Welcome to Building Besser, the podcast where we take you behind the scenes of building a franchise IP.

Hello everybody.

We are taking a little break from the game this week to do a little

holiday special. We have all the players from the game here. I'm Victory Palmasano. I'm Tanner Heron. I'm John

Howk. Hi it's me your pal Jeremy. I'm Mike McCarg. And I'm Anne Howk.

First we're going to start things off by talking about if anyone has what began

as an annoying Christmas song that then turned into a song that they liked because you just heard it so many times. I will go first. My version of that is

Dominique the Donkey. Does anybody know this song? Oh yeah.

Okay, so...

Yes.

The first hundred times I heard this song.

It was Nails on a Chalkboard.

I wanted to die. And all of a sudden I went from that to getting

really excited when it comes on and now I sing the whole thing. Does anyone have a song like that? And it can be Dominique the Donkey. You can have the same.

I don't have a specific song, but I'll say there are several songs that have frustrated me or annoyed me and then I hear the story behind the song and the artist who created it and like they had intention behind it and then it always softens me to like their work and I'm like well like they spent

time they were thoughtful on it and then like even the annoying parts that it is whatever

culturally have become relevant that people point at

they kind of like fade into the background I think more about what that

artist was trying to say or do at the time or the hard time they were going

through that instigated them writing it or whatever it is. So that's more macro.

The important story. I've got one.

Oh, Mike.

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