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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (w/ Kimia Behpoornia) · Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists.
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  Speaker 1: This week, the pie is in the oven, the turkey
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  Speaker 1: is on the table, and your TV is tuned in
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  Speaker 1: to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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  Speaker 2: The parade originally began in nineteen twenty four and since
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  Speaker 2: then it has become a staple in American life. But
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  Speaker 2: who are the people who put this parade together? We
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  Speaker 2: talk to everyone involved in the parade on every level
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  Speaker 2: to see what exactly goes into making something like this.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it's time to watch those big floats go bye bye.
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  Speaker 4: Let's listen in.
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  Speaker 1: It's really fun that we all get to be together
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  Speaker 1: here because I feel like I don't get to talk
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  Speaker 1: to the other people as I mean, we're literally miles
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  Speaker 1: away from each other. I like to call it, oh.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's pretty crazy when like Christmas, basically
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  Speaker 5: it's it's made Thanksgiving Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I would say that it's the one thing that we
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  Speaker 1: have to hold on to as a Thanksgiving tradition, So
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  Speaker 1: please don't call Christmas. And I'll say this is at
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  Speaker 1: the end of it, but it is Thanksgiving. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't like it when people say that it's Christmas.
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  Speaker 6: Thanksgiving should get a thing. Yeah, and it's like giving
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  Speaker 6: needs its thing.
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  Speaker 3: Of course Santa closes it every year, but that's like
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  Speaker 3: when he comes in is at the end, because this
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  Speaker 3: is the transfer from Thanksgiving to Christmas and it is
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  Speaker 3: not at all just Christmas.
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  Speaker 5: Totally sorry, Sorry, we don't.
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  Speaker 7: Mean to take the magic away from how you feel.
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  Speaker 5: It's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. I'm very sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I do think that I went in hard
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  Speaker 1: on you. I would say that if you are implying
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  Speaker 1: that it is the Thanksgiving of Christmas or it is
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  Speaker 1: the excuse me, I'm getting jumbled up. If it is
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas of Thanksgiving, I understand what you're saying, and
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  Speaker 1: I could agree with you on that.
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  Speaker 5: I think I was mostly comparing the to which is
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  Speaker 5: not what you're saying right there. So I'm sorry, I'm
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  Speaker 5: really sorry.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like he admitted that he's wrong, so we
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  Speaker 2: can move forward.
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  Speaker 1: So who are we?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's talk about it and see what departments were
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  Speaker 3: in Absolutely.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, I'll kick this off for you guys. You know,
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  Speaker 8: because I'm a little bit shy. I'm not really you
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  Speaker 8: barely see me out there during the parade. You know,
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  Speaker 8: my name is Stacey D. But everyone calls me STIs
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  Speaker 8: out there.
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  Speaker 7: That's right. I have been working this parade for.
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  Speaker 8: Bus since I was sixteen, I think, and now I'm
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  Speaker 8: forty eight.
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  Speaker 7: So that's you.
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  Speaker 8: Guys can do the math on that math wasn't my finger,
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  Speaker 8: else I would have gone to college and I would
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  Speaker 8: have just been a holder of the balloons.
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  Speaker 7: That's right. I hold the ropes. I've held the ropes
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  Speaker 7: for years.
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  Speaker 8: Old Stiz is the longest running rope older.
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  Speaker 5: We've all heard about. You is on the ropes.
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  Speaker 3: Weren't you the person who held Snoopy for like four
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  Speaker 3: consecutive years?
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely, I was on Snoopy. Snoopy's the top dog.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, Okay, she's funny, this one's funny. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this one's really funny. I want to say too. Four
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  Speaker 1: years on Snoopy is basically a lifetime. Nobody else has
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  Speaker 1: done four years on Snoopy. It is the rowdiest float.
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  Speaker 1: It catches the wind at such a specific way. It
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  Speaker 1: throws people so hard.
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  Speaker 5: Have you been thrown?
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  Speaker 8: That's right, I have been thrown. I've been thrown. You know,
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  Speaker 8: when you're sixteen, you're a tiny woman. That was before
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  Speaker 8: I started taking the roids, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, he's on the Royd Heroids.
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  Speaker 3: I could tell that year that you started the steroids,
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  Speaker 3: when you had SpongeBob and you said, I'll do the front.
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  Speaker 3: And usually that's twenty people who do the front of SpongeBob,
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  Speaker 3: but just me did it that one.
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  Speaker 1: Year, and you held it so so hard that I
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  Speaker 1: remember the reviews came in and it said SpongeBob looked
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  Speaker 1: like he furrowed his brows. He looked mad. And it's
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  Speaker 1: because you were holding the ropes so tight. You made him.
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  Speaker 5: Furrow his brow.
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  Speaker 7: You know, when you're strong, you're strong, and you are strong.
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  Speaker 1: It's strong and look, steroids are basically legal as long
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  Speaker 1: as you're not doing a professional sport, right, You're allowed
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  Speaker 1: to do steroids. It's so you're allowed to do this.
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  Speaker 4: Some of the marching band boys do you.
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  Speaker 1: That's the problem. They're in high school.
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  Speaker 7: Who's to say you wouldn't.
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  Speaker 8: No, I wouldn't. I'm not here to tattle on nobody else.
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  Speaker 8: Don't tattle on nobody disroids.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Trevor Sullivan. I am the director of
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  Speaker 1: the Floats. I am in charge of all the floats
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  Speaker 1: you see, including the very last one that cues you
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  Speaker 1: into Santa Claus coming to town. I'm in charge of
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  Speaker 1: wrangling and finding mister Santa Claus every year. It's a
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  Speaker 1: little difficult for me, but we figure it out. A
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  Speaker 1: little Christmas Magic sprinkles into Thanksgiving and it's helpful.
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  Speaker 5: So I kind of like what I said. But you
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  Speaker 5: guys really yelled at me before.
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  Speaker 1: But sure, because what you were saying was that it
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  Speaker 1: was like Christmas.
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  Speaker 5: You just said, Christmas magic is pretty you know what.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I was referring specifically to the end when Christmas Magic
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  Speaker 1: does arrive, so it was different.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I'm sorry, But.
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  Speaker 1: I know you all intimately because, as you know, I
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  Speaker 1: do a final check on everyone who enters the floats
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  Speaker 1: or who everyone who enters the parade.
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  Speaker 5: You're a big deal. You know. You're kind of a
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  Speaker 5: top thup.
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  Speaker 1: Please, I mean, I look, I've been doing this job
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  Speaker 1: for fifteen years. I love this job with all my heart.
