December 24, 2024 • 47 mins
"Bah, humbug" no, that's too strong for episode 122 as Ryan, Louie & Al discuss the visuals from the fanmade music video of the new wave Holiday classic, The Waitresses' "Christmas Wrapping."
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello and welcome to episode one under twenty two of
Throwback Music Video Review podcast, and tonight we will be
reviewing Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses. This is an emergency
Christmas episode that we're doing.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Right. We had to pivot. We had to kind of pivot.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Okay, so you're doing every long next week right again.
Well I'm okay, okay, you'll.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Have that, so everyone will be in the near future
in the next that'll be right.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
It will be two more podcasts and then it will
be a we apologize.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
So we apologize.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
We think we are scheduling didn't and uh but it
didn't work out, and so Ryan pivoted and said, hey,
we're doing doing Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
You know, we usually tried to do a couple of
per season, right, and I didn't get a chance to
do that for Halloween. But and we were nervous about
not getting a Christmas one in so because last year, you.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Guys were promised in Mariah Carey Christmas episode.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It will happen eventually.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I think this is a little bit better than Mariah
carry Now Oh my opinion infinitely.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
And then also I feel that Christmas Wrapping is a
very Ryan song for some reason. I think I've listened
to it the most in Ryan's car driving around around.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Time, as I drive Louis around is shopping in the
Mini Man.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I remember listening to this in the boom box.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Good times, okay. Christmas Rapping is a Christmas song by
American New a band The Waitresses, first released on Ze
Records nineteen eighty one compilation album A Christmas Record. It
later appeared on the band's nineteen eighty two EP If
I Could Rule the World, If I could only get
the Parts, and numerous holiday compilation albums. It was written
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produced by Chris Butler, with vocals by Patty Donahue. The
music video was directed by Ken Walls, and as of
Christmas twenty twenty four, it currently has seven million views
on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
But let's preface the episode by saying this is unprecedented
because this is actually not the music video, but it's
a cobbled throne together right by and we'll give it
up to the guy that up. His handle is Samparo,
so you know, it's such a good song that he thought, well,
let me just come up with something, you know, And
that's the main actual hub for this song and comments
(02:29):
are from there.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
So does the band recognize it as official or I
don't think.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So, but if you google, if you google it, that's
and like any articles that would be referring to a
would be linking this one. So he kind of got
a sweet deal for him. Sure, I don't know if
he actually got monit paid for it, but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
We'll find out, you know.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
But it kind of goes along the way with like
Ze Records.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yes, they're very cool, weird, like I'm so happy that
we're doing a band that that is Ze Records because
it's one of my favorite record labels when you look
at their list of artists. Well, we would probably never
do any other I don't think really. Videos, Yeah, we're
not gonna James Chances and have videos Alan Vega solo stuff.
Doesn't Maybe it was not was well, Creo was not
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was not on there, Linda Lunch, Mar I mean Lydia Lunch.
I'm sorry, Mars. She has a couple, yeah, but I
mean where I mean she. I don't think she has
one for like Atomic Bongos, which is her biggest song,
which we would probably do. She has like probably once
is like Sonic Youth or something.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I love this.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Anytime I find a record with this with z on it,
I always buy it because it's gonna be great. Yeah,
I snag it. And I have a lot of their
compilations on on vinyl. I DJ a lot of these
bands when I went, especially at a club that we're throwing,
Like if if if I get to throw a club
where I can play whatever I want, I'm gonna play
a lot of this stuff because it's all like dancy cool,
(03:59):
no way shit. So but so this is, I mean,
it makes sense that this is just like it's appropriate, right, Yeah,
it's they're very.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Art first, you know, so it's it's really yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It works out. Yeah, But just to throw it out there,
do you guys remember the sound back then? No?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
No, I don't remember it untill like high school exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's what I'm saying. I don't remember ever. Being a
popular song. I'm not even sure when it actually like
became Christmas staple, right.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
The very early STI I remember is like the mid nineties.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Exactly, And that's what I was gonna say, because my
only experience really was J. C. Penny And even at
that time when it would play it on, I didn't
know who it was. It sounded like, you know, the waitresses,
I know what boys like. He has that same kind
of feel, but I didn't know it was them. I
had no clue until way later.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I'm sure like people like my aunt's age, who's a
little bit, you know, she's younger than my mom, so
I'm sure she's like she's an eighties lady, you know.
So I'm sure she knows it completely and that was
their thing, you know. But no, for me growing up,
it was always Last Christmas Wham exactly exactly. That was
the staple and that classics right, because my mom was
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George Michael lady.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You know.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Band Aid on the radio. Yeah, we had the band
Aid forty five, but it was like all the time,
Last Christmas over and over.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
But when I first heard it, it made an impact
because it's that sing songy style or rapping right where
it's like that's so cool, and and you know, you're
always trying to get bits and pieces of the storyline
because clearly she's telling a story a story, and because
it's a narrative that she's going through, and I'm always
like interested, like and you know, back in the day,
obviously didn't have the access to the lyrics or looking
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it up, so it alays fascinated this song No There's
No Way, right, Yeah, you know that song that the
girl There's No Way Christmas over and over.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
And if you went like this wasn't on the Waitresses album, right, No.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It was too late for the first album, so they
made an EP with this in it.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, so the first album is the one that you
would find it the thirstoryle time, right, boys, like exactly,
So that was like not automatic. We all had that
record ltiple times because that was every through store.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I have a very tattered copy, yes, as do I. Yes,
how about you? Al you remember the first recollection of
the song.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Just around that time too, in the midnight when we're
all hanging out. We'd hear it around this holiday season
and I'd hear it on k rock, you know, talking
about their Weenie roasts and stuff. Yeah, and yeah, like
their acoustic Christmas and then all of a sudden they
would play the song in there and I was like, oh,
it's the waitresses because it sounds like I know what
boys last.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
But it's like, did you know she died?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You know, like it was that was pre internet, right,
but the word on her death still got around to me.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I heard it on the radio when they announced that
she passed away. Yeah, but you know, it's like that
thing where it's not really played until I guess during
the holidays. Right, It's not like which is kind of
weird because I feel like this song could be played
any time of the year, right, it just has the
Merry Christmas. Obviously it's played in the Christmas time, but yeah,
I just didn't never really caught it any other time,
and I don't really I just couldn't figure it out
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who it was until and the popularity really grew just
probably in the last fifteen ten years, right, Yeah, yeah,
it has.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It has like it actually made the rotation of your
you know, like mainstream stations.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
iHeart radios of the world.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Now it's like probably just as big as any other
Christmas song.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Right, yeah, it's in the rotation guarantee the last Christmases
of the world.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
She died the day after my eighteenth birthday. Really crazy December.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
December ninth, oh wow, nineteen ninety six Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, it's like George Michael dying on Christmas Day, right.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
What the heck? Don't write a Christmas write a Christmas song?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Right?
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Carry r carry watch your back around December, right.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Man? But yeah, yeah, yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
The just the just how big the song has gotten
for me, at least in the last five years, because
at work they play Christmas music around this time too,
and everywhere. Now I'm hearing it this year more this
year than back to last year even and then you know,
I'm glad that Ryan picked this out, so now we
can really scrutinize the song.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
But you know, it's it really stands out because it's
not traditional. You know, for example, you don't have the
traditional Christmas instruments that would be played with it, right,
but it really for some reason, it has that joyous
kind of like even though the subject matter is a
little bit you know, kind of up and down, but
you do kind of feel, you know, like it's hopeful, right,
there's something something about it that has the Christmas spirit involved.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Because yeah, it's a cynical song, yeah originally, and then
it still has a very hap you know, like positive
ending to it.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And it relates to the songwriter of course, Chris Butler, right,
who just watched the documentary on He's he's really good
with what he really wants to say and how to
say it.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Yeah, in a weird I don't know, man.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
You stream a consciousness. Yeah, we don't. We write music, right,
we write our own stuff. And there's I've never I
could never conceive of something like this where you can
tell a whole story and I love that he doesn't
have to rhyme, but you just kind of make it
fit into that sound, you know. I love that kind
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
There's something in the water in Akron, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of bands, I mean Nine.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Inch Nails came from there, and you.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Know Devo and Yeah Tenders, but then they.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Like Ron James from Akron from Akron, Ohio, but through
the New York prison, So I mean there is a
lot of that. You get a lot of that kind
of like valid underground talkie song kind of thing, which
is like that whole like no wave thing too so,
and then the rap whole thing about it with talking
heads and all that stuff that's coming out and Blondie. Yes,
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so you know it all kind of makes sense, but
no one did a straight up I don't know what
three page story.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
The lyrics are insane.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, when you know, we were watching the video a
little documentary about this song or the band, and just
that it was a street it was a short story.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Stephen King Vella.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
I wouldn't even know. I would have to like put
in like the speech to text and just start talking.
I'm looking to type all that ship out.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Think about like, you know, karaoke saying that Patty Donahue
was struggling and she's a smoker. Imagine that that's true.
But just a quick background, he wrote the song. He
hated the holidays, you know, with the whole consumerism and
just the idea of like everybody's just trying to, you know,
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buy something, Like anybody.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Anybody that hangs out with Gerrod Castles from Devo, you're
gonna hate any kind of.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
The devolution of man.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I mean, I like that. But then another thing that
I really thought that was interesting was this whole idea
of the waitresses is all just kind of fabricated, and
he kind of wheeled himself into creating this and it happened,
and it really happened. You know, it's funny. So my
point is that there is hope for everybody. They exactly
is that Christmas magic involved and somehow you can make
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it if you really wish it.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I mean for being a quote unquote you know, made
up ban, I mean they had a lot of success.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
I know what Boys Like is was a pretty huge song.
They did the theme.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Song for Square Pegs, which was a really big eighties
TV show. It was like I don't know, like maybe
four seasons or three seasons, you know, So, I mean
he had a lot of success for it. With the
quote unquote fake band, Yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
But as we saw, you know, he tried right, like
tried to start the band and like ask his band
Tim Hughey, like, you know this song that I wrote,
but it just wouldn't fly without Patty don Hughes vocals. Right,
She's really that the catalysts that really made all this happen.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Well, she's the key to to the waitresses.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
She is the waitress. Yeah, that boye huh, just that
it's so I don't know, even we just talked about this.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
She doesn't look like if you go to like a
Denny's at one o'clock in the morning, you might get
someone who looks kind of like right, like, wow.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
She's really pretty well. Is she working so late right now?
You know?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Exactly? But the way she does it right, because all
you know, I listened to the album and her delivery
is always the same, but there's something special about it.
