18 weeks / 126 days until Christmas! (Instrumental Christmas Song Battle)

[00:00:02] [SPEAKER_00]: This is a Bramble Jam Podcast Live from the North Pole, it's time for Christmas Morning

[00:00:17] [SPEAKER_00]: The Daily Show where every day is Christmas. Here you are, host, brand and sky!

[00:00:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, well, hello! Everybody, hopefully you're doing well today, it's Bram, welcome to another episode of Christmas

[00:00:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Morning, I am here with my good friend Scott Scott Merry Christmas Merry Christmas, Bramble Jam Podcast Network

[00:00:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Brandon how are you today? I am doing just so good, so good into this so good to be back here on another episode of Christmas Morning

[00:00:53] [SPEAKER_01]: As we get closer and closer to September which is closer and closer to October and get to picture we're getting closer

[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_02]: That's what I'm trying to say. Yeah, it's excellent. Hey, did you ever listen to or read David Sadaris's short story the

[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Antaland Diaries when he worked as an elf at Macy's? I did many many moons ago. Do you remember he said that they were allowed to change their elf name based on their outlook of the day?

[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what would your elf name be today? That's tough. That's tough. I think my elf name would be

[00:01:25] [SPEAKER_01]: elf

[00:01:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Good vibes. elf

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Health good vibes. I think I'd be biscuits today. This gets man. Is that a a tease of things to come?

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_02]: No, it's not a tease for the song that lost horribly, but I'm thinking about biscuits today

[00:01:40] [SPEAKER_02]: But I'm also thinking about Christmas. There's something different in the air, Bram? Yeah, I feel that 100%

[00:01:46] [SPEAKER_01]: I am I'm just excited. It just it feels like every day every episode that we do

[00:01:51] [SPEAKER_01]: It's like which it's practically here and I just I get more and more excited as it comes

[00:01:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, can we open up the mail bag and see how other people are feeling? I think we should let's do it

[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_03]: So let's

[00:02:08] [SPEAKER_02]: full disclosure, Bram

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I've been

[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Lacks on some of the emails

[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, lately and some of them I've been holding for our party that we're recording later today and some of them have gotten a little bit away from me

[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_02]: So I do apologize, but I think I'm about to make everything right between today and the Christmas party episode

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_01]: You always do you always do. I try

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_02]: The first emails from David Utah. This was sent in early July Dave says I thought I'd drop you a note and share how I was able to celebrate half Christmas

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Slach Leon Day north of the Arctic Circle this year. Oh, given that I don't have access to the North Pole as you do

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_02]: My crews to Northern Iceland might be as close as I ever get to the big man's place

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_02]: It was great fun spending half Christmas along with the longest day the year in the nice cool temperatures of Iceland in the North Sea

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Along with being able to listen to both your episodes last week. I also got to visit the Christmas garden in

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Now, I'm gonna try to pronounce this he did provide it finetically

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Accurary Iceland and enjoy some incredible Christmas day core Christmas treats the world's largest advent calendar

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, and learn more about the Icelandic Christmas tradition

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_02]: It was a great way to spend summer vacation and being able to have a little Christmas fun and listen to the podcasts

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Made it even better and he sent a website for it and unfortunately I didn't put it in our notes here

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_02]: But I grabbed a photo from the website this red house looks so cool, Brian. I'm looking at it Scotty. This is a

[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I've always wanted to go to Iceland and this looks amazing. I feel like

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_01]: This reminds me of some story we did

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Not too long ago about the the gingerbread house like you remember this the world's largest gingerbread house or something

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_01]: And someone they may not it does look like that right. Yes, it just reminds me of that it has a similar vibe to I'm

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_02]: I like that scene as coat and hat around the clothes light outside. That's awesome. That's very nice. Yes, oh that's funny

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't even notice that that's great big mailbox too. Obviously. Yeah, it's really cool

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_02]: I got an email from listener Fred

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I remember hearing Peter Billingsley on his podcast which is called a cinematic Christmas journey

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Discussing why the flash Gordon seen from a Christmas story was cut

[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_02]: He said that even though it was probably the most expensive sequice in the movie

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_02]: It didn't do well with test audiences because it was the only fan of the scene that wasn't in the house

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_02]: They seemed to feel like the daydreams worked when it was grounded in his reality

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_02]: But this one was too outlandish and even though that image survives

[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_02]: It was most likely taken from an onset photographer. There was no market for deleted scenes before the DVD era

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_02]: So the negative was just thrown away

[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Wow, so it doesn't exist anywhere

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_02]: I also came across a clip of Peter Billingsley on the Dan Patrick show. He put it in a note

