Speaker 1: Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: We Wish You were a Crusher. Christmas, We Wish you
Speaker 1: were a crusher. Christmas, We wish you were a crusher Christmas.
Speaker 1: Ring ring, ring ring. That's jingle bells. That's the sound
Speaker 1: of jingle bells. Bed Happy New Year, or at least
Speaker 1: a different year. Yeah, yeah, that's that'd be good. Different
Speaker 1: would be good. I could use a change. How are
Speaker 1: you doing, Chuck? Good? No, I'm also looking forward to
Speaker 1: being over so I can just quit hearing about people
Speaker 1: fucking talking about that's that's roll off the tongue. So well,
Speaker 1: that's hard to Future is a future, and it is
Speaker 1: starting to feel like we're we're dealing in future e
Speaker 1: type dates were and we're entering the blade runner type territory.
Speaker 1: We passed that a while ago, I think true for me.
Speaker 1: But yeah, when you're in the twenties, like, where the
Speaker 1: where's that meal that I can just put a little
Speaker 1: drop of water on a pill and it turns into
Speaker 1: a delicious meal? You really want that, Chuck? Yes, Oh,
Speaker 1: you mean like it actually reconstitutes itself into a delightful
Speaker 1: roasted turkey or whatever you want, complete with the little
Speaker 1: footy things on the ends, you know, with the steam rising,
Speaker 1: because I roasted turkey every night. You ever seen those
Speaker 1: footy things? What those even four? They keep the ends
Speaker 1: trying out or something? You think they would catch fire
Speaker 1: in the story, I don't know. They don't bake it
Speaker 1: with those on. They pop them on afterward. And I
Speaker 1: do not know this at all, but my educated guests
Speaker 1: would be is that it just covers up that gnarly
Speaker 1: little leg nub at the end. It makes you feel
Speaker 1: a little less barbaric. I think so, that would be
Speaker 1: my guess. It's like, you don't have to look. It's
Speaker 1: the same reason they don't like, you know, same reason
Speaker 1: they cut off the head. That's a good point. That's
Speaker 1: a good point, chuck, Wow, that's throughout. Yeah. But yet
Speaker 1: people are some people anyway, We're okay with whole fish
Speaker 1: with a face on it. That's okay, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I will uh, I don't need the eyeballs, but I
Speaker 1: can show down on a brand Xino, that's for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's for some reason. I think there's a distinction, because
Speaker 1: you know how they're like they're pesctarians who will eat
Speaker 1: you know, fish, but they won't eat, you know, chicken
Speaker 1: or beef or anything or anything they see. There seems
Speaker 1: to be a distinction, like in terms of what's the
Speaker 1: word cruelty in the minds of some between seed dwelling
Speaker 1: creatures and land dwelling creatures. Yeah, you know. Uh, everyone
Speaker 1: has their own internal compass when it comes to stuff
Speaker 1: like that, and far be it from me to tell
Speaker 1: anyone else what to do. Where do you stand on
Speaker 1: a horsemeat? Chuck, where do you stand on horsemeat? Nay? Good,
Speaker 1: good talk a dead joke. So no. We were chatting
Speaker 1: very briefly as we were buzzing into zoom that today
Speaker 1: is your daughter's twelfth birthday. On this the day of
Speaker 1: my daughter's twelfth birthday. That's a movie reference prize prize
Speaker 1: to anyone who can who can name that film? Yeah
Speaker 1: I can't, Yeah you can. On this the day of
Speaker 1: my daughters. Oh it was her wedding. It wasn't her birthday,
Speaker 1: never mind, it was a misplaced reference. Um yeah, she's twelve, man,
Speaker 1: and she and her mom and her little sister came
Speaker 1: over this morning and they brought me a doughnut, and
Speaker 1: I gave her her present, which is a skateboard. Um. Great,
Speaker 1: because apparently I do not value her safety. But it's
Speaker 1: something that she's been not Yeah, we're gonna go get that.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure they're the right ones. No,
Speaker 1: I know, and we're gonna go together and do that tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But like, it's something that she's been wanting to do.
Speaker 1: And she was doing dance for a while and she
Speaker 1: kind of felt like all the other kids in her
Speaker 1: dance class were sort of like Caddie and she didn't
Speaker 1: really care for the vibe. And so she needs an
Speaker 1: outdoor activity and she wanted to skate in the a
Speaker 1: really good skateparking here. So we're gonna get her to
Speaker 1: let lessons as well. So well, no, you know, she
Speaker 1: takes to it a little bit and she ends up
Speaker 1: liking skateboarding. I looked into this couple of years ago
Speaker 1: because I was I was all hot to get Ruby
Speaker 1: a skateboard, and Emily still like, well, let's wait another year,
Speaker 1: even though I don't think you have to. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm giving in on that one and waiting
Speaker 1: a little bit. But there is a girls skate camp
Speaker 1: in Seattle, uh in the summer that I was like, man,
Speaker 1: this looks really really cool. So just put that in
Speaker 1: the back of your head. Maybe if she really gets
Speaker 1: into it, she does next summer or the next she
Speaker 1: could always go to Seattle skate camp and then you
Speaker 1: go and you stay there with for a week and
Speaker 1: just do Seattle. I actually haven't been to Seattle. I
Speaker 1: was going to actually had it booked with me and
Speaker 1: Jordan's run Tug my one of my colleagues on my team.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to Seattle to do like a sales
Speaker 1: thing for for work. And then you know, the world exploded.
Speaker 1: You've never been I've never been to Seattle. No, No,
Speaker 1: it's You're kind of town, my friend. I'm excited to
Speaker 1: go look into that skate camp and then you go
Speaker 1: just live as a Seattle lite for a week your
Speaker 1: little airbnb. I'm hoping with these vaccines that we can
Speaker 1: at least go back to a semblance of our previous lives. Um,
Speaker 1: Because I have to say, like I think I've mentioned
Speaker 1: this on the pod before, like I was traveling to
Speaker 1: kind of an alarming degree where it was almost cutting
Speaker 1: into my quality of life in terms of my personal time. UM,
Speaker 1: but I would like to now I've like kind of
Speaker 1: gotten comfortable and like I know the balance that I want,
Speaker 1: and I think I would push for that and I
Speaker 1: think I've earned it. So so what's your balance, Noll? Like,
Speaker 1: how many times a month will you fly? And be? Okay?
Speaker 1: I think twice, but I was doing it once a
Speaker 1: week sometimes, you know, And I was doing quick trips
Speaker 1: like sometimes twice a week like it was. It was
Speaker 1: a lot. Do you ever do the up and back
Speaker 1: in the same day to New York? Not to New York,
Speaker 1: but I did to Chicago a couple of times for
Speaker 1: some sales. This are not fun, No, they're not fun.
Speaker 1: You go to a great city and you can't even
Speaker 1: enjoy it. You go to a dumb meeting and then
Speaker 1: you get back on a plane. Yeah. Yeah, although, uh,
Speaker 1: you know the story when my heart was was circling
Speaker 1: our network to buy it, they sit down a private
Speaker 1: jet for me and Jerry and our bosses and uh,
Speaker 1: never flown in a private jet before. And that was
Speaker 1: an up and back and it was pretty great. That
Speaker 1: sounds pretty cool. It was a bucket list thing. I
Speaker 1: always wanted to fly in a private jet. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: And you know the best part about it is the jets. Fine,
Speaker 1: they're actually kind of really small and not so spacious.
