Historically High - 1V1 Baby Jesus Birthday Spectular

Episode Date: December 23, 2022

Ho Ho Holy Shit folks we're already at the end of 2022. What better way to start rounding out the year than to take a stroll down memory lane for our favorite Christmas Memories, Worst Holiday Songs, Best Holiday Movies and Wildcard. Join us for what is sure to become a Holiday Classic.Support the show Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Just like daily work will be like a 13 or 15. Today's been a 9. Oh, that's like why you're higher than mine? It just doesn't seem like that's a normal thing. Because if every day has been shitty, but today for some reason I'm like four points off. Did you feel less rageful today? No, I pulled over and had a good scream. I couldn't find a package for a house, and I remembered, like, putting the markings on it in the morning.

and I dug through the back for like 10, 15 minutes and just could not find it. And then went back up front and it was a smaller package. It was sitting under something else that I didn't see. Rolled up all the windows, closed all the doors and just let out. Just the truck moved from the outside. Like in a cliche movie way, it's just like... Yeah. Just a fat man inside of a little vehicle.

The shit was just shaking as I was trying to find stuff. Speaking of fat man in a tiny vehicle... Sanning it's Oh shit. Yeah, that guy. Yeah. So Christmas one-on-one time. I'm just going to go ahead and go through a few of our little, either our favorites, our worsts, a little opinion.

There's a lot of fun stuff in here. There's a lot of good things. It brought up a lot of good memories of being a kid and just kind of remembering. This actually brought to light that I don't remember as much about like Christmas during. my childhood as I thought I did. I remember a lot of big things, but when I tried to, like, I wanted to give myself a lot of stuff to choose from. Yeah. I remembered

the big ones that I ended up choosing and a few others, but I was just kind of like, I would have thought I would remember this shit more, but... I channeled back to a funny old memory of, and this was just one specific year, I don't remember the year, but in the morning we would always be pumped and run downstairs

to see what Santa brought us on Christmas morning. And I used to sleep in my skibbies. and I remember running down at like 7 o'clock in the morning and it was right around the time that we had gotten like a video camera like a camcorder to start recording these family events Is this, are we talking like shoulder mounted? Yeah, the big ones that had the videotape in it all that.

Okay, full-size VHS. Yes. Yes, that's the only yes. So I remember running downstairs and being all excited about presents and just being super pumped and screaming. Is this going to be part of your... No, there's just a... an ancillary memory that it was something that I haven't probably thought about

in 15, 20 years at least. But I remember turning around and seeing my dad with it on his shoulder and I was so excited about it and I just remember him saying, hey, decided not to get dressed this morning, huh? I remember looking down. See the red light? Yeah.

What's the red light mean? He was sitting there filming and I was in my underwear and I just remember being so mortified. It's like, oh God, this is going to be a part of home movies for forever. I dropped everything and ran back upstairs and put some clothes on and came back down. I couldn't have been more than like five or six, but that just fear of being caught on camera in my underwear is a kid.

I'm going to end up on America's Funniest Some videos. Yeah, thank God it didn't. That would have been a sag at time. So maybe I would have got to meet Bob. That would have been sweet. Okay, this isn't on the list, but I used to, this is either going to sound crazy

or you're going to really, like, relate to this. Did you ever try to figure out a way once you went to bed to figure out what was going on like not sneaking out of your room but did you ever try to devise a way to figure out what was going on around the tree to like either discover Santa

or if you knew your parents were really Santa to find out what they were doing and like give you an idea of what you got I never I did get caught we were in fifth grade parents came home early and I had an exacto knife and I was cutting open presents to try to see what I got early

no I mean like Santa wise I mean like Christmas Eve Like going to sleep Christmas Eve Never I That was my deal I would try to stay up as late as possible Because I wanted to hear something going on in the house

To know when Santa was there So then you could run down in the morning And every single time it would be like Midnight One o'clock in the morning You'd just fall asleep Because you were a kid and you couldn't stay up that late Like my mission every single year

Was to stay up long enough to hear Santa show up But every single time I would fall asleep And it was just always like right there. Like I'd run down in the morning and it'd be like, oh my gosh, I tried to stay awake for Santa. And my dad would be like, when'd you fall asleep? And I'd be like, oh, like one or something like that. He's like, I just missed him. And I was like, yeah, he probably came around like two, something like that. And it's like, God damn it. Next year. There was a certain point in time where we were forced to go to bed at a certain time to allow them. Like, Santa's not going to show up here. Go to

bed. You know, Santa's not going to show up. So I'm just realizing this now that this may not be as normal as I thought it was. So this applies to Halloween too I used to do this weird thing where I would like It was a fun thing to do with like friends where you would We would trick or treat a little bit But we also drew up like this weird like Halloween attack plan

Where we would like Try to scare people and do everything This probably sounds insane But we would have like a little drawn up map Or like diagram of the neighborhood where we would meet up If we like got caught by somebody It's just weird kid shit Yeah causing some mischief

Yes So with Christmas, I can't remember what I'm looking up right now to see if either I got inspired by this or if I actually did it before it. I had walkie-talkies. And what I did was I turned on my walkie-talkie and taped the talk button down and I hit it in the tree. And then I had the other one under my pillow in my bed. So when I got into my room, I turned it on. and I was trying to listen in on what was going on. And I remember, so I think this was the only year I did it.

And I had this feeling like my parents were being really secretive about something. There was something to prompt me to do this. I don't know if it was the acquisition of the walkie-talkies and just that was the first year was available, or if I knew something was up. So my room faced, my window faced the front of the house in the street. Yeah. So I remember I'm sitting there listening to this thing. and all of a sudden, like, I hear my door open, and I fake like I'm asleep,

and all of a sudden, like, my dad starts picking me up. And it's not like I can fucking grab, keep the walking in my hand. So I have to let it go under the pillow, and he picks me up and takes me into their room to sleep because their room didn't face anything. Yeah. And it actually leads into our first segment favorite gift.

Okay. And so this was the night. So I'll just go since I'm leading the story into it So of course I'm awake the whole time So once I get into there but I'm like what the fuck is going on And so like I'm going to their door and like I'm trying to like put my ear to the door And I can hear some like shuffling and everything like that But I can't hear a lot

Fuck it I'm not escaping from this so I just go to sleep I don't know how I fell asleep But it was just an un like I had the plan set up And then my plan was foiled and I knew something was afoot So I wake up in the morning and I don't, was it the first, I can't remember if it was the last thing that I saw or if it was the first thing.

