142 - Phil Spector - A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector - Wayne Federman

Summary

Podcast Summary: The 500 with Josh Adam Meyers

Episode 142 – Phil Spector – A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector
Guest: Wayne Fetterman
Release Date: September 17, 2025

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Overview

This episode dives into album #142 from Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums: Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector. Josh Adam Meyers (JAM) is joined by frequent guest and comedic historian Wayne Fetterman to discuss the legacy—and scandals—of Phil Spector, the wall of sound, the Christmas music genre, and the cultural context surrounding this legendary holiday album.

The discussion meanders through the hosts' recent travel experiences, seasoning the music analysis with humorous personal stories, but ultimately circles back to offer a critical yet affectionate look at one of the most influential Christmas albums ever made.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Phil Spector: The Man, The Myth, The Felon

[30:51–43:00]

• Wayne provides a mini-biography: Spector's early aspirations as a doo-wop singer from The Bronx, formation of the Phillies Records label, and innovation with the “wall of sound.”
• Spector’s studio genius: comparison to Motown, unique “teenage symphonies,” and his forward-thinking approach—using the studio as an instrument.
• Collaborations with The Beatles (notably Let It Be), John Lennon ("Instant Karma"), and George Harrison (Concert for Bangladesh).
• Addressing Spector’s abusive, criminal personal life: control over Ronnie Spector, imprisonment, and the 2003 murder conviction.
  • Memorable Quote:
    "Can you remove the artist from the art? Is he bad enough that you... we really shouldn't? Because I know he, like, murdered people, right?"
    — JAM [36:28]

2. The Album’s Place in Christmas Music History

[29:07–31:09 / 42:18–51:54]

• A Christmas Gift for You... as a standard-bearer for wall-of-sound records; Spector’s focus was on singles, but this album retroactively earned "all-time" status.
• Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) cited it as his favorite album, praising Spector’s mastery of the studio, calling him his sole “competition” at the time.
  • Wayne:
    "Phil Spector was the only competition [Brian Wilson] had at the time." [42:18]
• Discussion on the cultural impact of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" by Darlene Love—recognized as the album’s towering classic.
  • Darlene Love performed this track for 21 years on Letterman’s pre-Christmas show [46:31–47:19]
• Other tracks like “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” “Frosty the Snowman,” and “White Christmas” continue to permeate holiday playlists, films, and TV.

3. Favorite Songs and Enduring Appeal

[70:26–73:44]

• Panelists debate their favorites—unanimously praising “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” with honorable mentions for “Marshmallow World” and “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.”
• Noted that while the whole album is “no skip” in a party context, the tracks can feel samey due to the consistent wall-of-sound approach.
  • Wayne:
    "This is more of a... if you're having a Christmas party, put on this record and put it on the background and it will set the mood 100%." [72:38]
• Role of Christmas albums in American pop music—every artist chasing a perennial hit, with royalty checks as motivation.

4. Striking the Right Season

[29:52–31:09 / 51:47–55:50]

• The hosts reflect on reviewing a Christmas album in September, likening it to premature pumpkin spice lattes.
  • JAM:
    "I find it odd to listen to an album of Christmas songs this early... This would have been perfect if it was December." [29:52]
• Noting the ubiquity of Christmas music now, often starting before Thanksgiving for commercial reasons.

5. Contextual & Cultural Tidbits

• Release date of A Christmas Gift for You... coincided with JFK’s assassination (Nov 22, 1963), which hindered initial commercial performance.
  [59:58–60:21]
• The album peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200 ten years after release (1972), and reached #7 in January 2024—testament to its enduring popularity.
  [60:42–62:22]
• Musicians on the album included Sonny Bono (percussion) and Leon Russell (piano).
• Wayne ruminates on the crossover between classic American holiday songs from crooners like Bing Crosby and Spector’s pop productions, making this record a bridge between eras.

6. Funny and Memorable Moments

• The hosts share travel woes (flying private vs. last-row coach), raucous tour stories, and Amsterdam’s Red Light District misadventures.
  • "Two prostitutes have never worked harder to get a guy turned on. Like, I was just—it seemed fun on paper, but..."
    — JAM [26:23]
• A recurring joke about “glove/no glove, paper towel/no paper towel” in Amsterdam.
• Jokes about capitalism:
  "Literally just 30 minutes ago, like, yeah, I'm flying private jets across the world… and then complaining about capitalism."
  — Wayne [52:30]
• Tangents about American versus UK Sudafed, favorite and least favorite holidays (Wayne: best is Fourth of July, dislikes parts of Halloween).

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Notable Quotes (with Timestamps)

• On Phil Spector’s Artistry:
  "Phil Spector captured the sound of youth. The sound—kind of the opposite of what happened with you and those prostitutes in Amsterdam." – Wayne [31:09]
• On the Ethics of Enjoyment:
  "Can you remove the artist from the art? Is he bad enough that you... we really shouldn't? Because I know he, like, murdered people, right?" – JAM [36:28]
• On Enduring Christmas Music:
  "Every artist since Bing Crosby who put out the First Christmas album has always wanted a Christmas hit, because every year you get a royalty. … To have one that actually sticks, like, is incredible. That's why that Mariah Carey one, I think is as good as Jingle Bells." – Wayne [50:28]
• On Holiday Albums and Parties:
  "If you're having a Christmas party, put on this record and put it on the background and it will set the mood 100%. You will be like, let's open some presents..." – Wayne [72:38]
• On Reviewing a Christmas Album in September:
  "It's that whole thing of, like, the pumpkin spice latte starts coming out in August. You're like, dude, it's not fall yet... They're playing Christmas music before Thanksgiving." – JAM [51:54]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Phil Spector’s Biography/Legacy: [30:51–43:00]
• Discussion of Album’s Standing in Christmas Music: [29:07–31:09, 42:18–51:54]
• Personal Favorite Songs: [70:26–73:44]
• Release/JFK Assassination Tidbit: [59:58–60:21]
• Billboard Peak/Chart Stats: [60:42–62:22]
• Lighthearted Personal Anecdotes (Travel/Jelly Roll): Intermittent, [7:04–23:08]
• Amsterdam Story: [23:02–27:00]

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Final Thoughts / Elevator Pitch

Wayne Fetterman [77:32]:
"If you're interested in Christmas songs as a genre, this is a must-listen... it's one of the greatest Christmas albums of all time. Also, if you're interested in how a bipolar Jewish kid from the Bronx who wanted to be a doo-wop singer came to California and created a genre of music that used the studio as an instrument, this is one of the great examples."

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Episode Tone

Casual, irreverent, historically insightful—with frequent comic detours and insider musician/comedy banter.

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In summary:
This episode delivers a comprehensive, comedic, and honest take on Spector's holiday masterpiece—celebrating the joyous, genre-defining sounds while grappling with the complexities of its deeply troubled creator. If you want a blend of music history, pop culture, and wild road stories (plus some classic Jewish-American podcaster energy), this is a must-listen—ideally, with a mug of eggnog, but anytime of year.

Transcript

[Josh Adam Myers]

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[Wayne Fetterman]

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[Josh Adam Myers]

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[Doug]

The 500. The 500 JM been walking us down through that 2012 edition so it ain't nothing too you hundreds more to go. And in need of a friend. The king of peace for angelo. Talking the 500 until the end Talking the 500 until the end with my man JL on the 500 Talking the 500 until the end.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

That is Christmas Baby please come home. It's by Phil Spector.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Well, actually that's not by Phil Spector.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

I mean, he produced it. It's by Darlene Love and Phil Spector.

[Josh Adam Myers]

All right, you get the deal.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

But it is from 1963's Record. A Christmas gift for you from Dr. Phil Spector. I guess I'm still thinking of Dr. John. It's also number 142 out of 500 on the 500 with Josh Adam Myers. What's up party people? It is me. I am Josh Adam Myers and I'm going through Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums and you are listening to the 500 podcast. I am in London right now. I've got shows here all week and then I'm doing Tottenham Stadium with Jelly Roll on the twentiet and the 21st and then I am coming back to America for two days and then I'M off to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain with Bill Burr. I just ate at Gordon Ramsay's restaurant, the Savoy Grill. I got Wellington and sticky toffee pudding in my stomach. Still don't have the right equipment. But we are plugging.