Speaker 1: It's a little like claustrophobic. But man, the lack of hassle,
Speaker 1: Oh boy, oh my god, it's so great. You can
Speaker 1: only imagine. He just walk right on. You can park
Speaker 1: at the airport. I walked through the lobby and the
Speaker 1: guy said are you Mr Bryant, And he was like,
Speaker 1: we're waiting on you, and you walk right through and
Speaker 1: get on a plane. Man, I should have smuggled some drugs. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: That's why they do. That is why they do so
Speaker 1: when no one checks, nobody checks. But with the skateboard thing, Chuck.
Speaker 1: Eden is pretty good at like sticking with things that
Speaker 1: she's really passionate about. But if she's not, she drops
Speaker 1: it like a bad habit. So I'm hoping that this
Speaker 1: is the one that she sticks with because she's well's,
Speaker 1: she knows what she wants, she doesn't what she wants,
Speaker 1: and she's like super invested in the things that she
Speaker 1: she's feeling. But I also like something as a dad,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you gotta try, don't give up after you
Speaker 1: know a little try. But also you know, I'm also
Speaker 1: believe it or not, Like if your kid knows, they
Speaker 1: know but give it a little give a little effort.
Speaker 1: If you don't like it, screw it, right, you are Chuck, right,
Speaker 1: you are. So I guess it's Christmas now. Huh yeah,
Speaker 1: so big Happy Birthday to Eden. And uh, this is
Speaker 1: actually going to be our only Christmas many content Christmas
Speaker 1: content many that we're gonna do because Christmas movies gonna suck, Norman,
Speaker 1: did you know that? What do you mean all of them?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, there's some nostalgia and some feels,
Speaker 1: but mostly if you're talking about just great cinema, not
Speaker 1: a lot of Christmas Christmas movies in general. And we've
Speaker 1: talked about this, they do kind of stuff. I will
Speaker 1: say there's a new one that's out on Netflix that
Speaker 1: I haven't watched yet, but it's getting a lot of love.
Speaker 1: It's called Jing Gold Jangle and it's uh um, a
Speaker 1: kind of new spin on a Christmas like Elf, kind
Speaker 1: of magical Santa Land, kind of world keeping. Michael Key
Speaker 1: is in it, and it's got a lot of music
Speaker 1: and it's um. I watched the opening sequence and it
Speaker 1: is pretty grand and delightful, and it seems like it
Speaker 1: could potentially be like a new Christmas tradition for some families.
Speaker 1: All right, well I'll check that out. Have you seen
Speaker 1: the trailer and the buzz about this fucking KFC Colonel
Speaker 1: Sanders thing with Mario Lopez. My friend sent me it's
Speaker 1: real a tweet, and I didn't think it was real.
Speaker 1: And I also didn't immediately get the fact that Mario
Speaker 1: Lopez was playing Colonel Sanders. I just thought it was
Speaker 1: some sort of like schlocky, you know, like cosplay. Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: like like I just thought it was like a like
Speaker 1: a period rom dram, you know, presented by KSC. But
Speaker 1: then the small print it says, marioz as Colonel Sanders.
Speaker 1: What is this Marlon Sanders the new show? What is
Speaker 1: the deal? I don't know, dude. It says it's a
Speaker 1: mini movie, so I don't know how long it is
Speaker 1: is on Lifetime though, if I'm not mistaken, I think
Speaker 1: it's got to be. I mean, it's clearly obviously branded
Speaker 1: content from KFC, But boy, what a concept. I would
Speaker 1: do anything to have been in those meetings when they
Speaker 1: cook this up. KFC is pretty famous for their A
Speaker 1: lot of these brands are these days for their kind
Speaker 1: of snarky tongue in cheek, you know, social media presence,
Speaker 1: so I think they're really starting to lean into this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And yeah, very funny. And by the way, no,
Speaker 1: just very quickly, as an asside, I said, I was
Speaker 1: going to get one uh new game to play now
Speaker 1: because we wrapped up stuff you should know yesterday for
Speaker 1: the year. Very big relief, um not. You know, I
Speaker 1: love doing that show, but it's a it's a lot
Speaker 1: more work than this show, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So we wrapped that for the year and we're taking
Speaker 1: our nice, big fat Christmas break and I wanted something
Speaker 1: to play, and I got that Spiderman game. Have you
Speaker 1: ever played that? I haven't. I mean, it's just brand new.
Speaker 1: I remember the last one that came out was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. I never bought it, but I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the one. Oh yeah, there's a there's an I
Speaker 1: think there's a Miles Morales that's pretty new. You're talking
Speaker 1: about the one that I've played, then, Yeah, it's great, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the one from two years ago. You can like swing
Speaker 1: around town and like, you know, like it's very open
Speaker 1: world and you can kind of do whatever. Right. It's
Speaker 1: amazing because especially if you have a love for new
Speaker 1: York City to do like ill like I spent I
Speaker 1: spent half my time not even playing the game story yet,
Speaker 1: because I'm like, I want to go perch on that
Speaker 1: eagles head on the Pricier building like he did in
Speaker 1: the movie, and you could do that. You can find it?
Speaker 1: Is it pretty like map accurate? Yeah? Man, that's right there,
Speaker 1: just look up. I perched on the Empire State Building.
Speaker 1: I went over and I was like, I wonder what
Speaker 1: it's like to sit on top of the radio City
Speaker 1: Music all sign. Let me swing over there and do that.
Speaker 1: Let me walk the high line, let me swing above
Speaker 1: the high line. It's really really fun and you know,
Speaker 1: and it's accurate with the big, big things like that,
Speaker 1: but it's not like what I really wanted was ultimate accuracy.
Speaker 1: I wanted to go to the West Village and and
Speaker 1: go buy Magnolia Bakery and see if like they had
Speaker 1: people walking around eating cupcakes, your favorite little record shop,
Speaker 1: you know a little bit. But it's a great game
Speaker 1: that I mean, the visuals, it really feels like you're
Speaker 1: swinging around. Uh it's I just them having so much fun.
Speaker 1: And this is when Ruby is watching and I let
Speaker 1: her climb walls and do stuff like that, and she
Speaker 1: loves it. If we're having a lot of fun, that's awesome. Man.
Speaker 1: I h gaming wise, I just did, like I have
Speaker 1: a switch. I told you about that I love and
Speaker 1: I just realized, what is a switch? What? What is
Speaker 1: It's what's the newest Nintendo console and the just a
Speaker 1: regular console? Well yeah, but it's, um it's interchangeable between
Speaker 1: being portable and being hooked up to your TV. It's
Speaker 1: it docks in this little station and it has these
Speaker 1: little little side guys that are kind of click clip
Speaker 1: onto the side of the screen and they go into
Speaker 1: this dock and then it goes on your TV and
Speaker 1: you can take the little side guys off and they
Speaker 1: become like left and right handheld controllers or they clip
Speaker 1: onto the thing, and then it becomes like a game gear,
Speaker 1: like a like a portable thing you can take on
Speaker 1: the subway. And it's not like WiFi. I mean, it
Speaker 1: is WiFi dependent, but the games are on that little
Speaker 1: portable device, so it's not like streaming from some larger thing.
Speaker 1: But um, it's just a really fun system and the
Speaker 1: games are really like designed really cleverly, and Nintendo's this
Speaker 1: does a great job of kind of like pushing the
Speaker 1: fun factor. And if you are a member of the
Speaker 1: online little very minuscule amount of money that it costs
Speaker 1: to be a member of the online thing, so you
Speaker 1: can play, you know, with your friends. You can get
Speaker 1: like all of these Super Nintendo and Original any S
Speaker 1: games for free. Um, so i just got all these
Speaker 1: Mario games and I'm gonna mess with later this week.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about awesome. No, I want us to start
Speaker 1: a band just so we can have a record name
Speaker 1: pushing the fun factor. Pushing the fun factor is not bad.
