Speaker 1: This is How Men Think with Brooks and Gavin de
Speaker 1: Graf and I heard radio podcast. Welcome to a very
Speaker 1: special episode of How Men Think Podcast. It's the Holiday edition. Hey,
Speaker 1: the Holiday edition. Holidays are the holidays are here essentially,
Speaker 1: but right around the corner. Christmas right around the corner.
Speaker 1: So we wanted to do a holiday episode. We're here
Speaker 1: with Rick Dmitri. Easton is running a new mustache that
Speaker 1: we're very fond of. It's it's new old. It's a
Speaker 1: retro seventies with that. Harry's running. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: fantastic look. We've been saying the holidays are the giving season,
Speaker 1: and my friend, you are giving a gift to us. Right.
Speaker 1: We have Ami and studio. We also have Danielle. We
Speaker 1: got the whole. We're just we're missing our buddy gave
Speaker 1: Ryan filled with poop diapers. Can I read you the
Speaker 1: text here from the baby from the baby, this is
Speaker 1: the latest I been drinking. It is Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I mean it's just out of control, he said. I
Speaker 1: was forced to cancel my trip. JP is screaming, crying, projectile,
Speaker 1: vomiting everywhere, all over our nanny's car, all over our couch,
Speaker 1: and our brand new rug. The baby is screaming. My
Speaker 1: wife has just begun vomiting. I had to raise home
Speaker 1: from work and I have a splitting headache. Oh and
Speaker 1: the dog is trying to eat the throw up and
Speaker 1: won't stop looking. The world is the world is against me? Oh, buddy, Ryan,
Speaker 1: I love that he says over our brand new rug,
Speaker 1: it's a brand new baby too. But you're just dismissing
Speaker 1: that because that's causing the mess. My heart goes out
Speaker 1: to you, buddy. But the fact that he's he's actually
Speaker 1: texting you all of that is it means he has time.
Speaker 1: He's not cleaning He should be cleaning up a few
Speaker 1: cris My response was, oh, your trip is canceled, Great,
Speaker 1: you can do the show with us, and he goes,
Speaker 1: good luck. I don't want him coming in here smelling like, okay,
Speaker 1: well this is this is the holiday edition, so we
Speaker 1: this this episode. We just want to have a ton
Speaker 1: of fun, and we're going to cover some background because
Speaker 1: we're all we're all new to each other this year.
Speaker 1: But I'm curious first Christmas and and you're the best
Speaker 1: dressed one here, Dmitri. Can we talk about what you're wearing?
Speaker 1: Right now here is nothing in answer, only has a
Speaker 1: sweater on. It's a Christmas sweater. Some mighty call an
Speaker 1: ugly Christmas weater fantastic Christmas. What my thinking was In Tahoe,
Speaker 1: Rick wore a speedo that showed off his best attributes,
Speaker 1: so I thought I'd wear this to get away with it.
Speaker 1: Which attribute for our listeners is it highlighting? And for
Speaker 1: others that may not know, I think the only highlighting
Speaker 1: that's going on are the flashing lights on the sweater.
Speaker 1: You want another sad part two? It has three blinking
Speaker 1: things on it and only one of them is blinking.
Speaker 1: That's I'm already down to bulbs. In your defense, though,
Speaker 1: when when a bulb inside a sweater burns out, that's
Speaker 1: a hard fix. Yeah, right, you gotta have your needle
Speaker 1: and threat. Yeah, but I do appreciate the spirit that
Speaker 1: you showed up with, buddy. Thanks. It says all lit up,
Speaker 1: But obviously I'm up and partially not yet, no, just partial.
Speaker 1: The not is young. So we're gonna get into the holidays.
Speaker 1: We're gonna dig into the holidays. I love the holidays.
Speaker 1: We're gonna dig into it and what it means to
Speaker 1: you guys, So, first off, your favorite holiday memory all time?
Speaker 1: Do you have a single favorite memory? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Mine's actually a little bit deep. Mine's a little deep,
Speaker 1: to be honest with. My favorite holiday of all time
Speaker 1: obviously was Christmas at my parents house, which we always
Speaker 1: go there. Um, and I had graduated college, but also
Speaker 1: took me a few years to sort of get the diploma. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's okay, so you know the six year planets. Okay, buddy,
Speaker 1: no longer than that. But anyway, no one was home
Speaker 1: to sign for it when it arrived, you know. And
Speaker 1: this is kind of in my later years. Obviously I
Speaker 1: didn't go to college when I was twelve, but um,
Speaker 1: I had finally graduated and I had wrapped in got
Speaker 1: my diploma and got it all framed with the University
Speaker 1: of California at Berkeley, and I wrapped it and gave
Speaker 1: it to my parents and it was emotional, like it
Speaker 1: was emotional and it was a big deal. I was
Speaker 1: so proud to give that to them and show them
Speaker 1: that I actually had accomplished that, you know, I finished
Speaker 1: and it was just like I started bursting out in tears.
Speaker 1: You know, this is probably three years ago. I just
Speaker 1: getting how many years ago. God, I'm embarrassed to say.
Speaker 1: I don't want to tell you it was. It was
Speaker 1: a while ago, but past the normal graduation. And that
Speaker 1: frame is still there on the mantel. There's a different
Speaker 1: picture in it now, but they kept the frame. Took
Speaker 1: the diploma out now the paper airplane love loved the frame.
Speaker 1: But it was for that for me, um, you know,
Speaker 1: even growing up and getting all the cool toys or
Speaker 1: the bike or whatever you want to call it, um
Speaker 1: or the traditional Christmas morning toys or whatever. Um, having
Speaker 1: that moment and actually being able to give back to
Speaker 1: my parents something that they held me achieved, that I
Speaker 1: achieved and then you know, having that kind of door
Speaker 1: closed for me was was a big deal. And I
Speaker 1: think they were very impressed with that as well, and
Speaker 1: I was. It was a proud moment, right, it was
Speaker 1: a special holiday. That's awesome. Yeah, thanks for sharing, Dmitri.
Speaker 1: What about your favorite? A deep one and a not
Speaker 1: deep one? Which one would you like? Both? Okay, the
Speaker 1: not deep one was um. When I was in third grade,
Speaker 1: my brother second grade, My brother told me that he
Speaker 1: heard Santa Claus. He was our bathroom. So I was like,
Speaker 1: he said, he heard the boots go in there in
Speaker 1: the middle, and I thought that was awesome. So I
Speaker 1: went to school and I told everybody, and not everybody
Speaker 1: believed me for reasons he might be able to figure out.
Speaker 1: And so it was fun then because it was exciting.
Speaker 1: But then years later I really appreciate it because he
Speaker 1: knew that he was lying to me, but he knew
Speaker 1: that I would go in and tell everybody school, so
Speaker 1: I but I really appreciated that. It's because it was
Speaker 1: a solid joke. It really paid off. Um, were the
Speaker 1: boot tracks in the bathroom he did that? I woke
Speaker 1: up and I heard the boots go into the bathroom
Speaker 1: downstairs in the hallway, and I was like, man, and
Speaker 1: he's like he washed his hands and you know, the
Speaker 1: whole thing. And I was like, oh, so he probably
Speaker 1: took off his gloves. I went through the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Did he set up like did he take a boot
Speaker 1: outside like put it in in some water? So no,
Speaker 1: because I was in like second grade, like I wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna I wasn't bright enough. You just wondered to take it.
Speaker 1: Did he take a dump in the bathroom the toilet, Oh,
Speaker 1: he's got a little opening in the back there's a
Speaker 1: little patch in there, and I think those are pajamas. Okay,
Speaker 1: now you're now you're deep and thoughtful, memorable one. Okay,
Speaker 1: So my deep one was it was third grade and yeah,
Speaker 1: well it was a year or later, so yeah year. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it all went downhill at um third grade.
Speaker 1: My I think I've talked about it before, but my
Speaker 1: brother passed away on December three, so it was right
Speaker 1: before Christmas. And on Christmas, my parents gave us, eating
Speaker 1: my sisters and my other brother and myself presence from
Speaker 1: him and said that he picked him out before he
Speaker 1: passed away. And it was the It was the greatest thing,
Speaker 1: and that was the best gift I ever got, and
Speaker 1: I held onto it forever. And even when those things
Speaker 1: it was like this radio, this little compact radio, even
Speaker 1: when it wasn't in style anymore like Walkman's came out,
Speaker 1: I still was like, that's this this radio, and I
Speaker 1: kind of forgot that, you know, there was better things
Speaker 1: out there, and I just held out of that radio. Now,
Speaker 1: the truth is, I don't whether that happened or not.
