Bussin' With The Boys - Favorite Christmas Traditions + Christmas Movies | Inside The Bus

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

Recorded: December 17th 2025 | Welcome back to another episode of Inside The Bus. The week we have a Christmas pod as we will not have an episode the next two weeks. The boys gets into some of the Christmas traditions that they have. Mitch gets into his caroling that he does every year with his college buddies, and the rest of the guys talk about their family traditions. The boys then get into their favorite Christmas movies, let us know in the comments if there are any we missed. Finally, the boys get into their favorite Christmas gifts they received and gave. Tap in and enjoy another Friday hang with the boys. Merry Christmas. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Ken Griffey? Or senior or junior? Price. I think senior. Yeah. Dang. What? Jalen Warren.

Derek. Seth Curry. Julius Randall. Dang. 30 is such a goofy sports number to me. I'm trying to think of other running backs that were number 30. I think there's a lot of basketball players that were at 30. Del Curry?

Okay, so it's a family fair. It's a family thing. Sam Houser? Who is that? What are we talking about today? What we got, Coop? What we got on the docket? Nolan Ryan?

Number 30. For the Rangers, though, so it don't matter. It don't count. King Griffey Jr. was 30 on the Reds. That's what it was. Terrell Davis. I forgot about Terrell Davis. The fact that King Griffey Jr.

and his dad got to play in the league together on the same team is so insane. To this day, it'll always be probably the coolest sports moment. That's better than LeBron and Brony. Debatable. Debatable. Yeah, because Junior Griffey was good. Whoa, dude. Oh, no brawny slander on this spot.

We love to have brawny on. We would love to have brawny on. Dude, you still think Luke Adanchich is better than Cooper Flagg. I still do think that. I'm right. I don't think, I didn't see Luca Dantzich break LeBron's record. Damn. Most points are 18-year-old.

Welcome back. I can't get into this right now. Welcome back. I miss Luca, man. Rashid Wallace, also number 30. Oh, one of my most hated NBA players of all time. Rishie Wallace? I hate it.

him. I weirdly used to love Ben Wallace. Loved Ben Wallace. Hated Rashid Wallace. Dumb question. They related? No. Nope. One's cool.

One's not. They were both on the Pistons. Hated that Pistons team. Really? I thought they were kind of cool. I think I actually just hated Rashid Wallace. Yeah, Rip was on there. Fun fact, Rip Hamilton is actually from Redding PA.

Really? Let's go. Love Rip Hamilton. Redding Rip. Henrik Ludquist? Who? Henry Lugquist? Seth Curry was 30.

Goalie. Yeah, yeah. No, I know who he is. He's an awesome guitar player too. Maglio Ordonez? Tuka Rask was 36. Yeah, I don't know. All I know is my one and true goalie.

Which is the brick wall, pecorine, 35. That's what I was thinking of bridge stone. I thought it was, that's my bad. I was thinking of that guy. One day we're going to have to figure out the best number. I was thinking that, but I feel like... The best sports number? We got so many numbers to go.

I know, but we... I wish we were doing this. I guess is like one, two, and three. I know. Like, I wonder which number has the most Hall of Famers. Across all sports. We probably should do an episode, like a trivia episode, sports trivia episode. Definitely.

Episode 100. So far away. Not if we start doing four a week. Dang. A live show. We should just do a live show, a daily show. True. Should we, are we going to be opening up for Jared?

Are we? I heard you might be five minutes. Singing. You're singing? not want me to open up for Jared because everybody I would be extremely we yeah me saying I don't want to is going to make everybody like never have to so much where did this idea even come from I don't know but like you just like put yourself in the spot yeah it would suck right no I mean because uh what would be your opening joke how about that airline food how about it

tomato tomato tomato like not for me I don't even have one. what's that joke what's the airplane I saw it in a Finney's and Furb episode one time How about airline food these days huh All right And it slapped I mean

Everybody was laughing Hey play the hits Play the hits But yeah I think what Gary was saying too You could sing You got Carolyn coming up Your self-proclaimed great singer We heard you sing you're pretty good

Your voice will be warm At this point for Jan 6 Yeah I mean Do you have Carolyn this this weekend definitely will have the pipes all warmed up um looking forward to it this is the first year that detrick is not like my d trick is not like the overseer and planer of it all it is his younger brother adam pass the torch he's now a state trooper which is awesome oh wow so you all can like drink and drive and you be good no like rob people i would i wouldn't go that far

but like don't rat don't screw him over I'm not going to say, I'm not going to say nothing. Oh, okay. Say something. You can be like a little drunk and drive. No, but, uh, yeah, we, we like have, I have no clue what's going on just because Dietrich's not, hasn't been the one planning it. Uh, it's him, it's Adam and one of Dietrich's buddy Ryan, who I'm really good friends with

as well. But yeah, we're looking forward to it. Will is going to be in New York. And will not be there. But, uh, I will give, shoot him a text to be like, for, for the, for the, For the listener, give a quick background to explain what caroling is. Yeah. So, caroling, it's been going on for, I think this is our seventh or eighth year.

Dang. Coming up on a decade. Yeah, it's been a minute. At least my seventh or eighth year doing it. But I guess apparently it was going on for a couple years beforehand. But it's all of my buddies from college. And then Dietrich's like hometown friends. He's from Hawthor, New Jersey.

And yeah, we literally just go. go. He's like in like a small little community where it's just like blocks of houses. And then there's like a bar at the end of the street. So the last three or four years, we ran out the back of the bar for three or four hours. And it's like open drink, open food. And then we have a wagon full of like whether it's jungle juice or beer or, uh, like a keg. Yeah. What do you go to, the beer or the jungle juice? Probably the beer. because jungle juice

we all we've all been there yeah what jungle juice it's like uh PJ you know PJ it's just it's like cheap liquor mix with like any kind of it's like

fruit juice it's just all juices with like an absurd amount of alcohol in it and it like in the movies when they just make the worst looking drink of all time yeah and then usually in the movie everyone goes nuts what do you call that

I didn't even know how to name that's called Saturday night yeah but uh It's the pregame. Yeah, so we, there's, I mean, it has grown exponentially. The first year we did, I think there was like 10 to 15 people. And it was just at Dietrich's house because we weren't 21 yet.

And then each year it's gone, we went from like then to 20 and then 30. And then last year, I think we had over 100 people. Hey. They got the whole choir. It's insane. And it's an absolute shit show. But last year kind of. Is it just like everyone and then like now they're little brothers and like, how are you collecting new people?

people it's also it's like now that adam is of age like he has all of his college buddies come in and then like their significant others and whatnot and then uh is brooke going yeah bro this will be brook's second year um like we all have our significant others and like then it's all like uh like their hometown friends and some of their coaches and then their kids and stuff like that um but yeah last year was just so so cold i think it was like 10 to 15 degrees outside that we were we were we were We're literally, I think, caroling for 30 to 45 minutes. What's the group's best song? Probably deck the halls.

