Transcript

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I'm Stephanie.
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I'm Meredith.
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And welcome to this is my circus Santa episode.
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I know him.
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How can people not like Elf?
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And one of them is your brother.
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I know.
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Can we disown him, please?
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Well, yeah, I'm just like, who are you and what did you do with my brother because he is like the epitome of a seven year old.
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I was gonna say, is he not fun?
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He is.
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He is the funcle.
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Okay.
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I cannot believe so many people said they would get rid of Elf in our little poll.
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I know, and Christmas Story is the worst.
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Ugh.
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Ugh.
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yeah, Santa week.
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Yes.
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I am.
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I would love to say that I'm feeling Christmas, but I'm not.
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I am like forcing myself to try to to be Christmassy, like trying to listen to Christmas music and I've listened to some Christmas books, which by the way, Christmas books suck.
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They do.
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We'll get to that in a second.
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We read last week.
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Yes.
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Or whatever, the Grinchy one.
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Yeah, the Grinch one was good.
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but yeah, I'm like forcing myself to be in a Christmas, trying to make it manifest in me and oh, and it was not, I'm not, I'm not.
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Yeah, I am just struggling this year to really get into, I think just because this year has been like a hell of a year for you.
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And so, I'm like, just pushing to get through and start the new year.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I 100 percent understand that.
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I get it.
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I don't know what my problem is.
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Well, I was telling you, you know, my vacations different this year.
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I'm not taking a lot of time off at Christmas and, You know, with the kids getting older, kids, Jackson, but mine and your kids.
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Yeah.
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with them getting older, it's just a totally different vibe.
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And then we're so busy with Brian coaching basketball.
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And then Jackson playing, it's just really, really busy.
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And it's like, we can't do a lot of the things to try to get into Christmas.
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Spirit.
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my father in law had surgery last week.
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How'd that go?
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He did okay.
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He had a minor setback the day after, but he's getting there.
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He's still in the hospital.
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Hopefully come home tomorrow or Wednesday so that's just been a part of where my mind has been too, but Anyway, good times.
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Great times.
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Great times.
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Let's talk about talking about freaking Santa.
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Now, there is like such a big debate on whether you should tell your kids if Santa is real or not.
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so I obviously did tell Dylan and we did the whole elf on the shelf.
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We did the whole thing and it was so magical.
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And I think I had just as much fun as he did.
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But Brandon's dad told him when he was like four.
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So he never had that like magical You know, explains a lot.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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Analyze that.
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and you did Santa for Jackson as well.
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We did.
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And I've never told him.
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I just asked.
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Assume he knows, but I'm not going to just like bring it up and be like, Hey, by the way, let me crush all your childhood dreams.
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But he's never come out and asked either.
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So all these tick tockers, like these like new age, much younger, much younger than us.
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Um, Are like, I'm not going to lie to my kid.
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And there's research that if you think this can cause whatever distrust in parents and, and I'm like, this has been around forever, not forever.
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I'm sure you have the history part of this, but like, yeah, I don't know.
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I mean, I think the magic is so much fun.
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And when I look back on my childhood, my mom kind of handled it the same way as me.
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She never said yes or no.
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We never had that conversation about.
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You know, it's in a really real or not.
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And I think I turned out.
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Okay.
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not a lot of distrust with with adults or anything like that.
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Um, well, I do have trust issues, but it's not because of Santa.
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It's many other reasons.
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But yeah, just the magic of it, even just being a kid and feeling that magic and feeling like, I can remember, and even when I was a little bit older too, like thinking Santa has got to be real because there is no way that like, Christmas magic.
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Yeah.
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One year, Dylan and him, it had to have been like four, four or five, it was Christmas Eve or it might've been the 23rd.
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And there was Christmas Eve, Eve.
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Yeah.
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I like to say.
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There was toy that was not on his list and I said, well, Dylan, it's so close to Christmas, it's, you know, probably not going to happen.
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I wrote a note and put it with toodles, the elf and said, if Santa is real, he will make this happen.
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And do you know that I spent the next day, Christmas Eve hunting down, hunting down the staying toys that I did find good, good, but yeah, yeah.
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I was like, I can't, I bought it.
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I've got to find this.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Now we had an elf too.
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Ours was named JJ.
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Was your elf really mischievous, like getting into things?
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Yeah, he did but not like super bad stuff.
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Yeah, like we, ours like spilled sugar and made snow angels and stuff like that.
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Ours would set up With all the other toys, like snowball fights with marshmallows.
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But yeah, I made him a little Batman cape.
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He left Batman pajamas.
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So he was hanging from the, Oh, that's cute.
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Jackson's had a football Jersey.
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He would wear.
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And then, we, and we took JJ with us.
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And he came the first day on the cruise.
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It was right before Christmas that we went.
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And we took JJ and I had looked up and tried to figure out how we were going to make this happen.
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If he was in a jar, apparently he could go and see the ship.
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It was great and I'm so thankful that none of the adults or older kids ruined it for Jackson.
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But, um, they were like, well, what is this?
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And Jackson's like, you can't touch it, but you can look at the jar and touch the jar.
