Matt and Friends Drink the Universe
Welcome to Matt and Friends Drink the Universe, the comedy podcast where great drinks meet great stories. Join host Matt and a rotating crew of friends as they share laughs, taste unique craft beers, cocktails, wines, and spirits, and dive into the stories, history, and science behind every sip.
Every episode brings something different — from fan-favorite Stellar Sips (the drinks we love) to those dreaded Cosmic Chugs (the ones that crash and burn). You’ll also find a mix of fun episode themes like Alcohology, Think or Drink Trivia, Rocket Rankings, Bar Chats, and How Did We Get Beer? to keep every listen fresh and entertaining.
Packed with hilarious banter, fun facts, and plenty of libation inspiration, this show is perfect for anyone who enjoys discovering new flavors while kicking back with great company.
So grab your favorite drink, relax, and join us as we drink our way through the universe — one unforgettable pour at a time. Cheers!
Matt and Friends Drink the Universe
Christmas Trivia and Name That Tune 2025
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A frosty glass, a warm toast, trivia, and a roomful of music nerds trying not to cry-laugh over a slide whistle—our holiday special brings the good stuff. We start with a cookies-and-cream Sugarlands concoction and buttery-nipple shots poured into Matt's Grandpa’s vintage shot glass set, then raise a heartfelt toast to departed friend. From there the energy jumps: holiday music trivia, name‑that‑tune chaos with student recordings, and a chord-progression challenge that reveals how deeply these carols live in our bones.
We dig into the stories behind the songs with some trivia. The slide whistle segment might be the funniest minute of our year, but it’s also a clever lesson in melody recognition: strip away the production and you can still sing your way home. Then we pivot to the all-time top toys list—Slinky, Yo-yo, Barbie, Game Boy, LEGO, Hot Wheels, Wii, Switch—and unpack why certain fads explode, which classics endure, and how design, scarcity, and nostalgia shape holiday demand.
To cap it off, we play a yes–no lightning round of questions to guess what Andy is thinking of and pick our Stellar Sip. It’s equal parts music history, party game, and story time—woven with real friendship, small traditions, and the kind of laughter that lingers. Pour something sweet, press play, and join the table. If you smiled, shared a memory, or guessed a tune before we did, subscribe, leave a review, and tell a friend who needs a holiday laugh.
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Intro and Introductions
SPEAKER_11Welcome to Matt and Friends the Universe.
SPEAKER_02Alright, everyone, welcome back to Matt and Friends Drinks Universe. It is once again time for our holiday episode.
SPEAKER_07I'm feeling festive. Yes.
SPEAKER_02Very festive. I think we are. I have some great friends drinking the universe again with me today. First off, always giving me a break for the holiday episode. Your ho ho host. Hey, it's Andy.
SPEAKER_03Yay, it's Siobhan.
SPEAKER_02Chris. Hey guys, it's Rob. And I'm your host, Matt. I know Andy has a holiday trivia episode cooked up for us.
SPEAKER_07Absolutely. But do we want to talk about this delicious beverage we have here? I haven't tried it yet. I think we do.
SPEAKER_02So we did the Sugarlands episode recently, and we made the cherry pie uh drop abomination. Yeah, it was not our favorite. And I had said, uh, I think we can get a mulligan on that one with the cookies and cream. We have uh, so this is with the birthday cake, Sugarland sip and cream. It is a cookies and cream drink. So let's see what we think.
SPEAKER_12Pretty delicious, in my opinion.
SPEAKER_11It is quite tasty. The first sip that I had, I don't think was uh was was mixed, and then I shook it around a little bit more and and now settled out.
SPEAKER_07The whipped cream had to settle a little bit.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Delicious.
SPEAKER_02That's yummy. So this one, just so you know, it's basically chocolate milk, the birthday cake, sip and cream, whipped cream, and then shaved Hershey's chocolate bar on the side.
SPEAKER_11Yummy. Wait, hang on one moment. I wanted that to sound nicer than it did.
SPEAKER_02And before we continue any further, this is a drinking podcast. After all, on the table, we also have some shots here. Most of you may know these as the buttery nipple. These are Bailey's and Butterscotch schnups at the bottom. I will take one of those if someone passes me one this way. So this one's kind of more special to me this year. This was the drink that I'd normally have with my neighbor Dave next door. And unfortunately, Dave passed away back in March. And uh so Dave and I did not get to drink these together this year, but I wanted to make these for all of you. We'll give a quick toast to my buddy Dave, kick off the holiday episode here. The shot glasses are so frosty cold. They are. So the shot glasses, this is a fun fact. These were my grandfather's, and his birthday was on Christmas. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh, this is a great set. We need like a good picture of it, too.
SPEAKER_02That set might date back to like 1970 something. Nice. It comes with a nice little holder so you can carry shots to all your alcoholic friends wherever they happen to be in your house at any time.
SPEAKER_12Oh, we have the nice uh little Christmas light in the background of this photo. There you go. All right.
SPEAKER_02Little Christmas light. It looks little in the photo. That's the best part.
SPEAKER_03It is large.
SPEAKER_02It's approximately two and a half feet tall from Home Depot. So I won't talk about what you're compensating for.
SPEAKER_12I mean you asked for that. Shivan, get a nice little clinking into the mic.
SPEAKER_03Small treat? Yeah, yeah. Cheers.
SPEAKER_12All right. Cheers to Dave.
SPEAKER_07To Dave. To Dave. Oh, that's delicious. Always.
SPEAKER_03It's so cold.
SPEAKER_02It's very cold. So the funny thing about those is so good. Dave would call me at like one in the afternoon and say, Are you coming over for like tonight to hang? I say, sure. And he would stick those to the point where they were frozen solid. So when I drink them, the bailies would just slide off. It's like an ice juice. And the butterscotch would have to kind of like That's delicious. Yeah, those are really good. There's three more of them. Help yourself. Yum. So should we turn this over to Andy? Sure.
SPEAKER_07Let's uh do we have Santa Sack this year? Like which direction are we going in? Yeah, so again, it it's better to give than to receive. So the purpose is to be the person with the least points at the end of the game. But you're not going to know how many points you have. So when you get a question right, you're going to draw a card and put it in the gift bag of one of your competitors. Um, and then at the end of the game, uh the person with the least points wins, and there might be a prize. Ooh, might. Prize.
SPEAKER_03Chris is like, I'm out. So there's no prize.
SPEAKER_11By the way, I'm I'm admiring the uh art on the back of your laptop. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_07I enjoy it very much cover. So yeah, so we're gonna put the cards in there. Face value cards are all gonna be worth 10 to keep the math nice and simple because we're drinking.
SPEAKER_10Hey oh. So we are over 60 episodes.
SPEAKER_02The last episode that came out was actually the 60th. Wow.
SPEAKER_10Whoa.
SPEAKER_02Wow. So do we know historically who won the last two? I seem to recall Siobhan winning one, and then I hosed Chris the first year.
SPEAKER_12Yeah, the first year you screwed me over at the end of it.
SPEAKER_03Did I win last year? I don't remember.
SPEAKER_07I think Matt won once. Yeah, I think that was the that doesn't sound right. No, I'm pretty sure because there was the first year I had like uh it certainly wasn't the first year.
SPEAKER_11The first year we're just giving points to Matt the whole game.
Holiday Music Trivia Kicks Off
SPEAKER_07Yeah, but remember which you you can feel welcome to do again.
SPEAKER_11Deck somebody else's halls, people. I know Matt has won some episodes of this podcast, but usually it's few and far between.
SPEAKER_07I over the summer I had a goal to at least skip to the end of every episode and make like a spreadsheet of one. Yeah.
SPEAKER_12I didn't do it.
SPEAKER_03Oh, we gotta start on that. We need a crazy fan, like uh good job, Brady does that where someone will listen and then write in and be like, this is all the stats about every episode that you've ever done. But they're on like hundreds of episodes.
SPEAKER_11I cannot remember. There's a Hot Ones guy.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_11Brian something or Dave something. I don't I don't remember what his name is, but uh he's like a super fan that keeps stats.