Speaker 1: It's a good record name, all right, nol. This is
Speaker 1: the Christmas Crusher spectacular and uh, you know we've covered it.
Speaker 1: You know, it's hard every year because there's only so
Speaker 1: many questions you can formulate around Christmas movies. So I
Speaker 1: decided to ask family tradition wise, what holiday tradition do
Speaker 1: you hate? But you do it anyway because your family
Speaker 1: expects it and loves it. Mm hmmm, So if you do,
Speaker 1: you have one. My mom always used to make this uh,
Speaker 1: really gross jello salad that she she called gentleman's salad,
Speaker 1: which sounds disgusting in and of itself. Um, and you
Speaker 1: get a strip club an exactly a gentleman's salad. And
Speaker 1: it's like, you know how, like that was such a
Speaker 1: cliche like seventies thing, like jelly old salad things, and
Speaker 1: it's like made with lime jello and like horseradish. It's
Speaker 1: the weirdest fucking thing in the world. I never and nuts,
Speaker 1: and I never wanted to eat it. And she eventually
Speaker 1: stopped making it. She realized nobody liked it, but she
Speaker 1: she made it because her her mom would always make it,
Speaker 1: and her mom before or whatever, like it was what
Speaker 1: she likes. Did she like to eat it? My mom
Speaker 1: liked it. Yeah, but I just found it, like it's
Speaker 1: also green and it just looks like like Gilli does. Dude,
Speaker 1: I just thinking about it now is giving me the cringes.
Speaker 1: But yeah, fantastic, Oh man, I mean that just crystallizes
Speaker 1: the holidays with family and stuff like that. That's great,
Speaker 1: all right. So we're gonna start off with the most
Speaker 1: recent comment here. Rachel mckeachen says, overspending on a bunch
Speaker 1: of money that could be saved, but my husband loves it.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of those, yeah people saying it's a
Speaker 1: lot of obligation and I've certainly I've narrowed it down
Speaker 1: to my immediate family. I'm not like a universal gift giver.
Speaker 1: And I also because Eden's birthday is so close to Christmas,
Speaker 1: we kind of have to split them up a little bit.
Speaker 1: Don't go to ham But yeah, I do agree that,
Speaker 1: like it's like the parent commercialism, like listen to me,
Speaker 1: sounding cliche as hell, but the inherent commercialism of the
Speaker 1: holidays is kind of a little obnoxious. I would say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, listen to each their own. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: tell anyone how to Christmas, but all I'll say is
Speaker 1: when me and my siblings decided to stop giving gifts
Speaker 1: to each other, it was a great year. And now
Speaker 1: like we'll get together and do something for my mom
Speaker 1: and then that's it. Besides kids and you know, Emily
Speaker 1: and I we try to surprise each other with a
Speaker 1: couple of little things, nothing extravagant, like thoughtful gifts. Have
Speaker 1: one thing in mind for her that an artist is
Speaker 1: going to do that she's really really gonna love and
Speaker 1: it's going to be special. But other than that, now
Speaker 1: we kind of go like, hey, listen, you know, if
Speaker 1: there's something you want, let's just earmark some money and
Speaker 1: get it for yourself. Like last year I got that
Speaker 1: new guitar, and this year, I'm getting me some golf
Speaker 1: clubs because I haven't played golf in twenty years and
Speaker 1: he still love playing golf. I think that's the thing
Speaker 1: to chuck is like, I'm at an age where if
Speaker 1: I want some thing, I either probably already have it
Speaker 1: or or I'm thinking about getting it, or I don't
Speaker 1: really want it that bad. And I think the reason
Speaker 1: Christmas and stuff like that is great for kids is
Speaker 1: because they don't have like agency to get things for themselves,
Speaker 1: so they really depend on like you know, Santa Claus
Speaker 1: or mom and dad to like get them that dream thing,
Speaker 1: otherwise they'll never have it, So that I think is neat.
Speaker 1: But for adults, it's like, come on, what are we
Speaker 1: like eight, Like, let's just come on, let's let's be real. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then that's stuff fun like it. It is genuinely
Speaker 1: fun when you have a young child on Christmas. Uh.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna knock you know, gift giving altogether,
Speaker 1: but I'm sorry, didn't mean to sound completely like, oh,
Speaker 1: adults getting presents because to your point, the thoughtful aspect
Speaker 1: is the way more important aspect when you're in a
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, I know a little something about you
Speaker 1: and have gotten you this thing that I think you
Speaker 1: will appreciate that you never in a million years would
Speaker 1: have thought of for yourself. And it's just like maybe
Speaker 1: something decorative or like a sock subscription, because you know what,
Speaker 1: turns out adults love socks. Yeah, and nimally less. You
Speaker 1: got me those socks with the ruby's face on it
Speaker 1: and my two dogs in her And those are the
Speaker 1: socks that were when I go on the road. Combination
Speaker 1: of functional and thoughtful, choking yeah and not not expensive. Um.
Speaker 1: And looking through these posts, I look through them last night.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people I will just say that
Speaker 1: have parents that like just still makes such a big
Speaker 1: deal about all that stuff, and they're like enough already,
Speaker 1: like please don't make us open these gifts one at
Speaker 1: a time and then remark about the gifts and talk
Speaker 1: about the gifts and then you're next. Like I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people on this thread, I just want
Speaker 1: to be with family and have something kind of low
Speaker 1: key alright. So having said that, one of our oldest pals,
Speaker 1: Rebecca Robe, I'll be honest, there used to be a
Speaker 1: lot that I couldn't stand. But life has a way
Speaker 1: of making you appreciate all the joys and annoyances that
Speaker 1: the season brings. But if I had to pick one thing,
Speaker 1: it's the shopping. Love the giving hate the shopping. I
Speaker 1: get it. Robes I haven't. I mean all my shoppings online,
Speaker 1: even there wasn't a pandemic at all. I'm not going
Speaker 1: into a mall kill me, you know, I like a mall. Chuck.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie I do. It's an nostalgia factor
Speaker 1: for me. I don't know, there's something about it, like
Speaker 1: I just you know, as a kid, one of the
Speaker 1: first places you could kind of go hang out. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like before you could get into bars, you'd go
Speaker 1: hang out at malls and arcades. And I just said
Speaker 1: something about that that gives me the warm fuzzies. See.
Speaker 1: I was never allowed to just go hang out at
Speaker 1: the mall. That's why I think I have an aversion.
Speaker 1: I would go to some arcades, but that it was
Speaker 1: never like my mom never dropped me off at the mall.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be that kid. Yeah, I was a
Speaker 1: total latch key kid, a little more, a little more strict.
Speaker 1: You're lucky guy, Brianna Rossi says buying gifts. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: just want to spend time with the people I love bacon,
Speaker 1: cook and eat with them. And I always feel too
Speaker 1: bad to say something when I'm really tight on money.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people replied and loved that. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a common sentiment. Well, a lovely meal is a
Speaker 1: great gift in and of itself, wouldn't you think gift?
