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The Christmas Song and Movie Showdown · Tigs Bits Podcast

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  Welcome to another edition of Tigs Bits Live Baby.
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  Tonight is our Christmas episode.
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  I don't know if we're giving that away or not, but look, we
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  had a lot of fun last Thursday selecting all of the songs and
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  the movies to create a field of 16 teams.
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  We're going to call them teams to make a bracket similar to the
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  seating in the NCAA tournament. We've tallied all of the votes,
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  social media comments, mail in ballots and we met in an
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  undisclosed location in a closed door meeting.
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  We posted those results on Friday.
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  There is outrage, There is shock.
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  We've been called names. Some of you have been called
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  names. It's wonderful.
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  So we're here tonight to decide who advances and who goes home.
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  Gentlemen, this is going to be fun.
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  Merry Christmas, my friends. How are y'all doing tonight?
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  We're good. We are good, brother.
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  How you doing, Jr. Nope.
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  We lost. Jr. there.
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  Sorry about that, Jr. Hey, There I am.
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  Hey, Yeah. Oh, Merry Christmas.
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  Just mute. Yeah, it's nice because.
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  Hey, that's a good. That's good.
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  Just whenever I get on a rambling, just mute me.
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  Yeah, There we go. But no.
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  Merry Christmas. Glad to be back.
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  Yeah, this is going to be a lot of fun.
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  This is almost impossible. We briefly talked about it
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  before the show started rolling. This is so subjective and there
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  are so many good movies and songs about Christmas that this
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  is literally impossible. But we're going to do our best.
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  And I think, I think with all of the the phone calls we've made
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  and the the secret meeting and all the extra people we've
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  brought in and expert analysis and the expert panel we've
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  relied on to to generate some of these numbers, I think we're
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  going to do as good as we can guys.
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  And I can tell you one thing, we're still going to flat out
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  get it wrong for somebody. So I'm prepared for it.
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  I think y'all are prepared for that too.
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  I've hear I've been as we get through these things, there
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  definitely been some controversial takes as I've
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  talked to people I know y'all have too.
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  It's just I didn't think it would bring up this much emotion
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  I guess or whatever that that you would have that strongest
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  stance on some of these movies or songs or whatever.
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  But people are, they go pretty hardcore.
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  I love it. So it's it's fun.
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  I mean I'm here at prop set up again here so there's fine.
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  That's right. Yes.
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  Allowing me to come in here and let Tigsbit set up for the
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  night. So they've actually got, I
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  didn't even know this they've got an orchestra again outside
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  tonight. Jazz Orchestra's playing
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  Christmas music. It's phenomenal.
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  It's. But yeah, they're playing right
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  now. But so no, this, this is a good
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  spot. But I was talking to a guy at
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  the bar earlier and I asked him, I said, hey man, just curious,
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  like, what's your favorite Christmas move?
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  And before I even finished the word movie, he said die hard.
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  And I was like, whoa, what? Not a Christmas movie?
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  His favorite. So yeah, it's dude, it's so
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  subjective, right? Look, I mean, it's already come
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  into the chat, Trey Smith says Die Hard.
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  I mean, just right off the bat. Yeah.
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  I mean, like, where the hell is Die Hard?
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  Where's it at? OK, I mean look, as everybody
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  has seen, if you're tuning in, I'm probably, I'm sure that you
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  you guys have seen this. We've we've got our little
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  bracket and I have my little bracket CHEAT SHEET with me that
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  I damn near forgot to print before we did this, which would
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  have just been a travesty and do everything else forget about
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  that. But anyhow, I digress.
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  Some interesting matchups. I think we should just probably
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  dive dive in. We'll start with the movies.
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  We'll start with the movie bracket and work our way
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  through. Before we do that.
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  Merry Christmas to Paul. Thanks for joining us Paul.
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  Merry Christmas to and and and I want to say, you know, before we
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  jump into, before we start to jump into everything, I want to
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  wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
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  2023's been unbelievable for our little program and and we have a
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  blast bringing it to y'all every week.
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  And I know I can speak for all of us when I say thank you so
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  much for being a part of the show.
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  We can't wait until season three in 2024.
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  It's going to be nuts, you know. Definitely these lives have
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  been, these lives have been fun, a lot more fun.
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  So I think it injected a little something in TMC.
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  Maybe TMC, the motto for 2024? Take more chances.
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  And that's. What we're going to do, That's
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  right. Look, look, thank you, Alex.
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  The man, Alex, Alex Stein himself has advised us and the
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  show to continue to take more chances.
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  So why not? We're going to do that.
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  We're going to do that. Be launching, be launching.
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  Always be launching. Always, always be launching
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  something, launch it, send it, baby, send it.
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  That's. It full sin.
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  That's right. That's right.
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  And we're we're going to have one more show.
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  This isn't our last show of the year.
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  This, you know, a lot of times the Christmas show ends the
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  season for folks. We're going to have a best of
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  episode where we sit here and we play some of the clips that
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  we've had with some of the interviews we've had.
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  Diamond Dallas Page We've had Bubba the Love Sponge is where
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  it all started. We've had Marty Smith.
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  He came onto the program Taylor Hicks You want to hear some good
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  wonderful Christmas music? Go check out Taylor Hicks and
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  and and his his new He has a couple new Christmas songs out
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  so go check him out. I just saw last night he had
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  played a a concert somewhere. It looked freaking awesome.
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  You know, it was with the soul. It was.
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  Yeah. And it was a theater too, I
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  think. So.
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  You know, it sounded great. I'm sure the band was fantastic.
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  I bet it was great. I I hate.
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  I missed that. I know that was good.
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  Yeah, it was that. I think it was in.
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  It was in Birmingham. It was in.
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  Birmingham I believe, and I think he was doing a Christmas
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  program type thing. Yeah, yeah, I, I, but I tell you
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  man just all the guests and everybody that we've had on.
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  So we'll go through to have a best of we'll come back and have
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  a little reaction kind of like like we do like we do with this
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  and talk about some of the stuff some behind the scenes, some of
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  the ways that we got these guys to to come on the show and just
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  all of the all the good details and fun stuff.
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  But, but it's been a heck of a season anyhow, I wanted to
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  wanted to get that out before we before we dive into into all of
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  the movies. Let's do it.
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  Frank Boswell says the best Christmas movies are ones that
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  weren't intended to be Christmas movies.
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  I I can't disagree. I can't disagree with that
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  Frank. And good we can we can dive into
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  it now. Jason Hilton is here.
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  So Merry Christmas, Jason. Thanks for coming.
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  That's exactly right. Now we we can we can get
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  started. So look I I think, I think we're
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  just going to start with the 116 match up.
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  Let's just start with what what started started the show, what
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  topped us off. We have Christmas vacation going
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  up against Bad Santa and you know, I know where I'm at on
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  that bad. Santa, you know what I mean?
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  That's a tough seed to draw, that tough draw.
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  Seed It's a tough draw. It's a tough draw.
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  Hey, I tell you a fun fact about Bad Santa though.
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  Did you know that Bill Murray was originally cash for that,
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  but he had to drop out because he was filming Lost in
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  Translation? Really.
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  Yeah, yeah. I'll be Dang no.
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  That is a fun fact. It is a big difference.
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  Yeah sure I I have Yesterday went to the Saints game and and
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  and my buddy Tom Chopin was was driving us and I was telling him
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  about this and he immediately got extremely upset that
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  Christmas vacation and bad Santa were going head to head.
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  I got a video clip of that. Here it is Bad Santa over
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  Christmas vacation. Why coach Bad Santa?
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  People need to watch it. They need to watch it every
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  year. Twice a year watch.
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  Twice is. She going to miss it all
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  laughing. So it's better than Christmas
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  vacation to you? To me, and that hurts to say
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  because it's a great movie, but Christmas Vacation is a family
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  movie. Bad Santa is an adult grown up
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  movie for when you're not with your family.
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  So to put it up 16 in one is terrible.
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  You're taking out all the guys, you're taking it all the fun,
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  and right out the gate, I'm against it.
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  He's against. It it's I'm against it as much
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  as sauce, and that's something I have to bring up later.
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  The sauce is too much in society.
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  That's just a teasing of sauce. I completely agree with you,
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  with him 100% on everything he just said.
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  I love this guy. That's my boy Tommy.
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  He will be coming on the show. We've I've been trying to get
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  him on since the inception of this.
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  He is a lunatic in all of the good ways, man.
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  And I love he he has. He ain't wrong.
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  He's not wrong because I was thinking about it.
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  Too bad, Santa. I've I've.
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  I don't watch it make it a point during Christmas to watch it.
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  But if I catch it and watch part of it, yeah, I'm laughing out
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  loud. It's it's hilarious.
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  But again it is an adult movie. You're probably not going to
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  your grandmother. Probably going to turn her head
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  or your mom or, you know you're definitely not kids on the and
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  if you watch it with the oh for Made for television version
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  where they bleep everything out, it's not going to get the same.
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  Effect. No, no it it doesn't.
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  It doesn't. But I I mean I I think we'll
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  we'll go on and kind of chat you guys that are in here.
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  Y'all feel free to chime in when we're kind of talking about the
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  movie. This is the votes.
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  I mean this is we're going to go with what the three of us decide
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  our vote and then whatever. Y'all also out there in the
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  chat. Y'all vote and and and we're
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  going, we'll see, we'll name it all and hello to the people that
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  were at the window they've they've walked away now, but
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  that's great. Great, great movie.
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  But yeah, it's going up against a Titan and just not going to
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  make it out of that round. Hey Blasey, you know you had
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  mentioned Pivot and do a whole another podcast.
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  I just thought about a new podcast we could do also and
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  it's we would everyone would love it.
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  It's called interviewing people from Louisiana and all we
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  basically have to do is just talk to people from Louisiana.
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  Because if you think DJ Rhett was big, everybody in Houma is
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  just like DJ Rhett. He's though everybody's like
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  that duck your buddy right there.
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  If we got your buddy right there on the tear, everybody who's not
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  from Louisiana and doesn't talk like you guys thinks it's
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  friggin hilarious. So Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Did you see the interview? I don't know.
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  If you follow Hold the Mayo dude, Jon Snow in New Orleans,
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  he's hilarious. Well, after the Saints game, he
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  does a post game. Those are hilarious.
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  He kind of does a podcast. He does a vlog every Monday or
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  he he goes around and eats red beans and rice at places.
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  Yeah, he I think he eats red beans and rice every day.
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  I. Mean he still.
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  Does reviews of Yeah, he gives, he gives reviews of these
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  places. It's it's awesome.
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  I mean, I listen to the Saints report from the Saints official
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  broadcast team and it compared to any other big city I've ever
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  lived in and listened to their people.
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  It's so funny. I mean, our guys are.
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  I mean our preacher in I watch our church in Louisiana.
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  Here at home we watch. I just love the official.
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  I just love it. Anyway, I think there's our
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  other podcast. Blasey is just us talking to
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  people from Louisiana. Oh yeah.
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  Well, look, I've got a list that's the people ready to come
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  on whenever we're ready to do that from Eunice LA.
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  We could get it as thick as you want it and get that accent
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  tool. I'm a Yankee, you know, here
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  living in Louisiana. Even though I live in Baton
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  Rouge, I'm. Yeah, I'm north of I-10.
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  I have this accent. I get asked all the time.
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  You from Mississippi? Where are you from?
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  And like, where are you? I'm like, I'm from Louisiana.
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  No, you don't talk like them. Like, I promise you, I've lived
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  there pretty much my whole life. So anyhow, I digress.
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  We're getting off the rails. This happens whenever.
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  This is what happens when we when we're when we're live and
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  we don't have an edit button. You know, who cares?
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  Whatever. So Christmas vacation versus bad
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  Santa, Obviously. My vote for Christmas vacation,
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  Paul. Let's see.
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  He agrees. It's unfair.
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  Let's see who he votes. Hilton's voting for Christmas
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  vacation? My sister's here.
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  Mandy. Hey, Mandy.
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  She says hello. Pamela Koontz.
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  She says, Merry Christmas to you and your wonderful family,
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  Brantley. Hey, Pam, thanks for watching.
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  But yeah, yeah, I mean, that is a tough, tough draw.
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  No, it's not double elimination, Mandy.
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  She asked if it's double elimination.
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  No, no, no. We're going to get it wrong and
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  we're fully, fully, fully aware of it.
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  This is this is basically our our our starter pack.
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  This is our starter pack for our yearly film and television.
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  Hey, but they're all 16. They're all good, so it's not.
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  Like, they're all good. There's no bad movie on this
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  list, and we left some out. Winner couldn't win that game
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  and it's. That's right.
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  That's right. So Christmas vacation, It's
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  moving on. I'm sorry, Tommy, It just didn't
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  happen for you. Let's move over.
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  Let's move over to the 2 and 15. Match up with Frosty the Snowman
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  and Trading Places I I found that to be in.
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  I found Trading Places kind of snuck into our bracket while we
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  were doing this. Live it.
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  It kind of came in. It wasn't on my list.
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  It wasn't on that list of 50. But it totally makes sense as a
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  being a Christmas movie. And we all agreed and it snuck
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  in as the 15 seed. But does it have the willpower?
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  Does it have the fortitude? Can it defeat Frosty the
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  freaking Snowman in a first round match up?
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  I vote no. Yeah.
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  I vote no. I don't think it's.
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  I just it's a great movie and again it it lands in a couple
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  categories where it's a top 20 movie, top ten movie in certain
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  things, but it's Christmas movie.
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  Yeah, a frosty Frosty, Not Rudolph, right?
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  Yeah, not. No, We're not at Rudolph yet.
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  No, we're on Frosty. But did you know?
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  So Frosty was written as a follow up to Rudolph and in
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  1950, and it was they they wanted to compound that, come
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  and play off of what they'd done with Rudolph and the success
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  they had there. Because Rudolph I think was
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  1939. So eleven years later is when
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  they came out with Frosty. And that's how Frosty that was
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  from that same lineage there. So anyway.
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  And the little that makes sense. Yeah, totally makes sense.
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  Yeah, that that is a Tigs Bits. That's a great little Tigs Bits.
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  I did not know that. I did not know that yet.
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  Jason Hilton says Trading Places.
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  So there's a vote for Trading Places.
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  You know I put. Trading places in here like I,
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  I, I love. Yeah, I thought it was great.
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  But dude, you put it up against frosting, I mean.
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  It's just not fair. Two or three of all time.
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  So I'm sorry, yeah. Yeah, Frosty's Frosty's moving
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  on. Frosty's moving on.
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  The number 3 versus 14 match up. Interesting match up.
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  It's a Wonderful Life. A lot of people would put that
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  as the number. What should be the number one
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  seed. I got a little bit of feedback
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  on that. Whatever going up against the
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  number 14 seed gremlins which some people don't believe
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  Gremlins even deserves to be in there.
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  But when again when we tally the votes it it's squeezed in as a
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  as a 14 seed. For me, I'll start this off.
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  For me, it's Gremlins. I mean, I love It's A Wonderful
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  Life. I think it's a great movie.
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  I mean, it's one of the best movies of all time.
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  Yeah, but give me Gremlins. What movie am I going to watch
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  over and over again? That answer is easily Gremlins.
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  I've seen Gremlins more than I've seen It's A Wonderful Life.
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  I'm born to watch Gremlins again, so I'm taking Gremlins.
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  I'm on the opposite spectrum of that.
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  I've watched. I like Gremlins, but even when I
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  catch a little I don't like scary movies.
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  So and I've watched Gremlins enough where But It's A
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  Wonderful Life. I'm going to watch that during
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  Christmas beginning to end, uninterrupted.
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  And I will watch it outside of Christmas and it makes me, you
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  know, the Christmas in July thing.
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  So I'm kind of the opposite on that, like Love Gremlins.
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  Hadn't watched it in a while, but It's a Wonderful Life to me
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  is the epitome of a Christmas movie.
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  Yeah, no, I I get it. I totally get it.
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  There's a lot of the Christmas movie themes are just like they
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  used them in cartoon form with Rudolph and with Frosty.