SPEAKER_03All right, super fans. Where are you at?
SPEAKER_11Get at the comments.
SPEAKER_07Click the send us the textbook.
SPEAKER_03Start sheeting. Yeah. Okay. Get a sheet together.
SPEAKER_07All right. So shall we start with round one? Take a sheet. Do it. All right. So this uh the trivia is very music-based today. I figured since we're a lot of musicians, this should be good for us. Uh-oh. We're excited. But each question in round one also has a bonus question that goes along with it. So, round one, question one. And uh again, this is the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear. How old was Brenda Lee when she recorded Rockin' Around the Christmas tree back in 1958? Procedural question who's going first. Oh, oh, right, hold on. Let me get the spinner out. Here we go. Hey, that's fun.
SPEAKER_08I hear it.
SPEAKER_07Ta-da!
SPEAKER_08Player one is Matt. Okay.
SPEAKER_03Alrighty.
SPEAKER_08Okay, and then are we going to go this way or around? Okay.
SPEAKER_07Straight down the line.
SPEAKER_08You guys. All right, Matt.
SPEAKER_07How old was Brenda Lee when she recorded Rockin' Around the Christmas tree back in 1958? Was she A 13, B, 26, C forty six, or D 68? 13. Is the correct answer. Wow. Right? I knew she was young. Think of the tonality of that voice. What a voice. And she was 13.
SPEAKER_03Did she sound like a smoker when she was 18? Because I feel like she already had that going on. Yeah, right. Oh my God.
SPEAKER_07Wow. So for so, Matt, you get to draw a card. Don't look at it, but put it in somebody's bag. Stick that in Siobhan's bag. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_07Rude. Now for the bonus question, which anyone can answer the bonus question. Who can anyone name another song that Brenda Lee was known for?
SPEAKER_03This is gonna annoy me because I'm sure you're gonna give us one and I'm gonna be like, of course I know that's it.
SPEAKER_07There's at least one that you're probably gonna know.
SPEAKER_08I have a question.
SPEAKER_11Does it have to be a Christmas song? No. Okay. Okay. Oh, so this this could be another song that she recorded. Oh, geez.
SPEAKER_03Um no idea.
SPEAKER_11I'm gonna go with Rockin' Robin. Solid guess, incorrect. Is there a penalty for me guessing incorrectly? Very good.
SPEAKER_08You'll be flogged later.
SPEAKER_12Right. Any other gr guesses? Uh somewhere over the rainbow.
SPEAKER_03What?
SPEAKER_12I don't know. Just taking a wild shot in the dark.
SPEAKER_03Yikes. I have nothing.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I've got it. The other big song she's known for is that I'm sorry song.
SPEAKER_03Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_07I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_03So sorry. Oh. Alright, well, I never would have come up with that, so I don't feel as bad.
SPEAKER_12I'm glad I didn't get it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no. Whatever, Brenda.
SPEAKER_07Alright. Next question is going to Rob. That's me. Who first recorded Jingle Bell Rock? Was that Brenda Lee, Bobby Helms, George Strait, or Lindsay Lohan? I'm gonna go with Bobby Helms. Bobby Helms is the correct answer. We are two for two tonight. Lindsay Lohan did actually, Lindsay Lohan and George Strait did actually record Jingle Bell Rock.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, if she was the first one, we were like, definitely not recorded a little of everything.
SPEAKER_11A little bit, yeah. I'm going to give my present to Chris, so both dreamers have a present.
SPEAKER_07Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03I don't like presents. Just kidding. I like that.
SPEAKER_07So bonus question. Can anybody name another song that Bobby Helms is known for singing?
SPEAKER_03Who in the F is Bobby? Bobby. No.
SPEAKER_07Nope. No. He's got two that are really well known or for him. The first one is Fraulin, which is Fraulein.
SPEAKER_03Oh, no idea.
SPEAKER_07It's a country song about meeting a German woman. Hence why I don't know it. Yeah, not familiar. But the other one is a crossover special angel. Yeah. Oh, oh. I don't know that one either. Yeah. Not the not the best known. All right, good. All right. Next question.
SPEAKER_03Imagine if one of us knew that. Oh, that would have been amazing.
SPEAKER_07I mean, if you're into your old school country, like I am absolutely not.
SPEAKER_03I know that is right up the Shavante out. Literally couldn't be further from enjoying that.
SPEAKER_07All right, Chris. Hit me. Leroy Anderson wrote Slay Ride. Leroy Jenkins. Leroy Anderson. He wrote Slay Ride for a heat wave in 1948. Mitchell Parrish added the lyrics in 1950. What group famously recorded it in 1963? Was it A, the Supremes? B the Shirley's. C, Martha and the Vandelas, or D, the Ronettes.
SPEAKER_12Oh my god, I have no idea.
SPEAKER_07Uh I'll go with the Supremes? It's a solid guess, but the answer is the Ronettes.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that would have been my guess. Okay, I feel better.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Woo! That's the Peter Griffin version.
SPEAKER_07Should we not get the bonus question now?
SPEAKER_03I can hear them so.
SPEAKER_07You've heard it. Alright. This one I think somebody might know, but can someone name another song the Ronettes are known for?
SPEAKER_03Oh, we should know this. I feel like I don't even know. We will know this. Because we will recognize the name. The Ronettes are the are great.
SPEAKER_07But it was also such an era of very similar great. It's gonna be like a Mother Motown. Motown hits.
SPEAKER_03When I tell you all now, I can hear from Is them singing sleigh ride.
SPEAKER_02Like sugar pie honey bunch or something.
SPEAKER_03This is a shout out to someone I know who loves this kind of stuff.
SPEAKER_02Brown Mary? I don't know. Everybody recorded that one too.
SPEAKER_07All right. The best known is Be My Baby.
SPEAKER_11Be my baby. Okay. Be my be my baby. We've all heard their sleigh ride, though.
SPEAKER_07Guaranteed.
SPEAKER_02Oh, absolutely.
SPEAKER_07All right.
SPEAKER_02That was my sleigh ride slap. Oh. We thought that you were.
SPEAKER_07What are we cutting? What do we miss from? Normally we make that microphone.
SPEAKER_02Which is 100% why I did it. Just to get it.
unknownOh my god.
SPEAKER_03What went wrong? Everyone knows.
SPEAKER_11Everybody freaked out.
SPEAKER_03That was my favorite part ever that I've ever played in band for like one year.
SPEAKER_11No gifts have been given on that round. No gifts on that one. Sag.
SPEAKER_07All right, Siobhan. Yees. Another one of everybody's favorite Christmas songs. How old was Gala Peavy when she recorded I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas in 1953?
SPEAKER_03This is probably gonna be throwing us off.
SPEAKER_07A was she six years old? B, ten years old, C, 27 years old, or D eighty-three years old.
SPEAKER_09Oh man.
SPEAKER_07So think about it.
SPEAKER_03I want to go big on it. I really want to go big on it because it either end of the spectrum could sound like that, right? Like you could have an old lady being like, ah no bird, like that's I'm gonna go with it. 83.
SPEAKER_07Uh you went the wrong direction.
SPEAKER_03Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_07It was 10. 10 okay, 10 years old.
SPEAKER_03I could absolutely have seen part of it. But could could you not see that being an old woman?
SPEAKER_11Oh yeah. Yeah. I could. I I was I was thinking to myself, if he went, you know, with a really elderly person, then I probably would have guessed.
SPEAKER_03Yes. Yeah.
SPEAKER_11In that direction.
SPEAKER_03Yep, yep. All right. What else does Rhonda Peavy known for? I don't know. I'm just getting a hip.
SPEAKER_07So eventually. That song, which is really annoying, was written as a fundraiser for a zoo. Oh. Because the zoo wanted to purchase a hippopotamus. What zoo? The Bronx. Solid guess.
SPEAKER_11That's a great guess, Chris.
SPEAKER_03San Diego.
SPEAKER_07Also a solid guess, but Chicago. Those are all ones that all ones that probably wouldn't have to ri fundraise for such a right.
