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Speaker 1: There was a few playoff runs in the mix throughout

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Speaker 1: the way, but mostly the team's just bad and we've

435
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Speaker 1: had good players come and a lot of good players go.

436
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 1: But Peter was changing that. He was making us a

437
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: competitive organization top down, year after year after year, and

438
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 1: you can see it. I mean, yeah, sure, the twenty

439
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: twenty three team didn't meet expectations.

440
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:14,880
Speaker 2: But this team's good.

441
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: Like you knew even though we missed the playoffs in

442
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 1: twenty three, even though we thought we'd make it to

443
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 1: the World Series, you knew that in twenty four, this

444
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 1: team's gonna be right back in the thick of it.

445
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 1: Just got to change some things.

446
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:28,440
Speaker 2: But the passing of.

447
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: Peter, you can already tell there's changes coming, and it's

448
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,239
Speaker 1: got to do with the budget, and it's got to

449
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: do with players that are coming in. And for better

450
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: or for worse, we're gonna see. We're gonna see what happens.

451
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 1: But always going to be a fan of the team.

452
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:50,119
Speaker 1: But man, Graham Reaper, why'd you have to take our guy?

453
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 1: We were just finally hitting a few years stretch where

454
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 1: things were things were looking sunny in San Diego, and

455
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: you had to go and make it dark, man, You

456
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: had to go make it dark. I know there's been

457
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: lawsuits revolve, you know, involving this. I have never been

458
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,239
Speaker 1: a part of it. I've just I know this has

459
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 1: been a topic before, but.

460
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Speaker 2: I've got a problem with it.

461
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:17,199
Speaker 1: I just want to put this out there and put

462
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,679
Speaker 1: it on record that I don't agree with this that

463
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: every single time Apple announces a new phone, that my

464
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,399
Speaker 1: phone starts losing its charge a lot faster.

465
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 2: And it's not like slowly.

466
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 1: It's not like, oh, I've got an aging product, so

467
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,320
Speaker 1: it's not going to operate as well as it should. No,

468
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: it's dramatic. Okay. If I don't have my portable charger

469
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,400
Speaker 1: with me at all times, I can't make it through

470
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 1: half the day. I'm talking about half the day. When

471
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: I go to pick up my kids from school. My

472
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: phone is dead if I don't have my portable charger.

473
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: And you might be saying, use your phone too much. No,

474
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: everybody uses their phone too much.

475
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 2: Okay.

476
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: This is not a Jeremy problem. It's an everybody problem. Okay,

477
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: this is the world we live in at twenty twenty three.

478
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,920
Speaker 1: So make it so it holds charge. And why when

479
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: you announce the new phone, because it's not like anything changed.

480
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: We haven't updated the software yet, we haven't updated the

481
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 1: operating system yet. It was literally a press conference. You

482
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: invited the press to come hear about it instantly. I'm

483
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: losing charge a lot faster. It's running just a little

484
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: bit slower. I got a problem with that. I got

485
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 1: a big problem with that. What am I gonna do

486
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Speaker 1: about it?

487
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 2: Absolutely nothing?

488
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not I'm not doing anything about it.

489
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna complain about it, you know, And next year

490
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Festivut episode, I'm gonna complain about it

491
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: then too, because it's a problem, and I have no

492
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 1: faith that it's going to get resolved, but I would

493
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 1: appreciate it if this is something that's becoming more and

494
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: more of a problem. You don't remember like Black Friday.

495
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: And I know a lot of folks have been talking

496
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Speaker 1: about this, like on TikTok this year, at least more

497
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 1: so that I've ever seen, where they're like, oh, we're

498
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: calling out the retailer. They're not Black Friday prices anymore.

499
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: And they pull the sign you know that says Black Friday,

500
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: and the TV is you know, one fifty nine ninety nine,

501
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: and you pull the sign and behind it it's not

502
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: a Black Friday sign, it's a different sale sign. It

503
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: says one fifty nine ninety nine. I mean, that person's

504
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: technically wrong. The retailer didn't do anything wrong there, because remember, anymore,

505
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: you're getting Black Friday prices longer in the season, so

506
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: you're getting them long before Black Friday. They just changed

507
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: the sign to you know, show you that it's Black

508
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: Friday because on the calendar we finally hit it. But

509
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: they're giving you that price early, Okay, so there's really

510
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: you know, they're not gonna we're gonna We're not gonna say, hey,

511
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 1: we're giving you Black Friday prices on December tenth and

512
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: then have an even cheaper price on Black Friday. But

513
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: that's that's not giving you Black Friday prices. So technically

514
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: those folks are wrong, and it's just kind of rude,

515
00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: honestly to be calling out retailers for that. But something

516
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: I do have a problem with. I see this a

517
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: lot in the grocery industry, and this isn't this isn't

518
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: a holiday related issue. This is an issue throughout the year.