[Josh Adam Myers]

We are plugging along.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

If you want to see me, though, in America, I'll be in Naples, Florida, the 10th, sorry, the 3rd to the 4th of October. New Westminster in Canada. That's right around Vancouver, October 9th and the through the 11th. I'll be in New Mexico on October 17th through the 18th, and then Janesville, Wisconsin in the end of October. And then you can see me in Phoenix, New Orleans, Baltimore, Charlotte, and Montville, Connecticut. I don't have anything for New Year's yet, but hopefully we find that. Go to joshadamyers.com for tickets at Josh Adam Myers on all social media. Be a part of the festivities because I'm having fun, man. It's the best summer of my life. I don't know how to put it, but working with Queens of the Stone Age, working with Jelly Post Malone, Wolf Mother, just kind of. I think when this is all said and done, I'll be doing two months, almost two full months in Europe straight. And I think I'm gonna do this every year because the vision quest has been fulfilling. I am a little under the weather right now. I'm worn out from the touring. My TV at the hotel does not have anything that works. And I'm at a nice hotel, too. And they said they change it, but they can go themselves. Want to watch the podcast? Well, if you do, go to the YouTube page and subscribe to the 500 PODC channel. And if you want to really get it early, the full episodes are on Thursday on YouTube, but you can get them on Wednesday, the day they come out on Patreon for $5 a month. Patreon.com backslash the 500 podcast. Patreon.com backslash THE 500 podcast. 25 gets you some merch. Support the show. Me, Pete, Emily, Morty, Wayne. I'm including Wayne in there now. He's family. Jt, Adam, Logan, Brian. He rules, too. Subscribe. All right, guys, it's Christmas time. And is it too early? Am I saying in September is Christmas time is like saying that that late, not late? Yeah, I'd say late. August is. Is fall. This is. This feels like we're drinking pumpkin spice latte a little too early. Does that make sense? But we're doing a Christmas record and we talk about it a little bit. I mean, the guess Is a double dipper for his. His 20th time, maybe. I don't know. Does he tell you how many times he's done it? Hold on. Damn it. Let me see if he wrote how many times Wayne has done this record Wayne has been on. Does he say Wayne Fetterman? No, he didn't even put that. Usually Adam always puts how many times Wayne Fetterman has done it? Ah, well, I don't know, but he's my buddy, guys. He's your buddy. He's the one that you love. Wayne Fetty Wap Fetterman. I love him to death at instafetterman. Fetterman on Twitter. I don't think he does that anymore, but, man, he's my favorite.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

So this is the record, this is the album, and this is our friend. Rate, review, and most importantly, subscribe to the 500 listen free on all platforms or anywhere you get your pies. By the way, I should say this.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Like, I'm really happy to have Wayne on.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

Wayne filled in for Dr. John. Because of the trip. It's really hard for me to record. I don't have the equipment, the time difference. I'm running ragged on this tour. So we will get back. We got some really big guests coming up, so don't trip out. None of you are sick of Wayne. I know that for a fact. We. Wayne could do every episode. We just have some. It could be me, Wayne, and Morty, and it would fucking rule. So just know we love you.

[Josh Adam Myers]

We're not being lazy.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

It's just, you know, I'm in Europe and I've been here for forever. I live here now, basically. Guys, follow me at Josh Adam Myers on all social media. Follow the podcast at the 500 podcast. Email the [e-mail] Follow the Facebook group run by Chris Crazy Heaven. And for all things 500, go to the website, the500podcast.com. All right, y', all, nothing to say, but here we go with number 142.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Out of 500 with a Christmas gift.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

For you from Dr. Phil Spector. I called him doctor again. God damn it.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

We got Wayne MVP back to back.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Come on, baby.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, my God.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Baby, come back. I don't want to lose.

[Doug]

For sure.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You haven't done anything since the. No. What do we do? That was. Oh, my.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Did you get the gree GRE I sent you?

[Wayne Fetterman]

That was a funny run.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Dude. I got a lot of. A lot of comments about the gree gre. A lot of people loving Grigris. That's. That's my gift to everybody moving forward. Expect a grigri every holiday. A holiday grigri. So I'll just tell you what I did today. So I. I did not have the studio tour of Abbey Road Studios.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Ah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I. I did not yet. I'm going to. That's why I'm not leaving. I was gonna leave today because I will. Yesterday I was just so exhausted. I flew from Lisbon to London thinking I'd be doing a bunch of spots here in London. But I threw this together. I reached out to the club and the guy was like, I'm overbooked and blah, blah, blah. So then I was like, maybe I'll go to New York. And I reached out to the bookers in New York and. And one of them came through big time. But the thing is, I was like, she's like, when do you need to know by? And I was like. I was like, well, I need to. She's new. No, by tomorrow, which is today. Because the reason is. It's like, I haven't done actual stand up. Stand up in probably like two and a half weeks, maybe three weeks. But I have to open for Burr in Bahrain and in Saudi Arabia, and, you know, I'm doing those shows with him.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You're doing the Riyadh show?

[Josh Adam Myers]

I'm doing the Riyadh show, Yep.

[Wayne Fetterman]

How long is Bird doing? How long is he doing. Will he be doing on those shows? Do you know?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Probably. Probably an hour, right?

[Wayne Fetterman]

I don't know.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I mean, I think I'm doing 15, maybe 10 to 15.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Nice.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Right.

[Josh Adam Myers]

But I haven't gone up in a minute, so I wanted to get some reps in. Yeah, of course. I don't want to go up raw, but also, I don't want to leave England.

[Wayne Fetterman]

He's staying. I got you, Wayne.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

He's staying.

[Josh Adam Myers]

As.

[Wayne Fetterman]

As someone who wrote the history, this Riyadh show is very famous, and it's going to be in the updated version of my book.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

A hundred percent.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Remember.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Remember what you see What? But. Because at one point, Bill Cosby was announced. I don't know if he still do.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Is that really. I thought that was a Tim Heidecker prank. That's what's wrong.

[Wayne Fetterman]

It was. Oh, I don't know.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I mean, hold on. Let's Google that. Jer.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

I saw him on the. The poster on the Tim Heidecker, but.

[Wayne Fetterman]

It was just the whole thing.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

I thought it was a joke.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I don't know.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

I. I just.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Probably sounds right.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Bill Cosby do anything?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, I heard Jessica Kirsten is Doing it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

A lot of people are a lot of big names.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

But, dude, if this was my show, like, if I was just going into a weekend, like, I wouldn't care at all. Like, I would just go, cool. But. But because it's Burr. It's like, I don't want to. I don't want to bomb, and there's a lot of stuff I can't talk about. And, you know, it's like, you need reps.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I know.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Are you doing a clean show?

[Wayne Fetterman]

You're. You. Go ahead. What did you say?

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Is he gonna do a clean show? I want to know if you're going to do a clean show.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, that's not what I'm asking. I'm asking way more specific than that. Go. Do you have a list, a piece of paper they give you or what you're allowed to talk about and what you're not?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, I could find it right here. Let me pull it up. Yes.

[Wayne Fetterman]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

It's not seven dirty words, though. It's a lot more than that.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Or you can just send it to me later. But I'm very interested. Sorry, my voice is. I was asleep 28 minutes ago, so.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

You're such a man. Save the show.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I'll set on stage. Apparently, yeah, it's on stage. Content restrictions. Political commentary about Saudi Arabia. No personal and cultural references are welcome, but avoid content about Islam, degrade or being or bring in public. Disrupt contempt, scandal, scorn, embarrassment or ridicule. I can't make fun of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, its leadership, public figures, culture or people. Any Islamic religion, tradition, Islamic religious figures or practice. That is for Riyadh. That is it. So really, I guess I can talk about sex.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Do you have.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Is that.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Is it listed like the paper you're reading it from? Is that just in an email or is that from us?

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, it's from the. It's from the.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You gotta send me. You gotta send me this. Thank you. Thank you. That was. That's a big favor for me. Thank you.

