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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hey guys, it's John from talk About That.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited today to bring to you, guys some of

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Speaker 2: our favorite past clips from holiday episodes of the podcast.

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Speaker 2: So sit back and enjoy it with your family. We

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Speaker 2: wish you a merry Christmas and obviously, as always, first

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Speaker 2: a word from our actual sponsors.

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Speaker 1: We can talk about a lot. We've talked a lot

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Speaker 1: about what our favorite Christmas Carol is? What is your

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Speaker 1: lead favorite Christmas Carol? I think I've taken a flat

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Speaker 1: from this before.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm not a big little drummer boy fan.

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Speaker 1: We've talked about that, maybe that it's a little But

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Speaker 1: then you said that I'm a poor boy too. I

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Speaker 1: do you like that? Youat? I like that line? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because I am. Well that's in that song, so by

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Speaker 1: proxy you like that song. By the transitive property of drumming,

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Speaker 1: you like that song. Well, I didn't get to tell

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Speaker 1: you what my Lea's favorite Christmas song was. Oh, I

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Speaker 1: thought you already said it. No, that's true.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, are you just say what you say? And then

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Speaker 1: your move? I was like that topic exhausted itself. I

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Speaker 1: think everything's been said. Yah, my least favorite and I

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Speaker 1: was gonna play it, but you said we'll get muted

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Speaker 1: if we play the song clip. Yeah, we will get

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Speaker 1: taken down. Yep. But I heard it again the other

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Speaker 1: day and I was like, how did this ever become

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Speaker 1: a hit? Like, evidently it was a hit. I know

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Speaker 1: what this song is? No, you don't. Can I say

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Speaker 1: what I think it is? What is it? What do

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Speaker 1: you think it is? Christmas Shoes? No, because that's also

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Speaker 1: bugs me. No, but the sentimentality songs don't bug me.

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Speaker 1: It's when you take a version of a popular song

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Speaker 1: and you put your spin on it and you ruin

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Speaker 1: it the way that this person did. It's Barbaris Streisand's

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Speaker 1: version of jingle Bells. Have you heard it? No, it's

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Speaker 1: one where she goes jingle bells, jingle bell jingle all

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Speaker 1: the way old what fund indes do, run in r

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Speaker 1: sip and say jing jingle. But it's crazy. Oh, it gets.

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Speaker 1: It's like a spoken word. It get, but it gets

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Speaker 1: progressively where you jingle jingle, jang jung jing. It gets

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Speaker 1: so crazy. It is like it's like it's a panic

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Speaker 1: attack set to music. Trumpets are coming in. I want

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Speaker 1: to I'll play for you off air and you will

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Speaker 1: be just it's it'll floor you. It's a it's two

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Speaker 2: I'm just craziness, just like they just just jumbled everything

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Speaker 2: in that was possible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's so offbeat and weird and jazzy.

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Speaker 2: I was in a restaurant yesterday with my wife and

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Speaker 2: they had a they had a weird Christmas playlist.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounded like that.

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Speaker 2: Like it was like like, if I hear Christmas music,

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Speaker 2: I want it to be either inspirational like E said,

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Speaker 2: Christmas shoes that's the other one, that it's an email

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Speaker 2: forward manipulative yeah right, or I want it to be

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Speaker 2: like festive, well done. But you know it brings you

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Speaker 2: that because I really do believe that Christmas songs fall

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Speaker 2: into probably only like five categories.

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Speaker 1: Five well, I mean like.

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Speaker 2: Pop songs if you really listen to it in Christmas,

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Speaker 2: there are themes that get rewritten in every single pop song.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it is that.

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Speaker 2: I don't want anything for Christmas except you, okay, like

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Speaker 2: Santa just needs to wrap you under the tree.

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Speaker 1: I don't need any presents, okay. And the truth is

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Speaker 1: this is all a farce, Like if you just how

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Speaker 1: many categories have you said so far, that's two okay,

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Speaker 1: and so it's like.

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Speaker 2: Three spiritual, religious, fine in the mistletoe, Yeah, like I

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Speaker 2: want to be in the Misslete. Four I don't want

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Speaker 2: to go out tonight. It's it's the introvert Christmas song. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we don't want to go anywhere, like Dave.

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Speaker 1: Barnes is a song like that.

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Speaker 2: Obviously there's the cold outside, don't leave my house write

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Speaker 2: all these songs. Yeah, I don't want to leave. I

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Speaker 2: just want to stay here and dance and do whatever

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Speaker 2: with you. That's all I want for Christmas. But it

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Speaker 2: goes back to that idea. But it's that I don't

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Speaker 2: but it's very much though, let's not leave. The weather's bad. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: maybe someone is anyway. And then yeah, the fifth is

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Speaker 2: like religious sort of idea, our time we all come together.

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Speaker 1: I've got a sixth category, right. It is the ones

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Speaker 1: that kind of like make Sannah a creepy you know,

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Speaker 1: like attractive character, hurry down the chimney tonight. But it's

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Speaker 1: like what are you You know what I'm saying, Like

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Speaker 1: it's like Santa Baby, I've been a really good girl,

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Speaker 1: Like come on, we're better than what are you doing? Yeah? Stop? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the dude. He's a saint. He's like fifteen hundred years old. Yes, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's a saint. And he's married. Yes, he's got missus Claus.

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Speaker 1: What are you doing? Yeah, I mean there's that raw

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Speaker 1: good looks that he carries. Yes, we all have had

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Speaker 1: our moments of weakness, and you see a picture of

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Speaker 1: Saint Nick and you're like, Okay, he has a rugged

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Speaker 2: He's been doing sit ups. I don't think anyone's ever since. No, No,

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Speaker 2: I just I think we and you should write a

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Speaker 2: Christmas song.