Speaker 1: Whether my parents just bought it and said it was
Speaker 1: from him, probably the case, but Um, to me, that
Speaker 1: was before I It took me probably thirty years before
Speaker 1: I actually thought that maybe that was it. In my heart,
Speaker 1: I always thought it was from him. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: It's really cool, isn't it powerful? Like the sentimental value
Speaker 1: of some things. It's not even about the object, but
Speaker 1: there's things in my life that that are just so
Speaker 1: insanely valuable because of the moment they were given to me,
Speaker 1: or how or the person that gave it to me.
Speaker 1: The sentimental value of something. Do you guys have anything
Speaker 1: that you've had like all your lives? Like I have
Speaker 1: my blankie that I got when I was born and
Speaker 1: I still sleep with it every night. I'm not lying,
Speaker 1: but do you have anything like that? I have a
Speaker 1: couple of things, actually I have. I have some pocks
Speaker 1: from when I was a kid. Um. I don't know
Speaker 1: how I got them, but I remember these pucks from
Speaker 1: my childhood. UM. I also have the six little unique
Speaker 1: cars I cut. When I was growing up, I would
Speaker 1: mow lawns for money back home in Woda, and this
Speaker 1: gentleman named Ralph drinn And was like my first ever customer.
Speaker 1: I think I was like ten years old, and I
Speaker 1: would cut his lawn and I went to ask him
Speaker 1: for payment after I was done cutting his lawn, and
Speaker 1: he's like, what do you charge? I was like, I
Speaker 1: have no idea, just whatever you want to pay me. Anyway,
Speaker 1: he paid me ten bucks every time to cut his lawn.
Speaker 1: And then I cut his lawn for a couple of years.
Speaker 1: And then he ordered these little vintage UM collectors set
Speaker 1: cars and it was a six pack, and he gave
Speaker 1: me one car each week, this one time, for six
Speaker 1: straight weeks. And he was a he was a army
Speaker 1: vet uh for Canada. UM. Just a distinguished noble guy
Speaker 1: in town. Just always. I don't know. I just never
Speaker 1: had grandparents living anywhere around me that my closest grandparents
Speaker 1: were seven years or seven months, seven years, seven months,
Speaker 1: seven hours away, seven months away, seven months. It's quite
Speaker 1: a boat red. But he was like somewhat of a
Speaker 1: grandfather in a way. And I would sit and I
Speaker 1: would I would talk with him after I mowed his
Speaker 1: lawn and he would give me these cars. And I
Speaker 1: still have those cars in our attic here in the house.
Speaker 1: I've moved them down from its I just haven't been
Speaker 1: able to get rid of them. I have no idea why. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's really cool. Quick question mowing lawns in Canada, it's
Speaker 1: always putay that like one one weekend out of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a seasonal thing. It's not a yeah you need
Speaker 1: another job. He would have made by the way I got.
Speaker 1: I got ten bucks every three months, even as even
Speaker 1: as a ten year old, you can't. You can't make
Speaker 1: a living off that you do have anything that you've
Speaker 1: just had all your lives. No, I don't. I not
Speaker 1: that I could. I mean when you ask the question,
Speaker 1: it doesn't. Nothing's popping into You're not really a material guy.
Speaker 1: Like I'm really not. I kind of get rid of things.
Speaker 1: Not to worst, I try so hard with your birthday
Speaker 1: every year, and like I've never gotten you something you like. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: like I mean to do it. I mean, I'm just
Speaker 1: saying you don't really love a gift, but today you will.
Speaker 1: I have a quilt that has Rick's diploma stitched into it. Amy,
Speaker 1: what about you? What's your favorite holiday memory of all time? Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't enjoy these holidays, Like I find this so irritating.
Speaker 1: I don't from from Where's your Hair Green? From November
Speaker 1: one till January two? I'm basically sort of irritated, and
Speaker 1: then it lightens a little, but not till February fifteen.
Speaker 1: Do I feel Do I feel whole again? Do you
Speaker 1: have one memory though that you mean as a kid,
Speaker 1: I loved all of it. I don't know. My brother
Speaker 1: said to me the other day, when did you become
Speaker 1: so bitter and just crmudgeon e? And I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't love it. I think it's just
Speaker 1: so stressful. That's what I want to ask you, guys, like,
Speaker 1: because women get so stressed at the holl doesn't want
Speaker 1: to see if men do, like all the cooking, the shopping,
Speaker 1: the cleaning, the getting the house decorated, Like I got
Speaker 1: this and that and all these I gotta help my
Speaker 1: mom order all the stuff for my nieces and all.
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, I do want to I do
Speaker 1: want to ask Brooks if if there was a memory
Speaker 1: that you had growing up of the holidays or Christmas
Speaker 1: or whatever you celebrate, you know that that really sticks
Speaker 1: with you. The the only two that come to mind.
Speaker 1: I remember when I was like super young, I was
Speaker 1: like five, and I got a new pair of hockey
Speaker 1: gloves and they were like wait, they almost came to
Speaker 1: my elbows like they I was like, okay, I'm wearing
Speaker 1: these six years. Yeah, we're ruining the apple trees after
Speaker 1: like they were. They were so long. UM, I was
Speaker 1: obviously going to grow into these. But I remember, and
Speaker 1: I have an awesome photo my brothers in the back
Speaker 1: of that photo, and I think he might even have
Speaker 1: some of my hockey gear on. Um. I'm like maybe five,
Speaker 1: he's like maybe three. Um, just because I have the
Speaker 1: visual of that, that was so cool. And then another
Speaker 1: one that really sticks with me is when I was nineteen,
Speaker 1: I made the Canadian national junior team and the biggest
Speaker 1: junior hockey tournament in the world, the World Junior Championship, starts. Uh,
Speaker 1: Boxing Day every year? What is that Boxing Day? Boxing?
Speaker 1: What Boxing Day? No? I know, it has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with boxing in can't Maybe it's just a Canadian
Speaker 1: thing it is, Um. I think everything goes on sale
Speaker 1: on Boxing Day, so like Friday, I guess. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like a holiday. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: It's called boxing. Do you know the date? Yeah, December,
Speaker 1: so we don't have like dinners for Boxing Day. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. Maybe it's you box up
Speaker 1: the crappy gifts you got and you take them back,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe that's what But Boxing Day things go
Speaker 1: on sale. It's observed as a holiday in which postman
Speaker 1: arrand boys and servants are expected to receive a Christmas box.
Speaker 1: It's the first weekday after Christmas, so we're supposed to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, celebrate those who serve you throughout the It
Speaker 1: sounds much more glamorous like boxing. I thought it was
Speaker 1: a holiday, like people come over for dinner. It's boxing. Yea.
Speaker 1: Now it's kind of just like celebrating boxing, like the
Speaker 1: nice invitation come on over for Boxing Day. Selene's um.
Speaker 1: But on the on Christmas morning when I was nineteen,
Speaker 1: I practiced with Team Canada. We had our practice Christmas
Speaker 1: morning because our tournament started the very next day, and
Speaker 1: so my family flew in. We're the tournament was in Halifax,
Speaker 1: Nova Scotia. Family flew in UM. We had practiced the morning,
Speaker 1: saw the family for the evening, and then we played
Speaker 1: against Sweden the next day to open the tournament. Biggest
Speaker 1: World Junior Championship, biggest tournament as a young kid trying
Speaker 1: to make the NHL uh and then I scored on
Speaker 1: my very first shift like a minute and a half
Speaker 1: in and so that was just like in Canada, you
Speaker 1: grow up watching the World Junior Championship at Christmas, families
Speaker 1: do it together. It unites the nation. It's the biggest
Speaker 1: thing for Canada. It's amazing and so to be part
Speaker 1: of that awesome. Now, before we get to the excitement
Speaker 1: that we have planned for you all, does anything about
Speaker 1: the Holida trust you guys out like buying gifts like
Speaker 1: it's this is I'm not even close to done Christmas shopping,
Speaker 1: Like I'm haven't started even started. Like if Amazon Prime
Speaker 1: screws me, I'm dad, i am dead if like and
Speaker 1: maybe it's gonna be boxed down, Oh my god. It's
Speaker 1: just every single amy, every single year, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get this done in October or November, and
Speaker 1: then it's December and I don't have I have like
Speaker 1: one crappy thing that she might like see. I have
Speaker 1: my wife and I This year, we're like we're getting
Speaker 1: stuff done before the night of everything. I mean every
Speaker 1: every year it's till midnight. And I think that's part
Speaker 1: of the part going into your next question of like
Speaker 1: the part that bumps me out It's like I'm always
Speaker 1: tired on Christmas Day and then you're kind of milling around,
Speaker 1: you're eating or you're doing whatever, and I'm like, why
Speaker 1: is that? And so I'm like, this year's goal was
Speaker 1: to try to package thing. I love shopping, like I
Speaker 1: I like that, So I both so actually that part
Speaker 1: of the holidays really I like a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: like I've already have a list of twenty five things
Speaker 1: on my phone of like kids, family, all this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, and now I've got to just go and
Speaker 1: like execute on it. Right, that was the time. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess I get a better order of that stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, good for you, because that's not me. I'm
Speaker 1: this is this is actually something that stresses me up.