SPEAKER_03That's true. I was thinking that as I said it. What um some local Cincinnati.
SPEAKER_08It's just a guess. But they probably also wouldn't need to fundraise the answer.
SPEAKER_07Is the Oklahoma City Zoo?
SPEAKER_03Oh, wouldn't have gotten there for another hour. So that's probably a good thing to cut us off on that. Because I would have been like, I'm just going to start guessing zoos, just like I did with the football teams the other day when I we were asking about football teams.
SPEAKER_02I knew it was a fun I knew it was a fundraiser for something, but yeah. That's cool. That was crazy.
SPEAKER_03They were legit trying to get away from the following by extorting a 10-year-old to sing a song.
SPEAKER_11She was 10, not 83. So when I said she was known for breaking it up, that made no sense. Whoops.
SPEAKER_03Wouldn't it have been kinder if she was 83?
SPEAKER_07She wasn't.
SPEAKER_12Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_07All right, Matt. That's me. Which of these have not recorded Santa Baby? A. Michael Buble. B. Madonna. C. Marilyn Monroe. D. Gwen Stefani. Which of these did not record Santa Baby? Marilyn Monroe. That is correct.
SPEAKER_03Nicely done.
SPEAKER_11I would have guessed Madonna.
SPEAKER_03Well, you would have been friggin' wrong.
SPEAKER_02Santa Baby. So the question then is. I'll give this one to Chris.
SPEAKER_03Thank God. Christopher. Heck. I know.
SPEAKER_12Presents for you.
SPEAKER_03We're not doing all we're not doing good.
SPEAKER_12The one who hasn't gotten an answer right yet.
SPEAKER_07Alright, so for the bonus question, does anybody know who did first record Santa Baby? That a lot of people mistakenly think was Marilyn Monroe.
SPEAKER_03Oh.
SPEAKER_07Oh.
SPEAKER_03Is it Edda James?
SPEAKER_07It's a solid guess.
SPEAKER_02Was it one of the three original options you gave, or no? Nope. Oh. Nope. Those definitely not.
SPEAKER_08No, and I should know that. Solid guess, too. She was a dancer more.
SPEAKER_03She was a dancer, yeah. Dang.
SPEAKER_02I'm just thinking of like that era.
SPEAKER_03My mom's probably really mad if she's listening to this.
SPEAKER_02Patty Labelle. I don't know.
SPEAKER_07Oh, not correct. The correct answer is Earth a Kit.
SPEAKER_03That is what I was thinking, and I said Edda James, I'm the worst. Catwoman. God, I love Earth a kit. What are you doing?
SPEAKER_02Chris is unhappy that his present box is full, so he's reordering all over the table.
SPEAKER_03Bah. Alright. Alright. That was close.
SPEAKER_07Rob. Yes. Burl Ives, the famous voice of the snowman in Rudolph, recorded many famous Christmas songs. Which one is not him? Oh, okay. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Holly Jolly Christmas. Silverbells. Or O Little Town of Bethlehem.
SPEAKER_11I feel like one of these is Bing Crosby.
SPEAKER_03The orange beater himself.
SPEAKER_11Peter, what you gotta do is get a bag of nice fillets the oranges. Hard enough to make a point. See? But not hard enough to leave a bruise.
SPEAKER_03That's right.
SPEAKER_11I'm sorry. Can you give me my afternoon?
SPEAKER_03Sorry, I went on a tangent.
SPEAKER_07Which of these famous recordings is not Burl Ives? Okay. A, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. B, Holly Jolly Christmas. C, Silverbells, or D, Oh Little Town of Bethlehem.
SPEAKER_11I think it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The correct answer. Correct. Yes. Oh, there we go. And for the bonus, that is Bing Crosby.
SPEAKER_07That was not the question. Oh, that would have been easy. Oh, yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_11I'll take a card.
SPEAKER_03Oh man. The Silverbells. So iconic.
SPEAKER_07Oh, it's so good.
SPEAKER_03That's one of my favorites.
SPEAKER_07The bonus question, this is again when is Rob gonna give it to Siobhan.
SPEAKER_03What is happening?
SPEAKER_07We're just just giving presence. You realize this is gonna come back to murder both of us. Giving love to the right hand. Yeah. So the bonus question about how many albums did Burl Ives record. This has to be an about, because we're not sure. According to the research I found, about how many albums did Burl Ives record? 26. 35.
SPEAKER_0340.
SPEAKER_07Seven.
SPEAKER_12About 40.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god. I should get a present. I'm just kidding. I do.
SPEAKER_12Yeah, you got a bonus question, right? Okay. Oh my lord. I was just going to the outside spectrum. Yes. That was aggressive.
SPEAKER_03Oh, thank God. Well, you're welcome. It was partly for you. The range was 50% because of marriage.
SPEAKER_02I have nothing yet. You have nothing yet. Okay, let's keep in mind that Rob has no presents.
SPEAKER_03Yes. Thank you. I have two from both of you.
SPEAKER_02Overachiever.
SPEAKER_07All right, Chris. Hit me. Who first recorded Melakamikia Mela? Oh my gosh. Kaliki Maka. That one.
SPEAKER_03Kaliki Maka. Do you not give me? I was like, what?
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_07Sorry. Oh, I'm not sure. I think I know that. Frustrature. A pure guess. I couldn't I couldn't figure out how to pronounce that, so a little frustrated. Burl Ives, C, Dean Martin, D. Bing Crosby. Something first recorded it.
SPEAKER_12Something just tells me it's Dean Martin. So I'm going for it.
SPEAKER_07Solid guess, but the correct answer is Bing Crosby. It's a banger.
SPEAKER_03Another orange binger.
SPEAKER_07So for the bonus question, who else was on that recording with him? If you think the song, you can hear some other singers in there.
SPEAKER_03Uh a chorus of Hawaiian people.
SPEAKER_10They're famous. That's your hand. Famous Hawaiian people. Now there's a kamehameha.
SPEAKER_03Queen Lilou O'Kalani and her Mary singing group. Um Moana. No. I enjoyed that.
SPEAKER_02Oh, you guys are gonna kick yourself if I tell you.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, you can't tell us.
SPEAKER_02Cycle Supremes or something like that. It's too late. Chantels. How would you describe it?
SPEAKER_07Well, hint, they're female.
SPEAKER_12It's a female voice. This is Andrew Sisters.
SPEAKER_07There it is, Chris.
SPEAKER_03Oh, what'd you just say?
SPEAKER_07The Andrew sisters.
SPEAKER_03Thank you. He said I had it before him.
SPEAKER_12I was gonna say who who does um Sandman?
SPEAKER_03Yes, that's the Andrew Sisters.
SPEAKER_12Because I knew it was them and I couldn't think of the name. There it is.
SPEAKER_03Yay.
SPEAKER_12You get to give a present.
SPEAKER_03Oh, me? Oh, okay. Are you saying that I got it? Okay. Yeah, you got it. Well, do you here? Do you want to hand it to Rob then? There you go.
SPEAKER_07Merry Christmas. Thank you.
SPEAKER_03Yay.
SPEAKER_07Alright, Siobhan. According to Time magazine, what is the most popular Christmas carol in history? A. Jingle Bells. B Silent Night. C, the 12 Days of Christmas. Or D Away in a Manger.
SPEAKER_03I feel like I should go with Silent Knight. Feels like a solid guess.
SPEAKER_11I would have gone that way as well.
SPEAKER_03Jingle Bells is a close second, but is the correct answer. Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
SPEAKER_07So for the bonus point, the bonus question. Oh yeah, who are you giving your presentation?
SPEAKER_03Oh, uh we'll give it to Chris.
SPEAKER_12Oh my lord. Wow.
SPEAKER_03The allyship is over.
Name That Tune: Student Performances
SPEAKER_12Still answerless, yet gets three gifts.
SPEAKER_07So for the bonus question, who wrote Silent Knight?
SPEAKER_12Some German dude. You are correct.
SPEAKER_04Hey.
SPEAKER_12Is it Zinzendorf? No.
SPEAKER_04No one.
