Nuanced. - 138. Special Holiday Episode: Unwrapping the Meaning of Christmas with Tim Srigley

Episode Date: December 19, 2023

Tune in for a holiday-packed episode where we journey through eggnog aging with "sugar bug" Aaron Pete, reminisce about our fiery hot sauce challenge, delve into the heart of Christmas traditions and the meaning of gift-giving, share personal stories about supporting cancer research, and wrap up with an animated chat on Christmas movies, potential fasting challenges, and the intricacies of Christmas music, all steeped in the true spirit of the festive season.Help Tim Raise Money for Cancer Research:https://tourdecure.ca/participant/1736/1053/Send us a textThe "What's Going On?" PodcastThink casual, relatable discussions like you'd overhear in a barbershop....Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the shownuancedmedia.ca

Welcome to me a podcast. Here's our house, Aaron Peet. Merry Christmas, everyone. We are doing a tremendous episode. Again, this is our last one of 2023, so we had to celebrate and we had to have the unforgettable, the magical Tim Srigley on the podcast again. Tim, thank you so much for coming back on.

Thanks for having me, man. Let's cheers. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. The other thing we should mention is that the voice at the beginning of the episode is actually your daughter. So when I was working on my rebrand and updating things, your voice is typically the one that starts all the episodes off. And then your daughter, how did that come about? So she started, when I do like YouTube videos and stuff, she's really like gotten into coming down and she like puts on like, I don't have a crazy studio like this, but I have like a little like box where all my audio.

goes into and there's like a headset that you can listen to the microphone and stuff so she puts that on and stands in front of me while I'm making my YouTube videos and then it just kind of she always comes and helps with that stuff and so when you asked me to do the voice at the start of your podcast she was on board and so her and I went up to the room and just started recording those and then she's like can I do one yeah and so I think she did a couple but yeah so she did the one and I figured I'd send it across to you too because it ended up pretty funny That's got to be so cool to have her interest in what you're working on. Yeah, it's, um, one, it's handy because then I can kind of do what I want to do and she'll just come as long as you keep her busy.

Yeah. But two, it's neat that she's showing an interest in it. And I don't know, she she did like, I didn't make it public, but she recorded like an intro to a YouTube episode too. It's super funny. And so I have that like, why haven't you heard this? I don't know. I have this weird thing about I don't want to put. her face on the internet.

Oh. I don't know. It might go live at some point, but... Don't ask me. I wouldn't know what that... Yeah, I don't know. I kind of feel weird about it. Yeah.

So, it's private so far, but I... Yeah, I have an episode, like a starting episode of her, like, sitting at my, like, YouTube set. Could you do that one for, like, premium subscribers? I don't know. I like that. Because then it's not really out there to the world. That's true. Yeah.

Middle ground? Yeah. I don't know. It's not just my say, either, though. That's true. Yeah. Interesting. That's got to be a balance.

It is. And I don't know what's appropriate in terms of putting kids on the internet. That's far too complicated for me. Tell us about this drink. So this is a weird kind of Christmas tradition that I started five years ago. Okay. So this is eggnog and this is five-year-old eggnog. What does that mean?

So every year I make a batch of eggnog. It has some alcohol. in it and then we drink whatever eggnog we drink for the year and then it goes into the fridge for that year and then the next year we make another batch of the same eggnog or similar eggnog mix it all together and drink whatever of that that we will for the year and then bottle it back up it doesn't go bad no because there's a are you sure there's a good amount of alcohol in it that kills anything that would cause it to go bad so this is kind of like traditional eggnog, like it was originally aged because it was a form of storing it.

So the alcohol in it preserves it. Yeah. I'm going to trust you and we're going to give this a try. Yeah. You've had this before, right? You know what? I do trust it, but I tried some last night just to make sure that. I don't get poisoned.

Yes. Okay. Are you sure your stomach hasn't acclimated to it and like a virgin stomach? I think we're going to find help. Okay. Let's go. Okay. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.

What do you think? That's very pleasant. Not bad, hey? I was ready to do another one of those faces where I like squint and my eyes roll back to the back of my head. This is very smooth. Yeah. And it's weird. It kind of changes every year.

Like we kind of put different alcohols in it each year. So it's kind of. What are some of the common ones? Often rum, some kind of whiskey. Right. I'm trying to think what we did last year. I can't remember. There was tequila in it at one point.

And what's in an eggnog? This one is... Eggs. Yeah, eggs. Got it. Nogs. Nogs. It's basically eggs and sugar and milk and cream.

And then whatever else. alcohol that you put in it. That's really good. Yeah, thank you. Okay. Not so bad. I was really ready to die again. To run for the bathroom.

