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Okay. Hello everyone. We're rolling. Welcome to Hero Dick number seventeen.

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Seventeen.

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And today we're going to do something a little different. Instead of the fast five, we're going to do the slow five of the holidays.

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It's not really different of me because I'm going to wing it.

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Okay.

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Well, that's something new.

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That's alright. Sometimes you you have to wing it and it's better.

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Yeah. To celebrate.

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Okay. Celebrate. Here it comes. Right here.

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I have a nice cran winter spiced cranberry. Oh. Sprite zero.

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It looks delicious except the zero part.

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Coca-Cola.

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I don't like the zeros.

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It's refreshing.

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It's a very pretty can too. It's very fast of the zero part well.

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Oh, definitely. But let's drink that or booze. I mean, I could drink water.

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You could. You just did. I did it.

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I'm double fisting it. Beverage-wise. Beverage-wise. Um, Kate got her car back.

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I didn't get my car back. It was from October 11th, is when I hit the deer. And so yesterday was December 13th. It's a long time. That was a long time.

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How would you uh I don't know if you want to do this on air with all these listeners, but how would you rate your experience?

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Um, well, hitting a deer was horrible. Um, I will give the Bally Who, because we still don't have an alternative to shouting who to Totten's uh body shop in Gaylord. What is it? Totten's Totten? I like that name.

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Tickemaca Totten's. They fix it, motherfucker.

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Quiet. Um T-O-T-T-E-N-T. I like it. They were very nice and very accommodating and uh very apologetic for how long it took, you know, the supply chain anymore is sucks.

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Yeah. And it's an excuse to fuck people over and go even slower because they can all say, Oh, it's due to the supply chain.

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I mean, in your case, it probably was um well, and then there there was the strike in between, you know, the automotive uh union strike affects everything too. It does body shock, it does, yeah, because they're getting parts. Guess what? Not all the parts are being made. Get those parts on Amazon. And also in there was hunting season, that affects it in northern Michigan. Thanksgiving week, that affects it. Uh but we were very nice. Thank you, Erin, at Tottenham.

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Now, why did you pick Totten's?

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Well, because they were closest. We were in a hurry. We hit that deer. We're the jailer, we were on our way to Traverse Lydia.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So that's why I went, yeah. Usually go to Larry's collision, who those people are delightful also. Very, very good there.

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But so sorry, Larry, she hit the deer closer to getting.

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I did closer. They were probably like good. We don't have to see her again.

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Well, you live in your car, you said.

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Well, yeah, for a person who's not homeless, I sure do live out of my car. And now I have my car back. You got it.

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You live in large now. Well, it's a small car, so I'm not living large, but we were talking about, I'm sure some listeners will comment on this and email us. Uh dick 2023 at gmail.com. That's it. But we're talking about how maybe we could have an episode devoted to relationships and automobiles and all the things that you share in a relationship. Because we're chatting before this about how she's happy to have her car back because um she wasn't liking driving the other car too much.

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And I said, you know, it's funny because it's not fun to share a car because you have a different preference and feel and you move the seat and then you get move back, and uh yeah. And then uh we have a truck, which it's good when you need a truck, but I don't like driving it. I feel like I if I'm if there's anything in front of me, I can't see it. I could run over whatever, and there's just not that angle.

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I thought you know that my loving family would enjoy my vehicle more, but they don't. They don't particularly like it.

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Is it too big?

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Well, I I no, it's not that big. Julian doesn't really like driving it. He thinks it's cool.

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Did Julian find a car?

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Well, he's had a car.

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Well, not I know, but he was looking at a new car.

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Well, we were looking to get him something before he leaves, not till college, but if there was something with the deal and yeah, he likes he likes the Subaros.

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Yeah. People who like Subaros love Subaros. And we have a Subaru, it's a great car, it's just not the car for me.

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Yeah. I'm hoping see, he has a Brooks old car, which isn't really that old. It's a 2019 Toyota Corolla. Nice little car.

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Nice.

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Um, and he really likes that car, but it's front-wheel drive and it's really low to the ground.

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Yeah.

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And so he was saying that it's not so good in the winter, so dear old dad went and got some winter wheels and tires, and I put them on last weekend. Blizz X. And they're just specifically for winter. And it should help. I don't know. We haven't got snow since.

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So good, good job, thank you.

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Yeah. Anybody else want their tires on? We can keep the snow away.

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Keep the snow away.

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Speaking of snow and Christmas and holidays. Holidays. Here we are. It's our happy holiday episode.

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It is, it is. So let's dive right into it. What is do you want me to start with my first?

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Sure.

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And tell me now, this is uh hero or dick, Krampus.

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What'd you just say?

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Krampus. Do you know Krampus?

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Isn't that Santa? The mean Santa?

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It's the kinda, yeah.

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And it's like a it's a scary movie, too.

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It is a scary movie.

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So this guy would come around and take the children, right?

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Yeah. Yeah. So Krampus traditionally is from Europe and he's half goat and half demon. So right there.

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That's a fun combination.

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Right there, I'm all in. I I like it. He punishes the misbehaving children at Christmas. He will whip you and take you away by bucket. He uses a bucket. Get in the bucket, kid.

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How many can he stuff in there?

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I don't know. I don't know how big the bucket is.

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Is it like a metaphorical bucket or a real bucket?

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Oh, I don't know. Well, I've never been visited by him. But he takes him to the underworld. Um, well, either that or I didn't live in Europe where Krampus was.

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That's true. So he's only his jurisdiction is Europe.

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Uh that's where he originated. I think his jurisdiction is everywhere, children. Everywhere. Watch over Krampus. Some say he's the evil twin of St. Nick. I thought that was Fred. Some say there is actually more than one Krampus. Just like there's more than one Krampus. Well, he needs helpers. Yeah, yeah. Krampies. So Santa has elves. I wonder what Krampus has. I don't know that part.

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Krampettes?

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I don't know. Krampus Day is December 5th, so we missed it. So if you didn't get put in the bucket December 5th, you're probably good.

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So is that like a pre-Christmas thing?

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Well, yeah, I guess it would be.

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Son of a bitch, we should have had a Krampus party. You could. How fun would that be?

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Well, next year we can have some good. December 5th. Krampus party. Let's start planning right now.

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Let's do it. Okay. We got a lot of events to do that.

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So all that being said, I think he's a hero.

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You think he's a hero?

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I do. For taking kids? Why do you so you look you're surprised? I think he's got a job to do and he does it.

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I don't know about how bad are these kids.

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I don't know. There's some kids that are pretty rotten.

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I know, but you know, like Fred Claus, Fred said, every kid's good. It's probably not true. How do they end up serial killers?

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They start out as good kids. Maybe they did. I don't know. Maybe they didn't get picked up by Krampus. Maybe if Krampus would have picked him up and whipped him into shape.

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That's true.

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Put him back into society. There you go.

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I guess I mean. I guess.

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You can call him a dick. I don't know.

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Well, he sounds like a dick.

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Okay.

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I'll say dick. I'm saying hero. I'm still on the half goat.

