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The Gateleapers Holiday Special 2023 · Fandomonium! A Fandom Comedy Game Show

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  Hello, and welcome to Gatesleepers, the pop culture game show that shines a
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  red nose light onto everyone's favorite fandoms. I'm your game's master and Eastern European
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  cryptid, invented to scare sixteenth century children into behaving. Matt Watson Crampus,
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  I'm Crampis. Oh, but of course we couldn't play these games without our
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  fantastic players, a cast member lineup so star studied. I'm thinking of putting
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  them all on top of a Christmas tree. Ooh and yeah, I mean
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  it depends where, it depends where. Okay's threat it is now, don't
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  lose. Yes, we usually do prizes, but this time there will be
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  There will be a punishment, a very festive punishment. And you've you've caught
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  onto the game already. As I introduced each of our players, they're going
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  to name their favorite festive foods to eat around this time of year. So
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  first team, to my metaphysical rights, we have the team of the Scrumptious
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  Jason Newin, Hello, scrumptious, what's your favorite festive food? I'm Vinamese
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  American and I'm gonna I'm gonna, I'm gonna teach I'm gonna educate the little
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  kiddos and kiddies today. My favorite Christmas food is bun gun, which is
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  a very party and thick, kind of like seafood stew. The only reason
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  that it's my favorite is Chinese Americans have like this tradition of making potstickers around
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  the table with their elders and so and so forth. We don't have that.
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  I My version of that was making like rice starch noodles with my grandma
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  and grandpa. Okay, my grandpa having since passed, so like it's important
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  to me that that tradition continues, just because, like for the other cousins
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  that I have, I don't know how long they'll have that traditional grandma.
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  And it's always fun because it's painful. It's not it's not fun is funny
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  show? Remember we've already mentioned a dead grandma. My favorite thing about Christmas
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  is pain, spreading that joy to others and making sure that they accept that
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  as a reality. Life is pain. Yeah. What what was that food
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  again? Bun gun? Bun gun? Yeah? Nice? Are you gonna
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  make some this year for us? I? Could you could accept your vegetarians?
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  Ne mind? Then name of the holidays? You want to break that
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  that moral No, No, that's that's that's no, that's my fault.
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  That's ok And joining Jason from Geek Exploration the Podcast, It's the delicious Ben
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  Robinson. Hey there, Hello, Ben. What's your favorite festive food?
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  My favorite festive food is probably eggnog? Egg knock. I'm still not one
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  hundred on what eggnog is. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm still
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  not. It's like cream and spices and raw eggs. Okay, I don't
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  know if that makes you. I mean, at least I can eat it.
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  It's vegetarian friendly, I suppose, but sound for vaulting, so animals
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  don't count until until they can walk. Huh yep, all right, it's
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  fair, Jason. Ben, it's great to have you here. Welcome.
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  Well, thank you for having us, Thanks, thanks for putting us together.
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  We're gonna win, Ben, it's gonna be great. Oh yeah,
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  we're gonna win. Christmas nice And to my metaphysical left, we have the
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  team of the mouthwatering Ordra Stephenson. Okay, they're all food descriptive words.
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  My favorite Christmas food. I've been thinking about this since you mentioned it.
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  I have no clue what to say other than mashed potatoes. That's solid though,
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  that's my favorite food of all all the time, and so it doesn't
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  feel special enough to be like my favorite Christmas food. So like I don't
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  know, spiced cookies. Okay, yes, spiced cookies, very nice,
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  very nice, good choice, but deep down it is just it is actually
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  it's actually potatoes. Fine. Yeah, and joining Audra his debut novel Thane
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  is available now. It's the finger licking Aaron Randolph scrumptious. Yes, hello,
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  sorry, I was busy licking my fingers. Oh sorry. Do you
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  have a favorite festive food, aarrein? I do. For me, I
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  think it's cranberry sauce. Honestly, I know it's not traditionally a Christmas thing,
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  and for me specifically, it's the cranberry jelly inside those cans that you
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  get for like forty nine cents before the holiday and like nineteen cents after,
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  just because And I don't have anything against I don't want anything against turkey,
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  but to me, it's like the paper of meats. It's just very bland,
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  and I just I need something to spice it up. And for me,
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  I just love that cranberry sauce with the turkey. I think it makes
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  a great combination and I really enjoy it. So that's probably it as far
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  as holiday themed foods go. That's a good answer. I myself murdered about
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  five of those canned cranberry saucies of a Thanksgiving That's amazing. You can just
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  spoon them out, just the way people talk about peanut. But that's how
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  I feel about cranberry sauce. You know what, a peanut butter and cranberry
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  sauce sandwich sounds pretty good. We'll try it near the holidays. What is
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  cranberry sauce but cranberry jelly? I would I would definitely try it with the
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  sauce with the actual berries. Yeah yeah, yes, like a bit of
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  a boogie one. Make it a bespoke peanut butter and cranberry Look a festive
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  sandwich. Maybe that's our collective favorite food, gately special? All right,
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  now I bade myself hungry. Hello, players, are you ready for a
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  series of games about something that used to be a period of religious observance but
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  it's now this sort of mass hallucination Based on Charles Dickens books and Macy's Windows
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  displays, yeah, man, Oh my god. Yes, yes, I'm
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  always down for a mass hallucination. Hell yeah, but I'm down for Christmas.
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  Yeah. So I'm going to ask up top to everyone and anyone whoever
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  wants to chime in first, who here loves Christmas time? And who are
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  here is a grumbly little grinch? I love Christmas. I'm one of those
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  people though, where I do know, I'm very aware. I'm a people
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  pleaser. I'm aware that some people don't love Christmas energy, and so I
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  do tone down my Christmas energy in my day to day life. But all
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  day working today I had a fireplace thing open on YouTube with the Christmas music.
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  If no one's booked the conference room, I will book the conference room
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  and I will put it up on the big screen. Why nice, Like
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  it is Christmas time? Wow in the twenty first century. In the twenty
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  first century, they don't let me start fires in the office, not since
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  twenty nineteen. So nice. What about you, Jason, you big big
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  Christmas guy? Yeah, man, I am such a big Christmas guy.
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  Me and Madre used to work together in a very small, confined space where
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  we play Christmas music a lot, and I pistol out a lot of people
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  off. I've been going to therapy a lot lately, and let me tell
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  you, it's saving me the Christmas spirit learning. There's been some stressful things
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  happening in my life, and they've been less stressful because Christmas is happy.
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  Yet, you know, I mean if this can be applied all year round,
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  If like you went to a depressive phase in April, can you just
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  put like, God, this March is really fucking rough. How need to
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  give myself a coke? Time for a delicious cranberry and peanut butter. Okay,
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  we go, Well in the studio, we got we got two Christmas
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  people. Ben, what about yourself? Are you you a Christmas man?
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  I mean compared to them, I'm probably a grinch. I've certainly been called
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  a grinch before. Like I love Christmas for about five to seven days,
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  you know, like like you get into Christmas like all right, it's you
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  know, it's December twentieth. I'm ready for Christmas music. I mean the
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  spirit. It's great. We can drive around look at Christmas lights, but
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  when it starts pre Thanksgiving, I'm a Christmas person and that's sacrilet. Yeah,
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  I can't do Christmas music all month long, because it's just it's not
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  that good, Like it's so bad Christmas music kind of sucks. Yeah,
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  it's why I like a little of it because it's so bad. That's very
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  samey. But but I mean, like I really did Christmas for like the
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  week before Christmas. Okay, nice, nice, And look this episode will
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  go out roughly within those magical twelve days. So yes, this is this
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  is suitable Christmas time to be merry and bright. I'm just gonna have to
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  fake it for tonight. Yeah, and we can appreciate it. And Aaron,
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  what about yourself? You a Christmas guy, I am probably the grinchiest
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  person here. Interesting. Christmas sends me into a state of anxiety, so
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  I just kind of I just kind of survive it, like I just try
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  and get through it. And then I'm kind of the opposite of Ben in
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  that my favorite time is the day, Like the day of Christmas is usually
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  amazing, but the week after is like my favorite week all year, just
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  is the solid week of post Christmas where everybody just everybody kind of relaxes and
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  everything starts coming back to North Fel and I start feeling like myself again.
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  That that is why I'm sort of grinchy in that I don't handle I don't
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  handle the stress of the season very well. I am a horrible gift giver,
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  like, or at least that's what I think of myself. So like,
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  it's such a nightmare trying to get the appropriate thing for and how much
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  do you spend on this person as opposed to this person, as opposed to
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  this person? Mom, Sorry, you're just getting a gift card this year.
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  It's a nightmare and I long for it to end or death, whichever
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  comes first. I love having a mix of Christmas eye yea. I will
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  say, though, Aaron, having the week after Christmas, which is the
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  last week of the year, being your favorite week of the whole year,
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  really practicing edging all you're really hoping right before the year heads, it's gonna
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  be amazed. This is it, This is it, This is the best
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  I do. Get that thing of everybody calms the fuck down. Yeah,
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  yeah, we got. We tamp down on the gift giving anxiety in my
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  family for the last like decade. We just all the adults now just uh
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  we picked names and you only have to buy presents for that one person.
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  That's dope. Yeah, that's smart. That's smart. Yes, you don't
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  have to. I don't have my fifteen presents every year. I'll just buy
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  one for one of the people, and the kids eventually when they turn eighteen,
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  graduate into Yeah. Yeah, that's fair. That's incredible. Ben,
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  You're making me want to lick my fingers again. Okay, Teams, twas
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  the night before Christmas and a games Master you must appease, so come up
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  with a team name, one for each pad, please, Jason and Ben,
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  would you like to offer a festive team name? I was unclear whether
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  this was a full Christmas episode or just Christmas movies, but I thought of
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  two team names based on two Christmas movies I was watching. One is the
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  cotton Headed Mini Muggins. Okay that rings a bell? Yeah? El?
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  And then the Big Bees, which is me and Matt's favorite moment from from
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  Santa Claus. It was a big big It was a big bee. It's
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  a big bee. Ben, Have you got any ideas for a festive team
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  name? I mean, like in general, I was going thing in more
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  general Christmas. Uh. One of mine was the Eggnoggers because as I mentioned,
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  I love nice or the festive balls, just just for adic. Yeah,
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  the festive balls I like. I like both of them. I don't
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  like eggnog that much. It's the egg part. It's not the taste.
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  It's not so much the nog. No, no, nothing. I love
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  the nog. But I like being called an egg nagger. Ah okay,
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  yeah, so happy to be an eg knaka Yeah okay. It sounds like
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  a slur that elves would use, right, and that makes it better for
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  you. I don't understand. I do not understand. Yeah, you won't
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  drink a dairy alcoholic beverage, but you you will. You enjoy u slut.
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  Okay, So we have the egg knoggers, but let's find out who
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  they'll be facing, Aaron. Since we both feel that we're terrible at giving
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  gifts, I was thinking something could be done with that gifting grenches. That
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  was as far as I got. That's good. That was as far as
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  I got. That's good. Yeah. So I initially thought, I,
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  like Jason, I thought this was going to be more about Christmas movies than
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  just Christmas in general. So I was thinking a lot about like icons of
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  Christmas movies, And I've always thought that there is this vastly under underserved uh
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  niche out there of people who are dying for a certain product that that have
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  never gotten it. Thanks to the Christmas Story, you know, the leg
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  lamp became very, very popular. But it's always been it's always it's always
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  been a lady's leg. And I'm like, why not make a male leg
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  lamp? And I think we could call ourselves the Male leg Lamp Millionaires or
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  mll M for short, as a majorly positive reaction from Oji. Yes,
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  I'm looking forward to now. So the male leg lamp Millionaires. Yes,
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  there's there's a there's there's a whole fetish group out there just waiting for this
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  product and they'll pay whatever you ask. Yeah, the Christmas Story did a
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  lot for like furniture made out of like human parts, after the Nazis gave
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  it such a bad name. Christmas Story was like, yeah, Merry Christmas
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  everyone, first Nazi reference, Oh my god, first Nazi. So on
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  the male leg lamp. Would the light bulb be a testicle? Yeah,
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  there would be two. It wouldn't have like a dimmer switch. You just
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  switch which light Bobby eased one for off. Yeah, all right, And
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  if you're listening to this and thinking ding dong, merrily on what the fuck
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  is happening? Don't worry his order with a little segment we like to call
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  passing no ho ho ho ho ho lych. Like most things in the meta
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  modern age, the Christmas we know today has been around since about the eighties,
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  but people celebrating something during the darkest weeks of the year has been around
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  for almost as long as we have. From the Neolithic times all the way
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  to what my parents would call the pagan heretic devil times, humanity celebrated the
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  winter solstice across the world. It was important for people to gather together in
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  the coldest months to share food in order to stay warm, you know,
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  exactly like it is today. Then the Abrahamic festivals arrived Hanukkah a touch more
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  peacefully than Christmas. But it's the holidays, so let's not talk about the
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  crusades, the genocide, or the papal dogma. The important thing is that
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  by the end of the first millennium, the holidays were a time connected to
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  strict religious observants, well except for the powerful who ate hogs, while everybody
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  else starved to death, you know, exactly like it is today. Fast
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  forward to post Renaissance Europe, and we're starting to get traditions such as caroling,
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  gift giving, indoor trees, and the first ever Christmas special episode slash
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  novel, a Christmas Carol. An emphasis was also put on charity during this
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  time, as wealth inequality was its highest in a century thanks to unregulated industrialization.
