The Bobby Bones Show - Best Bits of Christmas with Mike D: Morgan and Mike D Reveal Their Perfect Christmas Day & Play This Or That Christmas Edition

Episode Date: December 23, 2023

This weekend on the Best Bits of Christmas Morgan and Mike D talk all things Christmas to get in the holiday spirit! They do a Christmas This or That, and answer random Christmas questions. Plus, they share their ideal Christmas and how they plan to spend the holidays.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We're almost there. It's basically Christmas weekend. Are you doing anything? Nope. Nope. I can't talk. I'm so excited for Christmas. I can't even talk.

It's just exploding out of you all the Christmas. Gosh, it is. Have you been doing anything exciting this holiday season, Mike? Not really. It takes me to, like, right about now to really get into the spirit. Dang, you haven't done, like, pop-up bars. No. Decorate for Christmas.

No. Or you're going to go, like, look at lights, I guess, is what you do? Yeah? You say, like, you do, like, White girls or something? No, just, I guess people in general for Christmas. And I was thinking about this recently of like, I didn't really have Christmas as a kid. Yeah.

As far as like traditional Christmas, like lights, presents on Christmas Eve. Like we would always just go to Mexico every single Christmas. So I don't really know U.S. Christmas until like I was a teenager. Got it. So that's what, that's what you meant by you guys. Yeah, you guys. Wasn't basic white girls. Okay.

Okay. So you're going to be doing. some basic American Christmas this year. We will dive into some, like, traditions and stuff. But what we're going to talk about here for a second. So listener, Maureen, suggested this idea to me. She's like, I would love if you could count down all of the Christmases that you guys have had the last several years, like our Christmas shows. So that's what this weekend is of the best bits is we are starting from 2017.

In the 90s, we did a 90s theme gift exchange. Then we go to number six, which is 2018, which is 2018, which is. gifting something you already own. And then number five, a blue Christmas in 2019, which I still use what you gave me. Well, you at least turned me on it. Now I can't get off of it. And then number four, we got the $69 real dirty Christmas gift exchange in 2020. We had our mystery box Christmas in 2021. And then our spicy Christmas in 2022. And then this year, gifts that start with S. 2023. Damn, we've done a lot of fun ones. Yeah, right. I was looking back when I was putting this together. Like, so shout out to this, this listener, Maureen, who came up with this idea because it's so good.

And it just so happened, she suggested it on a year that I could actually include seven. And it's all seven that I've been here. It's perfect. Which is wild. It's crazy. I've been here for seven Christmases. It's crazy to think about. But I'm really impressed with all the themes that you came up with, Bobby came up with us in this last one, like, dang, impressive.

Do you feel good about those, like listening back? Yeah, I like, I mean, it's always hard to come up with, like, a different. different theme each year. So I think this is why this is one of the first years where we suggested, like everybody throwing your ideas and we pick one. But yeah, looking back at those, those are fun. Yeah, we were a while. I mean, each year, it just totally went off the rails of different. Like, none of them are similar in any type of way, which is cool. All right, well, those are the bits. So if you do want to listen to the past Christmases we've had here on the show, that's what is in part to just the bits. But Mike, let's talk Christmas. So how are you going to be

spending your Christmas holiday. You kind of started to dive in there. Yeah, for the actual Christmas trip, we are going to Texas because it's easy with my wife and my family. They're both there. So we go a couple days with her family and a couple days with my family. And they're like less than an hour apart. Okay. So not a lot of traveling. Do you have to travel on Christmas day? Yeah. On Christmas day is when we'll make the switch from her family to my families. Gotcha. So you'll spend like your last day with hers for a little bit on Christmas. And then you'll leave and spend your first day with yours. Christmas and then like the day after and then maybe another day just for us to hang out. Okay. And anything planned for sure besides that day. That is it. Like I don't really

I think I'm just looking forward to doing nothing to be quite honest. Yeah. And like I love watching Christmas movies. So it's mainly just like hang out, spend time together. And I think now as an adult also that I don't really care so much about Christmas presents. I'm like, let's just hang out, not plan anything and just chill. Can I ask you like going over to? to your wife's house. Like I always get so excited for Christmas because I go to my parents and like I can just lay around and do nothing. Do you feel like when you're at like her family that you're like, hmm, I feel like I have to do something. Yeah, a little bit. It's like I'm relaxed there because over the years we've obviously gotten more comfortable with each other. And I feel like probably

this year was the year that I feel like I can just fully be myself around them. But it's also like when you're at somebody's house, you're like, oh, I got to, I have to like entertain or do something. otherwise it's like I'm just blending into the couch. Yes. Yeah. So I didn't know if that was like weird because like I can totally be a couch potato at my parents' house. But like, can I be a couch potato otherware?

