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Laughter, Lights, and Holiday Cheer! · Tigs Bits Podcast

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Welcome to the Tigs Bits Christmas Special.
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We're celebrating Christmas the only way that we know how,
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talking about the traditions that we love, the songs we can't
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stop singing, the movies that we know by heart, and those
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favorite holiday foods that we crave every year.
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Plus we're going to take a little journey to some of the
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best Christmas destinations. It's going to be festive.
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It's going to be a fun packed show.
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Boys, it is good to see y'all. Merry Christmas.
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We're. All.
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Merry Christmas in the studio. Together cheers.
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Cheers when ordinary just won't do folks.
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Get yourself a Buffalo Rock Spice Ginger Ale since 19 O one.
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Yeah, I saw those in the grocery store earlier tonight.
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I was going through and fitting all festive, you know, and like
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going through, I don't drink a lot of sodas.
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I was like, you know what? I had to get one of these
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Buffalo Rocks Spice Ginger Ale to sip on and I love it.
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Why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you?
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That sounds delicious. That sounds delicious.
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One thing I can already tell you that is not in this show.
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We're going to talk about a lot of good stuff throughout this
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one. I mean, we're going to talk
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about those Christmas traditions that kind of bring us together,
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holiday songs that, you know, are just some classics, maybe
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some new stuff. We've talked about a lot of this
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stuff. In fact, you can go back and go
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to our YouTube page, go to tigsbits.com.
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You can check out some of our older shows last year.
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Kind of a fun little Tigsbits fact.
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Whenever we started going live, which we do every week,
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generally on Wednesday or Thursday nights, we when we
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started all of that, we started with a bracket that broke down
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Christmas songs and Christmas movies and we did it NCAA
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Tournament style. And we did.
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It took us about six hours. Oh my God.
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I just remember that. Yeah.
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It took forever, yeah. That was a long tournament.
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We were running out of gas there at the end.
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It was longer than the we did and it was longer than the Dang
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NCAA tournament. It was just, it was a little too
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much. So we're not.
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We're going to. Spare you our first time ever
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doing that though, and so we wanted to take our time and make
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sure we were being selective and like, yeah, it was.
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Yeah. It's, hey, it's a process.
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It's like the first time you do anything, it takes you a lot
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longer, then you get better at it, right?
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That's what this is now, yeah. After about an hour and 45
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minutes and we're on like number. 8C.
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Versus whatever it's like. We see and then we see it eye to
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eye. So it's just.
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It is what it is. No, no, no.
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Which that was part of the fun, that.
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Christmas in Dixie, I've heard Christmas we're going to revisit
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time for me. I could officially say that.
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Oh yeah? Well.
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I have been wearing. We are.
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Going to definitely get to some of those music wearing it out,
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have you I? Play Christmas jazz like it's
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going out of style. Can't get enough of it.
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Oh, it's a marshmallow world. I love it.
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I'm ready. Let's do it.
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That's my new favorite. It's a marshmallow world.
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That's Dean Martin. That's my one of my new
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Christmas cards. Me.
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I've been singing a piss. Out there we go, there we go.
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I like it. I like.
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You know I'm going to listen to that after this show.
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I've I'm not 100% sure I know I. Watch it on YouTube.
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Because they had. All these songs that there was
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not a traditional music video to.
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Now on YouTube, someone at a high, high level has went and
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made animated music videos for all these classic songs and
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they're great. Just go to YouTube the first one
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that'll pop up and wow. I haven't done the YouTube, see.
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I just do Alexa. I'm in the house and the den I
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come in, I get it Rolling. You mean it's rolling right now?
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See. I've got the turtle box hooked
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up to the big TV. Bing Crosby when I walked up
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get. The YouTube going so you got the
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the color, the lights going on got the lights going on and then
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pumping that music through the turtle box.
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And I put that when you start on one, it just kind of gives you
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something in the same vein. So it keeps it rolling, but the
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animated it's really done well. It's really a high level stuff
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and it goes go with the songs and it gives you the lyrics
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written out, so that's neat to actually know what all the words
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really are. You're kind of like, wow, that
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yeah, that's different. One of the traditions that I
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used to have growing up as a kid, a childhood memory of mine
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was at a place called Hodges Gardens, not far out of
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flooring. Where I grew up.
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They had like golf, a golf course, they had waterfalls, a
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Rose Garden, like a world renowned Rose Garden.
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That was probably, it was featured for sure in Southern
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living and stuff like that. And I mean, the heyday of this
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place is in the 60s and 70s. A restaurant, just a quality
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restaurant, just amazing. It always kind of reminds me of
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like it wasn't a camp or anything like this, but like in
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Dirty Dancing where they were off at that lake, at a place
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that was kind of like that boy belt.
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That's what it always reminded. Up in the Catskills.
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Yes. It was kind of like it was a
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resort, Yeah. And that's what it was called
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was. And there probably was Hills
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Resort and there until our next big city probably wasn't much.
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It was like an Oasis out there, you know, and no, in that part
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of the country. Yeah, it was kind of in between
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Cypress are kind of in between Lake Charles and and Shreveport
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like dead in the middle. That's where flooring is right
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there along the the Louisiana, Texas border.
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And man, but it it was so awesome.
