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- 0:04Speaker 1: Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
- 0:07Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio. Merry Christmas, you guys, Happy Holidays. This is
- 0:26Speaker 1: ten takes and we give them in ten minutes. Today.
- 0:30Speaker 1: We do it in the twelfth month, the twenty fifth day,
- 0:32Speaker 1: wonderful time of year. And guess what I'm gonna do.
- 0:36Speaker 1: I'm going to give you ten Christmas takes. You think
- 0:40Speaker 1: I can't do it, you think I won't do it.
- 0:43Speaker 1: It's dead wrong, my friends. Ten Christmas Takes in ten minutes.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Let's start the clock. Take number one. Christmas Eve is
- 0:56Speaker 1: better than Christmas. It is. They're both great, they're both wonderful.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Christmas Eve is so special. Christmas Eve is when you're
- 1:06Speaker 1: going up the roller coaster, you know, when you're going
- 1:08Speaker 1: up the giant drop before you go down. You're going
- 1:12Speaker 1: up and go, and you got the butterflies in your stomach,
- 1:16Speaker 1: and there's magic and you can hire and hire, and
- 1:18Speaker 1: you're tapping your friends knee and you're, oh my god,
- 1:20Speaker 1: it's gonna be so great. That's Christmas Eve. Christmas Day
- 1:22Speaker 1: is fantastic and it's the payoff. But there's almost this
- 1:26Speaker 1: melancholy feel that happens Christmas afternoon Christmas evening, when you're like, wow,
- 1:32Speaker 1: it's over. Not only is it over, it's three hundred
- 1:36Speaker 1: and sixty five days away, three and sixty five days
- 1:39Speaker 1: of wait Christmas Eve. Get get a little little candy,
- 1:42Speaker 1: little drink, little movie. You're like, this is gonna be
- 1:45Speaker 1: the greatest night ever. And when you're a kid, Oh
- 1:47Speaker 1: my god, Christmas Eve, there's gonna be an actual set
- 1:51Speaker 1: of reindeer on top of my house tonights. It's really
- 1:54Speaker 1: gonna happen. He's gonna come down that chimney. It's so great.
- 1:57Speaker 1: The presents are awesome on Christmas, the idea that Sanna
- 2:00Speaker 1: is actually going to come to your home on Christmas Eve.
- 2:04Speaker 1: It's the best best holiday of the year, not Christmas
- 2:07Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. Take number two. Agnog is delicious. Eggnog is delicious.
- 2:12Speaker 1: Let me say it one more time. Eggnog is delicious.
- 2:14Speaker 1: I think we've arrived at this place. I talked about
- 2:16Speaker 1: this back on Halloween, where there's a polarizing treats for
- 2:20Speaker 1: each of the year ending holidays. For Halloween, you got
- 2:24Speaker 1: candy corn. People want to draw swords over candy corn.
- 2:27Speaker 1: For Thanksgiving, you got cranberry. Same deal for Christmas, we
- 2:31Speaker 1: got eggnog. And here's my take on eggnog. I like it.
- 2:33Speaker 1: I drink it once a year on Christmas Eve, Sprinkle
- 2:35Speaker 1: little nutmeg on top. Actually take it without booze, which
- 2:38Speaker 1: maybe people seen is crazy or lame. I don't need
- 2:42Speaker 1: the booze in it. There's plenty of other booze going
- 2:44Speaker 1: into my system. I like it without the booze. But
- 2:46Speaker 1: here's my take on eggnog. So much of the reason
- 2:50Speaker 1: that people aren't into it or are disgusted by it
- 2:54Speaker 1: is bad branding. Agnog needs the rebrand. Eggnog is two
- 3:00Speaker 1: disgusting words. When it comes to a drink. I don't
- 3:03Speaker 1: really want eggs might drink just on principle. I don't
- 3:06Speaker 1: even know what hell nog means. I never see that
- 3:08Speaker 1: word in any other context. I don't know n og.
- 3:11Speaker 1: Where does it come from? Is it short for something? Eggnog?
