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Speaker 1: M Danielle, you're you're cheating on us and starting another podcast.

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Speaker 2: I would definitely not call it cheating on you.

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Speaker 3: Never would.

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Speaker 4: You're you're polly podcasting.

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Speaker 3: That's what it is.

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Speaker 1: You're a Are we opening this We already did for

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Speaker 1: Danielle with What's Happening Now exactly.

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Speaker 5: Danielle with what about pod meats TWORLDU.

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Speaker 4: That was that was just part of this feed.

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Speaker 3: That was also it was about you.

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Speaker 5: That was all a good podcasts should be.

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Speaker 1: If we did a show about you, that's that's what

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Speaker 1: What's your other podcast?

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Speaker 5: Danielle, listen, I like you saying poly podcasting.

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Speaker 2: I am a polly pocket person with poly podcasts.

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Speaker 3: You were in an open podcast relationship.

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Speaker 1: I am tell us about the tell us about the

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Speaker 1: other podcast you're seeing?

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Speaker 4: Is he was he mad?

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Speaker 2: Mad? Mad?

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Speaker 4: Was he nice?

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Speaker 3: How did you eat the podcast? Walk us through it?

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Speaker 4: He's taller and richer than us, isn't he? It's okay,

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Speaker 4: that's who it is. But you take it.

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Speaker 3: I get it. We're short, poor kids. I get it.

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Speaker 3: It's fine.

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Speaker 4: He's a movie star, isn't it mine.

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Speaker 5: He's a teen star.

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Speaker 2: He's on the cover of all the teen magazines of course,

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Speaker 2: of course.

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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 2: My new podcast I'm very excited about it is called

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Speaker 2: teen Beat. I, as you know, love the teen Beat

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Speaker 2: magazines from our youth. Uh, and yeah, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: be interviewing people my hold on, hold on, hold on,

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Speaker 4: So we played clips of you interviewing me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you were correspondent for teen Beat or The

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Speaker 4: So is that literally what's happened is that you've taken.

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Speaker 2: This troked into the very the first job I was

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Speaker 2: I do that again?

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Speaker 4: Okay, So what is the theme or is there a theme?

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Speaker 6: It's not going to be randomly asking like trying to

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Speaker 6: get everyone to ask you out like you did when

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Speaker 6: you were a kid.

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Speaker 3: Right, A weird podcast?

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Speaker 4: Get for Valentine's Day? Please those questions.

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Speaker 2: But here's the best part is that, thankfully I've improved

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Speaker 5: I will no longer ask a question and then immediately

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Speaker 5: answer it. What's your favorite pizza topping writer?

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Speaker 2: Well, my favorite topic is pizza and I love.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes I'm not in the move for my novel.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I have to take a breath.

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Speaker 3: It's brilliant, brilliant, So what is it?

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Speaker 4: What is the theme?

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Speaker 2: The theme is the hook of the show is that

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Speaker 2: I gave you my teen years.

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Speaker 5: It's time we yours.

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Speaker 2: And so all I'm asking my guests to do is

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Speaker 2: something hilarious. It could be a dating story, it could

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Speaker 6: Wow, if you first of all, great idea, you're going

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Speaker 6: to you know that Rider and I are going to listen,

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Speaker 3: We tell Ryder I'm your first guest. That's actually not

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Speaker 6: But if you don't do a segment that literally is

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Speaker 6: five or six questions like what are your favorite pizza toppings?

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Speaker 3: You can't call a team being.

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Speaker 5: What do you look for in a girl?

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Speaker 3: You have like you have to have that segment.

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Speaker 5: Married for years. I don't care. I don't care, I

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Speaker 3: What is it?

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Speaker 5: What do you look like?

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Speaker 7: Say?

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Speaker 6: Another thing we talked about is your mom and my

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Speaker 5: I have hundreds me too of teen magazines, Like do.

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Speaker 3: You still have yours? Rider? Do your parents save any

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Speaker 3: I never would have looked parents the parents. I know

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Speaker 1: I think my parents have a couple that Shiloh and

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 6: So we should just all send all of our teen

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Speaker 4: She could use from them.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great idea.

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Speaker 4: Oh this is so cool. So you're you're doing not

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Speaker 4: You're not like actors.

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Speaker 2: Actors, musicians, everyone, everyone definitely not going to be related

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Speaker 5: Looking forward to talking to more people.

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Speaker 2: Debuts on January seventh, right here on this very feed.

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Speaker 2: So you can actually send us a voice memo to

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Speaker 2: Teenbeatpod at gmail dot com with your most embarrassing or

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Speaker 2: your funniest or just any story that you feel like

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Speaker 2: guest every week and we'll be sharing along in the horror,

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Speaker 2: right alongside all of you. Trust me, we all have

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Speaker 2: stories and I want to hear yours. We can't wait.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Pod meets World. I'm Danielle Fischel, I'm Rader Strong,

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Speaker 2: and I'm Wilfordell. Just days away from Christmas, in the

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Speaker 2: start of our own season seven recaps, we are taking

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Speaker 2: another look at our contemporary's most memorable holiday episodes. And

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Speaker 2: now we're just taking a few steps outside of the

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Speaker 2: Boy Meets World studio and entering the wonderful world of

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Speaker 5: Our literal neighbors.

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Speaker 2: For the first two seasons of Boy Meets World, and

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Speaker 5: Can I ask you both a question now?

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Speaker 2: As a wrestling fan and also a recent competitor on

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Speaker 5: Do you guys agree with that or is that a.

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Speaker 6: And I think the reason is because when you're targeted

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Speaker 1: This exact conversation on our podcast before about Home Improvement.

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Speaker 3: Never had a vegetable protein conversation on.

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Speaker 5: The vegetable protein they were.

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Speaker 1: It just kind of comes and goes in your life,

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Speaker 1: and it's like it was great. It's like watching this episode,

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Speaker 4: It feels very nineties. I laughed.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm with it. I'm never going to

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Speaker 3: Oh where, I don't think I disagree with that.

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Speaker 1: Either, this show is so funny, it's so forgettable, but

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Speaker 5: Whereas the directing John pass.

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Speaker 2: The way it was shot didn't feel nineties to me.

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Speaker 2: It felt timeless. It felt like I could it felt

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Speaker 3: Full House felt eighties to me, not nineties.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it does feel a little late eighties early nineties,

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Speaker 5: Like although Home Improvement had.

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Speaker 2: Like Will said, you know and the neighbor you don't

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Speaker 2: didn't actually play that for laughs. That's that's a laugh

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Speaker 2: that happens just because you know what happens every week.

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Speaker 3: But like he's Feenie.

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Speaker 5: Yes, he's Feenie, and.

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Speaker 2: He's really he's giving you actually every episode see him

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Speaker 5: He's like the family therapist.

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Speaker 1: And so then why hasn't it lasted based on your

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Speaker 1: Because I agree, you're right, You're absolutely right storytelling visually

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Speaker 2: I honestly after watching this episode was like maybe I

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Speaker 6: People don't Our audience doesn't know this because of the

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Speaker 2: Well, today we will be talking about season one, episode twelve,

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Speaker 2: a show early in their development called You'll Better Watch Out.

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Speaker 3: He only did thirty nine episodes of Thought.

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Speaker 5: He is no stranger to Christmas.

