12 weeks / 84 days until Christmas! (Ding Dong Merrily on High Song Battle)

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Hello everybody, this is TV Scotty. What a week it's been. We don't have Brandon today because he doesn't have any power

[00:00:07] [SPEAKER_02]: and it wasn't until after I recorded that I realized my microphone was on the wrong input

[00:00:12] [SPEAKER_02]: and it used the microphone on my webcam and it sounds like I recorded this in a truck stop bathroom.

[00:00:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Re-recording it is not really an option so we're just gonna have to make the most of it.

[00:00:23] [SPEAKER_02]: So I apologize. Hope you can find a way to enjoy it anyway.

[00:00:39] [SPEAKER_05]: Live from the North Pole. It's time for Christmas Morning.

[00:00:45] [SPEAKER_05]: The Daily Show where every day is Christmas. Here you are, host, brand and...

[00:01:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Hello everybody, you'll probably notice that I am not brand.

[00:01:06] [SPEAKER_02]: That is because brand is sitting in the dark without power right now.

[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's up to me Scotty and our good friend Alonzo to take the show over today.

[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Alonzo, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. I'm thrilled to be here. I'm sorry about the circumstances but I know that

[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_03]: brand will have electricity and a dry home and all those things very soon.

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's the most important thing is brand and day in and air in and in,

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_02]: everybody's okay they just don't have power. It makes it terribly difficult to do what they do.

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Turns out recording a podcast does require at least a modicum of electricity.

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Who knew, right? It's not like you old and times where you know you just sat around the campfire.

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't going to bother Alonzo today because Alonzo is a very busy guy so I said,

[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_02]: So when brand said, hey, I really can't do it tomorrow. I said, all right, I'll ask Shannon.

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_02]: She said yes, but then Shannon woke up with a terrible migraine and was very safe.

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_02]: So I begged Alonzo instead of hey, I'm sorry to do this to you, but can you help?

[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_02]: So I called in one of my favorite shits.

[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what they call it, but you're here and I couldn't be happier about that.

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_02]: So thank you for joining last minute. My pleasure.

[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_03]: I require very little convincing to be here.

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_03]: I adore the show. I love you. I'm happy to be here.

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's wonderful. You know, else loves us are the listeners.

[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah. Let me open up the mail bag and we'll get to why they love us.

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_02]: The first email today is from Jill Garcia and Jill says holiday greetings Scott in Alonzo.

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_02]: She didn't actually say a lot, so but I'm tailoring the content.

[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_02]: I appreciate that. Well, our local lows has a Christmas display up among the many larger than life

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Gary Halloween yard figures. My husband was impressed with the letters to Santa mailbox.

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_02]: It lights up inside and of course the abominable snow monster from the beloved root off

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_02]: the red nose reindeer TV special. I was very excited to see some Christmas magic in Lowe's.

[00:03:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Alonzo, I don't know if you find your way to home improvement stores very often.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_03]: I do. I'm an apartment well or so, not unless I'm really going out of my way to do so,

[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_03]: but I have been following the the Christmas morning in Sugram account at Xmas Morning podcast.

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_03]: And, and I love seeing the reports from from around the country.

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_03]: And actually like I've become that person that people send those photos to as well.

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_03]: I shared with you a picture friend of mine sent me from the UK of a Marx and Spencer.

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that was already all due to that.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_02]: That was phenomenal. I should post that one to the Xmas Morning pod as well.

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_02]: This picture that Jill included, I'm assuming it's her husband in here.

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Picture next to the abominable snowman. He's the one on the right.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_02]: I have seen this abominable snowman as well in person and you and I are tall guys.

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_02]: This thing towers over us.

[00:04:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I can tell from the photo.

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Jill's husband is a tall fella and he is in the shadow of bumbled here.

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so very cool. I think it's about $500 little steep for my budget,

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_02]: at least for my Christmas yard decorating budget.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_02]: But I'm glad it exists.

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_03]: I do like the people who repurpose and they buy the 12 foot Halloween skeleton.

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_03]: And then they dress up as Jack Skellington for yeah, for the Christmas season.

[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_03]: That's like that's how you really get the most bang out of your bucket.

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_02]: I think. And when you're at lows at least the one that Jill's talking about and then mine.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm guessing they're all pretty similar where Jill's husband's back is.