- 3:14Speaker 1: Six letters, three of them are g's, all of them
- 3:17Speaker 1: are disgusting together. You gotta rebrand, and I think of
- 3:21Speaker 1: something like at another holiday, McDonald's has the Shamrock shake. Now,
- 3:25Speaker 1: that's it. That's that old Ray Kroc magic, the Santa
- 3:29Speaker 1: Claus of fast food. Shamrock Shake in don't even really
- 3:33Speaker 1: know what it is. No, it's green. Think I kind
- 3:34Speaker 1: of want it because it's got a great brand. I
- 3:37Speaker 1: think Eggnog should rebrand as a Santa Shake. Would you
- 3:41Speaker 1: like a Santa Shake with all nug meg Yes? Hell? Yeah, dude,
- 3:44Speaker 1: you put a cinnamon stick into Yes, I can. Would
- 3:46Speaker 1: you like an eggnog? No, that's disgusting? All right? But
- 3:49Speaker 1: what if I told you it was a Santa Shake?
- 3:52Speaker 1: You know what, screw it, it's Christmas Eve. I think
- 3:55Speaker 1: I would like a Santa Shake, And if you want
- 3:57Speaker 1: to put some brandy in there, I wouldn't mind. Then
- 4:00Speaker 1: it's a drunken Santa Shake. I like it. That's my
- 4:02Speaker 1: idea new branding for Agnow, big eggnch the industry rebrand.
- 4:06Speaker 1: Your name is disgusting, your product is delicious. Take number three.
- 4:12Speaker 1: I want to hang with Uncle Frank from Home Alone.
- 4:14Speaker 1: I know he has looked at as the number one
- 4:16Speaker 1: Christmas villain. I know he's looked at his bigger villain
- 4:19Speaker 1: in the Home Alone movies than Harry and Marsh. I
- 4:22Speaker 1: used to feel that way. I saw that movie Home
- 4:24Speaker 1: Alone one when I was ten years old. Sot in
- 4:25Speaker 1: the theater. My entire life. I have watched it. Like
- 4:29Speaker 1: everybody else thinks, Uncle Frank is a jerk. He's mean,
- 4:31Speaker 1: he's cruel. As you get older, you're like, I kinda
- 4:35Speaker 1: like Uncle Frank. I kind of feel where Uncle Frank
- 4:38Speaker 1: is coming from. I was watching Home Alone two with
- 4:39Speaker 1: my kids the other day. There's a part where they're
- 4:42Speaker 1: still at the very beginning and mister McAllister says to Kevin, Kevin,
- 4:46Speaker 1: go in and take a shower, and kem says, I can't.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Uncle Frank is in there. He says, if I see
- 4:52Speaker 1: him naked, I'll grow up never feeling like a real man.
- 4:55Speaker 1: That is so damn funny. I laughed out loud. Imagine
- 4:58Speaker 1: saying that to your nephew. Hilarious. Frank and jerk, but
- 5:01Speaker 1: also like what are his greatest sins? Screams at Kevin,
- 5:06Speaker 1: look what you did, dear little jerk. Kevin is a
- 5:08Speaker 1: little jerk. Do not watch Kevin at the beginning of
- 5:10Speaker 1: Homelone want to be like man, I would never let
- 5:12Speaker 1: my kid talk to me that way. Frank's right, So
- 5:14Speaker 1: he wants to free champagne in first class. Who doesn't,
- 5:18Speaker 1: So he wants to steal the glasses whatever that ticket's expensive,
- 5:22Speaker 1: he didn't pay for Who cares. I just would like
- 5:23Speaker 1: to have a whiskey with Frank. I bet he's got
- 5:25Speaker 1: some takes. I bet he's a sports fan. I probably
- 5:28Speaker 1: have to pay for the whiskey for him, but I'd
- 5:29Speaker 1: be more than willing to. I go opposite as everybody
- 5:32Speaker 1: on Uncle Frank. You know what, I like him more
- 5:35Speaker 1: than the other adults in that movie. Don't get me
- 5:36Speaker 1: started on missus McAllister, who, as we know, should lose
- 5:39Speaker 1: their children. But that's been said before. You don't like
- 5:42Speaker 1: Uncle Frank. Can you even name any of the other
- 5:44Speaker 1: adults in that family? Do you know what their names are?
