.

Speaker 6 (06:49):
Randy makes candy Pa Sancha God confection. Wonder what he's
making now, Randy makes candy.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's Randy, welcome back.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
That's just the coolest thing. I mean, I've never I've
never had anybody do a song for me before, And
in fact, I told Nick, you know, after the podcast
that that's my ring tone.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Now, oh good good, that's what we want people to awesome.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
That's our differentiator with our guests. You come on the show,
you get a custom theme song, and when you come on,
it becomes yours and you can use as your ring tone,
your your entrance music, at work, meetings, whatever you want
to do, it becomes yours.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
How difficult was it to make it your ring tone
on your non Apple device?

Speaker 3 (07:54):
It was actually quite simple, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Advantage to.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Not to look up any hacks or anything.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
You gotta trick the Apple.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
You know, you got a fellow droid head on the
show here. Usually I'm the only one, and that includes
and we have Jericho and PJ on I'm like out
numbered five to one. Now I've finally got got even
keel over here of normal people and these Apple people.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
I will say though, that I am not what should
I say, I'm not up to date. I'm still rocking
the Samsung Galaxy S ten from you know, years ago.
But my daughter, my wife, you know, they have like
the twenty threes or twenty fives. I don't know the
twenty somethings. Yeah, here still works, That's what I wanted
to do. That's it's what I used to video all

(08:46):
the RMC episodes.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
So yeah, I recently recently updated to A twenty four.
And the only reason why I did this is because
my wife was upgrading. She's an Apple person, which whatever.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
A house divided, house divided, Chris has vanity license plates.
This says a house divided half half Google.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yes, and also just the only thing major benefit to
me for a newer phone is just a better battery life.
Other than that, I mean, what what what whiz bang
features can they possibly add to a phone that we
don't already have. I mean it's I think we've reached

(09:31):
a critical mass of phone benefits. I don't really know
what else the phone can do.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
For you holograms, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, So, I mean, I'll admit I've gone on the
you know, the website's been tempted. I'm, oh, man, look
at the look at the camera recorder. Then I go,
but look at that price.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah, it kills it.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
I could buy a lot of chocolate melting wafers with them.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, I just checked mine. I have the Apple iPhone,
which is I gonna say twenty nineteen something like that.
So hanging on to it as long as I possibly
can until it just doesn't work anymore. Yeah, Brady, Yeah,
I'm not doing this upgrade every year.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah. Again, as we were talking about this sort of
dynamic before we started rolling, so I could introduce it
into the conversation now. But these people who upgrade their
phones every year, these are the same people bitching about
the economy and how broke they are and I can
never get ahead and the one percent or whatever. Stop

(10:39):
upgrading your fucking phone every year. Okay, you don't need
to do that.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Your expensive Starbucks is now.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Oh goodness, Oh jeez. Well we were a couple of
weeks ago we were talking about KFC, the shocking price
everything is, man, just.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
Keep driving after they tell you the price.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
I went to the dollar tree today. Nothing's a dollar anymore.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, they can't keep up with it.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
It's a it's a dollar twenty five minimum.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Now.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
I literally just watched a video before I came on
here YouTube. A guy was showing you how to make
the KFC Festive Holiday sandwich or something like that. I
don't know, but it's it's a fried chicken patty with
stuffing and cranberry sauce and it's a sandwich.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
I'm into that.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Good. I've never heard of that before.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah, I'm into that.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
If you go through the drive through the eighteen dollars for.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
That, if they've even heard of it. That's the other
it happens.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
If you ordered on the app, there's no chance that
you're getting it. The apps and apps and physical stores
are too different entities.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
They're not connected.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
They have no idea what the other ways.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
They're all on an Apple network and there's no communication
happening there app right now. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
I look at this Tony uh, Tony here says I
have a drink every day from Starbucks six thirty three.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
That's pretty cheap. It's actually, what are you just getting
a black coffee? Over there at Craigs.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
He's getting a creamer.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
I had a ten dollars gifts card for Starbucks. So
a couple of months ago I went through the drive
through and ordered a pumpkin spice latte, which I haven't
had and I don't know several years. I don't usually
drink that. I usually just drink a regular coffee or whatever.
It was like eight something. No, Yeah, out of a
ten dollars gift card. I couldn't believe it. I was like,

(12:36):
all right, and then it was terrible to keep the
gift card. Yeah, so mistake. I thought I'd be festive
and it did not taste like it was supposed to
be consumed by humans.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Never even had one, wouldn't bother with it? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:55):
All right, Well here we are, guys. It's a big week.
I don't know why, but it is. I see treats.
I wonder if Nick and Randy were in collaboration here.
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Nick?

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Tell us what that's the case. Once again, Randy gave
me a couple of options. I chose one. He sent
me a recipe, and uh.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
I have yours, And.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
So I believe all four of us are going to
be trying this simultaneously the second time.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
Is it now a tradition or do we need one more?

Speaker 4 (13:30):
I would go with it being a tradition.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
I think if we say it's a tradition, it's a tradition. Yeah,
it's all right. Maybe we call it a new tradition.
How's that?

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah? What have I like it? Good?

Speaker 1 (13:54):
I see pistachios.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Chris probably already no, I didn't hold on it.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Okay, I see pistachios, I see crasins, is my guest.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
Yeah, you're correct, I see now, Randy, I forgot what
you were calling this with the fish name here.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
Well, it's the name of the recipe. Was the pistachio
crazin bark? That was bored to me? So I call
it the Christmas Crestacio crunch.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
There you go, much better, Crustacio.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
That's why you are who you are, Randy coming up
with these names.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Now I added a bit of a variation.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Uh oh, here we go. Oh no, wonder Randy, what
you what you were about to experience is something a
phenomenon that we refer to on the show as JBBS
Jones Brothers. Bullshit. You can't leave well enough alone. He's
gonna tanker with your recipe.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Well, Randy sent me the recipe that he was using
and then said that you were adding holiday sprinkles, correct,
which was not in the original recipe. So I thought, okay,
that's cool. He added like a little something to it.
So I was wondering, aloud, what can I add to this?
It's Crazin's pistachio chocolate white chocolate.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
What can I add to it.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
So my mother overheard me wondering this, and she said,
I was watching in a garden the other day and
she was putting orange zest on everything, and I thought
orange zest would probably be really good with this, so
I sprinkled a little orange zest on.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Top of it.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Orange berry is a thing.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Yeah, yeah, So I guess we're going to try it
and see if this and see if I.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Well, if he says no, I'm not eating it. If
he says no, I'm.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
All right, well my mom should get the credit. But yeah,
it does seem like a good idea.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
All right, we all want to turn me on to
the original recipe anyway, So.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
Of that, how can we go wrong? So there's a
don't know if you could see the little orange zest on there, but.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Delightful, Randy, do you make candy for every holiday?