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Would be facing where all the Halloween stuff is.

[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's wonderful.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_02]: You, you could turn your head to the right.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_02]: You see, I'll wait and you turn your head to the left and you see Christmas.

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_02]: And that really makes me happy. Everybody wins.

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I've got an email from Chris Davies. Chris says some more new Christmas day core.

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_02]: I found this week Walmart has another new blow mold.

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_02]: This one is a gingerbread man sitting in a Christmas mug.

[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Also, for the National Lampoons Christmas Vacation Superfan,

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_02]: pottery barn has some decorations at household goods with Christmas vacation.

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_02]: It's pottery barn.

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's not the cheapest stuff, but it's probably decent quality.

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Alons, so I did see this.

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_02]: I happen to go on the pottery bar website for whatever reason and there it was right on the front.

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they're not cheap.

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_02]: But what at pottery bar is cheap?

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Now, what are we talking like, Morty Moose Punch classes or what?

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_02]: There were punch classes.

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_02]: I think there were towels.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I know there were some mugs.

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I think there were cookie jars.

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_02]: There's a pillow that looks like a cat with the electric lights wrapped around.

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_02]: But I showed it to my wife and she's like $70,

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, well, okay, big one.

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna do it now.

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_02]: But I guarantee you, after Christmas,

[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna be hovering around pottery barn for clearing sight of them.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_03]: There you go.

[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, yes, that's that's absolutely the play for like between boxing day and a

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_03]: piffyney like sweep them all up.

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_03]: That's right.

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I would go on Christmas day if they would open.

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_02]: So y'all on sale yet.

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_02]: And finally, Chris says going off an eBay listing and I found it looks like home

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_02]: depots are starting to carry Christmas stuff.

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Mine isn't yet.

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_02]: And it seems like they're getting back into the blow mold game as well.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_02]: I do have an update there.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I went to Home Depot, my home Depot at least in Colorado.

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_02]: And they had all the Christmas stuff up.

[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_02]: And they had this blow mold that we have pictured here.

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Alons of this one's actually nicer than a 60 style blow mold.

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Blow the easy to say, blow mold in the detail out it is really, really nice.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, like you can see the sweater detail on the dog here.

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they're going for a little more photorealistic.

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Like you can see the individual hairs on the dog and the, yeah,

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_03]: the, you know, the round the eyes and everything like it.

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's pretty eerie.

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_02]: I have to say you're on your hand over it.

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_02]: It's really good quality.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Now, I don't want a dog blow mold that says Merry Christmas.

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_02]: But if I was in the market for one, I would pick this one up.

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_03]: If you are, however, yeah, no, David, I have a couple of vintage Santa blow molds that

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_03]: we picked up from.

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_03]: This guy in Southern California named Christopher Kyer who used to really great pop up

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_03]: store every year.

[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I think the Christmas corner.

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_03]: And we were, we were devotees and then he just found it too difficult to find a space

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_03]: where he could, that he could lease for like three months.

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_03]: And so I think now he's doing all of his stuff online.

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_03]: But he has extraordinary stuff.

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_03]: And we do love an old school yard decoration, even if we don't have a yard.

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_02]: I do like the vintage blow molds, the ones that are original and my understanding is

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_02]: they're worth quite a bit of money.

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no kidding.

[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Or there's a big market for them at least with people willing to pay a lot of money.

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to buy a modern reproduction of a blow mold that looks like the originals.

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_02]: I would prefer what's kind of pictured here.

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the, you know, like the shiny bright, the legendary company that did, you know,

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_03]: the trees and ornaments back in the day.

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_03]: I think somebody has bought the name and is putting it on a new retro-y products under

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_03]: the shiny bright name and look, if that works for you awesome, I don't want to

[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_03]: yuck anybody's young but I feel like I just want to go old school and see what I can find out

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_03]: there that it isn't going to cost me an arm and leg because obviously a lot of folks know

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_03]: what they've got and they will make you pay for it.

[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_03]: But every so often you stumble upon some estate say or something where they're just giving

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_03]: them, the only went just have to go at a reasonable price and they included in there is

[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_03]: going to be some real gems.

[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Now I enjoy the Instagram account that your husband Dave runs.

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_02]: And one thing that I don't know that I've seen correct me if I'm wrong.

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_02]: You are bubble lights.