Can you give us a little? Well, I mean, I'm not in the mode. Can we get a little follow-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-law? You're a singer. No, but it's like, it's better because we're all, like, we're all drunk. And it's just... Also, when y'all go up to the door, break it down, like, I've never been caroling in neighborhoods. Yeah.

You literally just knock, they open, you start singing, or do you like, you mind if we play a few songs for you guys? So, yeah, so it's exactly like... You all hurry. It's like, who's going to be, you typically have a designated knocker. I have been that once or twice. You go up there, be like, you knock on the door, you kind of wait. If the lights are, if there's no lights on, you don't go up to that house because they're like, they don't want to be bothered. But if you see a light on in the living room, knock on the door.

Respectful. They come out and like normally. 100 people see you know. And then they just open up and it's like, oh shit. Dick my balls with, or sorry. Yeah. And then you, as soon as the door opens, it's. Oh.

What's the first song? What's the first song? First song, like, the first song at the first house is, I think it's typically either jingle bells or Frosty the Snowman, play the hits. And then the longer we go, I feel like the more, the more ballsy we get with some of our songs where it's like, not everybody knows the words. However, we do have packets of lyrics and you just get around. So, like, we won't have packets for it.

We won't have a hundred packets, but like, we'll have. have one and like the five of us will just get around. Yep. And it's it is something that I look forward to every single year because one, it's awesome. Like you're just spreading Christmas cheer for all to hear. But also, but also you just like, you're just with your buddies that you don't, you see once or twice a year and you catch you up. And like, I think last year for the 30 to 45 minutes we were outside, I ended up talking to somebody that I don't even think I really knew. but you know like juices are flowing you're just like what's going on brother nice to see you

you'll get tips hey oh are you no anyone ever just we don't accept tips because it's all for the love of the game you got to pay for the bar tab so yes but like it's like 75 80 dollars to go is to rent out the back of the bar and then we get like we buy keg with that extra money and then that's where so people try to tip y'all I feel like we have at least once or twice but we're like Maybe thrice. Yeah. But it's all, it's all fun.

It's all fun. And like, what's funny is like Chris, Dietrich's dad is like buddies with like the some of the police department. Like, hey, this is what's going on tonight. They're going to be driving.

Like if you, if you hear stuff like that, it's just us. But then I feel like we kind of like low key have a curfew kind of thing in the sense of like. It's like a noise order. Yeah. Eventually they'll come over like, hey guys.

Yeah, it'd be like seven. nine almost like give a little range yeah and then they're like time to head back to the to the bar because i mean a hundred drunk people just walking around is never good hundred is crazy but like would be i know it won't happen this year but caroling would be a sweet place to propose it would get everybody singing it would that's a good idea that is a great idea everybody's already there yeah um but yeah it's last year we had somebody get picked up by a cop she uh was just banging on everybody's i need to get home she was hammered um uninvited no she was

like like we look it starts as we started dietrich's house and we uh broke no last year it's the pen state smu game was like the early slate game so we got there and like every year you would just start with a bottle of rumple mumbens and you just pass it around and you're you ever had rumple bits coop No, it. I have had that. Majority of the people meet us at the bar. Gotcha. Oh, this is the pre before the pre.

Yes. This is the, uh, at Dietrich's house and kind of all like you're catching up all like the, the main college buddies are coming over saying what's up to the family and whatnot. But it is the most fun. Every, this is my, this will be my third year doing it here, third or fourth year doing it while I'm here. Every year, Dietrich is like, we need the boys to come. We need the boys to come. So. And it has been an.

an invite, but I think there needs to be a year where the fellas need to come out. And this falls, this, this falls when? When is this event? This is Saturday. December 20th? Is that what the date is? Yeah, Saturday, December 20th, I understand logistically. And where is it? It's in New Jersey, northern New Jersey. Huh. Because like we, so people are like me and coop, we would have to fly to New Jersey, go do it for the weekend, fly back here, and then go home for the holidays. So my thought process is... I have the solution. Because next year, what, is Christmas going to be on a Thursday or Friday?

It's a good question. It's Thursday this year, so... So it'll be Friday next year? I don't know if that works. Is that how that works? I have no idea if that's how that works. Like, if it is on a Friday. Let us know in the comments.

It is on a Friday. Next year. Next year. Yeah, somebody find out when Christmas says next year. So is J.P's birth. on a Friday. Next year. Oh,

dang. Dang. I appreciate y'all tuning in. The unction. Next year, it'll be on a Friday. So I'm assuming we would have

like that we would have to go home that Wednesday where we would get to go home and have off for work. So I'm thinking next year I would fly up to Jersey, have Dietrich pick me up or somebody pick me up

and then do it and then fly home Sunday. So next year's the year. Is what you're saying. If there's a year, If there's a year, there's a year. Next year would be the year inside the bus vlog.

I feel like it would be incredible. I think a good way to get us involved is you got to put something on paper this year. We need some videos. Yeah.

I know that's like I want to bring up my camera to like vlog it and whatnot. I mean you've got to bring your big camera. You can just go horizontal with the phone. Right. Just give us a taste. Get the meta glasses on here. Because right now it is all talk.

we've never seen anything let us zoom in have we ever actually seen one thing we don't know if he really goes scarily I mean I got the video

can you just sing really quick deck the halls with mouths of holly la la la la la la la la la that sounded good though that's what the lyrics are for tis the season

to be jolly after that I would accept not knowing the lyrics but you got at least know that second line yeah I didn't know if it was like this is just, yeah. Mitch hits it so hard at the beginning and then falls back.

But like, the knocker is typically the maestro, like one, two, three. The composer. Yeah. But it is the most fun. We got to see it to believe it.

So next year, if I, so let me put this out there. If I make a mini vlog of it. I need it. We're not even expecting like a full on production, but we would like to see at least a few stops. Four minute vlog would go hard on the phone.

It would be easy. It would be great for our channel. Interviewing the pre before the pre, the bar. You know, maybe an interview with like a couple of random guys. An interview with Dietrich's little brother and Dietrich. How's the, you know, passing of the torch going? And then maybe, I feel like there's probably got to be a straggler at some point during the night. If you guys are drinking pretty hard, get, you know, up close and personal with him, maybe throwing up.

Something fun. Maybe when y'all are driving around. Oh, yeah. Got to have that. I'm going to, uh, are you guys? guys taking the the phone mics this weekend i don't think so probably not i might bring those with me and then we'll well i promise you guys there will be some content let's go from this because it is cool when you do talk about it it's cool like it's the biggest christmas tradition of all of my

friends that i have ever heard of hundreds people showing up to do caroling it does sound like something you'd see in a movie yeah it is it is all love to the caroling it is it is all love to the caroling It is really so much fun, and I'm like, I look forward to it every year. I mean, I start talking about it fucking the same way. The same way I'm starting about like Supercrossing. Right, which we do need to get that booked. Yeah, where are we on that? I've been scared to bring it up, but I've had people reach out.

