15 weeks / 105 days until Christmas! (Original Christmas Song Battle)

[00:00:02] [SPEAKER_06]: This is a Bramble Jam Podcast.

[00:00:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Live from the North Pole, it's time for Christmas Morning, the daily show where every day is

[00:00:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Christmas.

[00:00:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Here are your hosts, Brand and Scott.

[00:00:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, hello everybody.

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Welcome to another episode of Christmas Morning.

[00:00:38] [SPEAKER_06]: It's Brand.

[00:00:39] [SPEAKER_06]: You better believe I'm back with my boy Scotty Scotty.

[00:00:42] [SPEAKER_05]: Merry Christmas, pal.

[00:00:44] [SPEAKER_05]: Merry Christmas, Brandon.

[00:00:46] [SPEAKER_05]: It's our last episode before we break the hundred day mark.

[00:00:50] [SPEAKER_06]: I noticed it this morning.

[00:00:52] [SPEAKER_06]: I woke up and I was like, Oh, here we go.

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_06]: This feels good.

[00:00:57] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[00:00:57] [SPEAKER_05]: I heard you talking about it on DTH.

[00:00:59] [SPEAKER_05]: Dan wasn't really on board with it, but Alonzo was Alonzo is always good for

[00:01:03] [SPEAKER_05]: it.

[00:01:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Dan doesn't get it.

[00:01:05] [SPEAKER_06]: He doesn't get it, Scotty.

[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_06]: But that's why I do this show with you and not him.

[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_05]: It would have been a short lived show.

[00:01:14] [SPEAKER_06]: Some things are better to do with just the support, the blind support of a friend.

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_06]: You know?

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_05]: That's right.

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_05]: And of course I get it.

[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_05]: I am so excited.

[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_05]: I get to break out my little electronic Christmas countdown calendars that only

[00:01:27] [SPEAKER_05]: go up to 99 days.

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_05]: So I'm thrilled about this.

[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_06]: It's the little things.

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_06]: It is the little things in life.

[00:01:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, you need it really is, you know, if you don't have joy, what do you have?

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_06]: Absolutely nothing.

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_06]: Unlike our mail back, we got a lot of something in our mail back, Scotty.

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we do.

[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_05]: Let's let's open that bad boy up.

[00:01:52] [SPEAKER_05]: Brianne, sometimes I'm not good at email.

[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_05]: OK, I've had an email that's been in the inbox since I think the end of May,

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_05]: early June, and I thought I was going to use it in a party episode.

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_05]: And then I didn't.

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_05]: And I just stink.

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_05]: So we're getting to it today.

[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_05]: Maybe I'll say that we saved a really good one for now.

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_05]: Here we are.

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_05]: This email is from Kelly Andrioni.

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_05]: So, Kelly, I'm sorry it took me this long to get to it.

[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_04]: It's OK.

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_05]: Kelly says, Hey, Brandon Scott, after listening to the May Christmas party

[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_05]: episode, it made me realize that I always work Christmas stores into my

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_05]: travels as well.

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_05]: I have visited Christmas stores all over the U.S.

[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_05]: My family and I are on a 50 state journey.

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_05]: Holy cow.

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_05]: A journey?

[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_05]: A journey. Yeah, I don't know why I said it that way.

[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_05]: Sometimes you might call it a journey.

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_05]: So every time we visit a new area, we try to find a new ornament to

[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_05]: commemorate that particular trip.

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_05]: We have a road runner from Arizona, a peach from Georgia, an ear of corn

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_05]: from South Dakota.

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_05]: You get the idea.

[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_05]: I really hope it was just going to keep going on.

[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_05]: Last summer, however, we traveled to Italy and I dragged my family

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_05]: to a little Christmas shop I had been ogling online for a very long time.

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_05]: Ogling?

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_05]: Ogling.

[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_05]: Sempre Natale.

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_05]: It's in the heart of Rome, right near the Pantheon,

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_05]: and they carry the most beautiful European Christmas ornaments.

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_05]: It was very hard to decide which ones to buy because they were all so lovely.

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_05]: I'm attaching a picture of the front of the store and also a pic of the

[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_05]: ornaments I purchased, the most notable of which is La Befana.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_05]: I was not leaving the shop without a La Befana ornament.

