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Ep. 200: ‘Faced on ‘Nog: The Holiday Special · The MeatEater Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Everyone, We've got a different kind of podcast
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  Speaker 1: experience for you today. Today is our Christmas Extravaganza variety show, SIPs,
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  Speaker 1: some egg na talk, holiday hunting traditions, Christmas dishes, worst
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  Speaker 1: gifts ever, and Santa Claus may even pass a little visit.
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  Speaker 1: Plus we've got our very own meat eater caroling choir
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  Speaker 1: singing tunes. So hang around us for grand old time.
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  Speaker 1: All right everyone, it's the sum Bitch and Christmas episode. Now, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna do drinks. We're gonna do egg
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  Speaker 1: na drinks. We're gonna predict futures. Yanni's gonna guide us
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  Speaker 1: through predicting our futures by the Lavian tradition of melting
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  Speaker 1: down lead and then thrown into a bucket. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Then you take the lead out once it's cooled, and
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  Speaker 1: you hold it up to a light and it casts
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  Speaker 1: a hand puppet. Yeah, the buckets got some cold water
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  Speaker 1: in it. If anybody's wanting how it cools down and
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  Speaker 1: then you make it, hold it up and make a
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  Speaker 1: hand puppet with it. That's right. And then the shape
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  Speaker 1: tells you what's gonna happen to you. Well, not necessarily shape.
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  Speaker 1: But everybody else in the room it's looking at the shape. Well,
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  Speaker 1: then tell you what they see in that shape, and
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  Speaker 1: tell you what's gonna happen to you next. I'll do
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  Speaker 1: I'll do my own thanks. Uh okay uh. And we're
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  Speaker 1: also filling in with our special song. And we got
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  Speaker 1: a whole big thing to do. Most importantly that we
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  Speaker 1: got to run through our introductions. I'm Anthony Locatta. When
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  Speaker 1: someone says happy holidays, what comes to your mind? Um, Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: When people say that, Christmas comes in mind. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: a fourth July man, myself is the perfect holiday for fireworks,
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  Speaker 1: hummer bonfires. Doesn't get any better than that. Cal, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Callahan and uh I had Yeah, I enjoy holidays,
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  Speaker 1: but I like him for the time off. That's so
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  Speaker 1: you like the ones that include some time off. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: where I can go, you know, hunting and fishing, maybe
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  Speaker 1: do some cooking and laundry and whatnot. I also wish
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  Speaker 1: that everyone who heard this right now could see Cal. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Cal's got a elf get up on with big ears.
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  Speaker 1: And I was just having a c w D. I
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  Speaker 1: was having a chronic wastion disease conversation with Cal. And
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  Speaker 1: there's two things tripped me up. One is it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to argue with someone dressed up as the Elf. And two,
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  Speaker 1: I was imagining that Cal had all these rein to
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  Speaker 1: your friends and that his community was being annihilated by
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  Speaker 1: c w D. And in the ways I wish that
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  Speaker 1: would impact him emotionally. Yeah, not in your backyard, but
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  Speaker 1: in mine. Um. Yeah, So I do think that I
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  Speaker 1: like the ideas of like, you don't necessarily need to
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  Speaker 1: hear Christmas or Hannik or or whatever when somebody says, hey, happy,
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  Speaker 1: It's more like I give enough of a shit about
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  Speaker 1: you to say I hope you have a good time
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  Speaker 1: doing whatever. Well, what you could start doing is saying, uh,
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  Speaker 1: if you're having some time off, I hope you enjoy it,
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  Speaker 1: go outside, get enjoy, done, enjoy, enjoy or whatever time
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  Speaker 1: off you might be getting from work. Shout that after him. Phil, Hey, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I I think of Christmas. I grew up with Christmas. Um,
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  Speaker 1: love the smells, the food, the lights. Ye, hi, Steve,
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  Speaker 1: my favorite holiday. When someone says happy holidays, or what
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  Speaker 1: am I thinking of? I've already told you Winter Solstice?
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  Speaker 1: You that one, Mark Kenyon, Yeah, you stole my thunder there,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon, what you want to say? Go ahead next next,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon here. Uh yeah, I'm a fan of Christmas
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  Speaker 1: and being married for whatever you want to celebrate. But
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  Speaker 1: I'll say that about Christmas, what I think it's got
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  Speaker 1: over a lot of other Fourth of July type holidays
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  Speaker 1: is the music. I'm a Christmas music man. You're you're
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  Speaker 1: a Billy Joel Man. I got pigeon holed into that unfairly.
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  Speaker 1: When someone tell Billy Joel Man, you want to know
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  Speaker 1: the rest of my their life when they're talking about music.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to know what I hear? M hmm
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  Speaker 1: the piano, man, that's the noise that enters my head
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about music. Now that I know you're
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  Speaker 1: a Billy Joel Man, here's the thing, like the employment
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  Speaker 1: where we said, Mark, what do you like? Mark said,
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  Speaker 1: I like Billy Joel. That is not true. That's not
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  Speaker 1: what happened. If I do recall, though, you listed off
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of Billy Joel songs just as many
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  Speaker 1: as I could produce during that conversation. Yeah, but I
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  Speaker 1: could also list my enemies fair enough. You can listen
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  Speaker 1: like the Access Powers during World War two is me
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  Speaker 1: not like them Christmas music though you like Christmas? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you, Mark, Thank you. Sam. Wait, who's your
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  Speaker 1: favorite Christmas artists? Billy Joel's Christmas? I know, Frank Sinatra,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good thing, or being Steve's World some more,
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  Speaker 1: my old man love because my man Sinatra, well, bright Eyes,
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  Speaker 1: blue Eyes Eyes, that's not a bad band, but blue
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  Speaker 1: Eyes he never wrote a thing. He never wrote a thing.
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  Speaker 1: He just like would interpret people's songs whatever that means.
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  Speaker 1: He did it his way. Steve, that's very true, all right, Sam, Hi,
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  Speaker 1: my name is Samum. First time on the show, first
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  Speaker 1: time on the show right now. But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's true with anything, that's the first time. Yeah it is.
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  Speaker 1: When I think of holidays, I think of Christmas. We
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  Speaker 1: were a typical Catholic family and went to church every Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Good for you. Now, I don't get gifts for anyone
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  Speaker 1: for Christmas. You you like you. You wanted to strip
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  Speaker 1: the commercialism right out of it. Yeah, And I just
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  Speaker 1: I'm not really a good gift giver, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: really want to like give a gift that everyone's just
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  Speaker 1: going to hate anyways. But this year I'm going to make.
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  Speaker 1: I should just give um. I'm going to make jerky
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  Speaker 1: from my deer this year. You know what my brother
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  Speaker 1: made for everybody for Christmas this year? He bought a
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  Speaker 1: thing to make. I think he makes fifty tubes at
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  Speaker 1: a time. And he makes dear fat chapstick. Oh that's
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  Speaker 1: a good idea with all natural deer fats, got bees
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  Speaker 1: wax and various oils like essential oils, and he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: believe in essential oils, but he uses it for his
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  Speaker 1: chapstick and it's a wonderful product and he's able to
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  Speaker 1: make fifty out of time and a special little two
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  Speaker 1: holder he's got doing this stuff is yeah, he's not
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  Speaker 1: selling them, and he didn't put glycering in it, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm worried about the shelf stability. That's a that's a
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  Speaker 1: there's like I think it's glystener glysall or something. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a food safe preserved. We just use it making
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  Speaker 1: trapping bait, like you can start you can take some meat,
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  Speaker 1: cat meat, whatever and wrote it down and then put
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  Speaker 1: glycering in it to stop the rot. And remember it's
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  Speaker 1: like a food safe deal. He's not using it, so
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about the shelf stability. A dear tale
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  Speaker 1: of chapstick. But dude, you put this on your lips.
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  Speaker 1: It's good stuff man, Because he had to render it.
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  Speaker 1: He rendered it out, put the bees wax in there,
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  Speaker 1: put some aromatics in there, all natural, like, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's like the Tom and Jerry's a chap stick man.
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  Speaker 1: How is that not in the mediator store right now?
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  Speaker 1: That seems like something we absolutely need to have. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's probably some kind of FDA component to it.
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  Speaker 1: What does Tom and Jerry's of chapstick mean? Oh? How
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  Speaker 1: they brag up how they got real simple ingredients bene
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  Speaker 1: Jerry's with their Uncle Tom's deoderant? What's that de orderant? Times?
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  Speaker 1: Confusing Times of Maine with the famous book Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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  Speaker 1: My kids have been recently, so I was I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know if those guys had a chapstick, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Maybe it's even Briars. Who is it
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  Speaker 1: that has like they make a big deal out how
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  Speaker 1: nothing's in the ice cream right, It's it's probably Ben Jerry.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's start out. We're gonna make some drinks.
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  Speaker 1: What we're gonna have? What's our holiday drink for our
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  Speaker 1: special holiday special. Our holiday drink is egg nog. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna use our meat eat or straight bourbon whiskey. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna basically dump all the ingredients into our
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  Speaker 1: Weston blender and it's going to be like a five
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  Speaker 1: minute nag. It's um from scratch, from scratch, eggs, ry eggs, nutmeg, cinnamon,
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  Speaker 1: half and half, heavy cream, milk, sugar, in our in
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  Speaker 1: our bourbon. Uh. We're having a conversation before we got started,
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  Speaker 1: and Crim's gonna make this drink. Um is it? I've
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  Speaker 1: I know from reading Tom Robbins. What book is the
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  Speaker 1: one that has the Tarzan's in Tom Robins novel where
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  Speaker 1: he's going, Uh, it's like Tarzan is tripping on nutmeg
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  Speaker 1: and he encounters Jesus in the desert. Oh sounds great.
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  Speaker 1: See I know the drug reference from Malcolm X because
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  Speaker 1: when Malcolm gets thrown in the clink, like his uh
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  Speaker 1: kind of mentor in there gets him level headed on
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  Speaker 1: nutmeg and warns him it's it's the only don't ask
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  Speaker 1: him for it again. Okay, Yeah, it trips you out.
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  Speaker 1: It's like tricking robot using right. I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: Phil is going to read up on it, Phil, how
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  Speaker 1: much nutmeg you gotta eat the trip this Christmas, this
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  Speaker 1: holiday season. The thing is not actually a lot, but
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of nutmeg goes a long way if
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  Speaker 1: you've had it. And so people there's a I looked
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  Speaker 1: it up. People of there's um history of people tripping
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  Speaker 1: on nutmeg, at least since like Dreds is the first
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  Speaker 1: documented kind of a woman eight ten nutmegs, nuts, nutmeg, nuts,
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  Speaker 1: and felts, and people were already tripping on it when
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  Speaker 1: the Pilgrims came to America. Yeah. Um. And so the
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  Speaker 1: reason is is that there's a there's a compound in
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  Speaker 1: it called Mira Steyson which gets turned into a drug
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  Speaker 1: called m M d A, which if it that sounds familiar,
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  Speaker 1: there's a it's got a very close relative called m
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  Speaker 1: D m A, which is ecstasy. Um. So when your
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  Speaker 1: body's processing it, it changed the changes of the mirror
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  Speaker 1: Styson and into this hallucinogenic drug. So yeah, it's it's okay.
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  Speaker 1: So you're making some nutmeg, Yeah, and you got a
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  Speaker 1: jar of It's hold the season. You make us some
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  Speaker 1: nutmeg and you got a jar the little nuts, the megs.
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  Speaker 1: How many of those. You need to eat before you're
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  Speaker 1: before you know your your aunt has like a snake
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  Speaker 1: coming out of her nostril or something like that. If
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  Speaker 1: it looks like probably probably about two or three to
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  Speaker 1: really kind of feel it. Yeah, that's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: last drunk by that point in time. So you had
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  Speaker 1: ten nutmegs. I mean that's a lot of dedicated she
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  Speaker 1: must have had a cow that put egg knock off.
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  Speaker 1: Do you eat them or do you snort them? Or
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  Speaker 1: you smoke them? I'm asking for friends. It's it's just eating. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like you just grind it up. Yeah. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so they're they're they're documented cases of of
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  Speaker 1: of you know, kids just downing jars of ground nutmegs.