[Josh Adam Myers]

All right.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Wayne's again on the inside.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You're. You didn't. You didn't get it from me.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I know. I know. No one would know it comes from you.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Thank God. Thank God. No one's gonna listen to this episode.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Anything in this thing.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So. So I wanted to say this. I thought you would get a kick out of this, guys, and I can send you the videos. Is. So today I. I slept in. It was the first day. I haven't had to like wake up or anything, you know, being on Jelly's schedule. Because you're. I'm flying private with him, I'm staying with him. You know, it's everything. It is when he goes, you better be there or you get left and it's go, go, go, go, go. Do that guy. There's a. There's you it all. I see why he's one of the. Be gonna be one of the biggest artists in country music because he is. He's non stop.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

So amazing.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So they went to New York. This is, this is where I think I. I didn't up, but this is me. This is me. The best way to put this is this is me. You know, this whole trip has just been squeezing an orange of its juice and just getting all these delicious nutrients and nutrients. But he was like leaving Lisbon and flying private back to New York yesterday and me thinking I could get spots in London. I go, well, I'm just gonna go to London and I'll do the two final shows. But then I couldn't get any spots. Or at least I, I mean, I'm trying. I'll end up getting one or two probably, you know, and I'll definitely get one the night before. Like, I'll figure something out. Like, I'm not gonna go overall, but it was like I. I had to fly. I had to fly coach, coach yesterday. The last seat in British Airways.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Hold on. Timeout. Yeah, you've gone from the top of the mountain. You're like up there. You've seen the promised land. You're in the promised land. You're flying first class. Not first class, private.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Private.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Private. You don't even have to go through security. Is that correct?

[Josh Adam Myers]

You can kind of, but it's loose. If you have a water bottle and.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You go, when, when everyone's ready. There's no. Like, this departs at a certain time. So the top two, the worst possible coach, which is not bad, by the way.

[Josh Adam Myers]

The last, the last row.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Recline or no recline?

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, recline. Oh, yeah, no recline.

[Wayne Fetterman]

A baby next to you. Was there a baby?

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, there was. There was an Indian or, or a Muslim girl. I'm assuming she's Muslim because the girl, the girl was wearing the, the thing that she fell asleep and her head went on my shoulder. But they were very sweet. She was cute. She was cute and she had. She had really nice boobs. So I was like.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

I brought it on a little pillow. A little pillow for you.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

Turban.

[Josh Adam Myers]

But so Then I was gonna decide because Candy at New York Comedy Club came through, and she goes, yeah, I can get you, like, five shows this week. And I was like, all right. And I was like, but then I gotta leave. And then I. Then also, I started not feeling well last night. My throat got a little sore.

[Wayne Fetterman]

What are the stimulus?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Throat was a little scratchy. Nose got congested, and if I'm sick, I can't be around Jelly at all. Like, Jelly's like. He kicked a guy off tour, but Jelly's not. He's gone. But I. Then I woke up this morning, and I felt fine. So.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay, that's good.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I mean, I'm still a little worn down, but I'm not. I wouldn't. It's like, dude, I'm not sick. You know what I mean?

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

You're gonna tell us about the Pope clips.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I. So I was so. All right. So, yeah, the Vatican thing, that was crazy. I. I got to hang out with, like, Teddy Swims and clips and Carol G. Bocelli. Jelly. Andrea Bocelli, Pharrell.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Wait, Pacelli and Jelly.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So there was a Jelly and Jelly.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Jelly and Jelly and the Pope.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Battelli and Jelly and the Pope.

[Wayne Fetterman]

That's a great album title.

[Josh Adam Myers]

We. We got blessed. We all got. You know, we.

[Wayne Fetterman]

He.

[Josh Adam Myers]

He was.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

He.

[Josh Adam Myers]

He blessed Jelly. I didn't get to meet the Pope, but I met the guy right underneath him. Cardinal. But that. But he blessed all of us. We did a prayer.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

You still got.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, dude. I mean, the. The Pope thing was like, I. I got so cocky, and I was like, oh, I'm meeting the Pope. And then I was like, I'm not meeting the Pope. Like, I can't go in there. You guys go in there. Okay.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Did you meet Drake?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Drake? No, we never went to the Drake concert. Instead, Jelly went to his studio. But. But I did sit front row at UFC and wwe, and it's. It's been great.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Was Pacelli, Jelly, and the Pope there at the ufc?

[Josh Adam Myers]

At the. At the ufc? Yeah, at the ufc.

[Wayne Fetterman]

That would be great. They, like, started hanging out, the three of them, just like, you know, kind of walking down.

[Josh Adam Myers]

And the Pope. Dude. Something that really. I wanted to tell you guys what happened just now, like, I just left Abbey Road, though, because I went to Abbey Road just to go. Because I'm like. I'm literally, like. I'm literally. It's so funny. I'm staying at a hotel that me and Jim Jeffries, while we were waiting to go to Jimmy Carr's house because he lives, like, a Block away from here. We. We were. When we were going to see Oasis, we ordered German donner kebab and ate it, like, in the parking lot. And as we pulled up to the hotel, I was like, oh, my God. And I go, oh, dude. I'm close to Abbey Road Studios, so I'll just go by and just. And just dick around there in the morning, you know, it's such a legendary place. And I'll go get my own picture. I know I just did it with Jim, but I wanted to do it again, dude. I started realizing I was like, everybody is up by trying to take a picture while they're walking. And I started going, just pose. Wait till the traffic dies down and pose. And then I started, dude, I became the camera guy for, like, 30 people. And I got, like. I got. I became, you know, loud American, like, like, Asian. Get the. Out of the way. All right, you guys, right there. Stop. Get closer. Okay, here we go. Boom, boom. Dude, people started lining up to let me take the photos for them. And I got it all. I got it all in my glasses, too. So it's really funny of me being like, Italians, shut up. Like, they gotta pay attention. Like, what? It's the wrong way. Wrong way. The other way I did it.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Americans are so obnoxious. Every day I try and be a little less obnoxious, but it's hard.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I gotta. I got a song. I go, loud Americans, loud Americans. We are the loud Americans, Right? He was a loud American. Loud American, loud. So I guess I'm here for the week now. I guess I'm leaving on the 22nd, and that'll give me a. A day, a day and a half to do a spot and run errands before I go to Saudi Arabia, so.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And do you leave from New York?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, because I thought there was a layover, but there's not. And he's flying me, like, super first class. And I just need to, like, I need to grab my stuff. I need to get some medication and, like, do you know what I mean? Like, my hair is about to fall out probably. Like, I'm taking my hair pills every other day. I'm hoping it stays in your system. Yeah, looks.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Is it Aram? Is it Emeritus Air? Is that what airline you're flying?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Qatar.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Qatar.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

It's a good one.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

Yeah, I've done it before.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I'm flying, like, first class. First class on Qatar.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Super first class, Wayne.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah. And so the way I see it is, even if I'm.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Is that the one where you can take a shower because there's one where you can take a shower. Do you know about that?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Find out.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

I've heard of that.

[Wayne Fetterman]

We'll find out.

[Josh Adam Myers]

We'll find out. We will find out. We'll find out.

[Wayne Fetterman]

For this gig, do they give you a per diem?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, no.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, no.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I know it's a lot of money. I know it's a lot of euro. I mean, not Euro. Petro dollars going your way.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Pay you in petrol.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Go ahead.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

Compared.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Compared to what? They're probably playing. Paying Burr. It's. It's probably like. I mean, he's probably get. They're all probably getting millions, you know what I mean? To go out there, I'm assuming. And, you know, and I'm getting. I'm getting peanuts compared to that. But still, nonetheless, good money. Experience. Oh, dude. I'm like, it's the summer of Josh. Like, this has been. Yeah, this has been incredible. Like, I mean, dude, even just me and you going to. Going to high and, you know, the.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

The TP Wayne comes with us next time. That's for sure.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, dude. Will. Dude, you got to meet some of his, like, Spanish friends, dude. They're all naked, just holding each other like, they're. Dude, Jeremiah is just having group sex all the time, and, like.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

We got to keep it alive. I never say, go ahead.