I think it was the last thing. So we, you know, the blinds in the living room are closed and everything as they normally probably are. We're around the tree. And we're opening stuff and passing out stuff to different people. And I don't remember a single fucking other thing about that year, presence, anything like that. probably is kind of shitty to say.

Like, that sounds like a spoiled kid to say that. No. Because there are kids that can't say that. But, like, say that kind of does make me feel like... Also, you have to remember that we've packed decades upon decades of memories on top of these. I understand that. Okay. Getting away from it.

So it comes to... You know how there's always, like, the one big present and some little things? There wasn't, like, a big present. But my sister had unwrapped a big present. And so, kid logic, spoiled kids. logic you're like we're the but i didn't say it in that way i don't think i was like and so before like i probably even had a chance to think about that my dad's like hey how about you um put your jacket on and so i wouldn't put my jacket on and he opens the front door and looks out and there was a fucking

four-wheeler sitting in front of the living room windows where i couldn't have noticed it from another window or anything like that and it was this isn't a new four-wheeler this thing was i think it was an 85 same year i was born like little suzuki one 85 that had actually been, belonged to his best friend, and they used it for their kids, but it had been borne out to like a 220. So it had a little bit more.

It was a single cylinder, but it had some... Yeah. No... Kid-sized, but not kid power. It was almost like... The back wheels were like fat. And it was a rear-wheel drive.

And I'm not even shitting you. I don't think I came back in the house for like three days. I think maybe to sleep. And the reason that that is my favorite. gift is not for getting it, it's for every single memory I had after. We had, we lived in a cul-de-sac and behind Cameron's house at the top of the circle part, behind that was a completely open field, probably 30 acres, but it was also not flat. It actually had like a hill in the

middle, a little, not even a service road, because no one never drove out there. And so, it had, but it had like a path that went around, and then it had a hill on the side where Cameron lived, and we also, that used to be our sledding hill too. So when we got this thing, when we got this thing, it was fucking nothing for the rest of the season and every winter for about the next four years after that, except one person fucking hauling ass around with another person on the tube on the back, trying to whip them around and throw them off. And the only time we stopped is when we ran out of gas and had to either push it back,

go get more gas someone had to go eat someone got no one ever got majorly hurt but like looking at it now like it's there was some like there were rocks and shit out there there was like kid shit that you look back on you're like that was so

fucking fun but there's no we had no business not getting hurt doing that there's a lot of those memories of being a kid where when you got a gift like that like danger was just always ever present when you got something with a motor on but it never stopped you from trying to push those limits.

Like pulling each other around and hokey bobbing like that, that shit was the best. There was no supervision. Yeah. That was just like, and I think, okay, I'm going to say the toy story actually did it first because it was 95, and I want to say I was probably about 11. With the walkie-talkie move?

Yeah. And it probably inspired me. I probably saw the move and still worked. Yeah. But I don't even think it ended up being, that this is going to sound like, hmm, but like,

I don't even think it was like, the four-wheeler itself was ended up being like my favorite gift. I think it's what it gave me like for literally four years. Just the joy. The thing, though, too,

is that was like the one thing that I wanted everybody to enjoy. Because I also didn't want to be, like, in a selfish way, though, like I didn't want to be the asshole driving the whole time. I wanted to get back on that fucking two.

You whip my ass around. But you're also the badass with the four-wheeler. Yes, but the thing is, is I would, like, everyone got to drive and everyone got to ride and it was fun as fuck and I even remember it got to the point where

like they were coming over when I couldn't be outside and they're like can we use the four one. I'm like fuck no, that was like my line. Like fuck no. I think I let it happen one time and then after that I was like I don't like this feeling. If I'm not getting to have fucking fun out there doing something, no one else is getting to have fun. Not a chance. But yeah, it's that's the one I always go back to. Mine, my first one, um, it's the not so much like it was a fantastic gift and I think I was 16 17 maybe but

it was something where it was it just the gift in itself was PlayStation 3 and I don't know if everybody really remembers the time when PlayStation 3's came out and it was right around I think PlayStation 3 was the first version the Xbox came out with I can't say for sure. I'm trying to picture the PlayStation 3 in my head.

So the one was the disc opening on top. Yep. The two was the black tower. Slideout tray. The slide out tray. And three was... Three was the first where you pushed it in. Okay.

You pushed the disc in. Okay. And they were big and bulky, but they were so fucking hard to get. Because somehow Sony always thinks that they're just going to release things without having adequate stock. And I'll be a Sony guy for life. but this just bugs the shit out of me every time. Was this the launch year? Yeah.

This was the hot item at Chris. Okay. Yes. They were impossible to get. You could never get them. I had just completely washed it out of my mind. I worked with a dude who was like 23, 24 at the time and he had gotten his hands on one, but it was because that was literally all he did was he worked at the shoe store and then would spend all his money on rent and video game.

And I remember. A simple. It was so simple. It was so great. but we would go over to his house or his apartment and he lived with another dude that we work with and they would always drink Bush Light and of course being a 16 year old

I didn't really have much of a choice as to how that was going and we would play it and I just loved it so much and I remember asking for one and didn't know how my parents were going to pull it off she never expected it because they were so impossible to get Christmas Day comes go down open up presents and PS3 sitting right there

I was so, so excited. Being a kid who knew Santa wasn't real and all that stuff, it just immediately went to my mind. And I just remember asking how it happened. My parents were just like, hey, we know you really wanted it. You've been a great kid this year. So you were actually trying to find this yourself to buy it yourself. Well, I didn't have that money because they were, I think, 400 at that time maybe.

It was kind of their first price hike because I think PS2 was $2.99. But were you trying to find it to be like, okay, I can direct my parents. Were to try to, like, hey, in case you guys, I tried to help them, but it was just like everywhere it was sold out. There was no way it was going to happen. Yeah. And if you weren't going to find it, you figured there was no hope. Yeah, there was just no choice. So I found out maybe two or three months later that my mom and dad had found a lady who had somehow gotten two for her son and were trying to get it for me.

And the lady was asking just like an insane amount of money for it. and they were talking enough that my mom found out that this lady was a big beanie baby lady and my mom's a huge beanie baby lady like i have distinct memories of going to like hallmark where she knew the people and they would like give her a call when the new beanie baby shipments came in and all that shit she had the inside track on the bs so i find out a couple months she still have them yeah yeah and she's like totes cartons once the market fell out there was really no reason to sell them, so we just kept them. So is there not a market for them anymore?