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_05]: If you don't know the legend of La Befana, I'll give you a brief rundown.

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_05]: In Italy on the night before the epiphany, an old witchy looking woman

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_05]: on a broom travels around delivering little gifts or candy to children,

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_05]: or maybe garlic to children who haven't been on their best behavior.

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_05]: I could go over some garlic.

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_05]: Sometimes these gifts get put into children's socks or shoes.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_05]: This tradition dates back to the 13th century.

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_05]: There are a couple of stories of how this began, but I think this one,

[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_05]: which I pulled from Wikipedia, is pretty interesting.

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_05]: The Befana spent her days cleaning and sweeping.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_05]: One day, the Magi came to her door in search of the baby Jesus.

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_05]: However, she turned them away because she was too busy cleaning.

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_05]: Priority problem there.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_05]: Feeling guilty, she eventually decides to find Jesus on her own

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_05]: by following a bright light, also known as the big star in the sky,

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_05]: which she believes helps point the way.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_05]: She brings along a bag filled with baked goods and gifts for Jesus

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_05]: and a broom to help the new mother clean.

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_05]: Unfortunately, nice gift.

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_05]: Unfortunately, despite her best effort, she never finds them.

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_05]: According to the telling, the Befana is still searching

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_05]: after all these centuries for the newborn Messiah.

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_05]: On the eve of epiphany, the Befana comes to every house

[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_05]: where there is a child leaves a gift.

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_05]: Although she has been unsuccessful in her search,

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_05]: she still leaves gifts for children everywhere because the Christ child

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_05]: can be found in all children.

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_05]: Very long, but really interesting brand.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_06]: That is very interesting.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Who knew? Who knew there was so much so much history to be found?

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_06]: People think Christmas is just a fun time with presents.

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_06]: And I say I say no, no, no.

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_05]: No, no. It's brooms. It's witches. It's everything.

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_06]: It's a good cross.

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_06]: It's a good crossover story for Halloween, too.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, it really is.

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_05]: That's why I was holding it until now.

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that's right. We planned it.

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. So thank you, Kelly.

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_05]: I hope your trip is going well.

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_05]: Please check in with us.

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_05]: I have an email from Scott Carling, Scott and Brian.

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_05]: Hello, I'm a fairly new listener from Texas.

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_05]: I was vacationing in North Carolina and ran across

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_05]: the Christmas cottage in Chimney Rock, North Carolina.

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_05]: Picture attached and also one of my purchases.

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_05]: The cottage looks very cute, Brian.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_05]: If I'm ever in North Carolina, which is really your neck of the woods,

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_05]: maybe you could do a road trip there.

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Maybe I could. I don't know.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_06]: Maybe maybe you come here. We go there.

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_05]: We we can do all those things.

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_05]: And Scott sent a picture of a mug that says it's a major award.

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_05]: I like the mug. That's fun.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_06]: That is very fun.

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_06]: I've seen a few of those.

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_06]: It's a major award mugs.

[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_06]: And I don't know. I don't just have one already.

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I don't. I don't have one either, but I really should.

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_05]: And finally, an email from Simon.

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_05]: Hi, guys. I was listening to my music on Spotify

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_05]: when I stumbled upon your Christmas podcast.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_05]: Listen to your podcast and loved it.

[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_05]: Can't wait for your next episode.

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_05]: And I'm counting down the days before I can put up my tree

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_05]: and enjoy the holiday lights in my home.

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_05]: Your new fan from sunny South Africa, Simon.

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_05]: Well, thank you, Simon.

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_06]: How about that? South Africa.

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_06]: I think I think this calls for a South Africa Christmas morning podcast tour,

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_06]: even if it's just Simon and the crowd, I think it would be worth it.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. So thank you, Simon, for letting us know.

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_05]: Not only did Simon let us know that I'm assuming it's he is in sunny

[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_05]: South Africa, which is very cool, but also how he found the show,

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_05]: which is something I always want to know.

[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_06]: I always want to know that as well.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_06]: So thank you so much, Simon.

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_06]: And it's good to know that people can just stumble upon us within Spotify.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_06]: That's that's nice.

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I didn't know that either.

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_05]: That was very cool. How are we doing in the review department?

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_06]: I got bad news, Scotty.

