Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid

"Hey everyone, we know times are tough, but imagine how much worse it could be—you could be starving in Africa! So why not skip your morning coffee or that occasional fast-food treat and send that money to those who truly need it? After all, do you really need that extra latte or burger when entire families are surviving on less than a dollar a day? Sacrifice a little luxury, and be a hero to someone who can’t afford even the basics!"

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Transcript

00:42.50
Chibbs
This is a thousand and one songs that make you want to die. The podcast we talk about songs so bad, they make you want to drink so much you shit yourself while getting Santa photos at Westfield Warawong.

00:52.95
Bevo
Nope.

00:54.25
Chibbs
Why does it start?

00:54.56
Bevo
I have a last time too.

00:56.22
Chibbs
I don't know why that one repeat. like I don't know.

00:58.95
gav
I'm sad that it cut in over the top of that intro because that was a good one.

00:59.18
Chibbs
I'm not hitting repeat. Yeah. Thank you.

01:02.19
gav
Shitting yourself at Westfield Warrawong.

01:02.68
Chibbs
Yeah.

01:03.75
gav
I reckon I've probably done that once.

01:03.77
Chibbs
Warawong. Yeah.

01:04.92
Bevo
It sounds like it's based in reality.

01:05.38
Chibbs
I reckon we've all probably done that at the time. Yeah, that's right.

01:07.50
Bevo
You guys remember at Westfield war on, sorry, I can't speak at Westfield war along. They used to have these like stage shows.

01:15.67
Chibbs
Yeah.

01:15.72
Bevo
like learningoney tune Fuck.

01:15.86
gav
Yeah, fuck yeah.

01:17.13
Bevo
I used to go to them every time.

01:17.30
gav
Yeah.

01:18.85
Chibbs
Yeah.

01:19.24
Bevo
Love them.

01:20.47
gav
That was a big deal back then. I feel like Westfield Warrawong was one of those weird places that I spent

01:21.98
Bevo
Yeah.

01:24.62
Bevo
we were all there and we didn't know each other yeah me too yeah yeah oh yeah had they had like compact oh not compact the floppy disks with DOS games that I used to get all the time yeah

01:26.35
Chibbs
The arc is very likely.

01:26.46
gav
Oh, fucking honestly, we were, we absolutely were. My gran used to take me there. I used to spend a stupid amount of time with that fucking mall when I was a kid.

01:32.25
Chibbs
So did I, I used to go to the movies all the time there and yeah.

01:35.34
gav
Yeah, it had this and like Clint's crazy bargains and shit. It was like this spot, hey.

01:38.75
Chibbs
Yeah. Uh-huh. Well,

01:44.88
Chibbs
Yeah, fucking oath.

01:46.44
gav
Fuck.

01:46.96
Chibbs
Yep, yep, we were all there. We were all there, shitting ourselves on Santa.

01:49.46
gav
Yeah. Oh man.

01:54.09
Chibbs
And speaking of shit, we are doing, do they know it's Christmas by a Band-Aid?

02:46.38
Chibbs
Ah, fucking hell. Seriously, why?

02:49.78
Bevo
you like

02:50.66
Chibbs
Why did they do it?

02:51.67
gav
It's pretty rough.

02:51.91
Chibbs
Like, it's so fucking terrible. And I get that they were just trying to redo the the live aid. You know, what was the, what was.

03:00.59
Bevo
We're just over that and I've forgotten already.

03:00.85
gav
um We're the world.

03:02.77
Bevo
We are the world.

03:02.97
Chibbs
we are the world.

03:03.04
gav
We're the world? Yeah.

03:04.00
Chibbs
Like they're trying to do it, but fuck man.

03:04.19
gav
yeah it's It's the budget version.

03:06.31
Chibbs
if you if you can't get michael If you can't get Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and like Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, don't, just don't do it.

03:13.70
Bevo
Yeah. Yeah.

03:15.10
Chibbs
Don't do it. Yeah. If you got no one that's willing to fucking let like come to the continent of Europe from anywhere else, it was like they went, who who's available within four city blocks of the studio right now?

03:31.36
Bevo
Yeah.

03:31.81
Chibbs
that's

03:31.96
gav
Yeah, yeah.

03:32.33
Bevo
And Phil Collins who would at that point in time would do anything.

03:32.81
Chibbs
Yeah.

03:35.38
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

03:37.05
gav
And still would, to be fair.

03:38.09
Chibbs
There is a Phil Collins story that i'll I'll get to here, but we do have lyrics to get through.

03:41.00
gav
I'm excited about that. Oh, um, yeah.

03:43.36
Chibbs
So. Yeah. Uh, I mean, Gavin's here. It's fucking, it's fucking Christmas time.

03:48.53
gav
Yeah. It's fucking Christmas, baby.

03:50.86
Chibbs
They're both here.

03:52.19
Bevo
Uh, jingle jingle.

03:52.34
Chibbs
It's fucking Christmas time.

03:53.75
gav
Where's our, where's, where's Mad Dog?

03:53.94
Chibbs
I might release this on Christmas day.

03:57.76
Chibbs
Uh, the North Pole.

03:59.72
gav
Ah, yeah, it it turned out he he is Santa.

04:00.88
Chibbs
Yeah.

04:01.49
Bevo
He's a slave He's building toys.

04:01.69
Chibbs
Yeah.

04:03.88
Chibbs
No, well, no, against his will.

04:06.13
gav
Oh, he's being dragged to the North Pole to answer for his many crimes against the elven people.

04:06.63
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, he's been, he's been held.

04:11.78
Chibbs
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, they have their own version of the Hague.

04:17.16
gav
He's going to be strung up by his ankles and wit.

04:17.23
Chibbs
and

04:17.98
Bevo
It's it's the Hulk.

04:19.05
Chibbs
it yeah I hope he gets hung by a crane like they did in Iraq.

04:20.58
gav
heart

04:23.85
Bevo
The

04:26.66
gav
I reckon he will.

04:27.02
Bevo
toy one.

04:27.30
Chibbs
Yeah.

04:27.70
gav
I reckon he's going to, yeah, someone's going to, he's going to have been stripped down to his underwear with a black bag over his head and had dogs like set on him.

04:28.23
Chibbs
yeah

04:36.00
Chibbs
Yeah, great.

04:36.64
gav
I reckon that's how the elves get down up there.

04:39.50
Chibbs
Yeah, I imagine, I imagine so. Yeah, why not?

04:41.50
gav
Yeah.

04:43.93
Chibbs
Okay, there's a guy called Paul Young. um um

04:48.27
Bevo
not different to john paul young who wrote lovers in the air the he's he's paul old now

04:51.36
Chibbs
yeah Yeah, not John Paul Young, just Paul Young.

04:54.12
gav
Different to Paul Simon and Angus Young's child.

04:56.61
Chibbs
Yeah, again, not not that, but I don't know who Paul Young is, but he kicks it off, gets the first yes sir gets the first section. He says, it's Christmas time. There's no need to be afraid.

05:11.22
gav
who who

05:16.11
Chibbs
This is the best fucking way to open any Christmas carol.

05:17.88
gav
Oh my god. Fucking Jesus.

05:22.47
Chibbs
Fear.

05:24.49
gav
ah so

05:25.30
Bevo
yeah

05:25.31
Chibbs
Don't be afraid. At Christmas time, we let in light and we banish shade.

05:33.73
Bevo
No, that sounds racist.

05:33.87
Chibbs
Sounds slightly racist as And then they're like, it's this whole thing is like, oh, shit should sorry, should I be scared or something?

