The Sloppy Boys - [UNLOCKED] Best Christmas Aspect

Episode Date: December 21, 2022

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🎵 Hey, welcome to the Sloppy Boys Blowing, I'm the Big Hand Bopper! And I'm sitting here with Jeffy D. Ho, ho, ho. And Timmy K. What is up? All right. The D-Man and the K-Star.

What do you say? How you doing? Do you have any plans to tour? If you don't plan on touring, how are you spending your time? Well, I will say we don't have any official plans on touring, but if you follow Dear Blanca our buddies on twitter they were asking about some midwest venues jeff why would i tour a west that's mid well a counterpoint from the t-man always good for a counterpoint now are you showing your mid riffs in the midwest hell yeah all right

i'm dropping the voice now hey speaking of um mid riff for example why would i expose a riff that's mid no i want to see top riff and bottom riff yeah head and feet well we're used to seeing the tops of people's the tops of people nude yeah the tops right and then we're used to seeing the tops of people nude. Yeah. The tops. Right. And then sometimes you see the bottom nude, knees and below. Yeah.

Not uncommon. So true. To see the very middle, the midriff, even that's not so special. What you want is the lower mid, where the genitals are. Yeah. That's what you want. the lower mid where the genitals are yeah that's what you want or the upper mid the breasts yeah do you put that on like on your dating profile i would like to see the upper mid or the lower mid eventually it would be breasts or in parentheses, breasts or genitals. You say, and I am prepared to show my lower mid. Should the time come? Well, that's not where I wanted to go.

No, I don't think it was, Jeff. I think you owe Tim and I an apology. Maybe next time. All right, we'll be old now for that one. Let me tell you, let me ask you two this question. This is a serious question. Do you guys ski at all? No.

No. No, Timmy. I skied as a lad, and then later I switched to snowboarding. I went skiing a few times. I did the kind of pizza and the- French fries. French fries. But I can't say that i've gone skiing since i was

14 okay i just went skiing this weekend opening day i just happened to be up there in hunter on hunter mountain near where you're i think that's where your sister tim town yeah tim town i was actually conceived there on the slopes oh shit in the winter yep uh and you you know what's weird was um no i was gonna say something that's too gross continue i was gonna say like your dad probably came really hard because the the cold is supposed to intensify that sort of thing i was gonna say that there wasn't any snow that year so my dad it was my dad's jizzle. Okay. Oh I'm glad you didn't say that. I know that's tasteless. Off to a great start here on our first Christmassy

episode of the year. I know what the heck. We'll turn it around eventually. It's that time of year of course. Well rest assured the snow on the mountain this weekend was fake snow that they were making. So it was snow it wasn't any material. Were there any senior cow packers nearby that the snow machine yeah i don't know i wasn't paying too much attention but that could be the

case uh but it was very fun they only had one trail open so it was kind of like uh it was very difficult trails very icy but i had a lot of fun and i was gonna say that would be a fun blowout all the three of us go skiing. Next time I'm in California, we go to a— Tim, I got to do it in a heartbeat. Yeah. I mean, we could spend a lot of time in the lodge and get the beers going. Maybe we do a little hot dogging. Yeah.

That's right. What if we do an episode where— Showboating on the slopes. We start the day with pizza and fries on the slopes, and then we end the day at pizza and fries down at the old restaurant. I like that. I see what you're saying. You're saying do a little ow, ow.

Yeah, yeah. Oh. Glah, glah. Do a little glah, glah. All right. What is this? You're turning this whole thing into a jizz show. What is this?

Jizz show. Midriffs and botters. Heyizz show i'm your man jizzy d no tim come oh no jizzy d and tim come are not our names that's not what's happening now we're not doing that it's not the kind of show this is a nice show some young people listen to the blowout i think we shouldn't say that's not nice that's not good. It's not the kind of show. This is a nice show. Some young people listen to The Blowout. I think we shouldn't say that sort of stuff. That's not nice. That's not good talk. That's not proper talk. But I guess my point is...

It's not proper talk. To come up with guys who are named after semen. It's not proper talk. It's not proper talk. It's not proper to say. Yeah, and you're Mike Lode. You know, you read any book on manners, you know, that's the first page. You don't talk about that.

If you go to like a cotillion etiquette camp for debutantes, you're not going to be calling each other cum and jizz and all the wads and lodes. They would say, they would say they would promote the opposite to not do that it's gotta be hard though because they're like hey put on your white gloves and everyone wants to say oh like a wad of jizz and you can't you can't do that

you can but you white gloves like a wad of jizz like a wad of jizz you could do it, but it would have to be off the premises of the debutante school. Yeah, Miss Manners does not appreciate it.

What they teach you is you step aside, you excuse yourself, you step aside, and you say anything you want to say about like spunk or sploosh, you know, and then you come back. Load. Tissue. Material.

All right, I'm better. I'm back. Yeah. And let's just say no more of that kind of talk. Right, not here. No more of that type of talk. So maybe next time I come out to L.A., we go skiing. Yes, and we also go down to a sperm bank,

and we jizz into cups, and we see who's got the most sperm. No, no, see, that's what Jeff was just saying. We're not talking about that. We're not doing that type of talk. Okay. Now, there's something else I wanted to bring up to you two. You two? Speaking of white, the color white.

White Lotus. Tim, I know you're watching. Jeff, you don't watch. That's fine. I wanted to bring up something to you two. I watched the movie. I've been watching White Lotus. I watched the movie Triangle of Sadness. You hear about this movie? Oh, I can't wait.