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And as a kid, they always had this massive Christmas display
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when you would drive into the park, pay whatever you drive
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through because it's so you couldn't walk it.
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And all along the coming in covered in lights.
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And they have a beautiful lake in there and covered in lights
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and water fountains and all of the beautiful rose gardens, just
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all these little things. Just it was just on.
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It was breathtaking as a kid. But we started to take it kind
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of for granted because we saw it all the time.
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You know, we went every year to Chris.
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I was just like, whatever, it ain't there until things
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happened and it ain't there no more.
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And a lot of the stuff as I was a kid is now on display at
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Cypress Bend Park and our good friends Toledo Bend Lake Country
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is sponsor of our show. You can go drive through the
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park and see all of these lights.
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Now, of course, they've added modern lights.
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It's a lot of modern stuff, but some of those same things that
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were on display back when I was a kid are now on display out at
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Cypress Bend. Oh, that's awesome.
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You can drive through and see them.
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You still drive through the. Lights and all, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. They have these mechanical elves
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that that were in this house. They have a long story that's
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with it that you can read the story of where they came from,
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but they came from like New York City in the 20s or the 30s,
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something like that. And they're all handmade.
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They've had a guy who I went to school with, Billy Nixon, who
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has restored them to where they're in working order, but
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they're on a timer. So like they'll go for about 10
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seconds or so and then one will stop and then the other one will
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do. And all this, but they were in
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Santa's workshop. Yeah, I mean, so you know, it's
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funny you say that cuz so one of the big things I never went to
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was Callaway Gardens. And it reminded me of think of
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that, which is over in Georgia and but what we used to go to as
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a kid and is in Araton, Alabama, out in the middle of nowhere in
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the country. It's kind of the redneck version
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of this. But dude, it was unreal.
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Like you would pull in to drive through and these people that
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their house on their land out in the middle of a field and stuff
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had created this pathway and added to it every single year.
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I hadn't been there in a ton of years.
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The last time I was there, it was absolutely unreal.
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Like going through that hole, people would just line up bumper
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to bumper, you know what I mean? Trying to get in this place.
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So that was super cool and I'd forgot about that until you just
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said that. Now we do that in the Funiac.
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Now there's a, you know, the one, It's just natural,
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perfectly round lake in the middle of the Funiac when
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there's all those old historic houses are around it and they do
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something every year very similar where you drive around
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the lake and we'll stop along the way.
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We should when the kids were younger do like like hot
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chocolate and stuff like that. Stop, but the kids run around a
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little bit. So that was that's really cool.
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Just going and doing anything like that is is is super cool.
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Yeah, I know the same. I remember when I was, we were
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in Jackson, Ms. We'd always go there for my grandparents.
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We would just drive and there were certain neighborhoods that
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my granddad knew about and that would be the whole neighborhood.
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Decked out each house, top and bottom, some with the music in
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the yard. I mean, just people, Santa, the
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whole deal. I remember that distinctly when
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I was real little and we did that up until I drove us in the
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in the van with everyone you know.
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And then I tell you a similar thing like you.
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You were just saying about driving through Charisse and IA
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few years. My wife and IA few years ago,
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we're coming back from Nashville and just randomly saw a place
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off the side of like I-40 and went through it.
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You tune in your radio and drive through like this like a big
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parking lot. It was parking lot, so
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impressive. I mean, we had the videos don't
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do it justice, but man, you know, really cool.
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Some of the more simple things that I think we maybe take for
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granted a little bit. The Christmas tree, I mean,
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that's a, that's a tradition that's everywhere.
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I had no idea where it actually originated from.
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Where did this come from? It originated in Germany in the
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16th century, which I think is kind of where the story of Santa
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Claus and all of that, yeah, comes from, if, if I remember.
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Right. So that would been 15. 170 I
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redid my tree this year. I took all the lights off of it
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and I mean I'm talking I end up having to get snips to get them
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out of there like just they're down and started all.
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Of them, aren't they? And it took me probably 4 hours
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to because my mom taught me this technique and she's real
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particular about how you put lights on a tree, you don't just
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swirl them around that you got to go up and down every limb and
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weave in and weave out like, so I'm like, you know what?
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I'm gonna make my mom proud. I'll start at the bottom and
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work my way all the way to the top.
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You know that tree looks phenomenal though.
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That's probably the best looking tree I've ever done it.
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Really does and it and it dances with the lights really, really
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well. I love it.
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I love a good Christmas tree. In fact, we have two in the
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house. The Mardi Gras tree is now the
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main Christmas tree and the trees have even flip-flopped.
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It didn't even get to stay in the same position.
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It's now in the living room. That tree is never That tree has
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been up for a full year, hasn't it?
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Full year. It ain't going down anytime soon
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either. As soon as Christmas is over,
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back to the Mardi Gras tree. I love it.
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So in fact, they're both so out of the way that I don't see any
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reason why we can't have two Mardi Gras trees and these
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suckers just stay up all year long.
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But. Why wouldn't?
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That's just me. Mine may stay up a little longer
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too. I think it's I'm, I'm proud of
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it. And I gave a shit going up
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there. Yeah, yeah.
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So some other traditions that go with a Christmas tree go in that
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same room in the living room, in my opinion, stockings by the
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fireplace. If you don't have a fireplace,
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sometimes you hang them in other.
