The Show - TWAS THE NIGHT

Episode Date: December 23, 2025

That’s a wrap on 2025, folks! We love you all so very much & thank you for a fantastic year. Have a safe & loving holiday season and we will see you in 2026. On today’s show, Josh loves a good attic vibe. Please remember to wash your coats. We’ve got a Christmas-themed High Strangeness & so much more on a Christmas Eve Eve show!

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Got it! Got it out of the way. Good morning, everybody. Happy Tuesday. This is K. Rock. They give her joining us. K. Rock, text line, as always, 315, 36, 4,

1009. Q's Hoops winning last night. Did they? They did. Oh, man. Why, oh, man? I was really hoping that Stonehill College. Stonehill College coming in.

That would have been pretty funny. They got beat by 30. Oh, wow. Yeah. 49ers killed the Colts last night, too. Do you watch any of that? For a little bit until the Niners started to pull away. And I was like, all right.

We're good. They had the Colts had cool outfits. Did they? Yeah. Wicked cool. Is it the yellow one? No, instead of their... No, 49ers are yellow pants.

Instead of the, you know how they're usually like blue and white? It was like blue and black. Oh, that is cool. But like that metallic black, it was neat. Those look nice. cutest outfits always wins, guys, you know the rules. 44, however old, year old Phillip Rivers threw a touchdown. Philip Rivers was 1007 years old.

And he threw a touchdown. They really? Two of them. Oh, yeah, he's the only came out of retirement. I forgot about that Philip River story. It was crazy. It was like, is this really happening? Because it was tied.

And that's why I was all that. But right about that, I was like, really? This is what we're going to be doing? I'm not to watch Colts and 40 diners with Phillip Rivers. And then the Niners are like, no, you're fine. No. Touchdown, touch, touch, down. We're good.

Good morning, everybody. No, we're good. In our chat, how do you do? Happy Tuesday. It is a Tuesday. Got a high strain. Just got a Christmassy high strain. Oh, Christmasy ice cream?

What else is going on today? Everybody rationing their water. I see that. That's gone by Sunday. Post it on my social media. I will offer driveway showers. It's the holidays. I'm happy to give back, Cody.

Yeah, this is the worst time they could possibly have for this. So I will be hosing people off in my driveway. It's gone by Sunday. That's what they're saying. If they don't get repaired by Sunday, we're out. That's it. Because it wasn't that they were not, they weren't full. If everything was like full to start.

But, you know, it happened at such a, I guess, weird time. All right. Well, I've got a 50-foot hose. So if we just all start combining our hoses, I mean... We can get the water from Lake Ontario into the reservoirs, right? I mean, if anybody can take a shower at my house, you've got to toss me like a buck.

Oh, yeah. I pay for water. Dollar a shower, a cocoa. I mean, you bring your own towel. Go right now. I don't care. But like, obviously, this is not going to be fun for a lot of people. We're just trying to be to have lighthearted,

laughs about it. But I mean, if you really want, this sucks a lot. Yeah. What is going to be... Anybody really can if they need to take a shower, my house, I don't care. Like, say we get to Sunday and there isn't a repair, what do we do?

I don't know. I think the water is off. I think you can turn it on and nothing comes because it's empty. I think that's what happens. Like, we're going to, like, jokes aside, we're going to hit a point of like a state of emergency, right? Yes. Well, nobody having water, so... Does, like, the National Guard show up with, like,

bottles of water and stuff? I don't know. I happen to be in, Walmart yesterday and I wanted to just check, of course, water was gone. Yeah, people probably panicked. They went nuts. I'm like, guys. I mean, I guess if you have the means, you could always check into a hotel somewhere and just... I don't know, yeah.

You know, nothing like a hotel over the holidays. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, we'll make jokes about it because this is a stupid comedy show, but that's going to suck for a lot of people if we don't get this figured out. What was the update? Did they say, like... I don't know. I don't know what, like, look at what they have to, do. It's a big ass pipe, not to get too technical, but it's a big ass pipe. They have to dig up like a hundred foot section and the pipe is a hundred feet.

Oh, boy. So I would imagine you have to probably dig out, I don't know, 50 feet on either end. And then, you know what I mean? And then you can't. It's not a small project. And you probably can't just feel like, yeah, right here is where it's broken. We're good. You probably got to dig 100 feet on either end or whatever.

And be like, all right, is it okay here? I don't know. I don't know anything about that crap, man. Has anybody contacted that flex seal guy? Oh. Like, I mean, he's, yeah. Yeah, what's he doing? Again, I'm not telling you how to do your jobs, but we contacted the flexeel guy.

I mean, honestly, would it be so crazy? If pillow numn nuts can do whatever he's doing, if Shamwow numn nuts can do it he's doing, if flexial guy was like, I could fix it. I could fix it. He shows up and slaps. I have other uses as well. Slaps that flex seal on it. The other guys might suck, but I can save this. whole infomercial thing for everybody.

Or that alien tape commercial? Is that going to do anything? Can we get some alien tape around it? Again, I don't just... And Angie's right. Do I need to go talk about computers near the area? I think that's the opposite. I don't want to drive up the reservoirs. Wait a minute. Yeah, you've got to... I think for the safety of this area, I need to talk about less computers.

I don't want to be drying up the reservoirs that we do have, you know? Well, there you go. Cody's offering showers if you want to swing by his place. Yep. I am right outside that little area. No, that's not a trick mirror. He's not behind it. No, no, no, no.

I'm doing the hand around the icing. Hey, wait a minute. And I have my Santa Claus shower curtain up right now. Nice. And it's mostly clear. So it would just be me, just you would only see my eyes. It's a little foggy little. Yeah.

Hey, can you throw some water on there? It's fogging up. I can't see it from this side. showered at Cody's and the whole time it was like right below the door I could see ten little toes just standing right there I don't know my hands like a little cat paw underneath the door

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Cool, what a night. I love blasting the heat. Mm-hmm. But you're going through lights on the lake. You've got to see it properly. So you got to roll your windows down. Yeah, but I also am going to give one note because my brother-in-law mentioned this at our party yesterday. Let's keep moving.

Let's keep moving. I guess he was behind a car that was like stopping at every display. See, that's where I'm taking photos. That's where I'm with him. You got to go one mile an hour. Yep. But you don't need to stop it every single one. A couple?

A couple, fine, quick. Five, ten. Fine. And the way you do that is you speed up. So then when you stop, that car behind you is making up the difference. Or if you want to stop frequently, real quick. Real quick. Just quick.

Hey, look, Josh. Real quick. Picture. Yeah. Boop. And we're driving again. He said he was behind a car that was just stopping on every display. You just got to keep the car rolling.

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I've noticed something about me with all these Christmas movies I've been watching. Coramble? And I don't know if I'm just, like, feral. I don't know if I'm just wired different. But all these Christmas movies, I'm just built different. All these Christmas movies I'm watching, they try to paint the attic as a bad place. Like, Christmas vacation, he's stuck in the attic. Kevin gets banished to the attic to sleep, you know, on the fold-out couch or whatever.

I don't know what it is about me, but I like all these addicts. Oh, man. They look so cozy to me. Yeah, you got to use them. Like, it's unused space. Yeah, they're cool. Although, I get it, some of them, depending on, you know, your house in the summer. Right, maybe it's not warm.