Good movie. Very good movie. Very funny. And it's about, if you don't know what it's about, it's about a cruise ship. There's people on it. They're very high-end rich people. Some Instagram influencer types. Just old money people. And things go awry and it's a comment on

just like rich and luxury life. And it's directed by the guy who did Force Majeure and The Square? Okay, we are in the wake of succession. That's what's happening. Well, that's Tim, what I wanted to bring up. You got the menu, which I think, I haven't seen yet, written by a

friend of ours. Seth Reese, great guy great writer that show from what I understand that movie is about rich people going to this uh restaurant where it's high end and I have a feeling there's going to be some social commentary there as well we've got the rich and the crosshairs these days what is that is that a new genre of something like joking about rich people? This is just like when you watch a movie from the 70s and it's like got Vietnam like allegories and little little touches in it. We finally have movies that are like dealing with the times.

And that's like The Hunt is also another one that's got like, oh, there's some there's some like we're talking about the elites taking pleasure i love yeah taking the piss out of the rich but what i don't love is in like succession i haven't watched billions but maybe they do this too but in succession they're trying to have their cake and eat it too where it's like this is satirical about uh you know the one percenters but then also you know when logan roy gets in his chopper you know it is supposed to look cool and feel yeah and the entourage fans are watching be like hell yeah dude kendall's kind of a pussy sometimes but he definitely sometimes is a baller well that's the that's what the the frequent um criticism towards uh scorsese for like wolf of wall street

it's like yeah that's like a funny satire and stuff but what he says is just like the fun parts have to be fun because they are fun it is fun to be fucking rich but that's you do kind of have to play both sides i think i wolf wall street is one of my favorite movies i've seen it tons of times and it's so good and i think what scorsese does is you're right. It's like he lets the fun stuff be fun because a Wall Street bro dickhead does have fun in his life. And I don't think Scorsese is going out of his way to glorify it other than being like, yeah, being rich and doing cocaine and partying with strippers. If you say that that's not fun, you're lying. But, but I do think,

I think that succession with their music cues and with the jokes of the sort of like, you know, fuckery and whatever. You know, Timmy, there's like a thing too, where in a movie you can ask yourself like,

where does it land? Cause there's a lot of fun and games and fight club that is just like, Ooh, it's exciting for like a teenager or for like a young, a young adult man. But like, it doesn't land in a fun place. Yeah.

You got to watch the whole same with Requiem for a dream and all that stuff. Yeah. With an ongoing TV show, you don't really have that sort of like, Oh, it might be fun and games in the beginning, but where does it land?

Like the idea of, is it of a TV show? Is it never ends? It never lands. You make as much money as you can. they want it to go for a million seasons they're also just doing it in more ways than one it's like i mean the character roman when i watch roman uh uh colkin i'm rolling my eyes at how fucking cringe every line out of his mouth is but i don don't know. I think that they think that he's funny. Yeah, that's a good point. I don't

know if, like with Wolf of Wall Street, you watch that and the tale or the lesson is like, don't live this way, don't be that, or it's all going to fall apart. With him, with Roman, I don't think we're supposed to see him be like, ooh, I want to be like

that guy, right? Because he's such a little skeevy dude yeah I don't know did you guys see smile no okay there's like a boyfriend character and smile who I couldn't tell for like the first half of the movie are we supposed to not like this character or i do i just not like this actor like yeah that's kind of feel like did the script did the script do him dirty by giving him lines like are you seriously saying that right now or do i just hate you know what i mean like how much how much is he doing a good job playing a shitty guy or do i just like instinctively not like this actor because i love seeing a person be shitty. A good job of being a shitty guy.

When somebody does that well, it's great. But even Succession is a little different than the movies and TV shows I'm talking about. Where it's like watching people on vacation. It feels like a... I don't know. It's not a genre, but it's a thing. Keep an eye out for it, listeners and you too. I'll add another.

Not a bad thing. Just a thing. Another thing to put in this category is the discography of Vampire Weekend. That's a band that I really like. A lot of people really hate them and I get it. And a lot of what people hate is and i get it and a lot of the the what people hate is like the privilege and the the cuteness of it yeah but to me i always read it as like oh being alienated within that world and it is like a subtle uh i i mean it's not fair to call it a takedown but it's at least being an outsider within a

vicarious world like a country club life yeah but um because it's like it's not like they're not privileged but it's like those guys went to their kind of quote about it is like we went to columbia university but we had student loans so it's like that's still tremendously privileged but you're just not like old money so you you feel like an outsider within that world it's a tough it's a tough one to like promote and be like right i'm a i'm one of you guys right right but then also just like i was listening to each of those albums as it came out yeah yeah and i was sort of like middle class in and in college and sort of like i'm i'm getting the winkiness from their point of view and then i see from the outside how that's just like i don't care if you're winking or not fuck you yeah yeah yeah yeah well i like jeff

what you're saying about how like movies in the 70s were about vietnam it is it is kind of interesting to be in a moment and seeing media reflect it. Maybe I'm just too stupid to not see that and other stuff. But it was like, oh, I see influencers and Instagram and people taking pictures and cool vacations all the time. Yeah. And now seeing the reaction to it on movies is interesting. It's interesting. It's interesting.

It's so interesting. I never saw that movie Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. Right, right, right. It was like coming out during Halloween and stuff. That's another case where I was just like, I don't care if you're doing a take on shitty influencer millennial type folks. I don't want to see people being like, you're being so toxic right now.