Speaker 3 (16:17):
I make candy every week?

Speaker 1 (16:18):
So yeah, okay, so every week regardless.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
I mean, if there were two holidays in a week,
one would probably get skipped. But yeah, yeah, and if
I find a holiday that kind of inspires me, then
I'll make something specific for that holiday. You're like, if
it's National Cocoa Day or you know, whatever, it happens
to me, which just was last week by the Oh
really but yeah, but yeah, I do candy every week,

(16:43):
so often it's tied into a holiday, like you know, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving,
Valentine's Day, whatever, you know.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
You know what I've wondered, if you make, say that
you've got every week you're making something, does it start
to back up, like start to pile up on you?
And then you got to like, do you have do
you have some some people that you're like, hey, I
got some stuff if you want to swing by and
grab it.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Oh you mean does the candy bad? Okay, I thought
you mean, does it do the recipes back up?

Speaker 4 (17:16):
Oh no, No, no, Like they're like like just just
say you're making, you know how, whatever size, whatever amount
you're making every week, does it start to pile up
where it's like I've got stuff that I actually.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
Give away a lot of candy. So every week I'm
giving out candy to people and they appreciate that it
makes people happy.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
So what Nick's trying to ask you, Randy, is does
your family also say oh not this again?

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Well it's funny because it's just me and missus. Randy
makes candy and she's not a huge sweets person. Okay,
she's not a big fan, so which is nice because
she she's my my gauge. So you know, when I
make something, i'll give it to her. She'll take a bite,
she'll tell you what she thinks m hm. And you know,

(18:04):
usually she'll say, yeah, it's good, but sometimes she'll take
a second bite. Yeah, exactly, yes.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, that's when you know you've got a winner.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
This is this is what this is the one.

Speaker 4 (18:18):
So my wife's usually my gauge too, and it usually
starts with before I even make it, No, don't do that.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
When Nick goes through the list of ingredients.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
When I when I just when I just tell her
what I want to do, No, I don't think you know,
Please don't do And.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
She sees the garlic clove come out.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
The black garlic is getting minced.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
No, why are you doing that?

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Nick?

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Who's going to eat that?

Speaker 4 (18:44):
I really like this.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
That's really good.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
This is really good. I really I love this combination.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Definitely, uh detect the orange zest.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
Yeah it works.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
If this was on some kind of dish in a
large quantity, you know, at a Christmas celebration or something,
it would be dangerous for me, I would just eat
that instead of anything else.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
And I just I'm a huge pistachio fan.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Oh yeah, well, I mean it's you know, the bark
is because I'm a big texture guy. So it's chewy
and it's crunchy.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
So I like those layers. And then it's sweet and
it's salty. So I'm real big on the contrasts. And
sometimes you know, you get just like a good chocolate
fudge or something and it's and it's good. But once
in a while you want to, I want to mix
it up a little.

Speaker 4 (19:33):
Bit, and it's this has contrast texture wise and flavor wise,
so it's win win.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah. I do like the orange idea because the craneber
already has some tartness, but then you get that different
partners from the orange peel.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
Like a slight a slight bitterness too. I think when
you do, it would be very good. Yeah, well done,
All right, well done, Randy. I think we forgot slunch
of I've got I've got another bikelow and slun brethren.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
What's your sorry? Your go to term of endearment? What
is it? Thank you?

Speaker 4 (20:20):
Confectionary?

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Randy?

Speaker 1 (20:25):
All right, So here we are, and the theme of
Nick and Randy conspiring together continues. Yes, so what do
we do with Nick?

Speaker 4 (20:37):
I asked, Randy, are you good with h me sending
you some stuff off of our list, just to kind
of streamline the process so we don't have to text
it back and forth.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
And he said sure, mm hmmm.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
So I sent him four songs that have been submitted
to us.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Just songs you picked randomly or how how.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
We'd had a discussion a while back before the first
time Randy was on, and he had kind of told
me some of the artists styles of music that he prefers,
and so I just kind of cruised the list and
I'm like, Okay, like, I think, you know this, this
would probably work, This would probably like the you know,
something that I think would appeal right, and uh, you

(21:27):
know he he right away picked one. He went with
the one that I would call the wild card.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
I didn't take him long.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Well, there were there were a couple of reasons I
went for that one. I mean, you had cables on
the list that I'm a big fan of that song.
As soon as I saw the top of the list,
I thought, oh, this is the one that I got
to the last one and I went, no, this is okay.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Well, Nick, do you want to do the introduction?

Speaker 4 (21:56):
I can, I can. I have the album title. It's
actually the same as the song, but.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
I could do it. All right, Let's turn the microphone
over to Christier Cole.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
This one's called Taken Care of Christmas off of Taken
Care of Christmas by the band Randy Bachman.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Oh wait a minute, So Randy Bachman did a later
and later in.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
Career two thousand and eight, I believe in my then
this was submitted to us from the lovely Nathan Bowjery
of the Deep Purple podcast.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Okay, m h, yeah, I've never heard of this.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
I never had either, but same, I desperately need to
hear it.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Yeah, I love I love the concept.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
What is his first name?

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Randy?