I don't know. Yeah, because otherwise I would just fully shut off and go up and like the room up top and just watch movies by myself. Yeah, like, hold yourself away. Yeah. I'm like that. Yeah. Thanks.

So not entirely. But it's also just part of staying at somebody's house in general. And not even just like your wife, like your in-laws. It's just staying at somebody else's house in general, I think. Yeah. The good thing about my wife's family. they're also super into board games. Love that.

So it's easy just like, oh, let's play it. What board game are we playing now? We'll just play one after another and then we'll watch sports together. So at least there's always like an activity to do together. So I feel like it's me trying to like fill in the other gaps of like just hitting out. Yeah, that's fair. I love that you guys, like Christmas night, I always want to play games with my whole family. And they've over the years have finally gotten to the point where they don't fight me on it.

But for a long time, they're like, we don't want to do this. We just want to sleep. I'm like, guys. They don't want to play games? In the one day of the year, I mean, We are all in the same room. We were playing games. So, but now, now it's like, okay, Morgan, what game you got this year?

So now I got them. You know, I got them hook, line, and sinker. But it started out. They're like, we don't want to play board games. Like, what, let's just all hang out here together and talk. I'm like, why do I want to talk? We already talked all day. Yeah.

And then my side of the family is also super into games. My mom is the one in charge of, like, the games we're playing. And she wants to do the big Saran Rat ball. Yes, we did that last year. She loves that game. She called me the other day. Like, we're going to do the ball. Let's see who gets the big prize.

She loves that game. See, I think we're going to do that again this year too. And I think I'm going to come up with. I've been saving a lot of videos I see online of all like the makeshift ones. So I think I'm going to make my family do all those this year. I want to do that one where you like set up different like points on a table. Yes. You like put the little markers and you try to like roll like a Coke can or something to try to like make it stop on one.

And then you get that prize. I want to do that one. Okay. Yeah, that is one I've seen. I've also seen. I don't think I want to do the can. handle one, but there's a candy cane one where you have to use like your hips to try and connect a candy cane on the floor. That's like dangling from a string from your hips. That sounds tough.

Really funny things, especially the more you drink. So, you know, that's kind of stuff. So I'm also going back to Kansas for Christmas. We're making a little road trip home with Remy and Hazel. Nice little fun drive with the three of us. And then I'm hanging out there. I don't even think I'm coming back for New Year's Eve. I think I'm going to stay with my parents too. Really? Yeah. Normally I come back. But, man, every year in New Year's Eve disappoints me. So I just think I'm done with it. I think I'm giving up on it. You got to take my advice, though, and fully enjoy the New Year's Day to just hang out.

No expectations. You are right. I am. And that's my plan this year. So I think if I stay home, I might actually do that versus being here in Nashville. I'll be like, I got to go do something. You know, that kind of thing. Okay.

Do you have a favorite Christmas ornament? You know, Christmas ornaments are fairly new for me, too. Okay. I didn't have a tree, like when I was living here by myself. So until my wife came along, she's like, we got to go to Target. We got to get a tree. And that was even before she moved in because she's like, when I come here, I want it to feel like Christmas.

I didn't have anything. So we've slowly been building our own set of ornaments. So what we kind of realized is all of the things on it right now are just things that I like because it's the only way that you can like get me in the Christmas spirit. So we'll go and we'll find like superhero ornaments or like I have a microcontractual. Michael Myers horror movie. Got it. Okay.

I have a post Malone ornament. So it's like slowly... So it's like a Mike D. Tree. Basically. It's like... And it's mostly covered in like these Simpsons ornaments that her mom got me like maybe a couple years ago. So literally everything on the tree is basically me.

She has like one book ornament that's for her. And then we have like a couple of like things from us together. But yeah, it's mainly a shrine to me of all the things I like. Dang, Mike. I mean, I think I figured out like your next gift to hers like some ornaments for her to add to the tree. That would be a good one. Okay, so out of all of those, which one is your favorite right now?

I really like the post-Malone one because it's like the biggest one out of all of them and I put them towards the top. Okay. And then we just went to New York for Thanksgiving and there was some people selling like handmade ones. So I have a Spider-Man one and a Wolverine one. And they just look completely different than everything else on the tree because they're like made out of like cloth. That's cool. So they like hand stitched and they look totally different.

No, those are awesome. Okay, mine, you probably haven't heard of mine, but they're a pretty famous one called Willow Tree Angels. Noah, uh, are they like really old and regal looking? Yeah, kind of. So, well, there's also... Let me Google it. So there's a, there's that version, but then there's also like a totally, like, not glass. I don't know.