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it was so cute, but he had like a little lay on and, he cruise attire.
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So we brought toodles with us on a cruise.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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And the person that did our room would move it for us every day.
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With like the towels and stuff.
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Yeah, like best freaking guy ever.
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That's amazing.
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Yeah, that is amazing You put him in like all these like funny.
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Oh, that's really cute.
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Positions and stuff.
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Yeah.
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We had told Jackson or JJ had left a note saying that Because of the heat, he couldn't fly every day to that area.
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So, he had like a couple of days with it, you know, just enough for him to be like, you know, that kind of thing.
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Yeah, I'm glad though that I don't have to remember every night.
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Cause that was stressful.
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I never forgot, but I always tried to one up like and you can't like be boring one day like hit that poor elf was in the Christmas tree so many days just because I was like, just throw them in there.
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I don't even care.
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Yeah.
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And then Oscar at the dogs were going to get him.
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You've seen those videos.
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I'm sure.
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Yeah.
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Or did you see the one where the, dad, I guess, hid the elf in the, oven?
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Yeah.
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Uh huh.
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Preheated.
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Did you imagine the trauma?
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Santa doesn't cause trauma.
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That causes trauma.
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That's your trust issues right there.
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Yes.
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But you know what?
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It was like, oh, sorry.
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It's like a burnt outline.
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Yeah, like the cookie shooter one.
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Yeah, I would have been traumatized as a child.
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That is as bad as have you seen the video where it's like a long time ago and camcorders were the thing I think and it was like a little fly in Tinkerbell and they're like controlling her and she flies into the fireplace.
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A lot of the fireplaces and it's like Christmas morning I'm not a girl.
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Wrapping paper is still on the floor and you can hear everybody like no and she's flying into the fireplace.
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Oh my god.
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I know that had to be traumatizing.
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I know that was terrible but it is so funny.
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Oh my gosh.
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Hmm.
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Well, The snoop on the stoop?
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Uh huh.
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Have you seen the Martha on a Mantel?
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Yes, oh goodness, okay, so let's hit our book.
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Let's hit it.
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We have a lot to talk about.
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No.
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No.
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So we had initially said we were gonna do Sleigh Bells by Bella Falls.
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Neither of us were fans.
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We did switch it up and the second book sucked.
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We decided after reading a half of the book that life is too short for bad books.
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Exactly.
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And we just moved on.
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We did.
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We did.
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I really tried.
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On both of those books, but I just, the second one wasn't as bad as the first.
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It was, but I, it wasn't.
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And I even like made a note on the second one, like I'm kind of going in and out with my interest.
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And then I finally put like, I'm out.
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That was when I think we talked and I was like, Oh, I think one sucks too.
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And I was like, um, yeah, choose the limit.
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Yeah.
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So Christmas books are, most of them are romances.
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Yeah.
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And that's okay.
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But I just haven't been feeling reading that stuff lately and um, so I know in the past.
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I've read Debbie McComber.
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I think is her name.
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She did some like romantic stuff So they were pretty good, but not feeling it right now not feeling these other two books I did get a jumpstart on next week's book, which is Christmas presents.
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It's not bad.
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Okay So we're good with that one.
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We're good with that one, unless I continue to read and it goes downhill.
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next week, Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger.
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Okay.
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U N G E R.
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And I don't think it's going to be terrible, but, you know, we'll touch base.
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So if our podcast next week sounds like normal, like we're talking like this and all of a sudden you hear Steph's voice say, the next book is going to be dah, dah, dah, dah.
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It means she had to edit it.
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So when I have to go back in and do it, it's so much louder.
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Yeah.
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Cause it's just you, you think?
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I don't know why it's such a big difference in the volume.
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It's weird.
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And I even put the mic all the way on the other side of the desk.
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And you're over here yodeling at it.
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I was like, whispering.
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And it was still like, boom.
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I don't even think anybody would know but me because I know the process.
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Um, So there is a zoo.
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it's not in the US and they have a naughty and nice penguin of the month.
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I'm gonna have to look that up to, to add a picture because they'll have like one of'em Why they're naughty and one of'em Why?
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They're nice Isn't that cute?
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I love that.
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I, that I know it was, I thought it was really cute.
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Let me look one more time.
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I love that so much., it was adorable.
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It was adorable.
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Oh, here it is.
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The National Aquarium of New Zealand names the naughty, And good penguin of the month.
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So this past month, Timmy was naughty because he stole fish and pushed another penguin over.
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I love those videos when they knock them in the water.
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That he was a good penguin because she's a good swimmer and she waited passionately for fish.
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I got stolen by Probably, probably her fish was probably the one that was stolen by Timmy, but I thought that was hilarious.
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Love that.
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I absolutely love it.
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I'm going to need to, Follow up on that and see what other Is it weekly or monthly?
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Month.
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I feel like they should do week though.
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I do too.
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Maybe they don't have a lot of penguins Maybe not.
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They don't get into that much of mischief, but I feel like they should.
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Yeah, we need some naughty penguin tails Oh, I saw a new we can be obsessed with.