Speaker 1: And so much thought and care goes into that. That's
Speaker 1: a me thing. I love cooking for people. I love
Speaker 1: cooking for just one person, you know, like it. It
Speaker 1: gives me a lot of joy. So cooking for like
Speaker 1: a group and then feeling like it's reciprocated and people
Speaker 1: are having a good time because of the work that
Speaker 1: I put in, that's a gift that gives both ways.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, it does, it doesn't know. Uh Anna
Speaker 1: Gwen says making our gingerbread house. The kids love it,
Speaker 1: but they're always fights, and my need for things to
Speaker 1: be right drives me nuts because the kid has decorate
Speaker 1: the house thatselves. John Hewitt says all of Christmas. Jason
Speaker 1: Devonshire says celebrating Christmas. We got some scrooges on here.
Speaker 1: That's yeah. You know, if you're not into it, you're
Speaker 1: not into it. Jason Mansell says over decorating, I'm all
Speaker 1: for a tree and a few cute displays, but like
Speaker 1: maybe a snowman cookie jar in a wreath. Simple. But
Speaker 1: my mother is a Christmas fanatic. This year we built
Speaker 1: a house and moved her and my octogenarian grandparents in,
Speaker 1: so we have three households and four generations worth of stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that stuff. My mom is actually pretty tasteful
Speaker 1: about it. She's she's got a pretty good minimalist sense
Speaker 1: of of Christmas decorations, and there's some cute little things
Speaker 1: that she does. But like, how do you feel about
Speaker 1: the massive, ridiculous yard displays Chuck, Well, they're an awful
Speaker 1: lot of fun to drive by with a child, but
Speaker 1: not for me. We have a uh Christmas tree. We
Speaker 1: have about probably thirty five little crafty wooden santas of
Speaker 1: different shapes and sizes that Emily's grandfather made every year,
Speaker 1: and we have the whole collection, so they'll sit around
Speaker 1: the house. We got our stockings and Emily loves the
Speaker 1: little mercury trees. We have those on our mantle and
Speaker 1: that's it. And then I do a one strand of
Speaker 1: the little icicle lights on my front porch and we
Speaker 1: got a little light up, blinking snowman on the front porch.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Mercury trees. I think you buried the lead there, Chuck,
Speaker 1: What the hell is Google that ship? No, look it
Speaker 1: up Mercury Christmas tree and you'll see it's like, uh,
Speaker 1: it's like a mercury glass. Oh yeah, okaya, I never
Speaker 1: I never heard it described that way. Yeah. They're they're classy,
Speaker 1: they're cool looking. Yeah, they're cool. I like him, all right, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is great. One of our old buds, Robert Paulson,
Speaker 1: his name is Robert Paulson, says this. It used to
Speaker 1: be going to the Nutcrack. God, Paulson, this is so great.
Speaker 1: It used to be going to the Nutcracker Ballet. But
Speaker 1: then I convinced my daughters that they hated it too
Speaker 1: once they got older, and now we don't have to go.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man, No, no, I'm not sorry. I mean
Speaker 1: we're we're on the same page. It sucks. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: I've never been I don't want to go. The first
Speaker 1: part is is charming because the first part I've maybe
Speaker 1: mentioned before. I used to work at a theater um
Speaker 1: and was a sound guy and we would do the
Speaker 1: Nutcracker every year. Two different companies would do it, kind
Speaker 1: of like back to back. It's that popular. So they'd
Speaker 1: be like the local ballet theater company that would do it,
Speaker 1: and then this other ballet theater company from like a
Speaker 1: little out of town would come and do it. And
Speaker 1: so I had to sit through like weeks of Cracker Um.
Speaker 1: And the first half is like the part where I
Speaker 1: keep wanting to call her Clarice, but that's I think
Speaker 1: it's Clara Um as the girl. And it's like the
Speaker 1: Christmas Miracle thing where the world turns into you know,
Speaker 1: Christmas Land and like you know, the creepy grandfather with
Speaker 1: the eye patch makes the Nutcracker come to life and
Speaker 1: the rat king and all that. And then the second
Speaker 1: half it's just all these fucking weird dance routines with
Speaker 1: no like drags. Oh my god, is it ever drag?
Speaker 1: It was just I know nothing about it, nothing to know.
Speaker 1: I just literally literally told you the whole thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never it wasn't a thing in our house. So
Speaker 1: I was spared the Nutcracker growing up. I know that song.
Speaker 1: Obviously I'm not. You know, I didn't grow up under
Speaker 1: a rock, so I know that. You know, dun is
Speaker 1: that sugar Plum Fairies? No, that's not sugar Plum Fairies.
Speaker 1: Is d doo d dee doode doo doo doo doo doo.
Speaker 1: Do do do do do do do do? Do you
Speaker 1: know that one? Yeah? I know that one too, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I was spared it. Emily watched it and saw it
Speaker 1: growing up and likes it, I think. But I've made
Speaker 1: it quite clear that I really don't want to go.
Speaker 1: I will really quickly say though, before we move on,
Speaker 1: there is a really cool kind of alternate nutcracker tradition.
Speaker 1: It's like a dance company, I want to say in
Speaker 1: New York, but it's called Hot Chocolate Nutcracker, and it's like,
Speaker 1: I think, it's a much more um African American centered
Speaker 1: approach to the Nutcracker and kind of like more fun. Exactly,
Speaker 1: it looks like a lot more fun, and it's it's
Speaker 1: become like a real tradition in like in terms of
Speaker 1: like the kids that do it every year and there's
Speaker 1: a Netflix documentary about it called Dance Dreams Hot Chocolate
Speaker 1: Nutcracker that's put up by Shonda Land Production, which is
Speaker 1: a company that we partner with podcasts. So that might
Speaker 1: be an interest. If you're bored with the Nutcracker and
Speaker 1: you want to but you have a little fundness to
Speaker 1: nostalgia for it, maybe give Hot Chocolate Nutcracker a tribe.
Speaker 1: All right, that's the only one I'll see. I'll say
Speaker 1: that if I ever see anything. Clay Strider says pretty
Speaker 1: much the entire Christmas thing. I'm a fairly devout guy.
Speaker 1: Find no reason for the orgy of excess that my
Speaker 1: entire extended family does in the name of the one
Speaker 1: we worship. Sorry, not trying to be a downer, just
Speaker 1: not feeling the season right now. Well that's the thing, though, Chuck, Right,
Speaker 1: the whole religious side of it just seems totally glossed
Speaker 1: over and basically made up, and the idea of balancing
Speaker 1: those two things like seems really off. Like what I
Speaker 1: mean is no one really thinks Jesus was born on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day. I mean, whether you believe in God or not,
Speaker 1: are there the Bible? Like I think that's all pretty
Speaker 1: much understood to be arbitrary. Uh not real connection there, right, Uh,
Speaker 1: Genevan Valen one of her would you say that hot take?
Speaker 1: I guess, but I don't know. Maybe Gennevan Valance? Is
Speaker 1: this the way my in laws drag out gift giving
Speaker 1: for hours, one person at a time to open gifts
Speaker 1: and time to reflect and discuss the gift. It's so paidful.
Speaker 1: Jackie Warren says, we always wish Stuff Should Know would
Speaker 1: cover the origin of Christmas lights, fourth years, the charm.
Speaker 1: I think we've done that, Jackie. Maybe, well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We just recorded our Christmas episode yesterday, so it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's coming. Oh look at that cat in the background. No, hi, kittie.
Speaker 1: You see my kiddie and I see your kiddie. See
Speaker 1: that's so. I was about to say something because she's
Speaker 1: literally been circling my legs this whole time. And it's
Speaker 1: the most comfy because I'm wearing my COVID shorts, um
Speaker 1: and it's the most comfy, like sweets uh interaction. Ever,
Speaker 1: She's so cool, dude. She's really taken to the house
Speaker 1: and like it's just like a curler. She'll just get right.
