New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce - Kylie Kelce on Love Actually, Blind Ranking Christmas Movies and the Best Kelce Gift Giver | Ep 116

Episode Date: December 24, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 There's nothing sweet about this. Didn't speak a single word of each other's language. I prefer more of the Shakespearean love where they actually communicate and there's some romantic interaction. He's an advocate for communication. He wouldn't know romance if it smacked him square in the face. So that's the problem. Let me tell you, if love actually is about romance, I do not understand romance. Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen of a wondry show produced by Wave Sports and Entertainment and brought to you by our.
Starting point is 00:00:33 friends at Monopoly Go. This holiday season creates some memories by playing together enjoying some friendly competition and getting the gift of sweet revenge. Oh, I love it. We are your host. I'm Travis Kelsey, my big brother Jason Kelsey, and my
Starting point is 00:00:49 sister-in-law, Kylie Kelsey, has decided to join us for this very, very special episode. Subscribe on YouTube, 1G Plus, wherever you get to podcasts, follow the show on all social media, at New Heights Show with 1S. and Jason, this is your time to tell everyone what we're doing here. Yeah, well, we got an outstanding New Heights episode where we're going to be diving into the New Heights Film Club,
Starting point is 00:01:14 but not just one film. That's right. Oh, yeah. For a little present for your holiday, we're going to be giving you a double dose of film reviews, Love Actually, and Christmas Vacation. Double down, the double deuce. So without further ado, let's give you. get into a little bit of a new news.
Starting point is 00:01:34 I don't know if you guys have seen, but my wife Kylie has a number one podcast in the world right now. Number one. Number one, well, on Apple podcast. On Apple podcast. We should stipulate Apple podcast. Number one podcast.
Starting point is 00:01:47 Yeah, it's been any easier or harder than we, uh, do we even, I don't think we gave her any advice. No, she didn't ask me for her. You didn't. Yeah, she didn't ask me either. She probably was like, what do I need advice for? Clearly, she chose right. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:02 I would love advice from you guys. I don't know what not to do. Yeah, exactly. There you go. Yeah. We'll get a good team that edits well. Well, how's it going,
Starting point is 00:02:10 Kai? It's going great. I've gotten to have some really great conversations with incredible people. And I mean, talking to myself is a little weird, but that's, I was about to ask, how was the one man show or one woman show?
Starting point is 00:02:24 Queen Emma's writing rundowns that really make it go easy, but. Nice. Nice, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's,
Starting point is 00:02:30 it's interesting. talking to yourself for that much. Nice. You don't have an intern doing it for you? What's that? You're actually paying somebody? We have interns do that stuff for us. No, you have an executive producer.
Starting point is 00:02:42 Yeah, we have volunteers that just come in and... We don't, we don't pay people that. No. We don't, yeah, we actually... Sorry, Brandon. We need to fix that. Interns only. They both take a sit.
Starting point is 00:02:55 That's how you run a business. That's how a 90s businesses ran. That's how you sell a $100 million podcast right there. turns, baby. Jesus Christ. Take advantage of that. How is it this short end of the show and it's already off the rails? No, this is.
Starting point is 00:03:13 This is the rails. What are you talking about? Right here. We're right on the smooth. On the rails going high speeds. We're on the new heights run. Is that what it is? Headed straight for Christmas Review Town.
Starting point is 00:03:23 Hit me with it. Why did you make us review this movie before we get into it? Yeah, yeah. Tell us about your love for actual love. Love Actually. Love Actually is one of my favorite movies, period, like outside of like not just holiday movies. Yes. Like up there with like Shawshank Redemption and you said that like it was a joke, but I love that movie too.
Starting point is 00:03:45 Huh? He started listing like he was going to be like. It's a joke. The joke isn't that Shawshank is up there. That's not the joke. I think that's pretty routinely up there with best. Jason, you might be the eyeball out here. I actually enjoyed love actually.
Starting point is 00:04:00 It's not, you don't have to say that, travel. No, I will concede. I will concede it's not an unenjoyable movie to watch. Nice. My issue is the Christmas aspect of it. And then also just like the overall, we're going to get into it, but the overall sentiment and lessons and overall values that it expunges expounds are absolutely horrendous. But we'll dive into that.
Starting point is 00:04:26 This is going to be a fun one. I really do love the movie. I think, are we going into the movie now? I can't wait for him to sit here and shit on it for the next 10 minutes. We might as well dive into it, but first, this episode will be released on Christmas Eve. Oh, Merry Christmas, everyone. Yes, if Santa's listening. Happy Hanukkah, if that's what you...
Starting point is 00:04:46 Is there anything you want to ask for? When is Hanukkah this year? Is Hanukkah right now? It's the same time as Christmas, actually. Not all the time, though. No, this year it is, though. It lines up perfectly with Christmas. There you go.
Starting point is 00:04:57 Which night? I believe on Christmas Eve Hanukkah starts. Does someone want to fact-touch me on that? I thought it was- Judge Jake, are you here? Brandon Type. Just Jake, I heard, is on honeymoon. Oh, I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:05:09 It starts on Christmas Day. Starts on Christmas. Nice. Happy Hanukkah, all of our Jewish friend. I think best Hanukkah movies ate crazy nights. We don't even need to debate that one, right? All right. Well, Happy Hanuket, everybody.
Starting point is 00:05:23 Do you guys have anything on the Christmas list that you want to share? Christmas list. Like that we want is like presents? Yeah. What do you? Is there anything you want to ask Santa for, Jason? If I was going to ask Santa. Thanks, Trava.
Starting point is 00:05:36 For anything, it would be for better time management skills. Ooh, he wants skills. Yeah. Nice. Kylie, get him one of those old school Palm pilots. Well, no, I don't think. You can. Unless it can make all of my decisions for me.
Starting point is 00:05:56 I don't think it's going to help. Okay. All right. So, yeah. More time management. Okay. I need Santa to work his magic, not in a physical realm, but in the mental realm. The man wants Santa to work magic on them.
Starting point is 00:06:11 So we want to respect your podcasting rule of no episodes over 45 minutes, but that's not the way we do things. But we will set a timer so that you know how much you've gone over that time. Fuck your rules. Yeah. You're on the New Heights podcast, not the, I'm not going to lie. This is going to take way more than 45 minutes. No way. Well, that's how long we have. So Brandon will start this timer. All right. We're off and running. We're rolling. Okay, we're going to start to try and summarize the plot of this movie in a little two-minute drill.
