Yeah. Hello again, everybody, and welcome to our 11th, 11th episode. That's two small little
lines drawn perpendicular with one another. It's two ones. It's two ones. Yes, but they're ones
together. Yes. Welcome to the 11th episode of Kamisa and Mark Bake a Podcast. I am Mark.
And I'm Kamisa. If you haven't figured it out yet, we're near days away from,
you know, Chris Kringle landing on roofs and coming down chimneys and all that fun and making
Christmas what it is. Yes. And I am out for winter break. Yay. My 4am alarm has been silent. Yes,
for two whole weeks it has been silenced. Yay. So that is her way of saying that she made it
through the week without, how do we put it? Without any real problems. Incident. Without
incident, without problems. I, the last three days were great. They were half days. My assistant and I
watched Christmas specials while we did some end of semester paperwork. We cleaned up our classroom.
Yes. Again, while watching Christmas specials. Well, what other way are you going to spend
those last few days? I know, right? It was awesome. I know. My goodness. Yay.
Yay. I, something tells me you're going to hear those bells a lot. So with that in mind,
your week was spent trying to clear up everything before you went on break. I don't have such a
such a lucky thing though. I do have to get a newspaper out two days next week, which, you know,
two days is well, it's two days. That's all I could do. I got to do one today for Tuesday.
And then one at the end of the week, which we normally do, Friday for Saturday. And guess what?
We get the rinse, wash, repeat. All, you know, wash, rinse, repeat. We'll do that all over again
next week. We have another paper out Monday for Tuesday and then Friday for Saturday. So
it's a little bit of a break, but it's not really a break because I'm going to have to stay busy
regardless of what is going on. We, you know, her last day was Friday.
And we were hoping, hoping that everything would fall just right. And that she would be able to
get out of there, come to Palatka and meet my photographer and I as we were all going down to
Tampa for the gasparilla bowl between the Gators and Tulane. But that didn't quite happen like that.
I made it down there. You made it down there, but you know, 20 minutes later than you should have.
Well, we couldn't leave until all the kids had one bus driver. One bus driver. One bus was late.
Yes. Because of all this consternation. Yes. One bus was late. So John and I are just like
being very patient. Of course we were. And once she got there, we were off and running, but
you know, we had to make a couple of stops along the way. I'll tell you what one of mine was later.
But the other one was to get her food. See, John and I were going to get fed at the ball game,
but not her because she was sitting in a stance. So we stopped off at the arches place.
Yes. We went to McDonald's. That's right. And got her. Well, they were done with breakfast at that
time. So a couple of cheeseburgers and some fries and yes, all was well in the world for her.
We actually got there about, oh geez, we got there about 130.
Yeah. Taking into account some traffic, but we did it. We got through. And lo and behold,
John made his meeting at 230 before the game. And I got upstairs and I had 90, like 90 minutes to
kill. It was great to go through the entranceway to, you know, get, not get padded down, but have to
go through the security check and everything. And they said, where's your pass? I went, oh,
I'm like, okay, point me in the direction of where I've had to go. It's like will call. So I had to
walk almost back to where I crossed the street to go to will call where the media credentials were.
So I got, I got my credential and I saw the same security guard like three times on the trip. And
it's like, yeah, me again. Silly me forgot the credential. How dumb of I, but I got in, got
upstairs. I'm familiar with with Raymond James stadiums press area. So I kind of have an idea
of how all that works. But we had a lot of time to kill game kicked off at 330. They, they served us
a box lunch, which wasn't bad. I was mine was a chicken Caesar wrap. So it was fine. They gave
us that they gave us an apple chocolate chip cookies. And there was one other thing. Oh,
I think it was Lay's potato chips. But, you know, I fed John was doing his thing down on the field.
I was upstairs in the press box. And I swear to God, the first half of that game, if they were
selling if they were giving us no dose at halftime, it might have helped six, nothing, yawn. But then
something happened in the second half. Florida got things rolling. They figured out too late,
what too late was doing defensively. And they were scoring. And they wound up winning the game
33 to eight. They had a shutout until the last minute. But they won the game 33 to eight. She
thankfully was around Gator fans. Well, the whole state will nearly the whole like 95% of the stadium
was Gator fans. That's true. I mean, there was a product is one pocket over by the two lane
sideline. That was all too late. You know, the Gator marching band is about 100 to 130 strong.
I think the two lane marching band, which we saw before the game was 30 to 50 members.
No, guys sitting next to me, he was like, Oh, yeah, their band came like all 25 of them.
I thought it was a little more than that. But you get the point. It was like a lot to a little.
Yeah. And they weren't too bad. No, no, neither bad. Of course, the Gator band sounds always fantastic.
Of course. But the game itself, you know, Gators took command of that game in the third quarter,
finally put some touchdowns together. And then the highlight for me, at least in this game,
and I wrote about it'll be in Tuesday's paper. The highlight for me was big Desmond Watson.
Yes, yes, yes. If you haven't seen this young man, he is a physical specimen.
He is six foot five. Okay, that'll get your attention. He weighs 449 pounds. And you would think,
Oh, okay, he just won big blob. No, he's not. He's actually kind of mobile. And yeah,
he literally stopped Tulane's quarterback on a third one situation or third and two. I forgot the
total of that particular play. He stopped them. Well, not only did he stop them, he picked them up
and like put them right back down like a rag doll. John got a picture of a couple of pictures of him.
The quarterback is like smiling because he knew once he ran into big Des, it was over. And he
literally got picked up. It was part of a great defensive effort by the Gators. But late in that
game, he got a chance to run the ball and found out from Coach Billy Napier that he had actually
had a play planned throughout the season. If they got near the goal line in a situation,
they were not going to hesitate and use him. But they never actually quite had that chance to do
that in the later games against some of these teams they played. They were a big team, big play
type team throughout most of the year. So they weren't near the goal line. But it was a fourth
and one and it was at two lanes, 26 yard line. And she was probably part of the crowd that when
they saw a big 21 come into the game, they were like cheering. I was like, yeah, give them the
ball. Give them the ball. I mean, find out from DJ Lagway and Shamari Dakey, the wide receiver.
They were rooting for him to get the ball. And sure as anything, the backup quarterback,
Aiden Warner, handed the ball off to him and he plowed into that line. I mean, you got stopped
immediately by how are you going to stop a six foot five, four hundred and forty nine pound guy?
