Page 7 - Episode234: Friends With Christmas

Episode Date: December 29, 2017

In this special holiday episode of Page 7, Marcus, Jackie and Molly learn a lot about their Christmas favorites 'I Think You Might Like It', and Christmas Shoes. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Page 7 ad-free.Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Are you all caught up, Jackie? On Riverdale? Oh, my all caught up. What am I a fucking bitch? Of course I'm caught up on Riverdale. It's the only thing I wanted for cock-suckin' Christmas. Welcome to page seven. That's what's happening here, dude. That's what's happening.

I'm all excited. How you guys doing? Are you guys in the fucking Christmas spirit? I'm wearing a damn Santa hat. Can you see you? see me? Why are you wearing a Santa hat? Well, I said to Marcus, the justification to myself is that I work in an elementary school and it makes the children very happy but I'm not even in the elementary school today

and I'm still wearing it. So I discovered like two years ago that if you just wear a Santa hat from like December 15th through December 31st, it brings a lot of cheer to you and sometimes to others. The people just walk by and go, hey! Yeah, they're like oh, it's the holidays. I'm sure

that it also really annoys some people, but But, you know, those people can cope. Yeah, they can cope. I think I was excited because I wanted to dress up Wendy as a little elf. And apparently that's giving in to the system or something. I'm not allowed to dress her up like a fucking elf. Wendy being your brother's dog. Yes, yeah, yeah.

I'm sorry. I talk about her. Like, she's a member of my family. Who says that you can't, your brother? Yes. I'm not allowed to. It's giving into some sort of patriarchy. I was like, but maybe when he is an elf or Mrs. Claus.

And he's like, she's not a servant to anyone. Okay. Wow. I would have expected differently from Henry. I would have expected like a closet full of little different options for her. Oh, she's got like a Wonder Woman costume. She's very pro-women costumes. I see.

Wait, but how are elves anything but how are elves bad? They're just elves. I guess they are slaves. to a man. They're workers. They are unpaid workers. Well, we don't know if they're unpaid, but they are workers, and they must unionize. Yes, they definitely must unionize.

I mean, what about, what if you, what if you gender? So I thought costumes maybe were the issue, but if costumes aren't the issue, what about, could she be a reindeer? Yes, she could be a reindeer. I'm trying to, I also got her a little squirrel costume. I went a little nuts for doggy clothing presents. year, so we'll see how it goes. I think it's going to be great, guys.

Are you guys done Christmas shopping? No. I was just doing it right today before I came. I'm doing it right after we were recording. What? Well, I mean, you can't buy it until 2018, guys, but there is a Beyonce Christmas tree topper coming out in January. In January?

Why did they wait until January? I saw this, and I was like, it is 100. And I was like, I don't have the money for this, but my credit card does. And I was going to immediately buy it. And it doesn't come out until January. Who's buying a Christmas tree fucking top earn January? Well, Jackie, you know, I was shopping today. I was resentfully thinking of you because, hey, you should be happily thinking about me while you fucking shop.

No, the reason I was resentful was because of your thing where you're like, I keep a little notebook and I make a list of what all my friends and family mentioned that they want. throughout the year. And I was resentful because it's such a great idea. And whenever you say that, I'm like, I'll do that. And of course, I'd never do. And then every year I buy my family the same things. And it's, and I feel like a terrible family member. And so I was feeling resentful to you. But, but you can write down that I want that Beyonce Christmas tree to app for 2018. I will put it. I will put it in my notes. Marcus, anything that you want? You know what? I already got everything I needs. Would you rather the Serena Williams Christmas tree topper?

Do you have an Olivia Newton-John Christmas tree-topper? Uh-oh, because I think you might like it! You know what? I think I have something Marcus might like for Christmas. It is an Olivia Newton-John Christmas tree-tapper, but she would have to be old and weird like she is in. I think you might like it. Not young Olivia Newt.

She's going to have to fucking boot scooting boogie. That's what she's going to have to. fucking do. She's in a permanent, the pose of her on the top of the tree is with her hands on her hips in a permanent boot scoop. And there's no

John Travolta tree topper in this scenario. We might have some new listeners here that have not been listening to us for a long time. May not have been listening to us for years and years and years and years like some of you have.

And besides just Christmas shoes, which is a wonderful tradition, we discovered about three or four years ago a video that a little Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, who were apparently very close friends since the days of Greece. I love that, actually. That makes me very happy. They made a music video together called I Think You Might Like It.

They sang it. They produced it, obviously all on their own. I just realized that for people who haven't been listening for, you know, a number of years, they might wonder why every once in a while will say, I think you might like it and then I'll scream. You know what? I hadn't thought about that, but yeah, that could be a mystery. Why that phrase is like now our world's funniest phrase. I think you might like it. So every year we listen to at least a little bit of think you might like it altogether. I mean, or the whole thing.

Or the whole thing, either one. And recount the video to you, the listener. Yeah, we do a little bit of like narration. So, Jackie, are you ready over on your end? Oh, I was born ready. All right, we're going to hit play on go, all right? Three, two, one, go. That was scary.

