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[Applause] [Music] [Applause] remember that episode of Seinfeld where Jerry is sleeping in Kramer's apartment
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because of the Kenny Rogers chicken restaurant opened up and the the red neon light will not allow Kramer to
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sleep oh right yeah and so Jerry walks into what is his apartment but Kramer's living there and he says yeah I'm on no
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sleep and he's got his shaking like Kramer that's how I am today my uh my dogs so these this like family of deer
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MH come into my backyard in the middle of the night I'm talking like between sometime between 1: and 3:00 a.m. for
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the past week and my dogs are asleep but they can sense this somehow like their Super Doggy sense goes off and then they
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freak out they just go they go crazy like the first night it happened I thought for sure someone had
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finally arrived at my home to kill me in my sleep and it turns out it's just this
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family of deer that they are eating something in the yard I can't figure out what it is but that must be why they're
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returning every night well check this out so a couple days ago my uh in the in the master bedroom
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there is a closet and the light turns on by sensor and I woke up in the middle of
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the night and I could see that the light in the closet was on oh so you you've been asleep and now you wake up and the
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light is already on waiting for you in the closet something something's in there yeah I was something lives in
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there I thought oh great now I got to open this up and figure this out I me it's never happened before but it it
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actually didn't freak me I was so tired that I was like you know what screw it I'm going I I've done that too when when
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I was younger I used to like get up and investigate things now I'm just like H maybe it's my
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time H yeah maybe it is speaking of time hopefully it is it's Christmas time mhm or k Quanza time or Hanukkah time
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it's holiday time mhm so you wanted to do a a special holiday episode mhm and I think this is good
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because I think it will prove I'll prove to myself once and for all that that we can talk for a long
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time about absolutely nothing so this episode is about self-exploration AKA masturbation no no we were we wanted to
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do a countdown list and so we figured we' do a top five live Christmas song Yes list right yes not holiday songs
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Christmas songs and and I say it that way okay because of this MH I had one song that would be in my top five if we
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were doing just holiday songs M but it didn't make it in because it's not a Christmas song okay I think I have to
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rework my list then uhoh I think I think do you know the one I'm talking about well let's not get into that okay so for
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me top five here's my number five all right number five number five in 1980 this
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song peaked at number six on the UK singles chart Wonderful Christmas Time by the great Paul McCartney Oh my God
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it's the worst song you want to sing it for us uh no no I it's like the cheesiest you know um the time is
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right then he's like simply having wonderful Christmas time yeah and it's got that weird like synthesizer part
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where it's so cheesy the first time you hear that synthesizer part you think this has got to be a mistake it's got to
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be an accident nobody chose to write this and I don't know I don't know what it is like I think it's it's the song
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for me that I typically hear in the grocery store or when I'm out Christmas shopping like on the uh store music and
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and so I think that's why it won't leave me alone I I think it's a fantastic song
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puts me in a great mood every time and listen to this this this is according to Wikipedia so who knows what this means
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it's estimated that Paul makes $400,000 a year from this song oh my God can that be right is that I mean I well
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look we're seeing a Resurgence of this if you haven't noticed uh uh CIA she put out a Christmas record
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with all new Christmas songs Christmas songs she wrote okay so she's not doing the classics she's CA has come up with
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her own songs and then I think Gwen Stefani has done some new songs plus some old songs and you're seeing this
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normally it used to be um I saw a great interview one time with Harry conik Jr mhm and they they basically forced him
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to make a Christmas record and he's like I've already made Christmas records and
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they make made me make another one and so he was going on these talk shows to promote it and he was not happy so he
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was so mad about it that made the interviews great but that's what it used to be let's take the Jazz guy and make
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him do a Christmas record and take you know like a Michael Bolton and make him do a Christmas record but now it's these
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big pop stars that are doing Christmas songs again kind of like they did in the 70s and and ' 80s yeah and I think the
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typical formula or the formula that I'm used to seeing the most is where you'll have like a great artist will do a
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Christmas album but it's all classics except for like one song that they came up with you know they they put out their
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own original and then it's like 10 others 12 12 others that you've heard a bazillion times by many different people
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yeah I believe the sea record is all which I think came out last year now you're hearing it everywhere in
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commercials and everything so I bet she's going to make a million mhm couple Mill off of license eaten I hope so I