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  Speaker 1: I got one. I got one right now. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: take a no on. Okay, well we'll update throughout the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see how you're doing. Oh yeah, that's got to
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  Speaker 1: be very difficult meal to eat. Yeah, yeah, I'd have
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  Speaker 1: to snort it. Um. So yeah, you will feel a
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  Speaker 1: little That's why no one, that's why everybody's not wasted
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  Speaker 1: on Christmas. So you will get a little bit, but
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  Speaker 1: I can't. Vomiting comes with the high. But it's it's
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  Speaker 1: mostly they think it's non toxic. Like there's only been
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  Speaker 1: one documented death from eating too much nutmegging. It was
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  Speaker 1: from an eight year old kid who ate I think
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  Speaker 1: three just three nutmegs and died. But that sounds like
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  Speaker 1: it might have been something else going on as well
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  Speaker 1: the holiday season when I happened to him. I don't know. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The other question we had is what's up with um
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  Speaker 1: eating all kind of raw eggs? Because remember chips? And
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  Speaker 1: I know you don't remember chips. I'm aware there are motorcycles, chips, chips.
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  Speaker 1: There was a part of most episode where either Punch
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  Speaker 1: or John I can't remember would drink It was like
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  Speaker 1: a stick. That's Yiddish, I think, is that Yiddish stick? Ye,
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  Speaker 1: that's the Yiddish. Trying to keep multicultural here. Stick was
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  Speaker 1: to drink a glass of eggs. You guys remember this?
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  Speaker 1: You do? How did he avoid being sick all the time?
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  Speaker 1: So a reading roy eggs the main that when you're
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  Speaker 1: going on back there makes a magnet speed ro so
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  Speaker 1: there people think that it can the egg whites can
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  Speaker 1: block absorb absorption of vitamin D seven go on, but
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  Speaker 1: that's not a really high concerned. The main concern is
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  Speaker 1: actually just Sam and ella. That's the only thing that
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  Speaker 1: people are concerned about with ry eggs is that, um,
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  Speaker 1: it's just the higher higher chance of salmonella. The nutmeg
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  Speaker 1: and my mouth is ruining my Christmas special special goodness
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  Speaker 1: to this that he ate raw eggs for years. That's how,
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  Speaker 1: That's how chips does it. And I actually don't think
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  Speaker 1: that it does make you sick because my mom, when
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  Speaker 1: I was a little boy, made our own That was
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  Speaker 1: one of our traditionstions was to eat raw eggs. No
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  Speaker 1: one ever got sick. What kind of tradition was that,
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  Speaker 1: h I'm sorry, No, she would make egg dog. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was like for for Christmas Eve, she would make
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  Speaker 1: egg dog out of eggs. And then we didn't all
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  Speaker 1: just sit around puking and messing our pants. You go
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  Speaker 1: to a nice restaurant, you have steak tartar was a
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  Speaker 1: raw egg and that Yeah, that's good point. Sam thoughts
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  Speaker 1: about that, Well, it's just the raw yoke. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was the egg white that was the issue. The
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  Speaker 1: egg white is the thing that might block absorption vitamin B.
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  Speaker 1: But that's an issue either way. Quick quick correction. While
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  Speaker 1: we while we while the drinks get made, Colt this
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  Speaker 1: pertains YouTube. Um in keeping with the holiday holiday theme, here, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we have a craction coming from our friend. Uh. He
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  Speaker 1: sent it as an inform of a Christmas card, where
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  Speaker 1: Doug Durn sent into correction and I told him if
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  Speaker 1: he could to try to make it fit with our
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  Speaker 1: Christmas episode, that he could give it a Christmas theme.
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  Speaker 1: So he's he's including it as a gift. And it
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  Speaker 1: has to do with his annoyance when people say, particularly
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  Speaker 1: when I always say cut corn meaning I was hunting
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  Speaker 1: out in a cut corn field, or when are they
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  Speaker 1: gonna cut that corn? So uh, here's Doug's correction, which
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  Speaker 1: he sent to us as a nice little audio file.
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  Speaker 1: And Doug, I will point out, in the entire history
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  Speaker 1: of this show, in the entire history of this program,
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  Speaker 1: only one person is that true, Yanni, Only one person
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  Speaker 1: has ever been given call in credentials. I believe that
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  Speaker 1: could be true, Dug Durn. Yeah, here is hey, Steve.
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  Speaker 1: It's Dug during calling to wish you your family and
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  Speaker 1: the home meat eat You're gig, Merry Christmas, happy New Year,
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  Speaker 1: and a prosperous look forward. The next time we're together,
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  Speaker 1: also called to make a little correction cut corn. Don't
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  Speaker 1: like that expression. It's incorrect. It sounds foolish. Ah, corn
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  Speaker 1: is either chopped, picked, or shelled when it's harvested. What's
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  Speaker 1: left in the field is corn, stubble, corn fodder, or
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  Speaker 1: even more correctly, corn stover. The stubble is the stuff
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  Speaker 1: that's left when they chop it off, and the fodder
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  Speaker 1: and the stover is the stuff that's left when they
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  Speaker 1: just take the ears of corn or the shelled corn.
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  Speaker 1: So please, in the future, can you make that correction?
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  Speaker 1: Got me pulling my hair out. Thanks and happy holidays. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Colt when you heard that, I know he emailed that.
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  Speaker 1: Initially emailed deck playing. I felt that you rolled over
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  Speaker 1: like a dog. How so did you read my response? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you said never again in my life or something like that. No,
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  Speaker 1: I said, he said, please in the future, like make
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  Speaker 1: this correction, and I said I will not, And then
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  Speaker 1: I am going to stand by cut corn. You said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: cal said never in my life. I thought he meant.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he rolled over like a dog and meant
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  Speaker 1: never in my life. While I use that phrase again, No, No,
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  Speaker 1: I I ad meant I'm sticking by a cut corn. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I see I could. I capitulated. I capitulated, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, man, he's right, what do I know? I'm
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  Speaker 1: no farmer and I'm not. And then I called him
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  Speaker 1: to hear him out on it. And I happened to
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  Speaker 1: be driving around when someone who's got quite a egg
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  Speaker 1: background and they were listening in on my call with
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  Speaker 1: dog and he says, well, it's not concorn. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what the hell it because I've been calling it
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  Speaker 1: that my entire life. And this guy knows his way
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  Speaker 1: around a cornfield. And I noticed too in Doug's thing
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  Speaker 1: he catches if you listen carefully, uh, until you can
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  Speaker 1: patch us in. Doug is forming a sentence and he
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  Speaker 1: there's a slight pause. He's like, and when they get
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  Speaker 1: done chopping the corn, there's a slight fauce because he
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  Speaker 1: almost like, the more I listened to, the more I
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  Speaker 1: catch it. He almost says, cut the corn, but corrects
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  Speaker 1: himself and swings are hit played again. Phil. The stubble
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  Speaker 1: is the stuff that's left when they chop it off.
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  Speaker 1: There's not all over damn place now. Now it's like Cristmas.
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  Speaker 1: This place already smells. This place is gonna smell like
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna smell like folks. And uh, for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: all I can picture is somebody missing a finger and
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: you're like, hey, well what happened to your finger? It's like,
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  Speaker 1: oh got cut off. No, ially, here's chop and the
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  Speaker 1: thing that's left is the stover instead of the chop.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I think that, But you give your
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  Speaker 1: theory about how where dogs coming from? And I love
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  Speaker 1: Doug More. I told you I love Doug More. I
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  Speaker 1: love Yoanni. I feel like there was a little pause
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  Speaker 1: in that sense too. Um. I feel like maybe just
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  Speaker 1: and this is just just kind of a random theory
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  Speaker 1: that I just thought of five minutes ago, is that
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  Speaker 1: maybe Doug's thinking is because where Doug comes from, there's
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: like a little region there around Casinova. It's a population
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: and like half of them are Durrance. And like you
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: said earlier, he there's cousins around that he doesn't even
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: know that exists, and they's got Rhodes named after him. Yeah,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: maybe just there in that region, it's because it would
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: be like he could say this in my family, we
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: say chopped corn, because that would be synonymous with in
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: my community. Yes, geez, Doug, you're a big guy. What
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: do you mean. Everybody's built this way? Every time dog
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: goes out of tow him. These people are small. On
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: me swirl a crockpot. On the second day of Christmas,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: my true love game to me two smokes sirrel a croco.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: to me three pripers, two smoke press and a swirl
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and croco. Damn that boy, I can think. Man, the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: annunciation is not good. Do you know that they're saying
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: coot breasts. I just tripped out about the one the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: coop breasts, which is rough, but the rest are very clear.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: That's off to the choir. It's really good singing. Yeah,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: he's in the choir. Yeah, and he really regards himself
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: as regards himself pretty highly as a caroler, as maybe
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: a lover of Caroline, but not as a caroler. Oh,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I never made that distinction. Yeah. Like earlier, I was
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: on the phone with my mother talking about latvian Um
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Christmas folk songs, so I'm gonna have to sing one
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: for you later, and we kind of settled on one.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: And because I wanted the one that had the right. Um,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: what's it called? Is it called a refrain in English?
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Like the things sing over and over at the end
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: of a segment. Of course, of course there's the chorus.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: What's the refrain? Refrain would be that thing that comes
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: at the tail end of the song that you insert
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: that's a little We didn't start the fire anyways. So
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: she's sang the melody. I saying the melody. She's saying
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the melody and finally said like, yeah, I think you
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: got it. But she says, you know it's gonna be
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the most important for you is that maybe someone else
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: sort of sets the tone or that where you're supposed
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: to start, and then you go from there like, well,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: only there's anyby in the room, it's gonna know the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: tune for see that being a cord. Yeah, so he's
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: he's a caroling enthusiast rather than a good caroler. Phil
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Who else is in the choir? Oh? Man, Yeah, I did,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: there was HANSI. Philip was like our conductor. He's a
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: music man. Flip flushers and lushers in there. Did you
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: find that his um? Did you find that you could
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: accentuate his his part did you at the down listening
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: back to the files. I'm not even positive he was singing.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I think he was just there for show. He was
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: probably just mouthings. So old. Do you know who Milli
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Vanilli is? I know the name. I need to tune
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: in and get new references for culture. I had tickets
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to see Billy Vanilly right before they got If you
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: want a slightly more modern reference, he could say, like
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: like Ashley Simpson on SNL, thank you, Yeah, yeah, like that, okay,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: old man Ronella hopped up on nut Man talking about
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the way things were. Are you guys feeling this Nutmeg? No?
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: You know, I like man, but see, I'm like that
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: when people tell me about a disease, I feel like
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I got it their day. My body was telling about
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: his body, who's the capillaries and his fingers are dying
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: and so he has a real hard time keeping his
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: fingers warm. And the whole time he's telling me, I'm
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: trying to He's like all the time about how sad
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: he is for his body because this is like could
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: be like a terminal thing. But I'm not even listening
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: to anything. I'm not caring about the body. I'm just
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: sitting here he's going, and I'm sitting there being like,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: God do I have that? I have such a hard time.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: So now that I hain't that nutmeg, I feel like
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I'm tripping right. It's a creepers and his eyes are
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: like turning like blood blood color. And he's like sending
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: me messages and sending me messages through that Santa hat
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: and stuff. Well, you're finally getting it, then, I've been
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: doing that for years. He's like, I worshiped the devil.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm hearing in the background. I was laughing
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: slightly this morning when I was fussing around, and because
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: we have an email, it's like, hey, remember bringing your
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Christmas sweater. But it's like anything could be a Christmas
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: sweater if it's the thing that you're wearing a Christmas yeah,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: but I feel like you that is your Christmas water.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: This is my Christmas sweater. Yeah, And I did by
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: this specifically for Christmas. Yeah, is he your ugly Christmas sweater? No?