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Oh, great.
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Do you know the, little dude, that annoys King Julian on Madagascar with like the big eyes.
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Yeah.
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It's that animal.
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Is he funny in real life?
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It's awesome.
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Let me see if I can find it.
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Is it a lemur?
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No, it's A cross between like a raccoon, a squirrel, and a kangaroo.
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It's really weird.
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I think I kind of thought it wasn't a real animal.
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It is.
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It kind of looks like um, Dobby.
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But is that not the cutest thing ever?
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That is adorable little animal.
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That is cute.
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Bounces.
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He's tiny.
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That's cute.
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That's a cute little guy.
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Are they Australian or something?
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I don't know.
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But they like, bounce like a kangaroo.
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They do.
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I saw this video the other day of this dude in a kangaroo suit in Australia.
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Oh, and he opened up his pouch and then jumped in.
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Yeah! I can do it! Kangaroos are scary though.
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The big ones are.
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Did you see the muscles?
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Yes! And when they, they take the dogs and people go fight them and they like fight.
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Oh! Would you fight a kangaroo for Rex?
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What?
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That's so mean.
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I've got the worst sense of humor.
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They stand like they're I know.
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All in there.
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Like, that's what Jackson will do when he's trying to bow up and whatever.
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He'll like roll his shoulders.
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It's all muscle.
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I know.
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It's crazy.
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Scary.
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Ripped.
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Put them big old hips, though.
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They do just like me, but they balance on their tail and kick.
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It's crazy.
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You know that the people that had the zebras in Gastonia, so I thought Brandon was like losing it.
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He came home from Gastonia.
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He's like Steph, I, this was like a couple years ago, like I don't know, had it be like four or five years ago.
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He's like, Steph, I saw there's a place that has zebras and I'm like, you are losing it.
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Like, are you sure it wasn't just a horse?
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I got like a cow.
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I don't know.
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And he's like.
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I know what a zebra is, right?
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And I'm like, they're pretty identifiable.
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And I'm like, surely nobody has like pet zebras.
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Surely they do.
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And he couldn't find the place again.
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And so I'm like, you are lying And then I just saw on the Clover Homes Group, somebody had asked about the zebras.
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And so I had texted Brandon, or no, I was on the phone with him and I was like.
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Yo, somebody just asked about this and he's like, see, I'm not crazy.
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I'm like, well, yet to be determined, sir.
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yeah, that's the kangaroos are terrifying.
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I thought they were cute.
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Like on Winnie the Pooh, like when little cuddly kind of things, but no.
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Yeah.
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Probably not.
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Well, I like this new, I already forgot the name of it, Bush Babies, what's in my mind.
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Yeah, I don't know what that's called.
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Gigma Gold.
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Yeah.
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I don't remember what it was called.
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But, he's bouncy.
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Have you seen the videos, so it's like somebody's trail cam that they've got set up while they're go hunting, and it's like wild boars and then raccoons are riding on them.
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No.
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And they're like.
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In my next life, I'm going to be a drunk raccoon or something like that at dawn.
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We ride.
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Again, the raccoons are amazing.
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All right.
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Well, do you want to, tell me what you found out?
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Love to.
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I'll gladly share some of mine.
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I'm gonna drop some knowledge here we go.
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So ten facts about Santa.
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Did you happen to pull up any facts?
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No, I got set the crazy crime You just got the crazy crimes.
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Okay, so We got some Santa's sleigh is the fastest vehicle ever Okay, I'll be.
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Santa has lots of different names, you know, Kris Kringle, Santa Claus, all that kind of stuff.
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he has an official pilot's license.
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And of course he was married to Mrs.
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Claus and they both have Canadian passports apparently.
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Mm hmm.
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But I had another article too from theweek.
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com.
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I'm sure this one's great.
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This is really what, you know, what I'm about, the history of Santa Claus.
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You ready just for a little brief, real brief lesson children gather around gather around so, Santa Claus was not always just a toy distributor.
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He started out.
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You know, there's a lot of different legends or how Santa started, but the 1 that.
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I'm going to choose to believe is that he was a dude who spent all his inheritance buying gifts and stuff for everybody else.
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And so he would give them to the kids kind of like a Robin Hood kind of thing.
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That's what I want to believe.
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But the thing that I really want to tell you about is the dark side of Santa.
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Oh, did you know about the dark side of Santa?
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So this will be good leeway into your crimes there.
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So, that was a French butcher.
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Maybe an innkeeper because I did.
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Did you see this?
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Okay.
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So for those of you who may not know, let me tell you.
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So the French butcher, potentially also an innkeeper, who carved human flesh.
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So they say there was a famine going on in the village that they were in.
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and this doesn't say exactly where, but I think it was Germany.
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So, sorry, famine going on and apparently children seemed like a good source of protein at the time.
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The butcher or his wife lured three boys into their shop where they thought they committed the perfect crime.
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And this is where it becomes like a horror movie rather than a Christmas story.
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The butcher killed the three boys, chopped them up, salted them before putting them into a pickling tub.