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I've we don't have any new ones new.

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_06]: We don't have any new ones that I haven't read before internationally

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_06]: from Charterball. We're out.

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_06]: We just got nothing. I got nothing, Scotty.

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_05]: All right. So remember before when we ran out of reviews,

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_05]: I tried the ticking clock like as a punitive damages kind of thing.

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_05]: Didn't work.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_05]: So I'm going to amp it up a little bit here, Bran.

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_05]: OK, you know how you and I always find really terrible versions

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_05]: of songs when we're searching on Bandcamp?

[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_06]: I do know this. This is one of the plights of this show.

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_05]: Well, why don't I bring them for when we have no podcast reviews?

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_05]: So here's here's Dominic the Donkey by Smear Dog and the Donut.

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_06]: I actually didn't hate it, to be honest with you.

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_05]: I actually kind of liked that. It was a little bit fun.

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_05]: Smear Dog and the Donut.

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, just an opportunity to get more Dominic the Donkey in our lives.

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_05]: But please, if you can, if you have not already go

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_05]: and leave us a review, it helps others find the show.

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_05]: And we just want to make the morning family bigger.

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_06]: That's right, Scotty.

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you to that weird cover

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_06]: by Smear Dog and the Donut.

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Smear Dog and the Donut.

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_06]: They're out there crushing it.

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Are you got a joke for us, Scotty?

[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_05]: I do. What did the snowman say to the dog?

[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_06]: What did the snowman say to the dog?

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_05]: It's not a yellow snow joke either.

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_06]: OK, that's where I was going.

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_06]: So you just just just tell me what it is.

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_05]: It's a hey, give me back my arms.

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_05]: What?

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_05]: Go work out because dogs like sticks.

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_05]: I guess I guess.

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, OK.

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, boy.

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_05]: Your lack of enthusiasm toward the joke hurts me.

[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_05]: So let's do the countdown.

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_06]: Hundred and five days until Christmas.

[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, boy. 105, Scotty.

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_05]: 15 weeks.

[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_05]: And I think the really exciting part is what will that be next Wednesday?

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_05]: Is it going to be 98 days then?

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_06]: Mm hmm. Yeah.

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_05]: If math, math, math works, if math sticks,

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_05]: it should be 98 days under 100.

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_05]: That's it. It's what I've been waiting for all year.

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_05]: So exciting.

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_05]: That is exciting.

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_05]: And also also exciting because obviously we're

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_05]: really in the middle of September here.

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_05]: It's only 20 days until October 1st.

[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_05]: Wow. Two weeks.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_05]: It's going to be October 1st.

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_06]: There you go. Man, that's exciting.

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_06]: Sure is. Man. Oh, man.

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_06]: All right. Let's get to the news.

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_06]: So that is Wednesday, September 11th.

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_06]: Here's the news.

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Scotty, this is a big deal, a big deal for a lot of people,

[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_06]: as you know, Home Alone, a classic Christmas movie.

[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Sure. A full franchise.

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_06]: What's the first thing or first?

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_06]: I guess I first person you think of when you think of Home Alone.

[00:09:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Marv. OK, for a lot of people, it's Sweet Sweet Kevin

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_06]: played by of course.

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_05]: I see where you're going with this.

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Macaulay Culkin.

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_06]: We love Macaulay Culkin, but Macaulay Culkin has

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_06]: kind of been out of the public eye for quite some time now.

[00:10:12] [SPEAKER_06]: And it's kind of seemed to avoid

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_06]: by and large the subject of Home Alone,

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_06]: aside from a very cool commercial a couple years ago that he did,

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_06]: which kind of made me think when this commercial popped up,

[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_06]: I was like, maybe he's coming back around to embracing Home Alone.

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_06]: And it seems that he is indeed embracing Home Alone

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_06]: because Macaulay Culkin is going on tour on tour

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_06]: this holiday season, kicking off in late November.

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_06]: It's going to be going on tour to the Home Alone,

[00:10:42] [SPEAKER_06]: a nostalgic night with Macaulay Culkin, a tour across the country

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_06]: featuring a special screening of Home Alone, followed by a moderated

[00:10:50] [SPEAKER_06]: interview and a Q&A open to the audience.

