WEBVTT - Josh and Chuck's Christmas Extravaganza 2012 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:11.239 Welcome to you Stuff you Should Know Fromhoustuffworks dot com. Hey, 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:13.760 before we get on with the Christmas shenanigans, what how 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.960 about we do a little TV show reminder for the 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.160 folks out there. We have a TV show called Stuff 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:23.400 you Should Know at debuts Saturday, January nineteenth at ten 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:28.280 pm after the hour long season three premiere of Idiot 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.319 Abroad with Carl Pilkington and. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:32.800 Ricky Gervais, and then comes to our show. 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:35.360 Then comes our show when we're airing two episodes back 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:39.120 to back on premiere night. Then following that on Saturday 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:40.720 nights at ten pm, you will get to see one 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.680 episode thirty minutes long. 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We are throwing a premiere party slash 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:09.840 variety show for the TV show, featuring performances by people 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:14.760 like John Hodgman, people like Lucy Waynwright other special guests. Yeah, 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.120 Lucy's in the show other special guests. There are gonna 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.480 be some other special guests, not performing, just kind of 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:21.680 milling about. 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:22.560 In the crowd, hanging out. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.920 And this all goes down at the Bellhouse in Guanas, Brooklyn, 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:30.160 January eighth. You actually have to buy tickets for this one. Yeah, 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.239 we're trying to cover costs on this one. Everything else 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.120 has always been free, so we'll get mad at it. Yeah. 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:36.800 And plus I should tell you like, this is gonna 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:37.440 be a big show. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.560 Yeah, and it's only ten bucks though, so buy your 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:45.200 tickets at the Bellhouse ny dot com and doors are 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:49.960 at seven thirty. Showtime is at eight, and that's it. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:54.880 The Bellhouse that is in Guanas, Brooklyn, specifically seventh Street. 0:02:55.160 --> 0:03:00.760 Nice. Okay, so we're done. It's time Chuck, finally for Christmas. 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:02.800 Yay, It's Christmas. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:09.400 Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:13.160 Charles W. Chuck Bryant. And where's a couple of little 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.200 elves ready to do this thing? How do you feel? 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.320 And do you have some glad tidenings around you? 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:22.720 We're not naked elves, which that is foretelling from later 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:23.639 on in the podcast. 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:25.880 You're a bespectacled elf. 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.040 Yeah, I got glasses at forty one. 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:29.040 Looks good. 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.959 Yeah, the aging hipster thing is now full fully formed. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.960 As it is a velvet jacket. 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.360 Yeah. They're just for reading in computer stuff. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.200 Though, and to look cool with because you look cool. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.800 Yeah. But I can't walk around to them, well, because 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.280 they're for reading. It's like, you know, i'd mess up 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:45.720 my eyes. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.440 Oh I thought you meant like you physically can't, like 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.280 you can't chew gum and walk at the same time. 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.120 No, but I am having to get used to it, 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:52.320 you know. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.320 Oh you need to put those on a little chain 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.160 to dangle around your Yeah, you can like look at 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.800 a bill like yeah, like an older it's kosher. 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.400 Well, it must be Christmas because it's ninety degrees in 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:04.880 the studio, right, it's. 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.040 Warm about seventy five degrees outside. 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.400 Yeah, but the building doesn't know that. No, the building 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.040 thinks it's wintertime. Right, So I'm sweating. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.120 Yeah I am too, So don't feel bad. Good, So 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.440 it's a little gamy here in our Christmas studio. But 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.520 it is Christmas time, that's right. And like I said, 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.280 we do have glad tidings. 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:22.080 Of great joy, So. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.039 I guess I don't have anything more to say before 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:26.560 we get to. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:27.960 This to you, let's just kick it off. 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:29.360 I'm very excited im too. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.640 It is after all, this gets me in the mood 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:46.800 Christmas time, Chuck josh As. 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.920 This is our Christmas extravag cans. There's lots of celebratory stuff, 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.600 but there's also a lot of really good solid information. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:55.400 Yeah. 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.760 Specifically like if you it being Christmas Day and all 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.880 haven't selected a Chris yet, Yeah, we have. We have 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:05.839 some tips on how to select one and how to 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:06.440 care for it. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.960 Really, all kinds of Christmas tree stuff. 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:14.320 So with Christmas trees, the vast majority of Christmas trees 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.320 sold in the US, yeah, are real trees. And this 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.880 is actually like a huge, huge industry, isn't it. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:21.760 Uh. 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.200 Yeah, We've got thirty to thirty five million Christmas trees 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:31.040 produced a year, and that's worldwide, but about twenty million 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.200 or so of those are produced here in the US, Yeah, 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:35.040 which is a lot. 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.800 There's also in the United States. The National Christmas Tree 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:43.360 Association that is a thing, says that the industry supports 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.479 twenty one thousand growers and employs more than one hundred 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.960 thousand people. Those are job creators. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.719 This is a crop. Yeah, and that's the way. And 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.520 we'll get into whether or not it's green to have 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:57.600 an artificial tree or a real tree. But here's a hint. 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:59.920 It's a crop, and that's maybe how you should think 0:05:59.920 --> 0:06:00.400 of about it. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.120 Right. It is about a million acres of land are 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.239 set aside to grow Christmas trees in the US. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:11.799 Correct, That is correct? And my stats say Oregon leads 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.960 the United States by a long shot in producing trees 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.960 about six point eight million in two thousand and seven. Yeah, 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.360 North Carolina about three, and then Michigan at one point five, 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.839 Pennsylvania one point two, and it just goes down from there. 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.520 But apparently Michigan and Pennsylvania it's like they're they're dropping, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:30.520 are there thirty percent down? 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:35.280 Well, every state in the Union except for Alaska has 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.080 a Christmas tree farm on it somewhere. 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.600 Why not Alaska is every cold? I don't know. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.120 I would think that southern Alaska would be able to 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:47.240 grow them. Too cold, they're just too too hardy to 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.080 pay for a Christmas tree. They're like, we'll just go 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:49.680 get our own. 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:50.200 Yeah, maybe that. 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.720 We're Alaskans. So while there's what how many how many 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.040 did you say we're going to be sold in the 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:55.880 US every year. 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:02.080 I think about twenty million million in the US. 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:06.520 Okay, there's still four hundred million growing in the US. 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.080 Because it takes about six to seven years for a 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.920 tree to mature to a five to six foot harvestable height. 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:19.000 How long six to seven years? I understand. Yeah, and 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.080 during that time you're going to have a lot of 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.360 shearing going on, which is very important. Yeah. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:26.960 Is that what gives it the shape or is it 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:28.400 already sort of shape like that? 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.280 I think it's already kind of shaped like that. But 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.080 then to convert it from that wild Christmas tree that 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:38.240 never quite does the trick to the hallmark card Christmas tree. 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.080 The people who grow these, the fine Christmas tree farmers, 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:46.000 shear them on a pretty regular basis, and they cut 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.400 off the lateral branches that go out. Then they'll cut 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.880 off the top too, depending on how pointy they want it, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:52.000 how wide they want it. 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:53.239 Do you get a real one still? 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:57.040 No? We have an artificial one do Yeah. It's very nice, good, 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.480 just drenched in ornaments. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.840 That's not when it was pre ornate or ornated. It's 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.600 pre lit, Okay. 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.520 But no, we know we collect our own very special ornament. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:11.200 Well, sure, because that's what normal people in society do, right, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.200 But I didn't know that they made them pre decorated 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.800 as well for the madmen do there. Yeah, that's what 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:18.760 it said in this article. You can get one fully 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.240 decorated that you just see. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.560 You've just put your Christmas tree up, and then start 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:28.640 eating your hungry man dinner and then cry Christmas. 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:29.640 And then bury another body in the backyard. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.760 Yeah, and that's what that's for. Uh So where did 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.200 Christmas trees come from? Right? I mean this seems like 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.920 a pretty recent phenomenon, the idea of going to a 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.320 Christmas tree lot and buying it. It's actually way older. 