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SPECIAL Christmas Compilation Episode! · Talk About That

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hey guys, it's John from talk About That.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited today to bring to you, guys some of
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  Speaker 2: our favorite past clips from holiday episodes of the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: So sit back and enjoy it with your family. We
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  Speaker 2: wish you a merry Christmas and obviously, as always, first
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  Speaker 2: a word from our actual sponsors.
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  Speaker 1: We can talk about a lot. We've talked a lot
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  Speaker 1: about what our favorite Christmas Carol is? What is your
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  Speaker 1: lead favorite Christmas Carol? I think I've taken a flat
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  Speaker 1: from this before.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm not a big little drummer boy fan.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about that, maybe that it's a little But
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  Speaker 1: then you said that I'm a poor boy too. I
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  Speaker 1: do you like that? Youat? I like that line? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because I am. Well that's in that song, so by
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  Speaker 1: proxy you like that song. By the transitive property of drumming,
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  Speaker 1: you like that song. Well, I didn't get to tell
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  Speaker 1: you what my Lea's favorite Christmas song was. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: thought you already said it. No, that's true.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, are you just say what you say? And then
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  Speaker 1: your move? I was like that topic exhausted itself. I
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  Speaker 1: think everything's been said. Yah, my least favorite and I
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  Speaker 1: was gonna play it, but you said we'll get muted
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  Speaker 1: if we play the song clip. Yeah, we will get
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  Speaker 1: taken down. Yep. But I heard it again the other
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  Speaker 1: day and I was like, how did this ever become
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  Speaker 1: a hit? Like, evidently it was a hit. I know
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  Speaker 1: what this song is? No, you don't. Can I say
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  Speaker 1: what I think it is? What is it? What do
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  Speaker 1: you think it is? Christmas Shoes? No, because that's also
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  Speaker 1: bugs me. No, but the sentimentality songs don't bug me.
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  Speaker 1: It's when you take a version of a popular song
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  Speaker 1: and you put your spin on it and you ruin
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  Speaker 1: it the way that this person did. It's Barbaris Streisand's
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  Speaker 1: version of jingle Bells. Have you heard it? No, it's
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  Speaker 1: one where she goes jingle bells, jingle bell jingle all
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  Speaker 1: the way old what fund indes do, run in r
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  Speaker 1: sip and say jing jingle. But it's crazy. Oh, it gets.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a spoken word. It get, but it gets
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  Speaker 1: progressively where you jingle jingle, jang jung jing. It gets
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  Speaker 1: so crazy. It is like it's like it's a panic
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  Speaker 1: attack set to music. Trumpets are coming in. I want
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  Speaker 1: to I'll play for you off air and you will
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  Speaker 1: be just it's it'll floor you. It's a it's two
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  Speaker 1: minutes long.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just craziness, just like they just just jumbled everything
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  Speaker 2: in that was possible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's so offbeat and weird and jazzy.
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  Speaker 2: I was in a restaurant yesterday with my wife and
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  Speaker 2: they had a they had a weird Christmas playlist.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounded like that.
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  Speaker 2: Like it was like like, if I hear Christmas music,
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  Speaker 2: I want it to be either inspirational like E said,
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  Speaker 2: Christmas shoes that's the other one, that it's an email
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  Speaker 2: forward manipulative yeah right, or I want it to be
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  Speaker 2: like festive, well done. But you know it brings you
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  Speaker 2: that because I really do believe that Christmas songs fall
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  Speaker 2: into probably only like five categories.
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  Speaker 1: Five well, I mean like.
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  Speaker 2: Pop songs if you really listen to it in Christmas,
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  Speaker 2: there are themes that get rewritten in every single pop song.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it is that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want anything for Christmas except you, okay, like
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  Speaker 2: Santa just needs to wrap you under the tree.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need any presents, okay. And the truth is
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  Speaker 1: this is all a farce, Like if you just how
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  Speaker 1: many categories have you said so far, that's two okay,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's like.
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  Speaker 2: Three spiritual, religious, fine in the mistletoe, Yeah, like I
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  Speaker 2: want to be in the Misslete. Four I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to go out tonight. It's it's the introvert Christmas song. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we don't want to go anywhere, like Dave.
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  Speaker 1: Barnes is a song like that.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously there's the cold outside, don't leave my house write
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  Speaker 2: all these songs. Yeah, I don't want to leave. I
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  Speaker 2: just want to stay here and dance and do whatever
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  Speaker 2: with you. That's all I want for Christmas. But it
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  Speaker 2: goes back to that idea. But it's that I don't
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  Speaker 2: but it's very much though, let's not leave. The weather's bad. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: maybe someone is anyway. And then yeah, the fifth is
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  Speaker 2: like religious sort of idea, our time we all come together.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a sixth category, right. It is the ones
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  Speaker 1: that kind of like make Sannah a creepy you know,
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  Speaker 1: like attractive character, hurry down the chimney tonight. But it's
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  Speaker 1: like what are you You know what I'm saying, Like
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  Speaker 1: it's like Santa Baby, I've been a really good girl,
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  Speaker 1: Like come on, we're better than what are you doing? Yeah? Stop? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the dude. He's a saint. He's like fifteen hundred years old. Yes, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's a saint. And he's married. Yes, he's got missus Claus.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing? Yeah, I mean there's that raw
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  Speaker 1: good looks that he carries. Yes, we all have had
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  Speaker 1: our moments of weakness, and you see a picture of
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  Speaker 1: Saint Nick and you're like, Okay, he has a rugged
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  Speaker 1: handsomeness to him.
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  Speaker 2: He's been doing sit ups. I don't think anyone's ever since. No, No,
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  Speaker 2: I just I think we and you should write a
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  Speaker 2: Christmas song.
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  Speaker 1: We need to incorporate all six categories. Yes, and then
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  Speaker 1: it's guaranteed to be a hit. Yeah, it's full proof.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it really would.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really impressed with the people who keep writing around
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  Speaker 2: those themes and find a way to say it differently.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. What's saying with any love song? Really,
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  Speaker 1: it's like you're you're desperate for this person. How do
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  Speaker 1: you say it in a different way than a million
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  Speaker 1: people already have?