This is not ending up like a Hot Ones episode. No. No, it's actually really pleasant to not be here and have to shovel back spicy stuff. Or ice cream. You had a lot of ice cream. I think my favorite thing that you did was the lobes of bread and you were just licking them and then tossing them. Not one of my finer moments. it was it was good yeah that was a fun episode what else is in here like uh nutmeg yeah

um that we put in here nutmeg a whole bunch of sugar right uh i like sugar i think there's cinnamon i think we did vanilla last last year rebecca has called me a sugar bug are you yeah do you're a sugar bug like when i have coffee i like sugar really that's like we could we could go with less cream but it needs lots of sugar really yeah i'm uh i'm kind of a black coffee year sort of guy until you look like it until you hit October yeah and then I go like yeah I love the stupid pumpkin spice and I pumpkin spice everything and then going into November then I switch to like yeah the fancy Christmas drinks the peppermint mocha's and stuff like that yeah yeah then the rest of the year like New Year's hits and then I'm black coffee again until October but do you like

look at yourself in the mirror and go like this is how I want to present myself because you look like a person who's like black coffee for me like you've got that essence there's a black coffee I have an essence of sugar please you know what I didn't like coffee for the longest time and I had this roommate that loved coffee and then he started me on these like starting at tim Hortons it was like I guess it's a mocha it's like half hot chocolate half coffee I would drink those and then he then I started doing the double double thing and then removed a sugar removed a sugar and then it just kind of progressed to black coffee at some point. But there was an origin story where I was a sugar bug as well.

Really? Yeah. Okay, good. We're on the same page about that. Yeah. And I'd also like to say that I'm very grateful that you've come home to me, son. Yeah, I'm happy to be home. Your daughter thinks that I'm your father.

Yes. Yeah. I don't know at all where it came from. She started talking about it a few months ago. Right. And then she just, I thought it, I thought she had dropped it. And then, like, was it last week I text you? Yeah.

And she said something about going to do something with your father, Aaron. And I was like, yeah, that's weird. How old are you? I'm 37. I'm 28 years old. My daughter's four, to be clear. Yeah, she's like 20 years old. But she's convinced that you're my dad.

And it was gin from the abominable? Yeah. Abdominable. Abdomitable. Abominable. Yeah. For a while, where did, we saw you at some event and she thought you were gin from the movie Abominable. That's the movie she was watching at the time.

Yeah, but although you do kind of look like him. You don't look like my dad. You don't think so? To be fair, no. Is it the skin? Oh, it's a bit of everything. No beard as well. I don't.

I couldn't grow that if I tried. Yours is pretty miraculous. Thank you. I'm surprised you didn't do anything where you could have made it maybe white, you know? You know what? You pulled it off. So I'm sure that's, I'm sure that's coming for me. Right.

I haven't had to be Santa yet. Right. But I feel like that's in my future in the next couple years. You got the hair for it. It's El Natural. I think so. I think that's, yeah, I think it's going to happen. Yeah.

I couldn't, you know, this is dollar store, the white fluff. for me for life you could grow it i don't have you no i don't think i could pull it off the other thing we need to try are these starbucks drinks i thought what would a white girl do and so i have the cram the caramel brulee and you have i have the chestnut preline okay what's preline i i asked my wife this because this is like her that's her i think it's her favorite one at starbucks okay up there anyway and a preling I think was

like a cookie oh or like a crumbly cookie like not a spice no okay yeah

okay give it a try give us your feedback put your white girl hat on you know it it is pretty good but it's no pumpkin spice okay okay

caramel brule it is good though it doesn't taste like chestnut to me I don't know what mine tastes like.

It kind of tastes like licking a gingerbread cookie or something. That's okay. Yeah, not bad. Too sugary for me. So there is a sugar max. Okay. And has it come down?

Maybe you like sugar more. Maybe you're on the same path that I was like to black coffee. I don't know about that. I don't know about all that. Black coffee is terrible. Terrible. You wait. Next year's Christmas episode we'll be drinking black coffee.

We'll see about that. You've come back with your, channel and you're back to life, catch us up on what we've missed. Yeah. So I haven't really been doing much with leather YouTube since April, I think it's the last time I posted. And then now I'm just sort of getting back into it and making some things. I haven't done a YouTube video yet, but I've been, I don't know, working on some leather

things and just kind of making things that I feel like making. Yeah, fair enough. And what did you think of the live event? You came out? It was so much fun. Yeah. Okay. Tell us.

Yeah. How'd they do? You all, you did great. I liked your, what was the thing you said? Ask better questions. Yeah. Yeah. I like that.

That kind of makes sense because you were like, I don't know. Well, we were talking the other day about where you started and where you are now. And so I'm happy that I've got to do one of these in every studio that you've had. Yeah, yeah. But like thinking back and looking back, you can see that you continue to ask better questions as you. go so you can see that you're evolving as an interviewer and now you're like well you're amazing then and now you're like unreal now and it's it was cool to see the the live event and it was I don't know it was neat to like see all the people sitting here and uh there's like your little

I don't know it was like a party but it was like food and mingling and stuff before I liked your introverts lounge upstairs um we went and sat up there for a bit and Talk to a couple of your previous guests that you've had on. I had a number of people come up to me and say, Hey, you were the guy that did the hot sauce with Aaron. I was good. The music, I can't remember how to say her last name, Rebecca Sishon. Perfect.

