though is it christmas time already christmas time is here again ain't been around thinks it's important to not really use the word christmas because it's not only christmas time i mean it's a time for celebration you know christmas is a mercantile holiday so ok to use the word christmas because christmas means what it means modified now we've talked on this show about what would make you really excited about christmas and how you would be you know looking forward to it but i also know there's a darker side that  you come out in many ways over the years i mean we've had a christmas concert annually since one nine hundred eighty eight and every now and then you know we try to write new songs each year every now and then you pull out a song like christmas in the line of fire well you know it's christmas and a line of fire was was just a nice poetry i think of it and yet it does not reference this joy of christmas it references a sens dread it's a stressed song it's not just about stress and so are you saying that for many people yourself included that christmas is kind of a stressful time for the holidays can be a really stressful time for people we put ourselves in such schedules because we think that we have to keep up the schedules so rather than the holidays being a time to kind of step back and relax it's add more pack more pack your relaxing in on top of everything and yeah the idea was your whole life is very frenzied all the time and then christmas time to kick it up a little bit even a little more for it well here it is christmas in the line of fire go shopping there's a really fun to cut my hair there's a scene in my county almost they're almost there there's a reason to be angry there's dreams there's a time to be with one what in addition to the right equipment does it take for the job of film editing it takes an individual with these qualities manual dexterity dramatic judgment story telling sense a feel for pacing and tempo and lifts patience and most of all and i'm going to take genuine pleasure in ruthlessly discarding most of what so many have worked so long and so hard to produce but that's editing the elimination of all but the essential it's sort of what i want so you know my father tells a story that there was one time when i was like you know five years old and my my parents used to it was a time when they were really in the corner me food really yeah my mother like became a grammy cook they would go to fancy restaurants and really you know try to experiment with you know really rich and interesting foods they got a reservation to go to some fancy restaurant i forget whether was in buffalo or toronto or somewhere there and that there's a really famous steak diane or something with this was the big famous thing i said i met diane once yeah  have a stake you know good for you so they took me even though i was five and i guess they couldn't get so i was thinking and of course i didn't want that you know i just want to give  a burger or mac and cheese or something you know but there's this whole build up like we're going to this place we're going to get this you know steak diane everyone's talking about and they bring it out and i say in my five year old voice that p now do you have a favorite food at christmas time well yeah there are you know you have to pronounce it right and i always cause trouble because i put ketchup on it oh yeah yeah yeah a dumpling kind of there there a french fry wrapped in a noodle you could say that and so the noodle you have tomato sauce the french fry you get it doesn't taste great so but anyway i always get yelled at for doing it so i basically don't do it anymore but yeah sure we have that we have the ham the mother always makes ham and and we have the specials of three three three kinds of dessert and things like that so you should email tom and tom and doug dot com and tell us what's your favorite christmas memory what's your favorite you know christmas food and if we like your answer will point at it and laugh and the answers that we like are the ones that we get basically so all right do a favorite song was a lot of christmas songs you have a favorite i can't think of one you know i have a favorite what's your favorite favorite christmas song is oh holy night well he always has been and so that's with there really it's i was wondering what that piano once you know i hauled it out into the middle and took a picture and i think you know so all right you said you don't have a favorite christmas song what are some of your favorite christmas everyone told me so much about santa i waited for christmas with nothing true fears my hopes were all high and my spirits were rising but and i'm not sure i agree with his choice there yeah that's all right you know that's what we get when we let him do it because he tanked up on the eggnog early on well we hope you're having a nice time over here to leave any for me so what's your favorite christmas concert memory their favorite performance out of all of the years of santa peeing the elves and we've got lots and lots of the yeah it was there's a lot there's too many to remember i dug the one where a jo jumped right off the top shelf and snatched itself out of floor when he hit that note so so that suggests to me he coming back to this original theme of our show in those early years of this and it being the  concert you would go hang around town flyers that said say yourself from suicide come to our concert yeah you know i i had a lot of  but see even back then you said you know christmas is not just this happy festive occasion when people people you know you know have a tough feeling a bell that's why some people like our concerts i think that's why people who do the few yeah that's sort of what we're trying to say through the song i don't know whether anybody bought that that's what i was telling people what we were recording and how much how much of a fight did they put up you know i make it a point that only people really want to be in the always in yeah and we have our wonderful singers old mary michaels of course has a nice lean part of the lead part this year and that's such a beautiful voice yeah we have shot at sam tucker who are in the band and they nice so should we speak a little more about some because i know you claimed you wanted to say something about beatles rock band and this song well you claimed to me that you can play drums because then we can talk about the radio show ok so the idea here is that doug told me that he could play drums because he said that he learned how to play drums by playing beatles rock band and it's true yeah so that's that sort i'm like well that's just a weird you're going to hear it you're going to love it everybody here it is everybody we're doing we're doing we're doomed  and that's the song for this year always it's just trying to always pack one more thing in christmas because that's what the stress of christmas is all about yass trying to get one more little thing in there so that you can cross it off your list and then you can feel like no one appreciated yeah like you're ready for next year that's good and that's what we want you to feel like we want you to feel like like your ready for next year because you hurt the show and you're ready to take on more than you can handle for a whole other year now we appreciate you for it i mean a lot of the time you don't get the appreciation you deserve on this show you get appreciation you don't deserve tunes all right thank you very much for joining us on the show and you can of course listen to the show again at w w w dot time dug out com you can go like us or even lick us yeah you can latest book dot com slash tom and do yeah keep in contact with us you know it think of it as by going in liking us on facebook that's your sending us a christmas card yes thank you and you have to do it once and then you can forget about every other year right but you're  this show 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