05:34.36
gav
Oh yeah.

05:36.76
Bevo
It's funny to say it's Christmas time. There's no need to be afraid. It's like, well, that thought had not crossed my mind until now. thank you Should I have been afraid?

05:48.21
Chibbs
They're like, well, um no, you don't have to because we only have white people at Christmas.

05:48.85
gav
Oh.

05:55.60
gav
The best part is that opening, the opening verse was written for Bowie and he couldn't, and he, and he couldn't make the recordings.

05:56.38
Chibbs
We've banished the shade.

06:01.16
Bevo
Oh, really?

06:01.30
Chibbs
ah Yeah, good call.

06:03.84
gav
They gave it to this fucking clown.

06:07.23
Chibbs
Yeah, he read it. He read that and went, oh, I can't make it. Sorry, fellas.

06:10.75
gav
Yeah.

06:10.93
Bevo
ah

06:11.03
gav
He was, um, I'm busy actually.

06:12.14
Chibbs
a Yeah, it's just like yeah i'm like, sorry, I'm Ziggy Stardust.

06:13.66
gav
Yeah.

06:18.31
Chibbs
I'm not singing about the fear of Christmas and the banishing of shade.

06:22.30
gav
ah

06:25.75
Chibbs
You can't banish shade. All things cast a shadow.

06:29.00
gav
yeah

06:34.30
gav
ah

06:35.40
Chibbs
You can't possibly live in a world of light without shadows.

06:35.66
gav
Oh my god.

06:37.78
Bevo
Yeah, it's like like you get that box of mirrors. Every surface is a mirror and then you put a light inside it and see what happens.

06:43.63
gav
Yeah, yeah.

06:44.06
Chibbs
He lives in a box of mirrors.

06:48.03
gav
That's a Bowie lyric.

06:48.12
Chibbs
um see That sounds like something to be afraid of.

06:50.89
gav
That sounds like a fucking Bowie lyric.

06:51.46
Bevo
It's also funny that that we bring up Bowie because I was thinking when we heard the intro music of the song, that like tubular bell synth patch is so labyrinth.

07:00.61
Chibbs
Yeah.

07:01.77
gav
Yeah. Yes.

07:03.31
Bevo
sorrow labyrinth

07:03.29
Chibbs
ah least it's

07:04.31
gav
So fucking labyrinth.

07:06.00
Chibbs
yeah

07:06.26
gav
Um, I will say as well, um, it's Christmas time. There's no need to be afraid. I'd say that there is the exact same number of things to be afraid about, if not more at Christmas time than any, the fact that it's December doesn't, you you know, stop sharks from fucking biting your nuts or whatever.

07:17.61
Chibbs
Mm-hmm.

07:26.49
Chibbs
Nah, nah, nah.

07:26.97
Bevo
Would you know, like the hospitals get clogged at Christmas time?

07:31.47
Chibbs
It's just, probably a little road, probably a little road accidents, I'd imagine.

07:32.54
gav
Is it because everyone's drunk or is it because everyone's depressed? Or both?

07:35.37
Bevo
Probably a lot of factors, a lot of accidents and yeah.

07:39.85
gav
Mm, road rage.

07:39.89
Bevo
Um, yeah, no, it's, it's funny.

07:41.40
gav
Acid attacks. There's a lot of acid attacks around Chris.

07:43.08
Chibbs
Oh, charming, charming way, charming way to attack someone, but yeah.

07:44.03
gav
Very charming, very charming acid attacks around Chris.

07:45.11
Bevo
Bring back the accident bags.

07:47.76
gav
Bring, bring back the acid attack.

07:48.23
Bevo
Um, yeah, it'd be like, it'd be like saying to someone like, we're going to the doctors now and there's no need to be afraid. You'd be like, fuck, what am I getting?

07:56.13
gav
Yeah, that makes me so fucking concerned, hey.

07:56.60
Chibbs
ah well like that Anyway, good start.

08:01.14
gav
Yeah. If someone said to me, there's no need to be afraid, I'd assume there was heaps of raisins to be afraid.

08:05.83
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You should never start with that. it Never.

08:08.62
gav
Yeah, that's a terrible idea.

08:10.20
Chibbs
No, especially in a Christmas carol.

08:11.07
Bevo
Kind of weird snowman's coming to get me.

08:14.04
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, there's nothing to be afraid of. There's a ah menacing magical snowman who has left a trail a trail a trail of dead bodies.

08:20.21
Bevo
Yeah.

08:21.30
gav
ah

08:21.32
Bevo
and i yeah

08:22.69
gav
Somebody thumping children to death.

08:22.99
Bevo
ah right

08:26.21
Bevo
We've also got a reindeer with a deformity that is now the later of the reindeer.

08:27.53
gav
ah

08:30.86
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah. Boy George pops in. He says, and in our world of plenty,

08:35.37
gav
oh God.

08:39.23
Chibbs
We can spread a smile of joy. Throw your arms around the world at Christmas time. How long would your arms have to be?

08:47.91
gav
Oh God, he didn't even he didn't even bring the rhyme home.

08:51.14
Chibbs
Nah, nah. I imagine someone with so arms so long they can wrap it around the world.

08:58.45
Bevo
mr tickle from mr tickle from mr man yeah the original lyric was

08:58.49
Chibbs
But they have a normal body. Mr Tickle! Yeah, that's it.

09:03.61
gav
Do you reckon, do you reckon they gave him an unfulfilled rhyme with the word joy just to fuck with boy George?

09:03.65
Chibbs
um

09:11.80
Chibbs
yeah reckon it was like bully

09:14.23
gav
I reckon, I reckon whoever wrote, whoever wrote that verse room was like, let's set it up with joy. And he's like, oh hell yeah. And it's like, they call me George motherfucking boy. And he was, they were just like, at,

09:24.15
Bevo
It's the original lyric, in our world of plenty, we can spread a smile of joy. Throw your arms around the world. My name is George, I'm boy.

09:35.09
gav
That's what he wanted. And then they were like, no, no, no.

09:36.39
Chibbs
You reckon it was like bullying?

09:36.88
gav
The last line is at Christmas time.

09:39.09
Chibbs
Yeah, he's there at the piano, fucking scribble it away.

09:39.32
Bevo
ah

09:39.46
gav
And he was like, fuck you. Fuck you.

09:42.56
Chibbs
I've got it!

09:44.56
gav
ah At Christmas time.

09:47.29
Bevo
I've got a problem with this lyric. Oh, well, there's no need to be afraid, boy. Do they call him boy or George?

09:53.13
Chibbs
Yeah, sorry, what is it?

09:53.35
gav
George. The best part is Boy George boy george got um arrested for kidnapping a bo like ah a man and like tying him to a chair in his apartment and whipping him with like ah electrical cords and stuff.

09:56.06
Chibbs
Mr. Boy!

10:05.83
Chibbs
That's right.

10:09.93
Chibbs
Yeah, you see yeah.

10:10.13
Bevo
No, yeah, he's a judge on the voice.

10:10.93
gav
did some real fucked up shit to ah Yeah.

10:13.75
Chibbs
Something real cokey.

10:14.96
gav
He did some super coked out shit and very, very kidnapping, torturing vibes.

10:17.26
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah.

10:20.80
Chibbs
yeah and And then, yeah, and then became a, and then became a coach on the voice.

10:21.35
gav
And he got, he he got arrested for it. It was, it was big fucking news.

