1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Ah, yes, the Christmas Dinosaur. It's one more thing. 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 2: I'm one more thing. 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: Did you, Joe Getty put up any outdoor Christmas decorations 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 1: this year? No, not really, But in the past, when 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 1: your children were younger, you did, if I remember correctly. 6 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, absolutely different hood now And they actually have 7 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 3: like rules on inflatables and that sort of thing. 8 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: Oh really, I can believe that. 9 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 2: Huh. 11 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 3: I've seen them flouted somewhat, which is fine with me. 12 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: God, you are a certain sort of person if you 13 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 1: would go complain about somebody putting up something for Christmas. 14 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 3: But it's undignified. 15 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: Uh, what the hell ever? 16 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 3: Uh? But you used to put stuff up? Oh yeah, yeah, 17 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 3: we had. My favorite one was a h an inflatable carousel. 18 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 3: It was like a big like, you know, cylinder inside 19 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 3: of which was a carousel in which Santa, a penguin, 20 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 3: and an elf I believe were riding the carousel and 21 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 3: it actually rotated. 22 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: Oh that's pretty cool. That's fantastic. 23 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 3: It was fantastic. Hey, and it was lit from within 24 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 3: for a nighttime news. 25 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: It was lit. You were lit. Everyone was lit. Katie. 26 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: Do you have stuff outside? Yes? 27 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 2: I do? 28 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 4: Oh you do? 29 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:19,919 Speaker 1: Okay? 30 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 2: I have a little light up candy canes and an 31 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 2: inflatable snowman. 32 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: I see, I wouldn't have been able to guess whether 33 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: you'd be outdoor Christmas decorations or not. I have not 34 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 1: found that that is a trait that goes along with 35 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: any other traits that I can identify. And I don't 36 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: know if there've ever been any like psychological surveys the 37 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 1: kind of person that does this stuff or the kind 38 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: of person that doesn't, But I've not seen any consistency. 39 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,919 Speaker 3: For the record, I would like to go full Clark Griswold. 40 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 3: That would make me happy. I would like to go nuts. 41 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 3: It's just a question of logistics and timing. And I 42 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 3: just didn't really come together this year because I've got 43 00:01:57,920 --> 00:01:59,919 Speaker 3: the standard stuff, because because I've. 44 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: Known people with very outgoing personalities who do nothing and 45 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: people who are like quiet into themselves who do a lot, 46 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 1: and vice versa. So I just I don't know what 47 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: is what makes you a I'm gonna dedicate the time 48 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 1: and money to this or not, I don't. I haven't 49 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: done anything for Christmas. I did a fair amount for Halloween. 50 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: My dad never did anything when we were kids, and 51 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: then when he got older before they retired and moved away. 52 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: His thing was they in front of the garage, Like 53 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 1: a lot of garage, you get two little floodlights that 54 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 1: are white year round, but like two weeks before Christmas, 55 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: he'd replace one with a green bulb and one with 56 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: a red bulb, and then he changed again the da 57 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,119 Speaker 1: that was it. It was this old and people would 58 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:44,519 Speaker 1: say can you geta b up the red and green 59 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: light bulb and says here, oh, you know, I am, 60 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: but my son and I have started collecting as anecdotes. 61 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: Where did when did this become a thing like the 62 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,359 Speaker 1: gym we go to. First they had an inflatable Santa 63 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: playing the guitar. Okay, Santa, why is he playing the guitar? 64 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 3: Ry? Fine? Then it doesn't play the guitar. 65 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: Then then then it was added to it a robot 66 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: with a Christmas hat. So you got a robot and 67 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: a Christmas hat playing the drums, and I guess they 68 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: were putting together the band slowly. Then it was a dinosaurs. 69 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 3: Like a white stripes thing there for a while, drums 70 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 3: and guitar. 71 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: Then it was a dinosaur in a Christmas hat playing bass, 72 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: and I don't know why a dinosaur or why a 73 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: robot or any of these things. I'm missing the theme. Yeah, well, 74 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: it has become very clear to me that there is 75 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: everything is okay now, just any character of any sort 76 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: you put it in a Santa hat and it's part 77 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 1: of Christmas. I guess. 78 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,839 Speaker 3: Well, of course Dickens classic at Christmas Carol, he does 79 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 3: mention the rock and roll Christmas dinosaur. No wait a minute, 80 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 3: no he doesn't. 81 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: Man, the people that really go big. We've got a 82 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: couple of houses in our neighborhoods that are the how long, 83 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: not not to mention what it costs, but just how 84 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: much work would it be to put that up and 85 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: take it down? Talking many, many, many hours? And yeah, 86 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: do you do you have a guess as to what 87 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 1: the personality trait is that makes you want. 88 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:24,279 Speaker 3: To do that? Oh goodness, that's an interesting question. You 89 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 3: love Jesus the obvious answer when it's all Santa stuff. Yeah, 90 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 3: that's right. Uh, I don't know exactly. I don't know 91 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 3: how to describe it. I've met people like that, and 92 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 3: they're usually like jolly people who are open, they want 93 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:47,799 Speaker 3: to talk to their neighbors, they want to interact with people. 94 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 3: They're extroverts and generally fairly light hearted. I just like 95 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,919 Speaker 3: the way lights look, Yeah, I just I think it 96 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:57,840 Speaker 3: looks beautiful. 97 00:04:58,279 --> 00:04:59,239 Speaker 1: Yeah, the lights. 98 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 2: And then also my neighbors were putting out decorations and like, ah, 99 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 2: I can't be that one house. 