WEBVTT - Two Deloreans and a Blues Brothers Car 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:10.400 It's twelve am in the dark and murky waters of 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:31.639 the White Sea, and you're listening Tonight Call. Welcome to Nightcall, 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.440 a podcast keep you company on those strange dates and 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.440 lonely nights. My name is Emily Ushida. I am in 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:40.800 New York and with me on the other end of 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.560 the line in California, it is okay, fine, I'll go first. 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:49.240 It's Tests Lynch and with me is Molly Lambert. Hey, everybody, Hi, 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:54.000 Welcome to the holiday season. We're officially on the holiday 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.840 season with the real Higa season? Is that how I 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:01.040 always thought it was higgy? And then that commercial where 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.720 it like walks you through the pronunciation really kind of 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.360 shook me. But I don't he is it higa or 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:11.640 like uga? It's a hookah whoga is what I would 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.760 trust because it makes the least amount. And it's a 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:19.920 Scandinavian lingo. I mean it's just like cozy, right, Yeah, 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.160 it has like a meaning though that's deeper than cozy. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.840 It's a Danish and Norwegian word for a mood of 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:30.240 coziness and comfortable conviviality, with feelings of wellness and contentment. 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.679 That's great. I'm going to completely batch it, but there's 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.360 like the Japanese concept where it's like you're you're both 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:40.760 successful in your career and happy with your personal life 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.840 and like everything's working at It's like basically Nirvana, but 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:53.600 it's like earthly Nirvana, a German version of what do 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.200 you What are your guys favorite cozy things to do 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.240 during the holiday season? Where it's about eighty five degrees 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.040 here in Los angele it oh, it sure is. I 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:06.120 went to the Hollywood Christmas Parade yesterday. It was the 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:11.240 eighty ninth year of this celebration. I don't even know. Okay, 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.200 I had never been to it before I knew about it. 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.000 It's like a local parade and they show it on TV. 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.919 I was trying to explain it to my friend. I 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.560 just got into the dude oh parade, and then I 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.560 realized I like to go to parades apparently, And I 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.160 was like, the dude Oh Parade is to the Rose Parade, 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.760 as the Hollywood Christmas Parade is to the Macy's Thanksgiving 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:36.000 Day Parade. It is like an extremely bootleg Christmas parade. 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:40.120 It is so bootleg you would not believe. Tell us why, well, 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:44.200 I don't exactly know why, but it's kind of amazing. 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:48.040 It's like, first of all, it happens now before it's 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.239 even December. And I explained to someone that that's so 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.720 they can film it and show it later. Oh my god, guys, 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.840 don't you know that the holiday shopping season starts the 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.480 day like Thanksgiving Day? It's it's Chris it And it's 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.040 just like they filmed this. They filmed this parade. It 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.880 was hosted by Eric Estrada, and they got a real 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:12.560 late start. Um. And it's basically like if Marty Grass 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:17.720 were like a quarter full, if Marty Grass sucked, No, 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.240 because it doesn't suck. I mean it's like you can't 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.360 like have a beer while you're watching. You can't. You can't, 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.480 definitely you cannot. But you can like buy an led 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.760 wand and sit on the It's like not crowded. If 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:32.600 what you want out of a parade is to be 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.000 in a not crowded place, it's a good parade for that. 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.480 What were the floats? Like, the floats are what make 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.360 it kind of junkie. Um. There was like one giant 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:43.400 inflatable that I saw that was a cat in the 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.000 hat balloon and it was actually amazing to see a 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.360 giant inflatable balloon in real life and made the whole 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:54.120 thing worth it. But it was also the slowest parade 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.600 and I kind of like walked down the line before 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.320 it started to see what it was. And the main 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.160 thing that I did see. First of all, it started 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.600 with like a million cops doing a sort of like 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:09.160 terrifying demonstration of power where they like ride motorcycles around 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:14.160 in crazy curly cues informations. Um. But then it was 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.360 weird to know they have a lot of time to 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.760 practice therapy, right. It's like, first of all the police 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.880 cars drive through, and then all the fire trucks drive through, 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:26.520 and then after that came a fleet of cars from 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:33.640 TV and film because I saw the Two Deloreans and 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.560 just like many but it was all like I think 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.000 