How? What what what means are you could try to stop this guy? But anyway, he made the one yard
they needed and they were going to use them again. But they got down a little further and then it was
a tone. Anthony Rubio, who finished everything off, I think it was a 19 yard run that finished the
scoring off with a like two or three minutes left to go in the game. And if the name kind of
sounds familiar, he's from the Miami area. His father is one of our senators, Marco Rubio. But
but he he finished it off. They won 33 to eight. As I said, Florida had the shutout until the last
minute. Tulane did score and they got the two point conversion. But you know,
media, we were pretty much directed to just go to the press, you know, the area for where the
press conferences were held at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium all year. Well, we were invited because
for our press passes, we were allowed to come onto the field and watch some of the ceremony take
place, including Coach Napier and getting interviewed and team getting the Gasparilla
Bowl trophy, which kind of looked interesting. I can't say it was, you know, the most interesting
trophy I've ever seen. But it was a treasure chest. It's interesting enough. Yeah. But they got to
have some fun with that. And you know, we don't get to see that up close with these guys normally.
But it was fun. It was a real thrill to be on that on that stadium turf over at Raymond James.
And then we went inside and you know, these guys, you know, they brought Tulane's people in at first.
And I asked Coach Someral, what happened in the second half? And he basically said, you know,
they ran out of gas. And that was the best way of putting it, that they ran out of gas and Florida
was making plays and just basically wearing them down. And he went for it a couple of times and
he didn't make it. And, you know, they wanted to stay aggressive even in a low scoring game. But
then he could see it nine, nothing turned to 16, nothing. And in turn to, what was it, 19, nothing
in there, 26 to nothing. Yeah, it was awesome. For, yeah, for Gator fans, it certainly was. And
then of course, Florida brought their bunch in. As I mentioned, Shamir Dike, quarterback DJ Langway,
who was like DJ Langway was the MVP of the game, record 305 yards passing in that game. It was
the sneakiest 305 yards. So you wouldn't have known he threw for 305 yards. And Coach Napier and
big boy Desmond Watson. Now, Des, I found out is from Armwood High School, which is in the Tampa
area in a town called Saffner. And they are a football, they are a football factory, if you
will, they've won numerous titles over at Armwood. And find out that they coached Napier and the
offense had a play for him that they've been saving up. And they, you know, I think it was the
hawk, the hawk package named after his school nickname, the hawks at Armwood. So it was a lot
of interesting, funny, let their, let them let their hair down a little bit instead of sounding
so serious. And it was a lot of fun. We left almost immediately after the press conference,
I'd already packed up and left and met John and of course, she's in the car because with the car
turned on and the heat on, because it got cold as the night went on. It was very cold. But other
than the fact it's cold, and I've come to the point now, every time, you know, the two times I've
taken her with me to Raymond James Stadium, it's been cold. It's just been cold. So yeah, it was,
how do you describe it? Look, I had a great time at the bowl game. This is my first bowl game ever.
So I had a great time. I was cold. I mean, I had my fleece jacket, but I made sad choices with my
pants and I wore capris because it had been, yeah, oops, because it had been like hot all week.
Yeah, of course. So, you know, I was expecting it to be hot. And then as someone who was in
menopause, I'm hot all the time. Yeah. But you know, I wasn't expecting it to be that cold on
Friday. So yeah, I made sad choices. And so as soon as the game was over and they announced the MVP
and they opened up the treasure chest, I walked as quickly as I could to the car.
Yeah, she's been privy to cold weather. Last time was when the Jaguars played the box and
fire the cannons. Oh my god. 30 times in that game. Yes. They fired, I guess, what was the cannons?
They did fire the cannons, but it was only like, you know, when the Gator scored, they only fired at
the one time. Instead of, you know, one cannon for each point, they just fired the cannon once.
Yeah, yeah. So which was a lot better? Oh, sure. But it was, it was a lot of fun. And, you know,
the Gators won. We left almost the three of us left immediately. I think we stopped once
so we could get get her something to eat. I grabbed a sandwich from the same arches.
Yes. And we got back probably right before quarter after 11. Yeah. Usually I would follow her back,
but this week is all county football. And between that and doing pictures last night,
it took me just around three hours to get things done. So, you know, now we're ready to roll with
the all county teams, starting with football in our paper, the Plackadale News on Tuesday.
So, yeah, after we got back to Palakka, I drove home. She drove home. So I got home about quarter
to one. She slept a good amount of the way. I mean, I've been up since 345 that morning. Well,
I didn't say you weren't allowed. Yeah, I know, but I'm just I'm just explaining to
those people our audience that yeah, I'm a teacher and typically I am up at four. My alarm goes off
at four a.m. But sometimes yeah, my body will just be like, Hey, get up. And so 345 Friday morning,
my body was like, Hey, get up. Oh, yeah. So I got up. Yeah, well, you know, then, like I said,
Saturday, I've spent busy trying to do busy work for beginning of this week. I slept. You slept.
Well, day one of your vacation. Yes, I slept. And I watched TV most of the day. Yeah, we
we have different types of jobs in that regard. So yeah, today, what do we do on Sunday? Oh,
that's right. We went to, we're at the Wally World. We did some Christmas shopping. Yes. And yeah,
I think practically all my Christmas shopping is done because I've done minus. Yeah. Now,
just a matter of a few days and it'll be it'll be here Wednesday, which ironically is also the
first day of Hanukkah. And the next day, first day of Kwanzaa. Yes. So all the holidays are
happening one right on top of the other. It does. When's the last time that has happened?
2005. Okay, we're Christmas Hanukkah. Well, Kwanzaa is always the 26. Yeah, I know. But
it's been a while since it's all been in the same week. Yeah. Hanukkah was on Christmas,
on the same day as Christmas is starting in 2005. So yeah, that was, I still remember that too,
because my then living girlfriend and I were, we went to her brother's place. I think it was her
brother's place. Yeah, we went to her brother's place on that particular day in Orange Park.
And after we were done, we were hungry. So we stopped at a place. I'm not sure it still exists,
but we went to Hooters because it was one of the very few places open on Christmas day. Yes,
it still exists. Right in Orange Park, right there by the mall. Well, I don't know where in Orange
Park. But it's at the mall. But yes, I'm sure Hooters still exists. I'm talking that one.
Oh, I don't know about that one. That one. I don't care. Yeah. It's Hooters. I don't care.
She's, yeah, don't bring up Hooters with her. Yeah. It's a long story. But we wound up having to
eat. All I'm saying is there should be an equivalent restaurant. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're over here
going like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just feel like there should be an equivalent restaurant
where there should be some scantily clad men walking around serving us chicken wings.
