[horse neighing] Wait, you have a TV? No. I don't like to read the TV guide. Read the TV guide. Don't need a TV. [music playing] Hello and welcome to the last day of the year 2014. We live in the future and we are about to live further into the future. Thank you guys so much for listening to this show. I will get into the incredibly annoying thank yous in the sentimental stuff at the beginning here. So if you are just tuning in to hear the viewing recommendations, you might want to fast forward about 15 or 20 minutes, depending on how long I go on for. But I did want to say, first of all, thank you for listening to these holiday specials that are just me flying solo. I started them with the Halloween episode because people had asked for a Halloween episode. I did not think anyone would download the episode, but they ended up getting a lot of downloads equal or more than, in some cases, the weekly episodes. So I figured I would do them for the rest of the holidays, which is why you're getting a New Year's Eve episode and no promises, but you will likely get a Valentine's Day episode, probably not an Easter episode. It's not my favorite holiday, and not really a lot of specials around Easter, unless I am just unaware of them. Also, for some strange reason, this is the first time you've tuned into the show. This is a weird episode for you to start with, but a little bit of background on me and the show itself because I think it's important when I kind of look back and reflect on this year. I always pretty much found New Year's Eve to be amazingly depressing. It's never been my favorite holiday. I always feel a little depressed about everything bad that has gone wrong that year and about everything I haven't done in the previous 12 months, and this year, you know, was not the best year, like many years. I've had a lot of deaths of friends and family members through various causes. There's been cancer and people taking their own lives and drug overdoses and all that sort of fun type of stuff, but that being said, this has been one of the best years I've had in many areas, and the creative area being the probably most prominent, and the biggest factor in that is this podcast. So I've been doing "Stand Up Comedy" for about 12 years, and I was in a band for five or six years before that. And I've gotten to do some really cool things, and I am here in Boston still, as many of my friends moved on to bigger and better things and bigger and better cities, and I kind of hit a ceiling to some degree and kind of just looked at "Stand Up" as a catalyst for getting to do some cool things a few times a year, and sort of like my bowling night. Although I did listen to some podcasts, none too religiously or anything, I didn't really have a good idea for a podcast, and a lot of people did tell me I should have one. And then my good friend and very funny comedian, Sean Sullivan, who has been a guest on this show, essentially told me, "Hey, why don't you do the thing you do when people come over your house? You have all these TV guides. You guys start flipping through them and talking about old TV, and you should just do that as a podcast." And that's what I've done. And I want to sort of extra thank Sean, because along with some of my other comedian friends, like Mike Kaplan and Josh Gondelman and a few others, he is one of the people that tends to force me to do things for my own benefit. It's not that I'm lazy. I'm just not that ambitious, and I was always very glass half empty about how the results would be. And so those are the guys that sort of encouraged me to do things or sort of hook me up with a lot of things, and I can't thank those guys enough. So Sean is really the reason why I started doing this in the first place. And to go back even further, in 2013, I went from being the Friday night host at the Comedy Studio in Cambridge, Mass, where I hosted sort of, I think, for four or five years, every Friday night, and I had enough to the Thursday night host, which was sort of an off night. And again, Sean Sullivan kind of encouraged me to take that night and do whatever I wanted with it, so I kind of convinced the owner to let me do that. And we did a show for two years called The Secret Menu, which was a very weird stand up show. And I did a lot of different segments, one of which was called The Yearbook Sessions, in which someone gave me their high school yearbook. I kind of went through it for a week, and then it was us on stage for about 20 minutes talking about their high school yearbook. Seems like it would stop a show dead. It was always really fun, and the audience loved it. And I bring it up because it was a precursor, in many ways, to the show. Sort of using an object from someone's life to discuss where they were and where they were at, and almost do sort of an excavation of someone's life with a printed object. And so I got a good year of practice under my belt doing that, and we used to do this segment called The Damaged Goods Auction, where someone would bring an object they own, they would tell the story of it, and then the guest and I