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:47.360 Yeah. Apparently, like many things Christmas did, is German and tradition, 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.200 and maybe as early as a d. Seven hundred they 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.120 started cutting down trees and putting them in the house. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.319 Yeah. I've always heard the story that it was Martin 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.840 Luther who was the first to actually decorate them, though, 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.320 oh really with candles, which is a fire has but 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.640 that's a long tradition with Christmas trees too. 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:06.040 He was the first and last to decorate with candles, 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.120 And of course, you know, like all things German, it 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.240 spread to England, which spread to America and that's why 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.280 we eat sauerkrop today. 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.760 Right, And again, you would think that up until maybe 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.440 the fifties or something, when the cities were really starting 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.240 to boom. Well, no, I guess that's when the suburbs 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.000 started to boom, that people went out in their backyards 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.559 and cut down trees. Right. But apparently there have been 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.880 commercial Christmas tree lots in the United States since the 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:34.400 mid nineteenth century. 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.360 Yeah, that really surprised me. Yeah, I figured for sure 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.120 that people in the eighteen hundreds would just take the 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.160 axe out and cut one down in their own backyard. 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:46.079 Sure, that's a logical thing to think, but no, apparently 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.720 we've always relied on guys from that movie A Christmas 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:50.800 Story to sell us. 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.360 Jeez. I saw a lot the other day in New 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.280 York that was just like on a sidewalk. And then, 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.720 you know, obviously space is at a premium there. I'm 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.360 sure there are lots, like empty parking lots where they 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.880 do this, but it's not like the suburbs. It was 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.120 literally just on a sidewalk. Some dude had set up 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:06.720 his little farm. 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:12.000 Yeah, why not, It's an American tradition. So you've got 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.120 the you've got your your Christmas tree, have it all selected. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.240 You're like, I like the plump, short one, so I 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.160 know that they shear the top off several times in 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.360 addition to the lateral branch. Yeah, and I'm going to 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.720 bring it home. But I don't know what to do 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:28.959 with this thing. We're going to tell you because it's 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.559 very much like cut flowers. It's a plant that's. 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.440 Yeah, dying, Yeah. 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.200 That you can keep on life support for a little 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:37.840 while by feeding it water. 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.400 That's right, and you should these days, you can get 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.560 the little trunk a little inch or so cut off 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.640 of the bottom of the trunk, yeah, by your Christmas tree, 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.640 dude or dudet probably, but if not, you should do 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:51.920 that yourself because a fresh cut is what you want 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.760 down there. And I guess the reason is it drinks 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:57.800 up the water more readily. 0:10:57.840 --> 0:10:59.760 Well, yeah, it's the same thing as bringing home flowers. 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.400 When you get flowers, you want to cut them again 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.240 before you put them in the water stems. Yeah, but 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.000 there's actually a rule of thumb for how much water 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:11.199 you want to give a Christmas tree, basically a live 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.600 tree or fresh cut tree as you call them, Yes, 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.800 can drink up to a gallon of water a day. 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:22.560 Yeah, I am remiss every year. It's it's here's how 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.120 it goes in my house. Oh crap, I haven't checked 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.560 the water in like three days, and I'm going stick 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.400 my finger in there and its dry as a bone. Sure, 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.600 and the needles'll fall off of my hair. Yeah, and 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.000 then I pour water in it and the tree just 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:34.080 looks at me like, thanks, jerk. 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.280 Well, apparently there's a there's a way to handle this, right, 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.080 So you get a Christmas tree stand that holds I 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.760 think you want probably up to a gallon what with 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.280 the tree in it? Sure, because a lot of people 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:47.920 will say, oh, it holds a gallon. Well, if you 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.760 put a four inch diameter Christmas tree trunk into that, 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:52.520 it's going to hold less than a gallon. 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:53.720 Or it's gonna spill out on your floor. 