They're in the summer. They're balls hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, no, I get that. Yeah, they're untapped potential where it's like, you just have a peed on by Fuller, obviously. So he just has a crappy couch and a sick attic? It looks like a sick.

I don't go up there and hang out. But it also looks like you look cramped down there. I know it's the holidays. Yeah. And you're cramped because it's the holidays. But why is it cramped? Why is that not like a guest area up there? Or you could make that attic and home alone like the kids play area.

Like all you go up to the attic and play. Get out of the living room. Get out of the kitchen. Get out there. Yep. Because I'm watching these. Now Clark Griswalt isn't as cozy because he has never to do it where to it.

He doesn't it like, but it looks like a vibe to me. I'm not saying go smoke weed in the attic, but like it looks like like go smoke weed in the attic kind of situation. Kevin McAllister's attic looks like I would want my room up in the attic. Like can we, like a Hey Arnold

situation where you're like, can I just have this dope ass? Right. If this is the bad part of the house, can I have the whole bad part? Yeah. And move up here in the attic? Can I just have this sickest room in the house? Okay. He's just chilling on them rubber sheets.

Yeah, no. Just get a little space heater up there, bro. A text sign says, if you're going to lights on the lake, learn to turn off your headlights. Yeah, that is the complaint. And I learned a trick this year that apparently with Honda, or at least with my wife's Honda,

because my Anaconda don't want none. Unless you got Bonson. You have to put it in park and then turn the lights off, and that turns them all off. So, like, see what the trick for your car is. Mine does not do that. My lights do not turn off.

Even like the headlights, I get like the running lights. No, they'll turn on like, yes, it's that secondary where there's still going to be some light behind your car and there's nothing I can do. I've tried all of the things because yeah, that does

that does suck for some of them. You get a big truck behind you. Mm-hmm. Like, ah, well, then you just got to angle your sorry. Angle your mirrors. Yeah. Text line, great question.

What about the Jumanji attic? That is a dope-looking attic. I mean, isn't that where the board game comes to life and everything goes awry? Yep. That's a dope attic. Why am I attracted to addicts? They're just all cool because they've been... Am I part bat?

Yes. Our whole lives, they've been either portrayed as that, like a vampires hangout. Out of bounds. Don't go there. Where they keep Bart's deformed twin. Yep. Or, hey Arnold's sick-ass room where he has a damn skylight. Yeah.

To overlook the city. Does Mama Mac have an attic? It's, because that house is from the 1800s. Yeah. Yes and no. It's, there is a top part above it, but you have to figure out a way to get up. Like if one of these squares was the, the, you know, opened and pushed up into the, you know, top of the house. Same of my parents' house.

And then you have to like balance on beams or something. I've never been up there. They have one part of the house like above the garage that you can pull down that ladder. Yeah. And it's all storage. Like there's not a vibe. No, this is even worse. It's there's no ladder.

You have to just get your, Yeah, you get your way up there, push that thing up and over and then still have to figure out your way in. It's awful. It was where it was right above me in my, that was where my room was in the house. And I never ever went in there. I never opened it, nothing. It was not worth this. his walled's feet break through the ceiling in his kids room.

He just doesn't shimmy down through that hole and now he's out of the attic. Why does he? Right? You've already broke the ceiling. If he can break through then, like, is there a beam right there? So it will hurt your grundle? Like break it more? You've already got to repair this.

Because does he think that these two leg holes are going to be easier to pair than one big giant hole? Oh, maybe. But he falls right through it. I go, oh, well, now it's already broken. Just shimmy out of there. Just go, hello, a little heart. harder and then you're all the way through. And then you're done.

Just scoot down, bud. You're out. You did it. You're not stuck. Damage has been done. You're out. You're free. You already broke it.

I'm celebrating addicts, man. I love them. Epic grim as Eve. Eve. Oh, e. Beautiful night for Wegman's Lights on the lake. Lights on the lake. Dot com, my friends.

Look busy last night. Oh, you were driving by out that way? Look real busy, man. You were over to the mall? I wasn't peeking over there, though, because I didn't pay. Oh, that's very nice of you. So I didn't peek. I just kind of did one of these, like, quick glance to see the people.

I'm like, okay, this ball. Yep, yep, yep, yep. I'm looking at any lights. Just a quick PSA as during the commercials in the song there, we were talking in chat. It's not forget to wash our coats, folks. It's that time of the year. Yep, yep, a lot of you. I know you don't think about it.

Nope. But that coat's been soaking up all the gas fumes. I was going to say gas, it soaks up into a jacket. You've been snow blowing, maybe you've been plowing, maybe you smoke. Cigarettes. Throw that cold in the wash once a week. The diner you go to every. The diner, the diner.

Every day or so, like, it all, and it's a lot of you. Yeah. And again, it's no shade just making you aware because there's a nice chunk of you where, what's that? I never remember that thing where here's the circle and here's the circle and here's the circle. And the Venn diagram. there's many of you where all of those are the one jacket where it's the gas, cigarette, diner. Yeah.

And now the fun thing is a lot of you will toss in a big fat sack of weed smell right there too. So you got that quadruple. Yeah, you got a lot going on. Just wash your coat. I was going to say we're not being judge you, but it sounds like we are being a little judgy. But you can wash your coats. Sometimes just a little judgment will help you, you know, later on.

Either we are going to be nice about it or someone's going to be like, Oh my God, your jacket smells like ass. And Cody and I disagree? Right in front of like Jesus. On his birthday. What if that happens? I told you not to ask me about Santa or that I do it at all. Unprofessional.

Nobody watches AOL blast. Listen to the show. The one thing that Cody and I disagree on is I feel like, okay, after a couple washes, maybe toss some pants in the wash as well. Pants, those are not an unconstitutional. unwashable item either. Coats and pants. Yeah, I'd take a little longer in my pants. But in the winter, though, I have like three or four that I wear. So it's not like I'm just wearing, you know, I have the same pair of pants like three times over. So it's like, look, oh, look, it's the same

pair of pants. Spoiler, I got three of them. And where we differ from most people, we're not doing manual labor in our pants. We're not like, I'm not, no, I'm not doing a lot of stinky work in my pants. those clothes. I have your outdoor pants and hoodies and all that stuff for doing outside things. I have my snow pants I put on and I have a black Carhart jacket, which is

apparently trendy now. Yeah, oh, Carhart's are a big... I didn't know that. Carhart's are a thing now. Yeah. I mean, I know that like Carhart hats and stuff like a while ago, but my teens are both like, bro, you got a black cohort? And I go, why is that a thing?

Yeah, I guess it's a, thing right now. And then if you go to Dix, there's a whole big car heart display. My dad was huge into that, man. Huge into Carhart. All that stuff. There's a lot of working men who do not like stolen valer. They do not like you wearing Carhart unless you're out there doing Carhart work. No, see, my

dad would be the opposite. He'd be like, well, you got Carhart on him. Yeah, that's what you gotta wear. Got two pairs of socks on, too? But I guess there's different, like, the Carhart I have is not the cool one right now. Oh, is it, because it's supposed to be that brown? No, no, no.