Maybe we could, there's a chance we could have an interview, you know, on inside the bus. Wow. Dang. Does anyone here? Does anyone here have any Christmas traditions of the same vein? I agree with you. I feel like this is the biggest kind of Christmas tradition I hear of, but does they don't have anything else? It's like once the holidays here, you're doing X, Y, Z with your family.

Every Christmas Day morning, me, Jeff, Aime, Mary Haley, Maddie Coleman, we all go to Waffleouse. That's pretty cool. Smothered and covered. Chunked. Chunked. Still never, still never been. Actually, I don't really get chunked. Yeah.

I don't want him in my hash rounds. Just smothered. That's a good one. For my birthday dinner, we didn't. do this all the time growing up but ever since i've probably been a senior in high school my dad will make lamb chops and it's my favorite meal and my dad is an amazing cook and every single year i look forward to it and it's you know a it's a bone-friendly meal so you can pick it up chomp down and i look forward to those lamb chops every year poor chops so underrated our like tradition and it's like so

different than mitches is going to all you all know the opera like the gaylord operandi land here and they They do ice here. They do that in Texas, too, at the Gaylor Texan. And we would, like, my favorite memory was just, we'd always carve out a night. We'd go get dinner and then we'd go see Santa and then go to, like, ice and the sledding and all that there. And, like, I have not done that in a few years. Just, you know, because I've been away from home.

And so me and Addy went to the one at the Aubrey land. And so, like, I felt like a kid again walking through ice, like doing that whole thing. I don't know if I don't do that. I did not. We didn't do. so there's like a sledding thing that you pay for separately that's like separate of ice but it's part of it that makes sense and then there's like the ice slides in there and I did not go because it was it was kind of you know Adi went and I filmed her and then I didn't go because I was scary I was cold man

oh cold they give you like the big like thermal jackets though right to walk through yeah yeah and a lot of people bring babies into there and that is crazy there was like 50 strollers I'm like Babies are indestructible. You saying the sledding remind me of something that my family sometimes does, but it's typically after Christmas because it's colder. We have like a mountain house where my dad and brother go hunting, and up there they have a toboggan run where like the, it's like a massive hill and it goes out onto a lake.

And the lake has to be like two feet thick of ice. And it gets like really cold up there. So like that's not a crazy thing to happen. but we've gone like four or five times and bro you get launched out onto the lake you're going at least like 50 by the time you're going down yes 50 bro it's a long hill sitting on top of a sled

no like you know there's it's a toboggan so like how big is this lake huge are you like going across the lake you're you're going out to like the middle of it no and then what you gotta just get back and then you just walk it back is it toboggan the rail sled yeah so you're like the five I got one on the porch right now. The five of us would be on it, like, hooked up to each other. And a lot of, like, that much weight going out there. And then you just got to walk, walk your ass all the way back up.

But it is, it's so much fun. Do you ever feel sketched out like on the eyes? Oh, bro, when you get out there. No, because, like, it has to be thick enough. So you know, you're straight. But, like, still. But how do you know it's thick enough? There's still that.

Yeah, who's the one that's like, we're good? The scary part is when you're out there, it's so dark. because like there's only like a couple spotlights at the top of the hill so then you just have to like walk all the way back and then you have to walk up the hill like it's a it's in a whole ordeal but it is it's really cool to do dude that's like whenever I hear people really

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And when he jumps from the helicopter into the ocean, they're like, you got about, you know, three minutes before you go into hypothermia, I immediately thought about. out men if will and taylor ever went ice fishing with steve ranella i don't think i'm going because what if it does crack and steve would just be there probably laughing i think you're out there for a long time too i know you got a can't people like build campfires yeah one of my uh my old next door neighbor uh tanner elmore shale tainer lives in minnesota and he does that in the winter all right i have a buddy a couple buddies in new jersey that'll do that like drill the hole and then it's like you should basically build a hut yeah i i use i used to crush that game on club penguin too i'll be catching that mondo fish the megalodon

played them uh who else had the who hasn't said one derrick you got one uh we i mean i just go back to pittsburg with my parents now that i moved here and it's fun we don't really have too many traditions we'll always go over we have like two high school buddies we're best friends with we'll always go over the one dude's house because he's like the weasleys he has seven brothers and sisters his parents were substitute teachers at the school like they live in the middle and nowhere and it's like woods surrounded. So we'll always go there for it. And then last year I started one where I just,

I just cook for my parents now. So I had my two high school best friends over and I just cook like a big meal steak, chicken potatoes, a bunch of sides. And so that's the first Christmas tradition I've like developed and made. That is cool.

But now there's not, I mean, ever since I moved, there's not too much. I just want to go home and be at my parents' house and like enjoy it, which is kind of nice. Love that.

For sure. For sure. There's nothing better going home seeing your childhood dog. Yeah. Mine's getting older. I got to meet JPs. Got to meet Kai.

What a legend. He getting old, man. Sad. My dog, Coda, is, I think he's like nine or ten now, Chocco Lab. Oh, boy. Does he go caroling? No. He would be.

Does your brother go? He'd make the cut? No, my brother doesn't. This could be the year. We got on the bus. Y'all want to get the relationship going? You got to get him out there. I know.

I think my... I guess you don't live in New Jersey. He, like, he knows a couple of my buddies, but I feel like he'd be at a place. But, I mean, Nate loves drinking. So, I mean, he could do, he would be, he'd fit right in. It's not like nobody knows who he is. But I feel like he's always got shit playing with his buddies back home. Yeah.

You can make 100, 200. Mm. Yeah, that'd be crazy. I don't know what you were talking about for a minute. This is the first year I'm actually not. This is the first year I'm not staying at Dietrich's house, which kind of sucks. You in the hotel? Yeah, got to get a hotel.

She, buddy man Mitch. It was for one night. It's like 300 bucks. That's nothing, bro. But it's nothing to you. We want to do best Christmas. Everybody says their favorite Christmas movie and then we talk our favorite gift or. Yeah, that works.

Should we do it to where you have to say one singular movie? Yeah. I think it's really hard to pinpoint one, but you have to lay down for one. I feel like I have one and I like have always felt very strongly about this. And it's Jim Carries the Grinch. Love it. It's just it will always be. forever will be

I know I'm only allowed to say one but I did just recently watch the animated one and if you haven't seen that one it's amazing I need to watch you haven't seen it it's one of my favorite animation styles too the colors are so vibrant it's just a very fun watch and yeah it's fantastic for them

to try and redo a Grinch movie that is so good with Jim Carrey but Jim Carrey Grinch he that that character might be in one of the top movie characters for me of all time the grinch is just dude even the people that dress up as the grinch at the amusement parks and mess with the kids so funny the parents that put on the grinch outfit and scare their kids kids or friends kids those videos are funny the grinch has given us so many great gifts for

christmas one of the greatest characters of all time which is kind of ironic i know right little does he know he makes the holiday season his heart grew three sizes. I bet he's sick here in this. I got you, Grinch. Who wants to go? I'll go. Mine. I mean, you said Stamford one, but I guess it is one. There's three of them, but my best memories, the movie I feel like I watched every year and just, like loved it was Santa Claus, like Tim Allen ones. You love. I mean, the first one is goat. Right. The other two I still love, but that first one, when I think of Christmas movies, like, the first one I go to is that one every single time. It's a great one.