Speaker 1: So I tell Julianne this is my whole life. I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is what I want for Christmas x y Z
Speaker 1: right here, here's the link. This is it. Don't even
Speaker 1: look for anything else. This would make me the happiest
Speaker 1: man in the world. I get none of that in return,
Speaker 1: none of that. There's not suggestions, Yeah you want, you
Speaker 1: get what you want. You just don't. She just doesn't
Speaker 1: tell you this is what I want. So I get
Speaker 1: what yeah, I get what I want. Usually she was
Speaker 1: like this is yeah, and then that's amazing. Um, but
Speaker 1: I have no direction for like what to get. I
Speaker 1: don't think women ever want to say I want this.
Speaker 1: They want you to figure it out and get That
Speaker 1: would take sort of like the fun out of it,
Speaker 1: Like why is it fun for me to tell you
Speaker 1: what I want? Then you just get it for me? Right,
Speaker 1: you can get it yourself, because then you get the
Speaker 1: favorite thing in the world for free. Is such a
Speaker 1: strange concept of married couples because it's like, really, isn't
Speaker 1: it just sort of all y'all's money anyway? But that's
Speaker 1: that's the other part. It's like I feel weird where
Speaker 1: it's like we're out of stage, not financially, but you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: if I can go get that tomorrow, why do I
Speaker 1: need to wait until? Because it's why do I have
Speaker 1: to wrap it and act surprised when I knew what
Speaker 1: it was? Because it goes back to the sentimental value.
Speaker 1: My mom texted me the other day and she goes,
Speaker 1: don't get that coffee table you've been looking at, And
Speaker 1: so all I'm thinking is like, great, So now I
Speaker 1: have no coffee table until she get my wife. You know.
Speaker 1: Would be worse is if she just didn't like it
Speaker 1: and she's not getting If she's like, don't get it
Speaker 1: and leaves Christmas cons and you still don't have a
Speaker 1: coffee table. My wife, it will be like two weeks
Speaker 1: before her birthday and she'll be coming, like walking in
Speaker 1: the room and have like brand new shiny earrings on
Speaker 1: a new bag. I'm like, oh, hey, that was really nice,
Speaker 1: Like would you would you get there? Oh? I just
Speaker 1: picked him up. I'm like, you know your birthday is
Speaker 1: in like two weeks, right, you know I don't like
Speaker 1: you can't wait? Come on girl? Okay? One one last
Speaker 1: real quick question. Any favorite holiday tradition you have. I
Speaker 1: love watching Christmas Vacation. One year, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: this is gonna be sad. This is gonna be sad.
Speaker 1: Not really, but one year I watched once a day
Speaker 1: every day from Thanksgiving to Christmas. I watch Christmas Vacation
Speaker 1: once a day for like twenty something days. I have
Speaker 1: one that's gonna blow people's minds. Have a lot of
Speaker 1: friends back then. If you have kids, so on Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: this is real. You have your kids right, like their
Speaker 1: Christmas list and then you put it in the fireplace
Speaker 1: and you burn it and Santa can read this smoke
Speaker 1: signals that come up. That's cool, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: That's that's really cool. Let's hope that you've actually got
Speaker 1: them those presents. Otherwise you're lined up for a massive
Speaker 1: They're also like, well, what if the fireplace is still
Speaker 1: too hot for him to come down? Now we've just
Speaker 1: now he's not even coming the coals. It's like one
Speaker 1: in the morning. You know what we used to do?
Speaker 1: You know what we used to do on Christmas? We
Speaker 1: used to do this. I used to love this fund
Speaker 1: that's good. I don't know why we used to fond
Speaker 1: do on Christmas. That's always a New Year's thing for me,
Speaker 1: is it? Yeah? I haven't done it in probably like
Speaker 1: twenty years. But when we were kids, we used to
Speaker 1: fond do, like put steak in there and yeah, that's good. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get into some Christmas gifts. Ryan's gonna be
Speaker 1: so upset he's not here for Christmas. Nothing would satisfy
Speaker 1: him anyway. Don't worry. That's very true. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: into some Christmas gifts right after this break. This is
Speaker 1: how men think the holiday. Addition, with Dmitri's blinding sweater
Speaker 1: right in my eye, I want to know if the
Speaker 1: one light's gone out. Yeah, okay, we are getting we
Speaker 1: are getting into holiday gifts right now, Amy, can you
Speaker 1: te this up for Yeah. So here's what we did.
Speaker 1: So Tory, Danielle Easton and I all got together and
Speaker 1: planned out what we thought could be the hottest gifts
Speaker 1: for you guys for the holidays, to you know, to
Speaker 1: help you out. We would give to somebody, give gifts
Speaker 1: that you could receive, gifts that you can eat, gifts
Speaker 1: that you can take as a hostess, gift to a party,
Speaker 1: gifts for the kids. Everything. Okay, And so we have
Speaker 1: a bunch of different people here that will think shark Tank.
Speaker 1: They're gonna come in and they'll have one to two
Speaker 1: minutes to explain to you guys why it's the perfect gift.
Speaker 1: You can ask them questions, you can talk to them,
Speaker 1: and then when we leave, when they leave, will analyze
Speaker 1: which was the best gift. Will be Okay, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be Mark cuban athlete, and yeah, you can decide
Speaker 1: if you're gonna invest in them. So I will begin
Speaker 1: This was my idea for you guys, Although as I'm
Speaker 1: saying it out loud, it's a little weird because like,
Speaker 1: if you got this for Julianne, I think it might
Speaker 1: be a hint weird, but I'm gonna try it anyway.
Speaker 1: So this is the hot one of the hottest jewelry
Speaker 1: items this going into They are called chunky initial rings,
Speaker 1: and they range in price. You could probably get them
Speaker 1: for thirty dollars to fifty dollars. You can get him
Speaker 1: at Neiman Marcus. You could get him at this company
Speaker 1: called Wiley Heart w I L E Y H A
Speaker 1: R T dot com and We're put everything on our Instagram.
Speaker 1: People want to buy this. So what I got was
Speaker 1: a B for Brooks and an R for Rick, and
Speaker 1: then I'm wearing them on my hands, which I think
Speaker 1: is really cool. The only part that I wear, the
Speaker 1: only part that now that I'm saying out loud, is
Speaker 1: a little weird that you're gonna give Julianna be like,
Speaker 1: don't you love me so much that you want to
Speaker 1: wear a around you want to know what true story?
Speaker 1: On the bottom of her wedding ring. There is a
Speaker 1: B on the bottom part just so she knows it's
Speaker 1: from me at the that's a really big in your
Speaker 1: face serio. We'll take photos so people can see it there.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, so, Rick, how do you feel that
Speaker 1: I'm just wearing this are around around It's big. So yes,
Speaker 1: you could do your kids so like if you if
Speaker 1: you wanted, you could get your wife the kids in
Speaker 1: the first letter and then you give it and then
Speaker 1: she could wear the P and the E. Of course
Speaker 1: I have four kids. It's gonna be like brass knuckles
Speaker 1: for her. Dmitri's wife suddenly, Mr t Okay, so that
Speaker 1: is my first idea. Everybody can judge it later. So
Speaker 1: now we're gonna go. We're gonna bring in our special guests. Okay,
Speaker 1: special guests. Okay, we have guest number one here to
Speaker 1: pitch us with a Christmas gift. What is your name, sir?
Speaker 1: My name is Mike Crouss. Mike, pleasure to have you.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, and can you tell us about
Speaker 1: your gift? Yes, So we have um what are called
Speaker 1: visit visit tags and visit tags are customizable luggage tags
Speaker 1: and key chains. Make them in four different styles. They
Speaker 1: come in twelve different colors and you can customize them.
Speaker 1: With anything you want. You can write absolutely anything. So
Speaker 1: when you all stress out about not being sure of
Speaker 1: what to get someone, um, you can create the perfect
Speaker 1: gift for every single persons in your list because you
Speaker 1: can embroider whatever you want on every single tag. So
Speaker 1: it's an embroidered tag and this wraps on somebody's luggage.
Speaker 1: It just is a little something attached to something. This
Speaker 1: this particular one is elastic. We have a snap version.
Speaker 1: We have version with a gromut and zip tie. Um.
