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Speaker 1: Welcome to stuff you should know from how Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey Hey, hey, hey, ho ho ho, and

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Speaker 1: welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W.

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Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant. You know, we have a special uh ELF

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Speaker 1: with us this this time this year for our Christmas

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Speaker 1: special Noel Elf on the shelf, Noel Hark, you're the bells?

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Speaker 1: There go the bells? Where are the bells? I am

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Speaker 1: the bells. It's pretty good. Thanks? Was that tubular bells?

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Speaker 1: No but one of my that just reminded me of

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite SNL skits of all time where

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Speaker 1: the Sweeney Sisters? Um was it? Jan Hooks? Geez, the

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Speaker 1: late Jan Hooks. Man very sad about that. And I

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Speaker 1: think Norah Dunne, if I remember correctly remember them the

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Speaker 1: Sweeney Sisters, of course, I do so great, And I

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Speaker 1: think they did that for their their Christmas episode. They

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Speaker 1: did a great medley of Christmas tunes and that one

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Speaker 1: sort of went like that, nice, it's so good. Well

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Speaker 1: you just nailed it, man. How are you feeling pretty good?

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Speaker 1: I'm feeling great because this uh is one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite episodes of the year. Me too. And we'd like

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Speaker 1: to point out not to tuot our horn. But one

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Speaker 1: of the things we always fight for every year is

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Speaker 1: that the Christmas episode, along with the Halloween episode, remains

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Speaker 1: add free. We fight for it to the death. There's

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Speaker 1: so many dead ad sales. People are awake, but you

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Speaker 1: know what, they deserved it. They shouldn't have crossed. The

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Speaker 1: ship has just led us, you know. Yeah, so this

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Speaker 1: is an ever free episode, like you said, and I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty proud of that too. I think it's nice of us. Yeah, uh,

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Speaker 1: this is this is just one of my favorite episodes

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Speaker 1: of the year. It's fun. So as we do every year, Josh,

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Speaker 1: I think we want to encourage everyone to light a fire,

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Speaker 1: maybe pour up a hot buttered rum Oh yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: a good one. Although we do have a good recipe

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Speaker 1: for this year. Yeah, I guess they could listen to

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Speaker 1: that and then come back to the beginning or a

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Speaker 1: rummy eggnog. We're just your favorite non alcoholic Christmas drink

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Speaker 1: of choice. Get the family together, like the Yule log

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Speaker 1: hangs the hang that missiletoe, right, and let's get this underway.

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Speaker 1: So it's been a pretty pretty uh, it's been an

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Speaker 1: interesting year so far, right, Yeah, but um, I always

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Speaker 1: like these ones because they make me reflect on the

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Speaker 1: year and it seems like it was just a month

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Speaker 1: ago that the year started. Uh, it has gonna by fast.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm speeding toward death. But when I

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Speaker 1: think about being forty six years old and speeding towards death,

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Speaker 1: I think, wow, when I was a kid, that was

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Speaker 1: middle age ish, like, I got a long way to go.

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Speaker 1: And it just seems like it's that trick that your

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Speaker 1: is gaining speed as you get older. Right. I think

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Speaker 1: there's some science behind that too. I think there's two.

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Speaker 1: I think it's because you have less time to compare

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Speaker 1: But the the I've had that same exact thought, chuck,

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Speaker 1: within the last probably two weeks, towards death. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: the other one where it's like, wait a minute, I've

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Speaker 1: at middle age, so I've got a long time left,

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Speaker 1: and baby, I'm gonna make the most out of it.

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna start with the two thousand and seventeen

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Speaker 1: stuff you should know Christmas extravagance. I'll tell you what

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Speaker 1: you shouldn't do. Then if you if you've got a

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Speaker 1: the tennis court. Yeah, after you beat me in our

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Speaker 1: Pretty good, Chuck. Let's take a little jingle break? How

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Speaker 1: about that? Then we'll get into it, all right, Happy holidays, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, all right, buddy, we're back. Oh and speaking

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Speaker 1: you should know ad break jingles, and we went to

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Speaker 1: and said Hey, will you compose for us this Christmas season?

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Speaker 1: He said yes, and it was a Christmas miracle. Agreed?

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Speaker 1: And what should we start with? Oh man, I think

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Speaker 1: we have to start with die Hard is dieharded Christmas movie? This? This,

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Speaker 1: you you found this, you put together most of this.

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Speaker 1: This is a world class episode. By the way, I

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Speaker 1: want to commend you for it. Thanks. And it's not

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Speaker 1: not die Hard as a Christmas movie. Yeah, it's basically

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Speaker 1: the clear symbol that civilization is sliding into irreversible decline.