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Oh, he's Randy also figure Okay, And how is it
on here under the last name Bachman? I don't know.
I was gonna say if there was a comment here,
but I can't find it.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
Oh no, I don't think he sent a comment. Okay,
I was looking before. Yeah, okay, and I think there
so I know on YouTube there's a version of just
Randy Bachman. But the one you're probably gonna find. He's
got a female co vocalist and I forget her name
off the top of my head, So that's probably the
one we're gonna end up listening to. He's got he's

(23:29):
got a guest vocalist.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
With him taking care of Christmas. There you go featuring someone.
We'll see who. Here's a whole album.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
Huh yeah, he made He made a whole Christmas album apparently.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Twenty fourteen taking care of Business.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
I think I read sorry, taking care of Christmas two
thousand and eight. I saw him. But maybe this is
like a I don't know, maybe the original.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
He might have done the one song and then done
yeah all the cause these are you know, rocking around
the Christmas Tree and blue Christmas and all.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
So, Randy, what were your reasons for jumping at this one?

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Well, I'm a big bto fan first off, and I mean,
I'm assuming this is going to be a Christmas song
that sounds like taking care of business. Maybe I'm wrong,
I'm hopeful. And also, you know, got to support the other.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Randy's yeah, Andy's looking out for each other.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
Huh yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
So the friend like how Apple people gather, gravitate towards
each other.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Just like it.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, right right.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
I'm noticing in the chat that a couple of our
friends here have said that it's actually pronounced Bachman.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Do we get out of here? I've never heard that.
Nobody has ever heard that. It's always been Bachman, Turner Old,
I've never heard of Just stop with that. Who said that?

Speaker 1 (24:56):
It's from two of our friends Fielding Fowler and Bobby.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Boot them both out of the chat. Stop spewing your
bullshit on the chat. Just be quiet with that.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Maybe it's pronounced.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah, exactly, ohvere drive You know what, what other words
are you just going to tinker with for your own satisfaction?

Speaker 4 (25:25):
Frankenste Yeah, that's.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
Just enough. It's Bachmann.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
No more discussion about it. Have you ever bring it
up again? You booted out of the fucking chat? Out
of here? Have you got christ who would even mention that?
Get out of here with that?

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Have you guys ever noticed how there's you know, a
capital city from some other country or whatever, then you
know it a certain way your whole life. Then whenever
there's a conflict in that city and it's on the
news all the time, the reporters are pronouncing it a
new way, like, wait a minute, I've gone this many
decades knowing it as this, and suddenly this order with
the boots on the ground, there's a new pronunciation for

(26:09):
this city.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
It's like four ways of saying katar catter, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Or whatever.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
Yeah, yeah, there's a there's a good it's on YouTube.
I showed it to Andy. Actually a few weeks ago.

Speaker 7 (26:21):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
Comedian Brian Reagan has a has a bit where he's
talking about being at a party and someone says jingis
Khan and he's like, oh, no, perfect.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
This is how bored people are now. They just have
to re pronounce names just for the sake of doing it.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Back, Man, Bobby Root's trying to lie and say it
wasn't It wasn't him, it was He's saying, vindicate me, Andy, No,
you said it.

Speaker 4 (26:51):
I mean, is it there? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
I mean, if it's there, it's there, I don't know.
I don't have to tell you.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Well, maybe he was being funny. Here says it right here?
What is this Rihan or Bobby? What does this say?

Speaker 4 (27:06):
It looks like he was making a joke. I think,
well he might be vindicated.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Whatever it's Bachmann. Let's move on from that ridiculousness. Well, yeah,
so it looks like it's the opening track on this album.
So it's a twist on uh, you know, an original
bto song, and then the rest of it. It just
looks like your typical Christmas and stuff. Which Christmas album

(27:35):
is a guaranteed seller. I don't care who you are.
You put out an album of singing all the you know,
classic songs, you're gonna move units. People just can't get
enough Christmas albums. Everybody should put one out, strictly from
a business standpoint.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
The radio stations that, you know, nothing but Christmas music
for the week before Christmas, so they got somehow.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
They start after fucking Halloween over here over here, my
friend Randy, But yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
Don't see Halloween in front of Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
But yeah, it's starting starting November first. It's twenty four
hour Christmas music for two freaking months.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
Yeah. That brings up an interesting thing. I don't know
who's like a major artist that never really has put
out or recorded a Christmas song. There aren't many. I
don't think Michael Jackson in adulthood never had. But they're right,
Jackson five stuff.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah they did.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
Okay, maybe I don't know Bob Dylan, I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Well he did.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
He has a good Christmas album, does he?

Speaker 4 (28:50):
Okay, I'm not familiar.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
With it, does he?

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Really?

Speaker 3 (28:52):
Though?

Speaker 1 (28:54):
It's his best work, his best work. That tells you
what I think of Bob Dylan.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
It's Bob dialog. Yeah, get it right?

Speaker 4 (29:05):
Sorry, Okay, So this, yeah, this has definite possibilities. Here
made me laugh when I when I saw it, just
just the just the concept made me laugh mm hmm
with joy.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
I'm looking over here.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Not in a mocking way, not really, No, I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
I mean it makes it's it's a great play on words.
It makes sense. And we're all familiar with the original
song at all time classic.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
Yeah. And in preparation for this, I did just a
little reading up on Randy Bachmann and uh, I will
admit to being pretty ignorant to uh just how much
he's done and like, how how much he has studied

(29:59):
as a guitar player. Did you know he studied with
Lenny bro the jazz guitarist.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
It's Lenny Brewed.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
Yeah, it might be brew Bro, but him and then
he studied briefly with Les Paul Kidding. So, I mean
he's got quite a pedigree Guess Who and all that stuff,
you know.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yeah, yeah I didn't wasn't aware of that. But I
mean he's been uh like you bring up the guess who?
He's written and or participated in at least twenty all
time classic rock stables. Yeah, I mean pretty speaks for itself.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Pretty amazing.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
He has that big of a catalog. Huh, I'm not
that familiar.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
I know he's the guess who in Bakwan Terminal Overdrive.
I'm gonna think it's at least twenty well, like you know,
old classic rock war horses, you know.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Okay, all right, I'm just looking at chat here. Paul
Gilbert did a great Christmas record, Okay, check that out.
Rob Halford did an amazing Christmas album Halford three Winter Songs.
So is there Halford one and two? Also think so
so three is the one?