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Those things classy as hell. The ugly Christmas swuner, Sam,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: It's just it's for for ladies and gentlemen at home.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Cal's wearing. It's just a real bright red sweater. Why
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: do you have a shirt underneath it? Well, because I
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: didn't bring my dickie him. That's what you wear with that.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: We but dicky's when you get Uh, it's like it's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: like a it's like a clip on tie. It's like
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the clip on tie the turtleneck world. Yes, well it's
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: like a turtleneck sweater minus the sweater. No. No, it's
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the turtle neck. We used to wear them ice fishing.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: It's a turtleneck that you just pull over and it's
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: got a little flapp that hangs down front and back.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Meant to be worn under a sweater. Yeah, but we
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: warm ice fishing. Yeah, just to keep your neck warm,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: you put your dicky on. Not like what you're thinking. Oh, anyway,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I got this the gold mine and catch mydah. Which
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: if you're ever looking for any kind of old man
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: type of stuff, that's a real good place to go. Steve,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: how's that. That's a good one like MA used to make.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Oh that's good. That's better. Mas. There you go, Okay,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: drinking hand, We're gonna we're gonna move on. Um real quick. Uh.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: What you guys have like um holiday? You know, food traditions,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: culinary traditions. Yes, they're not. They're not necessarily uh you know,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: centering around wild game. I haven't started that yet. My neighbor,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: on the other hand, though, has smoked deer ham He's
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: a new hunter, only killed two deer and smoked deer
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: hand the last two years in a row. And the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: other night told me he's gonna that's gonna be his
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: uh Thanksgiving tradition. Just smoked deer hams. That was pretty cool,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: but no, for me, it's um. Pepercucas and pete dog
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: be dogs. Pep cucas are Latvian ginger bread cookies, but
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: they don't look or taste like the gingerbread that there's
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: ginger in there, which is why I use that um comparison.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: But they're very thin wafers. There's a cookie out there
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: called the Moravian Christmas cookie if anybody's had those, and
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: that's like the closest store bought thing I've ever seen.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Um to Latvian gingerbread cookies actually means pepper cookie. Um. Yeah,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: so they're very spicy with black pepper, lots of ginger thin. Um.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: My great uncle used to love all the burnt ones
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: because every year you get a pan that's burnt in there. Anyways,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: we make those. We kind of in Christmas shapes with
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: a little uh you know, so what would pass as
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: a Christmas shape among the folks. A tree, It looks
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: like a fir tree, star, a moon traditional, Yeah, moons,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: We had a lot of moons. Huh. You gotta stick
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: of a moon as a Christmas shape because Santa flies
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: over across it. No, I would say, because the um
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: moon is somehow helping along the sun to come back alive. Yeah,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: buy that our holiday. We had two holiday things. One
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: was how's it going? Ran taken a lot? One was
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: not ours but every year old woman. You know how
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: when you're a little kid, you have grandparents Day at school. Yeah,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: our grandparents lived too far away and then they were dead.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: But we had fake grandparents that would show up for
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: grandparents Day. Vivia Um Kokoma and what was your old
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: man's name? And these folks were just Barney and Vivian
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Kokoma would always come to grandparents Day and pretend to
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: be our grandparents. Nicest people on the planet. Vivian Kokoma
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: would always have my dad give her a deer neck
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: or two. She would take the deer necks cook him
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: down and make mince meat pie filling, and then she
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: would jar the mince meat pie filling in glass jars,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: and then she would wrap a ribbon around it, and
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: then on Christmas she would bring it around and give
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: it out as Christmas presents and we would get a jar.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Smellman gave her the neck. But that was one thing.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: But the main uh culinary tradition is my mom would
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: make this thing called sticky buns. It's like you cook
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: a bunch of I don't know what they are, dough dough, right,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: and it's got all kinds of sugar in it, so
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: that it kind of thing, yeah, and there's so much
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: sugar and caramel on the bottom. Then you flip it
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: over and all the you know, shiploads of caramel and
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: all the stuff that settled to the bottom is then
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: on top and it dries and you wake up and
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: eat that. We do this thing where my parents boil
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: a huge pot of polish killed bassa Christmas morning. You
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: are your a pole my mom's side of the family. Jiminski.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: My dad felt that the poles um drank too much.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: That could be true. That could be true, but it
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: has a horrendous smell if you don't like Polish kill
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: bossa very very strong smell. And my wife came into
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the family not having that Polish backgroundground ah, maybe some German,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: some English, not important feel you might have. For Mark's sake,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: my wife, the English and Germans they are mortal enemies
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: once UoT time. Yeah, but they are buddies at one
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: point as well. But yeah, so she came into this
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: not prepared for that smell everymore on Christmas, and she
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: almost vomited when she was pregnant the other year because
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: a little killed bassa. Yeah, the smell feels the stinch
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: of the kill bossa. Yeah, so that's our thing. Polish
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: hold on big sausages. So you get a potfull of
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: boiled sausages. Then what you just eat boiled killed bassa
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: for your breakfast? The best you guys could do. Did
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: you make them or buy them? Bought them at a
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: traditional little Polish market, and then your mouth just boils
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: them up, boils them. She's got it. She's got a
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: pretty easy day, don't you. Then you dipping in cocktail sauce. No,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: that's that's what they did get confusing shrimp. No, I can't,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I can't in the can in the Polish Kenyan household.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: You guys, boy, go to the store, buy some kill
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: boss of boiling up, dipping in cocktail sauce. Yeah, I'm
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: not gonna sit here until you it's good. But it's
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: just what they do, and that's what we did. It
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: sounds great to me. And we also got any good
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: holiday want. How are they culinary? My grandma Marian my
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: mom's side of the family. She always makes lots of cooks.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: You know, there's lots of good food, but there's always
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: little chunks of beard in my mouth from you, from
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: your beard of the elf beard. Um. York sure pudding?
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Are you familiar with that? I made out of hog's blood? No,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: This was like very confusing as a child because it's
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: called Yorkshire pudding. But it comes out and uh, it's
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: like that it's a muffing that's burned on top and
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: then it has kind of like a custardy consistency when
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: you like pull the top off. And ours were always
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: like a very savory thing, so you put like you'd
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: like use it to like mop up meat juice because
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: we're always always making beef with How can you have
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: any pudding if you don't eat your meat. You're like,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: I'm dipping my meat and my pudding. Yes, but as
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: a kid, you're like, this is a muffing. Where's the pudding?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, get all excited. The kids are like it
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: was some pudding. Common then also they lay that out there, right,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: So I eat this and then the pudding comes. But yeah,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: that that's one of those like Christmas eat type. Thanks Sam,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: anything I would say. Unfortunately, my family wasn't the most traditional.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I think the biggest tradition was we changed it up
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: every single year. But the one thing that we would
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: always get is eggnog, but we never made it. We
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: always bought the Southern comfort eggnog. Have you that? So
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: it was premixed. So when you guys are in high school,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: did you guys call it soco? Oh yeah, definitely. And
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: so this is bringing me back. Thanks. This is much
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: better than the store bought. Believably good, Very good, Karin,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: thank you. This is the best. Uh he wanted to
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: do it again. It's the best eggnog drink I've ever
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: had in my entire life. It is very good. Agreed. Unfortunately,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: some of you guys have minus vanilla. I forgot to
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: put in vanilla. The first round vanilla. So we're gonna
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: need to top you off. Um, it's it's super simple.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: It's just eggs, heavy cream, milk. You can do half
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: and half or not. U nutmeg, six nutmegs, Ye have
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: a little Yeah, yeah, we got plenty of here. Um yeah, nutmegs, cinnamon,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: some sugar, good eggs, m vanilla and the meat eater
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: burbon which makes it. It makes a hell of a drink.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: It tastes like if you just kept adding ice, this
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: would just be ice cream. Yeah, it's very good. Tastes
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: like Santa himself. Mix it up. I actually like to
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: have ice cubes in mine and let it thin out
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: a little bit more. Not quite so heavy. Du Nothing
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: tastes better than the first egg. No cocktail you have
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: every hear, nothing tastes worse than the last man, I
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: get burned out. Oh yeah, yeah about a gallon. That's
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: what I'm good for. I was saying more of like
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: a court, but it burned out after a gallon egg. Now, Oh,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: you know, do you want to do a holiday food thing? Sure?
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: What do you have? Because can you tell me a
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: little bit about your background? Sure? Um? So my mom
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: is Chinese and She immigrated to the United States from
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Beijing way back when. And my dad is a Jewish
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: kid from Brooklyn. So that's my background. So what do
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: you guys do around Christmas? It depends sorry, you know
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: what I mean. You can say Christmas. Uh. It kind
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: of depended on the year. Sometimes we would get together
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: as a family, just the three of us. I don't
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: have any siblings. The three of us would go out
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: to a very Christmas see only child, only child. Yeah. Yeah.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I grew up in New York City, so there are
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: plenty of very holiday festive Christmas ee type traditional dinners.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: If we're too late see to cook. Um. What the
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Jews normally do for Christmas is they go out and
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: eat Chinese food because Chinese are open. I've actually participated
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: in that one time. So sometimes that is a tradition.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: And sometimes it's gotten together with the Jewish side of
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: my family and celebrated Christmas slash Hanukah. You don't You
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: don't really have like a specific day on which you
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: celebrate hanaka. It's an eight day thing. Um. But yeah,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: so kind of just depend upon the year. You know.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: One time you don't know this, but I'll tell you, Okay,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: one time because of the International Dateline and an airplane,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: I missed Christmas. Oh did you like you flew? Wait?
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Explain that I was flying west across the International Dateline
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: and they're like, and it timed out where the essentially
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: was no Christmas Day that year? Was that? Was that
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: the worst year of your life? Was that the worst? No?
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I thought, I mean, it just it was it wanted
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: to be like one of the more memorable Christmas. It's
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: absence made it be memorable. You know, it was in
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: it was in the It was just in the it
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: was the it was the tail end of the pre
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: nine eleven era. Okay, uh, oh, you know what I
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: want to talk about? Oh yeah, but to tell about
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the different food things you guys eats some Chinese food. Yeah,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: we would sometimes do Chinese food on Christmas. We would
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: sometimes do very Christmas ee traditional. You know, I think
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: when was that coming from? Because it was it coming
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: from your mother? No, it wasn't from coming from my
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: mom either, although my mom's side of the family does
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: celebrate Christmas. Um, what was your mom from Beijing Christian? No? No,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: she wasn't. My so her grandparents, my great grandparents, were
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Buddhist her mom and my grandmother was I should say
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: a little bit more on the philosophical Confucian side. Got it?