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Speaker 1: We need to incorporate all six categories. Yes, and then

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Speaker 1: it's guaranteed to be a hit. Yeah, it's full proof.

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Speaker 1: I mean it really would.

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Speaker 2: I'm really impressed with the people who keep writing around

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Speaker 2: those themes and find a way to say it differently.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. What's saying with any love song? Really,

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Speaker 1: it's like you're you're desperate for this person. How do

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Speaker 1: you say it in a different way than a million

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Speaker 1: people already have?

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Speaker 2: Right, No, that's you know, there may be another category,

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Speaker 2: by the way, Okay, it's the I just want to

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Speaker 2: I need to get to you for Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Right, it's the I know I can't get home for Christmas, which, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Tory Kelly, by the way, her Christmas album, Yeah, unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: You know, a great vocal. But she has a song

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Speaker 2: called twenty fifth. It's that, you know, the only thing

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Speaker 2: twenty fifth. Okay, you know, take that, take the mid

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Speaker 2: not fly, no more solid nights. You'll be by my side.

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Speaker 2: So it's bringing in those Christmas the Christmas imagery, but

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Speaker 2: the truth is all I really want. But if you

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Speaker 2: just show up and people expect presents, you're like, look,

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Speaker 2: I thought we were singing the song all I wanted,

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Speaker 2: all you wanted was yeah, I wanted that in a

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Speaker 2: diamond or whatever, right, yeah, a PlayStation.

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Speaker 1: Or the here's one. It's uh, you know, I'll be

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Speaker 1: he didn't do any of that. He's got demands. He's like,

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Speaker 1: he wraps up the song by saying, if only in

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Speaker 1: my dreams, You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy, we did

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Speaker 1: all this work. We got all this stuff together for

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Speaker 1: you kidding, checked your stupid boxes. I actually thought of

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Speaker 1: this the other day. You're like, well, look, it's a

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Speaker 1: There's a lot you're asking them to do. This is like,

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Speaker 1: this is the s keyest family member. Yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: up in whether or not Sadie comes home for Christmas

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Speaker 1: called today. You're gonna be it's gonna be heartbreaking. You

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Speaker 1: don't do this to me. I think. I think about

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Speaker 1: it like I gotta go see the folks. I know

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Speaker 1: how long do I have to stay before it's enough?

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Speaker 1: Already Dad does that weird thing, the same stories. I

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Speaker 1: out with my friends. You're gonna be like, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: gonna be heartbroken. It's never gonna be enough. Yeah, anyway,

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Speaker 2: I did get invited to an interesting party the other day. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they called it. It was in the neighborhood. They called

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Speaker 2: it a progressive Christmas party. Okay, So I showed up.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I'm not sure about this. I thought,

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Speaker 2: are we all just gonna vote Democrats? What's the deal?

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Speaker 2: It wasn't that at all.

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Speaker 1: That's where you go from place to place, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So if you guys hear about this, it's okay

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Speaker 2: to go because it's not really what you think.

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Speaker 1: No, yeah, it's different.

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Speaker 2: So, uh today our quote it is Christmas comes from

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Speaker 2: John Leo, and John Leo says, I thought for Christmas,

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Speaker 2: I mean I had a bunch of history stuff I

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Speaker 1: Joey, it talk about that.

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Speaker 2: He says this, and I thought this was key for

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Speaker 2: theme of me and parenting. The principal advantage of the

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Speaker 2: non parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve. You need

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Speaker 2: not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words

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Speaker 2: that the government allows to be printed on any product,

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Speaker 2: which is, I don't know, some assembly required. Oh right, yeah,

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Speaker 2: this is a real thing.

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Speaker 1: Like I can tell you this just canna say batteries

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Speaker 2: Maybe, Oh, that's another one one, some assembly required. I

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Speaker 2: can remember when he said he was a little and

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Speaker 1: Because you can't all night putting. It's hours at least.

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Speaker 1: glue and a wood dowel, the plastic kitchen. The kids

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Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, it's like it's all in the things.

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Speaker 1: You have to break it out of. It's little.

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Speaker 2: It's in a yeah, what do you call a template, basically,

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Speaker 2: break it out of the stems.

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Speaker 1: You'd think that'd be easy, Johnny was not. Your hands

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Speaker 1: were nubs, bloody nubs by Christmas morning. And then Christmas

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Speaker 1: that's the other thing.

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Speaker 2: You go to the grandparents and the kids open up

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Speaker 2: all this stuff and it all requires assembly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so now they'd an assembly because the grandparents

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Speaker 1: didn't assembly it. So they're just like, good live, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's exactly what it is. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So you're sitting there and the kids are all getting

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Speaker 2: restless because it takes an hour to get their present together.

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Speaker 1: Did they get Sadie stuff that they knew you wouldn't

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Speaker 1: approve of? Did they do that trick? Ever?

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Speaker 2: They didn't, but Uncle Greg did. Laar's brother. One time

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Speaker 2: he bought her a live goldfish in a bag. I'm

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Speaker 2: not even sure it was Christmas. He did it and

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Speaker 2: he looked at me like, yeah, I'm doing this.

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Speaker 1: That's great, And I was like, you go get a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff we had to go buy.

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Speaker 2: Yes. On the way home, she named the fish Harry.

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Speaker 2: She was real little right, And then Harry obviously Harry

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Speaker 2: didn't make it not even home.

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Speaker 1: John. This week, eighteen forty three, Charles dickens classic Christmas tale,

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Speaker 1: A Christmas Carol is published. Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited

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Speaker 1: Day after Christmas.