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Yeah, we are. Just hanging a little.
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Hanger with a hook off the front of the console under the TV.
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You know, because we don't have a fireplace.
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I live in the beach. I must talk at the kids
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stockings are up right now. I used to use the stockings back
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in the day when I was a kid. My mom still got them.
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I need to get them. They were actually real like
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thick hose stockings, you know what I mean?
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And they would stretch dude, you could put some stuff in there,
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boy. I mean you could load the.
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Tweet down That's what my my sister and I had those, those
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old wool socks. It would stretch and my sisters,
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it started off as just a normal sock, you know, normal like wool
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sock. That thing is about that long
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now. She still has it.
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She still uses it. She put stuff in it.
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Mine mine got barely long too, but I don't I'm I guess mine
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mine may be in the living room right now.
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That's terrible to say. It just made me think of
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something I didn't write down, like one of the traditions that
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we do with a tree and the boys have not found it yet.
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Speaking of finding something and not that little left on the
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shelf, we do a Christmas. It's a Christmas pickle and it's
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a little pickle ornament. I hide in the tree.
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Somewhere really deep into the tree, they got to find the
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pickle. They still haven't found the
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pickle this year. I get that thing's up in there,
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you know what I mean? So now they haven't spent a lot
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of time yet. They've gone by and moved on.
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Like who's going to find the pickle?
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I usually it happens pretty quick.
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So that's a little tradition that we started with with, you
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know, with the boys. And it's something fun, you
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know? They say in, They say in
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Louisiana, they don't do the Elf on the Shelf, they do the
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Roogaroo on a Subaru. That's all actually.
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Not ever heard that. That's fantastic.
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I love that. What about caroling and holiday
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music? Whenever I mean, I think a
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Christmas. We never really did that.
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We really did. I'll tell you something cool
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though. That was was just it has the
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singing involved in it. I grew up in a real small town
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in Alabama, Eclectic, AL outside of Montgomery, between
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Montgomery and Birmingham. And they did a thing evolved
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with our church that someone's property was set up and it was
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called an Eclectic Christmas. And you go through, you start
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and you walk and you have to ride on some parts, but ever you
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go to different sections and it's a lidded path and different
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things and explains the whole history of Christmas and in
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Christ and all that stuff. It's it was beautiful and
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actually it's very cool. One of my dear friends from high
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school just got asked and he's a part of it now, which is
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awesome. But we always did that as kids
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because we lived out in the sticks.
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You couldn't walk anywhere. Everybody was so spread out.
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There was no neighborhoods really.
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Everybody lived down roads so you couldn't walk to each others
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houses to Carol, you know he makes it like 2 houses in an
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hour, you know. So they had things like that and
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things at the church. It was church based where you
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know it was the most everything was church or school, which
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school always did some cool stuff.
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But again, it was so such a country place.
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It wasn't like we had big plays and big productions and stuff.
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You know, it was it was that, but it was but but the anelectic
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Christmas, if you're in central Alabama or anywhere really want
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to see something very cool, I would suggest checking that out.
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It it was really impactful and I remembered all these years
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later. Yeah, I know.
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And good old Elba, AL. So it, I grew up in Elba until I
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was like 11 and then moved over to OP, which is only 15 minutes
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away. But in Elba, we used to do the
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Caroline because, you know, the First Baptist Church was
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downtown and we would go from, you know, just start cruising
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around downtown to all the houses and that.
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And that was so cool, man. I, I remember one time
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specifically this older lady came out, we used to always
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think she was just like a witch or something.
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You know, the house was kind of like, oh, a little bit.
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And she always stayed inside. I was like, nobody ever sees
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her. And she came out and we started
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caroling to her. Remember, we were all kind of
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giggling with each other, like how she even gonna come on the
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porch, Dude, not only she come on the porch, she came on the
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porch and she started crying. And you realize I was like, oh
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man, you know, this is pretty cool, dude.
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You know, like, yeah, it made me realize how cool that is.
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Even see it movies and stuff, you know, it's like, oh man, and
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it's actually a real. Person I thought you were going
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to say she came out there and Mariah Carey, geologist sang
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like a professional singer. You know when somebody randomly
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can really sing pretty good, they break out the extra special
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church or airport or something? They basically turned into a
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musical. They recorded the whole thing.
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Yeah, you can go on YouTube and check it.
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Millions of views. It'll be coming out next next.
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Hey, I'll tell y'all something I.
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Don't. That's something else.
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That's. Everybody, I think we'll all
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remember what about the little figurines of the nativity scene
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that you that you put on the like the table, like your
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grandma or your mom or whoever would put on the table.
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It was the figures with the little fake cotton in the straw
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stuff and the whole deal, the little random.
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Monster Christmas Village. Yeah, my grandmother does too.
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The whole dining table that we've never, we've never used
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that table for anything has just a whole deal with the major
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scene, all these houses. Yes, I forgot the light to turn
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about all that stuff still. I love that my grandmother has
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passed it on now and wants my my mom to do it.
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My mom doesn't do all that. So it's like, oh man, I miss it.
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I miss it. This was something that was a
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heated discussion last year. As we said at the top of the
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show, whenever we did our bracketology of breaking down
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Christmas songs, we certainly had some upsets along the way
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and all of that. We ain't doing that tonight.