[Wayne Fetterman]

So I say that again. Sorry.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

I just. You got to keep the myth alive. You can't.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, I see.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

But, Wayne, go ahead. Sorry.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, no. I was just. I remember the last time we were talking about your experiences in Amsterdam and the Red district.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, my God. All right.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I'm just shaking my head.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

And what would Phil Spectre do? That's what I am.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So. So we went back to Amsterdam to do some shows, and we were staying at the. This really. Oh, we're staying at the. The Ritz or something in. In Amsterdam, this beautiful hotel. And then me and a couple of the guys go out, and one of the guys, the security guys, used to live in Amsterdam, so he's, like, taking us to. We're all the best. It's a real dodgy areas. Like. Like, he goes, oh, this. This is the best girls. And I'm like, like, all right. I'm looking for one girl in particular. The one that I hooked up with twice. Because, dude, she was. I mean, that girl is perfect. Like, just one of the hottest girls. Young, beautiful, doesn't wear a glove or a condom when he gives you a hand job. And, I mean, that's. That's the important thing.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Like, someone we're settling down with is what you're trying to say.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, but just, I want the own, the biggest bang for my buck. I don't want, I don't want to. One girl. One girl. One girl gave me a hand job, but she wore, she wore a glove and then touched my balls with a paper towel. So you tell me, what would you prefer exactly?

[Wayne Fetterman]

All I'm saying is I hope the glove she was wearing was one of those yellow gloves that housewives wear to do dishes in the 60s.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Nice.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, yeah. So, dude, so I, so I, I. One of my buddies breaks off, he finds somebody, and I'm on my way home and I just. This door is open. And these jerseys too, you know, would look like in between 40 and 50 year old Amsterdam prostitutes. And they just got a good pitch. They had a really good pitch.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Oh, okay.

[Josh Adam Myers]

And they're just like, listen, like, we, you can have both of us. We're really fun. We're not like the other girls. We're not gonna rush you. Like, I was like, when's the timer start? She goes, timer starts after we negotiate and blah, blah, blah. I'm like, okay. And then I'm like, what's your status on the hand job? Gloved. And she's like, not gloved. Condom, not condom. I'm like, okay. And then they're like, I'm like, balls, hands or paper towels? She's like, hands both of us. So I go, both of you? And they're like, yeah, dude. And they name a price. It's like €500 for both of them.

[Wayne Fetterman]

What's that? The American equipment?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Like a hundred and like 1300 bucks probably, or 1200. I don't know the math. And, and dude, I was just in the right mood and they were both hot. And then I go, all right, we go in. But before we negotiated. Now, we didn't negotiate right away. We did. Brought me in. It was a hundred. €100 each. And, And I was like, into it. I was into it. But then we negotiate and they go, all right, so I'm gonna go do this and grab this and blah, blah, blah. And then they get naked. And dude, I was not into it anymore. Like, I, I felt like I was having sex with two moms. Like, it was, it killed my erection. It took the full 40 minutes. They. I don't think two prostitutes have ever worked harder to get a guy turned on. Like, I was just, it's, it seemed fun on paper, but it did not.

[Wayne Fetterman]

That's. I'm. Yeah, again, you know, I've never been to a process. Can they talk a little about the. The money transaction? Was it PayPal? Was it Venmo? Was.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Was American Express? To be honest.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You got points. Okay, little machine where you just like it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I tapped, I tapped.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And what does it say on your credit card bill? What does it actually say?

[Josh Adam Myers]

I don't know. I don't know how my business managers are going to try to. Try to try to code this right as a.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Right R D. R D. No, no, no. I would just like to know what it says as the.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Not what category it's in, what act the business is actually. Anyway, always curious about that.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It's. Dude, it's been. It's been a wild, wild trip. I got.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, I have another question. Were you wearing. Now you have these Internet glasses that can record, right?

[Josh Adam Myers]

I do.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Did you. Do they know you have no security?

[Josh Adam Myers]

So I got caught. I got caught walking through the red light district wearing them. And they were on. You did?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah. This woman, like, yelled at me because I was like, recording as I was walking by the things. And. Yeah, it just. It just didn't just.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Did those glasses translate?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I can understand people saying stuff. Yeah. I mean, it's.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Oh, translate.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, it could translate. Like, and I can hear different languages. I just have to download the language ahead of time. Like, that's the thing. I've. So I've downloaded. I don't like Spanish. This sucks, man. Like, I. This kind of pisses me off about one of the clubs here, man. Like, they're the guy. One of the comedy clubs here, man. Like, I. I'm trying to get some spots at one of the comedy clubs, and the guy's like, we're all full. I'm like, dude, bump off one of your British comics.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Like, dude, I'm in town. Like, you always fit. Like.

[Wayne Fetterman]

All right, all right, all right. I love it. I love it. Well, do you want to talk about this stupid album?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Is it stupid?

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

The Christmas?

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, it's great. No, it's great.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

September, mid September. This is when I start to think of Christmas and. Right.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yes. You know. You know what I don't have is a good Juneteenth album. Like, no one's really put out a good Juneteenth album yet.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Good one. I mean, black people have been making hip hop records. Those are all kind of Juneteenthy, of.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Course, but one specifically for the holiday. Like, a specific. Because Christmas records all have like a. They all have the jingly, that jing. The bells in it and stuff. Even. All I want for Christmas is you. Like the newest, biggest one. So it's like it all has an esthetic to them that's developed through the years that are just. I love, especially as a Jewish guy because it's just. I love Christmas. My second favorite holiday as everyone knows. So I'm into Christmas music. I don't know about you, Josh.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I, you know, I, I love Christmas music. Christmas might be my favorite holiday because I feel like it's just a vi. You know, I don't think you have to be Jewish. I don't feel. I just think that you, you can really just like, like Christmas is such a good feeling. And so, you know, I find it odd to listen to an album of Christmas songs this early. This would have been perfect if it was December, do you know what I mean? Or even, even late November. I think I would have been able to vibe to this. But you know, realistically man, I, I didn't hate this. It's all. Every song, every song kind similar, you know what I mean? That wall of sound. Yeah, the wall of sound is really present in this record. But before we get into that, like why don't you do a little spiel about. About Phil Spector because you're the historical guy, so I know you know about him, so let's teach.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Well, I know a little because we.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Spent 22 minutes talking about my, my 50 year old prostitutes.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I thought they were much younger. I thought that was their combined age.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Go ahead.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Phil Spector, Rest in peace. He's Dead was an incredible record. He started. I wanted to be like a doo wop singer. He's from the Bronx. You know all those kids from the Bronx in the 50s want to be the. Went to LA and I think the name of the band was the Teddy Bears or something like that. And he decided to. He decided to get into record producing because he had a very elevated ear and as you said earlier, created this sound for teenagers. These what they call teenage symphonies that he would create and created. I don't know how to pronounce this. It's Phyllis. Phil Les Records. It's him, Phil Spector and this other guy Lester. They created this company called Phyllis. It looks like it's Phillies, but I don't think that's right. So I apologize for. Anyway, so they created this record label out here in California and got a bunch of artists and we're very much interested in the production. This, this predates like what the Beatles did in the studios and with that and not before Abbey Road, when it was like Rubber Soul and all of those albums, he really used the studio as opposed to just capturing a great performance, like maybe they would do at Capitol Records with Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Of having the record be something you couldn't almost reproduce on stage. It was, it was a very specific sound. Put a bunch of musicians in the room, it all reverberated off the walls. And then just, you know, I remember Bruce Springsteen talking about. Again, I'm not friends with Bruce Springsteen. I'm sure you're on a private jet with him at one point. But he was like, what was like, why was this sound so infectious? Why were these album these Darlene Loves, Be My Baby, all of this, so incredible? And he said, and he goes, because Phil Spectre Spector captured the sound of youth. The sound kind of the opposite of what happened with you and those prostitutes in Amsterdam. This was youth, right? And so that's why. And so he create. Even though he released these albums, he was really concentrated on the singles, making them good. And. But this Christmas album came out and did okay, but then was re. Released through the years under different names and became a classic to the point of it's on this list. And then of course, after he, that Phyllis Phyl Les records finally closed, he worked very closely with the Beatles. His first collaboration, if I'm not mistaken, was with the song called Instant Karma that John Lennon kind of recorded. It was sort of the start of the Yoke, the, the Plastic Ono Band. And so that went well. And then the Beatles had this new manager. You know, their first manager died, obviously Brian Epstein, or Epstein, depending on how you say it. And they got this new, very controversial Alan Klein manager. And they, he hired them to work on their last album with Long and Winding Road. And, and some, some people hated it, but he ended up working with George Harrison, the Concert for Bangladesh. He was like a very much in, excuse me, in demand producer, but became increasingly volatile and was very basic. I mean, I don't know if you've read.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Well, no, I, I know, I, I.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Dude, what do you know about. What do you know about that? The personal side, but which is less interesting.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I mean, Ronnie.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Ronnie Spector. Yeah, yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Ronnie Spector had to escape.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Damn. Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You know, like, I mean, we could pull all that up. Like, let me see if I can find all this stuff, the bad stuff that he did, because it's, it's really bad.