10:28.67
Bevo
With a big hat, big funny hat.

10:29.25
gav
Is that the one, is that the one where you get to choose who your coach is?

10:30.18
Bevo
Yeah.

10:32.83
Chibbs
I think so.

10:33.31
Bevo
yeah yeah

10:34.09
gav
How does anyone choose that? Imagine sitting there and it's like, who do you want to spend heaps of time one on one with?

10:36.67
Chibbs
Right. I mean, he was on this song.

10:40.55
Chibbs
He's like, you know why I hung out with Sting and George Michael that one time? Oh, really? Yeah, I did.

10:48.30
gav
But yeah, imagine, imagine having a selection of artists to choose who to spend a significant amount of one-on-one time with and you go, I want to pick the man who tied a human being to a chair and whipped him.

10:53.14
Chibbs
To be fair, yeah. but What was it? It was like Delta Goodrum going back to bad boy George. I don't

11:02.98
gav
Was that that season?

11:03.33
Chibbs
know.

11:03.78
gav
Were those guys on the same fucking hell?

11:04.60
Bevo
Yeah, yeah.

11:07.75
Chibbs
Possibly, I don't know, something.

11:08.82
gav
I mean, you'd have to go, I've heard, I've heard that Guy Sebastian's actually like a fucking mad dude.

11:09.46
Chibbs
yeah

11:13.13
Chibbs
God Sebastian would be a fucking mad dog.

11:13.73
gav
Have we spoken about this?

11:15.30
Chibbs
He'd be a mad dog. um i've I've said there's no Sebastian bashing on this podcast.

11:18.85
Bevo
Yeah, we've said that.

11:19.22
Chibbs
I've said this before.

11:19.58
gav
No, we've, we've said this many a time.

11:20.50
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, um yeah.

11:20.94
gav
I think he's, he's actually verified good fucking dude, right?

11:24.27
Chibbs
You basically got Sebastian who's just a fucking mad dog and two coke feets.

11:31.63
Chibbs
That's what you got.

11:32.36
Bevo
I do think it's funny though, just, just a slight Sebastian bashing him winning a singing, winning a singing competition and then judging one.

11:32.60
Chibbs
Yeah.

11:33.42
gav
Some bashing

11:36.38
Chibbs
Hey.

11:38.14
gav
don't date.

11:40.01
Bevo
Like it's like graduating high school and then becoming a teacher, you know.

11:44.36
gav
I feel like every teacher alive has done that, right?

11:44.59
Chibbs
Yeah, he's got hits. He's had hits. He's had consistent hits.

11:49.06
Bevo
I said it's, but yeah, it's just like coming back around to like judge the thing that got you famous.

11:52.87
Chibbs
Oh mate, you gotta pay the bills.

11:55.74
Bevo
Oh, for sure. I'm not begrudging him. I'm just saying it's funny.

11:58.08
gav
I will say I think I, I, yeah, I think I realized that Lupe Fiasco's career was done when he did a song with Guy Sebastian.

12:07.22
Chibbs
Yeah. Correct. Yeah.

12:10.64
gav
That was, that was me.

12:10.68
Chibbs
Yeah.

12:11.76
gav
And that's no shade on Guy Sebastian.

12:13.68
Chibbs
That's just when lupe Lupe is affordable now.

12:13.98
gav
That's definitely.

12:14.27
Bevo
its um bad

12:16.98
gav
Yeah.

12:16.99
Bevo
It's my, it's my gripe about the industry more than about and Sebastian is that that's your path.

12:20.42
Chibbs
Yeah, I know, yeah. Yeah, that's the path, yeah.

12:23.04
gav
Yeah. Yeah.

12:24.46
Chibbs
ah George Michael and Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran get involved.

12:28.58
gav
I love, I love that the genius and it's like the genius caption just says Paul Young, boy, George, George Michael, and then Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran.

12:32.88
Chibbs
Yeah.

12:39.45
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, because you don't know.

12:39.59
gav
Like it it's like all those other concerts.

12:39.98
Bevo
yeah

12:41.10
Chibbs
You don't know.

12:42.67
gav
And it's just like, no, who the fuck is Simon Le Bon?

12:42.71
Chibbs
ah Yeah, yeah. If I'm on the bond, he's in Durin Durin. Oh, cool, okay, all right. He can sing with George Michael then.

12:47.49
gav
Oh, fuck.

12:49.12
Chibbs
They say, but say a prayer, pray for the other ones. At Christmas time, it's hard, but when you're having fun, what?

13:00.00
Bevo
What's hard, Simon Le Bon? What's hard?

13:02.51
Chibbs
What's hard? What? You just say, don't be afraid, start praying. You're like, are we all going to die?

13:08.94
gav
Jesus Christ.

13:10.48
Chibbs
Are you saying we're all going to die here? And they're like, no, we're going to have fun. You're like, I don't believe you, George Michael and Simon Le Bon.

13:18.97
gav
I'm. The other ones just sound so weird.

13:26.08
Chibbs
Yeah.

13:27.12
gav
Yeah.

13:27.44
Chibbs
Yeah. Simon Le Bon hangs around. He stayed at the microphone. George Michael exits. Sting enters.

13:34.93
gav
Interesting.

13:35.66
Bevo
Yeah, mr there's no parentheses police for that for sting, is there?

13:38.98
Chibbs
Yeah, it's the, it's the fucking, it's the Bart down the wishing well again.

13:43.03
Bevo
Yeah, he's a good digger.

13:43.06
Chibbs
it's ah and so I don't think he's got any of your records. bar And then it's like, mom, dad, sting.

13:53.33
Bevo
yeah

13:54.13
gav
ah

13:55.57
Bevo
Not what one of me fans need to me.

13:59.11
Chibbs
So he says, there's a world outside your window and it's a world of dread and fear.

14:06.19
Bevo
Just imagine like looking outside and it's like hell.

14:09.77
Chibbs
o

14:15.08
gav
Oh my God.

14:16.45
Bevo
Everything's on fire and lava and shit.

14:18.42
gav
Oh my God.

14:18.99
Chibbs
this really what sorry what was the live What was the Live Aid song again?

14:19.26
gav
There's a world outside your window.

14:22.85
Chibbs
the what was it We Are The World seems to have a much more positive vibe to it than the fear-mongering of the British.

14:23.90
gav
We are the world.

14:29.76
gav
Yeah. Yeah. Combine those two. We are the world and it's a world of dread and fear.

14:39.12
Chibbs
Yeah, ah yeah, yeah. Oh, we are the world. This world's fucked, but we are the world.

14:43.04
gav
This world's fucked.

14:44.11
Chibbs
Yeah.

14:44.67
gav
We are it. That's what we've got.

14:45.64
Chibbs
Yeah.

14:47.04
gav
Um, that's, that's a jarring lyric.

14:49.06
Chibbs
Beth mentioned fear twice and we haven't got to a chorus.

14:53.06
gav
Fuck it. Hell.

14:54.25
Chibbs
It says fear, fear.

14:54.43
gav
Yeah. This is tough. This is tough. Did you have you, um, have you watched only murders in the building?

15:02.60
Chibbs
I've seen an an episode of it.

15:04.49
gav
I just finished the first season the other day and Sting features quite, um not as like a major character, but as a side character in that first season and it's fucking great.

15:12.02
Bevo
Oh, cool.

15:13.99
Chibbs
Oh, really?

15:14.89
gav
Yeah, it's fucking heaps funny.

15:15.35
Chibbs
Yeah, okay.

