The Cancelled Radio Guys

The Original Canceled Radio Guys: #GoldenBachelor Revelations, #AI, Voice Controversies, #Christmas Classic Tributes, and a Dash of Festive Cheer

Chris and Costello Season 5 Episode 2

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Get ready to jingle all the way with a sparkling episode that radiates festive cheer. We sat down with Gary Turner, the first ever "Golden Bachelor", who's all set to tie the knot with a lovely 60-year-old bachelorette. Gary spills the beans about his journey on the show, his background in radio and photography, and even addresses the elephant in the room - the possibility of shirtless scenes on the reality TV franchise. We joke about the idea of a "Golden Bachelorette", and one of us could be the lucky one!

We take a detour into the world of podcast advertisements, where comedy and controversy often go hand in hand. We reveal the ad that led to our abrupt Spotify cancellation and introduce our newly approved commercial. Does the AI announcer sound strikingly like Jack Nicholson? We'll let you be the judge! We also explore the intriguing world of AI voices, their emotional range, and how free AI services could impact voice quality.

As the snowflakes fall, we cozy up to chat about two Christmas classics: Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" and The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York". We pay tribute to The Pogues' lead singer, Shane McGowan, and share our thoughts on these iconic songs that have stood the test of time. We wrap up this yuletide ride with personal stories sprinkled with laughter and a few tears, a chat about the upcoming Christmas Green event, and a surprise visit from a holiday troll. So, pull up a chair, grab some eggnog, and join us for a hearty, holiday episode.

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Speaker 2

Hey, this is Chris. Yes, costello. Hello Chris, how are you? You doing zipper?

Speaker 1

chest Zip. Oh boy I'm doing. Mr Costello is still healing from his hot doople, super dooper. Boy Scout, not loop bypass. It's driving you nuts, isn't because it's a slow heal, isn't it right? It's a very slow heal.

Speaker 2

I'm finding out I'm allowed to drive now at least. Thank goodness that helps. So that's it's scary. I took about stir crazy, but anyway, hey, hey. Yeah, you know, sits down there, you'll get there. Then of course, comes the existential question is it worth it?

Speaker 1

but we'll see, well, this is the alternative. You think, baz, you'd be dead? Okay, I guess it would be worth it right. Well exactly, it's it worth it. Well, well I just got a bit of a heart attack. I don't want to bite, clod your own bypass or just let me just go hit the deck.

Speaker 2

Yeah, that's it. Have time with that, you know. Well, I mean, although it has crossed my mind a couple of times, maybe I am dead and this is arbitrary- you gotta be long enough to even hit the age of the golden bachelor.

Speaker 1

Oh, finally, all came doing in. He selected the one that he wants. I mean, he's doing the round, so we're lucky enough. I don't know if you're familiar with it, but I don't watch. I don't watch. I never watched the bachelorette and the bachelor in paradise and the bachelor in the toilet and all that stuff. I mean it was pretty much a dead franchise. And they do this golden bachelorette. It just resurrected the whole thing.

Speaker 2

It has, hasn't it? I've only watched the commercials for it. Like you, I could not watch it. I mean, I don't know he's always.

Speaker 1

He's always freaking blubbered. I can't even do one of her breaker heart. Shut up. You're over 70. Act like you've been there. It's all these baby boomers who are just flooding the watch the same, because it's the big, most populist aging society and they want to see that you can have love after 60, or even love after 70 and death after 80. Can you? Yes, you can. I'm talking about keep this guy any longer. We do have the golden bachelor. His name is Gary Turner. He's here on the Chris and Costello show. Give him a big hand, gary. How you doing, man, I'm old? Well, yes, you are, but you know, I think I'd be honest. I think you got selected to be the very first golden bachelor because, at 72 years old, your dude's got a lot of hair.

Speaker 5

I can hear it just fine, no.

Speaker 1

I said hair, hair. So anyway. So you handed out the golden rose last night. Finally get this torture over with it.

Speaker 5

But what did you get? They gave me the golden diaper.

Speaker 1

Well, you know, we think that the frame of Leslie I think she looked pretty good. She had a good life. Actually she dated Prince at one point. Okay, you know so. And she's only 60. A lot younger than you, so maybe she was just too hip for you.

Speaker 5

I already had my hip replaced. God, I'm talking about that type of hip Geez. Yeah, I'm glad I didn't get to third base with any of those hacks they set me up with. I would have been caught.

Speaker 1

At least now you're getting married to Leslie, the one you picked. She's 70. She's short and she's ugly.

Speaker 5

What she's ugly? I don't see too well and didn't have my contacts in. I couldn't see her. She told me she was hot.

Speaker 1

Well, good luck with that. I mean, abc is still in a big wedding and it's gonna be broadcast live. They're gonna call it the golden wedding.

Speaker 5

Ah, I just shit my golden diaper.

Speaker 1

Jesus, gary Turner, everybody.

Speaker 5

That's it.

Speaker 1

Golden diaper bachelor, there he is, soon to be married. Give a big hand. Give a big hand.