[Wayne Fetterman]

It's really bad. It was a very volatile guy and he loved guns and he was very, quite abusive and Ends up in jail. Ends up in jail. If I'm not mistaken. I think Al Pacino played him in the movie. In the TV movie of his life. So it was just a wild ride for this Jewish kid from the Bronx who had a very elevated sense of music at that time. I mean, he wasn't the only one. I mean, Motown was also, you know, very much creating a sound of youth for America. But.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, let me see if I can find all the Phil Spector bad stuff because it's. I mean, we can talk about some of these songs, but I wanna. I think it's far more interesting. I mean, can you remove the artist from the. The art from the artist? Is that still capable? Is he bad enough that you. We really shouldn't. Because I know he, like, murdered people, right?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, I think that's. He was in jail for murder. Yes.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So first marriage was in 63. Annette, blah, blah. They got divorced, he marries Ronnie. Personal life. No, it just doesn't have this. Where's the stuff? Musicianship. Oh, they kind of like cut it out of his. Of his Wikipedia page.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Really?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Well, I mean, you find it, Jer, because, I mean, my Internet here is terrible, so. Oh, wait, here we go. He shot actress Lana Clarkson in the mouth while in his mansion.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Her body was found slumped in a chair with a single gunshot wound to her mouth. Like what he said, because death was an accidental suicide. And then she kissed the gun. I think I killed somebody. He called and he said to Adriana, suit remains free on one million dollar bail while awaiting trial. The trial began, mistrial, hung jury. So he got let go.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. But then he. I think he was retried again and they. And they sent him to jail.

[Josh Adam Myers]

He died in prison?

[Wayne Fetterman]

I believe so. I believe so.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah. Yeah, he was. He retreat spectre murder in 2008. Not televised, which I did. Oh, yeah. So he was found guilty of using a firearm in the commission of a crime, which added four years to the sentence. It doesn't say the full. Oh, they do. The jury. Oh, here we go. Me and taking into custody sentence in 19 years. Tried appeals, all unsuccessful. And how did he die? He died.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

In prison. I don't know how.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, well, for sure, but says he was. It says he was bipolar, but I just remember, like Ronnie, like the story of him and Ronnie Spector, like he had to escape. Yeah.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Adam is a little note here in. In her 1990 memoir, Ronnie Bennett Spector and lead singer the Run, it's alleged that Spectre had imprisoned her in his California mansion and subjected her to years of psychological torment. According to Bennett, Spector sabotaged her career by forbidding her to perform. She escaped from the mansion barefoot with the help of her mother. In 72. In their 74 divorce settlement, she forfeited all future record earnings and surrender custody of their children. She alleged that this was because Spectre threatened to hire a hitman to kill her. Yeah.

[Wayne Fetterman]

That'S how you win a custody case.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

You.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You. I'll kill you. You can have it.

[Wayne Fetterman]

All right.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

You know what?

[Josh Adam Myers]

She should have gotten him little Boo Boo.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Noah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Agree. Agree. Gregory.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Well, the Ron. There's a song they did together called Be My Baby that is just one of the greatest things ever. Human beings have ever done.

[Josh Adam Myers]

We did that at the goddamn comedy Jam in Moon Tower. Sang that. I love that, dude. I love that song. It's. It's. It's. It was voted the number one greatest song in the history of music, I think, by Rolling Stone magazine.

[Wayne Fetterman]

It is so infectious. It is so. And that's the song where Brian Wilson also Rest in peace. We just talk about dead people on this podcast. Was driving, I think, in California somewhere, heard that song on the radio and had to pull the car over. It was so emotionally overwhelming for him to hear that song. That's. That's how powerful Be My Baby was. And it is, you know, this. The Ronnettes were like, almost like the bad girls, you know, they. I just loved. Loved everything he did. And I don't. I love someone to do. Not on this podcast, but a Motown Phil Spector comparison of when those songs came out, what they were doing. Because Motown was all about, as we spoke about many times, like getting black ax on the Ed Sullivan show, like, getting, like. You go to finishing school, you get this. You learn how to dance. If you're the Temptations. You learn how to, like, play these nightclubs or Vegas. If was part of my. And I. I just feel like Phil Spector had, like, a different thing. Although his acts, I mean, you know, did get on the Ed Sullivan and mainstream television, so it's not so. And. And of course, they had. You know, they were. There was something called the Brill Building in New York, where a lot of these songs were originally written by these young songwriter teams. And it was just a beautiful time. Beautiful time. And then he releases a Christmas album. Is there anything else you need to know about Phil Spector? By the way? One of the people that worked for him was Sonny Bono.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Really?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yes. Yeah. And so, yeah, he was like, I. I don't know if he was an arranger or just like a PA there. And that's where Sonny and Cheer can. They figured it all out.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Yeah, we're just hammering home the point. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys says this. This album was his favorite of all time. Like, he's so crazy, the rest in peace. Sorry Brian Wilson or such a genius that he would choose a Christmas album. And he said Phil Spector was his only competition. He said it in terms of the studio man and making an instrument out of the studio. Brian Wilson felt like he was the only competition he had at the time.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

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[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Christmas album is his favorite album.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, I think.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Blows my mind.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Why? It's a really fun album to listen to, but it doesn't have like monster hits on it. Except for that. That one song. Right.

[Josh Adam Myers]

The one. Let's see. Because they're actually. Yes, he actually. One of the songs, he actually was so good. Christmas Please Baby Come Home.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

That'S the big one. And it was so big that he had her. He had her do a non Christmas one called Johnny Please Come Home.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And didn't she sing it like on Letterman every year? She would sing that song on Letterman every Christmas.

[Josh Adam Myers]

She did. She did it says David Letterman. Where is it? I just saw it. Here it is. Letterman annually for 20 years from 94 to 2014 on the episode Before Christmas on Late show with David Letterman, 21 times in all. And then she only in 2007, she didn't do it because of the writers strike, which I know. I know you, Wayne. You were probably out there picketing 2007.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I am a big. I'm a big guy when it comes to supporting unions. After the. After they vote to strike. I usually tend not to vote to strike, but once they do, you got to get out there.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You strike, you strike.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

No scabs.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Christmas Baby, please come home.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Jer, find us the other version. Find us the Johnny, Please come home Baby, please come home. But there's also. I mean, there's so many. The. Like, the White Christmas, Darlene Love. I feel like. I mean, it's a battle between her and the Ronettes are. Who are the star of this record. I mean, White Christmas is good. Frosty the snowman you hear every year. I didn't know the bells of St. Mary's you know, it's from 1970.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You know, Bobby Sachs and the Blue Jeans? No, that was one of his band. That was one of his bands. Yeah. They had some hits. They had some hits. Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

But Santa Claus is Coming to Town, that's a very popular. That's a big hit on this one, too.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Oh, yeah.

[Wayne Fetterman]

That's the one Springsteen did a version of for that. I actually saw Springsteen do that song live at Bonnaroo, believe it or not.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No way.

[Wayne Fetterman]

At Bonnaroo. Yeah.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

That's cool. Was it near Christmas?