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  It's the antagonist versus the evil guy who doesn't believe in
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  Christmas and you turn him at the end.
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  It's that, you know, keeping the little man down, it's that whole
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  thing. But I I just think that was just
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  a well made movie in the in the right time of making good movies
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  too. You got Jimmy Stewart is the
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  lead guy and and just a you know.
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  But yeah, I know. I mean, I.
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  I I vote it's a wonderful life. But I I, you know, I I can be,
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  you know, I see the. Yeah, I mean, it's this is
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  tough. It's an interesting 3-4 team.
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  Tougher than I thought it was as I looked at this, because I've
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  got it written here and I'm and I'm actually having I'm, I'm
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  thinking about this a little bit more, putting some good thought
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  into it. But man, at the end of the day,
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  you know, I gotta go with it. It's a wonderful Life.
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  Like, I really do. I mean, I thought we might have
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  a bracket Buster there. Like.
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  Well, well, I mean, we may Mac. Mac says Gremlins.
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  Jason Hilton says it's tough nostalgia.
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  Christmas says it's a wonderful Life.
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  But I love Gremlins. So I mean.
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  And see, I wonder if that's 18, says.
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  It's a wonderful life. Old soul, I mean if you're if
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  you're if you're 18, do you even try to watch It's a Wonderful
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  Life unless someone explains to you the meaning of it?
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  Or do you just like I'm not watching that old black and
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  white thing? Probably not.
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  You know, that's a that's a good, that's a good point
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  because I that's that was my thought.
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  I asked my son that, too, I said.
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  I said hey would. You not what I said.
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  Riley, would you watch a movie? It just in black and white.
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  Does that bother you? He's like, why would that bother
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  me? I know.
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  I like watching those things that are in black and white.
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  That's like, I think that's something that bothers us.
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  I don't think it bothers kids and stuff these days.
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  It was just because color television was such a big deal
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  whenever we were a kid. And it's like.
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  You just like why they want to play throwback games and stuff,
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  you know what I mean? They're playing with no stuff
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  and all that. It's like, oh, that's cool.
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  This is some throwback stuff. And they listen to records.
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  Now when they have MP, they have a phone, yeah.
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  Yeah, that's true. That's true.
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  And I was kind of that way. I I shield away from black and
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  white stuff at a certain point. But then at a certain point in
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  my life, I leaned back towards man, I want now I I see black
• 19:24
  and white. It sparks my interest.
• 19:25
  I'm like, this is probably good, you know?
• 19:28
  It is, yeah, better than most other crap on, you know, So what
• 19:33
  do we do? So what do we do?
• 19:34
  Well, I mean, we need Hilton. Hilton.
• 19:36
  You gotta pick one here, buddy. Pick.
• 19:39
  Pick one. Which one are you gonna go with?
• 19:40
  Are we going with It's a Wonderful Life for Gremlins #1?
• 19:44
  And then what about you, Blasey? What is your vote on that?
• 19:49
  I think one's going to determine it.
• 19:51
  It's a wonderful life. Yeah, that's a wonderful.
• 19:53
  Life OK Yeah. Yeah.
• 19:54
  Yeah. All right.
• 19:55
  So we have, it's, it's 3:00 to 2:00, it's a three to two vote.
• 19:59
  We're going to wait on Hilton. We're going to come back to that
• 20:01
  here in just a second out. There we go.
• 20:03
  Here's his answer. He is the tiebreaker closer than
• 20:07
  I thought. It's a wonderful life advances.
• 20:11
  Way closer than I thought. Yeah, that was.
• 20:13
  Like a 9693 kind of ball game, you know, I just didn't wasn't
• 20:17
  expecting that. All right, well, perfect.
• 20:21
  Well that brings us to the four and the 13 seed.
• 20:26
  So this this is going to be interesting.
• 20:30
  You have Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, another one that could
• 20:34
  potentially be in the conversation of being the one
• 20:38
  seed. But they lost a couple of games
• 20:41
  late and they end up dropping down to the four seed.
• 20:43
  Here they are playing Scrooged, the Bill Murray Classic Scrooged
• 20:51
  which which worked its way in during our selection.
• 20:54
  Show. Have watched it since.
• 20:56
  Have watched Scrooge since then and but I watched Scrooge about
• 21:00
  two months ago randomly on the bus too.
• 21:02
  Just it was on at the beginning of it and I saw just like this
• 21:05
  let me watch it again. It's great.
• 21:07
  It mean well played out movie kind of dark in spots.
• 21:10
  Really got that early 90s, late 80s grittiness still before
• 21:15
  everything was shiny in the world.
• 21:18
  And it tells the classic story of visiting by the ghost of
• 21:22
  Christmas. Past, present, future.
• 21:24
  And I mean great play on. Was it a Dickens?
• 21:28
  Wasn't that? Yeah, Christmas Carol, which was
• 21:30
  omitted, is not in this 16 and notables, you know, an
• 21:35
  underline, A byline, if you will, of this whole amazing
• 21:39
  bracket is that that Christmas Carol didn't make it in.
• 21:42
  And some people find that ridiculous.
• 21:45
  I I had, I also had. Well, I also had several people
• 21:48
  reach out on my side saying that yeah, Ernest Saves Christmas is
• 21:52
  a national treasure and definitely a holiday favorite.
• 21:55
  Well, if we do this again next year, you know I.
• 21:58
  Know, I know. And give everybody time to weigh
• 22:01
  in. Yeah.
• 22:02
  Had time to see it so, but that's a.
• 22:05
  Hey. But that's a.
• 22:08
  Hell, that's my son. Oh, it is.
• 22:09
  Hey, what's? Up I.
• 22:11
  Couldn't tell, that's what's. Up guys.
• 22:14
  So I don't know. I would.
• 22:15
  I So Rudolph obviously started that whole genre.
• 22:22
  Yeah. You know of of having the the
• 22:24
  Frosties and and kind of led the way on that, but Scrooged, I
• 22:30
  mean you're taking a literally 1930 model versus A-90 model of
• 22:34
  classics and both done very well.
• 22:37
  One claymation, one with biggest actor of the time during that.
• 22:43
  Oh, that's tough guys. I mean.
• 22:44
  It's tough. It's another tough match up,
• 22:48
  Paul says. Scrooge is great.
• 22:50
  You know, Scrooge is great. It's an amazing movie.
• 22:53
  I have to take Rudolph though. I don't know.
• 22:56
  As much as I love it, yeah, I I mean, I can't take Rudolph out
• 23:01
  in the first round, you know? I mean, if it's a closer game,
• 23:04
  another one a little closer than I thought, I thought it'd be
• 23:07
  unanimous it. Next Next year, we're having two
• 23:12
  brackets, one's real people and one's animated.
• 23:15
  Or come CGI? Yeah, yeah.
• 23:16
  No, we're going, we've learned through this.
• 23:19
  We're going to have to do some sub genres or.
• 23:22
  So here's. Another thing about Rudolph
• 23:24
  that's kind of interesting too. So a little a little fun fact
• 23:28
  here. So you got it was actually
• 23:31
  originally written as a for a promotional booklet for
• 23:33
  Montgomery Ward and and the guy who wrote it was his name Robert
• 23:39
  L May. He wrote that character really
• 23:43
  reflecting upon himself because he was teased for his shyness
• 23:47
  and for how small he was. So that's how real life actually
• 23:50
  came into existence. Yeah.
• 23:51
  So for me dude it's it's dude it's Rudolph.
• 23:54
  I love Rudolph like that's that's so good.
• 23:57
  Yeah I I got to go Rudolph. But dude, this screws is great.
• 23:59
  But I agree. I think we got these are just
• 24:01
  like two different it's like you know, you know.
• 24:04
  It's a bad draw for Scrooge, honestly, you know.
• 24:08
  Yep. So, all right, I can live with
• 24:11
  that. So Rudolph is moving on.
• 24:15
  Now we go to what we at the five, seed The Five.
• 24:20
  Seed. Yeah.
• 24:21
  If we'd, if we'd have had those, if we'd have had the two losers
• 24:23
  of those brackets. Gremlins versus Scrooge, you
• 24:28
  know what I mean? Those are like equal.
• 24:29
  That would have been the that would have been super close.
• 24:32
  Yes, I think this one's going to be close.
• 24:34
  I mean, all of these matchups are crazy, but this one's A5.
• 24:38
  This is a 12/5 matchup. This is a big Big 12 five, the
• 24:43
  five seed, the favorite in this, the Grinch.
• 24:46
  We decided on the last show that that we went with the Jim Carrey
• 24:51
  version of the Grinch. We let the two Grinches face
• 24:54
  off. It moved on.
• 24:56
  So that's the version of the Grinch that we're going with
• 24:59
  versus The Polar Express, some say is the greatest Christmas
• 25:05
  movie ever made. Another one that is that could
• 25:09
  be in the number one spot ChatGPT has it at #3, and the
• 25:14
  Lady Who Cleaned My Teeth today despises it.
• 25:18
  She thinks it's the most overrated movie she's ever seen
• 25:21
  and doesn't understand the whole bit, but she finds it creepy.
• 25:27
  It's like, OK, well then we're gonna then the Grinch wins for
• 25:32
  you. So I'm putting her vote down for
• 25:34
  the Grinch. And then what are what are
• 25:37
  y'all's thoughts on that one? And chat chime in too.
• 25:40
  What's y'all's thoughts? Go ahead, Jr.
• 25:42
  I've watched both of these movies since we last I've
• 25:45
  watched a lot of Christmas movies and listed a lot of
• 25:47
  You've watched this. Movie.
• 25:49
  And and both of these movies I've watched.
• 25:51
  I watched the I've watched both Grinches the original and the
• 25:54
  Jim Carrey. And I've watched Polar Express
• 25:57
  the other night because Cherise, my wife is like me.
• 25:59
  We have not seen a lot of these. If we have it was been a while
• 26:02
  we we got on YouTube and watched He man and she were Christmas My
• 26:06
  Little Pony or Care Bear Christmas we watched we've
• 26:09
  watched a lot of Christmas. So I say that to say with these
• 26:12
  both fresh off my mind. Don't remember Polar Express
• 26:15
  remembered seeing parts of it. Great movie similar you know to
• 26:23
  the last one. It it's really tough and
• 26:27
  watching them both and I forgot and you know, when I I was the
• 26:30
  one advocating for the classic Grinch, this Grinch better than
• 26:34
  I remembered. I mean it really was great the
• 26:36
  the, the characters and even you know the movements of Carrie.
• 26:40
  And that's what to me, I think Grinch is going to edge out.
• 26:44
  But it's just even that this version because of going back
• 26:48
  and watching what they had to do to create that Christmas magic.
• 26:53
  But Poe, I don't know. But I mean, is it one of you
• 26:56
  advocate for Polar Express because watching it for the
• 26:58
  first time or the first time in its entirety, Man, that train
• 27:02
  scene and the whole thing of going to the North Pole and the
• 27:05
  Santa bag and the, you know? It's tough, man.
• 27:09
  What's? Yeah, what's?
• 27:11
  I mean, Frank says the train on the ice scene was awesome, but
• 27:15
  the rest was kind of bland. He he likes the Grinch.
• 27:19
  There's another vote for the Grinch, Mandy says.
• 27:22
  Man, this is killing me. I may have to take the Grinch,
• 27:26
  but Polar Express when you see Santa's shadow, woo.
• 27:30
  And that is a cool, that is a cool scene.
• 27:33
  Paul's never seen Polar Express. So you know, don't waste your
• 27:36
  time. I will say Polar Express, kind
• 27:38
  of. Polar Express kind of gave me
• 27:40
  anxiety. When they're losing the ticket
• 27:42
  and everybody's flying around and the kids walk around the
• 27:44
  outside of the train, I'm like, why are we on top of the damn
• 27:46
  train it? Gets it gets crazy.
• 27:48
  It gets crazy and and for me, the opposite the ice scene was
• 27:52
  the part I didn't like. I'm like, why are we doing this
• 27:54
  ice turn to I don't like that part.
• 27:56
  But so I'm pulling Grinch. I'm pulling even Jim Carrey.
• 28:00
  Grinch and I just watched them both.
• 28:02
  I would say Grinch to me, embodies the spirit of Christmas
• 28:07
  and gets the message across. To me, Grinch.
• 28:10
  OK, OK. All right.
• 28:12
  So what about what about you, Blasi?
• 28:14
  So, all right, so I'll give you 2.
• 28:16
  Here's 2 fun facts about both these movies.
• 28:18
  So in the Grinch, Jim Carrey actually had to work with acia
• 28:21
  specialist who trained agents to survive torture because the
• 28:26
  makeup was so painful that he had to go through to endure that
• 28:30
  process. Isn't that crazy?
• 28:31
  Wow, that's insane. Yeah.
• 28:33
  What did he spend like like 8 hours or something like that
• 28:37
  every day? Like when he would come to the
• 28:39
  set to get into that makeup and. Absolutely unbelievable what he
• 28:43
  had to go through to get that face.
• 28:46
  So so that's pretty crazy. And then with the with Polar
• 28:49
  Express. So at the time it was the first
• 28:52
  movie ever. They did the entire movie, I
• 28:54
  guess, and the technology called performance capture and spent
• 28:58
  $165,000,000 making that movie even though it was all animated
• 29:03
  and that that's that's nuts too. That's why they're still got the
• 29:06
  trains lined up with little kids to sit on the train now to make
• 29:09
  their money back. Up.
• 29:10
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. They still they haven't.
• 29:12
  They have that. They have an Amtrak deal that
• 29:15
  you could take it from New Orleans I think, or in Hammond
• 29:18
  and pick it up and. Lots of places.
• 29:20
  I saw people in different states today.
• 29:22
  I saw different. Yeah, everywhere, everywhere's
• 29:24
  the the thing? So that part of God.
• 29:27
  We escaped that at the the tiggy household.
• 29:29
  See So. Here's here's the thing And said
• 29:32
  back to our vote, right. So I love the Grinch
• 29:35
  unbelievable movie. But for for my oldest,
• 29:37
  especially for Knicks, who's 17. I just turned 17 a couple days
• 29:40
  ago. He was all up in The Polar
• 29:43
  Express. And that's his jam, yeah.
• 29:45
  It was his jam and it was good and I enjoyed it with him.
• 29:49
  And we went to Memphis and rode The Polar Express and we got
• 29:53
  trained and we ended up out in the woods and then all of a
• 29:55
  sudden, dude, here we are, there's sanity for him.
• 29:58
  It was so magical. I bet I got chills thinking
• 30:02
  about it. We were at the North Pole and
• 30:04
  I've never experienced anything like that.
• 30:06
  Right. So dude, like Polar Express.
• 30:09
  Like as as watching, especially watching your kid enjoy it to
• 30:12
  that level. I must say, kind of, yeah.
• 30:17
  Polar Express. I think that's where I saw the I
• 30:20
  think that's where I saw my boy Drew Parker took his family
• 30:22
  today. I think that he's a artist.
• 30:24
  I think that's where they was at the real one in Memphis where
• 30:26
  they went, I think. Yeah.
• 30:28
  Oh, really? That's cool.
• 30:29
  Yeah, that. Was I mean my my nephews are my
• 30:32
  nephews are 15 about to turn 16 or make six.
• 30:35
  They about to make 16, is they? About to make 16.
• 30:39
  Oh yeah they are. I'm.
• 30:40
  Trying I'm trying to make 16. Yeah, and but they, I remember
• 30:44
  when they were, you know, small or small, my sister-in-law
• 30:50
  drugged them off somewhere to do the whole full experience for a
• 30:53
  day or two on a train. The whole deal.
• 30:55
  Same thing it was if you're that age, I mean that's their that's
• 30:58
  their Christmas vacation maybe to the to a certain era or their
• 31:02
  Grinch or their that's. Crazy town that there's nothing
• 31:06
  else that can compare with that in their John in their time
• 31:09
  period. You're right, there's a few, you
• 31:11
  know, you take 5 or 10 year period of time, those people and
• 31:15
  10 or 15 years from now they've been like that's hands down
• 31:16
  Polar Express. And the advantage and the
• 31:19
  advantage of these claymation stop animation, they don't
• 31:23
  really fall out of time. Some of them that look old kind
• 31:25
  of look old, but that's it. But with real people, styles
• 31:28
  change, things change. Things are corny.