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I like the goat. Goat, half demon.

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No.

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Half hero. Half dick.

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There you go. He's half and half.

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All right. You got one?

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Yeah, I mean, I have one. I have it down here in my paper.

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Prove it. Prove it.

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Company Christmas parties. Why am I talking like that?

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I don't know. Because you work at the totems. The company Christmas party. Oh, it could go either way.

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I say there's forced awkwardness because you're like, you work with these people and then you're expected to kind of like vibe with them, Joe with them. Which I usually I don't have a problem with. I get along with most people. Most.

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It's kind of like um going to a swimming pool with your co-workers because you have a bathing suit on and you're expecting it.

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I gotta go to a swimming pool today.

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Are you kidding me?

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I'm fucking dead serious. I'm not getting in the pool. Well, my kids in a meet. He joined the swim team of all things. So now we gotta go there. But no, okay.

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You're not getting in the pool with them.

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I don't think so. They wanted to volunteer for something, but I can't do that. What were you saying? Oh, you you're going to be able to do it.

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It's like going to a swimming pool with your co-workers because you're exposed in an awkward way.

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Yeah. Yeah. That's a good analogy. Okay. There goes some of our listeners. Hear them, everybody?

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Hey, how's it going?

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They're knocking. No, you can't come in. Go away. Go away. Um, yeah, it's very awkward. And you're right, I like that. Um, you know what some people do to get over that is they drink a lot. Yep.

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That makes it a little more awkward.

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Well, not till the next day or the Monday, and you're hoping that weekend had passed and nobody remembers the fact that you were drunk and making out with the boss. Or the boss's wife. Oh boy, I should have had some of your parties. And then another part of that sometimes, you know, um, if you're cheapskates and your company won't spring for a catered party, the potluck, you know, that goes along in that party. Yes. I like I like homemade food, but I don't know about the homes that they're made in sometimes, you know. I agree. I agree. And that's not just for Christmas parties.

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No, that's a potluck overall. It's like, I want to like the potluck, but I know the cat ladies bring a cake.

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Yeah.

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I'm not eating that cake.

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Yeah.

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Mm-hmm.

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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Um, I'm I used to be, well, the drinker ones, but I was always pretty good at making my appearance and then get out of here.

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And then get out, get in, get out.

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And then some of the people that you do like to work with are like, hey, let's go. And you go to the bar or do something else. But so anyway, I saw, but I I think um yeah, Dick.

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I I say Dick as well, and I don't think it I don't think people have them as much as they used to.

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There's probably a lot of reasons for that. The big PC world now, yeah.

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Just legality.

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Sure. Yeah, you don't want people drinking eggnog, spiked eggnog in the office and driving home and hitting a deer.

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No, but it used to happen. I mean, I can remember, well, it was before I worked at Besser Company, but um somebody told me, and it wasn't so it wasn't horribly long ago, maybe like in the 80s and probably in the 80s that they were still doing it, and somebody went around with a bar cart at work. Hey, make you a cocktail.

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Yeah.

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It sounds like a good idea and a festive idea, but no good can come of it.

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Typically not. No.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I think we're in agreement on that one. Okay, my next one is I have a list. Uh thank you, Cassidy, for this idea.

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Ballyhoo.

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Ballyhoo to Cassidy. Uh, fad toys of Christmas past. So I'm gonna go through the list and you just tell me hero or dick. Uh Mr. Potato Head.

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Hero.

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Hero. Agreed. He was originally an actual potato. You got the stuff and you had to supply your own potato. Did you know that?

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I think sometimes you make this stuff up. So you just got a fucking potato?

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No, you didn't get the potato. You got the stuff.

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Okay.

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And then you had to supply your own potato.

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No kidding. I uh that makes sense. Yeah, it does.

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Uh so I wouldn't have made that up.

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And it's better for landfills.

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Okay.

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Because instead of the whole big plastic guy, you just got the little pieces.

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He was a hero and then they took his pipe away. Because it wasn't politically correct. Can the guy smoke a bowl? Come on. He's a potato.

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And uh what will uh Mr. Potato Head, Mrs. Potato Head?

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They're married.

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And then you're gonna have what?

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Little sputs.

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Yeah, and then I mean though, like, you know how you have to like accommodate all people. Maybe there should be like a transgender radish. And there should be a Jewish carrot. And then a I don't know. You don't even know.

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If you get too politically correct, it gets stupid.

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But they took away his pipe.

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They did. Maybe that pipe was for blowing bubbles. We don't know.

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Kids blow bubbles with pipes. Or do they anymore? Do they take those away?

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I don't know. They probably took those away too. You can still get candy smokes. Yeah, you can. Yep. Okay, here's the next one. Uh that was in 1952. That was a popular one. 1996, the popular uh toy was Tickle Mielmo. Dick. I think he's a dick as well.

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Yeah. Almost small doses, man.

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Oh yeah, his voice really greats. That's it. Yeah, Dick. Okay. How about 1990s were beanie babies? And you everyone should buy them because they're going to increase in value.

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Yeah, no, everyone's a millionaire.

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They still didn't. I mean, they're harmless. They're uh, I will say this as a parent who had to buy many a beanie baby. At least they were a cheap thing.

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I know they could get expensive, but not like a cabbage patch kid back in the day. Oh fuck. That's one of them.

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And let's see. Let's let's jump right to Well wait, wait, Beanie Baby.

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I'm gonna say is uh hero then because it did uh anybody could get them.

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Yes, I agree. I agree with that one. And then cabbage patch kids were in 1983, and people went ape shit over these.

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Yeah.

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Ape shit.

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Did you have to buy them?

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I did buy one, not in '83, probably in '84 or five. And um, I mean, I had to have a connection at Fisher Big Wheel. I still work at Fisher Big Wheel. What was your connection? My sister Nancy worked there, and she had to get one, Nancy Scheiba. Nancy. Oh hey Nancy, Baby Hoof. Uh she was fun. Yeah, she had to put one away. I mean, I had to she had stashed one for me. And so that's the only way that Cassetting out.

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She was working there a long time because years and years and years.

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Oh, she worked there for years. Yeah.

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I think she might have been one of the last ones there.

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Uh no, she left before they closed. Nancy uh the other Nancy. Nancy Garrett, no. Nancy Garrett. Hey Nancy.

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Oh yeah.

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All the Nancy's.

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Yeah, Bev used to work there. Bev Hunter.

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I don't know. Um lots of people were Fisher Big Wheel. It was like a uh Awesome. What kind of store was like a best department store store? Store.

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It had automotive, it had Health and Beauty.

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It was like a K-mart.

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But better.

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But better. Yeah. They had an awesome, awesome album selection.

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When you walk into the left, the whole row was a big one.

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Yeah, there was tons of albums. I bought many, many an album there. Okay. Totally up. How about 1990?

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What do we say?

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Uh for Beanie Be or Cabbage Fange Kids. Well, in the end they were kind of dicks because they were so popular you couldn't get them. And then they, you know.

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Kind of a status thing.