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Do you feel that you have a Christmas sweat around
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: right now? I have a Christmas bread or is that
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: a holiday sweater? It is a Christmas sweater right now
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: because Rudolph's on it. Um, he's got a red nose
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: and white three D like poofball that's coming off the
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: edge of his hat. And um, this is so ugly,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: it's amazing. It lights up. How come we don't have
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: a little all right, because because that would be really
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: so distracting. I don't think anyone would hold on krim
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: sweater has a battery in it. Come on, let's go waiting.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Oh look at that. Here we go. Huh, that's not distracting.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Keep this. Um, Yeah, I have lights on my sweater
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: that change color and flash constantly. Yeah. So her like
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: just below her collar bones, there are there's a there's
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: a line of lights right where her dickie would be
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: would taper off. All right, I'm gonna keep this going
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: for us the podcast. Okay, Phil rolls some more of
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: the Christmas song on the dat of Christmas My True
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Love Game to me for miss meat pie three fried
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: perch juice smoke could send us for all in a
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: crock pot. On the fifth day of Christmas, my true
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: love gave to me fine bad old bachas for miss
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: beat pie three fried perch juice smokes send a squirrel
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: in a chron pot. On the sixth day Christmas, my
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: true love game to me six cheeks up, grouper, fine
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: old black chaps, miss meat pie three fried send us
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: squir all in a crock pot. Moving on in our
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Christmas special Christmas Holiday Special? Uh Yanni on Instagram, how
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: do you do it? Used to be Latvian Hunter, but
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: now just at yannest But tell us that's right with
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: an underscoring there, dude, Yanni is so unbelievably close to
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: having a hundred k followers. Get that, man, he doesn't
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: realize hearing this. I've reached the Yeah, he doesn't realize
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: how much life changes. I haven't told you about all
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: the things that happened at that point, but it's gonna
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: blow your mind. It's like a whole secret world out there, Johnnie. Um,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I can't wait. Janni asked on Instagram people to share
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: with us the worst Christmas presents they've ever gotten in
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: their entire life. You'll shoot your eye out, kid, Yeah, yeah,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I wanna. UM, I have a bad I have a
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Christmas gift story, uh that I like to tell every year.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: It's like a t this is this combines two things.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: It's a Christmas gift story in your tradition story. It's
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: my tradition to tell the story of a year in
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: the presence of my brother because it makes them so depressed.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: When I was a little kid, they had a thing
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: called Secret Santa's Workshop. You gets familiar with this what
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: it was it was It was a venue for children
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: who didn't have access to um a vehicle to go
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: shopping for their family in such a way that their
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: family wouldn't know what they got him. Because when you're
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: a little kid, how do you go shopping for your mom?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Pre buying shot on the internet? You're picturing how trouble,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: how hard it be right because your mom takes you
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: to the store. How do you ever get your moms
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: something so thank you? That in Mikey's Elementary now it's
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: a it's a fundraiser kind of a deal and it's
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: called Secret Santa's Workshop. I think they omit Secret just
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: saying his workshop. Yeah, maybe I added that, so you're
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: you get you Still it's still kind of like, it's
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: still kind of conns your mom a little bit because
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: you still gotta get money from your parents. But you
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: bring the money down and you get credit, and you
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: buy junk for your family, and you could get like
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: a jib when I was looking, you could get like
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: a gigantic racer, all kinds of stuff. I kind of
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: blew all my money and I didn't get my brother
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Matt anything, and so I got Matt a sheriff's a
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: plastic sheriff's badge shaped like a star. Uh. I was
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: really excited about it. That night at dinner, my mom asked,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: how was saying his workshop, to which Matt replies, it
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: was so stupid. In fact, it was so stupid that
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: they sold little plastic sheriff's badges. I was so upset.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: I ran into the living room and wept. Wept. He
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: felt so bad that to try to make me feel better,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: he promised me and actually went through with this where
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: he and I would start a pin collection based off
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: his new sheriff's badge pin. I like to tell that
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: story ever here, just to make him depressed all over again.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Uh so did he follow through? Do you guys have
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: a little collection? No, I think that we did actually
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: start a short lived little pin collection as part of
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: him being like I was wrong. I don't you know,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: I didn't see the potential. In fact, we could start
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: a collection and this sheriff's badge could be the first.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: That's great step, that's a good story. So it's yeah,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I think it's the most depressing thing in the world.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: You like it? Yeah? Good ending When I tell it,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: he just uh, it's I hope he's listening. The ruins
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: is Christmas. He hasn't had a good Christmas since he
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: was He hasn't had a good Christmas since he was eight. Yeah. Uh,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: worst worst president people have ever gotten. Um. One guy
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: got a dog shaped hot dog cooker bun steamer makes
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: a barking sound when you're hot dogs done. Guy his aunt.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Remember we're talking about the guy that thought his aunt
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: was fairly attractive. Yeah, not that guy, but another guy.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: His aunt came to blow up now when he went
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: away to college. Shoot your eye out, kid, that's a
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: fun one to open up in front of the fam.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Um guy wrote in that got a engrave Christmas ornament.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: His name's Brian, but when he got it they had
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: uh misspelled his name, so just says brain. Uh dude. Uh.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Someone made him a hand knit mitten for quote my
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: junk with flip up urinating tip, he says. He says,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: it's real nice on cold days when you're ice fishing
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: or glass and freezing your balls off. Another guy wrote
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: in that his dad gave him a four ten with
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: a bent barrel when he was a kid and told
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: him that it helped him out in the long run.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Guy said from his grandmother in law three years in
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: a row running now has received the same piggy bank
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: that is in the shape of a butt and farts
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: when you put coins in it. Guy rolled into the
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: guy gave him a beaver tail. Guy rode in that
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: former in laws, he says, for I was people are well.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: I feel like get so many letters to people who
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: allude to having gotten a divorce, Like he points out,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: my former in laws they didn't know anything about hunting
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: or fishing, and but they always want to buy him
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: presence that he thought he would like, and he says,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: looking back on it, it felt as though their shopping
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: strategy was to ram shopping carts into the shelves at
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Cabela's and get him whatever happened to fall in the cart.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: I feel like that was a good piece of writing
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: When I read that, I really, I really like that,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: because immediately I was there picturing how he got his presence.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: They got him at one time, a camo do rag.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: He got a deer drag system. He gotta wind up lantern.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: He got a cough silencer, and he got he got
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: an apple sent to deer lure that he was afraid
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: to put anywhere that deer could actually eat it because
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: it was poisonous. Uh. Guy got his aunt and uncle
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: gave him socks with their pictures on them. So he says,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: every time he opens his sock drawer, quote, there they're
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: watching me. Dude got some sweatpants that were designed to
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: look like blue jeans. Uh do, said his wife. He
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: told his wife he needed hunting pants. She told her
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: in laws he needed hunting pants, and so they got
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: him a pair of sweats. They had pictures of deer
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: on him. These are all great white elephant gift ideas.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: My dad used to do this thing where he'd like,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: give you a full body goose decoy to like add
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: to the to the spread, and you're like, yes, full
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: bodied use decoy, this is great. And then he'd be
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: like yeah you like that. Yeah, and he'd be like,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: so maybe you could uh do a little bit better
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: on the grades this year. And it always left kind
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: of being like, God, I wish we didn't do presence.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: What did he mean that, like if you got straight a's,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: he might get a dozen. You know, I never read
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: into it very much or it got straight a's or
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: got straight as. So I never never figured out, you know,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: he just was holding it out there that things could
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: get spectacular. What did you think that was the best one, Johnny?
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: My favorite out of all the worst Christmas present um
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: that came in on the old Instagram was a guy
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: got a I believe this actually came in more than once,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: that a guy got a half of a bottle of
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: whiskey with a bow on it. What happened the other half?
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Come on, That's the best part of present is that
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: you you think about it a second and you realize
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: what happened the night before? Oh yeah, I got you?
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: So yeah. I guess it could be a trip, It
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: could be a sad story for some people. But I
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: like to think about how someone like, Yeah, let's get
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Yann whiskey, and then a while later, wow, whiskey, let's
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: drink a little bit. He's whiskey, he'll be he'll be
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: happy with half a bottle. You know what was very
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: on Yanni about that? Did you say half empty? I
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: feel like you're a half fold guy, and then you
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: just said half bottle of whiskey. Uh? Yeah, you know
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: what I'm getting. I used to running that thing over there. Good,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: that's it, Sam. What what's the worst um gift you
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: ever got? I mean, I think it depends how you
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: look at it, because it's not really the worst, but
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: it's definitely the most random. Um right before I moved
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: to You know what, that's a that's a generational word random. Yeah,
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: because people my age don't don't they know what random means.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Something happened and then something happened, and people like ten
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: or more years younger in me have no idea what
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: the word random means. Okay, so what do you want
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: me to describe it as an odd gift? Odd gift? Um,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: I'm never going to get up, Okay, so you gotta
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: as you folks say, you gotta random meaning okay, actually
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: it was random because she never sent gifts and then
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: just one random years I think it would be odd, okay, unusual, unusual,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: just sent me a gift and um, it was a
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: taser and a box of condoms. That's great, she uh
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: getting at um, what's the order of operations here? Which
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: goes first? Did she give you one? You know, when
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: you're giving someone like I'll say, you're giving someone a
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: baby gun and babies, you'd be like, do no, don't
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: open that, open that one first. So well, she had
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: the taser in the condoms, so she's like, no, no no,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: the lit ruin it. Open that one first. Well no,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: she wasn't even present for the opening and the gift
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: and she you know, had them all together in one
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: big package basically not that big. And when you said
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: later and you when you called her, did you call
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: her write a note to thank you? Thank you my
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: mom was very important to my mom that we do that,
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: we write and you said, um, I really appreciated the
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: condoms and not the taser. Did she get confused because
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: your name is Samantha, but you go by sam Oh,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: that would actually be ye? Was she kind of like,
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: was she kind of distant, very distant, very distant. Yeah,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: she saw your like some guy named Sam, but it
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: was very weak, much more a week very virile, a
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: week virale that gl How did that make sense to you?
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: That's just the logical conclusion. I could come to form
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: a birth control appropriate to a gender appropriate birth control
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: for him and in a taser in case he was weak.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Things when I saw her in less, things get random
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: month and things got random with this guy, and I
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: had to taste him. Well, I haven't how to use
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: the taste yet, it had to charge it properly, and
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: he was just like setting her off for best and
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: worst case scenario. She's like when you go to the bar,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: I shoot things I always like to bring with me,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: and I just lay him on the bar kind of
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: I let the night run its course. Karn, we're gonna
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: talk about Hanica for a minute. Just keep this in
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: the spirit of the holidays. And how do you get
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: eight presents? Do you feel that they did that so
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: they could kind of like best the Christians? Well, who
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: just get press it's for like Christmas, even Christmas morning? Right,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: So historically, um, Hanukah does not really have a tradition
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: of gift giving, I know, and then kids felt bummed.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: My guess is that kids were bummed and they're like, oh,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: you want to do presents, all right, we'll do eight days,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: will best you? Will best you by a multiple of four? Yeah, yeah,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: which is quite significant. Um. So a lot of Jewish
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: children get many presents over the course of many days.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Over right, it's like eight Christmas. So then it used
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: to be that the Christian kids were laughing at them,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: but now they laugh at the Christian Now, yeah, how
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: did they get start presents? Do you know? Like, I'm
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: what years? Um? Well, what I've read, um is that
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: when Christmas became a national holiday in the United States
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: and the late nineteenth century, there was a shift to
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: gift giving for Hanukah. So when you're a little girl,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: would you get them? Sometimes? Um? Well, that builds a
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: big expectation. Then they fall off the next year. You know.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: My family was really inconsistent with things. So sometimes my
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: father might light a couple of candles during the eight days,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: but he might skip like a day or two, and
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: sometimes I would get Hanukkah gilts, which is the the chocolate,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: and then sometimes yeah, sometimes kind of waxy chocolate. Yeah yeah,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: it's like probably really corn syrapy. It's normally like milk
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: chocolate doesn't really I like dark chocolate. But um yeah,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: so we were we were inconsistent with celebrating that. So
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: sometimes I might get multiple presents sometimes, you know, but
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: they never they never rolled out for you all eight
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Uh no, no, not consistently and that and that was
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: fine with me. I I wasn't like a huge like
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: give me gifts. I would like to think that I
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: was not a super spoiled on. We're gonna do a
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: thing for for people. We're gonna do like a hanka. Yeah,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: do you spell with the or the ah? So there,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: so I don't. I don't speak Hebrew, but the transliteration
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: I think there's kind of still a uh back and
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: forth between spelling it h A n u k k
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: A h and then c h A n u k
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: a H. Do you want to hear me speak Hebrew?
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, baruke out of time, No, breuke out of time.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah that's what. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Did that
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: were you pretty impressed? Yeah? That's pretty good. Do it again?