[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_02]: That's a sports show. God yeah, go sports

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Go sport where he talks about keeping the buddy suit and BB gun

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_02]: So if those items in the museum are genuine they may have been saved by Ralphie himself

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks for the weekly dose of Christmas cheer

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_01]: That's great Fred. I had never heard that before and it's very cool and makes a lot of sense

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_01]: That that would be the reason why it was cut like you know they they test these movies and they want to make sure that it works

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_01]: But the reasoning being that if you're going to do fantasy it has to be grounded in reality is

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Holarious to me like whatever like it's a fantasy sequence. It should be whatever it wants to be but

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_01]: I trust they they knew what they were doing. I guess

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah such a bummer that will never be able to see it so just lives in our imagination

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And the last email today is from Joe Fulton the Christmas official nato. He says last week

[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_02]: The documentary road trip for Ralphie was brought up in 2008 the married couple Jordi and Tyler

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Took it upon themselves to find all of the filming locations for a Christmas story

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_02]: This was before YouTube so they filmed it and released it on DVD

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_02]: I give them credit for finding a number of the filming locations including visiting the movie costume shop in Canada

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Where they discovered all the costumes used in a Christmas story the film production rented the clothes and returned them

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_02]: The documentary is fun and I recommend it a Christmas story museum acquired all of the clothing and everything at the museum is authentic

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Wow, I go to the house every year and the last time I was there they had the BB gun on display owned by Peter Billingsley

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_01]: How about that look at all these emails that are kind of like helping tell the story. This is very nice

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, exactly what we put we put the call out and the people answer and brain. It's wonderful that so thank you all for that information really

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_02]: That's very cool. How we do it in the review space? Well, but we've been stuck at

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_01]: $2.76 for a while apple podcasts, but we've been getting new

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Reviews and it's been confusing me so I went to charitable which is the other website where you can kind of see where

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Reviews are not just in America, but elsewhere and we're up to two 83 on there

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Which makes

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_01]: 300 by the start of the the holiday season seemed totally feasible

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_01]: But I do have a review. This is from

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_01]: JG135 baby

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Listener in Canada apparently

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_01]: That says best Christmas podcasts ever five stars and then says this when I was a child

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_01]: I used to feel sad when the Christmas season was over now

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_01]: There's a daily show where every day is Christmas how awesome is that?

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_01]: I found this podcast last Christmas and I'm still listening and August can't wait for the next

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_01]: episode that you so much JG135 baby if this

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Show existed when I was a kid Scotty. I would have I would have loved it and that's part of the reason why I love doing it now

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Because I feel like I'm I'm doing something for my childhood self which is really nice

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, if podcasts had existed when I was a child that would have been nice

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_02]: digital music or audio existed when I was a child that would have been nice but

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_02]: This is great and JG135 baby

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Send me an email let me know how you found us. I'm always curious about this stuff and how we can reach more people

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Christmas wanting podcasts to gmail.com thank you for leaving a review. Yeah, it's kind of you guys are

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_02]: a joke for us today. I do this is we're back to the book. We don't have any listener supplied ones okay?

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. What did Ebenezer Scrooge call his dog?

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Spot the spot is a name that a lot of people call dogs so let's do

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Jacob Spotley no, it's a bomb hug

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's do the countdown

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_01]: 1236 days until the

[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_01]: one

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_02]: 26 Scotty that is very exciting the way you said it made me laugh because I thought you were starting to say a

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_02]: hundred sweaty days until Christmas

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's probably true as well, but

[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_02]: 126 days that's 18 weeks that's only 18 Fridays until

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_02]: the big day. Hopefully we only have like

[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_01]: 30 more sweaty days into

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know I'm actually gonna say Brandon feels like it's coming too fast. You think so?

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, now that the numbers getting low, I'm starting to get a little anxious, you know

[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna be in double digits this time next month which is crazy

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_02]: That's incredible once we hit 99 it's on and then I'm like no, no slow down slow down

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_02]: I do have one other piece of good news about the countdown. Okay. It's only 41 days until October 1st

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Well that's not the right time. There you go

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Charge five weeks five weeks until October 1st

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Excellent amazing amazing I got some news if you want it. I sure do

[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Today is August 21st, 2024 and here the news

[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_01]: It's got a you and I

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe aren't the the biggest fans of the night there before Christmas but we appreciate it

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_02]: I definitely appreciate it not my favorite cartoon

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_02]: I saw it for the first time a couple years ago. I don't dislike it how about that? Yeah, that's good. That's good

[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Well the new York Botanical Gardens is opening up a new light trail inspired by