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  Speaker 1: You guys think that Thanksgiving Day Parade happens around Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: For me, this is every single day of my life. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: It's a year round job for me, and I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love every single second of it.
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  Speaker 7: I feel that it's year round for me as well,
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  Speaker 7: So I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean I love to come visit you.
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  Speaker 7: I come to you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The way that you get them to put the
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  Speaker 1: rowing machines on their side you can pull.
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  Speaker 8: Down, yeah, yeah, practice hanging on to a rope.
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  Speaker 7: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because like, how do you practice that stuff?
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  Speaker 5: You know what?
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  Speaker 4: I mean? Nothing that big?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, put the rower on its side and you're just amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Well how do you practice what you do?
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  Speaker 3: Hi, guys, I'm soup senate and I'm a rocket, and
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  Speaker 3: it's so funny that they pick me out of all
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  Speaker 3: the girls because I am really core.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised you are royalty.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I've been a rocket for two full years and
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  Speaker 3: the longest one on the team at the moment, and
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  Speaker 3: really happy.
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  Speaker 5: I turn around. Wow, so you're saying every other rocket
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  Speaker 5: has only done it for a year at most, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 6: Pride and handle the heat or is it because they
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  Speaker 6: want to quit.
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  Speaker 4: A mixture of the two.
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, But I'm really excited to be here, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: really excited to just like speak on behalf of my girls,
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  Speaker 3: and speak on behalf of the team, and speak on
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  Speaker 3: behalf of the craft, and speak on behalf of the legs.
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  Speaker 7: You're looking really good soup.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, great set.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, yes, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I don't want to sound inappropriate. You are attractive.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think we all agree. Are you which one
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  Speaker 8: of us are you flirting with?
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  Speaker 3: It's so funny because sometimes I really try not to
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  Speaker 3: be friendly at all, but I just look like this
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  Speaker 3: and people think I'm being so friendly.
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  Speaker 6: I really think she's coming on to me right now.
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  Speaker 5: It's crazy or me or me, and I think it's
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  Speaker 5: just rude to think that.
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  Speaker 1: Bet. I'm married to Thanksgiving, so that's hilarious.
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  Speaker 7: Oh my god, you're so cute. I can't stop.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, everybody, my name is gian Carlo, and I am
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  Speaker 5: a filler. I jump in wherever the wherever the Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 5: Parade needs me, you know, feeling for whoever doesn't show
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  Speaker 5: up on the day. And it's kind of a thankless,
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  Speaker 5: crazy job. But I love it because read every moment
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  Speaker 5: is new when you're on the parade.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you are an absolute legend, especially last year when
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  Speaker 3: you stepped in for Dear Evan Hanson.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it was the entire cast. One of the wildest
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  Speaker 5: texts because I just get texts to go somewhere. It's
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  Speaker 5: very kind of coded, and all of a sudden, I'm
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  Speaker 5: in makeup, I'm in a cast, and I'm doing the
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  Speaker 5: entire song of Dear Evan Hanson by myself.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then Ben Platt tweeted at you and said, that
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  Speaker 3: was incredible.
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  Speaker 5: It's so nice.
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  Speaker 1: Is that feel, Patty?
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  Speaker 5: I have no idea who hit who that is? Who's
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  Speaker 5: Ben Platt? Who is that guy?
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  Speaker 7: Dear Evan Hanson?
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  Speaker 5: Oh wow, that's amazing. That's fantastic. No, I don't. I
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  Speaker 5: don't keep up with that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so it really helps us out to you
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  Speaker 1: on Carlos, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: I know you look pretty familiar. That one year the
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  Speaker 7: Garfield balloon was down, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 5: Just Yeah? So that crazy, crazy year for me. I
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  Speaker 5: just got to text Goffield and I went, huh, that
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  Speaker 5: was me?
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  Speaker 1: That was gonna go yeah, be me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I get a lot of text from this guy, crazy stuff.
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  Speaker 5: So basically they filled the clothing I was already wearing
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  Speaker 5: with balloons and helium painted me orange and just stuck
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  Speaker 5: me to a balloon now I will say being tugged
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  Speaker 5: by you life once in a lifetime experience you could feel,
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  Speaker 5: you can feel the way you know.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us what it was like to have Giancarlo on
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  Speaker 1: the line.
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  Speaker 7: The lightest thing I've ever held. Do you believe it?
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  Speaker 1: I do believe it.
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  Speaker 7: I could have done that with my eyes closed.
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  Speaker 6: With the pinky.
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  Speaker 8: I think I even I think I even showed off
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  Speaker 8: that year. I tied the string just to my pinky,
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  Speaker 8: walked around.
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  Speaker 5: And it was terrifying. I was looking down a one
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  Speaker 5: hundred and fifty feet in the air, just going, what
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  Speaker 5: is she doing?
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  Speaker 7: Can you see the tip of my pinky from I saw.
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  Speaker 5: The pinky going oh bruh and junk colling And again.
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  Speaker 7: He trusted me though, and we made it through.
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  Speaker 5: We made it through. It was a bonding experience.
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  Speaker 4: I remember exactly.
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  Speaker 7: You're like, you remember me.
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  Speaker 4: You liked it?
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  Speaker 1: You know I coordinated that.
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  Speaker 5: Wow?
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  Speaker 6: Wow Wow Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Vic Tracy and I am the director of balloons.
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  Speaker 2: I am the creative force behind most of the balloons
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  Speaker 2: you do see in the play.
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  Speaker 6: Play well it is for me.
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  Speaker 2: I like to refer to it as a play because
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  Speaker 2: it is a lot of live actors in one place,
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  Speaker 2: going from one place to the next.
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  Speaker 5: And so sorry, that's a tough job for you to
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  Speaker 5: get all the balloons. Do you do you decide which
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  Speaker 5: balloons go and which balloons go?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, So my my year begins in September when
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  Speaker 2: everyone comes to me with their ideas for pitches for balloons.
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  Speaker 2: And they come in and they say, how about basketball
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  Speaker 2: And I say, hmm, try again. And people will come
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  Speaker 2: in and they say how about SpongeBob And I say,
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  Speaker 2: been done.
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  Speaker 6: And so you know, you.
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  Speaker 2: Have to filter through all the balloons that we have
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  Speaker 2: not done yet, bringing back some balloons from previous years
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  Speaker 2: that fans really like, and we really just need to
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  Speaker 2: have a cohesive amount of balloons that are both.
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  Speaker 6: Corporate and classic.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we That's what we talked about here CECI
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  Speaker 2: close capturing corporate Classic.