Not the same. There are certain ones that she has that are still very valuable, but the bulk of them... It's crypto before crypto. Yeah, exactly. But I find out that she traded this lady two princess diabetes that were like

the rare ones that had some sort of a defect. Are we talking like Holy Grail type beanie babies here? These beanie babies were like $4 to $600 at the time. But my mom being the lady that she was and having multiple of these, she was able to trade two of these to a lady

out of her personal collection and still have one or two left over. Freaking black market Beanie Baby negotiating here. Yeah, just to know that they got that creative. The love of her sons forced her to turn to the black market of Beanie Baby swaps for this

PS3. That's what it was. An angel. They wanted it so bad just to make my Christmas happen. The fact that it was a princess die beanie baby is just blowing my mind right now. Like I thought beanie babies were just like animals and like cute little shit. Like the fact that there was a princess die baby baby baby. They have special versions of everything.

Like they do Olympics and all that kind of stuff. I did not know. It's much about the beanie baby mark as I thought I did. It's insane. They had, uh, you remember when they would come in like happy meals? Yeah. But were those even real beanie babies? They were. Oh.

Because you can still find like packs of unopened ones that people have kept over the years and got the complete set. and all that kind of stuff. Like, it's, the media movie market's a wild thing. I understand why you know a lot about this, but it still kind of is weird me out that you know so much about this.

You grow up enough around it, it just happens. But to know that they loved me enough, and I was enough of a decent kid that year to where they went that kind of extra route, it was like, this is special. Like, this is very cool. And I used the shit out of that PS3.

That was the gift that I know there's this as someone who is going to be having a kid that is going to be getting to the age where video games are going to be. He sees me play. And if I hand him another controller, he'll entertain himself for a couple minutes. And then he figures it out. And he's like, I'm not doing anything here. Sets it down and walks out of the room. But he's going to be getting to the point where he's going to start playing soon.

And it's got to be one of those things where like, you know how much enjoyment you got out of that as a kid. And you don't want to like, and think of like even the games we played as a kid, like young young kids, shit's so much better now. Like, it's not even, like, conceivable. Like, the advancement of, that might be the biggest advancement in anything.

Probably. But, like, how, like, you see how, like, you can get dialed into a game. You're like, do I, am I going to get my kid of it? And here's the thing, too. Most parents game these days, or, like, a lot of them do. If anything, you're buying it for both of you. It's for him. Or you're getting him a second one of what you already have, so you don't have to share.

Oh, I don't know if I care about that. Really? It's dead. I wouldn't play. If he was up to play and everything like that, I think it would be awesome to play with him. Yeah, but say he's like 10 years old, 11 years old, and you guys are hanging out that day, he finds something that he's just thoroughly enthralled with. And you're like, he's distracted for the next one to two hours.

I don't have really anything else to do. I'd like to jump on. I try to do that now. If he's watching something, I've seen it 50 times and he's watching it for the 50 first time, I'm just like, look over. he's good. I'm like, hey, come get me if you need me. If you need any snacks, here's your stuff. That's what I'm saying, though. You're going to want a second station so you can make your stuff happen. It may come to that, but I, for the, I have this weird, this probably isn't as rare

as something it is. I have this weird moment I'm looking forward to where we're going to be playing like whatever iteration of madness is going to be at that point. And he's going to finally beat me. I don't know when it's going to be. I feel like it's going to have to be like he's gonna have to be like teen late teens and have a solid understanding of play calling but there's gonna come a time where he beats me and I'm gonna have to lay down those sticks I'm gonna have to look at him and say you're a man now it's I remember the exact day almost that I fucking run it back it was a fucking fluke I remember the day and the night that I beat my dad at one-on-one for the first time out in the driveway like that's something that's

seared into my mind. I'm sure all through his life it was probably seared in his mind too. First day you be your foot race. Yeah. Those are big former days. I'm still trying to debate in my head when I stop letting him win and when I finally just blow his doors off and because he I feel like he's very confident in his speed right now.

It's getting there's getting to be a little bit too much confidence. Yeah. Like there's some shit talking going around the house like look how fast I am. You're going to have to shut things down eventually. I eventually yeah. If it gets if he gets too loud and he keeps chirping about it all the time. I'm going to be like, listen, do you want me to race you for real? Because I've

been holding back all these years. Humility is a very important lesson for children. And we're going to see what that does to his mind. He's going to say you cheated immediately. He has no, no, uh, like, no scruples when it comes to trying, like we'll race and he wants to call ready set. He's two steps before he says go. Smart kid. And then hands out as wise as he can to block me from getting past him. Because I can't knock him over. No. Well, well. No, not yet. It's hardwood floors, man. Okay. We're going around the stairs and it's hardwood.

Now I have, going up the stairs, grab the back of his shirt, and started pulling him back down. Just to let him know, hey, this one hand, I'll jerk your ass down this whole flight of stairs. Keep leaving on, if you keep getting that two-step lead on me.

I'm being gracious here. I got years to go before I can smoke him and not have him have an existential crisis about the fact he doesn't have super speed. You say humility is an important lesson to learn young. What was your runner-up? My runner-up was much like you were talking about hokey bobbing behind the four-wheeler. Our neighborhood, every single year, that used to be the move.

We used to pump up the inflatable tires that we would use to float the river during the summertime, and we'd hook it up behind my dad's truck. I remember even trying to bargain with him was like, hey, let's not use the tube. I'll get in the sled. Just we're going down to july. church. Let me just ride down there to church. He's like, no, dude, you're in your Sunday best. You're not going to ride in the sled. I'll keep the nose up.

I'll give my hands up there. Just every time, be like, no, we have to go sit in church. He's like, if you wipe out before we go, then we're not going to go to church that day. Don't whip me around the corners. This is going to be up to you more than anything. And in my head of like, is that really the worst thing that's going to happen here is I don't have to sit through church if I fall. Like, maybe, maybe I'm going to take a dive. You figure out you're about ready to pull in the parking lot and he's not whipping you're like, ah!

We had so many. fun days though of just cruising around and eventually we did it behind the dangerous three-wheeler So what was the get is it this drawing up for gift? Hockey bobbing, oh Oh, are we doing gifts? Oh, did you, okay, if you want to move on to

are you moving on to memorable Christmas memory? Yeah. That's fine. So my gift just to throw in just the easy one before we move on to memory. There was something that the WWF did called the Titan Tron toy, which was the entrance where they would come in.

I'm familiar with the Titan Tron. And they used to make action figures that had two metallic pieces in the bottom of their feet, and you would set them on the Titan Tron? Would it play the theme music? It would play the theme music. Oh my God. Greatest gift ever.

Who were the guys? They did them with everybody. So you would be able to go. So it was pre-programmed with everybody's stuff already. No. You had to have the individual pieces. The individual action figures were the ones that had the metallic in them, that had the magnet. And when you would set the individual wrestler on, that's when the theme music was playing.