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Speaker 1: this could not matter less, stop arguing about this. That

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Speaker 1: that one? Why don't you lead this one? Then? Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: Jimminy Crickets, I think I might have sent it to

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Speaker 1: you and then not even use that one. Oh it's great, man,

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Speaker 1: This one is like the best. I'm actually putting it

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Speaker 1: on my UM website. Are you serious, Clark, It's going

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Speaker 1: on the reading list. What's the name of it. It's

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Speaker 1: called Yes, die Hard is a Christmas movie? Stop debating it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I have that one, so but I'm

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Speaker 1: I can I know die Hard inside and out so

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Speaker 1: I can get in there. Okay, So Art Art says

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Speaker 1: a quote from a BuzzFeed article, but from way back

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Speaker 1: in two thousand thirteen. This has been going on a while,

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Speaker 1: but the BuzzFeed wrote, quote most prized among people of

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Speaker 1: this opinion that die Hard is a Christmas movie is

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Speaker 1: the transgressive act of selecting a violent action movie over

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Speaker 1: some people. But Art says, wait a minute, Wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: who's to say what classic Christmas fare is if you're saying,

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Speaker 1: if you're talking about It's a Wonderful Life, you're being

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Speaker 1: a Christmas tradition. And it's a Wonderful Life, I mean,

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Speaker 1: if we gotta, if we're really gonna take this down

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Speaker 1: that path. Is not a Chris Smiths movie. It's not

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Speaker 1: even set at Christmas. There is a scene set on

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Speaker 1: got that by association, and they said, if if It's

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Speaker 1: because here's the thing, and this is, this is we'll

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Speaker 1: My opinion is that if somebody feels like Christmas Eve

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Speaker 1: makes it that for those people. Okay, so you're saying

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Speaker 1: some pretty cool facts about the tree that um, I

424
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:57,879
Speaker 1: wasn't aware of. They tend to be a typical species

425
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: the white spruce. Yeah, and apparently that's because they are

426
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: generally very straight and very strong, uh, and grow about

427
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:10,360
Speaker 1: the height that they want, which is, you know, between

428
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: generally between eighty feet right. Um. And they find him

429
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 1: by scouting by helicopter, like Pennsylvania, Connecticut, upstate New York.

430
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 1: Apparently they got one from Ohio once that had to

431
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 1: be flown in the world's largest cargo plane. Yeah, how

432
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,679
Speaker 1: about that pretty cool? So they they I mean, they

433
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,360
Speaker 1: put a lot of thought and this is not like, oh,

434
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: there's a big tree, and they want him to be upright.

435
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: And the head gardener who his job in part is

436
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 1: to go scout throughout the year to find a tree. Um,

437
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: his name is Eric Pose. He says that you want

438
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 1: to not be able to see the sky through it.

439
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 1: Oh wow, you wanted to be dense enough that you

440
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:54,920
Speaker 1: can't just see the sky through it. Yeah, So they

441
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: erect that thing. Um. It usually does not derive by

442
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: world's largest cargo plane, as he really in a truck. Uh.

443
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: And then they have these guy wires. Of course, is

444
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: so large they have guy wires supporting it. Right there

445
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: at the midpoint, they have a steel spike in the

446
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 1: base and for many, many years. They've had scaffolding installed

447
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 1: around it so they can obviously get up there to

448
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: decorate it. And they've been using LED lights for how long?

449
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 1: I thought I saw a year here, two thousand seven, alright,

450
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,399
Speaker 1: so about ten years they've been using the L E.

451
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 1: D s about fifty thousand. So these trees are usually donated,

452
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 1: and I get the feeling that's a great honor. Sure.

453
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: I think some guy from New York City lands helicopter

454
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 1: in your field and says, can I have that tree

455
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 1: for free? Well, we'll mention your name in the press release.

456
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: And the city slicker just takes advantage of the poor

457
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:48,919
Speaker 1: country folk and gets a tree out of them in

458
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,919
Speaker 1: the true spirit of the season. So the one of

459
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,400
Speaker 1: the things that grabbed me was those LED lights. They

460
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,360
Speaker 1: save twelve hundred kill a lots of electricity a day,

461
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 1: which is enough to power a two thousand square foot

462
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:06,160
Speaker 1: home for a month, Which means that about four years

463
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: worth of energy for a two thousand square foot home

464
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 1: is saved every year from the like month and a

465
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: half that the tree is lit. That's what gets you.

466
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,479
Speaker 1: That's nuts. That's so much energy, and that's not how

467
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,959
Speaker 1: much it uses that's how much they saved by transferring

468
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:24,719
Speaker 1: to l e ed s. You know, it gets me.