That's my favorite. Yeah, it's a good one. Great movie. Mine, I feel like this is like, I don't know if it's an unpopular opinion, but for whatever reason, I love the Polar Express. Great one.

It's a good movie. Just the hot chocolate song, the, like Tim, or, not to know, Tom Hanksby and the conductor. And looking so much like him. Yeah, which is so cool. Talk about a wild animation style.

That's one of those. I remember, like, going to see that in theaters. And I must have been, it might be my first theater memory. I remember I was maybe seven and I just I do have a soft spot for that movie because of that. That's how I am with the elf. I wish I could remember my first movie theater. I can't remember exactly what my first one is but I think that might be it because I have a funny

story about that actually. But yeah the elk like polar express like the hot chocolate and then also the caribou scene where he's pulling his beard. I just love that scene for whatever reason and it's right left. Yeah, just love that. That's a good movie. If you could be one character in that movie, like, who do you think relates to your personality the most? I wish I knew their names. I'd be the homeless guy. I was going to say.

I'd be the homeless guy. On top of the train. He's like, I'm looking for a girl. Hey, we all. Probably, probably the homeless guy. Because I wouldn't be the, I forget the main character's name. And I wouldn't be that annoying nerd who I'm sure you. I'm not, I wasn't coming out of you for that one.

That kid is so annoying, though. The, like, I also love, like, even Tom Hanks. Yeah, Tom Hanks character. I think we can make that happen. He's, like, doing it. Yeah. You be Tom Hanks? That guy or the homeless man.

I will say Will Compton had a tweet the other night about it. There is something a little unsettling about the Polar Express. The way a train just pulls up in the front yard, has a bunch of kids, takes them away. I'm not going to like destroy the value of Christmas You don't have to think about it that way But what Coup was saying earlier There's like a whole debate about animation styles And how if it can get too realistic to the human eye

It feels very unsettling And Polar Express they've done these studies To where it is the closest You can get two set of animation style Because I feel that a little bit Where when you watch it It's like hyper realism Say what

Like the uncanny valley thing? I think that's is that what it is? Maybe I feel like that's what you're describing. Yeah. With Angelina Jo Leone Beowulf. Yeah. How she looks exactly how she looks.

There is a categorized like fear of that. Just unsettling. Unsettling. Yeah. Something about it that just makes you feel a little fishy. But yeah, I still like the movie a lot. I think it's great. That scary scene in that one box car.

I haven't seen that movie in a long time. Like when they're... When I was little that, it did scare. When they went down like the back alleyway or whatever they were doing on that trolley, like that part always was just a big creepy. With the puppets. And like the, this song where it gets stuck on repeat like that always creep me out but then what were they cooking

in that scene yeah but overall great movie yeah yeah and hear the bell because he believed in it yeah yeah yeah it's got a good story yeah yeah mine has got to be the o g rudolph movie okay i love the claymation yukon cornelius one of my favorite movie characters of all time silver and gold one of my favorite songs of all time. And then I remember, I forget when I learned it, but when I learned that in the real OG Rudolph, he wasn't looking for silver or gold. He's looking for peppermint.

And that's why he's always licking his pickaxe to see if he could taste something sweet. One of the greatest adventures, explorers, most brave men ever, story of Rudolph, the ultimate underdog. And, yeah, Rudolph, my number one.

Those are good one. Like Frosty, too. Yeah. Those are the narration of it. I mean, the cartoon Grinch one is great, too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

The one foot in front of the other song. Yeah. Banger. Heat miser. Heat miser. That's what we call Dietrich. You call it. This is just so epic.

What's the name? What's the little elf's name on Misfit Island? I don't know his name. You know what I'm talking about, though? Yeah, I know he's talking about. Those are good. That's good. Some pretty weird characters in that movie, though.

That work with Santa? Yeah. I know. But I love it. think of someone. It's one of my earliest movie memories, like, watching that one. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good one.

That is a good one. There's another one I got to watch again. Like, those are other ones I got to watch again because I haven't seen those a long time. I probably would have stuck with the Santa Claus, but since you've taken that, I'll switch directions. But I do have a hot take after. And this just occurred to me in the last two weeks because I watched the first one

I was put my Christmas tree up. I put the Santa Claus on. Love that movie. It means a lot to my family. We always watch it on Christmas. I now believe. believe that the Santa Claus too, I think, is better than Santa Claus, which is not a very popular take. But I think there's a lot more that happens at the North Pole than, because if you go

watch the Santa Claus, really, there's about 10 minutes of the hour and 30 minute movie that are in the North Pole and the rest is in it. Realistically, you can't beat the OG Santa Claus, but I really liked it. I love how Charlie becomes just like punk. Like, he's like anti-establishment because their public high school won't support like a Christian holiday. That's that. That's that. one. Yeah. Is Jack Frost the third one? Yeah, that one I won't even, I won't talk about. Yeah, I think it's Martin Short is like, Jack Frost. Tim Allen was sliding in that second one too. But if I had to pick another one, it's not like your typical Christmas one for Christmases is just such a great laugh. You love those. Love that one. Can't go wrong with Vince Vaugh and John Favro. They crush it. Tim McGraw. Yeah, Tim McGraw. The whole cast is

crazy. There's just so many good moments and funny stuff that. transpires. So if I need a good laugh, I'm going to throw four Christmases on. So, yeah, I think that's where I'm going to sit. I feel like there's a, like a couple of dark horse ones that I enjoy and one would be Fred Claus. I think that one's hilarious. That's also another Vincefan. Yeah. And then obviously like Jack Frost. Honorable mention. Jack Frost is depressing. It is, bro. Honorable mention Christmas vacation. Yeah, I have to. I mean, that's one of the funniest ones. I just rewatch that. I'm like everyone's seen it. That movie will make my dad.

laugh harder than anything. So it's so funny. I know we'll probably get a lot of hate for not saying like Home Alone or Elf or. I mean, yeah, Elf is fantastic. There's so many like I'm still trying to think of. It's a great genre of movie. Yeah.

So many good movies. Derek, what you got? Honorable mention for me. I know we weren't supposed to do. I watched for the first time the night before. Have you guys seen that? Yeah. That's Seth Rogen and Anthony Johns.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Where he's like Jewish and they all like, they all trying to a bunch of drugs and stuff. I'm trying to impress his new in-laws. Kind of it's about they always go out on the same night, except Anthony gets super famous. Seth has a relationship.

Joseph Gordon-Levets, like, parents passed away, so they do that to help him. And it's basically about them trying to find this party. And then on the last time they're doing it, they find tickets to the party. And Seth Rogen's wife is basically like, hey, we're having a kid, you've been my rock star. Here's a bucket full of drugs, take them all.