would auction and off to the audience. And again, another really good bit of experience to sort of build towards this podcast. So that helped in me not having to quite figure out exactly what the show would be while I was doing the show, because nobody wants to listen to that. And I think the show has gotten better as I progressed with it, but I think that right out of the gate, it was fairly fully formed, and I would probably attribute the majority of that to obviously having done Santa for a long time, but that year, year and a half of doing the secret menu show, my realization that I actually really enjoy interviewing people. I like off-the-cuff stuff, and so trying to incorporate that into this show. A newspaper reporter who was doing a story on me actually summed it up fairly well, and I should pay him for this therapeutic revelation. But he said, "You are creating chaotic situations that you can control," which is essentially what I like to have live shows be. And to get a little armchair psychology on you here, that factors into this show, and when I was a kid, I would rush to the mailbox and get TV Guide every week, because it gave me something to look forward to. I could plan my week and say, "Well, as bad as today is Friday, this thing is on, and I can get through it to watch this thing on Friday." And to a degree, I sort of carry that over into my adult life. And this podcast, and doing it every week, and interviewing these people and releasing them and just everything involved with it has sort of become that for me, except I don't as often have the as bad as this is next week I get to do an episode or release an episode. So it's been a great year regarding that sort of stuff. And then if you look at the guests I've been able to get, I cannot believe it. I mean, I definitely had a lot of my friends on the show, which has been great. I always like talking to my friends. There are some people who are just acquaintances, and it's been nice to get to know them when we sit down and talk about what they watched and how they grew up. And then also I really don't get or felt like I didn't get a lot of time with my old friends these days, because as you get older, these sorts of things get harder and people move away. And so it's nice to sit for an hour or two hours with someone who I haven't seen in a long time and just chat and have a good time. In addition, there are these people who I kind of knew through comedy or sort of socially and was able to sit and have a great conversation with them and become a lot better friends. And that's been great. And then on top of that, getting to meet and befriend all these people that made or were in the things that I loved growing up and still really enjoy and getting to talk to them about their experience and their lives and the things that they watched is incredible to me. And it's like I want a contest. It's completely crazy. And then the fact that you listen to it is sort of unfathomable to me. This show is totally for me. It's very selfish. It's a thing that I just enjoy doing. And so I did not think anyone would listen to this show. And when I look at the download numbers, which, yes, I do, and I look at where they're coming from, which is literally all over the world. And I apologize if this is a little braggy, but I tend not to sit and reflect and sort of inventory successes very often. And so I'm trying to get better about that. And I am slightly embarrassed to brag about things. So my apologies in advance. But when I look at all over the world, these things are getting downloaded. And I'm like, why are these people listening to this in Australia or in the Philippines and Germany and Ireland listening to some people they don't know talking about old television, it just amazes me. And when you guys reach out to me on Twitter or Facebook or send me emails and every episode, I get a bunch of messages on those things from people. And it's amazing that you would take the time to do that after having taken the time to listen to the show. I mean, the show hasn't even been going on a year. I started at Valentine's Day 2014. And I've done, I think, if you count all the specials and live ones, a little over 60, 62 episodes or something that I've released, actually a trade secret here. I've recorded a lot more than that. I don't release them in the order I record them. I bank them quite a bit and I edit them a lot. But the good thing about my show is that it's not like we're discussing timely things. If I record an episode about, you know, September 1988, and then I don't release it for a year, I don't think anyone's really going to notice. And that's great too. And I'm also one of those people who goes, "Well, I better do a ton of this while I still have the motivation because I'm sure I'll get sick of it or people will get sick of it." But, you know, I don't, weirdly, don't see myself getting sick of it in the next year. And so I've recorded, you know, 100 plus hours of this show and released 60, 65 hours of this show. And there are people who have listened to all 65 hours of this show and that