Speaker 1: What's what's the cat's name Karom, which is an anime
Speaker 1: character of some sort or another. I love it very nice.
Speaker 1: I'm really happy to have her. She's such a chill,
Speaker 1: good girl. Uh did ever tell you the story of
Speaker 1: when I house set for my friends many many, many
Speaker 1: many years ago and their cat called up my boxer shorts.
Speaker 1: I was house sitting for my friends in their loft
Speaker 1: and cat sitting and Memers, who just recently passed away.
Speaker 1: Memers lived to be like eighteen or so members. In
Speaker 1: the middle of the night one night, crawled under the
Speaker 1: bed sheet. I didn't know this, I was asleep and crawled.
Speaker 1: I had these really big loose like sleeping boxers, and
Speaker 1: members crawled up the leg of through the leg of
Speaker 1: my boxers, like right there next to my junk, and
Speaker 1: crawled through my my pants and started to poke his
Speaker 1: head out the waist band. And that's when I woke
Speaker 1: up with literally a cat inside my underwear. And it
Speaker 1: was to wake up in the middle of the night
Speaker 1: with a live animal inside your underwear. There's really no
Speaker 1: way to describe that feeling. Noll. That was one of
Speaker 1: the funniest, weirdest things that's ever happened to me. I
Speaker 1: am processing this right now, Chuck, and I'm trying to
Speaker 1: put myself in your shoes or boxers. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if I would be terrified or delighted. King a
Speaker 1: combination seems like it would be a lot to take it.
Speaker 1: That story has gone down in friendship lore with all
Speaker 1: of our friends. When Memers crawled up my pants. Uh,
Speaker 1: let me see here. Deb Sanders says, I hate pretending
Speaker 1: to hate Christmas stuff when I'm around Christmas cynics. I
Speaker 1: fucking love Christmas. The horrible presence of music, the cookies,
Speaker 1: a lights, the Jamie's, all the movies except the Chevy
Speaker 1: Chase one, the family everything. So Deb is up with Christmas.
Speaker 1: Get out of here with that Grinch stuff. I'm with her.
Speaker 1: I like Christmas. I think it's I think it's fun
Speaker 1: and I like it. It's something I don't know, like
Speaker 1: I said, despite the problems that are obvious, but I
Speaker 1: think it's nice. I like Christmas a lot, nol and
Speaker 1: I am really ready to be done with Christmas when
Speaker 1: that time comes. Let's a month, is that's it. I'm
Speaker 1: not that big. That's I'm surprised no one said like
Speaker 1: they're beef with Christmas. Is that the stores are immediately
Speaker 1: Christmas affied, like day one after Thanksgiving, or not even
Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving, a Halloween. It's just the season is extended
Speaker 1: far too long, so it tends it can it has
Speaker 1: the potential of wearing it. It's welcome. Uh So this one, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna read in full, but Hailey wells, uh,
Speaker 1: Christmas triggers some very bad childhood memories for Haley, and
Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna get to get in all the details.
Speaker 1: It's on the page if you want to go read it.
Speaker 1: But Haley, I'm sorry to hear that. And that's true
Speaker 1: for a lot of people, I imagine, and it happens
Speaker 1: every year, and it's kind of shoved down your throat anyway.
Speaker 1: So we are always thinking about the people who don't
Speaker 1: like Christmas for reasons that are very personal to them.
Speaker 1: You know. Let me see here, Julie Rutherford. Hello, Julie says,
Speaker 1: putting up a tree. I do it because of societal expectation.
Speaker 1: All right, I like the tree. I like the tree too.
Speaker 1: Don't have one, but I like you didn't do one
Speaker 1: this year and do on this year? No? Why not?
Speaker 1: I should have? This is my first time like having
Speaker 1: my own like not my first time having my own place.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's December ninth, and ol, I guess
Speaker 1: I could do it. I should do it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do it. You know what. I'm gonna do it. You
Speaker 1: don't have to. I'm not pressuring you. If you don't
Speaker 1: want to do it, don't do it. No, I do
Speaker 1: want to do it. Um. And then here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Casey um was going to give me a little a
Speaker 1: small tree because they were going to get a big
Speaker 1: one um. But then they realized they didn't want to
Speaker 1: get the big ones and they kept a small one.
Speaker 1: So I kind of have to have to go my
Speaker 1: own way now and get my own tree. So and
Speaker 1: that is Casey in your family, not Casey Pegg. Casey
Speaker 1: and my family, my beloved mother of my child, who
Speaker 1: is a lovely human being and a dear, dear friend
Speaker 1: she is. I saw those uh portraits that she posted
Speaker 1: online the other day of you and your big extended
Speaker 1: family and you and Eden, and they were great. They
Speaker 1: were lovely, lovely pictures, nice, very nice. Do you want
Speaker 1: to plug who took those? Is there a Courtney Goldman Um?
Speaker 1: She is in Atlanta based portrait photographer, and you can
Speaker 1: check her out at Courtney Goldman dot com. If I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, she's lovely, good, good friend of the family.
Speaker 1: Cindy Decker says, a big sit down meal, I would
Speaker 1: much rather have finger foods, all right. Vanessa Lopez her
Speaker 1: dear friend who loves all the holiday things. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: one of those people, and I'm not sorry. You shouldn't be, uh.
Speaker 1: Lennia Barnette, one of our old pal, says, I love
Speaker 1: all things holiday related. But every year my husband asked
Speaker 1: if I want to go to the Christmas Eve Mass,
Speaker 1: and every year I have to remind him who he married.
Speaker 1: That's really great. Yeah. Do you think you can casually
Speaker 1: go to a mass just like you know, to appease somebody,
Speaker 1: or do you do you need to stand by your
Speaker 1: guns if you're like super a religious like well, I
Speaker 1: mean it's up to the person. Like I don't think
Speaker 1: there's anything wrong with an agnostic or an atheist going
Speaker 1: to a mass or a church service if they want
Speaker 1: to appease someone, that's a nice thing to do. I'm
Speaker 1: not into it, but and Lenny is not into it.
Speaker 1: I don't have any because we're both right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: My thing is I don't really have any kind of
Speaker 1: like religious anti religious soapbox about not going. I just
Speaker 1: find them intensely boring. Yeah, like, why would you want
Speaker 1: to ruin Christmas? I could be drinking hot Toddy and
Speaker 1: watching a Christmas story and yeah, looking at nuts. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Uh, Stephanie del culd a cardinal,
Speaker 1: great name. Don't hate any of our traditions. If anything,
Speaker 1: I love them even more. Now that's very sweet, Stephanie.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love hearing that. Let me see here.
Speaker 1: We'll bust through a lot of these quickly. Rochelle Jones
Speaker 1: watching Love. Actually, all right, I've heard that movie stinks.
Speaker 1: John Bowles Kerm says listening to Christmas music. A. J.
Speaker 1: Middlestet One World Prince says, the same food every year.
Speaker 1: Robert Eldridge putting up a Christmas tree. I seriously could
Speaker 1: care less. It's so funny. As we're buzzing through these,
Speaker 1: I keep like, forgetting are these things people love about
Speaker 1: Christmas or hate? And then occasionally one will hate you
Speaker 1: and hate that you do anyway, but because your family
Speaker 1: no I get it. I remember. But it's just like
Speaker 1: some of these sounds like like nice, but I get it.
Speaker 1: Love actually didn't even realize as a Christmas movie. I've
Speaker 1: never seen it. Helen lyons, this is a good one.