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Yeah. Dick. Yeah, and then I remember Cassidy's the head broke on it. So yeah, so you could well it wasn't their fault. You don't know. So you could either send it to their hospital to get it fixed and pay the money, or we could exchange it and get a new one. So she wasn't too emotionally tidy to it, so we just got a new one. So uh how about 1994? You'll know these Transformers. More than meets the eye. Is that what you were gonna say?

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I was, I was moving in.

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Oh man, we could have done it in unison.

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Hero.

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I say hero. Again, they were small.

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It was creative.

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And yeah. And you can play, you weren't just looking at it, you were you had to actually play with that.

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You kind of got the automobile, the vehicle, the space, whatever it was, and a doll. Well, not really a doll. It's an action figure. You know what I mean? The boy's version of a doll.

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Okay, how we'll stay in the 80s and go 1987 Teddy Ruxpin.

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You know, I think he was kind of a hero. You could plug him that cassette in there and he'd tell a story.

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You guys had one too, didn't you? Yeah. Yeah. I think he's a little freaky, but it was freaky. It was freaky.

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Yeah.

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And don't you think that's where the movie Ted came from, too?

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Probably. I think so. I can't believe my parents actually swung it and got one of those.

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Yeah, good for them. They're heroes.

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Well, it was for Keith, you know.

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Oh well. The baby gets whatever he wants.

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Belly who, Keith.

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Belly who.

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He doesn't listen. I don't think he knows about it.

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Well, he's gonna wish he was listening. Um, how about night? No, this is a little later. 1998, the big toy was Furby.

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Dick, Dick, and Dick. Yeah. We had some of those in our house. They never shut up. Sometimes they wake up. You think in the middle of the night? I swear to God, you take the batteries out and they'd still work.

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No, they'd still work. They I think they were aliens trying to take over the world. It didn't work, Furby. Although then they tried to come back. They tried to come back. Come back from where? From they went away, you know. From they lost their yeah, and then a few years ago they tried to bring the Furby back.

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We don't want him.

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No, no, we had one. It's terrifying for the child.

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You still have it? Is it by that rabbit on the shelf?

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How's that rabbit doing? He's there.

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Do you ever say anything to him?

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I do. I try to be nice to him because I know there's somebody attached to that. I know. I know. I I if I think if I uh I need to find out where I bought him from and take him back, that's what I want to do.

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Don't do that to him.

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Well, he wants to go back.

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How do you know that?

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You can feel it? Because he wants to be.

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You just don't want him in your house.

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He doesn't want to be in my home. Oh, okay. Uh 2009. I don't remember these zuzu pets. Do you remember those?

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I remember the name.

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I think they're dicks just because they were um zuzu dic dick. Because they were cheap, but then people bought them and raped other people over the price.

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Oh, okay.

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So right there. How about 2006? The Wii. The Wii system. You know.

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I know on the fence that we had one. We still have one, I think.

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We still have ours.

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Yeah, yeah. Get up and move. I like the bowling on there. I did.

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We played the shit out of golf.

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Oh, yeah.

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That was yeah, I love golf.

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Yep. That was fun. Hero.

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Yep. Yep. Hero. Hero. And everybody could play it. Seniors, kids. They had them in senior center, so I liked that about them.

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What's that feedback room?

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I don't know. Do I want to pause? No, that's gone. Okay, so I think do I have one more? Yeah, I have one more, and I don't remember this. Maybe you do. The Elsa Dell from Frozen.

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I mean, I know what it is.

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They were selling for thousands on eBay, and actual fist fights erupted because of people wanting to stop. So anything like that I say no.

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Like jingle all the way when Arnold Schwarzenegger was going out. I'll say dick then. Okay. I'll just follow your lead.

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Alright, and those are the fan toys that I have of Christmas past.

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Nice.

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I'm sure there's more. You can email them to us.

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Yes, please do. At our email address.

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It is hero2023gmail.com.

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Um, see I did find funny here. I don't think I I never do this right. When my next one was present opening.

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Um that can be that's a holiday thing.

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Yeah. Well, but I said what I did is I have five things. So in in general, present opening I think is Well, you think that's great right away.

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You go, yes.

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But but depends on where you're doing it, who you're doing it in front of. Uh-huh. And what you get. Yeah. In one by one. You know, like where they stack the presents up in front of the people and then everybody opens one and you go to the next one, the next one. I mean, I'm good with whatever people want to do.

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It depends on I mean, if there's 20 people and 20 presents each, that's a day.

SPEAKER_01 21:54

But some people I think um don't like the spotlight. They just want to open. Their present.

SPEAKER_03 22:00

I think that's true, and it depends. Like, like you said, how many people because we do it in our family, but we only have like six people doing it, you know?

SPEAKER_01 22:09

Yeah. So I like the one by one. I don't mind it.

SPEAKER_03 22:13

Christmas Eve or Christmas morning?

SPEAKER_01 22:16

Uh well, it depends. Like my parents, I like going there uh Christmas Eve and we do stuff there at your own house, always Christmas morning. Yeah. You know what I mean? I would I don't know, it just depends. Obviously, I prefer to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_03 22:30

And what do you do if you open a gift and it sucks?

SPEAKER_01 22:33

That's on my thing. That's one of my bullet points.

SPEAKER_03 22:36

And what do you say about that?

SPEAKER_01 22:37

I love it. This is great. Do you fake it? Well, I think I don't. I mean, because I usually it depends on who it's from. If it's a present. Yeah, and if someone thinks of me and gets me a gift, that's pretty cool. Yeah. You know, I I like just about everything. Um, my kids, though, I like watching them, especially when they're younger. Sometimes if they got a duplicate and they're, you know, from a grandparent and I go to another grandparent, but they're a great. They're like, oh, wow. You know, and I'm like, because they don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

SPEAKER_03 23:03

So that's good that you instilled that in them. And I can remember Jenna opening a present and saying, I didn't even know I wanted this.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

Oh, that's beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 23:11

That was the perfect response. However, I have seen children, not my own, but um, I have seen children open gifts and go, hmm. Yeah, it's like chuck it over their shoulder and move on to the next one. It's like, oh my god, could you paint it a little bit?

SPEAKER_02 23:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:27

Mm-hmm. Because like you said, if anybody thinks of me enough to get me a gift, even if they're not really thinking about it. Or putting thought into the gift is what I should say.

SPEAKER_01 23:38

Right. You know. It got wrapped. It was putting your name. Yeah. It's something.

SPEAKER_03 23:43

It's something. What else do you got down for that?

SPEAKER_01 23:46

Um that was pretty much it. Well, then I was just thinking about how people open up gifts, like some people take their time open, some rip it open.

SPEAKER_02 23:53

Some people open it tape by tape and save the paper, save the bow.

SPEAKER_01 23:58

I think if someone puts a lot of effort into wrapping it though, and there's like a ribbon and a bow and the name tag, I I take my time opening it. You know, because it's pretty. And I'm like, hey, nice job. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:12

Yes, yes, savor that.

SPEAKER_01 24:15

So that's all I had. Present opening hero.