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Though?

Speaker 4 (31:16):
Yeah? You know you know who else has a very
interesting Christmas album?

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Christopher Lee. Oh I remember that.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
It was like a metal Christmas album with Christopher Lee
apparently a big metal guy.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
How strange?

Speaker 4 (31:28):
Yeah that makes sense, I guess.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
I guess I.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Mean it goes with the not the visuals. I guess
like the characters he's played would match the lyrics of
a lot of metal If that makes sense.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Maybe that's a lot of his movies and put a
metal soundtrack behind.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah for sure, Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
I want to do that.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Be right back. Okay, well, why don't we take a
quick commercial break, We'll be right back with Taking Care
of Christmas. I love it already, of course, I have

(32:23):
no problem with it. But it is funny how to
let everyone know this is a Christmas song? You just
jingle some bells and then have someone say ho, ho ho,
we're off and running. Everybody's happy.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
A tiny bit of foreshadowing. There's a sound clip coming
where that's exactly what was done to make sure that
you knew it was a Christmas version of.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
There you go, taking all the boxes.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
All right, let's keep going.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
This is gonna be pretty obscure, so I apologize in advance.
But whenever I hear this song, I think of the

(33:18):
short lived post Seinfeld the Michael Richards Show, Yes, because
there was a scene in it where his radio in
his car is kind of malfunctioning, and this song is
on and it gets turned up really loud, and he
tries to turn it down, but the knob breaks off
and he can't turn it down, and he's in a convertible,

(33:39):
so he's trying to play it off to the other
cars that are coming past. It just reminds me it's
just yeah, it's pretty funny physical comedy.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, he just has to live with its role with it. Basically,
he has to.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
He has to make it look like it's on purpose. Yeah. Yeah,
I like that. So just do one of those things
where you hear you hear a song and it brings
to mind some thing completely random that you saw once
in your life thirty years ago.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah. We talked about that show a couple of times
on here over the last few years.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
Perhaps, Yeah, Tim Meadows was on it. Yeah, Yeah, some
people that we enjoy.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
It's kind of a I don't know, the head scratcher
as to how that didn't last at least.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
A few years, kind of like the Dana Carvey show
that everybody revers now.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Yeah, nobody knows why it just didn't more.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Does everybody on it is super famous?

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yeah? Right, And a friend of mine was talking about
the Friends spin off Joey. Oh yeah, lasted maybe a season,
but there was now there. They filmed three seasons of it.
So the previously unaired episodes are available on streaming. Oh really,
he says, it's a pretty good show. I don't know.

(34:47):
I never watched it, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
That's cool that they were just like whatever, and let's
just put it out and see what happens.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
It exists, why not, you know, I mean.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
It's so much easier but content out nowadays. Yeah, it
was back in the day.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
Yeah, just put the whole season out all at once.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Yeah, and I hear the previously on unaired Joey episodes
are available on pay per view. So you can make
apple paper exactly a la carte if you will. But
he's he's he said, it's a pretty good show. I
don't know, mode, Yeah, right there you go.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
All right, let's get to the vocals. Here's the time
of year.

Speaker 5 (35:36):
Can't you get some paper and a pen and rider
Christmas later Tuesday, Nick, send.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
It to the Love too too.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
It's workshop and the snowbas to work on it quick.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
So I see, Beverly, this is going on my playlist
right now.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Fast.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Yeah, there's no doubt that first the first line, Get
some paper and a pen and write yourself a letter
to Saint Nick. I love I love it already.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
So this woman singing the duet with him is Beverly
Mayhood or Mahood. I don't want to pronounce it wrong.

Speaker 4 (36:13):
And let's ask the chat how do we do this here?

Speaker 1 (36:16):
But Irish born Canadian country music singer. There you go?

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (36:21):
And Bachman is a Winnipeger I believe, yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
And you know what, Actually, we got a message here
from our friend Jeff, who's from Winnipeg. He said, Bto
is from Winnipeg, and we do say it like Bachman.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
I don't care. We don't care about your input on
how to pronounce the name. It's been pronounced Bachman on
American radio for decades enough you will get thrown out
of the chat if you say it again. I'm not
even joking enough. Oh, it's like that.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
Whole you know the picture format GIF. Oh, yes, pronounce it.

Speaker 4 (37:01):
I just spell it because I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
But isn't isn't the G stands for graphic?

Speaker 6 (37:06):
It does?

Speaker 3 (37:07):
It's a guy who originated it pronounced it with the song.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
I don't give a damn about that. You can't play.
The fucking word is graphic. It's got a hard g.
I don't care what the dick heads fuck that guy, ridiculous.
That's a great analo. It's a perfect analogy. We were

(37:32):
gonna have him on next week. No, fuck him, it'll
never be at the show.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
His theme song is I get out fuck you. It's
actually jet out, Yeah right, jet Out.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
I think his first name is Jerry spelled it the
g It's stupid, that dumb ass. Huh.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
All right, let's keep going, guys.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
Out.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Santa, you've been good.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Be don that feeds you should and you wait for
his visit Christmas Eve.

Speaker 5 (38:07):
If you're in bad man, you have DV Watson.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Sorry, sorry, I just I gotta bring up something real quick.
This works out great. The first porson of lyrics ties
into my contribution to a segment we'll be doing later
on this episode. All right, so yeah, I'm excited about that.
Works out good, very good.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
My understanding is Randy will be participating in said segment.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Love it all right.

Speaker 5 (38:41):
He puts some special toys under your tree, and you'll
be taking care of Christmas every day.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
Taken care of Christmas, take care.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Of Christmas do anyway?

Speaker 1 (38:56):
Yeah, Every Christmas to you all, and you all.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
A good guy.

Speaker 4 (39:07):
Is it wrong of me to say I like this
better than the original?