Well, there's an advertisement. So, God damn it. Okay, well, let's start over, because mine had an advertisement, too. Okay, well, I have to wait because it won't even let me skip the fucking advertisement. I know, I know. Oh, Christmas. All right. Are we back to zero?

We're good? Three, two, one, go. There they are. Right in the beginning. The video starts with the two of them doing a side-to-side boot to scoot on what I think is a helicopter landing. How do I forget every year that he just has that sod underneath his chin? Yeah, he's got a rough chin. He only has facial.

hair at the bottom of his chin. And we're meant to believe he's flying this plane, but it looks like, the shot actually looks like he's driving like an RV camper. And the fact that she's driving so slowly. It's Olivia Newton, John, not pressing the gas, just letting the car idle down the street. She's waving at nobody. I love this. Now, there's a lot of extras in this video.

Uh-huh. Oh my God. Their love knows no boundaries. This is good. It takes place at a bank? No, it takes place in a shitty regional airport. A regional airport. They meet to, they see each other at the regional airport.

They slowly, slightly jog. They slightly, slowly jog towards each other for a good, I don't know, 10 seconds. A long time. And then they dance together. Isn't it nice? Now they're driving together. They're so excited to see each other for fucking Christmas. Nobody feels that way about anybody, you know?

No one's this happy on Christmas. I'm not convinced this is a regional airport this year. I think that it's a DMV or a bank. The way the parking lot is, it definitely looks like a DMV. It definitely does. But if you see, because it goes to pretty much just a bare room with cinder blocks and chairs. Uh-huh, yeah. With people coming in and meeting people and all that.

Who inexplicably brought their presents to the airport. It's not how Christmas works. I wonder how Kelly Preston feels about this video now that they are separated. There's military, active military people. One doesn't have any family, and then he falls in love with the police officer. The police officer over there says, hey, come on, your soldier. Give me a hug. Yay.

I don't have the family. Might as well. Boots scooting. And then they put on their holiday sweaters and watch it's a wonderful life. And then everybody's dancing. I hate the old people dancing. Yeah, the old people are too charming. I hate them.

It's just a montage of all the people in the bank airport dancing. In the worst way possible. Do you guys notice that? I haven't noticed that before, but they show it's a wonderful life again. But it's not Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta. it's one of the old couples from the airport but they're in the same couch they're on the same couch in the same room they're just at the other end of the couch that's all that's just you're seeing a different perspective of the living room of course now it is officially our Christmas

episode because we've watched i think you might like it i think you might like it i got a little dance for you i think you might like it i think you might like it i feel like it's great what i love about watching it every year is not only is it Christmas tradition, but I feel like I learn a little something new every year, and I forget things, too. There's a lot to unpack. There's a lot. His wallet chain? Oh, the wallet chain

is desired. How you feel about the goatee, Jackie, is how I feel about the wallet chain. Every year, I'm like, really? What a choice. What a choice. And also, Lord, forgive me, I'm always a little bit depressed.

Thank you for asking for his or her forgiveness, by the way. I'm always a little bit depressed by how kind of downtrodden Olivia Newton-John looks. She does not. She looks like she's very happy for the quote-unquote work. Yeah. Yeah. The collaboration.

Yes. It's not work. If that's work. God, because like if they couldn't have gotten paid to do that, right? No. Oh, no. It was a vanity project. But she got exposed.

Exposure. Exposure. But she, you know, and again, I feel terrible criticizing, like, her aging process. It just, it's not, she just looks like she just walked out of a mall and into this video shoot. Like, it just looks a little rough, you know. Grandma Olivia. Yeah, exactly. And I, and I, you know, people age and the fact that, you know, that's fine.

It's not the aging. It's more the general, it's like the aging combined with the other kind of. pathetic factor that just makes me feel a little bit, a little bit uncomfortable. At the same time, her stomach is probably flatter than mine. I will throw it out there. Her body looks great. Her body looks fantastic. And you know what?

Her face looks fine, too. It's like, she looks good. Yeah, and she still performs quite a bit. At least I remember last year we checked her website and she was doing fine. Yeah. Yeah. And so I don't know what it is that makes me so uncomfortable. I just get, I just get vibes that not ever.

everything is going well for her. Yeah, I kind of get those vibes too. Okay, well, I have to see here. Oh, no, that's John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John because Olivia Newton-John did release a Christmas album about three years ago or so. It's called Friends with Christmas. Wait a second. Friends, no, sorry.

Friends for Christmas. Friends with Christmas makes absolutely no sense. I thought it was a play on Friends with Benefits, and I was like, Well, go, good. Friends with Christmas Wink She's my friend with Christmas That is

I feel like people actually do have their friend With Christmas Which is the person that you see when you go home And you hook up with them When you're home for Christmas And only then and no other time I had a couple of those, yeah Friends with Christmas

I mean that's actually the best Of all time Man I gotta go get a friend Fucking with Christmas bitch I'm gonna put some sparkle on it and someone start calling it, having sex, is putting some sparkle on it. Well, I think, I'm pretty sure John Travolta,

because I'm trying to figure out who actually wrote. I think you might like it. Good question. I think it was John Travolta, because the first two lines are, here comes my hometown, so good to get my wheels down. Because John Travolta is a well-known pilot. And in the video, he's flying into this regional airport.