15:16.73
gav
They're just like, Sting lives in their building and they suspect him of a murder. And it's so fucking, yeah, yeah, he plays himself.

15:19.90
Bevo
Did he play Sting or?

15:20.21
Chibbs
Ah.

15:23.12
gav
He's just like, he's, cause it's like, it's a rich, it's a ritzy sort of New York building and there's someone's been murdered and they're trying to figure out who did it.

15:23.26
Bevo
Oh, good.

15:27.34
Bevo
Oh, yeah.

15:30.72
gav
They're like, They, Sting was rude to one of the guys in the elevator when he had his dog and they're like, then his dog gets poisoned.

15:37.49
Chibbs
Ah.

15:38.73
gav
And he's just like, it was Sting, Sting poisoned my dog.

15:40.26
Chibbs
Bing!

15:43.06
gav
And it's so fucking great that Sting agreed to it. Cause it's like a lot of Sting bashing. And it's just like him sitting there in the fucking show.

15:48.62
Chibbs
Got a sense of humour. Well he is on this song, so we know he's got a sense of humour.

15:52.90
Bevo
ah Yeah.

15:53.00
gav
Yeah, truly.

15:53.14
Chibbs
Yeah.

15:53.72
gav
he He seems like a fucking mad dude. hey He's just.

15:56.07
Bevo
The heaps of funny interviews of Stuart Copeland, the drummer from the police, talking about how he just sort of ribs on Sting all the time.

15:59.17
Chibbs
Aw yeah. Yeah, he fucking they're just fucking hates that dude so much.

16:04.63
Bevo
yeah It's like he's doing like, he's doing like a play along of every little thing she does as magic for some drum Instagram channel.

16:05.88
Chibbs
I mean, things obviously...

16:11.58
Chibbs
Yeah, I've seen that.

16:12.69
Bevo
And while he's drumming, he's like yelling. He's like, no octobands on every little thing. Like he's making fun of what Sting would tell him not to do.

16:17.65
Chibbs
Yeah.

16:21.86
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, he's always fucking over the air.

16:23.18
gav
he's He's commentating like he's Sting while he's playing the drums of a Sting that is so fucking funny.

16:24.94
Bevo
Yeah. yeah

16:26.23
Chibbs
Yeah, like as if Sting was...

16:28.11
Bevo
yeah

16:28.55
Chibbs
oh You know Sting's a mad dog when he just went, yeah, Shaggy, I will do an entire album with you.

16:30.16
gav
Holy shit.

16:36.61
gav
Yeah, that's dope.

16:37.60
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah.

16:38.70
gav
Fucking dope.

16:39.21
Bevo
Have you seen his someone with Snoop?

16:41.05
Chibbs
Yeah!

16:41.50
Bevo
I just saw it today. he It's like message in a bottle, like interpolation and he's playing and singing.

16:43.12
Chibbs
Yes.

16:45.88
Chibbs
Yeah.

16:48.87
Chibbs
Yeah, I saw that today.

16:49.23
gav
Really?

16:49.99
Bevo
That's a paycheck.

16:51.74
gav
Is it, is it good or is it a bit shit?

16:55.09
Bevo
It's, it's, i've I've, many times I've said this theory of like, if you take a song that's already hit and just change a few words and stuff, it's like running a race, but getting dropped in it halfway.

17:04.53
Chibbs
Yeah, it's lazy.

17:05.70
Bevo
Yeah, it's fucked.

17:05.68
Chibbs
It's lazy.

17:05.76
gav
Yeah, yeah.

17:06.46
Chibbs
Yeah. It's not that the sting and shaggy album is good.

17:06.90
Bevo
Yeah.

17:11.57
Bevo
Yeah.

17:11.74
Chibbs
It's actually good album.

17:11.80
gav
Yeah, yeah.

17:12.80
Bevo
I can't say I've listened to it, but yeah.

17:13.09
Chibbs
Yeah. It's good.

17:14.58
gav
Yeah.

17:15.16
Chibbs
It's good. um Sting and Simon the Bond are still there. They say, where the...

17:18.30
gav
Fucking, hang on. Le Bon has three fucking verses in a row.

17:20.44
Chibbs
He's going hard. Going hard. Yeah, yeah. He's hanging around.

17:22.99
gav
In a fucking row.

17:24.05
Bevo
We're entering with massive vaccine.

17:24.33
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah, that's how you know fucking what year it is. Yeah.

17:28.72
gav
Yeah, that's a good point.

17:29.07
Chibbs
It's Duran Duran and the biggest band in the world. Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears.

17:37.61
gav
Did they put Sting in Sting's verse, you fucking...

17:39.28
Chibbs
Yeah.

17:40.22
Bevo
ah Really? oh

17:41.59
Chibbs
And boy George tried to get his name into his verse. They fucked that off. And then stings just eyeballing him from across studio goes, ah is a bitter sting of tears?

17:49.69
gav
Things like, I'll walk if you don't put sting in this fucking verse.

17:55.43
Chibbs
a

17:55.62
Bevo
It's, and I know it's supposed to be serious, but just the idea of like, I'm so thirsty, have these tears of mine.

18:01.32
Chibbs
Yeah.

18:01.46
Bevo
mean

18:02.17
Chibbs
ah They are bitter.

18:02.92
Bevo
a bit

18:03.31
gav
Bitter, they're so bitter, Sting.

18:05.09
Chibbs
I have tasted my medicine and it is bitter.

18:08.29
Bevo
It's like a coffee.

18:12.30
gav
Oh my God, that is so fucking weird.

18:13.68
Chibbs
ah Okay, Lebond's out. See Lebond. Sting's hanging around. Who turns up?

18:20.03
gav
Le Bono?

18:22.18
Chibbs
but

18:22.32
Bevo
barna

18:22.86
Chibbs
Bono.

18:23.85
gav
Le Bono.

18:24.07
Chibbs
Bono's here. Bono's here.

18:25.88
gav
ah

18:27.12
Bevo
with his funny hat.

18:28.23
Chibbs
Yeah,

18:28.77
gav
Fuck it. Can I just say, for the record, I fucking hate you two so much.

18:33.70
Chibbs
okay

18:35.06
Bevo
One of those bands, are you just like...

18:36.51
gav
like no No, no, no, no. You two, as in Chibs and Ryan.

18:38.57
Bevo
50-50?

18:39.07
Chibbs
yeah, yeah, yeah.

18:39.42
Bevo
Oh yeah, you're right, Tony.

18:40.43
Chibbs
Good. Bono would sting.

18:42.16
gav
No, I straight up fucking hate you two. They suck.

18:44.54
Chibbs
And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom.

18:50.68
Bevo
I can now...

18:52.13
gav
Fucking Jesus Christ.

18:56.69
Chibbs
yeah

18:58.08
gav
ah

18:58.75
Chibbs
Oh my god! Sorry, let me just go back here. I'll just take you from all the time Sting is involved. Sting gets here and he says, there's a world outside your window and it's a world of dread and fear where the only water flowing is a bitter sting of tears and the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom.

19:20.16
Bevo
it's like

19:21.00
gav
My God.

19:21.77
Bevo
Are they singing about Auschwitz or something?

19:23.45
Chibbs
Yeah, what the fuck? They wrote all these down and went, here you go, every fucking famous musician in the UK. Here are the lyrics that I, I, so Bob Geldof of the, what, some sort of rat, the rat band?

19:42.26
Chibbs
What, Boomtown Rats?

19:44.03
Bevo
That's it. Boom 10 rats.

