Advent 2025 E21 - Hire Someone Else...Like a Clown...

We wish you the Merry Christmas. We wish you the Christmas and the Happy New Year.

The Miller Morning Madhouse Advent Calendar.

December 21st. Chad Bacon Burton, I don't want to put you on the spot,

but what is your, do you have a favorite Christmas song?

I don't. Actually, I like Christmas songs. I like to listen to them sometimes.

There's not one that you play?

I do a couple, but that's not my.

Like, here's giving examples. It's funny because, you know, I do a lot of private

parties and stuff. Like I'll get a phone call And holiday time My first question

is Is like Do you want me to play Holiday music?

And if they're like Yeah that'd be awesome I'll be like Cool you should hire Someone else.

Like Just so I'm not gonna do that Did the Bee Gees Ever do a Christmas song?

Oh here we go I'm very Bee Geek curious On this Bee Geek cover band I'm Bee

Geek curious Chad Bacon Burton Has I don't know if they did or not It seemed

like Everybody did a Christmas album Kenny Rogers Dolly Parton.

Burl Ives I don't know any Burl Ives fans out there Burl Ives Holly Jolly Christmas

I just love that you go Bee Gees,

Dolly Parton Burl Ives I feel like my grandma had that Burl Ives album Burl

Ives' album out. Everyone had that.

It was Frosty the Snowman. Bing Crosby's Christmas.

I had like a Pavarotti one, I think. Oh.

Pavarotti. Look at this highfalutin guy over here. My mom was a very accomplished singer.

At one time. Your mom was? Yeah. Hmm. Did she have a studio in her basement?

No. No, she sang in a basement. I'm not so sure that she was that accomplished.

In a basement such as this back in the 70s where it doesn't really have a ceiling

or a floor in our basement.

And it has a couple of walls and she would sing in there and that was her studio.

And she also did hair down there.

Okay. Getting off track. Hang on. Did she do hair as in like beautician or did

she do hair as in like the musical like saying giving me a perm as a beautician

you could swing by any day of the week and she'd do the play for you like.

But she did sing in a band a singer in the basement she sang in a motown cover

band I thought you were going with the hair, but it wasn't the musical.

She sang in a Motown cover band. She would have joined the Farrigs on stage last night.

She probably had a lot to say about that. So what was the name of the Motown

cover band? I don't know.

It was with one of her cousins. They couldn't have been good.

That would have been a great name for a cover band. I thought you said they would have happened.

But yeah. All right, off track, off track. Christmas, back to Christmas.

Well, I was asking, what a favorite Christmas song.

If you have to, if you're gone to your head.

I like this. Someone would put a gun to your head and be like,

what's your favorite Christmas song? I like This Christmas. Donnie.

That's Last Christmas. Not Last Christmas, that's Wham, right?

Oh, it is Wham. I like that one. No, not that one. No, it's This Christmas. this Christmas.

All right. I have a Christmas question. I have a Christmas question.

Favorite gift when you were a kid what was your like the most if.

It was the 30 nintendo games i

would totally understand so it's actually not a gift it's

really funny because this is a curse yeah exactly

no uh no that's the rest of my

life no um but no uh no so um

i remember i remember being like 13 years

old maybe 12 okay and like the big

movie at the time was like killer clowns from outer

space oh yeah okay so this is this is

how cool my parents are so back then you had like a box office

or a blockbuster or something you'd go rent a movie or whatever

you know vhs tape um so they

would my parents rented this movie and they thought all of my friends

would love to sit and watch this killer clowns from outer space

movie because we had like all my friends from school over

and right we're watching this movie it's terrifying

we're all just kids like this is awful all these

cars are violent eating people they're in like cocoons and

it's it's terrible can i assure you i've never seen it yeah well

we're all trying to be like super cool like you know like this isn't

scary at all like oh let's go do something else but yeah so and

uh it was really funny so all of a sudden there's like this knock at the door

which people don't knock on people's doors anymore like everyone's

like who's in my fucking driver but um

back then you know a knock at the door was like who is it

oh i wonder who's maybe it's the.

Neighbor yeah uh anyways so my

mom's like go get the door i'm like you want me to get the door

she's like yeah go get the door and so i go to the door and all

the kids are around she hired a clown oh oh this is terrifying brutal setup

this is a nightmare it was really funny because they didn't really realize that

this movie was like a horror movie that they got that we had already watched

so they didn't even realize that it didn't even make the connection.

You know, like you're like, hey, son, what do you want for your birthday?

Oh, we want to watch this movie. You know, we thought we were cool and we asked for this like.

Scary movie anyway this clown shows up and i open the

door and i they have pictures of like this whole thing but to this

day i remember it like i was like and all my

friends are like oh my god it's a clown like and she's like

comes in like i make balloons you know and and it scared the shit out of everybody

like oh my friends you know yeah that's so it wasn't really a gift wasn't really

yeah it sounds like a curse yeah sure but what i i'm let me go back a little bit Did you just say,

though, that you asked to watch this movie for your birthday?

We did, because we were like kids. You know, we were like, you know,

it's like when you're hanging out with all your friends and you think you're

cool. And you're like, we should watch a horror movie.

Or a porno. But it wasn't that.

But different, because we were very young.

Same enthusiasm. And then it would be weird if, like, a porn star showed up

at your house after you're in sixth grade. Now today, that would be awesome. Oh, hey.

Oh, hey, Ron Jeremy's here. Oh, my God. Weird. That's my childhood birthday. It's weird that you...

That's what made you excited. My brother had porn at his sixth grade.

Yeah, he's wanted to change the subject to porn, no matter what.

Not really. We have a clown picture here. If you listen back in the history

of our podcast, it happens a lot.

We have a clown picture in the studio. Jerry's very proud of it.

But so, I mean, at what point did your parents not read the description on the

video? I mean, I don't know.

I just don't think they connected the dots. That is very sweet,

though, that they just wanted to give you what you wanted. They just wanted you to have a good time.

That's it. And then also they thought maybe the extra bonus would be the actual live clown. Yeah.

My dad was enjoying the shit out of it. Really? He was like, this is amazing.

Did he get some ballooned animals? This is my dad. His humor was like always the same as mine. Dark.

Just dark and just, you know. He's going to sit back and like,

yeah, I'm going to watch this. This is going to be awesome.

Greets the clown at the door and slips him an extra 20.

This is if you scare the shit out of it. Yeah. Act like you're from outer space.

Yeah. Do you have any blood in those balloons?

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.