SPEAKER_02Handel? I'm going with Gustav Germanson. No. Rachman Mendelssohn? No.
SPEAKER_03Holst?
SPEAKER_02No. No, he's not.
SPEAKER_03He's definitely not German. Yeah. Um.
SPEAKER_07Dang it. Is it like a like are we? You're all gonna know it.
SPEAKER_03Leroy Andersen. I'm just kidding.
SPEAKER_07The name was Franz Gruber. No way.
SPEAKER_03Franz Gruber. Like the brother of Hans Gruber from Die Hard a Christmas movie.
SPEAKER_12It all makes sense now. Silent Night.
SPEAKER_06Yes. Silent Night.
SPEAKER_11It is a Christmas movie.
SPEAKER_06Holy night. All is calm. Okay.
SPEAKER_07That brings us to the end of round one.
SPEAKER_02You stick a Mr.
SPEAKER_07Potter at the end of that one? Alright, so for round two.
SPEAKER_03Oh. I feel like that's never a good sign, is it? For round one.
SPEAKER_07Tee hee. We are playing name that tune.
SPEAKER_12Alright. The first to call it out gets to give the gift.
SPEAKER_07I'm scared. Oh no.
SPEAKER_03We're gonna be screaming.
SPEAKER_07So this is this is split in three rounds, and I do not apologize. And he's gonna pee his bit. So the first round is my students playing. Oh yes. I love this. Amazing. Amazing, amazing.
SPEAKER_11So we've got uh you just need song title. Is that what we're looking for? Song title, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Okay, okay, good. Identify the title of the song. I'm scared. Keep in mind that some of these are done by elementary school students. Oh, I love this. Who are looking at the music for the first time ever. Yes.
SPEAKER_11Yes. We're in. I'm so excited.
SPEAKER_07We will get to some that are done by my high school students who I gave the starting note for and told them to play it by ear.
SPEAKER_04Oh, outstanding.
SPEAKER_07So some of these are gonna be harder than others. So here we go. Here is your first one, and welcome to my world.
SPEAKER_06Keep going.
SPEAKER_07Yep.
SPEAKER_11It came upon a midnight clear.
SPEAKER_07Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Your hint is these are it's a kid's song. Frosty the Snowman. There it is.
SPEAKER_03Oh nice.
SPEAKER_07Wow, Matthew. Well done. So giving credit where credit's due, this kid had never played on the E-string before.
SPEAKER_06Oh. Wait.
SPEAKER_07So he learned that He did a better job than I could really quickly.
SPEAKER_11As soon as he finished and guessed it, you heard him on the recording say, Yep, you're right. Oh. Which was hilarious. Oh, it's perfect. You'll hear that. You'll hear that when you listen back. That was pretty funny. All right, Matt gets a present.
SPEAKER_02Matt gets to give a present. Okay. All right. Trying to keep this uh equal opportunity present giving here. So stick it in your sack there, Rob.
SPEAKER_08Oh yep. All right.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_07All right, here we go. Number two. I think this one's easier.
SPEAKER_06Yikes.
SPEAKER_07One, two, ready, go.
SPEAKER_04Jingle bells.
SPEAKER_07Angels, we have heard Ohio. There's jingle bells. Mata got it again.
SPEAKER_03I mean, that doesn't sound bad.
SPEAKER_11I wanted to guess another one that starts. This is two trumpet players.
SPEAKER_07This is two trumpet players who only started this year. Wow. Awesome. So this is pretty good. Siobhan.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I feel it feels right to take that during the herker. Oh. Good job, kids. You're not listening, but good job.
SPEAKER_07This is wonderful. I hope they're not listening.
SPEAKER_03Well.
SPEAKER_07Alright, here we go. Next one. This one is a group of clarinets. Oh boy. Ooh. Here it is. Alright, cool.
SPEAKER_02What is a group of clarinets called?
SPEAKER_07That was a good one. I think that was wrong.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that was right. That was good.
SPEAKER_07That was quick too.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that's like a can we name that tune and how many notes on that one?
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_03Oh, there's that square.
SPEAKER_11It's called intonation. But I'm glad as a as a former reed instrument player, there you go.
SPEAKER_03Good job.
SPEAKER_07Of your butt. So again, those kids had never seen it.
SPEAKER_03So that that's awesome. That is that's great.
Chord Progressions Challenge
SPEAKER_07I love this, Andy. It's amazing. Oh, this is fantastic. All right, here we go. Now we're going on to my my high school kids. So this should be easier. But keep in mind that I just gave them the starting note and what song to do and said one, two, ready, go. So here we go. Yikes. One, two, ready. I think I heard Siobhan first. Damn loud. That was that was almost immediate.
SPEAKER_08Again.
SPEAKER_05That's good.
SPEAKER_07It's it's that's not bad for only getting the first note. Give a shout out to the drink.
SPEAKER_02How do we give a shout out to the drummer who had markedably less work to do than this?
SPEAKER_03But he still showed up. That's all he did.
SPEAKER_07Alright. And we got one more. One, two, ready. I think that's Siobhan again.
SPEAKER_03Woo! We'll give it to Matt because you came in second on that one. Well, a present for coming in second. Good job.
SPEAKER_07All right. So that was the beginner band edition of Name that too. Now we're going on to just the chords. F. Oh God. So this is all me.
SPEAKER_03Not the F chord, to be fair.
SPEAKER_07Me playing the chord progression.
SPEAKER_12Okay. I thought you were gonna say the chord progression. I was like, I'm done.
SPEAKER_09Oh yeah, there's no way.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, what instrument? The first one is gonna be on mandolin.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_11No.
SPEAKER_02Come on, come, manual. Nope.
SPEAKER_12What song is that? I can't get the name.
SPEAKER_02Yes, this guy. I'm literally singing.
SPEAKER_03There we go. We got there. We got there.
SPEAKER_07All right. Not bad, Matt.
SPEAKER_02Uh just because I had to sit next to this guy in church for the better part of my young life, I'm giving it to Chris.
SPEAKER_11That's the reason I was singing. Listen, I I would like to say I'm very impressed with Matt by how much you've known. Yeah, that was good. Oh. You're a drummer. I mean, you're not known for your tones. I'd be a dumbbell. I'm just I'm I was giving you props about it.
SPEAKER_03He does not play a melodic instrument.
SPEAKER_07That's true. I was thinking about doing a round where I was just going to use a snare drum and play the stuff.
SPEAKER_03There's no way that Chris would not know most of that.
SPEAKER_02So, Chris, that would be you and I head to head next year.
SPEAKER_03That feels like a written dictation exam that makes you want to jump into a hole and die.
SPEAKER_02Somebody tossed me one of those shots. What's a buttery shot?
SPEAKER_03A butt shot. Here you go.
SPEAKER_02Jingle shots? No.
SPEAKER_07He's so proud of that. He's getting another butter gable.
SPEAKER_03That's fair. You should be proud of that. All right, here we go.
SPEAKER_07Next one, I'm on guitar for this one.
SPEAKER_02Oh, come on, you'll come easy faithful. Yep.
SPEAKER_03Oh, come on, you faithful. You guys are a solid heat for that.
SPEAKER_02As a thank you to Rob for his earlier compliment, which I deeply did appreciate. So this is rather backhanded of me.
unknownBullshit.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I don't even know what would happen.
SPEAKER_11All right. You know what? I wasn't going to gift you anything, but now I'm going to gift you all the rest of my points. Here we go. All right. Let's go. I'm coming for you, Max.
SPEAKER_07The next one might be hard.
SPEAKER_03I knew this would work out for us.
SPEAKER_07Here we go.
SPEAKER_12Yeah, it's a pop tune.
SPEAKER_08Is it Blue Christmas? Solid guess.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that is a solid guess with the youke, too.
SPEAKER_08Hmm. Solid, solid pickup on that. Is it Melakalikamaka? There it is.
SPEAKER_03Oh, good thing Matt gets these points.
SPEAKER_07One more by the chords. Again, this one. I'm gonna go ahead and give you the hint there. This is more of a poppy, less of a traditional one.