is crazy. I've spent almost three full days of your year blathering on about whatever nonsense that I'm talking about that week. And I really cannot thank you enough for that. So, again, thank you. I also want to thank all the people who really just jumped on board with this show and helped with press. I mean, I got an amazing red up in USA Today's site and the New York magazine, not New York Magazine, was the New York Times piece, not that New York Magazine wouldn't be great. And CinemaBlend and Fistful A Soundtracks blog and the guys who have pod gods and all the people who've, you know, mentioned the podcast and helped it get the word out for people and all of you that have written reviews on iTunes and all that stuff at all. It all helps. I lose money on this podcast every month because I'm very bad at monetizing things and I don't have ads or anything like that. But I appreciate the listenership and it's great. Again, I can't thank you enough. And this year, you know, again, the people I've gotten to meet, the guests I've had on this show, if you find them impressive, I find them even more impressive than you do. And so, next year I'm going to try to top this year. It will be difficult. I do have some white whales that I would like to have on this show. I mean, I would love to have Bonnie Hunt on the show. I'd love to have John Larrick head on the show. I'd love to have someone from SCTV on the show. So, I'm working on that. I'm continuing to annoy people the best that I can. But, you know, we'll see what happens. If you had told me this time last year, the guests that I was able to get this year, there was no way in hell I would have believed that. So, just it amazes me. So, I will do my best to get you some great episodes next year. And I hope that it will be even better than this year was. That ends the very sappy thank yous, I think. Well, no. I mean, comedy wise, it's been very good for me as well. I've done some great shows and got to work guys like Bruce Campbell and, you know, Rich and I got Pete, our dog this year. And that's been great. And, you know, I was on Ask Me Another on NPR. And it was on KCRW's Unfictional NPR at NLA. And I did The Risk Podcast again in Douglas Movies. And if you came to this podcast because you heard me on any of those, thank you so much. But I definitely got just on and to do, you know, way more things than I normally get over the course of one year. So, I'm very thankful for that. And we'll see what happens in the next year with my stand up out. You know, every year I'm like, man, another year I guess I'll do it again. But, you know, we'll see if people enjoy it. I do have a special coming out on SiriusXM's Satellite Radio. I don't know the exact date of when that comes out. But I recorded that this year. That is crazy. So, I will annoy everyone with that. But if you want to hear my stand up, which is fairly different from this show, please check that out. I also want to mention some of the podcasts that I do listen to and did listen to before I did the show that were sort of inspirations to the show, one of which was the JV Club, which Annette Varney, who was nice enough to be a guest on this show. That show is amazing. She had boys on this summer, but it was her and women talking about growing up. And that was a huge inspiration to me that you could do a show just about that. The Dana Gould Hour as Dana Gould is probably my biggest inspiration in comedy, especially growing up with very similar interests. And I love that show. Jackie Cations, the Dork Forest, again, talking about a very specific topic like this. And those shows really were huge inspirations to this show. So thank them for doing what they do. And on to New Year's Eve. So this ends the blathering emotional part of the show. So thank you. Now, New Year's Eve for me, as I said, was never a good time. I'm not a party guy. I've never drank in my whole life. I've never, I've actually never played seven minutes in heaven or spin the bottle. I don't even know if we have those parties in my high school. I definitely didn't get invited to them if we did. But I never really was into parties. So until I was about 11 years old, every New Year's Eve, my parents forced us to sleep over my maternal grandparents' house so they could go out on the town. And I dreaded it so much every year. My grandmother used to drink quite a bit. She actually passed away this year. And I always thought that, well, I'll put it this way. The first time I smelled vermouth out of a bottle of vermouth, I was like, "Nana?" I didn't know that it was not her perfume. Like I was like, "Oh, martinis. I see." So I'd go over that house. I was terrified the whole time. I would have panic attacks. I would not sleep a wink. And part of that was, it is kind of what led to me staying up all night watching TV. I would often watch television all night at their house. I remember one Christmas, not Christmas, one New Year's in particular, where my uncle was only eight years old, live in me. I was a teenager at the time. He was probably 15 or 16. Came home with his drunken friends. And