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  You know exactly like it is today. The twentieth century saw the arrival
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  of most of our contemporary traditions, Christmas movies, secular holiday music, and
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  even the modern version of Santa. So if you learn anything from this holiday
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  passing knowledge, it's that everything is a story that we've either told or we're
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  about to tell, and perhaps something more important than following tradition is making sure
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  you can create new ones. So with that in mind, let's look to
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  the twenty second century, when everyone will be holding their annual gate Leapers holiday
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  game show from the comfort of their simulation battery pods as their correct answers fuel
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  our ai Overlord's you know exactly like it is today. Marry everyone, Thank
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  you Audra. Now, just before we get to today's games, I've asked
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  each player to bring in a muse, something that inspires them or something they
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  love from this fandom, which is Christmas, all of Christmas, or actually
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  all of the holidays, to be honest, anything related to November or December.
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  Really. Oh, we will start with Jason. What's inspiring you my?
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  I think my attachment to Christmas. My earliest Christmas memory, my favorite
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  Christmas memory ever is like we immigrated to America in nineteen ninety five. I
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  was born in nineteen ninety six, so I was very much on the tail
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  end of them assimilating and learning how to be American while I was like fully
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  blooded a my American. And the earliest Christmas memory I have is we brought
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  my grandfather's mom over from Vietnam to America to like experience American Christmas and the
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  capitalism and all that and what that meant and for like them coming out of
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  post Vietnam War Vietnam, that was like fucking ginormous. That was like,
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  look at all this capitalism, look at all this opportunity, look at how
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  amazing this is. And that's that's my favorite memory ever. She had black
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  teeth, she smoked a ton, she lived, so she's like ninety nine.
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  She was a crazy, badass woman, And I love Christmas out of
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  me. Yeah. Nice, I mean I don't know how to add a
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  witty comment after that. Yeah, it's just sentimental. Yeah, it's just
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  so. That's a that's a merry Christmas memory. Yeah, lovely stuff.
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  Let's let's move over to your teammates, Ben, what's your Christmas meus?
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  Oh? My Christmas news is my favorite Christmas movie of all time that I
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  talked with that about last year, but turns out I didn't fucking record it,
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  and that would be a Muppet Christmas Carol. I watch it. Yes,
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  it is the best Christmas movie. Yeah it is. I said it
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  on that lost recording. It's the correct answer, it's the right answer.
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  It's the only answer. Yeah, Muppets Christmas Carol is the best. I
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  was tempted just to make this entire episode of gate Leapers about Uppets Christmas.
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  Michael Caine is playing. It's so straight the whole time. Masterful, masterful,
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  incredible, set the precedent for Guy and then a bunch of Muppets the
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  benchmark. Fantastic mus Ben, fantastic movie. So we do still have Christmas
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  movies coming up throughout the games. I don't want to say that there's absolutely
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  no no movie trivia coming up. Okay, let's move on over to male
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  leg lamp. What have I written here? Millionaires? I read my goal
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  in life is to constantly come up with more and more convoluted team names.
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  Just math's life, Hell's working. I'm going to now disclose that after not
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  really drinking for the last six months, I've had a peppermint schnapps raring to
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  go and I'm unable to read words like millionaires. All right, Aaron,
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  what's what is your Christmas muse? What inspires you from Christmas? I mean,
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  my probably favorite thing about Christmas and it's just it's just something uh,
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  my family has done every single year since I was very little and still continue
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  to do as grown ass adults, is when it comes time for Christmas,
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  like we we all get together or you know, when I lived in my
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  parents would come down first thing in the morning, and you know I would
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  I would be a busy little bee and I'd sort the presence by who got
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  who, so everybody had their own pile as opposed to the chaos of just
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  a pile under the tree. Because I was an organized little I get him.
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  But when my parents did come down, you know, we still had
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  to wait for them to get coffee and all this other stuff before we could
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  actually open presence. But they would let us start with the stockings, you
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  know, so we didn't. We didn't. We weren't sitting there waiting forever
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  for mom and dad to fully wake up. So getting to go through the
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  stockings early and seeing all the cool little things that you know, my dad
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  picked up at the dollar store or whatever, you know, just tiny little
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  fun things, you know, sometimes useful stuff like you know, like a
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  deodorant or you know, cologne. In what I feel was a very pointed
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  personal statement, but also you know, fun stuff like chocolates and tiny little
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  toys and things and other stuff. And I just thoroughly enjoy going through the
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  stocking every year. Yeah, there's there's nothing quite like that, the feeling
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  of just going through that and just feeling like the warmth of like we're about
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  to have the you know, the Christmas opening. Everybody's just just getting awake
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  and Christmas is starting to fully descend on me. And that's I think when
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  I get the full Christmas experiences right there. Yeah, that's amazing. Underrated.
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  The stock is, yeah, definitely, oh, definitely stocking based presence.
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  The idea of everything is contained in this big sock and you get all
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  the kids get a little hit of sugar right before everyone wakes up, just
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  to you know, amp the energy up with there any anyone, I guess
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  I'll open this to everyone, but Aaron especially anything like traditional quote unquote that
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  was like always in a stocking every year, like this is this is without
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  failing the stocking. Like for me, satsuma was always one of the things,
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  just a little little orange. Because I was about to say, could
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  you explain that for the American a tiny that's very British thing is a tiny
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  orange. Yeah. Yeah, For me, they were all small things.
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  But as I grew older and my dad would start to put slightly more expensive
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  things in. But it's still small things, but things that he thought were
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  like important, like he would have a like a little tool set in the
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  stocking one year that I still use today, and like a Swiss army knife
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  like I got one, you know, So I did really dig when he
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  started putting things in that I would grow to use quite often. So it
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  was deeply appreciated by me at least. Yeah, but no, nothing nothing
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  constant, nothing regular, like nothing specific. I was I think that's better.
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  It's it's more exciting that way, I think. Yeah, I feel
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  yeah, absolutely, I got a chocolate orange stocking. Yeah, and orange
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  based stockings. Yeah, I'm sure. I just feel like my parents are
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  the type of people that there was a really intense method that if we didn't
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  hit all of the beats of the stocking, then my dad would have a
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  rough time, like it would be like I feel like, yeah, I
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  cannot remember what they would be, but I just feel like in my house
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  there is a method to the stockings that I missed for eighteen years, mostly
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  chocolate orange chocolate, Randy Caine bullets to shoot vomits on the phone. Honestly,
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  there was a Nancy Drew style puzzle in the stock never saw it.
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  I never saw it. Yeah, Stockings, shout out to Stockings. Fantastic
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  music, Audra, round us out. What's what's your Christmas muse? My
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  Christmas muse. The thing that is inspiring me, driving me forward is fear,
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  as you know. Hear me out, hear me out. I do
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  have a fear of birds. I had it before it was cool to have
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  a fear of birds. We raised chickens and turkeys and geese, and they
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  were mean as hell. So in the twelve Days of Christmas, there's so
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  many birds, but there are a few of them that are suspiciously not birds.
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  Yes, golden rings birds, I think like that's the thing, like,
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  it's all birds. That's the fucking thing that I was to well yesterday
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  years old when I found out golden rings. That's a fucking bird. Lord's
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  a leaping, that's a fucking bird. Ladies dance, ladies dancing. There's
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  a type of bird that was popular at the time. You know how male
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  birds tend to do like a dance to like impress whatever. There's a bird
• 26:42
  they found about that time where the female does the dance. There's no but
• 26:48
  it's the play pipe. A piper was a type of bird. What I
• 26:55
  can't remember. I can't remember the distinct thing about it. Maybe it makes
• 26:57
  a sound, I don't know. There all what about don't famously don't produce
• 27:06
  milk? Don't know what that happen? Was famously one hole. But they're
• 27:15
  all birds, rule them all. And by the end of the twelve Days
• 27:21
  of Chris Christmas, you get one hundred and eighty four fucking birds. My
• 27:26
  nightmare and I will be running towards the safety. That is my muse is
• 27:33
  too many birds a good muse. And I also didn't know that until now
• 27:38
  you had one person on each team that knew that they were all birds.
• 27:42
  Yeah, that's so two people who've raised I mean, I just assumed that
• 27:51
  all the birds that were given were dead. I assumed. I assume the
• 27:59
  turtle doves were free eating. Like I didn't think. You know, here's
• 28:03
  a bird, here's another bird, here's another bird. You're gonna need some
• 28:07
  cages, sweetheart. I'm not providing the cages. They will be transported to
• 28:12
  you in cages, but I am going to reuse those cages for the next
• 28:17
  days birds. All right, you're gonna have to hear it. It might
• 28:21
  have just been their feathers. They were real big on putting fancy feathers on
• 28:23
  all kinds of stuff. Oh yeah, so maybe they were just gonna Okay,
• 28:30
  no, I want to eat one of those dancing guys. All right,
• 28:34
  right, teams, I think we're feeling suitably inspired, So let's brate
• 28:38
  our reindeers by listing their names aggressively, one by one and fly. It's
• 28:44
  around one on Dancer, Prancer and Dave, Chad Ronnie Round one is called
• 29:11
  Christmas Fakes. It's our classic five three to two game of deliberation, elimination
• 29:17
  and deception, but now with fifty more tinsel. In turn, I will
• 29:22
  give our teams a category related to festive media and a list of five items
• 29:26
  from said category. It's then up to our teams to carefully pick which three
• 29:30
  they think are real for a possible three points. But if they choose one
• 29:36
  of the fake answers, they'll be frozen out of the list, like Jack
• 29:40
  Frost nipping at yours whatever Jack Frost does at your hose, at your hose.
• 29:48
  Ah. Okay, and your first category, there'll be a list for
• 29:51
  each team. Your first category is Hallmark Movies, key movies from the mass
• 29:59
  Hallmark can and there's a lot of them. Where's recurring player Jen Reagan movies
• 30:03
  I actively avoid. Yeah, and there's some interesting titles here. So we
• 30:08
  will start with the Eggnoggers. Let's let's begin with Jason and Ben. Here
• 30:12
  we go. Here is your list of five and you know what, because
• 30:15
  it's Christmas. After I've read them all, if you want the tagline for
• 30:18
  the movie, I can give you the tag line as well. Wow,
• 30:22
  Okay, here's your list of five, Mingle all the Way, A Big
• 30:26
  Fat Family Christmas, Sammy Clause is Coming to Town, Murder She Baked a
• 30:33
  Plum Pudding, Mystery, and Finding Rudolph. Some of these are amazing.
• 30:38
  I mean, right off the bat, I want to say finding Rudolph that
• 30:41
  one sounds really familiar. And Mingle all the Ways gotta be one. Okay,
• 30:45
  Well at Hallmark, like, I mean, that's like low hanging fruit.
• 30:48
  That's right up there alley. If they haven't, Matt needs to get
• 30:53
  a job writing Hallmark Christmas movies. Yeah, I I'm gonna go with a
• 31:00
  strong instinct. The only question is what are you eating? Jason? I'm
• 31:03
  sorry. I thought it was going to take longer, so I shoved the
• 31:06
  present. It's Christmas. Are you gonna keep that in? Yeah? Okay,
• 31:17
  okay, sorry, I I think I agree with you with ming all
• 31:22
  the Way. I think we'll go with that one first. Then try finding
• 31:25
  Rudolf because you've seem way more confident on Mingo all the Way. All right,
• 31:27
  go and Mingle all the Way. Yeah, Yes, Mingle all the
• 31:30
  Way is real nice. Absolutely it is. From a few years ago,
• 31:34
  a dating app developer finds love in her small town. That's the plot to
• 31:41
  all of them. Just change job title and then that's that's it. Yeah.
• 31:45
  Yeah, ladies, this holiday season, there's going to be someone in
• 31:48
  your hometown who's gonna convince you to leave your job that you worked, yeah,
• 31:53
  for years to achieve. That's the whole Mark promise. Yeah, thinking
• 31:59
  solid money in a you love, he's going to convince you to come home.
