Appendix V.1

## Date

Monday, 12/21/2020, 4:00 pm

**Length:** 1:52:07

## Title

**The Day Josh Said It Wasn’t A Christmas Show Yet Played A Bunch Of Christmas Songs, Was Skeptical Of A Suggested Mashup But Pulled Off A Quadruple-Gloria Spectacular And Got Really Excited When He Pulled A Bo Jackson Card**

## Link

Facebook Videos:

* https://facebook.com/420124962679737

## Noteworthy Details

Special Episode

**Location:** Living Room

**Secret Surprise Special Guest:** N/A

## Episode Description

* The Christmas tree has been decorated!
* [Placeholder]

## Quotes and Taglines:

* “You guys bring a lot of kindness and generosity and positivity and good vibes and bad song requests to the proceedings. And we try to reciprocate all those good things — and bad things too, I guess — because when you request a bad song, I usually play it. So that’s a reciprocation, I suppose.”
* “I do this song all the time at Ye Olde Fenway Park and now I do it all the time in my living room.” (on Take Me Out To The Ballgame)
* “This is a Christmas song, but it’s great. Is it one of the three greatest Christmas songs of all time? Yes. Is it one of the two greatest? Maybe. Is it the greatest? No. But is it possibly in the top two and definitely in the top three? Yes. How’s it go?” (on What Christmas Means To Me)
* Conversation:
	+ **Mary:** I usually don’t write down people’s mashup requests because that’s Josh’s call.
	+ **Josh:** Because they infuriate me.
	+ **Mary:** But when Max (Crawford) posts a mashup request — I don’t know if you can play it, but that guy’s amazing. An amazing musician and hugger…
	+ **Josh:** He wants me to go from Gloria by Los Them into Gloria in excelsis Deo by…who wrote that? Was that Cardi B? And then (Chad H said) Gloria by Laura Branigan and then Stormy said how about some Gloria Estefan, so let’s see if we can add that to the mix.
* “You guys, I can’t remember what I’ve played. The first several days of episodes when we were doing it daily, I was, like, remembering in my head which songs I had played and hadn’t played. Now, between the pandemic and between your unquenchable lust for overwhelming me with song requests, I can’t remember anything. It’s OK. As long as I have my health.”
* Conversation:
	+ **Josh:** Not for sale, Jessamyn. Nice try, though. Jessamyn thinks I could be paid enough money to do an entire show of Billy Joel songs. Jessamyn, if I did things for money, don’t you think I would be doing everything I’m not doing in my life, right? Like, everything…
	+ **Mary:** Oh, the things you’ve said no to. Oh, the things you’re not doing for money right now.
	+ **Josh:** Oh, the things I’ve said yes to…for a pat on the back. And oh, the things I’ve said no to that I could have bought a new car with. Sorry, Jessamyn. It’s nothing personal.
	+ **Mary:** No new car, but a soul…
	+ **Josh:** Yeah, I sleep at night. (then with a resigned chuckle) Sometimes I sleep at night when I’m not, like, crushed by anxiety.
* “Sometimes I love ‘Josh’s choice,’ sometimes I don’t. In this case, I’m OK with it. I’m cool with it. What if the song was called ‘Josh’s Choice?’” (on a request for Electric Light Orchestra but “Josh’s choice” for the song)
* (RPM) “Guys, something might be something —or might not be. That’s it.” (after reading a mid-show text from Josh)
* “RJ says, ’Listening to Josh whisper read his text messages is a show in itself.’ Here, I’m gonna whisper read this text message that I got from my friend in Ithaca last night: ‘Does 9 a.m. work for you? Or 8 a.m. if not too early, depending on how late recording goes. Oh wait, we have an electrician coming in the morning on Tuesday. Let me get back to you in a bit.’ Maybe that could be a new segment on the show: Josh Whispers A Text Message.”
* “The entire gambit of this show — all 140-some episodes — just became worth it based on the first card that I pulled.” (on opening a pack of 1991 Score baseball cards and getting a Bo Jackson)

## Baseball Card of the Week

* J.R. Richard (1981 Fleer), Vida Blue (1981 Fleer) and Lee Smith (1982 Donruss) — the three best Louisiana-born players in Josh’s card collection

## Album of the Week

* Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Ugetsu

## Hatter or No-Hatter?

* No-hatter (and no Red Sox jersey either)

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