Starting point is 00:06:42 Two-minute drill is brought to you by Amex. Don't leave home without it. Kylie, please give us the plot of love actually since you made us watch it. Good luck. Ready, set, go. Why is it that I made you watch it? Listen, I didn't make the rules here. You're 10 seconds in and you haven't gotten, you got 50 seconds. You got a minute 50 left. I don't think I need that much time. It is a collection of stories. Yes.
Starting point is 00:07:09 Associated with a number of families. I don't know how many because that's not really important. I think it's nine. Is it really nine? I think it is nine. And they are all connected to each other in some way, whether it's by marriage, sibling, friend. And it's different people experiencing different family things during the holidays. You have the prime minister.
Starting point is 00:07:32 You have porn star stand-ins. You have- I don't think that was a porn. I think that was like a- Are you joking right now? Are you kidding me? Well, in porn, they actually have sex. They were just acting like they were having sex.
Starting point is 00:07:43 No, they were the standing. They were like to get like the lighting right. Which I didn't know. I didn't even like think that. I didn't see that. I thought they were like the, okay, that may be. makes sense. My goodness.
Starting point is 00:07:56 You have a man who is recently widowed and he's navigating his new, like his relationship with his son. You just have all of these things that are connected sort of by like one degree of separation, each of them. There's good. There's bad. And it ends in a beautiful Christmas pageant with one of the best renditions of Mariah Carey's all I want for Christmas is you.
Starting point is 00:08:22 amateurish of yes to me I thought it was a child that's saying it thank you exactly Jordan mom killed and the build up to it was outstanding yeah I think it's lovely maybe it could be my ADHD that makes me like this movie so much because it's like a bunch of small stories in one big movie and it pops around a lot that's helpful for me
Starting point is 00:08:44 you actually did that in two minutes which is pretty I mean this is why your podcast is number one you're very punctual that was the two-minute drill brought to you by Amex. Let's keep this thing moving. Okay, so let's be honest. I'll be brutally honest. Love actually might be the worst Christmas movie I've ever seen.
Starting point is 00:09:04 Like, I don't even know that it's up for debate. I didn't feel Christmas at all during the movie. There was zero Christmas spirit or anything. I enjoyed the movie. It was okay. It was okay. I just didn't understand how much it really tied into Christmas. Not only does it not tie into Christmas.
Starting point is 00:09:23 Like the only Christmas thing is literally. It was like the worst family values of like all time tied into Christmas. It was like bad people. A guy went to get a necklace for his. The secretary or whatever that woman was. And it's like, let's just go story by story. Let's go story by story.
Starting point is 00:09:38 The one guy is like voyering his best friend's wife. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Start from the beginning. Okay. Who did it start out with? I don't know. You've seen it. The guy who's going.
Starting point is 00:09:52 No, the guy who's going. the guy who's going to the wedding and he's like hey yeah are you sure you don't want to come and she's like I'm disgusting I'm I'm sick I can't go okay so we want to start with that storyline that's the first so for those you that don't know the first storyline is a guy leaves the house his wife is like oh hey like I'm a little sick I'm not going to go with you and I knew it right away like he called it the minute he left and she's going to be fucking somebody when he gets back obvious right so it's not even like it's remotely creative of a movie so So super obvious that she's going to come back in.
Starting point is 00:10:27 She's going to be with somebody. It wasn't obvious in the 90s. Well, it also wasn't obvious that it was going to be his fucking brother. Okay. Did you know that? No. Yeah. She's fucking his brother.
Starting point is 00:10:37 Yeah. Merry Christmas, everyone. Then he's such a nice. So he leaves her and decides to go to where was he at? He went to France, right? Somewhere. Italy or France or someplace. And he has this Portuguese woman who's waiting.
Starting point is 00:10:52 I think he just went to the. countryside. Okay. Wherever. And his like housekeeper that he hires is Portuguese. Yes. Or speaks Portuguese. The housekeeper that he's given speaks Portuguese from this other woman, which they don't get into if she was human trafficked or how she got there. Jesus Christ, Jason. But they, we do know that these people fall in love with each other without being able to talk. What the fuck are we talking about? It's true. They never spoke a word. Do you ever watch love is blind? I do not watch love is blind. This was love is mute. It was love is mute.
Starting point is 00:11:27 It was a great life lesson. It was a great life lesson into how much you can fall in love with somebody without actually being able to communicate with them. It was terribly unbelievable. But not even like they're in the water and they're saying the same thing. And kind of look, they're saying the same thing. And all I'm in my head is like, this is complete nonsense. This is just like complete ridiculousness.
Starting point is 00:11:51 There's nothing sweet about this. They're acting like... There's nothing sweet about the fact that they were saying the exact same thing but didn't speak I prefer more of the Shakespearean love where they actually communicate and there's some romantic interaction as opposed to... You want to talk about communicate. This, he's an advocate for communication. Yeah, that's where we... I'm realizing that is the problem here.
Starting point is 00:12:18 It was too, it hit home too much for him. No, that he actually doesn't. doesn't, he wouldn't know romance if it smacked him square in the face. So that's the problem. Well, let me tell you, if love actually is about romance, I do not understand romance. There might have been one storyline and then there was one storyline. That one movie. That was good.
Starting point is 00:12:39 Which one was it? Liam Mason and his son, Sam. That was by far. That was a great storyline. It was fantastic. We got to get that kid of scholarship. We got to get that kid of scholarship. We got to get a football in his hand.
Starting point is 00:12:51 We got to get him catching the ball. that motherfucker was running through the airport dodging cats like he was Pat Mahomes in the fourth quarter he was just out there the cutest thing about watching was that Ellie was watching at the end of the movie and got blushed on the cheeks she was feeling her some of Sam was so excited and then the next day she told me mom that cute boy that played the drums will you show me a picture of him nice and then I had to Google Sam from love actually and she was giggling like She was so, it was very good. Yeah, but Wyatt loves every boy that comes up on this. Anybody that kisses, oh my gosh. That's adorable. That's the one redeemable story. No, they only saw the end.
Starting point is 00:13:40 They almost saw the boobs, but I was, I warned Jason. He sped it up. All right. So that's the one redeemable story. Okay. I will say the one storyline that really does not sit write with me is the best friend. Yeah. And Kieranightly. Oh, you're talking about the cards, the cards. Yeah. Yeah. That was like that's like the iconic way to do. That's like the most
Starting point is 00:14:04 romantic way to tell someone you're in love with them, right? The cards, like play music. Your best friends. While your best friend, her husband is inside sitting on the couch, tell them it's carolers. What's crazy is that, yeah, exactly. No. What's crazy is that all these, like you said, all these stories tie together in one community. And it's supposed to make it look like this is what happens in like a community. Like this is like these are all the different love stories and all the dead. Like this is what's going on around you. Surrendous.