Like a black, and this is only what my teens tell me. This is how I stay dialed in. Okay. Black, Carhart, it's a jacket, but there's two different styles because a girl on TikTok accidentally bought the, like, there's one that just looks like a frumpy car heart. That's the one I have. There's one that's more fitted. Oh, okay.

Oh, sorry. You don't have the coolest one. I didn't try to. I got this jacket 10 years ago. I didn't know. But no, that's just. Maybe I'm the trendsetter. Maybe I made car heart cool.

And then when I took, I think they might still be somewhere at my mom's. But I then took his Carhart stuff for my snowblowing or whatever when I did it in Cicero. So even I was all about it. It didn't even fit me that well. I just rolled everything up because the quality is so unreal. Oh, they're amazing. They last great. I get it.

The only complaint I have with Carhart is I've got freak, like freakish like ape arms. My arms are too long for almost all shirts and jackets. I don't know. I don't know if Tamp. damn drank with me in the womb or whatever, but I got these long monkey arms. Oh, opposite. Really have short arms? I got short arms, short legs.

You got no torso on five four. It takes a while for me to find a jacket that'll fit because my arms will stick out the ends. No, but I distinctly remember having Carhart's back in the day and then Frank being like, we can't get your new car for Christmas? I'm like, I don't need another jacket. No one. I'm good. This one car heart.

I don't know what you think I do. But I don't fix snowmobiles. I'm not out and I'm not out doing it. During the week, I get on the bus. Yeah, yeah. Nah, I gotta get your car heart. Nah, even to this day. You know me.

I'm a song and dance man. I'm not out there in the fields, but I do like a pair of bibs, like the car heart bibs. That's what I had. Oh, I love it. That's still probably you want them. They're probably still it,

my mom's. I love a big old, just, you only wear overalls in the studio, so I got to wear me in my off time. Nope, no, you can. I just like to have, or a cover-all. I don't have a cover-all, but that'd be nice.

I mean, oh, that's fixing. Oh, man. That's where it's at. I get a car jacket, get a L-L-Bin bag. Katie says her sister's wingspan is like four inches longer than her height. Yeah, I don't know why.

I don't know why I got, like this sweatshirt fits me fine. Yeah. But most jackets won't. Carhart has those like tight, like it's like elasticy around the wrist. Yep. So if I put my arms out,

then I got these weird like, I get it. My jacket don't fit. I just look stupid. At least with suits and stuff, you look cooler, because that's, That's the look that's supposed to be.

It's supposed to have like, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be like chopped back. Like here's some arms. Here's the under one. Here's the jacket. So you look cool. Yeah. And I think a sister's arms are long because of evolution over time because she holds my forehead back.

She keeps you back. Yeah. She's had to adapt. It goes like this. Yep. Yeah. Hoi, ho, happy. Tuesday.

Tuesday means high strangeness. This is a mystery. Normally we, uh, we look into, you know, the cryptids, the unexplained, the unknown, the strange, even some, you know, like unsolved murder stuff. We like doing all that in a high strangeness. There's a couple. I spent like three hours trying to find something Christmasy to bring up. And I found like in the UK, they have these alien abductions that seem to happen on Christmas Day.

But it wasn't, didn't really seem interesting to me. Somebody's got to switch places with Jesus. It's like a tip for tat. That's true. He comes back. Someone's got to go and do the swap there. There's a story. Jesus situation is a very freaky Friday.

It is a freaky Friday. There's a story of a woman who on Christmas Eve sadly committed suicide and she had one name. But then they went into like her, she had a box that said like crafts or something. And in that box was like hundreds of different IDs. And no one knows. that's always Who she was for real That thank God

I didn't Find anything weird like that I'm always afraid You're gonna Right you never know You're gonna find like Oh he had an entire other family You know what I mean

Like stuff like that Like yeah Nope just a big bag of weird porn Was it really Right in the garbage Define weird Oh I don't know I don't

I unzipped the green It was like a giant like You know Bag and I unzipped it And saw porn And we're gonna go I'm going to put that, and I said to my ass and I said, you want to go through this?

Go right. I'm put this right in the garbage. That's his sister that said? Yeah. You want to look at your brother's porn collection? And she said, nope, that's okay. Right in the garbage. So they're caught about a million dollars.

Isn't in that. Oh, if he was hiding cash in between the pages? I don't know what to tell you. All right. Well, it's gone now. That wouldn't the green E.T. Tape. Yep.

So today's mystery is about. This is neat. This is weird. You probably know it as the, Twas the night before Christmas That's not even its name? No, it's name. I don't know anything about you!

The name of the poem is a visit from St. Nicholas. Often called the night before Christmas or twas the night before Christmas. It is a poem. Any more Christmas bombshells for us this year? What? It was published anonymously under the title A Count of a Visit from St. Nicholas

in 1823. Now the cool tie-in is this was first published in the Rensselaer something out near Albany, New York. Okay. So we have like a tie. One dude, Clement Clark Moore comes out, says, yep, I wrote that. He put it in a book. They're like, okay, he wrote it. Just going to go with it.

Well, then another guy, Henry Livingston Jr., his family said, well, he's been reading us this poem for years. Oh. Were they friends? Did they know each other? Nope. Nope. So let's get into the story. Clark Clement Moore was an author and a scholar, being a professor of Greek and Oriental literature at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Moore gained a fortune in his side business of architecture and real estate. Moore wrote on history, translated ancient text, and formed a dictionary of the Hebrew language. In his spare time, he wrote poetry, which he would collect in his portfolio. On December 24th, 1822, Moore and his children gathered around a fire on Christmas Eve to hear Moore's new poem. It was titled A Visit from St. Nicholas. Now you know the whole poem, we're not going to get into that. Moore was of course proud of his work, and his children adored the story, and for an entire

year, that was all that it was. By December 23, 1823, the poem was anonymously submitted to the Troy Sentinel in Rensselaer County, New York. The poem became widely locked with a rapid succession. The poem featured in newspapers, schools, and poem compilations. Its real big break was being featured in the New York Book of Poetry over a decade after it was originally published. In 1844, Moore released his own compilation of poems and included a visit from St. Nicholas.

This was the first time the poem was claimed to be written by somebody. No longer was this tale anonymous, but Moore had finally taken credit for the literary history he made. This is where the story should end. An anonymous poem finally claimed by its owner. But this is only where this story began. Dun, dun, done. So we got this poem that goes in the Troy, Rensselaer, whatever it was called, and this guy, Clement, is like, yeah, I'm going to put that in a book, because I wrote that.

Put it in a book. No one says anything. Uh-huh. Well, apparently. Well, somewhere else in the country. Well, well. For the last decade, another guy's been doing this same poem, and his family's confused. 14 years before Moore gathered his children to read them his newest poem, another poet by the name of Henry Livingston did the exact same thing with the exact same poem.

Not much is actually known about Henry Livingston's personal life, but it was clear that he was, of course, a poet, having a portfolio of over two dozen pieces of work. So 14 years before Clement read his quote brand new poem to his kids, this guy did the same thing. However, the vast majority of them were not published, as he pretty much would write them for his family. By the time a visit from St. Nicholas had become famous in the paper, Livingston had been dead as he died all the way back in 1828. Over two generations since then, the descendants of Livingston have been making a case to clear his name as the true author of this iconic poem. It is hard to take a 200-year-old claim at face value.