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  Speaker 1: It's really great to see a Vive in person. We
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  Speaker 1: mostly email, so I don't usually get to hear you say.
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  Speaker 4: Things so new.
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  Speaker 5: It's new for all of us. You're usually just texting
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  Speaker 5: behind the email.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say I largely have an email job,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of my balloon pitches I do connect
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  Speaker 2: over zoom because I don't like to leave the house
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  Speaker 2: because I like it in there because it's cozy and
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  Speaker 2: I have my mug.
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  Speaker 4: Do you guys pitch up ideas like together or like, well.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to different kind of army versus navy. Right,
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  Speaker 1: she's up in the sky. I guess that's air force
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  Speaker 1: and I'm on the ground.
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  Speaker 6: You're on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: You are, I'm frontline marines, line marines.
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  Speaker 6: You were fighting.
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  Speaker 4: So was the one that did the dental floss balloon
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  Speaker 4: this year?
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  Speaker 6: Well that was a pitch by you.
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  Speaker 1: I did pitch that for a balloon.
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  Speaker 6: And I had to be convinced. I had to be convinced.
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  Speaker 6: I was.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't working as a float, right. We wanted too
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  Speaker 1: much because we had we we had it as a
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  Speaker 1: float and it just wasn't quite working right.
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  Speaker 2: I heard about the whole the Denture Day denter disaster
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  Speaker 2: when all of the dentures started clapping on their own
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  Speaker 2: because they were supposed to wind up like Christmas toys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, And boys to men was going to be
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  Speaker 1: singing on this float and what song they were seeing
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  Speaker 1: into the road.
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  Speaker 5: Such a beautiful song, that floss That really shows off the.
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  Speaker 1: Come to the end of the road. It can't let go,
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  Speaker 1: of course, talking about dental care and when you put
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  Speaker 1: the floss in between your teeth, you can't let go
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  Speaker 1: because you got to use the floss.
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  Speaker 6: Sponsored bond none other than who we love so much, Cold.
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  Speaker 5: Gate, absolutely and we love them so Coldgate, the tooth
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  Speaker 5: based company, was sponsoring a floss right just to well,
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  Speaker 5: they also make flaw.
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  Speaker 1: They make flow, They make a lot of things that
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  Speaker 1: are large corporate.
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  Speaker 7: It makes a lot of sense that they also make flu.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know. They do make flos Okay,
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  Speaker 5: they make so I'm sorry. Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: We were in the workshop I like to do if
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  Speaker 1: we have a float workshop. We have a right actually
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  Speaker 1: a floating building in the Hudson We do a workshop
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  Speaker 1: center and we like to bring all the floats in.
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  Speaker 1: We like to bring people in. We like to try
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  Speaker 1: them out, we like to audition them. And it just
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  Speaker 1: wasn't working. Boysed to him. In was too quiet, the
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  Speaker 1: chattering was too loud, and I said, I think we
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  Speaker 1: got to take this up. I think this has got
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  Speaker 1: to go to the sky, and we move boised him
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  Speaker 1: into the animal cracker float. We ended up having to
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  Speaker 1: kick off the reunion of bb MAC. Bb MAC ended
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  Speaker 1: up moving over to the Lincoln Logs float that is
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  Speaker 1: making us kick off Ty Pennington from Extreme Home Makeover.
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  Speaker 1: He was pushed and then he was put on the
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  Speaker 1: float for I believe it was the Everybody Loves Reunion,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't do it because almost everyone and everybody
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  Speaker 1: loves Raymond has passed.
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  Speaker 5: Away, so I had to do a lot of filling. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So it was just really cunning to be chess.
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  Speaker 1: It was a game of chess and and that ended
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  Speaker 1: up being the Perparsian Age float, which was weird for us,
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  Speaker 1: but it was good. It worked out.
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  Speaker 4: So was the Well buttrin one was really Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I got a question, was that a float or a balloon?
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  Speaker 6: Well, it was a float.
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  Speaker 2: It was you know a lot of times our departments
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  Speaker 2: bounce things from one to the other. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: a company runs out of money for a float, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: they'll bounce it to be a balloon, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: sometimes it's less expensive to make a giant balloon of
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  Speaker 2: something than it is to cover something with floral arrangements
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  Speaker 2: and put another they're then tied dollar sign on it
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  Speaker 2: to sing. Everybody wants a little Christmas, an original song
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  Speaker 2: that he wrote.
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  Speaker 1: An awesome song, and we can't wait to do it
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  Speaker 1: again every year for the next thirty years.
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  Speaker 5: It was really interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I would say too, the I don't want to speak
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  Speaker 1: four your department, no, of course, but the Floats, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: the Balloons are a bit of a boys club. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of insiders there.
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  Speaker 6: There are some women paving the way in the bottom.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, boys club is in. It's a little difficult that,
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  Speaker 1: you know. It's kind of insider. It's insular, right, SpongeBob
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  Speaker 1: isn't going anywhere. Snoopy isn't going anywhere. We always have
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  Speaker 1: room in the floats for inclusion, for new areas, and
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  Speaker 1: you kind of are are little old guard some of those.
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  Speaker 1: Pikachu has been around for thirty years.
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  Speaker 6: You guys, see, I just I see listen.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say that someone needs to speak
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: up for Thanksgiving, someone needs to speak up for tradition
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: and what we have been doing for so many years,
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: and a lot of that includes our favorite brands.
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: We love so much, so much. Why just Snoopy and
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: and all those people.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: Yes, go ahead, But the Floats has like a like
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: a mentorship program with new directors that they bring in
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: if you're like passionate about that and like a bunch
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: of like a showcase, it's like a really great program.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, you guys got to come out for the float
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: showcase this year. I think a couple of them got signed,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: a couple of floats the floats. Yeah, so we have
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: people try floats and it's like a big auditions.
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: You signed, like the people who made the floats, you
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: sign them.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: No, you signed the float people, the artists or signed
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: the floats.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Take the floats from them, We pave them for the
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: float and then we take it over.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: You're just carving the new generation.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: They get to they get there, they get their input.
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: So amazing.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's not as amazing as your kicks soup.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: You gotta tell us how you trained to be a roquet.
• 16:33
  Speaker 8: You go into detail about your muscles and stuff if
• 16:35
  Speaker 8: you want, and you don't have to.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: It.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: We're both on steroids and we both let you talk
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: about it.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm one of these duid bitches who kicks her
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: face all the time.
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: You okay, what.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: Happened just a second ago?
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: No, I hate it when I kick myself in the face.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Why didn't you do it?
