51: "Do They Know It's Christmas" vs "We Are the World"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It's Christmas time and that means it's the time of the year we give back, so we are doing the big star-studded charity singles of the '80s? But can Band Aid's holiday perennial "Do They Know It's Christmas" compete with the overwhelming American star power of USA for Africa's "We Are the World"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:03.7	And I'm Danny Ross.
0:05.3	Merry Christmas-ish.
0:07.9	We're a little, you know, it's December.
0:10.8	It counts.
0:11.7	Christmas starts in October these days.
0:13.7	So, Merry Christmas to you.
0:15.2	Welcome to our Christmas episode where we're going to do one that I've been waiting to do for a long time.
0:21.0	We're going to be doing Band-Aids.
0:23.8	Do they know it's Christmas versus USA for Africa's?
0:28.6	We are the world.
0:30.6	I want to ask you a question very quickly before we begin.
0:35.4	This is a question that I used to ask all the time and then stopped,
0:38.2	and now we're starting it back again for different reasons each time.
0:41.7	I feel to represent the patrons, the commenters,
0:45.8	and even the people suffering in silence.
0:48.8	I ask,
0:50.6	why are we doing two Lionel Richie songs in a row,
0:53.5	and why these two songs?
0:55.5	Why?
0:56.4	It was a complete coincidence.
0:58.6	I had the Lionel Richie one.
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