SPEAKER_12Maybe it's cold outside, is it? Similar vintage.
SPEAKER_07I'll give you another hint. There's a uh group of cartoon characters associated with this song.
SPEAKER_03Is this a Charlie Brown song?
SPEAKER_07No. Oh, that that has confused me more.
SPEAKER_03Is it the the otters?
SPEAKER_07No. Cartoon rodents.
SPEAKER_03Alvin and the chipmunks? Okay.
SPEAKER_07Oh, um by my my hula hoop?
SPEAKER_03Um, no. Um is it the Christmas song? Isn't that the name of it? Oh, but I mean, isn't that wait, just that.
SPEAKER_07Please, Annie, don't play it again. Good God. It's not hula hoop. Nope.
SPEAKER_03Christmas Don't be late?
Slide Whistle Showdown
SPEAKER_02Nope. Oh, similar chord progression, that's pretty close. That's the one I couldn't get to.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god, that's the only thing I can think of now with the crit the chipmunks. Me, I want a hula hoop. We can hardly. That's what Christmas Don't Be Late is.
SPEAKER_12Yeah, but it's the What's the other one by them? It's uh the end.
SPEAKER_03That's not it.
SPEAKER_12All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth. My two front teeth. All right, Chris, all right.
SPEAKER_03We got a lot of assists on that, though. The wag hood with Mary Christmas.
SPEAKER_02Oh F all. I love how you just keep giving your wife presents. It's so beautiful.
SPEAKER_03He doesn't give me real ones. Oh no.
SPEAKER_12I'd like to point out that's my first correct answer. Thank you very much.
SPEAKER_03You're welcome. I helped you. Beer Trail.
SPEAKER_07All right. Go with America with.
SPEAKER_03Yep.
SPEAKER_07Round three of Name That Tune. So I have this really nice slide whistle. Round three is me with no practice, just recording it live once through. On slide whistle. On slide whistle. I'm excited. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god. That was like a didgeridoo.
SPEAKER_02Oh, oh, just like rose ring on an open fire? Red ops are at those right here. Do they know it's Christmas town in Africa?
SPEAKER_03That's called do they know it's Christmas time?
SPEAKER_11Argentina. That's what I'm gonna hit. Evita.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I'm doing it. Oh, that was so good. Back in you cried. Oh Christ. Oh my god, Jesus is crying.
SPEAKER_07Jesus wept.
SPEAKER_03Oh no. Yes. That's up to the thing. The big finish.
SPEAKER_07The hardest thing about doing this was not cracking up laughing.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god, there's no way. I can't even imagine. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_11How many more of these are there?
SPEAKER_03Three more.
SPEAKER_05Okay, good.
SPEAKER_07All right, here we go. Our next one.
SPEAKER_11Police Navy died? Yes.
SPEAKER_04Oh, well done.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god, that was so good. This is amazing.
SPEAKER_11I give to the Christopher, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03This is amazing.
SPEAKER_02For the record, when Andy told me he wanted to do name that tune, of course, my first thought was, oh god, copyright concerns. Andy said to me, You don't have to worry about that.
SPEAKER_03This is live whistle challenge accepted. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_11You do all seven verses of this?
SPEAKER_03I want to win if you remember. Oh my god. Listen. That was a very good job. Oh man. That was a good one. Oh you're getting so much better. Oh my God.
SPEAKER_07This is brilliant. Brilliant. Again, the hardest thing about this was not cracking up in the middle of the city.
SPEAKER_03I mean, thank God we can do that here because I can't not laugh.
SPEAKER_08All right, here we go. Next one. It's a legit laugh cry, by the way, at the end of that. Thank you. Where is it?
SPEAKER_03I don't know where it is. Oh my God.
SPEAKER_12I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. Came upon a midnight clear.
SPEAKER_11It's the most wonderful time of the year. With those Welters getting presents and Matthews getting presents and pretty good.
SPEAKER_03Oh my God, is it I can't.
SPEAKER_07We've got one more.
SPEAKER_03This is peak. One more of the slide whistle? One more of the slide whistle. Oh my god. I thought that was a little bit more. There we go.
SPEAKER_11No, one more.
SPEAKER_03Good, good.
SPEAKER_11If I guess it before you start playing it, do I get two cards? Sure. I farted on Santa's lap. Nope. Damn it. Okay. Is that a song? Yes, it is.
SPEAKER_03Well, you gotta play it on slide whistle now, so get it for the next time.
SPEAKER_07All right, here we go.
SPEAKER_03Or release that as an alcohology.
SPEAKER_07Last one.
All-Time Top Toys Guessing Game
SPEAKER_03The breathing. This isn't all I want for Christmas is you, is it? Because I'm really waiting for that song.
SPEAKER_07I thought about that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Oh. Is that Santa Baby? There it is.
SPEAKER_02Oh. Who's this for? I could not hear that. Harab. Oh.
SPEAKER_03Okay. That's got what got me. Oh my god. Every song for Christmas should now be on slide whistle. That's what I demanded.
SPEAKER_07I started with some of them, and I was like, oh, these are way too easy. It's gonna be too obvious. And I'm like, I gotta go to something more complicated. So that's how we know.
SPEAKER_02This is amazing.
SPEAKER_07Andy, Andy, I I just I'd say just I'll take it.
SPEAKER_08Outstanding. All right. I really jingled my bells. Round three.
SPEAKER_03Woo. Woo! Okay.
SPEAKER_07All right. Again, we're good. We're going difference here. I have a list from Hamley's, which is a British toy company, of the top selling toys of all time. You each are gonna get three guesses to find one. Now, my advice here don't go like super broad, like board games way too broad, or puzzles way too broad. Yeah, yeah, no. Right.
SPEAKER_03We need names.
SPEAKER_07But you also don't have to be like uber uber specific, right? So like a tight. One that's surprisingly not on here. G.I. Joe. You could just say G.I. Joe. You don't have to say like Duke from the G.I. Joe's. Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. Okay. I would never have said that.
SPEAKER_03So, but that's a good example.
SPEAKER_07So let's see who's going to go first this time.
SPEAKER_03There should be a slide whistle.
SPEAKER_07G.I. Joe.
SPEAKER_03Pork job sandwiches.
SPEAKER_07So the down move.
SPEAKER_11Action figure is too broad.
SPEAKER_03We need to go at least a little more specific than that.
SPEAKER_11Right. Okay. Right.
SPEAKER_07The IP. Siobhan. Again. We get three guesses. We'll do one guess at a time. Oh, one guess at a time. We'll go around three times.
SPEAKER_03Got it. Slinky.
unknownOh!
SPEAKER_07Slinky is on the list. All right. So you get to give out a gift. That's a great guess.
SPEAKER_03Give for me. Matthew.
SPEAKER_11Matthew.
SPEAKER_08Okay. And Matthew, it's your turn. Monopoly. Monopoly is on the list.
SPEAKER_03Great guess.
SPEAKER_08Good guess. So far, two for two.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, right back at you.
SPEAKER_03Oh. Could have just picked that myself.
SPEAKER_08I don't know if this is too broad. I'll let you know if it's too broad. Yo-yo.
SPEAKER_07Yo-yo is on the list. Good job.
SPEAKER_11Three for three. Slinky was my first guess, and you went right there.
SPEAKER_03Sorry. Zarya. Okay. Are you going to give it to me, Al?
SPEAKER_12No, I'm going to give it to Matthew.
SPEAKER_03Oh, thank you. Appreciate that.
SPEAKER_12Alright, you said uh G.I. Joe was not, but is Barbie on the list? Barbie guess. And that's as specific as you need to be. That's pretty good. Yeah. All right, all right, all right. Malibu. Yeah, no, I was gonna say.
SPEAKER_03Oh, ass. Wow. That's not my guess. Wow.
SPEAKER_12There's no ass. No ass. The Owen Wilson action figure.
SPEAKER_03My other guess is tickle me Elmo.
SPEAKER_12Oh, that's rather specific. Is not on the list.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that was such a hype.
SPEAKER_12Oh, that makes me nervous for my next guess. Okay. All right, well, good. Go ahead, man.