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yes, yes, that's not even remotely Hebrew I
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: just heard that the other day. So let's say, let's
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: say for our Jewish, our Jewish listeners who like to
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: do the Hanaker tradition, you go to the meat Eator store,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: the Mediator Merged store, and here's a great gift list. Okay.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: On day one, get your special loved one are gnome
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: packing out a unicorn T shirt, which is a gnome
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: with a severed unicorn's head strapped to his backpack and
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: he's got his crazy nomebo. Day two, you can get
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: him our grave meat Eator cutton board. Day three, you
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: can get him the complete set of meat Eater spices
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: are charismatic megaspices. Day four you can get him our
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: nome reeling in the mermaid shirt, which is as we
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: emerged as a somewhat controversial shirt. We've talked about this.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: It's a gnome, it's created the same gnome that caught
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: that killed the unicorn is out fishing and he's reeling
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: in a mermaid who's fighting hard. Uh. Some people have
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: thought that that it's that it's suggestive that people eat
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: mermaid meat, and they felt that it's controversial. I've I
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: don't know what's happening between the Nome and the mermaid.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Um almost as it's a it's a land of fantasy. Almost.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: My brother looked at it and he thought that the
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: mermaid was gonna pull the Noman and eat the gnome. Um.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: I thought that it was an elaborate courtship ritual. But
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: either way, it's a gnome real or mermaid. We also
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: have for the fifth day of Honiky, you get a
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: Lavian Eagle T shirt genuine Joanna's T shirt. UM. Explain
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: the Lavin eagle logo. M hmm, I didn't prepare for
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: this one. Um. It's an eagle, uh, symbolizes the Latvian eagle.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: And then it's it's sort of like the it's we used.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: There's a crest. There's a Latvian crest that we used
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: the three stars from and the three stars represented the
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: three regions of Latvia, so that's part of it. Um.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: And then it says the Latvia Eagle and meteor on it.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: It's pretty simple. On the on the sixth day, you
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: can get them some you know me and reality. Uh
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: little known fact mean Yanni running for president. Um runella Na.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: I'm tripping so hard on nutmeg better hunting and fishing
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: for America. Our campaign slogan, of course, is better Hunting
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: and Fishing for America. You can follow along the campaign.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: We got a campaign released video we came out with
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: there's a I heard tell there's a negative ad about
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: me and Yanni coming out soon. Um Biden and Trump
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: put together a negative attack ad about me and Janni.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: I told you they're gonna come at us from both sides,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: and yeah, they they teamed up to come after me
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: and Jannie. You can get bumper stickers, you can get
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: Runella patels, better Hunting and Fishing for America t shirts
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: to get all that for that person. Then on the
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: seventh day you get him a Gnome Sasquatch shirt and
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: here are same crazy g nome. It's modeled after the
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: old picture of a grizzly bear who's kind of attacking
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: a mountain man, but he's got his bowie knife out
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: and he's like, clearly gonna best the grizzly Well this
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: YETI sasquatch. Bigfoot has a grip on the gnome and
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: the Gnome is about to turn the tides with his
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: bowie knife. And then on the eighth day you can
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: get any number of our bandana series are instructional bandana series.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: We have how to flay a fish, how to go
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: to deer, and how to kill a turkey. Well, like
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: everything you need to know about turkeys, all in the bandana.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: At first we were running a real scratch. He's sort
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: of cotton. But now tell him what that is, Johnny.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: We've got a new micro fiber one. Yeah, it's the
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: world's largest lens wipe in the world. That's right, it's
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: gonna be something excited kids underneath that tree, that's for. Yeah,
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: that's what I said. Maybe I missed out candles, candles,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: burn candles in the windows sitting there with all that
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: media to merch. You know, I was gonna mention that
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: I think that it levels out because the Jewish kids
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: that I knew growing up, they didn't get presents. Every
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: evening they got a present, and so at the end
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: of it they got eight presents. Um, there's a lot. Yeah,
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: you don't think your kids are getting eight presents a
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: piece Christmas morning. Well, Sandy Claws brings some mom and
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: dad brings some Grandma brings a pickupload. Now, the kids
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: that really make out, the kids that really make out
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: are the ones that have a Christian mother or father
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: and a Jewish mother or father like my buddy Saul
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: from high school that you've met, roll right through eight
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: days of Hanakah and then be like sweet, wonder of
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: what's going to be under this, like another truckload of presents. Yeah,
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: he imagine the to merge that duke as a child
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: of divorce. I can say that was pretty lucrative as well,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: because they're they're trying to outdo each other. It was great.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: You did you did? You play it too? Like, Oh,
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: you're pretty special. I mean, now, dad, I mean not
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: like that, but I mean, you're pretty special. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that bad. I spent so many years living out of
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: my truck that I could never quite get across the
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: fact that I couldn't. I I enjoyed the thought behind presence,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: but I couldn't really accept the presence because I'd be like,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: this is a great frame picture. Um, it's gonna look
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: awesome on your wall, and I'll appreciate it whenever I'm here. Oh,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: because yeah, I'm I supposed to like screw it to
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: the ref of my truck. Okay, So you know, when
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: everybody gets their presence anything, this is true for people
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: who celebrate Hanaka or Christmas, everybody's gonna get their presence
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: and um inevitably. Do you know many people who for
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Hana could get gift cards? Um? Sure, yeah, I guess
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: that's like one of the days that your parents are
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: just like they got No, they're just played out. Just
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: take a gift card. Everybody gets gift cards and then
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: everybody gets returns. So you know, you get an Amazon
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: gift card whatever, um, or you get something stupid and
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: you return it and you get a cash credit. So
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: that leaves you in the awkward position. And also you
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: might be listening to this after Christmas, so none of
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: this has any relevancy to you. But you're sitting there
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: with a gift card. You got an Amazon gift card,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: so now you're wondering whoy And I don't know what
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: to do with my gift card. So now Mark Kenyon
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: are very special and lovely Mark Kenyon is gonna have
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: a suggestion for what one might do with their gift
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: card this holiday season. Just a shameless plug. Yeah, sell
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: me on it. Mark's much anticipated book, You could pick
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: up That Wild Country, an epic journey through the past
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: present in future of America's public lands. Yeah, I wrote
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: a book. The first time we tried to bring this
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: book up, Mark got um. He felt there was something
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: bad would happen if he talked about it too earlyishers
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: or something. But it's out it's out there, that wild country.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: Tell us her, tell us all about it. Mark put
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: a Christmas spin on it. Oh boy, now you're throwing
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: me for a loop. I would try something like this,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: would say, everyone knows the joy of receiving a great gift. Well,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: there's no greater gift than America's public lands. This is
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: very true. By something like that, But just to to
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: get a gift means one thing. But to understand the
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: thought behind that gift, maybe let's call the history behind
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: that gift, it means that much more. And that's what
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: I try to do with this book. I do my best.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's too complicated for people, but it's good.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: It's good. The cliff notes on the book was that
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: I love public lands, but didn't understand how we got
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: these places. You know, yeah, you wondered, you know, how
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: do we get to this point that there was such
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: a contentious issue, and that I had places I go hunt,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: fish camp, etcetera. So I decided, if I didn't know
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: that story, if I didn't understand how we got to
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: this point, there's probably a lot of other people out
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: there who were in the same boat, especially if you
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: didn't live in the middle of them stay here in Montana.
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  Speaker 1: Um So, I started diving into that myself, trying to
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: understand that story, that history and what was going on presently,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: and then went and spend as much time as I
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: possibly could in those places to kind of have a
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: physical context for that. How many states did you travel to?
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: At least eight or two and ten I think for
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: that um So, Yeah, ranging from Montana packcrafting and fly fishing,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: the Bob Marshall Wilderness up to the up of Michigan
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: backpacking Picture Rocks, down into Arizona and utah Um north
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: south east west, a little bit of everything, everything from
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: hunting and fishing to backpacking and camping and peak backing.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: When you were doing the book, did you, um as
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: you're doing all your research all along, were you thinking like, oh,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: that makes sense, so that makes sense? Or did you
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: hit some parts You're like what? There were definitely moments
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: of I didn't know that that that explains things, more
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: of those types of moments. Whereas now I get it,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: this is all kind of coming together. Um, It's it's
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: no surprise to me now that they are so contentious
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: and controversial in certain ways because one of the things
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: that makes them so special, which is that they're for
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: all of us. They're co owned by all of us.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: We can use them for so many different things. That's
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: also what makes them so challenging to work with. So
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: um uh, there's a whole lot of stakeholders with a
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: whole lot of different ideas about how to use them
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: and manage them, and that makes them tricky but special.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: Now you're in the book, you obviously approached it with
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: a bias, right, Like you didn't set out to be
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: like should we have public lands or not? It's like
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: you came at you you're a lover of public lands,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: and so you set off to write a book, um,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: explaining them right and and advocating for them. Did you
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: come away from the whole project more sympathetic to the
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: anti public land sentiment or did you come away more
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: baffled by the anti by anti public land sentiment? I
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: would say it, I would not call myself sympathetic too.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: But understanding of some of the challenges and complaints around it.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: When you look at there was a trend in public
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: land policy that might have made things more difficult for
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: some users of public lands, and I came to better
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: understand that. I I guess you could say sympathetic to
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: some of those users who might now be viewed as
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: anti public land to a degree. Um, But I'm not
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: sympathetic with the most radical of those elements. You've got
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: folks like the Bundees who take it so much further
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: than I think it ever should. But sure, I'm willing
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: to listen to someone who wants to use these lands
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: for some form of extraction or some form of grazing
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: or whatever it might be. Those are good, honest Americans
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: that have a perspective too. Um. So you gotta approach
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: it with a little bit of open mind, we say,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: you know, you typically you try to like put a
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: spin on your adversaries, and oftentimes you put a spin
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: on your adversaries that they're not comfortable with. Like we
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: talked about pep who are against public land. But the
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: people who are against public land don't say that, like
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: they don't say like I am against public land. They
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: say something different. Tell me, like, tell me how they
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: would describe, like, what is an anti public lands person
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: from his perspective? Well, it's typically gonna be someone who
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: is more so anti federal government in a lot of ways,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: believing that there's an overreach of regulation, taking away freedoms
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: or something like that. They might say that we are
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: restricting their use or restricting their economic freedom. Fathers never intended, right,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: so they'll they'll never intended common folk to be able
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: to go outside, so they'll be that kind of thing.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: They very rarely will come right out and say, oh,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: well you're keeping me from making more money. Um, big
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: business at least. But but yeah, I mean everybody, everybody
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: comes to this though, looking at it from their own
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: individual lens of how you use these lands. So it
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: is it is easy to be biased. And I, like
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: you said, I've come to it realizing that trying to
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: as much as possible step outside of that a little
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: bit and try to understand. But it's hard to do
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: that given the passions and the things that we love
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: to do. Um. But what I found is that what
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: we're in now has been going on for decades and
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: it will continue to so there's never gonna be a
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: happy ending. I don't think it's always going to be
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: a push and pull, And I think that might have
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: been a great takeaway, was that we just better be
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: prepared for that tug of war to continue, and it's
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: incumbent on us to stand up and pull really hard.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: Did you and in doing the book, did you feel
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: that the that the part is an aspect of it
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: was cumbersome to deal with because most you know, I mean,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: the what we regards sort of like anti federally managed
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: public land sentiment is I mean, in recent years, it's
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: like it's like a Republican thing, right, Like the Republican
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: Party had a like they need to give this up
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: in my mind, like whole hardly, but they had a
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: thing where they're sort of a plank in the party platform.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Is this you know, kind of like nascent opposition to
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: federally manage public lands and that that doesn't embody every
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: person in that party but the party in general. So
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: when you're writing the book, did you ever feel like
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: you're sort of like picking on one political party at
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: the expense of another, I'm sorry, picking like picking on
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: certain political parties and praising certain political parties because right
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: now it is sort of this partisan debate. Unfortunately. Yeah,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: that was the most that's me saying it's unfortunate. So
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: I think it's terribly unfortunate. No, I was gonna say
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: that was the most frustrating aspect of the whole thing.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: Was that. A. I hate that it's become partson. B.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: I don't understand how they're how this could be because
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: this this is about as American of an idea as
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: I can think of, that being democratized land and in
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: a resource like this that all Americans can use and
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: benefit from. So yeah, it's frustrating. It's also challenging to
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: be able to have conversations around Parson issues without half
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: of the group just shutting off. Yeah. When I was
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: reading your book, that was the thing that stuck on me.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: It's funny because like the father of the American public
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: land system was you know, Republican, but it different at
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: the time, right the same way. I mean, you know
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: the party, you know what it means. The Republican change
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: radically three years ago, so you have that. But in
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: reading the book, I kept being like, ooh, it's kind
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: of like like when you look at like who's behind
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: what and who's doing what. It was like unfortunate. Made
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: me feel like, really, man, these guys gotta these guys
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: gotta pull it together, dude. And that's the thing I
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: tried to make clear though in the book, was that
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: I don't think it should be a Republican or Democratic issue,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: and I approached it from Hey, I'm right in the middle. Personally.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: I came from a conservative Republican background. I certainly, um
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: still support some things on that and I support some
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: other ideas to um, I'm gonna stand with anybody who's
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: willing to stand up for these places. So I try
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: to make it clear within the book, I'm not attacking
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: the Republican Party. I'm attacking. I'm attacking. I am attacking
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: an idea that right now Republicans are supporting that I
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: think is a big mistake on their part. Yeah, and
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: that's of changes all the time. Like I said, like
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: three years ago, it was a party of free trade, yeah, right,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: and now like magically it's not so Yeah it could
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: you could. Hopefully we'll change around, all right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: Mark Canyon, We're gonna every's gonna go pick up you
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: know what. Listen, you don't even read the book, just
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: go buy it. If you don't buy Marx book, Um,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: none of us. None. We're gonna kill Yanni if you
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: don't buy a Marx book. So think about that. It's
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: not a very that's not We're gonna it's gonna be horrible. Um,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: we're gonna plause fingernails out and then um, well you
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: know what the guy was just telling me about. This
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: is what I'm gonna do, Yanni. I was just talking
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: to a journalist who used to work in Washington state,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: you know, and he was working on a story about
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: these these this little meth group. It's a little meth
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: production group. And they had a fallen out with one
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: of their associates. Kind of like a theater group. Yeah,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: very structure, very similar to a theater group. Or they
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: were in the meth rather than the production of drama.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: They were in the production of math. And they had
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: fallen out with one of their associates and they tied
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: him up to your tree out in the woods and
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: covered him in bacon, thinking that he would be tortured
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: and killed by a bear. And he wrote a piece
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: about this, but then it wounded up being that the
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: guy was able to get the bacon and kind of
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: like wriggle it down in around the ropes and was
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: able to grease his wrists and grease his ropes and
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: slip out of the hold of the ropes thanks to
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: the bacon grease. And it was his favorite story he
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: ever wrote. And he said that every year around that
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: time he re shares it on Facebook. Why was I
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: talking about that? Oh yeah, because we'll kill Yannie like
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: that if everybody doesn't buy Marks books. So if you
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: want to keep you on your live, send us a
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: picture holding Marks book and then we'll not We're gonna
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: start probably a day or two pulling the fingernails. Um,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: we'll broadcast his cries of agony and and and and
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: I imagine sales of skyrockets. So take your gift certificate.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: How much is the book? Fifteen bucks? Fifteen bucks? Steal
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: still learn about public lands? That one when you're sitting
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: around and you're talking to some jabots, that's Yiddish, I think,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: isn't it. I've never heard that word before. My dad
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: had three primary insults he would call people. No one
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: was Italian mingula morta. And I've checked with Italians and
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: It's like a like a mingula morta would be someone
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: who is dead below the waist, and that was a
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: very certain type of person. Some people would be a
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: horse's ass and that was a very specific type of person.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: And some people would be a jabots, which was very
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: specific type of person in his mind. My father is
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: Italian and horses ass as well, a type of guy
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: horses as Yeah, very like a type of guy who
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: was a horse's ass. Um you're trying to look up ya, don't, don't,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: don't fact check now, I just want to know what
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: it means, yaba. It means like what you are if
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: you don't buy a Mark's book. Why was I talking about?