And then he ends up going to church with his in-laws. So funny. But my pick is jingle all the way. God. Turbo man. Simbad is so good in that movie too. I'm due to watch that still this this year. I have a huge soft spot for Jingle all the way.

I forgot how crazy the jetpack scene was. Oh my gosh. Everything's realistic up until he's flying around the skyline of the city on a jetpack. I was like, oh, never mind, Kat. This isn't real. It's Turbo Time. What's the movie with Miles Teller, Zach Efron, and Michael B. Jordan? I don't know that one.

neighbors no it's like the three friends no that's 21 and up is it yeah but it's miles teller an asian guy and no some that's the threthellers in a relationship and they're all living together that one yeah you guys ever seen the harold and kumar christmas one that one's funny i've only seen the one harold and kumar the white castle dude also we're all nicholas cage fans right love nick cage dude maybe you've already seen this but i just watched for the first time he's got a christmas Christmas movie. It's called the Family Man. And this is one of the best Christmas movies I've seen. And I was so shocked. Don Cheedle is in it. He's living this big millionaire life. And the whole premise is as he got on the plane to go to London to go chase the stream, he had to break up with his girlfriend. So then you fast forward. He's doing great. He has the big corner office in New York. He's going to the convenience store one day. Don Cheetle is robbing somebody. Nick Nicholas Cage steps in and is like, hey, don't do this. Here's the money, yada yada.

Don Cheadle says something cryptic. The next day, Nicholas Cage wakes up in the reality in which he stays and didn't get on that plane. So he has his wife. He has two kids, but he has no idea how to be a dad, how to be a husband. And then you probably see where it goes. But like he basically... Sounds just like a Nick Cage. Yeah, has to come to a decision of like...

I got to watch this. Dude, it's great. Dude, Nick Cage has... Nick Cage has a great movie. Is she the mom or the wife? Yeah. She's also awesome. Dude, it is a good movie.

Also on the thread of like, well, that's, this isn't like a new movie, I would assume. It seems like it's like from 2000. Yeah. The new movies, I was mentioned this to someone the other day, but Red One with the Rock and Chris Evans. I got to watch it. It just, it was like recent, right? Say what? It's like a recent movie.

It came out last year in 2024. It is so worth to watch. I thought that was a superhero movie. It's just an action Christmas movie that is, I, like, I, like, it's, like, it's, it's like, it's, Like take what you want about the rock and like cheesy this cheesy that. That's what Christmas movies are about like being cheesy. It's not like over the top cheesy. It is very entertaining.

It's got a lot of good laughs like a pretty solid storyline. And then if you like more violent movies, violent night. Yeah. That's incredible. That's with Hopper from. Yeah. David Bauer. I can't remember his name.

That movie rocks. It's awesome. And they have some brutal killings in that. They really will scratch an itch if you're into that kind of thing. The movie I was thinking of was that awkward moment. Sorry. Have you seen crampus? Yes.

I've heard of crampus is another one that's kind of like Violent Night that rips. Actually, I saw a clip of that, I think, on Twitter a couple weeks ago. I have not. I need to see that as well. There's like, there's a bunch of different crampuses, though. The one I saw, like it was my senior year or it was my freshman year of college. We all watched it right before like we went home for Christmas. And I'm like, yo, that was actually an insane movie.

It was actually like really good. like back then but I like it was great it was wild office Christmas party's another just fun one to watch that is very fun

except for what's his name apparently sucks no yeah but his Erlick Bachman the guy who that is dude yeah he's he's awesome

have you not seen that movie no no I've seen the movie oh okay yeah that's in real life though you should watch what's called yeah office Christmas party Jason Bateman

TJ Miller Jennifer Anderson in Ike I don't even know if I heard this. How do you say Ike's last name? Like Family Stone We'll get the tears going

If you haven't seen that one. What's the other one with Jack Black And Dude Crap, what is that one? The holidays. The holiday, that's what it is.

Holiday is a great movie. Speaking of new ones, have you guys seen Spirited? No, I need to watch it. I need to watch that. Taylor loves that one.

My mom in 2022, whenever that came out when I was home for Christmas, played that movie on repeat I kid you not she might be the biggest fan of that movie on repeat I know all the songs

we have to get Tiff on the podcast because she she'd go for two hours she's first form apparently she spirited Ryan Reynolds Tiff Roshes she'd be a good listen

she would be awesome but that movie like yeah we watched it on Thanksgiving when we went like she made like Adi me and like everybody watched

like let's watch this movie you gotta love mom rallying people around a movie night in the holidays. They also rallied my sister and her and my mom and they rallied and watched that Jonas Brothers movie. It was the worst five minutes of television I've ever seen in my life. I went straight upstairs.

Camp rocks. They're coming. They're coming. Who one coming out? For real? I saw something about like they were doing that. And it's coming back out. If you had to make a new Christmas movie today, who would you want the lead actor to be?

Jared Beeman. You already know my answer. Chris Hemsworth? Yeah. He'd be a good Christmas. actor. If you could get him and Liam involved,

honestly all of them and Luke. They could have, they'd be a fun, goofy Christmas cast. Like a family. Yeah. It'd be funny if like

Chris had a girl he was bringing home and his brothers at home were his actual brothers in the movie. And they're just going nuts. And they're, wait,

this is four Christmases. It is. But who cares, dude? Ryan Gosling Christmas movie. Ryan Gosling? Yeah,

I feel like he could. Hugh Jackman It's a matter of time Before Timothy Shalmay has a He's got to be He's had to have been one of Owen Wilson Owen Wilson I feel like

He's the perfect Christmas character Yeah Just from it like watching a stick Like how funny he can be Like I feel like he would Price Cahill Christmas movie I asked that question

And I don't know who mine would be But New Christmas movies We gotta We got to make that happen. Yeah. Do we want to do gifts? Do we film one?

I feel like this is one of the best. The best gift, the recency bias right now that I feel like we can all relate to is what Will is getting us right now. Great gift. And I've never had my car detailed before, but it's one of those things that's like,

you know what, that actually would be so sick. So thank you, Will, for getting that for all the boys. It means a lot. If you're a boss out there, listening. Consider getting your employees card detailing.

And if you're an employee out there, ask your boss to get you that for Christmas. Consider getting blessed with a, yeah. It would be a good gift for. I ask for it. Every single year, it's all my Christmas list. Every year. I ask for it. That's the only thing.

I've never even like thought. I don't like need shit. Like if there's something that I want most of the time, like I feel like I'll go get it. Yeah. But that's one of those to your point. Like how many times are you going to be like, me go schedule to get this done yeah let me take all the stuff out of my car it sounds so lazy but it just is it looks so nice too oh dude i can't wait when i woke up this morning and it was

clean i was like oh shit i know i was i was saying i'm like i'm obviously super grateful for getting it but i'm like pissed because i'm going to be driving up 12 hours up to pa just for it to get all dirty but at least that's just the outside the inside you're right the first three minutes of my drive this morning some guys blow in a pile of leaves i was like mother fucker So I just drove as fast as I could through that little spot. We're still good, though. Squeaky clean. That was a big gift.