You might, that's supposedly like a like a good satire but uh i don't think it's a topic that fucking needs to be satirized well that's of course not what we're here to talk about youtube and different ways that uh the times are reflected in media not what we're here to about, but we did spend a good 15 minutes on it. We did. It's nice to ease in sometimes. Sometimes the shit chat goes a little longer. Yeah. And that's good.

I like when it does. Yeah. Because then you're getting the real people. Not sticking to the list. Oh, here's the sheet. We got to hit this, this, and this. Yeah. This is not a Julian Chalazzo time.

No. Was there a third? We had Julian Chalazzo, a hand our third we had julian chalazzo the hen bopper obviously he shows up do we have a uh maybe well there was the wolfman tim and obviously um jeffy jason but jeffy jason we haven't heard from jeffy jason in a long time maybe next episode he will be introduced instead of the purple pea maybe maybe today we're here to talk about something that's on everyone's mind right now, or it should be. And if it's not, you might just be a Grinch or a Scrooge. We're talking about the holiday season.

It's the holiday season. Whoop-de-doo. And Santa Claus. Whoop-de-doo. And the reindeer season. Ring down the ring-do. Up on the roof. Clip clop, clip clop. Hey, it's a reindeer for you.

We're talking about the holiday. It's a reindeer for you. Should a reindeer find its way on your roof? Hopefully there's a package in that sleigh. And we're decking the halls tonight with me. With me. Have you two, either of you, found yourself

under some mistletoe ever? I've never been under the mistletoe. Never once. I've never seen it up. I wouldn't know if I saw it. When I see it, I park myself under it. I pull up a chair. Anyone? Sometimes I'll kind of block off the hallway and then a lady will be trying to walk to the bathroom and she'll be like oh i can't get around

you without kissing you and i said yeah well and she's like i'll just go home and i'm like well don't you want to have to well i've seen tim at parties he's parking himself under the mistletoe and it'll be in the front room is the party then there's like a hallway or a doorway and then back of the house there's the rest of the party people will leave the building, go out the windows

go around climbing back windows Mike, one time I saw the building caught fire and they died they would rather just stay where they were stuck yeah it's it's um sad people will avoid lip lock right but especially during the holiday season where a lot of colds are happening yeah that's probably just that's probably all that hey everyone you have to be have to be on the lookout for the coronavirus. Wash your hands.

Sing happy birthday while you wash your hands. Happy birthday to? Maybe this time of year, Jesus, you say. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. Hey, this is a real thing. My grandmother, Irish Catholic.

People. That whole side of the family. Bebop. She used to make a happy birthday jesus cake on christmas of christmas christmas dinner i would come the cake happy birthday jesus very cute cute old lady doing a sweet thing i love you but would you still eat it jeff or were you were you so anti you're so atheist jesus didn't exist the way we think he did, Grandma. Grandma, I've been reading Philosophy 101 lately. Have you even read the Da Vinci Code?

Did your grandma say, you know what, Jeff? Little boy, I'm getting on in my years. I don't have time in my life to argue with everyone. I need to take the days I have and hold them dear to me. And the thing that helps me through that is my religion. That helps me. And at this point, my deepest regret is that I ever birthed your parents. That I ever begat a daughter who begat a son. That I ever went skiing that day.

A lot of people conceived on the slopes. Yeah, the slopes. This is turning into a disgusting episode. Once we edit all this stuff out, it's going to be down to a nub. Coming up on the Sloppy Boys Blowout, a nub. It's a nub. Couldn't get through an episode without talking about material. Hey, coming up on the nub.

That could be cool if people get interested. like, do you listen to the nub? What's the nub? Oh, it's like this podcast that's a minute long. It's like the Sunday stew. It's like, coming up on the nub. This week was so dirty, it's nothing but a nub. Coming up on the nub, Tim talks about a meal he ate and Jeff has a hiccup. It's the nub.

Hosted by Julian Chalazzo. I don't have the list. Alright, but what are we talking about? Today we're talking about Christmas and our favorite aspect of Christmas. No, best.

But to just say best aspect sounds insane. No, no, no. Everybody loves Christmas. but everyone wonders, what's the best aspect? We're going into December. You're probably thinking like, oh, so much has changed from last year probably. I don't know. I need to go in bird's eye view. So we're giving you this early December best Christmas aspect. So what we are now going to nominate...

It's a very normal way of talking to say best Christmas aspect. Yeah, it flows. Yeah. Yeah, it's good. I don't know if a speech writer would ever write that for one of his... Do you think Jon Favreau

would have written it for Barack Obama? Yes. Not that Jon Favreau. The other one. The chef Favreau. Do you think Ben Stein would have written it for Richard Nixon? I am not a Nixon. What?

What? What? Who are you? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm nervous. Jokes aside. Jokes aside. I am not unnervous. There are many aspects to christmas that's true that's yeah true would you disagree no i don't i would agree when i think of christmas i get excited for all the aspects yeah december 1st i my eyes shoot open there's aspects abound and

i remember every year my my dad would sit me and my brother and sister down and say, hey, Christmas is coming. And we say, the Aspects, the Aspects. And he's like, yes, but you can only choose the one. But it's so sad that those of us who spend so much time in the entertainment industry, we hear Aspects. Oh, what, Aspect Ratio? Yes, can my digital device play that Aspect Ratio?

16, 9, 4, 3? Aspect Ratio is different. No, what aspect ratio? Yes, can my digital device play that aspect ratio? 16, 9, 4, 3. Aspect ratio is different. Have you been away from the true love and meaning of Christmas so long? What do we mean when we say best Christmas aspect? Perhaps we mean, what's your favorite Yuletide characteristic? What's your favorite... How about this?