Speaker 2 (39:11):
No, it's not wrong.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
I'm loving this.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
I love it. I had no idea this existed, but
it's a no brainer. In fact, I'm surprised it took
this long twenty fourteen to put it out.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
When was the original seventies early early seventies.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Yeah, somebody's probably going to call you a musical blasphemer,
but we don't care.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
That's okay.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
If they haven't by now, then I don't know what
they're waiting how much?

Speaker 2 (39:34):
This is the whole theme of this episode is blasphemy
talking about back then get the fuck out of here
with that?

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Did anybody catch what he said? Right before the break?

Speaker 4 (39:45):
There was one little Merry Christmas tall on to all
good night.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
Yeah, and there was there was like you know, and
there was like workout.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
I think he said, be good. Oh, I think that's
what he said.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
He's made no wrong moves thus far the song.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
No, no, no, it's he hasn't. And I also like
to play on he said, it's very similar to the
original lyrics. If you're in bed by nine, you will
give him lots of time to put some special toys
under your turth.

Speaker 4 (40:17):
That's fantastic, said that already, Yeah he said that.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Okay, that's good.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
It's the original is get to work by nine. Yeah,
so brilliantly, Yeah, brilliantly.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
This is good. I'm a fan of this.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yeah, no brain or I that. The only mystery is
how it took until twenty fourteen for this to be created.
But sometimes you know the great idea that they're obvious,
but they just come to you.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
When they come to you, you know, it's like putting
orange zest.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
There you go. Another perfect analogy from Randy, I thank you.

Speaker 6 (41:04):
Johnny wants some motor schooner ud he wants a new computer.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
There he wants some new guitars from Machinet.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
Laddy wants a new Corptte CD player, round cassette.

Speaker 6 (41:15):
Mommy wantsn't waunting Karende Doc gets it, wants your care
for a lot of joys.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
It's up to you to fill their empty plates.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
It's the time you share with a needy everywhere.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Let's the reader bank of Christmas grant so.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
This positive message there, Yeah, this this pairs nicely with
like the James Brown Christmas song in Santa Claus go
straight to the ghetto. Okay, they're talking about talking about
helping people who are needy.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Yeah, it's nice. It took a nice turn there because
I went to the Corvette and Diamond ring. I know
immediately even a cassette player.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
Yeah, that's gonna probably run.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
You know, it's Christmas kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Yeah, he wants a cassette player in his corvette.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
Was that he did say that? They said cat Corvette,
CD player and cassette. Nowadays you want Cotte, Yeah, you
want Apple Play and Android auto or whatever.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
They remember when it was written, you know, oh, I know.

Speaker 4 (42:20):
Yeah, But I mean now if you ask for a
cassette player, well you.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Can't even get a CD player anymore.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
May be coming back, guys, they're they're cool now, but
I don't I don't know that they're I don't think
you're going to get a vehicle you're gonna easily get
a cassette player.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
And I mean you might some of the like you know,
pioneers or the aftermarket the stereo replacement units might do it,
but you're not going to get one in a stock
vehicle nowadays.

Speaker 4 (42:55):
I know that sometimes for record store Day they've been
doing that cassettes. Yeah, like it's not just vinyl now
that you can can get some limited edition cassettes on
that day as well.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Not gonna lie, I kind of missed my A track, Mmm.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Well it was. We talked about this a few episodes ago.
Our guest did a whole book about A tracks and
that was my first intro to purchasing music because I
got to hand me down eight track player from my
cousin and just that was my That was my jam.
Terrible medium, you know, with the songs cut in half

(43:35):
and the song order totally out of whack, but when
when you got no other option, it does gets the
job done.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Yeah, I don't know what what do you guys think
about cassettes coming back? Is it necessary?

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Well, it's definitely not necessary, but yeah, is.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
It the uh freeze dried skittles of music world?

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Exactly? What?

Speaker 1 (44:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
I think it's just it's something to collect if if
you know that strikes your fancy. We still have some
old ones at at our parents' house. I sold a
couple of those, which were they mine?

Speaker 1 (44:17):
In your business, Let's roll the music.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Answer is yes, christ.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Christmas, Cary way will be care of Christmas.

Speaker 6 (44:36):
Right Harry Christmas.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Having heard that last verse, taking care of Christmas means
a whole different thing right now. Yeah, you're taking care
of Christmas for those people who have Christmas. Otherwise I didn't.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
I It's like I wasn't expecting it to get very
deep at all. But yeah, that that does make sense.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Yeah, that's that's actually pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
That's nice.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
You can always count on a Canadian to get off
the sheer materialism of the holiday and get to the
real root of it. That was an American artist. They
never would have gone there. No, just a bunch of
consumers would have rattled off every Apple product.

Speaker 4 (45:22):
That's available, Like we didn't start the fire, but just
through exactly the list of Apple products, like the fucking
what was it?

Speaker 2 (45:33):
The Apple sock that you put what what do you
put in? And which the advice your phone? It's like
three hundred people. I thought I sent it to our group,
but I guess not. I think I'll post it. Well
it's yeah, it's just a it's it's it's a it's

(45:56):
a textile holder for your phone. And it's like three
hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
It's called the iPhone pocket, but yes, that's the technical name.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
I think I can get my mom to crochet, you
guys some of those if you wanted them, well.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
You can get anybody to crochet.

Speaker 4 (46:16):
Put it on Etsy. And you have a business apparently.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Well I don't know if your mom commands the price
of isy miaki. But that's what's going on here. It's
a whatever you call that, a collaboration between a brand
and a designer. It's two and thirty dollars isy miaki.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Pronounce it right, Yeah, it sounds like sounds like that
designer is also from Winnipeg, just by the name christ
ridiculous discussion anyway.

Speaker 7 (46:54):
All right, Yes, taken care of Christmas, taken care of Christmas,

(47:28):
Taken care of Christmas, Taken care of Christmas.