Speaker 1: And you it's not only for luggage, like people use
Speaker 1: them on sports bags. Um, they use them on backpacks
Speaker 1: and briefcases. Keychain are there smaller ones? There are smaller
Speaker 1: ones that are key chains. Yeah, and Dmitri's case, you
Speaker 1: hang them on front of each kid's door so you
Speaker 1: know which one's right. That's a great idea. Actually, people
Speaker 1: do tag all kinds of stuff like pipes and tool kits,
Speaker 1: like we have first aid like e MT companies that
Speaker 1: flag different boxes use them for all kinds of different things.
Speaker 1: But what I like about them is like we live
Speaker 1: in this time where um, like people want to express
Speaker 1: who they are, right and so um, you know we
Speaker 1: do that on Instagram and other social media, but um,
Speaker 1: you know, more so than your name. People are using
Speaker 1: these to express like who they are, what they like,
Speaker 1: or how they travel or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: So is it I see it as somewhat like, um,
Speaker 1: a personalized license plate when or a customized license plate
Speaker 1: when somebody has like a That's how I would probably
Speaker 1: use it. Instead of a name. I'd put like some
Speaker 1: fun message on it or something like because something fun
Speaker 1: gnarly on there to give to somebody. Do people use
Speaker 1: it like that or is it usually just name basis? No.
Speaker 1: We we rebranded and the kids actually came into the
Speaker 1: business a couple of years ago and said, okay, mom
Speaker 1: and dad, who we put to work? Actually this year
Speaker 1: we're so busy. My seventy nine year old parents are
Speaker 1: in the shop making tags. Right seriously, Um, But we
Speaker 1: we rebranded to um give people ideas about how to
Speaker 1: express themselves exactly that, So like I'm a latte lover,
Speaker 1: or I've gone fishing or whatever the case is. And
Speaker 1: that's most of the texts that people order. Now I
Speaker 1: would do like hands off, not your bag, because then
Speaker 1: it comes down the thing if people try and back
Speaker 1: off the only problem with that is every single Like,
Speaker 1: we get so many of those, so you would that
Speaker 1: makes everybody? Yeah, yeah, okay, awesome. Visit tag dot com
Speaker 1: check those out. I I like I like that. I
Speaker 1: like where this is going. I can see you can
Speaker 1: you do different fonts and different I mean sizes are not. Um,
Speaker 1: we have twelve different colors of tag, twelve different colors
Speaker 1: of embroidery. Um. We're looking at new materials for next year,
Speaker 1: all kinds of different customizations. So it's a Nylon tag
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, yeah, superb Visit tag dot com. Okay, thanks,
Speaker 1: thank you very much, appreciate you. Okay, joining us, Joining us,
Speaker 1: we have two lovely ladies. Ladies, can you please introduce yourselves. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm Jennifer Harless, Jennifer and Jennifer. Jennifer and Jennifer. Okay,
Speaker 1: I was talking to you on Wednesday in the airport
Speaker 1: at Nashville. Wednesday in the airport at Yeah, didn't you
Speaker 1: had your dog? And I was like, I love your dog.
Speaker 1: It's so cute. Come on, yeah and no, but I
Speaker 1: didn't know who you were. I was just in the
Speaker 1: baggage claim and I'm like, your dogs so cute. And
Speaker 1: what was so funny was I was like, he looks
Speaker 1: kind of familiar, right, I'm like hmmm, And I didn't
Speaker 1: think anything, and then we got our backs and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, then I saw Julianne coming out and
Speaker 1: I go, oh, I could have just said something and
Speaker 1: I didn't. Yes, by the way, you were following the
Speaker 1: how men think Instagram, right, Yes, that's exactly what I
Speaker 1: recognized him from. Kay walked up and just double tapped
Speaker 1: him right there, so we used to see him on
Speaker 1: the phone. Um up, Jennifer's what is your gift idea
Speaker 1: for the holidays? Okay? So we created a gift for
Speaker 1: both men and women, and we're bringing lockets back. If
Speaker 1: you think of lockets, everybody thinks grandma, right, like a
Speaker 1: grandma lock it? Okay, And they kind of disappeared for
Speaker 1: a while, and we were thinking that that was probably
Speaker 1: because nobody prints pictures anymore. Everybody has their pictures on
Speaker 1: their phone. So we decided her actually the whole thing
Speaker 1: happened because her sister was looking for a locket and
Speaker 1: we couldn't find a modern one, so we designed a
Speaker 1: modern lock it. And what what's really nice about our
Speaker 1: lockets is we also developed the technology where you can
Speaker 1: take a picture right from your phone and you can
Speaker 1: put it into the locket, or we do it for you.
Speaker 1: So if you were going to if you had a
Speaker 1: gift and you bought this, and we actually have this
Speaker 1: one for you to give Julianne and because yes, now
Speaker 1: you're supposed to, but because thank you, but because we
Speaker 1: I saw you in the airport, you'll understand why I
Speaker 1: put that picture in there. But UM, so when someone
Speaker 1: has the locket, like let's say you guys were ordering
Speaker 1: it for a female in your life, mom, wife, anybody, Um,
Speaker 1: you just upload the photo and we put the picture
Speaker 1: for you. Can show you guys this this is so cool.
Speaker 1: It's a picture of me and Coda are dog on
Speaker 1: his second birthday. I shared it on my Instagram. Um
Speaker 1: and by the way, I love on the back side
Speaker 1: of that how you have the two praying hands. So
Speaker 1: that all of our lockets have a different meaning, and
Speaker 1: that particular lock it means gratitude. So it's so and
Speaker 1: we give ten percent back to different charities and that
Speaker 1: one goes to Operation Gratitude, So every lock it gives
Speaker 1: back to charity. They all have a different meaning. So
Speaker 1: let's say you don't want to put a picture. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't decide what picture I want to put in.
Speaker 1: The really nice thing is that the words are engraved inside,
Speaker 1: so under the picture it actually says gratitude, Gratitude, gratitude.
Speaker 1: So let's say you know, you're like, I can't pick
Speaker 1: a picture, but I want to get this gift. That's
Speaker 1: okay because it stills the words inside. These are beautiful.
Speaker 1: That's because I think one of the biggest problems with
Speaker 1: Lockett's was not people didn't want to do the picture.
Speaker 1: You could never get a picture that's right, So that
Speaker 1: was always So that's nice that you can just and
Speaker 1: I know it took me ten years to finish college.
Speaker 1: But is that is it uploaded digitally or how are
Speaker 1: you doing that? Yeah? Digitally? Yeah. So let's say you're
Speaker 1: if you're you're on your phone and basically it says
Speaker 1: upload photo and you click get out of here. It's
Speaker 1: Bluetooth and WiFi combined. Yeah, and you can do it
Speaker 1: yourself at home because we have the app right on
Speaker 1: our website, or we'll do it for you. Okay, can
Speaker 1: you change it or is it just know? You can
Speaker 1: change it? Pop, you can change the photo it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: You can do for yourself at home. I'm afraid that's
Speaker 1: really cool, really cool. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: So you know we need to do is we need
Speaker 1: to get Ryan one of these picture of Brooks Brooks
Speaker 1: just keep changing it all. We have a man. Oh cool,
Speaker 1: let's see it's not black with the black can I
Speaker 1: see that? I like that. I've been looking for like
Speaker 1: a necklace, like something to wear for like eight years
Speaker 1: and never found. Well, you'll like this. We have one
Speaker 1: that says strength. Oh, I like it. Oh, that's the
Speaker 1: gratitude one that's cool um direct relief. So each one
Speaker 1: of them goes to a charity and inside the box
Speaker 1: when you give it, there's a card that describes the
Speaker 1: virtue and the charity goes to. As you look in
Speaker 1: the box, there you can see that. I love that again.
Speaker 1: So you can get them right on our website at
Speaker 1: wwww A token of Dot shop, a token of Dota
Speaker 1: I love the Yeah, it's all be on our Instagram. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we did well. And with the reason we did
Speaker 1: the key chain was, for example, my husband when we
Speaker 1: came up with the man, unlock it, he goes, I
Speaker 1: don't really wear I don't wear that, and so we
Speaker 1: were like, okay, what do we do? Because he still
Speaker 1: liked it, So I said, what about a key chain?
Speaker 1: There you go. I like it. I like it. I
Speaker 1: love um. Also, I love that you guys are a
Speaker 1: mission driven company. I want to commend you for that.
Speaker 1: That is thank you beautiful. I actually think of the
Speaker 1: charity and kind of backwards with the designs from the
Speaker 1: charities we want to help. Yeah, I want to commend
Speaker 1: you guys. That's awesome. So a token of dot shop.