Is that it? Killed it. Yeah, she was awesome. My wife has followed her on Spotify and has been listening to her since. And then my wife actually won a prize here, which was awesome. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I'm glad.

Yeah, I hope you do another one. It was surreal to bring everybody out and have it go, I think, really smoothly. I lost my bet with him about how much food were people going to eat. I tried to help you out, man. I was so full. I know. It was a lot of food. What was your favorite?

Bannick, turkey sandwiches. Where did we rank? The Bannick was really, really good. And I'm not like the biggest Bannick fan, but I ate a lot of bannic. Yeah. Yeah. No jam, though. I forgot the jam.

It didn't matter. It didn't eat it. It didn't eat it. Wow. That's a compliment to the chef. You're the sugar bug, right? I am the sugar bug. I do like sugar a lot.

Yeah. It was really good. The whole thing was awesome. I'm definitely coming out for the next one. And then we're also talking about potentially doing a cold plunge episode. Yeah, it was going to be today, but I had prepared myself, but I'll continue to prepare myself for that. Signor McElpine is down for it. He's going to do it.

He's in for it. He's team us, I think. I think so. Yeah. He decorated all of this. I'm blown away. It looks amazing. Yeah.

Yeah. It looks amazing. I think he should have some eggnog as well. I agree. Would he come out for some eggnog? Do you think we could charm him to come out? I don't know. Yeah.

I like to think so. Yeah. I feel like it would be amazing, like a Christmas miracle. You know? A Christmas miracle. A Christmas miracle. Yeah. There will be no eggnog.

soon by me thank you very much oh wow okay well i feel like the audience needs this i feel like it would bring us all together we would be able to sing a song of mary yeah i think so to be clear we're not singing though today you don't think so i hope not i feel like you have the vocals for it i do definitely do not no yeah that would be that would be embarrassing and what are some of your christmas traditions what are key things in the strigley household um nothing too like crazy other than like old eggs and dairy mainly I don't know it's just like a family time for us this year I've managed to take three weeks off at Christmas so I'm like a big child at Christmas yeah and then what does that mean I don't know I'm just like giddy

and happy for Christmas I like all things Christmas like I driving here today I can see the snow lines coming down it was three degrees when I last A little bit chilly. I'm, like, getting excited for snow because I want all the snow in December. Just last weekend, we went and got our Christmas tree, put our Christmas tree up and decorated. And I don't know, the whole thing's just joyous. But, yeah, in terms of traditions, we have a couple. A friend of ours has a big Christmas party every year.

And it's, I don't know. if it's kind of morbid or not, but it honors a celebrity death from the year, and so it gets, like, themed, like, as that person. So I don't remember what last year's was. It might have been Norm MacDonald. But then it just gets this theme. So this year is Bob Barker,

and the party is a big... Who's that? Oh, man, really? Wow, here we go. There we go. Everybody's going to start chiming in. Yeah, they are on this one. He was the host of the Price is Right, so the party is like a Price's Right party this year.

Okay, I like that. And then somebody's like built like big podiums to like stand behind. Like it's like a game show thing. Wow, that is a big party. Yeah. So there's that this year. And then we go, we got a real tree every year and cut that down and decorate that. Why?

Why do we cut down trees? for Christmas. Right. But what's the logic behind this? I don't know. It's an odd tradition. Did you think it was, so I just showed you a video before we started by after school. Did you ever think about it prior to that?

Yeah. Like, question, what are we doing here? I've thought about it and I, like, I never understood why you bring it, cut down a tree and bring it inside. Because they die. Yeah. So why do you cut down a tree and bring it inside? Only to grow, like we grow it literally to kill it. Yeah.

Put it in our house. Yeah. And like a lot of them. And they're expensive now too. It was like 75 bucks. And they're selling a lot of trees. So it's like a lot of people are buying these things. And yeah.

So you'd never thought about it. Like really. I had thought about it, but I had never like driven, sorry, dove deep into like figuring out why. Right. So how do you process? So I showed you this video. Yeah.

And they basically explain that one of the theories, not the definitive theory, but one of the theories is that it comes from the Aminida muscaria mushroom. Yeah. And shaman's delivering that to people's homes in the wintertime at the winter solstice. How do you process this information? I mean, to be fair, I think it's the only like theory I've heard as to where this comes from. But it kind of makes sense. Like, it's weird. Um, the mushroom really looks like Santa.

Yeah. And the elves piece makes sense. Yeah. Flying reindeer and yeah, it was interesting. For people interested, you just type in Santa Claus mushrooms and it'll be like the first video that pops up on YouTube. Yeah. You should for sure link it or something. Yeah, yeah, because it blew my mind.