[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Do you have bubble lights?

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_03]: We have not gone the bubble light route.

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_03]: We've been doing a lot of the ice lights.

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Those GE lights from like the 50s and 60s that are sort of coated on the outside

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_03]: with sort of little thin strips of plastic and so it gives a cool effect.

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_03]: But I mean, I believe me, I'm impressed with bubble lights for her name is of course now

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_03]: flown out of my head but last year at Bramblefest we had that whole presentation about

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_03]: bubble lights.

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe it was Lenora Gilbert.

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think it was Lenora.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_03]: It's I can see her face, she's an attorney and I'm just about her name is Slaterna

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Head so my apologies but she brought video for bubble lights.

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_03]: She's got like an amazing collection of it.

[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_03]: I dig a mess with Whitney.

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_03]: It is Whitney.

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_03]: My apologies Whitney.

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_03]: But you know, I think we all have to sort of pick our lane and we haven't really picked

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_03]: the bubble light lane but I do think they're awesome.

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_02]: We would normally do podcast reviews at this point but that knowledge is trapped in Brandon's

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_02]: head.

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how to access any of the reviews.

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_02]: If history has any guide, we don't have any reviews probably anyway.

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_03]: And the inside of Brandon said can be a terrifying place for you.

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_02]: We'll leave that alone while he's dealing with power out of just and stuff.

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_02]: I was going to have Shannon sing a Christmas song here.

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to ask you to do that a lot so I respect you.

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Really I'd have respect for the listeners but I accept that either way.

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_02]: I do have a good joke though are you ready for it?

[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh please.

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_02]: What do you call Santa Claus with unfolded clothes?

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Is he Chris wrinkled?

[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, we got it.

[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_03]: I very rarely get them when I'm listening to you guys.

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_02]: This is a lucky week for me.

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_02]: I've mentioned in the past that I go to these websites and search and search and search

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_02]: so I rarely ever find anything.

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_02]: One of my new strategies is I type terrible Christmas jokes and then I'll just immediately

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_02]: go to like the 11th page of results in Google.

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_02]: There you go.

[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_02]: All the links are purple.

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_02]: I've been there.

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Please help you brown.

[00:10:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Put your waiters on and go deep into the cavernous.

[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_02]: I have a feeling by about this time next year.

[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_02]: There are going to be no more jokes.

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know what we're going to do.

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_02]: But that's not our problem right now.

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's do the countdown.

[00:10:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Please.

[00:10:57] [SPEAKER_03]: 84 days until Christmas.

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_03]: 84 days that's only 12 weeks.

[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_03]: 12 weeks we have looked.

[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_03]: We're in October.

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_03]: We're in the final quarter.

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, we have where we're deep in the berm once.

[00:11:12] [SPEAKER_03]: It's all happening.

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_03]: We've crested over the summer and we are now tumbling pelmel down that beautiful snowy

[00:11:19] [SPEAKER_03]: hill to Christmas day.

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_02]: And at this point, you're going to be hard pressed to find somebody who's going

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_02]: to give you a really tough time about counting down the Christmas from here.

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Even the normal people kind of get the spirit at this point.

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_03]: I think yeah.

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you're going to hear some gripes about stuff in the stores where everybody

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_03]: will look.

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_03]: We passed October 1st, which I know has been a very major monument for this show every

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_03]: year.

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of like a high water mark for the upcoming season for us.

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_03]: And we're weeks away from the launch of hallmarks can't enter Christmas.

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_03]: So it's happening.

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_03]: That's just the, let's own it.

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_03]: It's happening.

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_02]: It is.

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_02]: And this is the point where I actually have to stop and appreciate the days because

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_02]: before we know it, 84 days will go by in a flash.

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_02]: And then we'll say what happened at Christmas.

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_02]: You indeed.

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Just all gone.

[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_02]: And Walmart will just have Valentine's Day stuff.

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_02]: That'll be very sad.

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_02]: What's still the news?

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_05]: Let's.

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_05]: Today is a 12 or second.

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_05]: Here's the news.

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Get that old thalazan.

[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'd like to go ahead.

[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_03]: It was it.

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Jane Malian, a 67 year old Christmas enthusiast from White Roading Essex.

[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_03]: So I guess that's the United Kingdom.