Speaker 3

So the thing is that she was such a big hit.

Speaker 1

So here's the thing that they're thinking of doing this time doing a golden bachelorette. Of course there's gonna be another golden bachelor. You know what I did? You applied for it. Of course not. I applied you for it.

Speaker 2

Oh Okay, thank you Not anywhere close to that age, so you know.

Speaker 1

You don't have to be that age You're over 60.

Speaker 2

Not over 60. No so you're over 55. Keep going 39. And he's delusional with dementia? Yeah, much like somebody else I know who's was it 1737 years younger than share. Need I mention that?

Speaker 1

That's the thing is. I mean, just look at it. I seriously have put you in on it, so hopefully they'll contact you because I they wanted some background stuff. That's a put a great background Okay. So you've been single for a while. Yeah, really looking for anybody, you know. So you're prepared for that. You get when they do these shirt off scene you might have a gross you know bypass scar there. Hopefully heals a little bit better over the next few months.

Speaker 2

So it's not so bad right? Anyway, actually it's. It looks like a cat strap, cat scratch. It's nothing like the old days where you have the metalwork holding it all together. It was held together with with glue and duct tape, literally, and okay, well, you gotta get in shape.

Speaker 1

I mean because if they select you, the church gonna come off a couple of scenes there you have to do the obligatory beach scenes. You know your background used to be in radio, used to be on your own business as photographer. You know Vegas for a long time. Yeah, it's just a cool background, you know. So you know the way they vet you. They're gonna fingerprint you. They're gonna run you to the FBI system. They're gonna do a total background screening and talk to people. They're gonna talk to your kids. No, they're gonna talk to your sisters.

Speaker 2

They're gonna get the talk to my sisters. It's over.

Speaker 1

Well, I mean they, you know they, they, they bullshit and stuff. Okay, like this guy, gary, we just talked to he. He said that he was married to his wife for 43 years and she passed like six years ago. And he said now he's ready to get back out there, maybe meet someone. Now it's six years, maybe been long enough, he's ready to give it a try again. Well, this bullcrap. A month after his wife died he called a woman up and started going out with her. He asked you to move in with him and she did. And when she did, she then he started hitting her up, for he wanted money. So he started hitting up for half the stuff. Okay, half your rent is this, half utilities, your half is this. We go out and eat. You pay your half and pay my half. Everything is 50 50. He's retired and you need help with money. You know. So he did and he did two other women at. In about a year and a half later he kicked her out, they two other people after that.

Speaker 2

So it's, it's like bullshit, like any reality show right, so you get money for doing this. I mean, I assume he got off he did it? Come on, yeah, I mean I just wonder if he, if he won a substantial amount or he's just going to get residual.

Speaker 1

They said he's a retired restaurant tourer. But he's. He owns a little fast food hamburger place in in in backwards, indiana, and he sold it in 1985. Okay, so he's. So he's shit, he's not a retired restaurant. That's all he did and say. Ever since then he's been installing hot tubs, doing some plumbing work and all that type of stuff. So once again, they're not going to find anybody's perfect for it, so they embellish stuff, you know. So they're going to have to do that a lot with you. They may even go hey, lose the English accent, bud, you want to be the next golden bachelor. Talk American, mark and she, she, there you go. That's it. I'm looking, I'm looking to one of those, one of those bachelors eyes. I think they lined him up with a bunch of hags behind us. I mean, pretend you're looking into your eyes and you're gonna, you're gonna sound American and say something sweet to sweep them off their feet.

Speaker 1

Go ahead, give it a take. Take one. Go ahead, give it a shot.

Speaker 2

Okay, so you used to date Prince huh.

Speaker 3

Was he good in bed?

Speaker 1

Why do you want to know? Are you gay or something?

Speaker 2

Well, you know about that. I heard you guys talking about one of his ladies who had dated Prince. Was that true?

Speaker 1

Yeah, the one he came down to. Okay, right, yes, and so he had Leslie, who was like 12 years younger than he was In 1972, she's 60. She's an attractive woman. You can tell when she was younger she was really attractive. When she was much younger, she dated Prince. She's from Minneapolis and that's where she read into him and they dated. That's right, that would make sense.

Speaker 4

She had a pretty exciting life.

Speaker 1

She's really too fast and too hip for him, so he dated Teresa the wallflower, who's short and 70 years old and ugly.

Speaker 2

God hit with the ugly stick.

Speaker 1

Now you know what they're happy.

Speaker 2

In front of the cameras.

Speaker 1

right, okay, they got down on one knee and proposed. She said yes, and in January they're going to have the golden bachelor wedding. Maybe it was really funny. They got down on one knee and they had to have two guys help get him up. So and then these credit, these kind of stuff, these crap.

Speaker 2

Oh, my back's going, oh shit, oh no.

Speaker 1

So these reality shows people watching, they just, they just go. Oh, what a great story.

Speaker 4

And now the truth is coming in about the guy.

Speaker 1

But the point is is like you look at people over 60, 65, 70. And all these people have had lives, you know. So things have happened in their lives. So you're not going to find someone who's got the perfect background, you know.