[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_06]: And Macaulay Culkin will be there in person for this entire tour,

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_06]: which is which is amazing.

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_06]: And not only is it is it cool, I like the fact that he's going to a lot of

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_06]: different cities, you know, he's starting in Redding, Pennsylvania,

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_06]: doing Buffalo, New York, New York City, doing Akron, Ohio, sort of Cleveland,

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_06]: doing a lot of these like more, you know, you could go to the big cities.

[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_06]: But why do that when you could go to Newark, New Jersey,

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Wallington, Connecticut, stuff like that?

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_06]: I like it. Wow.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_05]: I do like it.

[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_05]: Is this the Macaulay Culkin has run out of money tour?

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know. I don't know what to tell you.

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know. Let's just be happy that that he's embracing his role.

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_05]: Brann, there's a series on YouTube called The Angry Video Game

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_05]: Nerd that I liked watching.

[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_05]: He doesn't he doesn't do much anymore.

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_05]: But, you know, the gist is obviously he plays really terrible Nintendo games.

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_05]: And he had Macaulay Culkin on an episode in character

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_05]: while he was playing home alone video games.

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_05]: It was really fun. So I have seen him do stuff about that.

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_05]: But that was a much different tone.

[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_05]: I hope this is upbeat and jovial.

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_05]: And hey, guys in the audience, keep it clean. All right.

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_06]: It's listen, it's the holiday season.

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_06]: I think that this could be a really good time.

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_06]: And if you go, please email us.

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Let us know what it was like.

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_06]: I would love to because I looked at the dates.

[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't think there's anything close enough to me

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_06]: that would make sense for me going.

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_06]: But I would love to hear about the event from people in the in the audience.

[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_05]: Anything in my area?

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't think so.

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_05]: Nothing like in Elizabeth, Colorado or something.

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_06]: There are no there never is.

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, it's tough out there.

[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_05]: But if you send us a picture of you with Macaulay Culkin,

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_05]: you are Christmas morning royalty.

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_06]: That's right. You absolutely are.

[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it looks like it's just an East East Coast situation.

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_06]: It's going to Erie, Pennsylvania.

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, come on.

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_05]: I would go if I were in the area, I would absolutely go.

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_06]: It sounds fun. Yeah, he's not doing it.

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_06]: It's basically all in the like north east area.

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, they're not giving away airline tickets.

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_06]: So yeah, no, no, no.

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_05]: Anything I can reach in a van in a day?

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, maybe a van like from Home Alone.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_05]: Now that would be really cool.

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Imagine pulling up VIP.

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_06]: I like that idea.

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_05]: Why don't we have a Home Alone van?

[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_06]: We should.

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm sure that one guy that's decorated his house for Christmas with those themes.

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_06]: And we were like, oh, yeah, I'm sure he has done that before.

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_06]: For sure. Probably.

[00:13:26] [SPEAKER_06]: Let's take a quick break.

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_06]: We'll come back and we'll get to the TV listings.

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_06]: And today is Christmas Music Battle here on Christmas morning.

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, welcome back, everybody.

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_06]: We are talking about a little Christmas for you today.

[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_06]: I know that is super out of the box.

[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_06]: It's a new thing we're trying.

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_06]: And you might be wondering to yourself, self, it is September.

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_06]: I would like to watch some Christmas TV.

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_06]: Is it possible?

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_06]: It is possible.

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_06]: And TV Scott is going to tell us how TV Scottie.

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_05]: Hello. Hello, Brandon.

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_05]: You know, the listings are really starting to pick up.

[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_05]: They are. Yeah.

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_05]: It's getting a little a little heavy.

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_05]: I've pulled out a couple that are like the same old thing that we hear all the time.

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_05]: And there are some really fun ones in here.

[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_05]: So why don't we get into it? Let's do it.

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_05]: All right. Here are your Christmas TV specials for the next few days,

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_05]: courtesy of Mostly Christmas Dotcom.

[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_05]: Wednesday, 1030 a.m. on Freeform, Boy Meets World, Santa's Little Helper.