Slash driving an RV into the regional airport, depending on which camera. camera we are using. Doesn't he like to get beages when he's flying? He does. He's very, well, that was the whole thing is John Travolta's, I think his first gay sex rumor scandal was that one of his former co-pilots came out and said like, hey, we used to love blowing each other on the plane, especially while flying.

Maybe someone should want to know about this, but then it got swept under the rug. Airhead. Yes. Thank you. I also, I don't think we've ever, holy shit, we've never, I don't think we've ever actually read the lyrics to the chorus of I think you might like it. We haven't. Listen to this. I've got a little plan for you.

I think you might like it. Let's do the little dance we do. I think you might like it. And then we're going to hide away making love all night. And we can cry tomorrow watching, it's a way. wonderful life. Oh, think you might like it.

Thank you might like it. They're making love? I mean, wow, that really changes. Yeah. And then it switches. Then it switches. I don't know what it switches to.

And the next verse is, oh, baby, I can't lie. So many going to call by. You're coming home tonight. Your mama sing sweetly. do you hear what I hear but in a little while she'll be swinging from the chandelier

so I think he's talking to his kid and being like I'm gonna fuck your mom real good later on Christmas Wow that really changes everything or right like he's either talking about fucking the kid's mom or he's talking to his partner

and he's talking about her mom and how her mom's about to get so wasted she's going to be swinging in on a chandelier. I think that's more likely. That's much more likely. But that's still really socially inappropriate. Yeah, it's still real weird.

And the next one's no stopping Aunt Louise tickling the ivories. I'm coming home tonight. Whole town going to be there. It'll be a squeeze. You'd better put your sleigh in a holding pattern, Santa please. Oh, God.

It's just, number one, way too many words. No wonder we'd never fucking listen to it. I just want to hear I think you might like it Because now this is a fucking creepest song Well I don't know if it's creepest It sounds like everybody's down for what's going on It's consensual creepism Possibly, but at least you're saying

I think you might like it We're gonna see If you don't like it, tell me Yeah I think it's what it sounds like it's what it's like That's what it should be called If you don't like it Tell me make that the sequel song

that is the Christmas 2017 hit we need I think that's a great Christmas song for 2017 if you don't like it tell me featuring Olivia Newton Dron and then they really hit it home again at the end

then we're going to hide away and making love all night and we can cry tomorrow watching It's a Wonderful Life. See, that's what I can't get past. I don't want to bang all night and then cry all day the next day. Like, any time I've done that, I'm not having a good time. I especially don't want to be promised that we're going to be playing all night and then cry the next day. It's like, yeah, we're going to bang to a night, but tomorrow we're going to solve.

Well, though, maybe that's a new Christmas tradition that I'm missing out on, you know? Maybe it's my fault. I'm a real, it's a wonderful life person, and I feel like you don't cry through the whole thing. I don't cry at all. If you do cry, maybe there's a minute or two where you cry from sadness. Maybe you cry from happiness.

Yeah. But like... He's making it sound like it's Schindler's list. Yeah, exactly. We'll fuck all night and then we'll watch Titanic and Shunler's lips. If you don't like it, then tell me. And like, I'm just surprised that he and Olivia Newton-John are going to...

I mean, oftentimes the music videos and the lyrics aren't... Yeah, it's not a storytelling type thing. Yeah, but I guess I'm just... I'm deeply disturbed by the implication that they would fuck. Well, they seem like they're together. They're hanging out, you know? In the video? In the video, yeah.

Do you think they're, like, together together? I imagine they're just, like, dear sleepover friends. because they definitely wear matching jammies. So were they singing it together to their separate partners? I've imagined it again. Like they're in my head. They're like hometown friends. They're like childhood best friends who see each other at Christmas in a friendly way.

And that's it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They see each other at Christmas in a friendly way. But maybe not. Maybe it is their Christmas friends. Maybe they are Christmas friends.

Maybe they're friends with Christmas. It could be friends with Christmas. That actually makes a lot more sense because fucking John Travolta's quote-unquote wife did not come along on the trip. Olivia Newton-John is driving around by herself in a vintage car full of presents. Yeah, that's true. For a song about family, everyone is alone. Yeah. Well, you know, a lot of times those family gatherings, you know, a lot of like the family friends come over and then bang it happens from there between the family friends.

Yeah. Friends with Christmas. Although actually that would make sense Because the way they so Uncomfortably gallop towards each other When they see each other It's kind of like that thing where it's like Are we still gonna bang this Christmas?

Like are we still gonna do this? Because like I'm in if you're in but Yeah It's weird things where you send text to each other Or like call and you don't really Say why you're getting together But you're both kind of hoping it's like I think we're still gonna bang

I think so maybe not Who knows? I haven't talked to her in a year So she might have been picked up a boyfriend in that year, but I hadn't picked up a girlfriend, so we're going to see. Yeah, and like, it's like, well, maybe she picked up a boyfriend, but, and then it's like, you know what? And even if she does have a, even if we're not going to fuck, I still want to hang out, you know? Yeah, yeah, that's the Friends with Christmas definition. It's like, you know, yeah, I'm excited to see you either way, but we might fuck. And if you don't, it's going to be okay.