Top five gift. What's like the best gift that it doesn't necessarily have to be in your Santa days, but like when you were getting them on Christmas morning from your family, like what can you pinpoint from your childhood of a gift that really changed everything? One that sticks out to me. And because it like introduced like a whole other, I guess you could say sport into my life, when my brother and I got dirt bikes for Christmas. That would be epic.

Was it a, alright, yeah, explain it. I was gonna ask where'd your dad have them sitting? Yeah, so we were opening up, we were opening up gifts.

Like we got like the little like dirt bike like action figures. And then we opened up like one gift was like a like helmets like motorcross helmets. And we were like this is sick. Like because we were kids like you just kind of think it's super cool. And then you just ride it when you're wearing your bike. So we finished up. And then my dad was like, all right,

there's one more like come out here. went in like the bikes were in the garage and we were like whoa like freaking out about it yeah and it was like it was how old were you i want to say i was like between 10 and 12 that's awesome and my brother was between six and nine i feel like it had to be to the later part of it because my brother i don't think he would have started riding around six so i think it was before it was when we were still I was still in middle school. But like I couldn't, for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to work the clutch on the big bike. And Nate learned how to do it instantly.

I'm like, that's just not fair. His Mike's better. So that's how we got into like supercross and stuff. And it's like, I mean, now you guys are hearing my obsession and stuff for it. It's a core memory. One of the cool, one of the coolest gifts. I'm sure I'm missing some more out there. But, yeah, that was probably one of my favorites.

also got a dirt bike for Christmas one year and I remember because my dad grew up riding super hard and wanted one and this was still the time where my youngest brother Joey, the lore of Santa Claus was still like hey Joey believes in Santa. We're going to all operate in this capacity. So

there was one room like full of toys and then me and my two other older siblings they you know we have like whatever clothes or you know a gift something like that and I'm like damn guess we're not getting one this year and then the room directly next to But my dad was like, hey, come outside.

And so like, oh, my God. And he's like, he's like, no, no, no. He's like, I think it might be somewhere else because Joey's kind of falling. He's like, maybe Santa put, and there was three dirt bikes in the living room directly next to us. And so I got one, my younger brother James, my older sister, Maggie got one. I got a 150cc with the clutch. But the following summer, my parents built the pool. Steve was doing well for himself at this time.

They had an issue with the construction people with the pool. the pool was held for six months. So they had an entire pool built, I mean, dug, but no concrete laid. So there's just sitting dirt, my dad. Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers. And guess what?

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Of course, it's like the only one that ever gets showed. Me and my brother and my sister are racing. I drop the clutch and stalls out immediately and I'm so mad and I'm just like kick-starting it but I remember yeah I was like this is unbelievable dude what it just that has got to be one of the best dad moves of all time

it's kind of your first taste of freedom too where you're like man maybe I can just take this thing and go wherever yeah you realize quickly it's like all right you can go here here we're going to take this out of town neighbors were not happy about the dirt bike track I'll tell you that but yeah it's one of the things living in a normal neighborhood.

One of those things like, come on, hit the turn, quigger. We weren't allowed to ride unless my dad was home for the longest time. Smart. And then, like, finally, like, we had to call and get permission if you weren't home.

But our neighbors, our next door neighbors literally built or literally bought, like, an absorbent amount of trees just to, like, deaf in the noise and so they couldn't see us riding around. And, like, if you look at my house

and Google images, you can see our track. That's awesome. That's awesome. I wish I had that I know I always wanted one But like my parents didn't grow up doing that Same

It was just wasn't in the cards But I always wanted to know how to ride a bike So fun dude Now because now I'm just too old And it's scared I'm scared of it Right You have that I would ride to like a little

When you're ride right You don't care if you tip it over Fall break an arm The one that we have The one that we have scary Yeah that I would try I would try a small bike I have a little pit bike at home

if you all come up for caroling I thought I thought brook had a 10 years ago I thought Brooke had a ride in like 10 minutes oh really yeah she probably forgets how I love that yeah it was so sick it would be so fine

you know Mitch was like okay just let me show you how to do this yeah real quick my best gift I have a funny Christmas story that you all know all know but it could be good for the viewers

you know what do y'all do you can open one Cresman on Christmas Eve and so my uncle he always got us the best presents me and my two brothers and usually it was always the newest video game or you know something new in the sports world that it was christmas eve you open uncle bob's present and because you can play it all night and so they open theirs they get two new video games then they're telling me jay do not open uncle bob's present open mimi's gift me at the time was probably like 88 years old very religious woman sweet grandma she lives with us but she doesn't understand you know the the three boys growing up in the

two thousands and they're like you you trust me jay you're going to love it you're going to be playing with it all night this is the best gift you could possibly get and it's like a smaller box i'm like all right like let's do it me me's there also so i'm fired up remember christmas is my birthday too so i have extra juice to me on this day i open it up and in this small box is just this baby Jesus figurine just sitting in a manger and that's it and I'm

and I look up and I'm just fighting back tears and I'm like thanks me go over and do the like thank you give her the hug my parents they look to each other

they're like just praying for a new family all night they're like Jay De Niro you can open you can open another present you could open another present

you can put it in water and watch it grow yeah Chia pet Jesus dude my brother Others are just dying laughing. I was so heartbroken. That's an all-time brother print.

But man, I feel like you'd be lying if you wouldn't be in Jay's shoes just like fighting, just like the ugliest cry you've ever felt in your life. Because I'm probably like nine years old, eight or nine, so Christmas peak. When the magic of Christmas just comes crashing. Because they're also the ones obviously that told me that Santa wasn't real. And that was so stupid. That's tough. I had the most vivid dream of my life that one of the reindeer got hurt in our front yard and I went out there and helped it and I saw the sled and I have a movie right now.

I have a great imagination and or a vivid imagination. And I woke up the next morning tell the whole family. Y'all won't believe what happened last night. Santa, one of his reindeer got hurt in our front yard. I went out there, taped it up and then they went off. And my brother, yeah, taped the ankle. And my brothers are like, Jay, that didn't happen. how are you going to tell me it didn't happen?

I was there. Santa's not real. What? I just saw him last night. I was literally with him. We were chopping it up last night. Mom and dad get all these presents. Why do you think Santa's handwriting is the same as theirs?

Why do you think blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, then I go to my parents, tell me it's not true. They're telling me this Santa. And they're like, we're pissing my brothers again. Dang. All that to say, my favorite Christmas gift ever was a Sydney Rice gamecock football jersey. Hell yeah. And he was probably the first player I have, like, memory of of being in all-time, like, great, actual great college football player, not just good at South Carolina.