19:44.59
gav
Boomtown rats, yep.

19:44.69
Chibbs
Yeah, Boomtown Rats, yeah.

19:45.10
Bevo
I don't like Mondays.

19:46.61
Chibbs
Yeah, again, one hit, one da fucking nobody. Here's a song I wrote.

19:50.64
gav
Knited. Knited nobody. Sir Bob fucking Geldof.

19:52.28
Chibbs
Knighted. Knighted. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, fucking, yeah, sir, nobody. Bono sting fucks off.

19:59.78
gav
Bono brings it home.

19:59.97
Chibbs
All right, he's brought everyone down. He has brought everyone so far down. That Bono's like, oh, all right, look, look, let's just, it's all right, I got this, I got this.

20:10.67
Chibbs
He says, well, tonight, thank God it's them instead of you.

20:16.17
Bevo
Jesus Christ.

20:16.86
Chibbs
Holy shit!

20:23.28
Chibbs
Oh my god!

20:23.58
gav
Oh, that's so fucking grim.

20:24.77
Bevo
so Oh man.

20:27.29
gav
That's so fucking grim.

20:28.96
Chibbs
This is, it's...

20:29.04
Bevo
I know not it's supposed to be sarcastic but I'm not reading it that way.

20:31.04
Chibbs
Oh no, it's a guilt trip in song form.

20:36.65
gav
it's It's fuck it. They're going all in on a day. That is a fucking heavy verse.

20:42.19
Chibbs
So heavy, so heavy. I assume this is a chorus that we've gotten to here, because it says Boy George and others.

20:52.70
Bevo
boy georges e etc

20:52.96
Chibbs
And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time. The greatest gift they'll get this year is life. Oh! Where nothing ever grows. No rain or rivers flow. Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

21:12.93
Bevo
So, oh man, so self-important.

21:13.47
gav
Um, yeah, also some pretty wild.

21:17.62
Chibbs
This is, you would have felt like the biggest cunt in the world singing all of this.

21:22.22
gav
Yeah, some pretty wild geographic inaccuracies too.

21:22.35
Bevo
But also just to assume that they, they celebrate Christmas in the, in certain places and, uh, it's so tone deaf.

21:29.20
Chibbs
yeah Yeah, it's just like, while us here in Europe are having a beautiful Christmas, I don't even think people in Africa know what Christmas is.

21:31.83
gav
Yeah, it's pretty rough.

21:44.50
gav
I like it that it says it.

21:44.63
Chibbs
The entire continent of Africa.

21:47.83
Bevo
yeah

21:48.96
gav
ah

21:49.44
Bevo
yeah

21:51.99
gav
Yeah.

21:52.95
Chibbs
then that like It was about Ethiopia, right? It's about the famine in Ethiopia. You can't just pull the whole fucking continent of Africa into this.

22:02.56
Bevo
Yeah, it's a massive.

22:04.08
gav
Good point.

22:04.36
Chibbs
Yeah, sorry.

22:04.88
gav
Good point. It does say in Africa, then it says, where nothing ever grows.

22:05.86
Chibbs
Are you saying?

22:10.04
gav
Okay.

22:10.04
Chibbs
No, nothing.

22:10.66
gav
some of the Some of the most famously ginormous grasslands on planet earth feed the the the the crucible of all life.

22:15.09
Chibbs
ah You would almost say the, would you say like, you know, the beacon of life. is like the cradle of life, no one to come from the continent of Africa.

22:23.27
Bevo
Cradle of life.

22:29.01
Bevo
yeah

22:29.51
Chibbs
Yeah.

22:29.98
gav
And then it says, where nothing ever grows, no rain or rivers flow. There's literally the biggest rivers in the fucking, yeah, that too, that too.

22:37.64
Chibbs
The Nile's pretty big.

22:41.01
Chibbs
Yeah, it's a real big one, that one.

22:43.30
gav
I feel like it was a very, yeah, that's a bit of a wild fucking lyric to throw in.

22:44.16
Chibbs
Yeah.

22:49.20
Chibbs
It's so wild.

22:50.48
gav
Yeah.

22:50.45
Chibbs
It's so wild. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, Marilyn and...

22:54.36
gav
Oh my God.

22:55.76
Chibbs
Oh, what?

22:55.81
gav
I love, sorry, I just realized there's a genius annotation.

22:58.50
Chibbs
Oh.

22:58.60
gav
um It says that, like just cutting to the very last section of the, of the genius annotation says, of course it is factually inaccurate, inaccurate to paint all of Africa, the second biggest continent as one barren wasteland.

23:12.66
Chibbs
Yeah!

23:13.41
gav
There are many rivers, lots of rain, huge amounts of plant life and even snow. but so

23:19.33
Chibbs
Yeah, I was gonna say, um, um, South Africa's got some pretty fucking snowy peaks and, um, I would say the Congolese jungle is very fucking dense.

23:29.74
Bevo
yeah

23:30.30
gav
God but um I Said the Amazon

23:30.52
Chibbs
Yeah, but whatever.

23:31.22
Bevo
i got here um The suggestion is that starvation means that many Africans will be too busy worrying about survival to know when Christmas is. In reality, many Sub-Saharan Africans are Christians, and celebrating Christmas is important to them.

23:44.86
Chibbs
Yeah.

23:46.74
Bevo
It would be patronizing to suggest that they don't know when it is held. Yeah, I got here

23:52.44
Chibbs
Patronizing is, yeah, very on the nose.

23:55.57
Bevo
yeah

23:57.08
gav
ah I, um, I said, I said the fucking, um, the fucking Amazon when we're talking about rivers just then, which is in fucking South America.

24:06.00
Chibbs
Different continent, different continent.

24:07.67
gav
So you, you hit the nail with fucking the Nile. I think that was the pull I was trying to reach for.

24:11.54
Chibbs
And now it's a very big river. um i believe I believe the largest waterfall in the world is in Africa.

24:13.79
gav
Yeah. The Congo.

24:20.31
Chibbs
It's Angel Falls in Africa.

24:22.62
gav
I think so.

24:24.25
Chibbs
I think so as well. Um, Marilyn and they from Anaheim.

24:26.65
gav
How about the baseball team, the Angels? Ah, who who bought, who bought that, who bought that team?

24:30.29
Chibbs
That's Southern California. No waterfalls. It's a fucking desert.

24:35.31
gav
Gene fucking Altree.

24:35.90
Chibbs
Jean Autry of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer thing.

24:38.94
gav
Ah, of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer fame.

24:40.79
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

24:41.97
gav
There we go.

24:42.03
Chibbs
And the murderous snowman Frosty. Marilyn and Glenn

24:46.08
Bevo
Mm hmm.

24:46.61
gav
That's, that's a callback.

24:48.33
Chibbs
Yeah, Marilyn and Glenn Gregory, like just two people who?

24:51.96
Bevo
Where's their bracket? So I don't know that.

24:52.86
Chibbs
Yeah. and Yeah. Tell me who they are. And all i get they get, they bring two people in and they say, here's to you. That's it. That's it.

25:02.64
gav
I really want to deep dive on this lyric.

25:02.77
Chibbs
That's it.

25:05.48
Chibbs
Now we've got Paul Young. He comes in, raise, yeah, Paul Young's back.

25:08.36
gav
Again.

25:10.67
Chibbs
Raise a glass for everyone. Marilyn and Glenn Gregory. Oh, they're back. Here's to them.

25:17.96
gav
Oh, God.