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: I fucking knew it three times a year and I've
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: only been there for two years.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: Not bad, that's very small.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I've got it six times.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: That's once every one hundred days.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: Take yourself for it. You hate yourself for it.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: I hate it.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: It's the most embarrassing thing as a Rocket, especially when
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: you do it at the Macon's Day Parade Macy's Date Parade.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: For the Rockets, it's like us performing for our parents,
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. It feels like really because
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: most of the time we're performing just for like a.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Really older and older audience.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: But when we come home to the Mason's Day Parade
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: every year, it feels so fun to just like really
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: like like really become a family company because as a
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: theater company, the Rockets are not really a family theater company.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: No. I mean, you've been there the longest and you've
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: only been there for two years.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Yes, And I've learned this stuff. I've gone up the
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: ranks these past two years. It's been a really long journey,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: and you really have to like show show yourself and
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: really prove yourself.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Do people in the rock Cats look up to you
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: as a veteran or somebody who is a yes.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: If anything, I need to get out of there.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: It's like, you know, like when you're high school, seniors
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: keep visiting once they graduate. I feel that as a
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: second year rocket, it's time for me to go. But
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: I'm still so obsessed with the parades. I'm really obsessed
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: with the travel. I love to travel. It's this weird
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: thing about me. I love to just like see new
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: places and where do you go?
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes we do shows on the road. We did
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: a show in Chicago, and I loved going to.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: A new city, oh like two hours away.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: It was so cool. They just like have coffee, news.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: It was all domestic, domestic place.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: So nice.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: When we go to upstate New York, it just feels
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: so nice to just like get out of the city.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: What is the craziest place you've ever been? Oh?
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Jersey crazy?
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: And where are you from?
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Newark?
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Even about one hundred mile radius.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: I love traveling. Not all who wonder are lost.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: I'm really excited to be here and just I just
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: think I'll say, yeah, I'll go back to me being
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: a stupid bitch.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: I absolutely hate it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: When I kicked myself in the face and it happened
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: this last year, and I think that's why they picked
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: me to be on this panel because it did go
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: a little bit of a viral trend when it was
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: we were all in our Christmas outfits and I kicked
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: myself in the face and I got myself a kincussion.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: It happens to girls every couple of years, and it
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: happened to me. Tappened to me six times.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Well, we dealt with this clip a lot. You know,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: you kicked yourself in the face and then you addressed
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: as a toy soldier. You took your toy gun out
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and you pretended to shoot yourself and then you fell
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: on the ground and ride around. That was a very
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: interesting clip for us to have to deal with.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: No, I it wasn't.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I do remember talking to the social media team because
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: we were trying to figure out a way to spin this,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Like I.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Remember I was on those Yeah, we were on that slack.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: There was a channel about how do we spin this,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: and so it was kind of like we were like, well,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: you know, kids love irony, maybe we work ourselves into
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: way of some internet irony.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Here.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I of Mikayla Maroney who did that face, and I
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: said we could do a Mikayla Maroney with this.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: I remember you guys. Yeah, it ended up the Macy's
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Day parade, tweeted doofy moment.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: But I mean then we tried to encourage hashtags. We
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: tried to encourage how do you kick yourself in the face?
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Slash shoot yourself in the face of the toy gun?
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Hashtag? How do you do fee?
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: How do you do fee?
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: As I as I said in my apology on the internet,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: we're rarely given.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Props as rockets.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I said, I simply don't know what to
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: do when something is given to me, and I am
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: trying to get those dances done, and I don't know,
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: call it concussion.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Brain, call it a quirky girl.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: But I hit the ground so fucking hard from my
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: boot hitting my face that I went, what do I do?
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: How do I make this look like it was choreographed?
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Let me grab the gun I'm holding, But the gun
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: was made out of gingerbread, So I don't understand why
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: people are making this like a gun's rights thing.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I don't get it.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: But it was crazy to have a full military garb
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: for that that Rockheats performance.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: They were toy soldiers. Okay, it was.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Very, very, very sexy. It was just so weird. Give
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: us cottons. It was so weird.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Can I ask you a question about the Snoopy Float?
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Oh me, yeah, I've been okay, yeah, go ahead. Now
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: I've been wondering something about the Snoopy Flow. I mean, like,
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: how much do you think in terms of torque and
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: in terms of weight overall tension you're holding when.
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: I hold the Snoopy flow? Okay?
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: Well, which year year one? When I did it with
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: a team of a normal amount of people?
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: He were like, I'm talking about year two.
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: When I knocked out a bunch of them and we
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: were down to thirty people and me and a year three,
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: it works.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: Right if you knock them out there off the team.
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Year three I knocked out a ton of them,
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: was fifteen people in me like wow. Or year four
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: when it was just me and the person I was
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: dating at the time. At the time, I said, at
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: the time, Souper, that was.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: A messy, messy breakup for all of us. That sent
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: shock waves through the entire community.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Chocolates through Snoopy. When she kicked you out, yeah, yeah,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: when that's why you had to leave the float, because
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: she bested you.
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: It was pretty messy.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: It was hard to see. It was hard for us
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: to watch too, because we were rooting for you on
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: that float. I mean, nobody handled and tame Snoopy the
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: way you did. Yeah, And it was like your name,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: if you have to Toy. The way you and Toy
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: would handle Snoop was so beautiful.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: It was like watching ice skaters perform at the Olympics.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: There was something so captivating about both of these strong
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: individuals holding down nay maybe six thousand pound tension float,
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: just dancing with it. You know.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Did you have a saying that in the reassignment in.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: Making them did this not happen again?
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Well I had to look go in and
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: you know, think about what is best for the balloons
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: in this situation, what is best for them and what
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: is best for us, And so we had to make
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: some reassignments and we had to move some people around it.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: We had to shuffle the board, as they say, And
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: I don't like it. That's my least favorite part of
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: my job is reassigning.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: But do it all right.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: I don't really like that.
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: We really went down to talking so much about Toy
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: all listen words are.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: We're a dramatic event, Okay, Like it always comes back
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: to the drama.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: With Macy's Day, I will say it was a very republic.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: And people are hooking up under like there's so when
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: the balloon team assignments come out, so many people start
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: hooking up and I think it's I think it's just it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: No, we all posted on the door of Macy's who
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: is on what balloon?
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Everyone flocks to it.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, we have our share of flotmances. I'll tell you that.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Like it's literally the floamances are.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: It feels so incestuous.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: And it always feels like there's a huge breakup right
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: before we go, right before you say ready, set.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Go right, it feels like there's a huge, massive breakup.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: Yes, and one year it did.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: It was me.