Starting point is 00:14:36 And it's terrifying. Because there's so much scandal in it. Everyone's, everyone's a guy. You got a guy buying a necklace for another woman. Yeah, she's a hoe. Jesus. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:14:48 That was aggressive. It was aggressive, but deserving if you're going to do that. I just didn't like how she- I don't know why anybody's mad at her. The husband's the guy that freaking- Yeah, the husband's the worst. It's never made sense to me. No, the husband is horrible, but she's the one who is sitting at her desk and
Starting point is 00:15:04 splits her legs while she's standing in front of him to be like, hey, this Christmas party is about to be off the hook. Is she married? Is she married? I don't think she's- I don't recall her. This is what I will say. This is what I will.
Starting point is 00:15:19 I'll say. I see it from both sides. Absolutely laying the gauntlet after the, after the Christmas pageant and walking up to him and being like, like, oh, do you want to explain to me what I'm supposed to do now and like called his ass on the carpet? Power to you, girl. Yes.
Starting point is 00:15:38 Power to her. At the end of the movie, they were still together. She didn't do anything. How do you know they were still together? He was somewhere on a trip and the only reason she was picking him up was because of the kids. and she only allowed him to kiss her on the cheek. She didn't kiss him.
Starting point is 00:15:52 Either way. I don't know. Whatever. Horrible storyline. Let's have the boss cheating with the secretary. Yeah, because that's so crazy. It's not that it's crazy. It's just that you're expounding.
Starting point is 00:16:03 I think the whole point is, is that they put together a collection of storylines surrounding the holidays because the holidays are sensationalized. Yes. And in, I think, adult life, you really. the holidays aren't as jolly and like life doesn't like real life doesn't stop because the holidays. And it's also sensationalized. I just think top to bottom, I see what you're saying that it didn't need to be a Christmas movie.
Starting point is 00:16:36 But I think that's part of the point. I think that's why they're like trying to drive the point home. Yeah. I think that they made it a Christmas movie because they know that by making it a Christmas movie, it would sell and become a tradition every single year. And I think you're just a hater. I think that this is so wild. It's terrible values.
Starting point is 00:16:56 Not all. Not all terrible values. Some good values in there. No. The porn couple were very cute and very happy. They were. They were very cute. I don't remember.
Starting point is 00:17:08 He was so distracted by the boobs. He couldn't even realize that they were having actual conversation. Well, they weren't like a legitimate like storyline that was happening that much. but yes. Also, how about what's his name? Colin? Colin, God of sex. That was a good one. He comes to the United States. Living the American dream. Yeah, I just love that it was Wisconsin. Yeah. And then he found those girls in Wisconsin. I mean, he definitely. He found some smoke shows in Wisconsin. I will say this. I will say this. Made out like a thief. They didn't go into this in the movie. But Colin clearly was talking to a prostitute.
Starting point is 00:17:42 Like, if you go up to a bar and a woman is that, yeah, that's like she's dressed that. Are you kidding me? She's dressed that way and talking that kind of way. That's a prostitute. All right. I don't need to know anything more about this story. That didn't really happen to Colin. And then he brought one home for his friend.
Starting point is 00:17:59 Yeah. Yeah. That's that's love. That's true. And that is love actually. That's love actually. That's Colin has some wealthy parents. And he, uh,
Starting point is 00:18:10 she comes through the door and immediately just kisses the other guy. Like this whole. thing is just so love it love at first sight jason yeah or love at first sight or paid for love in the form of prostitution that's what i got from that vibe i really do love the movie it's a fun one to watch i was enjoying i was i was enjoying following along to all the stories i also was kind of with jason on some of them like this is a little far fetch oh no a couple of them i will say the moment the moment that Kira Knightley sits down and is trying to watch the wedding video, it does give you like an uneasy feeling in your stomach.
Starting point is 00:18:50 As a woman, like if that were to happen to you where you sat down, you were like, oh, my husband's best friend recorded this video. I'm going to watch it. And then it's all closeups of your face. And you're like, are you about to kill me? Yeah. Well, that's my thing. She wasn't like that, though.
Starting point is 00:19:03 She was kind of into it. I don't think she was into it. She was into it. And then she was into it when he came with the cars afterwards. No, I think she felt bad for him. No, she was into it. And the whole thing was weird. I mean, it's stalker type behavior.
Starting point is 00:19:17 A thousand percent. Can't do it. No. Can't do it. Don't want to promote that. Don't want to, that's not the storyline that gets the happy ending. I agree. Overall, rating it, are we doing the PFF grade?
Starting point is 00:19:31 Is that what we're doing here? We always do. All right. PFF grade. Okay. Amount of Christmas. I mean, minimal Christmas. I mean, it's a lot of Christmas, but minimal actual Christmas theme.
Starting point is 00:19:41 I'm going to go four? I'll say four. Because there's Christmas stuff all over the place. That's so much more generous than what I thought you were going to give it. Yeah, I'm not going to, listen, I'm realistic. I'm giving an honest review that is not swayed by any ulterior motive. This is an honest, that's what you can expect from Jason Kills. That's what you get.
Starting point is 00:20:03 You put a stamp, put a guarantee on the box. What are you giving it, Kai? For the amount of Christmas? Yeah. Six. anywhere from 4.6. I won't aggressively. I understand that these storylines could have been constructed outside of the holiday season.
Starting point is 00:20:20 Yeah. I mean, it's... I can acknowledge that. And that's why I'm giving it a three. This had nothing to do with this. Both of you are just being generous. That's not the one I'm going to be generous on. Acting?
Starting point is 00:20:32 I thought the acting was pretty good. I mean, it's for what it is, it's a rom-com. Honestly, the acting, that's what I'm saying. I enjoyed the storylines and the act. and it was fun and it was a very good cast when you bring good kids acting good kid acting in also all for the prime minister calling out the united states if that isn't the biggest form of fucking political grandstanding that i've ever seen fuck that guy he didn't say shit to billy bob's face and then went up on the podium like i ain't doing shit if i'm the u.s i'm sticking it right up
Starting point is 00:21:04 the prime minister of britain's ass like we run the fucking show not you dicket we just had a whole fucking conversation in your office. You're bringing this up one time and they're going to go out there and say that shit in the fucking media. So anyways, just had to get that off my chest. He did. He flanked.
Starting point is 00:21:21 Hugh Grant flanked. The prime minister flanked. We're not going to talk about any of this in the office. I'm going to act like I'm your best buddy and then go out there and say like we're done being taking advantage of. Well, now Britain's fucked because the U.S. is not on your side. So guess what?