We essentially would be putting trust into a 200-year-old game of telephone, bringing us to modern day where Livingston's descendants still claim he wrote the poem. there is some evidence pointing towards the fact that Moore might have actually been a fraud. Starting with the most basic of evidence, is that at least five children claim to have listened to the story told by Livingston, but this is really hard to take as true evidence. One of the children claimed to have had an original copy, with Livingston's writing clear as day. However, Livingston's house has burned down along with all of his valuables, including the possibly original copy. Without that piece of evidence, this all of the evidence, this all of his own with all of his valuables. So he had no proof. possibly original copy.

Without that piece of evidence, this all amounts to that aforementioned game of telephone. But this does perfectly lead into the next piece of evidence, and that does surround the actual poem. The poem was analyzed by a literary professor in Vassar. It was found that when you cross-reference a visit from St. Nicholas with anything else that Moore had previously wrote, it just does not compare. Oh. More was anti-tobacco while Livingston was pro-smoking, making it more evident that Livingston

probably wrote it due to Santa smoking a post-poking. hype in the story. The poem also includes exclamation points, which doesn't mean much at the surface, but analyzing Morse poems, it seems he barely used them, while Livingston used them extremely liberally. Even beyond this, the actual style of Livingston's poems seem to much more closely resemble St. Nicholas than Moore's work. As a common attribute to Livingston's work was this sort of playful, jokey nature. Another scholar, Donald Foster, has noted that a pattern in Livingston's poem was to very frequently

use and create repetition with the word all, which is precisely what happens in St. Nicholas. In the poem, there are multiple references to Dutch words, which would be strange coming from more who was American. But Livingston was raised of Dutch heritage, with his mother speaking Dutch. Donner and Blitzin, two famous reindeer that accompany Santa, who were originally named Dunder and Blitzin. Yeah. Oh, I knew that. Which means meaning thunder and lightning. The names have changed countless times, and the reasons are still unclear as to why, whether it be Blixom was changed to Blitzin, the better rhyme Vixen or a modern update to better fit altogether, we are still pretty unsure.

But what is important is that these names were originally made with Dutch connections. Mmm. It's important to bring up some points that could help more once again too. Firstly, there is precedent for Moore having some Dutch influence to use if the poem is really his. Morey have seen. Moore was good friends with Washington Irving, the author of Rip Van Winkle, and Irving was very involved in Dutch culture, which could give Moore some credibility. Second of all, while many of Moore's poems do not seem to match the writing of St. Nicholas,

there are a few that do very closely resemble it, most notably being the pig and the rooster, which has a super similar rhyme scheme. It's also important to note that the main character in the story specifically turns around and bids a rooster, cockadoodle do, which is very similar to the line of St. Nick remembering to say one last greeting. Happy Christmas and to all a good night. There's also the obvious aspect of the fact that Morse stepped up and took credit at all, credit at all. While you can endlessly speculate if he did steal this and come forward for credit that way, at the end of the day, this is still significant, because we have no proof of Livingston ever doing this in his life. Hopefully in the future, more light could be shed on this long-lasting

literary mystery. For whoever wrote this poem. All that is true is the effect it has had on many of our lives. It may just be a story, but for those who celebrate the holiday, it can perhaps serve as a time capsule, a way to bring you back to the days when you were a little kid, genuinely wondering when Santa would come through the chimney and what he would be giving you. So today's high strangeness, the mystery of what we know is twas the night before Christmas.

It's actually a visit from St. Nicholas. But how would he like, if it was all the way across the country, how would he have seen it? What do you mean? More. I don't know. How did he get it?

Because the other guy Livingston never published anything. And then he died. Because it's not, it's not, what if need? Neither of them wrote it. What if it was a poem that existed in, like, a Dutch culture or, like, sister said, like a black author wrote it and it was just, like, stolen from them? No, that's what I was going to say. Maybe neither of them wrote it.

That's what I was going to say if it wasn't, there was no way for him to have gotten it, which more leads to, he didn't necessarily steal it from Livingston. Livingston. You just said, I think that they both stole it from somewhere else they saw. Yeah. in some other whatever, a Dutch writer or whatever, some UK guy, I don't know, whatever.

And they just both had a copy of it, which means, but that's also weird is that they're the only two? The part that really stuck out to me is this, this Clement guy. Yeah. Makes a big to-do where he's like,

I've written a new poem. Yeah. And he sits his family down. And then like a year later, he's like, oh yeah, put that in that poem book. Yeah. But 14 years before that, another guy read the exact same poem? So I think the Clement was a shyster, whereas the second guy was just a guy that liked poetry,

probably just wrote it down somewhere because he liked it. He heard it from somebody, then he died. He didn't try to make money off of it or anything like that. He just would read it to his kids. It was in his book of poems. Right. As like we all have, you know, photo books. Right.

And they're not all of us. So I don't, yeah, I don't. Yeah, I don't know. They both, I don't think the first guy stole it. The second guy definitely did. I think either of them. I don't think either of them. I don't think we'll ever know who wrote it.

Yeah. I don't think we'll ever know who wrote it because how are we going to go back and prove it to anybody, you know? Because they have the only two copies and nobody else and anybody else that saw it originally back then. They're dead. Oh, long dead. So we have no idea if anybody was like, yeah, that's from. Yeah. Hans Gruber from 1750.

He wrote it almost word for word. And like you said... I got it. Hold on. It's somewhere here. Like you said, part of like the Christmas traditions, a lot of people don't remember now, is like, you know the song, There'll be scary ghost stories and blah, blah, blah, blah. Like that was part of Christmas in the 17 and 1800s.

You'd sit around the fire and you'd tell stories and you'd read poems. Yep. So they might just be like, here's the repertoire of poems we tell every year. So who knows, man. It is the mystery of a visit from St. Nicholas. We still do not know who wrote that poem. I don't like to give out free business ideas,

but I'm going to give you one right now, because I'm not going to start this business. I only want it to benefit me. If someone could open a pretzel stand anywhere but the mall, I would love it. You cannot get at any ends or a wetzel's pretzels anywhere but destiny. No.

There's no stand. the long pretzel shacks. Or those good, the good caramel corn places are hard to come by too where they've got the fresh popcorn. Those are also harder. Popcorn.

Popcorn. Popcorn. But, yeah. I'm scared at how much I like wine. I wish there would be of just a little pretzel bodega. There is a battle happening in our chat right now versus Wetzel's pretzels.

I didn't know. In any ends. I didn't know there was a deal. This is on me. This on me. Trying to remember. Where's my fellow, where's my fellow Oswega County people? Did Great Northern Mall have both?

I know we had a Wetzels, but did we have an Annie Anz? I, I don't only remember Shopping Town having an Annie Anz. Wattles, I feel like it's new or something, isn't it? No, Wetzels, well, probably it's new. Wetzels was right there next to the Taco Bell. So your boy on payday could do a couple bangers. Get a couple pretzels. Great Northern Mall had both.

All right. All right Then I don't remember Hmm Yeah I got We gotta get ourselves And I will tell you That my wife has a recipe

To make them at home And they are the exact same pretzel nuggets That you'll get at any ends But it's such a process I tried once And it was a failure And I'll never try it again It's hard

It's really hard Gotta get yeast and all this stuff And then you've got to like water Soak stuff I just want to go pick up a damn pretzel Right. Yeah. Who does it?