It's like, oh, you know, you just want to keep
listening to it, you know what I mean. Like it's
like somebody you need at a party and you hit
it off right, and they are telling you their stories,
even though it's like the most boring thing, but just
the way she's saying it, it's like like you're glued
to every single word.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
You know, she's a natural performer.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, exactly, she has that. She has charismatic yes, and
again ours I would say answer too soon. You know,
there's just people who rely on a certain drug that
allows them to really create and be productive and be creative, right,
and I feel like she has you know, some people
just have that like they need to do that to
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kind of fuel there whatever they're doing, you know, it's like,
sadly that's what happened.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
So so you listen to the full album, right.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Album's great, Yeah, very scott feel to it. And and
no way like if you blended the two together obviously
because a lot of the horns right then the sacks,
which is funny, that makes total sense. But yeah, they didn't.
I mean two albums, right, that's pretty much all they did.
And she left and they were only there for like
what two years, a couple of years, and I don't
think she ever made anything like on her own. I
don't know what happened. And I feel like she kind
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of just loved, you know, lived her life and.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
She like she worked for a record company. Oh, she
became like an A and R person right her company,
and then yeah, passed away like a talent, yes exactly.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Yeah, and in our reper m C M c A Records.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
It sounds like she's perfect for that kind of position too. Yes,
she's like scrutinizing you and like.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Appable and she's like sweet and she'll make you, you know,
like you look yeah, let me sign the contract.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
That would be great to find out, like who she
actually like signed signed our discovery, you know, like exactly,
maybe she wrapped say faris who like cover their songs
or like like no Doubt or like you know, like
kind of like sky E bands.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Right, and that's like like the eighties. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
All right, Okay, so we'll be back for some pop
quiz after these messages.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's ready for some pop quiz, right, all right, let's
do this. All right, you guys, let's talk about tipping
for a little bit since we're talking about the waitresses. Okay,
what do you guys think about tipping?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Is a massive quizzard.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Man, There's some numbers and percentages, but I always tip, yeah, right, okay,
it's it's a it's a customary thing, right, and a
lot of the other parts of the world. I hate
the idea that we have to tip.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, I hate that, but because frankly, the restaurant should
be covering their weight, paying them a fair wage.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, there we go, baby, Just very quickly, I went,
you know, we ate my family and I recently at
a restaurant. And now they have these devices where they
come up to you, you put your car, you tap,
and then they turn it to you while they're standing
there and I just I just can't stand that, you know,
It's like it's so pressure.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well what I do. This is my trick, right, I
always put in no, and then I leave cash. I
always carry cash with me smart and I leave cash
because I think they want the cash. Because they get
the cash, put it in the pocket. It doesn't go
into the takes.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
A while too if it goes into sea.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Yeah, you're right, you're right. So I do the and
I always say is cash okay? And they're like, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
So then I'll hit the note so they don't think
I'm just hitting no. And then they leave and they're like, man,
fuck this guy and they see cash, like oh, I
feel sad.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I like, who he's life hack here? And now I
think that's my new thing, the podcast. I think I'll
pursue that from now. And then I miss carrying cash
and then they just take it back to the nineties.
There's one time where all of us and a few
of our friends we ate at Norms over there now
hambur it's no longer there, and there's a big party.
It was eight seven to eight nine people and we ate,
you know, we had our steak and eggs or whatever
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the fuck we were reading at that time, and we
had a male waiter and you know, you excellent service,
great food. We're all laughing, having a great time, and
it was time to pay the bill, and we all
split the bill. And as we paid the bill, and
as we leave, we're like, you know, high school kids, right,
we had no money, and we laughed approximately forty three
(15:31):
cents just about you remember this. And as we walked out,
we're all laughing and kind of, you know, just being
goofy high school kids. And the waiter walked up behind
us and threw the change at us, and we all
turned to him and we're like, we were shocked because well,
you know, rightfully so right, and I don't know, I
don't know, I'm kind of well, he did it.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I think he thought we were laughing at him, but
we weren't.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
We're not. But at the same time, it's like an
insult of a tip though, yes.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
It was, yeah, but we were like sixty we do,
I mean, we barely had enough money to pay for.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
The whole Yeah, some of us probably even shared the meal. Yeah,
but I'm sorry that dude. He's okay, But anyway, he's
probably a CEO now or something branch just a memory
that I tell my kids all the time when we
go out to I vaguely remember that too. He was
throwing pennies one of the time. He was so pissed.
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I get it.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
But but to me, I was so oblivious about like
the idea, right, yeah, I was so oblievious, just not
to say the tip, but just like the amount of
money we did, because if I knew that was an issue,
I would have left more.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I had no idea if you even had, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I don't think we all paid cash because you don't
have cards, right, I think we just paid like whatever
we owed, And we didn't even think about the tip.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Yeah. And I didn't go to restaurants when I was
a kid, so I didn't know about tip.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
You know.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
We would go to McDonald's or get schnitzel. You don't
leave tips there, you know. So I just know.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
And again it's not like it was our in our
position when we ate out with our parents, right, they
they would do all the stuff I didn't. I didn't
think about it. An I look back now and it's like, fuck,
I can't get out of my mind, And I look
the way you throw it at us man with anger.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
We all learned that, we all learn, We all learn.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But back to the pop quays. Here's question one. Lincoln
pennies in her forehead mark or forever mark? Oh I
need that there? You'll take it out, but spurting it out?
All right, Here you go. Question one one, According to
a twenty twenty four USA Today's Survey, gentlemen, which generation
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is the cheapest tipper A Generation Z B millennials, CE
Generation X. That would be us D, baby boomers or
E silent generation.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
I'm gonna say baby boomers.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I would say gen Z, gen Z you are both
raw silent generation did not understand that concept? Yes, right, yeah,
fifteen point sixteen percent. Our generation is at seventeen point
fifty three and the millennials millennials, we are the highest tippers. No,
Blonis are eighteen point eighteen percent tippers. That's pretty good.
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That's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Well, I worked in Edward and stuff like that, so
I always tip because I'm like, I feel.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Like, right, you know, yeah, I haven't you have some experience?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Right?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Here's number two. According to the same survey, which state
is the highest tipper at A whopping twenty two point
sixty nine percent A New York b California, CE, Oregon
or d Washington and Blue States.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Huh nice, I'll say New York.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I agree, New York. You guys are both wrong. California
really all right, calif for Yeah, it's pretty good. By
the way. That's the new tipping percentage.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I'm back when we're growing that. It was fifteen fifteen.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Now I'm still fifteen in my head, man, But.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Now it's twenty because of the pandemic post pandemic. Now
it's like the average is.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I always lived.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I always left just to give a little bit more
of the little more. No, I think the rest of
the rest of the world caught up with me.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I'm just basic, you know, was ahead of its game
and then the world caught Conversely, which state or territory
is the cheapest tipper at am easly fourteen point Alaska?
Be Hawaii, see Illinois or de Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Oh, I'd say Alaska.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Have there a lot of resources in Puerto Rico. I'm
gonna say Puerto Rico. I'm gonna say Porto Rico.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Cause bad buddy, because I'm canceling right.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Because I'm thinking, like, if it's a resort place, then
people go there for vacation.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
They tip larger when they're on vacation. You know, somebody
to go to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
They tip polar bears over there. Out and Alaska, you're
both wrong. It's Illinoying Illinois at fourteen point twenty two.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
That's that's Oh I bick there because yeah, I I
didn't think.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Oh man, what's the climate in Illinois.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I mean, just like you got Chicago, there were we
think Chicago's when they say you got some pizza pies
and the West seventeen that makes but it's interesting, right,
he's statistic that's low. Man, from twenty three percent about
to fourteen that's a big it's a pretty big gap.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
You're going to Chicago to watch the Cubs and improv
and some thick pizza.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah, you know what I imagine the California. Obviously everything's expensive,
so I kind of feel like you have to more.
But this is the whole California, not just like it's
just expensive to live here.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, that's why I chose Alaska because I imagine it
doesn't cost so much.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
No, that's true. I don't know all right, Well, you
guys get your chewol hats on because the mon soon
as it come in. Here we go, guys, it's time
for the round. I don't have a lot. I don't
have a lot, but dude, we're doing so terrible there.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
This is like the we're gonna get held back this year.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
How good is your your Christmas facts and fictions? You
guys are? I think it's I think it's decent. I
read so much and they're a kind of repetitive. But
I got a couple of you guys. Let's check it out.
Here we go, so tell me if the following Christmas
facts or fiction statements I'm about to present to you
or indeed true or false? You guys ready?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
All right?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Who wants to go first?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
I'll go, all right, Lily, here we go.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Number one. The candy cane, which was invented in Germany,
was shaped to be a j as you know, to
stand for Jesus and the red strips representing his blood
and maybe the white seamen. I don't know. I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I'm going to say you think it's white, right, I'm
gonna say that's false.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
You're gonna go with false. Yes, it's true. Yes, really,
it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Right, Oh that's some Catholic Filipinos.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
All right. But yeah. When I first learned that, I'm like,
are you serious?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
I thought it was would be like a shepherd's crook
for gesus, and that's what I thought.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
And then it's like, oh.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Maybe hurting those rein so it's the blood and I
don't know, maybe it's the lamper. Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
All right, you ready for this one? Here we go.
One in three American men will give their partner some
type of marry laid sex toy during the holiest of holidays.
It's is true or false?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I would say, no, this is a false You are
correct sir.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
That is else you know it's actually you guys ever
are buy any No.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I would think that would be very for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
But yes, Christmas, but not for Christmas. Not.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Yeah, it would be more of a.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Little surprise.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
That's not like, no, I let them pick it because
I I do not trust myself.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
That's such like a cheesy gift to somebody for like
a real gift, like not for their birthday or Christmas.
It's something you just give.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
To got But I did tell you the story in
the past. Right, My my girlfriend and back in the nineties,
she had a cell phone that she hid in her
panties and that was my Christmas gift. Remember how I
made a bone call? Remember that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I don't know if Ryan remembers this, but we went
to a party. We went to a birthday party one time,
and a mutual friend of ours, her boyfriend, gave her
a vibratory at her birthday party in front.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Of her fucking family and friends. And it was the like,
it was the grossest thing I ever seen. She was horrified,
poor girl, and like the family was just like what
the fuck?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
And I was like, it's like, you know when you
mean well, but yeah, dude, I mean you think he'd know.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Yeah, it was like why it was like a pack
with like anal beads and it had like a it
was a pack like a Christmas wrapping pack of like
sexual deviance, you know. And it's like, why would you
give that in front of her family at her birthday party?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Shaped like a cane? Not christ But yeah, alright, here
you go number three? Ready.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Yeah, the tradition.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
You guys are familiar with the tradition of hanging Christmas doggings, right,
all right, so that originated.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
We're talking about hanging stocking of course.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Uh, the stockings that originally when eighteenth century prostitutes in
England would hang their wet stockings over the fireplace mantle
after walking the wet streets right during winter nights, and
their johns would pay them by placing coins in the stockings.