• 32:02
  In that regard, is finding Rudolph another let's let's do that. Let's
• 32:08
  do it. You and straight for finding Rudolph. Yeah, Finding Rudolph is
• 32:13
  not real. I'm so sorry. Finding Rudolph is not real. Was the
• 32:15
  Plumb Mystery Diaries or whatever that was? Is that real? Yeah? That
• 32:19
  one was really. Yeah, but you're out of the list. You're frozen
• 32:22
  out the list. I'm sorry. We gotta watch that movie. I don't
• 32:24
  even care about the list. I want to watch that movie. Yeah.
• 32:29
  I mean, like, you didn't ask to hear any of the tag lines,
• 32:31
  but it's okay. They could extra clues for you. We had a
• 32:36
  big fat family. Christmas was real where the tag line is Christmas in Chinatown
• 32:39
  begins with a chang. No, genuinely real, Jesus, I'd certainly send
• 32:49
  that to a few charities. Like, honestly, there's like there's some hate
• 32:52
  going on there. Like I feel like that's wholemark actively being hateful. Oh
• 32:55
  yeah, Okay, what year was ninety four? It was twenty and twenty
• 33:02
  one. Oh fucking hell. Wow, that's crazy. Sammy claus Is coming
• 33:10
  to town was fake? That's I had the tagline for that. Santa's Hot
• 33:15
  niece looks for love in New York, but murder. She baked a plum
• 33:17
  pudding. Mystery is real. A bake to order business woman becomes a sleuth
• 33:22
  after a client is shot dead, shot dead. We're watching that this Christmas
• 33:29
  Christmas needs more murder in it. That's yeah, I think so Crampus was
• 33:34
  filling a need. Okay, let's have a list for the male leg Lamp
• 33:39
  Millionaires, the MLLM as I will now refer to them. Yes, okay,
• 33:46
  here is your list of five, and remember you can ask for the
• 33:49
  synopsis. You can ask for the tagline your list of five, Battle of
• 33:53
  the Bulbs, Miracle at Last Light Lodge, Christmas comes twice, Oh we
• 34:02
  wish you a puppy Christmas? And Honikah on rye. Oh no, I
• 34:13
  feel like we should get synopsis and taglines on all of these because I haven't
• 34:17
  got a clue any peque your interest, noney, none of them are jumping
• 34:22
  out of me. Can we go one by one? Yeah? Absolutely,
• 34:25
  So you've got Battle of the bulbs. Two middle aged men fight to have
• 34:29
  the best Christmas decorations. Miracle at Last. Light Lodge business owners rekindle their
• 34:35
  love by helping a young couple deliver their baby. In a modern day manger,
• 34:39
  Christmas Comes Twice, a thirty something lawyer from the big city travels back
• 34:44
  in time five years to get a fresh start on a life. We wish
• 34:47
  you a puppy Christmas. A family is overjoyed and overwhelmed when they have to
• 34:52
  take care of twelve puppies over the holidays, and Honikah on rye love is
• 34:57
  found between competing deli owners. Okay, can we agree right now that that
• 35:05
  one's fake? I think so. I don't know a big fat Christmas was
• 35:12
  Ye, I don't think. I don't think you can. Yeah, I
• 35:19
  really can see the like falling in love, delivering a baby and it's religious
• 35:23
  undertones. I can see that being real. Okay, I'll go with you
• 35:29
  on that Okay, fingers crossed that one. Miracle at Last Light Lodge.
• 35:35
  Yeah, I'm sorry, it's not real. It's fake. Oh, entirely
• 35:38
  made up. Yeah, I'm sure there is some movie like that out there,
• 35:44
  but not but not that one, Halemark and not that name the Bulbs.
• 35:47
  Battle of the Bulbs also feel feels real. Yeah, Battle of the
• 35:51
  Bulbs was real. Christmas Comes Twice, it was real. Say that one.
• 35:57
  Dang, I'm sorry, I went in. I went in hard.
• 36:00
  Okay, I figured Christmas Comes Twice was one of those tricks where you picked
• 36:02
  the name of a porno. Yeah, I think I've seen that. What
• 36:08
  that's a wholesome, Wholemark movie. Wholesome Okay? What was the was Christmas
• 36:14
  on Rye on right? Of course? Sorry, who's trying to distract from
• 36:19
  the porn? No, that one was real. On Rye is a real
• 36:22
  Wholemark movie. I think it's a few years old. I think it is
• 36:25
  around about twenty seventeen. This one so not quite as recently offensive. I
• 36:30
  just want to say, after the big fair Christmas one, yeah, you've
• 36:34
  got a free pest to almost any Yep. Hallmark does not give a fuck
• 36:39
  making movies exclusively for white people. Yep, Okay, we will have a
• 36:44
  new category, thank god. And that category is we're going to move to
• 36:46
  the silver screen. Now we're going to move to the small screen. It
• 36:51
  is Friends Holiday Episodes. Okay, so the title of Friends Holiday Episodes.
• 36:57
  Friends always go with the one with. So I'm gonna give you a list
• 37:00
  of the one with and then it's up to you to deliberate and decide.
• 37:04
  So back on over to the Eggnoggers. Here is your list of five.
• 37:07
  The one with the sad Christmas tree, the one with Christmas in Tulsa,
• 37:14
  the one with all the candy, the one with the monkey, and the
• 37:19
  one with the missing stripper. Uh. The one with all the candy is
• 37:24
  real because that's the one where Monica makes all her delicious little candy bites and
• 37:29
  our neighbors annoy the shit out of her. I'm gonna take your word for
• 37:30
  that. I know, look all about Friends. No, we're gonna go
• 37:36
  with that, please, Matt. It is absolutely true. Nice, but
• 37:38
  that exact synopsis, it absolutely is that excellent, excellent. Now there is
• 37:43
  a one with a monkey, there is the one with a missing stripper.
• 37:45
  I don't know, there's a lot of Christmas. Yeah, there's a lot
• 37:49
  of them with the monkey though, right, yeah, exactly exactly. I
• 37:52
  feel like Ross and whatever his capuchin's name is, they get reunited maybe one
• 37:57
  day at Christmas. So we're gonna go with the monkey. You're gonna go
• 38:00
  with the one with the monkey. Yeah, that is a Christmas episode the
• 38:04
  first series, the first ever Christmas episode. Oh wow, so not a
• 38:07
  reunite reunion, but that's okay. And then there's the one with a missing
• 38:10
  Stripper. The only episode that I can remember with a missing stripper is when
• 38:15
  Joey loses a ring because the stripper takes the ring. Oh, I know,
• 38:22
  if that's a Christmas episode, I mean it sounds pretty first the episode
• 38:29
  title though, that says the Christmas in the one with a Christmas in Tulsa.
• 38:34
  Though, that sounds familiar. That sounds like some kind of separation situation.
• 38:40
  So I'm gonna go with my gut and say the stripper is a herring
• 38:45
  and the Tulsa one is real. You're going with your Christmas gut if that's
• 38:49
  okay with you, Ben. It has the other than the Simpsons, it
• 38:57
  has the most Christmas TV episode. That fair, that's fair, But yes,
• 39:00
  your gut is absolutely correct. It is. Yeah, the missing stripper
• 39:04
  was a red herring referring to another episode. They're actually like three different Friends
• 39:07
  episodes with strippers, really, and then the Christmas Tree was and ye Phoebe's
• 39:13
  bachelorette party with Danny DeVito. Yeah, but congrats, the full points,
• 39:19
  good friends knowledge, Jason, good Christmas friends than you. I think I'm
• 39:22
  going to get one. That's more than I'm gonna get. Okay, here
• 39:29
  is that second list for male leg lamp millionaires, the one with all the
• 39:34
  resolutions, the one with the snowman on the roof, the one with the
• 39:38
  Holiday Armadillo, the one with the girl from Poughkeepsie, and the one with
• 39:45
  the three wise men. Okay, I'm gonna get two. Okay, the
• 39:50
  Holiday Armadillo. The Holiday Armidillo is correct. Yeah, Ross can't get a
• 39:57
  Santa costume that there's a there's a bar in our town where all of the
• 40:05
  servers are dressed up as Armadillo's. But it's not even like a friend's reference.
• 40:08
  It's just just where Armadillo cost that's where we're going for Christmas, called
• 40:12
  like the Armadillo Lounge or something like that. That is weird because we do
• 40:15
  have like themed speakeasies in our town. This is an armadilla anyway. I
• 40:22
  think that the other one that I know is the one with the girl from
• 40:25
  Poughkeepsie. You're happy to go with Aaron. My fear is that it might
• 40:38
  be a Thanksgiving episode, but the other one that comes to mind, and
• 40:43
  so I'm gonna I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna look, Thanksgiving is within
• 40:46
  the realm of festivity, so if it's a Thanksgiving episode, it was also
• 40:50
  listed as a Christmas episode. Nice. Yes, okay, it's absolutely correct.
• 40:54
  You got one more? Can you read me the remaining three? Yes,
• 40:59
  you have the one with all the resolutions, the one with the snowman
• 41:01
  on the roof, and the one with the three wise men I have.
• 41:07
  I have no clue at this point. I am going to go and I'm
• 41:13
  going to assume. Yeah, I'm gonna go with three wise men, and
• 41:20
  there's gonna be some situation in which it's ross Joey and Chandler are wise are
• 41:27
  for some reason they are three wise men. Summary. No, I'm so
• 41:32
  sorry. I'm so sorry. There's no reason, but that would make sense,
• 41:37
  though. Is it the one with all the resolutions? It is the
• 41:39
  one with all the yeah and yeah, there's not mine on the reef,
• 41:44
  not real either. There we go. We've done a little friends round.
• 41:46
  Now we don't have to do a friend's episode till season twelve. Nice.
• 41:52
  Okay, I got one final list. Hopefully, hopefully this one makes Angliphile
• 41:57
  Aaron a little happier. This list because this third and final list will be
• 42:02
  UK Christmas number ones. Which is this a huge thing in the UK about
• 42:07
  topping the Christmas charts with a with a hit single. So whoever is number
• 42:13
  one of the equivalent of the Billboard Top one hundred is enshrined for eternity as
• 42:17
  an official UK Christmas number one. And then there's like weird TV shows every
• 42:22
  year that are like, hey remember these interesting So why it's like number one
• 42:29
  on Christmas? Yes on Chris on Christmas Day? Who's at the top of
• 42:34
  the chart exactly? Okay? And I'll give the song and the artist and
• 42:37
  you've just got to, you know, decipher, try and understand the British
• 42:42
  mindset a little bit. So here we go. Here are the five singles,
• 42:45
  which three were UK number ones. And this list is for the Eggnoggers.
• 42:51
  I love Sausage Rolls by Lad Baby, Long Haired Lover from Liverpool by
• 42:57
  Jimmy Osmond, hell for by Goat Seamen, mister mister Blobby by mister Blobby
• 43:07
  and I'm so rich, They're so sad by fuck help. I'll just throw
• 43:17
  out thoughts. I'm not saying anything, I'm not solidifying anything. I'm just
• 43:22
  brainstorming here. Lad Baby. So the only thing I know about the UK
• 43:27
  and anything like that is lad Bible, I think is like a weird media
• 43:32
  page thing. So it stands to reason that lad Baby is maybe like a
• 43:37
  infantile version of that, something that's centric to like toddlers and things like baby
• 43:43
  Shark get really popular. So if it's more of like a kid centric song,
• 43:46
  maybe I love Sausage Rolls? Is that the song name? I just
• 43:51
  completely absolutely forgot that. They're all, yeah, I'm leaning hard towards uh
• 44:00
  was a goat Semen something like that? Hell Fucker by goat Semen. The
• 44:06
  British people have a way with irony. I feel like this would be a
• 44:09
  top I really hope that would because I would love to hear some posh lady
• 44:14
  on the BBC announced the Christmas Yeah, let's go strong let's start off this
• 44:20
  with strong. Can we put in goat Fuckers Semen head You're you're going with
• 44:24
  hell Fucker by Goat Semen. Yeah, as the as A UK Christmas number
• 44:29
  one. Yeah, that, as Ben has already pointed out, would have
• 44:30
  to be read out by someone at the BBC RP. We're starting strong,
• 44:36
  all right. Jingle bells, it's jingle wrong. I'm so sorry. Yeah,
• 44:47
  real, real band, real, uh, very nice. I believe
• 44:52
  it's actually an album, not a song, but oh no, did not
• 44:54
  make it. So mister Blobby is one of the ones. Mister Blobby was
• 44:58
  correct. Yeah, mister Blobby by Mists Bob held off On is not one
• 45:01
  either. That's the other thing. Yes, that that is based. That
• 45:05
  is a riff on the band Aid charity single that was part of the eighties
• 45:09
  pretending to do charity Maine people who is exactly Yeah? Yeah, but yeah,
• 45:15
  I love Sausage Raws by lad Baby. I don't think they're connected to
• 45:19
  lad Bible, but they are like a viral thing. They are like they've
• 45:22
  won like the last five years because they've utilized the Internet and everyone else doesn't.