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Keeps her festive spirit alive year round by maintaining a fully decorated Christmas tree

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_03]: and ensuring her home is always ready for surprise visits from her.

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Adult sons George 35 and Edward 40.

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Both of her sons often travel with George performing with Cirque du Soleil and Edward living

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_03]: in Toronto, and that inspired Malian to adopt a quote, Christmas stand by lifestyle.

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_03]: She keeps stockings filled, presents wrapped, even a turkey in the freezer, allowing her

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_02]: family to celebrate whenever they arrive.

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what the turkey thing would really work for this though.

[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_02]: If your turkey is frozen solid and Edward and George show up at your door, you're not eating

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_02]: turkey.

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you can submerge in warm water, right?

[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Then they kind of speed up the front post.

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what, I have a suede machine and you don't actually have to heat it.

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_02]: You can just keep the water moving.

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_02]: So, alright, I've recended.

[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Keep going.

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm sure she's thought about all of this.

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_03]: In a recent BBC interview, Malian humorously described herself as seasonally challenged

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_03]: I hear your sister explaining that while they don't have giant outdoor decorations,

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_03]: every room in her home has festive touches.

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_03]: She chitterses the joyful memories created during these spontaneous gatherings, and emphasizes

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_03]: that her approach reflects the love and connection of family.

[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Running a cream tea company, Malian acknowledges her and her husband Roger 68 are quote,

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_03]: all the love to know better, unquote.

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Yet, they find happiness in their unconventional lifestyle.

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Their neighbors have commented on the year-end Christmas day corps with one postman,

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_03]: surprised to see a tree outside of the holiday season.

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Ultimately, Malian will use her perpetual celebration.

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_03]: The slightly eccentric is a heartfelt expression of family togetherness and joy.

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to say on the whole that's a nice story.

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_03]: I think so, I mean like look, you have your garden variety lunatics like you and me in brand.

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Right, we just are constantly having this on the brain.

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_03]: But this has a practical usage.

[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Just like my sons travel the world.

[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know when they're gonna be here.

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_03]: I wanted to be Christmas when they are here because they probably aren't here for actual Christmas.

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_03]: So it's gonna be lying in wait and ready to go the moment they cross the thresholds.

[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I'm going to say that an holds up to scrutiny, even though I'm not 100% sure.

[00:14:44] [SPEAKER_02]: It does.

[00:14:44] [SPEAKER_02]: It kind of sounds like an excuse to bring my youth to a plate away while he has a Christmas tree up here around.

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_02]: But what an incredible...

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_03]: But it's a good excuse though.

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_03]: I think Kudos to her even if this is all a big scam.

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_02]: It does pass the that initial high-level task.

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I should get some big sense.

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you're really starting thinking about it.

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_02]: But I don't want to think about it.

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_02]: I just want to be happy for Jane.

[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_02]: So what a fun little story there and hopefully it's going to be getting easier to find Christmas

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_02]: news stories.

[00:15:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Like believe it or not, trying to find one of the middle of May.

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_03]: I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I believe that no, I think the here comes the deluge.

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Don't worry.

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Why don't we take a quick break?

[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_02]: And when we come back, I'll find TV Scotty and we will get him to read the Christmas TV special.

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm good.

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Excellent.

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_02]: And we're back.

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Alonzo, it is time to think about Christmas television.

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Now I know you're a movie, a fish in a shirt.

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Not as much a television, a fishing auto.

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_02]: But I have a request of you.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, rather than listen to this episode and then later comment about how could I not know

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_02]: something or like you to do it in the moment if that should happen.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_03]: You know what?

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_03]: That would be a delight.

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_03]: And, and I'm just, I'm here to share knowledge.

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not here to bust your chops.

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_03]: I just, you know, there's a rich and lengthy history of television and, you know, I get

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_03]: it.

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_03]: You've missed some spots.

[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_03]: And so I'm just trying to hear to try to fill those blanks for you Scotty.

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Why appreciate that?

[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_02]: My chops are thoroughly busted.

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_02]: But it's okay.

[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_02]: It's all in good fun.

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_02]: And I don't claim to know everything.

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's obvious that I don't.

[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_02]: So here are your Christmas TV specials for the next couple of days courtesy of mostly Christmas.com.

[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Wednesday, 11 AM on up, Walker, Texas Ranger, a Ranger Christmas.