I know what you're saying. I'm sure somewhere, somewhere, somebody has come up with that idea
and had it shot down because I don't understand why. That's the kind of country we live in,
apparently. I don't know. Because I would patronize a restaurant where there were scantily clad men
serving me chicken wings. Right. I get it. I mean, fine. If nobody's wanting to come up with it,
I'll come up with it myself. Yeah. And we'll just call it ding dogs. There you go. She's got that
name and everything already. Well, almost trademarked. Almost. We'll just call it ding dogs. There you
go. Yeah. But that was, but that was the only place really that was open that night. And your
girlfriend went for this. She liked the wings from there. We went to Hooters quite a bit back in the
day. Whether it was that one, they had one open in St. Augustine for a time in the mid 2000s.
Right there off of 312, almost right near the railroad tracks, right where the rail,
right where trains go by. But yeah, that, that, that closed down almost immediately,
like about two or three years later. So it didn't, didn't last. Let's put it that way. Just didn't last.
Okay. But that was the last time that Christmas and Hanukkah were on the same, the same time. So
I can remember that. You know, we talked a little about favored gifts that we have gotten. You had
a story about, I think your favorite gift. Was it your favorite or the one you did not least liked?
No, I had a story about my worst Christmas. All right. Yeah. I could, I could come,
I could come up with my worst Christmas too. Okay. So, okay. So my worst Christmas. Oh my god.
I was like 13. So it was like 1988. So, oh my god, this Christmas was horrible.
Tell us more. Yes. Okay. So I had a quote unquote boyfriend.
Yeah. You know, because I grew up in a very evangelical household. So, you know, girls having
a quote unquote boyfriend was sinful and wrong. And you know, not at all normal. You know, boys
having girlfriends were fine, but girls having a boyfriend, it was just wrong and evil and whatever.
But yes, I am. Absolutely. I hear you. But yes, I had a boyfriend and he was in high school.
Gotcha. Yes. And I was in eighth grade. So yeah. So yes, I had a boyfriend and you know,
did you ever have to like sell fundraising items for your school? Yeah. You know, you had to sell
like gift wrap that was like $30 and you get the $1.25 tree for a fraction of the cost.
A fraction. Yeah. And like the quote unquote prizes that you can, that you can get for selling X
amount of dollars of stuff that really wasn't worth crap. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Okay. So anyway,
my boyfriend got me a bracelet that had a locket charm on it. Yeah. It was a heart shaped locket.
And it had his picture inside the locket. And you know, 13 year old me who constantly read
sweet Valley High books and sweet dream romances and wildfire romances. You know, this just,
you know, that just excited my little heart. Oh sure. But of course, and then of course,
you know, the bracelet wasn't worth a goddamn. Oh, pardon the language and we are going to have
to flag this for being explicit. That's right. Yes. But the bracelet wasn't worth a fuck.
We could use worse words, but we're not going to go. The bracelet wasn't worth anything,
honestly. And I mean, you know, I had jewel, I've had jewelry, you know, a little cheap
trinket jewelry, where you know, the gold plating rubbed off on your skin and stuff. So, you know,
yes, the bracelet and the locket wasn't worth anything. But of course, my mom wouldn't let me
keep it right because she said that he would expect things. Oh, okay. Yeah. And that that that
insulted me because I was insulted because number one, my mom thinks I'm that fucking cheap.
You know, my mom thinks I'm that cheap. Right. And then you know, number two,
you know, seriously, right? It was just seriously. But anyway, the worst gift that was that was the
worst part having to give it back. And then the second worst part was the gifts that I did get
for Christmas. Oh, yeah. So I got a Sweet Valley High book. Okay. But it was the most boring Sweet
Valley High book ever. Okay, how are they supposed to know that? Oh, they knew. It was so boring.
It was like it was book 43, if I remember correctly, hard choice. 43. Yes, book 43,
called hard choices. And it was about Enid, who is very boring. She's Elizabeth, who is also boring.
Her best friend who once again is very boring. And her story was boring. Yeah. Yeah. And it was so
boring. And I hated that book so much. I hated it. And then I also got book number 50, which was
called, I think it was called Out of Reach. And it was slightly more interesting, but it was still
very boring, because it wasn't about the Wakefield twins. More specifically, it wasn't about Jessica,
who was my favorite twin. You know, because the books that that centered around them were so much
more interesting. Jessica stealing somebody's boyfriend, Jessica being a bitch, you know, it's
just those books were awesome. I didn't want to read a story about Enid. Right. I don't even have
that book anymore, but it sucked. And it was just the worst Christmas. Well, tell me how you really
felt about that. Geez. Anyway, I can't, I can only really think of like some of the best gifts
I ever got my 10th birthday slash Christmas, because my birthday is a month before Christmas.
But you know, we celebrated separately. Anyway, okay, good 1976. Okay. I got a calculator.
I thought I was thought bomb when I got a calculator. I was fascinated by that stuff.
Was it at least a scientific calculator? It was. Yeah. I mean, it was. Okay. So it was
a science. It wasn't a fancy schmancy one. It was a basic one that, you know, was about the size of
you know, a little bigger than an index card. Wait, so it was just a basic regular,
regular calculator. Right. I was excited about that. You never understand. It wasn't at least a
Texas instrument. It was. Okay, because Texas instruments, you know, that is like the goat.
Absolutely. Of calculators. That is the goat. And then three years later, when I was in the eighth
grade, I got a radio for for Christmas 1979. And it was one of those that like, it served multi
purposes. It was like a weather detector type of radio station. It was AM, it was FM. It was
multi purpose, but it didn't last more than about two or three years, unfortunately. Oh, no. That's
sad. But I love that. I mean, I probably wore that thing out to death. One, my favorite gifts that
my sister got. She got a light bright. You remember light bright. I had a light bright. Yeah. I did
some really cool things with that light bright. I mean, I stole it from her. And yeah, I'm guilty.
But that was that was the year before in 78. I had a light bright. It was cool. Yeah. Now,
ask me how many times I got my butt beat for leaving the pegs on the floor and my dad stepped on
numerous. Yes. Numerous. Numerous. We'll go there. Yeah, we'll go there. Yeah. Now every, you know,
there's always, you know, a gift that we'll always remember now. Like I said, I got this. And of
course, I always got various clothing. Yes. But I mean, it wasn't clothing my parents embarrassed
me with. Okay. It was, you know, you know, jeans or or a sweater. Now, my favorite Christmas gift
when I was a kid was that my maternal grandma took me to Macrae's. It's known as Belk now. Yeah. In
the South. But back in the day, it was called Macrae's. And she took me there and let me get an
outfit. Okay. And it was awesome. The favorite I got like a pair of jeans. I got one of those
Coca Cola sweatshirts. You remember those? Oh, yeah. Yes, I got one of those. It was a periwinkle.