• 31:31
  Things are you're not cool the word, the verbiage, things like
• 31:33
  that. So that movie will always be
• 31:37
  perfect, you know what I mean? It's not going to fall out of
• 31:40
  favor because it's that same kind of with the Grinch, though,
• 31:43
  because they're in such character.
• 31:44
  You'd almost think it's a cartoon because of the animation
• 31:49
  of the. Oven the costumes.
• 31:50
  Yeah, it's just so well done. So yeah, so I could see that
• 31:54
  because I'm like A5 Four Grinch guy here, but I totally see you
• 32:00
  see the side you're on Blasey so.
• 32:03
  Yeah, totally makes sense, but it.
• 32:05
  Looks like mine's so thinned. If Blasi's really strong about
• 32:08
  it, I would. I mean, I could let it.
• 32:10
  I could let Polar Express. I mean, I feel I don't feel as
• 32:13
  strong about it. If you feel strong how do you
• 32:15
  feel? And you are you is Grinch way
• 32:18
  ahead of. Oh yeah, yeah.
• 32:22
  The Grinch is a a a mile mile to the head for me, he.
• 32:26
  Never rode the train. He didn't see Santa Claus like I
• 32:28
  saw Santa Claus. No, I understand.
• 32:31
  I understand. I got.
• 32:32
  But the the chat is voted. Everybody is voted.
• 32:36
  Even if you change your vote, it's not going to make a
• 32:38
  difference. The Grinch advances to the Elite
• 32:42
  8. So now we move on to the 11/6
• 32:47
  match up. One of the toughest matchups in
• 32:51
  the entire bracket in my opinion.
• 32:54
  This one's tough for me. I still don't know which one I'm
• 32:57
  going to lean, which one I'm going to say.
• 32:59
  I kind of think I do a Christmas Story versus Elf.
• 33:06
  This is a tough matchup boys. This is as tough as it gets.
• 33:09
  Chat start to chime in on that. And look, don't forget, if
• 33:13
  you're watching this on YouTube, like this, share it.
• 33:17
  And if you're watching this on Facebook, do the same thing.
• 33:20
  Give it a like, share it. Tell some of your friends to
• 33:22
  come jump in here. We're going to be going for a
• 33:24
  little bit longer. We ain't even got the song Jet,
• 33:27
  you know? So we're going to be here a
• 33:30
  while. Hop on this.
• 33:32
  Place may close down behind me. Yeah, it'd.
• 33:34
  Be good and you. Know it's right and I'm having
• 33:36
  fun. I think I like.
• 33:37
  Close. It's a It's a fairpoint.
• 33:40
  It's eight that you got at least an hour or two, I think.
• 33:44
  I think my wife's going Christmas shopping so I'm.
• 33:46
  I think I'm, I've got studio time bank as well.
• 33:49
  I'll kick this one off. I kind of feel like you did.
• 33:52
  But on the opposite, Blasey with A Christmas Story.
• 33:56
  My dad and I laughing at that when I was a kid, When we would
• 33:59
  watch it in the Red Ryder BB gun, 'cause I had my little BB
• 34:03
  gun and we would reference that when I'd shoot my BB gun and
• 34:06
  stuff. And my dad thought it was so
• 34:08
  funny with them damn hound dogs coming through messing the man's
• 34:11
  food up. And you know, I and I could see
• 34:13
  a little bit of my dad and that dad and you know, and I don't
• 34:17
  know, I. That one's real strong to me.
• 34:20
  But Elf Boy Elf's come along since its day.
• 34:23
  But I'm going Christmas Story on this one for nostalgia and I
• 34:27
  just think it's a well made movie.
• 34:30
  Nothing flashy about the movie. It's almost like the old school
• 34:33
  subtle trees. You don't have to necessarily
• 34:35
  say what you mean to get across the message.
• 34:38
  You know less is more some. Yeah, yeah I I agree 100%.
• 34:44
  Elf. I love it.
• 34:46
  I almost started the the show with a a clip from Elf today.
• 34:51
  It's just fantastic. But I bet I've watched it four
• 34:54
  times since we've recorded last. I bet I've seen it.
• 34:56
  ELF 4. Times probably.
• 34:57
  Yeah, it's so good I've I've watched it probably twice.
• 35:01
  But but for me, same thing. The nostalgia.
• 35:05
  A Christmas Story. It comes on TBSTNT starting on
• 35:08
  Christmas Eve. I put it on there, I go to sleep
• 35:11
  to it. I wake up on Christmas morning
• 35:14
  to it. It plays on Christmas more like
• 35:16
  it's always on. And I watch it probably in the
• 35:20
  that span of two days. I probably watch that movie like
• 35:23
  three times. Just catch a part here, catch a
• 35:27
  part there, you know, and putting it all together.
• 35:30
  So Christmas story for me easily.
• 35:35
  Also, Paul, Jason and Mandy have all voted for it, so it's
• 35:42
  running away a little bit more here than I I thought it would.
• 35:45
  Elf's not getting much love. So I've got so something let's
• 35:49
  before we get carried away here. So Elf, couple of fun facts
• 35:53
  about elf. So one, you know, it was
• 35:55
  actually intended to star Jim Carrey, but Jim Carrey had just
• 35:58
  done the Grinch, so he felt like it's too much, you know what I
• 36:02
  mean? Doing two of those characters
• 36:03
  right there close together. So he backed away from it.
• 36:07
  But secondly, Peter Billingsley, who was Ralphine in Christmas
• 36:11
  Story, he had a cameo appearance.
• 36:14
  Isn't that right? In ELF and so that recently on
• 36:18
  social media. Yeah, yeah.
• 36:20
  And so Elf kind of checks both boxes.
• 36:22
  You get some. You know, we're giving love to
• 36:24
  Christmas Story 'cause it's such a classic.
• 36:26
  But from me too, not so much. Yeah, yeah.
• 36:29
  No. Didn't know that was a thing
• 36:32
  till last year. I forgot my sister.
• 36:35
  She went to the Christmas Story house in Cleveland and and I
• 36:39
  think it maybe you can chime in Mandy, did you bring back a bar,
• 36:43
  a bar of soap for me or did y'all get one or something?
• 36:47
  I vaguely seem to remember this something.
• 36:49
  Please tell me you got a picture you hold in your mouth.
• 36:52
  I do not have that yet, but. Oh fuck yeah.
• 37:01
  There's a great documentary on YouTube.
• 37:02
  After you've watched every episodes of Tigs Bits and you're
• 37:05
  bored, go watch. There's a documentary on the
• 37:07
  House and the filming locations of The Christmas Story.
• 37:11
  That's probably 30 minutes long, but really?
• 37:13
  Good, Mandy says. Yes.
• 37:15
  So I thought that she had. And Frank says the TBS 24 hour
• 37:20
  marathon ruined Christmas story for him and he'd vote for Elf.
• 37:25
  Valid point, Frank. I mean, valid point.
• 37:28
  So I mean, I'm, I'm blasey. You're voting for Elf, I'm
• 37:31
  assuming. I haven't said anything yet.
• 37:33
  I was. Oh, I didn't know.
• 37:34
  OK, all right. Where are you leaning?
• 37:35
  Where are you going? Just trying to say there's
• 37:38
  you're just an. Option I felt like a lean was
• 37:40
  happening. Lean back.
• 37:42
  You know what? You probably felt right.
• 37:44
  I just didn't want to. Yes, I'm going elf.
• 37:46
  OK, elf it is. Yeah, I had.
• 37:48
  I just wanted to say it you. Know Blasey did this thing on
• 37:51
  social media over the weekend and and apparently I'm his
• 37:55
  social media spouse. That's y'all.
• 37:57
  Take that however you'd like. That's pretty funny.
• 38:01
  So. So a Christmas story rolls on.
• 38:06
  Kind of surprised, I thought. I really thought Elf may would
• 38:09
  have taken that one. So interesting.
• 38:12
  All right, we have a 10/7 match up.
• 38:14
  Another tough one, The Seven Seed Miracle on 34th St.
• 38:19
  You know, classic, all time classic versus A Charlie Brown
• 38:24
  Christmas. Also an an all time classic.
• 38:28
  I have very strong feelings about A Charlie Brown Christmas.
• 38:32
  I'll just go ahead and go on the record for that.
• 38:33
  That's my vote. It ain't even close for me.
• 38:36
  This is of all of the movies. The biggest blow out to me is
• 38:40
  Charlie Brown just kicking Miracle on 34th St's ass.
• 38:46
  Wow. You really think, See, I had
• 38:47
  Charlie Brown barely making it into the tournament.
• 38:50
  It was like, you know, one. Of the I know, I know I didn't.
• 38:53
  I didn't really. It was one of those.
• 38:55
  It was in that dark room. I think the committee talked
• 38:58
  about it and it found its way back in at a ten seed.
• 39:02
  It really did. It really did.
• 39:04
  Yeah. I'm.
• 39:04
  I'm just going to keep it simple.
• 39:06
  Yeah. Miracle on 34th St. man.
• 39:08
  That's just, that's about as good as it gets right there.
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  It's up there like, you know, Charlie Brown, though.
• 39:14
  I mean, I get it. I get it.
• 39:16
  I like Charlie. You know, I felt bad, you know,
• 39:19
  every time. What's her name?
• 39:21
  Kept moving that football all through the whole series.
• 39:25
  What's her name? Lose the football.
• 39:27
  Yeah, every time. Lose the football.
• 39:29
  Like, that's such crap, dude, you know?
• 39:31
  So anyway. But I'm still going with miracle
• 39:33
  in. 30 Will you ever learn, Charlie?
• 39:35
  Come on, man. Unbelievable.
• 39:38
  He had faith. He had faith.
• 39:40
  And that's what they tell you to do, right?
• 39:41
  Trust. Have faith.
• 39:43
  You know what I mean? That's what you're in the no,
• 39:45
  dude. That's why you don't.
• 39:46
  That's why you say use caution. Proceed with caution.
• 39:50
  Watch how you hang out with Pick your friends wisely.
• 39:52
  We got Mr. Michael Bowman with a Charlie Brown.
• 39:56
  There we go. Yes, Sir.
• 39:57
  We got Mack with a Charlie Brown.
• 40:00
  Mack em smack em Doo Doo. What's up, brother Mack?
• 40:04
  Paul with He disagrees with me, but he likes Charlie.
• 40:10
  So I mean, another Charlie Mandy says Charles Schulz would not
• 40:18
  approve the making of the cartoon without including the
• 40:21
  Bible story of Jesus's birth. That's a good point about
• 40:24
  Charlie Brown. She takes Charlie Brown as well.
• 40:27
  You know, it kind of just sticks to all of the traditional roots
• 40:30
  of everything. So you got.
• 40:33
  CC's running away with this? Not necessarily.
• 40:36
  What you what you got over there, Jr.
• 40:39
  Well, you know, I'd I watched. I haven't seen Charlie Brown
• 40:43
  Christmas yet this year. I did watch Miracle on 34th
• 40:48
  Street, but not the classic one. I watched the newer one from
• 40:53
  like maybe the 90s, early 2000s, both so good and again, that's
• 41:04
  why we need 2 categories. But I'm going Charlie Brown all
• 41:06
  the way. And again a lot multiple things
• 41:11
  layered there. But one for me also like whoever
• 41:16
  mentioned the music part, I mean that's Allen Toussaint.
• 41:18
  That's all good. That's it, That's, that's all
• 41:20
  the vibes in my head that you still, I mean you can listen to
• 41:23
  that. It's just so good.
• 41:27
  Yeah, yeah. Charlie Brown on the way, huh?
• 41:29
  Charlie Brown. It looks like CC Brown.
• 41:34
  Charlie it is. It is.
• 41:35
  It's not going chalk Charlie Brown with the first upset of
• 41:39
  the tournament moving on to the Elite 8.
• 41:42
  Went that way. I was expecting a different
• 41:44
  vote. But yeah it's.
• 41:45
  I mean it's it is what it is. I'm actually glad to see an
• 41:48
  upset. I was kind of concerned we were
• 41:50
  just going all the. It was, yeah.
• 41:51
  I hadn't even noticed, but we have gone chalk.
• 41:53
  But I think it's going to get interesting in the Elite 8.
• 41:56
  We'll speed this up everybody, but but we're going to the the
• 42:01
  pivotal, the most talked about the biggest match up of the
• 42:06
  whole tournament, the 8 versus 9 seed die hard versus home alone.
• 42:17
  Very controversial. Very.
• 42:18
  Controversial. Very controversial.
• 42:20
  The committee Die Hard had been what they thought eliminated
• 42:25
  from the bracket in some under the table moves and I don't know
• 42:30
  what happened. Again it happened in an
• 42:33
  undisclosed location behind closed doors.
• 42:36
  Somehow somehow this, this, this match up occurred to end the
• 42:44
  first round of of this. So look here's where I stand on
• 42:49
  it. I love them both.
• 42:51
  They are both in my top five of movies that I would have at
• 42:55
  Christmas. The controversy of Die Hard not
• 43:00
  being a Christmas movie, Is it a Christmas movie?
• 43:03
  All of that stuff. There's no doubt what Home Alone
• 43:08
  is. It is a Christmas movie all day,
• 43:11
  all night. It's one of the best of all
• 43:13
  time. Home Alone moves on in this
• 43:17
  round easily for me. I would, I will say, home alone.
• 43:31
  OK. All right.
• 43:33
  And not, And again, not that I don't think Die Hard isn't a
• 43:36
  Christmas movie and not that I don't think Home Alone's kind of
• 43:40
  cheesy with the the, the, the some of the stuff, but it just,
• 43:45
  it checks off so many boxes, it's literally a laugh out loud.
• 43:49
  Spot it. Is and it's totally about
• 43:52
  Christmas. Everything about Christmas time.
• 43:54
  They're going to Christmas vacation when it's during
• 43:57
  Christmas. Right.
• 43:59
  Here's a Here's an interesting fact.
• 44:01
  You know, the guy that actually wrote Home Alone wrote that in
• 44:04
  nine days. That's all it took him to write
• 44:07
  it because he he extracted that from a scene from Planes, Trains
• 44:11
  and Automobiles where the scene with Steve Martin is thinking
• 44:15
  about his family, like enjoying Thanksgiving by themselves.
• 44:20
  So he expanded upon that whole thought process from Steve
• 44:24
  Martin in that movie and it wrote Home Alone in In Nine
• 44:27
  Days. Wow, so.
• 44:29
  Thanksgiving movie makes a Christmas movie.
• 44:31
  It does. It does.
• 44:33
  And so for. So, yeah, for me, you know, Dave
• 44:37
  Portnoy says it's 2 words. Everybody knows the rules.
• 44:41
  It's home alone. Yeah, that's it.
• 44:44
  Yep. Moving on.
• 44:45
  All right, Handler, we're all there.
• 44:48
  So, yeah, Die Hard got its ass kicked.
• 44:50
  I'm kind of surprised by this. I'm not not surprised that Home
• 44:53
  Alone advances. Surprised that it there was.
• 44:57
  That it it had. This is, this is the prime time
• 45:00
  boxing era every there's so many heavy, there's so many
• 45:04
  heavyweights. There are, there are.
• 45:07
  So look, we're just going, we're going to roll right along going
• 45:11
  into the Elite 8. The Elite 8 field has been set,
• 45:15
  folks. We have Christmas Vacation, Home
• 45:19
  Alone, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer versus the Grinch,
• 45:24
  Frosty the Snowman versus Charlie Brown, and It's a
• 45:28
  Wonderful Life versus A Christmas Story.
• 45:32
  So we've got some matchups here. We'll just continue.
• 45:35
  We just talked about Home Alone. Let's move on and and hit that.
• 45:40
  The one versus 8 seed home alone.