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.000 And you need to give your tree a court or 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.320 a leater of water, depending on where you live in 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:05.000 the world, for every inch of diameter of the trunk. Okay, 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.600 So if you have a four inch diameter Christmas tree trunk, 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.680 which is pretty substantial, sure, you want to make sure 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.920 that your tree holder can hold a gallon of water. 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.800 And you want to add a gallon of water every day. Yeah. 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:18.760 I used to have heard some sort of like syrup 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.120 or sweetener or something helps, but I'm not sure about that. 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:22.240 I've never heard that one. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.080 Really. Yeah, I've heard that, but I don't know if 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.360 it's true. 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:27.440 Well we'll find out. 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:29.080 Yeah, I mean I should have looked it up. I 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:30.120 guess it just hit me. 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.520 Yeah, I've not heard that one. Really. That's good stuff. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.880 But like maybe it's just like a tree for the 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:36.960 for the tree. Yeah. 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:37.200 Maybe. 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.880 So here's some sat back. So if you if you 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.280 don't feel like keeping up with live Christmas tree, you 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.280 can always of course go the artificial route. And those 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.559 are actually also older than I realized. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:50.600 Boo boo artificial trees. 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.200 Man, I'm telling you, your artificial tree is awesome. 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:55.320 What does it smell like? 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.640 It smells like heaven, it smells like love? 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.760 Or does it smell like PDC made in Asia? 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:04.520 No, I mean I know what should mean. But we 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.320 have like a cinnamon and cinnamon broom behind it takes 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.599 care of everything. Does your tree smell like cinnamon? I 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:11.400 don't think it does. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.079 No, it smells like a tree, a lovely fir tree. 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.720 I'm just I'm anti artificial. But I get it. Some 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.080 people don't like the fuss of going out and getting one, 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.200 or cleaning up needles or whatever your reason is. 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.480 So chuck. Apparently people have wanted to get around that 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:31.240 fuss for many, many years. Apparently again in the nineteenth century, 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:32.640 artificial trees were around. 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.640 Yeah, it seems like it sort of mirrored the Christmas 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.679 tree lot. Yeah, you know, around the same time, I 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:43.000 guess yea. And they were originally you know, made to 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.600 look like real trees, many which still are. But in 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.840 the nineteen fifties it got a little crazy, and we 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.240 actually have one of these trees from the nineteen fifties. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.120 You don't put it up, yeah, I put it up 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:53.839 in you. 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.840 Know, it's small. So we have one in the sun room. 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.839 So you selectively pooh pooh artificial trees. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.960 I selectively pooh whoo using an artificial tree in lieu 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.679 of a real tree. So we have our little fifties 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.040 retro with a color wheel the fire hazard tree in 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:07.520 one room. 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:08.680 What color is it? 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:09.120 It's silver? 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.240 Nice? Yeah, do you have like the bright colored ornaments 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:13.040 on it and everything? 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.320 We just do like, uh, I think we just do 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.920 like one kind of single red ball not a single ball, 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.640 but one single style all over the tree. 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:23.400 Very tasteful. 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.000 And it's not like our regular tree we have, you know, 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.280 all of our childhood stuff and the stuff we bought together, 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:34.560 stuff like that, and our our Exon commemorative and our 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:39.640 Chevron commemorative ornaments McDonald's ornaments. No, but you know how 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.440 like every corporation on Earth Christmas ornaments. Could you imagine 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:43.480 if that's all you add. 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.600 Yeah, that'd be kind of sad, that'd be awful. So 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.040 you were saying that a lot of people turn to, uh, 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.320 turn to fake trees because of the mess and all 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.520 that stuff. There's also another really good reason that people 0:14:55.640 --> 0:15:00.400 increasingly are selecting artificial trees. And there's some really top 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:05.840 notch artificial, expensive artificial trees out there that look very 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:10.240 much like real trees. Yeah, and it's becoming a growing 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:14.240 alternative for people who are eco conscious. And there's developed 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:18.920 this big debate over whether artificial trees or regular trees 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.160 are better for the environment. Yeah, and it seems very 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.160 logical if you grow a tree, to cut it down, 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.200 to use a gallon of water a day to keep 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.200 it alive for a few weeks before you throw. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.760 It out, well, right, throw it out, mulch it. 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.160 Maybe not everybody does. I'm just saying it. It seems like 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:37.520 an environmental nightmare. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:38.320 Yeah, it could be. 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.760 But so the artificial tree would seem smarter. But apparently 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:44.840 there's a study done in two thousand and nine that 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.240 basically said once and for all, like no, actually, depending 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.000 on how long you keep your artificial tree, you're better 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:52.920 off getting a real tree every year. 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.800 Yeah, they did the study in Montreal and they said, 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.880 and they said, this is the most definitive study yet said, 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.360 you have to reuse that artificial tree for more than 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:08.720 twenty years to be greener. This includes greenhouse emissions, resources, 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.240 human health impacts. Like I said, a lot of fake 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:17.360 trees contain PBC. They're generally manufactured in Asia and shipped 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:21.040 over here. You definitely cannot mulch those. No, once you 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:23.320 get sick of it, it's probably gonna have been a 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.360 what do you call it a garbage lot? 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:26.040 What do you call those? 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:26.800 Landfill? 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.000 Landfill or field? 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:35.160 Landfield? Is that no? So, of course the chairman and 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.360 chief executive of Balsam Hill, makers of artificial tree, says no, 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:40.880 no ours for more green. 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.760 Yeah. Well, he was saying the point he makes is 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.880 that if you take all of the emissions created by 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.240 all of the Americans driving to a Christmas tree lot, 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.120 getting their Christmas tree, and driving home, in addition to 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.600 like whatever transportation costs. Because you know, most of those 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.160 Christmas tree lots around here, other trees are coming from 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.160 North Carolina. Yeah, and they're being then ami down and 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.520 all that. You put all that together, you compare that 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:07.720 to a ship carrying fifty thousand artificial Christmas trees from China. 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:08.560 Yeah. 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:13.280 The artificial trees more environmentally conscious. Yeah, but this study 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:18.160 supported it too, which one Well, the study eventually Oh sure, 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:19.840 over the course of I mean, you'd have to take 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.119 care of your tree for twenty years, but yes. 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.080 Well and look at the bright side, your tree will 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.040 then be retro twenty years later. 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.520 You can use nothing but red ornamental exactly. 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.639 So that's all I got except for you know, multier 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:38.159 trees afterward, because they can end up you know, I mean, 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:39.640 you don't have to do it yourself. Most Citi sub 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.880 programs where you can put it out and they mulch 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.639 it and it'll end up on a playground somewhere, a nice, 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.880 fine smelling playground of Douglas fur or. 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.639 If you have an artificial tree, you can reuse it. 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.600 Yeah, just box it up, put it in the attic, 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:54.240 use it again next year. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:06.639 So, Chuck, you've heard of NORD, the North American Aerospace 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.919 Defense Command, Right, I'm a big fan. They're basically like 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:15.280 the Missile Defense Group for the US and Canada. Yeah. 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.760 I did not know it was a joint effort by 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.760 both countries. I did not know it was US and Canada. 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.280 It makes sense. I have a feeling I'm probably wrong 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.520 that the US like set this all up and then 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:29.719 told Canada, Hey, we need to put some of our 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:30.440 stuff up there. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.640 That's a distinct possibility and it'll keep. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.959 You safe if you just give us that plot of land, right, 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:36.160 And they said sure. 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:42.040 Yeah. Hey. Well, nor AD, famous for tracking missiles, is 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:45.080 also famous for a Christmas tradition of tracking Santa Claus. 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:46.720 Pretty great tradition. Yeah. 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:51.200 Back in nineteen fifty five, this serendipitous accident happened when 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:57.679 a serious department store accidentally listed CONEAD, which is the 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.560 Continental Air Defense Command, which was the our assessor to 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:05.920