I was probably six or seven. And one of them was vomiting while passed out. And I had to have an argument with them about if he should go on his back or on his front, whether it would be worse if he drowned in his own vomit or if he choked on it. And I came up with the ingenious idea to put him on his side. So that was, "Hey, saved a life that day, everybody." My grandparents also had a dog who would hump my sleeping bag because it smelled like our dog. He would hump it to completion. So, obviously, don't want to sleep in that thing. I remember one particular New Year's Eve where I had quite a bad panic attack and vomited. And my uncle, who was very squeamish and was a teenager, attempted to clean up the vomit and also vomited. And then my aunt, who's about a year older than him, also tried to clean that up and then vomited. It was like the chain reaction in Goonies that Chunk explains with the fake vomit. It was very, very unpleasant. So I always hated going over there. But I did enjoy the Chinese food. That was always fun. And I did enjoy just watching TV all night. And my one sort of fond memory of that is New Year's Eve 1989, if memory serves, at 12 at the stroke of midnight, 12.01 a.m. That is when CTV went on the air, which was the comedy channel at the time. They first started calling it CTV and then stopped calling it that because there was a station called that in Canada. Then it became the comedy channel. And then it merged with Ha and became Comedy Central. And I stayed up all night watching that. It was the original sort of concept of it where they had short attention spent theater and sort of a more MTV-like comedy channel. And that sort of changed everything for me because it was sort of a one-stop shop for all things comedy. It was the first time I saw Mystery Science Theater 3000. Just, that was a good memory. So that was a good night. So after that, I sort of aged out of having to go over there so it was just home at my own house for New Year's Eve. I should mention I always watched Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year and actually did pretty much watch it up until the late 90s. And so I stayed at home, I'd eat pizza, I'd watch things, I'd be alone until I was a punk rock teenager. And then I would sort of go out, often because we would get shows on New Year's Eve. One particularly bad New Year's Eve was New Year's Eve 1997 and the many, many Boston's were doing a show at the Worcester Sentrum with a bunch of friends of ours as well. And so we went, I went with my girlfriend at the time. I remember the drop-kick Murphy's playing and Mike McCulgan screaming my name, Kenny, while grabbing onto my jacket during a song and shouting in my face, which at the time was exciting but now sounds not pleasant. And then I got in a fight later with a security guard there who I forget exactly why. It's something to do with my girlfriend, I was 17. So that was a fun way to kick off the year. The year after that, we actually played a show in Clinton, Massachusetts. I got to bust out my tuxedo. I might post a picture of me in the tuxedo on tvidenscounselor.com. I used to own my own tuxedo. I bought it with my own money when I was in college. It was stolen from my closet by one of my deceased sisters scumbag friends. She was alive at the time. I think the kid who did it's probably still alive. I don't think it would fit me anymore anyway. But I used to wear it whenever I possibly could. I loved that tuxedo. We played that night with drop-kick Murphy's on the showcase showdown with this amazing band who did a very covered Princess 1999. And that was actually a pretty fun night. And then for the year 2000, Y2K, I was at the Middle East in Cambridge Mass downstairs watching one of my favorite bands, Man or Astro Man, who, if you are unfamiliar, are a surf rock, sort of a sci-fi surf rock band. They actually do a great cover of the Mystery Science Hater 3000 song. Most of their stuff is instrumental, but they deal with a few vocal songs every now and then. And they put on an amazing live show where I don't know if they still do this, but if you brought an old TV to the gig, you would get in free. And the backdrop is just hundreds of television sets showing clips from old sci-fi movies. And so perfect for me, obviously. And so they did the show on New Year's Eve and it was completely empty. I remember the streets were just empty. Everyone was legitimately afraid of the year 2000. If you're younger than I am and you don't remember that, people were legitimately scared about Y2K. I remember my dad insisted that I have some sort of kit that I could run out of the house that my apartment with. And he was hoarding MREs and all kinds of bottled water and stuff. He actually still does that. He bought a camper van a few years ago and has it stocked, quote, in case he has to go mobile, if something shit goes down. But this started then in the year 2000. And kind of after that, I was living in my apartment on my own and I pretty much used to watch the Adult Swim marathon every night. It was always fun. They would show sort of