in advertisement for a company that will rent you famous 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.839 cars or doppelgangers, the two Deloreans that are frequently seen 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.560 around the Hollywood and Los Filas areas. Yeah, I'd also 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.320 seen the Blues Brothers car before for sure, and I 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.840 just in my mind was like, there's just guys who 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.080 have a Blues Brothers car, because that was a thing 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.760 in Providence. But this is more of a like for 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:02.480 profit Blues Brothers Venture. Um, so, yeah, it's a really 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.320 silly parade and I saw about an hour of it 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.000 and that was about it. But if you like free 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:12.120 public experiences and spectacle, I think the big star was 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.599 Ernie Hudson from Ghostbusters was like the mayor of the parade. 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.080 Actually it was. I mean, it's not bad. It's like 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:20.760 true to its roots. I think it was like the 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.720 first place Sonny and Share ever performed. Like the fact 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.039 that it's almost ninety years old to me makes it 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.880 you know, it's hilarious old, but it's not like a 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.760 very big thing. Um, I mean, are there any new parades? 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.760 Like what's the most recent major parade that was starting? 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.720 Is it's really hard to think about parades in our 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:44.440 modern era, Like it's easy to imagine being like, yeah, parade, 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:48.000 that's what we'll do. Parade started in the seventies and 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.680 the Dude Parade is the most seventies parade because it 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.240 was started to start a grosse parade paroity parade. And 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.440 that parade is also free, and I guess most parades 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.479 are free. It's free to like it's like ten bucks 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.880 a person to participate in. Anyone can and it's all 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.840 super weird stuff. Um. 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I 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.839 did also go to Marty Gras because it turns out 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:38.800 I'm such a parade head, and that's I think I 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.240 was like missing the Disneyland Christmas Parade is why I 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.040 wanted to see the Hollywood Christmas Parade, which is less 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:48.640 impressive but also free. Um Marty Gras is like truly 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.240 an amazing parade and like a crazy, giant spectacle of 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.640 being overwhelmed by just like human beings capacity to make 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.800 weird things and be excited. And the floats aren't corporate. 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.440 My boyfriends from New Orleans, he's pointing that out yesterday. 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.800 He was like, those floats aren't corporate. They're like sat 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:10.559 satirical and sometimes very weird, because like I went right 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.440 around the election and it was like very strange. They 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.360 were like politics themed floats and they were just creepy 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.360 because they're just like giant you know the ways that 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.920 like giant effigies of politicians are creepy, and they do 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.520 that more in England. They love to do well, we've 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:29.360 imported that. We've totally you know the Genesis video with 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:33.680 the scary puppets that are all the oh, they love that. 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:35.920 It was like that. It was like some there was 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.120 like a Bernie float and a Hillary float and a 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.880 Trump float and they were all like mocking them, you know. 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.080 And then there's just some weird things about Marty grab 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.280 because it's so old that some of it is just 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:49.880 very feels very like you're in like an eyes wide 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.839 shut parade, you know, where you're like, this is gonna 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.320 end with like some kind of a really cool like 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.280 pagan thing that we all do because it feels very 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.840 like older than time or like, um, it's great, I 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.480 recommend it, but it's it's like many days of parades. 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.320 And what's cool about is everybody gets like the week 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.960 off from school. We should read we should revisit this 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.920 when it's actually Marty season. But the sounds called Marty 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.640 Gras corporate sponsors send us to Marty Gras. Yeah, put 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.559 us on a float. We should just have like a 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:24.440 giant phone, like a nightscape. What's your dream, slow, what 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:28.560 would you like to ride on tested a giant phone? Well, no, 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.360 I was thinking like a landline, and I do kind 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.960 of like that idea, but I really like the idea 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:38.319 of being inside a clam that opened and shut. Yeah, 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.120 I just I just think it's I was going to 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.000 say a moon pie. Oh, that's a good one. I 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.520 would like something I could close myself up in if 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.480 I got shy. When I went to Marty Gras, I 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:52.160 saw Solinge was the the Grand Marshall. I think it's 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.720 called a parade, and she was in a giant shoe. 