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Speaker 1: It's always Christmas in my heart. That's right, That's what

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Speaker 2: We'll go to Uh we'll go to cross Fall on

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Speaker 1: that'll candlelight some communion. We'll open presence tomorrow. So we

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Speaker 1: do it on Christmas Eve at the Communion service. You're

431
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Speaker 1: like this at this point. Before we take communion, John

432
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Speaker 1: and his family would like to exchange gifts. Everyone age

433
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Speaker 1: watching the kids cry. Yeah, we're gonna do Johnny's old jokes.

434
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Speaker 1: We call a joke about that, a Christmas themed joke

435
00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:57,800
Speaker 1: about that. Oh, I like it, John, I got a

436
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Speaker 1: few for you. I asked my wife what she one

437
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Speaker 1: for Christmas. She told me nothing would make her happier

438
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Speaker 1: than a diamond nicklace. So I bought her nothing. I

439
00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,000
Speaker 1: like it, John, what do you use to drain the

440
00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:16,159
Speaker 1: water from your Brussels sprouts at Christmas? I don't know.

441
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Speaker 1: An advent Colander. I thought you would like that because

442
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Speaker 1: it's a word. Okay. Just before Christmas, an honest politician,

443
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:27,639
Speaker 1: a generous lawyer in Santa Claus all gone into the

444
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Speaker 1: elevator at the Ritz Hotel. As lyft traveled from the

445
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Speaker 1: fifth floor down to the ground level one by one,

446
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Speaker 1: they noticed a fifty dollars bill lying on the lift's floor.

447
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:39,280
Speaker 1: This is can tell it's a British joke as a're

448
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Speaker 1: calling it the lift instead of the elevator. Yeah. Also,

449
00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,680
Speaker 1: I think I know where this is going. Which one

450
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,159
Speaker 1: picked up the money and handed it at reception Santa

451
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Speaker 1: of course, because the other two don't actually exist. That's

452
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Speaker 1: what it was coming. It was coming.

453
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Speaker 2: Finally, I didn't know how they're gonna Yeah, but the

454
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Speaker 2: other twos couldn't exist.

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Speaker 1: Jim asked his friend Tony whether he had bought his

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Speaker 1: wife anything for Christmas. Yes, the answer came from Tony,

457
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Speaker 1: who was a bit of a chauvinist. I bought her

458
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Speaker 1: a belt and a bag. It was very kind of you,

459
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Speaker 1: Jim add it. I hope she appreciated the thought. Tony

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Speaker 1: smiled as he replied, so did I Hopefully the vacuum

461
00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,160
Speaker 1: cleaner will work better. Now. That's kind of an older

462
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,040
Speaker 1: joke because vacuum cleaners don't have bags now they're just

463
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Speaker 1: all canisters, and what a jerk they're bag free. I

464
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:21,479
Speaker 1: don't like those. Huh did you who knew those were

465
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Speaker 1: awful to replace? If you remember the bag era of vacuum, yo,

466
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Speaker 1: I don't like that. You didn't like it, didn't like

467
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Speaker 1: how it felt. I don't want to I vacuum more.

468
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Speaker 1: It's not John, Why does it have to be? It's

469
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Speaker 1: a why do you hate women? I think That's what

470
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get to. That joke was mine. I

471
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Speaker 1: meant to say I wrote, and I didn't Jim and Tony.

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Speaker 1: Jim and Tony are chauveness. I don't like their attitudes,

473
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Speaker 1: not at all. John. Let's wrap up the show. Normally

474
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Speaker 1: do this Week in History only do kind of a

475
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Speaker 1: this weekend Christmas history combined with some Christmas traditions from

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Speaker 1: around the world. We'll call it this Week in Christmas History.

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Speaker 1: All Right, here we go. That was super awkward to

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Speaker 1: get there. We'll find it, John. This week in nineteen fourteen.

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Speaker 1: You may know this, but British and German soldiers held

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Speaker 1: a Christmas truce during World War One. They held an

481
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Speaker 1: unofficial ceasefire on Christmas Day, they sang carols, played soccer,

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Speaker 1: and for one brief moment remembered they were human beings

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Speaker 1: rather than enemies. Then they went right back to shooting

484
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Speaker 1: at each other. Classic holiday spirit. The original Santa Claus. Also,

485
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Speaker 1: I wanted to give it this part that the original

486
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Speaker 1: Santa Claus was Saint Nicholas, a fourth century Christmas, a

487
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Speaker 1: Christian bishop brother who gave his inheritance to the poor.

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Speaker 1: He didn't wear the red suit that's associated with Santa today. John,

489
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Speaker 1: You know where the red suit came from, right, Because

490
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Speaker 1: in many earlier depictions of Santa Claus, he was green

491
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Speaker 1: and blue and many different colors, the Coca Cola red

492
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Speaker 1: and white. They wanted it some tie in, So a

493
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Speaker 1: lot of our visions of Santa Claus now we're kind

494
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 1: of but yeah, but they stopped shooting each other. Hey,

495
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, the truth. I think we should

496
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,640
Speaker 1: call off our bitter blood feud just for well, if

497
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 1: you just give me the diamonds, John. In nineteen sixty five,

498
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Speaker 1: the first song ever broadcast from space happened, and it

499
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Speaker 1: was jingle bells Aboard Astronauts Aboard the Gemini six brought

500
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: holiday cheer to the cosmos. Wow, they broadcast jingle bells

501
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 1: at the first ever as the first ever song from place,

502
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Speaker 1: making it clear that even in the vastness of the universe,

503
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Speaker 1: catchy tunes still get stuck in your head. That's what

504
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,479
Speaker 1: that's And I wanted to end with some Christmas traditions

505
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,880
Speaker 1: because I think it's interesting. We kind of think of ourselves.