the original Adult Swim lineup, Aquatine Hunger Force. It was the Brack Show and Space Ghost Coast to Coast and all that kind of stuff. They do a marathon in New Year's Eve and it was always really fun. SeaLab 2020, I would tape them, really enjoyed those in the early 2000s. Then I moved to England. Nothing really to report there. Then I got married. And since Rachel and I have been married, we have a little bit of a weird New Year's Eve tradition. And every single New Year's Eve, well, usually earlier in the night, watch an old New Year's Eve broadcast. You know, maybe Fox New Year's Eve 1990 or Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year 1985. Or maybe the MTV New Year's special from any given year pre-1995. After that, at around 10.30, we start a movie and it's always the same movie every year. And that movie is the fantastic Rockin' Roll Nightmare by Mr. John Frasano, who actually sadly passed away this year, starring John Michael Thor. It is a wonderfully bizarre, campy, fun movie. It is a great movie to watch with a group of people. It is our New Year's tradition. If you're looking for a New Year's tradition, I encourage you to adopt this one. Sit with your friends, get some Chinese food or pizza, or Chinese food pizza. Actually, if anyone knows of a place that makes a Chinese food pizza, please let me know. Because for years, I've always wondered what that would be like. Like a pizza with a lomaine on it, or maybe like with peaking raviolis, or, you know, possibly some garlic noodle, some kind of Chinese ingredients on a pizza. And it might be that Chinese food doesn't go well with cheese. I don't know. But anyway, get your food of choice, and just sit and watch Rockin' Roll Nightmare, and you will have a great New Year. It is a fantastic way to start the New Year off. John Michael Thor defeats the devil just as the year changes, and you will feel invigorated and triumphant into your new year and able to take on anything. So Rockin' Roll Nightmare, not a TV show, a movie, but that is my number one recommendation to you if you want to pick up that tradition. Or, you know, I love ritual, I love traditions. If you have some sort of weird New Year's tradition like this, feel free to email me at Canadaicandread.com, or tvguidenscounsel.com, or let me know on Twitter or Facebook. I'd love to hear what years are. Please let me know. I'm always fascinated to hear what people's little traditions are. Now, onto the meat of it. This is what you've presumably tuned in for. My television knowledge and my recommendations of things you can watch on New Year's Eve, if you're kind of hanging in, you don't want to pay the overpriced New Year's prices of drunken people ruining your life. So, I watch a pretty good playlist of New Year's episodes every year, and I try to change them up, but these are some of my favorites. Like all the other holidays, I have an extensive list of New Year's Eve specials and episodes. There are more of them than you think. If you would like a copy, again, feel free to get in contact with me. I will send you an Excel grid with all these lists on it. But these are just some of the highlights that I thought I would recommend if you're only watching a couple. I'll also take a look on YouTube and see if I can find any of these on there and put together a playlist like I did for the Christmas episodes, which people seem to really enjoy. But if you can't, they're probably on Hulu or on Netflix, or you may just have them in your own collection. So, I'm going to first and foremost recommend to you the Adventures of Pete and Pete, New Year's Pete, and Reflecting on the Year, Danny Timberrell, he was a guest on the show, which is crazy. I love this show so much. It was so important to me growing up. It was, and I think this is true for a lot of people, and it was a building block of my sort of aesthetic and sense of humor, and Danny did this show, and that is insane to me. I was sitting across from him talking about his experience as a kid watching TV, and when I re-listened to these episodes, that's the kind of thing that hits me. And so, New Year's Pete, Nickelodeon used to air it every year on New Year's. It would be the culmination of the night. They haven't done that in New Year's, I don't think. But it's always a great episode. Can I go around with that one? Another show I've talked about, sort of, non-stop on this show, that I watched as a kid, but didn't really like, and it took me to my adult life to sort of get into it, is Barney Miller. I would love to have Helinda on the show. He's one of those people that's on my master list here. But they have an episode from Season 2. It's Episode 5. It's called Happy New Year, and it really encompasses what I believe New Year's in New York City is like. It also makes a great double feature if you're only doing two New Year's special episodes with Night Court, did an episode called New Year's Leave from Season 4, it's Episode 11. They're very good back-to-back. They have a similar aesthetic. It'll be a very New York-centric New Year's Night. You could probably watch it