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Speaker 2: He directed the blockbuster Tim Allen movie The Santa Claus,

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Speaker 2: He produced and directed almost every episode of Last Man Standing,

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Speaker 3: He's the career. He's the career I want. If somebody

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Speaker 2: And then Patricia Richardson as Jill Taylor, the matriarch of

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Speaker 2: the show, was in every episode and also appeared on

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Speaker 2: The West Wing, Blind Spot, and Gray's Anatomy. She also

452
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Speaker 2: made a guest appearance on Tim's other shows, Last Man

453
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Speaker 2: Standing and recently Shifting Gears. Earl Hinman played neighbor Wilson

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Speaker 2: Wilson Junior, but you'd never know it. His face was

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Speaker 2: obscured by a piece of picket fence every episode. He

456
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Speaker 2: passed away in two thousand and three at the young

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Speaker 2: age of sixty one years old.

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Speaker 3: Oh that sucks.

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Speaker 1: In the episode that I was in, there was a

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Speaker 1: joke where he's carved a pumpkin of himself.

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Speaker 4: And it's him behind the fence. So cute, so many

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Speaker 4: good bits.

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Speaker 2: Taran Noah Smith is Mark Taylor. Smith left the business

464
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Speaker 2: soon after Home Improvement. In two thousand and five, Smith

465
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Speaker 2: formed a California based non dairy cheese manufacturer and restaurant, Playfood,

466
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Speaker 2: specializing in vegan and organic foods. Smith is also the

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Speaker 2: technical manager for the Community Submersibles Project, where he teaches

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Speaker 2: people how to pilot submarines. What, of course, yeah, yeah, wow,

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Speaker 2: duh yeah, obviously yeah underwater he's super magic.

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Speaker 3: He's a he's a vegan submarine driver, obviously like you do.

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Speaker 3: Of course, we find the.

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Speaker 1: Greatest child actor our ever Tarran. You guys remember Terren?

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Speaker 1: Of course, of course, so tern I did not.

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Speaker 4: I have not kept up with this obviously he went.

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Speaker 5: He went from being a child actor to.

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Speaker 2: Being a restaurant owner who teaches people how to pilot submarines.

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Speaker 4: Can we please get him on our podcast?

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Speaker 6: I don't, frankly, I don't know if the radio signal

479
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Speaker 6: reaches that deep into the ocean, but we'll have to

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Speaker 6: find out.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be great if we interview and he's just

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Speaker 2: on a submarine bubbles.

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Speaker 5: Oh man, that'd be so cool.

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Speaker 3: That might be the greatest thing I've ever heard.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 2: The iconic Jonathan Taylor Thomas plays Randy Taylor. JT T

488
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Speaker 2: was the it cover boy for teen magazines of the time,

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Speaker 2: and he voiced young Simba in The Lion King. He

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Speaker 2: also starred in movies like the Adventures of Pinocchio, Man

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Speaker 2: of the House, I'll Be Home for Christmas, and Wild America.

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Speaker 2: Jonathan has lived a life primarily outside of the public eye,

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Speaker 2: but he does direct, and he appeared in Tim's Last show,

494
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Speaker 2: Last Man Standing around twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 3: He also opened a peacha shop and teaches you how

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Speaker 3: to apply to rigibles.

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Speaker 6: It's a very interesting lifestyle, so yeah.

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Speaker 2: And then Zachary ty Bryan as Brad Taylor. Zach also

499
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Speaker 2: appeared in Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift and has

500
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Speaker 2: since just appeared in headlines for some awful behavior, so

501
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Speaker 2: we we'll keep it at that. And then Richard Karn

502
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Speaker 2: as Al Borland. He's a former guest here on Pod

503
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Speaker 2: Meets World. Wildly interesting guy who also cameot on Boy

504
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Speaker 2: Meets World. Go listen to that episode and learn all

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Speaker 2: about him. And Pamela Anderson as Lisa. After being discovered

506
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Speaker 2: on a hockey game JumboTron and appearing in Playboy, This

507
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Speaker 2: role as Tim's co host on the show Inside a

508
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Speaker 2: Show for the first two seasons of Home Improvement is

509
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Speaker 2: what brought her to the mainstream. She would go on

510
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Speaker 2: to star as CJ on Baywatch and the rest is history.

511
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Speaker 2: She's most recently starred in The Comeback Vehicle, The Last Showgirl,

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Speaker 2: and The Naked Gun reboot.

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Speaker 5: Have either of you ever met Pamela Anderson?

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Speaker 3: Yes? Yeah, No, I don't know. I think so. I

515
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Speaker 3: think we all met her. I think we all met.

516
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Speaker 6: Them at like the ABC parties back in the day,

517
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Speaker 6: like the original ninety three ABC Party ninety four that's

518
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Speaker 6: where I met Richard carn And I think I met

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Speaker 6: the kids for the first time because remember we've talked

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Speaker 6: about this on the podcast A bunch where that was

521
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Speaker 6: Jim Class.

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Speaker 3: Jim Class was with Tara and yeah, JTT.

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Speaker 2: And and but did home Improvements start in ninety three

524
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Speaker 2: two or did they start in ninety one?

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Speaker 3: They started in ninety one, so I think a couple

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Speaker 3: of yeahs. So maybe she was.

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Speaker 5: Gone, she wasn't there.

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Speaker 6: You know, you run into these people and they were

529
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Speaker 6: right next to us, so you know it was you

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Speaker 6: never knew who you met and who you didn't and

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Speaker 6: all know stuff.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, Well, guest starring David Warshowski as Fireman number one.

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Speaker 5: This is one of David's first jobs and in one

534
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Speaker 5: of the weirder things we've ever documented on Podmets World.

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Speaker 5: He would later play Fireman number two on Friends.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, I.

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Speaker 2: Wonder if it's like, wait a second, number one. He's

538
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Speaker 2: already been Fireman number one. Let's makeing Fireman number two.

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Speaker 2: Add Law and Order Taken, Mad Men, Sons of Anarchy,

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Speaker 2: Captain Phillips both. Now you see Me movies, and three

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Speaker 2: episodes of Barry to his resume, do you guys watch

542
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Speaker 2: Barry No? Or did you hear It's amazing? He is

543
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Speaker 2: a common go to actor for policemen, firefighters, and FBI agents.

544
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Speaker 2: And then Gary Bayer played Fireman number two, not to

545
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Speaker 2: be confused with David Warshowski Fireman number two in Friends.

546
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Speaker 2: Beyer appeared in the movie All That Jazz and Notts Landing,

547
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Speaker 2: but he passed away in twenty seventeen. So let's jump

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Speaker 2: into our recap. The Home Improvement intro plays. I think

549
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Speaker 2: it's only fair we kick off the episode with our

550
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Speaker 2: impressions of the famous Tim Allen grunt. Let's go, oh,

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Speaker 2: that's my good one, that's mine.

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Speaker 1: I don't never I've never thought about this, what what what?

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Speaker 5: I can't do it? It's in the episode. He's like,

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Speaker 5: well that's good too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey yeah, Will's does the there's like two versions

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Speaker 2: of it. There are two versions. There's the one that's

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Speaker 2: like the one Will did do it again, Will.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And then there's the one that kind of like

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Speaker 5: the one that was in.

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Speaker 2: This episode, which is like him singing jingle bells or

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Speaker 2: it's mostly.

