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Chapter 1: What is the Christmas caroling competition about?
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We were in the car, like a rolling stone came on, and he said, there's a line in there about your mother.
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Chapter 2: What do participants say about their experience at the competition?
Just hanging out, just meeting my friends. Were you planning on coming to this tonight, or did you just... Heck yeah, for a very long time.
He sings in choir in our church.
Oh, you sing. Are you wanting to be up there? I already got recruited by some groups, so next year maybe. Ooh! Wait, this could be your big rig. What would your song be that you sing up there? Silent night. Oh. I screwed up the first time. Is that the only part of the song? No, I crack under pressure real easy. Really? I should not be putting pressure on you. I don't even know how to sing.
I thought this was like a professional top tier recruitment. Yeah, I think they were just giving out cards to pretty much anybody. See, I don't think I would actually want to go watch the Christmas caroling competition, but I would watch it if it was a bunch of people that didn't know any of the words. They're just messing up. That was amazing. The word Silent Night over and over and over.
I didn't know I could root for a caroler. But that guy's got my vote. Next year, man. We're all there for you. What you doing at the Christmas caroling competition? Hey, I am a judge for the choral competition tonight. Wow, we got one of the official judges in front of us. So what does it take to be a judge for one of these? Really nothing at all, it seems like. No choral experience required.
Bro! I heard that Gloria song for the first time tonight. You ever heard that Gloria song? Okay, you don't know a lot of Christmas terms, probably like holly jolly. Not know what figgy pudding is this whole time. Didn't Google it, didn't do anything. Very little prep. Okay, well, this is like the big championship. It was also locally televised as well. Yeah.
Is there anyone less qualified to judge a Christmas carol? He doesn't even know what carols are. He's like, oh, this is the first time I've heard this one. How did I end up here? What you doing at the Christmas caroling competition? So truly, we're actually here for a wedding and wandered around looking for a cocktail bar and heard some singing and could not turn away. Oh, wait.
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Chapter 3: What makes a good Christmas caroler according to the judges?
So you wandered into a caroling competition? Yes. Unfortunately, they weren't taking any late carolers, so I just am here to watch. Oh, wait. You wanted to go on stage. Yeah, that would be ideal, but apparently that's not a thing. All right, so you have some singing experience. If you were to go out there, you can't sing, but you're giving a pep talk to the carolers, What would you say to them?
Like, listen, the whole world is going to get coal if you don't get up there and sing Carol of the Bells. Oh, my God. You're going with a threatening route. It's that serious. Do you have kids or anything? God, no. I'm going to say I'm kind of worried for them if you talk like this. You're a therapist. Do you talk to your clients like this? When they need it.
Maybe that's the therapy that I've been waiting for. Did you get her card and information? I think she's going to have some new clients from this show. You go to a therapist to cry it out, but apparently she just makes you cry. Sometimes that's what you need. You get out there and stop crying.
It's what you're doing at the Christmas Carol Championships where Jose and Alexis braved the bitter cold temperatures and put their attraction for each other aside to ask other people a simple question. What you doing at the Christmas caroling competition? We're a barbershop group. Wow. We do a lot of going jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle while everybody else is singing.
By the way, you look beautiful. You have Christmas lights on your body. Your shoes. Describe to people your shoes. Well, my boots are made of red glitter. And lights. And lights. So cute. I have the lights and, of course, the candy cane leg warmers because, you know, you can't be a Christmas elf without leg warmers. Well, that's awesome.
Okay, so we have one of the best songs that's a crowd favorite. What? Explain. What is that? Like, what do you mean? So we have a song that is about being alone on Christmas. Oh, that's a crowd favorite. Oh, people like requesting do the alone song. It's like it's silent night because you're literally the only person there. Sounds like my Christmas.
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Chapter 4: How do people prepare for a Christmas caroling competition?
I can't believe this. We have judges who don't recognize the song, singers who don't know most of the words, and we finally get someone who's supposed to be actually legit and what do they want to sing about? Not holly jolly Christmas. No, I'm alone and depressed. Where's my Zanny's at? Actually, again, I do want to go to that version of the show. It's a nice holiday.
Relatable.
What you doing at the Christmas caroling competition? Listen to the carolers. And had a drink before. Oh. Because it's cold out here. Is the drinking just for the warmth, or does it help enjoy the carols a little more? Maybe a little bit of both.
rooting for any teams well the first one already won oh i missed the winner oops that was one of them oopsie did the crowd like go crazy or anything i missed it sure cheer cheer cheer yeah whoo yeah oh yeah all right what'd you do when they won you so she fell off a building i'm sure she only had one drink i almost fell down
Alexis, I can tell you became good friends with that wine lady afterwards. I didn't watch the show, but we did share a drink. I feel like I'm talking to my mom. That was what you're doing at the Christmas Carol Championship. That was fun. That was actually a good time.
I may go to that next year.
Good work, Jose and Alexis. We got your phone tap coming up right after this.
Did you see Johnny? The kids didn't come home last night.
Along the central Texas plains, teens are dying. Suicides that don't make sense. Strange accidents and brutal murders. In what seems to be a plot ripped straight out of Breaking Bad. Drugs, alcohol, trafficking of people. There are people out there that absolutely know what happened.
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Chapter 5: What unique stories do attendees share about their Christmas caroling experience?
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