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  Speaker 2: Right, No, that's you know, there may be another category,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, Okay, it's the I just want to
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  Speaker 2: I need to get to you for Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Right, it's the I know I can't get home for Christmas, which, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Tory Kelly, by the way, her Christmas album, Yeah, unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a great vocal. But she has a song
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  Speaker 2: called twenty fifth. It's that, you know, the only thing
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  Speaker 2: that's on my list is to hold you on the
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  Speaker 2: twenty fifth. Okay, you know, take that, take the mid
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  Speaker 2: not fly, no more solid nights. You'll be by my side.
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  Speaker 2: So it's bringing in those Christmas the Christmas imagery, but
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  Speaker 2: the truth is all I really want. But if you
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  Speaker 2: just show up and people expect presents, you're like, look,
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  Speaker 2: I thought we were singing the song all I wanted,
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  Speaker 2: all you wanted was yeah, I wanted that in a
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  Speaker 2: diamond or whatever, right, yeah, a PlayStation.
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  Speaker 1: Or the here's one. It's uh, you know, I'll be
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  Speaker 1: home for Christmas. You can count on me. Then he
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  Speaker 1: has demands, have please have snow mistletoe presence under the tree. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't do any of that. He's got demands. He's like,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be home, but you better do this. Yeah. Then
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  Speaker 1: he wraps up the song by saying, if only in
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  Speaker 1: my dreams, You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy, we did
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  Speaker 1: all this work. We got all this stuff together for
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  Speaker 1: you kidding, checked your stupid boxes. I actually thought of
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  Speaker 1: this the other day. You're like, well, look, it's a
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  Speaker 1: dream that I could even flights are maybe it's cold
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  Speaker 1: outside listen. I thought the same thing of the day.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot you're asking them to do. This is like,
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  Speaker 1: this is the s keyest family member. Yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: what it's like to have kids. When your kids say, look,
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  Speaker 1: i'm gonna bee. You know that's coming for y'all, where
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  Speaker 1: you know your mood, your entire world is gonna wrapped
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  Speaker 1: up in whether or not Sadie comes home for Christmas
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  Speaker 1: very soon, and you're gonna you're gonna be like she
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  Speaker 1: called today. You're gonna be it's gonna be heartbreaking. You
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  Speaker 1: don't do this to me. I think. I think about
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  Speaker 1: it like I gotta go see the folks. I know
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  Speaker 1: how long do I have to stay before it's enough?
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  Speaker 1: Already Dad does that weird thing, the same stories. I
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  Speaker 1: just we gotta eat ham. I don't know. And then
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  Speaker 1: she's gonna be like I got I'm gonna go hang
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  Speaker 1: out with my friends. You're gonna be like, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: leave so soon. I've been here for six hours. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be heartbroken. It's never gonna be enough. Yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that's coming for you. Thank you, good bye. Hey.
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  Speaker 2: I did get invited to an interesting party the other day. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they called it. It was in the neighborhood. They called
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  Speaker 2: it a progressive Christmas party. Okay, So I showed up.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I'm not sure about this. I thought,
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  Speaker 2: are we all just gonna vote Democrats? What's the deal?
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't that at all.
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  Speaker 1: That's where you go from place to place, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So if you guys hear about this, it's okay
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  Speaker 2: to go because it's not really what you think.
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  Speaker 1: No, yeah, it's different.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh today our quote it is Christmas comes from
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  Speaker 2: John Leo, and John Leo says, I thought for Christmas,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I had a bunch of history stuff I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to say and all that, but I mean I
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  Speaker 2: could just see everyone's eyes closing over because it's Christmas time.
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  Speaker 1: Joey, it talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: He says this, and I thought this was key for
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  Speaker 2: maybe for you to reflect upon and back to your
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  Speaker 2: theme of me and parenting. The principal advantage of the
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  Speaker 2: non parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve. You need
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  Speaker 2: not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words
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  Speaker 2: that the government allows to be printed on any product,
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  Speaker 2: which is, I don't know, some assembly required. Oh right, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is a real thing.
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  Speaker 1: Like I can tell you this just canna say batteries
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  Speaker 1: not included.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe, Oh, that's another one one, some assembly required. I
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  Speaker 2: can remember when he said he was a little and
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  Speaker 2: you put her to bed.
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  Speaker 1: Because you can't all night putting. It's hours at least.
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  Speaker 1: The little cam screws and all the the thing I
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  Speaker 1: remember the most wood dowels and glue, a drop of
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  Speaker 1: glue and a wood dowel, the plastic kitchen. The kids
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  Speaker 1: like the little kitchens.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, it's like it's all in the things.
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  Speaker 1: You have to break it out of. It's little.
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  Speaker 2: It's in a yeah, what do you call a template, basically,
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  Speaker 2: and you have to break it or a mold to
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  Speaker 2: break it out of the stems.
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  Speaker 1: You'd think that'd be easy, Johnny was not. Your hands
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  Speaker 1: were nubs, bloody nubs by Christmas morning. And then Christmas
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  Speaker 1: that's the other thing.
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  Speaker 2: You go to the grandparents and the kids open up
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  Speaker 2: all this stuff and it all requires assembly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so now they'd an assembly because the grandparents
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  Speaker 1: didn't assembly it. So they're just like, good live, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's exactly what it is. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So you're sitting there and the kids are all getting
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  Speaker 2: restless because it takes an hour to get their present together.
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  Speaker 1: Did they get Sadie stuff that they knew you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: approve of? Did they do that trick? Ever?
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  Speaker 2: They didn't, but Uncle Greg did. Laar's brother. One time
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  Speaker 2: he bought her a live goldfish in a bag. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not even sure it was Christmas. He did it and
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  Speaker 2: he looked at me like, yeah, I'm doing this.
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  Speaker 1: That's great, And I was like, you go get a
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  Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff we had to go buy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. On the way home, she named the fish Harry.
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  Speaker 2: She was real little right, And then Harry obviously Harry
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  Speaker 2: didn't make it not even home.
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  Speaker 1: No, he made it home.
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  Speaker 2: But we were in the tank and after I spend
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  Speaker 2: one hundred dollars and we knew this wasn't gonna last.
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  Speaker 1: But we couldn't tell her. What do you mean you
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  Speaker 1: couldn't tell her? She still thinks Harry's alive.
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  Speaker 2: No not, but we kept no, we kept the ruse
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  Speaker 2: going a while, so I think he was like Harry
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  Speaker 2: number five before we finally were like.