Speaker 2

I mean, some of us had lives before even coming to America, you know. So oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1

Most of us were costumers. Most of us are born here, okay.

Speaker 2

That's true? Yeah, well, I was. I was working with a little band called the police and I got um, oh, I told you about this before uh, getting gingerbaker fired right Cause I worked for bands back then.

Speaker 1

Um, we sat. You sound like you work for the South Carolina band called the police. Okay, now even if you're able for the police, but here you work for the police About the pokes are the pow pow, the pow pow, yeah, the pow, pow.

Speaker 3

Yeah.

Speaker 2

Yeah Well, you know, uh well, we're working on the, we're working on, we're working on, but just get out.

Speaker 1

It's all about reality TV. They just said they. They said they they're going. Okay, we know all this about this guy, but we're going to leave that part out and talk about this part and just paint really romantic picture, because the woman he did pick she's kind of like the background that they wanted him to have. When her husband died, she really didn't yet date anybody since then. You know, that's what they want him to say. It was true of her, but not true of him.

Speaker 3

Okay, Well, that's all. I had a call from somebody.

Speaker 1

Uh, early this week we find he listens to our podcast and and I said great, I said let's see, Don't don't sound so surprised, all right, so we'll sing to it. It's just you have because it's such a big country, the big rules are actually run into somebody. He goes wait a minute, are you an X radio guy? You got a podcast? Well, yeah, he goes. I listen to your podcast, I go. Well, he goes, you know, and he volunteered, he goes. You know my favorite thing on your podcast. So it got me what he goes. I man, I love that. The little Jewish troll in the basement.

Speaker 2

Oh seriously, we're going to have to go find him. We're going to have to go find him, you guys haven't done that in a while.

Speaker 1

I said, well, you know what? The little Jewish troll doesn't live in the basement anymore. There's a reason for that. We I can be like reality TV and make it up like he's still there. He's not there so but we could change it a little bit because he's a little Jewish troll. We could change the show to the little Jewish troll who has moved back in with his ex-wife.

Speaker 2

That's not quite the same ring, but that's what happened. No, no, it doesn't. It doesn't, unless you can let somebody else live in your basement.

Speaker 1

How many Jewish trolls can you find, right? Well, I've worked for a few. Jewish people, yes, but trolls Jewish and trolls.

Speaker 2

And trolls.

Speaker 1

Well, that's true, that's true, that's true, that's kind of funny If people who did like the little Jewish troll who used to live in my basement it was kind of funny because we gave him a lot of crap about it, you know, because he was afraid to pop up, because my wife it's like whack-a-ball, she'd pack him back in my head.

Speaker 1

Get back down there, you know but he was very like 20, 25 plus years, and then him and his wife of course she dumped him or whatever, so and then he's just had some things going on in his life or since then, but you know.

Speaker 1

I guess, he talked to his ex-wife once when they never had kids together or anything, and I guess they were kind of friends but just like she's kind of lonely and he needs a place to go. And she said, well, you'll do his troll and she'll move back in with me. And I figured, well, you know, after about two weeks of that she may realize why I kicked his ass out in the first place and he's going. You know, it's all coming back to me now, get out. You know you can't say get out here at the Dawgs' Go nuts, no kidding, maybe. Well, we sorry, that's one of those buzzwords to get some going. Okay.

Speaker 2

Yeah, yeah, no, I'm sorry. Well, maybe we could. No, we could, we could call him.

Speaker 1

I mean, you know, I think we should, but that I mean I don't want to catch him by surprise, but I will text him if he wants to come on and give us maybe a little Jewish troll update for next week.

Speaker 2

That would be cool. Yeah, yeah, I get a text from him every once in a while. He wished me happy Thanksgiving. I said I would have answered you, but I was taking a nap, so what? The whole day, yep.

Speaker 3

Ever since, sir.

Speaker 1

Drie, that's, that's your new hobby Napping.

Advertising and Comedy in Podcasts

Speaker 2

No, done with that. That's what was happening before. I wanted to tell you about this because I hadn't done it. I hadn't done it. I think that our listeners they really said viewers there getting up on my station, but I think our listeners would be rather interested in this. We were going to advertise our podcast here nationwide. Okay, we're going to put on. We're going to put it on Spotify. While we did. Now here's the thing we we got canceled.

Speaker 1

We're used to that, okay. I don't know if he was coming. I didn't know because they didn't like the nature of our content, of our commercial.

Speaker 2

So I thought I'd play it for us. Let's if, and and see what our listeners like or dislike about it.

Speaker 1

You can find out the and listen to the thing in there. Do you think everyone listen to it carefully and try to find the point in our commercial here what you think got us canceled. It won't be hard to pick out.

Speaker 2

What bit? What bit got us canceled? Here we go.

Speaker 4

Did that podcast you're listening to really fun, interesting, saucy, mischievous? No, I didn't think so. So give Chris and Costello the original canceled radio guys in ear.

Speaker 1

Here Chris say hey, please send me your private email. I'll show you some video of Costello's quick triple quadruple bypass surgery. It's really gross.