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like the ca I don't want CA to go away I like the ca too so that's your awful pick for number five yeah but a lot of
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thought went into working that one into the top five mine is uh I'm not going to
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say this wrong metal liim Maka oh everybody knows what you're trying to say nobody knows how to say it except
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for is the thing EX wonderful Hawaiian people they know how to say it yeah it's a what you say yeah I for whatever
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reason Christmas vacation I just love that movie and it just it makes more sense as you get older mhm when I was
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younger maybe somewhat funny but now as I get older it it's just like it cracks me up in a whole different way and the
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scene where he's looking out at the pool and the girl's taking off her top and going buy a pool for the family with his
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Christmas bonus it's such a great song that that that's my number five which totally beats your number five it does
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I'll give you that I like the part my favorite scene is when he goes outside uh Clark Griswald goes outside and he's
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firing up the chainsaw because he's got that giant Christmas tree still strapped
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to the Griswald family car and the neighbors it's the the husband and wife M and the the husband says to him where
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you going to put that Griswald and he goes bend over and I'll show you and then the husband goes you can't talk to
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me that way he goes I wasn't talking to you that's how I want to be with my neighbors just I say whatever I want to
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say that is my movie that I put on in the background when I'm putting up Christmas decorations well what I love
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is a handful of years back they started playing uh the Christmas story right Christmas Story 24/7 on some Channel and
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then what happened was like TBS or whoever was like this is a great idea let's pick our own movie so they'll play
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the the Grinch sold Christmas all day long 24 hours and then somebody plays Christmas vacation and and I think
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you're going to see that grow every year because there's so many good you could do some of those old clamation movies
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all all 24 hours but I just remember the first year that really started liking that movie again
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Christmas vacation and every place I went to I turn it on so it's in the background so when kids are yelling or
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or you know your dad is saying something silly that doesn't make any sense you can just kind of tune out and start
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watching that movie so my number four Captain is and this is kind of fitting because we were talking about people uh
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artists redoing Christmas classics this one I love it's have your Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Michael
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bé okay yeah the bé ster yeah Michael bubble yeah I like him good voice he has some good s well this is where we get
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weird with my list cuz I had the Hanukkah song but you said it was a Christmas so no actually I'm glad you
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brought it up though because I that I wanted to put Adam Sandler's Hanukkah Song on my list so badly mhm but then I
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was like wait a second we said we were doing a Christmas song list and that very clearly is a Hanukkah song it's
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titled the Hanukkah song yeah but it kind of talks about the differences right I don't know I I love that song
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yeah it's it look here's my argument when they do the Christmas special for Saturday Night
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Live mhm they always play the rerun of Adam Sandler singing the song so that'd be my argument to say it is Christmas
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song because it ends up on the Christmas edition of Saturday Night Live every year every year and and actually that's
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the way that uh I fell in love with the Michael blue blé Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas he was on Saturday
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Night Live one year right before Christmas and nailed it like just just knocked it out of the park and I was
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like all right that's that's a good song that's a good way to bring back a classic mhm so okay we're going to allow
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it we're going to allow my song we will allow it 100% good all right let's go to number three number
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three I have Christmas all over again by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers I don't
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think I know that one yeah baby it's Christmas all over again if I had a little bourbon I'd sing the whole song
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did he did he write it I would I'm guessing that he did I don't know that I've ever heard any other version and
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it's a very um mhm it's it's a very rock and roll song and it's very Tom Petty so
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I I would be shocked if somebody else wrote it it was it was also in that uh speaking of movies I believe it was
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played a lot during that Four Christmases with Vince vaugh oh yeah that's a that's a very good Christmas
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classic mhm one I like to watch every year I love when he when the baby pukes and then he's like get it away from me
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I'm I'm going to puke I love when he's acting when he's in the for those of you who've not seen it
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people are going yeah he's acting the whole time Nick it's a movie but there's a the there's a play in the movie and
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he's he turns it on Christmas play and he he get he takes it a little too far takes it a little too
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serious that's a good one my my mother likes that movie a lot she she'll start watching that on repeat as it comes
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closer to Christmas um okay so where we at number three number three mine is is original it's by uh John lenen uh So