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, no, it was in the middle of summer.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Here's the Johnny one.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It's here.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Okay, here we go.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Let me know if you can hear this.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Hold on.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

The formula.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Hurry back to. I want you to know.

[Doug]

That I.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Need you so, Baby, please come on I think I'm gonna.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Wonderful. What a wonderful song.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

It makes it. Is it like the beginning of Gremlins? No. I heard this in so many soundtracks. Dude. The original.

[Josh Adam Myers]

The original. Yeah. It's. Dude, these are. These are all. This is it. To be honest with you, I think. I think some of these songs are better than anything that Mariah Carey did with All I Want for Christmas is you, which is a great song. But by the way, I know the guy that wrote that with her, and he's made a kill. He's married to a comedian, Katie Carrizola. The guy's name's. He's. He's awesome. He's. Dude, he did. He helped with the Titanic soundtrack. Like, so he's. He's got money on top of money. But that. All I want for Christmas is you that made. That is played. I mean, that's got to be like. Let me just say, like, Christmas songs. No.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Well, what. What? It's so interesting because everyone. Every artist since Bing Crosby who put out the First Christmas album has always wanted a Christmas hit, because every year you get a royalty. That's Elvis. That's Frank Sinatra. That's obviously neck and gold. This is the Ronettes.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

I mean, you know about a boy, Isn't it Hugh Grant, the one where he is.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, he's trying to write the Christmas song. Yeah, yeah.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

And then it just keeps going. Yeah.

[Wayne Fetterman]

So get points. To have one that actually sticks, like, is incredible. Incredible. That's why that Mariah Carey one, I think is as good as. And as good as Jingle Bells, as good as Let It Snow, as good as Sleigh Bells. Like, it's incredible.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

It's an ear.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Kudos to Mariah Carey. Kudos to her for that.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

For that.

[Wayne Fetterman]

But it all starts. This whole genre starts with Bing Crosby. And obviously, he had his big Christmas album. Had, obviously. What's that single? Oh, White Christmas.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

White Christmas.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And that became, like, the biggest single for years. For years. An Irving Berlin song. Right?

[Josh Adam Myers]

I love that. So I love Christmas music, man. I don't. I don't hate it at all.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Did you just feel like it's the wrong time of year right now?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Say what?

[Wayne Fetterman]

It's the wrong time of year to be talking about it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, it's that whole thing of, like, the pumpkin spice latte starts coming out in August. You're like, dude, it's not fall yet. Yeah. You know, and I. And dude, it's literally. They're playing it now. They're playing Christmas music before Thanksgiving.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Yes.

[Josh Adam Myers]

That is odd.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

That is too Halloween, I think.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I know, but it's reminding people to buy Christmas gifts. You get.

[Josh Adam Myers]

There's capitalism.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, exactly.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, really? Capitalism, where the 1% have only gotten more wealthy and the middle class is shrinking and the. Yeah, dude.

[Wayne Fetterman]

All right, Mandami. Good luck. Good luck. Jesus. Literally just 30 minutes ago, like, yeah, I'm flying private jets across the world. I'm doing tours. I'm being paid to do this. And then complaining about capitalism. It's my favorite. It's my favorite.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Amen. I got a taste of regular life again. I went right back to coach. Last row. Dude. What a way. And I had to wait an hour and 20 minutes to drop the bag in the backdrop area. And then I had to go through passport check, which, because London is just like. It's a. It's an island, obviously, but it's an island island in Europe where it's like, dude, there's. It's the one that's, like, really difficult to get in. Like, I had to pay, like, 200 for a visa.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Oh, you had to.

[Josh Adam Myers]

$200.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Wow.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, dude.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Yeah.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You went to, I assume through Heathrow Airport?

[Josh Adam Myers]

I did, and the flight got delayed. Dude, it was such a day yesterday. Like, no wonder I didn't feel well, you know? And I'm, like, still, like. I'm still, like, 70 right now. But, you know, the thing that sucks about England is in all the other countries is their cold and flu medication does not match up to ours. Dude, we get you. We get you up, you get sick, you take some Sudafed. Dude, you're. You might as well be smoking a rock of meth.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Wait, they don't have Sudafed in England.

[Josh Adam Myers]

They do.

[Wayne Fetterman]

It's over the counter. Sudafed, right?

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Yeah, I think it's fine.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It's not the right one. It should be red. It should be red. Oh, I should see if I have other Sudafed. I bet you I got in my bag, Wayne. No, it's just. It's not like. It's not good Sudafed.

[Wayne Fetterman]

All right. All right. So is there any song you like? You like Silent Night? Do you like Silent Night?

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

Do you like.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, I didn't. All right, so. Yes. I mean, if you want to talk about one. The one that I didn't know whatsoever is Marshmallow World. That was the one. I didn't know Marshmallow World. And that's another one of Darlene Love. Just killing it, dude.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. Let's play a little Marshmallow World.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Let's play some place. Yeah. You got the tracks ready? J.T.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Marsh mellow world.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So funny.

[Wayne Fetterman]

One of my favorite composers is this guy who does Sleigh Ride is Leroy Anderson. Because when I was a kid, Jerry Lewis used to do a routine where he would pantomime to his. His track called the. The Typewriter. So I was like, I always knew about that guy Leroy Anderson. And then he made most of his money from this Sleigh Ride song. Became a Christmas classic.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Really interesting.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You know. You know. You know what I find also very interesting, Wayne, is that you and I talked about my Europe trip for 20 minutes, and we can only fill 24 more minutes. Talking about a Christmas record.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, it's. We could.

[Josh Adam Myers]

We're at the 44 minute mark, and we're like. I mean, what's your favorite holiday?

[Wayne Fetterman]

It's a Marshmallow World in the winter when the snow comes to cover the ground It's a time of play. It's a whipped cream day. I wait for it all year round. Cause the marshmallow clouds Being friendly in the arms of the evergreen trees.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It's great.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I love it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I think that's a great song. I think that's a great song. I love it.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Honestly, this is a great album. I was hating on it the whole time preparing.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Why were you.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Why? Why?

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

This feels like the same thing, actually, we were talking about. No, I. Honestly, what I love about it is it feels like the preamble, the beginning of every movie I loved in the 90s.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

I think, like, I feel like Groundhog Day, they would play some of this. I don't know, like, what other movies. I'm sure these songs have been a million, you know.

[Josh Adam Myers]

All right, so what?

[Wayne Fetterman]

I. I'm not mistaken. It's in not Die Hard. What's a lethal Weapon, right?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, my God, yes, dude. Well, that's what's so cool about any Christmas movie. You know, this album has at least got. There's at least one to two songs off this record, if not one that are for sure, like, you know, being being played in that movie. I am pretty sure we should check to see what's like we said. What was the most popular song on this record?

[Wayne Fetterman]

It's gotta be Baby Come Home Christmas or whatever that song is. Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Baby Come Home.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Guys, guys, that's not.

[Josh Adam Myers]

That's on here, right? Baby. What do you like? You said it.

[Wayne Fetterman]

No, no, no. I like the fact that they do as that song the bells of St. Mary's I just. I'm always fascinated by the overlap of American songbook era greatest generation singers like Bing Crosby and this new generation Tomorrow's Song, Tomorrow's Music Today, or whatever Phil Spector was trying to push. So there's so much. Because The Bells of St. Mary's is a famous Bing Crosby movie. It was, I believe, the sequel to Going My Way or that's flipped around and so, like, big. I feel like Bing Crosby's imprint is very much on this album, yet push through. It's like when they started doing rock and roll versions of songs from the twenties like Ain't She Sweet or things like that that the Beatles and all they would do this was like, all right, let's do a wall of sound versions of these classics. And again, Bing Crosby had the very first. He created the Christmas album so that they do a song called the bells of St. Mary's I just. Thank you, Phil. I know you were a murderer. I know you captured a wife and tortured her for decades. I know you took the kids under threat of death. But still, you did an incredible job putting Three pianos in one studio here in la and creating this very infectious music that blew Brian Wilson away.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

I can tie it to current events, though. I figured out a way.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Tell me.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

So the album released in the US November 22, 1963, the same day.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, yeah.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

The President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, wow.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

All I've heard in the last week is assassination talks.