It's like white and it kind of looks like cement, but it's a cream color ornament that's, like, of the same category. They look familiar. So there was this snow baby of that version. And every year for Christmas, like my parents have a beautiful looking, like very aesthetically pleasing tree. And all of the ornaments are easily like breakable, right? Real tree or fake tree? We had a real tree until a cat we had one year totally destroyed it. So then from every year old we've had fake trees.

And so the snow baby, though, it's like this little snow angel, but it's a little baby like sliding on a star. And every year I got to hang it. And I got really excited because I was a kid. and I always got to have a breakable ornament that I got to hang. So the snow baby every year, now obviously I don't. My mom has to hang it because it has to be up by the time I'm there. But the snow baby ornament, I always look to see where she, like, places it every time I go home too. So you don't have a tree here?

I have a tree here. Okay. But, like, that's my favorite ornament, like, just from all, like, the nostalgia and stuff. The ones here, though, I did just get sent some from perky prints that are hazel and roomy, and I love those. That's cool. Those are really cool. Like, they're little faces, and they're clear, so they're, like, really. elegant looking and then you just see their faces in the tree so those are cool too but the the snow baby

is my favorite of like all the time all right describe your ideal christmas my ideal christmas i like waking up early on christmas like super early like six a m i wake up at six a m wild if it was ideal like i get to pick how we do christmas we would wake up at six a m and we would have like just coffee and then do gifts i like doing it christmas morning i don't like doing it christmas even Eve, like right at the start of the day, open gifts, and then just the chaos of like whatever we want to do the rest of the day. Everybody kind of do your own thing after that. But I just like the feeling of waking up and doing it right at the start of the day. Yeah. No, I'm 100% with you. I don't normally like waking up early at any point in time.

But like Christmas Eve, when I was a kid, I could never sleep every year. Like I slept really good. And then Christmas Eve came and I hardly slept like an hour and and then be like, Morgan, get out of bed. Like, we got to go. Santa came. And like you do the stockings. You do the grubes. Christmas gifts first thing. My dad would always put out like a cheese ball. And that would be our meal until like we were done opening presents because nobody wanted to stop to make food. And so we just go hard all morning. And that was always my favorite. And then like you said, we'd have the rest of the day to do absolutely whatever we wanted. And most of the time it involved eating, snacking,

drinking games and repeat and like the whole rest of the day just over and over again. And us all kind of hanging out together. Sometimes it involves a walk, but not very often. Oh yeah, I don't want to walk on Christmas Yeah, like, well, sometimes we're like, dang, if we're going to, like, go for round two of all this food, like, you go outside for a little bit. Yeah, sometimes, like, going outside, like throwing the football around is fun. I feel like that's more Thanksgiving, though.

Yeah. Get a walk and go around. Here's my thing, though. Like, my ideal Christmas involves all of that, but really it involves snow. I love white Christmases. Like, when it snows, I'm like, this is what a Christmas is supposed to be. I can't think I've ever had a white Christmas.

I think it's only having, like, once or twice. in my time of wish shot? Snow always comes in January. I'm like, what are we doing, guys? Like, it's supposed to be a Christmas. Yeah, here is January. We never got it in Texas. Mexico. Yeah, I was going to say you guys are too far south. I don't think so. No snow. Yeah. Yeah, white Christmas. Man, and once you've had one, it's hard. Any other one not having to me, you're like, dang. Like, you almost wake up, be like, is it snow outside? And when it isn't, really sad. Okay. I got a Christmas this or that that we're going to do. We'll be right back. going to take a quick break.

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It was a really long title. I need to work on that. Okay. Christmas pajamas or Christmas hats? Sure. Oh. I guess I'll go pajamas just because I can never find one of those Christmas hats that fits my big head. So Christmas pajamas.

Wait, you haven't found like a Santa hat? Mm-mm. Really? I have such an unassumably large head. It's not this way. It's this way. Like I just had to buy like a specialty hat online. Like a Christmas hat?

Just like any hat. It's like a size eight. Really? Yeah. So no hats that are one size fits all, doesn't fit me. I'm the reason they had to do one size fits most. That was why? Okay.

I think I'm going on Santa Hat. I like Christmas Virginia and I'm going to go on Santa Cat. But I only wear them for like a picture that I take them off. See, like a Santa hat would be like oversized on you. On me it would be like I could barely fit it. I did have one that went missing that I really, I loved. It was like a, so Victoria's Secret Angel Fashion Show, right? They put out like a pink like bedazzled.