Is this true or false?
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Whoa wow? If that is true, that's fucking darkest ship.
I'm gonna say that's false because you sure, yes, that
is false.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You are correct.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
If that was true, I would tell everybody I know
about that. I would tell my mom that on Christmas Day. Hey, Mom,
you know how that started on our on your beautiful
fireplace right there.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Mom. It's actually a Saint Nick. This old story about
this guy who had a daughter who didn't have enough
money for the dowry. So Saint Nick, as generous as
he is, would put the coins in the stocking.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
That's the back story in the dowry to seller to
someone to get married. I mean, that's just as dark.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
It's not Saint John though, right right, I'll try this one.
The tradition of kissing under the missiletoe. I don't know
if you guys ever participated as can we do it earlier?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I'll try to get it so.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
That tradition of kissing on the missile toe was based
on an ancient Celtic druid using the small evergreen shrubs
an afrodisiac while practicing sex magic as part of their
rituals and spiritual practices. They're doing it, They're doing it
Stonehenge style, you know, right? True or false?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
That is true because a lot of druid is you know,
Christmas to go ahead and in right fall?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Got me there. It's actually you know Freaget from the
Norse smith A, Yeah, that's actually he's She said that
she will kiss anybody who because whoever saved her son
would she would kiss if they walk in her dismissials.
That's really what the origins of this, her stupid I
was getting in trouble all right, all the time, right,
Thor Balder and Louis, you're righty, yes? Did you know
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that NASA space mission of Delta three nine one four
in December five, nineteen seventy nine, played Paul McCartney's A
Wonderful Christmas Time your Favorite Christmas song? Did you know
that was the first Christmas song played in Space? Is
this true or false?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
That beautiful synthesizer song? I actually I heard it today
and I was like, this is like, this is actually pretty.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Cool Tacy Penny Christmas Home.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Yeah, nineteen seventy five, seventy nine, seventy nine. Oh, so
the years line up. I want to say no, because
it's a US space, right, They're not gonna let it.
They're not gonna let a Limey. Sure, they're gonna let's
Frank Sinatra up there. I'm gonna say false.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Going with false, Yes, well then you're correct. Yes, you
know what the song is though, what was it? Nineteen
sixty five jingle Bells. It was the first song played
in space Christmas song plates.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
But that makes sense, they're not Yeah, it's gonna be
an American song.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
You're not gonna have a nice ala. This guy's like
a lawyer, right, breaking ship down deep?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
See what is it? Yes? Sixty or yes? Nicey?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Ninety?
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Yes, nineties?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
All right, al this one, try this one out. Reindeer.
Did you know that they have specialized noses that warm
the cold air before it gets to their lungs, making
their noses bright red under a thermal camera true or false.
That's such a riot question.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
You don't know it's right or wrong.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Give me the.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Science right out.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
I think it's so plausible rengeers have that capability physically.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
That is awesome.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
That's pretty coolie.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
I mean it makes sense because every once in a
while you'll see a terrible Instagram story of like a
deer that's like frozen alive and like someone's trying to
like save it, and you never see a ranger.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
No, no, they're good man. They know how to do it.
They live in the Arctic circle, of course. So here
you go. Here's my last ones. They don't have a lot,
and Christmas ones are a tough one. Did you know
that the Canada post mail system has its own postal
code for Santa Claus addressed as Santa Claus North Pole,
Ho Ho Ho Canada.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I'm gonna say that's false.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Final answer, Yes, you are wrong, sir. Yeah, And if
you write it to them, they'll actually ride back. What
it's H zero H zero H zero Is it a
postal code? That's wild? Right?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
That is crazy. I think I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Canadian Santa, Hey.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Give me the kids in the hall box and.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Deliver it that's all I've got. That's good. All I
learned three times more than I isn't.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
That's fine.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
There's a lot of learning inbout, especially with the Christmas stuff.
That's a good stuff.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I got a question for you guys, what's your favorite
Christmas song?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Oh? Man, I gotta go with the classic, you know.
I like to do with those karaoke, those old songs.
But I've been hearing a lot of good ones lately.
But you know, the Chestnuts open, it's called a it's
called Christmas song. I think m Christmas Christmas song. Yes,
the Christmas and I love that one. That one's classic, classic,
super classic. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Mine is the Carpenters have Yourself in Marry Little Christmas.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Oh that's a good one. Yeah. Yeah, that's always always
makes money, that's the thing. It's the most emotional. Yeah,
that's how I get that.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
And like the Jackson's Give Love and Christmas a good one.
That one too, It gets me a little emotional.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
I really like James Brown, that's yeah, cause go down
to the Ghetto.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
I love that song. It's such a good it always
makes you cry.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I was going to do Christmas in Hollis to the
Brandy MC that the video is pretty funny. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
I love all those like Wall of Sound ones too. Yeah,
those are all really good. One.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yes they're covers.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
There's another guy who died in Christmas Day, James Brown,
James Brown, Dean Martin.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
There you go, man, Yeah, all these people, I'm sad.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
All Right, it's time to talk about the music video.
The non existent music video that's this little Yeah, this
little mashup.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
We're not going to take a long time with this.
And let me just preface this again by saying the
video is a mash up, right, it's it's it's cobbled
together from their two videos that were actually released an
old Gray whistle Test concert exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And what I don't know where those random ones with
the random British people are random.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
That's from Make the Weather. That's from the video. But
I've never seen that video. Yeah, I just watched that one.
But let's just give a shout out to Ken Walls,
Tim Wallas's brother, the the vice president candidate. Yeah didn't
make it it kidding, but anyway, he directed those two
videos and he's he actually made some other videos. He's
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like a producer and he did some videos for like
Cyndi Lauper or Patty Smyth, run dmc hugh Lewis. But
he did a lot of like comedy and TV specials movies,
so he's he's a lot of you know, credits, but
it's just right during that time and that's the work
he can yet, you know exactly.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I mean, let's talk about a little bit about I
guess the quality or just the Yeah, of course the
actual music videos that the footage is that we saw
the waitresses, right, I mean, you know, like I saw
the I Know What Boys Like video before and he
spliced that in. And it's awkward too because you could
see the loop.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Happen, yes, back and forth.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah, it just kind of stretched the time, you know,
to try to try to try to fit. Yeah, like it,
I've done that ship a night movie big time, you
know when I'm running out the footage.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Oh yeah, let me just look back there.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Do you know what years he made it?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Probably like ten years. It's not that okay, so.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
He had he he could have did it on an
iPad on.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I'm sure it was. It looks like it was done.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
I mean, you could do it. You don't have to
do the loopy. You know what I mean, you could
cut that a little bit.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, it could be done better, but you know, maybe
what was we didn't know what he was thinking. He
just thought it wasn't even gonna fly. But seven million
hits later, right.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Well, a lot of us by default, by you know,
people like us like I want to see a visual
of it.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Because it needs one. Yeah, it needs one so badly,
that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Yeah, he probably wanted it for some like you know,
he might have been DJing and wanted it in the
background or something.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Yeah, and you know, we'll all try to do stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
You know, one has the budget for a Patty Donahue hologram,
you know, to perform.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
So yeah, it's pretty clunky, right, very very awkward the
way it's all put together. Right, But again, I don't
fault the guy. He just wanted he loves the song
that he wanted to put a visual too. And you know,
I mean there was I went through all the comments,
so I mean people loved it, like, oh, thank you
for doing that at least, you know, at the very least,
because they love the song so much.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
But even ten years ago, it wasn't that easy to
I mean to match like where she's opening her mouth
to try to get it in.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
You know.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, so some of the stuff is actually well done.
You're like, oh wow, like this kind of looks like
she's singing, but she's not.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Right. The saxophone part was pretty good.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Yeah, some of it.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Some of it kind of lined up pretty good, which
is kind of a pain in the ass. Takes a
long time to like a.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Really familiarity with the footage too.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
That too, and he was also very he picked the
right moments of her being cute and playing with her hair,
you know, those little moments that that that would work right.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
And someone like me who's never really seen the other
two videos before that was based on this and then
you know, it's like to me, it's like, oh, there's
all new footage. But then again, it's like there's something
off about this, you know, like why is it looping like.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
The lyrics when I'm matching, I'm saying it's exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
It just feels like old Gray Whistle tests.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
But it lines up with like an early seventies kind
of video, like where this is kind of more eighties, right,
so early eighties, early eighties, but it's it's so it
kind of lines up with a little bit of the
jankiness of the eighties videos, so you could kind of like, yeah,
that's what I saw.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I excuse it originally, Yeah, and then Ryan said it was,
you know, just cobbled together.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Oh no, now it's reading. But I asked me earlier,
this is the best based Christmas song basedline. I'm like,
it's gotta be right man, it's amazing. We've got to
give it up for right. Yeah, she really makes it
even on the other songs too, like she really like
Tracy warmworth Man. You said that she was she comes.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
From a musical family. Musical family.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Her brother it was the drummer in the Conan O'Brien
band after Max Weinberg left, and then she.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Was also in the mo was it again? The daytime
talk show.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
With Oh she was the WORLDEO Donald's Yeah, Rosi O
Donald's based player.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Right, Oh wow, and now she's with the beefifty two
is correct?
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Her sister is also like a jazz singer. Her father
was a jazz musician. So she comes from a deep
musical family.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Because she got inspired on playing bass by hearing she
nice she's been. She was like saying on the interviews
that she just thought she was just like devoted on
playing in that style.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yeah, it's beautiful, man, it works perfectly, you know.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Chic man, they like made a million bass players, like yeah,
a lot of bass players, like even like credit yeah,
credit them, yeah yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Who did it? The honey Taste of Honey? Taste of Honey?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yes, yes, she is an amazing basis. But yeah, like
every time I hear I think of a sweet disco
bass it's that song.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah, that that's pretty much the video. It's not really
to me really, I just wanted to use this song
because I thought this song needed not that it needed
any more attention, because I think everybody loves this song,
you know, like if people hear it and it's like
it kind of sticks with you, right, there's something about it,
probably because the way it sung and the way it's
it's a quirky, fun song and and there's a story
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being told. And by the way, you guys ever have
those missed opportunities that she talks about. I love it
because it's a whole year, right, it takes it takes
part in the whole year, and it culminates in that
Christmas story money right there, you go sorry. I have
a lot of people my life that's still in progress,
and w I peep out opportunities.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Think about them every night, every night. Great, every year
I get older, they get stronger and deeper.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
We all can relate, right, yeah, before you go to sleep. Right,
it's always like and you have these little thoughts, you know,
like you saw them or maybe you ran into them
or talk to them. It's so close, but just never happened.