But then you even think like I grew up in a Catholic household and there's no explanation for Santa or... You just do it? You just participate. participate. And I feel like most people participate. And just like walking around in the community, you start to see people who get really involved. Like for Halloween, there was this one house and they just went all out. Like every spot was filled up with stuff. And then it's like, then there's the other people who don't do anything. And there are people who have those stupid lights that kind of light up the whole wall. Yeah. And it's not. There's no effort put in. It's like a $30 item. What makes somebody more excited about the season then? I don't, yeah, I'm not sure. I think. For Christmas, you have to kind of, like, figure out, like, what Christmas is to you and figure out what makes you excited and what you want to do and participate in and stuff. I don't know. I remember as a kid, we always went and cut down a tree, like, not like went into the woods and cut down a tree, but we went to, like, one of these tree farms and cut them down and brought them in.

And I always loved doing that and just, like, smelling the Christmas tree in the house and stuff is, it's arguably, not arguably, it's definitely less convenient to go and cut one of these things. down and bring it in and get pine needles all over your house than it is to get a fake one that you can just put up and they're like they're like prelit now like fake ones are actually really I have a fake one they look really good now yeah um but um I don't know just something about that tradition that makes me like feel like it's Christmas there's something I love about the fact that the winter solstice is the darkest day of the year of the whole year and what we do as human beings is we do the exact opposite and we live. light everything up and I think there's something like meaningful about whenever like we were just up

at sun peaks and the cool thing is like we as humans like to figure out a way to enjoy something despite all of the challenges it brings so like you go skiing you go to a place that's freezing cold filled with snow and somehow you're warm and you have a hot tub and you've got all like all the gear to stay warm and you have a fireplace and it's all cozy and so we do the exact opposite of what you would do in the winter previous to fireplaces and hot tubs and so like i like that we do the exact opposite for when it's hot out we go to the beach and we stay cool using freezes and ice cream and like we just we work very hard to do the exact opposite of what should be the norm during these seasons that's interesting i like it like what you just said but i never knew

like i never thought of that before you've never seen that like the weirdness of human beings in that way that we like work very hard like my favorite thing to do is go for a drive yeah in the middle of summer crank the AC and roll down the window just this much and like that fresh air and then when it's cold I like the heat on the heated seat the heated steering wheel and then you roll down that window and you get a little glimpse of how cold it is outside yeah but it's like as humans we like to master things and we like have to we want to control it yeah I see that in people a lot definitely but we don't like think about it. It's just like a tradition and you just do it and you don't know why. That was a big

tragedy like for me seeing people give gifts and the mindset can be like, I'll give you a $10 gift and you give me a $10 gift. Well, why don't we just know it? And we could just save ourselves the money. I hate that. Like we talked about that probably five or 10 years ago, my family and well, my siblings and we just decided don't do sibling gifts. It's exactly that. I give you a gift card. you give me a gift card and like who cares just you'll spend your money so we stopped doing that and just kind of enjoy Christmas and then there's like I don't know there's like stress of finding gifts for people too and so part of it was that like we just removed the one like I hate it this is wrong I don't need a gift from my my brother I would rather just like hang out with him

at Christmas and but like the gift is like showing that you know another person yeah that's like that's the kindness it's not like but it got to a point where we were just exchanging gift cards, which I don't really need another gift card. Yeah, don't do the gift cards, but like it is, when they say it's the thought that counts, it's like, think about the person. So if I know you, then I know some of your interests in what you like to do and what you enjoy doing. And then I try and find an area where you could use more support or you're interested in and I support your endeavor.

And that's a way to show that you care, but it's not buying a gift card. like I'm not like trying to crap on gift cards gift cards like put like that but I mean like my siblings and I were like just buying like I don't know best buy gift card exchanging them out of obligation versus like going and finding something that that person would want and giving it to them

I don't know it seemed like the purpose was off so we were just like don't need that yeah I'm notoriously against lists like people like send me like what you want I won't do it. Really? If you know me, if you think of something, cool.

If you don't think of anything, cool. I like that. I don't want to give you a $15 item that you can find. And then you just go buy that of like... Where that's good, too, is then you're truly surprised when you do open gifts because he didn't have a list. Rebecca just got me the most amazing birthday gift I've ever received. And it is a painted portrait of my grandmother. who I lost.

Yeah. And she was the person who raised my mother up and supported her. She worked at a Kokelita Indian Hospital, took care of her, made sure she had everything she needed, took her into her home, and then raised her up, and then ended up raising me and supporting my growth. And so she's a person who showed that one person can make a difference. And she's always inspired me in that way. And she got that portrait, and now I get to see her every day.

And that's amazing. That's my favorite gift. But, like, I would never put that on a list. Yeah. Yeah. That's amazing because it's, like, personal when you get it. Yeah. And somebody put thought in.