506
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Speaker 1: It's like, we do Christmas the right way, but there's

507
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:43,719
Speaker 1: so many different ways that people say. But and then

508
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 1: some traditions from other parts of the world that we've

509
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Speaker 1: adapted and adopted, and I think it's okay to note

510
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 1: those things. For instance, I read about one This isn't

511
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 1: in my notes, but I read about one Saturnalia. It's

512
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Speaker 1: a tradition and I think it's Nordic countries. But that's

513
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Speaker 1: where we get gift giving, Like we started giving gifts

514
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Speaker 1: because they exchanged and sometimes they even exchange roles, including

515
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,680
Speaker 1: in culture, slaves and masters would exchange roles for the day,

516
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 1: what like trading places or something. Wow, they would, and

517
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Speaker 1: then they'd go back. They'd be like, ah, serving again

518
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,159
Speaker 1: and they would come on. Now that's yeah, yeah, and

519
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 1: that weird, But that's where the gift geting comes from

520
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 1: that tradition that we still do in Western culture. Here's

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Speaker 1: one people in Japan. Do you know how they celebrate Christmas.

522
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Speaker 1: One of the things that give me a food thing

523
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Speaker 1: that you think that people in Japan celebrate Christmas, They

524
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Speaker 1: celebrate Christmas with KFC. In Japan, Christmas means fried Chicken.

525
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 1: Kentucky Fried Chicken has become the default Christmas dinner thanks

526
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Speaker 1: to a successful nineteen seventies marketing campaign. So this is

527
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 1: like it just got in there and they can. Yeah,

528
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 1: so families place their orders weeks ahead because nothing says

529
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 1: holiday spirit quite like a bucket of original recipe. It

530
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 1: is pretty terrific. Yeah, I mean I think that's actually

531
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Speaker 1: a good one. Yeah, And I've heard that about like

532
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Speaker 1: Jewish culture. There's a lot of people like they go

533
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Speaker 1: to the in New York City especially, you always hear about,

534
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Speaker 1: let's go to the Chinese restaurant because they're open. A

535
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: lot of Alosknica for Jewish like, they'll go, let's go

536
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,880
Speaker 1: out for Chinese food because it's like they know it's

537
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Speaker 1: going to be open because most of the other restaurants

538
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Speaker 1: are close.

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Speaker 2: For I did see by the way we went to

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Speaker 2: the Chinese buffet of the Day that they said that'd

541
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Speaker 2: be open on Christmas Day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they know what's up. John and Venezuela. People

543
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Speaker 1: go to Christmas Mass on roller skates. Karaka's Venezuela is

544
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Speaker 1: customary for people to roller skate to church for the

545
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Speaker 1: mesa a d i Guendaldo or early morning Mass. I'm

546
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Speaker 1: sure I've butchered that. During the week leading up to Christmas.

547
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Speaker 1: This unique tradition is so popular that roads are often

548
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Speaker 1: closed to accommodate the skaters. I think we should do.

549
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 1: I think that'd be amazing. Can you imagine you do

550
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: your Christmas Eve service tomorrow? Yeah, people show up looking

551
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 1: like Sonic Drive in bell hops or whatever, you know,

552
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: the whole whatever that is car hops. It'd be hard

553
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 1: to skate here. There's a little cobblestone aut roads and yeah,

554
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,360
Speaker 1: any kind of roller blades. Yeah, I wonder they're doing

555
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 1: that down there. Look, huh, they got skates. I think

556
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 1: roller skating should come back, like it kind of died

557
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 1: off when we were kids. It was like that was

558
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Speaker 1: the last gasp of skating rinks.

559
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Speaker 2: You're still like the always one in every trying to

560
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Speaker 2: hang on.

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Speaker 1: There's still rollers skating rinks in these some of these

562
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Speaker 1: small towns. They're trying to hang on. What if we

563
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 1: do a theme not you know, and they're just like, man,

564
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 1: it's but you go in and you can tell like

565
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,719
Speaker 1: it's not been replaced or buff. The floors are just

566
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: it's not great. But I mean that was the thing

567
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 1: to do, you know, our parents, and I think we

568
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: just got the skating and showbiz pizza. Wasn't it something

569
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Speaker 1: all skate? Remember the all skate couple skate? Well, the

570
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: couple skating, you're by yourself. You're like, great, they're gonna play.

571
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Speaker 1: I'm all of that, and you're sitting on the side

572
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: like when is it? And then they go all skate,

573
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: they play journey, don't stop believing. You run out there

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Speaker 1: and then you fall down.

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Speaker 2: I think I remember skating with a girl and holding

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Speaker 2: her hand and just praying I didn't fall.

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00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: I remember I forgot. I forgot. You were popular. So

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00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: you had a couple, you have you were in a couple,

579
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Speaker 1: and I'm staying on a couple.

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Speaker 2: I think I just I think some girl was willing

581
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Speaker 2: to skate with me during a couple skate. I think

582
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Speaker 2: it was as a kid man, there's.

583
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Speaker 1: Always that one kid too that like when they have that.

584
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: I remember, I remember these skate nights where there be

585
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Speaker 1: one kid who could really do it. He could really

586
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 1: know how to use his skatesbacker he knew used his

587
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 1: little stoppers. Slow down whenever I use that stop right?

588
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Speaker 1: You just it's not great. No, that's not great at all. John.

589
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Speaker 1: In Germany, people uh how to pickle in the Christmas tree.

590
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,479
Speaker 1: This feels made up by the way I looked it up,

591
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: because I was like, this feels like something aides come

592
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Speaker 1: from Germany. Isn't it like Otan and Bonn? Isn't that

593
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: like a isn't that Germany? Sure? But but now a

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Speaker 1: German tradition originally known as oh boy wine, gotch girka.

595
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: This practice maybe that's where we get the word girkin.

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00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: It's go girka at the end of it. This practice,

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00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: it has been become popular in America as well. This

598
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: not anywhere I know of, but in this I'm gonna

599
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: start doing it. Listen, you gotta go home with this tonight.