Speaker 5 (47:35):
Taken care of Christmas, taking care of Christmas, taken care
of Christmas. And Jill right, dear Christmas to you all
that you want to come every day, Get care of Christmas.
Taken care of Christas, taken care of pastors.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
It could have gone on longer.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Yeah, yeah, that was a quick one.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Yeah it felt quick. It was a full It's three
point thirty four, but it felt.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
Like it was maybe there's a live version where he's
playing to the crowd and stuff.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
You know. Yeah, I'm not letting this go because I'm
reading in the chat here. So Fielding Fouler, the one
who started this Bachman trouble. He's on his way out,
so he says Randy that Randy, Randy's son is the
one who told me. They say it Bachman met him
at the airport in Vegas?

Speaker 4 (48:50):
Right, Chris, are you saying it should have stayed in Vegas?

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Whatever? Who cares?

Speaker 1 (48:59):
At this point, he's probably choking. It's actually blackman, it's not.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
I don't know, all right. It might be like when
Dave Grohl told the guy I can't did FO Fighters?
He said, how's how's the Foo Fighters?

Speaker 4 (49:18):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Yeah, like Christopher Walkers.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
Christopher walk said, how do you guys pronounce your name?
He said, I knew he was how he's going to
do it? So I told him it was Foo Fighters. Yeah,
the docman Son was just messing with the guy.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
That could be it.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
That's what I'm gonna go with.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
All right, it's time for us to vote sweet Surrender
or kicking the crotch.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Nick?

Speaker 1 (49:41):
How about you go first.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
Oh, come on now, very peppermint sweet Surrender. Hell yeah, yeah,
I'm so glad that that Nathan Uh brought this to
our attention. Yeah, this was such a fun track. I

(50:04):
it's like, like Chris said earlier, maybe Andy said, I
don't remember, but it's amazing that it took as long
as it did for this play on words to materialize.
But it's just it's so great and and it's it's
got the uh. Like Randy mentioned, it takes a bit

(50:27):
of a turn, and it's a turn for the better
A lot of a lot of times a song can
take a turn for the worse at least, you know,
lyrically speaking. And we it's just it's just fun. If
you don't, if you didn't smile listening to this, then
I don't understand why.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
All right, Chris, how about you, oh sweet Surrender?

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Of course? Yes, hell yeah yeah. This one should immediately
be added to your holiday playlist and you cut it
on at a party or just having a gathering or whatever.
This comes on, it's gonna light up the room. People

(51:15):
are gonna respond to it, and they're gonna be wondering
why they've never heard of it or heard it before,
and you're going to turn people onto it because you know, again,
let's face, how many how many versions of the Old
War Horses do you really need to hear? But everybody

(51:36):
comes out with them, everybody scoops up these Christmas albums,
so I understand it you come out with something like this.
This is it's actually clever, works with the original material
so perfectly, and it has an altruistic message. I mean,
it's a it's a slam dunk. As Andy would say, all.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
Right, Randy, what do you think sweet surrender or kick
in the crotch?

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Randy makes Candy sweet Surrender? I mean this was amazing, yes.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Hell yeah, So first time hearing it, what did you
think it was?

Speaker 3 (52:20):
It was so much more than I expected. I knew
it was going to hit the nostalgia buttons, but it
made me far happier to listen to this than I
expected it too.

Speaker 4 (52:33):
That's like I couldn't stop smiling during it. I think
this is great. It's just so it's so fun, Like
sometimes you hear a song and it really captures that.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
It totally did here.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Yeah, it's clever and it's touching, and it's classic rock
and roll, and I mean I don't know how you
beat that.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
No, you don't. That's the perfect formula, the precise elects
if you will, yes of holiday music success.

Speaker 4 (53:03):
Let's see Andy may disagree.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
Andy, what do you think Sweet Surrender? Hell? Yeah, yeah,
I don't know what else. You guys kind of covered it.
It's exactly. Uh, it's you know, it's intentionally kind of
cheesy or whatever, but it's not.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
Bad.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Does that make sense. It's it's more like fun chezy
and that's a good thing.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
So it's intentionally cheating.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Yeah, but it did Batman TV show exactly and enjoyable
campy if you will.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Yeah, right, And you can tell that Randy and is
his cohort on the vocals. Everybody's in on the joke
or in on the whole play on words thing, and
they're bought into it. It's like you can kind of tell,
like if it was forced and he wasn't really into it,
you could probably be able to hear that in the performance.

(54:00):
What you're hearing is the opposite. They're totally bought into it.
Loved the idea clearly, How could you not love the
idea of turning taking care of business into a Christmas song?
And they nailed it.

Speaker 4 (54:13):
Just when I saw the title, instant smile, laughter, I love.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
What is this? I have to know?

Speaker 1 (54:20):
And it's you know, Randy Bachman doing It's not like
it's someone else that the idea and did it. Yeah,
so that adds to it.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
Dick head named Backman stepping in and uh, you know
former Mets third baseman Wally Backman recording it. You know
this is not that's not what's happening here.

Speaker 4 (54:39):
It kind of I'm trying to think of another example.
The closest one I could think of is where it's
kind of like tongue in cheek but it works and
it's fun. Is when Twisted Sister. Did I think it
was Oh, come all you faithful, Yes, but it was
basically to the musical track of We're not going to
take It.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
It's the same melody. Yeah, yeah, two songs have the
exact same melody and the lyrics, which when you hear
We're not going to take it, it doesn't occur to you.
But it's kind of like this where they come out
with it and you're like, oh, yeah, that's the exact
same vocal melody. That was a no brainer.

Speaker 4 (55:19):
So yeah, yeah, that's that's that's the other one that's
popping to mind where I think it checks those various boxes.
You have the same artist kind of playing around with
their biggest hit.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
That's again that that's another not This one's a no
brainer for the plan words. That's a no brainer because
it's the identical melody.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
You have to do it, all right, Look at this.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
I got a question for you.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Paul Stanley wants to know if Taken Care of Christmas
is what he's should have been doing in twenty fourteen
or two thousand and eight or whatever it was when.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
This came out.