Speaker 4

And Costello, he's the British one. Reply.

Speaker 2

Oh Jesus.

Speaker 3

Jesus yes.

Speaker 4

Yes, that's Chris and Costello on the original canceled radio guys, the weekly podcast Chris and Costellocom.

Speaker 2

Now I'd like to point out also that was exactly 30 seconds, so it wasn't that.

Speaker 1

I mean, how? How innocent is that though? It was right there at the beginning. Yeah, the podcast you're listening to at the moment is really boring. You want to listen to something fun? They go, they go on. You can't make fun of other podcast.

Speaker 2

Well, we weren't, in particular were we.

Speaker 1

But isn't that what comedy is all about? It's like having a little fun with stuff anyway right, exactly. Exactly, they want to run a commercial on our show and said the same thing. They go on yeah, chris and Costello, you really get, they really blow chunks. I would. I'd be laughing. Just like we're doing, like you. Just yeah, exactly, we play a commercial, we're going. These people think we blow chunks. It's funny, you know. Well, I tell you what not the. Spotify, it's not.

Speaker 2

Well, spot it. Well, not for the Spotify. Well, we got one over on them, because this, this is the one that's going to be running instead. Okay, are you ready for this?

Speaker 3

Okay, yeah, man, go ahead, listen to the original canceled radio guys.

Speaker 2

I personally. I am personally boycotting Christmas at this point.

Speaker 1

I will not exist. Is this the point where we play a one hippopotamus for Chris? Is it? It could be.

Speaker 3

Chris and Costello, pop culture's nemesis observational humor, parodies and just plain stupid but funny. Original canceled radio guys, chris and Costello dot com.

Speaker 2

See exactly 30 seconds. And who do you think that was doing the doing the voice over?

Speaker 3

You know what?

Speaker 1

I don't know, but he sounds like Dan Pervert and I love it.

Speaker 2

He agrees with you. Yeah, listen to that. You're a dick of all off.

Speaker 1

Yeah, I'm recording this why I'm wearing my trench coat. You know just the big. The big impervery sounds great and just a pretty yeah, it sounds like you get pop to me, but they know we got approved on that one right.

Speaker 2

Yes, well, we haven't. We haven't. I haven't got an email saying thank you, but here's your money back. Yet I don't see nothing wrong with that one at all oh, we'll get that by Monday, then We'll get there by Monday. It should be starting by the sea Wednesday, I think it's going to be supposed to start Monday or Tuesday. Tuesday the fifth, yeah, the fifth. So OK, we'll see what happens, girls and boys.

Speaker 1

At least in Monday. The cancels. I just can't wait to read it and the reasons being your AI announcer sounds like a Dan Pervert.

Speaker 2

They don't know it's AI though. As far as I'm concerned, that that could be like an Iggy Pop or Jack Nicholson. Now Jack Nicholson he sounds more like Jack. Yeah, sounds like Jack. Yeah, it does. You know, jack's 80 something now and he is, yeah, he's not in good health either, so we just don't know about him.

Speaker 1

Nice of him to do basketball. He wants to watch the Lakers play. That's about it. But the thing with these AI announcers though they don't have any voice inflection, they're all flat, you know.

Speaker 2

Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, they are. Well, that'll be next, I suppose.

Speaker 1

Well, what can we do to light a fire under our AI people? To make them, have you know, show emotion when they talk. Are they not capable? I'm sure they are.

Speaker 2

Well, maybe there are things that can I have. You know, there are two services that I use and for the most part they're free, which is good. Some are and some aren't, that's probably why they suck?

Speaker 1

because they're free.

Speaker 2

Not necessarily, it's just you know, because AI.

Speaker 1

What's like the woman who was doing our AI announcing on the one we got canceled on. He would think she would go. Is the podcast? Listening to it now any good? No, it's not. Listen to these guys. She's going to the podcast. I think you're not any good. No, it's not. It's just the same old thing. Just just fly, fly, fly. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1

Yeah, I'll take the Jack Nicholson. He's the only guy, even though he's flat. But you know the only cause he sounds like a pervert and he's right in line with us. He's great. All right, Chris, you can still. Well, stay, keep away from elementary schools.

Speaker 2

You know that was supposed to be Morgan Freeman, Right, what? But yeah, that's, that's Morgan Freeman, except I slowed it down. It said slower and you could be happy shouting angry, which is what I chose. So he's angry or default, whatever default is. So so that was an angry, slowed down Morgan Freeman.

Speaker 1

Man. That's not nothing of Morgan Freeman. That's like Jack Nicholson's back is what I thought.

Speaker 2

Yeah, exactly, exactly. So there you go. So that's, that was our advertising budget.

Speaker 1

we just spent to see what happens. We paid our own budget to run the commercial on our own show. What but the brilliant? That's really brilliant.

Speaker 2

We're the best. What do you think we're doing wrong here? Doi, doi.

Speaker 1

We're trying to get you a list of. So we're advertising on our own show what oh?

Speaker 2

it doesn't matter, we will. Let's do it. We're listening.