Who? Does Mon Paz do pretzels? Is what the tax line is saying? I know they do popcorn. I know they do a billion types of popcorn. I love Mon Paz. Tax Line says Mom Paz Cattlecorn is open, but are they doing pretzels? But I was just talking about like, you know, that one place that's got, we've got three.

We have regular cheese and caramel. They used to be right outside the landmark. Mm-hmm. And I know. I know. I know I can buy the super pretzel and make it. a home and ain't the same. No, I've tried. It's not, it's not the same. I like the, man, there was nothing better than those pretzel sticks with a little cup of cheese boom.

I love the hot, I love the hot dog inside the pretzel. See, that's your jam. Those they have at the store. I bet those are pretty, pretzel nuggets. Those are pretty close. With pepperoni on them. I'm just saying that if you can get a pretzel stand, I got Nicholas saying that out near him in like South Dakota, they have a gas station that does hot pretzels. Quickstar. Well, that was my regret not getting at balls. Where did we go when you were Mr. Scootin? What gas station? But I was too afraid of...

Oh, Sh, wah-wah. I was too afraid of my... I wanted nothing in my belly during oasis. There was no... I wasn't having any issues. You weren't skipping a song for poops. Those pretzels looked banging it, wah-wah. Zippy says fast track makes a good pretzel.

Yeah, Lock one distilling makes a good pretzel. I have had their pretzel. Lock one? Yep. They got a big old... I love pretzel. Pretel. It was a year ago, and I remember that.

That was good. I don't know if Lankenheimer still makes that. We did the quest for the biggest pretzel years ago. They had a good pretzel. I don't know. I was just thinking like a shack, like a stand or something. I would love a pretzel. I still, to this day, am traumatized.

I remember working extra shifts over at a, we're always live and we're always there. High Heart, Clear Channel. Yeah. And. No AI. No AI here. No people either. But no way I.

It might be 3,000 miles away. And I didn't even want to, but I picked up extra shifts, and I worked something like 70 hours out of 80 or whatever. All I wanted after was cheese-filled pretzels. You know, I'm talking with those ones. And I went to Wegman's and got them. I got home and bit into one. It was all happy and realized that I got ones without any cheese in them. And they were just regular little pretzel bites.

Sorry, buddy. To this day traumatized me. I remember that way. of disappointment where you're like, this is it? I'm jumping off a building. This worked all that time, and I just got no cheese and I eat the pretzels.

We went through that yesterday and this weekend. Uh-oh. And I'll come back to pretzels in a second. Our favorite candy for my in-laws' Christmas candy are those little raspberry hard candies? You know those ones? You know a little raspberry hard candies? They got little like bumps on the top of it?

Yeah. You don't like those. I can tell. I like those. I was just trying to think of where you could get those. They did a move this year. You can't get them anywhere, so my mother-in-law had to order a $20 bag

on the internet. Oh, no. That's never the same. And they're literally, they are the same. They're my favorite like Christmasy candy. They're raspberry on the outside and then you get a little raspberry jelly on the inside. Once you get through

it enough, it's like a little mini Tutsi pop. Coco. Uh-oh. Some idiot decided to replace the jelly in the middle with a little chocolate. And that was a surprise for all of us. Because I wasn't expecting a little chocolate inside my raspberry candy. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure that's good.

It wasn't terrible, but it's also when you've got used to the little raspberry jelly. You want a little extra raspberry. Hmm. Well, now you guys got me all thinking I want to start a pretzel food truck. So nobody steal my idea then. Artisanal pretzels. Just some different pretzels. Artisanal pretzels.

I would literally just like be a rolling anti-ans, you know? I got to get these kids jobs. I'm going to do what Glazing Confuse does. Open a business just to make kids have somewhere to work. Quick 10-second TikTok promo videos. I'll tease you with artis and no pretzels. Joshua Gross Fat. Ah, I'll tease you with artisanal pretzels.

Joshua Gross Fat. Thank you for loving me. What's that? You do a lot of this. Maybe I'll do a pretzel food truck. Nobody take that idea. Maybe I'll get that going for 2026. 732.

12, 233. 2005. Yeah, see, Katie can teach me the technique. She is studied at the school of Antianz. Oh, yeah. She knows. Like how, that's usually the move, like how people like, oh, I used to work at so-and-so. And then I, you know, I learned how to do all that. And now I got my own food truck and I just do that. Yeah, that's the best. That's the move. I ain't loyal to Annie Ann's. I'll steal your recipe right now. I don't care. I'll do right on. 2026 is going to be my year, Joe. Absolutely right. I'm building that train set. I'm starting this food truck.

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Get your tickets at Lights on the Lake.com. This is like a big story, but I don't know how big of a story it is. So Centauri Global Spirits, who make Jim Beam and a bunch of other stuff down in Kentucky. Yeah. Is closing one of their plants, I guess. And like, I obviously know, like, I can see both sides of it. Without getting political here, you know how I feel.

Yes. Canada stopped buying our whiskey by a lot because we pissed off Canada. And then I would imagine there's tariffs on stuff that's coming in to make the whiskey. So they got kind of boned on both sides here. so I can blame Trump for that but I can also acknowledge that just liquor and and spirit booze is down a lot Yeah, people are drinking a lot less booze

Yeah, they're they're having more Interesting cocktails and stuff As opposed to just Let's give me a shot of that You know what I mean? Like it's not it's it's all Elevated now You know like I mean yeah donkey speak for yourself

I'm not drinking less booze But I know that like, I think, like, the number might be something as like 50%. He's down like 50%. It's been down a lot. He's a big night, 45%. Because I think that people go back to like the booze and like it's still fun and all that or whatever. But I think what is starting to happen is that there are people that have never dabbled in marijuana. Yeah.

That are now just testing the waters of, oh my God, that hangover on Saturday morning. after we went out Friday, I still felt sick Monday. True. Now they're finally, you know, dipping their toe in and being like, I had a gummy. I was so high. I woke up and I was gorgeous. Right, exactly.

That benefit is awesome. See you next year, sister. Show sister saying, have a nice year. And listen, I, a lot of people are getting sober. Good for you. Not me. Well, good for you. Like you're saying, a lot of people, especially on this show,

you personally with Cocoa Puffs, have kind of entered people into that world of, no, you don't got to rip big fat bongs. You can have a little gummy. You can dabble. You can get a good tasty drink. Yep. You got to learn to dabble in with both. Like, where you can have.

Oh, I dabble on both, Bob. There's nothing better than both. Because that's what's fun. Once you realize it, you could make yourself a nice little cocktail and also, you know, have yourself a little gummy or whatever. Oh, it's such a good, buzz. You got to learn where the two are. Company calls the shutdown a chance to make site enhancements.

Like, this is the thing, is I can see all of the anti-Trump people posting this story and being like, look what he did, he took away jobs. I get it. But I can also acknowledge that the industry is down, and they're not closing all of their plans. They're closing like one of three. Yes. We are always assessing production levels to best meet consumer demand

and recently met out of our team to discuss our volumes for 2026. Other Kentucky operations, including a second distillery, bottling lines, warehouses, and visitor centers will continue running. So yeah, I hate to have anybody lose their job, but I can acknowledge that the industry changes. I was in that business. I had a whiskey business. Yeah.