It took her three months to plan and figure out who the artist was going to be, who was going to paint it, and who's going to put it together, and who had the right style for it. It didn't happen overnight. But, like, I can't force someone to do that for me. Like, that's somebody's heart being put into that. That's the idea of. Oh, that's awesome.

I like that. Yeah. I have a Christmas list. Do you? What's on your Christmas list? Tell me about your Christmas list. No, I normally do. I don't.

Is there socks on there? What's going on? You know what? Sox are not on my Christmas list, but I always get them and they're very much appreciated. Like, I don't know that I've ever bought my own socks. Really? Yeah. I always buy my own socks.

What kind of socks do you like? We're not going there. We're not going down like what socks do I like? Are we finishing this? Do you want to? I kind of want to. Yeah, let's go. I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have this again.

And we've been talking about this for two years. I have lots of this. So if you want to have some of this again, that's not an issue. It's better than the caramel brule. So shout out to Starbucks. I was going to say, just to be fair, you said my drink is better than a Starbucks drink. Correct. I think it's the fact that it's sat in the back of your fridge for a while.

Five years. That's a romantic place. I'm happy that you like it. And we got these cute mugs. It is nice. This was funny. So at your live event, I was sitting with Matt, your whiskey guy. Yeah.

And I was talking about this with him. And last year, so I guess when we drank the eggnog last year. So I guess that's the eggnog from two years ago. We had put a Jamaican rum in it. And when we had it, it tasted like this eggnog tasted like bananas. Like it was like banana eggnog. Right. And so Matt went into it.

a big long thing about rum and how it has. I'm going to butcher what he said, but banana, like, kind of like the essence of banana in rum inherently and went into like tasting notes on rum and stuff. So it's not just whiskey. He knows about all things alcohol, I think. Agreed. Isn't it crazy to see how far he came over the past year? That's so exciting.

He's killing YouTube. Yeah. I'm excited for him. Really figuring it out and moving forward. And it was cool that we got to play some small roles in him getting started. as he sails past us. Yeah, he's going on trips now to he traveled for it and stuff. Yeah, he went to Scotland.

Yeah. Yeah. It's very cool. It was, yeah, it's cool to see him do that. And it was awesome. Like, that was the first time I met him was at your podcast there. So I've talked to him a bit online and stuff. But, yeah, that was a lot of fun.

That was a good event. I agree. I think we got to do more of those. New Year's resolutions. How do we feel about them? Do you be New Year's resolutions? Um, I'm not like a resolution fan in that, like, you make a resolution and if you don't accomplish it, you should feel bad about yourself and blah, but I do kind of like... We're different people.

Really? I just interviewed Amon's a hobby. Yes. And that will be airing. It'll be our first episode back from, from hiatus. Yeah. And, man, he makes a really good point that who cares about your start date? What is your finish date?

When are you going to complete your goal? Yeah. David Goggins says there is no finish, though. That's true. It's a lot of pressure. I come up with goals for the year, for me, every year. This year I kind of fell short. My goal was to hit 20,000 YouTube subscribers, and I'm at 195.

You're close. It could happen, but I doubt it. But I also didn't post anything, so that could be a big part of it. That is a big mistake. Yeah. But I'd like to come up with a goal. at New Year's, just kind of like, I don't know, something to focus on for the year. And what are you thinking?

You were biking like crazy, right? Yeah. Like an animal. Yeah. I don't look like an endurance athlete. I mean, you know, but I haven't, like, shared it. But my wife has cancer, and so I'm then riding in the Tour de Cure. So I have to, there's like a requirement to raise money, and then you ride, it's 200 kilometers over two days.

Wow. And when is that? It's in August. Wow. So myself and a buddy of mine's doing it with me. Right. And so we've been training pretty hard for it. It's kind of dropped off a little bit coming into Christmas here, but that'll be, yeah, my goal for the new year is I think I'm up to 60 kilometers a ride right now or 60 something.

And then, yeah, by August I have to be doing 100 and then two days of it. That's crazy. Yeah. um so that's probably my main goal this year is to uh keep getting in shape for that admirable too yeah thank you yeah how much do you have to raise um well there's like there's no upper limit you have to you have to raise a minimum of 2,500 um to ride in the event right so and when can people start donating um right now to like how would they so like do they donate to you or do they donate to tour to do they it's it's it's through tour to cure there's a page uh like a donation page you go on

there um donate however much you want and it goes straight to them they're i don't think it be the tax receipt do everything i i basically just have to promote it and and bring in donations but it goes straight to them i think it's i think they're run by bc cancer so promote it tell me yeah why is it important to support why is it important to support cancer research yeah uh Because cancer sucks. Yeah, I had cancer. I was diagnosed with cancer the month after my kid was born. So that kind of sucked.

And I'm, I think I have my last checkup in two weeks now. And then I'm five years clear of it or four years. Yeah, I'm almost clear of it anyway. Can you talk about how scary it was? It's scary. Yeah. I don't know, just kind of when you're diagnosed with it, it's like hearing like the C word and like, oh shit, this kills people, right? And so, yeah, it's weird.