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  Speaker 1: You kept moving another fish in. Yeah, like she jig
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  Speaker 1: is up? Is she finding out now on the air? No,
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  Speaker 1: she knows.
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  Speaker 2: We finally like, look, Harry went to fish Heaven or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: which ironically is down the toilet. But yeah, it's okay.
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  Speaker 2: It's a different portal to get there than we're normally
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  Speaker 2: used to. Yeah, but yeah, And I was like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not putting any more fish. And I told my brother
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  Speaker 2: in law. I was like, look, I'm just gonna buy your.
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  Speaker 1: Kids a fish. He's like, that's cool. I'll just let
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  Speaker 1: him die. I don't care. I mean, he was like
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  Speaker 1: hardcore about it. I was like, oh, yeah, well, I
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  Speaker 1: can't play that game if you're not going to play back.
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  Speaker 1: So if you flush a fish and it goes to
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  Speaker 1: it feels like hell. You know what I'm saying, that's
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  Speaker 1: how fish go to hell. Well you can't say that, Listen.
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  Speaker 1: My fish was all dogs go to heaven, all fish
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  Speaker 1: go to hell? That fish listen, Why are you assiming
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  Speaker 1: my fish was good?
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  Speaker 2: But maybe you're saying you're sending it back out into
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  Speaker 2: where it came from into the ocean, because all the
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  Speaker 2: pipes eventually look Johnny, like all roads lead to Rome,
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  Speaker 2: all toilet pipes lead to the ocean, and.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's heaven. For I was a match. Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever seen finding nemo? It seemed like heaven. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's better than my little tank and her room pipe
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  Speaker 1: that goes up that you could be like, here's where
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  Speaker 1: Harry goes and he goes into like a tube system
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  Speaker 1: and he just flies over into the yard and the
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  Speaker 1: dog eats him. Yes, yeah, that's fish heaven. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: I don't want your dogs. You bought five fish to
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  Speaker 1: completely deceive your daughter. Yeah, that's amazing. That's that's Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: That's parenting right there, Johnny. What is Christmas if it's
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  Speaker 1: not about the space of time between these fish? Like
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  Speaker 1: how long were the life spans of these fish?
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  Speaker 2: They might last a couple of weeks something I kept
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  Speaker 2: it going a while, man, Funny, I mean, what was
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  Speaker 2: I supposed to do?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. There was always something.
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  Speaker 2: I think she was potty training me with a time,
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  Speaker 2: like there was always some reason not to add insult
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  Speaker 2: to injury. We're already in a in a moment of
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  Speaker 2: change for her it's difficult, you know, and you say
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  Speaker 2: what you want to say.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big deal to kids.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like my uncle, sorry, her uncle set her
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  Speaker 2: up with this living creature now knowing that the joke
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  Speaker 2: would be that I would have to do this.
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  Speaker 1: That's well, there's always the joke about the drum set
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  Speaker 1: or the keyboard, right, you know, something that's loud and noisy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but some people want that for their kid. They want
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  Speaker 1: their kid to be musical because you can teach your
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  Speaker 1: kid all kinds of creative things if they But drums
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  Speaker 1: are a lot. Yeah, drums.
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  Speaker 2: It might work for kids today because they can put
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  Speaker 2: headphones on and play.
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  Speaker 1: Along to something electronic ones.
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  Speaker 2: But well even then if you can still hear, but
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  Speaker 2: at least they're playing to something. Yeah, but a drum
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  Speaker 2: is generally not played by it myself what I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Saying, except the case a little drummer boy, which well,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know that there weren't.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we know that the Oxen Lamb kept time,
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  Speaker 2: but it doesn't indicate they used instruments.
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  Speaker 1: They may were just using a metronome if that was
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  Speaker 1: one of our doctrines like that, the oxen Lamb kept
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  Speaker 1: time we have all this other stuff. It's like totally
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  Speaker 1: normal and normal ish. And then we get to and
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  Speaker 1: of course we know that the oxen lamb kept perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Time, right, and I can just I just see a
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  Speaker 2: little hoof like just moving up and down, like hey.
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  Speaker 1: And we know that no crying he makes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's bad theology. Yeah, I mean he's gonna cry
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  Speaker 2: with a drum set. Yes, I mean Mary would have cried. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't say no crying she made, That's true. She
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  Speaker 2: was highly and Joseph, what kind of dad lets a
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  Speaker 2: kid come do this? Like, hey, I remember you in
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  Speaker 2: the hospital. I was very protective, like, no, if somebody
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  Speaker 2: come to wake everybody up, like hey, is this necessary?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 4: And the doctor's like I'm the doctor, Yeah it's necessary.
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  Speaker 1: John. This week, eighteen forty three, Charles dickens classic Christmas tale,
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  Speaker 1: A Christmas Carol is published. Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited
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  Speaker 1: by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley
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  Speaker 1: and the spirits of Christmas past, present, and yet to come.
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  Speaker 1: Dickens wrote the tale. I want you to guess how
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  Speaker 1: long it took him to write it. Yeah, six weeks?
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  Speaker 1: Are you serious? That's your guess. Yeah, it took six weeks,
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  Speaker 1: is that right? Yeah? There you go. This is like
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  Speaker 1: you go, I think I could write something about that
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  Speaker 1: classic like that. I think it would take me about
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  Speaker 1: six weeks. Weeks. Well, I was thinking I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: say forty five days, but forty forty two days. Forty
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  Speaker 1: two days. If I was as brilliant as Charles Dickens,
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  Speaker 1: I think this was one of the ones he was like,
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  Speaker 1: I think I've read about this before. I need what
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  Speaker 1: we need to do more research. But I believe I
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  Speaker 1: remember this being one of the books that he was
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  Speaker 1: just like trying to just spit out something. Really there
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  Speaker 1: was a Christmas and it's just the most popular well
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  Speaker 1: I mean happened some yeah, yeah, and Oliver Twist was
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  Speaker 1: an Oliver twist Dickens. I mean yeah, but I think
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  Speaker 1: it was just most like, here's a Christmas thing, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, now it's going on to be a
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: which you just never know, man, you never know. I
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: hope that that happens with something that we do. Yeah.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: We were just trying to wear accidentally right, Yeah. I
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: like that I'm accidentally a failure all the time. I
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: would love to accidently be a success, that'd be great.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like a Forrest Gump, but for failure. Yeah yeah,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: like you're not super smart and you stumble around, but
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: then you fall to the ground. You don't stumble into
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: like great scenarios. It's just like, oh, John fell into
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: the waiting pool again, right, it seemed like he should
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: have succeeded when he was so close and then he
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: shot himself in the foot again. I know.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Actually wrote in an introduction like I was talking about
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: how I try to do too many things right, that
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: things that shouldn't all work together, but they end up
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: maybe working together. It's like I'm like Forrest Gump minus
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: the people skills.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, you don't but you'll get there. I
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: have every confidence in them. I appreciate that. Are you
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: a fan of Christmas, Carol? I think it's the Yeah,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: it's just it's not all the great lessons and all
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: the things. Yeah ghosts, yeah, which I mean, come on, yeah,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I uh. I remember. It is odd too that like
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: he wakes up and he realizes like it hasn't come,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: you know, it hasn't come, right, there's still a chance
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: to and so there's that hopefulness there. I like that.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, I like it too. But you know
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: what I watched the other night. That's that's similar. It's
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: the modern It's it reverses a little bit. It's a
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: wonderful life.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Oh sure, have you watched the colorized version?