Oh, it just, yeah, it just helps. to be able to have other options, and maybe some of the prices for some stuff will go down. The opposite happened, actually. I don't know if Nate has seen this. It's coming back down now, but secondary market for booze was skyrocketing, like a $40 bottle.

It's going for like $200. Oh, wow. Because of this weird shift in drinking habits. I was more thinking of, like, you go in a, like, I was just going to get a 30 rack. for Chris, for Christmas, a Boisers, just for fun. I was like, let me just see one. Like 15 bucks, whatever.

Before all the things, dude, 2799. Wow. Come on now. Like, it's like a dollar of beer. That ain't it anymore, man. People aren't, like, I get it. Like, oh, that's because back in your day, but no, no, no. Back in our day, it wasn't that long ago that it was like 15 bucks for a 30 rack.

If I'm going to spend. it, I'm going to go and get... Go to branching out. I'm going to go to branching out. If I'm going to spend money like that on beer, I'm going to go get good beer. I'm going to get that, or I'm going to get a, like, the peppermint whiskey there or something, like, good. Mm-hmm. Or I'm going to get weed. Yeah. Yeah.

Like, if you're saying, here, pick a 30 rack of Budweiser or, you know, a bunch of mong rips. I'm picking the bong ritz. Right. No, it's, there's no... And again, I come to you with somebody who still has a... their foot in the liquor game. I do a whiskey show. I love liquor wine and moonshine. I want you to support them and all of our sponsors. Lock one. I want you to support them. Yes. But I recognize shifts are happening. And I can recognize that if I drink, you know, four glasses of whiskey versus whatever edible I do. I definitely feel better after the edible. I think there's definitely

going to be a lot of whiskey still in my life and a lot of people's lives. But I just think that this is shift in the, as much as I'd like to make this stupid, a stupid Trump story, I don't really think this one is. Yeah, we got Canada really mad at us. Yeah, this one is just that, everything that's been coming, that kind of like pushed a little over the cliff. But it all comes back. It's just people that dabble, learn what they, you know, can mix and all that.

It's a whole, it's a whole fun new world. Keep drinking if you want to drink. But yeah, changes are coming in that industry for sure. Everyone is seeing it, man. Everyone is seeing it. I saw that, like, I think I was. watching an interview with Mark Bullis, who owns Bullenbear. And he's like, you know, there was a time where we were a bar that had great food,

but that's shifted with drinking habits. People now come to us for great food and also you can get a drink. Yeah, it's more of your people. I mean, yes, that's still because I see the downtowns over the summer of everyone going balls to the wall. But it's more fun. You like to go out, you have a couple really good drinks and some good food as opposed to let's pound PBRs. Mm-hmm.

That's not getting anywhere. I think there's a lot of like... Still fun, have fun. Once they get less nervous about it. Yeah. Like that wine mom, like I would expect the wine world to see a huge hit too because I think once these wine moms and like wine dads who like just drinking like a glass or two of wine, once they are comfortable going into like a shop.

Because I know it still makes them nervous. Trust me, I have to go in and buy for some people who are too nervous to go in. Yep, same. Once they get comfortable going into a dispeliorable, sensory and seeing like, oh, I can just get this. Ferrarloom or whatever. How just easy it is. It's not a bodega where you're going to be all shady and it smells like.

You don't got to meet a guy. Like, oh my God, what's going on? Like you literally walk into a Flynn and it's like Ashley's there, the sweetest person. Monica meets you at the front. It's all just nice people. Anyways, 315, 365, 164, 1009. Have you noticed a shift in your habits? We have some new friends in the building with us.

and Nick from the Sound Garden. Hey, guys. Hey, how's it going? So, let me take, let me take the youth back to a time. Right. Kids don't know. Where, uh, I'm 44. Are either of you older than 44? No. No. So I'm the oldest one in the room. Yeah, you are. Back in the day, back in the late 1900s,

we would come downtown and me and my friends would go to happy endings, coffee shop, maybe for an open mic, maybe for a soda. And then right around the corner you had to go to the Sound Garden. And you could do a thing at the Soundgarden. where you could listen to the CD before you bought it. So we would go to the one of the, they had like the little CD stations with the, now that I think about it,

shared headphones that I probably share with everybody in Central New York. And you would listen to a CD and then you'd buy a CD and you'd leave with it. And that's what you did back then. Kids and you have movies and, and I guess not even DVDs yet, like laser discs back in the day, all of that.

And it was an experience. It was the record shop experience from the Soundgarden. You can still have that experience and you're still open. You're in a different spot, though. You're across with the most. How long have you been over at that spot? Oh, geez. We moved there in 2009.

2009. So you've been there a minute. And I was telling the guys that the younger generation isn't used to the physical media store when you go in and everything's right there. Like my oldest teenager, big horror fan. And they love horror movies. And I go, well, we can go to a spot. that has new and used horror movies and you can touch them and look at them.

Like, it's not a screen on your phone. And they're like, all right, I want, we go down to the Soundgarden, we bought some horror movies. This is what sets the Soundgarden apart, is it celebrating not nostalgia, but like I feel like the need for physical media, right? Like, we need to keep our physical media. Absolutely. I mean, especially like nowadays with streaming and stuff like that, like they can just decide, like, you know, maybe they lose the rights to your favorite movie. streaming anywhere. It's gone.

Yeah. But if you own it, we're not going to break into your house and take your DVD. Exactly. You know? Or there's a band that you love, like, that exists.

Like, I have so many CDs that don't stream anywhere. Mm-hmm. Like, I don't know what those deals are, but like old punk bands that I used to listen to, obviously, they're just nowhere in streaming if you don't have it.

Plus, you have more of like a physical connection with the band, you know? Like you actually hold something in your hand. It's like a memento. You know, it's like saying like going to a show, you know,

picking up something there. But supporting that and in that kind of way, it's like one of the best feelings. And I know I'm just like an old man going down memory lane here. But they've also got like clothing at Soundgarden. And it's like cool band shirts and cool like pop culture stuff that you can get there. And it's got that whole vibe. So let's talk about the vinyl though, because I'm going to be doing a video with you guys here in a little bit where I go pick some vinyl from what you've got. You have like dollar bin vinyl and stuff?

We do. Yeah. We've got our regular vinyl. section, new and used. And then, yeah, we've got a section of like, you know, cheaper dollar and $3 vinyl as well. And I've heard the spots running. If people want to sell the vinyl, you'll even come to their house. Tell me about that. We will. Yeah, we do house calls. The collection's like big enough. You know, we'll stop through. We've, we've done some, some big ones even fairly recently, like several thousand record.

Wow. Interesting. It's been a really cool experience, actually, like, going into people's Holmes talking to them about their collection. You know, they've been collecting for years and years and years and years, and they've finally time to let it go, but it's, it's always been really cool talking about. The cool thing about it is it's the records that probably you've never, like, there's going to be obviously the big ones in there, but you'll get random gems that you're like, I've never heard of this person. I don't know where this came from, but it's some polka record that a grandma's had in her,

you know, back then for 50 years. It's just a cool, it's a cool variety. Yeah, absolutely. We've done some buys recently that we're like, we did this really cool jazz buy that was a lot of like 50, 60, 70s press, like original press jazz records. Wow. I've seen some really cool stuff come through. I'm really into that world now where people are discovering stuff like that

and like trying to save it. Because all these like physical records from people you've never heard of, the ones that I'm trying to find myself, like we're saving those, we're archiving those because it is part of music history. Absolutely. I mean like, you know, there's like lost media that like it's almost impossible to find copies of this anymore. And even if it's, you know, something like you said, like a poker record,

It's still important. Yeah. To keep that around. Yeah, people made that and they worked hard on it, and we want to have that around. All right, so let's run through everything that we can get over there at the Soundgarden. CDs, DVDs. Is the cassette thing picking up? Is that a real thing?