Speaker 1

We just keep you psyching our same listeners. We're running our own commercials.

Speaker 2

Oh, yeah, yeah well, that's, you know, we'll just, we'll just do a half hour of the Jewish troll who's moved back into your Anti-abasement. That's, that's what we'll do.

Speaker 1

You know it was funny, so I have to get him on. Next week. We'll find out what the Jewish troll life is like living with the ex-wife and where does he stay at the XY's house different bedroom or she put him in the basement. In the driveway? I don't know yeah.

Speaker 2

Yeah, I'm sure he's.

Speaker 1

Yeah, yeah the little Jewish troll in the garage. There we go. It's a sequel. There you go.

Speaker 2

You see, but you had to throw him out. Hey, yeah, go on go on.

Conversation About Christmas Songs and Bands

Speaker 1

Just totally up to me, as we all know. Yet yeah well, because the wife you hit him with the whack-a-mole thing and see, so they just, they just didn't, they didn't click. So, yeah, did you have some Christmas song that turned 50 years old this week? This Christmas it turns. Yes, that is true a lot of them are getting old. A lot of them have been around. It's a bean crowd, you know it's have been on longer than dirt, but this one's a little different.

Speaker 2

This one was a band that was particularly big in England. I don't think they ever really made it here and they were huge. They were I mean I, when I was 80s, 80s, big hair heavy metal band.

Speaker 1

Is that it?

Speaker 2

No, 70s, 70s, yeah, and, as a matter of fact, they did a live album Called Slade alive. That's a clue as to who it is and it was brilliant. I mean, this is before they went glam rock. All right, so they go glam rock and they do their thing, and then they record this.

Speaker 3

Slade.

Speaker 2

It's got a good hook and that's why it's lasted 50 years. 50 years and the funny thing is everywhere. No, not over here.

Speaker 1

It's big in England but no one gives a shit in this country.

Speaker 2

I really never heard that. What's the name? Learn Like what if you, we have listening to.

Speaker 1

But I know that and say this is like it's an.

Speaker 2

English thing yeah, and and two Americans like English things yes, they do, so they just look at allies, don't just go for allies, don't push it Okay. So here it is. Everybody, have a merry Christmas. You know that the very end of this yeah, it's really raspy voice, and so they've overplayed it. Every year it gets in the top 30 Every.

Speaker 1

That big because you know why it is. I can hear that song in love. Actually we see Christmas movie. I didn't hear it it's. It's a love hate thing.

Speaker 2

See everybody, I mean you know, I mean seriously, now you know these, these guys.

Speaker 1

Graham rock band.

Speaker 2

Well, they were originally, and then they played happy and puppy very, I mean glam rock was. They did things like come on, feel the noise, and that was one of them. I mean they, they were huge. So then they came out with this when I want to the noise that was. That was done by quiet riot.

Speaker 1

Now, it was done by them, by quiet right Slade originally. Naughty holder right there who's more famous for it? That would be quite right.

Speaker 3

I might, yes but over here yes see.

Speaker 1

So you know, if Trump ones again, we'll be allies anymore.

Speaker 2

Anyway, you had to bring it up, didn't you Like, like, like a bad bell the whole Christmas season by bringing that up right. You sure did hey talking and talking of. Okay, that one right was 50 years old. This one 50 years old. This one, I think, is 40 years real quick to the 150 years old.

Speaker 1

We just listened to that. Still that slay. It speaks into the top 30 every December every year, every year.

Speaker 2

Yep, this one, not so much neighbor, your old neighborhood, right, that's it, my old, my old hood. This one, on the other hand, was out since I left, so I'm I was rather unfamiliar with it, which I'm not particularly sorry about. However, we were talking, my I was talking to my sister in England about Christmas songs, because last, our last show, we we talked about a few. Oh, you've got listen to this. The Pogue song. It's as with Christie McCall, it's called a New York fairy tale or something like that girl never heard of it, never rich, what it's just like I'm doing to you now. What do you mean? Never heard of it. Anyway, I'll tell you this.

Speaker 1

Yes, because dude that ban Was it was the lead singer. Is that what he was? He?

Speaker 2

died. He died like yesterday.

Speaker 1

National news here in this country. Okay, oh, we did. Yes, that guy dying. I'm center watching. Let's try to guess. Let me see what's going on. Turn on ABC Nightly News and there was Feature. The guy I'm going to open the norm talked about the only talked about the Christmas song that you're talking about.

Speaker 2

Yeah yeah, yeah which made it on news. That's interesting that it did happen. It's interesting that it did actually, because you know, I've got a little bit of it here.

Speaker 5

They got cars because they got rivers of gold, but the windows right through you, it's no place for the old, when you first took my hand on the cold Christmas Eve. You promised me Broadway was waiting for me. You were pretty clean. I knew you're sitting when the bottom.

Speaker 2

Very Irish song. If you listen to it, I don't think it's very Christmas. It's all about going to New York and getting the snobby out of you.

Speaker 5

Lady.