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: Many words? Was talking abouts? And that way you can
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: share one if they're they're like, well, I got some
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: questions about this public land stuff. Just say you know
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: what read this and yeah, when you're talking to some
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: yah boats and you're arguing with him about your talking
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: to some horses, ask and you're arguing with him about
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: public lands, and he's like, you'll be able to regale
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: him with facts you learned out of Mark's book. There
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: you go, Yah, you had your hand up. No I
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: did not. I don't think you're supposed to wear a
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: sand his hat that way. It's an l fat that's
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: how they wear it. How about Oh, because the ball
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: is in the front is into that Christmas wrap showing
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: some stuff today. Yeah, I like that, John aid Man.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: to me seven huss and Pepper, six jeets Up, Grouper,
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  Speaker 1: five big gold backgroups Fuller makes me postree fried Perch too,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: So said the squirrel in the crack Pot. On the
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: hey Corn, seven huss Fepper, six Jeetsup, Grouper five big
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  Speaker 1: old backgrounds floor makes me postree f Perch two smoke Cropper,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: send a squirl in a crock pot. Phil were Internet
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  Speaker 1: hit us with the hit Everyone hit our listeners with
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: our with our tradition song from Filler on the Roof.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: It's not a Christmas that's right. We reached out to
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: people to give us their favorite that's not even a
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: holiday song. Did you grow up watching a lot of
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: Filler on the Roof? Yes, you're kind of, did you
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: know in my in my uh in in my lineage,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: and you sit around watching um the Warmer Jimmy Stewart
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: wants to jump off the bridge. Yeah, yeah, did you
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: guys watch Filler on the Roof at all? Were you
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: raised to watch Fitter on the Roof? No, not really.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: I mean my high school put on Filler on the
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: Roof as a play. Oh so you know about it?
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: About it? The high school put it on every year
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: the senior class. Oh, because you were raised you were
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: raised in New York. I was raising in New York.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: That's cool. My brother loves that movie. We did an
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: episode once um where we're saying it, but we're saying it.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: It was about how to get hot in permissions and
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: we did that song we do permissions Permissions that mark
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  Speaker 1: I do remember that stuck in my head ever since.
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  Speaker 1: Hit it again, Phil. So we reached out to people
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: on Instagram, even Ronella and uh ask people to share
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: with us their best or no about best. We're just
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: they're hunting fishing traditions. Hunting fishing holiday traditions are holiday personally, Wow,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: that's the moment we picked that. We picked the ones
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: our Christmas like, Christmas is the probably the worst day
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: hunting on the planet. Every Christmas, we would go out
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: why is it the worst day where I lived? It
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: was just horrible hunting. It was horrible hunting conditions. Yeah,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: he'd be like wags and out. You'd way out and
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  Speaker 1: to crotch deep snow. At that point in time, all
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  Speaker 1: the dumb squirrels are dead. It's not like great for
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: rabbits yet, Like rabbits would get good later when you
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  Speaker 1: get like kind of compact and snow you can walk
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  Speaker 1: around on. You start getting sunny days days and start
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: getting longer. Rabbits wanba be out. It's like a short
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: ass day. All the dump squirrels are dead, it's just
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: smart squirrels. All the leaves are down, so squirrels see
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: you come from million miles away hunting at you know,
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: scrub oat jackpine just horrible. But we would open our
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  Speaker 1: stuff up and then we'd head out into the cold
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  Speaker 1: and snow. And if if we four or five of
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: us pounded it hard and we gotta squirrel or two,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: we'd be happy. Traditions. That was our tradition. That's right. Sorry,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: Did you guys have any good ones? A lot of
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: all around hunting, no hunting fishing traditions? I had one
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: and this is one that a lot of our audience
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: wrote in about guys from Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania has a traditional
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: flintlock muzzle. Other season flintlocks only patched roundball buckhorn sites,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: and it opens the day after Christmas. Right, So over
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: Christmas breaks like a piece of flint strikes a piece
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: of metal, and you could not use the caplock. That
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: was too modern for Pennsylvania how to be a flintlock.
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  Speaker 1: So what was cool was because the same thing as
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: you said, it was always snow shitty conditions. The deer
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: had been kind of pounded, right, But very traditional gift
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: was a flintlock muzzleodor kit, right, So you couldn't use
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: it that year. You start saying, stand in that day, right,
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  Speaker 1: And so by the time next Christmas came you could
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: take last year's present out and do the flintlock hunt.
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  Speaker 1: I used to force the sisters out. I wouldn't force,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: but I would strongly encourage them to come out and
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: just do a quick bird hunt with me out at
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: Mom's place. Where is that, uh in Shepherd, Montana outside
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: of Billings and that's where you're raised sheep in Shepherd.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: Isn't that funny? Is that intentional? Was that a tradition.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: Uh no, No, it was the fact that those two
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: are very fiscally conservative, and they found on the ugliest
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  Speaker 1: ranch that would have already been sheep fenced and uh dah,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: considered as much as frugal, very frugal. But you hung
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: geese on that place. Now, yeah, well, um, that's a
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: nice permission, it is. But I had, you know, give
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  Speaker 1: all the girls a shotgun and we'd go walk the
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  Speaker 1: ditch for pheasants um and they were that. My sisters
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: were all, you know, very very safe, to the point
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  Speaker 1: where there's always at least one rooster on the ditch.
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  Speaker 1: My dogs would be working their butts off and the
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: bird would get up. The girls would track the bird
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: with the shotgun, never squeezing the trigger. And that was
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: the entire hunt because they were just not trigger happy, right.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: They were just like, man, I don't know what's gonna
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: happen if I hit this trigger. It was fun. Johnny, No,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think I have a hunting fishing tradition. I
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: appreciate seven. If he didn't have a tradition, that is
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: a tradition. Mark nothing. When you guys like I sit
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: around your butts, uh well, you know, my one or
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: hunting and fishing related tradition. I guess on Christmas, I
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: always got a hunting or fishing magazine and I would
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: read that on my butt, but it's hunting. Yeah, but
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: it was Christmas, and mom said, stay in the house.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: We asked these people. Yeah, this guy when he was seven,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: he got a pellet gun for Christmas, and uh, he
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: goes to is. He goes out and starts just a
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: harvesting birds. He calls it an opportunistic hunt. And pretty
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: soon he's coming back with a sack containing some blue jays, doves, pigeons,
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: and affiliated woodpecker and his grand his mom comes out
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: and freaks out on him and says, uh, you know,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you eat one of every one of those.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: He says, I gotta plan and eat him anyway, And
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: his grandpa came out and said me too. So him
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: and his grandpa, who was born during the depression, sat
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: down and they ate up their birds. And then from
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: then on every year they do what he calls again.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: They would do an opportunistic hunt for Christmas. Another guy
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: rolled in it Christmas Day. They'd always have their eyes
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: on some I don't understand this, he had some spots
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: where there was a lot of doves that would congregate
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: and parking lots of businesses, and since they knew that
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: the businesses were closed on Christmas Day, they would hit
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: those spots. Um. Another guy rolled into. Every year, he
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: makes plans with his buddy to go hunt, and every
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: year his buddy cancels the plans, And then every year
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: he has a real good hunt. And he's come to
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: believe there's some kind of higher juju at play here.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: So now whenever his buddy calls and cancels, he gets
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: real excited. He's gonna get something. Guy says they One
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: guy says they always hang their unfilled game tags on
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: the Christmas tree. Um. This guy's my old stepdad's family
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: treated the first day of squirrel season as if it
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: was a holy day by always having it. This is
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: kind of like a playoff Christmas Eve. They'd have a
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: Squirrel's Eve family dinner and celebrate the night before. Then
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: they'd get up and meet at waffle house at three
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: am and then go get him. The use also liked
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: on the holidays, they would like to go shoot pigeons
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: out of the barn. And he got to be at
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: the age where they told him to go in and
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: spook the pigeons. He didn't really know what they meant,
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: and he went in and blew a hole through the
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: barn roof a guy. He says, they used to hang
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: their quivers up instead of their stockings so Santa Claus
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: can give them new arrows. Oh, I love that one.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: I'm stealing it. Guy says quote, I take the old
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: lady and the hound out and shoot down our Christmas
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: tree with a twelve gage. Guys, since we got says,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: we shoot our second guy. We shoot our tree down
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: with the shotgun. We call it Christmas tree hunting. Another
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: guy says, we've been doing this for probably twelve or
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: fifteen years. It started when my dad and I went
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: lyon hunting with the secondary objective of cutting down a
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: Christmas tree. While out, we found a tree to harvest,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: but realized we had forgot to saw our acts, so
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: we shot it down with Dad's thirty thirty. It's been
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: a tradition ever since. A guy rode in. They pickled tongue.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: But the thing he brought up his boxing day. You guys,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: what boxing day is, isn't that Canadian? Yeah, it's the
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: day after Christmas in Canada, they box all their ship up.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they think they all fought, but
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: someone told me that they just he thinks it's because
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: he boxed all yourself up and go home. It's a holiday.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: Sounds not have any Canadians in the office. No, not
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: that I know about. The tradition. Uh. Guy, his dad
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: always saved his deery shot in the fall so he
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: could use them to make reindeer tracks outside. I had
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: that happened to me when I was a kid. Look
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: up when one morning and there was reindeer tracks all
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: over and Santa wrote a message in the snow. Sure
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: it wasn't white tail tracks, Well some kind of tracks.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: I feel like you should know anybody at the time.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: I didn't. Man, I know you didn't hunt on Christmas,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: so you weren't that dedicated. It was easily fooled. You
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: were nice. Enjoy that. Can we jump back to the
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: opportunity hunter yet? Oh, the guy that hunts all the
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: songbirds with his gramps. Yeah, yeah, go on, it's not poaching,
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: it's an opportunity hunting. That's what his grandpa from the
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: depression would call it. His grandpa called an opportunity. Yeah,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know that, do I do? I need to
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: take the time to point out the one shouldn't go
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: out and on Christmas Day and kill pileated woodpeckers and
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: eat him with your gramps. Okay, sorry to back up.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: Not that I'm supportive of it. You know this was
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: a funny story. Not enough supportive of it. I just
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: tell him like it is. He wrote in Um, I'm
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: not speeding, officer, I'm taking advantage of the opportunity on
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: the road and going very fast. Have a nice It's
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: an opportunistic it's a tradition. Where are this guy is
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: saying that every Christmas Eve so his mind dad had
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: a deal or his my had to wrap up the presents,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: so the old man to take him out to fish
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: snook under the bridge and Marco. Where's Marco, Florida, Florida.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: So guy from Marco, Florida, Christmas Eve comes around, mine
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: needs to wrap up all the president's dad takes him
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: the fish snook under the bridge. One time they're out
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: there on Christmas, even as old man, they get a
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: sting ray and get it into somehow the old man
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: gets the barb through his thick leather work boot out
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: the other side, so he cuts the stingrays barb off
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: even though it's stuck in his leg. So now he
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: just shows up with a stingray barb in his leg.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: The nurse on duty, uh somehow she gets the idea
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: to put hot water on to neutralize the pain, but
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: uses uh, such scolding hot water that it thoroughly blisters
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: the old man's foot. The eventually get the bar about.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: He shows up at home and he's got the stingray
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: bar which they extracted, tied around his neck as a necklace. Says,
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: we'll always remember Christmas. Two thousand two. This guy says
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: what they like to do on Christmas is they bond
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: by going out and hunting pack rats. The two kids
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: take twenty twos and the mind dad bust up the
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: pack rat mound so everybody can shoot. Oh that's a
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: good exchange. Fun. He didn't. He didn't say my guests
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: would be Uh, yeah, I don't. I don't want to
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: speak for him. Um. This guy says, I ignore my family.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: I go fishing instead. This guy says that every year
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: Gramps would get out. Oh, Chef Cato. This guy is
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: good dude. He says that every year Gramps would get
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: out whiskey and pour a shot down the barrel of
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: his single shot twelve gage. He was thinking it for
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: all the game it brought is deep and touching. Um,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: my grandfather take my dad and I out quail hunting,
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: and we couldn't quit until we all got our limit.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: With the hunting was tough. I'd end up eating some
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: of his old Vienna sausages that he'd put down by
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: the pickups floor heat or to warm them up. He
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: always has some stale salteines to go with him. Uh.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: This guy they like to shoot, I'm not quite sure.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: They like to shoot bottle rockets at the our house.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: This guy anyone that's all about? Um? This guy is old.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: Man's got a cannon he likes to pull out. It's
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: a miniature cannon and it perfectly fits a twenty gate shell.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: So he takes the pours the shot out, leaves the
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: wad and the powder and the primer intact, and instead
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: of where the fuse would go, he shoves this shell
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: up in there and strikes it with a hammer. Guy
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: reports his louder and hell on the ninth day of Christmas.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: My true look in to me nine buck, tom tacos,
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: eight corny be your ham, seven huss and pepper, six
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: cheeks on trouper, five big old back trous or makes
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: me pies, three fried perch to smoke Cooper. Send a
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: squirrel in a crock pie. On the tenth day of Christmas,
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: My you're looking to me tan gators sliders, nine buck,
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: tom tacos eight corner your hand, seven huss and pepper,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: six cheeps of grouper, five big old back STAPs or
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: makes me pies, three fried perch to smoke Cooper. Sen
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: a squirrel in a crock pot. On the eleven day
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: of Christmas, My true love gave to me leaven pancer
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: from like senn Gator sliders. Sign buck tom tacos, eight
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: corn beat ham, seven hussan pepper, six cheeks of grouper,
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: five big old back trops. I got a little story
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: I'll tell because it was kind of about what we
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: were just talking about about deer using deer prints on
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: the snow outside. When we were kids, my parents would
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: get the neighbors. They had like a leather it's like
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: a half of a belt. I had a bunch of
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: bells on it. I don't know what you call it,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: but you could like hanging off of a door, you
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: know when you open the door to the bells jingle.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: That thing was like part of the Christmas kit. They'd
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: whoop you guys with it. They would get the neighbors.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: They would give all the presents. We had no presents
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: Christmas morning under the tree, there was zero. We'd open
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: a bunch of Christmas Eve like that. We're from each other.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: Christmas morning, no presents under the tree. Then you'd be
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: sitting around and having some breakfast, and then all of
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: a sudden you hear jingle jingle jingle, and we but
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: what did you hear that? Go in that window and
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: we grow in to the window, and then by some
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: other window your jingle jingle jingle like it's daylight out, Yeah,
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: daylight out. And then and then all of a sudden
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: at the front door, there'd be like a really big
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: jingle noise and whatever, and we'd run to the front
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: door and you open the door and there'd be a
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: giant sack full of presents. That's a good Who would
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: drop him off the neighbor Santa Santa would drop him off.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: That was your guys tradition. That was on Phil that's real.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: That's nice. Thanks for sharing, all right, Yeah, do you
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: do that in your family? No, we haven't. No, my
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: kids are already like there's no such thing. Oh man, dude,
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: you gotta tell him the truth. Janni area hasn't paying taxes. Yeah,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: it's really odd thought. Our houses that we have, like
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: they staunchly are, are nonbelievers of Santa Claus and Karma.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: I try to drop Karma and then the other day
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: and they're like, that's the craziest we ever heard. Yeah,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: like if some guy, you tell me, some guy doesn't
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: shop drop off press, should not believe it that they
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: lose a tooth and did. They are all in on
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: writing that letter too. We've named her pearly white, pearl white,
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: I forget which one we use, but they're all into
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: writing that letter, and they are very serious and like
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: there's no questioning whether or not she the fairy comes
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: and trades out to doental work for cash. But yeah,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: Santa Claus and Karma, they're not into it. You're only
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: speaking that. Did you hear that noise? What is that noise?