Noel feature. Yeah.el feature yeah yeah what's your favorite messiah birth factor what's your most beloved saint nick month to do to do yes yes um and perhaps maybe your even favorite wintry noun yeah yes yes yes because this is a holiday for all to be aware of the aspects now i need to know before we get into each of these no stop it yeah I'm with Tim by the way I just I spent the weekend with I've got a little three and a half year old nephew and I hope you didn't talk to him like that he talked to me like that he's got a lot of rules

he's one of these kids that's like no you can't do that and you can't do this and I'm a funny uncle trying to be funny and he'd be like you can't and he's always he was yelling at me what I can you can't do this and you and and i'm a funny uncle trying to be funny like you can't and uh yeah and he's always he was yelling at me what i can and can't do the whole weekend getting reamed by this kid um but i've been in sessions of uh with tig playing barbie yeah where i cannot do anything everything's wrong it is i hold the the doll and she tells me what we're doing and i if i suggest something it's wrong i could never know all these rules but i'll tell you a couple funny

moments one this kid he started calling me poopy caca and he was like hey you're poopy caca and i was like no and he'd be like you're poopy caca. And he'd be like, you're poopy caca. And he'd laugh. He'd be like, yeah, you're poopy caca. This went on for a full day. And then day two, it started up again. You're poopy caca. Does he even know who he's talking to? He's talking to the Greek freak. I know.

The tea cat. You don't call me poopy caca. Poopy caca. So eventually, I got sick of it, right? And I turned to him. I said, hey, I'm not poopy caca. You're poopy caca. And he cried. They do cry they condition up but

they can't take it that's so funny just like no you are ah he did he that happens a lot he'll he can't he can do it but he can't take it another thing he did though that was very funny he's like i'm happy that this didn't i didn't didn't get me arrested or anything but he'd be walking and he would like fall down and be like uncle tim pushed me and i'd be across the room like i didn't touch him and like one time i was full i was like laying on one couch and he was on the other couch and he was like, ow! Uncle Tim hurt me! And I was like, dude, if he gets out, I'm done. I'm over it. He hurt me. Versus,

versus... Alright, so we're talking aspects of the holiday season. That was my least favorite aspect of unclehood. Now, I would like to, we're all going to say our picks, and then we're going to tweet them out to a general public who will know what we're talking about.

Aspect of Christmas. What... Jeff, can I... This was sort of your baby. Well, no. I don't know about baby. But you pitched this episode on the text... When I did...

So I pitched the best song. I sort of guided us through it. Now, do you want me to go first? Do you want to go first? How would you like to do this? I will go first. Okay. Now, there's a lot of aspects about Christmas. Sure.

A lot of them are positive. Some of them are very obvious. Some of them are negative. And some of them are very obvious some of them are negative and some of them are bittersweet for example traditionally christmas is a good time for all it's also got some um lonely moments let's say moments to yourself where you reflect and you think well it's that time a year where i think about where i am in my life and where I've been in the past and where I might want to go in the future. A very sort of Scrooge-like mindset.

Japan, yeah. Yeah, yeah, Japan. I want to go to Japan. So I want to pay respect to the reflective aspect, the sort of self-evaluation. But I also want to pay respect to the nostalgia and the looking back and all the sort of like, they say like, oh, rose colored lenses, everything in the past is better, whatever, whatever. So if I put them all together, I'm like, what does that mean? What's the thing about Christmas that I love the most?

Like, what does that mean? What's the thing about Christmas that I love the most? And it's that very singular, very specific thing I'm going to call the Christmas sentiment. Oh, well, now what do you mean? I just said it all. The Christmas sentiment. What's your favorite aspect of Christmas? The sentiment. What's your favorite aspect of Christmas? The sentiment.

Wait, so I'm putting this in the Twitter poll real quick. I say, what's the best Christmas aspect? Number one, the sentiment. Could you go on? I'm looking up the definition of sentiment. I'm looking up the definition of sentiment. I'm looking up the definition of aspect. It's just like those two words. What's the best aspect of the sentiment?

Sentiment is a noun. This is the most generic fucking bullshit. No, no. There's no substance in any of those words. It's It's that special feeling where you look back and in where you look back and in and forward. So sentiment on

Google definitions, a noun, a view of, a view of or attitude toward a situation or event, an opinion. Yes, I couldn't agree more. Tweet it. This is exactly what Jeff meant. It was a retread. The second definition is exaggerated and self-indulgent feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia. Both count. Both count. That's what we're talking about.

I like that sadness is in the mix. It's just seeing the word sentiment on its own. That's what I'm saying. Positive and negative. Nostalgia. Now, Jeff. Yeah. My question to you.

I understand. I mean, sure, the sentiment is one of my favorite aspects. But the sentiment, how much of it is nostalgia? Because I get it about the past. There's the heritage of the tradition. I think what Tim is saying, there's the heritage of the tradition and therein lies the sentiment. Right.

But what I'm asking the question is how much of it is about the past because sent like i understand there's both oh the jacenzian tradition of christmas and then there's the all of the the the customs of christmas that are from the past but and then then it includes your own childhood and your own memories but at what point does it stop like what if what if i want for me i i've had some wonderful christmases past but i make new memories every year does your sentiment only refer to things in the past or does it include how, where in the continuum is the cutoff? Well, we don't know the future. That one's clear. Always changing the future is. Yes.