469
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 1: What So, starting many years ago, they started to recycle

470
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 1: the trees, um. And for a while what they would

471
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: do was uh mulch it up and then spread it

472
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:38,880
Speaker 1: around the walking paths of Central Park, which is pretty great.

473
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 1: You know, it's a good way to do it. Um.

474
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: But for the past eleven years, I think, including this year,

475
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: what they do is they donate the tree to Habitat

476
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 1: for Humanity, so it comes down on January seven, and

477
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: then they mill the wood, make that into lumber and

478
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: they build homes. So there are Habitat for Humanity homes

479
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: that people are living in, built from the rocket fellow

480
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,679
Speaker 1: Christmas trees, and you can sell them for a million bucks.

481
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,199
Speaker 1: That's so great. It is pretty great. I mean, just

482
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: the Habitat for Humanity parts great enough. You know. I

483
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: think when they were moltenate, they got about thirty thirty

484
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: three bushel bags of mulch and everyone involved in the

485
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: spreading of the molts was mugged. Yeah that's Central Park.

486
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: It's nineteen well I guess back then maybe, yeah. So, Um.

487
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: One of the other things that that grabbed me was

488
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 1: the star that's now become pretty famous too. It's I

489
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: think it was introduced in two thousand four. It says

490
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 1: it's made of twenty five thousand crystals, right, and the

491
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: thing is like ten ft tall and weighs five pounds. Yeah,

492
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: it's crazy. It's nine a half feet wide. It was

493
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: designed by an artist, a Geman artist, Michael Hamas And uh, yeah,

494
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: that's they've been using that thing since two thousand four. Yeah,

495
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: I've had fifty pounds of star. Can you imagine if

496
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: that thing just came off the top up? It would

497
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: it would kill somebody Because there's actually a pretty good

498
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: chance that it could kill somebody. Chuck, because three quarters

499
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: of a million people come see that tree every day,

500
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: so the chance of it following on somebody or pretty high.

501
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: I've never been by when it's just desolate. I'll say that. No,

502
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: I can't imagine three quarters of a million in a day.

503
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: That's crazy. So that's it for the tree. Huh, that's

504
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: all I got. One of these days, we're gonna watch

505
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: the lighting. Will make some popcorn, Get our coziest socks on,

506
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: get our eggnog on. Oh yeah, I think that that

507
00:29:36,480 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: just went without saying, so, Chuck, this is one of

508
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: my favorites of all time, which one I had no

509
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: idea that well, like finding out about a little weird

510
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: pop culture things that happened before I was born, I

511
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: had no idea about It's one of my favorite things

512
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,239
Speaker 1: in the world. And you've delighted me by sending this

513
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: thing to me about Christmas in space in Did you

514
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: know about this already? No? But I was just thinking,

515
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: like you, you have been diligent about keeping a list

516
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: of what we've done every year so we don't repeat ourselves. Um,

517
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: and it's getting tough. I gotta say, there's only so

518
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: much Christmas that's happened. I literally looked up like I

519
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: think two or three different things. I was like, we've

520
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: never done this, and then I saw your list. I

521
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: was like, ah, we've done that. So um, I thought,

522
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: wait a minute, like astronauts spending Christmas in space, that's

523
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: that's gotta have happened. Oh, you had an independent thought

524
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: about it, like it wasn't You didn't just come across it.

525
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. I had an independent That is magnificent,

526
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 1: a Christmas miracle. It must have increased your holiday spirit

527
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: tremendously by at least thirty eight percent. So Christmas in

528
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: space happened for the first time in nine There was

529
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: actually like a holiday transmission basically, um the Apollo eight

530
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: crew starring Frank Boorman who was the commander, Tom Hanks

531
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: slash Jim Level was the pilot, and William Anders was

532
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: the Lunar module pilot, and they orbited the Moon on

533
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve, and they knew they were going to be

534
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: orbiting the Moon, so they planned to transmission from space

535
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: to basically they launched on December twenty one, like, oh,

536
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I didn't Oh oh man, Yeah, did

537
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 1: you pack a Bible for them to read from? I

538
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: thought you did. Well, somebody thought about it because they

539
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: had a Bible up there or else they have like

540
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: a bunch of scripture rehearsed and memorized because they decided

541
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: to go with Christianity that year for Christmas, which is appropriate,

542
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: and they from space they read some scripture and uh

543
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: and bestowed blessings on the Earth below them. And apparently

544
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: a billion people watched this transmission of their live pictures

545
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: in their audio over the like from the lunar module. Yeah,

546
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: so they sent out this transmission. Uh. They closed with

547
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: the message good night, good luck, a merry Christmas, and

548
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: God bless all of you, all of you on the

549
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: good Earth. That was a great Frank Bourman, you know, Burman,