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This Is Christmas MH and parenthesis War is Over war is over and this is the reason why look you want to debate who's
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better who's the better Beetle John lennin Paul McCartney which maybe neither one of them is the
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best maybe it was George George was very good but Ringo the man well the problem with
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George though is that he didn't have so many songs on the earlier records so his hits with the
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Beatles he had some great hits right just not as many but that's because they were controlled to not so he wouldn't
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have as many and then his solar career was I don't think as big but then you could argue maybe it wasn't as big
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because he didn't last he he wasn't around as long mhm but um yeah my my debate with the Lenin vers McCartney is
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simply look at their Christmas songs people say play having a wonderful Christmas and and then John Lennon's
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going so this is Christmas and the whole part is Wars over if you want it and it's just a great song and then they put
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it out and the money went to uh to stopping the war and they did a whole Wars over Campaign which was huge around
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the world MH it's it's monumental it is a legacy song Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time you know is awful well
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and Paul is keeping all the money he's making off of that song right that's like if $400,000 a year since 1980
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that's millions and millions of dollars yeah yeah and he's who what charities look they probably give a lot of money
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to charity that we don't know about but yeah so I think that that always that's my
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debate who wrote the better Christmas song because I mean if you argue that well they had better solo careers or or
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this one wrote better songs Than the Beatles then you could break it down the tiebreaker becomes who wrote the better
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song and also when they had the debate where they were writing songs Back and Forth with each other mhm how do you
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sleep is probably one of the best battle rap songs of all time time if you ever get a chance to listen how do you sleep
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it's directed towards Paul basically how can you sleep um with yourself before we
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move on I want to mention one of my favorite Beetle moments okay at the uh Hall of Fame Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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induction ceremony of Ringo Star they got Paul McCartney to do the induction speech well which is funny cuz Paul
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didn't even show up when the Beatles were inducted but go ahead so he shows up for Ringo and he starts off the
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entire speech by going you can't have a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame without Ringo
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Star he is rock and roll yeah peace and love man peace and love love it I loved it I love when uh Dana Carvey does his
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Paul McCartney you know we're just sitting down in Liverpool you know and playing guitar with a little Plucky
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pluck you know little flickity flu on the guitar you know so anyways oh by the way if you haven't seen the have you
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seen the Adam Sandler special yet I have not oh wait wait wait the you mean the standup yeah the 100% fresh
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I've seen most of it I mean I've seen I I see what we do in the garage is when we taking a break from the murder or
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whatever is happening in the case sometimes it just gets a little too much for me so I like to jump over to YouTube
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and play a little funny clip and there's some funny stuff on that Adam Sandler special but I recommend that you watch
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the whole thing cuz he does this brilliant job of making you laugh just being silly it's just very goofy you
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know they're not no there's no serious joke there right and then he does this tribute to Chris Farley which will choke
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you up but then at the end he he does this kind of like a love song to the audience and it's like he it's just
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masterful how he gets you just having a good time and then he brings it back home with some Nostalgia and some
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heartfelt stuff and by the end you're just like this guy's a genius there's a good deal of music on there too well
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that's pretty much it's like he wrote all these little songs I mean some of the songs are 30 seconds long but
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they're hilarious but the there are several that I've seen that are like fall out of your chair funny yeah the
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one with Rob Schneider is one of the funniest things who doesn't love Rob Schneider yeah I mean Rob Schneider
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should get a award for playing the Spaceman [Laughter] so uh number two for me or number three
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for you I already did uh So This Is Christmas is over John Lennon So number two for me please come home for
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Christmas by Eagles release 1978 I hate that song but originally by blues singer and pianist Charles Brown
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way back in 1960 I actually to be honest with you didn't know that somebody else
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wrote the song uh because Please Come Home for Christmas The Eagles version version is older than I am so right I I
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I was unaware that somebody else had done this song your band Yes one of your I shouldn't say your band one of your
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bands cuz it's been a long long uh wonderful career for the captain filled with several bands and different band
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names over the years but uh one of your bands what was it probably four or five years ago now covered this yeah so the
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idea was okay this picture this you don't have a you don't have a lot of time right is that a threat no you just you