600
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: In this festive custom, families hide a pickle or a

601
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: pickle shaped ornament. I guess to make it less weird

602
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: and vinegree and smelly on the tree, and the first

603
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: child to find it on the Christmas morning. On Christmas

604
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: Morning receives an extra gift or is said to have

605
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: good luck for the coming I want the gift. I

606
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: would be like luck for you. They're holding a wet pickle.

607
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:39,479
Speaker 1: Good luck. It's a bit of weird tradition, but hey,

608
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: who doesn't like a bonus prize for finding a random pickle? Listen? Hey,

609
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: normally you find a random Listen if you find a

610
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: random pickle anywhere else, please don't. That's not good luck.

611
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 1: That's like a fellow phone that's in the couch cushion.

612
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: What's that's not the wine? Gotch and Girka, John and

613
00:29:57,920 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: Ukraine families that are in their Christmas trees with spider

614
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: webs instead of traditional decorations. This custom comes from a

615
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: folk tale, but a poor widow who couldn't afford decorations,

616
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: and on Christmas morning her children found their tree covered

617
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: and beautiful webs spun by sympathetic spiders. I think that's

618
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: a wonderful story. That could be a movie. Wonderful. That's

619
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: like a Pixar Yeah, I mean, it's almost like old

620
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: Charlotte's Web.

621
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 2: Only would it not be terrified to spiders is to

622
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 2: watch Charlotte Charlotte's Web.

623
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Speaker 1: This is believed to bring good luck for the coming

624
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: year as well. It's a lot of luck. We're going. Yeah,

625
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: it's almost like the people who don't want to take

626
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: down their Halloween decorations are like, look, I'm celebrating, Like

627
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: Ukrainian people like, no, you just need to it's time. Yeah, yeah, John,

628
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: do you know that the average Christmas tree takes about

629
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: fifteen years to grow? I didn't know that. Huh so

630
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: this is a we need. You got to really want

631
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: to get into this best. You don't do live trees, right, No, No,

632
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: I haven't put up a tree in years. We don't

633
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: have kids. It's hard to a tree at all. We're humbugs.

634
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: We're just with a words. I'm sorry, I'm a grinch.

635
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: I have one of those. It's like three pieces goes together,

636
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: lights up on its own. Come on, no, I need

637
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: to maybe i'd be less bummed. I'm sorry, I'm a bummers.

638
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: I shouldn't even I should have said yes. We had the

639
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: whole houses lit walkings all across the Okay, John, the

640
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: first state to officially recognize Christmas in eighteen thirty six.

641
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Speaker 2: Was who Okay, eighteen thirty six first date. Well, that's

642
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 2: gonna be hard.

643
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: You'd think that I'll do it at once, but I

644
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: guess somebody had to start it off. Really, this is

645
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: it New England or in the South. It's in the South.

646
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna say Louisiana Alabama. Oh wow, so Alabama

647
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: you got the Christmas spirit. You caught it early.

648
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 2: And just saying all these traditions that we think again

649
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 2: goes back to the Santa Claus and the red suit.

650
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 2: Like we see this as like timeless, but that was

651
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 2: eighteen thirty six.

652
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: Eighteen thirty six, I mean not timeless, not timeless. It's

653
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: only been you know, a couple hundred years.

654
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean that the things like again the

655
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 2: Santa Claus and all this stuff.

656
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: Right, I wonder what that celebration looked like for real,

657
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: probably roller skates there.

658
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 2: You should watch again, as always say food, the Built

659
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 2: America is fascinating stuff on what Christmas and.

660
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: Handy cane turkeys and stuff like that. Yeah, we talked

661
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: about the frozen turkeys before me Thanksgiving, all these frozen

662
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: turkeys we had to get rid of they talked about,

663
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:16,479
Speaker 1: oh what they called fruitcake. Yeah, like this keeps forever, right, Yeah,

664
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: that's why my parents like to get Did your mom

665
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: like to get fruitcake?

666
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 2: No, no, we didn't, yelling my dad loved to get

667
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 2: a fruitcake from the dollar store.

668
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: What you passed it on? Right at the point of

669
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: it that you can just like I can mail this

670
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: now to anton Sylvia. I think he just ate someone.

671
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: Oh he enjoyed it. It's too chewy, it's it's gummies

672
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: in it.

673
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 2: It's a bunch of candy fruit fruitcakes a deceptive Yeah,

674
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, right, Yeah, because it's not

675
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 2: that at all.

676
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: Gaffigan's famous bit about fruitcake is like it because because

677
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: he has a whole thing about cake, he does ten

678
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: minutes on cake, but then he goes what happened to fruitcake?

679
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: He goes fruit good cake, great, fruitcake, nasty crap, Like

680
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: he doesn't understand how you combined a good and a

681
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: great and got awful John. Finally, Icelandic folklore includes a

682
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 1: giant cat called the Yule cat. This sounds like I'm

683
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: making it out. It does. It prowls during Christmas time.

684
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: It is said to eat those who do not receive

685
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: new clothes for Christmas, encouraging everyone to buy new garments

686
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: before the holiday. What this is? This is just a

687
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: commercial ploy. It feels like it's also kind of targeted

688
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: at poor people, Like, oh, seems like that's an old

689
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: sweater and then you just get clawed to death by

690
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: a cat. Yeah, this yule cat must have been big too,

691
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: if it could eat people.

692
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 2: Yule Cat, I need a more creative name. Yeah, what

693
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 2: would you call the yule cat?

694
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,479
Speaker 1: Scratchy Christmas kitty? Yeah, it's not I don't know. That's

695
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: a that's a tough one. That just feels like it's yeah,

696
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: you're you're it's don't single me out. I have a

697
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: lot of the same clothes that I've had for many Christmases.

698
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: I will say that. Yeah, no, I know, I don't.