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Speaker 3: Just like stuff like that. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, as somebody who hasn't watched a bunch of these episodes,

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Speaker 6: is this because this is the season one? Is this

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Speaker 6: the same opening title sequence for the entire series or

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Speaker 6: do they change.

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Speaker 3: It at all?

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Speaker 4: I knew the song the second it started. I was like, oh,

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Speaker 4: I remember this, so I think.

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Speaker 3: The song stays the same. They might do small visual

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Speaker 3: differences as they grow up.

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Speaker 6: Because the kids grow up and all that kind of stuff. Gotcha,

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Speaker 6: But but.

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Speaker 5: No, that's full I know, I know, I know. It's

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Speaker 5: that sounds familiar.

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Speaker 3: Anything. The most famous grunt is yeah, it does that too.

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Speaker 6: I think the pilot of Home Improvement is the one

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Speaker 6: where he blows the back of the dishwasher out, which

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Speaker 6: is like that famous TV scene. It's him, it's him

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Speaker 6: with Terran and they both have their shirts off and

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Speaker 6: little utility belts as he's he's like fixing up the

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Speaker 6: washing machine or not the dishwasher, and then it ends

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Speaker 6: with him turning it on and blows the whole like

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Speaker 6: it's a great thing to see how a sitcom like

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Speaker 6: the entire back blows out into the into the living

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Speaker 6: room and it just set up the whole show because

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Speaker 6: then no matter what he does, you're waiting for that.

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Speaker 6: You know you're gonna screw this up somehow? How's it

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Speaker 6: going to work? And it's even though you know.

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Speaker 3: It's coming, It works.

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Speaker 4: It's great.

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Speaker 2: While jumping into the show, and we start in Tim's garage,

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Speaker 2: Tim Taylor's sitting next to a decorated Christmas tree in

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Speaker 2: his Tooltime TV show set, wearing a festive tie and

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Speaker 2: dress socks. He addresses the camera the important thing to

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Speaker 2: remember this holiday season is to make it a safe one.

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Speaker 2: He calls out for his Tooltime girl Lisa, who hands

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Speaker 2: him afraid wire. He teaches the viewer never plug in

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Speaker 2: afrayd wire. He walks over to his nearby sidekick and

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Speaker 2: comedic foil Al Borland, who was wearing a goofy elf cap,

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Speaker 2: and asks, do you suppose they call it afraid because

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Speaker 2: it's scared of something?

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Speaker 5: Al is not enthused. He highly doubts it.

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Speaker 2: Tim agrees and hits a little bell on his hat. Then,

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Speaker 2: though he never volunteered, Tim gives Al the task of

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Speaker 2: safely taping up the wire and makes a buzzing noise

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Speaker 2: just to scare him a bit. Tim walks away and

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Speaker 2: informs viewers there's nothing more fun in the world than

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Speaker 2: sitting around a beautifully decorated Christmas tree in your home,

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Speaker 2: grunting your favorite Christmas carols. He dons a bright red

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Speaker 2: suit jacket and starts to grunt jingle bells prancing around

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Speaker 2: the stage. He unsuccessfully tries to get Al to perform

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Speaker 2: a solo and then throws it to the audience, who

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Speaker 2: grunts along with him. What a time to be a lot.

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Speaker 2: He goes on to explain that his problem with Christmas

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Speaker 2: trees is that you spend so much time working on

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Speaker 2: the front of it, you never get to see.

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Speaker 5: The back of it.

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Speaker 3: This is true.

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Speaker 5: I know this is truering the back.

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Speaker 3: Oh see, we do because there's a big picture window.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we do.

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Speaker 3: To the idea of a slowly rotating Christmas tree is

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Speaker 3: brilliant thing.

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Speaker 5: It's so smart. It's a great idea, like a little

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Speaker 5: music box, but for your Christmas tree.

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Speaker 3: Yes, why is that not a thing? And that seems

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Speaker 3: like a genius plan. Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Rider's going to make it smelted.

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Speaker 3: Smelt it for us, Rider, So.

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Speaker 5: What we're doing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm actually surprised because a lot of people don't

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Speaker 1: have fake Christmas trees nowadays. Anyway, So it seems like

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Speaker 1: those fake Christmas trees would have built in motor.

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Speaker 5: You'd think such a good idea.

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Speaker 2: So Tim reveals an idea he got from his old

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Speaker 2: college turntable. He's going to motorize the Christmas tree. As

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Speaker 2: he explains the powerful motor they'll be using, Alan or

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Speaker 2: Jax wondering if Tim set this up correctly, Tim's insulted.

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Speaker 2: Does Al know who he's talking to? And I'll responds deadpan,

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Speaker 2: Yes I do, Tim, Tim.

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Speaker 1: I mean this is the dynamic between the two of

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Speaker 1: them is just so perfect, great perfect. Richard never has

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Speaker 1: to say an now, he could literally just give looks

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Speaker 1: and he would get the same laughs.

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Speaker 4: It is so funny.

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Speaker 5: It also funny.

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Speaker 6: I know we'll get into it as the show goes on,

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Speaker 6: but did you guys realize how many storylines are going

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Speaker 6: at the same time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it doesn't feel like an A story and

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Speaker 3: a B story.

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Speaker 2: My favorite thing is that Lisa's story, Pamela Anderson's story

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Speaker 2: is the is the most is she in this episode

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Speaker 2: she walked out and handed him to be a freight one.

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Speaker 3: That's right, yeah, but she did it well. But I mean,

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Speaker 3: I was thinking about this.

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Speaker 1: Because every character has an arc basically, yeah, but they

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Speaker 1: also intertwined.

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Speaker 3: It's so great.

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Speaker 6: It's he's competing with his neighbor, dealing with his son

662
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Speaker 6: trying to figure out Christmas. His son's trying to figure

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Speaker 6: out if Santa Israel. His other two sons are auditioning

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Speaker 6: for a play. The mom is building the thing to

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Speaker 6: make sure that she gets to play because she's going overboard.

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Speaker 3: Wilson's teaching them about the spirit of Christmas.

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Speaker 6: Then he's on the roof and the firefighters co There's

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Speaker 6: like nine different storylines going at the same time.

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Speaker 3: And it works.

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Speaker 5: I know, I know, great writing.

671
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

672
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 2: Well, Tim insists there's more than than one way to

673
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 2: do it, and he instructs Lisa to turn it on.

674
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 2: She flips a switch and the Christmas Tree begins to

675
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 2: spin around seamlessly. It worked, Tim boasts, When you know

676
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 2: what you're doing, folks, anything is possible. On cue, the

677
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 2: Christmas tree sparks and the motor picks up speed. The

678
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 2: Christmas Tree is now spinning extremely fast, flinging ornaments all

679
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 2: over the place. Tim shouts incoming and everyone ducks.

680
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 3: For cover, and you knew it was coming, and it

681
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 3: still worked, and.

682
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 2: It still works, it's still funny. It's a great visual.

683
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 2: A digitized ornament flies to the camera and transitions into

684
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 2: all the.

685
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 4: Like comure graphic stuff in between.

686
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: Feels very of the moment, but also isn't dated in

687
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: a weird way kind of. It's like used effectively, so

688
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: it's like just correctly over the top. So even though

689
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: it's cartoony, you're like, cool.

690
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 3: It shouldn't have been.