519
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 2: More and more.

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00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 1: They're promoting items as on sale, so they're putting it

521
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: in your advertisement, they're putting the signs up in the

522
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: store saying that it's on sale, but it's actually the

523
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: regular price because the ideas we're promoting the everyday price.

524
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Speaker 2: A I don't like that.

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00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: I don't like that one bit. I mean, draw me

526
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: into the store with your ad prices, sure, with some specials,

527
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: something to get me in the door, right, give me

528
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: the invitation to come into the door and shop with you.

529
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: Then showcase your everyday low price in the store all

530
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: around the building, like that's exciting. The ad that you're

531
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: sending me should be the invitation to come see me.

532
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: That's got to be hot.

533
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Speaker 2: Okay, you can do.

534
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: Other pieces to be like, hey, every day, we're this

535
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 1: price on this, and we're this price on this, and

536
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: this is awesome. It's cheaper than everybody else.

537
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 2: Awesome.

538
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: Do that. Okay, that's fine, but don't parade like it's

539
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: an ad price because it's not. It's your everyday low price.

540
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: Have that stuff all over the building and be proud

541
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: of it. But it's not a sale price and it

542
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: shouldn't be advertised as such, and it happens constantly. I

543
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: got a big problem with it. I don't think it's fair.

544
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: I don't think it's fair the consumer, and I don't

545
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: think it speaks to your pricing. I don't think it

546
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 1: speaks to what you're trying to achieve in the customer size.

547
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: I think it's cheap, and I think you're trying to

548
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: get away with something. I mean, it's technically not illegal

549
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: what you're doing, but you are trying to get away

550
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: with something. There are ways to have the low price image.

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00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's it. Yeah, there's literally no

552
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 1: joke in this grievance other than you being fooled by

553
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: the retailer thinking that they've got all these ad prices

554
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: and half of them are regular everyday prices. That's the

555
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: joke that I hope you're not laughing with that, because

556
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 1: you know the joke's on us on that one. It's

557
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: my final grievance of twenty twenty three Festivus episode. This

558
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 1: is a big one. This is one that is near

559
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: and dear to my heart. I love competing, you know,

560
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: in anything that it is. If it's you know, in life,

561
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: trying to be the best you can be in your career,

562
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: if it's in a board game, if it's in sports,

563
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: if it's rooting for my favorite teams, if it's rooting

564
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,239
Speaker 1: for my favorite musician. I want to make sure that

565
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: they're their latest song or their latest album or their

566
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: concert is sold out. Like I want to make sure

567
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: that they're the best because I believe in them, right

568
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: and I enjoy their art. I'm always going to root

569
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: and work hard for the people that I care for

570
00:31:58,640 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: and that I'm a fan of.

571
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 2: But I'm very competitive.

572
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: I am in the arena of competing. Let's say in

573
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: a board game, like let's say Jenga. Okay, I've got

574
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: a problem if you're on the other side of this

575
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: Jenga game and you don't take the game as seriously,

576
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: because this is a game that if you do not

577
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: take seriously. Number one ends very quickly. And just think,

578
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: all those blocks fall, they crash. You gotta build them

579
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: back up. I mean, it's a process to get the

580
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: game back to restart another game. And how disappointing if

581
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: you're having the game of your life and the person

582
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: on other side is just lackadaisial with it and they

583
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: don't care.

584
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 2: Like Jenga is an art.

585
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: Okay, Jenga can last. A good Jenga game can last

586
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: a long time with thrills along the way if you

587
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: take it seriously. And I need competitors on the other side,

588
00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: they're taking it seriously because I'm gonna tell you right now,

589
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: every single Jenga game that I play, I take like

590
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: it's my last Jenga game I'll ever play, and I

591
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: want to win. So I got a problem with anybody

592
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: who doesn't take it as seriously as I do. And

593
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: you know, you have to take ultra serious. And I'm

594
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: not like you know, I'm not in your face yelling

595
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: at you. I mean, I'm not talking about serious. I'm

596
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: talking about, like, play the game. Okay, play if you're

597
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: gonna play, play the game, because it's an art. I'm

598
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: okay with losing if I get beat, I am, but

599
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: I don't enjoy winning when the other side doesn't even try.