550
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: very stiff. I thought that was nice. It was kind

551
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: of velvety. Oh well, I appreciate that. Right. So the

552
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: the Christmas and space thing, it was kind of sporadic

553
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: for a while. Sky Lab U five years later where

554
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: the next group to UM spend Christmas in space. They

555
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: made a little Christmas tree out of food cans. There

556
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: was a Space Shuttle launch or a Space Shuttle mission

557
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: in ninety four or nineties. I'm sorry, UM they spent

558
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: Christmas in space and they fixed the Hubble telescope on

559
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 1: that mission, which was huge, huge, it changed everything. Yeah,

560
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: that was a big deal. Um. The first time there

561
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: was Christmas in space on the Russian mirror, American astronaut

562
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: John Blaha I went up there and said, yeah, I'm

563
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: appear with cosmonauts, but I guess I'll celebrate Christmas anyway.

564
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: And I believe, uh, I believe that was his second

565
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: Christmas in space. Yeah. That guy was just showing off

566
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: by then. Yeah, He's like, I don't have a family

567
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: I care about, Just go ahead and send me up.

568
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 1: This was just a single guy. I got some plants

569
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: I don't take very good care of. And you know what,

570
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: my parents are gone to some mothers and Father's Day.

571
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: Go ahead and send me right, They always said him,

572
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: whether he wanted to go or not, if it wasn't,

573
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: if it wasn't in space, he was eating by himself

574
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,959
Speaker 1: and kind of weeping quietly at Cracker Barrel. So which

575
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: one is it gonna be? You choose? Buddy? Is cracker

576
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: Barrel on Christmas? Is it? Yeah? I knew waffle House was? Yeah?

577
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: You mean I ate there for Thanksgiving this year at

578
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: waffle House? No? I think Cracker Barrel. Okay, it was

579
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: actually really good. I ate waffle House Thanksgiving one year

580
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 1: by myself outside. Is that? Did you really? Yeah? I

581
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,399
Speaker 1: can't remember the deal, but it was one year where

582
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,720
Speaker 1: like my family wasn't around, or maybe I was away

583
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: from them and everyone was gone, and so I was like,

584
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: all right, scattered some mother and cupboard. Well that sounds

585
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,839
Speaker 1: pretty good. It was great actually that Thanksgiving. Ever, So

586
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: that's I was gonna say, like, what was it? Actually? Like?

587
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: Way more amusing than you thought like, that's how it

588
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: was for us. I was like, is this gonna be

589
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: like sad or great? And it was great. They serve

590
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Yes, and again it was really good.

591
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 1: I mean, just as salty and tasty and fatty as

592
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: you would imagine Thanksgiving a cracker barrel to be. Yeah,

593
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 1: we do. Uh, Thanksgiving is my mom's jam. So we

594
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,320
Speaker 1: always go to Diane's place and I cook up my cornbread,

595
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: dressing and mashed potatoes is what I bring. Very nice.

596
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: But this is not about Thanksgiving, No, it's about Christmas

597
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: and space, that's right. So now it's become kind of routine.

598
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 1: Charles um Ever since they launched the International Space Station.

599
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,879
Speaker 1: It's been continuously occupied since November of two thousand, so

600
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: every year there's astronauts and space from all different countries

601
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,839
Speaker 1: aboard the I S S. And one of the cool

602
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: things I saw about that was that they at any

603
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: time you're on the I S S, you you go

604
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: around the Earth about every ninety two minutes, So in

605
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: any given day you see about fifteen sunrises. But on

606
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: Christmas Day that means that the astronauts get fifteen Christmas

607
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: mornings throughout the whole day. I thought it was pretty cool.

608
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 1: That is pretty cool, and every year that you know,

609
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: they make a big deal about it. Now, um, I

610
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: think it's a bit of an honor to to go

611
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 1: up and be at the I S S on Christmas

612
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: now and imagine they have you know, it stinks to

613
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: be away from your family, but imagine they have a

614
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: great familial experience together up there taking care of business

615
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: they do for the future of humanity. You got anything else, space, No?

616
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: All right, well we'll move along right after this jingle

617
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:37,959
Speaker 1: to some great great Christmas toys of the twentieth century.

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00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: M Okay, Chuck. I don't know if you remember this

619
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: or not, but the twentieth century was just seventeen eighteen,

620
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 1: nineteen years ago. Yeah, I remember it. Okay, I remember

621
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 1: it too. It formed a substantial portion of my life.