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: It did happen to fall on me. We were the
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: big breakup and it was a mess. And I do
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: think that you guys created a Twitter campaign around that
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: mess as well.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: We sweat, we spun that we have to spin with.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: We have hashtag spin this and the Slack channel was
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: really it was a blaze and that was.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: What we accidentally tweeted was hashtag spin this with a
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: picture of you guys breaking up and people noticed people.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I feel like, you guys don't have to spend anything.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: You're just so once a year televised episode. But it's
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: so funny how you treat it like you have to
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: get ahead of it.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: You know, for me, this is why I forget it
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: because by and.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: You know, you would think, yeah, people would forget about
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: it by next year, but it's like no, everyone just
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: remembers all the memes and hilarious chifts they retweeted one
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: year ago today exactly.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Well, and think about this, think about this what they're seeing.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: They're watching this parade, they turn it off and they
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: go sit down with twenty to thirty other people and
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: they all talk about something. Do not want to be
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the thing that is brought up in the silence when
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: somebody brings up politics, somebody will say, can you believe
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: that thing happened? Or the mazest things? Giving a parade
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: that is a viral moment. It might not be on
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the Internet, but it's viral on dinner tables. That's families,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: viral between uncles, which is the worst type of viral.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: So you have to uncle viral. You'd never want to be.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Because it's that book. Viral is the worst.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Did you hear that this happened? And that's enough for
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: them to take a respect and they.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Will just bounce it back of this if it goes
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: viral on WhatsApp, you know it's uncle viral.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: You know that's for sure, for sure, And it's like,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: you know what, Thank god they don't have meals after
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: the Oscars, you know what I mean at eleven pm.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: They are lucky. The Oscars are lucky that they do
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: their show before dinner time. I'm so jealous of that.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because you're so right.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: It's a pr nightmare to have a meal right after
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: your show every year.
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: You know you asked me a painful question. I feel
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: like I get to ask you a question back.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: That's fine, I allow it, and I'm sorry.
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: Could you do could you do a little piece of
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: Dear Evan.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Hansense, we have to see you.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: Please that I broke my hand.
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: I have a cast and it's signed by a dead kid.
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: I want to be the man you think I am.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: I know the pain.
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: You feel inside you is going away.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: But I've lied to my family. I'm your mom, man,
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: you lied to me. I'm your dad, and you lie
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: to me. I'm your best friend and you've lied to me.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: I was guessing a lot.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I'm want to thank you for singing so much of
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: that song.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: No, it was cutting me off.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: It's really crazy.
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: It was brilliant.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: We didn't want it.
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: To end, you swearing for you to stop whenever.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: You folks, I've never seen that musical. I don't I
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: don't watch a lot of musicals. I just kind of
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: went there hopefully. I wasn't thank you for We.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Didn't have time to give you. We didn't have time
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: to give you a headphone, we didn't have time to
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: let you listen to the track. We had to have
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: you go and we knew you deliver.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: It's absolutely crazy.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: This was like that was even better than the year
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: that you were one of the Jonas brothers.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: That was a tough year, but a fun year. Let
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: me tell you what I was when I was Kevin Jonas.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: And that is kind of an industry secret because up
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: until now that has never been publicly revealed, and nobody noticed.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Put little curly hair and I played guitar in the background,
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: and boy was it fun.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: It was incredible.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: It was everyone noticed. Dear Evan Hanson. Everybody knows that
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: the music well, mostly because.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: I wasn't singing anything from the actual music. I was
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: guessing at what the plot was.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: I do not understand why you do not pursue a
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: career in show bun.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: No, not me, not me.
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: I just work at my motorcycle shop. That's what I do.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: So do you feel like once a year when you
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: work for the Mace's Day Parade, do you like categorize
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: that as like a fun thing or like a nonprofit thing?
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: Why are you doing this?
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: Why do you do this?
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: Is going off? You make a lot of money.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: A lot of money doing Like, why do you do this?
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: I do it for the kids. I do it for
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: the kids. Every kid watching in America, you know in
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: the thrill it's so fun. It's very stressful. But every
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: once in a while, you know, you get to play
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Kevin Jonas, or you gotta be one of the members
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: of Y two K or s Club seven, or you
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: get to be a turkey, or you get to hold
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: a flute and a tuba and playing a band. You
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: gotta be a horse for a cop really fun stuff.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: God, that was so hot.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: That was hot for you.
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: That was so all the things we've said when he
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: was a horse for a cop. Is the first time
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: we've gotten your It was so hot.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: Well, thank you, thank you so much. I thought that
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: was the most obvious. I was kind of just wearing
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: a horse's head. Was a large police officer just told
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: me to hit faster. No shirt, no shirt?
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Can we talk about this year?
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I was to talk about this year with the amazing
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day Parade.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Because I would love to if I can, if if
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: my fellow director will allow me to spill the beans
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: on what we discussed on.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: Slack today, thank you.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: I am proud to announce that the theme of this
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: year's Thanksgiving Day Parade is Thanksgiving.
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: A return to Thanksgiving.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Finally, we're gonna do like a classic year.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: We're doing a classic.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: N We are taking it all the way back to
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: the basics. We are taking it all the way back
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: to our roots, which is Thanksgiving. That's why we started this,
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: and that's why we are continuing Thanksgiving.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: We are showing you a Thanksgiving you've never seen before,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving full of tradition, a Thanksgiving full of hope,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving of comfort, something you've never seen before. You're gonna
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I gotta ask.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: I gotta ask what, mom, how are you gonna How
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: are you going to show that? How are you going
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: to show that?
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Like, well, I can give you a hint on I
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: can let the bean spill on one of our balloons.
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: That's okay.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: And that is because a return to tradition of Thanksgiving
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: means learning something new and embracing the new. And that's
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: a tradition is is learning new things as well. So
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: that is why we have a balloon that is Archer Cartoon, Cartoon.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Cartoon, the canceled show four five years ago.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, and he.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Is sassy and he's interesting.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: He's interesting and I just watched him for the first
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: time a couple of months ago with my mom and
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: we we.
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: Accidentally landed on FX.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: And is this because we normally just watch you know, Nickelodeon,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and so and.
• 31:08
  Speaker 10: So to find like a recy sassy adult cartoon, really
• 31:14
  Speaker 10: like I could take this in like a far new direction,
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: a direction of new experiences and growth.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: We've been talking a lot about this. We kind of
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: consider him the anti wimpy Kid because we have a
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: wimpy kid float diary of a kid, which I think
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: you did.