Speaker 1: You can get it on our Instagram, go to their website,
Speaker 1: a token of dot shop. Those are beautiful. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. And it was Jen and right awesome, Thank
Speaker 1: you guys. Okay, we have our guest number three, Natalie
Speaker 1: from Bartesian. Hello, Hello, Natalie, welcome to the show. Can
Speaker 1: you tell us what you have here? Yes? So this
Speaker 1: is a pod based premium cocktail on demand machine. So
Speaker 1: I love it. Ryan's calling Gavin's on the phone. Yea.
Speaker 1: So they currently have about six drinks out right now
Speaker 1: in a bunch more launching soon. But you can make
Speaker 1: easy drinks like a Cosmo margarita, old fashioned whiskey, sour
Speaker 1: Sex on the beach, uptown rocks and a bunch more
Speaker 1: on the way. But you filled the four glass chambers
Speaker 1: with the alcohol of your choice, so you get to choose.
Speaker 1: If you're you know, hosting and want to put some
Speaker 1: of the cheaper stuff out, you can do that. If
Speaker 1: you're hosting for yourself, you can put your fancy stuff in.
Speaker 1: There's an interchangeable one for gin and rom You've got vodka, tequila,
Speaker 1: and whiskey and you just put the pot in a
Speaker 1: little bit of water and it's all real, all real
Speaker 1: juices and bitters and whatnot in the pod. So they're fresh,
Speaker 1: real ingredients, and the pods are recyclable, so you just
Speaker 1: put it in. Choose your strength, whether you want mocktail, light,
Speaker 1: regular or strong. And I'll tell you in the packaging
Speaker 1: how much alcohol is in each and it's in about
Speaker 1: fifteen seconds a drink is made. So this is like
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this. I'm not a coffee drinker. But
Speaker 1: for for our listeners who can't see this, it looks
Speaker 1: like an espresso. Espresso, like one of those looks like yeah,
Speaker 1: but with alcohol. Yeah we're missing. Don't miss that. That's
Speaker 1: the kind of drinks you like. I can demo you
Speaker 1: one right now, can kind of show you guys, give
Speaker 1: you a chance of taste. It tell yours I like margarite. Okay,
Speaker 1: So so we're gonna get you rick. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: you a market here. So you just lift it, insert
Speaker 1: the pond, close it way to you. The click. It
Speaker 1: tells you to place a low ball glass with ice
Speaker 1: under the dispenser, which you've already done. So you hit next.
Speaker 1: You choose mocktail light regular or strong strong Friday, Strong Holidays,
Speaker 1: so it's strong and hit mix. It's done. And I
Speaker 1: do have a question, So how does the ice? How
Speaker 1: does that portion work? So the ice you put in
Speaker 1: the cup and that cools on the drinks by the
Speaker 1: cold or the water you put in, or if you
Speaker 1: refrigerate the pods, which you don't need to do but
Speaker 1: always helps keeps everything really keeps everything really really cold.
Speaker 1: And just like that, it will be done. And then
Speaker 1: it says copsules are recyclable. It's self cleaning will be done,
Speaker 1: easy peasy, just like that. Wow, it's pretty cool. This
Speaker 1: is this is a beautiful machine. It really is. Like
Speaker 1: if you have this sitting on your counter or somewhere,
Speaker 1: it looks good. Yeah, it's a good design. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's sweek and cheek and matches every kitchen. Okay, where
Speaker 1: can they class? It looks classy and it makes strengths
Speaker 1: for you, which can't beat that. It's a good Margarita's
Speaker 1: good margarita boom. Here you go, dmitri Um, Natalie, where
Speaker 1: can where can they find? Well? They're available to for
Speaker 1: sale on bartesian dot com. You can also get them
Speaker 1: on Amazon. You can get them costco, bed bath and
Speaker 1: beyond in most places. It was just recently named on
Speaker 1: Oprah's Favorite Things list of nineteen and they'll be at
Speaker 1: CES in January. Awesome. It's like having your own bartender
Speaker 1: at home, so you don't have to go out anymore.
Speaker 1: You don't have to go out anymore. Uber is going
Speaker 1: to gout. Uber is going out of business. Bartesians putting
Speaker 1: Uber out of business. It's just as simple as that.
Speaker 1: Anyone else wanna give it to That's excellent. I'm good
Speaker 1: and thank you very much, Thank you, Natalie. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Bartian check it out. Sorry I was swallowing right there,
Speaker 1: I miss I missed my cue. Eastern Que's up, Eastern
Speaker 1: Que's up. These little things specifically for me because I
Speaker 1: love coming back from break with that and I missed it.
Speaker 1: And I apologize any times you gotta take a bite
Speaker 1: to you when you're up break. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a massive bowl of eminem's right here, and they're
Speaker 1: I just had one and I was swallowing and I
Speaker 1: missed it. Anyway. So east our guest number four with
Speaker 1: a gift is our producer Easton Alan. Hi, guys, thanks
Speaker 1: for having me. This is a dream of mine to
Speaker 1: be on how men think and Uh, but the real gift,
Speaker 1: the real gift is what's hopefully going to be under
Speaker 1: some trees come Christmas morning. I've got a lot of
Speaker 1: toys here because I'm a toy guy. You a toy guy.
Speaker 1: I am a major toy guy. That that is not
Speaker 1: an exaggeration. Um, someone got into my toys already. They've
Speaker 1: opened up the boxes. Uh, everybody loves that I've got.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I'm a I'm a childless man in
Speaker 1: my thirties, but I got the inside scoop on all
Speaker 1: the hot toys this season, okay, and I'm gonna pitch
Speaker 1: them to you guys, and we're gonna see which which
Speaker 1: one's um Rick, I know you have offspring, Dmitri. You've
Speaker 1: reproduced b so I think you're looking to do that.
Speaker 1: So this is something that's in the forefront of all
Speaker 1: of your minds. Smooth, It's awesome, Eastern. You're natural at this, buddy. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. I've presented lots of toys in
Speaker 1: my life, all right, so I've got the best toys
Speaker 1: out here. I'm going to present these two guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: you've got to start with the biggest, right. So in
Speaker 1: my hot little hand, I think I know what this is.
Speaker 1: It's just like Lion Heart thing or something there used
Speaker 1: to be the Lion was that. I used to love
Speaker 1: that show when I was a kid. Lion hurts. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is Power Rangers, my man, this is this is
Speaker 1: Power Rangers. Okay. Uh, this is something that maybe it
Speaker 1: was called Lion Heart up and up in the Great
Speaker 1: White North, but but but down here in America, we
Speaker 1: call this the Power Rangers. All right. It was got
Speaker 1: a big lion head staring right at me. Well, this
Speaker 1: is what we call the megas ord Uh. This is
Speaker 1: um several smaller reswords combined to create the megas or
Speaker 1: this thing is gigantic. It's uh, it's um this retails
Speaker 1: for thirty ninety nine. This is for ages four and up.
Speaker 1: And this is truly morph in time. It's Beast Morphers
Speaker 1: from the original name from Power Rangers line. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's I mean, how tall is this? Like? Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is like a two ft mega toy. He's got a
Speaker 1: white tiger on one arm, a shark on the other.
Speaker 1: You can see we've got a life size UM Power Ranger.
Speaker 1: This is to scale. So like I've got like probably
Speaker 1: what an inch and a half Power Ranger that at
Speaker 1: least at least but he's sitting on top there ready
Speaker 1: for attack. Um it can Uh. It's got articulating limbs,
Speaker 1: all the action of Power Rangers in one giant toy.
Speaker 1: So this is the this is the Beast Morphirs b
Speaker 1: Stecks ultraz Ord figure. Uh. So, I mean this is
Speaker 1: a pretty high ticket item. Let me just say this.
Speaker 1: If I'm if I'm a kid and I show up
Speaker 1: with this toy like I'm a big deal. Ye, I'm
Speaker 1: announcing my presence with authority when I show up with
Speaker 1: this toy. Yeah, this this thing is uh and sorry
Speaker 1: I misspoke earlier this section retails for fift This is
Speaker 1: a this is a pretty major gift. Um, if you're
Speaker 1: going to be getting this for any kid's gonna love
Speaker 1: to see this into the tree by the way. Also
Speaker 1: a lion Hard version in Canada's only nine. Yeah. Also
Speaker 1: also when you're a kid or any even now, when
Speaker 1: you see a big box under the tree, so you're
Speaker 1: so excited, so excited, there's nothing better than that, and
Speaker 1: not even not even like takes over the big box,
Speaker 1: Like once you open it up and that thing comes out,
Speaker 1: it's it's amazing, It's it's crazy. It's crazy. Um. And
Speaker 1: if you're in if your kids into Power Rangers, there's
Speaker 1: no shortage of Power Rangers toys this holiday season. We've
Speaker 1: also got this is the Beast Morphers b Stecks ultras Ord.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh this brings the adventure and teamwork and
Speaker 1: action of the Power Rangers right to your hands. Uh.