- 5:46Speaker 1: Uncle Frank's wife, no idea, Kevin's dad, no idea. I
- 5:51Speaker 1: don't know none of these other adults. The only one
- 5:54Speaker 1: that really makes any impression is Uncle Frank. You know
- 5:56Speaker 1: his name, you know what he stands for it. He's
- 5:58Speaker 1: a card's on the table type of guy. I like
- 6:00Speaker 1: Uncle Frank. Take number four A Wonderful Life on watchable,
- 6:05Speaker 1: unwatchable movie. Don't like it, don't care about it, didn't
- 6:07Speaker 1: watch it growing up? Respect Jimmy Stewart, Great Princeton Man,
- 6:11Speaker 1: the American movie star, years and years and years ago.
- 6:14Speaker 1: But I didn't watch it growing up. I didn't do it.
- 6:16Speaker 1: So by a couple of years ago, my wife are like,
- 6:17Speaker 1: you know, we should watch It's a wonderful life. It's
- 6:19Speaker 1: the classic American Christmas tale. Let's watch it. Half hour
- 6:23Speaker 1: in we're like, this is terrible. It's actually kind of morbid,
- 6:25Speaker 1: a little dark. They're a little mean to each other.
- 6:28Speaker 1: I don't like it. It's way too slow. I will
- 6:30Speaker 1: never watch it again. Unwatchable movie. If he didn't grow
- 6:33Speaker 1: up with it, it's just kind of grandfathered in. Unwatchable movie.
- 6:35Speaker 1: Take number five. If you're a Christmas tree type of
- 6:38Speaker 1: fella or lady, if you've never been able to do
- 6:41Speaker 1: the thing where you cut down your own Christmas tree,
- 6:43Speaker 1: if you can try it. We did it. We really
- 6:45Speaker 1: liked it. There's this little farm you go to. It's
- 6:47Speaker 1: like an hour drive away through the majestic majesty of
- 6:50Speaker 1: the wintery countryside. And sure you have to pay a
- 6:53Speaker 1: little more, but those Christmas tree lots you have to
- 6:56Speaker 1: pay so much more anyway, and you just point it
- 6:58Speaker 1: one and then a guy brings it to you. You
- 7:00Speaker 1: go to these places, you have a little hot chocolate,
- 7:01Speaker 1: you bundle up, they give you a saw and the
- 7:04Speaker 1: satisfaction you get. And I listen when you get down
- 7:06Speaker 1: on your hands and knees in the disgusting, cold, muddy
- 7:09Speaker 1: ground and start trying to saw down a tree. It's hard.
- 7:11Speaker 1: You are going to injure yourself. You are going to
- 7:13Speaker 1: be sore the next day. It sucks. It's very awkward
- 7:15Speaker 1: on the back and the shoulders and the knees. However,
- 7:18Speaker 1: when you finally get through and you feel that tree
- 7:20Speaker 1: go down, and you and your kids or whoever you're
- 7:22Speaker 1: with actually gets the yelled timber like you're a lumberjack,
- 7:26Speaker 1: very satisfying. That's when Christmas starts for us. If you
- 7:29Speaker 1: can do it, do it take number six. I only
- 7:31Speaker 1: have three and a half minutes left. I feel for you.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Elves on a shelf folks, I've never done that either.
- 7:36Speaker 1: We don't do the elves on a shell, But every
- 7:38Speaker 1: couple I know who does the elves on a shelves
- 7:41Speaker 1: is miserable. No one's like. We love it. We look
- 7:44Speaker 1: forward to it every day. It is a really special
- 7:47Speaker 1: part of our holiday. We will always do it. There's
- 7:50Speaker 1: always these these stories like they've been through numb or
- 7:53Speaker 1: something like they just hate it, so don't start it.
- 7:57Speaker 1: We have an elves presence in our family. Our elves
- 7:59Speaker 1: magically visit while the kids are away, when they're at school,
- 8:02Speaker 1: they're in the activity, and they'll come back to their
- 8:04Speaker 1: room and their window is wide open and it's all cold,
- 8:06Speaker 1: and there's a note and a little sort of a
- 8:08Speaker 1: gift from the elf, usually around mid December, and it says,
- 8:11Speaker 1: keep up the good work. I've been watching and the
- 8:13Speaker 1: ideas that the elf came in through the window and
- 8:14Speaker 1: escape and the kids lose their mind. They almost pee
- 8:17Speaker 1: their pants, they're so exciting and they never see the elves.