699
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: I'm not, I don't. I don't about you and.

700
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 2: I having closed years, is that no one would recognize

701
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 2: him because they're all very nondescript like that.

702
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, if I wear a new sweater, if you're like, well,

703
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: look who got in it? Like people are gonna know this,

704
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: it's very oh so you were a color right? Very well?

705
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: Now I know I didn't want to do that.

706
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always like that, like that friend that thinks

707
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 2: that acts like you never call him back, and then

708
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 2: when you call him back, they're like, well look whould

709
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 2: have shouted.

710
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,439
Speaker 1: I'll just go hey, don't make me regret it. Yeah,

711
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: because I don't have to do it. Next time, you say, like,

712
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 1: that's great calling you back, Stop punishing. John loves his family, everybody. Wow,

713
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: I felt like that felt like that came that came

714
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: out in nowhere, Jenny, you are that John had that

715
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: one loaded up the old pet dispenser of rage. Listen,

716
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: he just pulls his neck back and out pops the anger.

717
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: Is this season Christmas?

718
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 2: So we started Elf last night, Okay, just start not

719
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 2: the movie, No, no, we started making an Elf?

720
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: No yes, the movie?

721
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well say he had finals Man last week

722
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 2: and it was a lot.

723
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: Did you guys do Elf on the shelf? Which you

724
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 1: you never did? Did you feel little bit ripped off? Though?

725
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 2: She remembers one being She said, I remember you put

726
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,760
Speaker 2: it there was an ELF's shelf, like in this house

727
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 2: plant And the next morning I got up and it

728
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 2: was still there.

729
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: Oh right, Like I knew this was well that Elvis

730
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: didn't move, Johnny. I don't know why I didn't. It

731
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: just it just because for some reason for us, your

732
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 1: elf was lazy. He's like, look, I'm just gonna hang

733
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: out on this plant. The rent is good. It was

734
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: not getting a Christmas tree. I mean, he's looking for

735
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: the pickle. Who knows that's true. He was elf on

736
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: the shelf was looking for the pickle and the vicus.

737
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. It was a yeah, it was. You know,

738
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 1: there's there's a Jewish thing that's mensho on a bench

739
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: that they somebody came up with where it's like it's

740
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: a little little hoonica figurine. But instead of the elf

741
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: on the shelf, which I like it, he's a man

742
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: on a bench. Yeah.

743
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,760
Speaker 2: Come on, man, did you get any Advent calendars from?

744
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: You? Do this right? You collect them right? The cheese,

745
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: the chocolates, what do you get? I don't do it much.

746
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: You don't do it.

747
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 2: But I know that the Wardens and the Hollands, like

748
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 2: every year they do whatever they have out there, and

749
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 2: they'll do it every Yeah.

750
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: But yeah, cheese or is it thirty days? I mean,

751
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: how long is the Advent? It's twenty five?

752
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 2: Twenty five well, the advent counter is usually twenty five days,

753
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 2: but Advent is for Sundays. Okay, So Advent is actually

754
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 2: about because we look at this up the other day,

755
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 2: someone's asking.

756
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: It's about it.

757
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 2: It's based upon the cycles of the moon, and so

758
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 2: the first Sunday of the Advent has to do with

759
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 2: when a certain moon has appeared.

760
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's really interesting. Yeah. Well, I mean, I

761
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: eat some chocolate today. Does that I'm eating. I'm celebrating

762
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: in my heart, I'm eating a lot. I need I

763
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: need to go back. That's the holiday times. Self shaming

764
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: can come there in New Year's Absolutely, that's what you

765
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 1: want it. Mm hm you're saying old langsyne, you don't

766
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: know what it means. And then you go, I got

767
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 1: to pull myself together.

768
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 2: I just my dog start barking, stop barking outside. That's

769
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 2: not one for Christmas.

770
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: You know.

771
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 2: My new trick right now to get them in uh huh,

772
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 2: because I can go there A stop a a's come here.

773
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 1: So then you go as treat.

774
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 2: He knows treat, But he won't come right now if

775
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 2: he really wants to bark, because he knows he's gonna

776
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 2: get treat eventually.

777
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: No, matter how much he bark. Yeah, so now I

778
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: take out.

779
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 2: The little oyster crackers is one of the treats we

780
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 2: give him, and I start eating it really lout my

781
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 2: mouth open. I chew real loud, John, I mean, here's that.

782
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 2: He'll turn around like, wait, you're eating my treat, and he'll.

783
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: Come this is embarrassing. I can't help it. It works.

784
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: You're chomping on a oyster cracker to get my dog

785
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: making a big show of it. Yeah, Like, I look

786
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 1: what your how many oyster crackers are you eating to day? John,

787
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: I've gained seventy five pounds.

788
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,720
Speaker 2: I didn't say it's a low carbon trick, but it

789
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 2: usually does the trick.

790
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: So, man, you got it. The things we do for

791
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: our dogs.

792
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, if he could be a good boy for Christmas, Johnny,

793
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 2: then that that would be all that I want.

794
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Daisy doesn't have Toby anymore. We had

795
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: to put Toby to sleep, and so now Daisy just

796
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:56,919
Speaker 1: goes out. She goes to the steps and she won't

797
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: go down, and we have to go go pee, go pee.

798
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 1: She'd be likely she'd have to pee. We finally get

799
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: out of the art after like coaxing out of the art.