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Apparently the plan was to sell the boy's flesh as ham or sausage after having a few bites But luckily St.
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Nick showed up just in time.
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Legend has it they saved the day by bringing three boys back from the dead, despite their pickling.
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So, whatever.
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I know that's not true.
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I saw one that did say that he saved three girls from being, forced into prostitution by their father.
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Oh, I didn't see that one.
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It was like back in the super, super old days.
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where they had to have the dowries and the dad didn't have dowries for the, the girls, so they could, he couldn't marry them off.
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I saw, I did actually see that.
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Now that you mentioned it.
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Yep.
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And the day before, whatever the girls were supposed to be sold into slavery.
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Yes.
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I think is what I read.
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I read prostitution, I don't know, same thing.
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He threw, a satchel of gold through the window so that the dad had the dowry to marry the girls.
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So they would not be sold.
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I mean, it kind of are, but in a different, hopefully better, better way.
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So, yeah, I did.
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I'm bad at reading today, but those are the, so Santa could have been evil.
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He started a long time ago and he has a palace license.
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There you go.
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Okay.
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Is that enough?
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I'm done with it.
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Okay.
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I know you looked up some good crimes.
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I did.
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So I found several, I mean, there is some like crazy stuff out there for, for Santa stuff and Santa.
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10 naughty crimes committed by bad Santas.
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Oh, bad.
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Did you see that movie?
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Yes.
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Not kid friendly.
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Not kid friendly.
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Alright, so Santa hands out free cannabis at Buffalo Wild Wings.
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You can't look at the dude.
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Oh, he either had too much or needs a little bit more.
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I can't quite figure it out.
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On January 5th, 2015, Randy Lange entered a Monterey County, California branch of Buffalo Wild Wings determined to distribute some last remnants of holiday cheer.
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He claimed to be Santa Claus and brought with him a duffel bag that allegedly contained five football sized amounts of pop.
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Weighing in at over two pounds.
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The faux Santa accosted customers and told them he'd brought presents, placing samples of pot into their confused chicken greased hands.
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Employees also received an unwelcome Christmas bonus when Lange filled their tip jar with the hefty brick of weed.
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Unfortunately for Lange, the recipients of his gifts did not react joyously.
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I could not get that out because I'm not joyous.
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Police were almost immediately called.
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When they arrived, Lang was calm and congenial.
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Police Sergeant Nick Borgs recalls he said that he expected to be arrested for doing this at some point.
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Sounded like this was not his first time.
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It was surreal.
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Lang was charged with furnishing marijuana, further bolstered when police searched his home and found another two pounds of cannabis.
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I've never heard of anybody just giving away their Christmas weed.
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There was a TikToker that said that everybody that smokes should grow like a plot of marijuana and at the same time everybody light it up on fire and so the entire world can chill out.
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Hey, that might, they might be on to something.
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You want to read this one?
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Yeah, love to.
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Santa drugs, Berlin's Christmas markets.
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Have you seen pictures of Germany's Christmas markets?
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Oh, I would love to do that one day.
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Christmas is huge in Germany.
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Tourists and locals flock to Berlin every December to enjoy some of the best Christmas markets around the world.
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In 2011, the custom.
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took a sinister turn as a man dressed as Santa Claus drugged over a dozen unsuspecting members of the general public.
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Dubbed the Schnappspiker, the assailant would approach his victims in a buoyant mood, most often claiming that he had just become a father and thus was offering free drinks in celebration.
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They were laced with liquid ecstasy, a popular date rape drug.
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Soon after ingestion, it causes vomiting, dizziness, and in a lot of cases, loss of consciousness.
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Santa replies to children's letter with angry cursing.
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Every year, Canada Post runs a program where children can write a letter to Santa Claus and receive personalized reply.
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By 2007, over 15 million letters had been written, resulting in a Guinness Book of World Records.
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Accreditation for the most letters Santa ever received and responded to.
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When you're dealing with a program that big, human error in some form is inevitable.
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However, what happened during the 2007 Christmas season was entirely calculated and Pretty malicious.
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Ten unfortunate children received responses from Santa that were laced with messages such as this letter is too long you dumb Beep And your mom's Anatomy and your dad is Not straight?
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Yes.
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Most, mostly true statements in all likelihood, but it's really not Santa's place to say.
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In response to the scandal, Canada Post released a statement indicating they were doing everything they could do to track down the culprit, whom they believed to be one rogue elf.
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As it turned out, it was a group of minors who had the access to the mound of festive letters.
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Dang kids.
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Dang kids.
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They're on the naughty list.
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That's pretty funny though.
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That's awesome.
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Okay, Santa steals a helicopter.
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On Friday, November 27, 2015, a man in full Santa costume arrived at Campo de Marte Airport in Sao Pablo, somewhere in Brazil, looking to hire a helicopter.
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It was the start of the Christmas shopping season, and more specifically, it was Brazilian Black Friday.
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When asked by the helicopter pilot why he wanted to rent A helicopter the Santa imposter minimally stated that he wanted to create a surprise to mark the special day Indeed the pilot was overwhelmingly surprised when his his red robed customer revealed a weapon and instructed him to fly to a farm away from the city They're the hijacker rendezvoused with an accomplice and the duo proceeded to tie the pilot up.