Starting point is 00:21:34 Good luck. He wasn't talking. He was talking about the woman. No, he was not. Oh, my God. He was still mad at the woman because he was about to fire her. No, he was not. That's all he was in his head.
Starting point is 00:21:46 He fired her right afterwards, guys. I don't know what you guys have talked yourself into. He fired her. And then it took later in the movie. He moved her from his personal office to alleviate temptation. No, he liked the temptation. He was in on it. That's why at the end, he came back around.
Starting point is 00:22:03 He was like, oh, my gosh, I've made a terrible mistake. That woman was being taken advantage of. Now I need her back. He knew immediately that what the president was doing. I don't think he was in. Acting, I'm giving, I'm giving you a solid nine. I love the acting. I mean, I can't give it a nine just for,
Starting point is 00:22:23 because of like the type of movie it is. You're ridiculous. But I'll nothing. Then you, then you downscore the plot. You don't fuck with the acting. Oh, I would downscore. If we're going on.
Starting point is 00:22:32 But I just think that there's, the acting wasn't like overly difficult. That's why I guess what I'm getting. Like, you're so fun. I'm just being honest. Like, it's not, it's like the rom-com type model isn't like this. What? This isn't like Shawshank like level like type.
Starting point is 00:22:52 This isn't, uh, what's the fucking one where, uh, Leonardo's out in the fucking wilderness for two hours with the grizzly bears some whatever. What the fuck's that movie? Reverend, like, Revenant. This isn't that type of film. So like, this would be like if the cheesley. played like a high school team how did the chiefs play well they beat them by thousand points but it's hard to tell if they're very like you know what I mean like I
Starting point is 00:23:16 don't know what to tell you you're fucking ridiculous give it a score all right seven it's good acting but like I can't directing I thought the directing was up there I thought to be able to put all these all the I can't take Jason serious right now I thought the directing was cool. A lot of the shots were fun, the symmetrical. I thought the shots on the, especially on the water when they were, when all the papers and everything flew around. I thought that was sweet. I thought the running, the slow-mo running through the airport, it fired me up for some reason. I found it to be. I'll give it a solid, directing solid eight. Solid eight. I'm going to say nine. I love this movie. I'll say like just very predictable.
Starting point is 00:24:07 like I think it's hard. Yeah, but it's plot. But also, but also like this, the way the scenes are shot in like the choices that are made. Like it just felt very. The wedding scene where everybody pops up with their own instrument? That's, first of all, again, that's plot. I'm just saying the way everything was shot was just very, there was nothing creative to it. So like, I feel like anybody who went to film school could have directed this movie in the exact same way this guy did.
Starting point is 00:24:35 So I'll go five. You're such a grinch, man. That's a great description. Plot. Where we got plot? Can I go negative? No, you can't go negative. Oh, Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 00:24:46 It's a one to ten. One to ten? So I can't go zero. No. One. Fucked up. It's just a horrendous. The reality of it adjacent is that there probably is a lot of this going on.
Starting point is 00:24:58 So as much as you want to act like this is like not a good plot. Like this is something that could actually be going on. I'm going to eight. I think that it was a lovely collection. And again, the only reason I'm downscoring from higher is because I think that it didn't necessarily have to be a holiday movie. Okay. I'll say this.
Starting point is 00:25:20 If it is actually going on, it was directed and filmed in a way that was completely inappropriate. It was filmed in this uplifting like, oh, look, she's out with the Q cards guy, the best friend trying to fuck his best friend's wife. And like, all of it was done in this like, happy, like there was, there should have been much more dark tones and filmed in a way that expounded on these people being pieces of shit. That's fine.
Starting point is 00:25:47 But the fact that all of it was celebrated is ridiculous. So like, maybe the plot isn't horrendous. Maybe I would like the plot if the director and the way it was shot accurately portrayed all these people as monsters. I did feel like they were like portraying everybody as all everybody's good people. Yeah. That being said, I'll give it a solid seven. I enjoyed the, I enjoyed the bouncing around.
Starting point is 00:26:10 I thought the plot of the movie, like how they were like tying in all the stories, even though I wasn't agreeing with what everybody was doing. I thought it was very interesting. Character relatability. This is where it's tough. Can't relate to a lot of these situations. Everybody can relate to Sam. You got your first crush. You know, how do I, you know, do I, do I, do I?
Starting point is 00:26:36 Do I have the courage to go up and ask the girl that I'm into out and sing to her? Couldn't really relate to anybody. I'm going to give it a nice solid three. Yeah. Outside of them all being European. I just feel bad giving it any low score, but I don't know that there's a single plot where I'm like, I feel that. I'm going to go four, five, four. I don't know how you don't love this adorable dog behind you.
Starting point is 00:27:05 She looks dead. You see her. Where are you going, Jason? Sam's relatable. It's the only one and the dad. I think most dads are going to be put in that situation where they're trying to navigate their son's first love interest and Sam having to do that and nailing it.
Starting point is 00:27:21 So I'm going to go, I'll go three as well. Nice. Because that was a very relatable scene. All the other ones just no. All righty, back to the top of the two-minute drill here. We just got done with Love Actually. giving it a solid kind of buns movie review. But we are into one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time.
Starting point is 00:27:46 And this is, this is America speaking because this movie Christmas vacation is based off of the good-hearted middle-class American family. Yes. And it's just, it's so, it's such a magical fucking hilarious. It hits on every single aspect of like the families and all the characters and like kind of portrays what I imagine as a lot of
Starting point is 00:28:14 a lot of like people's Christmas, I don't know, Christmas experiences year in, year out, especially when you get the entire family like both sides of the family together in one house. I love it. This is a movie that I didn't love as much when I was a kid. Yeah. Because I think it was hard to relate to all of it. But the older you get, the funnier it gets, the more relatable it gets, especially once you start having kids of your own once you're married.
Starting point is 00:28:38 I feel like, even without my kids, I'm, I'm looking at it like, man, I can appreciate it for just the dynamic, like the father always trying to just go above and beyond for the Christmas magic.
Starting point is 00:28:49 For sure. Whether it's the tree or the lights. And he's always, he says it in the beginning. He's like, I always just wanted a big Christmas, like family environment in my life, having all,
Starting point is 00:29:03 both sides of the family, his wife's and his, and his, all the parents, knowing that, you know, not everybody always sees eye to eye, but they always wanted this. Yeah, we're also going to mention her that Kylie hasn't seen it. Yeah, Kylie, well, she has seen it. She did not watch it before this episode, though. No, I'm of no use to you.
Starting point is 00:29:20 So. I've only seen bits and pieces. What pieces have you seen? Can you see the dog right now? Yeah. She stole the toilet paper? She stole the toilet paper out of the best. Look at her.