Speaker 2

Yeah, so that is a post featuring the now dead Shane Cowan and the longtime dick Kristy McCall. She died in the 80s, I think, in a voting accident.

Speaker 1

Anyway but I would just on this, in that game, make national news. Yesterday Now they talked about the band and he was the lead singer and they go. You may remember there's the song they're most famous for and they played that damn Christmas song.

Speaker 2

Beats a hell out of me I don't know it I don't know it. No, me neither. And between the two of us we should have done, don't you think, are the English.

Speaker 1

Is that what they are, irish Irish?

Speaker 2

he's Irish, the pokes are as Kristy McCall? I don't think so, but Shane McGowan, who has no teeth, literally, is it not a not a good-looking boy? I mean, drank a lot and do a lot, so lots and lots of drugs, lots of drugs and lots of teeth outs right he.

Speaker 1

Every year he showed up and gummed that Christmas song.

Speaker 2

Yeah, that's exactly it. Yes, probably Something like crystal meth or something that'll write your teeth out heroin.

Speaker 1

I don't know. It must have been a really slow news day, I guess, for them to feature that, because I'm going. I don't know these people.

Speaker 2

Well, I guess we just just sorely out of touch, but then again, something like. The pose, though, is rather it's not exactly top-10 material, is it? No, no, no, exactly no real hook to it other than the fact that it's Irish and has, you know, penny whistles and banjo's.

Discussion About Celebrities and Personal Anecdotes

Speaker 1

So I know, did you catch it? Similar? Since we're into Christmas, we're gonna have to. There's gonna be a lot of stuff coming up. So there's, there's two Christmas songs you play. One is just an anniversary. It's big in England every year, that one, because the least thing, or just died with no teeth, okay, so that's right. Yep made national news. Just, I don't know it that well so you know, I've never heard it at all. So but if you want to see, I guess, who's popular, I guess new Christmas stuff. Every year they have the lighting of the tree, rockefeller Center, oh yeah, watch that. This year. No, I didn't. Okay, it was hosted by the new ozimpic skinny, kelly Clarkson. Okay, and she's still just an obnoxious, as she was when she said hey yo, she's in New York. Hey yo, that's right. Yo, hey, the great y'all. Welcome back. Yeah, right, chris said I'm going. She's so overexposed she needs to just take a two year hiatus somewhere. Okay.

Speaker 2

I believe the host books this.

Speaker 1

So here's who was on this. Cheryl's back again. She has a couple of songs. Okay, 77. Just if I'm at 37 years old.

Speaker 2

Yeah, yeah, 37 years old. I'm not that old. Okay, I said she's 37 years old birthday wrong.

Speaker 1

So then they had yes, then they had 76. It's great for a rage anyway, so she sounds good to enter Christmas CD. I listed the whole thing early this week and it's really really, really good. So then they had on who else they have on worth a ride. They only had on the Catherine McPhee and her fossil husband, David Foster. Okay, she's a hot young girl from American Idol. She didn't wait up but she came in like second.

Speaker 1

I think she really sings well and she's a good name for herself and for some reason she married a composer, David Foster. He's like upper seventies and she's like upper thirties.

Speaker 2

Interesting. Does she do that recently?

Speaker 1

They had a kid together this year too. I'm going really Well, let's hope for someone that's maybe. I just want to go. Who's the daddy? Who's the sperm donor? Who's the sperm donor? There you go.

Speaker 2

Well, that's interesting. Now, I didn't watch that. Now didn't the Christmas tree get blown over, or was that? That was the other Christmas tree at Washington DC? That's the national Christmas tree in DC. Okay, that's the one that got blown over.

Speaker 1

The rocket photoscentre is. This is massive thing that's anchored to withstand anything, so it didn't go anywhere. Okay, good, I hate to think that's okay.

Speaker 1

Special Then then a broker popped up and just killed the whole thing. But yeah, it was okay. They had Kiki Palmer saying a couple of songs. You know, kiki Nope, okay, so that's what it means. It's like. It's like B and C people, kiki bomber, and they had a thing, lainey Wilson. She's like a. She's kind of big year in country music because she made a name for that, because she appeared on Yellowstone as I was saying, and I'm going to ask her as good.

Speaker 1

She's going to be big next. The next thing, after about three episodes, lainey Wilson is all over the place. She's had a big year, yeah, yes.

Speaker 2

I do Yellowstone Exactly, and she was on the CMAs, wasn't she the country music awards?

Speaker 1

Yeah, she did great. Or your case would be kidney stone. But yeah, yes, yeah.

Speaker 2

So she did.

Speaker 1

Sick is Costello. Heart attack, kidney stone kidney stones.

Speaker 2

Haven't had those in years.

Speaker 1

Anyway, last time I had a kidney stone you ready for this? And the first and only time I had a kidney stone was for G.

Speaker 2

Oh my God, that's a long time ago, yeah.

Speaker 1

Yeah, they had to go to the hospital there. It was for getting scary. They can't do anything for it, though.

Speaker 3

That's nothing they can do.