And then now I'm free of it and now my wife has cancer as well and she's battling that and going through chemo and stuff. So that's, yeah, cancer really sucks. So I also feel like there's nothing really that I can do. to help other than raise money for the for people that can help like I'm no doctor cancer researchers I can't go in the lab and be like okay guys let's let's cure cancer today so um yeah it's important to raise money for the people that could possibly cure cancer yeah what would you want people to know about it and the benefits of supporting this work and know about raising money for or know about like the weight i feel like people know like me i know what you've been through from a

distance yeah but like what would be something you would want someone who might not have had an interaction who's interested in supporting but like giving us a little bit more context as to the the weight the weight the heaviness of it all uh i was like wait for one it's it's hard to describe Yeah. We've had a ton of support from friends and family, which has been huge. Friends and family is a massive help when you're going through this stuff. Yeah. But it's like a roller coaster, man.

It's good days and bad days. The bad days really, really suck. I don't know. If I could do anything, if raising money and riding a bike is enough to maybe have. help stop this thing so that other people don't have to go through it. I think that's worth it. It really sucks. I don't know how to describe it.

It's got to be meaningful to be able to like, there's sometimes when you're on a run, you're like, why am I? I could go home, have something to eat. It seems like a huge motivator. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. You know what? I've a couple times in my life been pretty fit because I was like training for something.

Like one of those I did tough mutter a few years. years. And that was a big thing, and I just find it easier to train for something. So that's definitely been a motivator for training on the bike, getting out there on really cold days when you don't really want to be outside and stuff. Have you thought about, like, vlogging that or, like, documenting that journey? I have, yeah. I haven't started yet, but I'm going to try to, I think, start doing that this year. There's another goal. maybe just start another channel and doing that I was thinking about how I would do that and grow an audience and I don't know I'm like not the best cyclist or anything so I don't know if anybody would follow that but I was going to try to do some funny stuff or I feel like that would be why people would tune in it's different hearing from somebody who's a hobby was talking about the fact that there's this person who did like an ultimate fast and he did like a year of of, like, fasting.

Holy crow. Yeah. And, like, he was having, like, just, he was something like 300 to 400 pounds. Yeah. And, like, lost a bunch of weight as a consequence. But the reason people wanted to tune in was because he was overweight. Yeah. And they wanted to see, like, the effects.

Yeah. It's different if you're, like, a pro. What's that guy, Hanson? Oh, Lance Armstrong. There you go. Okay. Well, I feel like I'm similar to Lance Armstrong. Oh, perfect.

I had the same cancer, and they chopped one of mine off, too. Right. that's funny you say that though like there's a that's a funny way to put that the eggnogs kicked it it's funny that you bring up the thing about um the overweight guy doing the fasting and stuff there was a YouTuber that like teaches YouTubers and he said there was he had like a Star Wars analogy but he said there's there's the Jedi or Paduan approach where you either start a YouTube channel being like the expert,

like the master and putting the information out there, or you start being the guy that doesn't know anything and kind of document your journey learning. And those are the two things people want. And you just kind of pick one of those. So maybe my journey learning how to actually cycle would be something that people would watch. But I would definitely watch it. Would you? It would resonate with me more if I'm being honest than leather videos because I don't know how to make leather and I don't have the space for it. Yeah, but we'll still get you doing that. Okay, okay. I feel like that would be something where I'd get like motivated by that. Yeah. And get like excited about. Because Amon convinced me to do a three day fast. Yeah. I have to do in the next

before I have him back on. A three day fast. Yeah. I think you could do it. Well, I mean you 100% could do it. Yeah. I don't think it's impossible. But and then the cold plunge. Those are my two kind of things I want to do in 24. You should end the three-day fast with the cold plunge. That would be tough. I'd be really hungry after that. Yeah. Yeah.

What would you eat after immediately following your three-day fast? What would be the meal? Nothing. Like something very small. Would it? Because you get like the benefit of a fast is that your stomach gets smaller. So if you plan this big meal, you really just wasted three days. Oh, I'm like the opposite.

I would get like the biggest. Burger. That's what I'm saying. But then you're back in the same boaty word. You've got to utilize, like, and stay on that path. You know, any other big Christmas things? Christmas movies, favorite Christmas movie. Oh, I have a bunch.

I think, obviously, the favorite is Christmas vacation. Please tell me you know what Christmas vacation is. Do you mean Home Alone? No, that's a good one, too. Okay, because that seems like Christmas vacation. Have you not watched Christmas vacation? I have not. This hurts me.

Okay. unaccompanied minors have you watched that um i don't think i have i know what it is though yeah it's really good is it might be my favorite christmas movie really uh daddy's home too is up there it's funny yeah yeah it's better than the first one you're gonna get flack for not saying elf elf is funny but i like yeah it's damn funny actually yeah i don't know i don't know that's one of my favorites but i do i watch it every year um it has to be in the top five It's up there. Christmas with the cranks.