Starting point is 00:29:38 She's about to tear it to pieces. Arts and Crafts. It's docky Arts and Crafts. I don't even know that I can pull scenes out of my pocket here. Okay. When I tell you, I am useless to this. Do you know who the main character is? Clark is Griswold.
Starting point is 00:29:53 Do you know who plays him? No. Okay. Kylie's out of it. All right. Shebby Chase absolutely kills it. There you go. That's it.
Starting point is 00:30:04 Shebby's the man. Yeah, I think what's special about this movie, is exactly what you're saying, Travis, that Clark is trying to give his family the ideal, like, storybook Christmas that hallmark in every movie and every story has ever laid out. Yeah. But the beauty behind this is like, this is how actually Christmas is. It's a giant chore. It's incredibly hard to pull off.
Starting point is 00:30:24 But you all, for some reason, all of us revel in the misery of trying to make it happen because you're trying to make it special for your kids and your family. And I think everybody can identify with Clark's inability to do that. but in trying to do so every single year. So I think it's fantastic. I love right from the opening scene of going out and cutting the Christmas tree down. And the kids are like, why the hell are we out here doing this? This makes no sense, Dad.
Starting point is 00:30:52 And he's like, it's because it's a Christmas tradition. This is what we're going to go get our trees. This is what it's the ultimate like dad line of American dads. This is what our forefathers did. They went out. I'm just like, God. Damn, it's going to be more spot on. No doubt.
Starting point is 00:31:09 All the 90s dad's talk. And then it's just, you know, right down the, like go, right down the barrel from, you know, he's expecting the bonus from his job and like how big of a point. He's gone all in on Christmas. Like, he's leveraged everything that this is going to happen. And it comes to full, you know, it comes to a head immediately when he finds out that he isn't getting the bonus that he thinks he's getting. But kudos to the boss for coming to getting his senses when he's kidnapped by. Yeah. Cousin Eddie.
Starting point is 00:31:38 But cousin Eddie. And we all have a Cousin Eddie. I had a revelation when I was watching this movie. I've always thought I was Clark Griswold. Am I cousin Eddie? No. Like when I come to your house, am I viewed as the Cousin Eddie? No.
Starting point is 00:31:50 You're viewed as Clark Griswold. I didn't know. You're 100% Clark. I just thought all of those scenes are so relatable and that's what makes the movie so special. And they did such a good job of just making a funny, poking fun at. the ridiculousness of it, poking fun at the neighbors who are too cool to have Christmas be a part. Like, I just think it's, it's really, really well done across the board by National Lampoon and Chevy Chase and everyone involved.
Starting point is 00:32:19 So, should we get into the PFF rating of this movie? Or do you want to talk about more stories? I want to ask you. What's your favorite scene? Yeah. Favorite scene? Ah, I probably should have thought of this before. There's so many good ones.
Starting point is 00:32:32 I mean, right off the bat, the, uh, kiss my ass scene with the, uh, with the boss and all of his little minions. I thought that was fucking gold. Kiss my ass, kiss his ass. Kiss his ass. Happy Hanukkah. Kiss your ass.
Starting point is 00:32:43 Happy Hanukkah. So good. Yeah. I like the sledding scene. That one's an iconic one when he goes like through all the freaking different material. He's got the new lubricant. I really like the cat scene. Don't put that on my sled.
Starting point is 00:32:59 You know that the metal plate I got my head. Cousin Eddie's lines are so much better. It turns the microwave on. I piss myself. I pissed myself. And then right now, and now the only thing standing between my brain and is a two inch wide piece of government plastic. So good.
Starting point is 00:33:21 It's so good. Oh, my gosh. That's fucking gold. I never understood the addict scene. I thought he was stuck up there. And I forgot that he goes through the ceiling. He could have just left, but he stays up there.
Starting point is 00:33:34 He stays out there. He gets caught up in just. enjoying all the shit that's up there. Going down memory lane, which we all get caught up in. For sure. I love the lights, the light scene. Oh, my gosh. When he finally gets it clicked on and the whole town goes out, then they got to turn
Starting point is 00:33:50 the nuclear power on. Shitter's full, man. He works hard on those lights, grandma, so does a washing machine. Or so he worked hard at grandma, so does a washing machine. That's a good one. All right, let's get to the PFF grade. So before we got to get out of here. Kylie's, we're fast approaching your 45-minute window.
Starting point is 00:34:08 Let's do it. Amount of Christmas, 10. 10. Could not have more. Could not have more Christmas. Yeah. Acting. For what it is, like a comedy, they nailed it.
Starting point is 00:34:19 Yeah. I mean, it's, again, not the most challenging, but. I was about to say, if you're going to go, if you're going to give. This was more challenging. Like, the comedic timing here is way more challenging what they didn't love actually. And I'm assuming there was an amount of off-the-cuff, comments made like most of these comedies. I'm going eight.
Starting point is 00:34:37 I'm going eight. Yeah, there's no off the cuff in love, actually. Directing. I didn't give my acting. I'll give them those two. Just, I mean, a seven. They were both tens, but if we're going the entire movie. The entire cast.
Starting point is 00:34:55 Yeah. All right. That's fair. I love the boss did a good job. Forget that guy's actor. But yeah. Directing. I mean, 10.
Starting point is 00:35:04 It nailed. it like it's it's freaking hilarious and it's not overstated it's not overstated like it's not like here's what I mean and this is why I like old comedies so many comedies that are made now it's like they overdo it with a lot of it and it feels like let there be some question like there's like in the first scene like they forget the saw but they still get out of there with the tree because they ripped it out of the ground how do they rip it out of the ground who gives a shit it's funny don't don't we don't need to overdo it We don't need to over, like, we don't need to make it so realistic that, oh, yeah, no,
Starting point is 00:35:40 Glarc, Chevy Chase isn't ripping a tree out of ground. And the comedy is very dry. It's not like at any moment, it feels like, like if you didn't, weren't listening to the words, it doesn't feel like a comedy. Like, it's not like this slap sticky thing too much. Actually, that's a lot. Anyway, I think the comedy is very dry throughout. And I just like that type of comedy as opposed to kind of things that happen now where it's like
Starting point is 00:36:03 more of the time. comedy's made right now. I'll give it a solid eight on the directing. I thought it was good. Plot. Ten. Stop, Jason.
Starting point is 00:36:15 Eleven. I don't, in terms of Christmas movie plot, like this thing hits all of it. It was all like when he's put turning on the lights and they're doing the drum roll, we all knew it was not going to go up. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:36:27 but you didn't know why it wasn't going up. Is it because of light bulbs out? You did not know that there was going to be the light switch in the, in the garage. It was. And that there was going to be a back. and forth where like she was going to turn it on. Then he's like having trouble.