• 45:27
  So sure. Longheaded Lover from Liverpool is real as well it was just
• 45:30
  back in the seventies, So there we go. We will move on to
• 45:36
  another list for male leg lamp millionaires. Here is five UK Christmas number ones.
• 45:43
  There's no one quite like Grandma by Saint Winifred's School Choir. Merry Christmas
• 45:49
  Everyone by Nobby Toppins, Can We Fix It? By Bob the Builder,
• 45:57
  Kissing and Drinking by Sir Cliff Richard and killing in the name by Rage against
• 46:01
  the Machine? Okay, there's one. I hope I'm right. There's one
• 46:07
  thing I know about Christmas number ones, Okay, and I'm going to broaden
• 46:13
  it before I even say protective. Sometimes there are protest ones, and I
• 46:21
  think there was a Rage against the Machine one that was a protest number one.
• 46:25
  Because it's always agree. I just don't know if it was Christmas,
• 46:30
  I but I would buy it. Yeah, you want to go for personally,
• 46:36
  I would go for the Cliff Richard one first because I believe that to
• 46:38
  be real. Okay, let's go for that one. Because the two that
• 46:44
  I think are real art Bob the Builder and the other one. Yeah,
• 46:49
  that's my instinct too, is those three. But I'm the most confident the
• 46:54
  one I'm the most confident is Cliff Richard. Let's go for someone drinking bicycle
• 47:00
  Cliff Richard. Yes, yes, I'm so sorry, it's not real.
• 47:07
  He did have a Christmas single. He had a single called Missle, Mistletoe
• 47:10
  and Wine. Wouldn't I have had their list? I knew all three of
• 47:16
  theirs were our second and third choice? Yeah? Correct, Yeah, what
• 47:24
  about those? The heartbreaking thing is that just you're ordering. And that's the
• 47:29
  tricksy thing about this game is you are absolutely right on the other two.
• 47:31
  Can you fix it? By Bob? The builder was a Christmas number one,
• 47:35
  and so was killing it the name it was a protest vote. It
• 47:37
  did happen at Christmas time. There's one Grandma also also correct. I should
• 47:45
  be more confident in my memory memory. First time this whole round, I
• 47:52
  actually knew something silly knew. It was very tricksy. Cliff Richard has had
• 48:00
  a Christmas number one, just not with kissing and drinking? How dare you?
• 48:05
  Yeah? I was waiting for you to pull Alexander Armstrong's song. Oh
• 48:09
  god, yeah, just because I know that was a I know he had
• 48:13
  a Christmas number one and it was a surprise to him. Yeah, yeah,
• 48:16
  because it was one of the They do like choir ones quite often,
• 48:20
  I think, and so I think he was part of the group or collective
• 48:22
  or something. Yeah, all right, that is the end of round one.
• 48:29
  Let's ask Santa to calculate the latest scores. Oh wait, spoiler alert,
• 48:35
  kids, Santa isn't real. Oh no, gee, It's a cultural
• 48:39
  myth invented by all the dads so they don't have to engage with emotion.
• 48:44
  Dropping little truth bombs just works like a charm. And those scores are It's
• 48:52
  it's not been a spectacular round for our teams. The male legg lamp millionaires
• 48:55
  are on two points and the eggnoggers are on four points. Okay, we're
• 49:00
  just full of Christmas spirit. Yeah, to be caring about points, that's
• 49:05
  true. We have all this useful knowledge, so the useless stuff doesn't help
• 49:09
  us. Christmas is giving us points. That's what it's about. That is.
• 49:16
  That is an excellent point you just made. But my sack is empty.
• 49:24
  Christmas came twice. The whole muk up next this round two. But
• 49:32
  first, some festive ads. They're just like regular ads, but they become
• 49:37
  festive if you jingle your bell while you listen to them. Round two.
• 49:45
  It's called Holiday fan Court. It's a festive version of our pop culture courtroom
• 49:51
  battle, as our teams must argue opposite sides of the same festive fandom statement.
• 49:55
  Because as we all know, every problem humanity is ever faced has been
• 50:00
  solved by debates on the internet. Yes, each of our player lawyers will
• 50:07
  have a minute to make their case. They can build on their teammates arguments,
• 50:12
  or build to their teammates arguments, or take things in a completely different
• 50:15
  direction. Each minute will be yours to do with what you wish. Points
• 50:19
  will be awarded for Christmas accuracy, individual passion, and for using them high
• 50:23
  falutin lawyer words. And it's going to be each team arguing the opposite side
• 50:29
  of the same thing. So I'm going to say the team in last place,
• 50:32
  MLLM. You can decide which side of the case you are on.
• 50:37
  And the first dichotomy, the first Christmas dichotomy we will be dealing with,
• 50:43
  is die Hard is a Christmas movie? Slash die Hard isn't a Christmas movie?
• 50:47
  Aw Udra and Aaron, would you like to argue that die Hard is
• 50:52
  or isn't a Christmas movie? Odra, I don't know how you personally feel,
• 50:55
  but I feel like we would do well with the is yeah Christmas movie
• 51:00
  option? Yes? Okay, you going with is a Christmas movie, which
• 51:05
  means eggno, because you'll be arguing in a couple of minutes that it isn't
• 51:08
  a Christmas movie. So, Aaron, would you like to take the lead?
• 51:13
  Adra? How do you feel? Do you want me to go first?
• 51:15
  And you just follow up? Go for it and I'll build on it.
• 51:19
  Is it one minute piece? Yeah? One minute apiece. I'll let
• 51:22
  you know when your time's up. Parent awesome, whenever you're ready. All
• 51:23
  right, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. I declare that it would be
• 51:30
  a massive miscarriage of justice to label Die Hard as anything other than a Christmas
• 51:37
  movie. The fact that the soundtrack has Christmas music on it is a good
• 51:42
  start. I believe the movie starts with jingle bells and ends with jingle bells.
• 51:47
  How can you go wrong with that? Also, there's the merry act
• 51:51
  of John McClain as a sort of modern day Santa Claus gifting terrorists with bullets
• 52:00
  to the face, neck and chest. I think it goes beyond saying.
• 52:06
  I think it goes beyond and of course there's the jolly old fat Man.
• 52:10
  A Carl from Family Matters shows up and saves the day in the end.
• 52:15
  I mean, come on, you can't get more Christmas ey than that.
• 52:19
  Absolutely not seconds. So I've had a little eggnog, so yeah, that's
• 52:25
  that's what I've got. Stuh got steph Aldre, Do you want to take
• 52:30
  the lead? Building on my associates argument, people would say yes, but
• 52:37
  is there enough Christmas in this movie? It takes place at Christmas? But
• 52:43
  is that enough? And I say yes. All traditions are made up by
• 52:47
  a collective group feeling all traditions, whether that be a religious one or just
• 52:54
  culturally relevant at the time, all of them are. And the fact that
• 53:00
  a large consensus of people have said this movie takes place at Christmas, we
• 53:05
  watch it at Christmas. Every time I watch it and it's not Christmas Christmas,
• 53:08
  I'm thinking, why am I not watching this at Christmas? Demonstrates that
• 53:15
  in the collective consciousness, like every other tradition, we have deemed this as
• 53:21
  a Christmas movie. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, thank you for your
• 53:27
  time. I have no further witnesses. Did you have any good stuff?
• 53:36
  Good good argument made that I'll refrain from my comments until hearing the other side
• 53:42
  of the argument. It's only fair that we hear the imagine if you decided
• 53:45
  cases after only hearing one side. I think we've had enough, So the
• 53:52
  eggnogers. Who's going to take the lead for you? Guys? Ben?
• 53:55
  Can I start? Sure? Okay, whenever you ready, Jason, I'll
• 53:59
  stop time, Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. What I'd like to first
• 54:04
  go with before we sort any part of this conversation is clearly defined. What
• 54:07
  makes a Christmas movie? I think in the court of law we must not
• 54:13
  prosecute based on feelings, but also definitions. There are certain check marks that
• 54:17
  you have to make before you can prosecute as long as the crime or in
• 54:22
  this case, the movie clearly hits all the check marks in a Christmas movie,
• 54:24
  the classics right, the precedents that we have set. You got to
• 54:28
  have sad divorced dad, and I think this movie gets that point across.
• 54:31
  Yeah. Absolutely, You've got to have though the idea of giving the idea
• 54:37
  of the seasons, and you also have to have a Santa Claus. Think
• 54:40
  of Miracle on thirty fourth Street, the Santa Claus elf Need, I say,
• 54:45
  Rudolph the Red Nose, Raindeer, lots of other movies that we consider
• 54:47
  Christmas movies. I also believe that this idea of coincidence is occurring within the
• 54:53
  film die Hard. Just because it is coincidentally set five seconds at Christmas,
• 55:00
  just because Mark Wohlberg thinks he can save nine to eleven doesn't mean he actually
• 55:04
  did. Wait. Just because it's kind of set at Christmas doesn't mean it's
• 55:07
  Christmas movie. I'm with you. I'm with you, yeah, Ben,
• 55:10
  do you want to pick up up from that? Absolutely? So your honor.
• 55:15
  You know, first, I'd like to challenge the merits of our the
• 55:21
  prosecution here. I mean he was talking to the jury. This is clearly
• 55:23
  a bench trial. There is no jury here, So clearly not a Christmas
• 55:30
  movie because just because it takes place during Christmas, I mean, you know,
• 55:36
  is Predator a Christmas movie? It could take place during Christmas? Who
• 55:39
  knows Black is in it? When everything he does is it is Christmas related
• 55:45
  in some way. That's what makes a Christmas movie is the themes. It's
• 55:50
  not just the setting. The setting is the window dressing of what's going on.
• 55:54
  But you know, the themes of giving and philanthropy and goodwill towards men.
• 56:00
  There's not a lot of good will towards men in this movie. I
• 56:01
  gotta say it's it's it's it's violent and not really befitting of the holiday season.
• 56:08
  Also, No Jesus, just check No Jesus. It's the no does
• 56:15
  no Jesus in Yeah, yeahs oh good good stuff. Now let's unpack the
• 56:23
  arguments made here in the court today. I'm just gonna say, right off
• 56:28
  the bat, I think MLLM did a better better case of arguing it being
• 56:31
  a Christmas movie. I liked the highlighting of the music. I liked the
• 56:36
  gifting of the terrorists and bullets. That was a nice line. The spirit
• 56:40
  I'm giving. I will say, Aaron, you did a great job with
• 56:45
  the lawyer voice men. You also did a good job with the lawyer fantastic.
• 56:52
  So there's definitely gonna be extra points awarded there. In terms of the
• 56:57
  Eggnoggers, Jason, I'm not sure where did where did nine eleven and Mark
• 57:00
  Wahlberg come into it? Oh, Mark Wolberg thinks he can he could have
• 57:02
  prevented nine to eleven. That's that's like a famous statement he's made. He
• 57:07
  thinks he could have prevented nine to eleven. And I was trying to think
• 57:08
  of examples of people going like, this is close enough, I could have
• 57:13
  done this. Oh I see to be like, yeah, just because it's
• 57:15
  set at Christmas doesn't make it. I didn't. I was like that,
• 57:19
  yeah, John McLean, the it is set in a big toll building,
• 57:22
  but I don't think it's not event No, no, no, it's not
• 57:24
  nine eleven. I'm trying to Yeah, Mark Mark America, those who don't
• 57:28
  know Mark Forborg thinks he could have prevented nine to eleven. Okay, okay,
• 57:31
  And Sir John McClain probably prevented nine to eleven. That's true if only
• 57:38
  he was around. That's another point for us. I don't think so.
• 57:45
  Ben. I've got written down here that you said Predator is set at Christmas.
• 57:50
  I said it may as well, be like, how do you know
• 57:51
  it's not that's true. I suppose you could say that about any movie.
• 57:57
  That's what we were saying about this movie. Shane Black was in it,
• 58:00
  and pretty much everything Shane Black has made takes place during Christmas. But isn't
• 58:04
  a Christmas movie. I hear. I hear all right. My final ruling
• 58:07
  on this as judge as the of the fan court is four points to M
• 58:12
  L l M and three points to the Egnoggers. We'll take it. Just
• 58:15
  for those curious, I don't think it's a Christmas movie. Actually you were
• 58:20
  arguing the side that you actually wanted to ask. Wow, I say us.
• 58:28
  I fell on either side. Further read like stated yeah for the reasons
• 58:32
  I stated, like, if you have a cultural understanding of it as Christmas,
• 58:37
  I don't, don't. I don't Christmas. If you don't, then
• 58:39
  it's not Yeah, this is fun. I'm glad we've underscored it all with
• 58:44
  it doesn't actually matter. Yeah, okay, I've got one more statement,
• 58:47
  one more festive statement. Okay, So Eggnoggers, it's up to you to
• 58:52
  decide. Would you like to defend the statement ugly Christmas sweaters are ugly?