That's a good one. I like that one. That one's like, that one would be top 20 maybe? Top 10. Top 20 for me. Okay. Maybe. I don't know.

We watch a bunch. Actually, the newest animated Grinch with, is it Benedict Cumberbatch as the Grinch's voice. Okay. I haven't seen that either. My kid was watching it as I left to come here this morning. I put that on and made her an egg and then left. Okay. Yeah, that's a good one.

When I was a kid, I think it was like my great eight year. We went down to California and they were actually designing the set for the Jim Carrey Grinch movie. Right. That was super cool to see. Really? Yeah. That's pretty cool. Yeah.

Favorite Christmas album? Oh, God. It has to be Michael Bublet. Does it? Well, he's Canadian. I don't know. And it's very classy. I feel like classy.

I don't know that I have a favorite Christmas album. What's the thing called a monocle when I listen to that album? You should wear a monocle anyway. I think I could pull it off. Me and the Monopoly guy hanging out. I don't know that I have a favorite Christmas album. Wow. Yeah.

Nothing? I've never really thought about it. Just random Christmas songs. Just random Christmas songs. Okay. Favorite food at Christmas dinner? What has to be on the table? We switch it up all the time.

time like what do you guys do for Christmas dinner a traditional Christmas dinner like just turkey dinner yeah stuffing mashed potatoes yeah so lots of gravy for Rebecca so gravy thing really she's a gravy animal man really yeah oh that's interesting she she'll have potatoes with her gravy that's what you're supposed to have with your gravy no I'm saying like she'll have all gravy and then like a little bit of potatoes oh mix it up yeah like you with sugar and coffee there you I see yeah so what you call her gravy bug gravy bug gravy bug That would be a good name. She's laughing in the back.

We, I think it might be, so we have like Thanksgiving in October, like a Canadian would. And then we do that like a family Thanksgiving, like a normal turkey dinner and stuff. And then we usually do like a friend's Thanksgiving around the time American Thanksgiving is in November. And so we don't. end up always doing a turkey dinner at Christmas. We've done, we did a big lasagna one one year. We did. A lasagna one?

Yeah, lasagna. You're a bad person. It was good. You're a bad person. I'm sure it was. It was amazing. Lausanne is great. You're a bad person.

This is irresponsible. That's fair. Okay. We did that one year. We've done a nice roast beef, a bunch of years. We did. That one passes by like this much. This much.

We did a porquetta one year, which is like, like a pork belly, like, that you would make bacon out of, rolled up and roast it. Oh, that's so good. A pork bella? Porchetta. Yeah. Porketta. Yeah.

Where would you even buy that? You just buy a pork belly. I think we got it from Costco. Have you had porketa? Oh, it's good. I don't even know where I would, like, I'm thinking of myself in the hardware section saying that word. Really? Porketa.

Yeah. That was good. Pork belly. It's a pork belly and you put some like garlic and herb. and stuff, you roll it up, and then you just do it like a roast. Mr. McAlpine, am I crazy? Have you ever heard of this word before? Porketta? I have not.

Have you ever, do you cook? Are you a big cook guy? No. You're not the person who makes the turkey dinners? No. Or the eggnog? No. No. Do you want? What's your signature meal that you make? Are you asking me? I think I'm, I think my contribution

is nil at this point. What have you made for yourself that would, other people would eat? I make a mean macaroni lasagna. Macaroni lasagna. Would you eat it for Christmas? No. And back to you.

My last question for you, though, is not for you, for Mr. McAlpine, is there any Christmas traditions that stand out to you? Christmas dinner at my parents. It's been always. Wow. Okay. Okay. Never specific on like the turkey, whether or not

Because it doesn't always have to be turkey. It needs to be turkey. Turkey is fine. I'm part of big turkey industry, okay? This is sponsored by Turkey industries. Then I'm just going to stop saying what I'm saying. No, I think turkey is good because you don't have it often. Agreed.

I think if turkey was a regular thing, I think the chicken's better. Agreed. Both friends. So I think that... Turkey's healthier. I'm sure it is. Yeah. But I think what makes turkey good is that it's...

You know, several times a year. Yeah. But, like, by the time we've had a few turkeys in a row, I don't always want turkey for Christmas. So I think this year we're doing, like, a pork crown roast. Right. My big proposition is I think we need something between February and summer. I think we need, like, a stronger holiday that stands out. We have Easter, but we need something with a little bit more jinesiqua.

Okay. What do you propose? I have no idea. Something spicy. I think I could pull that off. A spicy holiday? There you go. Yeah.

I'm on board for the record. Yeah. I just find that that's the time where it's like the most vanilla. Yeah. Like Christmas is the one where we all seem to get on the same page. And this is my most controversial question of the day. Okay. Okay.