That's why I'm saying. Each of them, that was pre-programmed into the bass. Every single one of them. And then whatever, unlocked that specific song was built into the toy. Uh-huh. How many did you have? Did you, like, list me off a couple. Taker was always a big one. Stone Cold was number one, because you hear the glass shatter. You touched it, glass shatter. Yep. Vince McMahon was always no chance in hell, which is always great. No chance. No chance. Shains was who's got the money. It was, they were just incredible. They were the best toys. Degeneration X was just popping off right around this time. So you had all that theme music. it was so much fun and that was part of the fun was like you I was able to add your ring already right

oh yeah yeah I was able to add a whole other element they were fighting on the titan tron up there I almost wish that there would have been streaming because I feel like you would have been this weirdly popular doing like matches I feel like it would have picked up for you I could have done it You could have. Is that, would you say that that's on your list of, like, top five things you wish you still had from childhood? The creativity to be able to do that? The Titan Tron. Oh.

Fuck the creativity, the fucking Titan Tron. Yeah, there's still, I see you when my nephews... I can imagine the fucking Titan Tron up on that. Yeah, it would be. We could introduce different segments by putting another little man on something. There's still two or three that are floating around at my mom's house that when my nephews go over and play and they pull out the toys and they pull them out. and I see it on the bottom of the foot. I'm like,

that was the Titan-Tron toy. That was one of the guys. You need to get those over here. Yeah, I do. Maybe that's how I rekindle my childhood and my creativity is I start taking things out of boxes instead of leaving them in boxes. There you go. Mine was a, it was the first time I got it like a big kid one-speed bike.

And the bike was awesome and I loved it. What was crazy about it was they didn't hide it by the tree. They hit a tiny box at the very big. back of the tree that said look in the bathtub. And that morning I had gone in to take a pee and was standing right next to it with the curtain closed. No idea. No idea.

It was there. And then it said look in the bathtub and I went and looked. So for a second, I couldn't remember if I looked in there and noticed in there and it was goddamn magic. But just the fucking surprise was cool. Okay. So with the hooky bobbing.

Bikes were always a tricky thing with Christmas because anything that you had to do outside in cold weather, that was always tough because you almost had to wait. There was like an option. You go, go ahead and play with it, but there was always like three months before you get maximum enjoyment out of it. Okay, yes.

But you play the fuck out of it that day. Oh, yeah. That day you were definitely good. You were trying to ride it in the house because it was too cold outside. Definitely. So, um, my... So you were saying hooky bobbin, was your memory? Yeah.

Yeah, that was, technically, that was kind of my, uh, my runner up. Um, my first number one, memory, though. I remember a time I might have been like eight or nine, like when you're still in almost, like you're almost to the end of Santa, but you're still there. And sometimes

you have these fleeting moments as a child where you hear something or think that you see something that just... It's golf. Huh? It's the golf phenomenon. You know, when you're playing golf, you can play bad, play bad. You have one great shot and it makes you a believer again. Your faith in Santa starts to start waning.

You hear talk at school. Santa's not real. Santa's not real. There's more Santa's not real than Santa's is real. Not Israel, is real. And then something happens and it gets you back on the Santa train. Get you back on that sleigh. Yep. My moment was going to my grandparents' house. They had two levels, but it was a basement house and then top level. And my brother and I would always sleep in the basement because it was always a cool place with the air hockey table. It was always nice and cold. And I remember one night, Christmas Eve, him and I are down there asleep. All of a sudden I hear this commotion upstairs and this ruckus.

And I'm like, oh, fuck that's Santa. Santa's upstairs. And I remember reaching over and I remember shaking my brother. I was like, dude, Santa's upstairs. And he's eight years older than me. So he hears this. He's like, why'd you wake me up? What's going on?

And then he hears it. And he's like, dude, that's Santa. Do I fucking kill this kid right now? Thinking back on our conversation now, I know. Do I stamp out the final ember of Santa within this kid? Yep. And I remember it would be like, yeah, dude, you can't go upstairs. I was like, whatever you do, I'm going to go back to sleep. He's like, just don't go upstairs.

And I just remember being convinced from then on. Your purity, that one bit of innocence left. Yeah. Did you go up? No, I didn't. Him and I have broken a lot of barriers in life together, but he definitely kept this one good for me. So how long did it, was it the next year that you stopped? Um.

I mean, if that botched an entire, that's pretty good if that botching entire another year. Yeah. I would say that it probably was, but I just remember that that next morning, it was just solidified in my head. And I remember telling my parents, and I'm sure my parents are like, oh, shit, we made too much noise that this thing. But just the fact that he had found me in a town that was 100 miles away, it was just like, for one more year, if that's all it is, he's real. He's the guy. And then that day when it finally comes out that he's not real, I go back to that memory, I like, but that happened. And then I put it all again.

I was like, oh, you're an idiot. Is he only real as long as I believe? Well, and I heard it upstairs, not thinking we're in a basement, so anything that's going on upstairs, that's not the roof. But you're so used to that being the roof. Yeah. All right. My runner up is, fuck, I can't remember how old I was.

It had to have been, I'm going to say seven to eight, seven, nine. And that year for Christmas, I got an RC car. And this was back before these like, fancy rotating tires doesn't flip over rc cards this was back when an rc car would go so fast it would split your shin if it hits you at top speed and a battery lasted like 45 minutes yes and it was an indie a formula one car arcs car this thing was so fucking fast and this thing lasted so long like i used to take like the dog out the neighborhood just run the whole thing down the street but it was fucking fast as shit so i get that and then i'd get i loved legos i got

a Lego fire station. And it was like twin, big, tall opening doors that came up. In the middle was like the fire tower command center, everything. Christmas morning, of course, I unwrap it. That's the fucking thing I go toward. I'm like, if you get your kid something that needs to be put together a bill, you better have the damn expectation it's going to get bill right there. Or that you've already built it for them.

Correct. But by getting your child that there is the expectation that you're going to assemble it. So, of course, I'm begging my dad. Can we put this together and everything like that? My dad was a firefighter. I'd been around that. Like, I was fucking stoked. So get the thing built and everything like that.

It's awesome. It's got a fire track. It's parked in. And so it's sitting out all nice out in the middle of the living room on display. I'm playing around with the RC car. And our living room growing up used to be a garage, but it got converted into a living room. So there were two steps going down into it. Is this going to turn out bad?