So I would have to cut it off at the present. it off at the present but so but this year christmas christmas 2022 is there new sentiment happening or is the cutoff 2021 and you're reflecting upon it in 2022 no no the sentiment is is current moment it's the present moment wow sentiment for the present moment well no yeah well i think maybe i'm just getting a little lost. The sentiment is exercised in the present moment, but it is viewing the past and the future. Looking back, looking forward. You got to do that in the present. Yeah.

Right, because we only have the president. President. We only have the president. We only have Joe Biden. For so long, then we got to vote again. When he passes away, that'll be sad all right who's next okay i'll go uh if okay so i i this is a tough day christmas is a tough time because of what jeff's talking about there's all this tradition happening there's you looking back

you're looking for why is christmas so nostalgic do we know no you're asking us yeah i don't know what is there like why is it so reflective yeah i've got my theories i don't sit around on arbor day reflecting no but here we are at christmas time reflecting and apparently looking to the future and deflecting sometimes i think it's because you have time off work and you're celebrating and you you are with the people that you want to spend your you're saying like okay all the capitalism aside all the all the rent paying and all the working who are the people that i'm with at rest who are the people i choose to spend my time with right yeah i think that that that is, you're with your closest people. But I also think there's just the fact of the annual check-in

is that you come here every year. So you say, oh, this, you know, I got my first pube and now I'm divorced and now I'm dead. You know, like all the, all the,

you had your first everything on Christmas Day. But you could feel the same on your birthday or for me everything on Christmas Day. But you could feel the same on your birthday or for me Arbor Day. Yeah, but it is Christmas is kind of the one I keep saying Christmas, the holidays.

Well, Jeff, what you just said sort of dovetails quite nicely into my favorite aspect. Now, if you asked me this question when I was a boy I would have said the presents oh the presents i find even putting a christmas list together for my family you know because we give gifts i even find that stressful i don't know what i want i don't want to put it on them to give me a fucking i don't like that my family doesn't do that i never did when i was a

little kid i would ask for something for christ. But as an adult, I never... We all have money. You want a thing? You buy it. Well, in my family, my mom cannot not get gifts for everybody. It's always funny when I get gifts at Christmas. It's like a new sweater or something. It's from mom and dad.

I was like, thanks, dad. He's like, what happened? But still, it's like the whole point is what she thought of. I've got $40, so if I tell my mom I want a sweater and she buys it, what happened? Why didn't I just buy it? Totally. And the stuff I can't

buy for myself, like I just said, I need a new laptop computer. I'm not going to have my parents buy me a $1,500 computer. They wouldn't get me a good one. When you become an adult, you don't ask for that stuff. Right. And it's like, I'll send, like, my mom will be like,

what do you want for Christmas? I just recently sent her, like, a link to some nice socks. I was like, I'll get you some more stuff later. I just can't think of anything. But it's like, I'm just sending a link so she can hit buy. Anyway. Right, right, right right so that was the younger me but through some uh sentimentality i've come to the conclusion my favorite aspect

of the holiday season is it's a nice sweet spot it's a holiday party like right before everyone goes on like their break oh it's like sort of this is a little bit la specific or maybe new york has that too yeah but there's this there's this understanding that you're gonna go spend the actual holiday with your family right and it happens a lot in like workplaces too like you go out for like work a christmas work party type thing yes and all of a sudden nobody is really acting the way they usually act towards each other uh the way like a holiday party in the summertime if you had like a summer barbecue or something there's like a little bit of like every like the weirdness or like shittiness kind of falls away and you see people like i'm kind of

thinking out loud here but so we do it too like when when we're in L.A. and we all go away for Christmas, you have sometimes to do with the Tamo Chandra. Tim, you had one of my favorite parties ever was a holiday party at your house. Yes, but don't forget you did see, what's her name, Trip. That's true. I saw Lizzie Kaplan stub her toe in front of a Cuban restaurant on Hillhurst Avenue. But that aside, yes, that was one of the worst moments of my life. You got to take the highs and lows.

But it was like you're seeing everybody. Everyone's going to be – it's just like this kind of perfect – it can be a perfect moment, but like a nice swelling of like everyone's like good feelings and cheers brought together in like one house. Let's see. i love it i also love when you mentioned the the the work party thing i was thinking about like people you're almost indifferent to i've had a lot of great jobs with a lot of like really close friends so you're like oh my god this is amazing i get to work here at the christmas party you're getting drunk and it's great but and then i've also've also had coworkers I don't like, but I love the people I'm indifferent to, you know, like you're writing on a show and there's this

like editor's assistant who's downstairs in an editing bay. And I say hi and bye to him, but I never talked to him. And then getting a little moment with him at a party and he's a little bit tipsy and you're just like, you know, buddy, you've done a great job all year. And you see him even just seeing him out of the office is like a whole new life let alone like seeing him wearing his nice shirt yes that's another thing you you tend to see people at a christmas party wearing like a little bit of a nicer sweater or like a suit coat maybe sure the shirt's untucked but they're wearing a suit coat or they comb their hair but But I know, Tim, I know that feeling of the indifferent thing. When we would have our birthday boys parties,

there was always an employee that I was pretty indifferent to. He's on this podcast. Jeff, I would always be sort of indifferent. I'd be like, hey, this guy's okay. Wait, you're talking about when the episodes would air? You're not talking about a Christmas party? The joke was more that we were in touch with each other. The joke is that he doesn't really know you.

I got that. No, no. I wasn't thinking of anything specific. So put me down for... How do I want to put this? The party before break. Or the parties before break. How about the holiday party?