We don't get the paddy down, you like ending, you know,
like in this song.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, like going to it went to a grocery store.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
And right, and that's when then they chatted it up
and they laughed all night and they ended up having
a happy.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Ending, you know, yeah, like hottes later.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Euphemism.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
But I love I love how eighties it is. I
love how everybody looks so cool there. It's a very
like normcore nerdy.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
You know, so good, you know normcore.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
But then also like it's very eighties, like every musician
has like their own bringing their own style to the band.
It's not like there's not a unified style unlike, yeah,
like Evo or something like that, but even like Duran
Durant or something like that. Where they all looked very
new romantic, right. They all come in, they all like
it almost seems like a garage band, like you know,
where everybody's just kind of wearing whatever they're they wear
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all the time.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
To add to that, they when Chris bus moved to
New York and then Pat don you followed like he
he he sent her some money for the bus ticket.
And the way they ended up putting the band together
was like all these other musicians were looking for a
band too. That's why they all look different and come
from different backgrounds, you know, but they probably had the
same idea like, yeah, this is the cool like you
know unit that we should like all play together. And
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so that's and that's why they all look kind of
like you said, like one of them kind of modded out, right,
guys loaded out. The other guys kind of look kind
of you know, just casual.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
But there's a certain styles like a sensible sweater, you.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Know, it's a nice classic sweater right the button up underneath.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
If you if you were a part of the waitresses,
why would you dress up.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Like Chris Butler has that cool look perfect.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
He's kind of like a casual mod.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
You know, casual mod Yeah, all the beautiful tight jeans, right,
the jeans coats. Yeah, and she's just awesome with the
cool checkered look. You know, I love it.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
I mean they don't love they do not not look
like a ska band.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Yeah, and it's funny. One of the comments that I
didn't use for the notable ones was some guy said,
it seems like they all just met at the bus stop,
a guy in a band, you know. And it's funny, man,
you play you go downtown to It's great.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
That's so funny.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
You know, nobody takes a bus anymore.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
That's so relatable because I've been getting that like so
many times. It's like you're just.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Like hanging out like this happened at the convention depe convention.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Some guys just like, hey man, you play guitar?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Go yeah?
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Do you sing?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (37:51):
He do? You want to play a concert at my house? Sure?
Speaker 3 (37:54):
It's perfect.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Out of nowhere, I got like seven songs, Like.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Well, the point is it still happens today? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Yeah, it's so funny. And he's like, oh, I sing too.
I'm like, oh you want me to play guitar for
you to sing? I get it?
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Oh you want to produce. I'm going to record well
for exposure.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
I see where this is going.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Have a big falling.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
No, yeah, that's all right, I'll get another guitar player.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
It's funny.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Okay, we'll be right back for some notable YouTube comments. Okay,
it's time for the notable YouTube comments.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
All right, here you go. Ransom Handsome, great handle listen
oh from eight years ago, says, this has me thinking
about how fun the Waitresses first album was. I began
listening to K rock southern California around nineteen eighty one,
and The Waitresses first album Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful, was released
in January of eighty two. At the time, I was
taking comedy improv workshop classes at the Grounding Theater on
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Melrose Avenue, and right next to the theater was Groundzer
for punk and new wave music vinyl Fetish Records. That's
where I purchased a way just his perst album. I
only included that because that's our scene too, you know.
Oh yeah, you got a piece of that What's name?
Speaker 5 (39:10):
No, but what what did you have a year to that?
Speaker 4 (39:12):
He's old with eighty one eighty two early, but.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
He's in silent generation, not tipping anybody, yeah or tipper?
Speaker 3 (39:24):
All right, here's the next one by ZZZ A A
A O nine to nine oh from six years ago says,
my third fave Xmas song. It's just wonderful late eighties
and nineties in two thousand and this hideous decade are
not worth pissing on. Shame and all you horrible and
hideous music makers. Amen. Oh we gotta throwing a hater
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hater one in that one. It was my final one
at l dan o Grande seven years ago says there
was a brief period in nineteen eighty one after crack
cocaine had been invented, but before wealthy people knew how
dangerous it was and steer clear of it. I think
that pretty much explains this video. Wow, oh boy, he
(40:07):
might be right on that one.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Some guys smoking, you know, smoking, he's editing the video.
That's what happened here.
Speaker 5 (40:15):
We didn't go that far from Z Records. I can
see a lot of.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Right the videos.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
The videos that were used actually were quality.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
But yeah, exactly this mesh mash.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Propoly edited to make this one. Okay, guys, so Christmas wrapping,
would you keep it or would you throw it back?
Speaker 5 (40:32):
First you pass.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
I like this guys, you out of vive. I like
that he took it upon himself to make it. I mean,
he did it just to do it. I'm guessing he
can't make money off of this, right, I don't think.
So I'm gonna keep it just because the Passion Project.
You know, it's not a good video. I would normally
throw something like this back, but I think because of
the whole Passion Project in the story behind it, I'm
gonna keep it just for that, all right.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
I hope.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
I don't. I hate I do hate a lot of
fan made.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Videos, so like so I'm surprised.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
I don't want. I don't want like people to keep
doing that.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
But I thought that it's kind of kind of it's
kind of tough to something.
Speaker 5 (41:10):
Yeah, it's kind of tough.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
To make something, you know, because that's all you have,
very limited like stuff to pull off, pull from you.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
And it makes more sense to make a video for
a video for a song that was never made, where
people are making fan made videos for songs that already
have great.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Videos to them, you know. So that's true. It's a
little bit different. So I'll keep it.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
I'm keeping it for me.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Well, you know, like I've been peppering my opinions about
this music video throughout the show.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Yeah, I do agree a little bit bit. Louis there.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
It's fan made, it's a it's a passion project. I
do appreciate that, but like, I just wish it could.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Have been done a little better. Sure, unless you.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Really had to do it in three hours, it could
have been tightened up a little bit in a couple
of spots.
Speaker 5 (41:52):
Yeah, I'm thinking there's a reducs.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
I think I gotta bust some upot lips now reduct
style out. Yeah, I don't know if I have to
do it, Like, if I have do Mike, will I
am on this one?
Speaker 3 (42:03):
I mean, will I am or whatever? Probably, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
I'm surprised they never performed it live on like a
TV show, like a something where you could pull that to.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Like maybe it makes into it, I mean regardless, I
don't know. Yeah, Like I'm throwing it back though, heart's
in the right place, but it could be done better.
Speaker 5 (42:21):
He is getting better, I heard right, right, Valley.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Okay, are you right?
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Well?
Speaker 3 (42:30):
As for me, actually, I wanted to suggest that we
probably should skip the part about keeping it or throwing
it away because you know, I didn't really need that
part because since it wasn't really an official video, it
was an actually.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
All over.
Speaker 6 (42:47):
But I apologize, but feet to fire, I would have
to say, yeah, I want to of course I want
to keep it because it's such a great song that
you know, the visual doesn't really need to it doesn't
really add anything, and it was it's horribly made.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Because you know, I don't blame him. I would have
just put something together too, just because I want. I
love the song so much that I want to put
something together, So you know, in that sense, I want
to keep it because of the song. It's so powerful
and I think it's one of the more modern I
think it's probably the best Christmas song that's been made
since like the modern music of.
Speaker 5 (43:19):
Christmas fifties and yeah, you know and thing before that.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
There's a lot of great ones and a lot of
classic ones that really like touch you and it really
gives you the Christmas spirit. This one gives you the
modern Christmas spirit of like the rush and the and
the fighting through things and the inter relationships and the
personal things that are happening and everybody's life and I
kind of like that idea of you know, there's a
lot of pressures, right what the holidays bring, and I
(43:44):
think that kind of encapsulates it. And to me that's
enough to carry for me to keep it if we
had to keep it, so you know, in that sense,
I will keep it. And again this is a staple.
It's you know, like I could listen to this song
every day a bunch of times.
Speaker 4 (43:56):
So yes, yes, it's also a good New Year's song.
It's a good news you're looking forward, yes, in this ending.
And I think the what Harry Metts Sally kind of feeling,
I think took back up the keeps on this like
this song deserves presence with showing the band and showing
you know, the singer and you know how good she is,
and you know it deserves music making music and the
(44:19):
band deserves a presence.
Speaker 3 (44:21):
I agree YouTube And just you know, just as an aside,
you know, he Chris Brother actually donates. He's like a
philatious he donates to charity. I don't know if you
guys ever read that, but whoever like calls him first
and tells him that I heard your song on the radio.
He donates to their name to this local library.
Speaker 5 (44:37):
What really.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Yeah, and also he bought Jeffrey Dahmer's house or the
course picked him that he killed in.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Ohio, anything to get an inspiration.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Interesting, interesting guy.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Yeah, those freaking Trent Bis freaking the slaughter the mansion, slaughterhouse.
You know what's achron people, Man, it's the water.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
In there something with a great song over. Oh man,
this is a it's.
Speaker 5 (45:01):
A good song.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
Yeah, it's a great, great, great song. My even my
daughter loves a sounding trying to memorize the lyrics and
sing it to me. It's funny. Okay, So enclosing what
you got for us?
Speaker 5 (45:11):
Next episode, Louis, I'm going to the nineties.
Speaker 4 (45:14):
I'm going to probably a video that only guys will
probably will only get a male read listenership to this.
Oh no, we're gonna do pavement. Cut your hair, cut
your hair.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
I've ever seen this video.
Speaker 4 (45:26):
Classic, a very weird, surrealistic video. And there's gonna be
a payment we kind of coming up soon. So maybe
we could talk a little bit about people who are
going to see that movie soon.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
So all right to align that thing. But I want
to wish everybody a merry Christmas and happy holidays, if
you're celebrating Kwanza or celebrating something nothing, all right, and
the happy New Year to everybody. Make sure you guys
are safe and loving each other all the time, keeping warm.
Speaker 5 (45:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
It's probably our last show of twenty twenty four, so.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
We'll see your next year, another year in the books, guys.
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Speaker 4 (46:15):
It sounds like it could be like a jingle almost yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:19):
I can't even imagine him. Oh, let me play the
song for you guys, like what I recorded, Like I
wonder how he did it. You know, how would you
sing that?
Speaker 5 (46:24):
Because you need her to have that, Well, imagine him
playing it.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
That's what I'm saying. I know, yeah, I know, kind.
Speaker 5 (46:34):
Of acoustic guitar, just jamming it out, sucker.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
It sounds like the Island and I know you want
me anusic version. That's good.
Speaker 5 (46:50):
That's what I would look up the tab acoustic.