Still selling cassettes? Wow. People are still listening to cassettes. Tell me about that. So I think a big part of it is sort of like, especially like younger kids. Like vinyl can be a little expensive, especially for like newer records sometimes. But they still want to support the artist that they care about. Sure.

So cassettes are sort of like a cheaper way. of doing that. And actually, really enough kids are getting into CDs again. Yeah, CDs have been on an uptick. But yeah, to next point, it's very much like the cost efficiency right there.

Yeah. But, yeah, it's strange to see, like, in the past, like, five years how much CDs have sold and,

like, continue to. It is, it's like, my kids are 16 and 15, and it is like the return of this. The demographics all over the place. It's crazy.

My oldest asked for a DVD rack for Christmas. I don't know. I don't even know where you would We're going to have to start building them back, honestly. Yeah. They like to just see their collection of music because everything's existed in their phones. They want to see that collection. So we've got CDs, cassettes, DVDs, tons of movies. You've got vinyl, clothing.

What else is over the Soundgarden? Board games, books. We try to have a pretty cool, a curated book section, different merch lines. Yeah, we just, anything, we try to carry anything that's interesting and you can't usually find somewhere else. Yeah, if you haven't been to the Soundgarden in a while, as just a longtime Soundgarden nerd, I encourage you to go back over there,

check it out. Warm yourself with that nostalgia, because the vibe is still there. It still feels like the sound garden. Yeah, and it's not like the mainstream, they have, you know, the mainstream stuff, but they've helped me build my metal collection back up twice when I got it stolen,

where you can't just go to certain stores or that have CDs at all that, you know. No, those are sold there. Like, they're not going to have what you want, so you go over there. And I've twice been like, oh, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and artists that you know. I love it. SG.Rordshop.com.

SG. Recordshop.com. And then if they want you to buy their vinyl, do they bring it in or they set up a house call? What do they do? Either way it works. We take in collections, you know, right through the door at any point. But if it's a larger collection or it might be difficult for you to get it to us, we'll come to you. I love that you're keeping physical media alive over there.

Thank you for coming down here. We appreciate it. Thanks for having us. Pretty reckless. I am death. Good morning. This is K. Rock. I'm not death.

I'm Josh. You're Cody. Oh. That's it. Danny Liguilly. Everybody at my family Christmas was raving about our obnoxious Ligwilly commercial yesterday. I love it. They love it.

I go, I go, because we want people to know his name. It's a lot of letters and it doesn't sound, it doesn't make sense when you look at it. So we beat you over that with it. Lequilly. Did you see the video of my daughter doing it? Did she wear? I want to see it. I'll have to send it to you.

She was doing it like, Collig Willie. That's great. But, okay, construction business aside, let's get down to some meats here. Anthony, if you don't know, is a big connoist. He's a damn good barbecuist. Barbecuologist, Cody, help me out. I like that.

I like it. Barbecuists. He smokes meat. He just gave us both some pork belly for Christmas. That's a great gift. You never have made us wings, though, before, have you? No, I'm still trying different things. So talk about the wings.

All right. So I don't want to tell you which one is what. Okay. But one's healthier than the, well, whatever. So I'm not saying which one is what. All right, okay, okay. So I smoked them and I air fried one. Okay.

And then I smoked them and fried one. Okay. And then I use just a regular hot sauce with some maple syrup for the, for the sauce. Okay. I'm trying to get them, it's, like, I'm trying to get them crispy and like, it's just, it's different to smoke them. But like, honestly, if I can perfect my smoked chicken wings, it's over. It's over because, honestly, it's over.

It's so much healthier. Then what? Like beef? No, what? The deep fried and you get them from a place? I never knew this. So do you know why when you cook something fried and it floats? Do you know why it floats?

No. Because all the water is replaced with oil. Okay. Yeah, that just sounds like... But it does sound less healthy when you say it like that. Yeah. So if I can perfect that, then there's just chicken. Chicken's great for it.

I'm working on replacing my wall water with oil. Oil and whiskey mostly. That's what I try to do. All right, so you want us just to try one? Yeah. That's going to be. That's what we have. We have a pork belt.

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Yeah, Riths Across America. And wreaths across America. Tell the people about that. So last year we sold 102, which was probably one. There's only four groups that sold over 100. So thank you for everyone who supported that. This year until December 31st, if you go on my website and you click the link, it's a buy one, get one. And I plan to match everything that customers buy this year.

So I'm going to match that at the end of the year. That's awesome. So last year, we actually had half the, well, not last year, this year. We had half the grave, so every other. So the goal next year to have all of them. Okay, that's awesome. When do they lay the wreaths out? It's like the second Saturday.

We did a couple weekends ago. Okay. It was cold, but there was a lot of people, and we did it. Awesome. The kids made the hike, and it was fun. So the people buying now are buying for this next Christmas, because those reeds are out. And this is the biggest time, and it's buy one, get one. Buy one, get one.

Anthony's going to match whatever you get over at the L ConstructioncNY.com. And that's buy one, get one's completely separate from me, by the way. Oh, really? Yes. So that's the organization. Oh, that's awesome. We're doing the big push right now to have more wreaths. Let's cover all the graves next to Christmas.

All right, Cody. You're doing wing science over there. Report back. Do you remember which one you grabbed? Yep. And I just sat right there in chat. That two words. Holy bleep.

He said, holy S. The bigger and the small one. All right. So I just grabbed this one is from the bigger one. Okay. And it has a little more of a smoked flavor to it. Whereas the first one had more of a traditional like wing, like pizzeria flavor. Okay.

Both banging. I can't tell you like you're going to have to try them because I don't know which. I like better. I don't know. They're both too good. So which one do you think is air fried? The right one. My right?

My right. Big ball or small bowl? Small bowl air fried. Big ball. Really? Okay. Okay. All right.

So the big bowl is the healthier one. Yes. And you're trying to get healthier by using. Absolutely. All right. Okay. Yeah. So let me throw it a song here.

Anthony, you can hang in our chat here. People will watch. I will give my opinion on these wings. Twitch. TV slash K-Rock C-N-Y. we're trying healthier versus less healthy. I'm going to try one. And they're both banging Coco.

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Get in there now. And do the Reese across America. Of course, those are buy one, get one right now. Roll in the Somalia, Slave, I'm a trite his wings. Happy. Whoa, everybody okay? Hey now. Don't there?

Not right over there? Calm down. Come down. Codian is, I believe, is a fourth costume change? I mean, technically I wore a clothes here. You wore normal clothes. This is now the fourth thing you've seen, I guess. Yeah.