800
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: She peas for like two minutes. You were going to

801
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: hold that. She was want to come back in, and

802
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,759
Speaker 1: then she goes, she goes words my treat and I go,

803
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: I gave it to John. John. John's crunching on it

804
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 1: right now, and you should have thought about that before

805
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: you held your pin. That's right. I don't know, John. Well,

806
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 1: I didn't get you a gift this year, and I

807
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: apologized I didn't get you. I was afraid I was

808
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 1: going to come in and you were going to have

809
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: to display sent a text message. I thought, IM trying

810
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: to remember do we give each other gifts? Well, then

811
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: you give me like a I don't know, Top Golf

812
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: or something last year gift card. I don't think maybe

813
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: that was birthday. I think I want to save you

814
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: a tennessee. Uh. I want to say you got me

815
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:50,399
Speaker 1: a Top Golf gift card and literally, uh, we never

816
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: went no, we my it was in my wallet and

817
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: I just carried it in my wallet and then my

818
00:38:56,280 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 1: wallet got washed in that Top Golf gift card. It's

819
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: like one of the flimsy kind of thing and it

820
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 1: just disintegrated. I went to Top Golf with the staff

821
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: last week for a Christmas party. Yeah, and it was

822
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 1: I was awful. I haven't. I haven't swung a club

823
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: at a minute. It's cold. You can blame the cold.

824
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:14,959
Speaker 1: Now there's big heaters and we had a big spread

825
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: of food. The way that the atmosphere reacts to the ball,

826
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of fun. I handsome, decent shit.

827
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,879
Speaker 1: I still hit my nine iron generally, So that's it though.

828
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: That's all I can't. Yeah, we need to go together.

829
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: We just well, we need to do when I do gifts.

830
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: We just need to find a time to keep the

831
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 1: spirit of the season and go swing a golf club.

832
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: Let's wing golf clubs together. That'll be fun. Let's make

833
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: it happen. Make it happen, anyone else you should make

834
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,439
Speaker 1: it happen. Johny's that I should go to talk about

835
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: that podcast dot com all the archived episodes for your

836
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 1: holiday travels. And thanks for making us part of your

837
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: holiday travel to day if that's what you're doing, if

838
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: you're just staying put and uh, you know, maybe you're

839
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: basting a turkey right now and we're in your ears

840
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: and that's great. Yeah, thanks so much, And I hope

841
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 1: it's not too dry. Get the gravy is very important

842
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 1: to the holiday meals. I've noticed these are dry. These

843
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: are dry meats we serve. Yeah, and we go, oh

844
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: the gravy, you go. Yeah, just from a bygone era.

845
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,879
Speaker 1: They now we need our meats to Yeah, I need

846
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 1: to be succulent. Yeah, that's okay, that was a good word.

847
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: We're a little spoiled. Yeah, but if you're doing that,

848
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Speaker 2: Hey guys, I'm john This is Johnny. Welcome to a

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Speaker 2: special Christmas edition. I'll talk about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll put a little Kirk Franklin on that.

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Speaker 2: Johnny insisted on Mariah Carey opening up the show.

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Speaker 1: Kurt Franklin was like the apostle Paul of choir directors.

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Speaker 1: Then you think because he would anticipate question, Yes he would,

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Speaker 1: and yes he would. He would anticipate. He knew the

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Speaker 1: next line. Tell them about you want Yeah, yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of cheating because he already knew it. He knew

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Speaker 1: because he had written the song. He wrote the song

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Speaker 1: many times.

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Speaker 2: Well, so, yeah, this is our Christmas edition and it's

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Speaker 2: gonna be a little shorter show for those of you.

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Speaker 1: Who are right now to get right back to your family. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're right now. You just left function. Uncle sal already

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Speaker 1: told you you're going to hell for that ear ring.

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Speaker 1: You got your tattoo, goodness or a tattoo of an

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Speaker 1: ear ring. That's that's the double. That's when you know

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Speaker 1: you're in trouble. You know.

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Speaker 2: In the endorsement book, I wrote about the fact that

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Speaker 2: you know, scientists are still studying how they could put

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Speaker 2: because if you haven't opened a lot of Barbie boxes

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Speaker 2: in your life, probably are a lot of little kids toys,

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Speaker 2: you know, a few in the amount of little twisty.

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Speaker 1: Ties and little all everything just right.

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Speaker 2: It really is unbelievable, And I really do believe it's

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Speaker 2: almost like some government, like a Chinese government, conspiracy to

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Speaker 2: undermine the mental health of Americans, because I mean, yous.

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Speaker 1: It got to be the Chinese government because there are

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Speaker 1: political rivals. Well, no, because most of the things I'm

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Speaker 1: opening came from China. Oh, I said, they've done it

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Speaker 1: to us, right, And they're also making money off of

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Speaker 1: watching an Americans squiring with our big fat sausage fingers.

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Speaker 1: This will make them very unhappy. So I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if they're out to get us or not.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying I didn't say it's a fool proof

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Speaker 2: no conspiracy.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think it's okay to say China's probably out

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Speaker 1: to get us at this point. Maybe I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. They make a lot of money

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Speaker 1: off of us. They do, so it's in their best

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Speaker 1: interest to keep us around, maybe right.

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Speaker 2: But to keep us frustrated with all the little toys.

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Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, I'm thinking to myself, how how worried

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Speaker 2: are you that people are going to steal this Barbie doll? Like, really,

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Speaker 2: was it that big of a deal. I would rather

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Speaker 2: have somebody Sometimes. I want to be less secure, Johnny.

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Speaker 2: I just I just want to be less What.

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Speaker 1: Was the thing a while back with China? There were

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Speaker 1: some toys that were plastic and they were coated in something,

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Speaker 1: and then kids were putting them in their mouths, and

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Speaker 1: somehow it was the same net effect of taking MDMA.

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Speaker 1: There was like some chemical compound and then like there

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Speaker 1: was some unsafe conditions at a Chinese manufacturing plant. They were like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is basically hallucinogens if your kid puts this little whatever,

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Speaker 1: these toy beads or whatever in their mouth. Like okay,

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Speaker 1: So I had to like stop. It was a few

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Speaker 1: years ago.