Starting point is 00:36:40 He thinks he's got it fixed. Then all of a sudden it's going out and he's trying. Like I just had it out. Like, no, none of that stuff was predictable. That's why it was funny. Things that are predictable aren't funny. This movie is very funny. The light part.
Starting point is 00:36:51 It wasn't funny. It was just a part, the needed part in the movie. He didn't think it was funny when he stapled his sleeve to the gutter and he ripped his sleeve off and then the ladder fell back into the tree. Then he went forward again. Then he's hanging from the gutter. and a piece of ice shot out and hit his neighbor neighbor's window no it's good for TV but I didn't laugh if that's what you're asking me just give it a rating plot I'll give it a
Starting point is 00:37:19 seven it's ridiculous I like the way Travis just crushed you the way you crushed me on I mean I said was actually it was a hundred percent I mean it made a ton of sense this makes no sense character he said it was predictable it's like not predict that's why it's funny character Relatability. Ten. Character relatability is up there. I'll give it a good nine. What's the PFF grade?
Starting point is 00:37:40 It's going to be pretty high. It's going to be pretty high for a Christmas movie. Probably right around the eights. High eight. Yeah. It's going to have to be eight points. No, that might be nine. It's going to be eight points out, right?
Starting point is 00:37:53 It shouldn't be this hard. I don't know what's taking Brandon so long to type this up. Eight point nine. Wow. I mean, yeah, I think that's a solid score for how I enjoyed the movie. I thought it was 8.9 for sure. All right. That's it for movie reviews.
Starting point is 00:38:12 We're going to get to our next segment, which is Christmas movie games. That's right. We're going to do Kylie is informing this is the TikTok trend. I'm not on TikTok, so I'm new to this trend. It's a blind ranking. This is a big thing in the world of TikTok. The blind ranking is brought to you by our friends at Accelerator. Nice.
Starting point is 00:38:31 Which, whether you're trying to get geared up to put up some Christmas lights like Clark Griswold or wrapping some presents in the heat of the night before Santa gets there. Make sure you're drinking accelerator when you need that energy and a little bit of all natural plant-based thermogenics to get you there. Always get you right, baby. It's got me to 14 and 1 this season. All right, we're going to blind rank 10 of the most popular Christmas movies of all time. Can't wait to see what they chose for this? You will see one movie at a time. Place it on the list before seeing the next one.
Starting point is 00:39:07 It's going to be hard because we don't know what the 10 movies are going to be. That's the whole point of it. That's why it's playing ranking. He gets it now. There's literally filters on TikTok that do this. What's a filter? Is that like a... It's like a Snapchat thing.
Starting point is 00:39:24 But is it, it does like, it like turns everything orange? No. It shows a blank one through 10. And then it puts one thing on the screen and you have to select which number you'd like to put it at. And then you find out what the next one is. Got it. Okay. There's multiple versions of filters.
Starting point is 00:39:39 There's like Thanksgiving. Yeah, that is. But there's like Thanksgiving food ranking. How are we doing this? Are we doing this with the- Brandon's going to pop it up? Should I get a pen and pencil? No.
Starting point is 00:39:51 Oh, gosh. Dude, Jason. It's so funny. First movie, the Santa Claus. Santa Claus. That's a good movie. That's a good movie. I can think of a lot of movies better, but I do like Santa Claus.
Starting point is 00:40:08 Who's going first? Travis, you go first on this one, then we'll rotate. Somewhere in the middle of the pack, five or six. I was thinking four. I would do five. If you guys want to go five, where were you going? I was going higher than that. You're a big fan.
Starting point is 00:40:18 I just think it's a great movie. It's a really good movie. If you want to go four, I'll go four with Santa Claus. I'll go four. I can think of a few movies better, including Chris's vacation. Second movie, jingle all the way. Jingle all the way. That's not better than the Santa Claus.
Starting point is 00:40:32 No, it is not. I mean, it's a guilty pleasure for me just because it has Schwarzenegger, but objectively not that good of a movie. Yeah, I'm going to say low. I can't think of worse, like Love Actually. It's got to be eight or nine. I can't, so it can't go too low. I would say eight or nine. I'll go eight.
Starting point is 00:40:49 I think eight's a good, a good solid jingle all the way score. I hope they didn't put a bunch of bad movies in here now. A Christmas story. Yeah, Wyatt clearly doesn't agree with that. A Christmas story. I think you got to go one. I don't know if there's any movie that's. Any movie that symbolizes Christmas more to me than Christmas story, personally.
Starting point is 00:41:06 I love, I love it. I really do love it. But I just, I enjoy other Christmas movies so much more. Is it above or below Santa Claus is the question? I think definitely above. Then it needs to be three. Because quite honestly, it wouldn't even be in my top five. Christmas story?
Starting point is 00:41:22 No. It hits home for us, Clevelanders. I think three is fine. Three is fine. I think it should be on the other side of it. I think it should be two. I think it should do. I don't think it should be two.
Starting point is 00:41:32 You already, no, Brandon, keep typing. He already got vetoed. No, yeah, thank you. He got vetoed. Movie number four, elf. Elf is a very good movie. Outstant. Man, it's good.
Starting point is 00:41:41 It's definitely better than Santa Claus, so I'm upset that Santa Claus is at four because I can't put it above a Christmas story. Yes, we can. I think Elf is too. Right? I'll put it at five. I'll compromise on five. Jason, we're not compromising.
Starting point is 00:41:54 You think there's two other Christmas movies better than Elf? I can think of like five, if I'm being honest. A wonderful life. I can think of Christmas vacation. I want to say, I just want to declare that this does not accurately represent how I would have blind ranked. The Grinch, guys, we are, this rating is so fucked up. We fucked up with Santa Claus. No, the Grinch is going to be number one and Elf is going to be number two.
Starting point is 00:42:18 We fucked up with Santa Claus. Santa Claus shouldn't be four. It should be lower. And I, our Christmas story shouldn't have squeaked into the top five. I said five or six on Santa Claus. Listen, I think, I think, I think Elf has got to be up there. is the most iconic Christmas movie of all time. They play it for 24 hours straight on TBS.
Starting point is 00:42:34 They used to at least. Yeah, for all the geysers that still watch TBS. Is Miracle on 34th Street going to be in this? Shit. That one's way down there. That movie sucked. Elphal put. The OG.
Starting point is 00:42:45 Talk about playing every single here. It's not the OG. It's not the OG. No, no. I mean the OG version of that movie. Not the remake. All right. Put it at five.