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.960 That's a parade whose theme is a giant high heel shoe. 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.920 That's like the women's parade. It's the best parade, is 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.199 that like her? The crew, Yeah, the crew is muses 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.360 and it's like the all female crew and their thing 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:07.839 is like a high heeled shoe. So she rode in 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.839 a giant high heeled shoe. And she actually lost her 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.120 wedding or engagement ring because she was doing throws all 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.319 night and at some point, like accidentally, her ring came 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.360 off while she was like throwing beads and stuff. Emily, 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.600 what's your dream float? I was in a float when 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.360 I was a kid. This is like a very early 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.960 childhood money. But there's there's a kind of funky parade 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.320 in Seattle called the Seafair Parade. It's kind of like 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.040 well known around there isn't but my mom was a 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.440 part of a Habitat for Humanity float and they made 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.720 like a like a house, like a big kind of 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.960 crazy house float and I was in it, Like I 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.800 rode in the float and kind of was like in 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:49.200 one of the top like little windows, the window. Yeah yeah, 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.800 it kind of was this the real thing of like 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:56.520 a trailer house, um being you know, taken down the road. Um, 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:58.760 like the kind of weird dreamy thing of being in 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:02.319 a house. But it's a movie sort of wizard um. 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.840 But I had a very cool memory of why so, 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.319 I guess any kind of house thing they I think 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.920 the Thanksgiving Day Pride they have like an old Mother 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:17.000 Hubbard float that's like the shoe house, that one miniature golf. Yeah. Well, 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:25.320 speaking of British puppets, speaking of British people and their puppets. Yeah, 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.400 and the Holidays. This this topic came as a suggestion 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:33.160 to us um on Twitter because I was sort of 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.880 on this kick that we had been from uh from 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.720 doing the Big Chill episode and then talking about Phantom 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.480 of the Opera. And there are a lot of things 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:48.040 that could qualify as eighties themed themes, but they're like 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.160 sensations where I genuinely I can't really understand why they 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.400 were so popular. Guys, Big Chill is great. I don't 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.560 know it's great. I'm not saying it's not great, but 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:03.559 I'm s a sensation. No, yeah, yeah. I mean it's 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.120 hard to imagine any movie that's like about real people, 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:11.480 right just being have superpowers, yeah, or are animated being 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.960 like a huge, huge hit. So we had a we 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:17.040 had a suggestion from a Twitter They did suggest to 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.400 it talking about charity songs, which I was just like, 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.120 oh yeah, that's one of these other things where when 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.560 I think about any of those songs like We're the 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:30.640 World or in this case, do they know it's Christmas? Charting, 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.360 especially in those days when charting was based off of 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:38.160 buying a single and radio play, I guess I can't 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:42.240 imagine those songs Pizza, Like, who would buy the single 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:46.120 of do they know it's Christmas? I mean, I'm glad 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:51.360 they did because I think there's what I think. Let's 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.679 talk sports again like we did last week. We love 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:59.079 we love to talk sports. Spot Hearts Take It's like 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.800 a super team. It's like just because you put all 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.160 of the greatest players in history on a team, like 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:10.120 they might be a terrible team. Uh. There's something about 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.200 the idea of like putting all these stars on a 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:16.400 track together. Well, It's also interesting because if it's for charity, 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.600 if you say no, and then that becomes public knowledge, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:24.640 it's obviously like yeah, and and maybe rightfully because you're like, well, 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.600 it was recorded in a day, so it literally took 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.600 like a couple of hours of time. Then it did 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.960 generate a bunch of money, but it also created one 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:36.080 of the worst right. It depends who's running the charity 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:37.640 and where the money actually goes. I knew it was 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:43.640 a Bob Geldoff joint. Yeah, it was above or uri Urie, 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:48.200 Let's go Urie. And it is a terrible song. It's 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.320 so bad. You guys think it's better or worse than 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:56.320 the version about Ebola. So I was just listening to 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.760 fourteen a version. It's so funny because it's tough, yes, 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:05.080 and it was Ellie Goldine And I don't even know 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:09.160 about the mean It's like, I think there's something about 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:13.400 that song in particular. What makes it so offensive is 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:17.200 that it's like so colonial lists. Oh, it's so colonialist. 