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Tim Burton's nightmare before Christmas in time for Halloween which is nice

[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_01]: It's always one of those movies that you can watch at Halloween or at Christmas. It's a great

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah movie for that reason

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Across more than 8300 square feet there will be light installations interactive video

[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Projections intelligent LED lighting and 3D printed sculptures of the film's characters like Jack

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Scalington Sally and Zero and the guests to the gardens will see the scenes and the songs in the

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Characterish in the film during an immersive walk of wonders

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_01]: And this is going to be going through November as well which is great

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_01]: So if you want to enjoy before Halloween you can do that or if you kind of want it to be a nice whole

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Halfway between Halloween and Thanksgiving or whatever you can do that as well

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_01]: But this I thought was pretty cool. You don't see a lot of

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Walk through light displays that are geared towards like Halloween and it checks both boxes

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I think for us Christmas fans this gives us our little our little Christmas

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Who's that we need while it's still being something they can enjoy around the Halloween season

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Which I know we often leap frog over Halloween and our light of work Scotty, but it is still a nice holiday

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And there's some fun crossover there with this movie in particular and so if you're in the New York area

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_01]: And you would like to check that out

[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Go go over to the New York Botanical Gardens for the

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Nightmare for Christmas light show. Do we know where the New York Botanical Gardens are?

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm assuming New York and that is about as much as I have on it

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Once you send a text to jacks see if she'll she'll go for us to give us a report okay?

[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think that'll be good. And maybe before the

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_01]: September Christmas party. Well, I guess when does it start? I need to find out what I've started to like about

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Halloween or appreciate about Halloween is

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_02]: You and I start we could sell it we could start celebrating Christmas right after Valentine's Day

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_02]: We'd be fine with that most people are not but when you're in August

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Did you say I'm looking forward to Christmas people are like oh I roll but when it's Halloween

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_02]: You know they're like okay, yeah, yeah, I could I could see that and I just treat it like another great high watermark of the upcoming holiday season in general

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_02]: We have Halloween we have thanksgiving we have Christmas

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_02]: So appreciate it for what it is. It's another festive time

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_02]: I like decorating I like lights I like fun so great Halloween sure

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't love it as much as Christmas but it's there. That's right. It's in the Bronx

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's good and it is running September 27th to November 30th

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_02]: November 30th seems a little bit late, but I guess it is across over movie so

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_02]: They can see all right well send it to text to jacks see if she'll go for us. I'd be great. I don't know if maybe they switch over to a

[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Straight Christmas that after November 30th or if they're not doing anything they take one orange light down each day and put one red one up

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right. That's right. It's the little things like that

[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Scottie, let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we'll get to the TV listings for this week as well as the battle of the song

[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_01]: here on Christmas morning

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back everybody in a Christmas morning

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_01]: it is getting closer and closer by the day which means more and more TV is beginning to pop up

[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_01]: And that is all we have TV Scottie here to let us know what we can watch this week to help get us into Christmas spirit

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_02]: TV Scottie hello hello brandin. I've got some great Christmas TV specials for the next couple of days

[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_02]: courtesy of mostly christmas.com if you want to hear them okay, wait. I can't wait. All right here we go

[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Wednesday 10 a.m on ion NCIS New Orleans blue Christmas 1045 a.m on comedy central the Cleveland show

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_02]: A Cleveland Brown Christmas 11 a.m on hallmark snowbride 4 p.m on tv one a different world. I'm dreaming of a

[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Christmas bearies the bridge part one and 9 p.m on on hummark family Karen Kingsberry's the bridge part two

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Thursday 12 30 a.m on v tv bernie Miller the episode is called toys one a m on ovation the librarians

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_02]: and the Christmas thief 230 p.m on tbs modern family undec the halls

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_02]: A d m on b e t Tyler Perry's house of pain oh christmas pain 10 a m on me tv mat lock Santa Claus 11 a.m on

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Christmas next door 3 p.m on hallmark mysteries christmas at grand valley 7 p.m on hallmark

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_02]: mysteries mystery on missile to lane 9 p.m on hallmark mysteries time for her to come home for christmas

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_02]: we got a whole hallmark mysteries thing here going on brand and 11 p.m on hallmark mysteries murder she wrote

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_02]: a christmas secret Friday 10 a.m on t c m Carol for another christmas from 1964 a lawn zone

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_02]: p m on rewind rewind rewind rewind family ties a keyton christmas Carol 232 p m on b e t family

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_02]: matters have yourself a very wins low christmas 415 p.m on i fc national land poons christmas vacation

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_02]: there it is for him it is at once a week apparently that's right 7 p.m on comedy central the office

