The Toyota Christmas Commercial – The Music and the Car

Toyota has a Christmas commercial airing just in time for the big day. No, I’m not talking about my birthday (which IS coming up, by the way 😉 ), it’s Christmas! In less than a week, people all over the world will be celebrating with presents and singing and lots of happiness. But until that day, here’s the Toyota commercial… then scroll down for more info!

The Music. The song backing this ad is “Kindness” by Andrew Simple. Here’s the full track on Spotify…

The Car. Featured in the ad is the Toyota Corolla Cross. You can find out more about it on the Toyota website here.

My Favorite Car Photos. In the spirit of cars, I love the photos I’ve taken of vehicles and other modes of transportation in my Transportation Smugmug gallery. Check them out! Here are a few.

Where does this commercial land on your Christmas favorites? Chime in below and thanks for dropping in!

-Out of the Wilderness

Favorite Christmas songs in 2022

Are you one that loves Christmas year round or do you save all the joy for the holiday season? Over the years, I’ve put together a Spotify playlist of my favorites but each Christmas a few songs stand out above the rest. So here are my favorites from the 2022 holidays. I love most of the songs on my list but these just seem to really attract me for whatever reason…

“Hallelujah This Christmas” Jon McLaughlin

“Drummer Boy” Justin Bieber

“Lonely This Christmas” Mud

“Blue Christmas” Sheryl Crow

“Joy to the World” The Staple Singers

“Silent Night” Kelly Clarkson, Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood

What are some of your favorites this season? Let me know in the comments. Thanks for dropping in!

-Out of the Wilderness

Uncle Uber

I called myself “Uncle Uber” the other day and I kind of think it has a ring to it. Running nieces to dance or cheer or parties or school or Target, it’s usually fun catching up with what’s going on in the lunchroom (spoiler: drama every day with who sits where at the lunch table!) and who’s being mean or nice, or encountering weird guys at gas stations. Lots of drama in the lives of teenage girls, let me tell ya!

Hey, being an Ubering uncle is better than the crazy uncle in THIS picture…

See that weirdo guy in the door window? Kidding, it’s me and I saw my niece taking a photo of the tree so I totally wanted to photobomb the pic. Is it my fault I had a hoodie on from the cold north Florida temperatures and that makes me look like someone from a Lifetime thriller!?

It’s important every once in a while to remind my nieces that even though I’m SO nice to drive them around, I’m also not normal. 😉

Thanks for dropping in…

-Out of the Wilderness

The Jesus Genealogy

In church the pastor has been using Matthew 1 as the reference for his sermons. This is where the lineage of Jesus is laid out by the disciple Matthew. Lots of very interesting things about the people listed and stuff like that but it also made me wonder something I’ve never thought about before.

Is there someone alive today that’s in the family lineage of Jesus?

-me, last week

I only did a brief online search and nothing really turned up but it’s fascinating to me to think there might be people alive today who could trace their lineage back to Mary and/or Joseph. I’m not saying Jesus has any direct descendents because I don’t believe he ever had children or got married. But he had brothers and sisters and surely they had children and those children had children.

Fascinating stuff! Thanks for dropping in…

-Out of the Wilderness

Who’s doing the British voiceovers for Amazon commercials? Answers here!

There’s a smooth, playful, confident voice narrating the latest campaign of Amazon ads, like Little Red Riding Hood and Medusa. Discovering who the woman is behind the voice took time and some research, but finally the answers are here!

The Voice. The accented voice belongs to comedian and actress Morgana Robinson. She was referenced in an interview with Amazon reps and the commercial production team, Joint. Check this link for the entire transcript but in part, they said…

From the very beginning, we knew we wanted a voice with strong comic energy. Morgana Robinson came up early on as she’s not only a phenomenal talent but deeply funny as well. We spent hours in the studio crafting ways for her to come across as modern and likeable, but crucially quite cheeky too.

Morgana Robinson is all over the place with profession work, so be sure to follow her on Instagram here: @morgana_robinson. She’s funny and a great impressionist! Don’t believe me? Check out her horse neigh in this video around timecode 2:08.

Neigh Neigh. Speaking of horses, I’ll leave you with a favorite pic from my horse photo gallery. All of the photos in my wildlife gallery (where you’ll find more horses) are available to cover your walls as framed artwork!

Thanks for trotting by…

-Out of the Wilderness