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We're not going back into that kind of thing.
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We're just going to simply talk about some of the timeless
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classics that are out there, some modern Christmas favorites,
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maybe some upbeat songs, some funny songs, stuff like that.
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So kind of just to start it off, what is your favorite Christmas
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song of all time? Your personal favorite
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Christmas? I will start with you, Jr.
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I knew you were going to say that.
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I knew you were going to say that.
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My favorite one this year so far is It's a Marshmallow.
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World. It's a marshmallow world, and
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I'm not you'll. Know when you're here, you'll be
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like it sounds like it sounds like an Andy Williams
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traditional standard song, but it's.
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OK. It's Dean.
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Martin That era. That era.
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I love it and it's and like I said, to watch it on YouTube
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video, it's really cool. And to know the lyric, to know
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the lyrics and it really doesn't even say Christmas, but it
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implies the winter time and the snow and stuff, which is funny
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because, you know, I'm a big Robert Earl Keen fan and he has,
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you know, classically wrote Merry Christmas from the family,
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which is a, a tale of a the different side of Christmas, not
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those traditional jingles. And he said he wrote that song
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because he grew up in Houston, TX.
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And when he they play all these Christmas songs on the radio
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every year, he's like, well, we don't have snow and we don't
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slay. We don't have no Isis.
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I live in Houston. So when he grew up, he wrote
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that song. Thinking back of all those
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songs, he was like, we were out there pulling ourselves in the
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dirt, you know, because there wasn't snow in Houston in
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winter, in Christmas. So yeah, Well, then there's
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other places that have have to have their regional Christmas
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themes, you know, like Christmas Island, Leon Redbone and Doctor
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John, when they do, when they do some stuff together on that
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stuff, Jimmy Buffett's Christmas stuff, you know, there's Island,
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the Hawaiian Christmas song, which is a lot of times one of
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my favorite Christmas songs of the year, the Jamie Johnson
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version of that on his album South Alabama Christmas.
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All that's so good. That is so.
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Good. I was listening to that the
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other day when I was putting that tree together.
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I. Heard that in the background.
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Yes, I heard that. So there's the there's the
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traditional traditional that you're going to see on
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mainstream television. Then there's your regional
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traditional that everybody likes where they're from because you
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take like a New Orleans cat. There's a whole nother playlist
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for Christmas if you're from New Orleans, if you're from Atlanta,
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if you know, if you're from LA, if you're from Brooklyn.
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I mean, you know, it's going to be a completely different
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playlist. But then there's the then
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there's the main vein of these classic ones that are in the
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movies and shows that everyone had to see on on mainstream
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stuff is is kind of where it goes.
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What about you, Blasey? What's your favorite Christmas
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song of all time? Well, you know, it's funny, you
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know, last year we were going through ranking all those things
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and we came in and we, you know, decided like the greatest of all
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time was solid night. I think we put it at the top,
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you know, like as far as just like traditional, traditional.
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Well, this year I'm kind of feeling a little bit more
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traditional than I was even last year.
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I look at those rankings and how those things move and dude, I've
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got top three. We got Bing Crosby just with a
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clean sweep here running all through them.
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I mean, you know, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas,
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you know, white Christmas and silent night, dude, give me him
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all day long on those three. And old little Judy Garland
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coming on the back end, you know, I mean, have yourself
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like, so this year for me, I kind of started early.
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I usually kind of wait and it's like, Oh my gosh, here it is.
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I got to get moving. I got out literally the weekend
19:50
after Thanksgiving and just started getting after it,
19:52
putting everything up and just playing Christmas music.
19:55
And so it's been good this year, man, But I've kind of gone old
19:58
school. Listen to these older ones.
20:00
And I'm feeling that right now. So yeah, Bing Cosby for this
20:02
week. I.
20:03
Still, I get in my car it it's tuned here in Baton Rouge to
20:08
96.1 the river and the river runs through it and they and
20:18
they play nothing. They play traditional Christmas
20:21
songs. I just, I mean, I like to drive
20:23
around Baton Rouge and listen to the radio still good old
20:25
terrestrial radio at Christmas time.
20:28
Play nothing but Christmas jams, man.
20:30
And I I agree with you. I've been jamming a lot of bang,
20:35
you know, I mean, you're going to hear him a lot this year.
20:37
Michael Bublé. I think I put that on a little
20:40
version of a Christmas video I did of the the lights at Cypress
20:44
Bend. I mean, you can't go wrong with
20:46
anything off of that album. I mean, not at all.
20:51
Yeah. I mean, I'll tell you one that
20:53
I, I've, I love and it's and I've loved it's going up.
20:58
My, we just had Spotify wrapped and Apples Replay and all of
21:02
that stuff. If I had a running list of
21:05
Christmas songs for me, this one's made a monster run up my
21:10
chart. It's run Rudolph run by Chuck
21:13
Berry simply because of Jr. and him opening up this catalog of
21:18
Chuck Berry. How awesome is that song Run
21:21
Run. It's rocking.
21:23
It's rocking. I Need a Rock and.
21:24
Roll. That's so good.
21:29
Fantastic. It's fantastic, of course.