But the best part about it was my parents got the S. Rice custom on the back of the jersey, just how he had it on his jersey. And I remember getting that, and it was my first one, and I'm just like, man, there's no way there's ever going to be a gift better than this one. Is that when you wrote Kockyland? probably that was probably road cocky lane when we got back from winter break that's sick my best gift was not like life changing but it was after we had opened like all of our Christmas gifts from Santa and our parents my parents are like hey y'all should y'all should go upstairs real quick like in the media room like another thing we're like hey go go over there that anticipation they're like wait what some what's upstairs and we walk up and it is a and I was maybe

be like 11 and this was like the biggest deal to me because I really wanted one of these things but I got three of them. It was a three and one air hockey ping pong pool table. Oh my God. And it was like like it was not perfect size for each of them, but I got each of them. And I just remember I was so high because I just wanted to play air hockey and ping pong all the time. And I remember like it was magical on Christmas and maybe for like the next two years I was like always come on like let's try to convince people. Let's go play ping pong. No one wanted to. I was like, I was pissed.

Dude, I know Bob was so proud. It was awesome. And then, like, on the same Christmas, they're like, oh, and what's outside? We heard something hit the roof last night. Like, Santa must have dropped some toys. And we go outside and for whatever reason, this was also, like, huge for me. I had this in my room. Just gumball machines on the, like, big ass, like those big gumball machines, like on the ground.

They're like, oh, he must have dropped those, like on his way out. So I got a gumball machine. I got pool, air hockey, ping pong. Damn. I was like, yeah, this is Christmas. Yeah. Yeah. I don't really know what my favorite would be.

Derek, do you have one? Yeah, we had, so two things I'll say. One, my parents had a similar, like, open the night before, but what they would do is, because me and my brother would wake up at, like, 5 a.m., they would put a gift in our room that Santa put in the room. And so it's something that we could play with until they woke up, which was sick. Smart move by them. Dude.

The best gift I ever got was, I remember, I mean, I was young. I got the first Game Boy game Mario game from Santa. And I'm sitting there and I'm looking at all the gifts. I opened everything. And my mom was like, that's so weird. He didn't get you the thing to play it. We go through her side of the family. I'm holding it.

Like as opening other people's gifts, like holding it. Not being able to play it the whole day for eight hours. And we get to my dad's side. My grandma got me the game boy. My mom's like, thank goodness you kept it with you. Santa knew your grandma got the game boy. I'm like Santa's sick. Santa's the man.

I don't know how he talked to my grandma, but this is dope. But I ripped that. The first Mario, like, cartridge on Game Boy was my favorite thing ever, dude. That's electric. Is there any, is everyone, everyone's, did you figure out? I don't know what my favorite would be, but I will shift it to, I remember, like, I'm the oldest sibling at one of, at my dad's house. And I remember the Christmas that he kind of looked at me and was like, hey, I'm going to need your help with the younger siblings.

like we got to build everything in the garage. They wait and bring it in. Build everything. What do you mean? Well, at this point I had known, but now I was a part of... You were an elf. Yeah. I wish I had gotten that far because they didn't ask for my help when all my sister do.

It was, uh, I don't know. I took a lot of pride in it. Obviously, like being the big bro, you're just like, hell yeah. Like, I know that they're about to enjoy tomorrow so much. Uh, but listening to all of that, like, the creativity, that parents somehow come up with during Christmas is so impressive. And the fact that you guys don't keep that up here around is kind of bullshit. But it is very impressive that they're like, what can we do?

How do we set up just enough inside that leads the trails to like, wait, hold on, I need this, though. Come outside. It's always been very impressive to me. And so getting to help my dad do that was a lot of fun. and then a couple years ago, maybe two years ago, on my mom's side, my stepdad's daughter, my sister Alyssa has my niece Goldie, and she was like, I need your help building stuff. And we built, you know, like on the playground, like the, I'm going to really fuck up what it's called,

but like you would climb on it. It's like a metal piece on the playground. I will put a reference photo up but we had to build this fucking thing in the freezing cold oh hands not moving not moving and it's like of course the bolts are like this big dad get mad at you um she got goldie got like an airplane that you could sit in and like fly it so we had to build all these things made of metal and like 7 p.m yeah in like 27 degree weather but i feel like like those stuck out to me the most just because it's like I'm getting to give this to my like younger siblings or my nieces and nephews and then yeah just like the next day you're just kind of like that's so sick that they believe this crazy thing that exists like you have a favorite gift that you've given somebody or anybody have a favorite gift I have one if I can get yeah go ahead I'll think favorite gift I gave somebody I got something I need to say later on too My, it was my senior year football, like that Christmas, I think it was 2019 Christmas.

It was 2019 Christmas. Just finished my senior year football. I got a game ball from my last game ever from like our bowl game. I like went to the equipment man like, hey, I need two balls from this game. I'm going to give them to my dad and uncle for Christmas. So then I had my brother's girlfriend who had like nice handwriting. I had her write down all of my stats. like my career stats and all like punt return wider senior stats putting her to work all of that

i mean you know what i wrote down everything that she needed i wrote down everything i needed that she needed to write down on it and like got like a glass case for it and gave it to my dad and he opened it immediately started crying like my mom was crying i was crying but it was like just for whatever reason a part like a gift that just stood out and it was like because like now i'm done playing football like here's the last thing from the last ball like the last game i played in with everything on it. Now it's sitting on his, like, dresser in his room, which is pretty cool. That's badass.

I, uh, mine's going to be quick because I feel like the anticipation of yours is amazing. Yeah. But my, my favorite gift I gave my family, uh, again, like mom's side and dad's side. It's a lot of people, but I gave everyone a, uh, t-shirt or sweatshirt with my face on it. That's probably my favorite gift. Mine's not like a gift thing. Also, your thing just made me think of. I don't know if y'all saw this TikTok video of there was this older brother.

He was definitely an O. Lyman in high school. And he's like walking off the field for his last time to his younger brother. And this, the older brother is like a bigger, heavier set dude. Hopefully he was a beast all region, but didn't really look like it. And he's walking off the field and he has his helmet. And he hands it to his little brother and puts his hand on his shoulder. And they like say something. and then the little brother like runs out onto the field and the song is if today was your last day

and it was so serious and I felt for those brothers in that moment but the thing I was going to say as we're talking about uh Santa and just the the magic of Christmas there's there's a group of people a small population hopefully it's a small population that exists out there and wow I think worse than in ICE after the wrong people in this country. They need to be going after these people. And it is the people that refuse to tell their kids about Santa. Or they tell their kids that. Oh, they take like the moral high ground.

Yes. Yeah. I never want to lie to my kid. So I'm not going to let them believe in Santa. I think those are actually the worst parents of all time. And they need to be investigated. I feel like there's somebody you're talking about. No, not really.

Because we're all almost 30 years old And we're talking about like Whoa You're on your latter half You'll be at the uncha next year Don't you worry For God it was 26 Like we're all like old enough now

Older now and we're like We talk about like the magic of Right Santa the magic of Christmas And if that got ruined to me When I was five or six years old I'd be like What the fuck are we doing here?

Yeah all these kids are so happy about Sane and everything And I'm like I have to be the bearer of bad news And I'm the grumpy The Grinch I'm with you. Child services. I have one more thing.