SPEAKER_03You're welcome for informing you all.
SPEAKER_02Nintendo. Ooh. Can you be more specific? Nintendo's a few.
SPEAKER_03You can't make a weird face. Like you know that there's multiple Nintendo options there. Yeah, but Nintendo release in the 90s. No.
SPEAKER_02Oh God. The Nintendo Entertainment System. That's not the 90s. I know.
SPEAKER_07But I also think you're correct, is it? You are not correct.
SPEAKER_03Oh.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I should have gone with 64.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. Damn it. Rob.
SPEAKER_03Don't say it.
SPEAKER_07All time. Top hundred selling of all time.
SPEAKER_03Top hundred. Wow.
SPEAKER_07Um, this is not like amount of money sold. Just to unit. Individual units. Yeah, it makes sense.
SPEAKER_11Okay. Okay. So then my next guess would have been very bad because there's no way it's on the top list. Lamborghini. No.
SPEAKER_03Okay, this is a portion.
SPEAKER_11This is not my guess.
SPEAKER_03Oh, well then why are you saying it?
SPEAKER_11But I will say, well, I'll say it at the end. Um I'm gonna go with Game Boy.
SPEAKER_07Game Boy is on the list. Oh, nice, nice, nice, nice.
SPEAKER_03Notice how I said nice. Please don't hand me this card. That's fine. Thank you.
SPEAKER_11I'm bouncing between Matthew and Christopher.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03But mostly Matthew.
SPEAKER_11I gave him a compliment and he smited me. My next guess is Cabbage Patch doll. Cabbage Patch dolls is a good thing.
SPEAKER_03Good one. Good one.
SPEAKER_08Well done.
SPEAKER_03There you go.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_03I'm very indecisive.
SPEAKER_07Last time around.
SPEAKER_03Let's be real. I'm in a steal and Bogard and say Nintendo 64 is not on the list. Oh, I knew it was gonna be a different one.
SPEAKER_02I'm literally eyeballing.
SPEAKER_03Well, you get you get a turn now, so Lego. Oh. That's two.
SPEAKER_07Is that Lego's on the list twice?
SPEAKER_03Okay, and I think two presents.
SPEAKER_07I think it's a little overly specific.
SPEAKER_03So is there a middle ground we could find? I don't know what the answer is.
SPEAKER_07I think the middle ground is to give a second guess. Because the two Legos on here are the Lego Harry Potter sets and the Lego classic bricks. Oh, Lego just for random bricks.
SPEAKER_03I think I mean he said Lego and it's on the list. Yeah, I mean Matthew gets a present.
SPEAKER_02Yes. Actually, Robert gets a present, so there you go.
SPEAKER_03You don't get two.
SPEAKER_02There you go. Right. Last guess.
SPEAKER_11Last guess.
SPEAKER_03Makes sense with the Harry Potter ones.
SPEAKER_11Okay. Um, I'm gonna go. I know how much you love my little pony. I'm gonna go Star Wars.
SPEAKER_06What?
SPEAKER_08As in action figures.
SPEAKER_06Oh.
SPEAKER_08There is nothing Star Wars on the list. Surprising. But okay. Wow.
SPEAKER_11And when Chris is done, I'll tell you what my other guess was gonna be. I also need to know which Nintendo it is when we wrap up because this is gonna burn my.
SPEAKER_12He said Game Boy. I mean, which is interesting.
SPEAKER_03That is a Nintendo. I know which one is.
SPEAKER_12I'm gonna assume it's the Wii, but I'm not that's not my guess.
SPEAKER_05Oh, that's fair.
SPEAKER_12My it's GameCube. Also, another joke guess is it I won't if it's on the list, I won't take a card for this. Is ball in a cup on the list? It is not okay. That would have been hilarious.
SPEAKER_03Even the actual name, because that's just from family guys.
SPEAKER_07There is one thing that is that like old school. There's one other thing that's old that old school like ball and paddle.
SPEAKER_12Not to get anything like my legitimate guess is Furby?
SPEAKER_11That was that I decided not to guess. On the list. There was no way that there was enough units of those sold because it was only like popular for like Furby two years, Mimi.
SPEAKER_03Oh, what about beanie babies? Beanie babies. How about the list? How about a top? Oh, a top.
SPEAKER_07Tops are on the list. Oh, it gets too much.
SPEAKER_03What about that creepy ass bitch of a phone that you used to be able to drag on the ground? Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_12Oh, shit out of the phone. Fit your price phone.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, no, that's not on. How about power wheels? Power wheels are on the list. Oh, no, no.
SPEAKER_07Not on the list. That's not surprising.
SPEAKER_03That was too expensive.
SPEAKER_07The first person to tell you that American Girl dogs were too expensive is my mother.
SPEAKER_11Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Was it the Wii? It was the Wii and the Switch are both on there. Oh. Switches on there. NES and Super NES are or GameCube or Nintendo 64. GameCube not surprised.
SPEAKER_12None of those are that huge, to be fair. Like in terms of like NES is too early to be widespread.
SPEAKER_03The consumerism of the current time is just like hard to fight.
SPEAKER_12I would say probably. And Wii was like insanely popular when it came out. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_03It was the first of its kind. With the ocean sensor.
SPEAKER_07Like probably 75 out of a hundred of these are things that like we played as with the game. What about what other board games are on there? Anything else? Board games. We've got battleship, which is the same thing. Yeah, the British, because it's again British list here. Um I'm like trying to think of something funny that would be British.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that they would be.
SPEAKER_12Oh, that was a joke at the end.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that phone is horrifying. We're gonna put a picture up for anyone that doesn't know what that is because it's from Toy Story. We know what it is. Oh, yeah. Well, I don't know. You know.
SPEAKER_07Snakes and ladders.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_07Barrel full of monkeys. Um Pokemon cards are on there. Yeah, I figured Pokemon is on there somehow.
SPEAKER_08Um, is barrel full of monkeys on there? Barrel full of monkeys is not, but tiddly wings is all old school.
SPEAKER_03Is there any what's the thing that's like the the old ball in the card?
SPEAKER_07Uh the clackers.
SPEAKER_03What are those?
SPEAKER_07No means no means.
SPEAKER_03The hand things?
SPEAKER_07No, clackers are like a British toy. I think they're actually illegal in the United States.
SPEAKER_03Amazing.
SPEAKER_07It's literally like two plastic balls on a rope. Oh. And you like spin around the colour. Oh, yeah, they do that.
SPEAKER_03There's like TikTok people that do that. Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. Oh man. All right. Now I'm like, what else? Oh.
SPEAKER_07Clackers. The one I'm surprised none of you guys guessed, aside from Beanie Babies, Tamagotchi.
SPEAKER_03Oh, okay. That's crazy though. But I don't know if I thought they would, I mean, I guess top hundred. That's like Ticko B.
SPEAKER_12So you thought of that with Ticko Miomo, where it was like something that no one could.
SPEAKER_11And when you said that, I immediately thought Furby. But then when I asked, like, is it in money or is it in units? And when you said units, I was like, it was only like two years that they were popular.
SPEAKER_07I don't know if it was in the United States. Um, I bet you that thing was crazy popular in Japan and China.
SPEAKER_12Yeah, and probably for a full year before we even got them. Yeah. There's a lot of Furby Furbies were absolutely bonkers, though. They like well after the Christmas season, you could not find them and people still wanted them. It wasn't like it just disappeared off the face of the earth. People were still buying them like well into the summer. Because I remember there were like news things about, and then like all of the funny things about like, oh, it's creepy because it like activated while it was in the closet. And that's so it like was in the narrative. Oh my god. And then it was self-class. Is it a Chinese thing? Like there was a lot of craze around the first time. Well, that was one of the crazy in the 90s trivia.
SPEAKER_02If you haven't caught that one yet, like Furby was banned from military bases and stuff like that. Like the Navy banned it from yeah. Anyone remember the crossfire game?
Yes-No Bonus Round: Holiday Mysteries
unknownCrossfire!
SPEAKER_02That was what was stuck.