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They then made their getaway in the newly acquired chopper.
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It took several hours for the pilot to free himself, at which point the police were informed of the hijacking.
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The helicopter, as well as its two occupants, seemingly vanished into thin air.
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Best case they find them at the North Pole.
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Hoboken Santa Con leads to nine arrests and 70 summons.
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Since its inception in 1998, the annual Hoboken SantaCon pub crawl has created a tremendous amount of problems in the city of New York.
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Never was this more true than 2015 event, which led to 9 arrests and 70 summons for various drunk and disorderly offenses.
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The event, which starts during the day and carries on long into the night, consists solely of people dressed up as Christmas characters.
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The majority are Santa Clauses.
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Santa Con's North American roots are in San Francisco, where there's a much gentler vibe.
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The New York chapter has had reoccurring problems with violence and theft.
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There's a fair amount of public urination, too.
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It's All enough to make an eight year old's head explode.
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Organizers argue that the event does more good than bad for the city, donating large chunks of profits to worthy causes.
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Hoboken Police Chief Kenneth Farnante is quoted as saying that SantaCon is an unnecessary, unsanctioned event and that the charity donations don't justify people coming to Hoboken and putting other visitors and residents at risk.
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We're doing so good with these.
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Let's keep going.
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Don't you think?
24:34
Sure.
24:34
Santa a KFC drive thru Oh, with a picture.
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Oh, should I do it?
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In Derbyshire, England, on the night of December 19th, 2015, a man dressed as Santa Claus climbed through the drive thru window of a KFC restaurant.
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In lieu of a white curly beard, was a black ski mask or a pair of stonkings hiding the culprit's identity.
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Yet, in considerable dedication for his chosen gimmick, he did sport a red Santa hat, robe, and pants.
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The bad Santa shuffled all the money that was in the till into a sack he brought with him and forced staff at Knife Point to open the store safe.
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Derbyshire Police, They're called Bobbies over there.
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Offered a pretty unhelpful description, stating that the man wore a red hat, red trousers, and a red jacket, and he had his face covered.
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Everyone dressed as Santa is a suspect then.
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In December, that really doesn't narrow the field much.
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It's unknown how much money was taken from the store, but it was probably enough for a pretty decent Christmas dinner.
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Why didn't you just steal a chicken?
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Oh my god, Santa beats a suspected chocolate thief to death with a two by four.
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To death?
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Oh god.
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Oh, geez.
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On December 10th, 2004, Elkin Clark was dressed up as Santa Claus and selling boxes of Hershey's chocolates in downtown Atlanta.
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According to Clark, he was putting up with a customer from Hell, and is quoted as saying she was stealing my stuff.
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I asked 10 to 15 times not to touch my stuff.
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It's his contention that the elderly woman took 29 boxes of candy from him to the value of 145.
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However, there was no evidence of her theft.
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Eyewitness accounts largely focus on Clark flipping out for no reason, picking up a large board and smashing a woman in the back of the head with it.
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Two local university students attempted to run over to protect the victim.
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Meanwhile, Clark hit the woman twice more while she lay on the ground.
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A month later, the woman died from her injuries.
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Clark attempted to have his charges reduced on grounds that the woman, who was 74 years of age, died due to underlying health problems.
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His appeal was unsuccessful.
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Oh my gosh, she was an older lady.
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Over chocolate.
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That's crazy.
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Santa stabs a community leader during nativity celebrations.
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This is getting dark.
26:56
What happened to the funny pod stories?
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I don't know, where'd they go?
27:02
Cetus was the chairman of the Hoffa Orthodox Church Association in Israel.
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As such, the annual Christmas procession that took place in downtown Hoffa was largely organized by his group.
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That fact also made him a target.
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On January 6, 2012, during the Nativity of Jesus celebrations outside a local church, a man dressed as Santa Claus approached Cetus from behind and repeatedly jammed a knife into his back.
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Cetus last words before collapsing We're simply, I've been stabbed.
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He was rushed to the hospital where he died from his injuries.
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Six people were arrested in connection to the murder, including Talal Abu Moneh, one of Qadis's rivals for the chair of the Hafez Church Association.
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Qadis had twice beaten Manat.
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I don't know if I said that at all right in the election slide.
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A local clerk said the murderer hadn't just killed Katis, but also killed our Christmas joy and also killed the human and spiritual values embodied by Father Christmas who makes children happy on Christmas Eve.
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I'm so glad you're, you're getting all the overseas ones.
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I sure am.
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Yours was Atlanta.
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That kind of is easy.
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Santa fist fights with a teenager causes a crowd of children to cry.
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In December, 2000 during a Christmas display entitled Santa Sales Inn, held in the seaside town of great, I don't do accents, It's okay.
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In the town of Great Yarmouth, England, a 30 5-year-old man dressed as Santa, got into a fight with a teenager.
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The longest lasting damage was not to either of the the fight's participants, but to the crowd of confused children.