Speaker 1: I don't hate it at all, but I do feel
Speaker 1: a little awkward at ative to have my dad read
Speaker 1: my sister and me Clement Seymours Towards the Night Before
Speaker 1: Christmas picture book Every Christmas Eve, I think your dad's
Speaker 1: just fucking with you. At least he was gonna make
Speaker 1: you like sit in his lap or something. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: gather around kids, that's funny. Jared Adams hates Bing Crosby music.
Speaker 1: Sierra Sherry also hates Midnight Mass. Oh it's at midnight exactly.
Speaker 1: There's no way I'd be bombed. You don't want drunk
Speaker 1: chuck in church at midnight. Uh. Kira Brianne Hawkins's Dirty Santa.
Speaker 1: Even then, I know it's a game, and I am
Speaker 1: an adult. I always end up mad for one reason.
Speaker 1: I don't know that game. It really hates Dirty Santa.
Speaker 1: Dirty Santa? Is that is that like a white elephant
Speaker 1: Christmas situation? Like why don't you know a gift giving
Speaker 1: like exchange? He is dirty Stants? That was like kinky
Speaker 1: sex move. That's the dirty santee. Jim Rimley says, Bible readings.
Speaker 1: Zack Pointer, one of world friend says getting Christmas cake
Speaker 1: that's too expensive. Uh, And he says chicken dinner is
Speaker 1: popular in Japan and I knew that, KFC. It's a
Speaker 1: big thing in Japan for Christmas. Dirty Sanda is kind
Speaker 1: of like Yankee swap or like, you know, it's really
Speaker 1: like like your White Elephant, okay thing, it's like a
Speaker 1: do to be like the vibrator or something. No, I
Speaker 1: don't think that's a Dirty Santa tends to be geared
Speaker 1: more toward a new gift in the fifteen and twenty
Speaker 1: dollar range, while White elephantles itself to something that is
Speaker 1: free and tack here. So yeah, dirty Santa is more
Speaker 1: like a cool gift. It sounds like it should be.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not even gonna say that the show has
Speaker 1: limits to know, like butt plugs or something or well, sure,
Speaker 1: there you go. I was gonna say something else, but
Speaker 1: that's along those same lines. So thank you for that.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Yours is in the mail, by the way,
Speaker 1: thanks Bud. And when I say in the mail, I
Speaker 1: don't mean the one I bought for you. I mean
Speaker 1: the one that we share and mail back and forth
Speaker 1: to each other. I will say, there's nothing more festive
Speaker 1: than a butt plug because it looks a lot like
Speaker 1: a Christmas tree. What is wrong with us? It's the
Speaker 1: best holiday sex. I mean, no question, hands out, Oh
Speaker 1: little Christmas trip your butt. Austin Handler loves it all.
Speaker 1: He said, there's a reason that my nickname at the
Speaker 1: holidays is Santa Clouston. Austin Handler. I love that out
Speaker 1: there and uh in New York. All right, I think
Speaker 1: that's good. Yeah, those are enough grievances. Festivus. Remember Festivus
Speaker 1: on silent Seinfeld was in the area of the grievances,
Speaker 1: one of the Festivus traditions. Yeah, that that that's a classic.
Speaker 1: The feats of strength, very funny stuff. I know people
Speaker 1: that have festivous polls, they put up noll. Alright, so
Speaker 1: family tradition out of the way. Let's do this. Then
Speaker 1: let's let's end on something a little cheerier. Let's not
Speaker 1: speak of butt plugs and vibrators and atheism. Knoll, my god,
Speaker 1: we're not trying to ruin Christmas. There's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: atheism or about plugs. Or vibrators. But go on, Chuck,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm down with all three. Um let me see here.
Speaker 1: What did I put? Oh? I put what's your favorite
Speaker 1: moment or scene from a Christmas movie or special, So
Speaker 1: not the entire thing, but just your favorite moment. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of favorites, but I will say
Speaker 1: the the one often quoted in my house is the
Speaker 1: Peter Dinklage scene in ELF. That whole scene is fantastic,
Speaker 1: and especially when he jumps up on the table and
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell goes look at you and he reaches out
Speaker 1: to to get a hug. Love that part and then
Speaker 1: he just comes bum rushes him. It's so good. Um
Speaker 1: brittany story, one of our old pal says when Kathleen
Speaker 1: Kelly is hanging more twinkle lights and that's in quotes
Speaker 1: and decorating her Christmas tree in the store window of
Speaker 1: the shop around the corner, as if you were you
Speaker 1: hear her read her latest letter to Joe Fox describing
Speaker 1: the Joni Mitchell song river and expressing grief over missing
Speaker 1: her mother and worrying about the uncertainty of our business surviving.
Speaker 1: It's a beautifully written scene and utterly heartbreaking. Someone just
Speaker 1: mentioned oh yeah, I don't know. I was on an
Speaker 1: Instagram story. I think that the Joni Mitchell song River
Speaker 1: was mentioned as like good song being a Christmas song,
Speaker 1: but I think it was maybe because it's associated with
Speaker 1: this movie. Yeah. I just got just gave in the
Speaker 1: mail stray. I got Emily Joni Mitchell's Blue the original pressing,
Speaker 1: which I found on eBay. It was not cheap, I
Speaker 1: bet I need to do. I mean it was like
Speaker 1: sixty bucks, but sixty bucks for records a lot of money.
Speaker 1: I think I've only ever paid more than fifty for
Speaker 1: a record once. I got like an original pressing of
Speaker 1: a new order Um Substance, which is like kind of
Speaker 1: like a career spanning like retrospect from their early just
Speaker 1: post Joy Division days. But it's like a double LP,
Speaker 1: but it's on factory record throw down for a collectible
Speaker 1: record every now and had the original Van Halen demo record. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I think that was saying like, oh, dude, I
Speaker 1: had to tell a very quick story. It's not holiday
Speaker 1: at all, but we're talking. This is just too good
Speaker 1: not to mention. I had a call with the dude
Speaker 1: the other day about a podcast pitch and me and
Speaker 1: Jordan's um who work on the music slate together. Jordan
Speaker 1: was researching something and he came across this detail that
Speaker 1: Charlie Manson UM had made these demo tapes in the
Speaker 1: sixties and I actually heard them, and that they were
Speaker 1: produced by this guy who had the same name as
Speaker 1: the dude we were doing the call with. And it
Speaker 1: tracked because this guy is like a sixties kind of
Speaker 1: like producery pr guy who like you know, ran in
Speaker 1: circles with like the likes of like the Rolling Stones.
Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna name his name, but um anyway,
Speaker 1: so he we do the call you the pitch. It's great.