• 45:44
  Does it have what it takes to knock off Christmas vacation?
• 45:50
  Chad, we'll start with you. Oh.
• 45:52
  Wow, gonna bring it over to me real quick.
• 45:54
  Yep. Man, you know, I said it the
• 45:57
  other day. And I mean, I actually put some
• 46:00
  thought into this too as I looked at home alone.
• 46:02
  And and because I think I had it a little higher.
• 46:04
  Closer to a four seed. I had Christmas vacation as a
• 46:08
  one seed Still dude. Chevy Chase.
• 46:12
  And you can't beat it. You can't dude it's it's
• 46:16
  Christmas vacation. I'll just.
• 46:17
  I'll I'll just. I'll save you all.
• 46:19
  The time. Logging here.
• 46:20
  It's it's Christmas vacation and I love Home Alone, but do
• 46:23
  Christmas vacation, dude, you know.
• 46:25
  Kind of like your friend mentioned.
• 46:27
  It. It takes it.
• 46:29
  It has an adult element in there as well.
• 46:31
  The home alone has more family. I mean, not that they both don't
• 46:34
  have family, but the Christmas vacation has an adult element in
• 46:38
  there. That's subverse enough to where
• 46:40
  it doesn't offend anyone really, but it makes an adult chuckle,
• 46:45
  kind of like a Christmas story. So I got to say Christmas
• 46:50
  vacation all day, that's that's the pinnacle of of that, that
• 46:53
  lampoon's. Oh yeah, that's the best of them
• 46:57
  all. So for sure.
• 47:00
  Well, I think we all, we all agree.
• 47:01
  Christmas vacations. Moving on.
• 47:03
  Not a yeah, a little. An interesting first round match
• 47:08
  up. Not as hard in the second round,
• 47:11
  Mandy says. Save the neck for me, Clark.
• 47:14
  And what about the what about the music in that, too?
• 47:16
  That that opening song, Christmas Vacation.
• 47:19
  You know, the the song I I wonder who.
• 47:22
  I don't know who that is, but it's a it's a great group or
• 47:25
  whoever's singing, it's a great song.
• 47:28
  Oh, it is. It totally is.
• 47:30
  So your first team into the Final Four, your first movie
• 47:34
  into the Final Four, Christmas Vacation, It's pretty much
• 47:39
  unanimous. The Duke Blue Devils.
• 47:41
  The Duke. The Duke Blue Devils get the
• 47:42
  number one seed, but the Kansas Jayhawks are the number one
• 47:45
  seed. Shocking.
• 47:47
  All right, so move on. This is this is going to be an
• 47:50
  interesting 2 versus 10. Match up with Frosty the Snowman
• 47:55
  and Charlie Brown Who you got. God almighty, yeah, that's as
• 48:03
  tough as it gets. Now you're getting tough, buddy.
• 48:06
  Oh, these are going to all be, they'll say.
• 48:08
  Place go frosty not. Not frosty.
• 48:11
  Contest. That's not even a contest.
• 48:12
  I mean, frosty will just melt all over Charlie Brown over and
• 48:16
  over again and rebuild just right on top of it.
• 48:18
  Just melt, rebuild, melt, rebuild.
• 48:22
  Yeah, that's my. Yeah, you're right, you're
• 48:24
  right. Then we.
• 48:26
  Got Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown?
• 48:27
  Fan in here who loves C brown. I get it.
• 48:33
  And I like in that Vote goes for it.
• 48:35
  And that cause Charlie Brown's Charlie Brown series lives in a
• 48:38
  space of its own. You know, too.
• 48:40
  I mean it's it's different but Frosty Frosty's offshoots,
• 48:44
  Frost, there's Frosty offshoots of every genre movie there is
• 48:49
  the cartoon. You know electronic horror movie
• 48:54
  love story. I mean it.
• 48:56
  Real people play in a snowman. It's that's it's a cultural
• 49:00
  thing. Yeah, Frosty a little.
• 49:01
  Cry every time. It's not so good.
• 49:03
  It's such a good. It is.
• 49:04
  It's wonderful. Yeah, and I I watched the
• 49:07
  cartoon one the other day and. Jason, jump in.
• 49:11
  You know you don't like Charlie Brown.
• 49:13
  I got. It, yeah.
• 49:15
  Well, man, I I enjoyed Archie comic comic books more than I
• 49:19
  did Charlie Brown. Wow.
• 49:21
  I think that's fair. I mean that, you know, it's a
• 49:23
  fast. Yeah, yeah.
• 49:25
  Paul's on Frosty, pretty much. We've got Frosty, Frank.
• 49:30
  He's on Charlie Brown. You can't top Snoopy and
• 49:32
  Woodstock. I agree.
• 49:33
  I'm a big fan of of both of those, Hilton says.
• 49:38
  Frosty, of course. So Frosty rolls on Frosty, the
• 49:41
  second team into the final Four. Moving on, we now have the four
• 49:48
  seed Rudolph the red Nosed Reindeer versus the five seed,
• 49:55
  the Grinch Tough one. I'll start this one.
• 50:00
  I have an easy, I mean 100% for me and that is tough to say,
• 50:07
  'cause Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer, potentially the
• 50:09
  greatest of all time. But the Grinch for me is another
• 50:15
  one of those that I I watch it during anytime during the year.
• 50:19
  It doesn't matter it it's one of the few that I will watch in
• 50:23
  July or in June or in May just because it's just funny to me.
• 50:28
  Like hello, hello, hello. You're an idiot.
• 50:31
  You're an idiot. You know, like it's just that
• 50:34
  part. All of those good scenes, man
• 50:36
  the Grinch, all day for me. I'm going to go.
• 50:49
  I'm going to go. Oh man, that's so tough.
• 50:51
  It is tough. You got to make a choice.
• 50:55
  I'm going Rudolph. Rudolph All right, all right.
• 51:00
  Got one for Rudolph. We've got a our panic fan in the
• 51:04
  in the Chad has the Grinch. It's another vote for the.
• 51:07
  Grinch, I get it. You know, I'm still, yeah, I'm
• 51:12
  still Rudolph. I mean, Rudolph's got to survive
• 51:14
  another round in my mind, like, just out of principle, you know?
• 51:18
  That's fair. To and and going back to me the
• 51:22
  the OOG Grinch gets a better has a better swinging shot at the at
• 51:26
  the Rudolph if they're lined up together.
• 51:28
  More of a comparison. To me, might be a different
• 51:31
  debate, huh? Yeah.
• 51:32
  Same. Same if you had 'cause I
• 51:33
  mentioned one before, Prancer, I, you know, and and then
• 51:36
  there's several Reindeer movies that were great when I was a
• 51:39
  kid. They're probably not great now,
• 51:40
  but when I was a kid there was a couple of good, you know,
• 51:43
  reindeer movies. But this one look this one
• 51:48
  Rudolph. This one is close.
• 51:51
  I'm tallying, watching the comments, tallying the votes.
• 51:55
  Hilton's with the Grinch. Frank's with the Grinch.
• 51:59
  Mandy's with Rudolph panics with the Grinch.
• 52:03
  I'm with the Grinch. So there's four Grinch.
• 52:06
  The dog in the old school Grinch was so was was what got it for
• 52:10
  me. That old.
• 52:11
  The dog in the old school Grinch.
• 52:12
  Oh, he was. Rudolph coming in.
• 52:14
  Thank you, Jason. Yeah.
• 52:15
  Well, Jason, which one is it? I mean, you can't have them
• 52:18
  both. I mean Rudolph.
• 52:21
  Or I see he's saying he likes the newer.
• 52:23
  Grandchildren. You're talking about franchises
• 52:25
  going against each other. These both songs could be in the
• 52:28
  top five too. I mean just.
• 52:31
  Are you stuffing? Balance over there.
• 52:33
  Rudolph wins four to three. No, I thought we're going back.
• 52:37
  Sabine. Math.
• 52:37
  Wait, no Coming in late? Oh, we got a Grinch, Paul.
• 52:42
  We have a four, four tie. We have 8 votes.
• 52:46
  They, you know, like I said, these are both, these are both
• 52:48
  franchises, too. These aren't standalones like a
• 52:51
  Home alone. These both have a song.
• 52:53
  They have multiple. They're live action.
• 52:55
  They're they've probably been done on Broadway.
• 52:59
  You know, they've, they've had play.
• 53:00
  You know, these are two big Titans right here.
• 53:03
  You talking about the Grinch versus Rudolph?
• 53:05
  You talking about Doctor Seuss versus OG original?
• 53:09
  I mean the voices on the original route.
• 53:12
  For me, the nostalgia thing lies with the Rudolph too.
• 53:15
  The voices, those. I mean the songs ladled in
• 53:18
  there. Yeah, Rudolph all day for me.
• 53:20
  Sorry guys, I'm gonna have to get two votes on that cause
• 53:22
  Rudolph's got to win this round. Guys, Rudolph wins.
• 53:24
  Rudolph wins in the closest, the closest of the night.
• 53:29
  And fired places of the night, the places like I got any
• 53:32
  relatives I can recruit over here to vote for this too?
• 53:34
  I can. I can I?
• 53:36
  Cannot sit here much. Some might take a 270 and just
• 53:38
  take and just knock Rudolph down.
• 53:40
  You know this. Oh.
• 53:41
  My God, it's tough. It's tough, all right.
• 53:44
  The last match up Mr. Grinch. The last match up in the Elite
• 53:52
  8. It's a Wonderful Life versus A
• 53:55
  Christmas Story. All day long A Christmas Story
• 53:59
  for me. There's no, there's no oh, this
• 54:01
  is too much. I can't deal with this.
• 54:04
  You got? To give up?
• 54:06
  Nope. I quit.
• 54:07
  I I'm done enjoying it guys. Well, It's a Wonderful Life is
• 54:10
  your vote. We already know your vote.
• 54:13
  Crack it out. Can you hear me?
• 54:16
  But Christmas Story? I don't know though I don't know
• 54:18
  if there was one to beat it. Christmas Story might be it.
• 54:22
  Yeah, these these two for me might be one and two if
• 54:24
  Christmas Vacation is 3. That's fair.
• 54:28
  No, I mean, I think that's fair, but we're getting down to it.
• 54:31
  You got to go first, I got to think.
• 54:32
  Wonderful thing. He's got to give him a minute
• 54:34
  here. I I know you have.
• 54:35
  A strong it's going to be. This much?
• 54:38
  Yeah. So for me, it's a wonderful
• 54:40
  life. Yeah.
• 54:42
  Yeah, OK. All right.
• 54:43
  It's A Wonderful Life. I have A Christmas Story.
• 54:46
  I'm going with A Christmas Story.
• 54:48
  It's not even not even close for me.
• 54:54
  This one's on you, Handler. You're the deciding vote.
• 54:59
  If you'd asked me 10 years ago, I'd said Christmas Story, but
• 55:01
  I'm going with It's a Wonderful Life and I'm not going to talk
• 55:03
  about it. Anymore.
• 55:06
  Speak now. Forever.
• 55:07
  Hold your peace Christmas story with Hilton.
• 55:12
  Mandy. It's a Wonderful Life.
• 55:14
  It's three to two. Anybody else?
• 55:18
  Time is ticking. I know what Florida State feels
• 55:21
  like now. It's tough going once, going
• 55:26
  twice. Any that come in now do not
• 55:30
  count. It's A Wonderful Life advances
• 55:36
  to the Final four. So we have our Final Four.
• 55:41
  We have Christmas Vacation versus Rudolph and we have
• 55:45
  Frosty versus It's A Wonderful Life.
• 55:49
  We'll start with Christmas Vacation.
• 55:52
  Rudolph Paul votes for A Wonderful Life as well, so it
• 55:56
  was unanimous. But we'll start with Christmas
• 56:02
  vacation versus Rudolph. I'll lead off.
• 56:06
  It's Christmas vacation all day, every day.
• 56:09
  For me, not even close. Christmas vacation.
• 56:13
  Vacation. I think we can all agree
• 56:18
  Christmas vacation has advanced to the Championship round.
• 56:23
  No shocker there, I. Feel like I've done somebody
• 56:25
  wrong by not getting story and now letting Rudolph off the
• 56:29
  hook. I'm like how I'm I'm IA bad
• 56:31
  person for not thinking Rudolph's better than Chevy
• 56:34
  Chase movie. I.
• 56:35
  That's the beauty of this whole thing.
• 56:37
  You've got to live with this for a whole year until we.
• 56:39
  Do it again. I'm going to do another swig of
• 56:41
  JD to go with my eggnog. While we do that.
• 56:47
  Drinking is also associated with the holidays.
• 56:50
  Yeah, that is correct. And this kind of stuff will
• 56:52
  drive you to it. It will.
• 56:55
  We've got Frosty versus It's a wonderful, no question for me.
• 57:00
  Frosty advances and moves on. Yes.
• 57:07
  Do you agree? You agree, Blacie.
• 57:08
  Absolutely, I agree. I go a wonderful life, but I'm
• 57:11
  outvoted. Yeah, well, that's OK.
• 57:14
  There's still the chat, but they better hurry up because we got
• 57:17
  songs to get to. This took an hour.
• 57:19
  Oh. My God it.
• 57:20
  Really has. It's just fine.
• 57:23
  It's fine. I'm not not in a rush, but I
• 57:25
  but. I knew that we were, yeah.
• 57:28
  It's the beauty of the live man. We can go a little bit longer
• 57:31
  than when when we do these, than whenever we just edit a little
• 57:35
  podcast out. Frosty's getting votes
• 57:38
  everywhere. I think we can all agree Hilton.
• 57:41
  It's a wonderful life. Thank you, Jason.
• 57:47
  Hall. It's a wonderful life.
• 57:49
  Oh boy. They're the votes are coming in.
• 57:51
  This is like an election in Florida.
• 57:54
  Wait place. He's in Florida.
• 57:55
  It makes sense. Let's see.
• 57:58
  So we. Got dangling chads down here,
• 58:01
  you know. Every time.
• 58:03
  You know, every time a bell rings.
• 58:06
  Amanda. Gets its way.
• 58:10
  She takes up for Blasey. Zuzu petals.
• 58:13
  Wonderful. Look, It's A Wonderful Life is
• 58:16
  at this point moving on folks. So there's it is 3 votes for
• 58:21
  Frosty and four votes for A Wonderful Life.
• 58:27
  You can have your crummy old, crummy old building and lawn.
• 58:33
  Widespread MF and panic he He's 51.
• 58:36
  He's never seen A Wonderful Life, you know.
• 58:39
  Well, prepare to have your life changed, Sir.
• 58:43
  Yeah, you should go watch it. I mean, I think if anything
• 58:45
  else, go watch all sixteen of these movies and tell us how,
• 58:49
  how wrong we are. But I mean, at this point, going
• 58:54
  once, going twice, sold It's a Wonderful Life.
• 59:01
  Mike comes in, moving on. It's a Wonderful Life in a mild
• 59:08
  upset wins to go to the championship.
• 59:14
  Who We Got? And for the championship?
• 59:20
  Christmas Vacation versus It's a Wonderful Life, Who wins the
• 59:26
  movie bit? Who wins the movie bit?
• 59:29
  Who wins the TIGS Bits movie bracket?
• 59:32
  The 1st annual TIGS Bits movie bracket.
• 59:39
  You know, I think I'm changing my mind here.
• 59:41
  Last minute pivot, just like we started the show.
• 59:45
  Like, I think I'm pivoting away from my original decision.
• 59:50
  No, I'm not. It's it, dude.
• 59:51
  It's Christmas vacation, dude. It's not even all day in my
• 59:54
  opinion. Yeah, Yeah.
• 59:55
  All day. Fake drama there.
• 59:57
  Fake drama. All day.
• 1:00:01
  It's a wonderful life. Great, great, great, great.
• 1:00:04
  But like, dude, Christmas vacation.
• 1:00:06
  Are you kidding me? Yeah.
• 1:00:07
  And they already say anything else ought to beat you with a
• 1:00:11
  rubber hose. Hey.