Speaker 4 (56:07):
Well, Kiss never did a Christmas song. Surprised, Yeah, that's surprised.
There's the recordings of them doing harmony, just vocal harmony
to white Christmas.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
Yeah, in the eighties, but it is there. Yeah, I
think we've played it on here, but that was many
years ago, probably more than ten. Episode thirty four. That
would probably be the one, that first Christmas one. Yeah,
so yeah, that exists. And then there's like a line
of merchandise Mary Chistmas stuff, but they've never put out

(56:43):
any official Yeah song, it's crazy. Hey, maybe that's what's
coming next. It's time, all right, So time to put
in our votes. Let's do this match games Ale think,
but don't share it yet.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
M hmmm.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
It has to be unanimous. Mine in NIX is in.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Yeah, yep, mine's in.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
Sure, I'll say mine is in. Randy, Randy's good. So
what order do you want to do?

Speaker 4 (57:23):
I guess we go h we can let Randy start
us off and just you want to go around the
room me, Chris.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
You I think we can do that all right, Randy.
If you think this should be elevated to the next level, to.

Speaker 4 (57:39):
The rock and roll candy cane, to the slightly.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Bent rock and roll candy cane, you say rock. If
you don't think so, say no boner when you're rock roll,
are right, I'm sorry, take it back, take it back
and roll boner.

Speaker 4 (58:23):
Tum the thumb thing amazing. I can't trump that, Pete.
He's doing the thumb.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (58:31):
That's that's when you know you've just legend, you've lost
it when you're.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
Pointing at yourself.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
You're familiar with that sports moment, Randy, Pete Webber the bowler.
He was getting being heckled by like this fourteen year
old kid and a championship bowling match. Me went out
and nailed down the victory and just went berserk on
this kid, right right right there on the approach. One

(59:02):
of the all time class sports moments ever.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Yeah, so Nick, you're adding it to your list immediate.
It's already on.

Speaker 4 (59:12):
I grabbed my phone while we were listening, and it's
it's on there.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Wow. Yeah, that's a that's a. It's a most you
have to throw no.

Speaker 4 (59:20):
Quest I mean first verse, I think.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
I was.

Speaker 4 (59:24):
I was like, yeah, putting this one.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
Gave me a little bit of anxiety. I'm not a
big fan of wrapping anymore. You still like it? I
don't like it anymore. But no, no, it's too much,
too much work.

Speaker 4 (59:36):
I got something to present.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
I got a gadget.

Speaker 4 (59:40):
You meant the hip hop Andy's done spitting rhymes.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Yeah, I've had enough.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
It's a shame. He was so good.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
The game no longer needs him.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
That's a shame.

Speaker 4 (59:54):
I bought a gadget today and it's it's like a
tube and it's got a little part cut out with
a razor. Okay, so it's almost like a tube version
of a letter opener. Okay, And you're supposed to put
the tube of wrapping paper in it and then you

(01:00:14):
just kind of slide it up.

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
It's supposed to cut the paper. Okay, so that's supposed
to speed that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
I haven't tried it yet.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
It's like a saran wrap kind of thing.

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
It's it's it's it's only maybe like I don't know,
four or five inches long. So you just it's just
kind of for your hand. About that, you know, and
then yeah, I guess you put you pull out however
much you need, and then you kind of you wrap,
you wrap it around the tube and there it goes.
We'll see if it works.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
I can't wait to hear that sound effect from Nick.
After it works, I'll let you know next week. Let
us I might be all day long. Let us know
how accurate. Yeah, okay, well if you disagree with us,
we you're crazy. Yeah. I see a little bit in
the kron Oh come on, fucking wait it is. I see.

(01:01:03):
Why even have a second round? Why even have a list?

Speaker 4 (01:01:07):
Christopher, I'm told by our friend Tony Griggs add Billie Squire,
Christmas is the time to say I love you to
your playlist. Oh, I'll check it out later.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Okay, it's not a bad son, I'll check that out.

Speaker 4 (01:01:23):
I don't think I'm familiar with it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
Well, you know what I'm familiar with.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Oh yes, that's right.

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
Each and every year, Randy, if you'll indulgees for just
a moment.

Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
Each and every year on December sixth, St. Nicholas Day,
Saint Nicholas always comes a little early, brings us a
little gift here in the studio. It's happened every year
for twelve years. Thirteen years. This would be the thirteenth time.
Hasn't missed one yet.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
Oh really, that's right.

Speaker 4 (01:01:53):
Yeah, and you know what, they've taken care of Saint
Nicholas Day. So mine's addressed to Nick Nick, Nick Pollock.
Merry Christmas, Love Saint Nick.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
Yeah, I've got America's little brother on there. Look at that,
I've got a gift receipt.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Wow, I've got Chris Gunslinger.

Speaker 4 (01:02:15):
Nice appropriate for your intro today.

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
Oh yes, look at that's Randy gingerbread Man. That I
got broken gingerbread Man. Look at that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:29):
Oh yeah, he's got some crumbsoness and there's something else
in there.

Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
I don't know what this is.

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
Confused, there's confusion here here. I think Randy will appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (01:02:45):
I got, I got a bag with paper towel in it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:02:50):
Maybe I'm trying to figure. Yeah, I'm trying to.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
In case you're eating this your chocolate bar here and
you need to do that. Look, it's build a Santa, see, Randy,
They're coming up with new ways to innovate.

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
The bar cool.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
See the bar is like out of sequence or out
of order pieces and you break it all up and
you build the Santa and then you eat him.

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
Jigsawan.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
Do you ever, Randy, have you ever done the what
do they call it the Infinity chocolate trick or whatever?
That is where you cut the little corner off.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
And oh and supposedly with chocolate.

Speaker 4 (01:03:27):
Oh yeah, with the chocolate bar, it's like you cut
it diagonally at one end. And yeah, these are nice too.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
It's a lovely p Yeah. What's with the bag with
the paper.

Speaker 4 (01:03:37):
That must be for the chocolate.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
I think that was for the chocolate. If you're eating it,
very considerate of mess Nicholas here taking care.