SPEAKER_03 24:17

Present opening. Um, let's say uh another one I have is holiday seasonings. Like winter spiced cranberry. How about cinnamon?

SPEAKER_01 24:32

I just had some cinnamon on the way here.

SPEAKER_03 24:34

Did you eat like a spoonful?

SPEAKER_01 24:36

I was chewing on those stick. No, I had a uh peppermints. How rare are they though? Breath mints, we'll say.

SPEAKER_03 24:45

Uh cinnamon breath mint?

SPEAKER_01 24:47

Yeah. Okay. Because you were complaining about how my breath stunk the last time.

SPEAKER_03 24:51

So I call cinnamon a big hero. I love cinnamon and everything.

SPEAKER_01 24:57

Everything?

SPEAKER_03 24:57

Uh almost everything, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:59

Spaghetti?

SPEAKER_03 25:00

Yep.

unknown 25:02

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

I'd try it. Oh, you know, I am a fan. I like this time of year. Toothpaste. Because you go to the yeah, you go to uh a big beer or wherever, and I like all the fancy little, you know, holiday drinks like the snow mint mocha or the peppermint stick mocha, or what am I stuck on mocha?

SPEAKER_03 25:18

Pepperm peppermint is one. I call it hero. I know some people don't like peppermint and only in their toothpaste.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

What are some of the other seasonings?

SPEAKER_03 25:26

Uh gingerbread.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

Oh yeah. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 25:28

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 25:29

I have gingerbread toast crunch. So instead of cinnamon toast crunch cereal, it's gingerbread. And you know what? I'm gonna go home today and make the rice crispy treat version of that.

SPEAKER_01 25:42

Oh, good idea.

SPEAKER_03 25:43

Sorry, I don't have one for you. I was gonna say maybe next time, but they're not gonna last. Let's not kid ourselves. How about cloves? Wow.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

I'm thinking I don't have much experience. Much experience with cloves.

SPEAKER_03 26:01

Cloves can go either way because you can sugar them up. You know, it can be desserty or it can be like in a ham. They're delicious in a ham.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

A clove.

SPEAKER_03 26:10

A clove. You stick cloves in a ham.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

Who sticks cloves in a ham?

SPEAKER_03 26:13

Everybody except you, apparently.

SPEAKER_01 26:15

Never stuck anything in a ham.

SPEAKER_03 26:17

Well, yeah, Nathan.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

Well, I'm gonna guess I bought a ham the other day.

SPEAKER_03 26:21

Google it and they're you stick them anywhere? Yeah, you just because they're kind of sticky on the one side. A whole clove.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

A whole clove. Yeah. You stick it in the ham.

SPEAKER_03 26:31

You poke it in the ham.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

Alright.

SPEAKER_03 26:33

Alright. Check it out.

SPEAKER_01 26:35

Hero.

SPEAKER_03 26:35

I call them heroes. Sometimes they're a dick. It depends on what they're in, but mostly heroes.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

Well, apparently ham is good.

SPEAKER_03 26:41

Ham, delicious. How about okay, here's my last uh holiday seasoning is eggnog.

SPEAKER_01 26:48

I enjoy eggnog.

SPEAKER_03 26:49

I do not. There we go. We're gonna split on that one.

SPEAKER_01 26:53

It's not something you can you stick a cloven cloven there.

SPEAKER_03 26:55

You could put cloves in that. You could totally put cloves in there. And peppermint. You can't stick them in there, but put it in there. You can put peppermint in there. You don't like eggnog? No.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

You don't like milk?

SPEAKER_03 27:04

Um coffee creamer. I like coffee creamer. And sometimes milk, but I think I had a bad experience with nog.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

Because it was spiked at a company Christmas party. And you made up with the boss's wife. Oh wait, a husband. Or the boss. Whatever.

SPEAKER_03 27:19

Could go either way. Anyway, no nog for me.

SPEAKER_01 27:23

No nog.

SPEAKER_03 27:23

I call it.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

Keep her off the nog.

SPEAKER_03 27:25

Keeping off the nog. Alright. What do you got next?

SPEAKER_01 27:29

Christmas parades.

SPEAKER_03 27:30

Oh. I do not love a parade. You don't? No. But I will say the Christmas parade in Alpina.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

Weren't you just banging up the fact that you loved the Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade not too long ago?

SPEAKER_03 27:43

No, I wasn't banging it up. I'll watch it, but I'd rather watch the dog show on Thanksgiving still there. Um I I think though, the Alpina Parade, they do it at night, and it has gotten really pretty. Sometimes it's kind of snowing, it's dark. And that one is a little bit magical.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:02

It's still a damn parade, though.

SPEAKER_01 28:05

They're like, ah, fuck, I'm gonna walk downtown, stand there in the coal on the parade, blah blah blah. And there's nothing special. The lights. I like the lights, I like that at night. And I do like looking and see like community out. Yes, and like that's pretty cool. But then you got the kids around in the middle of the street after candy.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

Candy. It's just candy.

SPEAKER_03 28:22

But yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

Fighting over whatever. Anyway. Yeah, I have I I like I like uh the lights at night. The marching band. So I like the marching bands.

SPEAKER_03 28:33

I do like a marching band.

SPEAKER_01 28:34

Hillman's marching band from Hellman High School was in our parade. Oh, good. They were really good. I believe I quite enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_03 28:40

Oh, good. What did they play? Do you remember? A holiday song, probably.

SPEAKER_01 28:43

Probably.

SPEAKER_03 28:44

Jolly old St. Nicholas.

SPEAKER_02 28:46

Yeah, how's it?

SPEAKER_03 28:47

I do like a uh a marching band though.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:50

I like it when they um march. Well, I was gonna say when they go beyond marching, when they like make animations and they, you know, do that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 29:01

Well, we don't want them to get hurt. They were just doing plain old marching.

SPEAKER_03 29:05

Well, it's a parade. You know, what are you gonna do?

SPEAKER_01 29:08

Yeah. It was weird though, because all of a sudden, you know, you're watching and it's like, boom, they're saying it's over. It just happened. Oh. You know what the cool thing was that really has nothing to do with the holidays, I guess, is Remax has that float, and they just have like the hot air balloon flamer thing. Oh holy shit, it heats up the whole area.

SPEAKER_03 29:28

Was there any fires or no, but it was incorporate that into a dragon somehow? Because I would come to a parade that has a flame throwing dragon. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:38

Maybe Krampus.

SPEAKER_03 29:40

December 5th, we're having a parade.

SPEAKER_01 29:43

Just us. Krampus and the Remax is flame flour.

SPEAKER_03 29:47

Did you ride on that for on that float?

SPEAKER_01 29:49

Uh no.

SPEAKER_03 29:51

Uh no. No. Okay. So parades overall, I say dick, but you know what? For holidays, I'm gonna say half hero because if it's at night.

SPEAKER_04 30:01

All right.

SPEAKER_03 30:02

And Macy's, I mean, come on. They that's a tradition and they put a lot of effort into it.