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: No, Okay, I didn't realize I had one, And I
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: actually had a second. I was doing some some chores
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: and stuff and had it on in the background because
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: also the.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Colors version, it's like it's a bit much. It's like, whoa,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought too, you know, there's a little
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: too green. Like the Andy grip of the show.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: When they went to color it was like not great, right,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: something that wasn't great about it.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: But this one I thought it was so much better.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: It's one of the first times I felt that it
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: was so much better. It's a new, souped up version
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: of the colorization. Probably it's just.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: The algorithm knows from the tint of the black and
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: white what that color actually wash, and it looks very
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, it actually is what the color was.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: They're not recoloring it.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's like it was just so much richer
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: to me because there's a lot happening in it, and
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I cried at the end of the movie Alarm in
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: front of me.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: But I I she's not a fan of It's a
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: wonderful life. I fall apart at these Christmas commercials. Yeah,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: we need to talk about in the next episode because
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: it's a lot. And Curry goes, why do you watch these?
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Because I'll go find them. You know, the same ones
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: get repurposed every year on Twitter and stuff. You'll see
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: and I go, and she goes, why are you watching this?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: And I'll look over and I'll look over at her
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: and I'm like just welling up, and she's like, jez,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: she cries too, but you know, oh laarer cress stuff
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, but this is not I was like,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: she doesn't like that movie.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I was like, you, you can't say this is not
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: a great movie, Like, oh no, the rest of the
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: world is spoken on this, right. You can say you
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: don't agree with the rest of the world, but you
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: can't say that it's not good.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Right, come on now? Anyway, Yeah, you know I like
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Scrooged a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's nineteen eighty eight,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I think it was. Anyway, Yeah, we'd have to look
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: at her Centifi cards to find out if I was
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: right about that, But since it's a dumb game, you failed. Yeah,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I did tell you it was GI. What is your
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: big holiday do you have? Like you talked about the
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Adam Christmas Adam, but do you have holiday traditions? Do
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: you eat a certain meal like other than the normal?
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: You know, that's what's sad.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: So we used to go to my grandfather's on Christmas Adom,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: which yes, we would call Christmas Eve or some twenty third.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Does that person feel a little bit ripped off that
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: they don't get the actual holiday? Do you ever have that?
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Because like, we're going to go home this year on
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the twenty sixth, and but part of that's because that's
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: just when family can get together on curse side of
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the family. Yeah, And so we told the other family like, hey,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: we're just going to come in that one day on
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the twenty sixth if that works for you. And my
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: brother was like, yeah, that's great. But I wonder if
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: deep down he's like, that's not real, that's not real.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Day after Christmas.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think that my family seemed to give
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: in to that reality of guys, these are all equal
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: twenty four hour days, Like you know, we can celebrate
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: whatever we want on any of them.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: It's always Christmas in my heart. That's right, That's what
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I tell people, you know, like a liar.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: We'll go to Uh we'll go to cross Fall on
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Christmas Day. So we'll travel Christmas Day and see her
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: parents and stay there for the night and uh, yeah,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: it'll be fun.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: We and tomorrow's the Christmas Eve service here. Yeah, so
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: that'll candlelight some communion. We'll open presence tomorrow. So we
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: do it on Christmas Eve at the Communion service. You're
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: like this at this point. Before we take communion, John
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and his family would like to exchange gifts. Everyone age
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: watching the kids cry. Yeah, we're gonna do Johnny's old jokes.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: We call a joke about that, a Christmas themed joke
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: about that. Oh, I like it, John, I got a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: few for you. I asked my wife what she one
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: for Christmas. She told me nothing would make her happier
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: than a diamond nicklace. So I bought her nothing. I
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: like it, John, what do you use to drain the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: water from your Brussels sprouts at Christmas? I don't know.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: An advent Colander. I thought you would like that because
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: it's a word. Okay. Just before Christmas, an honest politician,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: a generous lawyer in Santa Claus all gone into the
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: elevator at the Ritz Hotel. As lyft traveled from the
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: fifth floor down to the ground level one by one,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: they noticed a fifty dollars bill lying on the lift's floor.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: This is can tell it's a British joke as a're
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: calling it the lift instead of the elevator. Yeah. Also,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I think I know where this is going. Which one
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: picked up the money and handed it at reception Santa
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: of course, because the other two don't actually exist. That's
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: what it was coming. It was coming.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Finally, I didn't know how they're gonna Yeah, but the
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: other twos couldn't exist.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Jim asked his friend Tony whether he had bought his
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: wife anything for Christmas. Yes, the answer came from Tony,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: who was a bit of a chauvinist. I bought her
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: a belt and a bag. It was very kind of you,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Jim add it. I hope she appreciated the thought. Tony
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: smiled as he replied, so did I Hopefully the vacuum
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: cleaner will work better. Now. That's kind of an older
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: joke because vacuum cleaners don't have bags now they're just
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: all canisters, and what a jerk they're bag free. I
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: don't like those. Huh did you who knew those were
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: awful to replace? If you remember the bag era of vacuum, yo,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I don't like that. You didn't like it, didn't like
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: how it felt. I don't want to I vacuum more.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: It's not John, Why does it have to be? It's
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: a why do you hate women? I think That's what
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get to. That joke was mine. I
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: meant to say I wrote, and I didn't Jim and Tony.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Jim and Tony are chauveness. I don't like their attitudes,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: not at all. John. Let's wrap up the show. Normally
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: do this Week in History only do kind of a