25:18.63
Chibbs
Clever. Clever. Paul Young. Oh, they're really feeding off each other. Underneath that burning sun.

25:28.15
gav
ah Jesus, this is so fucking gritty.

25:28.18
Chibbs
and Okay. All right. Paul Young, Marilyn and Glenn Gregory. I guess everyone went home by this point. They were like, Sting, Bono, all that. They're like, all right, we've done everything.

25:38.78
gav
ah yeah then the the The quota was up for how much budget we had.

25:40.02
Chibbs
See you later. And Paul Young and that are hanging a bit like... We'll, we're happy to hang around. ah Yeah, okay. All right, you can do it. I've written any lyrics for you. They say, do they know it's Christmas time at all?

25:53.56
Chibbs
Again, yes, probably. Most likely.

25:58.80
gav
Most likely.

25:58.91
Chibbs
Chorus is all of them. They don't say who all is, but I imagine it's just the people that stayed. It says, feed the world, feed the world, feed the world.

26:09.92
Chibbs
Let them know it's Christmas time again. And so on.

26:14.69
gav
No, no, no, no.

26:16.37
Chibbs
I'm not.

26:16.69
gav
Do it.

26:17.27
Chibbs
No, it's too long. It's too long.

26:18.87
gav
Do it. Do it.

26:19.88
Chibbs
I don't want to.

26:20.85
Bevo
Just copy paste later in post.

26:21.56
gav
Please. Please.

26:23.42
Chibbs
They want to fade them. It's Christmas. The fading in the Christmas.

26:28.22
Bevo
This is yada yada yada feeding the world.

26:28.54
gav
Feed them the Christmas.

26:28.58
Chibbs
And so on.

26:32.02
Chibbs
I did.

26:32.09
gav
but my Um.

26:32.54
Chibbs
Yada, yada, yada. faint in the world It was released on the 7th of December, 1984. It's written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Urie.

26:43.43
Bevo
Midge.

26:44.75
Chibbs
Midge, they're going to take my thumbs.

26:44.91
gav
Midge. Fuck.

26:47.53
Chibbs
ah Yeah. To raise money for the 1983 to 1985 famine in Ethiopia. It's very specific time that there was a famine.

26:57.83
gav
Well, this was released in December 20, uh, sorry, 1984. The famine ended in 85.

27:04.07
Chibbs
Hmm.

27:05.12
gav
I reckon they did the job. Pack it up, everybody.

27:08.05
Chibbs
They did it. They did it.

27:09.26
gav
They ended the famine.

27:09.45
Chibbs
They did. It features members of Call and the Gang, U2, Genesis, Saboontown Rats, Banana Rama, Culture Club, Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran.

27:20.29
Chibbs
So I assume some of those people are from those acts. I don't know.

27:23.61
gav
Yep, yep.

27:23.74
Chibbs
But Midgey, oh Midge, he's a skiish a Scottish songwriter.

27:28.17
Bevo
skittish.

27:28.23
Chibbs
ah He's a bit skittish.

27:28.45
gav
A skittish songwriter.

27:28.83
Bevo
so so At least not old.

27:32.05
Chibbs
um

27:32.26
gav
that They had trouble getting him into the studio.

27:35.00
Chibbs
yeah But his stage name Midge is the phonetic reversal of Jim.

27:41.87
gav
Oh, ah that's good.

27:42.56
Bevo
yeah right

27:42.90
Chibbs
yeah ah yeah

27:44.11
Bevo
yeah

27:44.41
Chibbs
i it that It's produced by Midge as well. And it was recorded in a single day at Saw and West Studios in Notting Hill, London in November 1984. They did say to Phil Collins, can you come in and sing something? But he turned up with his entire drum kit.

28:02.82
Chibbs
in which they said it's cool we've already programmed drums and he's like I'm just gonna set this up over here and Phil Collins did that and then demanded that he play drums over the already programmed drums and then it it sort of eats into the video but there's a part of the video where

28:04.18
gav
oh my god

28:25.45
Chibbs
it kicks in and Phil Collins just starts beating the living fuck out of the drums while there's people standing right next to it.

28:29.46
gav
Oh my God.

28:29.84
Bevo
Yeah.

28:30.37
gav
Yeah.

28:32.01
Chibbs
And when he hits the first crash cymbal, you see all like three people sort of jump a little bit. Like it must've been really fucking loud in there, but he did it.

28:39.43
gav
That's so fucking good.

28:40.78
Chibbs
They're like, oh, ah the the fear and the doom and all that sort of stuff.

28:46.64
gav
but

28:47.47
Chibbs
Yeah, so he he he did he played his whole kit, set up, fucking played the whole thing.

28:47.55
gav
ah

28:54.53
Chibbs
And then, ah and then he demanded like a bunch of takes with his vocals, but he didn't actually get like a verse or anything. He was just singing with everyone, but demanded he do it a lot, apparently.

29:09.09
gav
Wow Fuck

29:09.21
Chibbs
ah Yeah. ah Boy George apparently got there really fucking late because he had the flying from New York and he was the last person to record any of his bits. So they saved all the bits for Boy George.

29:21.56
Bevo
Mmm. Mmm.

29:23.49
Chibbs
Yeah, again, this is how you know the time and the place. But Phil Collins, they're like, no, it's all right, Phil. You don't have to play the drums. he's like Oh, I brought my kit. I brought my kit, though. Oh, I might as well set it up.

29:33.59
Bevo
Brought me kit though.

29:33.84
Chibbs
Oh, go set it up over there, then, Phil. Fuck. All right, tell me about the video.

29:38.97
gav
I'll tell you, I think that I reckon, I reckon the cruelest, the cruelest aspect of this entire thing is that Freddie Mercury and David Bowie are both dead and boy, George are still alive.

29:43.64
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah. Still live. Yeah.

29:50.07
gav
I wish.

29:50.93
Chibbs
Yeah.

29:51.10
gav
Yeah.

29:51.47
Chibbs
Weapon people with electrical cords.

29:51.99
Bevo
we're Yeah, where's Freddy on this?

29:52.85
gav
I don't even, i I'm not, I'm not even, um'm I'm not even trying to say, I'm not even trying to say, Oh, sorry. I'm i'm looking at the, I'm looking at the, um, when they performed at live from the, from, from, from live aid next year.

30:01.15
Chibbs
Okay.

30:03.64
Bevo
Oh, okay.

30:04.52
gav
Um, but I will say I don't want those other two back.

30:04.62
Chibbs
like

30:10.17
gav
I just want boy, George dead.

30:11.96
Chibbs
Fair enough.

30:12.98
Bevo
Oh, that's not very nice.

30:13.04
Chibbs
Video.

30:14.75
Bevo
um Yeah, Gavin, hit it.

30:20.46
gav
Yeah.

30:36.02
Bevo
How many people were listening to that and thought, is something wrong with the podcast?

30:39.27
Chibbs
but

30:39.65
Bevo
Did you ever do that when there's like half a second of silence, like something wrong with my stereo? um Not funny today, just factual.

30:47.97
Chibbs
Okay.

30:49.21
Bevo
Don't think I didn't notice that it's only at the halfway point of the video that women and people of color are shuffled in through the back entrance for the group vocal.

30:58.02
gav
ah

30:59.00
Chibbs
Just so unenthusiastic.

31:01.26
gav
this is This is from the Live Aid 1985 session, right? this is That's what you're...

31:07.03
Chibbs
This is them in the studio.

31:09.26
gav
Oh, sorry. I'm looking at the fucking live, the actual live aid performance.