[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_05]: OK. 330 p.m. on Antenna, Maud, The Christmas Party,

[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_05]: 530 p.m. on TBS, The Big Bang Theory, The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis,

[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_05]: 6 p.m. on Hallmark Family, The Waltons, The Spirit, 6 p.m. on MeTV, MASH, Dear Dad,

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_05]: 10 p.m. on Cozy, Frasier, Miracle on 3rd or 4th Street

[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_05]: and 1030 p.m. on TBS, Modern Family, White Christmas,

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_05]: 4 a.m. on Hallmark, Frasier, Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz,

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_05]: 6 a.m. on Cozy, Highway to Heaven, Basingers, New York,

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_05]: 10 a.m. on Lifetime, The Closer, Next of Kin,

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_05]: 10 a.m. on TV1, Living Single, Living Kringle,

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_05]: 330 p.m. on BET, Family Matters, Miracle on Elm Street,

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_05]: 530 p.m. on BET, Martin, I Saw Gina Kissing Santa Claus,

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_05]: 7 p.m. on Hallmark Mysteries, A God Wink Christmas,

[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_05]: 730 p.m. on Rewind, Rewind, Rewind,

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_05]: Do we have a ruling on that one, Brian? Rewind? I think it's Rewind.

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_05]: Be kind, Rewind.

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_05]: We're going to go with Rewind.

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_05]: 730 p.m. on Rewind, News Radio Xmas Story,

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_05]: 8 p.m. on Cozy, The King of Queens, Noel Cowards

[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_05]: and 9 p.m. on Hallmark Mysteries, A Veterans Christmas,

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_05]: Friday, 9 a.m. on Antenna, Father Knows Best, The Christmas Story,

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_05]: 9 a.m. on H&I, Raw Hide, 25 Santa Clauses,

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_05]: 10 a.m. on Rewind, Welcome Back Cotter, A Winter's Coat Tale,

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_05]: 636 a.m. on Comedy Central, Futurama, The Futurama Holiday Spectacular,

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_05]: 7 p.m. on Hallmark, A Cozy Christmas Inn

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_05]: and 9 p.m. on Hallmark, Everything Christmas,

[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_05]: Saturday, 530 a.m. on MTV2, The Deuce, Sister Sister, Christmas,

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_05]: 10 a.m. on Bounce, The Bernie Mac Show, A Christmas Story,

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_05]: 10 a.m. on Ovation, The Librarians and Santa's Midnight Run,

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_05]: 10 a.m. on Pop, E.R., A Miracle Happens Here,

[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_05]: 1 p.m. on Hallmark Family, Little House on the Prairie,

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_05]: Christmas at Flummon Creek,

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Sorry, it's been a minute.

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_05]: It's been a minute, yeah.

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_05]: 1 30 p.m. on Logo, Married with Children,

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_05]: the episode is called Christmas,

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_05]: 4 p.m. on MeTV+, The Flying Nun,

[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_05]: Wailing in a Winter Wonderland,

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_05]: I can confidently say we have not come across this one before,

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_05]: and 9 30 p.m. on Rewind, Different Strokes, Santa's Helper,

[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_05]: finally Sunday, 5 a.m. on Antenna, Father Knows Best,

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_05]: The Angel's Sweater, 8 30 a.m. on Logo,

[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_05]: Married with Children, The Worst Noel,

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_05]: 10 a.m. on Comedy Central, Parks and Rec,

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_05]: Christmas Scandal, 12 p.m. on Ion, NCIS,

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_05]: Spinning Wheel, 7 30 p.m. on Comedy Central,

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_05]: The Office, Christmas Wishes,

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_05]: and finally 8 30 p.m. on IFC, Everybody Loves Raymond,

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_05]: The Christmas Present,

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_05]: and those are your Christmas TV specials for the next few days,

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_05]: courtesy of MostlyChristmas.com.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you, Scotty.

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_06]: I gotta admit, Brian, I'm out of breath here.

[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_06]: Listen, it's a lot.

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_06]: It's tough out there.

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it really is.

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_06]: It's tough out there.

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Hey, let's get to the Christmas music battle.

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Let's get to last week's results first.

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_06]: Of course, it is quite the tight battle right now,

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_06]: I must say.

[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_06]: We did, I wish it was Christmas Today,

[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_06]: the SNL classic is what we battled last week.

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Let's get to the results in last place.

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_06]: It's your boy, Brian, who brought version by Park in Maine.