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: this weekend Christmas history combined with some Christmas traditions from
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: around the world. We'll call it this Week in Christmas History.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: All Right, here we go. That was super awkward to
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: get there. We'll find it, John. This week in nineteen fourteen.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: You may know this, but British and German soldiers held
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: a Christmas truce during World War One. They held an
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: unofficial ceasefire on Christmas Day, they sang carols, played soccer,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: and for one brief moment remembered they were human beings
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: rather than enemies. Then they went right back to shooting
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: at each other. Classic holiday spirit. The original Santa Claus. Also,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I wanted to give it this part that the original
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Santa Claus was Saint Nicholas, a fourth century Christmas, a
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Christian bishop brother who gave his inheritance to the poor.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: He didn't wear the red suit that's associated with Santa today. John,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: You know where the red suit came from, right, Because
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: in many earlier depictions of Santa Claus, he was green
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and blue and many different colors, the Coca Cola red
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and white. They wanted it some tie in, So a
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: lot of our visions of Santa Claus now we're kind
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: of but yeah, but they stopped shooting each other. Hey,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, the truth. I think we should
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: call off our bitter blood feud just for well, if
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: you just give me the diamonds, John. In nineteen sixty five,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the first song ever broadcast from space happened, and it
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: was jingle bells Aboard Astronauts Aboard the Gemini six brought
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: holiday cheer to the cosmos. Wow, they broadcast jingle bells
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: at the first ever as the first ever song from place,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: making it clear that even in the vastness of the universe,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: catchy tunes still get stuck in your head. That's what
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: that's And I wanted to end with some Christmas traditions
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: because I think it's interesting. We kind of think of ourselves.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: It's like, we do Christmas the right way, but there's
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: so many different ways that people say. But and then
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: some traditions from other parts of the world that we've
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: adapted and adopted, and I think it's okay to note
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: those things. For instance, I read about one This isn't
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: in my notes, but I read about one Saturnalia. It's
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: a tradition and I think it's Nordic countries. But that's
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: where we get gift giving, Like we started giving gifts
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: because they exchanged and sometimes they even exchange roles, including
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: in culture, slaves and masters would exchange roles for the day,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: what like trading places or something. Wow, they would, and
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: then they'd go back. They'd be like, ah, serving again
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: and they would come on. Now that's yeah, yeah, and
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: that weird, But that's where the gift geting comes from
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: that tradition that we still do in Western culture. Here's
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: one people in Japan. Do you know how they celebrate Christmas.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: One of the things that give me a food thing
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: that you think that people in Japan celebrate Christmas, They
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: celebrate Christmas with KFC. In Japan, Christmas means fried Chicken.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Kentucky Fried Chicken has become the default Christmas dinner thanks
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: to a successful nineteen seventies marketing campaign. So this is
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: like it just got in there and they can. Yeah,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: so families place their orders weeks ahead because nothing says
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: holiday spirit quite like a bucket of original recipe. It
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: is pretty terrific. Yeah, I mean I think that's actually
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: a good one. Yeah, And I've heard that about like
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Jewish culture. There's a lot of people like they go
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: to the in New York City especially, you always hear about,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: let's go to the Chinese restaurant because they're open. A
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: lot of Alosknica for Jewish like, they'll go, let's go
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: out for Chinese food because it's like they know it's
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: going to be open because most of the other restaurants
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: are close.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: For I did see by the way we went to
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: the Chinese buffet of the Day that they said that'd
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: be open on Christmas Day.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they know what's up. John and Venezuela. People
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: go to Christmas Mass on roller skates. Karaka's Venezuela is
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: customary for people to roller skate to church for the
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: mesa a d i Guendaldo or early morning Mass. I'm
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: sure I've butchered that. During the week leading up to Christmas.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: This unique tradition is so popular that roads are often
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: closed to accommodate the skaters. I think we should do.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I think that'd be amazing. Can you imagine you do
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: your Christmas Eve service tomorrow? Yeah, people show up looking
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: like Sonic Drive in bell hops or whatever, you know,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the whole whatever that is car hops. It'd be hard
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: to skate here. There's a little cobblestone aut roads and yeah,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: any kind of roller blades. Yeah, I wonder they're doing
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: that down there. Look, huh, they got skates. I think
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: roller skating should come back, like it kind of died
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: off when we were kids. It was like that was
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the last gasp of skating rinks.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: You're still like the always one in every trying to
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: hang on.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: There's still rollers skating rinks in these some of these
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: small towns. They're trying to hang on. What if we
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: do a theme not you know, and they're just like, man,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: it's but you go in and you can tell like
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: it's not been replaced or buff. The floors are just
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: it's not great. But I mean that was the thing
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: to do, you know, our parents, and I think we
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: just got the skating and showbiz pizza. Wasn't it something
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: all skate? Remember the all skate couple skate? Well, the
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: couple skating, you're by yourself. You're like, great, they're gonna play.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I'm all of that, and you're sitting on the side
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: like when is it? And then they go all skate,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: they play journey, don't stop believing. You run out there
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: and then you fall down.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I think I remember skating with a girl and holding
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: her hand and just praying I didn't fall.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: I remember I forgot. I forgot. You were popular. So
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: you had a couple, you have you were in a couple,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and I'm staying on a couple.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: I think I just I think some girl was willing
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: to skate with me during a couple skate. I think
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: it was as a kid man, there's.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Always that one kid too that like when they have that.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I remember, I remember these skate nights where there be
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: one kid who could really do it. He could really
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: know how to use his skatesbacker he knew used his
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: little stoppers. Slow down whenever I use that stop right?