[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_02]: 430 PM on cozy, married with children the worst no well.

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_02]: 530 PM on e the office, Christmas party, 530 PM on TV land, the A.D. Griffiths show, the

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Christmas story from 1960.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_02]: 630 PM on TV1, blackish, black Santa White Christmas, a 10 PM on TV land everybody loves

[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Raymond Jazz Records and 9 PM on USA Law & Order SVU, Silent Night, hateful night.

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Thursday 2 AM on TBS Modern Family, Undec the Halls, 7 AM on BET Tyler Perry's Meet

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_02]: the Browns, Meet the Christmas Spirit, 10 AM on cozy, Little House of the Prairie.

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Christmas at Plum Creek, 7 PM on Hallmark Mysteries Time for you to come home for Christmas

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_02]: and 9 PM on Hallmark Mysteries, Mystery Unmissile Toe Lane.

[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Finally Friday, 1230 AM on Freeform Boyneets World, Santa's Little Helper, to AM on cozy

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_02]: bones, the Santa in the slush, 8 AM on Star TV, Touch by an Angel.

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you!

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Not as good as Brand but it's required under our contract to do it.

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_02]: The episode is called The Feather, 1 PM on BET, the fresh Prince of Bel Air, was the night

[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_02]: before christening, 630 PM on up, last man standing, wedding planning, 7 PM on Hallmark,

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Hall out the Holly, 8 PM on Sundance and CIS, you better watch out, 830 PM on

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Ketchie, all of the family the bunkers go west and finally 9 PM on Hallmark, Christmas

[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_02]: on Cherry Lane.

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_02]: And those are your Christmas TV specials for the next couple of days courtesy of mostly

[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_02]: christmas.com.

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Beautifully done as always Scotty.

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what Daniel's talking about is the High Line of the Show.

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Listen, I used to get the TV guide and I used to read a head.

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_02]: It was a week at a time.

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was and I would look for Christmas stuff.

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_02]: I would always do this.

[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_03]: You did not even want to hear from grandpa about the days before VCRs in cable where I had

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_03]: to go circle things in the TV guide that were coming up.

[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Yep, I would grab a highlighter if I could find one and I was lucky and used to get a

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_02]: really crappy TV guide that would come in the newspaper.

[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_02]: It was like, alright, more than newsprint version.

[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_02]: That one was good enough for me but you take your finger and you'd go straight down

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_02]: and you would look for anything you knew that sounded Christmasy.

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_02]: That was a young Scotty but it's more important right now than talking about the TV guide

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_02]: to talk about the Christmas music battle.

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_02]: So last week was the instrumental battle, right?

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_02]: It was.

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_02]: It was actually two weeks ago because Brandpole, the fast one on us and said, just do the party

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_02]: of that.

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Because I had such a busy week and it would have been a lot of work to get two episodes out.

[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, how many times a year does the 25th land on a Wednesday?

[00:19:10] [SPEAKER_03]: A two max, right?

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_03]: So you know why?

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's allowed.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Got a one in seven chance, right?

[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_02]: So that means the instrumental battle is two weeks old.

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_02]: So in last place was decked the halls by Scott McCloud and Branden Man.

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_02]: For what?

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_02]: By Scotty.

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of people have to be honest.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_02]: I thought this one was going to do better.

[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I love Donk music and I get it.

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't hit the way.

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_02]: I thought it would.

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Look, I think there's always room for Wacca Chica but it's not everybody's holiday

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_02]: flavor.

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I guess not.

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Twenty-one percent of the boat, not absolutely terrible.

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I've done much worse than the most of the time.

[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Sure you have.

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_02]: In second place, last Christmas by Abraham Electric.

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_02]: This was brought to us by Branden.

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Look, I'm really close second place here.

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_02]: A 37.5% with 30 votes.

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_02]: So only three behind the winner.

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_02]: But we kind of knew who was going to win.

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_02]: It was married, did you know by Ricky Lee?

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_02]: This, again, I said it last time.

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_02]: This sounds like the musicians to you buy or Joe Satriani,

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_02]: a real guitar player's guitar player.

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_02]: But it works.

[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_02]: It really does.

[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_02]: It might even end to that kind of electric guitar power ball

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_02]: and thing very often.

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm listening to this right now, saying,

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_02]: well, this is really nice.