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: I worked on every one of these, I will say, the.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Kid never looked more wimpy than when SI was holding
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: that lower that year.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: Hi, I will say, I will say the wimpy kid holders.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: What do we call you guys?
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: The the holders, the.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Holders, the wind kids holders. You guys are mean.
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm not in that team every year, you know exactly.
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: That's pretty nice.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: Well, we did instruct.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Them to be a little more rude and a little
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: more rough with it because they knew they were holding
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: a kid with the capacity to be bullied bullied really hard,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: so they had to act as bodyguards for the kids.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: They're like allies, walk.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I wanted to announce one of our floats, oh, because
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: you got to announce one of your booms please, So
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I think I should announce on my floats. The theme
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: this year is Thanksgiving.
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: This tradition as the classic basics.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, So I am honored to announce a chef boy
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: or d float in partnership with Habitat for Humanity. It's
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: a messy, tomato sauce covered kitchen and on it it's
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: BTS singing Santa Baby Man.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: I do not want to fill for them.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Absolute yes, Wow, we're gonna have I gotta be that's
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: seven of them.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: That's seven to nine of them. There's no way all
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: of them.
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: But show it up and that float was you worked.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: I want to applaud you for working so tirelessly with
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: our corporate brand integration manager, Laura, who.
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: Works day in and day out and never sleeps.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I love Laura. Laura is a rock star. She's really
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: really talented. And we are so happy to be working
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: with Laura, really truly are. I'm so glad she brought
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: up the idea that the kitchen would be messy. It
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: wasn't messy in the beginning. And once we mess it up,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: we found another partner. It was Chef Boardy and that
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: has been so exciting. She Bardy has been so funny
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: to work with.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: But and I don't want to reveal too much, but
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: who's that trailing behind the Chef boy ar d float.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: It's the Dawn scrubber float on its way to clean
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: up that kitchen mess.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: And on don scrubber float it's Faith Hill singing Santa.
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: Baby are doing to Santa Babies this year.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: That's crazy because the rockets we have we have a
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: dance for the Santa.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: Babes so again again again earlier when I said it's
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: kind of like Christmas, so thinks, shit, you're singing too
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: Santa Babies. That's notoriously a Christmas song.
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: Well, a Christmas song is not Christmas.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: No Christmas, No, they're ushering in Christmas.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: People start playing Christmas music early in November. Okay, we
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: are just we are. That's a current event for us.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Is playing a song that's a Christmas song relevant? It's relevant.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: If I was playing, you know, a summer song, that
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: would be erroneous. You know, if I was playing Happy
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: by Forriend, it would beneus I was playing so I
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: was playing Walking on Sunshine by Katrine and the Waves,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: that would be erroneous. That wouldn't be helpful bts singing
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: walking on Sunshine? Where are we?
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, it's like too much. It's like where, Like,
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: what's the brand?
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I have a brand ID? And it's very soliday?
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: What holiday is this? Am I even hungry to eat
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: with my friend?
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: For sure? Can I ask about a rumor? I heard?
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Sure?
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: I heard it because I'm like this, I'm just like
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: nuts and weird and I like to read the news.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: I read some quirky thing that Laura, our brand id girl,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: was trying to do a deal with Apple, but it
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: fell through.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Sure, I cannot comments on that.
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: We absolutely cannot comment on that.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, so that is a corporate dealing behind closed doors.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: That God day, I cannot say an any bitty thing
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I really wish I could be, because there are some
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: really cool details about it.
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: I cannot say a single thing.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: If I could tell you what almost happened this year
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: at the Macy's thanks Giving me the parade, I'll tell
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: you what it would aide you back fifteen years, you
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: get fifteen years younger. You'd be so excited about this idea.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: But I can't because it didn't happen and it actually
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: doesn't exist.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: Can I ask you a question, Stiza, is we want
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: to hear from you twenty fifteen? Yeah, snoopy float flew
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: into that building, obsessed with the snoopy I love the Lord,
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: I love the Lord.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: I'm at the accident, the accident.
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: You at the helm of the snoopy float. It flew
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: into that building and you sprinted up the rope to
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: save those kids. What was going through your head there?
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: I mean, that was so heroic. I look up to
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: you in so many ways when I'm making my order
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: cycles just thinking about you.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Was this the year kids were on top of the floor.
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah, this was the year.
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: That we had children ride upon the snoopy float while
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: we held it together.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Viv held a contest for this.
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, we were.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: We were living strapped down on you know, stirrups.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, a moment for us.
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I can't believe you brought this up once again.
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: You know that that's the year that it was down
• 36:09
  Speaker 8: to just two of us holding the balloon. It was
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: me and Toy And the reason that.
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: The balloon flew into the building.
• 36:18
  Speaker 8: Was because we were playing a game of chicken down there.
• 36:20
  Speaker 8: We both knew we were breaking up. We both knew
• 36:22
  Speaker 8: that there were children on top of the float. And
• 36:24
  Speaker 8: I was going, I'm gonna let go, so it's your fault.
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: And then she goes, no, I'm gonna let go, so
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: it's your fault. He was like, no, I'm gonna let go,
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: so it's your fault. And guess what, Okay.
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: Do I let go?
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: And I couldn't hold it down.
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: I didn't take enough roids that day, and so I
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: started floating up in the air with these kids.
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: So I had to slam.
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: It into the building to slow it down, or else
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: we'd all be up in the ether, up in space,
• 36:49
  Speaker 8: whatever's up there.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, you would be in the ether.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: It would be I'll say, I'll say, I'm sorry, I'm
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: really sorry.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: I want to know what you'd do with all that
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: roid rage, Like, when it's not Thanksgiving Day parade, what
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: do you use it for? Uh?
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: Well, IM just in the gym kind of all of
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: the time.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: Also, you said that you didn't take enough roids that day.
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: Is that how steroids work?
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: You take the roids that day time that I take
• 37:15
  Speaker 8: it is like a daily vitamin.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: It's like a supplement.
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: Yep, you're on the same plan.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: Yes, it's like an emergency packet. But it says Royts.
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: Absolutely and you pour it into your water and you
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: stirred around with a little spoon and then you suck
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: it down and then.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: Want to hear something so insane. I put it with sprite.
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: Oh my, that's kind of cool. Maybe I should try that.
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: You should sprite? Yeah, I've okay, cool.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: I think I'm sincere with.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: Chemistry, right, I'm really I couldn't. I'm celibate.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: Okay. Also a quick question about the Rockets. They go
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: to war zones, right and perform for the troops.
• 37:56
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, So that wasn't one of the craziest places you've
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: ever gone to?