Speaker 1: This This one retails for th ninety nine. And uh.
Speaker 1: This this is another like version of the megaz Ord.
Speaker 1: This is all these different swords combined into this one
Speaker 1: giant like. Um, it's kind of like a Vultron type figure.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of smaller characters combined into one.
Speaker 1: Except this is the Power Rangers, so their megaz ords. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it's um, you know, I mean, it's got this
Speaker 1: like really cool uh jet pack thing on the back.
Speaker 1: It's got these giant boot things. It's it's really awesome.
Speaker 1: He looks like he's wearing winter boots. This guy's about
Speaker 1: a foot tall for those. And here's the thing. It's
Speaker 1: it's got more than thirty sounds and phrases. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it looks like he has speakers on the shins.
Speaker 1: He sounds tough. How sick is that? That's disgusting. I
Speaker 1: don't think you've been sick like that. It's got a
Speaker 1: ton of different phrases. One of my favorites is, wow,
Speaker 1: we're going fast now and whoa, everything's upside down. Hey,
Speaker 1: you guys, you know how you know how people sometimes
Speaker 1: have like a bobble head on there, like thing of
Speaker 1: their cars. I feel like Easton has a megazord like
Speaker 1: this magazort. Hey, guys, when you're stuck in traffic, nothing
Speaker 1: makes you feel more powerful than looking up and seeing megazoart.
Speaker 1: Oh he's still going. You're get a lot. You get
Speaker 1: a lot of bang for your buck with these um
Speaker 1: with these uh phrases, there's a lot of around. Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean this is going on for a while. It's
Speaker 1: very cool. Um that's a battery drainer right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's got battle and flight mode. That's more than thirty
Speaker 1: plus sounds and phrases. Yeah, it's gonna be really fun
Speaker 1: at six am. Yeah. Yeah, make sure you have some
Speaker 1: d batteries ready for that. You press the button once
Speaker 1: in a run. Okay, brother, what else you got? All right?
Speaker 1: And for them and for the little girls or or
Speaker 1: the my little pony fans in the family, we've got
Speaker 1: oh my giggles, peaky pie. Uh, this is what this
Speaker 1: is my little pony? What is that now? Now, Ricky,
Speaker 1: ray for something? Go ahead and touch her? Where's that
Speaker 1: right there? Guys? So he's touching the back legs. It's
Speaker 1: she's got like this rubbery body and then these hard
Speaker 1: plastic legs and it makes for a very cool texture experience. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you said I thought she was like a
Speaker 1: super durable Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, it's a good grip.
Speaker 1: It's it's very cool. This is for Age is three
Speaker 1: and up. It retails so check this out. If I
Speaker 1: don't have any water with me. But if we had
Speaker 1: some water, you can pour that on the main and
Speaker 1: it will reveal a rainbow rainbow hair, isn't cool? The
Speaker 1: main changes color? Yeah, we have some Margarita leftover. Should
Speaker 1: we use that? We didn't even turn her over, Jesus
Speaker 1: who seriously? There she goes noises too. Okay, so we've
Speaker 1: got my little pony. We got a couple of mega swords, yes,
Speaker 1: and what else we run in here? But if, if,
Speaker 1: if you have a Transformers fan. So we've been talking
Speaker 1: about power ranges a lot. These giant swords look like Transformers,
Speaker 1: but they are not Transformers. No, no, no, we have
Speaker 1: some official Transformers here. These are called bots. They're these
Speaker 1: tiny they're like um, and they come in this mystery box.
Speaker 1: So I'm holding one right here. I think it's okay
Speaker 1: if I open one right, Um, I'll hold your microphone
Speaker 1: you open it up, all right? All right? Cool? So
Speaker 1: this is this is the very cool thing about these
Speaker 1: time need Transformers box. They've got there's a ton of
Speaker 1: different characters, um that you can have in each one,
Speaker 1: and it's a surprise and which one's gonna be in
Speaker 1: This is the perfect socking stuff cool. So let's see
Speaker 1: who I've got, and then there's obviously like twelve of
Speaker 1: these that you can collect or whatever. Exactly. So right
Speaker 1: now I've got this, like it looks like a radioactive frappuccino,
Speaker 1: and this is going to transform into a little man.
Speaker 1: Do you see that? A little transformer robot disguise. I've
Speaker 1: got him. And but you get two transformers, you get
Speaker 1: you get you get one, you get one in there,
Speaker 1: but it comes with two modes. Well, every transformer is
Speaker 1: automatically two things exactly exactly. He's he's there there, Um like,
Speaker 1: this guy's looks like a slurpie or he's a robot.
Speaker 1: So he's like just hanging out there. He's like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm just a slurpy. Yeah, I look friendly. My little
Speaker 1: pony got scared of it. Pinky Pie is acting around.
Speaker 1: Is that my little pony's name pinky Pie? This particularly
Speaker 1: my little pony is named pinky Pie. Yes, and uh
Speaker 1: and she she's she's giggling and having fun and hoping
Speaker 1: that I think Ryan would like. I think there's a
Speaker 1: little motion censored from there. Yeah, because motion fun is
Speaker 1: that it's backing up though she's got to come forward.
Speaker 1: So so miss I mean to send the soul up. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you are, if you've got a kid that's into
Speaker 1: the Power Rangers, there's a lot of really really exciting
Speaker 1: stuff from seriously all sizes uh and uh, I mean
Speaker 1: down to these tiny transformers we've got and then um
Speaker 1: but if if you're if your kid you know, goes
Speaker 1: more towards the my Little Pony era. We've got this
Speaker 1: oh my giggles pinky pie that I think it's just
Speaker 1: a great gift. And being able to like, like I
Speaker 1: had you feel the body or this is something that
Speaker 1: you know, you can take it into the water with you.
Speaker 1: You can give her a different hairstyle and trying to
Speaker 1: change his color. That's really cool. She'll laugh up a
Speaker 1: storm the whole way. Dude, I just spent Thanksgiving with
Speaker 1: three nieces. Um, they would love that for sure, undoubtedly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean you can't go wrong this holiday season. But um,
Speaker 1: those those are the the big toys that I think
Speaker 1: everybody's going to be looking at after this. Thanks buddy,
Speaker 1: very nice. Yeah, but don't leave because you're the producer
Speaker 1: to so you gotta stay here and not break this stuff.
Speaker 1: But thanks, all right, I guess and if this yeah,
Speaker 1: and if this podcast goes south, you gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: future head as a salesman. Right holiday gift guide, how
Speaker 1: men think style? There it is, you guys have it.
Speaker 1: Those are what we just covered. Um, let's let's dive
Speaker 1: into the toys first, gentleman, these toys. Give me your
Speaker 1: number one or give me anything about these toys. You
Speaker 1: give me your number one? Which one would you love
Speaker 1: to have yourself? I think you gotta go with the
Speaker 1: big one. The big present under the tree is fantastic.
Speaker 1: And the mega zoid was it megazoid mega zoid ord?
Speaker 1: And he's just got an awesome lion face. I can
Speaker 1: jump right out at you. And I was holding that thing.
Speaker 1: It's like four pounds, like I'm running that if I'm
Speaker 1: a kid, I'm running that toy to school like a boss,
Speaker 1: run around the law and doing stuff. It was so sad.
Speaker 1: You tell you think you're like, that's a lion heart
Speaker 1: and he's like no, and no one knew what that was.
Speaker 1: I think Canada had knockoff toys and that's why everybody
Speaker 1: gets in the hockey up there, because the toys suck.
Speaker 1: Do you want me to give you, guys one more.
Speaker 1: That toy a new gift? Is it the kit cat bar?
Speaker 1: You're eating? No, I got a caramel I'm working so hard.
Speaker 1: I started to get hungry so much running around. Speaking
Speaker 1: of food, I think the perfect gift is food. So
Speaker 1: see that stack of boxes and we're gonna put picture up.
Speaker 1: That thing is filled with Mrs Fields cookies, popcorn, brownies,
Speaker 1: everything Mrs Fields has. That is such an epic gift.
Speaker 1: And people, am I right? Or am I right? Love
Speaker 1: when you bring them treats because when you bring that
Speaker 1: as like a house swimming gift, so then they can
Speaker 1: put not house swimming what's it called hostess gift? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they can put that out. They can save it for later.