622
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: Those were our best days. Yeah. And one of the

623
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: reasons why they were some of our best days is

624
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: because there were some of the greatest toys ever invented

625
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 1: came out of the twentieth century. Yes, dangerous, dangerous toys

626
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: that you had to have the first time in in

627
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: world history that anyone ever had to have a toy

628
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: on Christmas happened in the twentieth century. All right, before

629
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 1: we get to these, I'm gonna ask you, do you

630
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: have a standout memory of one Christmas where that was

631
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: something you had to have? I can't. I think that Nintendo,

632
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: the original Nintendo was probably it. UM and I don't remember.

633
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: I don't remember if I got it for Christmas or

634
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: some other time or whatever. But UM, for me, I

635
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: remember opening a robot arm, which I hadn't asked or

636
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: but turned out to be like one of the coolest

637
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 1: things I've ever had, opening a robot arm. Yeah, it

638
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: was a robot arm. And then there was another UM

639
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: like zip Racer, Remember the cord that that would like

640
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: make a motorcycle go really fast, which we talked about

641
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: in the Evil Kinevil episode. I remember that. I remember

642
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: opening that on Christmas morning too. Is the robot arm

643
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: something that you could wear? No? No, it was like

644
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:26,720
Speaker 1: on a tabletop robot arm you could pick stuff up with. Okay, Yeah,

645
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,919
Speaker 1: So do you have a must have toy that you remember? Well?

646
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:31,919
Speaker 1: I do. I have a couple. One was the year

647
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 1: that the pac Man Atari cartridge came out. That was

648
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: a big one. UM And little did we all know

649
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: that that game sucked really bad pac Man did. Yeah,

650
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: it was okay actually, but you you wanted it to

651
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: be like the Arcade game. Oh it wasn't high. I

652
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 1: don't remember playing pac Man on Atari. Yeah it was

653
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 1: instead of waka waka waka, it went dot don't don't, don't,

654
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 1: don't don't. Oh yeah, yeah, when it ate one of

655
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: the things like it was, it was pretty bad. Uh.

656
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: And the other big one before that was when I

657
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: was younger, I wanted more than anything. One year, I

658
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,879
Speaker 1: wanted a stretch armstrong and did you get it? Well

659
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: that they my parents actually did the old trick a

660
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,399
Speaker 1: ruski on me, like, oh, is there one more thing

661
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: over there? Because I was disappointing because I didn't get

662
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: stretch arms song, so they actually pulled one over on

663
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: me and I got stretch Uh. It would have been

664
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 1: funny if they were like, oh no, there isn't anything.

665
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 1: Is there one more thing under the tree? Oh no,

666
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: that's just dog poop, right, which we wrapped up for

667
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:41,919
Speaker 1: some reason. All right, but getting to these iconic twenty

668
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: century toys. First on your list is uh, the iconic

669
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: iconic cabbage patch kid. I had one of these. Maybe

670
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 1: I got it at Christmas. I don't remember well at

671
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 1: our house, and I may have told this story before

672
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:03,839
Speaker 1: we had the original um dolls, the ones that these

673
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: were later ripped off from. Yeah, the original all cloth

674
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: dolls handmade by Xavier Roberts I think was his name,

675
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: because they were made right here in Georgia and Cleveland,

676
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, not made born in Cleveland, Georgia where baby

677
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: Land General still is. But my sister got I think

678
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: the seventy five or one ever made that was signed

679
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: by him, and it's worth some dode today. Do you

680
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: still have it? Oh? Yes, Michelle's got it, so she has.

681
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: It was one of the top hundred ones made and

682
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: it became pretty valuable. And then I have My mom

683
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 1: ended up getting my brother and I to each which

684
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: I literally have never touched. But I'm just waiting for

685
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 1: those to gain enough in value and I'm gonna sell those.

686
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: Is this still like in the box? No? No, no not.

687
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: They didn't come in boxes. They were they were just

688
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: like on a shelf. Oh oh wow, those were early ones.

689
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: The ones I got came in a box. Yeah, that's

690
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: when they I think. I can't remember who took it over.

691
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 1: Kalico y Colico took it over. They got plastic heads

692
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: and those were sort of the mass market version, and

693
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: I guess Xavier Roberts probably got rich. Oh yeah, I'm

694
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,880
Speaker 1: not that deal. I would think so. So the Cabbage

695
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: Patch Kid three was when Kalico took over and it

696
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: became like just a breakout hit. It was one of

697
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 1: the first times, if not the first time, when there

698
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: were reports of people like shoving and punching each other

699
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: in the face and paying like way more than the

700
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: actual value of the doll Like apparently people were selling

701
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: it for like ten times what the dollar went for,

702
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: which was twenty five bucks, which back in bucks is

703
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,919
Speaker 1: not cheap. I have no idea how much it would

704
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: be now, but I'll bet it's a lot. And the

705
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 1: Cabbage Patch Kid craze was so significant it's spilled over

706
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: to the next year and there if so, Christmas of

707
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: Night was just as crazy as Christmas of nineteen eighty three.