• 1:00:13
  Don't forget the rubber sheets and the gerbils.
• 1:00:15
  Don't forget, yeah, whatever. Yeah, don't forget the rubber
• 1:00:18
  sheets and. The gerbils speak truthfully.
• 1:00:22
  Yeah, but for it's a wonderful. Life it's this is as tough as it
• 1:00:25
  gets. And these are, and I'm not doing
• 1:00:26
  this to be the antagonist here, but I mean, I've got to go with
• 1:00:32
  It's a Wonderful Life and I love Christmas Vacation.
• 1:00:37
  I watch it all year long, all year long.
• 1:00:41
  But the error, I don't know, it's goes back to a nostalgia
• 1:00:45
  thing. It makes me think of my
• 1:00:46
  grandparents. It's got the the brother going
• 1:00:48
  to the war and coming back and the guy giving up on his dreams
• 1:00:51
  to do the right thing with his family and stick for his
• 1:00:53
  hometown. And you got the mean old man who
• 1:00:56
  steals his money, knows he's got the man's money, ruins
• 1:00:59
  everybody's life. But he doesn't let it break his
• 1:01:03
  spirit. He comes back angels looking
• 1:01:07
  over us. Just the whole and the you know,
• 1:01:09
  I I just and the scenes. It's just one's a comedy and
• 1:01:16
  one's a brush on comedy but both have so many real life ties and
• 1:01:23
  they and they nail the human aspect of what people are
• 1:01:27
  probably really thinking and doing as well as any of them.
• 1:01:30
  Now, Christmas Story, it it's a little, it's an abstract version
• 1:01:34
  of reality, but I think Vacation and It's a Wonderful Life or at
• 1:01:39
  the time true interpretation of American Home that they're
• 1:01:42
  trying to portray not every American home but the one that
• 1:01:44
  they're trying to portray and they nail them to a tee.
• 1:01:48
  But for me, I got to go. It's a Wonderful Life by a hair.
• 1:01:53
  I like it. I like it.
• 1:01:56
  Look, that's it. The votes are in.
• 1:01:59
  Christmas Vacation is our 2023 bracket winner.
• 1:02:05
  They rolled through it and had a little bit of adversity, but
• 1:02:09
  that's what happens when you're the number one seed you're going
• 1:02:11
  to have a little bit of a clear path to.
• 1:02:14
  Gloria, look, Russ, No lines. Hey, do you know Blasey's been
• 1:02:20
  dropping fun facts, fun fact on that.
• 1:02:23
  Y'all know who Russ is, right? Russ, in that Christmas story,
• 1:02:25
  right? Yes, the.
• 1:02:27
  That's from Third, from the What's the TV show, Whatever.
• 1:02:35
  Oh, Oh yeah, All the smart people, Big time.
• 1:02:41
  Show. Yeah, not, yeah.
• 1:02:43
  I keep thinking third rock from the sun that.
• 1:02:45
  Big Bang Theory, Big Bang Theory.
• 1:02:47
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:02:48
  Johnny the the the Johnny, the guy who was Russ in there.
• 1:02:51
  I actually met him a few times. He's friends with Randy Houser a
• 1:02:55
  friend of mine and we were out somewhere a couple this pre pant
• 1:02:59
  right before the pandemic and I said God this guy looks familiar
• 1:03:02
  and Randy introduced, hey it's my buddy Johnny.
• 1:03:03
  Johnny I'm like oh shit that's Russ.
• 1:03:06
  And you know y'all know y'all know as bad as I wanted to I
• 1:03:08
  wanted to like Christmas vacation reference to him.
• 1:03:12
  But you know he probably, you know he probably gets that more
• 1:03:15
  than anything. He's done tons of television and
• 1:03:18
  film since then but that one probably gets him more, you
• 1:03:21
  know, clicks than anything. And I couldn't do it, so I acted
• 1:03:24
  cool. But I wanted to.
• 1:03:25
  But I actually met. So I've met.
• 1:03:26
  I've hung out with Russ a few times.
• 1:03:27
  Cool cat. He plays, he plays music.
• 1:03:29
  He got up and played drums with Randy and them for a minute and
• 1:03:32
  played some played some stuff when they were doing the show.
• 1:03:35
  And yeah, it that guy is that guy that's you know some some
• 1:03:39
  people may not know that that Big Bang is is Russ also.
• 1:03:45
  That's another little Tigs bits. Where they this show's been full
• 1:03:48
  of them. It's fantastic, absolutely
• 1:03:52
  fantastic. Well, I Frank, Frank has.
• 1:03:55
  Frank makes a good point. Go ahead and set everything up,
• 1:03:58
  Brantley. I'm fisting a walk over here.
• 1:03:59
  I'm just going to check on something real quick.
• 1:04:01
  Go ahead and set everything up. I've already got my brackets.
• 1:04:03
  Yeah, no, that's fun. So.
• 1:04:04
  You couldn't. Oh shit.
• 1:04:06
  We got to do music. We got to do music, yeah.
• 1:04:09
  And. And we may have to, Yeah, we may
• 1:04:12
  do it. Go check something out.
• 1:04:14
  I'm going to probably when you come back, I may have to go
• 1:04:16
  check something out briefly as well.
• 1:04:18
  Yeah y'all let me know what I mean.
• 1:04:19
  I just click. I saw somebody to check out too.
• 1:04:22
  Real quick. Exactly, Yeah.
• 1:04:24
  In other words, everybody, we got to go to the bathroom.
• 1:04:26
  This thing took too. Long.
• 1:04:27
  No, we're good. We'll take turn.
• 1:04:29
  We'll take turns. Keep it alive.
• 1:04:30
  Go ahead, Blaze, if you need to. Go if you need to.
• 1:04:33
  If you need to. That's cool.
• 1:04:34
  We'll no, we keep. We'll keep.
• 1:04:36
  We'll keep rolling. Frank Frank says that he's
• 1:04:39
  surprised the Santa Claus with Tim Allen and didn't make the
• 1:04:42
  bracket and. I I I watched some of that.
• 1:04:46
  Yep. I watched some of that the last
• 1:04:48
  in the past week as well. I watched a few minutes of it
• 1:04:51
  last night. Yep.
• 1:04:52
  Another great one. I'm telling you I've watched
• 1:04:54
  hours. We haven't been out.
• 1:04:56
  We haven't, we haven't done anything.
• 1:04:58
  We've both been kind of under the weather, so we've been at
• 1:05:00
  home and Charisse never really is down with watching movies.
• 1:05:03
  She, she likes, she's the Queen of Sam short ass movie.
• 1:05:08
  She loves like the SNL skit. I like a short ass movie, a
• 1:05:11
  short ass movie. So that's she, if it's over like
• 1:05:13
  40 minutes, she's like, I don't know, we got time for that, but
• 1:05:16
  she'll watch 12 Housewives shows in a row.
• 1:05:19
  But this past week for whatever reason, I guess, 'cause we're a
• 1:05:23
  little under the weather not feeling great, she's been a
• 1:05:25
  little submissive. We have watched a bunch of
• 1:05:27
  Christmas movies. We're just one after another.
• 1:05:29
  And I forgot how good some of these are.
• 1:05:32
  You know, we know some of the ones that didn't even make the
• 1:05:35
  bracket. I'm thinking how, but you can't.
• 1:05:38
  It's like ranking the top 10 or top 16 songs that we all like.
• 1:05:42
  Come on now. Yeah, I mean you're.
• 1:05:44
  You and we're about to try to tackle this feat with Christmas
• 1:05:48
  songs. It's impossible.
• 1:05:49
  It's impossible. Even if you never use.
• 1:05:50
  All right, What's your top 16 songs about something with a car
• 1:05:54
  in it or a sky or a a river? I mean, you're going to run into
• 1:05:57
  these problems. You're going to That's correct.
• 1:06:00
  But watching these has made me gave me a new appreciation for
• 1:06:03
  how good some of them are and and you know and I forgot we
• 1:06:07
  glanced over White Christmas. We did I I forgot all about the
• 1:06:12
  backdrop on that story. You know, obviously the big
• 1:06:14
  stars Fred Astaire and and. Yeah, you said you texted us in
• 1:06:20
  our group that they. Yeah.
• 1:06:21
  What was that? So what was your story about
• 1:06:23
  that? White Christmas, and I've
• 1:06:25
  mentioned this before on here and on some certain things,
• 1:06:28
  White Christmas was filmed in the Catskills at at some of
• 1:06:33
  those big resorts they used to have in the Catskill Mountains
• 1:06:37
  that are non existence they were in several years ago.
• 1:06:40
  They were getting people were doing the urban exploring and
• 1:06:43
  finding them you know, to abandon and now they're just
• 1:06:45
  rubble. They're not exist anymore but at
• 1:06:46
  one time they were as big as the resorts in Vegas.
• 1:06:49
  Golf course, snow skiing ice skating hundreds of rooms.
• 1:06:55
  It was all the people that left New York City in the summer that
• 1:06:57
  went up there. It was a lot of Jewish people.
• 1:06:59
  They had to start off with Jewish housekeepers that
• 1:07:02
  innkeepers and they open the and next thing I know by the it's
• 1:07:05
  basically where Dirty Dancing and all that came from that's
• 1:07:08
  what they're portraying was these these resorts and the
• 1:07:11
  Catskills they don't exist they're they're rubble they they
• 1:07:15
  at one time the world's largest indoor swimming pool.
• 1:07:18
  They would have Wilt Chamberlain there training in the offseason.
• 1:07:20
  Muhammad Ali sparring there it it's where all the major
• 1:07:23
  entertainers went. They had the biggest nightclubs
• 1:07:25
  in the country. Were there 3 and 4000 seat
• 1:07:27
  nightclubs. That's where Jerry Lewis all
• 1:07:29
  those the the Rat Pack before Vegas Catskills were your money
• 1:07:34
  maker. That's where everybody went to
• 1:07:35
  work and and the period of 100 and so years they were started
• 1:07:41
  became these huge huge complexes and now they have been
• 1:07:45
  demolished and are right back. The earth is taking them over
• 1:07:47
  again. How crazy is that?
• 1:07:49
  But I say all that to say, that's where White Christmas was
• 1:07:52
  filmed at a resort up there and you can look at, you can find
• 1:07:56
  footage of that resort before it was demolished and the stories
• 1:08:00
  on it, the correlations on YouTube.
• 1:08:02
  If you look up Catskills resorts, white Christmas,
• 1:08:06
  Borscht belt, you know, that kind of stuff.
• 1:08:10
  One called Catch Me at Kutcher's.
• 1:08:14
  It's fascinating to see and even it's scary to know that that was
• 1:08:18
  such a big thing at one point and now is non existence.
• 1:08:20
  It had its heyday, probably forties, 50s, early 60s.
• 1:08:24
  Then after that advent of commercial airliners, people
• 1:08:27
  could go to Orlando as fast as they could drive from New York.
• 1:08:30
  You used to everybody left New York in the summer, 'cause it
• 1:08:32
  was hot. Yeah, that's why it was all
• 1:08:34
  started. But then so over time, less and
• 1:08:37
  less populated, ran down, ran down into nothing, and now they
• 1:08:40
  don't even exist. They've been bulldozered into,
• 1:08:42
  there's just nothing there. But White Christmas was filmed
• 1:08:45
  there with this, while it was in, while the place was open.
• 1:08:49
  So a lot of those people in some of the shots were actually just
• 1:08:52
  people who were vacationing there during the time.
• 1:08:55
  And I want to say they they actually might have got snowed
• 1:08:57
  in or iced in and couldn't leave, so they stayed in
• 1:09:00
  production. There's some story about that
• 1:09:02
  too, but one we glanced over that I believe a generation
• 1:09:05
  above us would not leave off of this.
• 1:09:08
  That's a good, you know, very good.
• 1:09:10
  Point the music part, the whole thing with all of the stuff you
• 1:09:14
  know. So anyway.
• 1:09:16
  All right, well, I'm going to, I'm going to skedaddle for just
• 1:09:19
  a second. Y'all continue to talk.
• 1:09:21
  I won't be, but just a second and then we'll go.
• 1:09:23
  We'll start to go down the list of songs and you can do the same
• 1:09:27
  Jr. So y'all continue on.
• 1:09:30
  Blasey, did you really see anybody standing up to Christmas
• 1:09:33
  Story Did or Christmas Vacation? Did you see anybody?
• 1:09:38
  Did you think there was anybody able that could possibly take it
• 1:09:41
  down? In reality, Not really.
• 1:09:45
  Not really, man. I mean, home alone is one people
• 1:09:48
  I'm sure could argue from a certain standpoint and then you
• 1:09:51
  get into some of the traditional stuff, right?
• 1:09:53
  There's that debate. But at the end of the day, man,
• 1:09:55
  I mean Christmas vacation's just it's it's kind of the it's just
• 1:09:58
  the king of the castle. You know what I mean?
• 1:09:59
  It it, it's the. Litmus.
• 1:10:01
  It's the litmus test. Is it as good as that or is it
• 1:10:03
  close? You know, I had the the things I
• 1:10:07
  saw on social people responding to the post we had made were can
• 1:10:12
  we just get it on Let's get to vacation and blank, You know,
• 1:10:17
  everybody would say, can we just get this over with?
• 1:10:18
  Can we just go ahead and decide, is it vacation or story, or is
• 1:10:21
  it vacation or elf? Or is it vacation and home
• 1:10:23
  alone? But vacation always rang the
• 1:10:25
  bell, you know, It seemed no one could shy away from that.
• 1:10:30
  And I'm wondering if that's generational.
• 1:10:32
  Either way, it doesn't matter, 'cause it's the time we're here
• 1:10:33
  and that's the time we're voting on.
• 1:10:36
  Or is it just the movies that funny?
• 1:10:39
  Because it it is it's laugh out loud funny but it's also inside
• 1:10:44
  humor funny. The characters.
• 1:10:46
  I mean Cousin Eddie you know and it's a build up too.
• 1:10:50
  We had a we had a build up too because they've already been on
• 1:10:53
  the vacation. We already kind of we're
• 1:10:54
  familiar with some of these characters too.
• 1:10:56
  I wonder if that helps some has to.
• 1:10:59
  You know this person. You know at at this time of the
• 1:11:02
  year what he's going to bring and what he's going to do.
• 1:11:04
  You know, you've seen what he they behaved in Vegas, you know
• 1:11:06
  what I mean? Yeah, you saw him.
• 1:11:08
  You saw what? You saw how they acted in
• 1:11:10
  Europe. You saw what happened when they
• 1:11:11
  went to Europe. So, yeah.
• 1:11:12
  So we Yeah, So. And you've met cousin Eddie and
• 1:11:15
  you don't expect anything but him to show up with his dog's
• 1:11:17
  snots and all his family with all their health issues, so.
• 1:11:20
  Good. I saw something the other day
• 1:11:22
  where him and him and Chevy Chase got together and they were
• 1:11:25
  doing some kind of reunion. They were debating somehow with
• 1:11:27
  that scene with Snots in the grocery store.
• 1:11:30
  He made Chevy Chase angry. He claims, like the Chevy got
• 1:11:33
  mad at him. I mean, they were poking fun at
• 1:11:34
  each other. You're right, he was mad at me.
• 1:11:36
  And Chevy's like, going, no, I wasn't.
• 1:11:38
  This was just the other day they were together.
• 1:11:40
  So I thought that was pretty cool, man.
• 1:11:41
  So. That is funny.
• 1:11:42
  All right. I'm going to go check on some
• 1:11:43
  things. I'll be right back.
• 1:11:44
  Then we'll we'll jump into, jump into the music.
• 1:11:48
  Oh yeah, man. Kind of kind of quicker
• 1:11:50
  probably. We do the other side.
• 1:11:52
  I went and checked, yeah yeah time.
• 1:11:55
  This place closes in like 15 minutes but.
• 1:11:58
  Oh, they do. But here's the good news.
• 1:12:01
  He, he, he got some cleaning up and all that.
• 1:12:03
  So we're good. We got a little bit, you know,
• 1:12:04
  probably need a little bit more, just a little.