That's fine, but there's a scenario here that I'm hoping for. Yeah, exactly. That's always the best part of Friends with Christmas is, when you see each other and it's the suss out part too, where you're like, so, what, you've been around town? What are you doing in your city, huh? It's just like figuring it out, but not straight up being like, are you fucking someone? Can we just have sex?

Yeah. And there's often a kind of an artful timeline to it too because you kind of, you got to get it in under the wire of like Christmas Eve. Yeah, and you also have to do it in that one night that you're both able to get away from. your families. Exactly. And when the bars are still open.

You got one shot at this. Yeah. But then also it's the best part, too, of whose house do you go to? You know? And it's like, do we bang in the car? Do we bang in the bathroom at this bar? Because, like, I can't take you back to my childhood bedroom. And I don't want to go back to your childhood bedroom.

I've gone back to my childhood bedroom before. Good for you. Yeah. I feel like... Friends with Christmas. It was a pretty great Christmas. I feel like best case scenario is childhood. basement.

What? Molly? Neffle. Dang. Didn't you hang out in basements with your friends when you were young? No. We had like storm sellers,

which are the creepiest places on the property easily. Well, we hung out. But I guess you had Midwest basements. Yeah. Like Midwest basements and like there's a couch down there. Yeah, like a finished basement.

Like that 70s show. Yeah. Or like at least a partial. finished basement. Like I didn't have a finished basement growing up, but it was like, we had an area with carpet and a couch and stuff and the TV. Not just a concrete room. Yes, not a concrete room. Not like the movie room. But, you know, I feel like that or your friends, you know, your friends with nice basements. Yeah. You know, you got to get a friends with Christmas who has like a nice basement. Optimal is probably, well, I don't know if the optimal is the, like say, you

go to a house party with your friends and there's like an extra room that you just kind of sneak off into and do your thing and then come out because it's kind of nice like after you fuck you're like ah, finally got that over with let's hang out. Now we can hang out.

I love the idea of Friends with Christmas. Why haven't we been talking about this? I love the phrase. Yeah, we definitely, I think we coined something that really needed to be coined here. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, Friends with Christmas is pretty great Because, yeah, afterwards, you just hang out, and you're like, all right, now everything's out of the way.

There's no sexual tension left here. Let's just hang out for the rest of the night and then see you next year. Yeah. Sometimes you're friends with Thanksgiving, but more often. Thanksgiving doesn't really, that doesn't have the same spirit to it. Because there's something about the Christmas spirit that kind of pushes you along a little bit. That's true. Like, if you were both, like, just happened to be there in, like, September, like, I don't think you'd bang.

There's no banging in September. No, there's no bang in September. But, like, Christmas time, you're like, no. That's the third track on the single we're making of, if you don't like it, tell me. There's no banging in September. That's why you're so excited for Christmas.

Isn't that? That's the whole sentiment of all the shitty Christmas movies. It's just like, you know, if it's not going to happen at Christmas, then one would it? Which is a great line to say to your friends with Christmas. You leave the significant other end. at home. That's always the scariest.

When you're like, well, they're going to find, it's like, ah, you know, you don't want to be cheating friends with Christmas. You know what I mean? No, no, no, cheating friends with Christmas is bad. That puts, that absolutely colors the entire thing. You feel guilty. They feel guilty. Because afterwards, you're going to have that

immediate post-sex guilt. Yeah, and it's going to be doubled again because of Christmas and morality. Oh, yeah, all that. But if it's about friendship, but not like close friendship, but like, yeah, we used to bang in high school. Yes, that's the key.

That's the key there. It always has to be we used to bang in high school. Or sometimes, if it's a very special Christmas, we always wanted to bang in high school. Yes, that's a very special Christmas. I had that special Christmas one year. It was very special. Yeah, yeah. It was pretty fucking awesome.

That's a very special Christmas. Man, I just got, I feel like I got work to do now. It's like I got six days to find a fucking friend with Christmas and I don't know how to do it. What do you do if you don't leave your town? What if you don't go home? Do you just find a random friend with Christmas? I see, I don't know, but I think you have to be in your hometown to have a friend with Christmas. And it can't just be a random hookup at a bar either.

Right. It's got a, I want to put in my Christmas spirit here, and I want to say the spirit of friends with Christmas can be wherever you bring. Molly, Neffle, you are a Christmas angel for all. If I may quote the ghost of Christmas present In a Muppa Christmas Carol, it's true wherever you find love It feels like Christmas. I think that it does have to be,

it can't be a bar hookup, I agree with you, but it's like if you're at a Christmas party with friends and you can, it's not the same as original friends with Christmas, but I think that, you know, a Christmas party, even if you're not in your hometown, I think a Christmas party can still, potentially, depending on the Christmas party,

can still provide that feeling, especially if you get to, like, do some, like, making eyes and, you know, some Christmas flirtation and all that. It's the best you can do. Yeah. But there's just something about the get-together and go of friends with Christmas, of just like, yep, we both live on different sides of the country. This ain't going to happen.