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don't have much time like you you you you work during the week oh you're busy and then you play gigs on the weekend
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and the drummer came up with this idea that we would put out a Christmas song mhm okay well first of all he's not
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religious at all right and so then but for whatever he's actually the opposite of religious right he's he's actually a
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a I believe and so he wanted to do a Christmas song and I thought okay well that's fine but we don't have a lot of
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time and then it kind of just kept getting put off right and then they they kind of did their parts and then they're
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like okay it's done now you finish everything else uh so then I had to rush to finish it before Christmas but it was
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one of those things where it was like it was the Eagle song um or the the song that Eagles covered but uh it was one of
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those scen where I'm like why are we doing this like like this it's not it's not really that funny of a song and um
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oh that's right he he wanted it to be kind of funny didn't he like didn't he or he thought it was funny no no no I
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think like at first he was like this is a good Christmas song people will like it and we'll do one every year and he
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would constantly throughout the year play me other songs like other Christmas songs that he
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thought was funny like these little joke you know kind of like you know Grandma got ran over by reindeer but like a
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different version of that and you're like right I just don't find this that funny but I also find it strange that
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you're atheist and that you're really into Christmas songs like we could just record anything right you know and put
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it out as a gift but you want to put out a Christmas song and my whole thing was
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just like who who's going to run to go listen to this thing I didn't run to listen to
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it but I did listen to it I thought it was real well done yeah I mean I think we did a good job but that's think why I
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hate the song because it was like oh this we got to do this uh I think we only ended up doing one Christmas song
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and we never made it to the second year of the Christmas or maybe we told him we're just not spending any time on this
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this year well and I'm guessing here but uh I'm guessing you probably had to do more work on that that project that
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single song than some of the other guys yeah maybe just a little extra work I mean they but I mean he had to put in a
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bunch of work he had to record the drums and he had to record I think he recorded
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like the basic piano tracks and stuff but he had to record the vocals okay just but it it's one of those things
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where it's like when your buddy comes up with the idea that he's like dude I got
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a great idea for a business and then he tells you the idea and you're like yeah I don't think that's so great right but
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then next thing you know you're spending weeks and weeks you're spending every waking moment working on it right that
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number two that was number two for me mine is Christmas Time Is Here here Christmas Time Is Here which you would
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hear in the the Charlie Brown Christmas special okay you know the Christmas Time
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Is Here see I like when we do these because I there are ones that you love and that you've always loved and you
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kind of forget about them in the moment coming up with a list of five is not so difficult it's coming up with a list of
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only five that's kind of kind of difficult well what's really great about this is it the VIN gerardi Trio right
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mhm which we all know as well you might not know Vince gardi I hope I'm saying that correct but
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he is the Charlie Brown music guy okay Peanuts theme song right so what's really cool about Vince gardi is back in
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the day he he's a piano player back in the day to to have a hit jazz song was enough and Vince gardy was one of these
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guys that he had a hit song he took a pop song and he covered it as a as a jazz group and it was a hit and he was
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just happy touring and most musicians once they have a hit especially if it's a cover they don't want to keep playing
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that song right they're done right Vince was not that guy Vince was actually you want to hear the song twice
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a night I'll play it twice a night he understood that this song made his career and he would respectfully play it
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whenever the his audience wanted to hear right and that was it that was it Vince
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gardi was that's all I'm going to do and I believe it was it was a TV special I won't I won't say what network MH but
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there was going to be a TV special and he knew Vince knew a guy and the guy said hey I have this cartoon that we're
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putting out for Christmas special and it's not going to be a big deal we're going to play it once and
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it's probably going to be done with and don't have much money to score it mhm and it was the Charlie Brown Christmas
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special and at this point Charlie Brown wasn't Charlie Brown as we know it so Vince gardi went in with his Trio he
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composed all the stuff and you know now we would not know who Vince gardi was if
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it wasn't for him playing on the Charlie Brown Christmas special and all the Charlie Brown stuff and so Christmas
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Time Is Here which I think is very haunting I used to make all my students learn a couple Christmas songs because I
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thought here's your parents paying for guitar lessons all year long year 10 you can't buy them a gift probably right so