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, weirdly, not super my genre,

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_03]: but I have to do it love the song.

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_03]: So maybe together, some magical alchemy

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_03]: occurs where they lift each other up.

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but what do you think of Mary's Boy Child by Bony M?

[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Not mad at it.

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I bring it hate.

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_02]: It absolutely hates it.

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_02]: And I love it.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_03]: I, you know, Bony M is very, it's very Euro Christmas choice.

[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_03]: But I think they're fun.

[00:20:50] [SPEAKER_03]: I actually, the Mary's Boy Child,

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_03]: I like as you heard the Vanessa Williams version.

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to say that I probably have,

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_03]: but it's not coming to mind.

[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_02]: I can go see it out though.

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm a fan, you know, Google it kids,

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_03]: so you should think on your own.

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_02]: But it's not a reggae version, right?

[00:21:03] [SPEAKER_03]: It is not.

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, all right.

[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_02]: So that means the listeners have taken a decisive lead.

[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't remember if they're now winning by two or three,

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it might be three.

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, well, listeners, it's yours to run away with it.

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_02]: But let's see what we have this.

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_02]: And who brought, did we say, thank you.

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I appreciate that.

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Do it Hatfield.

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Listener, David Hatfield appreciates that as well.

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Muzzle Tom.

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Good job.

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_02]: And I think it's now safe to say that any time someone brings

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Ricky Lee, it's probably going to win.

[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_02]: So I think we end up 10 more weeks of instrumental.

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_02]: That you can choose from.

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_02]: This week's song battle is Ding Dong, Maryly on high.

[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Is that a song that you like?

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Are you familiar with it or is just kind of...

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, it's in the ether, like I can't think of a version

[00:21:50] [SPEAKER_03]: that lives on any of my favorite Christmas albums.

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_03]: But it's a song I'm always happy to hear.

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_03]: I think it's a good one for Carolers, definitely.

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_03]: And it's got some fun kind of tempo changes.

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, where it starts off is kind of a fun melody

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_03]: and then you've got a big kind of coral run with...

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you know, yeah.

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_03]: And a little Latin toss into the end.

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm a fan, sure.

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I got some trivia about the song.

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, good.

[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_02]: The melody for Ding Dong, Maryly on high,

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_02]: first appeared as a secular dance tune

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_02]: under the title, Brangley, Deficial in Orkis, Grafi, Orkis, Orkis, orkis, orkis.

[00:22:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Orkis orgherfi, I think.

[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Between the two of us, one of us has it right.

[00:22:34] [SPEAKER_02]: A dance book written by the French Clarec, composer and writer, Yahan Tabaro,

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_02]: who lived from 1519 to 1593.

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_02]: So the point of that is way, way older than I ever saw.

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_02]: 16th century.

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_02]: The words are by the English composer George Ratcliffe Woodward,

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Helium from 1848 to 1934.

[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_02]: And the Carol was first published in 1924

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_02]: in his Cambridge Carroll book,

[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_02]: being 52 songs for Christmas, Easter and other seasons.

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_02]: So a lot more history to the song than I thought.

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_03]: It is kind of weird how so much Christmas up either

[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_03]: was written in the 1960s or in the, you know, 1810.

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_02]: But today, let's listen to the versions of Ding Dong, Maryly on high,

[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_02]: that I brought the Brang brought

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_02]: and that the listener brought so,

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_02]: not necessarily in that version.

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, of course not.

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_02]: First one, let's listen to Ding Dong, Maryly on high by Paul Carbunker.

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_01]: It's okay, but I'll be honest.

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Best people, bells be swung and man, I know I know I know

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_01]: by three stamp people, sung and...

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[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_03]: I feel like I'm in an Irish pub.

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_03]: I was thinking this is what happens when you have maybe a two, too many sugar cookies.

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Sugar cookies and Guinness speed up that tempo.

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_02]: It was very, very fast.

[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Next is Ding Dong, Maryly on high by Bestive Instrumental.

[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that was pretty fun. I was really waiting for the vocals to come in and they never did.

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Like, yeah, it felt like a track where those the vocals were removed for karaoke purposes or something.

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_02]: But it was still fun.

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_03]: You know anybody who gets up and sings that version that karaoke,

[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_03]: you have my, my congratulations and I'm impressed.

[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Challenge accepted for the next Brandlfest.