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: You just it's not great. No, that's not great at all. John.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: In Germany, people uh how to pickle in the Christmas tree.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: This feels made up by the way I looked it up,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: because I was like, this feels like something aides come
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: from Germany. Isn't it like Otan and Bonn? Isn't that
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: like a isn't that Germany? Sure? But but now a
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: German tradition originally known as oh boy wine, gotch girka.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: This practice maybe that's where we get the word girkin.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: It's go girka at the end of it. This practice,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: it has been become popular in America as well. This
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: not anywhere I know of, but in this I'm gonna
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: start doing it. Listen, you gotta go home with this tonight.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: In this festive custom, families hide a pickle or a
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: pickle shaped ornament. I guess to make it less weird
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: and vinegree and smelly on the tree, and the first
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: child to find it on the Christmas morning. On Christmas
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Morning receives an extra gift or is said to have
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: good luck for the coming I want the gift. I
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: would be like luck for you. They're holding a wet pickle.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Good luck. It's a bit of weird tradition, but hey,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: who doesn't like a bonus prize for finding a random pickle? Listen? Hey,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: normally you find a random Listen if you find a
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: random pickle anywhere else, please don't. That's not good luck.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: That's like a fellow phone that's in the couch cushion.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: What's that's not the wine? Gotch and Girka, John and
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Ukraine families that are in their Christmas trees with spider
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: webs instead of traditional decorations. This custom comes from a
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: folk tale, but a poor widow who couldn't afford decorations,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and on Christmas morning her children found their tree covered
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: and beautiful webs spun by sympathetic spiders. I think that's
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: a wonderful story. That could be a movie. Wonderful. That's
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: like a Pixar Yeah, I mean, it's almost like old
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Charlotte's Web.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Only would it not be terrified to spiders is to
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: watch Charlotte Charlotte's Web.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: This is believed to bring good luck for the coming
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: year as well. It's a lot of luck. We're going. Yeah,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: it's almost like the people who don't want to take
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: down their Halloween decorations are like, look, I'm celebrating, Like
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Ukrainian people like, no, you just need to it's time. Yeah, yeah, John,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: do you know that the average Christmas tree takes about
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: fifteen years to grow? I didn't know that. Huh so
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: this is a we need. You got to really want
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: to get into this best. You don't do live trees, right, No, No,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I haven't put up a tree in years. We don't
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: have kids. It's hard to a tree at all. We're humbugs.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: We're just with a words. I'm sorry, I'm a grinch.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I have one of those. It's like three pieces goes together,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: lights up on its own. Come on, no, I need
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: to maybe i'd be less bummed. I'm sorry, I'm a bummers.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't even I should have said yes. We had the
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: whole houses lit walkings all across the Okay, John, the
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: first state to officially recognize Christmas in eighteen thirty six.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Was who Okay, eighteen thirty six first date. Well, that's
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: gonna be hard.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: You'd think that I'll do it at once, but I
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: guess somebody had to start it off. Really, this is
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: it New England or in the South. It's in the South.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna say Louisiana Alabama. Oh wow, so Alabama
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: you got the Christmas spirit. You caught it early.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: And just saying all these traditions that we think again
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: goes back to the Santa Claus and the red suit.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Like we see this as like timeless, but that was
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: eighteen thirty six.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Eighteen thirty six, I mean not timeless, not timeless. It's
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: only been you know, a couple hundred years.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean that the things like again the
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Santa Claus and all this stuff.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Right, I wonder what that celebration looked like for real,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: probably roller skates there.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: You should watch again, as always say food, the Built
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: America is fascinating stuff on what Christmas and.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Handy cane turkeys and stuff like that. Yeah, we talked
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: about the frozen turkeys before me Thanksgiving, all these frozen
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: turkeys we had to get rid of they talked about,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: oh what they called fruitcake. Yeah, like this keeps forever, right, Yeah,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: that's why my parents like to get Did your mom
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: like to get fruitcake?
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: No, no, we didn't, yelling my dad loved to get
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: a fruitcake from the dollar store.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: What you passed it on? Right at the point of
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: it that you can just like I can mail this
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: now to anton Sylvia. I think he just ate someone.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Oh he enjoyed it. It's too chewy, it's it's gummies
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: in it.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: It's a bunch of candy fruit fruitcakes a deceptive Yeah,
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, right, Yeah, because it's not
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: that at all.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Gaffigan's famous bit about fruitcake is like it because because
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: he has a whole thing about cake, he does ten
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: minutes on cake, but then he goes what happened to fruitcake?
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: He goes fruit good cake, great, fruitcake, nasty crap, Like
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: he doesn't understand how you combined a good and a
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: great and got awful John. Finally, Icelandic folklore includes a
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: giant cat called the Yule cat. This sounds like I'm
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: making it out. It does. It prowls during Christmas time.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: It is said to eat those who do not receive
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: new clothes for Christmas, encouraging everyone to buy new garments
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: before the holiday. What this is? This is just a
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: commercial ploy. It feels like it's also kind of targeted
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: at poor people, Like, oh, seems like that's an old
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: sweater and then you just get clawed to death by
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: a cat. Yeah, this yule cat must have been big too,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: if it could eat people.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Yule Cat, I need a more creative name. Yeah, what
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: would you call the yule cat?
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Scratchy Christmas kitty? Yeah, it's not I don't know. That's
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: a that's a tough one. That just feels like it's yeah,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: you're you're it's don't single me out. I have a
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: lot of the same clothes that I've had for many Christmases.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I will say that. Yeah, no, I know, I don't.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not, I don't. I don't about you and.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: I having closed years, is that no one would recognize
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: him because they're all very nondescript like that.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if I wear a new sweater, if you're like, well,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: look who got in it? Like people are gonna know this,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: it's very oh so you were a color right? Very well?
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Now I know I didn't want to do that.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always like that, like that friend that thinks
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: that acts like you never call him back, and then
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: when you call him back, they're like, well look whould
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: have shouted.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I'll just go hey, don't make me regret it. Yeah,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: because I don't have to do it. Next time, you say, like,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: that's great calling you back, Stop punishing. John loves his family, everybody. Wow,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I felt like that felt like that came that came
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: out in nowhere, Jenny, you are that John had that
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: one loaded up the old pet dispenser of rage. Listen,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: he just pulls his neck back and out pops the anger.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Is this season Christmas?
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: So we started Elf last night, Okay, just start not
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: the movie, No, no, we started making an Elf?
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: No yes, the movie?
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well say he had finals Man last week
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: and it was a lot.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Did you guys do Elf on the shelf? Which you
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: you never did? Did you feel little bit ripped off? Though?