- 8:19Speaker 1: But we're not doing that off in the shelf. So
- 8:21Speaker 1: I feel it for you, guys. Take number seven Christmas Music.
- 8:24Speaker 1: You want some, you want some old fashion, You want
- 8:27Speaker 1: something that really hits you in the fields A Neil
- 8:30Speaker 1: Diamond Christmas. Neil Diamond Christmas. You know in Sweet Caroline,
- 8:33Speaker 1: maybe you know forever in blue Jeans. You haven't lived
- 8:36Speaker 1: until you've heard mister Diamond sing the Little Drummer Boy.
- 8:40Speaker 1: The way he hits you with the rub a bum
- 8:43Speaker 1: bum bum bum, which is known as atomanopia, but he
- 8:49Speaker 1: does it so beautifully. I love it so much. I
- 8:52Speaker 1: like Michael Boublay. I love Kelly Clarkson. Do you want
- 8:54Speaker 1: to turn back to clock a little bit? Neil Diamond Christmas.
- 8:57Speaker 1: There are two that he released, and I like the
- 9:00Speaker 1: first one. His version of Rudolph the Reindeer is hilarious
- 9:03Speaker 1: because Neil Diamond starts like editorializing in the middle of it,
- 9:07Speaker 1: just riffing in the studio and he'll be like, hey,
- 9:10Speaker 1: well it means so mean to root uph just because
- 9:12Speaker 1: he's a little different. It's awesome. You gotta kneel down Christmas.
- 9:15Speaker 1: I listen, do it every year. Take number eight. I
- 9:17Speaker 1: don't like the Christmas bags. They're just not the same.
- 9:20Speaker 1: By the bags, I mean the gift bags. And I know,
- 9:22Speaker 1: I think the hot thing now and my wife's usually
- 9:24Speaker 1: on this beat that it's the wrapping paper is not
- 9:26Speaker 1: good for the environment, and I get it. Yeah, I
- 9:30Speaker 1: don't want to open a bag. I like a wrap gift.
- 9:32Speaker 1: I like to tear it open. I like to find
- 9:34Speaker 1: the little seam or pull it out. I like to
- 9:36Speaker 1: we'll find out where the tape is the bag. You
- 9:38Speaker 1: open it up, you pull it out. There's some perfunctory
- 9:40Speaker 1: tissue paper and then this chunky thing at the bottom
- 9:43Speaker 1: in this it's just not the same match. Plus, if
- 9:45Speaker 1: a wood burning fireplace, and I like to take the
- 9:47Speaker 1: wrapping paper and put it in the fireplace and make
- 9:49Speaker 1: a raging inferno so hot it melts the chocolate and
- 9:52Speaker 1: the stockings. That's what I like to do. Take number nine.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Gift cards are a huge win. I don't look at
- 9:57Speaker 1: the gift cards as the second class citizen of Christmas giving.
- 10:00Speaker 1: That's money. Baby. If you're a kid and you get
- 10:02Speaker 1: a gift card, so like game Stop or Apple or whatever,
- 10:07Speaker 1: great you're telling me instead of picking out what I want,
- 10:10Speaker 1: I'm just gonna take this after donal being presence and
- 10:12Speaker 1: go and just buy something that is exactly what I want.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Give it to me every single time our back steakhouse.
- 10:16Speaker 1: I don't care give me a gift card. Last thirty seconds.
- 10:19Speaker 1: Take number ten on Christmas. I am so appreciative of you.
- 10:23Speaker 1: This is a very special take for Take number ten.
- 10:26Speaker 1: Very appreciative of you. It's surreal to me that there
- 10:29Speaker 1: are so many options and so many podcasts, so many
- 10:34Speaker 1: podcasts you right now you decided you're gonna click on
- 10:37Speaker 1: this one. And not only you're gonna listen to it.
- 10:38Speaker 1: You're gonna listen all the way to the end. That
- 10:40Speaker 1: is so meaningful to me, so special, so sweet. I
- 10:43Speaker 1: thank you so much. Have a very happy holiday and
- 10:46Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. We'll do this again in the new year.
- 10:48Speaker 1: I love you, guys, Thank you, See you next time.
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