And it's, it wasn't the best gift I've ever given, but probably the funniest gift I've received. And it took me years to come to the conclusion that it is funny and I'm not upset. But this was, I don't know, probably three or four years after my brother,

Jimmy had moved to Hawaii, his first Christmas home. So I, I'm making like big boy money at this time. So I'm like, I'm going to get him something good, something practical. I got him this awesome,

beach umbrella that had a really cool design from a company that he liked. It was like 300 bucks, which is way too expensive to be buying. When you have three siblings, a brother-in-law, parents, it's like you got to keep financially responsible gifts flowing. So I give him that and he's like, oh dude, thanks. And you can just see it in his eyes opening it being like, oh shit, like I didn't get this. Either he got me something of much lesser value or he didn't give me something at all.

So James disappears upstairs. And it's not like he's up next to give me. mine. So he comes down and he kind of like runs into a different room. I'm like, dude, we're opening gifts. Like, what's this dude doing? He comes down. He's like, Jack, here's your gift. He's like, toss it to me. And it's clearly in the shape of a ball. And I unwrap it to see my first ever game ball that I got in T-ball that was up in my room on a trophy. He took a Sharpie and signed his name and gave it to me. My whole family lost their minds. And I am fuming.

Acting like the ball like still me. Like it does. But I was like, I was like, I was more pissed that I spent so much money on a gift. And he just went to defiled like one of my childhood mementos. I was like, and then looking back on it,

it's like honestly one of the funnier things that's ever been done. But so I guess this is a lesson. Like don't buy your family expensive. The ball might have more. I thought, I thought you were going to tell the story when you were just handing out bread to the, to the family. Oh yeah.

Yeah. I was like two or three years ago. I think it was like after one of my first Vegas trips. And like I was just lacking on Christmas presents. And it just hit me with like four days. And I was like, dude, fuck this. I let everyone give their gifts out. And then I just pulled out $600.

And I just go, here's a hundred for you. And then I gave a hundred to my niece who was and had just turned to one. And I was like, here you go. And like, honestly, I feel like they were probably like, yeah, we love this. Dude, Cassius King. Cash is. That did like two or three years ago, my dad. He got zero stocking stuff for gifts for my mom.

And at Christmas night, he went in my mom, he went in his stocking that my mom had packed, took everything out, put a different sticker on it that says to mom from dad. We get there the next morning. He gets his stock. And he's like, you really didn't get me anything, Diane? She's like, what are you talking about? I filled this whole thing. And then she starts opening all these gifts. She's like, I got this for you.

He's like, well, I don't see anything in mine. Like, this crazy. And then finally at the end, she's like, wait a second, these are all of my gifts. And it was so fun. I can see your dad doing that. That is so fun. Are we all in agreeance that stocking gifts are sometimes low-key, the best presents you get? They're the ones you use the most.

It's like 100% or toothpaste or gum, I don't know, gift cards. Some sort of like little gag thing. Yeah. I'd always get. I love my stocking. Me and camp would always get like a pack of football cards in ours. and that was, I like look forward to opening that the most. I was like, all right, I'm going to go from my back. Christmas over.

The stocking is the best. Growing up, it was like, okay, whatever, we're going to cram these, the stockings as full as we can get them. So in my brain, I was like, I'm going to go buy the biggest stocking I can find. So I, everyone has, like, matching stockings and I have this enormous stocking. Because I was like, I don't like, I love what goes in the stocking more than most of the other things. So let me just go and up my stocking game. Like, so funny. It's pretty epic, though.

I saw another video of somebody had like one of these big balloon. It wasn't a pinata, but it was serving the same purpose and it was going to get popped and all the kids were standing underneath it. And at the last second, right before somebody pops it, one of the bigger kids comes in and just holds his shirt out, it pops almost all the candy falls into it

and he just takes off running. That is a head play. Grinch. Grinch for sure. Derek, you got one? Gift I given? Yeah. I'm trying to think through it because I give some pretty intentional ones that are like.

I can't think of one that I've given all the top. But one thing I will say that I was thinking about is how like my mom broke to me, Santa wasn't real. She made me watch a video. Like she showed me this video of a, it was like a story. So it was just a video of a guy talking with like pictures. But it was basically about a kid going up to his grandpa being like, grandpa tell me is Santa real and aunt? And the grandpa was like, come with me. And they go to the store and they bought like a pack of diapers and like kids.

And then they went to a house that the kid had no idea who was, knocked on the door, left the basket, and ran to the car and watched. And out walked a brand, like a pregnant woman and a husband. And they looked down and saw the basket and like looking around and one way. And the grandpa's like, there might not be a bearded man, but that is Santa Claus. And so just like, I don't even know if a gift I got, but I've always held that close because I'm like, to your point about like people that say, like, I'm making this about Jesus. I grew up thinking baby Jesus and Santa were homies. Right. Like I assumed Christianity and Santa were one in the same.

Jesus said Santa. That's what I thought. And so I'm the same. You can take those people out back for what I think about it. Yeah, that's giving a gift. No, I like to give gifts. I think it's fun, but I try to make it personal. How to keep it?

Being like a VHS tape, like show to Derek when he's eight. Yeah, basically. I have a funny. Wrong tape, wrong tape. I have a funny one. It's not like the best gift I've given. I don't know. I think it's funny.

My brother and my dad are Cowboys fans. I'm a Cardinals fan. We always, not really anymore, unfortunately for me. used to a few years ago argue like Kyler Murray versus Dak Prescott and I just thought it would be so funny for Christmas I got them a normal gift so like this was not their gift

but like after it's all done I was like hey all look up on TV I got a what's it called when you can pay for someone to Camio? A cameo and I was not going to shell out for this cameo y'all this is a friend of the show cameo I think I got Dean Blandino

to basically just eviscerate that argument like for me and like just say like Tyler so much better like Bobby and Camp y'all are dumb I'm like, I still have the video on my phone, but I just, I was like, you all heard it. He said it's so funny. I was like, Merry Christmas. Did he do a good job at yours?

Because he did a fantasy league for me once, and the guy, he had notes for everybody. And he goes, oh, at six, that's Timmy. Timmy just got married. Well, I'm going through a divorce, Timmy. So good look at yours and went on for a 45 second rant about his divorce. And we're like, who's pick five? I kind of told, I gave him a prompt. I remember.

he started it off I can send it in the group chat he starts it off watching like Larry Fitzgerald highlight like late career like Kyler threw past the Larry Fitz and he's like oh sorry like didn't see you there and then he starts arguing about like why Kyler's better and I was like yeah

like you heard it from me this is the guy this is the this is the referee guy that's head official that's funny shout out Dean Blanino man how long we've been going hour and six minutes

right now damn Feel good. Feel great. You want to take us out on a song? Yeah. I do. I got some fucking love egg dog.

This will be our last episode of the year as we're off the next semi off the next two weeks. We're moving to Netflix, guys. Damn. So I believe first episode of the new year, we have our big guest. Some schedules got conflicted this week. So unfortunately, we were able to have them on. But I believe I'd like to think the beginning of the year, we will have a, have a guest for you guys.

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