Oh, yeah. Oh, no. And through testing the speed of the car and everything like that, I jumped it off the steps and just fucking obliterated this fire station with it. And I can't remember if my dad was in the room. I feel like there would have been an expletive that would have been very memorable. And he had even in the room. I want to say he was in the kitchen making breakfast.

And it happened. And like, I looked at it and it was like, it didn't like fully knock it out, but like two thirds of it. It had caved everything into like one of the bays of the garage. Critical hit. A seven to nine year old does not have the capability of reassembling this without adult supervision. It didn't, it didn't like, it wasn't a short period of time it took us to assemble this either. It was assaulted like 45 minutes in the morning.

Oh yeah. Breakfast is still needing to be made. A lot of Legos. And I'm just trying to figure out. All I remember is the fear of trying to figure out, like, how to tell my dad that this happened. And I'm not even kidding. I don't know if that fire station ever got reassembled again with all of its complete pieces.

I think I may have tried to reassemble it years later and everything, but I now know what that feeling would be like. If that happened, I think I would do the same thing. I'd just look my dad and be like, you've got to put it back together yourself. I give you one. Your dad's looking at you like this is going in your Citrocloth letter.

Yes. Okay. The top one, and I think this is extremely unique, is my dad used to, this is going to be a long one, one B one. So if you're listening to this, you know, buckle in. We got more shit to talk about. Okay. My dad used to plow, have a snow plow on the front of his truck that he could put on off.

So he would go and plow driveways for money in the wintertime. He would plow our cul-de-sac and everything for free, of course, because he lived there. And he made ramps? No. What he did was. Okay, you know what a cul-de-sac is shaped like? Yeah, I live in one. Okay, sorry.

Imagine coming down your cul-de-sac, and instead of doing all the snow out toward the sidewalks, you do it in the middle. He put it all in the middle. So almost going down the full length of the cul-de-sac. It almost divided it into, like, driving lanes. You drove just one direction. You drove in this way and out this way.

In the middle of it, the long section was like a mound of snow that was not even shit, and you did snowed a lot that year. I'm guessing maybe about two feet to three feet high and probably about three feet wide. The middle of the cul-de-sac, there was a mound of snow that was probably 12 feet high and probably about, I don't know, 20 feet,

like if you went from the center and went 20 feet out and drew a circle. I don't know what the calculation is, what circumference would be, but 20 feet out and then draw a circle. And we, used that and basically turned that into a snow fort

for the entire year. That's awesome. We dug tunnels through the thing. We had like a little watchtower built at the very end of stairs leading up to it. We would have like snow. And then like when we would have like snowball fights and everything, you would of course do like King of the Hill

throwing each other down it and everything like that. You would build snow forts in your yard and then have that be like the fortress and try to attack it. And it was just like, it was just like the perfect like my dad just happened to plow snow. We haven't been a cul-de-sac. It came together everyone fucking, like the kids fucking loved it. Oh, yeah. And I think it

I think he only did that like one year or something. And then they just piled the snow up somewhere else. But for that, yeah, it was magical. Probably because you guys built a fort in the middle of it and it's probably because they couldn't get the fucking kids out of the street. That's what fucking gummed up traffic more than the fucking snow.

It's just the sleds that were fucking left out that it rolled off the goddamn hill. The constant flying of children across the cul-de-sac. The fucking broken arm from playing king of the fucking... Oh. All right. What do we got next?

What we got next? Worst holiday song. All right. Okay, so... This led to a little fire pre-recording. Okay. So I feel that Mariah Carey's all I want for Christmas is automatically... It has to be out of the list because it's just the word.

Correct. It's all... We're fighting for second and third year when we do our first picks and run are up. So that doesn't get a pitch because it just goes without saying. Every year, I think I did seven years with Foot Locker and Champs. And for five of those years, I had to live with that video. It was on every single holiday video. It played no less than 10 times a day.

You have, of course, more of a reaction. But do you think that there's anything that you hear that gives you more of like into like a Pavlov's type auditory response than that ding ding ding ding ding ding ding like the first fucking because those keys are unmistakable that's you know what that is

when someone plays that it's like a fucking snowball that's been sitting out overnight straight to your fucking face that says like Christmas bitch if I was David Koresh that would be the song that they would play outside my compound to give me to go nuts

that song at Guantanamo they would. would have to, yeah, where they don't torture people. The people down there may find it catchy. I think they might be big fans of Mariah Carey. They don't show the video. Yeah, I guess maybe you don't know what it looks like. That's rough.

Okay, so now that that's out of the way, what was your, do you want to go runner up first and then you're... Yeah, I can go runner up first. Give your honorable mention. All right, honorable mention, uh, grandma got run over by a reindeer. Fucking dumb. Just not a... I guess a clever song, but just the way it gets sung out and like whole story form, just wildly dumb. I feel like it's a song that didn't deserve to have the legs that it did.

It's not on my list, but it was considered. Yeah, I just, I don't know. It's one of those songs like, how does this keep getting replayed? Just, it's just recycled every single year. and maybe it's the kind of people we are or the region that we're from, I could see it maybe being a bigger shot, like a bigger hit in the south, or like somebody... Oh, God, yeah.

Yeah, it just... A lot of karaoke singing. Hillbilly, bumpkin types. No offense, if that's... Maybe it's not you. If that's your jam? If that's your go-to holiday karaoke song, you keep fucking singing it. If you don't like it, you can picture the kind of person that would.

Own that shit. Larry the cable guy loves that song. That's a Larry the Cable Guy hit probably. That shit probably plays in his weird house all the time. It's just, it's not good. And it's cute. I'm sure it's fun for children, but it's just an annoyance to me at least.

All right. What got a number? Do you want me to go with mine? Yeah. I hate to do this to you, but it's baby, it's cold outside. Not even, okay, and I'm not even saying it because of the, I just think it's a boring fucking song. I'm not even going to discuss the merits of its content, questionable as they may be.

No. Okay. That's not what I'm basing this on. I just think it's not, it's a slow, like kind of glum song, even the way it's sung. I really can stay. Maybe it's called outside. I really need to leave. Pull off your panties.

No. That's not a part of the song. You made that up. It might be, I don't know. We can't play it to confirm it due to copyright reasons. It's bullshit. Okay. I'm willing to risk this whole entire thing just for that.

This episode will get taken down just to confirm that that's not in there. But the merits in which it is, it's a boring fucking song. And I feel like it's too fucking slow and it makes me sad. It makes me feel like fucking Eeyore. Because the tone is a... That's... Come on. What fucking other instruments in that song?