SPEAKER_01 30:08

Yeah, except they don't use real animals anymore. We learned that. Oh no, they don't.

SPEAKER_03 30:12

That's right. Yeah. What else should we do? But they have big balloons.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

They do.

SPEAKER_03 30:16

They do. Oh so you could do a whole category on food, so I just narrowed it down to the cookies.

SPEAKER_01 30:23

I love cookies.

SPEAKER_03 30:24

I love any kind of cookie, but some more than others. I mean, you know, like fig newtons are pretty down the list. But I'll eat a fig newton if that's the only cookie we got.

SPEAKER_04 30:34

Sure.

SPEAKER_03 30:34

Uh my mom really liked fig newtons, so sometimes that was the only cookie we got. I'm like, all right, I guess we're eating fig newtons.

SPEAKER_01 30:40

That and a glass of eggnog.

SPEAKER_03 30:42

Maybe that's why. No, it didn't. We didn't get nog. Alright. No. Um. So the hero cookie, I think, my favorite cookies to have is those little many names for them. I'll say snowballs. They're like a pecan sugar ball ball, and then they're powdered sugar. Some people call them uh they were called Polish. Every every nationality had a different name for them, like Russian tea cakes and Polish something else. But they're all kind of the same, and they're all delicious.

SPEAKER_01 31:20

Yes, they are.

SPEAKER_03 31:21

If you put enough powdered sugar on it, maybe that's why. And you can't sneak one either. You can't just go in the kitchen and eat one because there's a crumble straight. Well no, there's a trail of powdered sugar.

SPEAKER_01 31:31

Oh, aren't they crumbly? They're really light.

SPEAKER_03 31:32

Yes, they are usually crumbly.

SPEAKER_01 31:34

They're kind of like just put the whole thing in there.

SPEAKER_03 31:36

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's my hero cookie. What's your hero cookie?

SPEAKER_01 31:43

I don't know. I like that. I like all cookies. I like a frosted sugar cookie. I do too. That's with some sprinkles on it. Yes. Maybe it looks like Krampus or Santa.

SPEAKER_03 31:52

I've never made a Krampus cookie.

SPEAKER_01 31:53

Krampus cookie is the number five.

SPEAKER_03 31:55

That doesn't sound good, but again, I would eat it.

SPEAKER_01 31:58

Nothing Krampus doesn't sound good.

SPEAKER_03 31:59

Am I uh I'm still gonna say pumpkin pie for the dick food. That's not a cookie though. No, it's not I'm trying to think of a cookie I don't like.

SPEAKER_01 32:08

Pumpkin cookies? A cookie you don't like?

SPEAKER_03 32:12

Maybe an eggnog cookie.

SPEAKER_01 32:13

Yeah, that's probably it. Yeah, we gotta get I was told that because I thought you could just go in the store and just start picking ingredients off the shelf and make cookies, but Brooke said, No, you better know what cookies you want to make before.

SPEAKER_03 32:28

Yeah, there you have different flour, sugar, sprinkles. Sugar cookies have I mean, they're a base of many cookies, so you could buy sugar and flour and butter and make a cookie, but then what are you gonna add to it?

SPEAKER_01 32:44

Right. Uh you need intent if you're going to buy I like those peanut they're like peanut butter and they're gonna Hershey kiss on them.

SPEAKER_03 32:53

I like those. I do like those. And I also enjoy the I lost it. I lost it. I don't think of it. Next episode. Okay, cookies. What else you got? That was number four for me.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

I had Christmas candy.

SPEAKER_03 33:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 33:10

Candy canes?

SPEAKER_03 33:12

Uh they're they're okay. I I don't have a problem with them.

SPEAKER_01 33:16

You know what I have a problem with? There's too many of them.

SPEAKER_03 33:19

There's a lot of different flavors.

SPEAKER_01 33:22

Like everybody has a brand Kool-Aid. I thought I saw some Kool-Aid ones.

SPEAKER_03 33:25

Oh, really? The Starburst ones are really good.

SPEAKER_01 33:28

Yeah, but then you get into okay, Starburst strawberry, Starburst lime star burst.

SPEAKER_03 33:32

I like just uh traditional peppermint candy cane on the tree. Oh do you have them on your tree? Not this year. Tinsel? No. Can you get tinsel anymore? I don't yes, you can because I did look. And it's not easy, but you can see.

SPEAKER_01 33:48

It probably comes right from Taiwan or something. Oh my gosh. They don't care about that over there.

SPEAKER_03 33:51

You know, tinsels like glitter. Once you buy it and have it in your possession, it is on you or in your house forever. It doesn't go away.

SPEAKER_01 34:02

And then all of a sudden the cat or dog's walking by and there's a little trail that is hanging out their butt, and you're like, Merry Christmas.

SPEAKER_03 34:11

Merry Christmas.

SPEAKER_01 34:12

Glitter poop. Um okay. We so we went from oh, we're on Christmas candy. Candy canes. Uh, I'll say hero, but there's a lot of two.

SPEAKER_03 34:19

I say hero. Traditional. Traditional candy canes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 34:23

You ready for this one?

SPEAKER_03 34:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:24

Probably my favorite. What? Ribbon candy. Look at your face.

SPEAKER_03 34:29

I I mean it's a it's a candy cane in a ribbon form.

SPEAKER_01 34:33

But it's nice and thin.

SPEAKER_03 34:35

Oh, I see, I'm picturing it thick.

SPEAKER_01 34:37

Well, you can have it.

SPEAKER_03 34:38

And thick and rippled.

SPEAKER_01 34:39

Right.

SPEAKER_03 34:39

You know, like well, like a ribbon.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

But isn't it gorgeous in a like a it is really pretty?

SPEAKER_03 34:43

It's very pretty. All right. So just keep the same stuff every year. Don't eat it. Use it as decoration.

SPEAKER_01 34:49

That's a really good idea. Seal it up.

SPEAKER_03 34:51

You could you could just put some mod pods on it.

SPEAKER_01 34:55

We have a gumball. We have a gumball machine like that. Oh, dude. It's full of gumballs and we can never get in it.

SPEAKER_03 35:00

Well, why not?

SPEAKER_01 35:02

I don't know how to get in. It doesn't accept change anymore.

SPEAKER_03 35:05

Why can't you just move the slab?

SPEAKER_01 35:06

No, it wouldn't work.

SPEAKER_03 35:08

Huh. Um so do you have like dinosaur gumballs in there?

SPEAKER_01 35:11

They're about five years old.

SPEAKER_03 35:13

They're probably still good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:14

Oh, I like a good gumball. But that's not on my list. Uh the last thing I have uh for Christmas candy, rock candy, which can have powdered sugar on it.

SPEAKER_03 35:22

I made rock candy a couple of times. Uh watermelon's my favorite. Yep, lime's pretty good. It's not easy to make either. It's not a good idea. It's very, very time consuming. But again, you've sprinkle that powdered sugar on there. Oh, it's so delicious.

SPEAKER_01 35:38

One of my favorite memories from when I was a kid is my mom a couple times put forth the effort with us kids. She always put forth effort, as you know. But I'm just saying, uh for that. It was like a big deal. I remember it took it.