Starting point is 00:42:55 I'm fine. We'll put it at five. We'll put it at five. It's up there. It's top five. Perfect. Elf is top five Christmas all time. Wow.
Starting point is 00:43:02 The Muppets Christmas Carol. Oh. Six. I love me some Muppets. Okay. No way. Put that at nine if not. No, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:43:09 You're way off. You are way off. No way. You guys. I'm not letting you do this. A Muppet Christmas Carol is fucking fantastic. This is ridiculous. I will agree with nine.
Starting point is 00:43:20 You're saying this movie is worse than Jiggle all the way. You're out of your mind. You are out of your mind. I didn't think Jingle all the way should have been that high either. I was also. I was giving Schwarzena. Guys, we still have Love Actually coming up. We have to leave space down there for Love Actually.
Starting point is 00:43:33 Nine it is then. You motherfucker. Nine it is because there's still two more that we probably should have put above Santa Claus. I can't wait to see what comes next. Brandon hit it. Nightmare before Christmas. Oh. God damn it.
Starting point is 00:43:49 10. This is not, no. This is not a Christmas movie. This is a Halloween movie. This is the way that Love actually should have been filmed. If it was filmed like this, it might have been good. The cartoon porn scene. The anti-Christmas movie is the way it should have been filmed.
Starting point is 00:44:06 I would love to see some play titties, okay? It needed to be darker. It was, they were trying to shine light on them too much. You guys are out of your mind if you think the Nightmare for Christmas is not a good movie. This is an absolute. I can't put a 10. There's going to be something worse than this. I'm saying, you're right.
Starting point is 00:44:20 There is going to be something worse in it. I can honestly say I've never even watched that. This is, yeah, we fucked up. The nightmare before. So how the, how are you at all? inclined to rate it anything if you've never seen it. It's a fucking skeleton, Jason. Don't judge a book by its cover, Kai.
Starting point is 00:44:34 Oh, God. Yeah, you didn't like the Adams family? That's the next one. It's a wonderful life. Oh, here he goes. One or two. Here he goes. This is not one or two.
Starting point is 00:44:43 This is six. No chance. This is a cluster fuck. Dude, there's no way this is one of the best. This is an absolute dumpster fire. If you don't think this movie is wonderful. Dumpster fire. It's got the word wonderful in its life.
Starting point is 00:44:59 If you put a wonderful life below fucking elf in Santa Claus, this list is fucking ridiculous. It's not better than elf. It's not as funny as elf, but it's more impactful and has more sentimental value. I'm clearly in the minority. If you haven't noticed, I'm clearly in the minority. Have you ever seen this movie, too? No.
Starting point is 00:45:22 I forced myself to watch this terrible movie. Step your Christmas movie up. I think it should be one or two, but if Travis wants it at six. I don't know what other Christmas movies we're saving for one and two. That's the problem. We're going to get something like Love Actually. We're going to have to put it all of a sudden. If you put it at two, then you have a very clean like next couple.
Starting point is 00:45:41 We can't do six because then it's either the best thing or the worst thing. Nice, Kai. Way to make it make sense. Put it at two. I just don't know what you're going to put above a Christmas story in Wonderful Life in the grand scheme. The Grinch. I love that we're all on the same page about this.
Starting point is 00:45:54 The Grinch is great. The Grinch is objectively. Which Grinch are we going, though? It's going to be the, O. G. Grinch. I got bad news. The Grinch isn't on here. Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 00:46:02 Grinch isn't on the list. The Grinch isn't on here. I have horrible news. This is so funny. Great. Love, actually. Ted. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:46:09 I think this is like the middle of the pack. No chance. This movie is way worse. It's not as Christmas vacation. One! It's my favorite Christmas movie outside of A Wonderful Life and Christmas story. That's my top three. But it's neither one of three.
Starting point is 00:46:24 Oh, no, Travis. I've given up. Which one are you going to put it? So you put it at six, then no matter what, then no matter what freaking movie that comes out is going number one. Yeah. This is the point of the game, Jason. I'm going six. Kylie, what are you going?
Starting point is 00:46:39 One or six? Six. I haven't seen this in forever. You didn't even know that the lead actor's name is Chevy Chase. Why would I know that, Jason? I don't know. It's just like, okay, I'm happy with this list. This is a good.
Starting point is 00:46:52 Nice. Home alone is great. Objectively, home alone is fantastic. Fantastic. I mean, Joe Pesci freaking. I thought this was going to be a really bad list. But it's actually not a bad list. I think it's pretty accurate other than Christmas vacations to be above Elf and Santa Claus. A Christmas. The most, the 10 of the most popular Christmas movies and you didn't include the Grinch is a travesty. Also, across a little weird. Since when is the wonderful life about Christmas? Great question, Travis. What the fuck are we talking about? I think a one.
Starting point is 00:47:27 Wonderful life. Show me the timer, Brandon. Can I see the timer, please? I don't, I remember watching it. I'm like,
Starting point is 00:47:34 when is Christmas going to even fucking play its part in this movie? So a wonderful life is about a community and the concept of things being
Starting point is 00:47:46 bigger than yourself and the concept of giving, obviously, and the bank that, I forget the guy's, the main guy's name. George? George.
Starting point is 00:47:56 The concept of the bank giving to the community. I mean, I guess if you don't like banks, you probably don't like a Wonderful Life. But the Mom and Pop banks, not the conglomerant, you know, 2008 banks. If I were to change this list, Wonderful Life would go down to six
Starting point is 00:48:10 and Christmas Vacation would go up. That's the only thing I would change. Our blind rankings from 1 to 10 were Home Alone at 1. Wonderful Life at 2, which I don't know. Number 3 was a Christmas story. For Santa Claus, 5 Elf, 6 Christmas Vacation,
Starting point is 00:48:25 7 Nightmare on Christmas. eight jingle all the way, nine Muppets, and 10 love actually. 92 percenters, tell us how we did. We need to know, is this an acceptable list? Is it not acceptable? And is Jason thinking way too highly of wonderful life? That's a great movie. Blind ranking was brought to you by our friends at Accelerator.
Starting point is 00:48:46 Upgrade your energy today with Accelerator, active energy. Let's move on in a little no dumb questions. There's other movies I enjoy watching more. I wasn't needed here for any of this. So can I get up before dumb questions? No, you're staying, Kylie. Yeah, I think we need to adjust for this one, actually. I have to go care for children.
Starting point is 00:49:02 We have to keep our ratings up, and we have to have the best podcaster in the world in order to do that. You're such a dick. To not go anywhere. No dumb questions. Christmas edition. All right now. Let's close this thing out with a little no dumb questions because there's no such thing as dumb questions, just two dumb guys asking Jason's wife to come join us answering some not so dumb questions.