• 1:12:08
  Quick, yeah, we'll we'll expedite it a little bit.
• 1:12:11
  Don't worry folks. Again, this is a live show.
• 1:12:13
  We're coming to you from props. So tell us while we're waiting
• 1:12:16
  on the handler to come back and we we jump back in, tell us a
• 1:12:19
  little bit about props, some of the beers that they offer, some
• 1:12:23
  of the pricing, do they have food?
• 1:12:25
  Just tell us a little bit more about.
• 1:12:26
  Me and Props, yeah, So Props Brewery.
• 1:12:28
  So they just open this location going, when was this?
• 1:12:32
  Probably early spring going into the summer.
• 1:12:36
  They opened up the Props Brewery location in Hammock Bay.
• 1:12:40
  And dude, it's, it's so cool the way they got it set up.
• 1:12:43
  You got multiple food trucks, They've got a food truck,
• 1:12:46
  they've got three food trucks or they got two food food trucks,
• 1:12:48
  One's a Taco truck, They've got one that does hamburgers and
• 1:12:51
  does, you know, salads and pretzels and things like that.
• 1:12:55
  So you got multiple choices are always rotating food trucks here
• 1:13:00
  as well do the beers. They keep them fresh and they
• 1:13:03
  keep on like constantly changing and there's been like there was
• 1:13:06
  one that right now they've got a Jovi beer that's and they'll
• 1:13:10
  they'll even put it like in a little honey rim with a little
• 1:13:13
  brown sugar on the edge. You know, it's it's so good, you
• 1:13:17
  know, especially during Christmas or you know, like
• 1:13:19
  coming even coming off Thanksgiving when they had the
• 1:13:23
  Halloween into Thanksgiving when they had the pumpkin beer, you
• 1:13:27
  could get one of those. It's so good.
• 1:13:28
  But man, this place is really, really cool.
• 1:13:31
  The, the, the staff is just great.
• 1:13:32
  They're so nice here, You know what I mean?
• 1:13:34
  There's always events, like tonight we had a jazz orchestra
• 1:13:37
  out outside and unbelievable, they were here, you know, a
• 1:13:40
  couple months ago instead of practicing across town, they
• 1:13:43
  just said we'll come practice out here and dude, there's like
• 1:13:45
  25 of them, you know, and I'm listening to all these Christmas
• 1:13:48
  songs with this jazz orchestra behind me.
• 1:13:51
  Luckily I'm in a room. Then you got, you know, the main
• 1:13:54
  room behind me. And then they were outside, so
• 1:13:57
  we were able to still communicate here.
• 1:13:59
  But dude, this this place is great.
• 1:14:01
  Nate and the whole crew here, they do a great job.
• 1:14:05
  I mean, I'm, I'm, we're blessed to have them in our
• 1:14:08
  neighborhood, which I still can't believe.
• 1:14:11
  I can't believe it either. I hate that I don't live there
• 1:14:13
  anymore because damn, what an awesome place to go and hang out
• 1:14:17
  at. But yeah, yeah.
• 1:14:21
  Thank you. Props.
• 1:14:22
  Thanks for having us. Thanks for having.
• 1:14:25
  Thanks for having having Blasey. And look all right.
• 1:14:29
  We're running a little bit short on time here tonight.
• 1:14:31
  We don't want them to turn the lights out on Blasey, but he
• 1:14:34
  still has a light. So it'll be OK if they do.
• 1:14:37
  But let's let's we'll try to go through this a little bit faster
• 1:14:41
  than we went through the movies. But look, another Impossible
• 1:14:47
  bracket. We have our top 16 Christmas
• 1:14:52
  songs and we'll just start off right off the bat.
• 1:14:56
  We're going to just dive on into it.
• 1:14:59
  We have Silent Night as the number one seed going up against
• 1:15:05
  Wham's Last Christmas, which snuck in at the very end with
• 1:15:09
  some late tally votes. Last Christmas.
• 1:15:14
  Last Christmas made it in, but I mean for me it's Silent Night
• 1:15:19
  all day, every day. Yeah, I'm going Silent Night.
• 1:15:25
  You know, Silent Night. Yep.
• 1:15:27
  I think that's the easy selection.
• 1:15:30
  Our Panic fan makes a very good point Christmas Kate.
• 1:15:34
  Unfortunately, Christmas Katie was left out of the list and and
• 1:15:39
  this is a good time to maybe point out some notable
• 1:15:45
  omissions. Oh Holy Night did not make it
• 1:15:48
  into this bracket. Little Town of Bethlehem Away in
• 1:15:52
  a Manger Run Run, Rudolph Holly. Jolly Christmas The Hanukkah
• 1:15:57
  Song with Adam Sandler not even discussed.
• 1:16:00
  God, how do we not get into? That maybe next year 'cause it
• 1:16:03
  ain't, Could be one on this list.
• 1:16:05
  Didn't even make it. Jingle Bell Rock didn't make it.
• 1:16:10
  I mean, there is a ton. And I think Mac last year didn't
• 1:16:13
  make it. They some Robert Earl Keen you
• 1:16:14
  know, going. Back Merry Christmas from the
• 1:16:16
  family, no doubt. Yes, I know.
• 1:16:18
  And I was like, man, no doubt. Think about that.
• 1:16:21
  Yep. Sorry, I I was on the spot.
• 1:16:23
  That's all on me. McAdoo.
• 1:16:25
  Sorry, brother. Yeah, no doubt Mary.
• 1:16:27
  But see, that's going to be, that's going to go back to the
• 1:16:32
  country thing or some people have no idea what it is or some
• 1:16:36
  people are going to be turned off just because of the way it
• 1:16:37
  sounds and it's like, oh, it's so awesome.
• 1:16:39
  I mean, that's AI mean that's as good as it gets.
• 1:16:42
  Yep, it is good. Yep, Silent night runs away.
• 1:16:46
  With Carve a Turkey Turkey ball game on Next Bloody Marys
• 1:16:51
  because we all want one so good. It is fun.
• 1:16:56
  It is good. What about this?
• 1:16:59
  This one ain't even close. What about this one?
• 1:17:01
  What about this one? I'm.
• 1:17:07
  A family man. Yeah, so, Ned, you can't, you
• 1:17:13
  can't go wrong with the Neville family and.
• 1:17:16
  Losing out on Christmas Day. Me and Chase were in the kitchen
• 1:17:18
  running it, running it, running in place to that last night.
• 1:17:21
  So I went. Today was grandparents day for
• 1:17:25
  my son at his school. He's in the 5th grade and and
• 1:17:29
  the theme of this and I should have put a video up to play a
• 1:17:32
  little bit of it. He would have loved it.
• 1:17:34
  I didn't think about it, but the theme of this was Louisiana
• 1:17:37
  Christmas and all the the kindergarten, kindergarten
• 1:17:41
  class, 1st grade. All them.
• 1:17:43
  They all sang different songs and and everything, but they
• 1:17:47
  were all, all of them were Louisiana theme songs.
• 1:17:50
  You know, like with the alligator flying and all this,
• 1:17:54
  Papa Noel and all. Oh my Papa.
• 1:17:57
  Noel. Yeah, all that all that fun
• 1:17:59
  stuff. So yeah, I got a whole 2 hour
• 1:18:02
  treat this morning of awesome Louisiana Christmas songs, and
• 1:18:07
  that's its own category. What's the book?
• 1:18:10
  The book I have to I've ordered it for all of my God children
• 1:18:13
  and the What's the Book? The.
• 1:18:15
  Oh, the Cajun night before Christmas.
• 1:18:16
  The Cajun night before Christmas.
• 1:18:18
  I mean, it's a must. Oh, it is on Boudreaux.
• 1:18:21
  Oh T boy. Exactly, exactly.
• 1:18:24
  Look, if y'all are. If y'all haven't ever heard
• 1:18:26
  that, go to go to YouTube Whenever we're done with this
• 1:18:29
  show. Look up DJ Rhett reading A Cajun
• 1:18:33
  Night Before Christmas. It's fantastic.
• 1:18:36
  And I mean, you're. Not And what about what's the
• 1:18:39
  What's the Doctor John and and Professor Long Hair, the
• 1:18:42
  Christmas song they did together back in the day?
• 1:18:46
  They played it. They played it today.
• 1:18:48
  I know what you I can't remember the name of it, but I'm like,
• 1:18:50
  man, I hadn't heard that song in a long time.
• 1:18:52
  It's so good. It is good.
• 1:18:54
  It is. I ain't jealous of nowhere.
• 1:18:57
  I love living down here by Florida and I love my Louisiana
• 1:19:00
  people. I'm just going to say that I was
• 1:19:01
  born in Mississippi and raised in Alabama.
• 1:19:03
  Ain't nowhere else I want to go. Arkansas's good to me.
• 1:19:06
  Tennessee was great. Love Georgia.
• 1:19:08
  Florida's where it kind of where I live these days.
• 1:19:11
  Florida, Alabama line. But Louisiana folks, good
• 1:19:13
  people, good music, good food. Love me.
• 1:19:17
  I'm a little Jelly. I have You know about Louisiana.
• 1:19:19
  Love me some Louisiana I'm going to be.
• 1:19:21
  Honest. We have a good time here,
• 1:19:22
  there's no doubt about it. We eat good everything.
• 1:19:26
  It's great people. It's great food.
• 1:19:27
  It's just it's like a different country.
• 1:19:30
  It's own thing. It's its own little deal.
• 1:19:33
  It's. Totally different music.
• 1:19:35
  It's got its. Own thing.
• 1:19:36
  Somebody from South Georgia and South Alabama or South
• 1:19:38
  Mississippi. You even confuse somebody.
• 1:19:40
  From you know, not a lick, no over there and.
• 1:19:42
  That's what I'm and that's what I'm worried about.
• 1:19:44
  This, this, this everybody, every building looking the same
• 1:19:47
  and every exit off every Interstate looks exactly the
• 1:19:50
  same as. Are we gonna, you know have it
• 1:19:52
  to where New Orleans doesn't have that or is No.
• 1:19:55
  Is there no region feels like a region.
• 1:19:56
  Does everywhere feel like just stop off the Interstate.
• 1:19:59
  You know is there no local feel, you know, I mean, I know when I,
• 1:20:03
  you know, we can go on about that.
• 1:20:04
  But, you know, that's Louisiana is one of the last few places
• 1:20:07
  that still holds on to it. You know what I mean?
• 1:20:09
  For sure. For sure.
• 1:20:11
  Culture is a huge thing here. We're getting off the rails here
• 1:20:14
  though so we're back on. We're back in Silent Night last
• 1:20:18
  Christmas we did get. Yeah, we don't.
• 1:20:20
  We don't need you to get out of here.
• 1:20:22
  So let's at least get to the Elite Eight.
• 1:20:24
  So the last last Christmas got one vote.
• 1:20:26
  Everybody else votes Silent Night.
• 1:20:29
  We're moving on two seed White Christmas versus Santa Baby.
• 1:20:36
  Interesting match up, but I'm going white Christmas all day
• 1:20:40
  long on that. White Christmas Yeah, give me a
• 1:20:43
  white Christmas. Nothing wrong with some Santa
• 1:20:46
  baby now, but. No, not a thing.
• 1:20:48
  Not a thing in the world. Wrong with Santa, baby, they
• 1:20:50
  made. It They were #15 song on earth,
• 1:20:54
  you know what I mean? So, good job, yeah.
• 1:20:56
  Yeah, yeah, Sorry. Cage the night before Christmas,
• 1:20:58
  no doubt. So good.
• 1:20:59
  Yep, Yep. Paul loves the French influence
• 1:21:02
  with Louisiana. Us too.
• 1:21:04
  I mean, that's the that's the beauty of.
• 1:21:06
  Speaking of French, shout out to my buddy Stefan Laplante.
• 1:21:10
  Our guitar player French Canadian from Quebec City lives
• 1:21:13
  in Nashville. Thinking of him as Chereser
• 1:21:15
  Cousins. He had a car wreck.
• 1:21:16
  He's healing up now. Get well Steph.
• 1:21:18
  Love you buddy. Get well, man.
• 1:21:21
  Get well, yeah. Frank says they're going to have
• 1:21:23
  Blasey doing the dishes here shortly.
• 1:21:25
  I'm sure they will be. Yeah, they will.
• 1:21:28
  We'll make a call, we'll get his agent.
• 1:21:30
  We'll get his agent to call in if I need to.
• 1:21:33
  After Katrina, I met a lot of cool ass Cajuns.
• 1:21:35
  Hell yeah, you did. Absolutely you did.
• 1:21:39
  And then back to the deal. Jason Hilton, White Christmas.
• 1:21:43
  Greg White Christmas. I think we.
• 1:21:46
  Can all agree, Doc? That's my boy, Doc.
• 1:21:49
  What's up, Doc? What's up, doc?
• 1:21:52
  White is white. Christmas is moving on.
• 1:21:55
  All right, so then we're going to move on to what's the number
• 1:22:00
  three seed, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer versus the Little
• 1:22:04
  Drummer Boy. This is an easy one for me,
• 1:22:08
  Rudolph, like the movie, moves on.
• 1:22:11
  I. Want to hear what Blasey's got
• 1:22:13
  to say, man? The Little Drummer boy is really
• 1:22:15
  good. Like now we're not comparing the
• 1:22:17
  movie, we're we're comparing the song.
• 1:22:18
  And so, you know, that's tough a little bit when it comes to the
• 1:22:25
  song, man, give me a little drummer boy.
• 1:22:33
  All right, all right. As much as I love Rudolph,
• 1:22:36
  'cause this the the movie, sure, and I love the song, But like in
• 1:22:39
  this song category, I don't know, I'm going to go against
• 1:22:43
  that a little. Bit They did a whole different
• 1:22:44
  category here. They both hit on so different
• 1:22:48
  levels, equally as heavy, but I'm going to go with Rudolph
• 1:22:53
  but. I like it.
• 1:22:55
  But Little Drummer Boy man you get that right frame of mind
• 1:22:59
  with about family and Christmas and that sucker comes on.
• 1:23:01
  You know you appreciate where you're at, and the good Lord,
• 1:23:03
  that's just a good. Buddy Oh, it's so good.
• 1:23:05
  That's right. Tear up thinking about it.
• 1:23:07
  But Rudolph Man. Dean Martin?
• 1:23:09
  Come on, I like it. Yeah, I mean.
• 1:23:12
  Deano baby, I'm with. It I'm with it.
• 1:23:15
  A close match up. A close match up though, winning
• 1:23:18
  out. Edging it out.
• 1:23:20
  Rudolph the red nosed reindeer moves on in a scare tight ball
• 1:23:25
  game, but they do move on. Moving on, us moving on.
• 1:23:29
  Frosty the Snowman, the number four seed against the 13 seed.
• 1:23:35
  Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
• 1:23:40
  It's Frosty the Snowman for me, but Dang, that's a tough one.
• 1:23:46
  Actually, you know what? I take that back.
• 1:23:48
  I just changed my mind. I can do that.
• 1:23:51
  Have yourself a merry Little Christmas.
• 1:23:53
  I'm taking Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
• 1:23:55
  I love that song. OK, I'm going frosty.
• 1:24:03
  I'm going frosty on this. Frosty.
• 1:24:05
  OK, I love that Frosty. There's Snowman oh.
• 1:24:10
  So good built in with a have yourself.
• 1:24:13
  A merry little. Crag with a frosty.
• 1:24:17
  I mean, there's so many. I'm going.
• 1:24:19
  Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
• 1:24:20
  I get it. These are all.
• 1:24:22
  Tough, but. But they're tough.
• 1:24:23
  Yeah, yeah, they're tough. I changed my mind.
• 1:24:26
  I changed my mind as I'm thinking about it and singing
• 1:24:28
  them to myself in my head. That's exactly what I'm doing
• 1:24:31
  too, Handler. It's like I'm I've been
• 1:24:33
  listening to nothing but Christmas music pretty much
• 1:24:36
  since we did this the other night as well, so my stances are
• 1:24:40
  a little more firm than they were.