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Who burst into tears as Santa was led away in handcuffs.
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Although the Santa impersonator had been a part of the official show, there was a main Santa riding in a sleigh.
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So that helped explain some of the carnage to particularly naive children.
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For their part, the police attempted to calm the situation by taking some of the most traumatized children down to the station in order to show they arrested an imposter.
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They also released a rather elegant statement saying, Sometime after Santa's sleigh arrived, another man wearing Santa costume became involved in a dispute that led to a scuffle.
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Norfolk police are certain that the real Santa would not approve of people behaving in this way, and of course, he will continue his pre Christmas visits and delivery of gifts everywhere on Christmas Day.
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The fake Santa received a police caution and was sent back into the community.
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I like that they released that statement.
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I am shocked that they brought the kids into jail.
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I know.
29:41
Like, it was like a parade of children, You're not Santa! But you mentioned all the other people that are in there.
29:49
Well, exactly, that's what I was going to say.
29:50
So, my mom, were you a Girl Scout or anything?
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Uh huh.
29:53
Okay, so.
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We were brownies.
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Yes.
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We were like, well, so my mom was like the brownie troop leader.
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Okay.
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So she was in charge of doing outings and all that kind of stuff.
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One of our field trips was to the local jail.
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And we toured the jail as little brownies in our brown sashes walking through the jail.
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Did you see prisoners?
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I don't remember much of it.
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I just remember that being the thing and what was my mom thinking?
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So my sisters loved Girl Scouts.
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They loved going to Girl Scout camp, sea play camp.
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I hated it.
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I hated everything about it.
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I wanted nothing to do with it.
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I cried every day.
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I wanted to go home.
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I hated camp so much.
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Hated it.
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Yeah, my sister got off the bus and was like, can I go back?
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And I was like, never again.
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I don't think you wanted your own.
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Um, I wanted a hotel like I No, like was it like ruffinette camp?
30:54
No, it was like there was I think like tent cabin things but like I know The only sleepaway camps I did were like church camps.
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I hate that we need to do when we do this summer We need to do like sleepaway camps and stuff.
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Well, apparently we just talked about it, Never mind.
31:08
You know what would be fun is like they, I don't know if they still do it.
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Probably like 10 years ago, it was super popular.
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Like the adult camps, summer camps.
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That would be fun.
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Or like you can drink and do all the summer camp fun stuff.
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Like you don't have to do any of the required, like required to do anything.
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But yeah, it's like all like the stuff you would have done.
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Yeah.
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Let's go canoeing and do that stuff.
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Yeah.
31:33
Okay, so this isn't necessarily Santa, Santa, but it is some funny stupid crimes.
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Okay the weirdest, craziest Christmas crimes.
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Okay.
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So, Christmas tree snatching from the Boy Scouts.
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Speaking of scouts.
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Right.
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Two UMass students went full on Zoom ass and tried to get away with stealing a Christmas tree the Boy Scouts were selling to raise money for local troops.
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They were apparently put up to this by a dare from a third party.
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Their charges included larceny and a 250 fine.
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Those poor Boy Scouts.
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I know.
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I wanted to know, like, how they Did it though?
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Like, were they sneaky or did they just go in there and be like, Hey, I'm gonna get you for your kid?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I'm thinking probably the latter.
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actually stealing cute puppies instead of just saying you want to.
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It's your crime.
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It's me.
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I'm feeling very, like, targeted at this moment.
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You know when you walk by a cute dog and you think to yourself, it's so fluffy I want to steal it?
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Yes.
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Yes, absolutely.
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Well, this guy actually had the guts to carry it out except he broke into a home in the process.
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It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation, which came first, the puppies or the home invasion.
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Surely if you saw the puppies first, then we have to wonder just how cute these little things were if it drove them to commit home invasion.
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Listen, it doesn't need to have like a super, like, fluff look to make me want to steal them.
32:56
No, not at all.
32:58
I, yeah.
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I'm a weakling for puppies.
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No beer prepared to be stabbed by a ceramic squirrel.
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Some folks like to imbibe the holiday spirit a bit too much.
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A woman in South Carolina stabbed a man on Christmas.
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for coming home without beer.
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Sounds legit.
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Yes, you read that right.
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When officers confronted her, she tried to say she slipped and fell, but couldn't explain her bloody hands and clothes.
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She was charged with criminal domestic violence.
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Side note, somewhere in South Carolina, there could be a bloody ceramic squirrel sitting inside an evidence bag.
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What a sight.
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Oh my gosh.
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That poor squirrel.
33:37
Yeah, exactly.
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Getting stuck inside a chimney naked.
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I love how you say naked.
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Naked.
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Naked.
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I love it.
33:46
A man nicknamed the Santa Claus Burglar was stuck in a chimney for six hours while trying to escape the scene.
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Seattle firefighters pulled the naked, yes naked, for unclear reasons, man from the chimney after a neighbor reported someone screaming for help.
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The man claimed his friend, who presumably was also on the roof with him, tossed his backpack into the chimney as he was trying to retrieve it.
