Bullseye's 2022 Holiday Special: Rob Halford, Micky Dolenz, Sy Smith and more

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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The Bullseye Holiday Spectacular is here! We are revisiting some of our favorite holiday interviews with different guests from over the years. First, we kick things off with Rob Halford. The lead singer of Judas Priest tells us about the rock music he loves and the reason he decided to record a holiday album. We also have singer/songwriter Sy Smith, who shares which classic holiday tune changed her life. Micky Dolenz of The Monkees sits with Jesse to discuss his time in the industry and The Monkees holiday record Christmas Party. We close things out with the McElroy brothers Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy. They're hosts of the Maximum Fun podcasts The Adventure Zone and the smash hit My Brother, My Brother and Me. They bring their signature wit to Bullseye and solve your holiday conundrums.

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0:00.0	I'm Jesse Thorne. When you're a metal god, like Rob Halford is, and you're going to make a holiday album like
0:07.4	Rob Halford has now several times,
0:10.3	it's important that the songs are, you know, a range to sound like metal songs.
0:17.0	The frontman of Judas Priest has a reputation to keep, but just as important,
0:22.6	song selection.
0:24.0	We're not going to do Rudolph the Red Nose Ryan Deer or Fogs of the Snum, and that would have been ridiculous.
0:28.2	We want to make a pretty serious record, quite frankly.
0:32.2	For MaximumFun.org and NPR, it's Bullseye.
0:43.2	On this week's Bullseye Holiday Special, more with the legend Rob Halford, the most delightful man in metal.
0:50.2	Plus Mickey Dolans from the Monkeys and much more.
0:59.2	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorne.
1:01.2	We're celebrating the holidays this week and who better to kick things off to get us into that holiday spirit than Rob Halford.
1:32.2	If you have a computer in front of you, here's something fun you can do.
1:36.2	Go to Wikipedia, search for the phrase metal god, you know, like the god of heavy metal.
1:43.2	And as soon as you hit enter, you will not be transported to the page for Aussie Osborne or Lemmy or Eddie Van Halen.
1:52.2	Because there is only one true metal god, at least according to Wikipedia, that's Rob Halford, the lead singer of Judas Priest.
2:01.2	Honestly, that's about all the introduction we need.
2:05.2	We're going to listen back to my 2009 conversation with Rob because back then Rob had just released his first ever heavy metal holiday record.
2:14.2	He called it Halford 3 Winter Songs.
2:18.2	Since then, he's released another holiday album, 2019's Celesteal.
2:23.2	Before we go to the interview, let's kick things off with a certified Rob Halford holiday classic, his take on We Three Kings.
2:54.2	You were born in 1951, which means that when you were finishing high school and you were in your late teens, it was just as heavy rock music was emerging from early rock and psychedelic rock.
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