• 58:57
  Or would you like to defend the statement ugly Christmas sweaters are pretty the opposite
• 59:00
  of ugly. I I'm wearing an ugly sweater right now, in time for
• 59:07
  the holidays. And do you feel pretty? I feel pretty well. I
• 59:14
  think we have our answer, then, thank you. Yeah, let's let's
• 59:15
  go forward. Okay, okay, which means after they've made that argument,
• 59:22
  it will be up to the male leg lamp millionaires to decide if they would
• 59:27
  to argue. I was just so impressed. It's the thing. They'll be
• 59:35
  arguing the ugly Christmas waters are ugly? So who's taking the lead on ugly
• 59:39
  Christmas wetters are? Pretty last time? Ben? So, do you want
• 59:44
  to lead this time? Yeah? Sure, take it away. I'll start
• 59:46
  the timo whenever you're ready, Ben. So they call them ugly Christmas sweaters
• 59:51
  because it's you know, they're not normal. They're just be dazzled and uh
• 59:57
  and and fancy here. But so if you think about it, what an
• 59:59
  ugly Christmas sweater is. It's a very festive garb you put it on.
• 1:00:02
  It's usually got like little reindeer noses or or you know, tinsel hanging off
• 1:00:07
  of it. I mean, they're they're ridiculous. They're over the top.
• 1:00:09
  But it's a decorated sweatshirt. And it's essentially a Christmas tree that you can
• 1:00:15
  wear. And and if anyone that's gonna come on here and say Christmas trees
• 1:00:19
  are ugly is about as grinchy as you can get. And I won't stand
• 1:00:23
  for it. Like if you get a if you have a sweater with lights
• 1:00:28
  on it and they twinkle, it's very beautiful and everyone. Like if you
• 1:00:32
  go to an ugly sweater party, everyone's everyone's decked out, everyone enjoys it.
• 1:00:37
  They have a great time ten seconds, and that is that's what the
• 1:00:42
  season is all about. So if you think ugly Christmas sweaters are ugly,
• 1:00:46
  you think Christmas is ugly? All right? Good from stuff from that from
• 1:00:51
  Ben? Yes? Yeah, absolutely so. I also agree with my partner,
• 1:00:54
  let's defind an ugly sweater, right. I believe the tradition of ugly
• 1:00:59
  sweater is also came from the idea that your grandma would neat you an ugly
• 1:01:01
  sweater. And honestly, if you're calling an ugly sweater from your grandma an
• 1:01:05
  ugly sweater, you're calling your grandmother ugly and that's just offensive and not within
• 1:01:09
  the spirits. Also, as of Selenial, I feel like ugly Christmas sweater,
• 1:01:16
  I'm gonna out myself, I'm gonna say, And then ugly Christmas sweater
• 1:01:21
  is ironic? And what else do zonis loved and just layering themselves in irony?
• 1:01:24
  Ooh they just bait Ooh what's that? A second a third layer of
• 1:01:29
  irony? I love it. People love ugly Christmas sweaters. Most of them
• 1:01:32
  are printed in graphic t's like the ones that I'm wearing on now. And
• 1:01:36
  the people who go really off those are spencers. They're really ugly and they're
• 1:01:40
  wanting it. They want that shit, you know. Okay, yeah,
• 1:01:45
  fair enough, fair enough, there's solid arguments there, but I'll withhold my
• 1:01:50
  judgment until I hear why ugly Christmas sweaters are indeed ugly the thing that Brandon
• 1:01:54
  has so Aaron oldra who would like to take the lead here? I believe
• 1:01:59
  I led last time. Ander. Do you want to leave this time or
• 1:02:01
  would you like me to go ahead? I absolutely can all right when your
• 1:02:06
  radio dress. Please know that none of the very few of the things I'm
• 1:02:09
  about to say reflect my own opinions, but I'm gonna go fucking hard.
• 1:02:14
  Absolutely. I want that on the record. Ugly Christmas sweaters are not only
• 1:02:22
  bad in a Christmas setting, They're bad for the world as a whole.
• 1:02:25
  Micro macro micro. I am a fiber artist. I knit, I crochet,
• 1:02:31
  and the fact that I would spend so much time and planning for this
• 1:02:36
  type of a tradition in order to create something that is intentionally ugly that I
• 1:02:40
  can only wear during a certain time of the year. This is a waste
• 1:02:45
  of my time, This is a waste of materials, This is honestly a
• 1:02:47
  waste of everything. And then you can buy them cool, awesome. That's
• 1:02:52
  the way most people do it. If you get the knitted ones, amazing,
• 1:02:55
  you have just probably paid for fast fashion labor, because people are not
• 1:03:00
  going to invest a ton of money into appropriate working conditions for something that is
• 1:03:07
  going to be worn once a year. Congratulations, there's a reindeer fucking on
• 1:03:13
  your sweatshirt. And then I had another point, but I forgot what it
• 1:03:17
  was. Now he times up. But those good arguments. I love the
• 1:03:23
  micro and the macro. But let's hand it over to Aaron to pick up
• 1:03:25
  the baton whenever you're ready, Ladies and gentlemen of the court. And I
• 1:03:32
  submit to you that I have just come from a company Christmas party to be
• 1:03:40
  here on this zoom call. And at this party, my boss was wearing
• 1:03:47
  an ugly Christmas sweater of a cat, wearing headphones, holding a full beer,
• 1:03:55
  and spinning a pizza like a record on a DJ station. I'm telling
• 1:04:00
  you that ugly sweater was awesome. It was funny. What it was not
• 1:04:09
  was visually attractive in any sense of the word. All Right, every sweater
• 1:04:16
  I've ever gotten from my grandma, God bless your soul, was fucking ugly,
• 1:04:25
  right there. Fantastic, excellent stuff there, Aaron, I feel like
• 1:04:31
  both teams brought brought Grandma's into this. My Grandma's been invoked here. Oh,
• 1:04:38
  this is such good arguments from all four players. I was. I
• 1:04:42
  was convinced by the ugly Christmas waters being pretty until Audrey used a lot of
• 1:04:47
  genuine scientific argument jargon and Aaron did possibly the greatest court room performance we've had
• 1:04:54
  in in this und It's actually changed a little bit, but you felt it
• 1:05:01
  is believed like he was saying, yeah, absolutely, he was unsaved.
• 1:05:05
  It's because he was moved. You know what's so funny about his argument and
• 1:05:11
  my argument? Yeah, yeah, that he goes it's not visually appealing.
• 1:05:14
  My entire ap art portfolio in high school was just taking really famous artworks and
• 1:05:21
  putting cats in the middle of it. You've proven my point. It's visually
• 1:05:28
  a feeling to me. But I also love you. Yeah, Jason,
• 1:05:32
  you also invoked being a sillennial. I feel like I can't let that go.
• 1:05:38
  I am right, No, you have ninety six like I'm the definition.
• 1:05:41
  You absolutely are. It's just it's so self assured for such a young
• 1:05:45
  generations, as a Sillennials, at least, you know saying as a as
• 1:05:51
  a zoomer. I suppose yeah, uh. And I did enjoy Ben saying
• 1:05:58
  it's like a Christmas tree you can wear, and of course Christmas trees are
• 1:06:01
  beautiful. That's fantastic, Ordro bringing in the entire wrath of the fiber arts
• 1:06:06
  community in terms of value for money. But I think it's ultimately Aaron's anecdote.
• 1:06:13
  You know. Anecdotal evidence is a thing. That's a phrase I've heard
• 1:06:15
  before. So I have no choice but towards reward it. So it's gonna
• 1:06:18
  be five points to the m l l M and four points to the eggnoggers.
• 1:06:23
  Wow, that's fair. That's nice fall points. I'm stunned. I
• 1:06:30
  mean, but think about thetations for your jacket. Man, I don't want
• 1:06:35
  you. Okay, that's the end of the round. Let's ask Frosty the
• 1:06:41
  Snowman to calculate the latest scores. The Eggnoggers are on eleven points, and
• 1:06:45
  look it's all square. M L l M are also on eleven points.
• 1:06:51
  It's like the Gift of the Magi. Yes, it's the same. I
• 1:06:59
  reference that story a lot, but I don't think I actually know it.
• 1:07:01
  I got you eleven points. I also got you eleven point A psychopath in
• 1:07:11
  a sparkly jacket handed them to me one at ease. Okay, Round three
• 1:07:16
  next, and during that break, try not to forget about the true meaning
• 1:07:20
  of Christmas commercialism. Round three is called Holidates. It's a new game,
• 1:07:31
  and we'll probably have a non festive version of it next year, so I'll
• 1:07:34
  need to come up with a new name for it that isn't Holidates. But
• 1:07:38
  for now here is the festive version. I will offer our teams a question
• 1:07:42
  where the answer is always a year. Without conferring. Each player will write
• 1:07:46
  down an answer. I'll then take each team's answers and average them out between
• 1:07:50
  each pair, leaving each team with a single date, and the closest state
• 1:07:56
  to the correct answer scores a point, and you'll score bonus points for being
• 1:08:00
  incredibly close, or lots of bonus points if you are spot on. I've
• 1:08:02
  already ridden my year down. Are you lucking that in? Jason as well?
• 1:08:11
  I wrote it down on paper. It's illegal. Bit it's like when
• 1:08:14
  I used to It's like when I used to play poker and I going all
• 1:08:16
  in blind without even looking at the car. Yeah. Yeah, that's my
• 1:08:19
  everyday life, man, Jason, Jason don't play. Jason is new to
• 1:08:27
  wreck Shop, and I've just realized how difficult it might be to figure out
• 1:08:31
  the exact midpoint date between two dates. So I've brought up a calculator to
• 1:08:35
  try and somehow help me with that. Hopefully we're not so far off that
• 1:08:40
  you need a calculator. Like I'm like, I'm like, wait, we're
• 1:08:45
  just writing years, right, We're not writing like months. Yeah, just
• 1:08:48
  just yes, But I need to let's not make it that hard on you.
• 1:08:54
  Oh maybe he's going way back and we got to do like BC dates
• 1:09:00
  when was Christmas invented? So there's just many arguments to that, I believe
• 1:09:06
  it or not. I did a entire it was about six week class in
• 1:09:12
  Christmas Studies that was like the history of Christmas and like where all the different
• 1:09:15
  cultural influences come from. There's like five different origins for Saint nick world.
• 1:09:20
  Oh yeah. With Santa Claus, there's there's loads. I like the one
• 1:09:25
  where like the like his the red and white came from the that mushroom that
• 1:09:30
  grows under trees. Oh yeah, oh, I like mushroom that that like
• 1:09:36
  what do they called Scandinavia Mario one, Yeah, the blue ground around time
• 1:09:42
  that they'd eat it and it'd be like the presence under the tree and it's
• 1:09:45
  the color of Santa Claus. Really okay, so now we're treading Santa Claus
• 1:09:49
  stories like their folk tales. Because I thought it was Coca Cola. I
• 1:09:54
  thought this whole thing was Coca Cola. There was, there was some red
• 1:09:58
  Santas before Coca Cola, but Coca Cola were the first to combine the big
• 1:10:01
  rosy faced, bearded jolly man with the color red. He was mainly green
• 1:10:08
  jolly faced man before that. It's a green man like an elf. Yeah,
• 1:10:12
  like a big yeah. Oh man, I'm learning so much on this
• 1:10:15
  podcast, man, all right, well prepared to learn a lot more.
• 1:10:19
  So here is the first question for every single player, and then we'll work
• 1:10:24
  out averages. So it is said that the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade kicks off
• 1:10:29
  the festive season. But what year did the first ever Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
• 1:10:34
  take place? Honestly, I'm gonna keep my answer that I write. Yeah,
• 1:10:40
  yeah, I was gonna be for the bit, but I'm actually pretty
• 1:10:43
  confident that this is going to be in the ballpark. Okay, I have
• 1:10:45
  a wild idea. I'll find out when was Jesus born That's what I need
• 1:10:51
  to Yeah, yeah, pretty close to this day. Actually, yes,
• 1:10:54
  it was or after Macy's was established. Macy has been here since the beginning
• 1:11:01
  of time. It's one of the oldest religions. I think they named the
• 1:11:04
  department store after the parade, so they usedid to Jerusalem was the Macy's stay.
• 1:11:15
  Okay, Eggnogger's, let's start with Jason, what's what's your number that
• 1:11:17
  you pre wrote. I'll put down nineteen forty seven for some reason, nineteen
• 1:11:23
  forty seven, okay, And Ben, what did you what did you put?
• 1:11:28
  Well, just to make it easier for you to average, I put
• 1:11:30
  nineteen fifty seven. Nineteen fifty seven, okay, So that'll be an average
• 1:11:34
  of nineteen fifty two for the Eggnogger's there. Moving on over Uldra, what
• 1:11:41
  have you got for this one? I wrote nineteen twenty, nineteen twenty and
• 1:11:45
  Aaron see Odre, n oh no, whoa, oh shit? I wrote
• 1:11:53
  nineteen thirty one. The cameras reverse nineteen thirty one? Did write nineteen thirty
• 1:11:59
  one, and he's gonna have a half year now? Yes, well,
• 1:12:02
  round up? Or should we round down? What should we do that?