Blue type. I love that sweatshirt. And I got a pair of Levi's. And but the most favorite part of
the outfit. Yes, ma'am. I had a pair of hot pink. Mm. High top. Oh, my. Rebox. Oh, my God. You couldn't
tell me nothing. Yeah, that that would top a lot. When I went back to junior high.
After Christmas break, you couldn't tell me nothing. Oh, my God. In my Levi jeans, my Coca
Cola sweatshirt and my hot pink high top rebox. Oh, wow. Yeah. And I know rebox are back. Right.
And if I could, I would love to get another pair of hot pink high top rebox. Although I am almost
pretty, pretty, pretty sure. Right. That my fat, barney rubble feet probably would not be able to
get into them. Fat barney rubble feet. What makes you think Fred Flintstone's feet weren't fat?
I mean, well, you know, Barney is short and stocky. And you know, I'm short and stocky.
And yeah, I have stubby feet. So yeah, they I have Barney rubble feet. Okay. Point well taken.
Go on. So, you know, I am hoping that Reebok makes wide whiffs now. Right. So I could get another pair.
Well, the little things that make her happy, by the way. Yes. Yes. That would be one. Now,
everybody has a Christmas story. And I'm sure there's I could tell you mine. Okay. And it is work
related. Okay. Christmas Day 1988. I tell the story because the subject of the story is now the head
wrestling coach at Rutgers University. Okay. Name is Scott Gooddale. Okay. We had a feature in my
first newspaper, the Ocean County Observer, it was called Ocean's Own. He came out every Monday. It
was a story featured an athlete who was doing things and was a major part of his team or whatever
the case was. And yeah, we we would always spotlight him on the Monday's paper. Well,
at this point, I was starting to do some of those feature stories 1988, as I said. And
it was a weird week at our paper. We normally didn't have a Saturday paper. Okay. It would be on Sunday.
But because Christmas was on a Sunday that year, 1988, we had a Saturday paper when we
normally didn't. And we didn't have a Sunday paper. Oh, yeah, I do remember that. Yeah,
that was part of that worst Christmas because we also had to go to church. Oh, yeah, on a Sunday.
Yeah, of course, we had to go to church. That made it that dug the knife deeper.
All right. But I had gotten the notes that I needed for this feature story. And we did this.
I did this on, I think it was Friday, the 23rd. All right, we had these one system computers that,
you know, they looked ancient, they were they were built in the either late 60s or early 70s.
And we were still working with these things. Obviously, the idea was that it was supposed to,
you know, save in after I typed in whatever. Okay. Yeah. Well, imagine my surprise when I
get ready to do the story at what time was that I was I was I already planned on doing the story
early that morning, because, you know, I was still living at home and my parents wanted to
open up the the gifts for Christmas Day. Okay. So I leave here. I leave my home at about 645 in
the morning. Okay. I know the story is going to take me about 45 minutes to write plenty of time
to get back. I got into office come up to the second floor my office is and well, turn on the
computer. The next thing I know, there's no notes. Something happened overnight. And the next thing I
know, I have no notes. But all the notes that I taken on that Thursday, or Friday, I forget which
day I did. I think it was Friday. They were gone. Just like that. They were gone. So I didn't have
a whole lot of choices. It was 715 730 in the morning. Yeah, I call the Goodale house. Now,
I was blessed in the fact that I had known the Goodale family for a number of years because
I covered Little League. And the dad Jim was a manager of all star teams at Holbrook, which was
in a section of Jackson. It was Holbrook Little League. So I call up. I get the mom. Sweet is
anything. I explain the whole thing to Karen. That was the mom's name. And I said, Yeah, I need to do
the interview all over again. Thankfully, I remember the questions. And I asked if Scott was up and
Scott was a junior at the time at the high school. Okay. So and he was one of the top. He
wound up going to States and he had a very successful career. So I call him up. Thankfully,
I had his coach's notes who I'd known for a long time guy named Al Ayers. He was the wrestling
coach at the time. And well, I was able to get him. And I said, Scott, you're not going to believe
this. I lost the notes. I need to do the interview again. So he could have been nicer. We did this.
It was about 15 minutes. I got the notes that I needed and printed them out immediately. And was
able to write the story, got it done. And I got home about five to nine in the morning. Just in
time for, I think it was WPLJ at the time was playing American Top 40 with shadow Stevens as
the host. Because I always remember the first song that they played debuting at number 40 was Kiss
by the Art of Noise featuring Tom Jones. So there's my story of Christmas almost, whoa,
involving my job. I salvaged the day because I was dealing with the right family at the right time.
That was 36 years ago. Yikes. I was much younger and
anyway, I want to spend a little more time on this. Because we really didn't, we talked about some of
the movies that we grew up with Christmas wise. Yes. And I don't think, I think we only scratched the
surface. Okay. I think we really did. So we mentioned some movies, but there were others we
didn't mention. And I'm going to mention a few right here. Okay. Elf, Will Ferrell and James Cahn.
You know what? I did not like it when it first came out. Okay. But I think that was because
Will Ferrell was everywhere at that time and it was just way too much for me. Right. But
I watched it a few years ago and I like it. Okay. Yeah. I get melancholy about it because the late
Bob Newhart was in that movie as well. Yes. And apparently, I don't know how true it is, but apparently
Bob Newhart and Will Ferrell did not get along. Oh, no. Making that movie. I don't know if that's
true or not. But yeah, that was that was a story. Or no. Oh, no, no, not Bob Newhart. I'm sorry. It
was James Cahn. Oh, he seems like that type. Well, apparently he did not get along with him, whoever
it was. Or there's with Will Ferrell or something like that. I don't know how true that is. But anyway,
moving on. White Christmas or Holiday Inn, which is an old forties movie. Holiday Inn is the movie
that gave us the hit White Christmas. Yes. Irving Berlin's White Christmas. Yes. But I don't know.
I don't know how other than it's a wonderful life, I don't know how particular you are about the old
black and white Christmas movies. It depends. Okay. I like them. I'm not saying I'm overly
crazy about them, but I like them. Okay. All right. You mentioned the year without a Santa Claus last
week. Yes. I'm team Heat Mizer. Yes. There's the Santa Claus with Tim Allen. We didn't really talk
about that one. But it was an interesting movie. Do you ever see the Santa Claus? No, I have not.
Really? Okay. I have Disney Plus. Okay. So anytime, any place. Yeah. The shop around the corner
with Margaret Sullivan and Jimmy Storert. There's James Storert again. If you have a word crush,
you're not alone. Al Allred Kralik and Clara Novak play two head buddy employees who become
infatuated with their respective pen pals. Little do they know that their worst enemy is actually the
love of their life. Wasn't that remade into a movie of a different name? It said you may also
recognize this story as the plot of the musical She Loves Me. No. They're based on the same plane.