Speaker 1

The thing is the thing was moving. When it's moving around from the kidneys in the back, it's excruciating. I'm just screaming. So we have put me up to some demrol. You know, look to the IV. You have all of a sudden always right with the world. Yeah, it was great.

Speaker 2

They wouldn't do that. They wouldn't do that. Now you might get Tylenol three out of them.

Speaker 1

I don't know. Thank you, thank you. How are you, sir? I'm going wonderful, thank you.

Speaker 2

I did have kidney stones once and I passed out from the pain and unfortunately, I was close to doing that. Yeah, yeah, and unfortunately I did it in front of the, in front of the kids, couldn't help it. Yeah.

Speaker 1

There you go milk and sympathy from your kids again. Yeah, did it with the heart attack. Come, come see me. I'm having a heart attack. Just I'm gonna pass out in front of you what is with you.

Speaker 2

Hey, listen, I just got a brand new TV from one daughter early Christmas present.

Speaker 1

She said this thing is, he made it sympathy by okay, oh no.

Speaker 2

No, it's a Christmas present, very nice one. It's a big one. How big is it? I'll take it 55 inch. I Think that's bad. Yeah, oh, it's beautiful. It's Samsung, damn nice. I didn't you know Say oh well, oh it. She offers all kinds of things and usually I don't you know, but I took her up on this one.

Speaker 1

You just go, just go.

Speaker 2

Oh, thank you. I do well, I too, but I don't want them to spend too much money. That's that's they would. You see, that's that's. The problem Is that they would, and it's not a thing you raise them.

Speaker 1

Well, okay, I, I would like to think you're dead. I'm gonna get you this, you just go. Well, thank you. Yeah, thank you very much, dad. You need this. Well, thanks, yeah, yeah, yeah, I keep it's going. You're sending her to Amazon. Just order away for me. Okay, just just go to town.

Speaker 2

You know what, while while sty was away? Oh, in the house, in the hospital, hospice, yeah, there you go in hospice. I, you know, when I came here, when I came back home here, I found all these boxes with, like medical appliances. I Don't need this and I don't need that, thank you, but I, I really, you know, I don't need this thing here that sits on your toilet so you don't have to bend over or something. It's like no, no, I really don't need that. But I said, I said Allison said why, why did you? I mean Thank you. And I, and I appreciate you, said dad, that's, that's how I cope with it. I just buy stuff, I go, okay, not gonna send it all back, but there you go. But it was very sweet of her to think of, think of my comfort while sitting on the toilet.

Speaker 1

I'm going to do some nice electronic things and you know, some toys whistles. Yeah, I thought of a toilet seat warmer.

Speaker 2

I Got a Spontaneous TV. Who's complaining? Not me. Yeah, at least you get a TV out of the gig. That's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, well, I have the one broke, so you know but I tell you, tell you, you're having a relapse.

Speaker 1

Enough thing very well. To which you said, yeah, yeah, okay, you're really new good based on computer a page.

Speaker 2

Well, that's. I know someone who needs a new one, maybe a second car, oh.

Speaker 1

Oh, there you go.

Speaker 2

Yeah, well, put a new battery in mine. And you know, harley, you've always wanted down to die. I don't want to. Harley was Harley. I gotta try him from. Very happy with that, thank you. You're supposed to be getting an Indian. What happened?

Speaker 5

Well, there she is, betty. Is that Jimmy's ring you're wearing, mm-hmm.

Speaker 4

She must be great writing with. Is he picking you up after school today?

Speaker 1

I'm Gonna get a bike and I'm going. Who the hell needs an Indian? I got an e-bike. Yeah, okay, well, when you actually get around to riding. I can, I can, I can, I can tear up due to 25 miles an hour.

Speaker 2

All right, well, the new name. That's probably as fast as you're allowed to go.

Speaker 1

So I that that that street and neighborhood. Okay, after in 25. Now, there you go, you will get a ticket. That's all she'll give me. Let's go down hill.

Speaker 2

Well, it's not meant. You're supposed to put the electric bit in when you're going up hill, aren't you? I don't, I don't have to use it all the time you do. I thought you hadn't written it yet Of course I have. Okay, well, I take it back.

Speaker 1

There's three trips on that baby. You kidding me. You let it put skeezer. They're going they can put along with it. I'm going why it's this movement? Just fine, I'm not gonna pedal. Go, baby, go yeah there you go.

Speaker 2

Yeah, you're supposed to get some exercise. Well, why the bike? Okay?

Speaker 1

That's I pulled with the red light. You know there's some people, the car next. I'm trying to look cool and they're just pointing and laughing. I'm going, I'm gonna, can't be at me.

Speaker 2

Now it can't be that. You know you're can't be me right? You're on a bike with a, with a one of those big shoes on, and I Shoes.

Speaker 1

I said just, the thing is like it looks like a really cool. Most likely they look over to it. They're going are those pedals.

Speaker 2

Make it a moped that's what kills it.

Speaker 1

Right there is the damn pedals. That's a shame, oh.

Speaker 2

Well, never mind, never mind when. When all things come to pass, which they will soon, you can buy yourself a nice Indian. There you go motorcycle.