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.640 It's like the craziest and it's the thing of like 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.360 you're like, you're you should know better than this by now. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.120 The the kind of the rampant, the rampant cluelessness feels 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.040 feels shocking now. Um. Also, I mean it, it is 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.800 one of those things that feels like it would be 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:35.920 a song in a South Park episode without a single 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.080 lyrics exactly. You know, we all spent time in the eighties, 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.760 which is what differential we did our time in the eighties, 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.880 what differentiates us from from the young millennials. Um, because 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.120 the eighties are the weirdest decade by far to me. Like, 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.920 when you look at things from the eighties, they're so 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:56.720 weird because they purport to be wholesome. It's like trying 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.720 to reset things to the fifties and well, bizarro fIF 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.720 it's bizarrot, but things are like, things are so dystopian 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:06.560 and weird, and that was very apparent. What's strange is 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:10.000 that I remember this song. Obviously it's still plays, but 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.200 I remember it as if I were there when it 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.360 came out. But I was one year old when did 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:18.360 it come Okay, I just remember like the SMaL parody. Yeah, 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:20.160 you know, like I feel like I was more aware 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.920 of the parodies than the thing itself. Well, there's this 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.760 weird thing where I feel like if someone plays the 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:29.360 like bells, you know, of the like like ding ding ding, 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:31.600 you know, like any kind of like Christmas e bell 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.600 or a whistle or a handclap, like I will listen 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.240 to the song, you know, I'll give it a heavily 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:41.160 synthesized yes. And I actually think that musically this song 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.400 isn't that bad, right, just the lyrics are. It's the 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.800 lyrics that are terrible. And then okay, So the thing 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.880 going back to the super super team thing. I think 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.880 the super team thing works in sports because you're tuning 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.520 into an event and you're like watching to see how 0:16:55.600 --> 0:17:00.240 something plays out in real time. Yeah. So now I 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.240 feel like instead of these songs, we don't really get 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.360 charity songs anymore, but like we have the big like 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.720 like fifty people fifty big stars singing at the Grammys 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.280 or whatever, which is like you don't really want to 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.880 ever like go back and watch that again or listen 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:19.000 to the counting. Yeah, the Lucky lou aspect of it 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.120 and that kind of stuff. I kind of I think 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.359 it's usually kind of boringly done on the Grammys. I 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.120 mean there's some exceptions, and sometimes the combinations are so 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.480 WHA could do that you kind of just have to 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.320 watch with your jaw open. But one of my earliest 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.840 writing jobs was was recappying The Voice for the A 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:39.000 V Club, Like when The Voice was new and I 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.439 had been doing American Idol stuff before then, and I 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.639 was like, well, this show is fun because they have 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:48.719 the battle rounds where people are just sing fighting, and 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:51.159 that's always kind of entertaining, like when people are just 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.480 in real time trying to one up each the love 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.400 the battle rounds. Yeah, and that's when people like about 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.680 charity singles. I think you're right, is there's an element 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:00.600 of like all these stars trying to be leading, who 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.919 will be the memorable person? Yeah, but I think it's not. 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.080 It's not it's no, it's no VH one Diva. Yeah, 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:10.199 that's true. Just because you mentioned the Voice, I have 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.280 to say like in the early days of The Voice, 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.000 I was like, I'll give this show a shot, and 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:17.000 I really liked the Battle rounds, but that that show 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:21.359 is such a pale, like awful substitute for American Idol. 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.000 Guys have strong Idol strong. This is like when we 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.359 talked about astrology the other week and I just dropped 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.959 out for ten minutes. You you are not into I 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:31.960 was like, I don't think this has ever happened before 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.400 that I've stopped talking for that long on the podcast. 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:36.359 I mean it feels of a piece with them. I 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.800 mean American also has that creepy thing of like trying 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.400 to recapture something from the phase like American. They all 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:46.760 exist in the same like Paul Verhoven universe. Yeah, yeah, 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.480 that informed us all as people. Bob Geldoff, by the way, 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.680 in said that he was responsible for two of the 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.240 worst songs in history, and one was do they Know 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.119 It's Christmas? And the other as we Are the World? 