Does there need to be? Something. Can I make an argument? meant for it. Sure. When you get two singers, I'm not sure who did it originally. It might have been like Bing Crosby or somebody like that. But when you get two just incredible voices having like a singing conversation.

Can be all winners at them. Huh? I understand these people are talented with voices of angels, but can't, hey, no one, no one bats a thousand. If you get Michael Boubley on that song, and he's just hidden those silky vocals. It's going to sound incredible. Okay, this is a preferential thing, what I'm saying is they're not all going to be winners.

Hey, the Rock just, his movie barely, he's human. His, black at him, barely turned a profit. Hey, we all got our preferences. I don't know. I don't like to cancel. What's your worst? Yeah, this is a really bad way to do this,

because I just stood up for something that may have questionable morals. My worst is Holy Night. That's another boring ass song. I get there's a message in these songs, but it's... Get off your fucking high horse. They treat Holy Night like people treat the national anthem. Yeah. Like, you hold out different notes.

It's so goddamn slow. Four or too long. Yeah, it is very slow. but it's something where you try to show off your vocal range and shit like that and it's just like don't do that. I feel like you can never make that song shorter. You can only make it longer. I feel like there's longer.

And they're like, well, we can't shorten this anymore because we've got to hit those. All is calm. Take the big breath. All is night. That's what I'm saying. You're trying to make yourself a better singer. And that one, generally if you're a shit singer, That one you can probably sound okay doing.

And just breathing. I just, I don't like it. I agree with you. So it's a dog shit song and the only reason it's got too much hype now to, it's too big, too big to fail. It's too reverent. It's too. It's too ingrained into the holiday itself because it talks about that holy ass night. I'm going to split my pants.

Not great. What's your number one? 12 days of Christmas. Again, I don't need this long of a fucking story. I forgot that existed. And not only the fact that like... The one with like the maids milking, the geese laying... Yeah, the five golden rings.

Yeah, yeah. But the fact that like, god damn it, you're already presumptuous enough to make a song in which I got to just remember 12 different things. Not only do I got to remember the 12 different things, then I got to remember to go into sending order after I'm singing about them. Every fucking time. If the song was a part of a grade school, what were those called? Concert? Padgette. Pagents?

Maybe pageant. Pagent might be the right word for it. It was like a grade school. It's on assembly because that's what the students go to. No, but like you invited your parents. No, no. I get exactly. I just can't think of the word for it.

If it's a part of that, it sucks. It's just, it's an over-sang song that we were forced to learn in a time when the last thing you wanted to do was have to learn. We're in a song. You'd rather be out of recess playing kickball or something like that. How many can even, okay. I'm not going to try to. It's crap.

I don't want to even try to rack my band and remember it. It's a crap song. They were all bad in that era. Do you have a Christmas song that you like? Yeah, we just went over it. I had to try to defend it. Oh, I meant like a Christmas song that you like act. Not like I listen to it if it comes on, but like if you wanted to listen to a Christmas

song, you're like, I'm going to that one. No. I like Christmas and Hollis. I think it's because of my affinity for die. hard. It's the run DMC. I was going to say, is that DMC? All right.

Switching up lanes, we're going to go Best Holiday Movie. Yeah, I told you about this before. I guess I'm just so out of like Christmas and not really into the spirit. I forgot what my one one was. It's changed in recent years. I don't remember the one that I took over the number one spot, so I got to go just with number two.

This man has multiple Christmas movies that should make this list, and they might. Vince Vaughan and Four Christmases is maybe the best representation of just like a very funny Christmas folly situation with having to go to four families in one day and see just these polar opposite crazy people. I want to talk about this because it's my honorable mention too. So we can just go back and forth on this. And I'll even just like, I'll say my first one, and then we'll come back to this one,

because I think there's more disgust. Growing up, Die Hard was a Christmas movie. To me, it's not like I'm watching with my kid right now as a Christmas movie, but I do myself watch Die Hard every year for Christmas. I love the fact that there's, is it a Christmas movie? Is it not a Christmas movie? Fuck it. I don't care if you think it's not a Christmas movie.

It's a Christmas movie to me because I watched it around Christmas with my family. I grew up doing it. I, yeah, I don't think that it is. but at the same time it's ambiguous enough to where I understand it. Like, I think you can watch Die Hard during any part of the year, and it's always going to be the same hit. But during Christmas, there is a little bit more of a push to where it feels like it fits in more than it other times.

So I'll concede that that it has a Christmas theme to it. It's kind of like... It takes place at Christmas. Yeah. That's what it is. It's kind of like Harry Potter movies. Like, is Harry Potter a Christmas movie? Because it has Christmas?

themes in it? You can make it a Christmas movie, I guess. Is it more, though, because that was usually when the movies happened? No, I would argue. No, I would argue that Die Hard is more of a Christmas movie than any of the Harry Potter movies, despite the featuring Christmas. I'll agree with that. Yeah. Okay, so let's get back to this four Christmases thing, because this,

and this is probably on a lot of people's list. It's not like a secret, but I mean, yeah, everything about this movie, the fact that you get these four different families, the characters, John Favreau, and. Tim McGraw somehow. has an incredible performance Denver, Dallas,

and then Orlando. Orlando is Vince Fawn's name. You must be Orlando's girl. Who's the dad? It's... The actual actor? Yeah. Oh, fuck. Oh, God, what is it? I can picture my... He talks like this. Yeah, dude. I want to see Robert...

Duval. Duval. Is that it? Yeah. Robert Duval. Hey, good teamwork. The whole entire... And this is just going to devolve into... someone in my home sex predator who's gonna try to sniff underwear

oh no no no no no no no we do things around our sales around here just the family dynamic like the three boys being on the roof and Vince Vaughn's trying to turn the satellite the right way and Tim McGraw is playing

ticklebutt with him and John Favre is giving him shit about not being married or not being around so much being fancy yeah It is just like the total family dynamic in every form that you can have. Like you have that. And then you have Reis Witherspoon's sister being like the uppity.

I like the fact that that's your first like there's a lot about this movie to like that's all that's hilarious. But like that's your first introduction. That's the first family you see. And then all of them are so like it's it's between that one and then her mom that I think are the two funniest ones. Because with her mom you get the fucking. Christmas pageant. Or he plays Jesus. And he's like, woman, do your job and swallow this baby.

Unfit woman, give me the child. You get that? You get Vince Vaughn trying to follow grandma after she talks about stimulating her husband with her hand in her mouth more. I have followed Gam Gam Gam Gamma. With the hand in the mouth stuff? Who plays the Dwight Yolkham fucking plays the preacher? Red leather yellow leather.