• 1:12:04
  Around me? To twenty one? Which one's further away from the correct answer?
• 1:12:09
  Matt, Yeah, we'll say. We'll say the average is nineteen twenty
• 1:12:15
  six. We'll go with that, so we've got nineteen fifty two versus nineteen
• 1:12:19
  twenty six? Was the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade sort of before the Wall
• 1:12:24
  Street crash? Or was it after the war when everyone was living in those
• 1:12:28
  prefabricated houses. The actual answer, Audre and Aaron, you're very close.
• 1:12:32
  It's nineteen twenty four. You are too old. So I'm actually gonna give
• 1:12:36
  you two points for that because you're pretty damn close. There. That's Cradra
• 1:12:42
  Odra, that's yess aired. All right, let's bring some pop culture into
• 1:12:48
  proceedings. Here is your next question. What year did the infamous Star Wars
• 1:12:54
  Holiday special air proper nerd question on the Pop Culture Show. I know,
• 1:13:01
  I feel like I should know this for some reason. I'm still sorry,
• 1:13:04
  Jesus bors oh yea, all right. Nineteen twenty that's when the George Lucas
• 1:13:12
  very old, don't know eternal. Let's have the MLLLM this time, Aaron,
• 1:13:18
  what have you got for this one? Okay, this may worker,
• 1:13:23
  it may fail. I had to go at writing it reverse to see if
• 1:13:26
  the camera rob it right now? Seventy nine, nineteen seventy nine. I
• 1:13:32
  like it. It's reverse for you, it's not reverse for us. Oh
• 1:13:38
  really? Look, yeah, I think it was the will this time,
• 1:13:43
  but you know it's a skill you now have, so it looked backwards.
• 1:13:47
  So yeah, and Odra, what did you put for this one? I
• 1:13:53
  put nineteen eighty four? Nineteen eighty four because I was like, I knew
• 1:13:58
  the original. I think the first one was seventy seven, and then I
• 1:14:02
  was like, eighties was the time. I'll stay. I'll stick to what
• 1:14:04
  was rounding up and say, nineteen eighty two is the date that you've got
• 1:14:09
  there? Okay, Eggnogger's ben, what have you got for this one?
• 1:14:14
  I also wrote nineteen seventy nine. Okay, another nineteen seventy nine, because
• 1:14:19
  I'm pretty sure it was in between. Jason, Yeah, I knew.
• 1:14:24
  Yeah, I rode seventy eight just because I wasn't sure. I knew it
• 1:14:29
  was like close. I don't remember when Empire came out. I'll keep the
• 1:14:32
  rounding up rule and say nineteen seventy nine. Will stay consistent with that.
• 1:14:36
  So nineteen seventy nine versus nineteen seventy eight, No, nineteen eighty two.
• 1:14:45
  That's right, is it nine seventy nine verses nineteen eighty two. I'm just
• 1:14:46
  saying numbers. Yes, So I think so very much in the same ballpark
• 1:14:53
  here. This is the this is the Star Wars zone, this is the
• 1:14:55
  Star Wars time. You know your Star Wars. The correct answer, Jason
• 1:15:00
  was spawn it is nineteen seventy eight. I'm not going to give full three
• 1:15:05
  points because the rules of averages I've rounded up. I'm going to be two
• 1:15:09
  points because you were one year off. Good stuff. I do have the
• 1:15:12
  Star Wars holiday sweater on, so I feel vindicated. Yeah, I knew
• 1:15:15
  it was between the first movie and the second one, because because Luke still
• 1:15:21
  had the full like Blonde Bouffont we also had like the worst tan in the
• 1:15:27
  history of anything any more tennis shoes. Yeah, maybe this is the ri
• 1:15:34
  Finally where is Oh? There is probably still a video out there, but
• 1:15:40
  I wrote like a good like I think three minutes of rage poetry based on
• 1:15:45
  the Star Wars Holiday Special. Yeah, I'll send a link and if you
• 1:15:51
  want to include it with the episode, be my guest, one of my
• 1:15:56
  one of my finest works. I guarantee I'll definitely read it because I've seen
• 1:16:00
  it way more times than anyone should. Like, I watched it, so
• 1:16:04
  you've seen it once, watch it again, and then I watched it again.
• 1:16:11
  I'm like, motherfucker, it's you've probably watched the holiday special more than
• 1:16:16
  you've watched the sequel movies. That's I think that's accurate. Actually, yeah,
• 1:16:23
  possibly even the prequels to be honest. Now we're gonna get comments.
• 1:16:30
  No, no, we don't. Yeah, we don't have opinions. It's
• 1:16:31
  all silly. Ah okay, here is your next question. Yeah, this
• 1:16:38
  one's gonna be tough. This if anyone knows this well done. It's as
• 1:16:43
  simple as this. What was the first candy cane made? It was the
• 1:16:48
  first candy cane made or recorded candy cane. I'm sure some people in the
• 1:16:56
  ancient times could have messed with sugar and stuff. I just was saying,
• 1:17:00
  all right, so it's not the ancient times. You just gave that away.
• 1:17:02
  I'll get I'll reveal full of we're dealing a d That's as much as
• 1:17:09
  I will give you. You've got a two fucking on a candy cane at
• 1:17:15
  the crucifixion. No, it could have been that was technically I don't know
• 1:17:20
  a true Yeah, everything is during Jesus' lifetime. Every he answer to every
• 1:17:27
  one of these questions. I just put numbers out there. I feel like
• 1:17:30
  it is an old timey candy Like I feel like old timey candy shops you
• 1:17:34
  can get it at. But then past a certain point in like remembering of
• 1:17:39
  history, there's just like a dark zone where I'm like, this is like
• 1:17:42
  two hundred years that all technically could have happened simultaneously. You've got to put
• 1:17:45
  a number on old timey, don't you. Yeah. Yeah, Like we
• 1:17:50
  found out that the record player is like from the early eighteen hundreds, it's
• 1:17:57
  not late seventeen hundreds. Oh yeah, you tell me. Candy canes don't
• 1:18:02
  exist in the same time as record players. That's okay. Well, let's
• 1:18:06
  let's find out. Let's see what kind of numbers we've gone for. Let's
• 1:18:11
  start with the egg knockers. Jason, what have you got here for eighteen
• 1:18:14
  seventeen? Eighteen seventeen seems reasonable enough? Yeah, no, clue what trains
• 1:18:20
  are going? Do you know? I've got the answer written in front of
• 1:18:23
  me, the sort of thing I would say, Ben, what have you
• 1:18:27
  got for this? We are of similar minds. I've got eighteen twenty four,
• 1:18:31
  eighteen twenty four. I don't even care if we get the number right.
• 1:18:35
  I like that we're in sync, you know what I mean? We're
• 1:18:38
  on point all right. Eighteen twenty one is your team's official year for candy
• 1:18:43
  canes being made. Let's see what's on the other side of the metaphysical game
• 1:18:46
  space, Udro, what have you got for this? I changed my answer
• 1:18:50
  about three times and then settled with the answer that I am now the least
• 1:18:54
  happy with. But it's the one that's written down fifty eighteen, Arl are
• 1:19:08
  not insane? I wrote seventeen thirty two, seventeen thirty two. But this
• 1:19:15
  brings my answer down. So does that make you happier than your answer.
• 1:19:21
  It makes me happier in your answer, not in my answer. So that
• 1:19:26
  Yeah, that makes seventeen ninety one as the is the average there. So
• 1:19:31
  we've got eighteen twenty one versus seventeen ninety one. You've ended up thirty years
• 1:19:35
  apart because of the averaging. But I'm only going to give a point to
• 1:19:39
  the team that is closest because you're all nowhere near. Oh no. The
• 1:19:45
  first candy cane was actually made in sixteen seventy seventeen in Germany America. I
• 1:19:53
  was I was sixty years off, so I wasn't bad. Yeah, Aaron
• 1:19:56
  definitely the closest, and that guess has earned one point few team as well.
• 1:20:00
  I'm so glad you brought my answer to who's done it. I knew
• 1:20:04
  it was old, old because like it predated candy corn, and I know
• 1:20:11
  candy corn came out in the eighteen eighties. It was like the candy cane
• 1:20:15
  had to be much earlier. It's a simpler candy. Yeah, yeah it
• 1:20:19
  was. It was in Germany and it was developed to keep children quiet during
• 1:20:25
  church services around Christmas time. Nice, and then it was sweet shops and
• 1:20:30
  this will shut those brats up the is. I'll make it really pointy and
• 1:20:36
  I'll strike them with it. It's in the sixteen hours old. They didn't
• 1:20:42
  have plastics so like their their hands would be so sticky. Oh absolutely,
• 1:20:47
  so they just coated and ship all the time. Pretty sure they weren't wrapped.
• 1:20:51
  And god knows how many people touched it before it got to your mouth.
• 1:20:54
  But yeah, yeah, but you know, bubonic plake maybe a bigger,
• 1:20:59
  bigger worry than sticky hands. Speak for yourself. It might. It
• 1:21:04
  could have been the candy cans. It's true. We don't know. We
• 1:21:09
  just don't know. The evidence dissolved. Okay, let's move on to another
• 1:21:16
  YEA based question, and it is this what your did's Starbucks start selling their
• 1:21:23
  coffee in red cups at Christmas time? Ah, shit, Andrew, we
• 1:21:27
  should know this, We absolutely should know this. I don't. It probably
• 1:21:33
  was in some kind of training material or not training material or like, but
• 1:21:39
  like graphics at least that we looked up. I'm gonna write down a random
• 1:21:45
  answer, and then I'm gonnam because people always are like they used to.
• 1:21:51
  Ah, they're making them not religious because they hate the church and they used
• 1:21:57
  to always be religious. And then they made them not religious. It's just
• 1:22:01
  always been religious. Yeah, they used to say Merry Christmas, I bet
• 1:22:06
  yeah, oh before they were red, like the people were like they used
• 1:22:11
  to be. They used to be religious, and now they're not. And
• 1:22:14
  it's a bunch of snowflakes and stuff on the cups. And I'm gonna boycott
• 1:22:17
  Starbucks. At least at the time when we worked at that establishment, and
• 1:22:23
  so I remember every year looking it up and being like, sometimes they've got
• 1:22:28
  mary on it. Sometimes it's just red. Sometimes it's a snowman, it
• 1:22:32
  is what it is. I would lay on most of those people boycotting,
• 1:22:38
  broke down and went back to Starbucks. Yeah yeahh within days, gosh yeah.
• 1:22:43
  The number of people who would come in on a Sunday and then give
• 1:22:45
  me crap for working on a Sunday. And I would just be like,
• 1:22:48
  well, when you stop shopping here, I'll stop working. People at Chick
• 1:22:53
  fil A never get that they've got the right Eyea, I can't even finish
• 1:22:57
  this. Aren't you to spend money too or something? And I was supposed
• 1:23:01
  to work or spend money on the you know, the Bible is more guidelines
• 1:23:06
  than actual rules to a lot of people. So, oh, now we're
• 1:23:11
  going to get comments. Oh right, right, let's let's get some before
• 1:23:14
  we just get comments. H marry everyone, to say, marry everyone.
• 1:23:17
  That's why I say marry everyone. Fuck you, and you wrote in Okay,
• 1:23:24
  let's let's get some dates. M l L m Oldra, what have
• 1:23:29
  you got for this one? I went for nineteen eighty four, nineteen eighty
• 1:23:33
  four. Whoa, I think it was like a they've been doing it for
• 1:23:39
  a long old time. That's fair, that's fair, Aaron, what have
• 1:23:42
  you got for this one? Andra? I was set and ready to apologize
• 1:23:45
  to you so hard because I could not in my head figure this out at
• 1:23:48
  all. But the day I went with was nineteen eighty, nineteen eighty,
• 1:23:56
  nineteen eighty two. So I've feel a little bit better that we're in saying
• 1:24:01
  the cooked up guys on Wall Street just knocking down some red cups Starbucks.