The holiday party. Yeah. The holiday party. What was that movie a few years ago? Was it Office Holiday Party? The Holiday Party. Yeah. The Holiday Party. What was that movie a few years ago? Was it Office Christmas Party? Yeah, I remember seeing that in the theater and kind of liking it. Of course, every movie I see, I forget exactly what happened in it, everything, but I enjoyed it. I love it.

These are good. The Sentiment and The Holiday Party. Well, I guess I'll go. But I'm serious. Very good choices. I love sentiment. I love the holiday party. I like.

I had some great Christmases as a kid. As a kid. I feel like we all came like all three sloppy boys are from like families where the parents are together and gave us gifts and everything was nice and normal yeah it was like wake up and there's like christmas tree and stable healthy yeah every day of the year pretty much standards yeah um i i had uh some mondo christmases and it was always super happy something to reflect on and be thankful for i would for sure i'll probably just gratitude about that but then all the way up like like

great christmas as a kid as a kid and then then in la the sort of like oh i'm going back to new york for christmas and then even here's what i'll do as an adult i'll sort of almost like pick a theme uh sometimes well you know like a couple years ago i was really into like vintage beer ads and memorabilia and so so i had a molson buffet where i've bottled i went to his place minogue's beer in uh saratoga springs owned and operated by kylie minogue yeah um and then for like your families for my family but then also sometimes sometimes it's inspired by like an album i'll be like oh this is like i like what i'm saying is i like to pick a christmas vibe and maybe it's like this album i'm listening to all december and

that'll inform it or i was just talking to my family about how like they're like what should we eat on christmas day and i was like what if we do like a french canadian thing because mom and dad are from montreal we'll have some French Canadian food. You kind of, I'll try to, I try to make each Christmas a little distinct, but if you ask me to, to choose an aspect,

yeah, that's my favorite aspect. My favorite Christmas aspect. I think Jeff may have touched on mine, but I'll elaborate. And I have this written down in my notes app and I'll refer to it. But, oh, I forgot another thing. One year it was cognac, right? I bought a bunch of cognac and I was like, I had never had cognac before,

so I'll try different cognac drinks. I made brandy Alexanders for the whole thing. That type of thing. Anyway. Also, remind me. I have an interesting one. After I tweet the poll, I want to talk about tamales for a little bit. Okay.

Sure. But you ask me the best Christmas aspect? Well, for me, it's not the sentiment. And for me me it's not the sentiment and for me it's not the holiday party but for me it's that warm special feeling yeah that's a good one yeah now jeff you in your build-up to uh sentiment you did say special feeling but you didn't say that warm special yeah yep well it's also important that we put all these in our own words i just tweeted okay i said what's the best christmas aspect the sentiment the holiday party that warm special feeling perfect i think what we're talking about is the same thing where we're basically getting to the good vibe all around.

There's Christmas songs about it, about just that one thing that you can't even put your finger on, where it's that feeling and everyone's got it and it's cheer and joy and blah, blah, blah. And no one's harshing your mellow for once. But it would be really weird if one of us came in who was like, the Mariah Carey song. That would be the person who understood the assignment a little differently. Well, I thought maybe one of us would say the music or the food or something sort of tangible.

A thing, yeah. But no, I think we all were talking about, well, that warm special feeling. Well, sometimes. That warm special feeling is the sentiment and that warm special feeling comes up at the holiday party you guys ever you guys ever do the thing where everyone wears the same pajamas in the family no my mom buys us new pajamas to wear like every year and i don't really like wearing them because it tends to be like flannel pants and a Henley shirt. And that's not really my jam. They're too revealing. I like wearing.

I wear like the classic kind of monogram. You wear pajama pajamas to bed, really? Not in normal life. I sleep in briefs and nothing else but if i if i were going to be making a meal on christmas eve of wearing something i have some good midriff jessica got me some some pjs that are like kind of fancy looking kind of don draperish and it says like calpe on the monogram i had a fucking oh we talked about i had a robe i don't know where it went and now I got the feeling

I want to wear the robe but I don't have it I've got a really good I got a two different Nautica robes one is dark blue and fleecy the other is light blue and thin I got a question for you guys word

can you recall your favorite Christmas gift i got one yeah i gotta i got it just one that stands out because okay i used to do christmas eve at my grandmother's house she lived in nashua and that's where like the extended family would all get together on christmas eve for dinner and we would kind of do like a bit of a pre-Christmas getting all the aunts and uncles and cousins together before and uh Christmas day you know so we'd all have dinner and open a bunch of presents and it was actually a pretty big affair and then we would drive home to Londonderry and wake up and do our small nuclear family Christmas now there was a miscommunication between Grandma and my parents. Oh, me more.

And one Christmas, and I want to say like 1993 or so, and here on Christmas Eve, I opened Mario Paint for Super Nintendo. And I knew that tomorrow morning Jeffy's going to be 16-bit, baby. That's good. That's big. That's great. I remember one time...