691
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 6: I think it should have just been a laptop, just

692
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 6: a laptop from the early nineties.

693
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 2: So exactly, we're in the tailor's kitchen. The house is

694
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 2: decorated for Christmas. Mark comes running in holding a very

695
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 2: long list and asking for more paper. His mom, Jill,

696
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 2: examines the Christmas list and isn't sure Santa can bring

697
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 2: all of these gifts because it would make this lay

698
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 2: too heavy. He decides he will cross out the heaviest thing,

699
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 2: a Cocker Spaniel by Floppy.

700
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 5: I thought that was so cute.

701
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 2: Jill encourages him to pick out his absolute favorite thing

702
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 2: from the list and put a star next to it.

703
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 2: He decides on the remote controlled dinosaur, and he plops

704
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 2: onto the couch to further examine his list, and Tim

705
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 2: walks in carrying a box of heavy Christmas decorations. Jill

706
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 2: points out that's the twelve box of decorations, and he

707
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 2: insists he's just grabbing one more, but once pressed, he

708
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 2: admits that there are a couple more in his car

709
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 2: and buy a couple he means ten the oven dings.

710
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 2: But it doesn't stop Jill from grilling her husband. You're

711
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 2: just doing this because you can't stand that Doc Johnson

712
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 2: always wins the Christmas decoration contest. It doesn't bother you

713
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 2: that he's added those three giant candles to the roof.

714
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 2: Tim Deniser claim and clarifies there's four of them, and

715
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 2: there's a little dancing olve, but that doesn't bother me.

716
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 1: So there's a competition for yeah, we have these in

717
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: our neighborhood.

718
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 3: Really, yeah? Who.

719
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 2: I cannot reiterate this enough that every show I have

720
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 2: directed has done a Christmas episode where there is a

721
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 2: competition and there's people who walk around and judge.

722
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 6: And so right near where Danielle and I live, there's

723
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 6: a place called Candy Cane Lane, and if you go there,

724
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 6: there's people dressed like Santa handing out coco. There's popcorn makers.

725
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 6: I mean, it's like there's cars that are stacked lining up.

726
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 6: It made the news because there was a fist fight

727
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:18,439
Speaker 6: there last year.

728
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 2: It's changed, but it was.

729
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 6: It's apparently you can't sell your house to anybody unless

730
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 6: they sign a contract saying they will continue the decorating.

731
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 2: And by the way street, a lot of them have not,

732
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,240
Speaker 2: and I don't know why. Really, it's very sad.

733
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 3: Now.

734
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 6: Oh no, I haven't been there for a while since

735
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 6: I started that fist fight last year.

736
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,959
Speaker 5: I allowed back. I just say, five hundred yards away from.

737
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 1: Lane.

738
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 4: It's got to be the saddest state of being.

739
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 2: She begs him not to set the roof on fire again,

740
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 2: like last year when the night ended with an r visit.

741
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 2: Tim clarifies, except last year, when was the last time

742
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 2: you drove me to the emergency room? She answers the eighties.

743
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,919
Speaker 2: He scoffs, you mess up one decade and you'll never

744
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 2: let me forget it, which I thought was a funny

745
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 2: way of them acknowledging.

746
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: He asked, why, what was I actually don't know anything

747
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: about this.

748
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 3: Being a cocaine.

749
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 5: Dealer, he was a cocaine smuggler.

750
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 3: He was a cocaine smuggler. Yeah. Famously yeah, yeah, like

751
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 3: waight too.

752
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 5: It wasn't like a little bit.

753
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 3: No, he wasn't caught with some coke. He was like

754
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 3: did he and he.

755
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 4: Actually went to prison?

756
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 3: Yeah?

757
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 1: Wow?

758
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 2: Yeah.

759
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 3: You never see his mug shot with the big mustache.

760
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: No, no, and he was a stand up comedian at

761
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 1: the time or no after I think gotcha.

762
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 2: Jill suggests he takes the year off from competing with

763
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 2: Doc Johnson, but Tim says he was only trying to

764
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 2: spread some Christmas cheer, but she sees right through his bs.

765
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 2: Then Brad and Randy walk in as Jill sets out

766
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 2: freshly baked Christmas cookies. She asks how the boy trials

767
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 2: for the Christmas pageant went, and Brad admits terrible. I'm

768
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,720
Speaker 2: a shepherd again. Randy says he only has himself to blame.

769
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 2: He was auditioning to be one of the wise Men

770
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 2: and they were and said they were carrying gold and Frankenstein.

771
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,760
Speaker 3: They were good. But these three kids were so good.

772
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 5: They're so good.

773
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,879
Speaker 2: Also, did any I did not remember that Jonathan's name

774
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:24,280
Speaker 2: on this show was Randy?

775
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 3: Oh you didn't? No?

776
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 5: Randy?

777
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 2: What a weird name for a child.

778
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 5: How many Randy's do you know?

779
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 1: Randy's one of the main characters in Scream. Oh that's right,

780
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 1: what Yah, it's Randy and Stu?

781
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 3: Was it Randy also one of the Jackson five. Wasn't

782
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 3: there a Randy? I think there was a Randy Jackson?

783
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 2: Sorry, I just think Jonathan was so famous at the

784
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 2: time that like nobody thought of him as a character name. Ever,

785
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 2: the exact opposite problem we had.

786
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone was.

787
00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 5: Like, and there's JTT.

788
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 6: I also forget he had that voice where he'd come

789
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 6: in and be like I was trying to do it,

790
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 6: like he had like this cute It's.

791
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 5: Great, the cutest voice I've ever heard on a kid.

792
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 6: But to get those three kids to cast those three

793
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 6: is pretty amazing. To not have a dud in the bunch,

794
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 6: I mean the great.

795
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 2: And going back to what we were talking about with

796
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,919
Speaker 2: John Pascua in the way he directs the fact that

797
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 2: their opening lines all take place up still by the

798
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 2: door when they're taking off their coats, like her yelling

799
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 2: up to.

800
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 5: How are the tryouts terrible?

801
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 2: I'm a shepherd again, and like not being worried about

802
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 2: having two eyes on camera.

803
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,479
Speaker 5: Yep, it's just everything about it.

804
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 6: Close to the At one point he's getting the soda

805
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 6: and you're on his back and it works.

806
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 2: Cuts the fridge and he grabs a drink and it's

807
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 2: just like, yes.

808
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 4: To your point, will I auditioned maybe six times for

809
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 4: Home and Provement. They were searching.

810
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: It took I remember, for one of the kids, for

811
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: one of the three kids, multiple kids, because I was

812
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:58,320
Speaker 1: I was between, like, I just remember going back constantly

813
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: was like, oh, the stupid Home improvement show. I hated

814
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: it before it came out because I had to keep

815
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: auditioning for it. I probably met John Pasquin. I remember

816
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: multiple rooms and it was like, which character am I

817
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: right for? Randy or the older brother. It was like,

818
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 1: because I think Jonathan is actually older than Zach.

819
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 5: Yes soldest supposed to be.

820
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, but they were constantly shuffling the kids, and

821
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: I remember I hated it so much because I had

822
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 1: to keep auditioning for it. And then I finally got

823
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: the guest star role. They brought me in on the

824
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 1: Halloween episode, which is the second season or whatever, and

825
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: by then I was like, oh, this show's really good.