• 1:24:05
  Yeah it's the eighties. Yeah, okay, let's find out what knockers have
• 1:24:12
  got, Jason. I had a much later date I wrote down two thousand
• 1:24:15
  and six, two thousand and six, like the zillennial. You are,
• 1:24:23
  oh, might be right. I genuinely cannot remember. And Ben what have
• 1:24:29
  you got for this? In honor of Jason, I went with nineteen ninety
• 1:24:32
  six. Nineteen ninety six as reasonable as any other date. I have no
• 1:24:38
  fucking idea. I just know Starbucks started in like the seventies, maybe late
• 1:24:43
  seventies. Yeah, but so they could have gone with red cups from day
• 1:24:45
  one for all I know. I mean, there's only really two options for
• 1:24:48
  Christmas cups. Yeah, that's true, that's true. Yeah, we got
• 1:24:53
  two thousand and one for the knockers is the average versus nineteen eighty two here
• 1:24:58
  for mllm uh. Pretty close. One of you was pretty close with their
• 1:25:02
  answer, and that person is the person who named the decades that I think
• 1:25:06
  of most when I think of Starbucks, it's the nineties. So nineteen ninety
• 1:25:12
  seven was the actual year they first did the red cups at Christmas time.
• 1:25:17
  Averages two thousand and one. It's four off, so just one point there.
• 1:25:20
  But Ben, you were very close with your guests. Nice. Thank
• 1:25:24
  you Jason for being born. Then yea earlier in the podcast, Oh,
• 1:25:31
  Jason hasn't known a world without red Starbucks cups at Christmas time? Right?
• 1:25:36
  Or just for one year? Just for one year? Well, I haven't
• 1:25:40
  known a world without red cups because I don't go to Starbucks often. At
• 1:25:45
  my interview, they were like, what's your favorite drink? And I was
• 1:25:47
  like, nothing, here, I'm not paying three dollars for a couple.
• 1:25:51
  There. I got the job. We've balanced things out, We've shown that
• 1:25:56
  this was not a sponsored question from Starbucks. Okay, I've got one final
• 1:26:00
  question for this round, one final date to solve. Here. We're making
• 1:26:04
  it very Christmas here. It's music, and I want to know in what
• 1:26:09
  year was the first secular Christmas song written? And that that song, of
• 1:26:15
  course, the first ever secular Christmas song is, of course, jingle Bells,
• 1:26:19
  the first song not to be about Jesus. We got some it's also
• 1:26:24
  about Christmas. Old krooners on this thing? Man, why am I stressing
• 1:26:28
  so much about this? It's got to ask yourself, just how well do
• 1:26:32
  you know your music? Jason? We all know the answer to that.
• 1:26:35
  I suck at music. I still don't know the beats of Jimmy's World.
• 1:26:41
  Whatever that song is that I like from Jimmy's World, I don't even know
• 1:26:44
  what the song is. Say make sure that's a band. It just takes
• 1:26:46
  some time. Yeah, yeah, that's the song. Keep going. Oh,
• 1:26:49
  okay, come on, it's Christmas song, Jimmy world. It's just
• 1:26:57
  like we do every christ our Christmas tradition. All right? Do we all
• 1:27:05
  have an answer for this one? No, it's tough. It's another tough
• 1:27:12
  one. I didn't put down a good answer. But for the past,
• 1:27:15
  the past couple, I've just been like bold. Let's see, Batman's about
• 1:27:21
  one hundred years old, and the lyrics sells. Batman smells. That's true,
• 1:27:27
  Ben's it must be. Yeah, it can't be older than Batman?
• 1:27:31
  Make sense? All right? I'm also okay, let's get some answers.
• 1:27:38
  Let's start with the agnogus and Ben, what what number did you write down
• 1:27:41
  for this one? Having absolutely no idea, I went with a nice round
• 1:27:45
  nineteen hundred, nineteen hundred. I like it. Oh, another century,
• 1:27:50
  anything's possible because they're still singing about horses and sleighs. So it's got pre
• 1:27:57
  car Oh that's so valid. All right, Jason, what number did you
• 1:28:01
  put down? I put nineteen thirty seven. Nineteen thirty seven, Yeah,
• 1:28:08
  great depression about to head into World War two. Yeah, let's let's have
• 1:28:13
  some jingle bells. I so that gives you an average of nineteen eighteen,
• 1:28:19
  the end of the First World War. That's a good time to be jingle
• 1:28:25
  belling. But let's see what what your opponents have put up here. Let's
• 1:28:30
  start with Aaron, What's what's your number? Odra? Big swing, Yeah,
• 1:28:35
  big swing, fourteen sixty seven oh seven Columbus was singing that ship on
• 1:28:44
  the In my head, the jingle bells is older than anybody really knows or
• 1:29:03
  I appreciate this. I would love that I went for eighteen seventy three,
• 1:29:11
  seventy more reasonable at least, I don't know, And I think that gives
• 1:29:17
  you an average. Oh my god, I can't believe it's like this gives
• 1:29:20
  you the average of the exact year that the first county cane was made.
• 1:29:24
  This gives you the year sixteen seventeen. I looked up the answers ahead of
• 1:29:30
  time on Matt's laptop, and I just told us the wrong questions to do
• 1:29:34
  the year soon. So the question that is, did Shakespeare right tangle bells?
• 1:29:42
  Was it Shakespeare or was it those soldiers returning from the war makes me
• 1:29:49
  wondering because I'm pretty sure that, like during World War One, wasn't that
• 1:29:54
  when they had like the Christmas the Christmas ceasefire where they all came out.
• 1:29:59
  Yes, yes it might have sung Adelweiss there oh, because they were like,
• 1:30:03
  I don't and that might be you know, I really want to sing
• 1:30:05
  this song. There's lots of bells going on, but it hasn't been advantage
• 1:30:09
  yet. I can't put the words to it. That's that's if it ends
• 1:30:14
  up being nineteen eighteen, because we have nineteen eighteen versus sixteen seventy. I
• 1:30:18
  stand by it. I'm happy with it. Yeah, okay, Well it's
• 1:30:26
  gonna be the Eggnoggers who are getting the point because the others written LDRA relatively
• 1:30:30
  close in the grand scheme of things. Eighteen fifty seven was when James Pierpoint
• 1:30:36
  wrote that famous tune. I was trying to think of when someone would have
• 1:30:41
  named someone un ironically Fanny Bright, like the second versus A day or two
• 1:30:48
  ago. I thought I'd take a ride, and soon miss Fanny Bright was
• 1:30:53
  seated by my side. I'm pretty sure that's the name. Wow, yeah,
• 1:30:56
  eighteen hundreds, right, you don't, Yeah, you don't get many
• 1:30:59
  Fannies anymore. Well, I sure don't. I've been married for years it
• 1:31:08
  was just as the perfect setup. Everyone's knocked it out the part. Okay,
• 1:31:14
  that is the end of round three. Let's ask Charlie Brown to calculate
• 1:31:18
  the latest scores. Oh no, he's speaking in that weird trombone language that
• 1:31:21
  he's picked up from one of his co stars. I didn't write a joke,
• 1:31:26
  ca I justart to make something up on the spot. That's the only
• 1:31:28
  thing I knew about Charlie Brown. Exactly what's that, mad lady saying?
• 1:31:34
  Okay, more, we have the Eggnoggers on fourteen points, but the m
• 1:31:41
  l l M, the male leg Lamp Millionaires have taken the lead with fifteen
• 1:31:45
  points. Ooh ooh nice, I regret nothing. I have a regretted too.
• 1:31:55
  No, a much more reasonable guest than fourteen, said hell swaying hell
• 1:32:00
  of aus Sway. Okay. Up next is our final quick fire around.
• 1:32:03
  But before we get to that, let's talk prizes. This episode star prize.
• 1:32:11
  It's the birth of our present. Oh wait what Oh? I was
• 1:32:14
  gonna say, the birth of our Lord and save you Jesus Christ. Oh
• 1:32:17
  I wanted a present, but our winning team will also receive I'm very,
• 1:32:24
  very excited about this one. Oh, this first edition version of Charles Dickens
• 1:32:30
  a Christmas Carol. Oh my god, I didn't do it in the round,
• 1:32:34
  but I'll let you know. It was first published in eighteen forty three.
• 1:32:39
  I've just got to handle it very delicately here. I probably should put
• 1:32:42
  on gloves, but it's Christmas. Oh oh. Jo. By the way,
• 1:32:45
  are you feeling okay? Just I've had a bit of a cold recently
• 1:32:48
  and I'm so sorry, Charles. I'm so sorry. Up next, this
• 1:33:02
  is our crucial quick fight around. But first we must play one final set
• 1:33:06
  of ads. And this isn't festive. I've just got something to get off
• 1:33:10
  my chest. If you guys heard the Honda podcast ads that have been played
• 1:33:14
  throughout twenty twenty three, you ever had the ads for Honda Johncey Johnson usually
• 1:33:20
  Oh yeah, John c actually like early whatever? Yeah whatever ads info they
• 1:33:29
  got on me think I'm a degenerate gambler. Yeah yeah, same, I'm
• 1:33:31
  bit a mease so they clocked me. Yeah, I just want to put
• 1:33:38
  the person who makes those Honda ads on blast, John Cena, you do
• 1:33:41
  a fantastic job. But yeah, are the problems that you've had with your
• 1:33:44
  Honda ads? Throughout the twenty twenty three calendar year, john Sena, none
• 1:33:47
  of these mistakes are yours. The first one, at the start of the
• 1:33:51
  John Sena's voice was so quiet and the music was so loud that I couldn't
• 1:33:55
  hear what he was saying. It was like, yeah, okay, it
• 1:33:59
  was like the music was so loud. It was ridiculous. It gets worse.
• 1:34:02
  The second one, the one that aired throughout the summer, you left
• 1:34:05
  the clients. You left the client's instructions right at the beginning, so before
• 1:34:11
  the ad even plays, you hear the phrase Ed Reid for Honda, airing
• 1:34:15
  April through June twenty twenty three. And the one that's airing now that I
• 1:34:20
  heard a week ago that prompted this rant. You left the fucking garage band
• 1:34:26
  metronome playing throughout the whole thing, tik tok TikTok tictk over the top of
• 1:34:31
  John Cena doing a very professional job, amateur in closing Honda hire me and
• 1:34:39
  overpaid Honda guy, go fuck yourself, but have a merry Christmas. I
• 1:34:45
  have not heard these ads. I see the one on Hulu and it looks
• 1:34:48
  great. Yeah, oh, the TV one's fantastic. They've just put no
• 1:34:51
  effort into the podcast ones whatsoever. I've heard the first two, I hadn't
• 1:34:56
  heard the last one. Oh, the most recent one is the metronome is
• 1:34:59
  beyond the anyway, Thanks for letting me get that off my chest. We
• 1:35:02
  should have more segments and gate leapers like this, where it's like Matt's rant,
• 1:35:06
  I talk to advertisers. Fuck you, I know I'm talking to you.
• 1:35:17
  Actually, yeah, I could have a rent preped on those ads in
• 1:35:21
  Oh, it'd be so perfect. What is this? Oh? A nice
• 1:35:25
  little episode that's structured in a panel show about my favorite fan? What is
• 1:35:30
  this? Why is he talking about? I'm a marketing executive for Honda,
• 1:35:34
  and why is he talking such shit? But do hire me, though,
• 1:35:41
  do reach out. Our final quick fire rounds will test your broader pop culture
• 1:35:50
  knowledge, and it's called The Boys of Winter. The holidays mean a lot
• 1:35:56
  of things to a lot of different people, but have you ever noticed that
• 1:35:59
  it's dominated by a bunch of bloody men? Christmas is starting to look like
• 1:36:02
  a gay Sleepers recording. In this game, I will give our players clues
• 1:36:10
  to a bloke from festive pop culture history, a guy who is undeniably a
• 1:36:15
  Christmas Man. Those clues will be delivered in the style of the twelve Days
• 1:36:19
  of Christmas and what that man gave to me kevil oh oh Idia Oh.
• 1:36:29
  And there's of course a classic Gatesleepers twist. You need to say either naughty
• 1:36:33
  or nice after their name. That can be based on your own personal preference
• 1:36:38
  of that person. But if I don't hear either naughty or nice, I
• 1:36:42
  can't give you points. It's quick fire, so you'll be buzzing in by
• 1:36:45
  yelling out your team names. Let's practice that now, mulm lagers. Oh,
• 1:36:53
  emphasize name, gotcha, gotcha. It sounds like we're all clear and
• 1:36:57
  we know what we're doing. And I can't actually do a practice example on
• 1:37:00
  this one because there are only twelve days of Christmas and we have twelve questions,
• 1:37:04
  so I'd have to make up a day of Christmas. Tell that home
• 1:37:08
  depot Christmas starts like October twenty seventh in there, Hey, by the way,
• 1:37:14
  have you gotten these home depot ads? By the And I won't sing
• 1:37:24
  these because if we'd have done, the recording is one long recording, and
• 1:37:28
  I'd have drank a second hot chocolate back to back then maybe, But I'll
• 1:37:31
  just I'll say them in a merry tone, and we'll call that good enough.
• 1:37:34
  So interrupt me at any point. I think you'll pick up on the
• 1:37:38
  kind of people these Christmas men are as I read them out. It could
• 1:37:43
  be as obvious as it sounds. Okay, here we go, I'll start
• 1:37:45
  the timer. On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to
• 1:37:49
  me a sack full of gifts for the lamp lamb. That's going to be
• 1:37:55
  Aaron Santa Claus Nice. Santa Claus Nice, I do think that is nice.