Red leather, yellow leather. I have to be in character. I have to be here. And you sort of get a little bit of lead off like you say with his mom. But even his mom having his former best friend as... I'd love to get your gas. Can I get your gas? Like, no, I make more than you.

I'm not trying to be your dad. I'm trying to be your friend. You were my friend. You were my best friend. We used to sniff each other's hands. Oh, fuck. I feel like we could talk about that movie too long. Yeah.

All right. Overrated holiday movies. Oh. I thought So we had What? I thought we had five I thought the last one was Wildcard

It is we've done Favorite Gift Yeah memorable Yeah Worst song Yeah Best holiday movie

Uh huh Oh yeah Fuck well apparently I can't count Christmas wildcard it is What was your worst Like overrated Yeah Um

I got elf I know people I Okay Yeah I understand where you would be coming from. It's overplayed. People love it.

There's fucking... There's too much. It's not a bad movie, but the buildup is too much. The fans are around it is what draws it down. It would be enough if four Christmases had that hype, the movie Four Christmases wouldn't live up to it. Yeah.

And I would agree to a certain extent with Christmas vacation. Great movie. I enjoy watching it. But the amount of shit that you see between like socks and shirts and all that other kind of stuff is just like we've over glorified. I had elf Christmas story. You get 24 hours still with it on. You can see it one time in your lifetime.

There's nothing about it that's so great that you need to watch it again. And you can get the jokes watching it once in your life. The lamp thing is I see the lamp that people have and everything. I'm like, that's just funny in itself regardless of it if it would have been in the movie. Yeah. Yeah, the Christmas story, no, pass. And it's like I said, I watched maybe 20 to 30 minutes of it a year during the 24th. four-hour stream. Over the course of 10 years, you watch a complete showing of a Christmas story.

Every single time that 20 minutes is enough to where I just don't ever think about it for this year. Yeah. Yeah. And then I did have Christmas vacation. I like Christmas vacation. I've liked it as I've gotten older because I can I, I appreciate more the actual like, as a kid you're watching that, you're like, why is the dad acting so crazy? And then you watch it and don't, you're like, that's why he's fucking acting crazy. All the shit he's doing is going fucking south. And so like, I have more of an appreciation, but I still. think it's like you said. It's so hyped that it can't. Overrated does not mean a bad movie. It just means that it doesn't live up to what it's been the pedestal that's been put on. The electrified cat

underneath the chair is still maybe one of the funniest scenes in a movie. Yes. A lot of sap. Bend over. It's got funny like I still laugh at the funny shit on it. And I'll still watch it yearly, but I'm good once. It doesn't need to be repeated during the holiday season. We didn't do runner up for favorite movies oh you had your best holiday movie remember you couldn't remember your top yeah yeah did you have one below

yeah okay there you go ahead I'd be remiss if I didn't mention this in movies scrooge with Bill Murray yes that was almost on my overrated but the fact that you don't hear about scrooged that's what kept it over the overrated and he was just so his acting was just so good in it I think that's one that I do need to probably revisit now because I think I'll probably get more of it than the last time I thought.

Because it's been a few years. And just him being the dick that he was in the poor portrayal of the Christmas story with the cab driver that's his angel that follows him around. Like it just everything hits really well. You're going to go crazy. Yeah. And Bill Murray just, he's such a nut that he plays a perfect character. I miss almost guys like that in movies that played bit parts, but they were in so many movies. And just overactive.

But you never could name them who the actor was, but you like, Bobcat Goldthwaite. Before I knew he was a comedian, you would see him in movies and just, that voice, however he talks and everything, you would see him in movies and then just bit parts. I mean, there's some people like that, but no one that stands out because of a look or... Uh-uh, not anymore.

But I was still argue to this day, like Jim Carrey, my favorite Jim Carrey movie has to be liar, liar. Because he overacts in it so much trying to tell the truth. that everything is fucking funny that he does. And that's the same, Bill Murray, every movie that he has, it's the same thing. In Groundhog's Day,

he's the asshole just like he isn't Scrooge. Every movie that he plays, he plays it to the nth degree. Yeah. All right, Christmas Wildcard time. Where are we going to go with this? I don't know. Where are you going to go with it?

I don't know. It's a wild card. It can be anything. So who's first? I'll go first. Okay. I swear to God you're going to take this. It's Christmas,

vacation, not the movie. Oh, okay. Christmas vacation itself, it has no meaning now as an adult. But when you were in school, Christmas vacation, you had a little bit of an amuse-boosh for Thanksgiving. You got, sometimes Thanksgiving you got five days off. Sometimes you get the Wednesday, you got the Thursday. Christmas, man, like an oasis. In a winter storm you got, at least, I'm not even shitting you. I went back. and was counting how many calendar days you would get, depending on the year, you would get an average of between 9 and 11. You could get 11 on only like it was the white whale of years. School days, not counting weekends. Counting weekends.

Oh, really? Yeah, because what would happen is a lot of the time Christmas Eve falls on a Thursday, then a Friday. You would get times where Christmas Eve would fall on a Wednesday. So they couldn't have you come back that Friday. And then you would get all the way till afternoon. New Year's. So that was when you would get the 11. I did some research on this. But just you would get out. As soon as you were out of school, it was Christmas, Christmas Eve. And then this is when you were hoping for that video game system or just a badass toy or when

I had the four wheel and everything. You knew that after Christmas Day, it was just whatever the fuck you wanted it to be. Just being all the hang, get together with friends and fucking like after, like one of the first things I would do like after breakfast and like all the presents story thing is because I live so close to my two best friends. It would almost be like a meeting like, are you ready to come out? And we can compare and we can look and see. Like, what are we going to be doing for the next week? Like, let's plan this shit out.

We got to get use out of all this stuff. The only thing that I could, and it's not to throw any sort of rain on that parade because I do agree, I would say it was almost better than summer break, because summer break was long enough to where you could kind of enjoy like a month of it. Christmas vacation was never long enough to where you could, like, it always felt like those last couple days before you tried to get as much fuckery in as you could. Worst day of the year as a kid was always that first day back from Christmas break.

Because it was cold. You had to get back up at the same time. Like first day of school, at least it was cool because you could like see all your friends again. You were excited. Yeah. You got to see people that you hadn't seen all year. There was like an excitement. And you never did anything the first day.

It was finding your classes, your locker, whatever you needed to do, finding out who you're going to be going to classes with and where everything is. It was excitement. First day back, Christmas, the fucking party just ended and everyone's hung the fuck over. It's a new year. Life just came on at fucking two o'clock, shuffling out the door and the taco trucks closed. So sad, man. I do remember the feeling of that Sunday night before and you're just like, fuck, what?