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why not you why not whip out your guitar and play you know 30 seconds of a Christmas song right but what was cool
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about some of these students was we were we would up the level a little bit so if
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if a kid could sing they're playing a couple chords and singing a song right if the kid couldn't sing then they're
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playing like almost like a finger Style version you know so they're playing the chords and the melody and everything
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like that and and Christmas uh what was cool about teaching the Christmas songs to the kids is they would think oh
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Christmas songs they're easy mhm but then once you started doing the finger style stuff they started realizing one
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the guitar could be the very beautiful instrument by itself but also this is this is difficult right and uh but
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Christmas Time Is Here is one of the first ones that uh I started teaching and I just it's it's so freaking sad
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sounding um it's it's just Vince gardi is just a genius he doesn't give as much credit as he deserves well God bless
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Vince for playing to the audience because I tell you what mhm and I'm all for seeing one of my favorite artists
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favorite bands do some of their more obscure stuff but years ago I've probably seen the black crows in concert
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three or four times yeah okay but great band great band I've always had a great time watching them with the exception of
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one show and it was an outdoor show I believe there was no there were no seats so everybody's in like a lawn area if
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you want to call it that M everybody's standing I'm anticipating lots of drinking lots of dancing a really good
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time right some weed it's in the middle of the summertime the the the temperature was perfect for weed they
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came out on stage M and this was a Saturday and Chris Robinson that's their singer right Chris Robinson which I'm a
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big black crows fan but Chris Robinson I I don't know I don't know anyway right he comes out and he goes uh he's a big
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fan of the show he's going to be very disappointed he goes who picked up our our new album and he named he said the
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name of it that just came you know just came out on Tuesday right this is Saturday so even if you bought it on
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Tuesday you don't know it yet he goes I got something very special for all of you here tonight we're going to play the
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album in its entirety from start to finish right and I knew zero songs that day standing there in the lawn ready to
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dance knew nothing no songs yeah I mean I I look I argue that there's this big debate constantly
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about original music cover band right and I always try to explain to some of the original guys I play with are you
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playing in a town that people know you no you're not okay every two songs every three songs you got to sprinkle them in
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play a cover yeah and and the thing too is some of the guys I play with blow the
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doors off some of these covers that they do where where it's it's like once you hear him do it you'll be questioning did
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he write that song cuz that's how good he is at that song and for whatever reason it's like um I think I don't know
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maybe it's just a artist thing but it's like look but people have been doing covers famous
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people people that we know like John colr for example one of the reasons why he's famous is cuz he
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covered my favorite things mhm like there's a there's a good chance we might not know who he was if he didn't do that
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now some hardcore Jazz guys going to say oh he did all this other stuff yes but that's what brought him to the spotlight
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so therefore he could do this other stuff so I think for me as a musician and I think maybe it's cuz I'm not you
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know writing a song is just very small portion of what I do musically but I think being an in
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instrumentalist like I've never cared about covers because I just thought like well it's it's your interpretation of it
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so hard to handle was a cover yeah yeah yeah and I tell you what well even if you want to be more artsy fartsy or a
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band of Integrity do obscure covers you know what I mean do something that maybe half
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the audience gets it or something I but I'll tell you what one thing that I'm on
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a kick that I'm on right now this band called I think they're called main squeeze mhm they have several and I know
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they have original stuff too I've not ventured into the original stuff yet cuz they're covers are amazing they're you
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should be able to they're all over YouTube I know that because that's that's my go-to after too many drinks uh
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sitting on the couch I just find the main squeeze on the YouTube on the on the YouTube on the box I like to call it
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the YouTube's the UB box yeah all right so number one number one number one one we've finally reached the Pinnacle
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everybody's like this is the worst episode I've ever heard uh well ba humbug to you my friend this is to
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inspire you to drink a little too much eggnog crank up the Christmas classics and have a great time with your friends
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and family yeah here's one this is my favorite Father Christmas by The Kinks a single from all the way back
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1977 um I this this is a great Christmas song it it's better of course after that eggnog
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that I was just talking about uh but but one of my all-time favorites yeah yeah mine is not the Michael bé version but