Speaker 1: At the end, I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna put Jordan
Speaker 1: on the spot really quick. We've got to ask you
Speaker 1: about something. And Jordan found this and we just you
Speaker 1: gotta do it, Jordan, So he asked him and he goes,
Speaker 1: do you want to hear the story? And Arles Manson's producer. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So this guy apparently was buddies with a dude who
Speaker 1: was Charles Manson's cellmate, UM and Charlie Manson out of
Speaker 1: prison and he wanted to be a musician. Everyone knows
Speaker 1: kind of that part of his story. That was his
Speaker 1: whole deal. Um and he his cell May hooked him
Speaker 1: up with this guy who worked at Universal Um, you know,
Speaker 1: the movie studio at the time, who had just launched
Speaker 1: a small record label and recording studio. He got him
Speaker 1: an end to like record these demo tapes. So he says,
Speaker 1: Charlie pulls up in this school bus to the studio
Speaker 1: lot with all these like you know, hippie chicks on acid,
Speaker 1: like with no shoes on, and they have a meeting
Speaker 1: and agree to do the demo and they make it
Speaker 1: and then he ultimately doesn't go anywhere because it kind
Speaker 1: of sucks. But he also like had Manson over to
Speaker 1: his house several times and he said he was flying
Speaker 1: back from l A to New York or sorry, New
Speaker 1: York to l A. And he looked at the newspaper
Speaker 1: at the at the airport and it was like Charles
Speaker 1: Manson arrested after multiple homicida Sharon Tate House and said
Speaker 1: his blood just ran cold. And then he got home
Speaker 1: and there was a message on his machine from the
Speaker 1: FBI saying they wanted to talk to him, and he
Speaker 1: called him up and they said that they had found
Speaker 1: this list, this murder list and Charlie's stuff, and that
Speaker 1: his and his wife's name were on it. Jesus, I
Speaker 1: hope my name has never been on a murder murder list. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then one can only assume who was because he
Speaker 1: failed to secure him a record deal. I'm gonna kill
Speaker 1: him too, exactly. Yeah. It's funny. When I was a
Speaker 1: kid like, Charles Manson seemed so scary to me, And
Speaker 1: of course I'm not saying what he didn't was it
Speaker 1: horrific and scary, But I had never heard him talk
Speaker 1: or anything. I get a little bit older, and I
Speaker 1: was like, he's just this little short redneck whatever. There
Speaker 1: was a whole it was a great uh little like
Speaker 1: him ranting kind of speech, and he just sounds unhinged
Speaker 1: and not particularly scarier threatening at all, And yet we're smart. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very interesting stuff, all right. Brianna Rossi back to
Speaker 1: scenes moments from Christmas movies. Brianda Rossie, one of our
Speaker 1: oldest friends, says, uh, what about the Seamen home alone
Speaker 1: in the church with Kevin talking to his neighbor. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna watch that this year with Ruby. I
Speaker 1: think she's old enough, man, it gets pretty brutal. Don't
Speaker 1: forget like the direct stepping on the giant nail and
Speaker 1: the paint cans to the face. I mean it's it's no, yes,
Speaker 1: I mean it's of course, but it's uh, it's all
Speaker 1: in fun. I don't think I think it's I'm just
Speaker 1: saying like, it's like I even saw a meme the
Speaker 1: other day saying, like horror torture movies pale in comparison
Speaker 1: to that scene where Marv steps on the nail directly.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, it hurts my heart. Um, the Melanie
Speaker 1: Coufman says, not a Christmas movie necessarily, but the Little Women,
Speaker 1: Little Women feels like a Christmas movie. Beth receives the
Speaker 1: old grand piano as a Christmas gift, and now it
Speaker 1: will make music again. Brings tears to my eyes every time.
Speaker 1: Great moment. Classic, Uh, Skylar Ward says, the family back
Speaker 1: and forth and while you were sleeping when Sandra Bullock
Speaker 1: he gets invited over for Christmas. Yeah, the movies all right,
Speaker 1: it's fun enough, Melanie Dickie Wright says the end of
Speaker 1: It's a Wonderful Life, when George finds a copy of
Speaker 1: Tom Sawyer from Clarence in the note inside says, remember
Speaker 1: no man as a failure who has friends? Then everyone
Speaker 1: sings all things in and I ugly cry. Uh ugly
Speaker 1: specifically have to have to do with running makeup? Or
Speaker 1: is it just you make a weird face that that
Speaker 1: I think just sobbing? Yeah, ugly face, yeah good, Ugly
Speaker 1: cry feels good. Uh. Nick Ericson says, I enjoyed that
Speaker 1: Harvey Corman Julia Child cooking segment and the Star Wars
Speaker 1: Holiday special way more than I like to admit. David Barlow,
Speaker 1: one of our old buddy, says, I've always loved the
Speaker 1: scene where they finally get those lights on in Christmas Vacation.
Speaker 1: I like that scene too. Never seen him, I'm a fan.
Speaker 1: Jokoski says in The Family Stone Own that is a
Speaker 1: good Christmas movie because it's not you know, it's a
Speaker 1: family movie that is set near Christmas. Is that's a
Speaker 1: good movie When the dad and the sun are out
Speaker 1: eating brownies, I don't know. I just love how comfortable
Speaker 1: they are together. I always hoped I could be that
Speaker 1: comfortable with my son. Really, anything that Luke Wilson does
Speaker 1: in that movie made me laugh quite enjoyed it. Uh.
Speaker 1: Sarah Garcia says Chevy Chase watching childhood movies, getting sentimental,
Speaker 1: then falling through the roof addict door when Beverly and
Speaker 1: Angelo opens it. Yeah, that's a fun scene. Uh. Let
Speaker 1: me see here the train scene at the end of
Speaker 1: While You Were Sleeping, when Sandra Bullock describes when she
Speaker 1: fell in love. That is from Cindy Haynesworth. Karen Coron,
Speaker 1: I always miss pronounce your names and names, so sorry. Uh.
Speaker 1: Erica Renee Bossart says. The scene at the end of
Speaker 1: Home Alone when the mom walks through the door on
Speaker 1: Christmas morning is reunited with Kevin as a new mom
Speaker 1: hit me or right in the mommy heart and gets
Speaker 1: me choked up? Or how about this moment an old
Speaker 1: Karen Knox and Charlie Brown Christmas when Linus fixes a
Speaker 1: little tree and says all it needed was a little love.
Speaker 1: That's really Let's the thing about Charlie Brown, It's like, right,
Speaker 1: it's simultaneously kind of depressing, but then all that kind
Speaker 1: of culminates in like a really warm, kind of kind
Speaker 1: hearted moment. You know, Yeah, totally. Here's a spoiler in
Speaker 1: the family stone. So if you haven't seen it and
Speaker 1: want to don't listen for the next twelve seconds, but
Speaker 1: Heidie uh Niven says. The final scene of Family Stone,
Speaker 1: where the family gathers to decorate the tree after Diane
Speaker 1: Keaton's character had passed away, Rachel mcadam's character places an
Speaker 1: ornament on the tree in her reflection shows in her
Speaker 1: mother's photograph on the living room wall. Gets me every time,
Speaker 1: me too. No one wants to see that. We want
Speaker 1: Diane Keat to live forever and whole. I have not
Speaker 1: seen it. It's totally totally ruined for me now, Chuck
Speaker 1: totally well. I said, spoiler, you could have taken off
Speaker 1: those damn head You're right now. I don't care. Anna
Speaker 1: stress one of our old palaces. Bill Murray's epic speech
Speaker 1: at the of Scrooged also Carol Kane beating up Bill
Speaker 1: Murray and Scrooged. Let me see, Andy Long says both
Speaker 1: christ what's his name? From The New York Dolls as
Speaker 1: the cab driver and bluster Point dixter point next her
Speaker 1: in the Scrooged as the ghost what's his realm name?
Speaker 1: David Johansson's right, Andy Long says both in a Christmas
Speaker 1: Story with a grouchy master performance of Darren McGavin. Amen.
Speaker 1: When the old Man clicks on the radio to Silent
Speaker 1: Night and puts his arm around Ralphail's mom, content and
Speaker 1: happy in the glow of the tree while watching the
Speaker 1: snow come down through the frosty window. And then when
Speaker 1: Ralphie's mom opens the cabinet door under the kitchen sink
Speaker 1: and Randy emerges for dinner. Uh. In a subtle moment
Speaker 1: of genius, the old man sees the strange event occur
Speaker 1: and gives a fuddled and exhausted headshake before returning to
Speaker 1: his paper. Yeah, that's a funny. That's a funny moment.