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Speaker 2: And listeners, we're bringing you great stories like this for

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Speaker 2: Christmas edition.

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Speaker 1: We wanted your hot beat Christmas stories like this, China's

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Speaker 1: poisoning our children holiday.

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Speaker 2: So this is before Christmas when we're recording this, but

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Speaker 2: it will come out.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I say happy Holidays because I mean

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Speaker 1: there are several holia. There's Christmas and New Year's. I

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Speaker 1: don't find it political to say happy holidays because I mean,

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Speaker 1: haven't married Christmas in a happy New Year?

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Speaker 2: When did you first discover that you were against the

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Speaker 2: god of the war on Christmas? No? I mean I again,

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Speaker 2: and I always make the point that holiday from its

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Speaker 2: etymology means holyday.

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Speaker 1: Etymology meaning the history of bugs right where year to go? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's something about being inside with the fire

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Speaker 2: and you know, with the Christmas tree and the Christmas

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Speaker 2: tree on fire, Have.

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Speaker 1: You watched Christmas Vacation yet? There's a few movies have

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Speaker 1: to watch every year. Yeah, no, I've not watched it

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Speaker 1: this year, you say.

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Speaker 2: And I've watched Elf already, I think twice. ELF's great,

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Speaker 2: and we've watched some of Chris. I just fast forward

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Speaker 2: through a few things on Christmas Vacation.

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Speaker 1: Do you know where to go? Do you know? Of course? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the pool scene and all that stuff. I can't remember. Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's regular vacation, the pool scene with Christy Brinkley. No,

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Speaker 1: there's a pool scene in Christmas Vacas. Oh is there? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to describe it much here in the detail,

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Speaker 2: but it's similar.

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Speaker 1: I'll put it that way. Pull up the clip and

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Speaker 1: we'll play it over the air too, and get shut down.

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Speaker 2: But he's, you know, and we're watching a TV version,

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Speaker 2: so like a lot of the cussing gets you know,

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Speaker 2: she could tell that they've they've overdubbed something.

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Speaker 1: You know, replaced things with fudge and think you're a

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Speaker 1: hot dog. Wait a minute, I don't think he said

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Speaker 1: one of the most hot dog. It's one of the

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Speaker 1: most epic rants. Thank me, no, thank you, You're like,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute. I don't think that's a gangster movie.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he said think me.

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Speaker 2: Whenever he gets to the Jelly of the Month club

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Speaker 2: and he opens up the envelope and he goes off,

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Speaker 2: you know, I want I want Frank Shirley right here

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Speaker 2: so I can tell him what And then he just goes.

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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, I mean it's a I'm assuming he

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Speaker 1: memorized that. It looks like he's not, you know, came

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Speaker 1: it came from deep within, it did, that was in

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Speaker 1: its soul. It quite the quite have you read the

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Speaker 1: study though, that says people, when you say curse words,

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Speaker 1: it actually does reduce your pain. I think MythBusters did

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Speaker 1: it one time where they were they had their hand

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Speaker 1: in ice. What are they hooked up to some sort

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Speaker 1: of yeah and it uh dope. I mean like they

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Speaker 1: figured out how it diminished the pain. But they did

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Speaker 1: one where they just said whatever, and then they had

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Speaker 1: another one where they said, like expleotits and just like

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Speaker 1: they bleeped it. It was network television means USA, but

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Speaker 1: they just bleeped it. But they said their pain level

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Speaker 1: did go down wow, you know, like fifty percent. I

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Speaker 1: guess again, this seems like this seems like this seems

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Speaker 1: like I'm making I'm pro cursing. I'm just saying, Look,

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Speaker 1: it seems like difficult data to quantify to me. I

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Speaker 1: don't know they figured out how to do it.

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Speaker 2: They were worried about the variables and controls and the takeaways.

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Speaker 1: Johnny, I need my research to be you stub your

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Speaker 1: you stub your toe in the middle of the night,

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Speaker 1: and you drop whatever word. You know, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: They're just signs, they're science that backs up that that

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Speaker 1: is like a release. I don't know, Johnny, because I

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Speaker 1: know you mean it, say gollie g or what what

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Speaker 1: are you? No?

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Speaker 2: I do think that there are other expletives that aren't

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Speaker 2: on that list. And I do think that in that

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Speaker 2: particular way, swearing and curse words are are funny because

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Speaker 2: they're so cultural.

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Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, so if you say crap, is that

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Speaker 1: it's something else? I mean, I know, if you feel

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Speaker 1: better about yeah, feeling that's just as bad or whatever,

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Speaker 1: And it definitely would be considered just about if you

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Speaker 1: look it up. I mean, you're saying the same.

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Speaker 2: My mom will listen to this, And here's the deal.

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Speaker 2: Like growing up, you don't say freaking like that, because

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Speaker 2: you're just you might as well just say it, you know,

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Speaker 2: and so but if you would have just said it,

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Speaker 2: you would have gotten more trouble for sure, you know.

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Speaker 1: So that whole you might as well just say a thing.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that was true, No, because kids don't

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Speaker 1: try that.

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Speaker 2: Like if your parents say you all say, they don't

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Speaker 2: mean that.

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Speaker 1: It is lesser to them. What it's like. Heck is

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Speaker 1: for people that don't believe in Gosh. That's the whole

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Speaker 1: Thing's go straight to Heck. If you don't, you don't

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Speaker 1: believe in Gosh.

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Speaker 2: Once again, thanks for joining us for our special Christmas

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Speaker 2: compilation episode of Talk About That. Be sure to check

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Speaker 2: out our website at talk About That podcast dot com,

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Speaker 2: and we look forward to joining you next week on

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Speaker 2: a regular episode.

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Speaker 3: Have a Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 1: The thought are apt that the land brows a unt