SPEAKER_12Most disappointing game ever.
SPEAKER_02Nothing said. Nothing said late 80s, early 90s, like fire ball bearings at each other and try to short range.
SPEAKER_03What about rock'em sock'em robots?
SPEAKER_07Absolutely.
SPEAKER_03Heck yeah.
SPEAKER_07And I thought it was phenomenal. A lot of IP stuff, like Transformers, uh, Thunderbirds, Masters of the Universe, Hot Wheels.
SPEAKER_03Um, you said that right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Also, Matchbox, Polypocket, My Little Pony is on Play-Doh. Play-Doh is not because that's disgusting. What about zasty?
SPEAKER_03Oh, you remember that?
SPEAKER_07No, but slime.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Oh, well, slime because it's like a general or phloem.
SPEAKER_12You remember flowing? Absolutely.
SPEAKER_03That was a good time.
SPEAKER_12Except then you would leave it out and it would just turn into a rock. And then it would be ohm.
SPEAKER_03It would lose its flow. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07All right. If we want, I've got a bonus round we can do. Of course we do. So I really liked it last year. We did the game of questions. So we're bringing questions back. Okay. So you ask me questions, I will answer yes, no, or yes and no.
SPEAKER_12Rob. And you're thinking of a Christmas-related person.
SPEAKER_07Something Christ Christmas related.
SPEAKER_12Item, person, place, and you can see what I'm saying. Well, okay, we're gonna be a question. Okay.
SPEAKER_07Question Chris, it's not your turn.
SPEAKER_11Sorry, guys. Damn it, Chris. Is this a person?
SPEAKER_12No. Oh, sorry. Uh is now he's not ready. Living. No.
SPEAKER_03Is this a song?
SPEAKER_12No.
SPEAKER_03Thank God we've had too many of those.
SPEAKER_12Songs are living, God.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02Is it Linus from Charlie Brown? No.
SPEAKER_03Is it a blue? Is it a sad?
SPEAKER_02I'm going surgical strike on here.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, that's sad. No, no, no, no, I'm kidding. Um is it a cartoon?
SPEAKER_12No. Is it a food? No.
SPEAKER_03It's not a color because you're Andy.
SPEAKER_07I take offense to that. The gray Christmas.
SPEAKER_03Is it an item you would use for decor in your home?
SPEAKER_07You could. I don't think you would traditionally think of it that way. But is it edible? I mean, anything's edible if you try hard enough.
SPEAKER_03No.
SPEAKER_07But no. Is it even I, dear children?
SPEAKER_12Is it a Yule log? No. Is it elf on a shelf? No.
SPEAKER_03Damn. That would be a traditional piece of decor. Dang, we're really striking out on this.
SPEAKER_11I have a good question.
SPEAKER_03Is it a character?
SPEAKER_08No.
SPEAKER_02Is it a candy cane? No. Is it? Most of the time, some are not at all.
SPEAKER_11Related to Christianity. No. Okay.
SPEAKER_07I mean, as far as like it's related to Christmas, so it's not the Jesus side of Christmas.
SPEAKER_03It's a secular.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, secular side, yeah.
SPEAKER_12Man, I cannot think of a question. Is it smaller than a bread box? No.
SPEAKER_03Oh, is it a snowman?
SPEAKER_02No. Is this something that would be contemporarily found in your home for Christmas? Very broad question.
SPEAKER_03I don't know how menorah that was in mine.
SPEAKER_07Maybe as part of another decoration. Is it a menorah?
SPEAKER_03Ooh. Okay, that's good.
SPEAKER_12Is it a toy train? No. Damn. That was a good guess.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that's a good guess. Is it a candle?
SPEAKER_11Nope. Bigger than a bread box.
SPEAKER_03I got some big ass candles. Okay. We're all crying inside.
SPEAKER_02That's got harder since last year. No. Yeah, we got these really fast last year. It's your turn now. Oh, it is. Damn it. I was waiting for somebody else to guess. No, it's your turn. It's your turn.
SPEAKER_12Ding dong.
SPEAKER_03Oh shit. Ding dong.
SPEAKER_12The sleigh bells? Bigger good. Then a bread box. Those would be some insane sleigh bells.
SPEAKER_03The ones for the ding dings.
SPEAKER_11A horn. No. Oh. Like a Christmas horn. You know what I'm talking about?
SPEAKER_03A Christmas horn.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, they put bows on them and shit and tuba with a bow on it.
SPEAKER_02French horn with some holly. Is it a sled? Solid guess, but no.
SPEAKER_07Damn it. I will get this.
SPEAKER_03Are we being more specific? Is it something you can ride on or sit in?
SPEAKER_07Don't worry about it. I guess in theory, it has done that in movies. I wouldn't think that to be its actual purpose.
SPEAKER_03Uh okay. I don't know this, but we'll see.
SPEAKER_07Is it for children?
SPEAKER_03No. Are things for Christmas all kind of for children?
SPEAKER_07Is that where sleigh? Nope. Solid guess though. You're getting warmer.
SPEAKER_12You get this, I'm gonna cry. We said it was not living.
SPEAKER_07Correct.
SPEAKER_12A reindeer. It's living.
SPEAKER_07Solid guess, but no.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that was gonna be. Reindeers are living, though. I know.
SPEAKER_12I know. That's why I just I can't think of it.
SPEAKER_07You guys are going wrong in the right direction. And they're better than people.
SPEAKER_03I need like another hour. Um people kind of riding on. I mean, it isn't living.
SPEAKER_11Mrs. Claus.
SPEAKER_03Whoa, she's alive, mother. She has a name. Mrs. Claus.
SPEAKER_02Um holiday necrophilia. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Is it a vehicle? I did ask if you can ride on it.
SPEAKER_09God. No. Is it a s toboggan? No, we already I feel like Is it a stocking? Solid guess. Ooh.
SPEAKER_03God.
SPEAKER_09But no.
SPEAKER_03Dang. That is also something you would have in your home, right?
SPEAKER_12And would be a traditional decor item.
SPEAKER_03We're about to catch you, Andy. I don't know. We're all like calling this out like, if it is, you're stupid. I don't know. Um Good Christ. Did we get too old?
SPEAKER_12It's God, we we are like off the margin.
SPEAKER_07It is dancing around it. You're so close. Alright, it's been written in some movies.
SPEAKER_02It is not a vehicle. Correct. It could be decor. Do we have to wait our turns?
SPEAKER_12Yes.
SPEAKER_03God, I'm at this point, I feel like just someone guess.
SPEAKER_12Is it smaller than your average sedan? Traditionally.
SPEAKER_07Not always in movies, though.
SPEAKER_03Why do you keep being the person before me to make this harder? Um in movies, what is the movie? It's like it's in a lot of movies. Yeah. Oh god. But it's not a sleigh. Oh god.
SPEAKER_07It's close though.
SPEAKER_03It's not a sled or a toboggan.
SPEAKER_07You're getting colder.
SPEAKER_03A sledge, which is the name. Another name for a fucking sleigh. Um is it the station wagon from Christmas Vacation?
SPEAKER_02No. Rob seems Rob has a look.
SPEAKER_03Put us out of our misery.
SPEAKER_07Oh, I will see. That would be very funny.
SPEAKER_08I don't know that I'm right.
SPEAKER_02I don't. You keep saying a sleigh is close, and that's what I'm stuck on right now, but it could be dick.
SPEAKER_03Do it. Go with your instinct. Go with your gut.
SPEAKER_02Christmas tree. I got nothing. Nope. Is it Santa Sack? It is Santa Sack.
SPEAKER_03Who wrote on one?
SPEAKER_11Tim Allen. Like it carries him up the channel. Oh, the baby elf. Baby elf wrote in one.
SPEAKER_07The elves in uh Polar Express.
SPEAKER_03God, I don't know.
SPEAKER_12Wowzers. Oh man, he was going Polar Express.
SPEAKER_03Crap. That took us four hours.
SPEAKER_11Give me a present.
SPEAKER_12Okay.
SPEAKER_11Oh, who's gonna get this present?
SPEAKER_03Yikes.