Speaker 3 (46:53):
He was like playing, you guys are holding back here.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello and welcome to episode one under twenty two of
Throwback Music Video Review podcast, and tonight we will be
reviewing Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses. This is an emergency
Christmas episode that we're doing.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Right. We had to pivot. We had to kind of pivot.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Okay, so you're doing every long next week right again.
Well I'm okay, okay, you'll.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Have that, so everyone will be in the near future
in the next that'll be right.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
It will be two more podcasts and then it will
be a we apologize.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
So we apologize.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
We think we are scheduling didn't and uh but it
didn't work out, and so Ryan pivoted and said, hey,
we're doing doing Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
You know, we usually tried to do a couple of
per season, right, and I didn't get a chance to
do that for Halloween. But and we were nervous about
not getting a Christmas one in so because last year, you.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Guys were promised in Mariah Carey Christmas episode.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It will happen eventually.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I think this is a little bit better than Mariah
carry Now Oh my opinion infinitely.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
And then also I feel that Christmas Wrapping is a
very Ryan song for some reason. I think I've listened
to it the most in Ryan's car driving around around.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Time, as I drive Louis around is shopping in the
Mini Man.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I remember listening to this in the boom box.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Good times, okay. Christmas Rapping is a Christmas song by
American New a band The Waitresses, first released on Ze
Records nineteen eighty one compilation album A Christmas Record. It
later appeared on the band's nineteen eighty two EP If
I Could Rule the World, If I could only get
the Parts, and numerous holiday compilation albums. It was written
(01:55):
produced by Chris Butler, with vocals by Patty Donahue. The
music video was directed by Ken Walls, and as of
Christmas twenty twenty four, it currently has seven million views
on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
But let's preface the episode by saying this is unprecedented
because this is actually not the music video, but it's
a cobbled throne together right by and we'll give it
up to the guy that up. His handle is Samparo,
so you know, it's such a good song that he thought, well,
let me just come up with something, you know, And
that's the main actual hub for this song and comments
(02:29):
are from there.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
So does the band recognize it as official or I
don't think.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So, but if you google, if you google it, that's
and like any articles that would be referring to a
would be linking this one. So he kind of got
a sweet deal for him. Sure, I don't know if
he actually got monit paid for it, but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
We'll find out, you know.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
But it kind of goes along the way with like
Ze Records.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yes, they're very cool, weird, like I'm so happy that
we're doing a band that that is Ze Records because
it's one of my favorite record labels when you look
at their list of artists. Well, we would probably never
do any other I don't think really. Videos, Yeah, we're
not gonna James Chances and have videos Alan Vega solo stuff.
Doesn't Maybe it was not was well, Creo was not
(03:17):
was not on there, Linda Lunch, Mar I mean Lydia Lunch.
I'm sorry, Mars. She has a couple, yeah, but I
mean where I mean she. I don't think she has
one for like Atomic Bongos, which is her biggest song,
which we would probably do. She has like probably once
is like Sonic Youth or something.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I love this.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Anytime I find a record with this with z on it,
I always buy it because it's gonna be great. Yeah,
I snag it. And I have a lot of their
compilations on on vinyl. I DJ a lot of these
bands when I went, especially at a club that we're throwing,
Like if if if I get to throw a club
where I can play whatever I want, I'm gonna play
a lot of this stuff because it's all like dancy cool,
(03:59):
no way shit. So but so this is, I mean,
it makes sense that this is just like it's appropriate, right, Yeah,
it's they're very.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Art first, you know, so it's it's really yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It works out. Yeah, But just to throw it out there,
do you guys remember the sound back then? No?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
No, I don't remember it untill like high school exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's what I'm saying. I don't remember ever. Being a
popular song. I'm not even sure when it actually like
became Christmas staple, right.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
The very early STI I remember is like the mid nineties.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Exactly, And that's what I was gonna say, because my
only experience really was J. C. Penny And even at
that time when it would play it on, I didn't
know who it was. It sounded like, you know, the waitresses,
I know what boys like. He has that same kind
of feel, but I didn't know it was them. I
had no clue until way later.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I'm sure like people like my aunt's age, who's a
little bit, you know, she's younger than my mom, so
I'm sure she's like she's an eighties lady, you know.
So I'm sure she knows it completely and that was
their thing, you know. But no, for me growing up,
it was always Last Christmas Wham exactly exactly. That was
the staple and that classics right, because my mom was
(05:00):
George Michael lady.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You know.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Band Aid on the radio. Yeah, we had the band
Aid forty five, but it was like all the time,
Last Christmas over and over.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
But when I first heard it, it made an impact
because it's that sing songy style or rapping right where
it's like that's so cool, and and you know, you're
always trying to get bits and pieces of the storyline
because clearly she's telling a story a story, and because
it's a narrative that she's going through, and I'm always
like interested, like and you know, back in the day,
obviously didn't have the access to the lyrics or looking
(05:33):
it up, so it alays fascinated this song No There's
No Way, right, Yeah, you know that song that the
girl There's No Way Christmas over and over.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
And if you went like this wasn't on the Waitresses album, right, No.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It was too late for the first album, so they
made an EP with this in it.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, so the first album is the one that you
would find it the thirstoryle time, right, boys, like exactly,
So that was like not automatic. We all had that
record ltiple times because that was every through store.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I have a very tattered copy, yes, as do I. Yes,
how about you? Al you remember the first recollection of
the song.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Just around that time too, in the midnight when we're
all hanging out. We'd hear it around this holiday season
and I'd hear it on k rock, you know, talking
about their Weenie roasts and stuff. Yeah, and yeah, like
their acoustic Christmas and then all of a sudden they
would play the song in there and I was like, oh,
it's the waitresses because it sounds like I know what
boys last.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
But it's like, did you know she died?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You know, like it was that was pre internet, right,
but the word on her death still got around to me.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I heard it on the radio when they announced that
she passed away. Yeah, but you know, it's like that
thing where it's not really played until I guess during
the holidays. Right, It's not like which is kind of
weird because I feel like this song could be played
any time of the year, right, it just has the
Merry Christmas. Obviously it's played in the Christmas time, but yeah,
I just didn't never really caught it any other time,
and I don't really I just couldn't figure it out
(06:55):
who it was until and the popularity really grew just
probably in the last fifteen ten years, right, Yeah, yeah,
it has.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It has like it actually made the rotation of your
you know, like mainstream stations.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
iHeart radios of the world.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Now it's like probably just as big as any other
Christmas song.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Right, yeah, it's in the rotation guarantee the last Christmases
of the world.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
She died the day after my eighteenth birthday. Really crazy December.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
December ninth, oh wow, nineteen ninety six Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, it's like George Michael dying on Christmas Day, right.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
What the heck? Don't write a Christmas write a Christmas song?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Right?
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Carry r carry watch your back around December, right.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Man? But yeah, yeah, yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
The just the just how big the song has gotten
for me, at least in the last five years, because
at work they play Christmas music around this time too,
and everywhere. Now I'm hearing it this year more this
year than back to last year even and then you know,
I'm glad that Ryan picked this out, so now we
can really scrutinize the song.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
But you know, it's it really stands out because it's
not traditional. You know, for example, you don't have the
traditional Christmas instruments that would be played with it, right,
but it really for some reason, it has that joyous
kind of like even though the subject matter is a
little bit you know, kind of up and down, but
you do kind of feel, you know, like it's hopeful, right,
there's something something about it that has the Christmas spirit involved.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Because yeah, it's a cynical song, yeah originally, and then
it still has a very hap you know, like positive
ending to it.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And it relates to the songwriter of course, Chris Butler, right,
who just watched the documentary on He's he's really good
with what he really wants to say and how to
say it.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Yeah, in a weird I don't know, man.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
You stream a consciousness. Yeah, we don't. We write music, right,
we write our own stuff. And there's I've never I
could never conceive of something like this where you can
tell a whole story and I love that he doesn't
have to rhyme, but you just kind of make it
fit into that sound, you know. I love that kind
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
There's something in the water in Akron, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of bands, I mean Nine.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Inch Nails came from there, and you.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Know Devo and Yeah Tenders, but then they.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Like Ron James from Akron from Akron, Ohio, but through
the New York prison, So I mean there is a
lot of that. You get a lot of that kind
of like valid underground talkie song kind of thing, which
is like that whole like no wave thing too so,
and then the rap whole thing about it with talking
heads and all that stuff that's coming out and Blondie. Yes,
(09:21):
so you know it all kind of makes sense, but
no one did a straight up I don't know what
three page story.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
The lyrics are insane.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, when you know, we were watching the video a
little documentary about this song or the band, and just
that it was a street it was a short story.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Stephen King Vella.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
I wouldn't even know. I would have to like put
in like the speech to text and just start talking.
I'm looking to type all that ship out.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Think about like, you know, karaoke saying that Patty Donahue
was struggling and she's a smoker. Imagine that that's true.
But just a quick background, he wrote the song. He
hated the holidays, you know, with the whole consumerism and
just the idea of like everybody's just trying to, you know,
(10:05):
buy something, Like anybody.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Anybody that hangs out with Gerrod Castles from Devo, you're
gonna hate any kind of.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
The devolution of man.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I mean, I like that. But then another thing that
I really thought that was interesting was this whole idea
of the waitresses is all just kind of fabricated, and
he kind of wheeled himself into creating this and it happened,
and it really happened. You know, it's funny. So my
point is that there is hope for everybody. They exactly
is that Christmas magic involved and somehow you can make
(10:37):
it if you really wish it.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I mean for being a quote unquote you know, made
up ban, I mean they had a lot of success.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
I know what Boys Like is was a pretty huge song.
They did the theme.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Song for Square Pegs, which was a really big eighties
TV show. It was like I don't know, like maybe
four seasons or three seasons, you know, So, I mean
he had a lot of success for it. With the
quote unquote fake band, Yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
But as we saw, you know, he tried right, like
tried to start the band and like ask his band
Tim Hughey, like, you know this song that I wrote,
but it just wouldn't fly without Patty don Hughes vocals. Right,
She's really that the catalysts that really made all this happen.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Well, she's the key to to the waitresses.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
She is the waitress. Yeah, that boye huh, just that
it's so I don't know, even we just talked about this.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
She doesn't look like if you go to like a
Denny's at one o'clock in the morning, you might get
someone who looks kind of like right, like, wow.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
She's really pretty well. Is she working so late right now?
You know?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Exactly? But the way she does it right, because all
you know, I listened to the album and her delivery
is always the same, but there's something special about it.