SPEAKER_03 35:50

It's the whole production thing.

SPEAKER_01 35:52

Man, when that stuff was ready, though, look out. There's a uh fellow, uh you know, Gene Horniak? Gene and Darby. They make some bang up rock candy. Ballyhoo.

SPEAKER_03 36:03

Ballyhoo to them and the rat candy.

unknown 36:05

Man.

SPEAKER_01 36:06

But anyhow, okay. What do you got? Nothing?

SPEAKER_03 36:08

I got one more.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

It's probably the same thing I got.

SPEAKER_03 36:11

Is it shopping?

SPEAKER_01 36:13

Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_03 36:14

So shopping, I have um in-store or online. In-store. You know, if we had department stores of yesterday, I like Fisher Big Money. But I mean, yeah. Oh my gosh, can you even do that anymore?

SPEAKER_01 36:33

I don't know. I used to get layaways.

SPEAKER_03 36:35

That's the only way I did Christmas some years.

SPEAKER_01 36:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:38

That's the only way you're getting Christmas.

SPEAKER_01 36:39

Kmart had good layaway.

SPEAKER_03 36:40

Yes, they did. They did. Um so but more traditional uh department stores like Hudson's and um that's the only one that can come to mind. Macy's. Uh I say big hero to those, but um, you know, they're not around so much anymore. And um I'm thankful that we have online because we're rural and we don't have a lot of shopping. Uh, we have a little bit more than we ever did, but still um I'm very thankful for online.

SPEAKER_01 37:14

Yeah, and there's something to be said for hiding away in your office or your room with your computer or your phone and in your pjs, drinking some eggnog or whatever, and uh, you know, just scrolling through things and all the stuff. Yep. Put it all in your cart.

SPEAKER_03 37:28

I like to get the lists. Here's the top 20 things that you need to buy for Christmas. Yes, I do. Yes, I do.

SPEAKER_01 37:34

Do you see the sales Walmart has going on right now?

SPEAKER_03 37:36

Um, I bought a dress at Walmart last Saturday for a dollar. Get the I will not get the fuck out because a dollar.

SPEAKER_01 37:45

It doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_03 37:46

I don't believe it was a day. I liked it so much I bought too.

SPEAKER_01 37:50

A pot and pan set. We don't need one. We don't. And I showed Brooke, I'm like, look at this. It's regular $299, $64.99. Did you buy it? No. Oh because we don't need it. No. I said, does we do we know anybody?

SPEAKER_02 38:04

Because it's a really good deal.

SPEAKER_01 38:06

Yeah. Well, I mean, and now you know that I did that. I have the Walmart app on my phone and it keeps notifications on it. Walmart. And it's like, oh, we noticed that you were looking at this. How about how would you like to buy this?

SPEAKER_03 38:16

Would you like to buy all of our stuff?

SPEAKER_01 38:17

I'd like to buy it.

SPEAKER_03 38:18

I have I I hadn't been in Walmart in a long time.

SPEAKER_01 38:21

That's good.

SPEAKER_03 38:22

And so I was out shopping with a friend and we went in there. They have a really nice pajamas. I will give the ball to them for their pajamas.

SPEAKER_04 38:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:31

Yeah. So I bought two dresses, pair of pajamas, and a couple other things, 10 bucks. All right.

SPEAKER_01 38:39

That's good. But yeah, I don't know. I I think when I think of the old you see like um TV shows with the stores and whatever, all just decked up. Even like a mall used to be. You'd be decked out for the holidays.

SPEAKER_03 38:52

Go see Santa and then go have a pretzel and then wander around, go to the toy store. Kids don't even know what a toy store is. Oh my gosh, I miss a toy store.

SPEAKER_01 39:04

Dicks?

SPEAKER_03 39:04

Dick's Arcade. Dick's Arcade. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 39:07

Legendary.

SPEAKER_03 39:08

Yes. Truly.

SPEAKER_01 39:09

It wasn't that big, but when you were a kid and you walked in there, looked up the tall.

SPEAKER_03 39:13

It wasn't big at all, but they had everything. Everything. Everything. We bought a lot of stuff there. Um I do say the uh one more thing about uh shopping Black Friday, in-person dick.

SPEAKER_01 39:28

Yep. I agree.

SPEAKER_03 39:30

That's all.

SPEAKER_01 39:33

Excuse me. I can't, I'm not editing that out either.

SPEAKER_02 39:36

The cough?

SPEAKER_01 39:37

Yeah. Okay. I just want to keep it authentic.

SPEAKER_02 39:40

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 39:43

Another year will come on. I got one more. Okay. I know we're going over time.

SPEAKER_03 39:48

Special episode is the holiday extended version.

SPEAKER_01 39:51

Um and this is in Christmas movies.

SPEAKER_03 39:56

Oh, I had that written down just in case.

SPEAKER_01 39:59

And um go ahead and list some of yours.

SPEAKER_03 40:01

My favorite, favorite Christmas movie, I think.

SPEAKER_01 40:05

Frozen.

SPEAKER_03 40:06

No. I've never seen Frozen.

SPEAKER_01 40:09

Really? It's pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 40:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:12

I don't like the snowman.

SPEAKER_03 40:13

No. The dick?

SPEAKER_01 40:14

No, it's just it's annoying. No. It's just stupid.

SPEAKER_03 40:19

It's his name. Nobody has snow for brains. My favorite Christmas movie is um. There's a few, but love actually.

SPEAKER_01 40:30

Son of a bitch.

SPEAKER_03 40:31

Are you kidding?

SPEAKER_01 40:32

I really do like that movie.

SPEAKER_03 40:33

I love it so much when she gets the Joni Mitchell CD from Alan Rickman. Emma Thompson does, and she thinks she's getting the necklace. Yeah. And she goes to the bedroom and cries and then makes the bed. Oh my god, it gets me every, every time.

SPEAKER_01 40:49

That's a good thing.

SPEAKER_03 40:50

Also, it is legendary. I mean, there's so many one-liners in there. I love, love, love when uh um, oh, I can't think of his name, but Uncle Jamie. When he comes in, oh, Uncle Jamie's here, Uncle Jamie's here, and he's like, I have to leave, and the kids go, I hate Uncle Jamie.

SPEAKER_01 41:09

Yep. That's a good movie.

SPEAKER_03 41:11

I love it. And Hugh Grant dancing in the in the hallway.

SPEAKER_01 41:15

Kieran Knightley.

SPEAKER_03 41:17

Yes. Who doesn't love her? I know. Everyone loves her.

SPEAKER_01 41:20

I had a thing for her back in the day.

SPEAKER_03 41:22

Me too. So that is a favorite. If if anybody listening has not seen it, you need to see it now. 20th anniversary. 20th or 25th.

SPEAKER_01 41:31

Holy crap.

SPEAKER_03 41:32

Yeah, it's been all pretty good. Oh, that's a good sit with your and there's so many people in it, and there's you know, like four or five different stories going at once.