Speaker 1: I told you we watched that with Ruby and it
Speaker 1: was too over her head. Yeah, it's not a five
Speaker 1: year old movie. No, it's got a lot of the
Speaker 1: innuendo and like adult e kind of themes. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure I've mentioned it's just not that funny for a
Speaker 1: five years now. It's that's the thing, right, like a
Speaker 1: lot of like that. That's We's wide. Disney movies worked
Speaker 1: so well because they work on multiple levels. Because they've
Speaker 1: got the jokes for the kids and the jokes for
Speaker 1: the adults. But Christmas Story is like a adult movie
Speaker 1: masquerading as a kids movie. Um, but you know, we
Speaker 1: talked about this. They play it every year on TBS,
Speaker 1: like maybe they do. Don't do it anymore, but they
Speaker 1: used to for years only like a twenty four hour marathon,
Speaker 1: just playing the movie on repeat. Um. And I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever seen it from front to back in
Speaker 1: one sitting. I've just seen it like in weird like
Speaker 1: cut up reverse order, like from watching it, like oh,
Speaker 1: turn on the TV for a minute and like grab
Speaker 1: a little ten minute clip and then okay, now do
Speaker 1: some of the stuff. Turned it back on. Now it's
Speaker 1: back at the beginning because it's looped over. And I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen it all in one go,
Speaker 1: but I definitely seen the whole thing. Miguel Miguel, Oh
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, I'm so sorry, Miguel Miguel, Mayanna, I think
Speaker 1: that's right. Seems not Maniana tiny tim saying God bless
Speaker 1: us everyone. It's my favorite, I mean atheist. So it
Speaker 1: has become a family joke. Whenever something nice happens at home,
Speaker 1: I'd say it out loud. That's very funny. Miguel I
Speaker 1: just stuff like that, say in a tiny little voice,
Speaker 1: do God bless us everyone, and welcome to the Crusher community. Miguel,
Speaker 1: I don't think I've seen you before. Let me see
Speaker 1: Scott deal without a doubt. At the end of How
Speaker 1: the Grid Stole Christmas, that two minutes in fifteen seconds
Speaker 1: gets longer every time I watch it. It's a family favorite, though.
Speaker 1: All right, let's finish up with the company. I have
Speaker 1: to assume they're referring to the animated classic and not
Speaker 1: the kind of maccab Jim Carey one that I find
Speaker 1: wholly unpleasant. I don't know how others in the kind
Speaker 1: of like that. We liked it? You like that? Sure? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. I think they really. Uh. I think they
Speaker 1: really brought that world to life in a very kind
Speaker 1: of cool, creative, believable way, practical sets and costumes, and
Speaker 1: I thought it'll look good. I liked it. Maybe I'll check.
Speaker 1: I'll give another goal. No, it's not for everyone. I
Speaker 1: don't watch it again ever, watch I definitely won't. Chuck.
Speaker 1: Dan Maynard says Zoe Deschanelle singing in elf, not because
Speaker 1: she's in the shower. That's a bonus. Hey, now, Dan,
Speaker 1: uh that's when I discovered her as a singer and
Speaker 1: found her band, she and him, who are brilliant. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like she and him because I'm a huge uh
Speaker 1: m Ward m Ward guy. Well here's a little in
Speaker 1: word secret and you don't really get it from his records.
Speaker 1: You get it a little bit. He's one of the
Speaker 1: best guitar players I've ever seen, dude. I saw him
Speaker 1: at City Winery from the front row there and uh,
Speaker 1: just him and an acoustic guitar. He fucking murders that guitar.
Speaker 1: Crazy fingerpicking style. It's crazy, crazy, crazy crazy and and
Speaker 1: I'm a huge Immord fan. But like it really doesn't
Speaker 1: come through on the records like it does live. It's
Speaker 1: something else. Dechanelle, Yeah, I can take it earlier about
Speaker 1: to say people have a beef with Zoey Deschanelle because
Speaker 1: she's the deal dude. And I don't want to be mean,
Speaker 1: but when someone is clearly sort of singing like an
Speaker 1: affected sort of Billie Holiday thing, it just like you
Speaker 1: can't convince me that that's how Zoey Deschanelle just really
Speaker 1: sang from the moment she opened her mouth. Don't care
Speaker 1: for it either, Chuck, and I think she put on
Speaker 1: a thing to sing a lot that. Yeah, exactly. I
Speaker 1: don't care for it either. It might be wrong, but
Speaker 1: I know others though that do that, and it takes
Speaker 1: something real special to pull that off and have it
Speaker 1: feel authentic and not affected. But the way she does
Speaker 1: it combined with her just like general kind of quirky thing,
Speaker 1: you know, which you know. I'm like, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to like whatever, be yourself, do your thing, but she does.
Speaker 1: She has kind of gotten pigeonholed as that like manic
Speaker 1: pixie dream girl, kind of like Uku lately playing like,
Speaker 1: you know, sarcastic, cute girl. I like he as an
Speaker 1: actor and the stuff I've seen her in All the
Speaker 1: Real Girls is one of my favorite indie movies of
Speaker 1: all time, with the print of the show Paul Schneider
Speaker 1: and Zoe Dechianelle. I think she's a good actor. I
Speaker 1: never saw The New Girl, so I can't speak to that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I like her. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: don't like just don't sing like that, fair fair. I
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be divisive. Half the people are gonna
Speaker 1: say totally dude, and half the people are gonna be
Speaker 1: really mad at on the internet people being divided. I
Speaker 1: don't believe it all right, let's finish this up with
Speaker 1: a couple of more Brandon as Sir uh Sara Gao says,
Speaker 1: the fight between Joshua and Riggs, Gary Busey and Mel
Speaker 1: Gibson and Lethal Weapon. It is pretty great Leath the
Speaker 1: Weapon Christmas movie. I guess the die Hard can be,
Speaker 1: then Lethal Weapon can be. I mean the first one
Speaker 1: takes place in the Christmas season, right, or at least
Speaker 1: a big pu It's been a while, but that sounds
Speaker 1: about right. And then we'll finish up Noel with Adam
Speaker 1: Storm because it's one of my favorite Christmas special uh
Speaker 1: when river Bottom Nightmare Band takes the stage, and of
Speaker 1: course this is during emmett Otter's jug Band Christmas deep
Speaker 1: most pure hearted, great Christmas piece of content that's ever
Speaker 1: been made? Is that one with heat Miser snow Miser?
Speaker 1: I like that? No, No, what's that from that is
Speaker 1: the let's either the Rudolph one, you know, it's one
Speaker 1: of the ranking bass stop motion Christmas specials. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's Rudolph. I think it's the Rudolf one
Speaker 1: or maybe it's now it's not Baby New Year. Those
Speaker 1: are all great too, though. I love those. Is it
Speaker 1: the year without Santa claus Man? I don't know. That
Speaker 1: might be a sequel. Okay, never mind, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: got it. You're talking about Henson property. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: a stop motion things, any different things, all right, my friend.
Speaker 1: That is it for this holiday edition. We got another
Speaker 1: one coming out on Christmas Day this year, Noll, which
Speaker 1: is pretty exciting and um, we're gonna record that next
Speaker 1: you and me. But for everyone out there listening, I
Speaker 1: hope you were with friends and family, keeping it small
Speaker 1: and having a good time anyway, and we wish you
Speaker 1: well and we love you all. This movie Crash is
Speaker 1: produced and written by Charles Bryant and Roel Brown, edited
Speaker 1: and engineered by Seth Nicholas Johnson is scored by Noel
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