826
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: I already liked it by then, but yeah, man, they

827
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: they they did their job.

828
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 4: Even listening to Richard Carno. He got his part.

829
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:41,240
Speaker 3: They were seeking.

830
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: They were rewriting and reworking the show perfectly to their cast.

831
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 4: It's so smart, it's incredible.

832
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 2: Well, Brad argues that his brother is no better off.

833
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 2: He's relegated to the role of the stupid innkeeper. Tim

834
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 2: asks how many lines does the stupid innkeeper have? Randy

835
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 2: size one lousy line, then the entire family recites it together.

836
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 5: There's no role with me in.

837
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 2: Tim suggests he adds a little flair to the line

838
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 2: by tagging it with he should have called the one

839
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 2: eight hundred reservation hot line, but Joe instructs her son

840
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 2: to ignore him. Randy admits, I wanted to play Joseph,

841
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 2: but they said there were too many lines for me.

842
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 2: George Lon again got that part, and Jill is shocked

843
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 2: he couldn't remember the words to Happy Birthday at your party.

844
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 6: I thought they missed a joke here. I thought they

845
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 6: missed a big joke here, which they should have said.

846
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 6: You know, they said I didn't have enough. You know,

847
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 6: I don't have the memory to remember this many lines.

848
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 6: And she should have said, well, who got the part?

849
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:49,399
Speaker 6: And he should have said, I don't.

850
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 5: I don't remember.

851
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought they missed a great joke, great opportunity

852
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 6: for a joke there.

853
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 2: Yes, but that's one joke, but it takes away the

854
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 2: fact that it sets up her entire story.

855
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 3: But it's such a good joke joke.

856
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 6: And well then you have the older brother come in

857
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,839
Speaker 6: and go it was Brad Lanaga. Oh right, whatever, Yeah,

858
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 6: that's how you would have done it.

859
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 5: Randy reveals that George's dad built the set, and Jill scoffs,

860
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 5: that's just favoritism. Tim, you should have built the set.

861
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 2: He sarcastically wonders, is that the voice of the Christmas spirit?

862
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 5: I hear?

863
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 2: Jill doubles down. He forgot the words to Happy Birthday?

864
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 2: Is that the Joseph?

865
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 5: You want?

866
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 2: What's he gonna say? Meet my wife? The Virgin dies Sheila.

867
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 2: Randy insists they don't care about the pageant, but Jill

868
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 2: insists they do. This family has the Christmas spirit. When

869
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,399
Speaker 2: I finish showing your costumes, you're gonna be the best

870
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 2: dressed Hebrews in Bethlehem. Meanwhile, Mark is still filling out

871
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 2: his long list for Santa, and Brad snatches it, Mom

872
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 2: and Dad aren't going to buy you all this stuff.

873
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 2: Mark is offended. Why would they? Santa will make it.

874
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 2: Brad shakes his head in disbelief. Are you going to

875
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 2: be a dork your whole life? Mark is now concerned,

876
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 2: I hope not. Randy decides to take a gentler approach. Mark,

877
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 2: you're too old to believe in Santa Claus. Kids are

878
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 2: going to start making fun of you. He just comes

879
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 2: out and says it, There is no Santa. Mark can't

880
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 2: believe it. Well, who drinks the milk and eats the

881
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 2: chocolate chip cookies? Then Brad tells him Dad loves the

882
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 2: chocolate chip cookies. Mark calls them poop heads and takes

883
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:18,840
Speaker 2: his list back. Randy quickly changes course. There used to

884
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,399
Speaker 2: be a Santa, but he died six years ago.

885
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: That's such a great funny. He does exist, but he's

886
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: been dead like such a mean little brother.

887
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 5: Oh my god, Brad smirks, Yep, you just missed out.

888
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 2: Randy explains he had a terrible accident with a reindeer

889
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 2: blitz and fell on him. Mark can't believe what he's hearing.

890
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 2: He's really dead. Brad and Randy hammered home.

891
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,359
Speaker 5: Kick the bucket six feet under, pushing.

892
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 2: Up the daisies deader than a door nail, stiff is

893
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 2: a board, cold as ice, mad is maker all as

894
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 2: they're completely out of the room now alone, Mark looks

895
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 2: at a nearby Santa, figuring when after a few seconds, just.

896
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 5: Over so beautiful.

897
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 6: By the way, we just recapped a dcom called Twas

898
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 6: the Night that so perfectly answers the question of how

899
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 6: Santa carries all the presents.

900
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 4: Oh really, so it's an infinity bag, isn't it.

901
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 6: Well, it is, but it's an infinity bag where every

902
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 6: time he reaches in magically he grabs exactly the presence

903
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 6: he needs for every kid.

904
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 3: But they're like slightly bigger than grains of sand.

905
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 6: So then he puts them under the tree and then

906
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 6: presses a button and they pop up to regular size

907
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 6: so he can have all of them in the in

908
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 6: his bag.

909
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: Does the same thing in something else. I was like, shrinking,

910
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: it's a way to feel like there's another Yeah, there's

911
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: another movie that does the idea of shrinking is cool,

912
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: But yeah, I almost thought it was just like a

913
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: bag of holding.

914
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 5: And like it's just yeah, there's never ending and it

915
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 5: doesn't have a bottom.

916
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then we're back in the tailor's kitchen. Later on,

917
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 2: Jill comes bursting through the door carrying an array of boxes.

918
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,959
Speaker 2: She announces to Randy, who's sitting on the couch watching,

919
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 2: that she found some great stuff for his costume. Again,

920
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 2: another John Pasquin shot them, starting on Jonathan sitting on

921
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 2: the edge of the couch hitting your remote and the

922
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 2: Dolly moving over.

923
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:12,919
Speaker 5: To the side. Her coming in.

924
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 2: That first shot is longer than any other shot we've

925
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 2: had on board.

926
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: And just think about the structure of the living room,

927
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: even the set with the outside right next door. You

928
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: see the through the windows, you can see the neighbor,

929
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: you can see their backyard, you can see.

930
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 4: The neighbor's yard. And the fact that the couch is sideways.

931
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: Think about the how revolutionary that is because that makes

932
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 1: everybody's job harder, but it makes it so much deeper.

933
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 4: And more dynamic of the set. It's brilliant.

934
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 6: You also having Jonathan sit on the back of the

935
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 6: couch that could in any other show just look like

936
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 6: bad blocking, but it so works for his character character.

937
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 5: Aiyah, it works, Okay works, I know.

938
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 2: She shows off a long gold piece of fabric this

939
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 2: is your cape, as she drapes him in it. Randy

940
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 2: reminds her that he is just an innkeeper, but she

941
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 2: corrects him, you are a very successful innkeeper. She then

942
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 2: pulls out a big red hat that looks more like

943
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,439
Speaker 2: a pincushion than costuming, and she places it on his head.

944
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 5: She thinks it looks perfect, but Tim walks in and

945
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 5: addresses his son as Ali Baba.

946
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 2: He wonders what in are Mary and Josephs staying at

947
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 2: this year Caesar's palace. Jill shows him off and asks

948
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 2: Randy to say his line. He recites it with little enthusiasm,

949
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 2: so Jill suggests a little more emotion. In response, Randy

950
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 2: breaks out and fake tears and screams it in pain.