Right. We both know there's no expectations here. That's true. See you later. Yeah, that's true, the temporariness of it. So maybe you need to find somebody who's visiting town. I think that that's it or a co-worker kind of thing or it's like a co-worker's friend that they bring to the holiday party

where it's like oh this will never work but this one special night Yes I wouldn't I wouldn't recommend co-worker I think that's going to ruin the whole thing because then you're going to have to see him again You're right yeah It's got to be temporary It's got to be like a visiting cousin or something Yeah and it's got to be at a Christmas themed thing

Yeah there has to be There has to be Christmas spirit in the air Yes You know what I do I go to a prison on Christmas Eve. I find one and I say this one. It's like, this will never happen, but let's get into that. What is it called?

The Funky Booth. The conjugal visit trailer. What is it? The conjugal visit trailer. Yes, the conjugal visit trailer. Pump it out and be like, bye, sorry. Don't give him your real name. That's what I'm going to do.

And I'll give Christmas spirit to a prisoner. Yeah, I think that's a different phenomenon. on the Friends of Christmas. I think that's sex with prisoners on Christmas, which is fine. That's not the same thing. You're right. You can't shoot for Friends with Christmas. It's not something for, like, it has to just

happen. It's the magical fucking Christmas. Yeah. Jackie's like, I've seen your book drive for Prisoners on Christmas and I'll raise you a sex drive for prisoners on Christmas. I'm just giving back to the community, y'all, and you can hold that against me if you want, but I understand.

I think you might like it If you don't like it Then tell me And that has to be the same cadence Of all these things of trying it And be like, oh no, I'm sorry I'm gonna move in for the kiss Oh no, no, no, she doesn't want it.

That's okay. That's okay, though. I understand. I was just trying. Thank you for telling me. Thank you for telling me I was wrong. I forgot that they did an entire album together that we still, that came out in 2012,

that we still haven't listened to any other song from. Yeah, we've probably been meeting to ever since then. Talking about this song for five years. We have been talking about it every year for five years. And you know what gets better every year? It gets better every year. This is the year. Especially now next year we need to put out the video of, if you don't like it,

then tell me. Yes, yes. And we can definitely find an abandoned bank to film it at for sure. and get some, you know, extras to look like sad family members. I think it's a great idea. No. Oh, actually, I think you might like it. It's the sequel to You're the one that I want.

That's what Olivia Newton-Johnson. That's not, no, you can't just slap it. It's a sequel. You can't do that. I think not. So that means that in the video, that's actually Sandy and what's his name? Danny Zucco. Danny Zucco. That's actually

Sandy and Danny Zucco coming back home from wherever it was they went after Greece to hang out again. That's Danny Zucco and Sandy fucking. That's their Christmas with friends. I refuse.

So your Christmas with friends is saying, yeah, let's bang and then cry all day on Christmas. That's not Christmas with friends. I mean, they definitely are Christmas with Christmas. with friends in the sense that they banged in high school if they're Danny and Sandy

but they're just not doing it right oh and the guy that wrote I think you might like it was the same guy that wrote you're the one that I want you're kidding nope oh so it's garbage on garbage Wikipedia page about this song but you're the one that I want is a great song

I like that song is it a great song Molly well maybe maybe it's wrapped up in some nostalgia I think it's got it has to be I mean I'd remember the last time but I really I just I dislike Greece I understand why people like it I get it just not for me yeah I I don't know I did my my students who were doing musicals one of the groups did Greece this summer and so I listened to a lot of Greece and I actually have come out on the way other

side I was like Greece is excellent I I stand by it except for the gender politics which are atrocious but the, you know, bad consent is, yeah, just skip Summer Levin. Well, they need it if you don't like it, then tell me. Yeah, you put you slap that in instead of Summer Loven. Are you sure she was really into it? I love, see, that's the only song I like. I like you're the one that I want. I like a lot of the Greek songs.

It's too long by like 45 minutes, the movie. But, you know, the greatest, I think there's like eight songs in Greece that are great, maybe seven, and then the rest are, it's like, no. But I think I stand by it. Listen to some of the other artists on this album. Kenny G. Barbara Streisand. Chick-Korea, Cliff Richard, Tony Bennett. Excuse me.

And James Taylor. On the, on their duet? on the entire album what is it called this Christmas yeah this Christmas oh thank God you said this Christmas because it was out of my head

for at least a minute and half my ass players and pride man I can't you know what it was funny last week because it's like oh it was the beginning of Christmas and now it's a weekend and if I don't get this song out of my head I don't know what I'm going to do

I don't know what I'm going to do Between that, I've also had Show me that smile again Oh, God Don't waste another minute on you crying I don't know why That's also been in my head

Because I couldn't get this Christmas out of my head And Ed Larson started singing that song To get a more annoying song stuck in my head and it worked Well, I'll do you one better Gideon is mad at me And when he should really be mad at you

because I got that song, Oh, my pride is all I have. My pride is what you have, baby girl, I'm what you had. Hell yeah. You'll be need of me, but two. I was singing it, and he was, I didn't expect Gideon to recognize this J-Lo, LL Cool J-Duet, and he was like, I know that song, and I was like, really? And because he's like, you know, not, you know, I just didn't expect him to be in his pop music from 2000.