Santa hat and I had it and I loved it. I wore it like all of December when I had it and then I lost it. I have no idea where it is. It's my favorite Christmas hat. Lunchbox probably stole it. Probably did. Probably did. Okay. Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? I'm gonna go Christmas Day. I like the actual I don't know. There's something about Christmas Day that just feels special and it's like the entire world shuts down and it just feels like everybody's kind of all doing the same thing at once. So I just like Christmas Day better. I'm with you. The only thing I like about Christmas Eve is the anticipation of Christmas Day. Like how excited you get.

You're like, it's happening tomorrow. Like, I think that's the one time of year I ever feel that way. Yeah, the anticipation of it is pretty fun. Yeah. Because then when it comes, you're like, dang, it's already over. I get really sad when that happens. Because I do love that anticipation. And that's why I feel like I love waiting.

I don't like any Christmas presents early whatsoever. I'm like, no, Christmas Day. It has to be Christmas Day. I don't want to know until Christmas Day. See, I do love that, though. I'm with you on that. I think they should all be done on that day. Because yeah, Christmas Eve, it kind of ruins it.

And it's gone. I think because I love Christmas the actual day so much, I don't want it to be gone. So I want to push it away as far as it can go. And then 6 a.m. All right, let's go. Okay. Yeah, you're right. You got it.

Okay. Hot chocolate or eggnog. Ew. Can I go neither? You don't like either? I don't really like hot chocolate. But if I had to go one and I'll say if I had to drink a gallon of one, I'd probably go hot chocolate.

Dang, but you don't like hot chocolate. I don't think I've ever had just like good hot chocolate. chocolate. I need to make some of my homemade hot chocolate. Then you would like it. It's really good. Never been into it. But do you like chocolate in general?

Yeah, I like dark chocolate. Yeah, you can still do dark chocolate with it too. Okay, I never had that. Well, like, if you make it at home, so the way I make it at home, I had posted this recipe on Instagram a while ago, but you do your choice of milk, you do chocolate chips, cocoa, sugar, and vanilla. So your chocolate chips that you choose could be dark chocolate. Chocolate.

Maybe that sounds better. Right? Like a homemade, and then I make like a homemade whipped cream with it. So it's just, I mean, it's full of sugar. It's really bad for you. But it's really good. So maybe you'd like that. But I'm with you.

Hot chocolate. I don't mind eggnog. I've tried it recently for the first time. I think I've only ever had it once and it wasn't very good. It just tastes very eggy. Like you're literally drinking an egg like milk. Yeah, I don't really get it. Yeah, I did have an alcoholic eggnog, though, and that one was pretty good.

I think mostly because they had like rum, shot in it. Yeah, I remember the drunkest I've ever seen my grandpa back in the day was when he just drank a whole bottle of alcohol like egg-ogged by himself. I don't even think he wanted to drink it. He was just hungry. So he drank the egg-og? Yeah. We're like, what happened to that bottle? Drink it all. That's funny. I didn't know it was that intense of an alcohol to get drunk off. This is a very thick drink. Yeah. I was going to say, that's why I was like, is it very high in alcohol content? Okay. Christmas music, Christmas music or Christmas movies. Oh, this sounds, oh, There's something, like, I'm only listening to Christmas music in my car right now.

Really? Like Christmas time, I just turn it on just Christmas music. Random Christmas music, I love that. I love movies, though. I know. I knew this one will be a hard one for you. Well, I actually thought you'd just choose movies right off the bat, so I'm kind of shocked. This is tough because I feel like, that feels like the kickoff for me.

Like, I have layers of how I approach Christmas. Christmas music is like the first tier of it. Okay. Like, I'll start listening to Christmas music before I start watching Christmas movies. I'm deep into the Christmas movies now. But the music also make the movies because they're, oh, that's tough. Yeah. He, I got him.

I think I just have to go movies because I love just watching them on leading up to it. And I could do without listening to it in the car. So I had to go movies. Okay. I mean, you went back and forth there for a minute, though. I mean, I'm impressed. It's just music is such a big part. Because even if I didn't watch movies,

other parts of Christmas were still be fun with the music, like going to like a Christmas concert or like seeing people sing. Yeah. There's a lot more that happens with the music part of it. No. That's why I'm choosing Christmas music. And also like on their own, like I wouldn't watch a Christmas movie in July. Yeah. I could get rid of Christmas movies and be fine and watch a normal movie. Oh day, I could be going back to music. I'll stick a movie. I'll take a movie. Okay. Well, I'll go, I'll go music for both, both of us because I'm, I'm with you. Like music makes the whole. whole season. You could just throw it on and you're automatically in like a jolly mood and ready for the holiday to happen. But I do, I mean, I'm with you. I love movies and there's specific

ones that I will watch. So let me give you my tier in the version that it typically happens. I start with the Santa Claus movies. And then I go into How the Grinch stole Christmas and then Elf. And then everything else kind of follows. But I always have to watch those three to fully feel like I kicked off Christmas. How do you feel my movie choices? Those are solid ones. Okay. You're giving me eyes and I was like, hmm, I don't think he likes those. Okay. Do you have like a one that keeps off your season? I just did a whole episode of like my wife and I is like go to Christmas movies because we have a whole list that we have to work through every single year now. And she's also the one who kind of like turned me on to some Christmas movies that I hadn't really seen before.