No, but there's another movie that has the same premise with Tom Hanks. Oh, with Meg Ryan. Yes.
But not sleepless in Seattle. No, it's not sleepless in Seattle. No. Yeah. I know. Was it you got
mail? Yes. That's it. Okay. That's it. All right. The polar express. I like it. Okay. I mean, you
know, when I taught in elementary school, that was always a staple of the last day. You know,
the kids come to school in their pajamas. We serve hot cocoa. We show polar express. Yeah. Yeah.
The Family Stone. Yes. Diane Keaton, Sarah Jessica Parker in this movie. Yes. Another big
dysfunctional family holiday movie. I like those movies. If it could go wrong. Yeah. And yet,
the Griswolds are like that with all the vacation films, but you didn't see. I haven't seen Christmas
Vacation and I don't know why. But you know, Dr. Seuss is how the Grinch stole Christmas. Yes. The
animated. The animated version of 1966 TV movie special. Yes. I love it. Yeah. It was fine. And
they mentioned Santa Claus 2. Okay. I, you know, I've never really seen the Santa Claus. I've seen
the first Santa Claus, but I've not seen the Santa Claus 2. I don't know why. Miracle on 34th
Street. Okay. Which one? You forgot to mention that. Which one? You know, that's the thing. I'm not
sure which one it was. Yeah. Gosh, which one was it? The original, the 1947. With Natalie Wood? With
Natalie Wood. Yeah. Okay. I have a story about that. All right. Go on. So, okay. First time I
ever saw this movie, I was in sixth grade. Yeah. Maddie Akin Elementary School. And it was the last
day before Christmas break. Yeah. And they herded us all into the auditorium. Oh, okay. And you
know how they had those big TVs on the, on the wheels. Yeah. Those big TV carts. Yes. So, you
know, they wheel us into, they, they heard us into the auditorium like cattle and we had to sit on
the floor and they wheel in the big TV and we watched, first thing we watched was Reading Rainbow.
Oh. Yes. Okay. Because I guess they had to make it seem like they were actually teaching us something
that day. So, we watched Reading Rainbow. And it was the episode where Abiyoyo was the book.
Yeah. And they talked about music and you know, Run DMC came on and they did a quick rap.
Oh, was it Christmas in Hollis or no? No, they didn't do that. But no, it was just a regular
episode. But you know, Run DMC came on talking about how reading is cool. And you know, reading
makes you smart. Right. So, you know, that validated me a lot. But then afterward,
uh-huh, they dimmed the lights and they showed us Miracle on 34th Street. My gosh. And I was like,
yay! Because you know, it's kind of skeptical at first. But you know, but as the movie went on,
you know, I was like, yay! Yay! This is great! Yay! Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. So, that's my story
about having seen that. But I thought it was the best movie. Okay. Okay. I'm down with it. Then,
of course, they mentioned Holiday Inn, which we mentioned before. Yes. It's a Wonderful Life,
which we talked about last week. Jack Frost. Okay. Now, is that the one where dad is dead
and he comes back as a snowman? Yeah. So, he has a second chance with his son. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. That was with Michael Keaton in that, in the starring role of that movie. Okay. I'll be
home for Christmas, which is a Disney comedy, starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas from Home Improvement
fame. Yeah. After being ditched in the desert in a Santa suit without any ID or money, he experiences
all the trials and tribulations of holiday travel or learning the deeper meaning of love, family,
and gratitude. He must have come from the stuffy family. I guess. Yeah. How the Grinch stole
Christmas, the Jim Carrey version, which I've never really seen. I saw it. I'm not sure I can
see it after seeing the animated movie. Yeah. Yeah. I have a hard time with that. Yeah. Frosty's
Winter Wonderland. Oh, I love that one. That's the one where Frosty gets married to Crystal,
the Snow Lady, and Andy Griffith was in it. I think we talked about it a little bit last week.
I think that's what we did. Fred Claus, Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti. I believe this is where
old St. Nick gets sick and they need somebody to take over for him and they find Fred.
Yeah. Father St. Nick is an all too reliable dad who must deal with the constant bickering
while also proceeding with diligent Christmas duties. I think he had to pinch it for Santa that
time. Okay. For Christmas, again, Vince Vaughn, but with Reese Witherspoon. It's a rom-com.
I think I've seen that once. The Family Man, which I saw when I was living in Key West in 2000,
starring Nicholas Cage and Taylor Leone. Now, is that the one where he's like this horrible
businessman? He's a car dealer. Okay. Yeah. And he has to reconsider his life choices.
And watch Cold Wall Street. Okay. You're right. He was a Wall Street executive. I thought he played
a car dealer guy, but named Jack. He time travels to the past where he lives in an alternate life
with his college sweetheart and learns about the life he could have had. Yes. Yeah. The apartment.
Now, they list the apartment. I don't know if the apartment for whatever's sake is a Christmas.
Well, it's considered that because remember, okay, so you would recognize the apartment as the musical
promises. Promises promises. Okay. Now, do you remember when we saw my coworker in promises
promises? In a little playhouse thing in Orange Park. Yes. Okay. So do you remember there was
one part where there was an office Christmas party? Yes. I do. Yes. And highly, it scored the Oscars
for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Jack Lemon was in the role as the
hardworking office employee. Christmas with the cranks. Again, Tim Allen wasn't that based on
a John Grisham novel novella? But this is where the family is gone for the week or whatever. And
the Cronks all go to a Caribbean cruise. However, the annual street decoration competition is
a surprise visit may get the in the way of their getaway plans. Your friends and family are bound
to get a hoot out of all of the cheesy jokes. Best Man Holiday. I love that. I figured you know this
one. It was a sequel to the Best Man. Yeah. Was that Tay Diggs? Yes. Okay. I'm showing her a picture
right now. Do you who is in that? Okay. Oh, yes. And it's like all the black people. So it was like
Terrence Howard. Okay. I thought that was Terrence Howard. Yes. It was Terrence Howard. And I want
to say I think Neil Long was in it. Okay. And oh my God, I can't remember who else was I know
Tay Diggs was in it. Morris Chestnut was in it. Okay. It was so good. Christmas in Connecticut.