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_06]: Wasn't what the people wanted, Scotty.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_05]: I guess it wasn't.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_05]: I thought it was pretty good.

[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_05]: It was a different take on it.

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_06]: 13 votes, 20 percent of the vote.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Not terrible.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Not terrible.

[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_06]: This is a very, very close battle for first, though,

[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_06]: losing by only one vote with 38.7 percent of the vote.

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_06]: Professor Shy Guy's version, which was brought by The Listeners.

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_05]: Brought by listener Jack Unverfirth.

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_05]: And Brian, I love this version.

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_05]: I voted for this one.

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Man, you voted.

[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_06]: And even though you voted against your own song,

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_06]: your own song did indeed win.

[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_06]: It's the version by Downstate Darlings.

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I'm shocked by this one.

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_05]: I really thought Professor Shy Guy was going to pull it off this week.

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_05]: One or two votes really close.

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_05]: But I guess people like this.

[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_05]: I liked this one because it sounded like the 80s.

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_06]: I liked it so much, Scotty, that I wanted to bring this version

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_06]: until I saw that you were bringing it.

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_05]: So early bird gets the worm, right?

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_05]: I guess it is better than I remember.

[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_05]: You brought it.

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_06]: Of course.

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_06]: That chorus is nice.

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_06]: It's very good.

[00:18:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Very good.

[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Let's get to the original Christmas music battle for the week,

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_06]: which means its original song, Scotty.

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_06]: All all found on the band camp for your listening pleasure.

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_06]: First, we'll hold on.

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_05]: Is.

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I want to mention something here.

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_05]: We normally bring Christmas music trivia, right?

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, we normally do that.

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, I'm completely out of facts.

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_05]: I got nothing.

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_05]: I spent 40 minutes last night looking and thinking.

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_05]: I was like self come up with something.

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_05]: I had nothing.

[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_05]: So unfortunately, we're out of generic facts.

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_05]: I got nothing.

[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_06]: We're out of generic facts.

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_06]: There's nothing we can do.

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_05]: But you tried.

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_05]: I did try.

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_05]: I went down this rabbit hole.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_05]: I was looking at how much stars make on their Christmas songs and stuff.

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_05]: Obviously, Mariah Carey, a lot of money there.

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Let's see if G.P.T. gives us one.

[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Here's a fun fact about Jingle Bells.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_06]: It was actually written by James Lauren.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_06]: We've done it before.

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_05]: It's a Thanksgiving song.

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_05]: Yep.

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_05]: We already know that one.

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_05]: Give me another.

[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_05]: How about It Came Upon the Midnight Clear?

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_06]: How about one about It Came A Midnight Clear?

[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_06]: This is good audio.

[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_06]: This is great.

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it came upon a midnight clear.

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_06]: It's a Christmas carol with a bit of a poetic twist.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_06]: The lyrics were written by Edmund Hamilton Sears, a Unitarian minister in 1849.

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_06]: It was fascinating that he wrote the carol during a time of great personal and

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_06]: social upheaval, including the aftermath of the Mexican-American War.

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_06]: This is all uplifting and fun.

[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_05]: Covered it in a tinsel tunes episode.

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_05]: I suppose I could have covered that, but whatever.

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_05]: Just what?

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_05]: I just got nothing good.

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_05]: So let's move on to original Christmas music.

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_05]: Always an interesting week.

[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_06]: It is an interesting week because anything goes.

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_06]: It just has to be an original song.

[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_06]: It doesn't matter the style.

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_06]: It doesn't matter what it's about as long as it's about Christmas.

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_06]: First, we got Christmas Times a Comin' by Buck Owens.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, they're gonna be a big fat turkey.

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_00]: They're gonna be gravy and dressing.

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_00]: They're gonna be chicken and dumplings.

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Christmas times are coming.

[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_00]: They're gonna be lots of sweets, sweets.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Minced meat, peach and pumpkin.

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Ain't that are gonna be something?

[00:20:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Christmas times are coming.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_00]: That's they're gonna be a sleigh ride.

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's gonna go.

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_00]: We'll sing Christmas carols as we ride through the snow.

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna call up the neighbors and tell them to come running.

[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, ain't that are gonna be something?

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Christmas times are coming.