It's like, oh, you know, you just want to keep
listening to it, you know what I mean. Like it's
like somebody you need at a party and you hit
it off right, and they are telling you their stories,
even though it's like the most boring thing, but just
the way she's saying it, it's like like you're glued
to every single word.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
You know, she's a natural performer.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, exactly, she has that. She has charismatic yes, and
again ours I would say answer too soon. You know,
there's just people who rely on a certain drug that
allows them to really create and be productive and be creative, right,
and I feel like she has you know, some people
just have that like they need to do that to
(12:18):
kind of fuel there whatever they're doing, you know, it's like,
sadly that's what happened.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
So so you listen to the full album, right.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Album's great, Yeah, very scott feel to it. And and
no way like if you blended the two together obviously
because a lot of the horns right then the sacks,
which is funny, that makes total sense. But yeah, they didn't.
I mean two albums, right, that's pretty much all they did.
And she left and they were only there for like
what two years, a couple of years, and I don't
think she ever made anything like on her own. I
don't know what happened. And I feel like she kind
(12:47):
of just loved, you know, lived her life and.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
She like she worked for a record company. Oh, she
became like an A and R person right her company,
and then yeah, passed away like a talent, yes exactly.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Yeah, and in our reper m C M c A Records.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
It sounds like she's perfect for that kind of position too. Yes,
she's like scrutinizing you and like.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Appable and she's like sweet and she'll make you, you know,
like you look yeah, let me sign the contract.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
That would be great to find out, like who she
actually like signed signed our discovery, you know, like exactly,
maybe she wrapped say faris who like cover their songs
or like like no Doubt or like you know, like
kind of like sky E bands.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Right, and that's like like the eighties. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
All right, Okay, so we'll be back for some pop
quiz after these messages.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's ready for some pop quiz, right, all right, let's
do this. All right, you guys, let's talk about tipping
for a little bit since we're talking about the waitresses. Okay,
what do you guys think about tipping?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Is a massive quizzard.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Man, There's some numbers and percentages, but I always tip, yeah, right, okay,
it's it's a it's a customary thing, right, and a
lot of the other parts of the world. I hate
the idea that we have to tip.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, I hate that, but because frankly, the restaurant should
be covering their weight, paying them a fair wage.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, there we go, baby, Just very quickly, I went,
you know, we ate my family and I recently at
a restaurant. And now they have these devices where they
come up to you, you put your car, you tap,
and then they turn it to you while they're standing
there and I just I just can't stand that, you know,
It's like it's so pressure.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well what I do. This is my trick, right, I
always put in no, and then I leave cash. I
always carry cash with me smart and I leave cash
because I think they want the cash. Because they get
the cash, put it in the pocket. It doesn't go
into the takes.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
A while too if it goes into sea.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Yeah, you're right, you're right. So I do the and
I always say is cash okay? And they're like, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
So then I'll hit the note so they don't think
I'm just hitting no. And then they leave and they're like, man,
fuck this guy and they see cash, like oh, I
feel sad.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I like, who he's life hack here? And now I
think that's my new thing, the podcast. I think I'll
pursue that from now. And then I miss carrying cash
and then they just take it back to the nineties.
There's one time where all of us and a few
of our friends we ate at Norms over there now
hambur it's no longer there, and there's a big party.
It was eight seven to eight nine people and we ate,
you know, we had our steak and eggs or whatever
(15:10):
the fuck we were reading at that time, and we
had a male waiter and you know, you excellent service,
great food. We're all laughing, having a great time, and
it was time to pay the bill, and we all
split the bill. And as we paid the bill, and
as we leave, we're like, you know, high school kids, right,
we had no money, and we laughed approximately forty three
(15:31):
cents just about you remember this. And as we walked out,
we're all laughing and kind of, you know, just being
goofy high school kids. And the waiter walked up behind
us and threw the change at us, and we all
turned to him and we're like, we were shocked because well,
you know, rightfully so right, and I don't know, I
don't know, I'm kind of well, he did it.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I think he thought we were laughing at him, but
we weren't.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
We're not. But at the same time, it's like an
insult of a tip though, yes.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
It was, yeah, but we were like sixty we do,
I mean, we barely had enough money to pay for.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
The whole Yeah, some of us probably even shared the meal. Yeah,
but I'm sorry that dude. He's okay, But anyway, he's
probably a CEO now or something branch just a memory
that I tell my kids all the time when we
go out to I vaguely remember that too. He was
throwing pennies one of the time. He was so pissed.
(16:23):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
But but to me, I was so oblivious about like
the idea, right, yeah, I was so oblievious, just not
to say the tip, but just like the amount of
money we did, because if I knew that was an issue,
I would have left more.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I had no idea if you even had, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I don't think we all paid cash because you don't
have cards, right, I think we just paid like whatever
we owed, And we didn't even think about the tip.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Yeah. And I didn't go to restaurants when I was
a kid, so I didn't know about tip.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
You know.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
We would go to McDonald's or get schnitzel. You don't
leave tips there, you know. So I just know.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
And again it's not like it was our in our
position when we ate out with our parents, right, they
they would do all the stuff I didn't. I didn't
think about it. An I look back now and it's like, fuck,
I can't get out of my mind, And I look
the way you throw it at us man with anger.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
We all learned that, we all learn, We all learn.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But back to the pop quays. Here's question one. Lincoln
pennies in her forehead mark or forever mark? Oh I
need that there? You'll take it out, but spurting it out?
All right, Here you go. Question one one, According to
a twenty twenty four USA Today's Survey, gentlemen, which generation
(17:30):
is the cheapest tipper A Generation Z B millennials, CE
Generation X. That would be us D, baby boomers or
E silent generation.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
I'm gonna say baby boomers.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I would say gen Z, gen Z you are both
raw silent generation did not understand that concept? Yes, right, yeah,
fifteen point sixteen percent. Our generation is at seventeen point
fifty three and the millennials millennials, we are the highest tippers. No,
Blonis are eighteen point eighteen percent tippers. That's pretty good.
(18:05):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Well, I worked in Edward and stuff like that, so
I always tip because I'm like, I feel.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Like, right, you know, yeah, I haven't you have some experience?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Right?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Here's number two. According to the same survey, which state
is the highest tipper at A whopping twenty two point
sixty nine percent A New York b California, CE, Oregon
or d Washington and Blue States.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Huh nice, I'll say New York.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I agree, New York. You guys are both wrong. California
really all right, calif for Yeah, it's pretty good. By
the way. That's the new tipping percentage.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I'm back when we're growing that. It was fifteen fifteen.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Now I'm still fifteen in my head, man, But.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Now it's twenty because of the pandemic post pandemic. Now
it's like the average is.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I always lived.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I always left just to give a little bit more
of the little more. No, I think the rest of
the rest of the world caught up with me.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I'm just basic, you know, was ahead of its game
and then the world caught Conversely, which state or territory
is the cheapest tipper at am easly fourteen point Alaska?
Be Hawaii, see Illinois or de Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Oh, I'd say Alaska.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Have there a lot of resources in Puerto Rico. I'm
gonna say Puerto Rico. I'm gonna say Porto Rico.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Cause bad buddy, because I'm canceling right.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Because I'm thinking, like, if it's a resort place, then
people go there for vacation.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
They tip larger when they're on vacation. You know, somebody
to go to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
They tip polar bears over there. Out and Alaska, you're
both wrong. It's Illinoying Illinois at fourteen point twenty two.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
That's that's Oh I bick there because yeah, I I
didn't think.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Oh man, what's the climate in Illinois.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I mean, just like you got Chicago, there were we
think Chicago's when they say you got some pizza pies
and the West seventeen that makes but it's interesting, right,
he's statistic that's low. Man, from twenty three percent about
to fourteen that's a big it's a pretty big gap.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
You're going to Chicago to watch the Cubs and improv
and some thick pizza.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah, you know what I imagine the California. Obviously everything's expensive,
so I kind of feel like you have to more.
But this is the whole California, not just like it's
just expensive to live here.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, that's why I chose Alaska because I imagine it
doesn't cost so much.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
No, that's true. I don't know all right, Well, you
guys get your chewol hats on because the mon soon
as it come in. Here we go, guys, it's time
for the round. I don't have a lot. I don't
have a lot, but dude, we're doing so terrible there.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
This is like the we're gonna get held back this year.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
How good is your your Christmas facts and fictions? You
guys are? I think it's I think it's decent. I
read so much and they're a kind of repetitive. But
I got a couple of you guys. Let's check it out.
Here we go, so tell me if the following Christmas
facts or fiction statements I'm about to present to you
or indeed true or false? You guys ready?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
All right?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Who wants to go first?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
I'll go, all right, Lily, here we go.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Number one. The candy cane, which was invented in Germany,
was shaped to be a j as you know, to
stand for Jesus and the red strips representing his blood
and maybe the white seamen. I don't know. I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I'm going to say you think it's white, right, I'm
gonna say that's false.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
You're gonna go with false. Yes, it's true. Yes, really,
it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Right, Oh that's some Catholic Filipinos.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
All right. But yeah. When I first learned that, I'm like,
are you serious?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
I thought it was would be like a shepherd's crook
for gesus, and that's what I thought.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
And then it's like, oh.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Maybe hurting those rein so it's the blood and I
don't know, maybe it's the lamper. Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
All right, you ready for this one? Here we go.
One in three American men will give their partner some
type of marry laid sex toy during the holiest of holidays.
It's is true or false?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I would say, no, this is a false You are
correct sir.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
That is else you know it's actually you guys ever
are buy any No.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I would think that would be very for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
But yes, Christmas, but not for Christmas. Not.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Yeah, it would be more of a.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Little surprise.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
That's not like, no, I let them pick it because
I I do not trust myself.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
That's such like a cheesy gift to somebody for like
a real gift, like not for their birthday or Christmas.
It's something you just give.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
To got But I did tell you the story in
the past. Right, My my girlfriend and back in the nineties,
she had a cell phone that she hid in her
panties and that was my Christmas gift. Remember how I
made a bone call? Remember that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I don't know if Ryan remembers this, but we went
to a party. We went to a birthday party one time,
and a mutual friend of ours, her boyfriend, gave her
a vibratory at her birthday party in front.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Of her fucking family and friends. And it was the like,
it was the grossest thing I ever seen. She was horrified,
poor girl, and like the family was just like what
the fuck?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
And I was like, it's like, you know when you
mean well, but yeah, dude, I mean you think he'd know.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Yeah, it was like why it was like a pack
with like anal beads and it had like a it
was a pack like a Christmas wrapping pack of like
sexual deviance, you know. And it's like, why would you
give that in front of her family at her birthday party?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Shaped like a cane? Not christ But yeah, alright, here
you go number three? Ready.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Yeah, the tradition.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
You guys are familiar with the tradition of hanging Christmas doggings, right,
all right, so that originated.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
We're talking about hanging stocking of course.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Uh, the stockings that originally when eighteenth century prostitutes in
England would hang their wet stockings over the fireplace mantle
after walking the wet streets right during winter nights, and
their johns would pay them by placing coins in the stockings.