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Apparently, his clothes also burned up somewhere in the mix.
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He was charged with residential burglary and a 17 month jail sentence.
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So if his clothes burned up in the chimney, then how was he not burned?
34:19
It's Christmas magic.
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I don't know.
34:22
oh, I've got so many questions.
34:24
More questions, yeah.
34:25
I've got so many questions.
34:26
Yeah.
34:26
Oh, this one looks fun.
34:28
Cocaine filled Santa dolls.
34:30
Well, it was snowing.
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It is safe to say that people associate snow with Christmas, at least up here in New England.
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And there is something special about the bright and soft white powder.
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Being part of it in this case Santa brought snow All right But the snow was actually cocaine police in Rio de Janeiro found Santa dolls filled with cocaine and ornaments filled with marijuana It's one jolly jingle Faking a heart attack to steal toys.
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Here is the situation.
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Two men in Walmart.
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Man 1 fakes a heart attack in front of the security guards to create a diversion.
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Man 2 uses this diversion to make it out the front door with 369 worth of toys.
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Once Man 2 leaves, Man 1 suddenly feels okay and leaves in the same car with Man 2.
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I wonder if they actually thought people would buy this.
35:20
They had the whole agenda.
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Ugh.
35:23
Giant marijuana Christmas tree.
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A woman boasted to her neighbors that she had the best Christmas tree in the world.
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That Christmas tree was actually a giant marijuana plant.
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police 21 cannabis plants, 29 bags of other drugs, and two shotguns in the woman's house.
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And a partridge.
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Apparently the authorities had been in Investigating her for a month but didn't actually expect to find a marijuana plant being used as a Christmas tree.
35:49
Who would?
35:51
That'd be a big plant Okay I want to know what the decorations were because like could you imagine that like if like the lights shorted And her whole plant would go on fire and they would be like the biggest, it would be baking and not the Christmas cookies.
36:09
Yeah, Park Wars, a new spot.
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The parking lot is arguably the most vicious place within the proximity of shopping centers across the world before Christmas.
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You know the feeling you get when you, that Precious space close to the door opens up after 10 minutes of driving around, your heart rate increases, you start sweating, and go into immediate stalk and defend mode as you try to dirty look and honk at that person trying to steal your spot.
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Police in Connecticut charged three women with breach of peace after a brawl broke out in the parking lot.
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The first move, an orange peel was launched at one car from another.
36:47
An orange isn't an easy to eat snack in the car.
36:50
No, I'm sure it was probably a passenger.
36:53
I hope so.
36:54
What if it was a kid?
36:56
Oh, no, I said women.
36:56
Okay, DUI while driving a Christmas float.
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A man was charged with DUI and 18 counts of kidnapping and assaulting an officer.
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After he was arrested during a South Carolina Christmas parade.
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You're so proud.
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I have never been more proud.
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He was driving a float full of children and adults from a local dance studio while drunk.
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At one point during the parade, he pulled out to pass the truck in front of him and sped down Main Street for three miles, running a red light in the process.
37:27
Oh my gosh, you imagine me and the parents watching your kid speed on this float.
37:33
Yeah when you just didn't get what you wanted a couple was given a no contact order after assaulting each other over an Unappreciated christmas gift in new hampshire the boyfriend complained about getting a wii system instead of the remote control plane He asked for really dude, like Right.
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When his girlfriend decided to leave, he grabbed her hair and she turned around and hit him.
37:55
I would hit him and take my wee with me.
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He's a wee wee.
37:59
Baby Jesus GPS.
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Next time you think about stealing that baby Jesus from the local church, think again, because it could be implanted with the gPS device.
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A woman was arrested in Florida on the theft of baby Jesus after GPS tracked it down.
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This is supposedly a fairly common crime during the season and a number of churches have started using GPS and camera systems to deter locate thieves.
38:20
Makes sense.
38:20
Those are, those are funny.
38:21
There are a lot of weed ones.
38:23
Yeah.
38:23
A lot of weed ones.
38:25
Um, okay.
38:27
Am I the a hole for giving my son coal for Christmas?
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I'm 39 female, husband is 43 male, and children are 11 male, 10 female, and 7 female.
38:36
We do the whole Santa thing every year for our kids, and every year Santa has the same expectations for them.
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They have to be well behaved, maintain good grades, and help with keeping the house clean.
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My children understand this and usually try their best.
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However, this year my son Michael hasn't really kept up with his grade expectations.
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He's usually the type to get straight A's and is the joy to have in class student, but this year he's been doing poorly in math and getting a C average at best.
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I've tried rewards and incentives for getting good scores on work, helping him with homework and after school programs, but nothing seems to work.
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In the beginning of December, I let him know that he wouldn't get anything from Santa if he didn't get his grades up.
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And that seemed to get him to get his button gear for a bit.
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He was starting to excel again, but around the middle of the month, his grades dropped again.
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I equated this to him thinking he's done enough.
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So now he doesn't have to try.
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I tried again to help instill nothing.
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So I followed through with the rules and on Christmas Eve, wrapped him.
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Cole from Santa.