[Josh Adam Myers]

So there.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I know this is the four days. Yeah.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

That's insane.

[Wayne Fetterman]

It is interesting. There's four days after that poor kid gets. Why Charlie Kirk, I think is his name. Yeah, yeah.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

One more quirky factoid here. What do you. So the. The highest it ever peaked, believe it or not. I would just quiz you, but I'm just gonna tell you.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Tell me. I know it's not high. I know it's not high.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

The highest the album ever peaked in the Billboard 200 was number seven. And it was on the chart dated January 6, 2024.

[Wayne Fetterman]

What? Any idea why in January of 2020 did he die? He didn't die that year.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

I think it just the music or the holiday music.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Number one was number seven.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Do you believe that? The highest I'd ever peaked was last year.

[Wayne Fetterman]

That's crazy. Wow.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Oh, maybe number six and 72. I did lie about that. It was number six in 72, but that's okay.

[Wayne Fetterman]

But again, the album came out and didn't it come out like 63, obviously? November 6th. Or 60.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Or 63. You're right, sorry.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. Came out in November 22nd, 63. So we, again, think about this album. Insane comes out in 63, peaks in 72. And again, I think part of the reason was they were very concentrating on singles at that time more than the album. But that's ten years after one. Excuse me, nine years after it's released, and then another. Whatever. 40 years or something.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

60, 63. 20, 24.

[Wayne Fetterman]

50 years, almost 50 years later.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Insane.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. Well, so again, to you, Ronnie. I mean, Phil Spector, not Ronnie Spector. To Phil Spector. We take off our hats, we put on the weird wig that he used to wear and, you know. Sorry, you were a bipolar psychopath who.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Who had the. Who had the best Christmas album of all time. Do you. Do we have a.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

It's a good, good question.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Well, because this is.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I mean, this is on the 500 Greatest Albums list. I don't know any other ones that are.

[Wayne Fetterman]

So, yeah, I think that's. This would probably be the only one on the Rolling Stone one, basically because of that Beatles. That sound. The Beatles never. I mean, they put out Beatles I mean, Christmas songs for their fan club, but never a Christmas album. By the way, John had a song called Happy Christmas, War Is over, produced by Phil Spector.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Love it.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You remember that? And so this is Christmas.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I do.

[Wayne Fetterman]

When have you done that song? Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Is that. Is that the. That's. I mean, that's one of the greatest Christmas songs of all time.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, it's so stirring. It's so stirring. Yeah. All right, here's my. Here's my favorite Christmas songs. Obviously, I like the Christmas song. Just Nuts Roasting, that King Cole version.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, I love that.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. What about. Here's my question for you. This is one that everyone loves that I can't connect with. Burl lives a Holly, Jolly Christmas. Do you know that one?

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

So great. What's wrong with that?

[Josh Adam Myers]

The great time of the year.

[Wayne Fetterman]

All right.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I don't know. I think. I think Bing Crosby's White Christmas might be the greatest Christmas time. Dreaming of a Christmas.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I'll tell you, my favorite one is I'll Be Home for Christmas. Because if you listen to that record, he goes, I'll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams. Like, he's not gonna be home for Christmas.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

You like the sad.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Very, very World War II e. Even though there's a.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You know, I'm missing one, because I do know that.

[Wayne Fetterman]

What about Rocking around the Christmas tree, Brenda?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, I think. Oh, no, dude. I think. Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas. That's one of the best ones. Have yourself a married. Yeah. Is that Bing again?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. It's so interesting that you're into that era. It's always, always shocking to me. Me. Always shocking to me.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I love. Hey Star. I love Nat King Cole, you know, I love the. I love the Crooners, man. I love. It's my dad. That was my dad. That's. My dad imprinted on me. Like, he loved the vocal groups, like the Four Freshmen. I mean, he didn't nobody list the Ink Spots. I just like. Because, you know, it's like, creep. It's creepy, but it's beautiful. And there's always, like, these great. Dude, that. There were so many great black soul singers. I don't even call it soul, but vocal groups that just were better than, you know, the. The white, you know, it's like. There's no Beach Boys without the Ink spots.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Right?

[Josh Adam Myers]

There's the Ink Wells. Ink spots. Yeah.

[Wayne Fetterman]

What about the kind of big orchestration versions, like the Trans Siberian Orchestra, Steam Curtain or whatever they're called. Roller Steamroller, of course. Do you like any of that stuff I love.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Really?

[Wayne Fetterman]

I just.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

All that stuff.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah. I find it very intense.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I'm gonna go to Gordon Ramsay's restaurant in a few hours to go get beef Wellington.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I love it. I love it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah. I'm so excited. I've been trying to get there.

[Wayne Fetterman]

This is a Christmas album of very joyous songs. You're not. Are we gonna do the things. What song? Can you have sex too?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah.

[Wayne Fetterman]

This is going to be part of the show.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

I think you already gave a great sales pitch. Elevator pitch.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I mean, I think people. I. Dude, I'll tell you this right now.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

People. To this record, for sure.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Marshmallow World.

[Josh Adam Myers]

People think about it, man. A lot. There's a lot of Christmas babies.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You know, there's a lot of babies that are created. It's a snowstorm.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I believe September is the. The biggest month for babies.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Is that. Is that. Is that eight months, nine months later?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, really?

[Wayne Fetterman]

I guess it's 10 months. Nine months. Yeah. August.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Wayne, you're in September. When is your birthday, Wayne?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Nothing to do. Nothing to do with Christmas X. Nothing to do with it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I'm a February baby. My. My. My. My parents. There's a big snowstorm and in Maryland that year, and so a lot of people were born in November.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Wait, was that 60s?

[Josh Adam Myers]

In the late 79.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

In.

[Josh Adam Myers]

In February. 79. Yeah. You can look it up. There's a huge snowstorm. Hold on.

[Wayne Fetterman]

The blizzard.

[Josh Adam Myers]

The Blizzard of 79. Oh, wait, take a look at this. It's crazy.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

That's still in here.

[Josh Adam Myers]

This was a. This was a. This was not a phone. Listen, I was in Cincinnati. You'll get a kick out of this.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

You love sports. I was in Cincinnati, back on the jelly roll. The old. The first one in 2023. And. And this was the room key.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Look at that.

[Josh Adam Myers]

The hotel room key.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Frank Robinson. Nice.

[Wayne Fetterman]

If I'm not mistaken, this is off the top of my head. That was his room key from 56.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

It was a digital.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I'm kidding. I'm kidding. If I'm not mistaken, the only baseball player to be MVP in two different.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Leagues, Negro and regular.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Jesus. National America. I love that you call, like baseball. The regular league.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Negro and regular.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And regular, you know, regular human beings.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Wait, which one? The Schwartzer.

[Wayne Fetterman]

That's right. I believe he is. Yeah. The only one. MVP in both. And lna.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Great, man.

[Josh Adam Myers]

All right, do the. Let's do the finale. The big wind down because I gotta go to this. I gotta go pick up laundry.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I know you guys. All right. I'M looking at nothing.

[Josh Adam Myers]

All right. All right. So, favorite song.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, by the way, Sonny Bono is credited with playing percussion on a number of these songs.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Ah. Oh, wow.

[Wayne Fetterman]

And Leon Russell playing piano on a number of these songs.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No way.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yep.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Little Leon Russell.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Little Leon Russell, yeah.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Favorite song.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Well, I mean, I gotta take Christmas Baby Please Come Home, because that's the, that's, that casts a shadow over the entire album. Then that song is obviously the best. That's my favorite.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It really is the best.

[Wayne Fetterman]

But if, if I had to, I really like this version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town by the Crystals.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I mean, it's all good. That's what's so great.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I really liked it. What about you? Marshmallow World?

[Josh Adam Myers]

I really like Marshmallow World because I want to go against the grain with you because I think Marshmallow World was just something that I never heard before. So, out of all of it, I mean, obviously.

[Wayne Fetterman]

What about Frosty?

[Josh Adam Myers]

That's like some basic dude.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I mean, I got you. I guess. So Funny.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I love, I love. It's great. Is this a no skip record?