Love's in the air in this romantic drama. Journalist Elizabeth Lane claims to be a famous food
writer but the truth unravels when war hero Jefferson Jones is sent to spend the holiday
with her family for some bucolic and rural recuperation. Scrooged. We didn't talk much about
Scrooged. No, but I love I love Scrooge. Yeah. I loved Scrooge. It was good. Yeah. We I
Bill Murray could play almost any character and do it well. I mean, think about it. He earned an
Oscar nomination as an actor as a long suffering actor who's in Japan doing commercials and whatever
to do promotion for his latest product in the Sophie, Sophie Coppola, Sophia Coppola
movie Lost in Translation. Yes. I love that movie by the way. Yes. Beethoven's Christmas Adventure
but it came back to Bill Murray. Yeah. He was he was great at Scrooge. Yes. And honestly, I love
a Christmas Carol. Yeah. So I love any movie that is a variation of a Christmas Carol because
there's one with Susan Lucci called Ebby. Yeah. Where she plays a mean business lady. Yeah. And
there's also one with the late great Cicely Tyson. I forgot what that one was called but she also does
a female Scrooge which was also awesome. Yeah. Babes in Toyland. I have heard of it but I've never
seen it. The Annette Funicello version of Disney. What else? Arthur Christmas.
You know, I've never seen Arthur Christmas. A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey. I have not seen
that one. My favorite version of Christmas Carol is the one. Yeah. The one is two of them that I love.
It's the one with Patrick Stewart. Yeah. And the one with George C. Scott. Yeah. I'm going to mention
just a couple more. Okay. Bad Santa. Oh, I love Bad Santa. I don't know and we were talking about
this earlier. I don't know if anybody else could have played the role of Bad Santa other than Billy
Bob Thornton because he was just hilarious in that role. I don't know about you but I thought he was
just tremendous. Oh, here we are. The Muppet Christmas Carol. Yes. I also love that one. Yes.
Michael Cain in the 1992. White Therese, not the Rat. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Oh, you know,
I love that one because you know, we usually watch it and make fun of stuff in it. Yeah.
A diva's Christmas Carol. Oh my God. That is my absolute favorite. No, you love the Christmas
story. Yes, I know. But all the Christmas Carol variations. A diva's Christmas Carol is my absolute
favorite. And it's Vanessa Williams playing Scrooge. Yes. I loved her in that. I love her so much.
Oh, here's another we talked about earlier. Jingle All the Way. Now, is that the one with
Arnold Schwarzenegger? It's in Bad. I believe that that is true. Yes. And they're trying to,
Arnold Schwarzenegger did another one of those Christmas movies, I believe, with Matthew Broderick.
I was not Jingle All the Way. Oh, I forgot what it was. Oh my God. I can't remember the name of the
darn movie. But yeah, they, Jingle All the Way was that movie with Sinbad and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Yes. And they were fighting over a toy. Yes. That was it. Little Women. I would not consider that a
Christmas movie. Yeah. A lot of people consider this a Christmas movie, even though only parts of it
take place during the holiday season. Yes. But I grow and growing up, having been made to read
Little Women. Yeah. And I did enjoy the book. Mm hmm. Oh, Joye, Joye, Joye, Joye. Well, that's
French. Yes. From Merry Christmas. Yeah. It's 1914 Christmas truce held in the trenches when the
Germans and the French stopped and they met in No Man's Land and I believe it was Silent Night
that they sang. Okay. Yeah. It was emulated in the music video for Paul McCartney in 1984 called
Pipes of Peace. It's a great, it was a great piece of work. Okay. Home Alone 2. Santa Claus Conquers
the Martians. I think that's better viewed if you go on Rift Tracks. Okay. Olive the Other Reindeer.
Oh, when I talked pre-K, I read that book to my class. I love that. I love the Other Reindeer.
So I've never seen it. What? Or... So it's about a reindeer named Olive. All right. And she mistakenly
thinks that Santa has called her to come help. Oh, no. Yes. And she goes on this adventure to get
to the North Pole. It's nice. Okay. It's nice. It's different. It's different. It's funny. It's nice.
Unlike Rudolph who was mocked and all that stuff and the Nightmare Before Christmas, which is a
weird movie, and Rent filmed live on Broadway. Okay. I do not consider Rent a Christmas movie. Yeah.
But considering that it starts and ends at Christmas time. Okay. I can see why. All right.
But yes, Rent is one of my favorite musicals because of course I am a big theater nerd. You are.
And if I had gone to a high school that emphasized the arts instead of sports,
I probably would have been a theater kid. Yeah. But we mentioned the Nightmare Before
Christmas, which Tim Burton's movie. Yes. And it came out during the holidays. But I never really
identified it as a Christmas movie. And actually when I hear Nightmare Before Christmas, I just
think about that cutaway gag on Family Guy. Oh, no. Where they talk about Jack Skellington's
Forfeb, the night, the Fourth of July Nightmare or something. But they're singing spooky weirdness,
la la la. And they're singing about presidents being dead and patriotic weirdness. And it's
funny. It's funny. It's funny. It's funny. Yeah. I will show you the YouTube clip later. All right.
One last film we got to mention. Okay. And it is one that she saw earlier today. She literally saw
this. My sister brought it up and said, how did you not mention this last week? Emmett Otter's
Jug Band Christmas. You know what? Yes, I did see it for the very first time earlier today.
By the way, it came out in 1977. Okay. Did it come out on regular TV? It was on, yes, it was on HBO.
That's not regular TV. Okay. But it was on TV nonetheless. Yes. But it was HBO. Right. My
family didn't have HBO. I'm sorry. Do you know what the church I grew up in called HBO? Go on.
Hellbox Office. So yeah, so it was no way in the world. I would have seen that as a kid.
But you finally did. Yes. You know, because it was on YouTube. So you know, bless the people that
upload these old school things to YouTube so that people like me who were denied these simple
pleasures as a child can enjoy them as an adult. That's true. And I did see it today. It is a very
sweet, very wonderful story about a single mom who wants nothing more than to give her kid
a nice Christmas gift and about a hardworking son who wants to give his hardworking single mom
a nice Christmas gift. So it has like the magic of the Muppets with the gift of the Magi.
But it was awesome. I absolutely loved it. All right. So I don't know if we covered all the bases,
but we covered a good amount of them. Let's put it that way. So we don't have to worry about that
until next year. Okay. I got not one. Not one, everybody, but two trivia questions today. Okay.
And they're both Christmas based. So let's see how good you are. All right. Question number one,
in the 1964 movie Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, which you had mentioned, yes,
what was the name of Rudolph's elf friend? Oh, come on. Don't answer it. Let others figure that out.
And we'll give you the answer in a moment. But I got good news. I got good news. I'm sorry,
you had to wait almost an hour, but I got good news for you. Well, it's kind of really, really good
news, but it's not complete yet. And there's a caveat to this. Okay. Remember, I did the radio
show on Thanksgiving? Yes. Well, the ratings went through the roof. All right. No, no, they didn't.