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: She remembers one being She said, I remember you put
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: it there was an ELF's shelf, like in this house
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: plant And the next morning I got up and it
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: was still there.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Oh right, Like I knew this was well that Elvis
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: didn't move, Johnny. I don't know why I didn't. It
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: just it just because for some reason for us, your
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: elf was lazy. He's like, look, I'm just gonna hang
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: out on this plant. The rent is good. It was
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: not getting a Christmas tree. I mean, he's looking for
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: the pickle. Who knows that's true. He was elf on
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the shelf was looking for the pickle and the vicus.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. It was a yeah, it was. You know,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: there's there's a Jewish thing that's mensho on a bench
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: that they somebody came up with where it's like it's
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: a little little hoonica figurine. But instead of the elf
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: on the shelf, which I like it, he's a man
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: on a bench. Yeah.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Come on, man, did you get any Advent calendars from?
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: You? Do this right? You collect them right? The cheese,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the chocolates, what do you get? I don't do it much.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: You don't do it.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: But I know that the Wardens and the Hollands, like
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: every year they do whatever they have out there, and
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: they'll do it every Yeah.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: But yeah, cheese or is it thirty days? I mean,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: how long is the Advent? It's twenty five?
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Twenty five well, the advent counter is usually twenty five days,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: but Advent is for Sundays. Okay, So Advent is actually
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: about because we look at this up the other day,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: someone's asking.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: It's about it.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: It's based upon the cycles of the moon, and so
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: the first Sunday of the Advent has to do with
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: when a certain moon has appeared.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's really interesting. Yeah. Well, I mean, I
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: eat some chocolate today. Does that I'm eating. I'm celebrating
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: in my heart, I'm eating a lot. I need I
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: need to go back. That's the holiday times. Self shaming
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: can come there in New Year's Absolutely, that's what you
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: want it. Mm hm you're saying old langsyne, you don't
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: know what it means. And then you go, I got
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: to pull myself together.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: I just my dog start barking, stop barking outside. That's
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: not one for Christmas.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: My new trick right now to get them in uh huh,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: because I can go there A stop a a's come here.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: So then you go as treat.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: He knows treat, But he won't come right now if
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: he really wants to bark, because he knows he's gonna
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: get treat eventually.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: No, matter how much he bark. Yeah, so now I
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: take out.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: The little oyster crackers is one of the treats we
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: give him, and I start eating it really lout my
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: mouth open. I chew real loud, John, I mean, here's that.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: He'll turn around like, wait, you're eating my treat, and he'll.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Come this is embarrassing. I can't help it. It works.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: You're chomping on a oyster cracker to get my dog
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: making a big show of it. Yeah, Like, I look
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: what your how many oyster crackers are you eating to day? John,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: I've gained seventy five pounds.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: I didn't say it's a low carbon trick, but it
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: usually does the trick.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: So, man, you got it. The things we do for
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: our dogs.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if he could be a good boy for Christmas, Johnny,
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: then that that would be all that I want.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Daisy doesn't have Toby anymore. We had
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: to put Toby to sleep, and so now Daisy just
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: goes out. She goes to the steps and she won't
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: go down, and we have to go go pee, go pee.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: She'd be likely she'd have to pee. We finally get
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: out of the art after like coaxing out of the art.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: She peas for like two minutes. You were going to
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: hold that. She was want to come back in, and
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: then she goes, she goes words my treat and I go,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: I gave it to John. John. John's crunching on it
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: right now, and you should have thought about that before
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: you held your pin. That's right. I don't know, John. Well,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: I didn't get you a gift this year, and I
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: apologized I didn't get you. I was afraid I was
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: going to come in and you were going to have
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: to display sent a text message. I thought, IM trying
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: to remember do we give each other gifts? Well, then
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: you give me like a I don't know, Top Golf
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: or something last year gift card. I don't think maybe
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: that was birthday. I think I want to save you
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: a tennessee. Uh. I want to say you got me
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: a Top Golf gift card and literally, uh, we never
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: went no, we my it was in my wallet and
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I just carried it in my wallet and then my
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: wallet got washed in that Top Golf gift card. It's
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: like one of the flimsy kind of thing and it
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: just disintegrated. I went to Top Golf with the staff
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: last week for a Christmas party. Yeah, and it was
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I was awful. I haven't. I haven't swung a club
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: at a minute. It's cold. You can blame the cold.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Now there's big heaters and we had a big spread
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: of food. The way that the atmosphere reacts to the ball,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: and it's a lot of fun. I handsome, decent shit.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: I still hit my nine iron generally, So that's it though.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: That's all I can't. Yeah, we need to go together.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: We just well, we need to do when I do gifts.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: We just need to find a time to keep the
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: spirit of the season and go swing a golf club.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Let's wing golf clubs together. That'll be fun. Let's make
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: it happen. Make it happen, anyone else you should make
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: it happen. Johny's that I should go to talk about
• 39:39
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• 39:42
  Speaker 1: holiday travels. And thanks for making us part of your
• 39:45
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• 39:47
  Speaker 1: you're just staying put and uh, you know, maybe you're
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: basting a turkey right now and we're in your ears
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: and that's great. Yeah, thanks so much, And I hope
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: it's not too dry. Get the gravy is very important
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: to the holiday meals. I've noticed these are dry. These
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: are dry meats we serve. Yeah, and we go, oh
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the gravy, you go. Yeah, just from a bygone era.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: They now we need our meats to Yeah, I need
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: to be succulent. Yeah, that's okay, that was a good word.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: We're a little spoiled. Yeah, but if you're doing that,
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• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Hey guys, I'm john This is Johnny. Welcome to a
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: special Christmas edition. I'll talk about that.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll put a little Kirk Franklin on that.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Johnny insisted on Mariah Carey opening up the show.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Kurt Franklin was like the apostle Paul of choir directors.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Then you think because he would anticipate question, Yes he would,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: and yes he would. He would anticipate. He knew the
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: next line. Tell them about you want Yeah, yeah, it's
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: kind of cheating because he already knew it. He knew
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: because he had written the song. He wrote the song
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: many times.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Well, so, yeah, this is our Christmas edition and it's
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: gonna be a little shorter show for those of you.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Who are right now to get right back to your family. Yeah,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: you're right now. You just left function. Uncle sal already
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: told you you're going to hell for that ear ring.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: You got your tattoo, goodness or a tattoo of an
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: ear ring. That's that's the double. That's when you know
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: you're in trouble. You know.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: In the endorsement book, I wrote about the fact that