[Wayne Fetterman]

If you're in the mood for it. You mean there's not one bad track on it? Is that what you.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah. Instead of me saying, is there anything you dislike? I'm gonna say, is it a no skip?

[Wayne Fetterman]

I mean, yeah. I mean, I feel like there's. This is the criticism of this album that was leveled earlier today. I kind of agree that, that after a while, there is a sameness to these recordings and it sort of gets very blendy a little bit. And I know it was number one, it was number six in 1972 and number seven in 2024, and it has incredible legs. But if I was putting like a Greatest Christmas Songs of All Time album together, maybe only one or two would come off of this album.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I agree, I, I agree. I, I, it's not. Look, man, this is a one listen and you get it, like, you, that you, you know what the vibe is. It's just, it's a Christmas record. And, you know, dude, if we, like I said.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I think it's more of a, like, if you're having a Christmas party, put on this record and put it on the background and it will set the mood 100%. You will be like, let's open some presents. Let's kick the Jews out of the country. Whatever the vibe of Christmas is for you. Like, can we get back to basics here? Does it have to be Judeo Christian? Can it just be values? Can it Just be Christian values.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Dude. If, if this comes on at a Christmas party. You're drinking. Yeah, you're drinking. You're drinking. Oh, mistletoe.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Will you do the mistletoe kiss?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, I'd be so drunk. I'd have the mistletoe like over like my head, like walking around like. Hey, guys, come on, like pushing me away. I mean, it's.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Wait a minute. What were you just using for the mistletoe?

[Josh Adam Myers]

Was that nasal spray?

[Wayne Fetterman]

That's the most Jewish version I know I've ever seen. I'm a little congested. Would you mind just a little. I have a post nasal drip situation.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I can't taste anything.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, my God. I'd love again. Christmas is my second favorite holiday. I love it so much. It can't come quick enough for me. I love it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

What's your favorite? Did we already say this?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Fourth of July. I'm a Fourth of July guy.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Yeah, I remember that. I do remember that about you. What's your least favorite holiday?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Oh, great question. Well, there's the parts of Halloween I hate. Parts I love. I love the giving the candy to the kids part of Halloween. Making it magical. I don't like adults dressing up. It's ridiculous. I mean, yes, the slutty outfits are awesome, but it's like for kids. Just make it for kids. You don't have to be 40 year old and being wearing your robin outfit to a party. It's for kids. Make it special for kids, please.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I, I, I.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You can dress up any day of the year if you want. As an adult.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I've never been one to.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Sorry, sorry.

[Josh Adam Myers]

No, it's. You're right, what you're saying. I've never been one to poo poo that, that kind of situation. But you know, dude, it's one night out of the year. People get to get drunk and get high and go hang out and just. And you know, the sluts come out. I think the women. I always like it when like a hot chick goes big on the costume. Yeah, it does something really fun instead of doing the slut thing, you know, but the slut thing was only. There's only a short window for the slut thing. And you know what? If you got it, flaunt it, you know, but if you're gonna wear that outfit, you know, dick's gonna get slung at you.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Jesus.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Psa. The more you know we have, put.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Down the gloves and let's get going.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Take the no paper towel on the ball.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Let's do this. It's Halloween.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It's Halloween.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Yellow rubber glove, no paper towel. Got it.

[Wayne Fetterman]

I want a paper towel on my balls. Okay? Is that too much to ask as a human being?

[Josh Adam Myers]

All I want is a no glove, paper towel, band job.

[Wayne Fetterman]

As we celebrate this page. It's got to be a holiday I don't like. There's got to be one that's like.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

I mean, there's so many holidays now.

[Wayne Fetterman]

There's some Jewish ones I'm not keen on, but those are very. Yeah, I would say, though, those are my two. It's so funny. I just don't think in, like, what holiday do I hate? I mean, I don't know what Arbor Day even is, but I'm not thrilled with it, I guess. Oh, what's the one? Groundhog's Day. I mean, I like to film, but what are we doing? It sees it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

But that's not a holiday.

[Wayne Fetterman]

It's not a holiday, Right.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It's just like. It's like a. You know, that's like. That's like somebody being like, it's Wayne Fetterman Day in. In Temecula. The city of Temecula will always honor Wayne Fetterman Day. It's Lewis Gossett Jr. Day.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Both of us, by the way, went to NYU. Both those neat people. Just a little trivia.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I love. Good.

[Wayne Fetterman]

All right, gentlemen, how do you.

[Josh Adam Myers]

How do you. Wait. How do you sum it up? What's your pitch?

[Wayne Fetterman]

Well, if you're interested in what? If you're interested in two things, this is a great album for you. If you're interested in Christmas songs as a genre, this is a must listen to album. Must. It's not. Oh, I don't know what this album is. You got to know what this album. It's one of the greatest Christmas albums of all time. Also, if you're interested in how a bipolar Jewish kid from the Bronx who wanted to be a doo wop singer came to California and created a genre of music that used the studio as an instrument. This is one of the great examples of it. Although I would argue that, you know, you've lost that love and feeling and Be My Baby are better examples of the wall of sound. That's it. Get off the elevator. This is your floors right here. Get off.

[Josh Adam Myers]

I think that's perfect. I think that is perfect. Oh, oh. 30 minutes I get. At 9:15am I get my. I'm going to see Abbey Road. I'm going to Abbey. Nice.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Nice.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Oh, dude.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Speaking of using the studio to create a sound. Yes. That's where it all happened. And by the way, nice. Phil Spector, as I said earlier, worked with Lennon and obviously George Harrison in a huge way. Post.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Oh, yeah, he won a Grammy for the.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

George Harrison concert for Bangladesh.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Yeah.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Thank you, Wayne.

[Wayne Fetterman]

You're welcome.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

Best.

[Wayne Fetterman]

All right, guys. We did it. We did it.

[Podcast Co-host (possibly Pete or another regular)]

We did it.

[Josh Adam Myers]

What did I tell you?

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

What I tell you? The one and only Wayne Federem. Follow him on Instagram, at instafetterman, on Twitter at Federman, and support everything that he does. We love him to death. So for new music this week, we just listened to a 1963 is a Christmas gift from you for you from Dr. Phil Spector. And I did it again. God damn it. Our new music pick this week, brought to you in part by our proud sponsors, Distro Kid is Bitter Pill by the Jayhawks. I don't know why they picked that. It should have been Christmas music. Shouldn't it have? Either way, it was submitted by Distrokid and they rule. You can find links to their music on our website, the500podcast.com and if you were in a band and were directly influenced by all these albums or artists and you were your music Featured on the 500 podcast, send your song to 500podcastgmail.com, put the album and artist and.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Influence you in the subject line.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

Next week, it's B.B. king Live at the Regal. We haven't done a B.B. king record since the beginning. Coming in at 141, y'.

[Josh Adam Myers]

All.

[Podcast Host (possibly Josh Adam Myers or co-host)]

It's from 1965. Do your homework or get whipping. Love you.

[Doug]

It's a bitter pill to swallow she's here today but she won't be here tomorrow she worked out at the top of Spawn Saved enough to buy a car Rusty red forgotten Chevrolet Too many.

[Josh Adam Myers]

Nights with nothing to show.

[Doug]

Contents While her frustration grows so bitter Bill to swallow oh, she's here today but she won't be here tomorrow she's here today but she won't be tomorrow.

[Wayne Fetterman]

Now is.

[Doug]

There something wrong with me? She cry I feel like something inside.

[Josh Adam Myers]

We die.

[Doug]

Manny found another town but her past followed her around Wherever she would run to there she was Baby, don't you leave me Baby, don't go Streets are for deciding I suppose.

[Josh Adam Myers]

It'S.

[Doug]

A better pill to swallow she's here today but she won't be here tomorrow she's here today but she won't be tomorrow like her start to feels brand new she's been here a time or two Betty can be happy if she ain't free the 500 keeping it fleecy for the fleece nation on the 500 the 500 trip.

[Josh Adam Myers]

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[Wayne Fetterman]

Cut the camera.

[Josh Adam Myers]

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[Wayne Fetterman]

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