31:11.77
Bevo
Uh, yeah, so that, yeah, it's a studio thing, but it's like first half of the video is like very dude centric.

31:11.98
Chibbs
Nah, this is...

31:15.23
gav
Ah.

31:20.35
Bevo
It's all guys.

31:20.54
Chibbs
Yeah. Also, fuck me. The Big Book of British Smiles. Fuckin' there's some horrible teeth in this video. Real bad.

31:28.32
Bevo
And yeah, like literally halfway through the video, suddenly a couple of black guys turn up and some women.

31:33.36
Chibbs
Yeah.

31:33.85
Bevo
It's like, well, these people, why didn't these people get any.

31:34.22
Chibbs
Yeah.

31:38.39
Chibbs
Yeah, they're not on it. They're just in the video.

31:39.23
gav
Wow, okay, sorry, I completely watched the wrong fucking video, but I'm absolutely observing what you're talking about, Bevo.

31:45.96
Chibbs
Autumn.

31:46.14
gav
Holy fuck.

31:47.18
Chibbs
Pure boredom.

31:47.91
gav
ah Up until...

31:48.67
Bevo
There's one, one really funny bit at like, where is it? Like two minutes, 53. I was really short guy at the back of the lineup. He got to notice that the camera is watching him be short at the back and he's like, Oh.

32:00.44
Chibbs
I f***ing laughed when Phil Collins f***ing kicks in with the drums. That section, I f***ing pissed myself laughing at how frightened everyone was.

32:11.40
Chibbs
that was standing next to the drum kit, and especially that the producer midges there going, we don't, we just don't need the drums.

32:18.38
Bevo
Yeah.

32:18.46
Chibbs
He's like, I'm setting up here, right here. That's what I'm doing it.

32:21.47
Bevo
And yeah, like, everyone looks so unenthusiastic to be there.

32:21.78
Chibbs
ah

32:24.06
Chibbs
Oh, I don't want to do it.

32:25.98
Bevo
Sting the most.

32:27.25
Chibbs
Yes. Yeah. A hundred percent. um ah I found one funny comment and it's from an hour ago.

32:35.69
gav
Oh my God.

32:35.76
Chibbs
And it says, and it says, George Michael was so sexy.

32:37.57
Bevo
course

32:40.21
Chibbs
Sorry to hear of his passing.

32:42.97
gav
Oh my God.

32:43.98
Chibbs
ah died He died and he died on Christmas day of 2016.

32:48.78
gav
ah

32:50.42
Chibbs
Yeah. Again, it fits into the Christmas special. Not on Christmas day.

32:57.11
gav
Jesus Christ.

32:58.04
Chibbs
Yeah. Yep.

32:58.97
Bevo
It's yeah, it's this this whole thing reminds me of like, not reminds me of, but like, it's, it's very similar to that, um, when COVID happened and then Gal Gadot put out that video first thing you imagine and then got all slapped.

33:09.48
Chibbs
Oh, the most cringy, cringy fucking thing that's ever happened on the internet.

33:12.89
Bevo
Have you seen though, there's, um, there's one going around of when COVID hit, they like passed the phone around and did a line each of singing imagine and

33:15.61
gav
What? Hang on. Hang on. What was this?

33:19.09
Chibbs
All the celebrities singing Imagine.

33:21.69
gav
Oh, yes. Sorry. I fucking forgot about that. I think I deleted that from my fucking memory and you've just reminded me.

33:29.81
Chibbs
yeah Yeah, it just

33:30.99
gav
Fuck that was bad.

33:31.05
Bevo
Have you seen that there's a video of...

33:32.37
gav
Fuck that was bad.

33:33.29
Chibbs
and and they're And they're all filming it from their fucking beachside mansions and shit and everything about, you know, and you're like, yeah, fuck off.

33:36.64
Bevo
Yeah, going on a run and stuff, yeah.

33:37.69
gav
Oh, God, that was on the fucking nose.

33:41.61
Bevo
<unk>s ah There's a funny video going around of like, they're all doing their bits and then John Mayer cuts in and he's been, it's like he've he got the wrong memo and he's doing Imagine by Ariana Grande.

33:53.43
Bevo
It's real funny, it's like he he saw what was happening and went, I'm not being a part of this.

33:57.55
Chibbs
Yeah, fucking hell.

33:58.31
Bevo
It's good.

33:59.91
Chibbs
Yeah, that was cringy as shit, tone deaf as anything.

34:03.39
Bevo
Oh my God.

34:04.04
gav
Yeah.

34:04.21
Chibbs
Yeah, we're all stuck in our houses too, sort of.

34:08.43
Bevo
Oh,

34:08.54
gav
Yeah. With with the help.

34:10.82
Chibbs
Yeah. um Is there a set list?

34:14.72
Bevo
ah you know, I didn't even think to look it up.

34:17.11
Chibbs
and They couldn't be.

34:18.07
Bevo
Yeah.

34:18.09
Chibbs
These people never saw each other ever again, surely.

34:20.64
gav
they they This was performed live.

34:20.71
Bevo
Yeah.

34:20.84
Chibbs
Yeah.

34:23.25
gav
I promise you there's a set list.

34:25.65
Chibbs
it's not yeah but What else could they have done?

34:30.89
Bevo
johnny be good

34:32.44
gav
the live the The Live Aid Concert will be Live Aid 1985. This would Ah, fair enough.

34:39.97
Bevo
ah Yeah. There is a band aid at Live Aid London, but the only thing they did is do they know it's Christmas.

34:43.03
Chibbs
Okay.

34:44.99
Bevo
So at 9.55 in the afternoon, in the evening.

34:45.38
Chibbs
Right, okay.

34:48.49
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, fair enough. There you go. Okay, a little bit of legacy here. It entered the UK Singles chart at number one. It remained there for five weeks, becoming the Christmas song, Christmas number one for that year.

35:00.19
Chibbs
It sold a million copies in its first week, making it the fastest selling single in the UK chart history until Elton John's candle in the wind in 1997. That's a long fucking time to hold that record.

35:10.58
gav
Jesus, that's a long stretch. Was that 12?

35:12.65
Chibbs
yeah UK

35:13.56
gav
Yeah, fuck.

35:14.42
Chibbs
The yeah UK sales passed 3 million on the last day of 1984. The song also reached number one in 13 other countries. In the US, it fell short of the top 10 in the Billboard Hot 100 due to lack of airplay.

35:26.05
gav
Yeah.

35:29.49
Chibbs
it's so The US are like, nah, nah, nah, I'm doing that.

35:32.77
gav
yeah

35:33.59
Chibbs
Now, uh, we can do this.

35:48.26
Chibbs
Okay, so I'm just going to go Sir Bob's net worth, right?

35:51.92
gav
Yeah, fair.

35:52.16
Bevo
Oh, this will be damning way.

35:52.44
gav
Fair.

35:52.51
Chibbs
Cause yeah, cause yeah, he's like, you know, he's all about stopping, you know, making sure people aren't starving in Africa and charity and he was knighted for it and everything.

36:04.46
Chibbs
So, you know, it's obviously not going to be high, but you know, he's a man of the people. So what's Sir Bob got off worth in 2020, 40 think, Gav?

36:14.54
gav
Ugh, fuck. Um...

36:17.86
Chibbs
You can only assume he gives most of his money away to the starving of Africa, but yeah.

36:23.23
gav
Yeah, okay. I reckon, I reckon he's worth 20 mil.