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: No, because I've been at the company for a short
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: amount of time.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Time and it didn't feel it didn't feel crazy to you.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: No, No, yeah, no, I've there's a lot of drama
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: surrounding those visits.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, a war.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: It's just so weird because like when we go to
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: schools and we go to retirement homes, we do like.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: Shows, it's like really easy, breezy, but.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: We go to war, it just gets so complicated, and
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, we have to disgust for.
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: COVID when we go.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: It's just like it's just so I don't like drama.
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: Can I ask how many of the rockets are vaccinated?
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: I think, I think.
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: I think I've always been curious about this.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: No, for sure.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, so there's fifty two of us. I think for.
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: Every stake.
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: Up the territories of Puitterrico, there's.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: One for every state.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: And I think I'm not the directors aren't. I think
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: I think it's just like, uh like ten percent of us.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: Wow, yeah, because.
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: I'm very neutral on vaccines. I just wanted to know no.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: And it's been like, it's that's why Macy's will always
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: book us.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: It's outside.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: It it is.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Irrelevant for us. Vaccine said, it is irrelevant because it's outside.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: It's outside, guys, it's outside.
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: And more than that, it's Thanksgiving exactly.
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: You know, I've had the vaccine so many times. You
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: just won't go through my muscles.
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: Well, that's all the needle bends.
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, they got a longer needle and then there's
• 39:45
  Speaker 8: just a serum won't suck through how bad my muscles are.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I will say there is one float that it matters
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: a lot if someone's vaccinated, and that is the Santa
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Claus float. We got to make sure that everyone's vaccinated
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: every year. I find the Santa Claus it is difficult.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: It's that you're and it's a struggle. Santa claus Is
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: are the hardest to pin down.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: It's so weird though, that they're always immunecompromised, all of them.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: They are. They are well, they're older, so that's not
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: a huge surprise.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: It's bizarre.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: I will say one of my favorite but also toughest
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: years was being Missus Clause. Something in Missus Clause because
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: that's Santa that year. He wanted Missus Claus. He really, that's.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Santa that year. I remember he said to me, I
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: don't care who's in that costume. I'm kissing her. And
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: I said, well, that's one of my my my workhorse
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: is gian Carlo and he said, okay, she is he Santa?
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Is he missus Santa? And I said sure and he said,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: well I'm Santa and it's hard rocking.
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Kimbly, you still higher than that?
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Ye are Santa's. It's it's a huge honor to become
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: a Macy Sink's Giving Day Santa Claus. Right, I mean
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: it is. It is the closer, it's the final.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: Act, yeah, for sure.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: But a lot of them are shifty. They're hard to
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: pin down. We usually have twenty to thirty Santa's on
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: call in the morning and then we get one if
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: we're lucky. They're just so shifty.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: They're all on vacation. They're all like, oh, I forgot
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: I have a meeting. I forgot I am going to
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Santa Fe with my fiance, right, And it's like, let's
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: discuss itase in your calendar.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: We work on a day that literally everyone has off,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: and so it's difficult sometimes to pin people down there.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: You always ask for conflicts, yeah.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: And they but then they they usually the Santa Clauses
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: always say well, yeah, I assume I get Thanksgiving off,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: And I would say, you would assume wrong. This is
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the only only jobb or you do not And that
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: is a difficult thing for me to discuss.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: And I imagine they want to take some time off
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: before the busiest time of the year.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Exactly, and they said, well, I'm going to be with
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: my family, and I would say, no, that is I
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: know that. But maybe your family can watch you on TV.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Maybe we can put them on their float. Maybe they
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: can ride alongside Tricia Year would on the Vivance float.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe that could.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: Be all that you.
• 42:02
  Speaker 11: So fast and you know what, go so fast and
• 42:09
  Speaker 11: it's vibrating, it literally vibes, it's got things to do
• 42:14
  Speaker 11: through crowd members at a rapid pace.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Well, that's one of the one of the ones we're
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: proud of the most, really proud of them.
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: Sent us all.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: We love them, We love them so much. We are
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: very proud of Ivans and you gotta check out their
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: float this year. It is Cheatah themed and on it
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: there are there's gonna be an incredible performance by Ali
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: and a J singing Santim.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, in incredible, It's amazing.
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: We have a question about the theme. Again, I'm just
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: a holder.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we have no business being here, but we
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: need people on the ground.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a whole operation.
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: This is a family, right, So just a lowly holder.
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: As you know, I started working at sixteen, didn't do
• 43:07
  Speaker 8: much schooling. But I'm thinking, you know, how less unless
• 43:10
  Speaker 8: people have been watching the Thanksgiving Day parade because the
• 43:14
  Speaker 8: around Thanksgiving has been declining now that people are really
• 43:18
  Speaker 8: digging into the history of Thanksgiving. And yet the theme
• 43:21
  Speaker 8: that you've chosen for this year is back to the basics,
• 43:24
  Speaker 8: which is implying that you're going all the way back
• 43:26
  Speaker 8: to the origins of Thanksgiving.
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: The thing that people this.
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: We've talked about that, so so, uh, how.
• 43:35
  Speaker 7: Is that a good idea?
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you take this one, Villa.
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: I will say this is what I was trying to
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: hint at with my long asked question of how you
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: guys betraying it this year. It's just like we are
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: connected over here. But go ahead, go okay.
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: Here's the thing.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: We laid out a lot of options out on the table,
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: out on the table, in an email chain over what.
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: To do with this holiday. That's it's a bad stuff.
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: What do we do? Every single option was.
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: Bad, absolutely what one did not. You don't have to
• 44:08
  Speaker 7: say that. You don't have to say what I want
• 44:10
  Speaker 7: to hear.
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: No, I'm sorry.
• 44:12
  Speaker 7: You don't have to say.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: We legally can't say you hand I didn't we.
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: Have like a theme like five years ago that was
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: just snow. That was a great theme.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Yes, it was Christmas.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: It was Christmas, and then Christmas lawyers come for us.
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: That's the problem, is like we cannot venture into that territory.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're gonna need to cut this, but let's
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: talk about it. Christmas has a strong hold on us.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Christmas might as well be Stizz's muscles around my neck. Christmas.
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: You wish.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: I do wish because Scis, you're very strong and you're
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: very beautiful.
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: If you were to grace me with that, I would
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: be honored by that.
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: It's crazy how horny the Macy's Day Parade group.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Is I'm not horny. I'm not horny.
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: I've said those holders.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Though.