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: It wasn't bells, wasn't it? It's son of a bit
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: Christmas miracle. That's karma. Oh you a special holiday, the
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: special Holiday special, boys and girls. This is called the
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: kids corner of the special Holiday Special. When we get
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: a visit from Big Man himself and you you people
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: who might not appreciate how special saying is. Let me
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: let me hit here with this. That's something I'd like
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: to revisit. This is uh this some stats pulled by
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: Spy magazine many years ago. This establishes how miraculous the
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: Santa Claus Just how special does it happen? Here? This
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: man and are this man here in our presence? He
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: every years services and estimated three hundred and seventy eight
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: million Christian children. If you imagine that fift of those
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: Christian children are bad and don't get anything, so he
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: doesn't need to do anything for him. And you give
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: it that, you have a whopping three point five Christian
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: children per household. This man still is visiting every year
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: eight million homes. Even with the rotation of the earth.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: He's only got thirty one hours of darkness to get
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: it done. This man in our presence, right here at
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: busiting us here today can pull off eight hundred and
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: twenty two point six home visits per second. It takes
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: him a thousandth of a second to pull off a
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: single home visit, not counting trans oceanic legs of his trip,
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: this man travel seventy two million, five thousand miles every Christmas.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: He's going six hundred and fifty miles per second. He's
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: going three thousand times the speed of sound. If he
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: were to only bring each kid him easily two pounds
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: of presents, this man pulls three hundred and twenty one
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: thousand tons of toys behind him in his sleigh. His
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: lead reindeer. His lead reindeer at these speeds is absorbing
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: fourteen point three quintillion jewels of energy per second. If
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: these were normal reindeer, he would be sloughing off. If
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: these were first off, these are no reindeer. He would
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: need two hundred, fourteen thousand and two hundred reindeer to
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: pull that load in four point to six thousands of
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: a second. Two fourteen reindeer at this speed, or we
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: sloughed off into char at that at those speeds. Stephen, Stephen,
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not a numbers guy, but that sounds wonderful. This
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: man sitting here today is subjected to send trivical forces
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: seventeen thousand, five hundred times greater than the earth gravitational force.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: He is pinned to the back of his sled with
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: four million, three hundred seventy five thousand and fifteen tons
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: of force at those speeds, Ladies and gentleman standard class.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. If he can't do that, if
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: he can't do that, then he damn sure wouldn't be
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: able to write a good poem. Damn right. Listen, Stephen
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: uh here, you have child three children? Three children, correct?
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: One girl and two boys. That's correct. That correct, that's
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with your program. The elves were telling
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: me all about sounds lovely. They told me you have
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: three children, one boy? What, one girl and two boys?
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: Is that correct? Yes, that's correct, Santa. Your first boy's
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: name is Ryan incorrect, your girl's name is Janice correct,
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: and your second boy's name is Marcus. No, you're right,
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: that's correct. That's lovely. You have a television program. I'm
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: I've not seen it as it's not a knitflex that's
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: not that's that's wonderful. I'm very proud of all of you.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, and you're not welcome at the North pole
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: because the elves telling me that you kill brain deer
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: on occasion I have. We won't speak of it. What
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: do you need now for me? Very busy for kids
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: to round out Kids Corner in the first annual special
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: Holiday Special. Uh, we would like a poem? You would
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: like a poem? And knowing the incredible feats, you're a bow.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's a small thing. I've just written
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: it just now. Are you ready? I am ready. It's
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: called twas the Night before Deer Season. I've just written
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: it in the last minute. Are you ready, Anthony, I'm ready. Santa,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: You're naughty. Twas the Night before Deer Season went all
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: through the woods. The hunters were prepping all of their goods.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: Quiet quiet, Stephen, Santa's talking you shush it. The bass
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: layers were hung in the wall tent with care and
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: hopes that first light soon would be there. Janice or
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: Janie was nestled all snug in his cot with visions
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: of cross hairs and taking the shots with and Cal
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: and his lip broom, and Steve and his wool. They
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: each had a bottle of whiskey to pull. When out
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: of the darkness arose such a sound Stephens sprang from
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: his chair to see what was around away to the
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: tent flap. Taking immediate flight, he threw back the canvas
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: and stepped into the night with an led lamp strapped
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: to his head. He saw in the darkness a book
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: in its bed, and what, to his wondering eyes should
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: he see? The buck's giant rack had rubbed every tree.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: His frame was wide, and taking one more look, it
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: was a buck. Moon and Crockett would put into their
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: book his ties, how they twinkle, His muscles hal tents,
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: His aunt was like the pickets, and the most wonderful fence.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: The big giant buck had a broad, saggy belly that
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: Calm down, Mark Kenyon, you seem to be excited. You're sweating.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: Your brow is filled with Santa doesn't sweat. I get
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: very busy, but I do not sweat. You are a
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: sweat hearing in this. You should get a handkerchief. He
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: was chubby and plump, with full of cold fighting fat.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: Though the meat eater man had ruined his nap, Steve
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: dreamed to be shouldering and naming his gun, gripping and grinning,
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: sure wouldn't be fun. The buck piste on his tossils
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: and with a twist of his head, let Stephen know
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: there would be nothing to dread. He sprang down the trail,
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: looking just like a missile, and the way he flew
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: like the down of a thistle. But the hunter exclaimed
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: as the buck ran out of you, I hear, does
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: and spike box have tasty back straps too? Ho ho
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: bet eaters. Then I just wrote that. Now it took
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: me one minute. In twelve seconds, that's valuable time. Quite health.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: Who let you out of the workshop? Santa, thank you
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: so much for dropping by. There ends the end of
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: the kid's corner of the special Holiday Specialist. And if
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: you'd like, we're gonna step out of this room and
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: we're gonna go do the Latvian holiday tradition of melting lead.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: And then you breathe all those toxic fumes, and then
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: you throw the lead into a bucket. It's a bucket
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: of water. The lead slidifies into a crazy shape. You
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: hold the shape up and make a finger puppet with it,
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: and then that predicts your future, if you'd care to
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: join us. I have no idea what you're talking about
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: that sounds dangerous. I've never been to a lot for you,
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: but it sounds nice. So go on, Stephen, go on.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: All right, everybody once again, give it up for Santa
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: busy and busy man. All right, he's gonna go to
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: the shop mall. Goodbye, goodbye. He's wanted right now at
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: four thousand shopping malls. Listen to the hunting collectors. Okay, Yanni,
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: what do we need to know, you know, setting out
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: to do this, Well, what you need to know first
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: is that all these traditions, like I said earlier, club
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: celebrating the winter solstice, not necessarily Christmas, and the winter
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: solstice is like the it's the new year basically on
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: like a calendar that nature provides. Right. So if you
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: just throw out December in January and just looked at like,
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: what when the year sort of flips over for uh yeah,
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: days get mighty shortly, it's all depressed. Day start getting
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: longer again. So all of this stuff sort of has
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: like a finish up with one thing, start a new
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: thing theme going throughout the whole thing. Um before, we've
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: talked about the ule log, which I think now after
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: doing some research on the ul log. It's not exactly
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: the same thing, but the log that we like to
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: toe toe around the house with a rope while we're
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: singing Latvian folk songs. Yeah, I've been to this, You've
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: been to it. That's right, everybody, you chop what happens now?
