Advent 2025 E17 - We're Sorry Chad...

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December 17th. You got to break some eggs sometimes to make an omelet.

Well, then we just broke a fucking chicken.

Look, I like to point out Exhibit A. Tinsel. Remnants of Chad Bacon.

Yeah, is that tinsel? Here in the basement.

It is tinsel. It's tinsel. He walks around and it just tinsel falls off him this time of year.

Such a bright and shiny star. So to all our friends, we were totally the Charlie Brown Christmas tree.

We had to do a breakdown of what just happened in this basement.

We could not go on with regular Christmas content. We apologize ahead of time.

So we thought we would ask Chad to come over and do something musical.

And we thought we had an okay setup and it was very apparent very quickly that

we don't. Almost immediately.

When I saw him unloading his van or whatever.

Chad Burton is a professional musician. I'm sure it was a car. Sorry, Chad.

Like a full professional working. This whole episode is just going to be, I'm sorry, Chad.

Musician and he's extremely talented. One of our favorite people here.

And he plays around here a lot in Northwest Indiana. And, um,

we just invited them to a basement podcast with a four channel, uh,

Mixer from 2018. I wish anyone that is listening could just imagine me watching Chad and Jerry.

Trying to find cords.

Scramble through a box of loose cords.

Do you have this? I don't know what that is.

Do you have a DVI? No, no, a UTI. I might have that.

It was the funniest thing. The sad, I mean, all of the range of emotions,

the range of emotions I experienced.

And then the best line, well, I have a recording studio in my house.

So he just had us over.

But I hope he is going to record some stuff in his studio for us.

Which is good because he definitely couldn't record anything in our studio.

Well, he could have. It just wouldn't have sounded good. Well,

it would have sounded fine, I'm sure. It probably would have sounded amazing, however...

Yeah, so coming to a future Advent Day, the talents of Chad Burton.

And by the way, a big plug for Chad.

If you ever see him advertised around, go see him as Chad.

The Ramos Band. The Ramos Band. They play at the Hard Rock Casino often.

What's the Bee Gees cover band? I don't remember.

I should have looked. I mean, again, this just happened. You told us what that

was. This just happened.

I don't have the. It's one of the. It's the name of one of the songs.

The Brothers Gibb, I believe, is the name of it.

Oh, well, there we go. That's probably wrong, too, because, of course,

it would be of how we fucked up everything in this whole thing.

Did I ever tell you I saw Andy Gibb in concert at Navy Pier?

I'm just going to keep saying. Jive talking Andy Gibb. We're sorry,

Chad. Yeah, right before he died.

He did sit in with us and talk about some Christmas topics, though.

That was great. He did, and hopefully you enjoyed that.

Oh, yeah. So this was, this is our just immediate reaction upon him.

He's a professional. We are not. No.

Like, we got a long way to go. Oh, I don't know if we're ever going to get this.

So if we had like a real radio show, we would have guys. We're going to go because

we're not going anywhere.

If we had a real radio show, we would have guys that knew about.

Like all of the things what the the

situation that just happened and all that we

were like the Wright brothers shoving like a balsa wood plane off the dune and

Chad Burton comes in like fucking Doc Brown on a DeLorean and we're just like

we are way out of our day we we have this tape recorder can you plug into this

look at this it's got a bunch of lights on it,

I bought it for the amount of lights.

You've got a slide projector show from the old days.

I was like, that thing looks cool. It's got a lot of lights.

This is the reason why I didn't want to come to this recording.

I had a feeling it might go this way. I'm shocked that he came.

He must really like us. He does.

He's very sweet. Thank you so much.

We're sorry. He is one of the nicest people that you will meet.

Yes. And same with his lovely wife.

Yes. Nicole and Chad. Go see them as well.

Very talented people. And we love you. And we're sorry. We're sorry, Chad.

We can never repay you for this.

This will be a good story forever and ever, though.

But also, let's talk about those 30 Nintendo games. Yeah.

Spoiled motherfucker. You were fucking good parents. What the hell?

Turns out a lot of people had good parents.

He had just a wonderful life. That's it. And he's also on top of everything...

No complaints about his parents. Good at cords. No.

Even with a December birthday, he didn't even seem unhappy with a December birthday, really.

A level of genius that you could never... Yeah, because they separated the gifts.

I know. So I work with someone who had a birthday closer. She's born on Christmas Eve.

What about Christmas Day? Does that make you Jesus, too? Jesus part,

too? Jesus Jr. Actually, I want to say I know someone.

If my kid was bored on Christmas, his name's going to be Jesus.

Jesus Ponson. A hundred percent. Okay.

Well, why wouldn't you? Oh, here's my thing. Why aren't more white kids named Jesus?

It's not about this, Jerry. But it's Christmas. All right.

So there's got to be a handful of white babies born on Christmas.

I think it's the same reason there's not a lot of people named Adolf.

Well, I don't think Jesus was as controversial. No, but it's. Allegedly.

But it's not a popular name this year. Sorry.

It never was. But if you're going to name a kid, and this is not the same as

naming a kid Adolf, But if you name a kid Jesus, like you're setting the bar way too high.

That's like if you're Jerry Rice's kid and like, it's like handing him a football

and be like, okay, kid, take down dad's record. Jesus Rice.

It's going to be his name. That doesn't sound good.

Jesus Rice. We're getting way off topic. Well, it's Christmas related. Way off topic.

I don't know. What do you want to talk about? It is funny though.

Wait, wait, we got topics. But Latin people do name their kids Jesus.

Only people that are Latino. I know plenty of Jesus.

Yeah. Like Spanish people have no problem doing Jesus. Jesus.

But like white American, I've never met a white Jesus.

Has anybody? Yeah.

I mean, think about it, guys, for real. It doesn't exist.

No. Even as crazy as some of the names. I mean, technically.

Even as crazy as some of the names that we. You have to delete all this. Give me. Why?

Give me a name from one of your students that we talked about recently.

Hang on. Well, didn't you have a Malachi, Cameron?

Oh, we have a bunch of Malachis. Malachi is common.

Way more common than Jesus, for sure.

What did our nieces tell us or I was at the Thanksgiving where they told us

a bunch of their names also you don't know any Judas's uh Champagne was one of the uh girls name,

no Jesus though is that well I thought it was maybe aiming too high,

a lot of Jesus's but like I want the hard J I want the Jesus,

why did that sound very sexual I want the hard J no a huge Miller Morning Madhouse

thank you to Chad Burton for dropping in studio and spending some time with

us as well as adding to the advent calendar.

Please make sure to check out Chad playing in the region often both solo with

his wife Nicole Garza and with the Ramos band often playing at the Hard Rock

Casino and other locations.

You can see Chad this Friday December 19th at the Isaac Walton League Miller

chapter for the Jingle and Mingle Adult Christmas Party starting at 6 p.m. Chad goes on at 7 30.