Of course, he doesn't know. Everybody knows that song. I guess, but I was like, I didn't expect him to. to remember this song from 2003 as strongly as I do and so now he's been walking around the house all week singing, oh my pride is all I have. And he's

extremely upset about it. So you could try to cycle out the ones in your head and replay it. When you got that in my head on this show probably four shows ago. Damn, girl. It was a bit ago. It was a bit ago. Well, I'm checking out

the reviews for this Christmas. Not that this Christmas. Yes, Chris. Sorry. What I was saying? John Travolta duet's album. This Christmas. Three, I mean,

the Guardian and the Independent both gave it three stars out of five, but the Edmonton Journal was not a fan at all, giving it only two out of five stars saying, this Christmas is a train wreck would be an understatement. Whoa! That gets two stars? That should be one star. Yeah, right?

What do you have to do to get one star around? here. Depressingly devoid of sentiment, Newton John and Travolta's duets sound incredibly awkward. It's like, listen, if you want to make a Christmas sequel

to Greece, fucking 35 years later, or however many years it's been, longer than that, 40 years later, if you want to make a Christmas sequel to Greece, like, we're old now and it's Christmas and it's Greece,

do it, but like, don't just, like, there's, I don't want to watch this video for five years only to find out it's supposed to be a damn Greece song. They should make it clear.

One thing that I also just realized is that there's a full Wikipedia page for this Christmas. And, you know, I assume like, okay, it had to do been like the record company. Some interim put it together. But they included negative reviews in the Wikipedia entry, meaning that somebody wanted to create an objective Wikipedia entry about the John Travolta, Olivia Newton, John Christmas album. That means that there is at least one person on earth who is as invested in this as we are.

They have to exist. This video's too weird. There have to be more people than just us that are obsessed with this fucking video, right? Maybe. I wonder that every year, I'm like, every year when we watch it, I think, has anyone else seen this? You know how many views it has? Over 9 million.

Really? Yeah. It's pretty well known. People know about it. I think you might like it. I mean, she is dressed like. But have you ever heard anyone? talk about it outside of us.

Oh, no. Not even close. Have you heard anyone mentioned, I think you might like it without knowing that we have been listening to I think you might like it for five years now. Oh, you know, some of my favorite popular contemporary Christmas songs

are, I think you might like it. All I want for Christmas is you. Last Christmas. I think you might like it. It's up there on the list. Top three, definitely, without a doubt. I mean, she is dressed like Sandra D. She is dressed like sexy Sandra D at the end.

She's wearing all black. And he is, I guess, dressed like he should be wearing a white t-shirt if he's Danny Zuko. No, he wears a black t-shirt as he's Nanny Zuko. Maybe they, oh, fuck, this really fucks my relationship up. He was dressed kind of like Danny Zucco. He was wearing the black t-shirt and the jeans. T-shirt.

And if Danny Zuko, if anyone's going to be wearing a wallet chain as a grown man, it's Danny Zooko. You're right. You're very right. I wonder, though, does that mean, So they're friends with Christmas. So that means it didn't work out between them. So when they flew into the sky in the core.

An important aspect of Greece that I had forgotten until this summer. It is, which is also, I see, I'm just, that, I can't. I hate that. I just like, I dislike it. I dislike it as well. So they go into the sky, they come back down. They don't fuck, they go their separate ways, right? Is that what they are proposing?

I think they fuck. and then they go their separate ways. Danny Zuko gets rich enough to buy his own private plane, grows a shitty little chin patch, gets a wallet chain, and flies back, and it seems as if Olivia Newton-John Sandy is still in the same old hometown, which has become depressingly boring over the years. You know, the other thing is that something I, again,

I didn't remember until this summer rewatching Greece, John Travolta was once a fantastic dancer. Yeah. So why is the dancing in this? So awful. Yeah, so... Didn't want to outshine Olivia Newton-John, I think. Yeah.

Yeah. Man, some of these reviews against this song are rough. Oh, yeah, listen to this. You could sing the Christmas song in the key of dying roadkill and still feel warmed by the imagery of chestnuts roasting on an open fire. So to say, Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta's holiday album this Christmas is a train wreck would be an understatement. The album comes across as a staged cheese ball. of an opportunity to make a bit of coin from an older generation nostalgic

for some greased lightning. Yeah. They're just, they're a little too, they're a little too harsh. And I know that we're harsh. But here it is, upbeat tracks like, I think you might like it, are a bit palatable,

thanks to emotive instrumentation, but the rest is as scary as your weird uncle who insists on showing up to Christmas dinner pantsless. So I think you might like it is the best song. on the album. It seems like everyone is in agreement that I think you might like it. It is definitely at the top of this Christmas.

This Christmas. So, yeah, well, I mean, I'm not surprised that Danny and Sandy don't stay together because a lot of times you don't stay together with your high school sweetheart, so that's fine. But I am a little sad that they are both in their 60s and single and thirsty for each other. Although there's nothing wrong with that, Molly. You could have friends with Christmas any time. No, absolutely.