951
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 2: And then in the backyard, Tim approaches Wilson, the identity

952
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 2: obscured neighbor, and asks if he has a diesel generator

953
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 2: to borrow for a revolving Santa that needs power. Wilson

954
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 2: says he just loaned it to Doc Johnson, and based

955
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 2: on Tim's reaction, he notices tension between the two neighbors.

956
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 2: Tim insists he's just decorating his house. He notes that

957
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 2: Wilson never decorates his house, though, and Wilson explains he

958
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 2: has a tree in his heart, a wreath in his mind,

959
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 2: and a star in his soul. Tim assumes he plugs

960
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:56,240
Speaker 2: it all into his belly button.

961
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 5: Then Brad comes running outside.

962
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 2: Dad, Doctor Johnson just put a two huge spotlights. Tim

963
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 2: can't believe the news. He pulls out his binoculars to

964
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 2: get a look. Those aren't spotlights. Those are seven thousand

965
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 2: watt Xenon super troopers. He calls Doc Johnson sick and

966
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,359
Speaker 2: grabs a nearby wooden Santa to bring to the roof.

967
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 2: It's you and me, Santa against the doctor.

968
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 6: Now did this survide any of you of the side backyard,

969
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 6: sideyard Phoenie Yes. Situation to me, that's all I saw

970
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 6: was like, it's it's wider, obviously it's got They've got

971
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 6: more depth than we did.

972
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 3: But it's like, huh, it's a straight up Foenie yard.

973
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is where it's like you can tell there's

974
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,320
Speaker 2: more yard back and around, and so I'm back.

975
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: I actually wondered if there was some inspiration here, because

976
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: this is maybe one and the idea of like, oh

977
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: my neighbor is my teacher, which is a huge part

978
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: of the boy meets World pitch. I wonder if they

979
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 1: were envisioning and they they're pitching the same network, it's

980
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 1: Touchdown Television, same studio, same network. Michael might have just

981
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 1: said he'll be like the Wilson. He's right over the

982
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: fence and and Corey will go for advice just like

983
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:00,879
Speaker 1: Tim Allen does.

984
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 4: I bet you that.

985
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: Was literally part of the pitch, because if the whole

986
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,720
Speaker 1: first season you have like you have this scene every

987
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 1: two or three episodes, Corey goes to Fienie for advice.

988
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 6: But even with the different levels, like Tim climbs the

989
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 6: ladder at the end, whereas we were climbing into the treehouse. Uh,

990
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,959
Speaker 6: it's like everything kind of matched up this whole scene.

991
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 3: It was great.

992
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 2: Now we're on the tailor's roof. Tim's drilling Santa Claus

993
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 2: and Elf cutouts into the shingles as Brad watches on

994
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 2: from inside. Tim announces they're about to have a trial

995
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 2: run and reminds his son always attached the spur gear

996
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 2: to the final drive. Tim plugs into an extension cord

997
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 2: and Santa starts to rotate. Satisfied with his work, Tim

998
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 2: tells his son he'll be right in after he grabs

999
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 2: his tools, and just as he adjusts himself. Tim notices

1000
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 2: the roof is slick with snow, and he falls face

1001
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 2: first onto a hammer. As he slowly gets back up,

1002
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 2: we see the tool is now stuck to his tongue

1003
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 2: As Tim struggles to remove it. Brad watches on in

1004
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 2: horror as Tim panics he was repeatedly hit by the

1005
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 2: moving Santa and his giant sack of presence, throwing him

1006
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 2: to the ground over and over. I thought that little

1007
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 2: gag was done so well.

1008
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 4: Yep, yep.

1009
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 5: All those moments just so funny.

1010
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 6: And they also subverted it because you thought he was

1011
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 6: going off the roof exactly, and so it was like,

1012
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 6: we're not gonna do that.

1013
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, it's slick with snow, that's not going

1014
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 2: to be the fall. Yeah, he's not going to fall.

1015
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 3: It's great.

1016
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:23,720
Speaker 2: And then we're in the tailor's living room. Jill thanks

1017
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,720
Speaker 2: the two firefighters who've managed to detach the frozen hammer

1018
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 2: from her husband's tongue. One admits he was surprised at

1019
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 2: the side of it and apologizes to Tim for laughing.

1020
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 2: He adds, we watch your show all the time. I

1021
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 2: think it's really great. The other firefighter wonders why didn't

1022
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 2: you have al here to help you.

1023
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 5: I love that guy.

1024
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 2: Yes, this adds insult to injury for the tool man.

1025
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 2: One of the firefighters jokes they'll see him again next Christmas,

1026
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 2: and Jill hands the rescue workers some treats for the road.

1027
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 2: As they walk out the door, they're greeted with paparazzi.

1028
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 2: Jill looks at her husband and asks him to promise

1029
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:55,320
Speaker 2: to stop this foolishness.

1030
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 5: Why was there press?

1031
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 3: I didn't know. I wasn't even gonna ask. He's famous.

1032
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 5: I guess local, like local fame.

1033
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, okay, or maybe they you know, this happened

1034
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 6: to firefighters, happen all the time.

1035
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't get the sense that it's

1036
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:10,959
Speaker 5: a national show.

1037
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 3: It's a local access thing. I think.

1038
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 5: Okay, So what the city are they in?

1039
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:18,800
Speaker 3: Detroit or near Detroit?

1040
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1041
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 1: I think Michigan.

1042
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, okay. It seems like a lot of press.

1043
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 2: Yes it did, especially for like almost almost Christmas, because yeah,

1044
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 2: it's it's pretty okay. So Tim size, I'm through. They're

1045
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 2: judging the competition in two hours.

1046
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 5: What more can I do?

1047
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 2: But once Jill leaves, Tim quietly dials a number on

1048
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 2: his landline and pretends to be Doc Johnson. He asks

1049
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 2: for his power to be turned off in two hours

1050
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 2: because he and his wife will be off to dinner.

1051
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 2: What did that? Did anybody ever? Did anyone ever call him?

1052
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 2: Just be like for two hours, I'm gonna be gone.

1053
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 3: No, that doesn't make any sense. I love the set though.

1054
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 6: I love how he can go around the fridge one

1055
00:48:58,719 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 6: way and you can go.

1056
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,280
Speaker 4: And then she can sneak in behind.

1057
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 3: It's so well done, really great.

1058
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, yeah, really really Danielle, you've talked about to

1059
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: us about Shifting Gears doing a similar exactly saying the

1060
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 1: depth and.

1061
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 2: Like John Pasquin is such a genius the set. I'm

1062
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 2: realizing there are so many similarities on the Shifting Gear set.

1063
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 2: It's a very well done, modern take on it. But

1064
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 2: it's it's very similar in the sense that there is

1065
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 2: lots of living space and things to do deep in

1066
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 2: the set, multiple entrances, the kitchen and living room area

1067
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:38,839
Speaker 2: being right off of, or at least the kitchen and

1068
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 2: dining area being right off of a wall that's all

1069
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:44,360
Speaker 2: windows that leads to the yard, so people can be

1070
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 2: in the backyard you can see them, or people can

1071
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 2: go out that way.

1072
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 5: Just yeah, it's.

1073
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 4: It's so brilliant.