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_02]: christmas wishes 7 p.m on hallmark ghosts of christmas always a 9 p.m on hallmark next stop christmas

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Saturday 8 a.m on hallmark family hi way to heaven basingers new york

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_02]: one p.m on hallmark mysteries murder she baked a plum pudding mystery one p.m on we

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_02]: in c.a s false witness 4 30 p.m on logo mama's family Santa mama and 8 p.m on comedy

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_02]: central the office to white christmas finally Sunday 2 a.m on logo married with children you

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_02]: better watch out 2 12 p.m on TV land mic and mally first christmas 3 p.m on rewind dear john

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_02]: was the fight before christmas and 11 30 p.m on rewind growing pains a christmas story and those

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_02]: are your christmas tv specials for the next couple of days courtesy of mostly christmas dot com.

[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you TV Scotty it is time for the christmas music battle of course we got to talk about last

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_01]: week's battle and get those results first it was original christmas song week Scotty if you recall

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_01]: and let's get last place out of the way first i'll let you drop the bad news i'll be alone

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_02]: for christmas by toasters and moose came in dead last with maybe an all-time bad show of only six

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_01]: votes and i was one of the how how often are you going to submit a toasters and moose song

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_01]: before you get the hint that it's just probably not gonna win i think there's uh one more okay

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_02]: and i think i'm gonna do it just for the completeness of it and then i'll hang up the old

[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_02]: toasters and moose of course i knew this wasn't going to win but it was funny and i don't want

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_02]: to say it's so bad it's good because i don't want to denigrate an artist like that they're doing

[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_02]: something that i'm certainly not doing but i think you're very unique i think you may be good if

[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_02]: you really put your mind to it's got it but i'm not gonna so i'll be alone for christmas by toasters

[00:17:21] [SPEAKER_02]: and moose six votes out of uh 69 votes not a great showing let's get to the real race uh it was

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_01]: a very close battle partly i think because there was no real third option but it was a close battle

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_01]: this is like when um it's like never mind i was gonna say see equivalent of a third party

[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_01]: but taking away votes but yeah i guess maybe you could make that argument because if toasters and

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_01]: moose wasn't in there maybe you clearly girls would have won that's right i drag six votes away

[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_01]: from somebody else that's right from the ukulele girls but the ukulele girls did not win they

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_01]: lost by three votes uh they got 43.4% of the vote with their song dear santa i thought this was a

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_02]: really good song it's nice i like the jingle bells in it and like the percussion so good good song thank

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_01]: you that was brought to us by listor jack unbeferred thank you jack it is very nice and but it's

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_02]: heaven yes burger which was brought by me i i did it i won again to brag about my presciences here

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_01]: when we played this one i said brand this is gonna win it's so good it's just so so good close battle

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_01]: though close battle which i think it should have been i thought i thought i was uh but i you know

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_01]: listen i brought it so i think they got it right but i could have seen the ukulele girls won in too so

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_01]: definitely a close battle but that means they're toasters and moves really of course but that

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_01]: means that our battle uh overall battle for the year continues to get close it is a it's just neck

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_01]: and neck basically listeners 11 Scott 10 and now i have nine all right so it's still really

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_02]: funny one's game very anyone's game no one likes a blow out when you're trying to watch for

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_01]: all seasons so this is fun that's right that's right uh some for the instrumental battle of the

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_01]: it is the third Wednesday it's got to you got a fun fact first about music since this isn't a

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_02]: specific song well i noticed in my notes that i forgot to pull a Christmas trivia fact last

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_02]: okay but i thought if one and i thought it up quick uh it's it's not the best one we've ever had

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_02]: but it is still interesting and i thought to myself wonder how many Christmas albums man i'm steam roller

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_02]: his sold as a great question to wonder do you have a guess what's your guess this i i honestly

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_02]: oh is this is now turning into a quiz rather than just trivia i have no idea and i'm also bad

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_01]: with knowing how much is a lot of yeah exactly what's what's the what's the scale for Christmas

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_01]: albums is a hundred million a lot yes because i you just don't really hear about it anymore i

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_01]: imagine growing up used to hear a lot about right album sales but you just don't anymore but i'm

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_01]: gonna go i'll go with over a million over a million 31.5 million brand how much 31.5 million okay

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah i wasn't gonna get there i was gonna get to maybe three million so i'll just stop by

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_02]: well it also says the chip davis founded his own record label called american gramophone

[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_02]: which is now one of the industry's largest in the record labels manheim steam rollers has sold

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_02]: more than 41 million albums 31.5 million are in the christmas genre so we know what they're known for