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00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 2: So well, that was.

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Speaker 1: The airing of grievances. Happy festiv Us everybody. In just

602
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: a few moments, we're gonna be taking live calls. We're

603
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: gonna get you the opportunity to air your grievances.

604
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 2: Live here on.

605
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: Laugh with me.

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00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 2: You are live on, laugh with me.

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00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 4: Happy, Thank you, Thank you. I have a real problem

608
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 4: with the women's fashion industry. Tell me why we can't

609
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 4: get a good pocket phones these days are now like

610
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 4: four or five inches long, and you're gonna give me

611
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,479
Speaker 4: if you give me a pocket, this teeny tiny thing

612
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 4: that I can barely fit a lipstick, a lip gloss in.

613
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 4: The men be walking around with giant ass pockets in

614
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 4: the front and in the butt.

615
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 3: I'm lucky if.

616
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 4: I can even fit my phone in my back pocket.

617
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 4: Give us some freaking pockets. That's why you see when

618
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 4: girls are walking around, they're like wearing a dress and

619
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 4: they're like, thanks, it has pockets because we never get them.

620
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 3: We need them.

621
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 4: If men can have them, why can't women have them?

622
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:47,800
Speaker 3: Also?

623
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 4: Why can't we have consistent sizing? Why can't I go

624
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 4: into the store and buy the same size and every

625
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 4: item and have it fit the same Men their pants

626
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 4: they go by size by like what whatever your waist

627
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 4: and length? Women, it's like, here's the size ten, but

628
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 4: the ten is gonna be different in every single brand

629
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 4: and in every different wash of jeans or any kind

630
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 4: of pants. Make it make sense?

631
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: You know, you said four to five inches you know,

632
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: to fit in your pocket. To that, I just want

633
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: to say, that's what she said. Also, you said big

634
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: pockets for the fellas on the front and the back.

635
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: That's because we got that thing on us. That's that's

636
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: just kind of how that works with the Fellas. But

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00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: thank you for calling it and Happy festiv Us.

638
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 2: You're live and laugh with me. Happy Festivus.

639
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 3: I got a problem with me not having a cordy. I.

640
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 5: You know, I love any kind of dog, but a

641
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 5: corky and specific, Okay, I need a dog because they're

642
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 5: just they're so cuddly, they're so friendly. Don't I deserve

643
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,320
Speaker 5: a friend, doesn't anyone, And that's why anyone should be

644
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 5: able to get a dog a corky.

645
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 3: They're so special and they're just so lovey.

646
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 2: So, if I get this right, you don't have a corky.

647
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 3: I don't, but I need one.

648
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 1: So your biggest complaint of the year is that you

649
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: need this puppy.

650
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 2: Why don't you have a corky?

651
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 5: My parents won't buy me one, and I'm too young

652
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:16,879
Speaker 5: to buy one on my own.

653
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 3: I guess.

654
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 2: Oh, no, you need a job, girl, You need a job.

655
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 3: Still too young?

656
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: Well, good luck on your attempts to get a Corgi

657
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four.

658
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 3: You know I've been trying.

659
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 2: Happy Festivus.

660
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: Oh, we have got to get a fellow on the phone.

661
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 1: Lines you are live on laugh with me, Happy Festivus.

662
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 3: Happy Festivus. Indeed, I appreciate you giving me the opportunity

663
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 3: to air my grievances anonymously, as I don't want to

664
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 3: share these with the people involved. Don't have that courage,

665
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,320
Speaker 3: but I'm working up to it. My first grievance is

666
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 3: there somebody's some folks that are very very near and

667
00:36:58,719 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 3: dear to me.

668
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:00,839
Speaker 2: Elves.

669
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 3: You know, everybody loves them. They make the toys on Christmas.

670
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 3: But what I can't stand and what I really want

671
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 3: to get to them, is just I'm done with the

672
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 3: incessant singing. The thing is is that elves are not

673
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 3: universally talented. They don't all sing. Well, that's a movie myth.

674
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 3: And the other thing is when you're watching a movie

675
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 3: and it goes from room to room, the elves are

676
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 3: all singing the same song and it's very very coordinated,

677
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 3: when in real life it's not like that at all.