I'm just picking that last part up. But I'm gotten the okay to do a trial run of a radio show that
I've been thinking about doing for well over a year. And now I'm going to at least do the,
the, you know, the trial run of it. It is in, it is called the top 20 countdown. And it's looking
back at a certain year of the week that we do the show. Like for instance, the trial run show
will run on, we're going to do that show on the radio station in my town WPLK AM and FM.
And we're going to be doing that from 10am to noon next Saturday. It is the countdown.
This Saturday, like the 28th. Okay. So that's this Saturday. This Saturday, folks. This Saturday.
And I'm inviting everybody to listen in, whether it is on the radio station. WPLK is 98.3 FM or
AM side, it is 800. I mean, well, I guess it's better that you do it here because I try to boost
you up on Facebook. And Facebook sent me a nice nasty message saying that I was spamming people.
That might be a problem. And even if you didn't mean it, that, that, yeah, they're very, very tight
about that stuff. No, they're very tight about certain things. Yeah. But it is a, it is an old
e-show. It basically, we're going to be countdown to the top 20 songs. Our trial run show will be
for December 28, 1969. That will be the date. December 28, 1969. We're going to start at 10am
on WPLK. You can listen on the AM or the FM if you're close by to where the station is based in.
But if you're not, and you're listening out there and you're far away, you could go two
different directions on this. You could go to the website where the station is located, which is
Bass Capital Radio. B-A-S-S-C-A-P-I-T-A-L-R-A-D-I-O. BassCapitalRadio.com. You have a choice of two
radio stations. W-I-Y-D is the country station. WPLK is the oldest station. You've got to hit WPLK.
You'll hear the show. Also, thanks to a high school classmate of mine who showed me this about
three years ago, you could go to Radio.Garden as in how does your garden grow or vegetable garden.
You get the idea. Radio.Garden and the search box just type in WPLK. It'll come up with that as well.
So you have two ways, you have four ways to listen to the show. And I invite you to listen to the
show. We're going to be counting down the 20 biggest songs on the, according to the Billboard
Out hundred chart from December 28, 1969. Now here's where the caveat is thrown in. I'm going to need
your help. If I don't get the sponsorship, you know, like commercials and whatever to back this up,
I don't have a show. And that's what I need more than anything else. I need about two or three,
at least sponsors to start with. Now, pipe dream would be four or five, but I would like to bring
people in and give them the same kind of show every week. We want to bring you in. We want to,
you know, pimp up your business, whatever the case may be. I want us to have a good show. And I
want us for you to succeed as a business out there. So I invite everybody who has a business,
you know, especially in Putnam County, in St. John's County, or in Flagler County,
or in areas nearby, if you're listening to this podcast in Jacksonville, hey, go for it. I have
no problem with it. We're trying to get sponsorship. So we could do this show again. And I have my
next show planned for January 11th. And I will let you know how that's going. But if you are
interested now in being a sponsor, you could do so by getting my email address, which is
Marky B, M-A-R-K-Y-B-E-E, as in Bumblebee, MarkyB1966 at gmail.com. Again, MarkyB1966
at gmail.com. I'm excited about doing this show. As a matter of fact, when I was coming to her place
on Sunday, I was really thinking, I was doing the show in my head. I was literally doing a show in
my head. I was having a good time doing that. But that is what we're planning to do. Now,
if we get the okay, if we get the sponsorship and everything turns out fine, we will have another show.
We will start doing the show regularly on January 11th. But that's up to the people helping in
sponsoring the show. Because that's a big deal too. And we want to bring, as I said, bring people in.
And help sponsor the show. And it'll get a lot of listeners ears to probably patronize the business.
So it is important that we do that. I want to do that. And hopefully you will be out there trying to
help us listen to the show. You be the judge of whether we've got a good show to advertise,
or just a good show to listen to. Okay. Let me know one way or the other. And hopefully,
you know, this Saturday 10am on WPLK AM and FM, it turns out fine. Okay. So I'm excited.
Ready to go. All the songs in the top 20 I found out is are in our PLK library. I'm excited about
that. So I don't have to download anything extra other than some bonus songs. And again, inviting
you all to listen 10am Eastern time, Saturday, December 28th. Okay. So right after the Christmas
break. All right, trivia time. We asked the question before in the 1964 movie Rudolph the Red
Nose Reindeer. What was the name of Rudolph's elf friend? Go on. You know the answer. His name was
Hermie. He was very much so Hermie. He wanted to be a dentist. I was going to say that was the
next part of the question. And then the hand elf was hating on him. I know. Because I'm like,
okay, but my thing is why are you hating on him? Right. Y'all need healthcare at the North Pole.
Y'all are elves. Y'all don't eat nothing but candy canes and cookies. Y'all ain't got no tea.
I think it was pointed out in that movie too. Yes. Y'all need a dentist. I don't know why
y'all was hating on Hermie. Right. No, no, I hate. I'm with you there. Why was y'all hating on him?
All right. I said we had a second trivia question. It involves Christmas. Yes. All right. Think hard
about this one. Okay. What popular Christmas song was actually written for Thanksgiving?
Let you think about that for a second. What popular Christmas song was actually written
for Thanksgiving? You wouldn't think this. No, but what is it? It is one of the very most popular
songs involves a sleigh. Is it Jingle Bells? It is Jingle Bells. Okay. Seriously? Yeah. I'm serious.
I don't know the backstory about it, but it was one of the trivia questions that I was looking at
before we started doing this podcast. Yeah. What was it? Jingle Bells was originally supposed to be
for Thanksgiving now. I don't understand the correlation, but I got to go with it. That's
weird. That's what it said. That's strictly basing this on. Yeah, this is how it happened. So,
yeah, it is Jingle Bells. I know you're trying to figure it out. You're singing it. I could see it
now. You're singing it in your head and you're trying to figure out, well, where's the Thanksgiving
part? Yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out. Where is the Thanksgiving in that? Yeah, but
it was originally written for Thanksgiving. Who knew? All right. We always close the show out
with the top six songs from the Billboard Hot 100, but we're not doing that this week. It is
Christmas week. Okay. When I used to have a regular gig at WPLK, my next to last week in 2020 on that
show, I did a countdown, a top 40 countdown of the best Christmas songs. Now, a lot of it was
popular. A lot of it was my, quite a bit of it was my opinion, but we could debate this all day
long. Okay. I know you probably have a list in your head of what was your top six, but this is
what I counted down as number six through one the week before my last show on New
Year's Day 2021. I mean, so this was the countdown show and this was number six.
The song that has raised millions and millions of dollars for the hungry in Africa.
I think you know the song. Okay. Do they know it's Christmas?
Do they know it's Christmas by Band-Aid. Okay. Of course, it was a month at that time until
Elton John's Candle in the Wind 1997. It was the biggest selling single in British chart history.