36:28.78
Chibbs
Okay, fair enough. Bye-bye.

36:30.51
Bevo
yeah i'm going forty and gone high

36:34.86
Chibbs
Yeah, it's worth 150 million pounds.

36:36.44
Bevo
shit

36:36.57
gav
Fucking Jesus fucking Christ. Did you say 150 million fucking pounds?

36:40.75
Bevo
read the world i

36:42.15
Chibbs
Yeah.

36:43.06
gav
So it's more like 200, mid 200 millions in dollars.

36:46.34
Chibbs
Yeah. Sir Bob.

36:50.08
gav
Jesus fuck.

36:50.34
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do they know it's Christmas?

36:58.61
Chibbs
They do in the Geldof House.

36:59.17
gav
Hang on. Hang on.

37:00.84
Bevo
fuck

37:01.72
gav
What the fuck? Did he get so much? The Boomtown rats can't have been that successful.

37:09.26
Chibbs
There's no fucking way, but he's obvious.

37:09.36
Bevo
No, it's fully off this live aid and end aid and live eight remember that

37:10.71
gav
what Where the fuck is?

37:13.44
Chibbs
All of this shit.

37:13.78
gav
Yeah, but, ah but where was, I thought that money, I didn't think he'd be making money from that.

37:16.01
Chibbs
Yeah. That's all meant to be for charity.

37:19.92
gav
Yeah. Why the fuck is he worth that much?

37:20.71
Chibbs
But it's never, it never is. It's a scam.

37:23.66
gav
Jesus.

37:25.63
Chibbs
It's a scam.

37:26.09
gav
Fuck.

37:27.40
Bevo
Yeah, well also, yeah, keep in mind he has songwriting credits for one of the most successful singles of all time as well.

37:27.99
Chibbs
Anyway.

37:28.04
gav
Fucking girl.

37:35.78
Chibbs
Yeah, scam. Let's write this shit.

37:38.17
gav
Yeah.

37:51.28
Chibbs
What are we running out of here? Fear and doom?

37:52.75
gav
Fearing.

37:56.44
Chibbs
Bit of tears.

37:56.53
gav
Yep.

37:58.61
Chibbs
this

37:58.74
gav
but How many bit of teas you've shed, surely?

38:01.30
Chibbs
Yeah. I got 10.

38:04.70
gav
They're stinging.

38:05.01
Chibbs
You've drowned. You drowned on out on the tears.

38:06.62
gav
You've drowned in the sting of your bit of teas.

38:09.03
Chibbs
yeah Yeah, it's like that. And one, yeah, it's, um you know, he just made you lick that what salt one solemn tear coming from his eye.

38:18.61
gav
ah

38:19.46
Chibbs
Yeah, just to cleanse, just just just to to give, you know, the the quench the thirst of one starving child in Ethiopia, let what but let him lick the tear from Sting's eye.

38:20.09
Bevo
and Salty not bitter.

38:33.05
Chibbs
What do you give this out of 10? Gavin.

38:36.09
gav
easiest ten are one of the easiest tens I've ever given this is this is so fucking clearly a ten it's it's yeah I don't even think I need to get into it it's a fucking ten

38:37.59
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Horrible. horrible, horrible. Bye bye.

38:50.65
Bevo
Yeah, I'm gonna give it a 10 as well, and I'll tell you why. Fucking and just after this.

39:01.05
Bevo
It's fucking, it's badly recorded. Did you, we didn't talk about the production, but like it's muddy as fuck.

39:04.38
Chibbs
It sounds horrible.

39:06.38
gav
Oh, we didn't talk about the production. Yeah.

39:08.39
Bevo
And, um, pitchy vocals.

39:08.45
Chibbs
Hmm.

39:09.91
gav
Amongst everything else.

39:11.15
Bevo
It's not like the traction of the song.

39:13.15
Chibbs
It's a rust job.

39:13.67
Bevo
The only, the only good bit I reckon is the feed the world bit at the end.

39:14.36
Chibbs
It's a rust job.

39:18.21
Bevo
Like it's all building to that. Yeah. Crap. Sorry.

39:22.01
gav
Yeah.

39:22.80
Chibbs
Yeah.

39:23.35
Bevo
And it's so tone dead.

39:23.40
gav
No, don't be sorry.

39:23.53
Chibbs
Yeah, you can't.

39:24.48
gav
It's dog shit.

39:24.99
Chibbs
Yeah.

39:25.41
gav
It's fucking so bad.

39:25.59
Chibbs
No, it's so toned out.

39:25.79
Bevo
So tone dead.

39:26.74
Chibbs
You can't have a song like this with the richest whitest people in the world telling you

39:34.61
gav
in the world, in the fucking world.

39:35.46
Bevo
Yeah. And they've redone it twice or more.

39:37.39
gav
Yeah.

39:38.47
Chibbs
telling you, the plumber, like or the fucking bricklayer, the fucking bakery worker, whatever, how dare you eat while there's people starving in Africa.

39:50.08
gav
Yeah. Yeah.

39:53.38
Bevo
Yeah.

39:53.52
gav
The fact that Bono is saying, tonight thank god it's them instead of you, like the guilt trip from fucking Bono.

39:59.44
Chibbs
Yeah.

40:00.21
Bevo
Yeah.

40:00.97
Chibbs
For Bono?

40:01.03
Bevo
Bono.

40:01.92
gav
I am disgusted by that.

40:02.17
Bevo
it

40:03.03
Chibbs
Bono? He spends more on sunglasses than the average household fucking income.

40:05.73
gav
Fucking hell.

40:10.59
gav
Yeah, truly.

40:11.26
Chibbs
Yeah.

40:12.49
gav
Fucking Bono.

40:13.46
Chibbs
Yeah.

40:13.79
gav
God fucking damn you.

40:14.30
Chibbs
Such.

40:15.23
gav
Fuck you Bono, you piece of shit.

40:15.57
Chibbs
Yeah. All of these people are absolute pieces of shit and I'll give it a 10 as well.

40:24.34
gav
It has been so long since a unanimous 10.

40:25.65
Chibbs
Yeah, that's, but you know what? I'm going to, this is going to come in on Christmas day.

40:29.95
gav
Yeah. Fucking so much food.

40:30.42
Chibbs
And so Merry Christmas.

40:31.19
gav
Fuck you. Merry Christmas and fuck.

40:34.03
Chibbs
Um, I hope you're all as fucking enraged by these cancer's ass.

40:38.65
gav
Yeah.

40:38.92
Chibbs
Yeah. And hopefully, yeah, hopefully they, um, die poor in the gutter.

40:39.96
gav
Fuck them. Fuck them all.

40:45.68
gav
I wish there was a famine in Bono's fucking house instead of Ethiopia in the 80s.

40:49.38
Bevo
in 80s rock stars.

40:54.69
Chibbs
Let's hope the crops fail in Ireland. All right.

40:59.12
gav
Again.

41:00.64
Chibbs
Yeah,

41:01.09
gav
Again.

41:02.90
Chibbs
ah

41:02.96
gav
Sorry to our Irish viewers. I know that.

41:05.24
Chibbs
it's

41:05.33
gav
I'm i'm drinking Jamison right now. It's your fault that I'm like this, Ireland. You fuck.

41:09.26
Chibbs
all right. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Thanks, fellas. Merry Christmas and go and fuck yourself.

41:13.48
gav
Merry Christmas.

41:13.72
Bevo
Merry Christmas, yeah filthy animals.

41:14.95
gav
Go and get Christmas.