with the movie Two Hundred Cigarettes, which is not the best movie, but is set in New Year's Eve in New York City around roughly the time that those shows are around. There, there's your whole night program. There you go. If you can just find some sort of New York-themed food, you would have the whole thing. Barney Miller, Happy New Year. Also, back to the Adult Swim marathons. Those are always great. If you just want a marathon, Aquatine Hunger Force, and even Home Movies, Space Ghost, SeaLab 2020, The Brax Show, they're always fun, but Brax Show actually has a specific New Year's Eve episode called New Year's Eve Party at Brax House. It's from Season 3. It's Episode 8, very funny, short, only 11 minutes. You can fit that in. You're viewing. There's no excuse for that. Designing Women. One of the shows I love, Julia Duffy was on the show earlier this year. Again, blows my mind that Julia Duffy took the time to sit down and talk to me. She's been in so many things that I love, knew her, loved them. And she was on Designing Women for a season, but she was not in either of these two episodes. But they have a New Year's episode from their first season. It's Episode 11 called New Year's Days, which is very funny. But the one that I would recommend if you're only going to watch one is from Season 4. It's Episode 13. It's an hour-long special, which Designing Women Weirdly did several times where Charlene has her baby, and it's called the first day of the last decade. It was from New Year's Eve, 1989. It's some of it's nostalgic because that 1990 New Year's was sort of the first and biggest New Year's I remember where something significantly changed. We were under a new decade, and it was 10 years till the millennium changed. And also, there was a lot of stuff going on in 1990 that you can probably look out, but you don't need to get history from me, which is also why when I reflected on the year, I didn't get into all the weird, worldwide stuff that's been going on because, again, you don't need to get that from me. And if you don't know it, and you're only listening to this show, I feel very sorry for you, and you're probably living in a situation much like the movie Radioactive Dreams, or Blast From the Past, in which case, get some help. Just really get some help. But that is a great episode, 1990. Perfect. Then, this is probably my number one episode for just writing. It's a sweet message. It's so great. Pete and Pete is great and has a nostalgic tinge to it. This show, even if I didn't nostalgically watch it, I would be amazed by it no matter what. And it's Kate Nally, a show that I absolutely love. Again, I'd love to have anyone from Kate Nally on the show. Jane Curtin's one of my favorite human beings on Earth. I did get Larry Newman on the show from her fellow cast mate from Center and Night Live, which, again, I can't believe. But Kate Nally was such a great show, and they did maybe my favorite New Year's episode ever. It is called New Year's Eve, appropriately. It is from season two. It is episode 11, and it just has so many great moments, and it really manages to capture what my experience of New Year's Eve was. And it wasn't this life-changing event. It wasn't the time that you find your romance and these big, huge events. It was just kind of a quiet night with a friend, and it's really funny and sweet and great. Kate Nally, New Year's Eve, season two, episode 11, absolutely watch it. Another show that I really love that weirdly I haven't talked about that much on this show, although I probably should, is Kids Incorporated, which was a show that was ridiculously important to me as a kid, and they did a New Year's Eve special, that's just called Kids Incorporated New Year's Eve special, that you should hunt down. It's very fun, and if you're unfamiliar with the show, it essentially is a group of children living in a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn that are forced to play sort of white childlike collections of 80s pop hits, and had a lot of big stars that came out of that show. It's a really fun, weird show. It's a very set-bound. It sort of reminds me of like Mad Max, saved by the bell. That's how I would describe it. I don't think anyone else on Earth would describe it that way, but that is the aesthetic that I would use to describe Kids Incorporated. So they did a great New Year's Eve special. The next show, and this also was on my Christmas list show, is my so-called life. They have an episode called Resolutions from season one, one and only season, episode 16, and this is about New Year's resolutions. A thing that I never did. I don't know why. I don't know if other people do. Sometimes I would make a list of goals for the year that I could attempt to accomplish, but I was never a big resolutions person, but this is a really nice episode of the show. It's a nice sort of come-down from the sort of heaviness of the Christmas episode, so-called Angels, and would make a good back-to-back viewing if you're watching two of my so-called life episodes for some reason. But a show, again, that is being 14 to me. That