I absolutely don't want to shame people who are single in their 60s. In fact, I think people who are single in their 60s are probably having way more fun than people who are single in their, you know, in 20s or 30s decades. Oh, yeah, I hear about what happens in the old age homes. A lot of P in the V, a lot of V on the V, a lot of P on the P. You do it, man. Well, in 60s is the new freaking 40s.

People in their 60s are doing great. They're in their prime. So I do not mean to shame people based on their age. It's, again, it's the specificity of how sad these two people are. Yes, these two people are very sad. Yeah, the music video was directed by Rav Hawley and Corey Molina. Ooh, I'm going to check out and see what these people have done besides this. There's probably some great friends with Christmas stories of people meeting this exact same way in their 60s,

maybe having been out of a marriage and then going home for Christmas and then fucking reconnecting with their high school sweethearts. I'll bet there's all sorts of cute stories like that. Rav Holly does not have an online presence besides his model mayhem page. What's that? Model mayhem is a website that people can go to that women can find photographers to do like sexy glamor shots of them. My landlord has a model mayhem page.

Yeah, Tony. Yeah, yeah, Tony's got a model ram. Yeah, it's very weird. He actually, they wrote someone at, the Daily News wrote a story about Tommy's model mayhem page. It was like a bit of a scandal because he was shooting girls in our gross, gross apartment building. So it's just like men being like, I promise I'm a photographer.

Yeah. And then, but they show like a whole like profile and everything like they show their portfolio and all that stuff. And it's, you know, it's a tip for tat type situation. You know how you can like request that you have a female like kind of? gynecologist, you should be able to request that you have a female photographer. Oh, yeah. I mean, they're getting a hold of, the models are getting a hold of the guys.

Yeah, I just, that specific, that specific, um, prototype of the male photographer, you know, there's like a whole, maybe it's a whole Terry Richardson thing. Well, Corey Molina hasn't done anything else as well. These people are almost ghosts on, just on the internet. Yeah, the, what is it? Corey Molina only has like CCM films. All it says is creativity with no limits, constantly challenging ourselves to deliver more to our clients.

We've made one film. It's called I Think You Might Like It. It's a music video. Also, I think you might like it. Don't worry, we can bang all night. We can cry all day tomorrow, baby. They do have a bunch of other videos of the examples of their work,

like their portfolio. think you might like it is not included. Not in it. Not in it. Really? Do not think they are proud of I think you might like it. You know what? That's sad for them. Because it's their shining achievement and they really need to understand that.

Yeah. Well, six million of those nine million views came in the first week of I think you might like it. Because a lot of people cover it like Rolling Stone covered it, entertainment, today, Slate, Huffington Post. Huffington Post. are the only ones that gave it a positive view. Really?

Yeah, they said there's a thumbs in the belt, loops, line dancing, and a sole patch on a pocket chain wearing John Travolta and a running scene straight out of 10, all in all, fun for the whole family. Really? What in God's name? It happened. I don't know.

I really don't know. You know, I'm good for them. I mean, I really am just stunned to think about the amount of people that must have worked on this project. Stumbed to think that people had to watch it and review it. It seemed like there were about five or six people who worked on this. Yeah. Yeah.

And then there's the extra. If it's Danny and Sandy, they should have at least had the extras dress like washed up greasers, you know? No, they were just, it was just regular folks. It was just people from their hometown. I think that's what they wanted to do. They wanted to express that it was people from that town

that just happened to be there at the airport it and didn't necessarily have anything to do with Greece. Just Danny Zuko and Sandy, they were from Greece. Everyone else is just regular common, run-of-the-mill, salt of the earth. I'm having a very hard time with this new piece of information. And that's why they were all dancing, because it's Greece. But then I wonder if it's in a separate, so is that, so Greece was released in the what, the 70s? Yeah.

It was set in the 50s. It was set in the 50s. So, technically. That's actually, holy shit, that's totally the key here because that would mean that Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, Sandy and Danny Zuko, are in their 70s in this. Or? Or it's 20 years ago. Yes, right? No, but there is an anachronism in there because the soldiers are dressed in modern combat fatigues.

Yeah, they probably didn't think of that. Yeah, there wasn't a continuity editor in this video. Scripts supervisor, let that one pass. Man, we got letters we got to write. We got to talk to somebody about this. If you're going to throw down that these are the characters from Greece, you better fucking back it up, brother. Back it up.

That is, would you rather have it be that there are 70 or that it's 20 years ago? I think I'd rather 20 years of the best. Well, I will say besides the fatigues, Sandy, remember the old car that Olivia Newton-John is driving? that's a grease type car It is but not like it's not a car from like 1998 It's not a car from 1998 But it's not a modern car

It's not a modern car that's true Yeah and we never actually get to see the plane Slash RV that John Travolta is flying or driving So we don't know if that's a modern plane Yeah that just looks like a airplane Wait a second I actually think they might show it in the opening shot Oh they do Yeah I think it's that outside the

the out. God damn it, got to play it 15 seconds until it comes up. So yes, 9,122,463. We're doing our part

to just make that number go up. Just 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2. I wonder if, with all of the controversy that's happening with John Travolta, if we approached them and pitched, if you don't like it,

then tell me, would they, like, if we paid for the video, what if, do you think that we can, Get them to do it? I mean, it's topical, you know? It is topical.