Is this true or false?
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Whoa wow? If that is true, that's fucking darkest ship.
I'm gonna say that's false because you sure, yes, that
is false.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You are correct.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
If that was true, I would tell everybody I know
about that. I would tell my mom that on Christmas Day. Hey, Mom,
you know how that started on our on your beautiful
fireplace right there.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Mom. It's actually a Saint Nick. This old story about
this guy who had a daughter who didn't have enough
money for the dowry. So Saint Nick, as generous as
he is, would put the coins in the stocking.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
That's the back story in the dowry to seller to
someone to get married. I mean, that's just as dark.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
It's not Saint John though, right right, I'll try this one.
The tradition of kissing under the missiletoe. I don't know
if you guys ever participated as can we do it earlier?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I'll try to get it so.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
That tradition of kissing on the missile toe was based
on an ancient Celtic druid using the small evergreen shrubs
an afrodisiac while practicing sex magic as part of their
rituals and spiritual practices. They're doing it, They're doing it
Stonehenge style, you know, right? True or false?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
That is true because a lot of druid is you know,
Christmas to go ahead and in right fall?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Got me there. It's actually you know Freaget from the
Norse smith A, Yeah, that's actually he's She said that
she will kiss anybody who because whoever saved her son
would she would kiss if they walk in her dismissials.
That's really what the origins of this, her stupid I
was getting in trouble all right, all the time, right,
Thor Balder and Louis, you're righty, yes? Did you know
(25:46):
that NASA space mission of Delta three nine one four
in December five, nineteen seventy nine, played Paul McCartney's A
Wonderful Christmas Time your Favorite Christmas song? Did you know
that was the first Christmas song played in Space? Is
this true or false?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
That beautiful synthesizer song? I actually I heard it today
and I was like, this is like, this is actually pretty.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Cool Tacy Penny Christmas Home.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Yeah, nineteen seventy five, seventy nine, seventy nine. Oh, so
the years line up. I want to say no, because
it's a US space, right, They're not gonna let it.
They're not gonna let a Limey. Sure, they're gonna let's
Frank Sinatra up there. I'm gonna say false.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Going with false, Yes, well then you're correct. Yes, you
know what the song is though, what was it? Nineteen
sixty five jingle Bells. It was the first song played
in space Christmas song plates.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
But that makes sense, they're not Yeah, it's gonna be
an American song.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
You're not gonna have a nice ala. This guy's like
a lawyer, right, breaking ship down deep?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
See what is it? Yes? Sixty or yes? Nicey?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Ninety?
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Yes, nineties?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
All right, al this one, try this one out. Reindeer.
Did you know that they have specialized noses that warm
the cold air before it gets to their lungs, making
their noses bright red under a thermal camera true or false.
That's such a riot question.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
You don't know it's right or wrong.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Give me the.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Science right out.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
I think it's so plausible rengeers have that capability physically.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
That is awesome.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
That's pretty coolie.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
I mean it makes sense because every once in a
while you'll see a terrible Instagram story of like a
deer that's like frozen alive and like someone's trying to
like save it, and you never see a ranger.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
No, no, they're good man. They know how to do it.
They live in the Arctic circle, of course. So here
you go. Here's my last ones. They don't have a lot,
and Christmas ones are a tough one. Did you know
that the Canada post mail system has its own postal
code for Santa Claus addressed as Santa Claus North Pole,
Ho Ho Ho Canada.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I'm gonna say that's false.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Final answer, Yes, you are wrong, sir. Yeah, And if
you write it to them, they'll actually ride back. What
it's H zero H zero H zero Is it a
postal code? That's wild? Right?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
That is crazy. I think I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Canadian Santa, Hey.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Give me the kids in the hall box and.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Deliver it that's all I've got. That's good. All I
learned three times more than I isn't.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
That's fine.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
There's a lot of learning inbout, especially with the Christmas stuff.
That's a good stuff.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I got a question for you guys, what's your favorite
Christmas song?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Oh? Man, I gotta go with the classic, you know.
I like to do with those karaoke, those old songs.
But I've been hearing a lot of good ones lately.
But you know, the Chestnuts open, it's called a it's
called Christmas song. I think m Christmas Christmas song. Yes,
the Christmas and I love that one. That one's classic, classic,
super classic. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Mine is the Carpenters have Yourself in Marry Little Christmas.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Oh that's a good one. Yeah. Yeah, that's always always
makes money, that's the thing. It's the most emotional. Yeah,
that's how I get that.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
And like the Jackson's Give Love and Christmas a good one.
That one too, It gets me a little emotional.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
I really like James Brown, that's yeah, cause go down
to the Ghetto.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
I love that song. It's such a good it always
makes you cry.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I was going to do Christmas in Hollis to the
Brandy MC that the video is pretty funny. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
I love all those like Wall of Sound ones too. Yeah,
those are all really good. One.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yes they're covers.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
There's another guy who died in Christmas Day, James Brown,
James Brown, Dean Martin.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
There you go, man, Yeah, all these people, I'm sad.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
All Right, it's time to talk about the music video.
The non existent music video that's this little Yeah, this
little mashup.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
We're not going to take a long time with this.
And let me just preface this again by saying the
video is a mash up, right, it's it's it's cobbled
together from their two videos that were actually released an
old Gray whistle Test concert exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And what I don't know where those random ones with
the random British people are random.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
That's from Make the Weather. That's from the video. But
I've never seen that video. Yeah, I just watched that one.
But let's just give a shout out to Ken Walls,
Tim Wallas's brother, the the vice president candidate. Yeah didn't
make it it kidding, but anyway, he directed those two
videos and he's he actually made some other videos. He's
(30:08):
like a producer and he did some videos for like
Cyndi Lauper or Patty Smyth, run dmc hugh Lewis. But
he did a lot of like comedy and TV specials movies,
so he's he's a lot of you know, credits, but
it's just right during that time and that's the work
he can yet, you know exactly.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I mean, let's talk about a little bit about I
guess the quality or just the Yeah, of course the
actual music videos that the footage is that we saw
the waitresses, right, I mean, you know, like I saw
the I Know What Boys Like video before and he
spliced that in. And it's awkward too because you could
see the loop.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Happen, yes, back and forth.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah, it just kind of stretched the time, you know,
to try to try to try to fit. Yeah, like it,
I've done that ship a night movie big time, you
know when I'm running out the footage.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Oh yeah, let me just look back there.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Do you know what years he made it?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Probably like ten years. It's not that okay, so.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
He had he he could have did it on an
iPad on.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I'm sure it was. It looks like it was done.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
I mean, you could do it. You don't have to
do the loopy. You know what I mean, you could
cut that a little bit.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, it could be done better, but you know, maybe
what was we didn't know what he was thinking. He
just thought it wasn't even gonna fly. But seven million
hits later, right.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Well, a lot of us by default, by you know,
people like us like I want to see a visual
of it.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Because it needs one. Yeah, it needs one so badly,
that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Yeah, he probably wanted it for some like you know,
he might have been DJing and wanted it in the
background or something.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Yeah, and you know, we'll all try to do stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
You know, one has the budget for a Patty Donahue hologram,
you know, to perform.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
So yeah, it's pretty clunky, right, very very awkward the
way it's all put together. Right, But again, I don't
fault the guy. He just wanted he loves the song
that he wanted to put a visual too. And you know,
I mean there was I went through all the comments,
so I mean people loved it, like, oh, thank you
for doing that at least, you know, at the very least,
because they love the song so much.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
But even ten years ago, it wasn't that easy to
I mean to match like where she's opening her mouth
to try to get it in.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
You know.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, so some of the stuff is actually well done.
You're like, oh wow, like this kind of looks like
she's singing, but she's not.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Right. The saxophone part was pretty good.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Yeah, some of it.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Some of it kind of lined up pretty good, which
is kind of a pain in the ass. Takes a
long time to like a.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Really familiarity with the footage too.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
That too, and he was also very he picked the
right moments of her being cute and playing with her hair,
you know, those little moments that that that would work right.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
And someone like me who's never really seen the other
two videos before that was based on this and then
you know, it's like to me, it's like, oh, there's
all new footage. But then again, it's like there's something
off about this, you know, like why is it looping like.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
The lyrics when I'm matching, I'm saying it's exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
It just feels like old Gray Whistle tests.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
But it lines up with like an early seventies kind
of video, like where this is kind of more eighties, right,
so early eighties, early eighties, but it's it's so it
kind of lines up with a little bit of the
jankiness of the eighties videos, so you could kind of like, yeah,
that's what I saw.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I excuse it originally, Yeah, and then Ryan said it was,
you know, just cobbled together.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Oh no, now it's reading. But I asked me earlier,
this is the best based Christmas song basedline. I'm like,
it's gotta be right man, it's amazing. We've got to
give it up for right. Yeah, she really makes it
even on the other songs too, like she really like
Tracy warmworth Man. You said that she was she comes.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
From a musical family. Musical family.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Her brother it was the drummer in the Conan O'Brien
band after Max Weinberg left, and then she.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Was also in the mo was it again? The daytime
talk show.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
With Oh she was the WORLDEO Donald's Yeah, Rosi O
Donald's based player.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Right, Oh wow, and now she's with the beefifty two
is correct?
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Her sister is also like a jazz singer. Her father
was a jazz musician. So she comes from a deep
musical family.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Because she got inspired on playing bass by hearing she
nice she's been. She was like saying on the interviews
that she just thought she was just like devoted on
playing in that style.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yeah, it's beautiful, man, it works perfectly, you know.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Chic man, they like made a million bass players, like yeah,
a lot of bass players, like even like credit yeah,
credit them, yeah yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Who did it? The honey Taste of Honey? Taste of Honey?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yes, yes, she is an amazing basis. But yeah, like
every time I hear I think of a sweet disco
bass it's that song.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah, that that's pretty much the video. It's not really
to me really, I just wanted to use this song
because I thought this song needed not that it needed
any more attention, because I think everybody loves this song,
you know, like if people hear it and it's like
it kind of sticks with you, right, there's something about it,
probably because the way it sung and the way it's
it's a quirky, fun song and and there's a story
(34:46):
being told. And by the way, you guys ever have
those missed opportunities that she talks about. I love it
because it's a whole year, right, it takes it takes
part in the whole year, and it culminates in that
Christmas story money right there, you go sorry. I have
a lot of people my life that's still in progress,
and w I peep out opportunities.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Think about them every night, every night. Great, every year
I get older, they get stronger and deeper.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
We all can relate, right, yeah, before you go to sleep. Right,
it's always like and you have these little thoughts, you know,
like you saw them or maybe you ran into them
or talk to them. It's so close, but just never happened.