21:34
Maybe come home for Christmas, whatever the Eagles version of
21:37
that, you know, I mean Jackson. Five, I saw mommy.
21:39
Kissing songs. Classic.
21:41
Yeah, yes, just all. Oh yeah.
21:44
Jeff Foxworthy, class 12 days redneck days of Christmas.
21:48
What about the Louisiana? What about the New Orleans 12
21:52
days of Christmas? That thing is hilarious.
21:54
The video of that from back in the days that like Channel 8 New
21:58
Orleans did like back in the day.
22:00
It's so awesome, man. If you don't know what we're
22:03
talking about, look for New Orleans 12 days of Christmas.
22:06
You will not be disappointed. You want to see some region out?
22:09
So grandma got ran over by a reindeer the other day.
22:13
Like actually happened. Did you see that?
22:15
She was walking. It was like a parade and they
22:17
were walking and here came a reindeer and just took her out.
22:20
It actually really happened. Now she lived and she was fine.
22:24
She didn't die out like in. The Ray Stevens.
22:26
Ray Stevens did a great job on that.
22:28
Christmas stuff isn't for the country, kind of.
22:31
Popular country style. So good, so funny.
22:33
It was good. It was so good.
22:35
Much like the songs that we also did a bracket on breaking down
22:40
all of the movies. We're not going to do that
22:43
tonight. We're not going to start back
22:45
and and have all these go head to head.
22:48
We had some wild upsets along the way doing that and you kind
22:51
of just get to a point of where this movie shouldn't be facing
22:55
this movie. And it's unfair.
22:57
You can't just pick one out of there.
22:59
But that's what we did. We did it tournament style.
23:01
So we're not doing that tonight. However, I'm going to start with
23:06
this. What is your favorite Christmas
23:09
movie of all time? Blasey.
23:13
Man, it's still like traditional, traditional,
23:16
traditional, right? So and I put them right there
23:18
wanting to, you know, you could flip flop them either way, just
23:22
love Frosty and just love Rudolph.
23:23
You know what I mean? Like that to me, it's just as
23:26
nostalgic as it gets when it comes from a movie that and
23:29
really close coming there. It's a wonderful life, you know,
23:32
like those are just from a nostalgic standpoint.
23:34
That's never going to change. Fantastic.
23:36
I know I just named 3. It's hard to not name another
23:38
one. He is Christmas vacation and
23:41
still probably that the King. You know what I mean?
23:43
I'm just, you know, going to watch it more than probably any
23:45
of those. And then along with Land Man.
23:50
Land Man, I've been watching Land Man lately, so yeah, I
23:53
know. Isn't it great?
23:54
It is great. It has nothing to do with
23:56
Christmas. I'm sure maybe there, maybe
23:57
there'll be an episode coming out here in the next couple of
24:01
weeks that does. But what a fan, what a
24:03
fantastic, great show. Land Man, great show.
24:06
Go check it out. Jr.
24:08
What about? Very similar blazer,
24:10
Traditional, traditional. It's a Wonderful Life probably
24:13
up there is #1 for me, Christmas Vacation is good.
24:17
A Christmas story, Ralphie. I mean, you should try out kid
24:21
that one. I mean, I, I just love that
24:22
movie. But I'm but really any of them.
24:25
I've grown to love elf. I love elf these days.
24:28
I mean, I really like Elf now, Cherise and I watch Elf a lot.
24:32
I tell you a fun fact too, Frosty and Elf, that's Leon
24:35
Redbone who sings Christmas, Christmas Island.
24:38
So. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:41
There you go. There.
24:42
OK, bringing it. But again.
24:45
But those traditional ones like that never go home alone.
24:49
I mean, you know, any of the Christmas and we, we put it on
24:51
AMC, they're doing a good job of just repeating a lot of
24:54
Christmas movies this year. Cherise, actually.
24:56
And we'll bring this up while we're on movies because it's the
24:58
most highly debated Christmas movie action slash action movie
25:03
of all time. Die Hard ends up on that list
25:05
every time as a Christmas movie. So Cherise watched it for the
25:09
first time ever about a week ago.
25:11
She had never watched. She don't watch many movies
25:13
anyway. She never watched Die Hard.
25:14
No, she never she. Never seen die.
25:15
Hard, silly, so so. But we watched it and she
25:20
watched. She watched.
25:21
She watched the whole thing beginning to end and I asked
25:25
her, I said, now this is a thing that happens that people debate
25:28
and say that's a Christmas movie.
25:30
What do you say as a brand new person who's never until right
25:33
now your first appear first, you know, impression of that movie?
25:38
She said, well, I think it's an action movie that's at Christmas
25:41
time because they talk about Christmas at the beginning and
25:44
then there's no more Christmas. So that was her.
25:46
I mean, not that, you know, it's not a definitive thing, but that
25:48
that was a fresh opinion on that as a first time viewer.
25:51
And I kind of that's what I've always kind of said.
25:53
And I'm not saying it's not, but it's not a traditional Christmas
25:56
movie. Come on.
25:58
It's just it's. Not anyway, it's not.
26:00
There we go. I disagree.
26:01
There we go 100%. I think it is the Christmas
26:05
movie. If they, if he was trying to get
26:08
back to, if he was trying, they were trying to go have Christmas
26:11
somewhere, that would be one day.