SPEAKER_01 41:41

But Liam Nielsen.

SPEAKER_03 41:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:43

He him and his thing, and then you got his son and that girl. Yeah. And then you got Kira Knightley and what's his face? Yeah. And then there's a lot going on. And then that husband at Wolf.

SPEAKER_03 41:53

And then the models. Don't forget about the models. The nude models. Love them.

SPEAKER_01 41:57

And then uh the singer.

SPEAKER_03 41:59

Oh, I just heard that song. I heard Mariah Carey gets like a stupid amount every time that song is played.

SPEAKER_01 42:06

By the guy. The old wife's gonna be a good one.

SPEAKER_03 42:08

Oh, the old that song. That song too. Um, I can't think of that.

SPEAKER_01 42:12

All I want for Christmas by Mariah Carey.

SPEAKER_03 42:15

Yeah, it's like the biggest Christmas song.

SPEAKER_01 42:17

My wife uh that doesn't have a song that doesn't get played on our radio. No.

SPEAKER_03 42:23

Um so that is one of my favorites. What's one of your favorites other than that one?

SPEAKER_01 42:27

Charlie Brown Christmas. Of course. I'm not a religious man, but I love that part. Thinking about right now gets me choked up.

SPEAKER_03 42:34

Are you gonna cry?

SPEAKER_01 42:35

I might. Linus gets up there. Oh shit, just thinking about it, it gets me a little choked up.

SPEAKER_03 42:39

I know.

SPEAKER_01 42:40

Damn.

SPEAKER_03 42:40

I understand.

SPEAKER_01 42:42

Whew, what a moment.

SPEAKER_03 42:44

There's so much that goes on in that when they're all dancing too.

SPEAKER_01 42:48

Oh, yeah. I love it, love it.

SPEAKER_03 42:51

And when Snoopy is mocking Lucy, the bass. Yep, yeah, the bass.

SPEAKER_01 42:56

Yeah. That's a great one.

SPEAKER_03 42:58

I love that one.

SPEAKER_01 42:58

You know, and the thing is, if you don't get to watching them now, you run out of time. Because like there's only ten days left.

SPEAKER_03 43:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:06

I watched the Grinch last Sunday night, the original cartoon.

SPEAKER_01 43:10

Good. Because that's on my list.

SPEAKER_03 43:12

I wouldn't watch the Grinch. I have watched the movie, but one. The movie Grinch.

SPEAKER_01 43:17

Which one?

SPEAKER_03 43:18

Oh, I was Jim Carrey.

SPEAKER_01 43:19

The Jim Carrey one. That one's okay. And then they've got the new one. Oh, is there a new one? Well, it's a it's an animated one, but it's pretty good. But the Grinch is way too nice in it. But I say hero for uh the Grinch, the original.

SPEAKER_03 43:30

Oh, I do too. I love it. Boris Carla. Come on. Max the the puppy on the back of the sled.

SPEAKER_01 43:36

Yeah, I love when he jumps up and he waves.

SPEAKER_03 43:39

Oh, he's so cute.

SPEAKER_01 43:40

Who doesn't love that?

SPEAKER_03 43:41

Yeah, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_01 43:43

How about home alone? Oh, come on. I love it. I didn't love it. My wife and my son think that my daughter and I are nuts because we'll watch it. I laugh every time. Joe Pesci. When he's laying there. Maybe I brought this up before in a different podcast. Maybe not. Maybe I talk about it too much. That scene with the spider. With uh, you know, they're going up the stairs, and the one guy grabs a spider, or the kid throws it and it lands on Joe Pesci. He's laying on the ground, and he's standing above him with a crowbar, and he's like, Marv, Marv, what are you doing, Marv? And he's gonna smack him with that crowbar. And then the just the physical comedy in that.

SPEAKER_03 44:17

Yes, I agreed. And uh the sentiment to it is very sweet.

SPEAKER_01 44:23

But Macaulay Coughlin's a dick in that movie. The little kid. And see, he's home alone. I know, but he's a little dick. That's why he ends up home alone.

SPEAKER_03 44:30

Well, I guess that's the lesson. That point because I don't think he's a dick. I think everybody around him was kind of being a dick to him.

SPEAKER_01 44:38

His uncle was a major dick.

SPEAKER_03 44:40

Yeah, they were all being dicks to him. And I get it, they're getting ready to go on vacation. It's like, you know, but still.

SPEAKER_01 44:47

That's a good movie.

SPEAKER_03 44:48

That is a very good movie. I remember going to the theater and watching it.

SPEAKER_01 44:52

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_03 44:52

Yeah, to Cassidy. And the old man, the neighbor. Um how about Bad Santa?

SPEAKER_01 45:00

I've never watched it.

SPEAKER_03 45:01

Watch it.

SPEAKER_01 45:01

Is it good?

unknown 45:02

I like that.

SPEAKER_03 45:03

I didn't expect to.

SPEAKER_01 45:05

I thought Billy Bob Thornton.

SPEAKER_03 45:08

For a long time I didn't think I liked Billy Bob. And and then I watched that movie, Sling Buddha.

SPEAKER_01 45:14

That is amazing. And went, well. That's a great Christmas movie.

SPEAKER_03 45:18

It's got a s it's got a moral to it.

SPEAKER_01 45:21

That's a good movie.

SPEAKER_03 45:22

But but Bad Santa is a really good movie. It's fun.

SPEAKER_01 45:27

Is there two? Three?

SPEAKER_03 45:28

There is a second one, yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:31

I like it. I think it's a hero. You know, and then I'm I don't know. I'm a sentimental person, of course, so it's a wonderful life. I know.

SPEAKER_03 45:38

I love it. It took me years and years to watch the whole movie. You know, you'd catch bits and pieces of it, and everybody knows the premise.

SPEAKER_01 45:45

People tell me there's too much talking in it. But too much dialogue.

SPEAKER_03 45:49

I didn't.

SPEAKER_01 45:50

I there's so many good lines in that movie.

SPEAKER_03 45:53

Yeah. And I finally, maybe 10 years ago, sat down and watched the whole thing and it and cried and left. It was a great movie.

SPEAKER_01 46:03

Jimmy Stewart pulls that George Bailey character off like nobody's business.

SPEAKER_03 46:07

She does. I love how they're dancing above the swimming pool. Oh god, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:11

There's just Buffalo Battle Watch Come often.

SPEAKER_03 46:14

Yes. And that poor guy can't get a break.

SPEAKER_01 46:17

Nope.

SPEAKER_03 46:18

Oh. But yet.

SPEAKER_01 46:20

Clarence.

SPEAKER_03 46:21

So yeah, that's a great movie. How about one more I have on my list is Christmas Vacation. Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 46:29

Can I take it to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead? When he's talking to Randy Quaid. I can't believe you're staying in my living room.

SPEAKER_03 46:36

Oh god, that's a great movie. And the squirrel. Oh, everything about that movie is is great.

SPEAKER_01 46:43

Yeah. It kind of makes me sad that supposedly Chevy Chase is a dick.