1074
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: It's so one of the things that I remember David

1075
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: Trainer talking about our set, how perfect our Hallway set,

1076
00:49:56,120 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: second season Hallway set was, And I think it was

1077
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: because Trainer came from theater and he called it a

1078
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: great Shakespearean set because it had multiple levels and different spots.

1079
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: But what Pasquin is doing is probably better for television.

1080
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,320
Speaker 1: So he's thinking because I think, you know, obviously sitcom

1081
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 1: evolved out of the theater tradition, so you have these

1082
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 1: great sets in most sitcoms where you have some depth,

1083
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 1: but for the most part it's center. You have spots

1084
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 1: for people to sit, you know, little corners. But Passwin

1085
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: is clearly thinking like a lens, like a camera lens,

1086
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 1: and a jib where the camera can get into the setactly,

1087
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: which is so much smarter and more contemporary.

1088
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 4: And it's so interesting that more.

1089
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:39,240
Speaker 1: Sitcoms didn't pick this up that, like the Disney Channel

1090
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: still kind of reverts to old school. I mean, on

1091
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 1: Girl's World, we have the bay window, right like that

1092
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: really kind of not great for camera sets. They were

1093
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 1: good for theater sets, but they're not great for cameras.

1094
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 5: So interesting.

1095
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 2: You know, what it boils down to is that you

1096
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 2: either have to agree to a fifth camera every week,

1097
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 2: which is an expense because now you need a camera

1098
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:05,360
Speaker 2: operator a jib itself. Renting a jib is expensive unless

1099
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 2: you already own the jib, and so they just have

1100
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 2: to be willing to put the budget in for it.

1101
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 2: And or it needs to be a show that has

1102
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 2: a lot of like performances and then you're able to

1103
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 2: get a jib. But it's like on a week to

1104
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 2: week basis, do you think you're going to need a

1105
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 2: jib for this? On a John Pasquin show, there is

1106
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 2: a jib all the.

1107
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:28,840
Speaker 4: Time, and fourth camera with a jib as a fifth.

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00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 2: Cam camera with a jibs and then also then in

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00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 2: some sets the jib works as the fourth camera. It

1110
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 2: will play in the X camera position or in the

1111
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:38,240
Speaker 2: A camera position as.

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00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:42,280
Speaker 5: You need it, or anywhere really, but you have five cameras.

1113
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 3: It's kind of nice.

1114
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,439
Speaker 2: But while Tim was trying to sabotage his neighbor Jill

1115
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 2: has creeped up behind him and is listening in. And

1116
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 2: on top of that, the operator has figured out it's Tim,

1117
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 2: especially because he tried to pull this last year too.

1118
00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 2: A frustrated Tim hangs up, and Jill immediately hounds him.

1119
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:00,040
Speaker 2: You were going to turn off the power and the

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00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 2: house of a seventy six year old retired proctologist. She

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00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 2: calls himpathetic, and he tries to change the subject to

1122
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 2: the Christmas pageant. She claims she's just trying to build

1123
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 2: up the boy's self esteem, and Tim asks by making

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00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 2: them dress up as the goobor sisters.

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00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 6: See, they're both this is the joy. This is why

1126
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 6: it's not that typical sitcom. The husband's an idiots. My

1127
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 6: wife knows everything.

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00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 5: She's doing it too exactly.

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00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 6: They're both that kind of just want the best of

1130
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 6: their kids and they're gonna do It's a great dynamic

1131
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 6: between the two. I also, after seeing her, I'd like

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00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:33,400
Speaker 6: to watch more episodes of this because my guess is

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00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 6: she would be put up there as one of the

1134
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 6: better sitcom moms.

1135
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,320
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, ever, oh yeah, I mean, it's.

1136
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 6: Just she's great, and the dynamic the two of them

1137
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,800
Speaker 6: have together I think would probably cement her in that lexicon.

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00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:47,840
Speaker 2: I think you're right right. Then Mark walks in with

1139
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 2: the news that Santa Claus died six years ago. Tim

1140
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 2: insists Santa's not dead, he's old. And when Jill reminds

1141
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 2: Mark that he sat on Santa's lap at them all,

1142
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,240
Speaker 2: his mom and dad have a real hard time explaining

1143
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 2: how he can be at all of them all's once,

1144
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 2: but they don't.

1145
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,959
Speaker 6: Do you also realize this is if I'm unless I'm wrong,

1146
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 6: this is kind of the premise of the movie Tim

1147
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,959
Speaker 6: Allen brought them the Santa Claus, Yeah, which is Santa

1148
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 6: Claus dies, right, and he takes over as the new

1149
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:12,799
Speaker 6: Santa cl But he doesn't just take over.

1150
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 5: He's unwillingly. He like he's like he buys them whatever.

1151
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 4: So do you think that they came up with this

1153
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 4: because of this?

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00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 3: I don't know.

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00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 4: I mean it's only two years later right now.

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00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:26,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, and he doesn't with John and all that kind

1157
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 6: of I mean, this might be you never you never

1158
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 6: know where ideas come from.

1159
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 3: This entire episode could have been then like.

1160
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:37,759
Speaker 4: What yeah, I found Yeah, my god, that's so great.

1161
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1162
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 5: His mom and dad have a hard time explaining how

1163
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,399
Speaker 5: he can be at all the malls at once. Jill

1164
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:46,240
Speaker 5: pivots and calls them helpers, like how al is Dad's helper?

1165
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 5: Mark gets it.

1166
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 2: Now, so they do all the Workably hurt, and he

1167
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 2: emphasizes they assist Santa, but Mark yep agree, Santa's got

1168
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 2: to be alive because you and Dad wouldn't lie to me.

1169
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 2: Once he runs off, Tim points out the obvious, we

1170
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 2: just lied to him. Jill reminds him that Mark is

1171
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 2: their last baby. She just wanted him to have one

1172
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 2: more magical Christmas. Tim hopes they're doing the right thing,

1173
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 2: and then in the backyard, Tim is fiddling with the

1174
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 2: Christmas decorations again and Wilson's standing by a fire, Surprised

1175
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 2: to see Jill didn't put the kibosh on the display

1176
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 2: after the accident. Tim is offended. It's his home and

1177
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 2: he can do whatever he likes. But when Wilson asks

1178
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 2: what time Jill left, Tim responds ten minutes ago. Tim

1179
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 2: asks Wilson for some advice on what to tell Mark

1180
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:36,759
Speaker 2: about Santa Claus. Wilson responds by reciting Hamlet, there are

1181
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 2: more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of

1182
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 2: in your philosophy. Tim explains that Randy and Brad already

1183
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 2: told their little brother that Santa was dead, and Wilson admits, well,

1184
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 2: technically that's true. He died in the year three forty two.

1185
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 2: When Tim sarcastically asks, well, then, who's at the mall,

1186
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,720
Speaker 2: Wilson tells him all about the original Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas,

1187
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 2: the Bishop of Myra and Asia Minor, who went to

1188
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:01,439
Speaker 2: poor people's houses and dropped gold down there chimney. Tim

1189
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 2: hopes the Saint Nicholas can put a remote controlled dinosaur

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00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 2: down his chimney for mark because the stores are all

1191
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 2: sold out. Wilson says it could happen. The spirit of

1192
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 2: Santa lives on. Then Wilson gets back to his chestnuts, Uh,

1193
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:20,360
Speaker 2: we have to obviously keep things kind of concise for

1194
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 2: these recaps, But I think there are two jokes in

1195
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 2: here that in this scene that were both very funny

1196
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,360
Speaker 2: that did not make it into this little recap.