678
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 3: If I was to walk from one end of my

679
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 3: workshop to the other end of my workshop, I would

680
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 3: probably hear a dozen different songs. It's a much more

681
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 3: like to I don't know, being in the mall and

682
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 3: hearing the same Christmas song being played at dozens and

683
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 3: dozens of different places, which isn't a bad thing. But here,

684
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 3: have yourself a merry little Christmas. More than once a

685
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 3: I love the song. I could sing the song for

686
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 3: you right now. I'm not going to That song is

687
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 3: a bummer, and I can't hear it fifteen times a day.

688
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 3: And those elves just will not shut They're eating. Even

689
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 3: when it's time for for us to have our meal,

690
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 3: those elves are still singing. I have never seen an

691
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 3: elf eat with their mouth shut. And I'm over and

692
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 3: I'm literally at my wits.

693
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 2: End on this Holy cow.

694
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,919
Speaker 1: I know you people are calling in. They're calling in anonymously.

695
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: You said you work with elves.

696
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, And it's not just the elves, it's the reindeer.

697
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 3: You see these elves there, they're singing there, they're just

698
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 3: they're foods, spitting all over the place, cooping up the

699
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 3: table scraps. The reindeer are all over the hall, just

700
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 3: eating whatever has been out there. I mean, I've already

701
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 3: got a problem with reindeer. I mean, they're just lazy animals.

702
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 3: I mean, a couple of years ago I had a

703
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 3: zoologist up there. She tried to feed me some sort

704
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 3: of speel about how it was cold outside and the

705
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 3: metabolism and yeay aye, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, don't

706
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 3: excuse it. Those reindeers and they're just lazy. Yeah. I

707
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 3: had to go through a human resources disaster a couple

708
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 3: of years ago when it came out about the reindeer games. Oh,

709
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,280
Speaker 3: you're pushing the reindeer too far. You're pushing them too much,

710
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 3: like they don't want to do this. Hey, I don't

711
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 3: know what to tell you, but I got four billion

712
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 3: on the good List. Every year, I got to hit

713
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 3: every house in the same night, and if those reindeer

714
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 3: aren't ready to go, well that's a failure. That's a

715
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 3: big l on me. So I've got to make sure

716
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 3: that these guys are ready. I'll tell you this year,

717
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 3: I moved the track a little bit closer to the

718
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 3: Abominable Snowman, just because I need to make sure that

719
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 3: these reindeer are getting their cardio in, because we're not

720
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 3: going to fail on my account.

721
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 2: So you have elves and you have reindeer.

722
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, hey, hey, who's Aaron. Their grievances here?

723
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:05,720
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, my bad? Yeah, yeah, go ahead.

724
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 3: The last thing I want to get off my chest.

725
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 3: Is just my wife. I love her. She's the light

726
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:16,800
Speaker 3: of my life. No regrets in marrying her. We got married,

727
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 3: we set very specific boundaries, and one of the things

728
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 3: that I wanted I wanted a room to call my own.

729
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 3: I don't know. Some people call it a man cave,

730
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 3: some people call it a pole. I don't know. The

731
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 3: vernacular changes depending on where you're at. All I wanted

732
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 3: to do was decorate the way I would. I have

733
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 3: a mini bar, I have a big TV. I have

734
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:42,359
Speaker 3: a recliner. That's all I need. Lately, the last couple

735
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 3: of years, she's taken to invading this space, invading my

736
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 3: personal space, decorating it for Christmas, as if I don't

737
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 3: get enough Christmas. The way it is, it's my job.

738
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 3: I don't want to come home to it. I just

739
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 3: want this space to get away from the elves, the reindeer,

740
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 3: my wife. I need that, and I'll be honest. I

741
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 3: brought it up to her, and as she rain blows

742
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 3: down upon me, I realized that I'd made a mistake.

743
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 3: So thank you for providing me this service to be

744
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 3: able to just get this off of my chest. And uh,

745
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 3: you know, I'm busy Christmas Eve, but other nights you

746
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 3: can find me on Rudolph's couch.

747
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 2: Well, thank you.

748
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: I think I caught a maybe a ho ho ho

749
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: in there. I think I got an idea of who

750
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: this is.

751
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 2: Well, there you go.

752
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: It seems like even Santa Claus celebrates Festivus. That's the

753
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: airing of grievances. Thank you to everybody for listening to

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Speaker 1: this very special edition of Laugh with Me. I