Okay. So like we have this entire guide of like, okay, we start with this one, go with this one. And then I have like Christmas movies that I feel like I can't watch until it's like a few days before. Like how the Grids still Christmas. That's like an unwrapping gifts type movie. Yeah, but it's so good. I have to wait for it. Because it feels so Christmas-y to me.

It just, the way it looks, it's so warm and just has like the theme of Christmas. I feel like that has the best message out of any Christmas movie. So I need to watch that either on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Dang, but you only watch it once the whole season? Yeah, I save it. Oh, I watch it on like repeat. It's like, if it's on TV, I'm like put it on. Dang.

So that one in like a Christmas story. Those are like Christmas Eve. Christmas Day. Okay. And then I always work in my R-rated Christmas movies. Which are like, Bad Santa? Yeah.

Those are like the week out of Christmas of like, I need something fun. Yeah. Okay. Solid. And then to kick it all off, do you have one? Elf. Elf kicks it all off. Okay.

But so once you've watched them, though, you don't ever watch them again. No, because there's a big list. There's like 10 movies on it. I will add one more to my list. I'll add the holiday. That's another one. That'll probably be number four because I can, I will, that's another one. I'll watch on repeat.

Honestly, I'll probably watch all four of those on repeat before watching any other. Okay. Well, go check out. Is that a recent episode? Yeah, you go check that out. Okay. Movie Mike's Movie Podcasts. Go check that out.

Ice skating or sledding? I've never, oh, I think I ice skating once and I was terrible at it, so I'll go sledding. Just once? Yeah. Once in like third or fourth grade, we took a field trip to like a hockey rink. You haven't tried it as like an adult? Nope. I'm good.

You're like, no, thank you. Oh, so terrible. at it. I'm better at like things on wheels than I am with blades on your feet. Yeah, blades are scary, man. I think about often if I ever slip and fall, I'm like, I can just cut my arm off. Yeah, I'm good with that. Okay. Yeah, I think I would go sledding too. I love ice skating. Like, ice skating for a first date, it's pretty clutch. I have done that before. And I was like, dang, this is pretty romantic. Yeah, I'd embarrass myself on that one. Yeah, but that's what's fun about it. It's like, it kind of gets all the awkward nerves out.

You know what I mean? I just sort of like the feeling of being like attached to something. Yeah. Because that's why also I've never skied, I've never snowboarded, because you're just attached to the thing. Yeah, but it's so fun, Mike. This is fun. Life, a little adventure. Okay, making sugar cookies or making gingerbread house. Oh, making a gingerbread house is hard.

Okay, they never, when you get those little packages, the icing they put in it never works. Yeah, we did that last year. This was tough, but I don't, I guess I didn't know that most people eat them. You're supposed to eat it? I thought you just made it and then you threw it away like 20 days later. Yeah, I was watching like Shark Tank the other day and somebody came up with like a different way to make them. That's a lot easier. It's just like a tin where you like essentially make like a, it's almost like a big cookie thing.

Oh, interesting. But it's in the shape of a cake and it's a lot easier to make than making the house. And they're like, yeah, because you eat it after. I was like, you're supposed to eat it after? I was like after you've been touching it and like messing with it. It is technically edible. I just don't feel like that like a hard icing would be good. I've never eaten a dinner house.

Looks good. Are you supposed to eat it? Or does she make it up to get a pitch on Shark Tank? Probably. That is probably how. Because let me tell you, I also don't know that I like gingerbread cookies in general. I do like gingerbread. You do.

Okay. I was going to say, I don't know if that's a me thing or if it's a common thing. But yeah, I've never been a fan of gingerbread cookies. But I do feel like it's an experience to make a gingerbread house. So I'm actually going to go gingerbread house. You are. Even though like the process is dumb, it's a fun tradition. That is fair.

Our tradition, so every year, typically like the day before Christmas Eve or on Christmas Eve, We would make homemade, like, Christmas cookies, and they were sugar cookies, and they were so good. And we would eat them while we were making them. But we'd have so many. My sister and I would have so many to ice. And we'd have, like, five different icing colors. And we'd have all these different sprinkles out to make them all pretty. And he took those hours, Mike.