26:12
But they're not doing, he's just trying to go hang out with her.
26:14
They're not doing Christmas or nothing.
26:16
If there's a Christmas party at the end, they're all hanging
26:18
out, drinking eggnog and enjoying Christmas and opening
26:21
gifts. It's just.
26:22
Terrorists and a lot of death and a float.
26:24
Tower A. Lot of glass, a lot of glass, a
26:27
lot of a lot of broken glass. Yeah, nothing happy in Holiday
26:31
about that. Great movie.
26:32
What a great movie. What a great.
26:34
Movie watch it and I watch. If you didn't check out our top
26:37
10 action movies of all time, that thing was definitely in
26:41
there. And I haven't watched wearing of
26:43
it in a long time. I forgot how much Christmas
26:45
stuff in the beginning is going on, but anyway.
26:49
Right, that's it. Yeah, yeah.
26:53
My favorite, my favorite is National Lampoon's Christmas
26:56
Vacation. That's my number one.
26:58
And I I. It's perfect.
26:59
It's a perfect Christmas. Our generation before us, the
27:03
one now. It encapsulates 100 years of
27:06
America in a movie. It's like a Rockwell meets a New
27:09
Deal. It's it's perfect it.
27:12
Is, you know, I've wondered, at some point in time somebody's
27:16
going to come back and try to remake the Lampoon movies.
27:20
You can't. You know what's going to happen.
27:21
You know what's going to happen and how.
27:25
They can't make jokes about anything anymore.
27:27
It won't work. There's you can't make fun of
27:28
anything. They will just.
27:30
Yeah, it won't work. That's right.
27:33
But if you have somebody like a Shane Gillis that starts to, you
27:38
know, and they're letting them push the envelope a little bit
27:41
more. These independent guys are
27:43
starting to make their own movies.
27:44
It's going to be the only way that something I'm sure like
27:47
that could come out. And I think it it's I mean, I'm
27:51
open to it. I'm open to it.
27:53
But what a standard to try to be.
27:55
What if the whole, what if the whole standard of us watching an
27:58
hour and a half to two hour long movies is over at some point and
28:01
it ends up like people don't even make movies.
28:03
It's just 8 hour things that you bust up into series like they do
28:06
these shows these days, you know, stuff.
28:08
What if like 100 years now there's not even movies at all,
28:12
You know, in that wild. I mean, I don't, I don't think
28:15
that's a it is wild. I don't think it's a crazy
28:19
thought because people like the attention span of the younger
28:23
generation, even me, I mean my attention span, it's tough for
28:27
me to get there and sit still and watch a 2 hour movie.
28:30
And that didn't used to be the case for me.
28:33
That's that's what the invention.
28:35
Shows the way they make them now that it's just like an 8 hour,
28:37
10 hour movie and it's great. You're every good movie you ever
28:40
watch. You're like, wish it was longer.
28:42
It is. Right, break it down, you watch
28:43
it, you know what I mean? Stop it yeah, it's just let's
28:46
roll, like stretched it. Yeah.
28:48
We don't have to be in a rush here.
28:49
Let's everybody slow down so yeah, I don't know.
28:51
Yeah, we're. Going to dive into one of my
28:53
favorite things, boys. One of the favorite parts of
28:57
Christmas for me and it always ends up having to cost me with a
29:02
resolution and getting back getting back on track and.
29:05
It smells like food. In January, yeah.
29:10
I mean, I think I've gained 5 lbs already.
29:12
We're mid-december when we're filming this show and I ain't
29:16
even hit the home stretch yet. But it's tough, man.
29:20
It's tough foods, baby. I love Christmas and some foods
29:24
and what is what's something I'll kind of start this one out.
29:29
One of my favorite things that I love to do whenever for a
29:33
Christmas meal. Of course, my mom makes dressing
29:37
a lot of the same meals. Basically it's the same foods
29:40
that we have at Thanksgiving. We generally do it again, the
29:44
same deal for Christmas, but but we kind of started changing over
29:49
the the last handful of years. I started cooking a prime rib on
29:55
Christmas Day because it's not hard.
29:58
For whatever reason I never noticed this in other places
30:01
when it where I lived. I don't know if it's this way
30:04
where y'all are but prime ribs go on sale starting now like it
30:09
rouses and other places. Like you can go in and get big
30:12
old prime ribs. Publix does it every year.
30:14
I went there tonight thinking it was, but it's not there yet and
30:17
they'll do 599 a pound on on those things.
30:20
Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.
30:22
I mean, it's hard to pass up a big old rib eye and we go 599 a
30:28
pound no matter what way you cut it.
30:30
Yeah, it's just unbelievable. But man, I love getting a little
30:34
Rosemary and all that sear it. I reverse sear it on my grill
30:38
and then and then I will sear it in a, in a, on a skillet.
30:42
Now that I have a, that Blackstone, I would just use the
30:46
use the Blackstone to to give it a little sear.
30:48
But man, I love a good old prime rib period.
30:53
And. What would you what would you
30:54
guys consider the traditional top?
30:57
Like the three things that most people have at their Christmas
31:01
dinner? Would it be Turkey, mashed
31:02
potatoes and something? Turkey, ham, mashed potatoes and
31:08
dressing or stuffing. Or dressing.