708
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: And apparently they made two and a half billion dollars

709
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: off of Cabbage Patch Kids between nine eight three and nine. Yeah,

710
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: that is uh. I think nine eight four was just

711
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: two point five billion, wasn't it. Oh my goodness? Is

712
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 1: that right? Yeah, that's that's just one year, dude, that's

713
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: so many. That's like a hundred million cabbage patch kids. Yeah,

714
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: and they, like you said, it went all the way

715
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 1: through nineteen eight. This is not a one year craze. Um,

716
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: and it's just nuts. You can, like I said, you

717
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,399
Speaker 1: can still go to Babyland General. And the whole deal

718
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: with those was they were born and not made, and

719
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: they were I mean, that was like the little cute

720
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: ce selling point. But the dolls came named. Yeah, do

721
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 1: you remember your name? Well? I remember. I don't remember

722
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: my two original dolls they were they were like the

723
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 1: little TV stars or something that was on their T shirt. Um,

724
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: but my sisters I remember because her doll and it

725
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: is even kind of misshaping. Those early ones were kind

726
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: of funny looking, like his hairline was crooked and stuff

727
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: because it was like folksy and handmade, and it was

728
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: routinely drunk while he was making. But her doll's name,

729
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:17,399
Speaker 1: the one that's so valuable is Chuck. No. Yes, that's

730
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: a sign from God. YEA. Mine was Webber din No

731
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: white is that first and last name. No, that was

732
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,240
Speaker 1: his first and middle name. His last name was Clark.

733
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: Obviously Webber Dino d I n oh, yep, Webber Dino Clark.

734
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: Pretty weird. Huh, I didn't I didn't name him. That's great. Yeah,

735
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: you U still have it. Oh no, no, imagine those

736
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: probably are worth much money. No, probably not in the

737
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: shape he was in by the time I aged out

738
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:55,359
Speaker 1: of him too, did a mohawk and stuff. I don't

739
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 1: think his head was attached any longer. Yeah, eventually he

740
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: blew up that doll. Right, so there's more chuck and

741
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 1: we gotta go backward in time. That's right, this next one,

742
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: because it turns out and we talked about this in

743
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:11,880
Speaker 1: the Action Figure episode a little bit, but so Star Wars.

744
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: When Star Wars came out, it was such a total

745
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 1: surprise to everybody that um Kenner, who had the rights

746
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 1: to make the action figures, hadn't even started production by

747
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,839
Speaker 1: the time Christmas came around. Yeah, I mean no one.

748
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: No one thought the movie was going to be big,

749
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: much less the ancillary products associated with that movie. So

750
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:39,280
Speaker 1: little kids got vouchers, remember that. Did you have a voucher?

751
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:40,839
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think I got the toys

752
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: a little bit later. Okay, because this is Christmas, of

753
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, God, we got caught with our pants down.

754
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: Get some vouchers out quick. So little kids got vouchers

755
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: wrapped up his presence that they were finally able I

756
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: guess in eight sometime, um to to trade their voucher

757
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 1: and or the actual action figure. Yeah, and they were

758
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: a hot ticket for a solid seven years. Uh. And

759
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: I certainly had a ton of them. Um. I did.

760
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: Had no idea that there was a thing that people

761
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,359
Speaker 1: did where they left them in boxes and didn't play

762
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: with them. I didn't know that was the thing. So

763
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: I've played with mine and they were all very well worn,

764
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: which I think is the way to do it. Same here,

765
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: I've still I think I still have like a box

766
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: of like busted up g I Joes that are in

767
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: no way shape or form sellable. Yeah, my brother and

768
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: I have a bunch of these. But yeah, unless you

769
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 1: have some super rare java. Uh. And I'm not on

770
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 1: gonna get it wrong, but it's either the cloth cape

771
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: or the plastic cape. Cloth one. Is that the valuable one?

772
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: I don't remember. There are nerds out there that are

773
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 1: freaking out right now, I'm so sorry, or loose skywalkers,

774
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 1: take your eye out, lightsaber right the double telescoping. Yeah,

775
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: I think that was that was worth a lot of dough. Yeah.

776
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 1: But back in Christmas, the nineteenth of any seven, no

777
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: one had any idea and little children were unwrapping presents

778
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: and going I had no idea what a voucher was

779
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: until just now, thanks Mom and Dad. And they said,

780
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: well that's good, because here, Mom and Dad, I have

781
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,880
Speaker 1: what I got you as vouchers for a backscratch in

782
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: breakfast in bed free hugs so cute. And then lastly,

783
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: Chuck is tickle Me Elmo, and I have to say

784
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: shout out to history dot com. They came up with

785
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 1: this article. I think there was a lot more to it,

786
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:29,760
Speaker 1: but these are the ones that held the most water.