Starting point is 00:49:22 No dumb questions is brought to you by NFL Sunday ticket on YouTube TV. Get your YouTube TV and watch the rest of the NFL action. Let's see what we've got on the hotline. Next caller. Hi, guys. I would like to know when is it, if ever, okay to tell your partner that they are a bad gift giver. Thank you. Go birds.
Starting point is 00:49:50 Well, it's a good question. And go birds. Love that. I will say this. I will say this. Don't fuck around with this because it sounds like it's an issue. If you got a bad gift giver, you got to say something and nip it in the bud because I'll tell you this, mom, Donna Kelsey had to deal with Christmas upon Christmas of the exact same gifts. Earrings and candles and pistachio nuts for, I mean, we did our whole childhood before we were in high school where she said, you know, guys, you don't have to get me the same thing every single Christmas.
Starting point is 00:50:22 So I'll say. Yeah, but what do you get a mom that has everything? different. You got to nip that in the bud. You got to say something. And you don't have to be like a jerk about it. Just be like, hey, I think like. I got an affair.
Starting point is 00:50:34 Yeah, or just whatever you don't like about the gifts. Don't say you don't like them. Just say, hey, I just like sometimes, I think I would appreciate something more sentimental, something I like, I really like jewelry. Just say what you like. You don't have to say what you don't like. You can plant seeds as to what you want if they're listening. Now you're getting warmer.
Starting point is 00:50:55 Right. Plant seeds. And also, if they give a gift to somebody else and it's asked, let them know we got to work on your gift given. And that way, they'll take the note that they need to get better to give you gifts. Why would you give this gift? It's like it means. It makes no sense. You understand how to give a gift.
Starting point is 00:51:12 Right. Oh. Kai, you have something you want to chime in? I think you should be gentle about it. But I think you can let someone know ahead of time. Like you're saying, plant a seed. But you don't need to. plant a seed that they're a bad gift giver, you can just plant a seed on something that you would
Starting point is 00:51:27 like. You can do like one or two things so that they have like two different things to choose from would be a good option and just plant that seed early and say, you know, I've been looking at this sweater. It's a beautiful sweater. I'm just not sure that I want to spend that much money on it. Or I'm not sure that I want to, I'm not sure that I'll get there. Speaking for men everywhere, be very clear. if you want this gift because we miss some of these more subtle hints. I'm just being honest. Also, also, also what's considered a good gift and a bad gift?
Starting point is 00:52:06 If you're a shitty gift receiver, you need to check yourself in the fucking mirror. That's good. If you're out here hoping you're getting a fucking brand new car and it's like, you know what I mean? Expectation is way too high. What are we fucking doing here? All right. We need to we need to reevaluate the situation at hand. Expectations.
Starting point is 00:52:23 Yes. So it goes both ways. How am I as a gift giver, guys? Trabb, you want to take this one? Nobody has to rush to answer that. I did like my, I did like my birthday gift. I think that was a Kylie move, though. Which one?
Starting point is 00:52:36 Which one was it? You want me to tell everybody? The box, big box. The box? Yeah. The box we took to Kansas City. He doesn't actually know what that was, Travis. I knew that wasn't him.
Starting point is 00:52:45 Sorry. What has Jason gotten me? Then the 99 jersey. He was very excited about that one. Ooh, I mean, that was a fucking banger. I got it right here. The problem is Jason and I are, I feel we align on gift giving in a way where when a holiday or a birthday or something comes around, we kind of do like an oh shit.
Starting point is 00:53:07 But outside of holidays and times where you're actually supposed to give gifts, there have been times where we've like, oh, I really thought this would be great. And then I don't love getting gifts. And so I never help him in any way. and he buys everything that he wants just when he thinks of it. I deal with that as well. I think I'm a good gift giver. I think I'm a bad gift planner.
Starting point is 00:53:33 That's where I'm a bad gift planner. Yeah. I'd say we like, well, he's not saying I'm a good gift giver. So I'm not confident saying I am a good gift giver. But I would say the gift planning is the downfall for both of us. Yeah. I mean, I'm right there in the same boat. We're all in the same boat on this one.
Starting point is 00:53:49 Got to the transformer robot last year. Yeah, but Jason, you always do it the day before. I got you the Transformer gift last year on Christmas. He either gets it months ahead of time. Yeah. Or the day before. Yeah. I mean, isn't that pretty standard?
Starting point is 00:54:05 Whatever floats your boat, finds a lost remote. You know what I mean? Outcast taught me that one. Wait, T.C. What I got you guys this in a couple of days? We're going to revisit this conversation and who the best gift giver is in a couple of days. It's not going to be made. Because I know who's winning that one.
Starting point is 00:54:19 It's not going to be. I was too busy playing. S-A-N-T-A if you catch my drift. You just wait, Jason. You just wait. I'll think I've ever been this confident. For me, too. Huh?
Starting point is 00:54:31 For me? I'm giving away zero details. I know I'm very confident in Travis, less confident in Kylie. That means he hasn't gone to the mall yet. Very confident. I'm a screw up to join over there. I also blame our gift creativity on dad. He made us get the exact same gifts.
Starting point is 00:54:50 So I don't really, I just think I can just go out and just get to save gift. I've really had to work on this. But I just want to let you guys know. I'm not going to blame dad. I just want to let you guys know. He's actually a very good gift giver. We are going to revisit this in five days.
Starting point is 00:55:02 We're going to revisit this in five days. You know what? You're talking about planting a seed. Talk about planting a seed. I am perfectly happy with a candle and some earrings. I want to throw that out there. On it. Do you guys know what that is?
Starting point is 00:55:16 That's a trap, brother. That is a trap. All right. We are good to go. Thank you for the call in there. Go birds. And yeah, let's re-evaluate the situation. You've got to be a good receiver and a good gift giver.
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Starting point is 00:56:58 Anytime, Treve. I lied. Coming in hot and blessing this podcast is the number one. Everyone go check out, Not Going to Lie on YouTube or wherever you get your podcast. We'll see you guys later. Peace. Is it weird that I feel like I'm playing Monopoly in real life now? Is that like No, that's exactly what the game is for, Jason. Happy holidays, everyone. Happy holidays. Belize Navidad.
Starting point is 00:57:33 He's man spreading into my area. I can't actually get my chair forward. I don't really have anywhere to go. You should hear our daughters talk about his boobs. Seriously, I mean, look at him. They're built for them. They're built. Oh, my gosh.
Starting point is 00:57:49 You may not. Don't keep that in. Do not keep that in.

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