I mean, we would be in there for like six hours. And, like, for a lot of years after, we're like, why do we keep doing this? Yeah. For that, our version of that is tamales. Okay. Because that takes, like, five, six hours. Do you guys eat that on Christmas Day or Christmas? Christmas Eve. We'll make them on Christmas Eve and then have them. You can have them that night

and then the next day you reheat them. Okay. A Christmas day, you just have them ready. Okay, that makes sense. Well, then that helps Christmas Day. Then it's like already ready. Yeah. So as we're doing gifts, like right after we're done, go to the model list. Okay. See, like that, we have our own version, the us that you were referred to earlier. Christmas cookies. So I'm going to sugar cookies for that reason. But yeah, we don't make them much anymore. A lot of work. A lot of the Christmas things in general are a lot of work. That's what we only do it once a year. Exactly.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. These are just random Christmas questions, Mike. Are you sensing a theme here? Yes, random and Christmas. I got it. We're doing a whole thing here. We're totally focused because we have to get in the holiday spirit where you're moments away from Santa coming. Almost there. I'm like 60% fully in the holiday spirit.

I'm going to need you to get like 80% here. Okay, I can get there after these random questions. Yes. Have you ever lied and told someone their present was in the mail, but it hasn't arrived yet? No, I'm pretty good at ordering like way in advance. Dang, never? No. Oh, I've done that a lot of times.

Really? A lot of times. Oh, no, like, I'm kind of along the same lines of, like, Christmas music and Christmas movies. I don't really switch over into, like, the shopping spirit until, like, right after Thanksgiving. I think it's Black Friday that kind of kicks that off for me. But then I try to get it all done that same weekend. Dang.

I'm actually, like, impressed right now. Like, you know, not once in your life, have you done this? Mm-mm. Yeah, that's crazy. I've done that a lot. No, like, I'll do it all that Thursday, Friday, and, like, a lot. in like cyber Mondays where I like try to have the bulk like I would say 80% of my Christmas gifts like done and ordered and then I do like to actually like go into the store to like find

things because I feel like that's kind of like Christmas to me of like actually going to the mall going to like small shops and like finding things there maybe things that people didn't necessarily say like they wanted or like just things I see that it made me think of people so I do like the actual going to the store to buy things I'll save that for like that week out after very most like two weeks outside of Christmas is when I'm finishing up shopping. Dang you, I'm proud. Like, that is awesome. Can you like give me some of that Christmas elf energy?

I don't know what? I think it's also because I see it as like how I see like a work task. Like, okay, I have to do this. I have a list. I have to check people off this list. I order things. And it's, for me, it's not that hard. Like, here's my list.

I can get it done and get everything shipped just because I know I don't want to be stressing on the other end of like, oh man, is this. I'm going to have to pay extra for shipping. I'm going to have to go pick it up in person somewhere. I have that. I have like gift anxiety. I think that's more of my problem. It's because I get ideas and then I'll start searching for it and find it.

I'm like, no, they're not going to like that. Like I go back and forth a lot. So instead of just like pulling the trigger on what I thought originally, which I almost always come back to anyway, I'm like, I get nervous. I'm like, no, they won't like it. When do you start thinking about it? Because I think that also helps me too. I do it that weekend. Like I did a lot of shopping over.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday. And I did do a decent amount for Christmas. I think more often it's birthdays. But I did start recently. I put every single one of my friend's birthday in my calendar for every year. I'm like, I can't keep doing this because it always surprises me when it comes up

even though I have a way of knowing. But birthdays get me, Christmas I'm better about. I think I'm done with Christmas. I think I've already finished all my shopping at this point. But birthdays, those, those get me. I guess it helps that a lot of the people I buy gifts for have birthdays around Christmas, like closer to, like, later part of the year, like in the fall. So sometimes there's something that I didn't get them for their birthday.

They're like, I'll save that for Christmas. That does help for sure. And then I'm just like, okay, I'll save that. And then I already have kind of an idea of what I'm getting into about the time November rolls around. Yeah. It's hard with my wife, though, because her birthday is in January. So it's having to make that distinction of like, I'm keeping these two things separate

and not penalizing you for having a January birthday. You have to have Christmas and January separate. Yeah. No, that makes sense, though. She probably appreciates that from you. Yeah, that's tough. Okay. What Christmas-themed food do you think is the grossest? Oh, the grossest. Yeah. I remember, like, going to, like, school Christmas parties, like, at school, and they would always have the fruit cake.