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: There's something about you guys. You guys, it's like a cesspool.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Bring it on. Anyway, what we can say is we
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: have been delta a certain hand, and I have, as
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: they say, laid in this bed and I made it
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: so now I have to lie in it. And this
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: is what I do. I'm a Thanksgiving guy, and Thanksgiving
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: can't go away or we go away, you know what
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: I mean exactly. I think that's something that we think
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: about and we talk about, and it's interesting for us.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an interesting conversation when you think about, oh,
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: should we stop doing this?
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: And then I think about all the nice.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Things I have, like my apartment and my car, and
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: I think, you know, maybe I.
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: Should continue its livelihood.
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: I mean, call me crazy, no.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: I look, I get an Americano from my very very
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: beautiful home espresso machine, and I think this nation needs Thanksgiving.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: Do you ever feel like the pharmacies are taking over
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: a little bit?
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, we want to love them. Vaccine stuff. This is
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: vaccine stuff. This is.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: I think it's both. Do you do you ever have
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: a vaccinated rockets, sue me.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you are I think I think if one more
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  Speaker 3: pharmaceutical signs on for a float, I think I'm out
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  Speaker 3: of there.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to wrap this up and get away
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  Speaker 1: from this. What I would like to do is I
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: would like everyone to go around and pitch a float
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  Speaker 1: or a balloon that they would like to see at
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  Speaker 1: the float, and we will take it in consideration.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, Oh gosh, this is exciting. What are
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: you gonna say?
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  Speaker 8: Okay, Stills, we'll go first.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: This is actually amazing because you've never like created them.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: You're always and you have the most contact with them.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: So I would die to know what's coming out.
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: Of your brain.
• 46:45
  Speaker 8: Okay, this might be a bit of a selfish idea,
• 46:49
  Speaker 8: but I do think we should have an anvil an
• 46:53
  Speaker 8: and like a real anvil, uh, fill it with the
• 46:57
  Speaker 8: heaviest air. You could find, just the world's heaviest balloon
• 47:02
  Speaker 8: and give it to one person to hold, just to me,
• 47:06
  Speaker 8: just let me hold a big, heavy And I.
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: Gotta say, I don't want to ruin I don't want
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: to ruin this at all. But I know you didn't
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: go to school a lot. If you feel it with
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: the heaviest air. It's going to be incredibly light to
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: hold because there's no tension thereand heavy sinks heavy sinks
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: that we want the lightest and lightest, lightest.
• 47:24
  Speaker 7: Air, so the lighter it gets.
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: The heavier it will be.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: And uh, I'm going to stop you right there because
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: I'm in. I'm in a thousand percent. And you know,
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: this is something we have not fully talked about. But
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, stizz is a sex symbol, and I.
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: Think I talk about it just in the last moment.
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: Let's talk about it. Let's talk about a sex.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: It's something we've had to spend in the past.
• 47:55
  Speaker 5: You're rumored for those three years when everybody was hashtagging
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: hot holder like it was a early meme like raptor
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: thinks whatever. That one was so a.
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: Long story short. That's my reason it's greenlit.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: I want to hear about what everybody else has.
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm next. Okay, Well, I don't know. I got
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: a lot of ideas, but I don't know if they're
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: good enough.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: We would love to hear them. Jim Carlow, we love
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: your input. We love you, my guy.
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: Okay, Well, you know, uh, maybe a float about the
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: you know, beautiful thing about Thanksgiving is it's a changing
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: of seasons and you're switching from fall to the winter.
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: So maybe it's like a giant you know, like a
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: moon and a harvest moon, and everybody's harvesting to pay
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: like respect to everybody involved.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: And is that a floatera balloon?
• 48:48
  Speaker 7: It's not. It's not a test. You can it's your idea.
• 48:50
  Speaker 7: It's your idea.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: I'm interested. I'm just curious of what the answer is
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: going to be.
• 48:55
  Speaker 7: Are you throwing up?
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Are you Carlo? It's just me.
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: It's crazy.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: You weren't even this nervous when you've gone, I've gone.
• 49:09
  Speaker 7: He threw up a song.
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  Speaker 4: I think.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: I think my balloon would be five G because it's running,
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: it's running us all, and I think it will show
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: a really good metaphor to have the parade run by
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: big five G.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Very creative, soup, very creative.
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: Creative soup. I forgot your name was soup. Very creative,
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: very good.
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: You take all these under considerations.
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: Well, you guys have to pitch too. I want to
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: hear some of your We pitch all day, every gay
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: one of those.
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: Try to do one that isn't a drug.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, how about you pitch me a balloon, and
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: I'll pitch you afloat.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: That sounds like a great idea. This is a fun exercise.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: That's we never do this the retreat this Saturday after Thanksgiving?
• 50:03
  Speaker 6: We should?
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, where's the retreat this year?
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: I think we're doing it in.
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: Keepsie Now I'll tell you where it is. It's in
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: Costa Rica because I have to fill in for some
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: people there. Oh, the retreats in Coasta Rica.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: That's fantastic.
• 50:19
  Speaker 6: That's so nice. I have to repack.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'll I'll pitch you a balloon.
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: Yes, a balloon, and I will pitch you a float.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, Grace, Okay, all right, who should go first?
• 50:32
  Speaker 6: I'll go first?
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm listening.
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: So this the.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: Theme of this float is hot wheels and it's riding
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: on not a motor, but a thousand real hot wheels
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: and they're going down.
• 50:49
  Speaker 6: And who's that singing on the float? Why?
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: It's Meghan Trainer singing her new Thanksgiving song, what I
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Love for Thanksgiving is You. And she's accompanied by a
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: kid who won a contest for being good at science.
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: Oh wow, that's like a sciences so good.
• 51:10
  Speaker 7: Thanksgiving is you what.
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: I've heard that song. It's about how instead of eating
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: the turkey, she wants to eat her boyfriend because she
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: loves him so much.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: What a thoughtful idea, an interesting, well thought out idea
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: that hits so many quadrants that I'm looking for. That's awesome.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, thank you, thank you so much.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: All right, my turn? Yeah, yeah, Indiana Jones as a balloon.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Oh sorry, No, it would never happen. It would never happen.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: It would never happen. He would never go up there.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: Why would Indiana Jones be in the sky. He's on
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: the ground.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: I thought we were speaking with an open mind, because
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: if I'm being honest.
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: If you don't like that, you know they're going out
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: each other. Hold them apart, hold them apart.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Can we can we offline about this? I love the offline?
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: Oh no, John Carla looks nauseous. He's wanna throw out the.
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: Song again, Santa Baby.
• 52:05
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• 52:07
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• 52:08
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