787
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: But Tickle Me Elmo. If you thought the cabbage Patch

788
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: doll craze was nuts, tickle Me Elmo. Was it just

789
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 1: off the chain? Yeah, Elmo. I think we've even talked

790
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: about this before for some weird reason, but it became

791
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 1: way after me, probably in the Muppets episode. Uh So,

792
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 1: I was never an Elmo aficionado because this was by

793
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 1: that point I was fifteen years old. I didn't care

794
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: about things like that. But my daughter loves Elmo and

795
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:03,320
Speaker 1: it has transcended, uh since then for sure, because almost

796
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: still super popular. You were twenty five, by the way,

797
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was thinking eight six. Oh yeah, I

798
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: was way too old for real, right, he'd been more

799
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: so than being fifteen would have been. Yeah, I was

800
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,800
Speaker 1: still drunk in Athens, Georgia. But I think that's cute

801
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 1: that that, um she's still into that or that almost

802
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: still around for kids to be into today because almost

803
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: just too cute and great a character just just go

804
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: away because of some stupid craze. You know. I agree,

805
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: And I had the I have the curse of doing

806
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,839
Speaker 1: too good of an Elmo impression. So now almost every

807
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: morning still I have to start out by doing Elmo

808
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: voices with the Elmo doll. Oh that's sweet, it is sweet,

809
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 1: so um on. In October, I guess there was a

810
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: big surprise on the Rosie O'donnald Show when she debuted

811
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: the Tickle Me Elmo doll, which most people hadn't heard

812
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,400
Speaker 1: of by this time. And if you remember, do you

813
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: remember the doll? Right? I think you like Pressett's belly

814
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 1: or maybe even tickle it. And I'd be like stop

815
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 1: stop right, yeah, I think he gave it a squeeze

816
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: and he giggled right, and it was super cute and

817
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 1: it just captured America's heart. And Rosie O'donnald's show was

818
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 1: huge at the time, like Oprah level huge. So it

819
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 1: was a huge plug for the tickle miomo makers and

820
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 1: they were totally caught off guard. They had no idea

821
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,359
Speaker 1: that this was coming. And since it was October, there

822
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 1: was a huge shortage of this suddenly very much in

823
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: demand doll by the time Christmas rolled around. Yeah, and

824
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,439
Speaker 1: they did not do vultures, right, didn't they. Um, they

825
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,760
Speaker 1: just did raffles or something. I think they did raffles

826
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: and um stampedes. Those are the big ones, the classic stampede. Yeah,

827
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: there was a report of a Walmart employee in Fredericton,

828
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:50,759
Speaker 1: New Brunswick who was trampled and had to go to

829
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: the hospital because yeah, they did this the smartest thing

830
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:57,399
Speaker 1: possible line up. But then when we opened the doors,

831
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 1: it's every person for themselfs for themselves. Yeah, and this

832
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 1: is the final thing from history dot com. It says

833
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: in New York, the son of jailed mob boss John Gotti,

834
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: along with his friends, dropped eight thousand dollars at a

835
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 1: toy store and report will be made off with a

836
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: case of Tickle me Elma. Pretty smart. I hope it

837
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: is too. That would be so great. So what's the

838
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 1: must have toy this year? Do you know? I have

839
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: no idea? Do you have no idea? Nope? All right,

840
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: we'll find out one way or another by hanging out

841
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 1: at toy stores. I guess I get the feeling there

842
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 1: isn't a Well maybe that still happens sometimes, like a

843
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 1: single must have. Oh yeah, it definitely happens sometimes. I

844
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: don't know what it is, though, I guarantee it's not

845
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: going away like the Ferbi remember that that silly thing.

846
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:47,439
Speaker 1: Now it's hatchamles. Oh well that might be the thing.

847
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 1: Actually that was last year, right now, Yeah, because I

848
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: remember Noel had trouble finding one for his daughter. Oh yeah,

849
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 1: but you came through it, and you know he did.

850
00:49:56,239 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: It was a Christmas miracle, It was all right. So

851
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna have another little jingle and come back with

852
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 1: our traditional Christmas boozy recipe. Yeah, okay, So I have

853
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: a little background here because we're talking about Wasstle. Did

854
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: you see the background thinking? Did I send it to you?

855
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 1: So the etomology not the entomology the etymology of wostle.