show is my freshman year in high school. It was the same year, the aesthetic is the same, the town looks the same. I was medally in love with Claire Danes as a 14-year-old. It was the first time I probably had a crush on anyone in high school that was significantly, and it was also sort of tied to my so-called life, which you can hear about in several other episodes of the show. I won't bore you with it here, but that show is very great. And finally, I would recommend, if we're looking at just specific episodes, is the Wonder Years New Year's. They'd actually do two New Year's episodes. The first one is from season two, and it's decent. But this one is New Year's from season six, episode 11. The final season, it's older Kevin. It's very teenage, but it is a great episode. And again, Wendell Meldrum from Wonder Years did this show. I'm not exaggerating how much all the guests I've had just amazed me. And I do listen to the shows. I will re-listen to them. And I cut out a lot of stuff from show. I probably cut out 20 to 30 minutes of every episode, but that's all me talking. And I will listen to them a lot when I'm editing them and when I'm sort of listing what's in the episode, but I'll re-listen to them and enjoy them because I really like hearing from these people. But also, for me, it's almost like looking through a photo album of a nice vacation. It's remembering an enjoyable thing that I did. And so it's amazing that other people listen to it without that aspect and enjoy it. So thank you guys for doing that. Finally, I want to say, if you have the means to find any New Year's special from the past, get it. It's always entertaining. Fox did one every year for years. MTV did one every year for years. Guy Lombardo did them. I mean, there were a lot. Every network tried to have one. I have an extensive collection of them. If there's one you're looking for from a specific year or network, let me know. I may have it. But they're just fun. It's partly because I think that you already know how the year that's coming in that episode is going to turn out. So it seems a little bit less scary. At least, maybe that's just me. But partly because it's a fun trip down memory lane. You never saw that show. It's always a nice pop culture snapshot of the bands they have playing and the guests on the show. And it's always, always fun. So that is everything I had to say for this New Year's Eve special. Thank you guys for sticking with it to the end. Thank you so much for listening to the show this year. Thank you for, at least I hope so, planning on listening to the show and the next year. And I promise you, I will continue to do good episodes and will continue to hound people to have good guests on the show. Also, please come to some of the live events. And that was the other thing. I never thought I would do any live events with the show, and we did four of them. This year with Angie Sederis, who's amazing, such a cool person, and I love talking to her. I'm Emmanuel Lewis from Webster, which was a show that was always on when I was growing up. Evan Michelson from Audities, which is so that I love, you know, incredible. And we're doing one on the 17th of January, so in two weeks, at the Riot LA Comedy Festival, and we're at the Smell in Downtown LA, which means a lot to me. I always grew up loving Downtown LA, but didn't realize it until I was about 30 years old, which was a whole other deal, but a cool little punk rock club down in Main Street, down in LA, from easily my favorite festival that I had the pleasure of being asked to do, all three times it's gone on, which is crazy to me. But yeah, come down to that. It's at four o'clock. It's cheap. Buy a pass for the whole weekend because there's a million good shows going on there. It's a great festival. Or if we're doing any other festivals or appearances, please come out and definitely say hello. The people, the strangers that come up to me at these live events that just say hello and that they listen to the show is amazing to me. You know, they only know me from the show and they listen to it. Again, I assume just if anyone listened to it would be people who know me and not strangers. But, you know, I won't go on anymore. But New Year's Eve, have a good time. We'll have a new episode on Wednesday as we will every Wednesday, and then you never know when I will have a special episode on a Friday or a Monday or anywhere else, so definitely subscribe. And next week's episode are actually the New Year's Eve episode that comes out as with Christian Finnegan. It's one of my favorite episodes of a recorder. It's really fun. And then next week's episode, the first episode of 2015. Yeah, wow, 2015, is with Jim Beaver, who is a fascinating guy. You may know him as Bobby from Supernatural. He was on Deadwood, but he's been in a million things, a great writer. I can't believe I got to talk to him and that's going to be fun. And then we have some great episodes coming up after that as well. So, Happy New Year to you. We will see you in 2015. And thanks for listening to TV Guidance Counselor. ♪ (gentle music)