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: you know, scientists are still studying how they could put
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: because if you haven't opened a lot of Barbie boxes
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: in your life, probably are a lot of little kids toys,
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: you know, a few in the amount of little twisty.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Ties and little all everything just right.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: It really is unbelievable, And I really do believe it's
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: almost like some government, like a Chinese government, conspiracy to
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: undermine the mental health of Americans, because I mean, yous.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: It got to be the Chinese government because there are
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: political rivals. Well, no, because most of the things I'm
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: opening came from China. Oh, I said, they've done it
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: to us, right, And they're also making money off of
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: watching an Americans squiring with our big fat sausage fingers.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: This will make them very unhappy. So I don't know.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they're out to get us or not.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying I didn't say it's a fool proof
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: no conspiracy.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's okay to say China's probably out
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: to get us at this point. Maybe I don't know.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. They make a lot of money
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: off of us. They do, so it's in their best
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: interest to keep us around, maybe right.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: But to keep us frustrated with all the little toys.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, I'm thinking to myself, how how worried
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: are you that people are going to steal this Barbie doll? Like, really,
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: was it that big of a deal. I would rather
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: have somebody Sometimes. I want to be less secure, Johnny.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: I just I just want to be less What.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Was the thing a while back with China? There were
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: some toys that were plastic and they were coated in something,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: and then kids were putting them in their mouths, and
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: somehow it was the same net effect of taking MDMA.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: There was like some chemical compound and then like there
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: was some unsafe conditions at a Chinese manufacturing plant. They were like, yeah,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: this is basically hallucinogens if your kid puts this little whatever,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: these toy beads or whatever in their mouth. Like okay,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: So I had to like stop. It was a few
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: years ago.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: And listeners, we're bringing you great stories like this for
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Christmas edition.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: We wanted your hot beat Christmas stories like this, China's
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: poisoning our children holiday.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: So this is before Christmas when we're recording this, but
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: it will come out.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: By the way, I say happy Holidays because I mean
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: there are several holia. There's Christmas and New Year's. I
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: don't find it political to say happy holidays because I mean,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: haven't married Christmas in a happy New Year?
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: When did you first discover that you were against the
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: god of the war on Christmas? No? I mean I again,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: and I always make the point that holiday from its
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: etymology means holyday.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Etymology meaning the history of bugs right where year to go? Yeah?
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's something about being inside with the fire
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: and you know, with the Christmas tree and the Christmas
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: tree on fire, Have.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: You watched Christmas Vacation yet? There's a few movies have
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: to watch every year. Yeah, no, I've not watched it
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: this year, you say.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: And I've watched Elf already, I think twice. ELF's great,
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: and we've watched some of Chris. I just fast forward
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: through a few things on Christmas Vacation.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Do you know where to go? Do you know? Of course? Yeah,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: the pool scene and all that stuff. I can't remember. Oh,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: that's regular vacation, the pool scene with Christy Brinkley. No,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: there's a pool scene in Christmas Vacas. Oh is there? Yes,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: I don't want to describe it much here in the detail,
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: but it's similar.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: I'll put it that way. Pull up the clip and
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: we'll play it over the air too, and get shut down.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: But he's, you know, and we're watching a TV version,
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: so like a lot of the cussing gets you know,
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: she could tell that they've they've overdubbed something.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: You know, replaced things with fudge and think you're a
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: hot dog. Wait a minute, I don't think he said
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: one of the most hot dog. It's one of the
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: most epic rants. Thank me, no, thank you, You're like,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: wait a minute. I don't think that's a gangster movie.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think he said think me.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Whenever he gets to the Jelly of the Month club
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: and he opens up the envelope and he goes off,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: you know, I want I want Frank Shirley right here
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: so I can tell him what And then he just goes.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, I mean it's a I'm assuming he
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: memorized that. It looks like he's not, you know, came
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: it came from deep within, it did, that was in
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: its soul. It quite the quite have you read the
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: study though, that says people, when you say curse words,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: it actually does reduce your pain. I think MythBusters did
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: it one time where they were they had their hand
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: in ice. What are they hooked up to some sort
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: of yeah and it uh dope. I mean like they
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: figured out how it diminished the pain. But they did
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: one where they just said whatever, and then they had
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: another one where they said, like expleotits and just like
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: they bleeped it. It was network television means USA, but
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: they just bleeped it. But they said their pain level
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: did go down wow, you know, like fifty percent. I
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: guess again, this seems like this seems like this seems
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: like I'm making I'm pro cursing. I'm just saying, Look,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: it seems like difficult data to quantify to me. I
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: don't know they figured out how to do it.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: They were worried about the variables and controls and the takeaways.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Johnny, I need my research to be you stub your
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: you stub your toe in the middle of the night,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: and you drop whatever word. You know, I don't know.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: They're just signs, they're science that backs up that that
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: is like a release. I don't know, Johnny, because I
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: know you mean it, say gollie g or what what
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: are you? No?
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  Speaker 2: I do think that there are other expletives that aren't
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: on that list. And I do think that in that
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: particular way, swearing and curse words are are funny because
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: they're so cultural.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, so if you say crap, is that
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: it's something else? I mean, I know, if you feel
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: better about yeah, feeling that's just as bad or whatever,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: And it definitely would be considered just about if you
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: look it up. I mean, you're saying the same.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: My mom will listen to this, And here's the deal.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: Like growing up, you don't say freaking like that, because
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: you're just you might as well just say it, you know,
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: and so but if you would have just said it,
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: you would have gotten more trouble for sure, you know.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: So that whole you might as well just say a thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that was true, No, because kids don't
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: try that.
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  Speaker 2: Like if your parents say you all say, they don't
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: mean that.
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  Speaker 1: It is lesser to them. What it's like. Heck is
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: for people that don't believe in Gosh. That's the whole
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Thing's go straight to Heck. If you don't, you don't
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: believe in Gosh.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: Once again, thanks for joining us for our special Christmas
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: compilation episode of Talk About That. Be sure to check
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: out our website at talk About That podcast dot com,
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: and we look forward to joining you next week on
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: a regular episode.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: Have a Merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: The thought are apt that the land brows a unt