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Then on Christmas day when he opens it he cried about being good and thinking Santa hated him.
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I told him blankly, maybe Santa gave you that because you didn't get good grades like you were supposed to.
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He spent the rest of the day sad as his sisters enjoyed their gifts from Santa.
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My husband pulled me aside later in the day and asked what was wrong with me and I told him that he knew his expectations and didn't get the grades he was supposed to.
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We then argued, as he thought I should have given him a real present anyway, and that he tried, but I wanted to stick to my guns and make sure my kids know I won't accept less than what is already expected.
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My husband's been ignoring me now, so I'm wondering if maybe I was wrong.
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Am I in the wrong here?
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I think yes.
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I think so, too.
40:19
I think that's really harsh.
40:20
If he was being well behaved and his grades just slipped a little bit, I don't think I would be more concerned about why are his grades slipping?
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Like, what's going on?
40:28
If he's gone from one extreme to the other, something might be going on there.
40:32
just with Jackson, let's talk about it and figure out what's going on.
40:35
Right.
40:36
It's a whole year, it's a long time for kids to make every expectation and standard.
40:41
And if he's not failing.
40:42
It was a C, I think maybe I would have done like, a stocking stuffer, like a piece of coal.
40:47
Yeah, like, like, he missed out on something small.
40:49
Right.
40:49
but I don't think I would have.
40:52
I would not have done the call like that.
40:54
I probably, so I would have found out what was going on.
40:56
What led up to There being the mm hmm.
40:59
Yeah, and even the joy to have in class part Like is he being an a hole at school or what some something's going on?
41:05
But as far as Christmas, I would not have thought of that I would not have given him coal and withheld gifts.
41:12
I might've, like you said, done the stock in, or I might've even like had him miss an event or something, I don't know.
41:19
That just seems like very harsh.
41:21
And again, a year is a long time for anybody to keep up every expectation of you, let alone an 11 year old kid.
41:27
Yeah.
41:28
Yeah.
41:29
Yeah, I think you're wrong.
41:30
did you see the parenting hack, that says wrap up a bunch of empty boxes?
41:35
And throw them in the fireplace?
41:36
Yes.
41:38
Oh, I also saw one that said like, um, now accepting appointments, your kid's naughty, I'll come to your house dressed up as the Grinch and steal your Christmas tree.
41:48
That would just make too much of a mess though.
41:50
Can you just come and like steal some other things?
41:54
That's pretty great.
41:54
Because I was like, that's freaking awesome.
41:56
That is pretty great.
41:57
Like take some of the garland down and stuff.
41:59
Don't take the tree.
41:59
That's just ours is flocked and like the white stuff gets everywhere.
42:02
Don't do that.
42:04
Um, I think she's wrong.
42:05
I do too.
42:06
I don't like to parent judge, but whatever.
42:08
I did.
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That's what we're here for, actually, so.
42:12
Emma the a hole for throwing Santa away.
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So I'm non binary and old decorating for Christmas as the parents in their 80s are visiting this year and I've unpacked the gazillion tacky Santas and nutcrackers my mother has gifted me over the years.
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Then I find my gnome Santa that I bought years ago and I love cause it's so unique.
42:33
As I was moving one of the oversized Santas from my Mom to put the gnome there instead.
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I dropped the gnome Santa and it shattered.
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I was devastated It was the one decoration that had my style instead of the crap my mom buys.
42:46
In retaliation I threw away the oversized Santa.
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I know it was an Impulse act out of frustration, but from now on that Santa is going to remind me of the gnome that got away Am I the a hole for taking out my frustration on the Santa?
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I hate it anyway And yeah, my mom will remember she gave it to me and asked where it is She had a card catalog memory of things.
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She's given me and she looks for each and every one when she visits her Yeah, yes, you're the a hole you just threw a temper tantrum because you broke your own gnome And I'm assuming they're at their youngest in their late 40s 50s and their parents are 80s.
43:23
Yeah.
43:23
Think that's terrible.
43:24
You are the a hole sir.
43:26
Irrelevant tomato.
43:31
so I lost my mom four years ago.
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I have this thing she made.
43:35
It's made out of fabric and it's a bag to put like Walmart bags and stuff in so you can easily get them out.
43:42
I thought I had lost it and I freaked out.
43:45
Like I don't she made it.
43:46
You know what I'm saying?
43:47
Like, so I think this is maybe I'm just in my feelings these days, but No, he's a jerk.
43:54
I think that's jerky too.
43:55
I mean, I understand that it's yours But he broke his own gnome.
43:59
Like it's not like his mother broke it.
44:01
It's not like anybody else broke it He broke it.
44:03
He broke it and he acted like a baby and threw away the other thing.
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And yeah, yeah, you're a jerk.
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Jerk You didn't have to do that.
44:11
Well, I think that wraps up our Santa episode.
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Santa baby.
44:15
We should have sang that.
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Won't you come cuddle with me?
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I don't know.
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Those are the words.
44:20
No idea.
44:22
okay.
44:23
That was horrible.
44:25
Yeah.
44:27
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44:50
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