Speaker 3 (01:03:45):
Of this in your hand and not in your mouth.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
That's next.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
Well yeah, yeah, I think the Hershey's people were like, look,
we can't compete with Randy on taste.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
What can we do to.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Separate ourselves from Randy. Let's come up with a new trick.
And they came up with these Santa pieces, build a Santa.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
There's still going to be number two in marketing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
Mm hmmm, I've got the gingerbread man sucks here.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
Well, you know what I I was a chaperone for
a field trip today for my daughter in third grade,
and one of the kids in our group was talking
about how Santa Claus is fake, there's no Santa. And
I said, hey, if you don't believe in Santa, Santa's
not going to bring you anything. Here we are at

(01:04:31):
the age we are believing in Santa, believing in Saint Nicholas,
and look at that they'll bring in us stuff. So
it's up to you. If you don't want to believe,
then don't get a gift. That's it. That's what I say.
Be empty handed with your no believe in ass man.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
That's the That kid is this same type of persons.
Like you know, they over dubbed Kiss Alive in the studio.
They fixed it up afterwards, So yeah, everybody knows that
nobody cares the finished product is awesome. Keep your mouth shut.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
Stop ruining it for me.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
You know his name is really pronounced backman, fuck you
just nobody cares. Just stop.

Speaker 4 (01:05:18):
Oh man, Randy, have you got a few minutes to
uh participate in our final segment of the evening?

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Heck yeah, he said he had something prepared.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
All right, Well, here we go, everybody's favorite segment. It's official.
The jokes come out, the.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
Jokes, the jokes come out.

Speaker 4 (01:05:53):
All right, Nick, you're gonna go first. I could go first,
unless some one else would prefer to. But I could
break the ice. All right, I guess I can do one,
maybe two this week. How many you got, Well, I
got three, but I'd like to I'd like to stretch

(01:06:17):
him a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
How many, Randy? How many do you have too? Okay,
I've got one. I'm a quality over quantity guy there.

Speaker 4 (01:06:26):
All right, I think I'll just maybe I could just
throw out one this week then and ran all right.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
Yeah, we got to stretch this out for the whole month,
you know, just to pace it out.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
So let's go, Nick, Randy, Chris Randy. How's that?

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
Love it?

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
Perfect?

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:06:43):
At the Big Annual North Pole Peppermint Bowl football game.
How was a reindeer able to sack Santa Claus multiple times?
Santa being the QB. How was a reindeer able to
sack him multiple times during this game?

Speaker 7 (01:07:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
The reindeer was blitzing.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
I should have got that's pretty good, all right, Randy,
give us one of yours.

Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
Well, I'm not really a joke writing guy, but you
know I gave it a shot because you know, this is.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
The perfect form.

Speaker 4 (01:07:30):
That's what we're all doing.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
So this, this persone is it's just a riddle. It's
very simple. I expect you guys all to get at
this far. What is Pretty Kruger's favorite Christmas turn?

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
Mmmmm?

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
I don't I mean to say, I don't know. You
guys decide you know something. I'm I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:07:57):
No nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
A nightmare before Christmas? Is that it?

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
It's sleigh ride?

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
Okay, get it, y'all. It's a good one, Chris. Okay.
According to a recent survey of Santa's elves. A recent
survey of Santa's elves, what is their favorite Harrison Ford movie?

Speaker 4 (01:08:29):
Oh man, oh man?

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
Recent survey.

Speaker 4 (01:08:40):
I have no idea, but I like I like the
possibilities here, Randy, any.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
Thoughts on that survey says, clear and present, what's wrong
with slipping? I love that one was good.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
Hey, it's not me, it's the Yeah, I got a computer,
all right, Randy, take us home.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
Okay. Well, I'm hoping you guys are up on your
British slang because if not, I'm gonna fall right in
my face with this one.

Speaker 1 (01:09:14):
I think we'll be all right. I think we got it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:17):
So.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
I was talking with a British friend of mine the
other day and he told me what I thought was
an interesting bit of Christmas Tribune. And he said, you know,
Sat don't make his own toys. Mate a story about
him and and El was making toys all year round propabolics,
isn't it. I said, where do the toys come from?

(01:09:40):
Then he steals them from the shops and azemat to
the kids. I said, he steals them.

Speaker 7 (01:09:49):
He does.

Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
That's what we call him, Saint nick uh goes.

Speaker 4 (01:09:54):
I was actually thinking, is that is it gonna play
into the name Nick? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
Insane.

Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
That's a good one that you came up with.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
That one I did. That's really good. Yeah, that one's good.
They're all good.

Speaker 4 (01:10:08):
So I'm named after that. I'm named after cutting yourself
while shavings, stealing, stealing, I think.

Speaker 3 (01:10:15):
Yeah, I'm not going to tell you what I'm named after.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
That's another more British slang.

Speaker 1 (01:10:22):
Yeah, well, thank you, Randy. And can you tell everybody
where to find you, how you want them to follow you,
what they should do if they want to join the
Randy Verse.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
It's I'm on YouTube. That's the only place that I
exist at this point and probably from here on forward.
It's Randy Makes Candy. That's the name of the YouTube channel.
It's one episode pretty much every week, and uh, it's
just a place to come and learn how to make candy.
That my idea for making the channel was that I
think people are afraid to make candy because they think

(01:10:56):
it's hard, and it doesn't have to be. So pretty
much home recipes are accessible to everybody. Some I've found
elsewhere on the internet, and I always give credit. Some
came up on my own, But yeah, come join us,
can be a compadre.

Speaker 4 (01:11:12):
Love it, and I have to say it, like I've
said it several times on this podcast. My favorite YouTube channel,
Randy Makes Candy.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
You're very love it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
There you go, rave reviews from us here at Pot
of Thunder. So find Randy check out his videos. It'll
add a little sunshine, a little sugar to your day,
to your week.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
Thank you, I'll use it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
Yeah. I hope you have a great holiday season.

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
Appreciate it. Guys, we will see you for doing Appreciate
being asked.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
Absolutely, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:11:51):
Randy makes candy for Sancha God Confection, Thunder what he's making,
and he makes candy for you.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
It's ray.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
It's true, Bobby, he said. Randy's an awesome guest. It's true.