31:10
Whatever you call. It.
31:11
Yeah, like on Christmas Day. Yeah, it would.
31:13
Be like the Yeah. My mom does a oyster Stew every
31:17
Christmas Eve. Sounds a little unusual, not not
31:19
traditional. Depends on where you live.
31:21
A lot of these will be regional. And you just get there and it's
31:23
just there and people show up. You know, I mean, like when we
31:26
get together on Christmas Eve, I hadn't been case the last couple
31:29
years it's been everybody running different directions.
31:30
But you know, you just get there and there's some oyster Stew,
31:33
you fix you some, you know what I mean?
31:34
And you just kind of roll around.
31:35
So it's easier. And then and then we'd still do
31:38
the, you know, some of the Christmas Day traditional stuff,
31:40
but that's something see. And so when?
31:43
I go to Houma, where my wife's from.
31:45
There is no dressing like we think of it.
31:47
There's rice dressing and there's but there's but there's
31:49
gumbo, right? There's gumbo.
31:52
There's gumbo. I guarantee there's gumbo.
31:54
So it depends on where you live and the dressing versus stuffing
31:57
thing is a dressing is traditionally more Southern and
32:00
stuffing is a more northern states thing.
32:03
And, and yeah, the oyster Stew, that's not, I mean, I bet, I bet
32:07
a lot of people in Coastal Carolinas do the same thing.
32:09
New York and the harbors, I bet, you know, oysters and shrimp and
32:13
things where depending on where you live is what a lot of people
32:16
lean into. I would think, you know, 1.
32:20
I don't know if we got into this last time we talked about food
32:23
and Christmas, but man, the sweets and the dessert type
32:26
things and they, the, there's a lot of the, the desserts that I
32:30
really like around Christmas are like the sweet potato casseroles
32:33
and things. It's not necessarily just a
32:35
piece of cake, but it's like a vegetable or fruit or something
32:39
with and even like the jello with this, this the the gentilly
32:43
type stuff they make or some of those type things.
32:48
I really like that, you know, and then we congeal salad that
32:53
kind of little because it's. Sweet, but it's.
32:54
Not so sweet where you're just eating a piece of cake or ice
32:57
cream. I like that.
32:58
I love my grandmother's sweet potato casserole with the nuts
33:00
right there too. Cinnamon, cinnamon type things.
33:03
A lot of you know, I love the spices of Christmas.
33:05
You know those are good. Speaking of stuff you can put a
33:09
little cinnamon in. We mentioned this off air a
33:11
little while ago, but eggnog When you're talking about eating
33:13
and drinking during Christmas time, you.
33:15
Can't leave eggnog out of the table.
33:19
Absolutely you can't man. I can't wait.
33:21
I'm I love eggnog this time of the year, you know, it's what I
33:24
call a little bit of bourbon season.
33:25
I have been drinking a lot of bourbon, but like still, if I'm
33:28
gonna drink some here and I'm going too soon it there's gonna
33:30
be some eggnog involved that's gonna happen so.
33:33
Cooling off finally in the South, it's you know, you can
33:36
wear you can wear jeans and not sweat.
33:39
It's it's, it's finally, it's feeling good.
33:43
I love sweets, man. This is the one time of year
33:46
where I kind of overindulge on things and people make my wife's
33:51
a great cook. Fortunately, she doesn't make a
33:53
whole bunch of stuff because we'll just eat it all.
33:55
She does finally get cravings and has to make some stuff.
33:58
But like Miss Myrtle, if you're listening to this out there, I
34:02
would love to have another a can of that fudge, that tin that my
34:06
buddy Johnny Ergonomics, that's his mom.
34:09
She sends me this tin full of the best fudge in the entire
34:15
world. I promise.
34:17
You have had it since I was a kid.
34:19
I mean, unbelievable. People in flooring know who's
34:23
had it. It's just, it's just world
34:26
class. It's just flat out world class.
34:28
But dude, talk about food. You know, I just, I just pulled
34:32
up a little thing. The 2020 poll here of America's
34:35
top favorite dishes, 76% like roasted potatoes, 75 mashed
34:41
potatoes, 73 Turkey, 70 bread and rolls, 70 stuffing and
34:46
dressing. So that's a 76% of people try to
34:49
eat roasted potatoes. There you go, number one.
34:53
Wow. There you go, now we know
34:55
splitting. Hairs, but the more you know,
34:57
the more. Potatoes.
34:58
Everybody likes a potato. No, we're talking about food,
35:01
you know, we're talking about sweets.
35:02
Such so my, my, my stepdad, my dad, his mother, little Mama.
35:07
All right, so she would make dude, she made the world's best
35:12
divinity. I don't know if you have
35:13
divinity. Hers was light, super light.
35:16
It wasn't like heavy and touch your teeth.
35:18
You know, it was like, Oh my gosh, how's it so light and
35:21
peanut brittle like it She could.
35:23
It's the best I've ever had, best I've ever had.
35:25
Now she's passed away now. So I don't get that anymore.
35:28
And I wish I'd have learned how to make that.
35:29
Like, I'm not a Baker, but I wish I'd learned to make those
35:32
two things through her. But here's a fun little fact.