856
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: The word w A s s a I l. Yeah,

857
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 1: apparently it comes from the Old Norse vest hile, and

858
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 1: then the old English, because most English words come from

859
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: the Norse or Germanic words, right, wass hall, and the

860
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:50,240
Speaker 1: whole thing was basically like a greeting or a toast,

861
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:54,360
Speaker 1: which was being good health. Eventually it was turned into

862
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: wass hale and then wostle, and wostle is so old

863
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 1: that it actually appears in Bao Wolf as a greeting,

864
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: right again being good health. So there was this tradition

865
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 1: of going on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve, I can't

866
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: remember which one um or you would basically just go

867
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:17,439
Speaker 1: to people's houses around town, like during a whole day

868
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:19,760
Speaker 1: and hang out and maybe bring them a little present

869
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: or eat some food. And it was like kind of

870
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 1: a roving Christmas party, and that was called wostl ng.

871
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: And then eventually this warm punch that you would serve

872
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: your guests came to be called wostle. And because it

873
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: kind of came out of this tradition, there's no one

874
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:43,320
Speaker 1: watle recipe, but it's usually a very strong, drinky, boozy,

875
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: warm punch is basically the only the only requisite for it.

876
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 1: That usually has something like nutmeg or something in it.

877
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: That's right, And uh, you're the cocktail man, so you

878
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: want to go over the recipe here. Well, there's two.

879
00:51:57,800 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: Did you see both? I only saw the one that

880
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: was super rummy? Okay, well will this go with that

881
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: one then? Because the other one is pretty traditional. This

882
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:11,360
Speaker 1: one is not just rummy, but it's beery. Oh so

883
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 1: sounded funny. I gotta admit, I'm I'm ready to try

884
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:18,839
Speaker 1: this one. Chuck two quarts of lager beer. And you

885
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: don't have to just use beer that comes in a

886
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: court size. As a matter of fact, you might want

887
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 1: to just steer clear those all together for this one.

888
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 1: A court of rum they just get giddy. Five ounces

889
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:35,280
Speaker 1: of simple syrup, three ounces of lemon juice, a teaspoon

890
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: of grated nutmeg. You want that freshly grated, teaspoon of

891
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:41,359
Speaker 1: grated ginger, you want that fresh too, and then fruit

892
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: slices for garnish. Pretty simple stuff that you can really

893
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: kind of put together, uh, from from just about any store.

894
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:52,439
Speaker 1: Yeah that sells such things. So you take the beer,

895
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: the simple syrup, the lemon juice, the nutmeg and the ginger,

896
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: and you put it together in a sauce pan and

897
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:00,800
Speaker 1: you warm it on low heat for about ten minutes.

898
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: You want to get a nice steam off of it,

899
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:06,279
Speaker 1: but do not let it boil. If you boil it,

900
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 1: all the alcohol will cook off, so don't do that.

901
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: You add the rum and you stir it, and then

902
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: you place some that fruit in a heat resistant bowl

903
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 1: or some sort of serving vessel, and you pour the

904
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 1: watle in there um and then you have wastle. You

905
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 1: drink it. So you haven't had this, No, I haven't.

906
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: I just found it the other day, all right, it's

907
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,799
Speaker 1: for this recipe was from the spruce. And there's another

908
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: one they have which has brandy and sherry in it,

909
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: but beer and lagger. Two quarts of beer in one

910
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: quart of rum. That's a party. It's a party in

911
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:41,839
Speaker 1: your mouth, it is uh. And of course, always drink

912
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: wastle responsibly. And if you're over twenty one in these

913
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: United States, yes, And if you're watling and someone's home

914
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: and they ask you to leave, do the Christmas e

915
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: thing and leave, that's right. Interpretor in the UK you

916
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: can be like twelve years old and drink probably is

917
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:00,360
Speaker 1: that true. No, I don't know. I think it's probably eighteen.

918
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:05,800
Speaker 1: Is that a Christmas legend? Yeah? I think so so, Charles.

919
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: We've reached the end here, that's right. This has been

920
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 1: maybe our best one yet. I like to think each

921
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: year they get a little bit better. The guests appearance

922
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 1: from the writer of Die Hard, Are you kidding me?

923
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,359
Speaker 1: That was pretty pretty great. The socks that I got

924
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 1: to those are amazing. Yeah, rate, that was very surprised.

925
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 1: They're magic fingers toe socks. Uh. Well, Happy Happy Christmas,

926
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: Merry New Year, and all that stuff. To all of

927
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: you people out there, we hope you have just a

928
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 1: wonderful holiday season, no matter how you celebrate it, no

929
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 1: matter what your religion, no matter whether you have no

930
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 1: religion at all, no matter where you are in the world,

931
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: we hope you have a very very warm and glad

932
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:54,640
Speaker 1: holiday tidings, right agreed, Thanks for joining us, and uh

933
00:54:54,800 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: we'll see you next year in two