Speaker 1: People love food, you know what. You know what? I
Speaker 1: agree with that because we always get people bring us
Speaker 1: like a bottle of wine or a bottle of Scotch
Speaker 1: or something, and I don't drink, and this stuff just
Speaker 1: sits there and end up giving it away to whoever
Speaker 1: like bring food. Bring food, Yes, put it out for guests. Um,
Speaker 1: can we dig into this? Do they have? Do they
Speaker 1: have caramel? Popcorn? Yes? Crack it open, I'll get I'll
Speaker 1: bring it over, although I know I'll walk away in
Speaker 1: a second. But I think that Bartesian thing the dopest
Speaker 1: thing on the planet. Yeah. I thought that was taste.
Speaker 1: It tasted. It wasn't like a margarite if you ordered
Speaker 1: one at a nice bar. Let's put it that gentlemen.
Speaker 1: You know, Brooks, if you came over to my house
Speaker 1: and you're like, you know what, Rick, I want a margarita,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, sure, Brooks, no problem. I'm like, let
Speaker 1: me get my let me get the Bartesian out and
Speaker 1: pop it in there. I would probably if I had
Speaker 1: to choose between the two, the Bartesian and making my
Speaker 1: own margarita for you, I would make my own margarita
Speaker 1: for you. I love that idea. That makes sense. But
Speaker 1: but what if your hosts and twenty of me? Then
Speaker 1: you go picturing. I don't think. I think there's only
Speaker 1: one of your number one. I appreciate that you take
Speaker 1: that as a compliment. I do think. I do think
Speaker 1: the Bartesian was a really good machine. Though it looked nice.
Speaker 1: You can do like if you don't know how to
Speaker 1: bartender like, you can do it an old fashioned you
Speaker 1: can do Manhattan whatever, all these different kinds of things
Speaker 1: you can do. That very simple concept of it is great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here's the thing you cannot everybody can afford to like
Speaker 1: hire a bartender for a party and nobody and you
Speaker 1: don't want to sit there and make like a bunch
Speaker 1: of people drinks on that you missed the party. That is,
Speaker 1: it's a fantastic idea. You have the pods out there
Speaker 1: and just pop it in, press the button. I like
Speaker 1: the Bartesian. I also like the a token of these
Speaker 1: lockets somewhere yeah too, I thought those are those are
Speaker 1: really good. They're they're good looking and for both male
Speaker 1: and females. And then they also have a neat little
Speaker 1: twist to it that that you can download and put
Speaker 1: any picture that you wanted it, which worries me a
Speaker 1: little bit because I know you have that little your
Speaker 1: little rick pick thing. I want to make sure that
Speaker 1: you said only appropriate photos. Yeah, I just need to
Speaker 1: get your your log in for your locket. I'm confused
Speaker 1: on how that works. By the way, do they do
Speaker 1: you then print it out because it's not a digital screen.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they do. They must print it
Speaker 1: on might be a little I'm not sure what they do,
Speaker 1: But um, how about this, I think we should make
Speaker 1: one of myself and give it to Ryan. That's what
Speaker 1: I was saying. I think that's for Christmas. And then,
Speaker 1: because he's so hung up on the money things, should
Speaker 1: I have like a bunch of cash in my hand.
Speaker 1: You know, you're in like a bathtub with just money everywhere.
Speaker 1: Let's says Easton. Can you can you like superimpose some
Speaker 1: sort of thing, because actually, if you look at my
Speaker 1: wallet right now, look at this jets, there's not a
Speaker 1: single dollar in it. I don't have cash in my life.
Speaker 1: Right here is my wallet, not one dollar. What we
Speaker 1: need to do is keep rotating the pictures to something
Speaker 1: even more extravagant. Is he laying across the Lamborghame? What
Speaker 1: is that? Is he petting a tiger? Oh? Yes, I
Speaker 1: think his love language of gifts will change the last
Speaker 1: idea of the night. Okay, we need to review that.
Speaker 1: I think I forgot one. Yeah, you guys can still
Speaker 1: do that, but I'm giving you all the products. Wait,
Speaker 1: a lot of sugar. All of a sudden, I stood
Speaker 1: up and I'm like, am I going to fall over? Okay,
Speaker 1: so this would be for the ladies, but I would
Speaker 1: love you for you guys to smell this and do
Speaker 1: a smell test. So do you know Lily Aldridge, She's
Speaker 1: like a supermodel, So this is her perfume's coming in. No, no,
Speaker 1: the perfumes is coming in. Okay's gonna come in and
Speaker 1: we want you to smell her. Would It is called Summit,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna let you guys keep talking, but I
Speaker 1: will open it up. And Okay, from from first look here,
Speaker 1: I like the branding. It's I like the branding. Don't
Speaker 1: pray it just kind of masculine. The bottle, which I like, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm not that's not a judgment. I like simplicity, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not. I don't like the ones that are like
Speaker 1: curved like flowers and have all these glass like I
Speaker 1: think it's just very simple. That's nice. Amy, are you
Speaker 1: spraying it on? Spray it and walk into it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, walk into it. I think you don't have to. Okay,
Speaker 1: So this is really Aldridges perfume called Summit. Dmitri is
Speaker 1: giving it the thorough mustache or up. But I think
Speaker 1: it's it smells like that one of the Bartesian drinks.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, rick you booge gentlemen always giving it a spray. Okay,
Speaker 1: we have too sophisticated gentlemen here giving this a cent taste.
Speaker 1: The initial one is is like perfume me. And then
Speaker 1: now I feel like it's settled down a little bit
Speaker 1: and I'm getting more of the summit. I don't smell
Speaker 1: actually actually this to me because you guys are a
Speaker 1: couple feet away from me where you spray it. I
Speaker 1: actually feel like it smells good. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: It does smell good, but I can't play initial. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it, Tommy, I like the
Speaker 1: m M yeah. I like that. It's not I don't
Speaker 1: like super florally perfume like that. That's sometimes it's like
Speaker 1: too sweet. Um, this is not a super florally perfume.
Speaker 1: Not that I know a lot about perfumes, let's be honest.
Speaker 1: But um, I actually really like that. I think that's
Speaker 1: a tremendous scent. And you want to use perfume to
Speaker 1: try to get to the summit? Correct, I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is Summit by literally Aldred fantastic. I would rate that.
Speaker 1: I would give that as a gift. I have friends.
Speaker 1: I would for sure i'd give that as a gift definitely.
Speaker 1: Um what about uh the tags? What about visit tag
Speaker 1: the first sentlement that we had on the luggage tags,
Speaker 1: the party tags, that kind of stuff. Tool tag. Would
Speaker 1: you guys use those? I I don't. I personally wouldn't.
Speaker 1: The problem with that as a gift is, I know
Speaker 1: it was kind of pitched as this, like if you
Speaker 1: need a last minute gift or this and that. It's like,
Speaker 1: but that screams to me last minute gift as well.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I can see that. I don't know that.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would be I mean maybe
Speaker 1: if you've got someone a bag and put it on there,
Speaker 1: but if to give someone a luggage tag seems so
Speaker 1: what if you did this? What if you bought it
Speaker 1: and then gave it to them two days prior as
Speaker 1: a Christmas gift and they got to open it early,
Speaker 1: so you're like, this is not a last minute gift.
Speaker 1: I got it early, but I did. I was worried
Speaker 1: about you thinking it was a last minute gift to
Speaker 1: the Bartesi and make a cocktail. Okay, so visit tag Rick,
Speaker 1: would you use that? Um? I think if you sell
Speaker 1: it as a luggage tag only, I think that's I
Speaker 1: think they're limiting them themselves. I think you would sell
Speaker 1: it as more of a tag of anything. So kids packs,
Speaker 1: kids going to camp. That's what he said. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. But I think that I've just had a
Speaker 1: few more rollers than more everyone else. Um, okay, what
Speaker 1: about I really like this the Wily Heart, the piece
Speaker 1: of jewelry, the necklace, or the key chain. I have
Speaker 1: the necklace on right now. The wi Heart, I'm confused
Speaker 1: as to how it actually works, so I have to
Speaker 1: go check that out. It didn't look like a digital screen,
Speaker 1: but it sounds like it could be. So that's going.
Speaker 1: But I love the key chain because I'm not a
Speaker 1: locket guy, Like I couldn't wear that. But it's a
Speaker 1: great gift to give someone. It's not like the key chain.
Speaker 1: It's not a digital screen because you'd have to have
Speaker 1: a battery and that would run out. It's it's some
Speaker 1: sort of printing or plastic or something that. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you can go on the site, download the picture and
Speaker 1: just print it out. No, No, you load your photo in.