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: I can't remember what I did. Um, we dragged the
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: log around the house three times to rid the whole
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: homestead of any sort of bad juju, bad spirits, anything
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: that might be negative, like surrounding like the place itself,
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: right then, so that the humans can participate sort of
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: getting rid of their own demons, mishaps, negativities, anything bad
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: that you want to sort of forget from the last
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: year and put it behind you and have and be
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: able to look forward to the clean slate. You can
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: do And I read recently that you can use multiple
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: ways into the log. You can chop it, which is
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: what we do. Yeah, Like I walked up and I'm like, yeah,
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: it's now, that's yat it. He and I wept and
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: chopped into the log. Yeah. You could also, um, just
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: tie a little string around the log. But he could
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: do that and that sort of symbolize that way. Yeah,
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: we once did we were at a place where we
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: didn't have room for the log or whatever, and so
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: instead we all just wrote things down on a piece
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: of paper and like sort of like a scroll and
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: rolled it up and then everybody would just pitch them
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: into the fire. So like urban parents who aren't comfortable
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: with their children wielding an axe, you can have them
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: go tie. Oh, yeah, that's right. And so you've got
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: a big bonfire going. And so once everybody's done chopping
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: or tying their thread or string onto the log, you
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: pitch it into the bond, just a string, because you
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: know what it means, that's right. And again it's just
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: the it's the traditional is just symbolic of you know,
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: leaving the bad stuff behind from the last year traditions, tradition.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: I want to give you guys a little hot trivia tip. Guys,
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: this very handy this holiday, I think, so right when
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: don't you like a little you're a trivia player, phil
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: Onn't you like like, well, it's like a tip that
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: might come in handy during trivia because I feel like
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: this questions that could come up in trivia. Does anybody
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: know where and when the first Christmas tree was erected? Germany.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: I thought they called it the old Tall bomb. Yeah,
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: they did it about a hundred years after they erected
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: one in the capital city of Latvia. Riga that you're
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: telling me your own research, but I'm not here to
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: debate it at this moment. Want to give you guys
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: a little telling me that the Latvians came up with
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: the Christmas tree. Men of the local merchants guild decorated
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: a tree with artificial roses, danced around it in the marketplace,
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: and then set fire to it. God, you guys are dramatic. Dramatic, Yeah,
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: I mean burning every It's like just all the decorating
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: and burning. It sounds like all that and fire. Yeah yeah,
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: what do you nay? Burn it? Then decorated you have bonfires? Okay,
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: Why did that guy send us the thing about how
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: Lava is the most introverted country? What about it? He
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: said that Lavia he saw something at the Lavian embassy
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: that said Lavia is the world's most introverted. Yeah, trying
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: to get introvers to like talk about their introvert noess,
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: but but you guys have such uh like flamboyant expressions
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: around the holidays. It just doesn't strike me as introversion. Introversion.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: I think it just seems flamboyant because you've never heard
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: of it. You know, if if if someone had never
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: heard of your Christmas traditions and you told him about
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: it for the first that's a good point. I'd be like, No,
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: a huge dude comes down to chimney dude, and then
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: we take some raw eggs and mix them with milk
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: and cream and whiskey and drink it. Yeah, it sounds weird,
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: but okay, we'll try it. That's a good point I
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: ever thought about like that. I gotta Latvian folk song,
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: um here a traditional My mom said, I needed somebody
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: else to tell me what's uh note to start on,
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: But we don't have anybody here that can help me
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: out with them. No no, no, no, no, no no,
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: no dubbing a leetle called no, I missed it. You
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: guys want to listen to my mom us with your mom.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: Let me it's not it's not hold on. Let me
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: just be available to let me just listen into her
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: for just a second. And then no, no color do
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: color do zia maslak i calor do color do the
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: c s KiHa gardi color do color do? That's Christmas.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: It's beautiful. Oh you know, you know, a good showman
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: would have gone because now you gotta follow that up.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: I was some Yeah, I would have song and then
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: played your mom because now you gotta that was beautiful
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: and then you gotta get now. Yeah, I know. All
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: I wrote down was start alone and go high being
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: all yet inch le cala do cala do zia mas
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: fatkuva god i cala do calla. That's that's wonderful. Give
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: a cop more Lysiani. I like it when your mod
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: does it. I bet there's a little more melody and
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: harmony and all those things associated with what music is,
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: what you like to hear and muse. Let me hear
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: it again. Mix it into the dance remix version. It's
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: still cute and hell to watch. It's still cute and
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: hell to watch you sing. Thanks, umv see see ki
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: ja god dingy cala do calla do see that being
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: you vs. Nah y'a calla do calla do be soon
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: nacked he sets he's daga cala do calla do see
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: da being y'all? Look do I see calla do calla
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: do wonderful, wonderful couple more, No, there's only one more. Anyways,
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: you want to know what the words mean? Uh? Come,
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: they told me rumba pump pump. You got the rumpa
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: pump pump. Yeah, that's just the chorus. So Kala dow
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: is the same in English as it isn't latvian um,
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: but it's uh sorry. A silver rain was falling at
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: winter solstice night. All the teeny tiny branches gave the
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: silver a ride. Candors candles burned all night long in
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: silver candle holders. The moon shows the way to those
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: bringing the Sun's daughter. The son gave her daughter from
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: the land of the deceased to this land. Geez. I'm
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: not sure if it's the nutmeg, but that's truth about
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: that's translation of the song. So someone else might give
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: you a different version, but there you go. So to
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: look into the future. Um, we have what's called limus
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: leah shanna, which if you translate that literally, it means
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: pouring luck or pouring happiness leah shian of being the
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: verb pouring and lineman being luck or happiness. Um. Researching
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: for today, I don't think I'd ever personally defined what
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: linement was to me, but it comes come to find
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: out it's very hard to define, let alone translate, and
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: that Latin philosophers have sort of like battled and debated
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: over this for hundreds of years because it's not just
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: like um, happiness, but it's more of like a state
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: of being. There's like other emotions attached to it, from
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: simple satisfaction to great joy. Um. Some theologians and philosophers
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: describe it as living a successful and good life rather
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: than a simple emotion. So it's deep. So what you're
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: about to do encompasses all that. You're not just like
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: sort of forecasting like what might happen, but it's sort
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: of like how you might feel and be for the
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: next year. But you can see why I like it
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: because basically, if you've got Lineman, you just have like
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: a in a good positive attitude about life. I believe
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: if you have that, you know life should be pretty
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: smooth for you because you perceive it as such. That's right.
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: So um, I think we can roll and pour some lead.
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: So quick walk us through the process real quick. Yes, okay,
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: so we that's how we always done it. Um. You
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: basically have a small pot that you usually go to
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: uh thrift store and buy because Once you melt letting it,
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: you're not gonna use it again to cook um noodles
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: for your kids anymore. Um, So you have to have
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: it's simple. You don't need a lot. So you guys
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: ever invested in one of those lead like my old
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: man had one of those lead melting it looks like
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: a bull scrolled them with a spout. No, I don't.
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they gets sophisticated about it. I
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: don't know if you'd like to have a spout, because
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: that might like trip up the actual throne kind of
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: like dictate your future. That's right, okay, go on. Um So, yeah,
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: some fishing sinkers is what we buy, and you need
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: a bucket, um. But then you can also just do
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: it like in your sink um, just fill it up
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: with cold water. I think if you had a minimum
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: of six inches, that's probably enough so that by the
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: time it hit the bottom, it's not gonna, you know,
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: adhere to the steel. Um. Then so yeah, small pot
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: and a way to heat it up and melt the lead.
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: That's it. And so once you have a pot and
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think how much we're gonna it's been
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: a few years since I've done it. But I'm guessing
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: like a two or three ounce fishing sinker or that
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: amount is gonna be enough to produce a nice uh
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: pour of lead. Yeah, you don't want to predict too
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: much your future. No, I mean we're just trying to
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: do one year. You get about a year per ounce. Yeah,
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: um so yeah, once you haven't melted in the pot,
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: hover over the bucket of cold water, and then quickly
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: in one motion, spill it into there. Throw it into there,
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: pour it into there, and then it immediately it makes
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: kind of a loud popping noise and it immediately solidifies
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: and you pick it up out of there, and the
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: fun starts. And you guys like to throw the shadow
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: with a candle or a flashlight candle for sure, because
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: then you get the movement of the flame. It makes
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: it dance, be dancing all here. Mm hmmm. I hope
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: we throw marks and it's a giant white till it
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: might be like Margot think he's gonna get a big one,
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: but he doesn't realize that he's just gonna get stomped
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: to death by one. Oh, you're like any minute out
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: chewing on gold while stomping on my head. It might
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: be a whole herd, a big giant buck. Yeah, when
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: you see a big buck, don't get excited because you're
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: not gonna know what it means. Man steering clear the
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  Speaker 1: back for you next year. I know better to go
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  Speaker 1: out there. I saw my lead, all right, let's go
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  Speaker 1: for some lead. Blador on a piece of lead inside
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  Speaker 1: a little tin looking pot. The leads Milton and starting
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  Speaker 1: to run down to the bottom. It looks like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's smarts Anagar movie Terminator two, the guy that gets shot.
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  Speaker 1: But then he was like, yeah, it gets back up again.
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  Speaker 1: Does it looks like this the second terminators in there?
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  Speaker 1: How is it like all liquid fide now and you're
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  Speaker 1: just gonna ducking that's a lot of futures. Oh that
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  Speaker 1: came a good Yeah, here, I'll get another one going
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  Speaker 1: and pull yours out. This does not look like a
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  Speaker 1: festive holiday thing to Steve and his respirator. What's gonna
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  Speaker 1: happen to the picture doesn't come completely as the shadow? Right,
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  Speaker 1: you can do both. You can do both. I don't
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  Speaker 1: any going to it and Taper who's doing the next one?
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  Speaker 1: It's a real satisfying noise is gonna goes in for pot,
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  Speaker 1: fight me off, you want to do any like one?
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  Speaker 1: You know? Yeah, oh, that's absolutely a thing block that
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  Speaker 1: Mark's future. Alright, so we are we've poured the lad
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  Speaker 1: and now correct me if I'm wrong, honest, But we
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  Speaker 1: are examining the lead through by looking at its shadow
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  Speaker 1: that it casts on the wall with a candle as
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  Speaker 1: the light. And now we interpret what the lead shape
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  Speaker 1: means for Mark's future. I like to remind everybody that
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  Speaker 1: remember how saying how lineman is like the easiest way
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  Speaker 1: to translate it is happiness. So this isn't this is
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  Speaker 1: your future in a very fun and positive way. I
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  Speaker 1: see like an olive branch, bonds eye tree, an olive
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  Speaker 1: branch like peace. Oh then backpacker, backpacker looking back Mark
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  Speaker 1: will go backpacking. Maybe he's got something he's maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: Mark in a backpack. He's singing about public lands. You
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  Speaker 1: see something very dark. I see a very arthritic hand
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  Speaker 1: with an arthritic hand with a growth. A man with
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  Speaker 1: a knife sticking out of his chest. So when you
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  Speaker 1: see uh, cancer and knives and chests and whatnot, those
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  Speaker 1: thoughts you just need to throw out of your head.
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  Speaker 1: With all due respect, man, these crazy ass lavia lead
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  Speaker 1: shapes do not look positive. I think you seem to
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  Speaker 1: get have a better imagination. But see there's that arthritic
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  Speaker 1: hand again. Steve Bringers over here, I see old lady,
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  Speaker 1: an old monk with arthritic arms. The un Anthony, Come on,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony's future is in disarray. See a lot of disorder
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  Speaker 1: with a fire ant biting the guy in the back.
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  Speaker 1: There's it's an old arthritic worm. Let's think about Kel's
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  Speaker 1: problem is that his future is greatly segmented, shattered, almost
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  Speaker 1: a shattered future, some might say. Some might say, it's
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  Speaker 1: let's start to put a little more positive Anthony. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't have a shattered future. Maybe he has a
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  Speaker 1: diverse and diversified uh dropping my future around the ground chat.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe his future shattered in many ways. It was up there, Karin,
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  Speaker 1: what are you feeling? No, it kind of looks like
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  Speaker 1: a dinosaur. Well that was a long time ago. That's
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  Speaker 1: not the future. It's a totally the wrong way. She
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  Speaker 1: might find some next year. Oh yeah, I wasn't looking
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  Speaker 1: at the bright side. Old lady, big head, You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a big headed old lady this year. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a year that just means you're getting smarter, Karan
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  Speaker 1: just means your brains getting bigger, an arthritic old. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: as I was saying again, this will be the third
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  Speaker 1: time I remind you guys that Lima is happiness and
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  Speaker 1: we're forecasting are happy future positives positive? Oh she strangled
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  Speaker 1: the turtle. Come here and Steve will tell your fortune.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like you're seeing worm get squished and
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: get all dried out on the sidewalk, like old dried
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  Speaker 1: out fishing bait. I think it looks like a plant
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  Speaker 1: under the ground growing. No, no, yeahld excited. I'm excited, hopefully.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like someone figuring out the ventilation in the studio. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like an arthritical which his finger it does.
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  Speaker 1: This is a good game. Oh my gosh, you're growing
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  Speaker 1: your mustache back. Look at out this future. It's like
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: Phil got a bad scar on his lip and it
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  Speaker 1: killed the hair growth. Then he grew a mustache. Do
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  Speaker 1: you have time for me to go to Yea, The
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: eagles gotta go. He is his deal man. Wouldn't be funny.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't let you go. Oh it's a man carrying
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: another body over his shoulder, said Steve. Steve. It's like
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: kind of dried out carcass am. I carrying Steve up
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: a mountain or down about or just carrying him a metaphorically,
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  Speaker 1: you carry Steve into the future. Okay, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: There concludes the Special Holidays Special first annual to Me
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  Speaker 1: Eater podcast. I want everyone out there to know that
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  Speaker 1: we love him to death. Old painful arthritick death notice.
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  Speaker 1: We just love him to death. Thank you very much
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  Speaker 1: for joining us. Tune in next holiday season for the
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  Speaker 1: Special Christmas Special Christmas twelve Love Him Pants You from
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  Speaker 1: Lex ten Gators, sliders, nine buck tong, tacos et, corn
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  Speaker 1: Beabraham Salmon, Hassan Kupfer, six Chieves of Popper, five big
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  Speaker 1: to smoke Cooper Senna, Swirm Rippe. If we did it