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_05]: Brian, I don't know if you know this,

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_05]: but Christmas times are coming.

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Christmas times are coming.

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_05]: Listen, it sounds great.

[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Buck Owens sounds like he's probably somebody

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_05]: that was pretty famous back in the day,

[00:21:28] [SPEAKER_05]: but it was on Bandcamp so it counts.

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_06]: Our hands are tied.

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_06]: If it's on Bandcamp, our hands are tied.

[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Let's get to the second song.

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_06]: It's by The Royal Halls,

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_06]: and the song is called Carry Us Another Year.

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_05]: Well, that had a late 90s, early 2000s vibe to it.

[00:22:43] [SPEAKER_05]: That was great.

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_06]: I liked it. It was very nice.

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Up next and last, we have This Christmas Kissed by Hexarchy.

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Go home in December,

[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_02]: dancing with you, thinking that's to remember.

[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_02]: The snow falling down, I'm discovering this weather.

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_02]: I beg you for two, cause we're all together.

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_02]: But soon the turtle dumps the cards.

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_04]: We fall in love, it's my favorite Christmas.

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_04]: This Christmas, I love Christmas.

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_04]: I can't resist, I can't resist.

[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_05]: Well, I know which one I like the best,

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_05]: but I don't want to taint the voting.

[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_05]: So follow the link in the show notes

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_05]: and vote, vote, vote right now, please.

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_06]: Vote, vote, vote indeed, Scotty.

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_06]: Next week...

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_05]: You always shortchange the listeners

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_05]: who take the time to write in and send us songs.

[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_05]: We got listener submissions this week from Adrian Freeland,

[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_05]: Jessica Trinidad, Lance Garman, and Jack Unverfirth.

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_05]: Thank you all for submitting.

[00:24:08] [SPEAKER_05]: We couldn't do this without you.

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_06]: We literally couldn't and it would just be us kind of hanging out.

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Nope.

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_06]: No one wants that.

[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_06]: Let's get to next week's battle, Scotty.

[00:24:17] [SPEAKER_06]: It is the instrumental Christmas song week.

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_06]: My favorite.

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm very excited about it as am I.

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_05]: You know what?

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_05]: I actually got my family to listen

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_05]: to Christmas music in the car yesterday.

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_05]: I put on the Christmas cocktail jazz playlist on Spotify

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_05]: and nobody said boo.

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, there you go.

[00:24:35] [SPEAKER_06]: That's all you can hope for really.

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I've tried it other times in the year

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_05]: and they've well said boo.

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_06]: This time, no boo.

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_06]: I love that you have a daughter who is classy enough to not boo jazz.

[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_05]: No, she actually likes jazz.

[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_05]: We listen to jazz while we play chess downstairs.

[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_05]: Look at you guys.

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_05]: She's a John Coltrane fan.

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_05]: How about that?

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_05]: That's just adorable.

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_06]: We did everybody send in your submissions right now.

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Christmas morning podcast at gmo.com and come on back next week.

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_06]: It's going to be a big one.

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_06]: It's going to be our first double digit countdown week.

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_06]: We're very excited about that.

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_05]: Start thinking about the Christmas party episode, too.

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_06]: That's right.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_06]: We need your stuff.

[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_06]: You can email that as well.

[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_06]: Same email address as I just said.

[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_05]: So I'm not going to say it again, but Christmas morning podcast at gmail.com.

[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_05]: Scotty will.

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't take any chances on this one.

[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_05]: What are we going to twiddle our thumbs if we don't get any submissions?

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_06]: No one wants that, especially because it's audio.

[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_06]: You can't even hear it.

[00:25:29] [SPEAKER_05]: Christmas morning podcast at gmail.com.

[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_05]: Just in case you missed it.

[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_05]: That's the sound of brand twiddling his thumbs.

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_05]: See, it's not good audio.

[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_05]: No, I couldn't even hear it.

[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_05]: Send us something.

[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_06]: That's what we're trying to say.

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_06]: We'll be back next week with another one until then.

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Merry Christmas.

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_05]: You're about to hear some ads that help pay for our trip back and forth

[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_05]: to the North Pole. Feel free to listen.

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_05]: Feel free to bail now.

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_05]: But either way, thanks for being here.

[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Ho ho ho.