I didn't use this time well enough. You had all this cool shit that you still had back at home waiting for you, like, play with us. Play with us. dude's so rough so more so the vacation itself yeah beautiful not after

beautiful time it's like I said it's the highest of the highs followed by the lowest of the low but those highs are so sweet because you're all day long you're fucking you're out there throwing snowballs

you're just screwing in you're coming back in late the only time you're coming in is if you're fucking cold or hungry or you need to set your shit by the fireplace and you eat and then guess what you go back out there and that shit's still wet is it warm put that

shit back on your head and back out you spent the morning building the fort you go and have some lunch you know that you have just you could have lunch in that goddamn fort you wouldn't come back no you need some sustenance for the snowball warrior about to have though had just a beautiful time of year mine i just went with the most traditional of excitements i'm just opening presents. Like just the feeling of ripping, wrapping, wrapping paper. You hated the presents that were in bags because it just didn't feel

as satisfying to be able to rip that paper off and see. It was just, everything was just such a surprise and you're trying to match up when you rip it off. You're like, yeah, that was on my list. That was something that I really wanted. And sometimes you just get in the room to see if you can pick out like what gauge the parents' reaction.

Did you sell it? Did you not sell it? The pre-excitment for looking at the bigger packages? Because for some reason in your mind is a child, every big package. Yeah, every single time. And now I almost feel like it's kind of the opposite, but, oh, man. It was the best when you were at an age where you didn't, you weren't at all concerned with how it looked with you unwrapping stuff.

Like, you weren't concerned. Like, have you ever noticed that like now if you go to unwrap something, like as an adult and like people are handing stuff? You're almost trying to make it look like you're unwrapping it, but you're not so, like, enamored with this fact that you're getting a present that you're trying to tear into it. You almost have to be strategic about it. Like, you have to almost do like the fake, oh, I'm going to try not to tear the paper too much and give it like the old college try. And then you're like, fuck it, too much tape.

I'm tearing this shit open. Uh-huh. Or you're like right in the middle of unwrapping something when somebody starts talking and you actually have to like consciously stop and look up, but you're still kind of tearing at the paper like slowly. Like, I have to try to pay attention to what they're saying to act like I care because I don't want it to say. seemed like I'm super focused on what I'm unwrapping. All I want to do right now is unwrapped us, though. Then you would start to build up as a kid. That's why that early time was just so, so much fucking fun.

Is you never even stopped. Like, you would, of course, go lift your presence and see. And over the years, you developed the ability to tell if it was clothes or socks, because the way it shifted in the package, if that goddamn packing paper was in there, it let you know. That shit's not quiet. And those aren't the ones you want to open first. No.

Well, actually, they were. would be the ones I would open first because I would want to get my, I would want it when I was fresh and I could really sell the joy. Yeah. Because if you, because if they see the genuine joy on you from opening the real ones, it's going to be hard to recreate that for the, for the less desirable. Yes, but yeah, doing the thing where if it's in a box, as a kid, man, fuck that box. That box is getting shredded. As an adult, now you're looking to have my keys. I got to cut this tape under here because I'm sure this motherfucker wants to save the box. Saving bows. is the most

confeat. Maybe it's because I'm just shit at wrapping gifts. I don't understand it's like, oh, save me that bow. That's a really great bow. It's like it's a fucking bow. That's not the coolest part about this whole thing. There's a place that sells about a fucking billion of these. Yeah, I will spend... And that one will be fresh next year. I'll never think about spending three

dollars on a bow. I'm only thinking about the present. I'm going to give this to you, but if I see this motherfucking bow come back to me on a present. I remember... I'm handing it back and telling you to get a new fucking bow. We're not recycle. Don't recycle it on me. Yeah, it's so Just as a kid

Just that blind Obsession with the presence And just being like Fuck yeah I don't care what anyone thinks I'm opening this shit And then the juxtaposition As an adult being like

All right, what is this I know what this is All right let's put on the Oh I'm going to use this so much Well we had it Maybe the best I think we did have it the best

Now that I think about it because when you're a single child or when you're an only child, I'm sure that it's, Christmas is probably cool because it's just all about you. Yeah. And you and I having one sibling each, I think that's the best of the worlds because you had somebody to play with and fuck with and do all that stuff.

Christmas time comes, if you have like three or four siblings and you have to sit and wait and watch them open shit while you're still looking at yours, that would be madness. Yes. Drive me insane. The fact that like you and I,

we go one to one, like sibling opens one, parents may be open one, then you open another one. Just trying to fucking put as much coffee in their face as possible. Trying to keep track it. Give me the fucking paper. I got my garbage fucking bag. Who opened the last one?

Your brother or sister gets to open the next one. I'm next. Yeah. It was always an argument. I'm sure kids in bigger families, like that argument had to fucking suck. Because you're seeing all your siblings get shit and all you want to do is focus on you. My shit next.

Yeah. Yeah. And then you, you pick that it's the fucking stepbrothers thing. Someone ends up picking the Hulk cans and you get the fucking raw hide wallet. Like, I picked the fucking wrong one. This gift is shit. Oh. All right, man. I think that's it.

You got any, uh, got anything, any closing thoughts? No. I, I just hope that everybody got what they were hoping for. As an adult, that pretty much means hope you got a gift card to the place they told you to buy a gift card too so you can buy something you like. Is, yeah, maybe before we go, do you think the worst part about Christmas is an adult

is having to make your own Christmas list now? Yes. It's the most frustrating thing to have to come up with because if I see shit now, I just buy it. If I want it, if I need it,

I just buy it. If I want it and don't have it, I'm not going to tell you to buy it because it's going to be fucking, I'm going to sound like an asshole for telling you to buy this thing

that's too expensive that I don't have it right now. That's exactly what it is. So all it is at this point, there shouldn't be any stigma to it. If you want a fucking gift card, ask for a goddamn gift card, put it toward whatever you want. Guess what?

People are much happier. They may not have as much joy in opening something cool, but I'm going to tell you right now that joy is going to leave when they have to take it back to the store and exchange it for something. Well, not only that, I'm getting better at golf, so I don't need as many golf balls for Christmas. Like, I still have some leftover from years before, but I always put it on my list because it's the easiest,

It's a relatively not super expensive thing. It's got a little significance to it. People that are usually buying it for you don't realize kind of what the, you know, is this a lot? Is this not very many? But every single year I have to ask for a box of golf balls because it's a logical thing to put on there. It's like all these people have to think, God, he's not getting any better golf. Gift cards. Gift cards.

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