If you're not watching in Twitch, you're missing a, A lot of costume changes here. Through Festivus' past. We're being visited by Ghost to Festivus Past Throughout the morning. Thank you. For tuning in. But here, I'll ruin your morning for you with this story. Oh, here we go. Another Christmas.

You've got two on us already. Oh, yeah. No, these are all about dead babies. No, this is a... All these songs are about dead babies. No, the... Not that you would ever go out for a swim in the ocean? Nope, I'm good.

That's okay, though. Near Lover's Point in Pacific Grove, California. I'd like... I don't know, they come up close. There was a group of 17 members of a swim club. Oh, you're just asking for trouble. That's like a group of seals. It's like a golden corral just floating around out there, dude.

Kicking around and stuff? Oh, God. A woman in the group looked over. And this is really, this is really disturbing, so... You know, I'm sure. Like, if you can't handle it. Let's just come back like 30 seconds. She looked over and saw a shark's surface.

Yeah. With one of her friends in the shark's mouth and then go back underwater and her friend is missing. That sounds about right. Oh, not right. Because that sucks. That's why you don't go in the shark waters. But like you know what's out there and you're in a group kicking around like seals. Another diver at a nearby intersection reported seeing a shark emerge from the water.

holding what appeared to be a human body before disappearing beneath the surface. Hopefully it was quick. The police commander said swimmers were called to shore after a witness noticed a large splash about 100 yards offshore. They stress shark attack has not been

confirmed, but they're using air and boat teams and operations to search. Well, I mean, depending, I don't know how they ever realize what shark is witch, but, I mean, are they going to kill one? And be like, yeah, are we kill it just like do they have to get the body back or if I was the family I'd be like no never

mind you want to see you want that you know what I mean like I don't you just got to I get the closure but yeah but that's I don't know man that's a sad story yeah yeah I don't know man I'm not getting enough I don't what if her friend jumped out of the water with a shark in her mouth instead I mean I'll just saying it yeah what did that happen you know Yeah, I guess. What if that happened? Getting some wet snow today. Wet.

Wet. It's like inks, modern bank garden here, a mixture of precipitation. Be careful on them roads, because when this rain... Yeah, that's... It's going to turn to ice here. It's if it's not right now. It's 32 in Syracuse, 30 Utica. Yeah, but back and forth, it does, where all of a sudden it's raining and it's like 34,

and then it dips a couple degrees, and now that's freezing. Yeah. Then you're slip sliding around. Lips Lott in a way. Be careful out there. It looks like most places, we'll say one to six inches. Like I'm looking out. Which is, I've started to see that.

What? What is with that new BS measurement that weather people are starting to slide in there, that they can get away with that? Well, we can't allow that. There's like a strip of one to three, but then like up near Boomville, old four, just three to six. So I guess just guess I don't know

I've been seeing a couple different things this year Where they're like yeah you could get a trace up to six inches No no no no no no no no What you just said We'll give you that as aggravated weather watchers Where a trace to an inch or three All right that's still a little bit skew But okay three to six

That's what I say to all my central partners You may get a trace to six inches We'll see it depends But once you're like well You could get nothing or you could be extremely inconvenienced. Ooh. Yeah.

Could be nothing. I don't know. I need a little bit, a little bit better answer. Just like... As a snow fighter, I like to say, we'd get a trace to about a trace to a foot. Right.

A trace to a foot somewhere between there is going to happen. You imagine that you're a poor snow fighter and you turn on the weatherboard and they're like, yeah, trace the snow today up to seven, eight inches. You're like, wait, that's not the same number. No, that's a lot. So be careful on them roads today as we are out driving around, doing our last-minute Christmas stuff. Right, hopefully the snow stays out of your guts and it just tickles the outside.

Okay, and that's nice. Yeah, I like that. Merry Christmas. Cuse win last night. Nathan George gets 22 points. Yeah, but how many assists? Because that guy was supposed to have all the assists, and I don't think he really has any. See, the floor general maybe, or I don't know.

I thought what we got him, or was it the other guy? I don't know. Kyan Anthony added 18. points. Oh, good. I mean, listen, we'll give you that pass, Stonehill. But I'm going to want you coming out swinging next time. Okay.

All right. Stonehill. That's Cody's alma mater. You want to the ones? Ace Hawk. Five-finger death bunch. Good morning, you beautiful dummns. Happy hollies.

It's like a grinch. Happy holidays, everybody. Oh, I thought I could burp. I was going to burp me say happy holidays. Well, I know this isn't a local story, but there seems to be a problem at the Clarksville, Tennessee, Regal Cinema 16. Uh-oh.

Their popcorn machine keeps a light and on fire. Oh, no. You got to clean it. They had to go there twice to put out a fire. You got an oil leak somewhere. Temporarily closing the fire. Upon arrival, there was a fire in the popcorn machine inside the building. Firefighters extinguished the blaze and moved the machine

outside, let it air out. Let it air out. It's fine. Just fumigate that. That'll be good as new, Clark. Oh, my. Flames were erupting from the machine and smoke filled the concession area. So you're in the middle of a movie. Do you hear the popcorn machine light on fire? Does someone come in and do it?

Do you have to yell like fire in a movie there? Or did they just turn the lights on and some... Say, folks. Okay, here's... It's fine. There's a small fire. We're just going to direct you out this. Because that's what we've been told you never do. But the people that work there can. But I also envision the people that work there are your brother.

Yeah. Yo! There's a fire! Guys, we gotta get out of here, dude. He's saying that not to anybody in particular. He's just like the saying into the universe. Joey, the lights aren't on yet. Yeah. Or, I mean, yeah, the burnt popcorn smell is going to set it

like you're going to know something's going on. And I was like burnt popcorn. But also, it's like a situation. where if you've got it all figured out out there, I'm just going to keep watching my movie. Like, why do I got to get involved in all this? See, that's my thing with emergencies. If I'm not affected, do I got to, like, go?

Sometimes you got to go. You know what I mean? Like, there was, oh, there's a fire. Like, that was the, when we were in Cicero, and the whole back of that store caught on fire. Remember that time? Oh, yeah. And everybody around was like,

We got evacuate. I'm like, this chair is comfortable. I'm like, why do I got to go anywhere? I'm like, if it gets over here, I'll move. You know, you tell me. But, yeah, that's one of those where it's like, are you, like you said, are, do you got it? Is it done? If it's done, I'm going to hang.

You're going to keep rolling the movie? Nobody special says I was stationed at Fort Campbell, which is right next to Clarksville. That sounds about right for that area. That's funny. Can't work the popcorn machine. Because what would suck is imagine it's like, a three-hour movie and you're like two hours into it. And then that happens.

I'm like, all right, well, we'll make you a voucher. You can come back and see it for free and you're like, I already watched two hours. Can I come in two hours late? You know,

it's two hours of it again? Walk back in. All right. Radio World, we'll hand you off to the 90s at 9, a couple minutes early here. Get into some Alice in Chains. Alice is so pretty.

You're so pretty. I got too excited. I can't help it. We will give your 90s at 9 and then do some gaming. We're doing basketball, right? Yeah. A little shooty hoop on a Tuesday. Wow, before

Christmas. Before Christmas. Wow. I guess we'll see you next year. Oh. His face means as that. This will do that.

I wish I had a regular long adult size arms. I would turn your microphone right off. Have a great holiday, guys. I love you.