That almost feels like you got the... That could have been ruined for you. Like, oh, now I know and tomorrow's thing's not going to be... I remember being at my friend's house. I could could have been like ruined for you like oh now i know and tomorrow's thing's not gonna be i remember being at my friend's house i could not have been more excited yeah like that's that's but i was like you fucked up you fucked up so bad i'm not the only fuck up let's get it from you uh i remember being at a friend's house and he found his dad had like hit his gifts for him and he found them all and like he like showed he's like i found these here and then there's this and this this i was like oh fuck man so you that's it so you don't have anything uh

no surprise going on for the rest of the month it's just what you you have it all you know it oh good for you tough damn it's weird but he did it to himself i a big one for me was this is crazy for a kid i want to say i'm maybe 10 or 11 i it's a christmas morning where where my brother and sister were all opening the gifts right and it's like tim the t-man's coming up a little bit light he had asked for something really big and not asked for but had wanted because we didn't really do the list thing but had been flapping his trap about something big he wanted and dan christmas morning oh sure his little sister's opening up all the barbies and ponies that she seemed to want yeah and sure his older

brother is getting all the hockey gear he could have ever dreamed of and video games and you know nhl 93 probably nintendo's and jack off magazines yeah hustlers and gapers and all you anything you want um but they're they're tearing in all the gifts lots of stuff going to the other kids but then there's old middle tim middle middle child timmy middle tim he's doing okay but there's no big boys you know yeah yeah he's getting the socks he's getting the condoms no he's i'm opening up my gifts and it's just like oh okay like uh there's a nice little thing and a couple things not a lot of gifts have my name on them yeah and then the uh you know as if out of a movie my parents are like hey timmy uh what how you doing what's how you liking your

gifts i'm like yeah that's okay not unlike ralphie in the christmas story right right it's pretty good i'm gonna get a little shafted here but hey whatever they say yeah well um you want some orange juice and i'm like yeah i'll have some oj and they're like yeah why don't you go in the kitchen and you get the orange juice and i'm like yeah okay i'll go i walk to the kitchen, opened the door, drum set, a fucking all set up drum kit. And there was the very thing. Whoa. In the kitchen? It was all set up.

And the Zildjian splash crash cymbal is, to this day, it's Jeff's Zildjian crash cymbal in the Sloppy Boys kit. Oh. Nice. Wait, that's the craziest thing is like apparent how'd they set that up without you running like coming downstairs in the morning like running right in the kitchen for something yeah i don't know they were like maybe they barricaded the door or something or they just knew we'd be focused on the gifts but they had been like setting it up all night and it's good douche it was all there like so i could just sit down and go to town and i put it in my garage and i named my garage awesome town and i jammed and i never got good

at drums ever became a guitar player yeah right tell that to pass that doobie oh and lifelong vacation that's true yeah uh i had a i had a uh this is. It wasn't, it didn't work out well for me. But we were opening gifts, and I really wanted an electric guitar that year. And I thought I was going to get one. So we're opening gifts and opening gifts. And there's one with my name on it that's like big. It's like a big bag, almost like a Santa sack kind of. Yeah, big bag.

Like off to the side with my name on it. I was like, that's going to be a big one. I'll open that towards the end. And I'm opening stuff and I get to it and I was like, alright, I'm going to open this one. I think I know what it is. And I pull the top open, the top, peek inside

and it was not the electric guitar I wanted, but a backpack. So all morning I'm like kind of eyeing that. I like oh that's gonna be so great i was like cool thanks was it a jansport at least it was an ems it was a good book bag but it was just like uh i could not have played that one wrong and i you couldn't even who would have guessed a backpack would be in there? But you're like, hey, Mom, Dad, I'm opening this one. Get the camera out.

Okay, why? Really? That one? All right. I'll get you, little freak. Really? You like backpacks that much? Oops! Oops. Here's a Christmas aspect I do not like. No, boy.

Okay? You know you go out there in the world world and you see people in their cars and they put reindeer antlers out the two, you know, two front windows? Sure. Yeah. I hate that. Or like a Rudolph nose on the grill. Yeah, because they're always like shooting off in every direction because the wind of driving makes them go crazy. I don't like that stuff have

you heard of this regional aspect where um during the pandemic uh me and jessica went for a drive up we were like let's go see some snow and it was like december and we drove up to um mount baldy and as we're getting you're ascending you know it like LA. So it's like 60 degrees down at the bottom. But as you're ascending the hill, it gets colder and colder. You start to see some, see some snow. And there's a lot of SoCal families up there that bring their kids up to see snow. And they're like pulling over into the shoulder. And like the kids are like rolling around in like one centimeter of snow being like, wow, I've never seen snow. one centimeter of snow being like wow i've never seen snow but as we're driving up we see a car winding down in the opposite lane and there's a little snowman like a three ball classic looking

snowman piled onto the the hood of their car in that little crevice between the hood and the windshield yeah and they'd put a little snowman there. And we're like, ha-ha, that family built a little snowman. And then another car's coming down, and we see another one of those little snowmen. And we're like, ha, they did it too. And then all day, everyone's doing this. And we're like, weird. This is like a California thing.

Like a miniature snowman riding the car? Miniatures. Whoa, weird. And a lot of these families are like Mexican American Angelino families and this is like a thing they do where it's like we you know there's not snow in LA you don't see snow ever and then

once a year we go like make these little snowmen and I we saw like hundreds of these little snow and you just they just ride until they melt away or something they drive you drive down to the bottom of the hill and you leave it on your car like if it's like packed in enough it'll yeah it'll stay there kind of but oh that's cool it's just melting away well that's sad too it's it's about how fleeting beauty can be that's where the sentiment comes in yes bittersweet yes yes um all right well i think we've given some time to this poll are we getting any trolls there tim let's take a look in when i last um scrolled i felt like people were being kind

maybe it's because of the topic at hand or that time of year but we're not our our our fans are not really roasting us they a lot of them are saying LOL aspect. Yeah, save your roasting for the chestnuts on the open fire. Someone says, wait, best aspect or ultimate aspect? Common thing on the show. Someone says chestnuts

roasting on open fire. Lots of votes for this sentiment. Somebody says their favorite boozy themed pod, the sloppy boys. Okay. The lights seasons greetings. Oh, the lights. That's a good one.