We don't get the paddy down, you like ending, you know,
like in this song.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, like going to it went to a grocery store.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
And right, and that's when then they chatted it up
and they laughed all night and they ended up having
a happy.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Ending, you know, yeah, like hottes later.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Euphemism.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
But I love I love how eighties it is. I
love how everybody looks so cool there. It's a very
like normcore nerdy.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
You know, so good, you know normcore.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
But then also like it's very eighties, like every musician
has like their own bringing their own style to the band.
It's not like there's not a unified style unlike, yeah,
like Evo or something like that, but even like Duran
Durant or something like that. Where they all looked very
new romantic, right. They all come in, they all like
it almost seems like a garage band, like you know,
where everybody's just kind of wearing whatever they're they wear
(36:14):
all the time.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
To add to that, they when Chris bus moved to
New York and then Pat don you followed like he
he he sent her some money for the bus ticket.
And the way they ended up putting the band together
was like all these other musicians were looking for a
band too. That's why they all look different and come
from different backgrounds, you know, but they probably had the
same idea like, yeah, this is the cool like you
know unit that we should like all play together. And
(36:35):
so that's and that's why they all look kind of
like you said, like one of them kind of modded out, right,
guys loaded out. The other guys kind of look kind
of you know, just casual.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
But there's a certain styles like a sensible sweater, you.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Know, it's a nice classic sweater right the button up underneath.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
If you if you were a part of the waitresses,
why would you dress up.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Like Chris Butler has that cool look perfect.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
He's kind of like a casual mod.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
You know, casual mod Yeah, all the beautiful tight jeans, right,
the jeans coats. Yeah, and she's just awesome with the
cool checkered look. You know, I love it.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
I mean they don't love they do not not look
like a ska band.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Yeah, and it's funny. One of the comments that I
didn't use for the notable ones was some guy said,
it seems like they all just met at the bus stop,
a guy in a band, you know. And it's funny, man,
you play you go downtown to It's great.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
That's so funny.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
You know, nobody takes a bus anymore.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
That's so relatable because I've been getting that like so
many times. It's like you're just.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Like hanging out like this happened at the convention depe convention.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Some guys just like, hey man, you play guitar?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Go yeah?
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Do you sing?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (37:51):
He do? You want to play a concert at my house? Sure?
Speaker 3 (37:54):
It's perfect.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Out of nowhere, I got like seven songs, Like.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Well, the point is it still happens today? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Yeah, it's so funny. And he's like, oh, I sing too.
I'm like, oh you want me to play guitar for
you to sing? I get it?
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Oh you want to produce. I'm going to record well
for exposure.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
I see where this is going.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Have a big falling.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
No, yeah, that's all right, I'll get another guitar player.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
It's funny.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Okay, we'll be right back for some notable YouTube comments. Okay,
it's time for the notable YouTube comments.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
All right, here you go. Ransom Handsome, great handle listen
oh from eight years ago, says, this has me thinking
about how fun the Waitresses first album was. I began
listening to K rock southern California around nineteen eighty one,
and The Waitresses first album Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful, was released
in January of eighty two. At the time, I was
taking comedy improv workshop classes at the Grounding Theater on
(38:53):
Melrose Avenue, and right next to the theater was Groundzer
for punk and new wave music vinyl Fetish Records. That's
where I purchased a way just his perst album. I
only included that because that's our scene too, you know.
Oh yeah, you got a piece of that What's name?
Speaker 5 (39:10):
No, but what what did you have a year to that?
Speaker 4 (39:12):
He's old with eighty one eighty two early, but.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
He's in silent generation, not tipping anybody, yeah or tipper?
Speaker 3 (39:24):
All right, here's the next one by ZZZ A A
A O nine to nine oh from six years ago says,
my third fave Xmas song. It's just wonderful late eighties
and nineties in two thousand and this hideous decade are
not worth pissing on. Shame and all you horrible and
hideous music makers. Amen. Oh we gotta throwing a hater
(39:46):
hater one in that one. It was my final one
at l dan o Grande seven years ago says there
was a brief period in nineteen eighty one after crack
cocaine had been invented, but before wealthy people knew how
dangerous it was and steer clear of it. I think
that pretty much explains this video. Wow, oh boy, he
(40:07):
might be right on that one.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Some guys smoking, you know, smoking, he's editing the video.
That's what happened here.
Speaker 5 (40:15):
We didn't go that far from Z Records. I can
see a lot of.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Right the videos.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
The videos that were used actually were quality.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
But yeah, exactly this mesh mash.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Propoly edited to make this one. Okay, guys, so Christmas wrapping,
would you keep it or would you throw it back?
Speaker 5 (40:32):
First you pass.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
I like this guys, you out of vive. I like
that he took it upon himself to make it. I mean,
he did it just to do it. I'm guessing he
can't make money off of this, right, I don't think.
So I'm gonna keep it just because the Passion Project.
You know, it's not a good video. I would normally
throw something like this back, but I think because of
the whole Passion Project in the story behind it, I'm
gonna keep it just for that, all right.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
I hope.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
I don't. I hate I do hate a lot of
fan made.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Videos, so like so I'm surprised.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
I don't want. I don't want like people to keep
doing that.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
But I thought that it's kind of kind of it's
kind of tough to something.
Speaker 5 (41:10):
Yeah, it's kind of tough.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
To make something, you know, because that's all you have,
very limited like stuff to pull off, pull from you.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
And it makes more sense to make a video for
a video for a song that was never made, where
people are making fan made videos for songs that already
have great.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Videos to them, you know. So that's true. It's a
little bit different. So I'll keep it.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
I'm keeping it for me.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Well, you know, like I've been peppering my opinions about
this music video throughout the show.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Yeah, I do agree a little bit bit. Louis there.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
It's fan made, it's a it's a passion project. I
do appreciate that, but like, I just wish it could.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Have been done a little better. Sure, unless you.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Really had to do it in three hours, it could
have been tightened up a little bit in a couple
of spots.
Speaker 5 (41:52):
Yeah, I'm thinking there's a reducs.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
I think I gotta bust some upot lips now reduct
style out. Yeah, I don't know if I have to
do it, Like, if I have do Mike, will I
am on this one?
Speaker 3 (42:03):
I mean, will I am or whatever? Probably, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
I'm surprised they never performed it live on like a
TV show, like a something where you could pull that to.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Like maybe it makes into it, I mean regardless, I
don't know. Yeah, Like I'm throwing it back though, heart's
in the right place, but it could be done better.
Speaker 5 (42:21):
He is getting better, I heard right, right, Valley.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Okay, are you right?
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Well?
Speaker 3 (42:30):
As for me, actually, I wanted to suggest that we
probably should skip the part about keeping it or throwing
it away because you know, I didn't really need that
part because since it wasn't really an official video, it
was an actually.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
All over.
Speaker 6 (42:47):
But I apologize, but feet to fire, I would have
to say, yeah, I want to of course I want
to keep it because it's such a great song that
you know, the visual doesn't really need to it doesn't
really add anything, and it was it's horribly made.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Because you know, I don't blame him. I would have
just put something together too, just because I want. I
love the song so much that I want to put
something together, So you know, in that sense, I want
to keep it because of the song. It's so powerful
and I think it's one of the more modern I
think it's probably the best Christmas song that's been made
since like the modern music of.
Speaker 5 (43:19):
Christmas fifties and yeah, you know and thing before that.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
There's a lot of great ones and a lot of
classic ones that really like touch you and it really
gives you the Christmas spirit. This one gives you the
modern Christmas spirit of like the rush and the and
the fighting through things and the inter relationships and the
personal things that are happening and everybody's life and I
kind of like that idea of you know, there's a
lot of pressures, right what the holidays bring, and I
(43:44):
think that kind of encapsulates it. And to me that's
enough to carry for me to keep it if we
had to keep it, so you know, in that sense,
I will keep it. And again this is a staple.
It's you know, like I could listen to this song
every day a bunch of times.
Speaker 4 (43:56):
So yes, yes, it's also a good New Year's song.
It's a good news you're looking forward, yes, in this ending.
And I think the what Harry Metts Sally kind of feeling,
I think took back up the keeps on this like
this song deserves presence with showing the band and showing
you know, the singer and you know how good she is,
and you know it deserves music making music and the
(44:19):
band deserves a presence.
Speaker 3 (44:21):
I agree YouTube And just you know, just as an aside,
you know, he Chris Brother actually donates. He's like a
philatious he donates to charity. I don't know if you
guys ever read that, but whoever like calls him first
and tells him that I heard your song on the radio.
He donates to their name to this local library.
Speaker 5 (44:37):
What really.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Yeah, and also he bought Jeffrey Dahmer's house or the
course picked him that he killed in.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Ohio, anything to get an inspiration.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Interesting, interesting guy.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Yeah, those freaking Trent Bis freaking the slaughter the mansion, slaughterhouse.
You know what's achron people, Man, it's the water.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
In there something with a great song over. Oh man,
this is a it's.
Speaker 5 (45:01):
A good song.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
Yeah, it's a great, great, great song. My even my
daughter loves a sounding trying to memorize the lyrics and
sing it to me. It's funny. Okay, So enclosing what
you got for us?
Speaker 5 (45:11):
Next episode, Louis, I'm going to the nineties.
Speaker 4 (45:14):
I'm going to probably a video that only guys will
probably will only get a male read listenership to this.
Oh no, we're gonna do pavement. Cut your hair, cut
your hair.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
I've ever seen this video.
Speaker 4 (45:26):
Classic, a very weird, surrealistic video. And there's gonna be
a payment we kind of coming up soon. So maybe
we could talk a little bit about people who are
going to see that movie soon.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
So all right to align that thing. But I want
to wish everybody a merry Christmas and happy holidays, if
you're celebrating Kwanza or celebrating something nothing, all right, and
the happy New Year to everybody. Make sure you guys
are safe and loving each other all the time, keeping warm.
Speaker 5 (45:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
It's probably our last show of twenty twenty four, so.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
We'll see your next year, another year in the books, guys.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
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Speaker 4 (46:15):
It sounds like it could be like a jingle almost yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:19):
I can't even imagine him. Oh, let me play the
song for you guys, like what I recorded, Like I
wonder how he did it. You know, how would you
sing that?
Speaker 5 (46:24):
Because you need her to have that, Well, imagine him
playing it.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
That's what I'm saying. I know, yeah, I know, kind.
Speaker 5 (46:34):
Of acoustic guitar, just jamming it out, sucker.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
It sounds like the Island and I know you want
me anusic version. That's good.
Speaker 5 (46:50):
That's what I would look up the tab acoustic.
Speaker 3 (46:53):
He was like playing, you guys are holding back here.
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