So you got to get ready for it. Okay. How do we feel about like really working and just being like happy holidays, removing any specificity to the specific? you know event i'm not opposed to happy holidays okay but i feel that everyone should be able to wish somebody that holiday if they're choosing like i don't feel like it's a big like if somebody you know happy honicaed me i would be happy that they're just like greeting me with anything like i don't it's like almost like polarizing like if you say happy holidays to me

That's great. That's a nice thing to do. I don't really care what you wish me. My only thing is it feels like you're afraid to say what you mean. That's the only thing I do like, just say what it is. Yeah. Why you're happy. That's what I want to hear. Merry Christmas. That's fair. Like, we never say the word Mary. I like the word. Yeah. Merry holidays. It sounds weird.

Okay. Well, I like it. Sounds kind of weird. Yeah, you don't, you don't say Mary though. Like, you wouldn't say Merry birthday or anything. Like, this is going to be called a Christmas episode. It is. Yeah. I like it. Not a holiday episode. Well, it looks like Christmas in here.

Yeah, not a December episode. What is with Poinsettas? Can you explain that to me? I don't know. You explained to me the origin of the Christmas tree. Can't explain the Poinsettas, man. No, I don't know. They've got the red and the green.

Man, he did such a good job on this. It's kind of weird. I like the fire burning. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's very cozy in here. It is good. Yeah.

I don't know. Christmas just feels cozy, but I think you're right about that, um, missing holiday because there's like this lead up to Christmas and New Year's and stuff where it's like I don't know just that buildup you can feel it and even like going into like Halloween is kind of exciting and then from Halloween you start just kind of building to Christmas and it gets happier and happier and then that's there and then there's just nothing

again yeah just after New Year's just like it's yeah it's yeah it's yeah it's yeah it's It's just as dark and stuff after New Year's as it was leading up to it. So it's, I don't know. I think you're right. I think you're on to something. But you would need to have, like, it would still need to be a merry time era proposed holiday. Exactly. What would you want people to know?

Here we go. So based on your research department, it wasn't until the 17th century that the plant first became associated with Christmas. This was from the Franciscan monks in the town of Taxco del Arcon, first used the shrub in nativity processions. Wow. Man, I kind of like to have just like Wikipedia come through the walls. Having Tim come through there, one, it's kind of like my conscience or God is speaking to me or something. Yeah, yeah.

Just the voice comes through, but it's almost like the Rogan podcast with Jamie in the background. Yeah, yeah. Like the guy in the chair doing the research and jumping in with a... In the control room. Yeah, it's awesome. Okay, let's end this off. Okay. What would you want to wish people genuinely as they head into the holiday season?

Merry Christmas. We'll say more. That's very general. What else would I wish somebody? Like, personally, I would hope that everybody is able to spend time with loved ones who care about them, who are there for them throughout the year. that they're able to share gifts with the people who've supported them over the course of their year, celebrate good times, and then really come up with a good plan for their next year on how they're going to take care of themselves, how they're going to make a difference in their community,

how they're going to grow as an individual, mentally, physically, and all the different ways. And so those are some of the things that I hope people go into 2024 with. Yeah, that's what I meant. Yeah, yeah, you were getting there. yeah i wish all those things i can i do that you're you're much better spoken than i am from talking to people for work but that's a job yeah i would just wish people a good time in the holidays a better i mean a better year every year do the next year one better than the last one whatever that is to you that's very general and the worst christmas card i've ever heard of

that is your christmas card actually i wish you a happy whatever happy whatever that means to you yeah yeah well i really appreciate every time we get to sit down together it's always memorable it's a little wild it's a little gnauggy if you will a little noggy thank you for drinking five-year-old eggs it was fantastic yeah i'm glad you liked it was going to be It was a pleasure doing the Hot Ones episode with you Being in all these different studios And it's always fun to just cause shenanigans together Yeah

Merry Christmas buddy Merry Christmas, can we get some of that Christmas music going on I'd like to dance us out if that's at all an option Yeah, they can demonetize my face off We can dim the music a little bit Or I could talk over it So they can't hear it as clearly But I feel like we need a little music to play us out

You know I think you can add that in post and make sure it's royalty-free, but what I will add is Christmas, the only time of year in which one can sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of socks. That was a savage way to talk about Christmas. It is, but... Accurate. Delicious, too.

Wow. Bringing the facts today, Tim. I really like that. Yeah, yeah. It's a good mixture. Can we get a few looks into the camera before we close out? Something dramatic that we can use as a thumbnail. A thumbnail.

I don't do dramatic. That was very good. Thank you. Making faces is one of the only ways I get people to tune in every time. To make your turn, stare right into the one under the TV. This one? I was looking at this one. The one with the red light on it.

Oh, that makes sense. And give a smile, give a... How did I do? Beautiful. Perfect. We did it. Thank you. The Christmas donut and dance along with the Christmas band and that we'll file it like to all the birds