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00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,800
Speaker 5: But Wilson saying that reminds me of a song and

1198
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:31,799
Speaker 5: then singing.

1199
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 2: The other song I thought was a really smart joke,

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00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 2: and then Tim saying why would he drop donkeys down

1201
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 2: the chimney? And he said it in a way that

1202
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 2: was like he really just missed, he really just misunderstood.

1203
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 5: So I thought it was, so, what why would he

1204
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 5: drop donkeys?

1205
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 3: Jimney that just really good writing.

1206
00:55:57,400 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 2: And then in the Taylor's living room, Jill returns home

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00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 2: with Rand and Brad, who were yelling at each other

1208
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 2: about blowing it. Jill admits she got carried away when

1209
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:06,760
Speaker 2: it came to their Christmas pageant. Tim asks what happened?

1210
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 5: I don't know why he wasn't.

1211
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 6: There, wearsing, well, he's no longer playing the Christmas play,

1212
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 6: so yeah, there was rehearsal.

1213
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,320
Speaker 3: I thought the same thing, yet I reound its like

1214
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 3: why is he not there? Like okay, that makes.

1215
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 5: Sense, okay.

1216
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 2: Jill reveals that Randy is no longer playing the Innkeeper

1217
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 2: because he added some extra lines. He doubled the price

1218
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:32,919
Speaker 2: of the room and asked the wise men for id.

1219
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 2: Randy throws his arms up in the air. They made

1220
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 2: me a sheep, Jill reminds them, no TV, it's part

1221
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:41,279
Speaker 2: of their punishment for telling Mark that Santa was dead.

1222
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 2: She offers everyone some hot chocolate, and Mark asks his

1223
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 2: parents a question, how does Santa get gifts for everyone

1224
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 2: in the world in one bag? Tim hans this went

1225
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 2: over to Jill, who plainly states that he folds them.

1226
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 2: Tim nods in agreement. Then he has missus Claws sit

1227
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:56,360
Speaker 2: on the bag so he can tie it.

1228
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 3: Shit.

1229
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:58,920
Speaker 2: Mark knows that doesn't make any sense. How do you

1230
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,400
Speaker 2: fold a goldfish or a pony? And now they know

1231
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 2: they've run out of excuses, Jill decides it's time for

1232
00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 2: the talk. Tim starts to explain that as you get older,

1233
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 2: you learn a lot of new things along the way,

1234
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,400
Speaker 2: the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus. Then there's a knock at

1235
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 2: the door. Jill continues to talk about the spirit of Santa,

1236
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:18,920
Speaker 2: and Tim goes to open it. Sure enough, Wilson, now

1237
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 2: dressed in a full Santa outfit, is standing at their

1238
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 2: front door. He makes his way inside with a bag

1239
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 2: of gifts. Mark lights up. Is this the real Santa?

1240
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:30,560
Speaker 2: The mad nods and Randy argues, no, that's Wilson, but

1241
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 2: Jill shushes him before Mark can hear. Santa k new

1242
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 2: Mark needed a little extra Christmas spirit in his heart,

1243
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 2: so he pulls the remote controlled dinosaur out of his bag.

1244
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 2: Mark is thrilled. It's not even folded, he thinks, Sanna

1245
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 2: before giving him a big hug. Brad pipes up anything

1246
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 2: for us Sanna. Sanna admits that although the boys now

1247
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 2: no longer believe in him, he still brought them gifts anyway.

1248
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 2: He hands Brad a rubber band too.

1249
00:57:57,240 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: Yep, come on, play against the sentimentality. If the moment

1250
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: as written, the moment as you're pitching, it will probably

1251
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 1: be like oh. And then he gives the other kids

1252
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 1: for exactly then No, I'm gonna give him a button

1253
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 1: and a rubber band. Yeah, perfect, perfect.

1254
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:13,400
Speaker 5: I couldn't agree more, says.

1255
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 4: Little f you. That's so obvious, just like the crappiest here.

1256
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 5: Play with this entertaining yourself with a rubber band?

1257
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 3: So good.

1258
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 5: He hands Brad a rubber band and Randy a button.

1259
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:30,920
Speaker 5: He also gives Tim and Jill a couple words.

1260
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 2: Of advice when it comes to the true meaning of Christmas,

1261
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 2: it's about coming together and sharing. He has some mistletoe

1262
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 2: as a reminder, and he holds it over Jill to

1263
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 2: see if it works. They peck and Jill thanks him

1264
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:43,919
Speaker 2: for everything. Then Santa looks at Tim, but the tool

1265
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 2: man says, don't look at me, man. Santa bids everyone

1266
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 2: a farewell, and Tim admits to Jill sometimes that Wilson

1267
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 2: is a fine neighbor. Jill stares into their backyard and asks,

1268
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:58,160
Speaker 2: in shock, you mean that Wilson. Sure enough, Wilson is

1269
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 2: still tending to his chestnuts in his back yard. Mark

1270
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 2: runs to the front door and stares out into the

1271
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:06,240
Speaker 2: snowy night sky in awe as we hear Christmas bells

1272
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 2: jingle in the background. And then we're in the tag

1273
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:12,440
Speaker 2: the tailor's home. Tim is excitedly alerts his family that

1274
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 2: the decorations are ready, so the family congregates in front

1275
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 2: of the house. He flips a switch and everything lights

1276
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 2: up beautifully. Even the decor is revolving and pivoting without

1277
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 2: a hitch. But then there's a spark at the control

1278
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 2: box and everything turns off in a flash. Tim grunts, Oh.

1279
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:30,240
Speaker 2: Then we go to the tailor's chimneys. The credits roll,

1280
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 2: and Tim grunts jingle bells once again?

1281
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 5: Did Indy watch this with you?

1282
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 1: Writer?

1283
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 5: Did you have to explain?

1284
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 4: I wish she had now here.

1285
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 1: He had already gone to bed, So I'm bummed because, yeah,

1286
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 1: he would have loved this.

1287
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he would have liked it. And I

1288
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 2: want to know, how do you explain the Tim Allen grunting.

1289
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 2: It's like a catchphrase. The explanation, Well, I couldn't have

1290
00:59:56,880 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 2: loved that. I really, couldn't have enjoyed it more, couldn't

1291
00:59:59,000 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 2: have loved it more.

1292
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: Me too.

1293
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:03,200
Speaker 6: This is when I talk about wanting to bring back sipcom.

1294
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 6: I'm not talking about friends as much as I would

1295
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:06,680
Speaker 6: love that, and I'm not talking about Seinfeld as much

1296
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 6: as I would love that.

1297
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 3: I'm talking about this. I'm talking about the twenty two

1298
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 3: minutes of a family together at what do you want

1299
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:16,480
Speaker 3: to solve everyone's problems? Twenty two minutes? Yes, that's exactly

1300
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 3: what I want to bring back.

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01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 6: So when I saw this, I was like, Oh, this

1302
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 6: is what I'm thinking about when it comes to sitcom,

1303
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:23,720
Speaker 6: Like I want to I want to see this again

1304
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 6: because it was so much fun.

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01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 3: It was great.

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01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:27,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's good times.

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Speaker 2: Thank you all for joining us for this episode of

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