35:35
Her brother, son was the number one paid actor in Hollywood last
35:43
year, in 2023. Not this year, 2024.
35:45
I don't know how much you made this year.
35:47
Shay Wiggum. You know that name.
35:50
He's in everything. If you ever look him up, you'll
35:51
realize, oh, that guy's in every movie there is.
35:53
He made like $100 million last year.
35:55
Yeah. So wow.
35:56
So that's certain. Holy cow, Holy cow.
35:59
Way to tie that back in, man. Way to tie that back in.
36:03
It's hard to not love food. And especially, I mean, I do
36:09
believe I I think of food at Christmas.
36:13
I think of all of these things that we're talking about,
36:15
everything we've talked about, their traditions, the stockings,
36:19
the the Christmas trees, the Christmas lights, hanging with
36:23
your friends, families when you're younger.
36:25
Now it's about the time spent with with people you want to
36:28
spend it with, you know? Now it's about time.
36:30
It is. It is.
36:32
You know, they always say that time is your most valuable asset
36:35
and the older that I get, the more and more I realize that
36:40
that is just simply a fact. It just is a fact that it is the
36:45
most valuable asset that we have.
36:47
No, it is, it's, it's absolutely everything.
36:49
It means everything. And there were, there's been a
36:52
couple of Christmases where it's like, man, I'm just ready for
36:54
Christmas to be over with them. It's so much hassle when it gets
36:57
here. I can't wait till 1st of
36:58
January. But you know, this year going
37:00
into like, what am I doing, man? Like, you know, enjoy it,
37:02
embrace it. Like think about the reason for
37:04
the season. Everybody says that, you know,
37:06
but like really stay right here in the moment.
37:08
Look at your family. Like I kind of want to slow it
37:10
down and like enjoy it and like, hey, here's what we're doing
37:14
this year. Last year we got to go.
37:16
We took off on Christmas Day and went skiing.
37:18
A great memory. We're going to do that again
37:20
this year. But like, I just decided to just
37:22
just stay around here, try to kind of keep things easy.
37:25
So anyway, man, yeah, this is a dude.
37:28
I'm I'm, I'm, I'm embracing this year.
37:30
It's back. I'm enjoying Christmas.
37:31
I'm not going, I'm not going to get stressed out over it.
37:33
You know, I mean, we're going to hang out, see family and
37:37
friends, but we can kill ourselves trying to do anything,
37:39
you know? Yeah, I mean, I'm glad, I'm glad
37:41
you brought that up with going on, you know, we, we didn't
37:43
bring up destinations, of course, destinations of ski
37:47
trips. A lot of people will go on ski
37:49
trips. I've always been a stay at home
37:52
Christmas person or go to family, you know, somewhere
37:55
weirdly, yeah. I went traditionally to my
37:59
grandmother's in Jackson, Ms. my entire life up until a handful
38:02
of years ago or so really, or until Cherise and I got together
38:05
and we started splitting them, you know, and then now we, we
38:09
stick close. And this year especially, I
38:11
actually had to cancel a trip. I did not want to have to cancel
38:13
going out to California to, to be a part and celebrate of a
38:17
dear friend of mine's ceremony. But I'm just so burned out from
38:21
travel. I mean, I can't go travel.
38:23
We went down to visit my went down to clear, went down to Key
38:27
West for that vacation. And even that the flying down
38:30
there and flying back. I told trees I can't even go on
38:31
vacation. I got to have a break.
38:33
I can't travel anywhere. I've got I've got so much stuff
38:36
to do around home that I'm never going to get caught up with if I
38:39
don't just make myself stay close to home and not go do
38:42
stuff. So I'm, I'm trying to just write
38:44
it here. I got the yard done.
38:46
The last three or four days. I've had a tree crew over here,
38:49
took out a bunch of trees and limbs and cleaned and it's just
38:53
that kind of thing. I just got to get caught up.
38:55
But mine's a little different than a lot of other people who
38:57
are have to work, you know, in the same town and go home every
38:59
night. And then the end of the year
39:00
they're ready to take a trip and a vacation.
39:02
I'm like, I have been on the go all year long.
39:04
I am ready to chill. That's right, you travel so
39:07
much, you have to be intentional.
39:09
And at this point in my life, I got to really realize what's
39:11
best for health and, and, and Wellness, you know, all the way
39:14
around when I'm making these some of these decisions.
39:16
So I've overextended myself one too many times, but I'm going to
39:19
try to do better at not doing that.
39:22
Oh my God. You know, I don't know if it's
39:25
tradition or if this is sound and music, but yet today I
39:28
decided to make a firecracker and this is tradition.
39:30
I always do that this time of the year and there's some point
39:32
in Hammock Bay I will pop off and let them know.
39:34
Oh yeah, you will. That's what it looks.
39:36
Like something is like the pro game or you know, it's like a
39:39
Wally Coyote or something. It's got acne on the.
39:42
Side of it, right Acme on the side.
39:46
Oh man oh man, we'll look, no pun intended.
39:51
We have had a blast talking about all things Christmas
39:56
tonight, from traditions that we love to the songs and the movies
40:01
that make this season so, so special.
40:04
We hope your Christmas is filled with joy, laughter, plenty of
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freaking good food. So from our Tigs Bits family to
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yours, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
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We'll see you soon.