Yummy fruity pebbles in our bowls. Sufjan Stevens Christmas album. Dan Padley says incredible topic and pull. Merry Christmas sloppy boys. Thank you, Dan. Kelsey says as someone who is not a Christmas person, so to speak, nothing beats getting drunk on the company dime. Sounds like she voted for a holiday party.

Somebody said Scrooged. Somebody said Elf. Yeah, lots of good votes here. No one's being mean, which is nice. You know what I think? Well, that's the reason for the season, I think. You know when people are talking about movies or songs or something i think it still all comes down to that those movies and songs and stuff give you that special sentimental warm

christmas some of them even say you will get a sentimental feeling when you hear yeah yeah but it's like those films are purveying Yeah Like porno gives you a horny feeling Yeah but it's not sentimental Christmas movies give you a sentimental feeling Yeah What were you What were you telling me Jeff You were like

The other day you were like God I watched some porno Boy I could have blasted a whole ski resort Yeah I could have I could have put a whole hill in business After that one Mm-hmm

Somebody says Hallmark movies I said to you I said I don't think we talk like that because that's impolite. I could have put a whole hill in business. Yeah. Dude, man, your nuts and prostate would be so

hollow after that event. Yeah. It'd be a ghost town. I'd be poking around inside your nuts. Hello. Any sperm in here hello hello hello okay data is good interaction is good great are you ready to hear the results um hold on was there something else i wanted to say uh christmas time okay no in theinch. In third place, with a paltry 14%. Oh, no.

The sentiment. No. No. No. No. No. How could you go against the sentiment? Do they know how much it encapsulates?

No, they don't. They'll listen to this, though. I'm looking at the replies. Yeah, they know how much. Hey, you know against the sentiment? Do they know how much it encapsulates? No, they don't. They'll listen to this, though. I'm looking at the replies. Yeah, they know. Hey, you know what they say? You can bring a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. So they're all really fucking up here? Mm-hmm.

Okay. And in first place, with a whopping 67% of the vote, Dropping 67% of the vote. The best Christmas aspect is that warm, special feeling. Yeah. Of course it is. And the holiday party was way down with 19%. Jeff had 14. Mike had 19.

I had 67. Pitiful. But I don't think these people understand what we mean behind the Christmas party. No, these are smart people. These people know what's going on. These are the drag. These are some of the savviest followers

on the planet. On Elon's Twitter.com. Is Twitter going away? Come on. Is that going to happen? Stop, stop, stop. No, I'm serious. People are saying it. Yeah, next poll goes on mastodon what's that is that like parlor like one of the alts that's like that's like the

i mean look twitter's not actually i mean even if it crashes and burns like it's not going anywhere right like but mastodon is one where they're like it's a distant second for like people people are going over to mastodon now it's also it's not uh left wingy it's just oh okay general parlor is the parlor parlor is right wingy or right wing and so it's like re-truth or like truth i don't know whatever that is going back to uh going back to dan padley he and i share a birthday nove November 3rd? November 3rd. He wished me a happy birthday on Instagram. I said, thanks so much.

And then somebody on Twitter... He said, thanks, man. And you continued on your way. Bye. I was like, wait, is it your birthday too? Oh my God, happy birthday. Damn. Birthday twins. Birthday twins.

The pad man and the head man doing the birthday stylies. All right, folks. We're going to end it on that note, if you can believe it. We're done. We found out the best aspect of the Christmas holiday season is that warm. What was it? The warm Christmas feeling? That warm special feeling.

That warm special feeling. Yes. Good. Good to know that now. And I will do that. I will focus on that this Christmas. Me feeling. Yes, good. Good to know that now, and I will do that. I will focus on that this Christmas. Yeah, me too. Yeah, me too. Hey, as we're starting the holiday season here,

are you going to do anything different to try? Are you going to volunteer anywhere? I'll tell you who's going to do something different. Who? Tim hasn't seen Gremlins. Hey, this is exciting. Do you guys want to know something? What?

I frantically watched Gremlins last night because I thought we had chosen it for today. And then I woke up to remember best Christmas aspect. So we had decided aspect and then you would... And I had... I agreed with you guys. I laughed on the chain. I was like, Christmas aspect. I'm scrambled. I just got back from NorCal. Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, I'll tell you what. Why don't we talk about Gremlins next week just so that doesn't all go to waste. We'll talk about Gremlins next week. It's awful to watch a film and not have done it for a podcast recording. Yeah, it's impossible. And Jeff, we're going to maybe make up for next week's drink,

the drink you're working on. Yes, yes. I'm debuting out of the Duddy Test Kitchen. Ooh. The special little surprise drink. That's exciting. Do you have a name for it or do you want to hold it? I'm going to hold it close to the vest.

Great, great, great. I got a feeling this next week is going to be you coming up with a drink crash course. No, no. I've thought long and hard. Fuck, I got it. Have you actually been like, well, we'll save it. Yeah, I have.

You've been mixing and matching? I got so many questions for you. But, of course, folks, that's for a different time and a different format for this podcast. That is going to be happening on the main. But, you guys, we want to see you next week here talking about the little furballs who go green. We're talking about the gremlins next week. Weeoo, Mogwai, Wagowo, Mookiewoo, and the rest of the bunch all happening on the Sloppy Boys podcast. Can't wait to see you on the Discord.

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