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just the song in general Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas I think is when you think of that title Have
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Yourself a Merry Little Christmas it sounds like it's going to be this very uplifting song mhm and it just just is
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it it's heart-wrenching you know yeah well yeah um it's very depending obviously
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how the person interpretat the song but most of the time it's this is a heart crushing depressing
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song I think um well I you know I've never I've never heard the original and I put in my notes here from uh Judy
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Garland yeah sang it 1944 in a musical called me Me In St Louis mhm I've never seen that but the Michael bé version
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does not um it doesn't choke me up or anything like that like it actually it kind of lifts my spirits um so I I
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totally dig that song as well but I get what you're saying there are versions of
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it that are almost a tearjerker yeah yeah do you had did you have any notable mentions um well so I I
00:31:28
like anything Trans Siberian Orchestra they're they're the ones that that morphed some Hol holiday songs into
00:31:40
almost heavy metal that was the Carol of the Bells and that's one the more advanced guitar students could play but
00:31:47
what was so cool about that tune is you could put pop it on and even though you're just playing the the rift just
00:31:53
like the CD it was awesome and I'd had I had of uh fathers that would come back after
00:32:00
Christmas break and say he pulled out his guitar and played Carol of the Bells and I almost cried you know cuz he
00:32:09
just cuz it sounds like it's really hard to play but it's actually very very simple I also had um there's no one
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particular song so it didn't make it on my list cuz we're here to pick one particular song but uh chaikovsky is The
00:32:24
Nutcracker yeah I love that mhm um and then here's one that is a little more obscure but not so much because we we
00:32:33
talked about the movie Christmas vacation but the spirit of Christmas by Ray Charles it's in it's in Christmas
00:32:41
Vacation and it's when Clark locks himself in the attic and he he finds some old family
00:32:48
films real tooreal films and he's watching them in the the attic freezing and he's kind of crying he's choking up
00:32:55
that's a sad part yeah and that but that's a great song that's a great song well he's probably crying because it's
00:33:00
such a great song well come on Mariah Carey All I Want for Christmas it's you okay so I do enjoy that song but but
00:33:10
here's the problem with it you know just kind of like you have a a problem with Please Come Home for Christmas and it
00:33:16
has little to do with Christmas at all M there's this Irish Pub that I go tohm and one that song is played a ton at
00:33:26
Christmas time off of the box but there is a bartender in there that gets a big kick out of playing that song
00:33:33
randomly throughout the year during his shift so it it is very common to be in there in April June July August I his
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name's Jack and he plays jackass he'll play it about three times on his Saturday shift M I believe every
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Saturday he just really likes Christmas he has a tree up all year round he's like um he's like the elf um well and
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the place is always packed every Saturday so the way that it works is as soon as you hear the start of Mariah
00:34:07
Care's Christmas song the whole place goes oh come on Jack oh Jack Jack your jackass no uh that was a notable mention
00:34:18
but also the Christmas Vacation theme song Christmas Vacation it's like real cheesy
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[Music] it sounds like Paul McCartney wrote it oh it's so bad but here's one I'm going
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to throw this one out at you and you're going to go what when you hear the title
00:34:39
right okay the song is called St Patrick's Day and it's by John Mayer okay but if
00:34:47
you ever listen to that song it's a Christmas song it's a Christmas song but it's called St Patrick's Day gotcha but
00:34:56
it's very strange but it's like when you hear it like when you hear it you just go this is a this is a freaking
00:35:02
Christmas song H but yeah though the whole premise of the song is that if you start dating somebody before the
00:35:10
holidays that you're safe right nobody wants to break up right before Christmas or right after Christmas and oh then New
00:35:18
Year's is around the corner so we got to get through there and basically you're everybody's safe in a relationship till
00:35:24
you get to St Patrick's Day and then after that it's like yeah there's no big holiday coming up so but but everything
00:35:31
but all the other like the elements of the song is very uh christmy and and so when I think of Christmas songs I think
00:35:39
of that song but also like there's just something different the month of Christmas when
00:35:47
you're a musician and you're traveling especially when it's snowing really bad weather I've had trips that were
00:35:54
supposed to take an hour to get to the gig that took 4 hours so that' be a song that I would throw on
00:36:00
when I was driving my old Dodge Neon to the gigs oh and I oh that sounds painful it was awful and it was like one
00:36:10
of those ones where they lowered the Dodge Neon to try to make it look cooler good for you yeah and it had like really
00:36:16
small tires on it they lowered it to make it more dangerous for you yeah it was awful and I just put that on go well
00:36:22
I know it's called St Patrick's Day but it's a Christmas song What About Steve Perry of Journey a very Perry
00:36:31
Christmas uh I don't think that's a real thing that's uh I was I was Googling Christmas music the other day and a very
00:36:38
Perry Christmas came up I didn't take the time to find out if it's real it's got to be a hoax yeah but look if if
00:36:45
you're looking for like background good background Christmas music I'm telling you just download or go to Apple music
00:36:52
or where wherever you get music and just get the uh the Vince girl record the the the Charlie Brown
00:37:01
Christmas special okay you just put that on it what's so nice about it is just just for the most part it's instrumental
00:37:08
music it's very chill very chill background perfect background music well but also because it's a little bit older
00:37:15
it kind of has a little Nostalgia to it gives you that little more oldfashioned feel so that that would be my if you're
00:37:21
going to pop on a record this year pop on that one when the family's over drink some eggnog drink some booze and the
00:37:30
little ones appreciate it too because it's you know stuff that they're familiar with yeah they all start
00:37:36
dancing like the peanut characters yeah I wish I wish all right well hope everybody has a great holiday season
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have a safe travels and uh we appreciate you more than you'll ever know that's right merry Christmas
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he [Applause]