• 1:24:42
  Hey, I want to give Apple some props on that too.
• 1:24:46
  You know, they I don't always love any algorithm or playlist
• 1:24:49
  they've ever given me. But their classic holiday
• 1:24:53
  playlist digs deep. It's it's no surface ever.
• 1:24:58
  I've skipped over 2 songs in four days or whatever.
• 1:25:01
  I just decided after I was digging around playing my throw
• 1:25:04
  together something as I'm listening I said let me just see
• 1:25:07
  what they got. Classic holiday gems.
• 1:25:10
  I mean Louis Prima doing shake shake Santa's hand is what was
• 1:25:17
  playing as I got out of the truck.
• 1:25:18
  I mean it just some oh gems that you forgot about a lot that we
• 1:25:23
  forgot about or may have not ever known or maybe heard one
• 1:25:25
  time and thought, Oh my God I heard that in the car when I was
• 1:25:28
  six. I ain't heard that ever since
• 1:25:30
  you know exactly. So the classic holiday Check
• 1:25:33
  that out, everybody. Well, have yourself a merry
• 1:25:36
  little Christmas. I do believe is moving on based
• 1:25:39
  off of the yard, you know? So yeah, that's a good one.
• 1:25:42
  All right, moving on. The 12 five match up.
• 1:25:45
  Jingle Bells versus Baby. It's cold outside.
• 1:25:53
  You go, Ted. I mean, so I say give.
• 1:25:55
  I mean, fun fact right here on Jingle Bells.
• 1:25:58
  You know, Jingle Bells was actually a Thanksgiving song
• 1:26:01
  originally, and it was the title was actually One Horse Open
• 1:26:05
  Sleigh, and it's also the very first song to ever be broadcast
• 1:26:10
  from space in 1965 S With all that being said, give me Jingle
• 1:26:16
  Bells till you drop. All right, Jingle Bells it is.
• 1:26:23
  I like babies. With a baby, it's cold.
• 1:26:25
  I like baby. It's cold outside.
• 1:26:27
  Better, but Jingle Bells is the is a too big of a Christmas song
• 1:26:32
  to not have way up in the later rounds.
• 1:26:34
  Sorry, baby. I I mean, I I it's a it's a
• 1:26:37
  tough one for me as well. But yeah, I mean Jingle.
• 1:26:40
  Bells. Where did Jingle Bells seed?
• 1:26:42
  Jingle Bells came in as a 12 seed buddy 12-5's Getting a Win
• 1:26:48
  Here 1250 Yeah, Jingle Bells with the first upset in the
• 1:26:52
  songs category didn't take us very long, but it is.
• 1:26:57
  It is official. It is official.
• 1:26:58
  Jingle Bells is a song Jingle. Bells.
• 1:27:01
  A couple more, baby. It's cold outside, but Jingle
• 1:27:03
  Bells in an upset. That's.
• 1:27:06
  What I'm saying it's got pun, it's got side jokes, Jingle
• 1:27:09
  Bells. You don't even need music or
• 1:27:11
  there's not even a person. You just sing that as like a
• 1:27:14
  once you're 4, you learn to sing it and you just sing that song.
• 1:27:17
  Yeah, Jingle Bells got to be sorry.
• 1:27:20
  Amanda says you're going to have your regular card, your regulars
• 1:27:23
  card, revoked. Yeah, she she keeps sending me
• 1:27:26
  messages. They're closing.
• 1:27:27
  I'm like I I'm in full communication with them, I
• 1:27:29
  think. Yeah, we're all good.
• 1:27:30
  We're all good. I.
• 1:27:31
  Got it. I appreciate.
• 1:27:32
  It we're good. We're good.
• 1:27:34
  All right. So Jingle Bells rolls on.
• 1:27:37
  Let's move on to the 611 seed. This is going to going to
• 1:27:41
  definitely be interesting. We have as the six seed
• 1:27:45
  Christmas in Dixie, which was not on our list to begin our
• 1:27:50
  selection show and rapidly ran up to the top of the list.
• 1:27:55
  I think I know where the handler is going to lean on this versus
• 1:27:59
  the number 11 seed. Let it snow.
• 1:28:04
  Yeah, I got to go Christmas in Dixie Boys.
• 1:28:06
  This is just the epitome of my Southern Christmas and for me
• 1:28:10
  personally, this is good as it gets.
• 1:28:14
  Yeah, I don't know. I think I'm gonna have to go
• 1:28:16
  Christmas in Dixie. Yeah, I mean.
• 1:28:46
  Bye. Now in New York.
• 1:28:48
  City. So good.
• 1:28:49
  So good. So good.
• 1:28:51
  Dude, I mean, it doesn't get any better than the silky.
• 1:28:53
  City Boys of Pocapify, Pocapify Jack State.
• 1:28:58
  Is he OK? Yeah, the it's unanimous.
• 1:29:01
  Christmas in Dixie moves on all. Right.
• 1:29:06
  So remind me later guys to mention Jack State.
• 1:29:09
  I got a little quick tidbit about Jack State Blaze you
• 1:29:11
  probably. Already know state?
• 1:29:12
  Is that what? You said yeah, Whoop Jack state.
• 1:29:14
  Absolutely, yeah, I thought that.
• 1:29:16
  Was what you said, Say Whoop Jack.
• 1:29:18
  State all right, moving on. The Seven Seed Blue Christmas
• 1:29:22
  versus the ten seed and the most popular song.
• 1:29:27
  According to ChatGPT, All I want for Christmas is you, the Mariah
• 1:29:32
  Carey. Mariah Carey up against Elvis in
• 1:29:34
  a room in front of me. I can't even deal with you.
• 1:29:37
  No more Tigs. Good Lord, come on.
• 1:29:39
  Now it's just the way it worked out.
• 1:29:41
  I didn't make this deal. We all did it communically.
• 1:29:44
  Man, give me the king, and let me get out of here for our Mimi
• 1:29:47
  finds out. Give me the king and let me get
• 1:29:48
  out of here for Mimi finds out. Well, this is a no brainer for
• 1:29:52
  me. I've got blue Christmas all day
• 1:29:53
  as well. Like it ain't even close you.
• 1:29:56
  Might hear the blue. Christmas.
• 1:29:57
  But I I'll tell you something real fast and real funny or I
• 1:30:00
  find it funny. Many years ago I had this very
• 1:30:05
  vivid dream. I was married to Mariah Carey
• 1:30:08
  and it was so odd. Like I like it was like it was
• 1:30:10
  happening to the shows and she was going out on the stage, like
• 1:30:13
  wishing her luck. Then I woke up and it was so
• 1:30:16
  real. I was like, Dang man, I just
• 1:30:17
  went, went through a marriage and you know, and I'm not even
• 1:30:21
  married to her, so it. Was a little.
• 1:30:23
  While but I still have to go with Blue Christmas.
• 1:30:26
  The life of Mimi, you know, I mean, that's that.
• 1:30:29
  Was a weird deal. That was, I mean.
• 1:30:31
  Part of the resurrection. Part of the resurrection.
• 1:30:34
  He had a resurrection. Part and part of it, Alright
• 1:30:38
  like that it was. More of a like a just a, you
• 1:30:40
  know there. Wow.
• 1:30:41
  It was more like me being at the concerts and backstage and like.
• 1:30:44
  Taking care of stuff. Yeah, it was supportive.
• 1:30:47
  Taking care of stuff. This is so bizarre.
• 1:30:50
  Moving on. The chat.
• 1:30:52
  The chat agrees. The chat agrees with us.
• 1:30:54
  So yeah, if Blue Christmas easily easily rolls on
• 1:30:58
  unanimous, then the last match up to complete our Elite 8 Feliz
• 1:31:03
  Navidad versus rocking around the Christmas tree man.
• 1:31:07
  Another. That's a tough one, boys.
• 1:31:09
  Give me Brenda Lee and I've got it here.
• 1:31:11
  Go ahead. I'm taking Brenda Lee as well.
• 1:31:13
  Brenda Lee, Right, Unanimous with Tigs bits we're taking
• 1:31:18
  rocking. Yep, let's take it around the
• 1:31:20
  house. And so that's it.
• 1:31:23
  So that that completes our first round.
• 1:31:26
  Now let's move on. We have Silent Night versus
• 1:31:29
  rocking around the Christmas tree.
• 1:31:32
  We have have yourself a Merry Little Christmas versus Jingle
• 1:31:35
  Bells. We have White Christmas versus
• 1:31:38
  Blue Christmas. Which color is going to win that
• 1:31:42
  one? And then we have Rudolph the Red
• 1:31:44
  Nosed Reindeer. It's Christmas in Dixie.
• 1:31:48
  We will, like the last time, continue on.
• 1:31:50
  We just rocking around the Christmas tree, just moved on.
• 1:31:53
  Chat agrees. Rocking around the Christmas
• 1:31:56
  tree versus, in my opinion, the greatest Christmas song ever,
• 1:32:01
  Silent Night. My vote is for Silent Night.
• 1:32:04
  Give me silent night till you drop.
• 1:32:07
  What's the two? Silent Night versus rocking
• 1:32:11
  around the Christmas tree. Give me rockin around the
• 1:32:19
  Christmas tree. All right, all right.
• 1:32:22
  It's a 2 to one chat. Y'all.
• 1:32:24
  Feel free to chime in, because I'd hate for us to just push it
• 1:32:29
  all through without y'all saying anything.
• 1:32:32
  And everybody out there listening and watching, thanks
• 1:32:35
  for doing this. And yeah, please chime in.
• 1:32:36
  I This is the best part is seeing what everybody else
• 1:32:39
  thinks because I know everybody's coming to us from a
• 1:32:42
  different place and different time and that stuff a little
• 1:32:44
  different age group. So it's good to get all these
• 1:32:48
  options in and we all like a lot of the same things.
• 1:32:50
  We obviously all like good music and good whiskey and good food,
• 1:32:53
  so or good beer if you're at at Props So.
• 1:32:58
  Fine beer at props. I, I, I everybody, I appreciate
• 1:33:01
  y'all sticking in there and chat.
• 1:33:02
  I know it's going along, but thank you all for.
• 1:33:04
  Thank you so much. Yeah, and thank you for props
• 1:33:07
  for keeping the doors open and not.
• 1:33:08
  Yeah, I'm going to come to props.
• 1:33:10
  You tell props, don't worry, they they made 100 bucks tonight
• 1:33:12
  because I'm coming. I'm I'm at least worth 100 bucks
• 1:33:14
  if I show up. So Charisse and I are going to
• 1:33:17
  come stay with y'all or get a place close and come visit.
• 1:33:21
  Yeah. We're all going to do a full a
• 1:33:25
  full show. From that I want to come when
• 1:33:27
  you when they've got that, the the Jazz Orchestra, I want to
• 1:33:30
  come when they're having that. For sure and like and I'll try
• 1:33:32
  to figure that out because they just.
• 1:33:33
  Kind of. Let me get a schedule on that.
• 1:33:34
  Like yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.
• 1:33:37
  Widespread silent. Yeah, everybody's silent.
• 1:33:41
  Unanimous besides one. So it rolls on.
• 1:33:44
  We'll we'll go, let's see Rudolph the red nosed reindeer
• 1:33:50
  versus Christmas in Dixie. Let's just hit it here.
• 1:33:53
  Let's rip the Band-Aid off for the handler.
• 1:33:57
  I'm riding Dixie till I die, so. Yeah.
• 1:34:02
  Y'all let. Me know I'm going to have to go
• 1:34:04
  with that too. When I got to vote on other
• 1:34:06
  stuff. I agree with you on music.
• 1:34:08
  Yep, Yep. All right, I'm going we.
• 1:34:11
  Also, I mean, you know, the reference of the the, the places
• 1:34:14
  we want to go. When he talks to New York, man,
• 1:34:16
  when you're from Alabama and you ain't never been nowhere, you
• 1:34:18
  think about you in your head, you.
• 1:34:19
  That's what I love about good music, the, the imagery.
• 1:34:23
  But in your head, you blink and you can see New York skyline.
• 1:34:27
  And then when they talk about Memphis, though, you know what
• 1:34:29
  Memphis looks like and you know what Pines look like.
• 1:34:31
  And you know what a little dust in the white on Pines looks
• 1:34:33
  like. And man, that one just gets me,
• 1:34:35
  buddy. I understand.
• 1:34:37
  I understand. Yeah.
• 1:34:39
  It's pretty unanimous. I have Christmas in Dixie.
• 1:34:41
  The Chad has Christmas in Dixie. Christmas in Dixie.
• 1:34:47
  Yep. Moving on to the Final Four, who
• 1:34:52
  will they face? Which Which color of Christmas?
• 1:34:56
  Which color of Christmas Will Christmas in Dixie face white
• 1:35:00
  Christmas or blue Christmas? I'm taking blue Christmas all
• 1:35:09
  day long in this. That's a tough Christmas, Lacey.
• 1:35:15
  You go. Blue Christmas, Give me blue
• 1:35:17
  Christmas, Yeah. Yeah, as good as White Christmas
• 1:35:20
  is, give me the king. I agree it's hard to go away
• 1:35:22
  from the king. Hard to go against the king.
• 1:35:24
  It really, really is. I mean.
• 1:35:27
  That's our colors are coming out.
• 1:35:28
  This film might be a little more loose, but when it comes to
• 1:35:31
  music, we dial in, we we go at home team, a lot of this music.
• 1:35:35
  Boy, yeah, I'm really. I'm kind of surprised.
• 1:35:37
  I was thinking it was going to be the exact opposite.
• 1:35:40
  Yeah, exact opposite. That's why we do this live.
• 1:35:44
  We don't know. We don't know.
• 1:35:46
  We don't. Know I wish I had my blasi.
• 1:35:48
  You got to see. I wish I had it here when I was
• 1:35:50
  in Vegas. You know, this past trip, the
• 1:35:53
  rodeo was in town, so all their vendors are in town, so there's
• 1:35:55
  a lot of silversmiths and turquoise dealers and all that
• 1:35:58
  stuff. And I I had my piece, went and
• 1:36:00
  got it looked at and of course I had to buy something while we
• 1:36:03
  were there. Man, I got this.
• 1:36:04
  I got AI, got a ring. That's the lightning bolt.
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  But it's in turquoise and silver.
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  You know, I did, you know, I did TCB soon as he soon as he gave
• 1:36:14
  it to me and I slid it on to see if it was going to work, 'cause
• 1:36:16
  I told him what size. And we figured out and he, he
• 1:36:18
  said, what about this? I said, boy, I like him, I like
• 1:36:19
  him. TCB lightning bolts.
• 1:36:21
  And he goes, oh, he goes, yeah, very popular now, you know.
• 1:36:25
  So I slid it on. As soon as I slid it on, I'd
• 1:36:27
  move my hand a little bit. I said, boy, TCBI did.
• 1:36:29
  I was like, yeah, I got to have that buddy.
• 1:36:30
  I, you know, whatever. So anyway, yeah, but that that's
• 1:36:34
  hometown for us though, you know?
• 1:36:36
  Oh yeah. But, but there's still, you
• 1:36:39
  know, most of this Christmas stuff is just cross genre, cross
• 1:36:43
  anything. I mean like you know, this stuff
• 1:36:46
  is standards. Most of these are almost what
• 1:36:48
  you just consider standards. They've been around 100 and
• 1:36:50
  something years, you know. Yes, yeah, for sure.
• 1:36:53
  I mean and you can go with multiple different versions.
• 1:36:56
  I mean this thing could go evolve into God knows what you
• 1:37:00
  know of of this is fun. I I don't think I do not believe
• 1:37:05
  we're not going to make a habit of doing this all of the time.
• 1:37:08
  But I do believe you guys will see us do another bracket
• 1:37:11
  challenge of some type with some type of thing to talk about
• 1:37:15
  because it's just fun. This is just fun.
• 1:37:17
  And you know, it's fun to have everybody in the chat hanging
• 1:37:20
  out with us and and answering and doing all of that stuff too.