Speaker 1: They they you load your photo in, they put it
Speaker 1: on the necklace or whatever. The key chack. But you
Speaker 1: can change rotated around. I think it's I think it's digital,
Speaker 1: like you can change photos yeah, but I think maybe
Speaker 1: you print it out at home. It might be size
Speaker 1: is it for you? I would actually guess it's some
Speaker 1: sort of little magnetic thing, so it's printed on a
Speaker 1: magnetic and it's just magnetic to the back of this
Speaker 1: so you can pop it out. Yeah, that's I really
Speaker 1: like these anyway, Um, the toys I have nieces and nephews.
Speaker 1: I would gift some of those toys. Yeah. The the
Speaker 1: pinky Pie scared me a little it because it just
Speaker 1: kind of all of a sudden, it has a sensor
Speaker 1: and it just starts giggling and moving. And I disagree
Speaker 1: with you, though, because I think that's probably would probably
Speaker 1: get the most bang out of your buck on that thing.
Speaker 1: Because you can take the pinky pie with you on vacation.
Speaker 1: You can you can go out with the water. I
Speaker 1: would throw it out the window, but yes, in the car,
Speaker 1: but yes, it starts going backwards. To me, what I'm
Speaker 1: saying is I don't like it, but you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: Kids would love that kind of stuff, so especially little
Speaker 1: girls that have the pinky pie and they put it
Speaker 1: in between their arms and their in their armpit and
Speaker 1: they walk around with it and they pretend it's a
Speaker 1: little mobile pet I could see. To me, honestly, when
Speaker 1: I look at it, when you hit that motion sensor,
Speaker 1: it looks like it's having a seizure. But it honestly
Speaker 1: looks like it's having a seizure. But honestly, my nieces
Speaker 1: would would really? I think it's cool? Would Yeah? Um,
Speaker 1: we haven't got to try this food, Amy, can we
Speaker 1: try this Mrs miss Fields? Missfield, see, I haven't tasted
Speaker 1: it yet, but I agree that is fantastic bringing food
Speaker 1: because they can put it out right then right, and
Speaker 1: they can keep it themselves blasted out right. Now, that's
Speaker 1: favorite holiday food, like favorite holiday snack, favorite all the snack.
Speaker 1: Let's go with that. A member of my family, this
Speaker 1: is like family snacks or like something you would just
Speaker 1: go by, just simple question. Remember of my family makes this.
Speaker 1: It's like chili con carnate with cream cheese dip. And
Speaker 1: it's like I feel like I want to like that,
Speaker 1: but I'm a friend. You would like it, Dmitri. But
Speaker 1: coming off of like Thanksgiving and all the bland foods,
Speaker 1: and then you roll into to Christmas and you're probably
Speaker 1: cooking another turkey with some other pland foods like I'm
Speaker 1: kind of more of a spicy guy. So having that
Speaker 1: dip Christmas like noon when you're watching the football games,
Speaker 1: you have a little chili with some cream cheese in it.
Speaker 1: It's pretty solid. You lost me there. I wouldn't eat that.
Speaker 1: I was just rambling. It's all good. Yeah, No, I
Speaker 1: love a dip like a crab artichoke dip. I ate
Speaker 1: that the other night. Here's the thing delicious going down.
Speaker 1: Then you can run into trouble. That's the way that
Speaker 1: sounds like nice, funny. It's like that was good. Where's
Speaker 1: that chili con carnate with It's right over by the bathroom.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you guys, you have to see this photo.
Speaker 1: Eastern Eastern are amazing. Engineer slash salesman just sent me
Speaker 1: this photo that we're gonna send a right to it.
Speaker 1: It's it's Brooks in a bathtub with purple walls. He's
Speaker 1: got a bright yellow shirt on and he's got money.
Speaker 1: He's sitting in a pool bath of money. This is amazing.
Speaker 1: This is awesome. And what we're gonna do. We're gonna
Speaker 1: lie right to Ryan's face and say, hey, this is
Speaker 1: a nice gift from my heart. He's gonna get it.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get it under the turney. He won't know
Speaker 1: it's from us at all. Well, tell them it's from
Speaker 1: my heart. And it's like a really because the boxes
Speaker 1: are really nice. He's going to open it and just
Speaker 1: we're gonna destroy. How great would it be if he's
Speaker 1: a little cheap He just gave it straight? Oh man? Um, Well,
Speaker 1: happy holidays to you, good sirs. I appreciate you. I
Speaker 1: know the holidays are busy time, and I thank you
Speaker 1: guys for for making the time to be here. Um,
Speaker 1: what do you most want? I want to end on
Speaker 1: this note. What are you most grateful for this holiday season?
Speaker 1: I'm most grateful for being around my family. I know
Speaker 1: that sounds like the token BS answer that everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: be happy about, but literally, I am. It's been a
Speaker 1: long year and it's it's been busy and good and
Speaker 1: you know, we kicked off the podcast in June and
Speaker 1: it's been absolutely awesome. I love hanging out with you guys.
Speaker 1: I love being with all you know, my family, talking
Speaker 1: about the podcast, being with you guys, getting to know
Speaker 1: you more. Um, whether it's through phace, time or text
Speaker 1: or Instagram or we're all that, you know, being here
Speaker 1: and actually doing it in studio, and so I'm grateful
Speaker 1: for that. You know, it's been a good year. It's
Speaker 1: been long. I'm kind of waiting to just kind of
Speaker 1: wind down a little bit though, and relax some time
Speaker 1: with them. Thanks Buddy, Thanks Dmitri. It's funny you said
Speaker 1: that's the token thing. But I think there's a reason
Speaker 1: that it's a token thing. I love the holidays. It's
Speaker 1: a it's it's a really nice time here when you
Speaker 1: reflect and all that. So I do agree. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: most thankful to be around family, you know. And that
Speaker 1: song even says like mom and dad can't hardly wait
Speaker 1: for school to start again. But I'm not like that,
Speaker 1: Like I really enjoy holiday time. When it's over, yeah,
Speaker 1: then go back to school. But um, I love I'm
Speaker 1: saying it's a good time to be reflective and thankful,
Speaker 1: and I think it's tough to do that throughout the year.
Speaker 1: So there's probably a reason why it's the token thing
Speaker 1: is because there's some truth to it. I love that.
Speaker 1: I love I love that word you said, just reflect that. Honestly,
Speaker 1: in the course of a year, how often do we
Speaker 1: actually like stop and reflect and then also look forward.
Speaker 1: I love the time of year where Christmas falls is
Speaker 1: we're right before the New Year, so spending it with family,
Speaker 1: reflecting and counting the blessings that we've had and currently
Speaker 1: have in our lives, and then also getting really excited
Speaker 1: about what we're gonna do in the new year individually,
Speaker 1: as a family, as a couple, whatever. I just I
Speaker 1: think it's just a beautiful time. Um, I really enjoy it.
Speaker 1: But I also remember this. My my dad has always
Speaker 1: said this, and he said, um, it's also a really
Speaker 1: he doesn't actually really enjoy Christmas that much because he
Speaker 1: thinks of so many people who don't have love or
Speaker 1: companionship or finances to be able to give Christmas gifts
Speaker 1: and stuff. And so we all always instilled that in
Speaker 1: us as as kids, that not everybody has a Christmas
Speaker 1: that we have, and to always remember and try and
Speaker 1: energetically send love, send hope to anybody out there that
Speaker 1: maybe the Christmas isn't about the amount of presence under
Speaker 1: the tree, it's not about all of that stuff that
Speaker 1: surrounds it that seems to take it over. And so um,
Speaker 1: I've always remembered that I've always been grateful for being
Speaker 1: together with family, but also sending love to people that
Speaker 1: are maybe spending Christmas alone, um, people that can't afford
Speaker 1: to provide for their families in a Christmas giving way. UM,
Speaker 1: just sending you guys love and hope if anybody's out there.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to, um just say that we're
Speaker 1: thinking of you guys as well. So the rest of us,
Speaker 1: um us gentlemen here, we're very blessed Easton. We're very blessed.
Speaker 1: We have great people, great families in our lives. Thank
Speaker 1: you to the listeners. Like you said, Rick, we've been
Speaker 1: doing this six months and this podcast has grown and
Speaker 1: it's UM so enjoyable to come here. It's not work.
Speaker 1: We haven't been paid to damns, we haven't been paid
Speaker 1: and said to do it. You can't call it work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't call that. You can't call it work when
Speaker 1: there's no money charity. Um, but it's been super enjoyable,
Speaker 1: this this mission that we've undertaken. So I just want
Speaker 1: to say thank you to all our how men think listeners.
Speaker 1: So on that note, we will end it Happy holidays
Speaker 1: to you and your loved ones. And then should we
Speaker 1: do this as a communal one. Let's do it as
Speaker 1: communal guys. Take care of one another, love one another,
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas and all the others happy holidays.