• 1:38:02
  On the second day of Christmas, my true love cent to me Will
• 1:38:06
  Ferrell's mug egg. Yes, Jason God, I don't know why this took
• 1:38:12
  me so long. Buddy the Elf, very nice, Buddy the Elf,
• 1:38:15
  very good. Okay, I see, I remember his name. I was
• 1:38:19
  just gonna call him. I was thinking of Will Ferrell and Brian Reynolds's newest
• 1:38:27
  movie, and I was like, maybe I would have accepted the titular elf.
• 1:38:33
  Maybe. Okay. On the third day of Christmas, my true love
• 1:38:40
  sent to me three timely spirits. I'll take older on this one. Ebenezer
• 1:38:47
  Scrooge pretty fucking naughty, naughty for most of that book for most of it.
• 1:38:55
  He's pretty naughty. Good stuff. Here is your next one. On
• 1:38:59
  the fourth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me a hot scoff
• 1:39:02
  and pipe. No egg, Yeah, either Jason or Ben, the Frosty
• 1:39:10
  the Snowman naughty. Okay, yes, he's naughty. It's absolutely right.
• 1:39:16
  I loved how you only said the full name of your team between you and
• 1:39:24
  egg display and with the lag fantastic. On the fifth day of Christmas,
• 1:39:32
  my true love sent to me five Golden Sings. Sing requires knowledge of how
• 1:39:42
  many Christmas albums this gentleman is released? Naggers Egg, Yes, Ben,
• 1:39:48
  Michael Boublay Naughty it is Michael Boo Blade, Yes, Michael bob Blair.
• 1:39:54
  I don't know how Christmas. It's too many, that's how many. On
• 1:40:00
  sixth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me green Thief a slaying.
• 1:40:05
  I heard all four things at the exact same time, so I know
• 1:40:09
  it's not Audre because that would have been really no lag. I genuinely cannot
• 1:40:15
  tell who that. Wait, Aaron, did you say anything? I did
• 1:40:17
  not? Okay, then I know what you said. Uh Jason, go
• 1:40:25
  for it. Uh Grinch, nice Grinch. Nice. Okay. At the
• 1:40:30
  end of the tale, well, what did you say, green thief a
• 1:40:38
  slaying? Okay, I've tried. I've tried to make it match the original
• 1:40:43
  lyrics, okay, which means I should probably sing the whole thing. On
• 1:40:46
  the seventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Chevy's gone lampooning.
• 1:40:54
  I think that will be Aaron Uh, Clark Griswold, naughty Clark,
• 1:40:59
  chriswald ver, Jeffy Chase, even nausea. Oh yes, by some margin.
• 1:41:06
  On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me a
• 1:41:11
  basket full of children snaggers. Yes, been trampis naughty. So people argue
• 1:41:30
  a genderlest entity, but many people use the heat pronoun for crampus, So
• 1:41:33
  yeah, his actions seem pretty male. Yeah, alright. On the ninth
• 1:41:42
  day of Christmas, my true love sent to me nine terrorists shooting lamp Oh
• 1:41:48
  yes, Aaron John McClain, nice, John McClain. Nice. Bruce Willis
• 1:41:55
  also nice. Shout out to Bruce Willis this year. Yeah, I wish
• 1:41:57
  you a merry Christmas. He wasn't in charge of the terrorists. On the
• 1:42:03
  tenth day of Christmas, my true Love sent to me ten loans a bouncing
• 1:42:10
  ten loans are bouncing. Ten loans are bouncing? Just broke aoun. I
• 1:42:19
  can't. I can't. There's no way. He's a festive person. I
• 1:42:27
  need to know who you think though, Aaron, all right, you know
• 1:42:30
  what, I'll waste it, lamb. Yes, I'm naughty. You know
• 1:42:38
  he is in Home Alone two, which is but he's not who I have
• 1:42:43
  written down here. No, I didn't imagine he was as would you like
• 1:42:47
  to say, yes, no, not in this one. This is this
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  is George Bailey. Oh, it's a wonderful, lifeful life. I was
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  gonna guess I should have What was all I would have said to Wash I
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  don't true me. Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of life, man,
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  George Bailey in a in a it's a wonderful life radio play. It
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  was a lot of fun. Oh yes, did you get to do that
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  speech? Yeah? I did. That's so cool. Yeah. Did you
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  do like a Jimmy Stewart oppression? Uh no, I did kind of more
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  of a like almost like a New York City sort of accent. You're going
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  to say, charming Southern lawyer declared Mary the Tomorrow's another day, not what
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  he said at all, I don't have your money in the bank. Has
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  your fantastic remake a classic Hollywood gone? On the eleventh day of Chris must
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  my true love sent to me eleven spooky somethings. Lamb Yes, Aaron Jack
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  Skellington nice, Yes, Jack Skellington nice, A Christmas man, a Halloween
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  man. Yeah, you can be both a man of many seasons and quick
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  before the buzzer. On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true Love center
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  me what I always thought was an Italian name for Santa, but turns out
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  was a reference to an Ed Sullivan's sketch from the nineteen sixties, said by
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  Tim Allen in the third act of nineteen ninety four's The Santa Lamb, Yes,
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  Odra is this popo gie show? It is Christmas House. That's the
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  buzzer anddra I knew it, and I was willing you to say the right
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  thing. I was like, I know, he says something. I was
• 1:44:48
  like, he says it, and this is a fun voice. What does
• 1:44:50
  he do? What is popoo? I am urgent, genuinely until making this
• 1:44:58
  this game for what thirty years of my existence and how long the film has
• 1:45:03
  been out for I thought it was just an Italian name for Santa, but
• 1:45:08
  it turns out it's a Christmas mouse from the Ed Sullivan show That does that
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  had a sketch played at Christmas time in the nineteen sixties. Ah, so
• 1:45:17
  this mouse is called Pobogigio, a Christmas mouse. And for the record,
• 1:45:27
  the winning team had already won before that, before that one, so it
• 1:45:30
  didn't just come down to a niche thing that Audra had a better chance of
• 1:45:32
  getting based on my mind. Okay, before we get to the final scores,
• 1:45:38
  I'd like to thank our players. You've all been merry and bright,
• 1:45:43
  and may all your Christmases be white in terms of snow. Not ideologically speaking,
• 1:45:50
  I never are good man, Ben, You've been a fantastic player day
• 1:46:00
  as always. What what have you got going on space auditees? Uh?
• 1:46:03
  Where can people? Where can people buy that geek exploration a new episodes out?
• 1:46:09
  M Maybe yeah, there's nothing in the hopper right now, but we'll
• 1:46:15
  get off our asses eventually. But Space audis you go to Space outitiescomic dot
• 1:46:18
  com and check it out. It's also on Amazon and uh Global Comics you
• 1:46:26
  could find it. Oh yeah, and there'll be a link in the description
• 1:46:29
  to make it even easier. WHOA, Aaron, Let's talk about Thane.
• 1:46:32
  You were also a fantastic player, But I want to talk about your novel
• 1:46:35
  that has just been published and that I've just finished reading. Yes, yes,
• 1:46:42
  uh, and you were very kind and complimentary about and I will happily
• 1:46:45
  say right here and right now that you are the only person who, at
• 1:46:50
  least who has claimed that they were figured out the uh the twist at the
• 1:46:57
  end, literally for the to it. You're the only one. Everyone else
• 1:47:01
  has said they didn't see it coming, So bravo to you. And I
• 1:47:05
  completely believe it because you're brilliant, so it makes perfect sense to me.
• 1:47:12
  Thane is a is a mystery thriller about a set of seven strangers trapped in
• 1:47:16
  a strange place and told by a computer that they have to complete tasks in
• 1:47:20
  order to be able to leave. The first two strikes or failures or breaking
• 1:47:25
  the rules cause them pain. The third is death. It's it's very it's
• 1:47:30
  meant to be intense, but it's actually very sociable, and the thrilling bits
• 1:47:34
  come in pieces here and there. It's not really like all the time crazy.
• 1:47:39
  Yeah, but I had a blast writing it. It's been a blast
• 1:47:43
  releasing it, and I am juggling promoting that, writing the second book,
• 1:47:48
  starting a kickstarter for the audio book, and are the two hundredth episode of
• 1:47:57
  my podcast? Yes, and a trip to fest these lines many lines.
• 1:48:06
  Aaron has so much going on that he has turned into a meme. Yeah,
• 1:48:11
  I'm so happy for you, ma'am. All the stuff that you've got
• 1:48:13
  going on the audiobook. That's very exciting. And thank you. Thank you
• 1:48:16
  so much for buying my book, and thank you so much for the kind
• 1:48:18
  words you said about it after I really appreciated it. Yes, do check
• 1:48:23
  out Thane. If I could do that annoying thing that people do when they
• 1:48:26
  promote someone else's piece of work and compare it to other things if you like
• 1:48:29
  things like black Mirror, Is that fair to say that it's got some like
• 1:48:31
  black Mirror vibes to it? It's a I think so. Yeah, sci
• 1:48:34
  fi mystery is essentially what we've got going on, and yeah, it invites
• 1:48:40
  you to unpack the mystery with the protagonist. And yeah, it's just a
• 1:48:44
  fantastic, well written book. Fine, check it out, thanks again,
• 1:48:46
  and Jason Studio Munchy. Where can people find all the latest details. You
• 1:48:50
  can find us at Studio Munchy on both Facebook and Instagram. A probably should
• 1:48:55
  start TikTok too, so we can guess some videos up there and stuff like
• 1:48:59
  that. But that's where you and find us for now. Where can you
• 1:49:00
  find the actual truck? That should be more important? Right, We're we're
• 1:49:06
  moving, we're mobile. If you follow the socials, that's where you'll be
• 1:49:10
  able to track us down as we can. We can say we said it
• 1:49:14
  on the pod we're Colorado based. We can say that Colorado based food truck.
• 1:49:18
  And a huge thank you to Ash and Adam Wood and just In Doddburg
• 1:49:21
  for their continued support. At the highest tier Over at patreon dot com,
• 1:49:26
  Forward slash Gates Leapers, you are our executive producers. So remember if you
• 1:49:30
  make us produce a live TV version of a Christmas Carol, you'll be visited
• 1:49:34
  by three postmodern ghosts to watch out. Okay, let's get to the scores.
• 1:49:40
  Those ghosts. I wasn't. But if you want to be who's past,
• 1:49:46
  Who's present? Whose future? I take future? I want to I'm
• 1:49:51
  the ghost of that Christmas meal you left in the microwave too. Look,
• 1:49:58
  I didn't I didn't think I'll put my peanut butter cranberry sandwich there. Okay,
• 1:50:03
  let's get to the final scores. It's been a very merry Christmas.
• 1:50:08
  It's been a very happy New Year. Not yet, but you know that's
• 1:50:11
  what people say it will be. But here are the final scores that do
• 1:50:14
  matter. Even though this episode is technically non canonical, none of this methods,
• 1:50:24
  it's just exactly like real life. The Eggnoggers finish on nineteen points,
• 1:50:30
  are very Christmas nineteen points, but covered in sinsil as festive as you can
• 1:50:36
  be. Male leg Lamp Millionaires finish on twenty one points. Nice, congratulations,
• 1:50:44
  you are are festive winners. Odra, It's so what would you what
• 1:50:48
  would you say to gifting one of our points to the Eggnoggers. Yeah,
• 1:50:54
  it's the spirit of the holidays. It should be. It should be an
• 1:50:57
  all around everybody wins. I feel like it's wow if I could rap all
• 1:51:08
  right, So a bit of Christmas cheer at the end. There, twenty
• 1:51:12
  twenty points a piece twenty points. Whow Jason, do you want to make
• 1:51:15
  the reference like the gifts of the Merger? Yeah, we got it to
• 1:51:21
  twenty points. We have been gate Leapers. Thank you so much for listening.
• 1:51:26
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• 1:51:29
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• 1:51:33
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• 1:51:36
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• 1:51:40
  Please share this episode with a festive friend, a grumpy Grinch, or even
• 1:51:45
  Mariah Carey. She'd love that, I reckon, just tweet it at Mariah
• 1:51:47
  Carey. We'll be back at the end of the year with stat Leapers,
• 1:51:56
  before a new year of new games, new fandoms, and I'll love a
• 1:52:00
  new cast. But until then, I leave you with this heart warming quote
• 1:52:03
  from Doctor Zeus's classic The Grinch. Well in Whoville, they say that the
• 1:52:09
  Grinch's heart grew three sizes that day, but the triple bypass was unsuccessful,
• 1:52:14
  they say, and the Grinch sadly passed away. Merry Chris. If you
• 1:52:20
  made it rhyme,