Speaker 1

That's something to plan on for next year or it could be, since you know, I was gonna say you know, if you give a give art, our Facebook page or our website, anything. So if you feel so inclined to buy, you know us some Christmas gifts as a gratitude for a year's worth of great shows, it you know I start shopping now and going to them earlier, okay, I said this stuff early Yep.

Speaker 2

Where we've been doing this for a whole year. We're in what? Season five?

Speaker 1

now more than a year's. I'm just saying it's Christmas time, so we need we need some appreciation. Just, you want to send us some gifts and stuff or you know, money that's good.

Speaker 2

Mine's a great gift to you, chris, and Costello at yahoocom. Chris, my hello, it's yahoocom.

Speaker 1

Do you want my Venmo address it to deposit money? I give you that. Yeah, Chris and Costello at Venmocom, yeah well there you go, you see, and people deposit on no bitcoins. Okay, we want the real money, only damn.

Speaker 2

Bitcoin. Okay, oh, I'll take Bitcoin. You never know.

Speaker 1

Take Bitcoin for you, you can't, you don't never even see it I. Don't care, I mean spend it good as jail with Sam Brinkman and try to say can I hit my Bitcoin? You go, what you idiot.

Speaker 2

Well, I mean, if you want to give it away, I'll give it a home. You know, gotta be worth something.

Speaker 1

Eventually there's nothing there's no such thing. There's nothing to touch what?

Speaker 2

Actually, I did have a Bitcoin. Somebody sent me a Bitcoin, which I don't want. Bitcoin, one Bitcoin. Yes, I don't think it was ever actually worth anything, but I thought it was just kind of a a juxtaposition. I think it's the word Souvenir, bitcoin. Yeah, exactly exactly what it was. So I thought if I could find somebody really stupid, I could sell it to them.

Speaker 1

Well, if you just read the back is it says good for one free ice cream cone. Attest you, take you free.

Speaker 2

Yes, well, that was a bit of a giveaway. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he wrote.

Speaker 1

Miss gifts into us and and you get a big thank you and a mention on the show. Yeah, you said, if I know it is, but hey, a big boy.

Speaker 2

That's a big thank you, isn't it? I mentioned on the show.

Speaker 1

It was good enough for for Gary, the Golden Bachelor. He was on the show. He thought it was fine.

Speaker 3

That's right.

Speaker 2

He was. It was good to hear from him, I think.

Speaker 1

I thought both the news for me. We told him his future wife is ugly and he just he didn't know, he didn't have his Insight issues, so he didn't know.

Speaker 2

Well, it's not as bad as King Charles, anyway. I mean, you know, you told him that his wife was ugly like a. Was it a sack of hammers? I think was the term you used.

Speaker 1

No, she looks like a. She's like a nut sack with teeth and hair.

Speaker 2

Oh, that's, that was committal. Yeah, okay, all right. Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, very similar. Yes, indeed, I can understand that completely. So as we get closer and closer to Christmas, let's say we've done the Christmas music. I think we've done it to death, so should we move on to new years now?

Speaker 1

It's you know it's only early December. We have we just touching the tip of the iceberg on the Christmas stuff, man? Well, of course, christmas music as well. To what we like, what we don't like, you know them hippo one more time in our promo. I'm gonna ring your neck.

Speaker 2

Well it's, that's gonna be all of a Spotify.

Speaker 1

You know, maybe bring out the porky pig blue Christmas okay.

Speaker 2

Well, that was, that was.

Speaker 1

I had had when we blew.

Speaker 2

Yeah, and I asked people laughing in the background Very hard. It's really. That was actually pretty funny. Yeah, first time around. You made me play that on my shift, every shift, as I recall you loved it.

Speaker 1

Oh no, Christmas Green next week will have on the little troll. Do you a troll from the basement?

Speaker 2

Oh, doing a happy.

Speaker 1

Hanukkah. Just an update on what's going on. When he says he's a free man from the basement.

Speaker 2

Yeah, this is interesting. I would be happy to and I need to hear from him. Yeah, Little troll, our most successful thing so far. Not bad for a year. If you think about it Seems like a long time, but that's only because we're doing this and not just listening to it. But you guys out there, it's easy. Us it's a labor of love.

Speaker 1

We enjoy the heck out of it and have a good time doing it. So it's just the beginning, guys. So enjoy your beginning of holiday season. It's just early December. We got a ways to go, man, so enjoy the season. It's a lot of fun. I like it a lot, so just have fun and be happy, happy, happy.

Speaker 2

We'll give it a shot, shall we?

Speaker 1

There we go, Squirrels slush that eggnog, slush it around it. Do you want to do a squeal? I've been doing it for a while, okay, oh, what's with you? You're like a ranger. We'll Wee.

Speaker 3

Wee, wee, wee, louder Wee.

Speaker 2

We should have jingle bells in the background, you know.

Speaker 3

Louder, louder, louder, louder. Get down that one. Louder Louder.

Speaker 2

Last word, bailey, it's so disgusting.

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