SPEAKER_03 46:47

I think he is a dick, but I think he's a great actor in most movies. But yeah, I think um, you know, in real life he's a dick.

SPEAKER_01 46:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:57

Come on, Chevy.

SPEAKER_01 46:59

Is it Chevy or Chevy? Chevy.

SPEAKER_03 47:00

Chevy. Chevy. Chevy Chase.

SPEAKER_01 47:03

Did you know? Maybe this is incorrect. I was listening to a podcast called Smartless yesterday. And Emma What's her name?

SPEAKER_03 47:12

Stone?

SPEAKER_01 47:12

Yeah. Did you listen to it? No. She hosted SNL too.

SPEAKER_03 47:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:16

So anyway.

SPEAKER_03 47:17

She did.

SPEAKER_01 47:18

Um she was on there and they were talking about what her real name was, but I forget what it was. But she said that when she was, whatever, a teenager, I forget what it was, and she joined the Screen Actors Guild. That's it. You pick a name and you change your name. You le you change your name. And if somebody has your name, you have to change it for sure. Well, that's why you change it. Right. But did you know? I guess they said that maybe they're they're yanking my chain. But Albert Brooks his real name is Albert Einstein. And he had to change it.

SPEAKER_03 47:50

I did not know that.

SPEAKER_01 47:50

It might be bullshit. But then Michael Keaton was actually Michael Douglas, but had to choose Michael Keaton.

SPEAKER_03 47:56

Michael Fox, Michael J. Fox had to change it or do the same thing. I think he had to stick a J in there. No, he had to stick the J in there. His real name is A. His real middle name is Alan or something, and he was Michael A. Fox, but there was already a Michael A. Fox. You could do a whole list of those people.

SPEAKER_01 48:17

Yep. That uh what's her name? What Emma Stone?

SPEAKER_03 48:20

So what was her name?

SPEAKER_01 48:21

I don't remember. She wanted to pick the name Riley or something.

SPEAKER_03 48:24

And they said no, it's already taken.

SPEAKER_01 48:26

I don't know what happened there. She's interesting. She listens to it.

SPEAKER_03 48:29

Yeah, she's cool.

SPEAKER_01 48:30

They were kind of mean to her at first on there though. Why? Like joking around poking at her. They must know her really well.

SPEAKER_03 48:35

Oh, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 48:35

Maybe uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_03 48:36

She can take it.

SPEAKER_01 48:37

Oh yeah. My last one. And I the first time I ever watched it was last year. White Christmas.

SPEAKER_03 48:44

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 48:46

You don't like it?

SPEAKER_03 48:46

It's alright.

SPEAKER_01 48:49

We gotta put some of these on video.

SPEAKER_03 48:52

It's okay.

SPEAKER_01 48:53

Wouldn't that be fun?

SPEAKER_03 48:54

Put a to have be on video? No, it would not.

SPEAKER_01 48:58

You said okay. Everybody heard you. You said the movie. I thought we were talking about the movie. Well, maybe I don't know. Why did I like it so much?

SPEAKER_03 49:03

I don't know. I'm gonna have to watch it again. I don't know. I thought it was a good idea to visit that. Um still no for me. All right. Uh the the only other special, it's not really a movie, is Frosty the Snowman.

SPEAKER_02 49:21

Guy's an idiot. You don't like it?

SPEAKER_03 49:25

No. Happy birthday. It's Christmas. You just got the Christmas cat on. He's got snow for brains. He does. He does. Who's the bad guy in that? Um, I don't know, but he's like a magician. I can't think of his name. I just watched it.

SPEAKER_01 49:41

Frosty gets locked in the greenhouse. And the little blonde-haired girl just loses her shit.

SPEAKER_03 49:45

She does.

SPEAKER_01 49:46

And then a magical uh does her what?

SPEAKER_03 49:50

Santa comes and saves him.

SPEAKER_01 49:52

Oh, does he rub his nose and like the wind blows?

SPEAKER_03 49:54

I don't know what he does. I can't remember what he does, but Santa does it.

SPEAKER_01 49:58

Krampus. Krampus wouldn't have done it. No. He would have pissed on that puddle.

SPEAKER_03 50:05

The yellow snow.

SPEAKER_01 50:06

Yep.

unknown 50:07

F it.

SPEAKER_01 50:09

Well, that's not probably a good way to end it, but Okay.

SPEAKER_03 50:12

Um Well, happy holidays. I got a Belly Who. One.

SPEAKER_01 50:16

Is it Ballyho?

SPEAKER_03 50:17

Ballyhoo.

SPEAKER_01 50:18

Bellyhoo. Ballyhoo. Uh Becky Hansen, she's one of our listeners, and she was the one that was wondering if your voice was for Maurice's.

SPEAKER_03 50:27

Well, it's so funny because uh my BFF used to work at Maurice's, and people have told us before that we have the same. Who's your BFF? Beth. Beth Neeson heard. Oh, she's gonna hate that. Oops, sorry, Beth.

SPEAKER_01 50:43

Well, ball who to Beth and Becky.

SPEAKER_03 50:46

But thanks, Becky. I think you're thinking of Beth who worked at Maurice's. Could be. Because she does sound like Beth.

SPEAKER_01 50:52

Becky worked at Camelot Music.

SPEAKER_03 50:53

Oh, oh, I loved that place. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:56

That was a store.

SPEAKER_03 50:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 50:58

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 50:59

I miss those real stores. Yeah. Like specific stores. You know, Toy Store.

SPEAKER_01 51:05

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 51:06

Book store.

SPEAKER_01 51:06

Mm-hmm. Walden Books was in there.

SPEAKER_03 51:09

Lots of Johnny.

SPEAKER_01 51:10

Cheese Sweet Shop was in there.

SPEAKER_03 51:11

Mm-hmm.

unknown 51:12

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 51:12

Camelot KB Toys.

SPEAKER_03 51:15

Joe Joy Fabrics used to be in the mall. Oddly. And then Pennies and Kmart were the anchor stores.

SPEAKER_01 51:22

Yep. I I'd I I'd like to go to Penny's now. Because we have nothing.

SPEAKER_03 51:27

Nothing.

SPEAKER_01 51:27

Yeah. Go get myself some St. John's Bay.

SPEAKER_03 51:31

I like their stuff. I know that makes me really old.

SPEAKER_01 51:35

No. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 51:36

Well, happy holidays. Happy holidays to everyone. Yes. And next time we'll we have one more in December. We do. We'll talk about the new baby.

SPEAKER_01 51:46

Kate's always changing the schedule on me.

SPEAKER_03 51:49

Now I have a car though.

SPEAKER_01 51:50

She's got a car.

SPEAKER_03 51:51

I got a car.

SPEAKER_01 51:52

She will do the podcast from the car if she has to.

SPEAKER_03 51:54

I will. I could totally do that.

SPEAKER_01 51:57

All right. Happy holidays.

SPEAKER_03 51:59

Thanks, everyone.

SPEAKER_01 51:59

Bye-bye.

unknown 52:00

Bye.