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:04.160 Like admitted it. What about one day taking no responsibility 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.040 the world is incredible. I was more aware of we 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:08.960 Are the World when I was a kid than then. 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.400 Which came first? That's a question. I was just gonna say, 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.800 do they know It's Christmas? I think came first. Here's 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.320 what I was saying to you guys also in an email, 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.480 is that I feel like I knew for some reason 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.480 that the race to get a number one for Christmas. 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.960 It's a huge thing in England, much more so than 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.920 in America, I think, and it's always like it's sort 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:30.959 of like a eurovisiony thing where it's like, you know, 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.280 the favorite and like somebody will do and it's always 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:37.879 people doing like sentimental covers of songs. I feel like 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:41.120 Adele has just like one with if she song out 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:44.600 it wins for her and Sam Smith have just been owning. 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.320 I feel like Ed Sheeron like really wanted it one 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.720 year and got it. But then there was a year 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.440 when everybody just got totally one up by a song 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:56.000 from a tea commercial that has really cuddley polar Bear. 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.440 It was awesome. It was like everybody was like no, no, 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:01.879 the by like the no name band from like the 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.520 cuddly polar Bear t commercial that all of England has 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:06.600 fallen in love with. It captured their heart like the 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:11.240 crazy Frog. The funny thing about the most recent do 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.000 they know it's Christmas? Did you see? I guess it 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.080 would be like on a four year yeah, um, is 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:19.520 that it feels even more British than the first one 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.800 for some reason. Uh, A lot of the people who 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:24.520 pop up on it, you kind of do this weird 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:26.320 thing of like who's that person because you know them 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.080 from like exactly one song, like whatever the one song 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.600 was that came to the States, so like the guy 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:36.639 from POMPEII, the Bastilda, so I can't even yeah, and 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:38.760 he has a really distinctive voice, but I've never heard 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.080 another song by them ever again. And so he pops 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:44.240 up on this song and I'm like, who's that? You 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:49.720 call him? Who's who? Of Who's It's yes exactly because 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:55.359 that's great. You like like we do talking about minor 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:58.320 British pop stars that other people might not care about, 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:04.960 but you obsessively follow the details, like j j Dating 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:09.320 Channing Tatum is talking about how she looks just like 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:14.600 Jenna Dowan. Yea, um, yeah, yeah it is um and 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.440 she like went on a Chinese The Voice and one 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:26.400 she was she was on either X Factor and yeah 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:29.399 it was amazing. If you have been riveted by this 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:33.680 discussion of Jesse Jay's cast, you will love Who Weekly, 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:37.320 a podcast from Lindsay Webber and Bobby Finger that we 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:40.160 all love, love it so much. I can actually say 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:43.040 that it's better for celebrities where you just keep seeing 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:45.919 their name. So I put celebrities in air quotes but 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:48.720 you can't see it. But they're all of these people 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:51.920 where you just keep seeing them mentioned and you know 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:54.840 that you'll never find out who they are. And then 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:58.000 just having someone else acknowledged that there are who, You're like, yeah, 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:01.159 I don't have to know who they are there I 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:03.240 love I think it's a great pairing. If you're a 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:06.760 big blind items reader, crazy Days and tights reader, like 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:09.960 to have both of those um info streams going in 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:13.120 tandem because then you kind of can understand who half 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:15.120 the people are that he talks about that Otherwise you'd 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:17.879 be like, who is Matthew? Like me, are deeply invested 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:22.160 in the careers of stars like Bella Thorne. The Hudgens. 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:26.960 The Christmas switch is Vanessa Hudgens and who. Well, this 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:30.040 would be a great Who Weekly debate because she's not 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:31.919 a who, but she's sort of. She just did a 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:35.879 Netflix Christmas movie, which will bring us back to her 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:39.639 main topic again, um about a princess. It's like she 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:43.000 and a princess, which places or something within the Christmas 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:47.840