Oh, yeah. Nobody would ever eat it. I don't know what it is. Yeah, like, where did that even come from? And why is it always a decoration of Christmas, but it's never eaten? Yeah, it's one of those just, it's a tradition that you have this, fruit cake and it would always be there, no one would eat it. Was your fruit cake the one with jello in it or was it the one that actually was like, kind of like angel food with fruit cake? Kind of like that. It had like actual pieces of fruit in it that were like super hard and you didn't know what

it was. Is it a peach? Is it a strawberry? No idea. Yeah. I've seen both. Yeah. But I think more of the jello ones than movies maybe.

And the fruit cake is always right next to the eggnog. Yeah, you know what? Ironically. Mine's kind of similar to yours. It's always, it's the cranberry. that comes out of the can and it looks sliced. I remember, I'm going to admit something to you, Mike, for probably the first 20 years of my life.

I always thought that was meat. Always. And I never asked me. Like dog food? Like, yeah, like it was sliced ham or something that somebody was having because I don't eat me and I haven't since I was eight. So I was like, this is a new one that they're eating.

I didn't think twice about it. And people put it on their thing. I was like, that's freaking disgusting. How are you eating that? And then I think I was like 23 when somebody was like, yeah, but don't forget the can of cranberry. And I watched them put it on the plate. I'm like, that's what that was this entire time. I thought it was meat.

I was in like shock. Okay. But yeah, that one grossed me out. Especially what like if it just sits from like out of a can, which is like this giant circular thing. And you can still see like the ridges on it. Yes. Or if they slice it and then it really looks like messed up meat. So that's gross to me.

Yeah. I'll co-assigned that one. Okay. Thank you for that. I'm being vulnerable. If you had to live in a holiday movie, which one would you choose? Ooh. It would probably be how the Grinch stole Christmas live in Whoville.

Right. But like the only thing I don't like about Whoville is my nose would be all funky. Yeah, I'd probably be living where the Grinch is living, to be honest. With Max. That's a good one. Whoville's a good one. Okay. I really love.

elf but like it doesn't take place in elf so i think i'm gonna go you know what i mean like it takes in the north pole it starts in the north pole that that would be fun to live in with the narwhal well see that and that's why i'm gonna do santa claus because the santa claus is almost all in the north pole for all three movies besides the first one where it like becomes it but the rest of them yeah you can live with santa that's a good one i think so but whoville's good you know I'm going to get vulnerable again with you. I used to pretend I was Cindy Lou, and I would sing all our songs. Like, when I used to really want to be a singer, I would line up all my stuffed animals,

and I would sing, Where Are You Christmas to them? And I would even put my hair up in the little thing. I don't mean this offensive, but I could see that before it. It makes sense. Yeah, that was one. I put on a lot of shows for my stuffed animals, but one that happened every holiday season was Where Are You Christmas? The Christmas concert. Yeah.

But it's particularly that song, and it's not like repeat. So that song. Okay. Could you demonstrate it to everybody listening now? No. No. I think they want to hear it. No. Where are you Christmas?

There you go. The stuffed animals are applauding. Okay. If you could spend the holidays in a foreign country, where would you go? Oh. I've still been dying to go to Japan, but I don't feel like that's a Christmas-y environment. Yeah, no. Oh.

Where does that? they celebrate. You know, I would kind of, I think I would go Australia. Because it's, it's summer there during this time, and I feel like there's a juxtaposition of celebrating a wintry holiday in a warm climate. So I feel like it would be a totally different look on it. Yeah, that is a good one. I do wonder what, like, is there Christmas at the same time as ours? Yeah. So it just is a summer Christmas, basically. Yeah, they're hanging out in shorts and T-shirts. That's crazy to think about. Like, they've only known Christmas in the warm weather. Yeah, and they still have to listen to Christmas music.

It's all like ice and snow and like North Pole stuff. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's a good one. I think I would do Belgium where the Christmas market is. I don't know if you've ever seen videos of like the giant Christmas market in Europe. Just snow their waffles. Yeah.

So there's like, and I could be wrong, but I think Belgium is pretty Christmassy too. But there is a giant Christmas market that happens in Europe. Yep, I'm on Google. Are you Googling it? Yeah, Christmas Market in Belgium. It's like there's this really... The Brussels Christmas Market? It could be that one, too.

Brussels, Belgium. The most popular Christmas market in Belgium. 13... Oh, it's 3.5 million visitors a year. That's a lot of people. I was going to say, there is one, and I would love to go and experience that. And somebody's going to probably tell me that I should have known it. But, yeah, it's a Christmas market in Europe, and I would go there,

and I would probably never leave because it looks like it's straight out of a movie. I'm not going to lie, this kind of looks like how they decorate in Mexico for Christmas. Like they go all out there. Really? I think that's why I enjoyed it.