SPEAKER_11Sioban.
SPEAKER_03Oh, boo.
SPEAKER_11I haven't given you one in a while. I've just been tormenting the boys. Alright, shall we do one more?
SPEAKER_07Yes. Thank God, at least.
SPEAKER_11Hopefully faster.
SPEAKER_07Let's go the opposite direction this time. Chris, you're up first.
SPEAKER_12Okay. Uh is it a person? No.
SPEAKER_03Oh. You made a shifty face.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, you did. And are we going this way? I put that as a solid yes and no, but no.
unknownRob.
SPEAKER_08Is it Frosty the Snowman? No. Okay.
SPEAKER_03That's a good guess.
SPEAKER_08That was a good guess, yeah. Because he was faltery on person.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_08And a cartoon character? Yes and no.
SPEAKER_03Yes and no. Is it a fictitious character?
SPEAKER_12Yes. Is it portrayed as a living thing that is not normally living?
SPEAKER_03Oh, that's a different question. Anthropomorphic. Yes and no. Okay.
SPEAKER_11Is it the abominable snowman? No.
SPEAKER_03The Yeti. I love him.
SPEAKER_11Is it a Christmas tree?
SPEAKER_07No.
SPEAKER_03It's a fictitious character. Is it Krampus?
SPEAKER_07It is not.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I had it the first time.
SPEAKER_07We did Krampus the other day. I know. I didn't know if you'd sneak it in again.
SPEAKER_12Is it Mr. Norwell? No.
SPEAKER_02Is it male? Yes. Is it Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer? No.
SPEAKER_11That would have been my guess as well.
SPEAKER_03Is it Herbie the Elf that wants to be a dentist from Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer?
SPEAKER_07What a reference. Solid guess, but no.
SPEAKER_12Is it a humanoid character? Yes.
SPEAKER_11Is it Sam the Snowman?
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_11Voiced by Burlives. No.
SPEAKER_03Is that his name? Sam? Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_02Is it the Grinch? No. Ooh.
SPEAKER_03Solid guess. That is a good guess, yeah. Is it Cindy Lou who going on the Grinch theme?
SPEAKER_07Definitely not male though.
SPEAKER_03Oh, fair. Sorry. I don't know her pronouns. I am assuming them.
SPEAKER_07I wouldn't want to assume. Do we know the Grinch isn't? I mean Grinch isn't wearing pants at all.
SPEAKER_03Does it what is that? What? That doesn't really mean much, but that's okay.
SPEAKER_12Is it a snowman character? No.
SPEAKER_08Is it food-based? No. Jack Frost. No.
SPEAKER_03God, Matt, you're coming up with good ones, and then I have to follow that? Damn.
SPEAKER_12That just made me think of MSC3K.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah. So good. He can reverse the film. Um okay. Male fictitious character. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_07I think focusing on the yes and no to cartoon might help.
SPEAKER_03Yes and no.
SPEAKER_11Which means that it's been portrayed in both ways.
SPEAKER_03I mean, is this Charlie Brown?
SPEAKER_12No.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Because I'm thinking of like the theater show of Charlie Brown.
SPEAKER_12But is it a child aged character?
SPEAKER_03That's a good question.
SPEAKER_07Good question.
SPEAKER_11Adult character film and drawn. Male. Male.
SPEAKER_03You assume.
SPEAKER_11No, he confirmed. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, he can he confirmed. It's both been in live action and drawn.
SPEAKER_03Well, film could have been TV.
SPEAKER_12That's fair.
SPEAKER_03But that's fine.
SPEAKER_12I'm if you want to say like live action versus animated.
SPEAKER_03Well, and animated.
SPEAKER_08I'm gonna go with Father Time. Solid guess, but no. Scrooge. Nope.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that's goddamn.
SPEAKER_07Oh, you don't know how a good of a guess that is.
SPEAKER_03Oh. Oh my god, if I took a sound dad tonight, ghost of Christmas present.
SPEAKER_08Bob Cratchit. Nope. Damn it.
SPEAKER_03No. You got two to pick.
SPEAKER_11The ghost of Christmas past.
SPEAKER_07Is the correct answer.
SPEAKER_03I just feel like ghost of Christmas present is more your energy. I hate you all.
SPEAKER_12I'm dumb. Bob Cratchit is an actual human.
Tallying Gifts And Crowning The Winner
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he is. He's technically also Kermit the Frog in the Muppet Christmas Carol, which is not animated, but all on the damn table.
SPEAKER_02You sure did.
SPEAKER_12Rob two for two. Back to uh the best version of that. Uh, make sure you apparently watch the full version in the extras of Disney Plus because there's the song that got reboot. Oh, we're not.
SPEAKER_10Beautiful song. Shouldn't have been cut. I give it a lot. It was too dark for the sensitive children.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god, we don't have another six hours to be.
SPEAKER_11Did anybody ever see the meme that says uh why Michael Cain and um oh god, why can't I think of his name from uh Rocky Horror Picture Show? What's it? Tim Tim Curry. Why Michael Cain and Tim Curry are the best actors to work with Muppets? Because they treated them like real actors. Because Michael Cain treats them like real actors and and Tim Curry Muppet.
SPEAKER_07Alright, guys, I think it's time to open your presents.
SPEAKER_11I'm a little upset. All right. That's why I didn't give you a gift for that.
SPEAKER_07You're gonna be you're gonna be a lot more upset when you try and edit all the dead air of people thinking.
SPEAKER_11Okay.
SPEAKER_08I have a lot of surprising amount of cards in here. So face cards count as 10.
SPEAKER_03Even aces.
SPEAKER_02Yes. Okay. Keep it simple. And the other ones are face value? Yep.
SPEAKER_11Well, that's 53. Oh my god. 53 points. I have a lot of face cards here.
SPEAKER_0354. Yeah, because I had three aces, you asses.
SPEAKER_02I had 63. Ooh.
SPEAKER_12And the winner, 48. Wow.
unknownWow.
SPEAKER_03I don't know.
SPEAKER_12I don't know.
SPEAKER_0330.
SPEAKER_1246.
SPEAKER_03No. No.
SPEAKER_12No, you did not do mathematics.
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SPEAKER_03Really, Chris? Y'all thought this would go well. So who is it? Robin. It's me. By one point.
SPEAKER_12I probably counted the jacks as one.
SPEAKER_03No, you shouldn't do that.
SPEAKER_12Womp.
SPEAKER_03Oh, you did it a hate. Look at the ads.
SPEAKER_11Okay, what? Silence.
SPEAKER_02Wrong button.
SPEAKER_01Stellar shit.
SPEAKER_12Oh Lord. Wonderful. That was fantastic.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02The slide whistle. Andy, that was absolutely outstanding. I hope you had fun with that. That was awesome.
SPEAKER_11Thank you so much. Sure thing. Happy holidays, friends. Merry Christmas.
SPEAKER_02Before we wrap, what do we think the stellar sip of the episode was? Drink wise.
SPEAKER_03That shot was real good. Yep.
SPEAKER_02We're going to go with the butterscotch shot. Absolutely. The butt nuts. Butterscotch shot it is for the Stellar Sip. And Merry Christmas. Happy holidays to all, and thank you for listening.
SPEAKER_01Stellar Sipellar.
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SPEAKER_02This episode's booster quote is a conversation from the Christmas classic National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. Clark says to his dad, Oh, our holidays were always such a mess. And Clark Sr. says, Oh yeah. Clark says, How'd you get through it? His father replies, I had a lot of help from Jack Daniels. Merry Christmas, everyone. Would you like to suggest something for us to drink? Give us some feedback, or have your brand featured on Matt and Friends Drink the Universe? We would love to hear from all of our listeners. Please check our episode descriptions down below for links to send us a text, support the podcast, and visit our merch store. To keep up with our latest news or share your stellar sips with us, please like and follow Matt and Friends DTU on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, Threads, Blue Sky, and Reddit. For more information about the podcast and links to all of our episodes, please visit www.mat and friendsdtU.com. That's MattfriendsDTU.com. Cheers, friends.
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