[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_02]: And finally, we have Ding Dong, Maryly on high by Funkistra.

[00:26:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh!

[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_02]: I could honestly say I wasn't expecting that and I didn't know that I needed it, but I did.

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, like the vibe is part children's television and part soul train.

[00:27:27] [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm all for it.

[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I really like to have been listening to a lot of Funk music lately.

[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_02]: This is this is just making me feel real good to combine my love of Christmas music

[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_02]: and my found love of Funk.

[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, there is a great, I want to say,

[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Bootsie Collins, Chris was out of them. I'm sure you know, by from a few years back.

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think I have it on my Walkman.

[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_02]: It's hard to find a time when I want to listen to it because it's not 9pm when I'm laying down and

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_02]: stretching out and wanting to go to bed.

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, no. So when do I listen to it? This time a year maybe.

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_02]: I could put it on three o'clock in the afternoon.

[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_02]: You want to take a walk around the neighborhood? I think it'll, you know, elevate your heart rate.

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Can I wear a big purple hat like Bootsie Collins and find Bootsie Collins?

[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_02]: This is a terrible, big purple hat.

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, let's have a good.

[00:28:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Do we have listeners, submissions this week from T. A.

[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Horn, Katie Lee Pack, Brad Adams, Lance Garmin and David Scarborough.

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you all for submitting.

[00:28:22] [SPEAKER_02]: And I've got good news for you, Alonzo.

[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_02]: You don't have to pick next week's song.

[00:28:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, sure. Okay, good.

[00:28:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Good. I, I, I, one day will get over my, I'm still skittish about band camp.

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_03]: You guys seem to traverse it with great skill.

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, um, is it the thing? And I don't know.

[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_03]: And did they already do it? So it's kind of owned by a sketchy company now who made up

[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_02]: he taken care of the artists. Like they were, what am I doing now?

[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.

[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Next Wednesday will be the second Wednesday of the month.

[00:28:53] [SPEAKER_02]: So it will be original song battles.

[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_02]: So go to bandcamp.com find an original Christmas music selection and email it to me at

[00:29:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Christmas morning podcast at gmail.com.

[00:29:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Where can people look to make sure that it hasn't already battle?

[00:29:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you can go to Christmas morning podcast.com slash songs and you can see the list.

[00:29:12] [SPEAKER_02]: We usually what I do is I'll take one of the more unique words from it.

[00:29:16] [SPEAKER_02]: You've maybe the artist's name just to a quick search see if it's there.

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_02]: So thank you for doing that Alonzo.

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_02]: The longer we go on at this, the more likely it is, we're going to find something

[00:29:25] [SPEAKER_02]: that has already been done.

[00:29:26] [SPEAKER_02]: It's actually getting hard to find songs that we haven't battled.

[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Right. You kids have been around the block a few times at this point.

[00:29:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. What's one of the reasons we cut it back to only two weeks a month?

[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_02]: We actually pick us out of the month.

[00:29:37] [SPEAKER_02]: We pick a song. Otherwise it's the original and the instrumental because we're just running

[00:29:41] [SPEAKER_02]: out of them at some point.

[00:29:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Your victim of your own success. That's right.

[00:29:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's going to do it for today.

[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Alonzo, I can't thank you enough for taking time out of your day to throw us a life

[00:29:50] [SPEAKER_02]: preserver and save us because nobody wants to hear me by myself doing this.

[00:29:56] [SPEAKER_02]: I did that once for Jingle Jank when Jay wasn't available and it was the worst episode I've ever

[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_02]: made and it was over in a flash like 15 minutes and it was done.

[00:30:04] [SPEAKER_03]: No, it's hard to talk into a vacuum. I totally get it.

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_03]: But no, I always love any excuse to have a quick hit of the holidays and so

[00:30:12] [SPEAKER_03]: love the show, love the listeners, glad to be here. Thank you for asking and

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_03]: you know, always at your disposal sir.

[00:30:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I appreciate that very much. I would encourage everybody to go out there.

[00:30:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Pick up your copy of Hollywood pride if you have not.

[00:30:27] [SPEAKER_03]: No, thank you much.

[00:30:28] [SPEAKER_03]: Available wherever fine books are sold or lousy books but yours is a little less.

[00:30:32] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, well until next week Merry Christmas.

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