• 1:37:23
  And it's. There's our There's our 37th
• 1:37:26
  podcast. We're going to do Blasey Bracket
• 1:37:28
  Busters. We're going to do a bracket
• 1:37:29
  Busters thing. Hell yeah, That's all it is.
• 1:37:32
  We just do. Hey, that's not a bad idea.
• 1:37:34
  Nobody's still that, anyhow. If there was forty of us guys,
• 1:37:40
  we'd be so rich. We would, we would, we'd run, we
• 1:37:45
  would just run the media. All right, moving on.
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  Last match up of the Elite 8. Have yourself a Merry little
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  Christmas And Jingle Bells I'm taking Have yourself a Merry
• 1:37:58
  Little Christmas. That's me.
• 1:37:59
  Oh man. It's tough.
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  Chat y'all. Chime in.
• 1:38:08
  Don't forget to like, subscribe, share.
• 1:38:11
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• 1:38:14
  Yeah, subscribe to the podcast channel and the YouTube channel.
• 1:38:17
  Come visit for sure. Jingle Bells, man, I can just
• 1:38:20
  hear them ringing. I know that I'm just torn on
• 1:38:23
  this. I'm, I'm, I'm Apollo Creed and
• 1:38:27
  Rocky. You know when they're both going
• 1:38:28
  to the canvas at the same time. Frank says a March Madness
• 1:38:32
  bracket of Hallmark Christmas movies.
• 1:38:37
  I've gotten to where I I used to think I when, you know, 10 years
• 1:38:40
  ago, I thought those were garbage and you, I couldn't be
• 1:38:42
  caught dead being in that. Now I'm like, oh, if it's got a
• 1:38:45
  cool title, I'll watch it. Exactly.
• 1:38:47
  If it's something ridiculous, I don't know, I'm going to go with
• 1:38:50
  have yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
• 1:38:52
  All right. As much as I mean those two are
• 1:38:55
  split in hairs, those might be as split in hairs as as any.
• 1:38:59
  I've had to vote on today of any.
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  That's a tough one. That is a tough one.
• 1:39:03
  Greg goes with Jingle. Merry little Christmas with
• 1:39:07
  Frank. You know, I so.
• 1:39:11
  I mean, that's tough. That's tough.
• 1:39:13
  Frank is it? But Have Yourself A Merry Little
• 1:39:17
  Christmas moves on to the Final Four.
• 1:39:21
  What we got here? What we got here?
• 1:39:23
  So we have our final four Silent Night versus Have Yourself A
• 1:39:28
  Merry Little Christmas versus and then the second bracket or
• 1:39:32
  whatever the other side Blue Christmas versus Christmas in
• 1:39:36
  Dixie. We will start there.
• 1:39:42
  Chad, we're going to give you all a little bit of time to
• 1:39:44
  chime in on this one very important match up here, this
• 1:39:47
  everybody, every vote's going to count.
• 1:39:49
  Blue Christmas versus Christmas in Dixie.
• 1:39:53
  So you're telling me we? Have.
• 1:39:54
  You're telling me the boys from Fort Payne versus the King?
• 1:40:00
  That's exactly what I'm telling you.
• 1:40:02
  Wow, you're talking about the guys who became the guys who
• 1:40:05
  work hone their craft. At the Bowery in Myrtle Beach
• 1:40:08
  went on to be 20 time group of the year and multiple time
• 1:40:14
  entertainers of the year in everything they've ever tried to
• 1:40:17
  do. Alabama versus literally the
• 1:40:19
  King. They call him the king.
• 1:40:20
  When he goes out of the country, they call him the King.
• 1:40:23
  He's the king everywhere. That's.
• 1:40:26
  Exactly. What I'm telling you, Well, they
• 1:40:27
  call him in Japan. The king, the king, You know
• 1:40:31
  they do. You know they do.
• 1:40:34
  He never got to go 'cause the Colonel.
• 1:40:35
  But I got to go. I'm going with Christmas and
• 1:40:38
  Dixie. I go on Christmas and Dixie.
• 1:40:40
  All right, Christmas and Dixie. We've got Paul is going with
• 1:40:45
  Christmas and Dixie. Christmas and Dixie.
• 1:40:47
  Yeah, I'm. Going to Blasi's, Going with
• 1:40:49
  Christmas and Dixie. Dark horse.
• 1:40:52
  I. Didn't have Christmas in Dixie.
• 1:40:55
  Until Jr. brought it up and I was like, wow, how did?
• 1:40:57
  I put that I I'm going with Blue Christmas.
• 1:41:00
  No offense to Alabama. No, I get it.
• 1:41:03
  Yeah. I get it.
• 1:41:05
  Blue, blue, blue, Christmas. But we have.
• 1:41:08
  Wow. The recording on Blue Christmas,
• 1:41:11
  go back and listen to those oohs and ahs.
• 1:41:13
  Just focus in on the oohs and ahs, what they're doing.
• 1:41:15
  That's it's so good, man. It's so good.
• 1:41:19
  It is. It is as good as it gets.
• 1:41:21
  So we have our first team in the championship Christmas in Dixie.
• 1:41:25
  Who will they face night or have yourself a merry little
• 1:41:32
  Christmas chat? Chime in.
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  Who you got Blasi? I got to go.
• 1:41:37
  A silent night. I said it from day one.
• 1:41:39
  You. Know oh holy night give me oh
• 1:41:41
  holy night all day got 2. Christmas, Well, we don't have a
• 1:41:46
  holy night. It's Silent Night, Jr.
• 1:41:50
  Silent Night you're Going with. Silent night, the Silent night
• 1:41:53
  holy. Night.
• 1:41:54
  Oh, got you. Yes, yes.
• 1:41:55
  All right. I'm going with, I'm, I'm going
• 1:41:59
  with have yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
• 1:42:00
  Even though I said Silent Night, it's easily my number one and my
• 1:42:03
  favorite song based off of this match up.
• 1:42:06
  When you think about it, when if I wanted.
• 1:42:09
  Which song do I want to hear more right now?
• 1:42:11
  Currently where I'm sitting, I want to hear.
• 1:42:13
  Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
• 1:42:16
  If I drink, If I drink one. Star on top of the Christmas
• 1:42:19
  tree. Though exactly I agree.
• 1:42:21
  I I agree. If if you crawl in the living
• 1:42:25
  room and no lights are on except for the tree and that's the
• 1:42:27
  light on top, you'll lay in the floor and just lay at it.
• 1:42:30
  You don't need no music, you don't need no TV on, you don't
• 1:42:32
  need no entertainment, no nothing.
• 1:42:34
  You just look at that light. That's how I feel.
• 1:42:36
  If I have one more of these eggnogs, I'm gonna put that song
• 1:42:39
  on loud as hell and just turn off all the lights in my studio
• 1:42:42
  and lay on the floor and listen to it.
• 1:42:43
  There you go. Just.
• 1:42:44
  Reflect it ain't. Gonna hurt you, it ain't.
• 1:42:46
  Gonna hurt you. That's exactly what I'm gonna
• 1:42:47
  do. Too it's a great idea.
• 1:42:49
  It's a it's a great idea. It's a great idea.
• 1:42:52
  And think of you can reflect on what just happened here tonight
• 1:42:55
  with this a lot happened Bracket.
• 1:42:57
  I love it. There is a lot happening.
• 1:42:59
  Frank says Silent Night if caroling, but he has to stick
• 1:43:02
  with Merry Little Christmas. So, I mean, this is tough.
• 1:43:05
  Anybody else want to chime in? It's four to three going in,
• 1:43:10
  Silent Night edging it out, but a little bit closer than I
• 1:43:15
  thought. Going once, going twice.
• 1:43:19
  Gone. Silent Night moving on to the
• 1:43:25
  Championship. Round two face Christmas in
• 1:43:31
  Dixie. Mack comes in with a Silent
• 1:43:33
  Night vote, so they move on. Christmas in Dixie versus Silent
• 1:43:40
  Night. This is for all of the marbles.
• 1:43:45
  And then you'll be able to tell him we're done.
• 1:43:50
  Well, I've. Always Hilton goes with
• 1:43:53
  Christmas in Dixie. Yeah, let's let everybody chime
• 1:43:55
  in. Let's let everybody else.
• 1:43:56
  Let's do on it. Yeah, we're going to give
• 1:43:58
  everybody a minute to to start to chime in.
• 1:44:01
  It is a fair a fair battle. These these are, these are as
• 1:44:08
  good as it gets. Silent Night Christmas in Dixie.
• 1:44:10
  It depends on the mood of where you're at on that day.
• 1:44:15
  I would think some Alabama boys is going to always be a tough.
• 1:44:21
  I've got I I didn't realize this.
• 1:44:23
  Y'all know Marshall Tucker Band. Merry Christmas from the
• 1:44:26
  Carolinas. They do a version of Silent
• 1:44:28
  Night. Oh.
• 1:44:30
  I hadn't heard it. They're Sister Rosetta Thorpe's
• 1:44:33
  version is what I had. Oh, they're doing a traditional
• 1:44:35
  version somewhat. Marshall Tucker Band.
• 1:44:39
  Boy, you know, they had a Christmas wreck.
• 1:44:43
  I had no idea they had a Christmas record.
• 1:44:45
  Yeah, holy night. All is calm.
• 1:44:58
  All is bright brown. Young bird Oh man, yeah.
• 1:45:09
  Yeah. Everybody go.
• 1:45:11
  Everybody go. That makes it tough.
• 1:45:13
  Everybody go Silent Night. Yeah, everybody go listen to the
• 1:45:17
  Marshall Tucker Christmas album. I've.
• 1:45:19
  Seen 2 Dixies. Yep, we've got a, we've got.
• 1:45:24
  We've got. Christmas and Dixie one to me
• 1:45:26
  until I heard that album. Now I'm.
• 1:45:28
  Thinking you just played that and I was about to go towards
• 1:45:32
  that. Like, what am I thinking, dude,
• 1:45:34
  Silent Night is still the star on top of the Christmas tree.
• 1:45:37
  It is still the king of the castle.
• 1:45:39
  It is the ultimate #1 Christmas song ever made.
• 1:45:43
  Silent Night, dude. That's.
• 1:45:44
  My yeah, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Yeah, Christmas is
• 1:45:47
  Dick. Christmas in Dixie is the drink
• 1:45:49
  that you're about to go make over at the little bar area
• 1:45:51
  where the eggnog and the cookies are.
• 1:45:53
  That's right and and tip him well and thank him for.
• 1:45:56
  Well. Yep.
• 1:45:58
  Much to my dismay, and I thought I would have never thought this
• 1:46:01
  was how it would end. Up until literally 14 and
• 1:46:03
  seconds ago, Silent Night is the greatest Christmas song ever
• 1:46:08
  played or made it. Is.
• 1:46:11
  No, you're not getting any. You're not going to get any
• 1:46:13
  pushback from me. I mean, I, I, I, I I'm riding
• 1:46:19
  with Silent Night in this round. I mean, I know I took Have
• 1:46:22
  Yourself Silent Night Moved On. Congratulations to Silent Night
• 1:46:28
  And out of Nowhere, Out of nowhere, The Marshall Tucker
• 1:46:33
  Band version of that. Shout out to that version and
• 1:46:37
  good job on that, Jr. That's so good that.
• 1:46:42
  Was unbelievable. Unbelievable.
• 1:46:44
  I knew I needed content. You see me do that blasi, you
• 1:46:47
  know, I'm voting Dixie. I was just about and I was like
• 1:46:49
  let everybody else vote because I'm know, y'all know where I'm
• 1:46:51
  leaning. And I thought and not that
• 1:46:54
  Sister Rosetta Thorpe's version wouldn't have done it.
• 1:46:56
  And I thought, well, I forgot that was on that record.
• 1:46:58
  I knew that Marshall Tucker had a Christmas album.
• 1:47:01
  I forgot they did that song And I thought, what did they do to
• 1:47:03
  rocked up speed up version? No, they did it more straight.
• 1:47:06
  I'm like, oh and then yeah, that's it, It's Silent night,
• 1:47:11
  man. Like you said, that's the star
• 1:47:12
  on top of the tree. It is.
• 1:47:14
  That's it. That's it.
• 1:47:16
  So hey, that concludes our 2023 movie and song brackets.
• 1:47:23
  The movie bracket winner Christmas Vacation coming in as
• 1:47:26
  a one seed, riding through no shockers.
• 1:47:29
  There really some different good games.
• 1:47:32
  But then Silent Night also coming in as the one seed,
• 1:47:36
  running chalk in both, both, both of them.
• 1:47:39
  Just you know, But the battles, it wasn't as easy.
• 1:47:43
  Silent battles. Christmas in Dixie from
• 1:47:46
  obscurity. Came out of nowhere.
• 1:47:50
  Obscurity. Went to the championship and
• 1:47:53
  made it close all the way to the top 16.
• 1:47:55
  No, it was good. That was good.
• 1:47:57
  That was tough. But Silent Night, if you hadn't
• 1:47:59
  have played that Jri was sitting here like leaning towards
• 1:48:02
  Christmas in Dixie when you played Silent Night.
• 1:48:05
  Like what it does to you so good.
• 1:48:08
  I had to and. We we we experienced both in A
• 1:48:11
  and I. Yep it just went silent night.
• 1:48:14
  It's the you you described it best.
• 1:48:16
  Blasi it is the star. It's still the star.
• 1:48:18
  On top of the tree you can put all the new.
• 1:48:20
  You can put all the new lights. All the new this, all the new
• 1:48:22
  fancy glow in the dark blink electronic lights.
• 1:48:26
  That's still the star on top. That's the star on top, no doubt
• 1:48:30
  about it. Well look, I mean I know we got
• 1:48:33
  to, we've got to run, we got to get Blasey out of there.
• 1:48:37
  These fine folks have stayed open way too late for us to do
• 1:48:40
  this. So thanks again to to Props
• 1:48:43
  Brewery. Thank all of you guys that out
• 1:48:46
  there in the in the chat that have chimed in throughout the
• 1:48:49
  show. It's been amazing.
• 1:48:51
  We've had a blast doing it. This is, this is just a lot of
• 1:48:54
  fun, you know? Hopefully it was tough.
• 1:48:58
  It was tough. It was tough.
• 1:49:00
  This is a perfect thing to do with a live audience.
• 1:49:02
  You. Know.
• 1:49:03
  Tell your friends, tell your friends about this.
• 1:49:05
  So we next time we do it, we got more more chatter.
• 1:49:08
  The more chatter fun, that's. Right.
• 1:49:09
  The more the better, the more the better.
• 1:49:11
  And and look, we're gonna be doing another show we to time to
• 1:49:15
  be determined. We'll be posting those dates on
• 1:49:18
  social media whenever we're going to go live sometime
• 1:49:22
  hopefully before the new year, if not just briefly right there
• 1:49:26
  shortly, right there after. But we're going to do a wrap up
• 1:49:29
  show, do a best of like we talked about.
• 1:49:32
  We'll see, we get the three of us haven't talked to see when we
• 1:49:34
  can can do this but hopefully we can maybe we can do it in in
• 1:49:38
  between the week of of Christmas and New Year's.
• 1:49:40
  That would be awesome if so. If not we may do it that
• 1:49:43
  following week, but but that'll be the next one.
• 1:49:46
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• 1:49:58
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• 1:49:59
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• 1:50:21
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• 1:50:23
  Wrap up and then roll into next year, buddy.
• 1:50:25
  It's going to be fun. I thank you Tiggs for putting
• 1:50:27
  this together. I love the live version.
• 1:50:29
  Thank you to everybody at Props for having Blasi the one man
• 1:50:32
  posse. Blasi, thank you for always
• 1:50:34
  giving us your time and utmost intellectual expertise on all
• 1:50:38
  matters meaning anything and great show, boys.
• 1:50:42
  Great thank you for putting it together Tigs and that was fun.
• 1:50:45
  Thank you for everybody for listening in and commenting and
• 1:50:47
  I I look forward to the next one boys.
• 1:50:50
  Me too. Me too.