Okay, so wait. Oh, wait. Like all the light, like. The most, the longest last, the oldest one is Strasbourg in France. So there's also that. There's a few. I would just go to all of them.

Just take me to Europe. Just go to Europe. Take me to every Christmas market. But dang, that's what Mexico looked like? Yeah. Impressive. That downtown of Belgium looks like downtown to where I would go.

See, I love when things are decorated like that. Like all you were talking about like going to the mall to buy things. I love going to the mall because of all the decorations. It makes me feel very holiday. So like being able to walk around in a town where it's all that and you just look like you're in the North Pole, that's what I want. We don't really have that in Wichita. We have really cool lights in a lot of places. But there isn't like a massive Christmas market, you know.

I was just in Wichita last week. Didn't feel like Christmas there yet. Dang it. Don't tell me that. I'm going to go home, Mike. Okay. This is our last question. We'll end on.

If you had a snow day, what would you spend it doing? Ooh, a snow, I love snow days as a kid. I meant school was canceled, go out playing the snow. In Texas, it really wasn't snow. It was like ice. And I always wanted to build like a snowman. I could never really do it because it was all ice. So I would, in a real snow day, I'd build a snowman, like, legit.

The top hat, the carrot nose, the arms. Yeah, let me tell you, it's a lot more work than you think it would be. I know. It's a lot of work. It's been a lot of hours out there. Hours? To build a snowman? At least that's what happened when I was a kid.

Like, I mean, it took us hours. Really? Yeah. I thought they'd be like 15 minutes stops. That's what you think. But like actually compacting snow and making one bigger than the other one, and then they all sit, and then you have to make sure you go find all the things to put in the snowman. Yeah, it's a lot more work than you'd think.

I'm down to try it, though. I think you should. Maybe a little snowman. You're going to have to go have a white Christmas somewhere. It's not going to happen in Texas. Yeah, not finding it there. Yeah, no, no, no. I think I is sledding.

I would love to, listen, we have, so Central County Park in Wichita. There's this, it's the only, like, hill within probably 150 miles. It is so flat there. That's what I noticed when we were just there. I was like, I could see everything. Yeah, it's a wild thing also coming back to Tennessee, and you're like, dang, you're just driving, and you're driving in hills. And you don't see, yeah.

No, Kansas, it's just flat. It's a lot. You're talking about juxt, what did you say? What was your big word you used? Juxtaposition. Yeah, that's that. Yeah. Kansas is in Tennessee.

But our one big hill, at least that was, like, close to where I lived, was in Sedgwick County Park. I think it was a manmade hill. I'm pretty sure it was, like, dirt just piled on top of it. So Wichita and Kansas is so flat that they have to man make hills. I think so. I could be wrong. It could be a original.

There is the Flint Hills in Kansas, which are beautiful. And those are, like, very hilly. Much like driving, like if you're driving in Tennessee, it's very much like that. But that's far away from me. It's like two hours away. And it's out in the middle of nowhere. Like nobody really fully lives out in the Flint Hills. But we have the hill in Central County.

I don't know if it's real. I don't know if it's fake. But it was always there for snow days. And so anytime there was a snow day, everybody in Wichita would be at this hill. And it was so much fun. And you go sledding with your little makeshift sled. And it'd be like a little party on the hill. And we would, I mean, that's.

snow was gone by the end of the day. Like it was just everybody made it disappear because so many people were sledding on it. So I would go back to Sedger County Hill for that one experience because it's so much more fun too. Like I've sled here in Nashville, but like nobody's all together. I think that's what also made it so cool. It's like everybody was there. Like a movie. Yeah. Like literally if it was a snow day, everybody from Mays High School was out of that snow hill. And it'd be like, you're at school, but instead it's a snow day. It was so awesome. Whereas here it'd be like there's five of us. I'm like, dang. It's pretty boring.

Okay. Well, we're going to head over to listener Q&A unless you have any other random Christmas things you would like to share, Mike. I just want to say that I'm at like 100% Christmas now. Spirit is up.

We got there? I'm so proud of us. The sled is off. We're going. Yeah, now if only we could get you some snow. Yeah. Then I think you'd be like 150, even though I know Bobby hates that.

But like, I think you'd get 150. Yeah. Snow makes everything better, I think. I don't know. You're smiling like that. I don't know. Like on Christmas, it's fun because you don't have anything to do.

Yeah. If there's snow like just out and like hinders me from like driving my car. I don't know if it's going to be cold, it should snow. If you're going to make me suffer through cold weather, it might as well be pretty. No, I don't want added snow onto that. Yeah. If you're going to make me be freezing, it's like 10 degrees outside, it might as well be snowing. I don't see it that way.

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