I think a lot of people would enjoy it. I think that they might feel like John Vulture is not the man to do it. Probably not, but what if the chorus was just, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm trying to learn. Yeah, it could be like a remix of all of the different apologies people put out.

You know, I've got a lot of demons. I'm trying to work through. By the way, I'm gay. Yeah, right. Now is the time that I will tell you that I'm gay. I came out of age in a different time. Oh, my God. Why don't they have just a little screen at the beginning of,

I think you might like it, that says, by the way, this video takes place 20 years in the past. 20 years ago. 20 years ago. Or a little screen right at the beginning. that says, FYI, John Travolton,

Olivia Newton John are 70. What if Danny Zucko and Sandy was still here? Well, maybe you'd see and I think you might like it.

I think you might like it. Oh, man. Well, all right. Well, shit. I mean, do we want to do blind items? It kind of seems

like blind items might Sully this wonderful Christmas episode that we've had. Yeah, this can be our Christmas special. I feel too mirthful. Yeah, I feel too mirthful as well. It feels like this just isn't, this just isn't the right time for gossip. You know what would take down the mirth a little bit, though?

I want to buy these shoes, but my mama, please. I've been defending this song on your behalf, Jackie. I don't know what monster you've turned me into. I have to say, I wish. really appreciate everyone that has been singing the song and sending me clips of them singing the song because it is all great. Everyone hates the song, but you know the fucking song.

Sing along with the song. Embrace the song. And then you hit that creepy kids choir at the end. I forgot about the kids choir. How can you? What do you don't listen to the whole thing, Molly? I only listen to Christmas Shoes with you on this show. By the way, Christmas shoes is beaten.

I think you might like it in the view count category by about 200,000. We can make up for that difference. They both got over 9 million views, but yeah, Christmas shoes about 200,000 ahead. What year was Christmas shoes made? Is it a modern classic? 2007, it looks like. Interesting. Yes.

It is a modern classic contemporary Christmas favorite. And this isn't even the one that we know. it's not even the it's not the official version the actual description on the YouTube page says this is a film project from film school it is about a boy

buying his mother shoes at Christmas So is it based on the Roblo Christmas Shoes movie though I think the Roblo Christmas Shoes movie came after this video Have you not seen that movie Jackie

You know I haven't Wow. I'm nuts. Yeah. I just mean, you know, Jackie's seeing a lot of movies about Christmas. I have seen a lot of movies about Christmas. And for some reason, you know what? Maybe I should.

Maybe that's what I'm going to do today. That's what I, maybe that's what I'm going to report back. Don't worry. I'll let you guys know how I like it. Because I think I'm going to like it. Or it's going to be really fucking shitty and sad, which is most likely what it's going to be. Yeah, it's all going to be. It had to hold two hours about the dying mother instead of just the several minutes of the son.

Oh, it was shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Good. Of course it was. I mean, it's Rob Lowe. Is it about a dying mom? It is based on a novel? There's a Christmas shoes novel? Wait.

Christmas shoes. So there's a way saying. So which I'm, let's find a Wikipedia page here for Christmas shoes. Well, there's, yeah, there's Christmas Shoes TV movie, Christmas Shoes song. Christmas Shoes, the ride. Now, that is something I would get on where you're like going through a grocery store and you're laughing at all the pores. And then you have to, yeah, you go through the department store, you see all the shoes, the sparkly shoes. And then the ride ends by you like ascending into heaven.

All right. Well, Christmas Shoes came out in 2000. The video was made in 2007, but the song itself came out in 2000. Let's see here. There was a novel. Okay, and then 2002, the novelization of the song came out. And then later on that year, the Made for TV movie was released. So 2002, from 2000 and 2002, the Christmas Shoes crew was having a pretty fucking awesome time.

Also, have you seen the music? music video for Christmas shoes? The official one or the one that just comes up on YouTube? No, the official one, it is this, I guess it's my band called New Song, but it's just this man in a baseball hat and a red scarf sadly singing.

It is a weird, it's weird. Oh, it's weird. Is he singing the song, is this Christmas shoes, this particular Christmas shoes song? Like, is it, it's like, So is he an adult singing about when he was a child for his mother? He is referencing a bad kid, which you know the kid is bad,

because he throws a football at a car. It's like, oh, that kid's mom is dying. Whatever. I guess just throw money at poor people. That's what I've learned from Christmas shoes. Well, and we're going to leave that as our Christmas lesson for this year. Be sure to listen to our mini episode that's also coming out. Because speaking of Christmas, we got to do with the Christmas Riverdale Round.

Uh, yaws. Rarely is the Christmas episode also the mid-season finale and also the one that reveals the mystery that we've been talking about this entire time. Yeah. Oh, it was a humdinger of an episode. It was. I don't know what the fucking mid-season finale is, but I like it. And I also don't like it. I like it, and I don't like it.

And I think that, and if you don't like it, then tell me. Goodbye everyone. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Thank you for listening. Happy holidays. Hello.