Written, of course, by Sir Bob Geldof and by
Mid-Jour of the Band Ultravox. But yeah, that was, it brought in some of the big stars of the time,
Boy George, Paul Young, the late George Michael, Simon LeBon, Sting, Bono of U2.
They were the main lead singers on that record and again, raised millions of dollars to help
combat famine in Africa, especially in Ethiopia. There was an ABC documentary on this in 1982
that they were watching. Okay. And Sir Bob Geldof was watching and yeah, that he was inspired
to do this. And of course, all those records that were made, of course, We Are the World,
Tears Are Not Enough, which was the Canadian answer to all this. And then of course, Live Aid
comes about because of Band-Aid and because of that one simple recording session. So that was
number six on my list. Now, number five is a song that first became famous by Bobby Helms in 1957.
Darrell Hall and John Oates did a version of it in 1982. And it is just one of the catchiest tunes
of all time at Christmas time, Jingle Bell Rock. Okay. Love it. You love it, of course.
It is just a catchy tune. It is just really, really, and of course, it's played a lot at
Christmas time. So why not? Okay. Number four is a song that was actually composed. And I'm not
kidding about this story. Written by Mel Tormey. He wrote this song about the holidays and winter time
while he was sitting at the poolside in Beverly Hills, or was it Beverly Hills? The town I'm
thinking of. Palm Springs in California. He was just sitting there. And he wrote this song.
He wrote the first lines, chestnuts roasting on an open fire, jackfros nibbling at your nose.
You couldn't do that under those circumstances anywhere, but he did. Okay. Of course, you know
that as the Christmas song. Yes. The most famous version of, you know, numerous people did it.
Yes. But the most famous, I think we agree, Nat King Cole. Yes. That man just had a velvety voice.
Yes. Number three is a song that last year hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. And when it
happened, this woman who was 79 years old became the oldest artist in history to have a number one
hit. Of course, but people don't know us that she recorded the song in 1959 when she was all of 14
years old. And what a lot of other people don't know is that it's one of 15 official state songs
for Tennessee. Yeah, that's wild in its own right. The song, of course, by a woman who had
many, many hits as a teenager. I'm sorry. I want to be wanted. Break it to me gently.
Just to name a few. Sweet nothings. Of course, I'm talking about Brenda Lee. Yes. Who's actually
from Georgia. And her song at number three, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree. PBS recently
did a documentary about her. And I'm almost certain that that was a fantastic one. I have not
watched it. I have to, I'll have to watch it on my PBS app. And number two, until about a few years
ago, it would be easy to say, well, you know, yeah, it's the king. It's the boss. But the truth
of the matter is it was the boss until, like I said, a few just like four or five years ago.
We've mentioned the movie that it's from, Holiday Inn. And you could go back all the way. This song
was recorded in 1942. 1942, everybody. And it has lasted generations, 82 years, four generations.
Actually more than that. Five generations. You believe that? Five generations. And it is still
one of the most popular Christmas songs of all time. Written by Irving Berlin, sung by Bing
Crosby. Of course, White Christmas. Okay. I mean, there's no denying that. We could be, we could go
another 100 years. We could be long gone. And that song will still, still be popular to this day.
I'm almost guaranteeing you that. But I said that that was the biggest Christmas song of all time
until a few years ago, when this song made history. It was recorded in 1994 for this woman's Christmas
album. And back then her co-writer, Walter Afanasyev, said, why are we doing this? Usually when you
make an Al Christmas album, it is like the kiss of death. It is like the kiss of death. It basically
signals to your fans, I got nothing left. Christmas albums are all I'm left with. But she was at her
highest of high points. And they wrote this song. She has even said that she was inspired by the
Phil Spector sound. And Darling Love's amazing version of Baby, Please Come Home. Yes. Which
Darling Love did for years on the Late Show with David Letterman. And she just recently did with
Jimmy Fallon. Yeah. Yeah. And Darling Love is in her early 80s. And she is still rocking out for that song.
Yeah, I showed you the one she did on SNL like a year or so ago. Yeah. Oh my God. That's,
yes. There are moments I have to leave that room because it is one of my all time favorite Christmas
songs. And I'm going to be like a three year old just weeping because I love that song so much.
But that was one of the inspirations of that song, this song. It came out in 1994, hit some
various top 40 radio charts. But Billboard Magazine changed the chartology or their method,
methodology of how they bring in the hits. And they finally in like 2017 allowed Christmas
songs to be a part of the Billboard Hot 100. Yes. This song has been number one, I believe, five
times since then. It wasn't last year, but it just went back to number one this year.
A woman who has 19 number one hits to her credit, including this one. But this song is the true
standard now of what Christmas greatness is all about. Some people love this song. Some people
don't love it, but I totally love this song. Number one, Mariah Carey. Yes. All I want for Christmas
is I have her Christmas album. I did too. I was dating. I have it on vinyl. I was dating a woman
whose mom sadly passed away three months later from cancer. She got me the cassette of Mariah Carey's
Christmas and I wore that song out. I love that song. But yeah. Yeah, that was number one on my
list. I think I probably shocked a lot of radio listeners expecting white Christmas. Sorry. Sorry.
No, this is the standard now. All I want for Christmas is you by Mariah Carey. Number one.
We made it. Very extended long podcast, but we made it. Well, it is Christmas. It is Christmas.
And next week we'll recap Christmas, whatever we did. And we're going to review 2024. It's that
moment, everybody. It's that time, everybody, where we look back on the year gone by. It was
an interesting year to say the least for both of us. But look forward to 2025. So that's it for now.
And don't forget, I got a radio show this coming Saturday on WPLK, AM and FM. You can listen
locally. You can also listen to the show on Bass Capital Radio.com. Hit WPLK. You'll listen to
it there. Or radio.garden. Hit WPLK. That's winner Paul, what would that be? Losing. Okay, let's try
this again. Winner Paul losing and what would the KB? Knowledge? Something like that. I was never
big on the Army, whatever that is, the Whiskey Tango, whatever. Yeah, you know what I'm talking
about. Yes, I've never been on top of that. So it's WPLK. Just type that on radio.garden and
you'll hear it that way. But I'm looking for sponsorship. That's the most important thing.
I'll let you know how we did. Hopefully you'll listen for yourselves. But that's it.
We just made it and we did it. I am Mark. And I'm Camisa.
And we just made a podcast, everybody. See you back here in seven days. Merry Christmas to all.
Happy Hanukkah and happy Kwanzaa. Yes, happy merry everybody. Merry everything. There you go.
Until next week. Seven days from now, we'll reconvene and we'll do this all over again. So until then,
bye. Bye.