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_02]: no kidding but i thought that was really cool that's it's actually a lot more albums than i would

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_01]: thought i thought maybe ten million or something something to talk away for next uh months uh

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_01]: battle a rather be original or instrument all when you need a random fun fact is how does that

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_01]: compare to transibian orchestra the other instrumental type group that you think of this time of

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_02]: year great thinking hold a file that one away and i'll forget it promptly uh let's uh get to the

[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_01]: instrumental battle of the week it's always a good time i'm always excited to hear what we got

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_01]: and it's typically a close battle which is a lot of fun um up first we have um woo i don't know

[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_02]: what what did you burr is it the one by blue ball orchestra okay so it's shedrick and shedrick

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_02]: is the original name of carol of the bells it's the ukrainian name okay great carol of the bells

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_01]: it's a in parentheses hip hop trap mix but the blue claw orchestra brand carol of the bells is my

[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_02]: favorite christmas song and one of the things i like about it so much is that it couldn't just meld

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_02]: and mold to almost any genre that you put it in and well they just proved that hip hop trap

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_01]: mix that works although that was cool we've had a lot of different genres here in the show

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_01]: i don't know if we've ever had a trap uh entry into the battle i don't know but that song i wanted

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_02]: to be under like a montage or an ass some sort of scene in a movie where the thing is happening

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_01]: like a holiday-hiced movie oh yeah i like the very cool uh ob next we got sleigh ride by slowing

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_01]: the boats we've had slowing the boats before they have never won before i can't tell if that was a

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_02]: slide guitar or steel guitar i have a feeling it was probably steel but it's not what i expected

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_01]: and that was wild i liked it and it's you know why it kind of helps paint a picture it this is a more

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_01]: twangy version maybe more country out there in the country sleigh ride type type thing it tells

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_01]: a story just by the uh type of guitar that was played very nice well speaking of the type of guitar

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_02]: that was played hold onto your pants for this last one here oh wow okay uh next we got all i

[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_02]: want for christmas by ricky lee brand you and i both play guitar have played a lot of guitar

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_02]: in our lives that last song gave me a Eric Johnson's Steve vibe kind of feel to it or Joe satryani

[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_02]: that's the other one i was thinking of that was something and i want to hear more by ricky lee

[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_01]: that's good there you go ricky lee i like that that was very nice i think it's a good battle this week

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_01]: three totally different vibes uh one four everybody i i hope i think so we got list of submissions this

[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_02]: week from jack on verford landsgarman mali valley and lee hodo thank you all for submitting

[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_01]: wonderful scottie we got a lot of songs in the back catalog that we could choose from for next so

[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_02]: you said how about you pick one of them well i do want to mention that i found two more songs

[00:26:17] [SPEAKER_02]: that we have not battled and i keep texting them to you i don't know if i'm annoying you with them when

[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_02]: i come oh you never know i'm a scottie well i've been listening more christmas music lately and when

[00:26:26] [SPEAKER_02]: i hear one and i think about it and then check and if we haven't done it i immediately log it to you so

[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_02]: the two i found this week are i've got your love to keep me warm and toily and you did not

[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_01]: see that excited about toily i think you said we've never battled toily and i said something along

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_01]: the line so i'm not way never knew or something like that but you know what it's a great option

[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_01]: to add to the catalog because it is a christmas song that you hear every year so it should be battles

[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_02]: well it's my pick this week so i pulled one off the back log next week we're going to do Mary

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_02]: christmas baby nice and i check there are a lot of versions on being to know surprise there

[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_01]: i can't wait i bet there's a lot of different versions and genres that try to

[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_01]: play around with us on some really looking forward to it's got it yeah typically you hear it in a

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_02]: bluesy kind of modality i want to hear something very different than that i don't know what i'm

[00:27:21] [SPEAKER_01]: going to find and i'm excited to learn 100% scottie we did it it's great to be back here and the

[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_01]: news is the 25th is coming up and it's in the on the weekend which is nice i was Sunday the 25th

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_01]: so we will have a christmas party episode on sunday which is going to be a lot of fun scottie and

[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_02]: i can't wait for it's going to be great we do have shade and joining us and she's flying

[00:27:44] [SPEAKER_02]: up to the north pole right now we're going to record it today while we're here so if you're thinking

[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_02]: of submitting get something together for September because August is already closed that's right that's

[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_01]: right all right guys we'll be back this sunday and of course next Wednesday with a regularly

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_01]: scheduled christmas morning until then Merry Christmas you're about to hear some ads that help

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[00:28:18] [SPEAKER_02]: but either way thanks for being here oh oh oh oh