100 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm that one house in our little cul de sac. Oh, 101 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: I'm new to the neighborhoods, so they're already looking sideways 102 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: at me. 103 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 4: Yes, Michael, there's the neighborhood in where I live where 104 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 4: they actually decorate full sized trees. They go to home 105 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 4: depot and get a lift and put the Christmas lights 106 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 4: on top of them. 107 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 1: And has the neighborhood risen to the point of people 108 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: drive from other places to go down the street. And yeah, 109 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,479 Speaker 1: which is its own thing. You either want to be 110 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: in a neighborhood like that or you don't. 111 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 3: Right right, I know, just speaking for myself, it reminds 112 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 3: me almost of the relationship between like a performer and 113 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 3: the audience. That anything I did, the energy would be 114 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 3: returned by my kids. 115 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: And they would be ensused. 116 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 3: And so I think this is fun, and I'd add 117 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 3: more or come up with crazier show ups and surprise 118 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 3: them with something. It was just big fun. Now it's 119 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 3: mostly just for me and I guess the neighbors in 120 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 3: a way, and it's like. 121 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,840 Speaker 1: And the home depot, for instance, the giant category where 122 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:01,679 Speaker 1: they have a ten foot looks like Frosty the Snowman 123 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:06,039 Speaker 1: ten feet tall, different snowman, ten foot angel. If you 124 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: want to go with that ten feet ten foot gateway 125 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: with Grinch on top, so people would have to walk 126 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: through your arch to get your house, that's pretty cool. 127 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 3: Lots of stuff, of course, is mentioned only in the 128 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,799 Speaker 3: Book of Matthew. Interesting. 129 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: I remember that part. That's right, Doctor Susan evented the Grinch, 130 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 1: and it's been my around my whole life. So it 131 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 1: kind of seems christmasy, but it's not by nature anymore 132 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: christmasy than a robot or a dinosaur. 133 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 3: Right, a rock and roll Christmas dinosaur. 134 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: Twelve foot giant sized motion led pre lit cone tree. 135 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 1: What I like about this one is it looks like 136 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: you take it out of the box, stick in the 137 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: ground done. All you need is electricity, Yeah, perfect. Ninety dollars. 138 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 1: Giant stuff has become very positive. 139 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 3: How big is the tree? 140 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: That thing was twelve feet, which is pretty tall. 141 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 3: Now ninety bucks, that's change. Book back on your general grant. 142 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,280 Speaker 2: Huh, I also think these that is that. 143 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 3: No, Benjamin's Benjamins are the hundreds, Grant is the fifty. 144 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 3: I don't throw cash around much. 145 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 1: He only deals with the big bills. 146 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 3: No. 147 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 2: I think the inflatables are probably popular because they're so easy. Yeah, 148 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 2: you know, you unplug it and the thing deflates and 149 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 2: you roll it up and stick it back in the box. 150 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: It's not that is an advantage. Like my giant Jack o' lantern. Man, 151 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: it took me like five minutes to set that up. 152 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: But the tethering, you gotta tether it, or your neighbors 153 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: knock on your door and say, hey, you're pumpkins down 154 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: the street. That's happening to me. That a couple of times. 155 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 3: So yeah, that's a good point. So to put up 156 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 3: Christmas lights, especially if you go beyond the basics, is 157 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 3: time consuming, frequently dangerous as you're dangling out over ladder 158 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 3: reaching for the in the corner of the gutter and 159 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 3: the rest of it. That's a hell of a lot 160 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 3: of time and effort to get the wow. Or you 161 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 3: could just go down to the home despot or the 162 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 3: lows and spend one hundred and fifty dollars on some 163 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 3: sort of fifteen foot tall rock and roll Frankenstein or 164 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 3: robot or whatever it was with a Santa hat on inexplicably, 165 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 3: and you'd get that same wow. 166 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: Mm hmm. You missed out on this, Katie because you're young. 167 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: And they started wiring all Christmas tree lights in parallel. 168 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: But before they started wiring them in parallel, they were 169 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: they were wired in a single line, and so if 170 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: one bulb went out, the whole thing didn't work. Oh 171 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: and the only way you could find out where the 172 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: problem was is go socket by socket with a bulb 173 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: you knew worked until you found the dead one. And 174 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: it was really a pain in the ass. And it 175 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: was just part of the Christmas tradition every year at 176 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: my house anyway, growing up. 177 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not too young for that. That's actually 178 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:42,559 Speaker 2: how I learned a majority of my cuss words from 179 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:44,199 Speaker 2: my dad around Christmas time. 180 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 1: When you would oh yeah cool, yeah, he'd plug. 181 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 2: Well, we made the mistake when you're putting them up 182 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 2: before checking them and wow, was that some Christmas cheer? 183 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 3: Yeah? 184 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:55,439 Speaker 1: God dang it. 185 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 3: You know. 186 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's one of the famous lines from a 187 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: Christmas story with Ralphie his dad. One goes out, they 188 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: all go yes. 189 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:12,320 Speaker 3: Dad, Oh man, Oh that stresses me just to remember it. Yeah, 190 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 3: you get all the lights up on the tree. We 191 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 3: did that I think one year without testing them and 192 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:17,319 Speaker 3: it was fed up. 193 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: Oh, it's like, oh, yeah Christmas. My mom, who is 194 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: very frugal because she grew up in a rough part 195 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: of the country depression wise, was big on saving the 196 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: tinsil every year. We weren't gonna buy new tinsil every year. 197 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: So after we put all the tensil on the tree, 198 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: then we had to pull it all down, one strand 199 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: at a time and put it back in the box 200 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: for next year. And that was like a two hour job, boy, 201 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 1: to save us a dollar. 202 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 3: That's frugality. 203 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: That was part of the Christmas tradition. Oh you know, 204 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 1: stock market crashes, the Nazis bar on the march. You're 205 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,599 Speaker 1: gonna wish you had that tintil back and goes the 206 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: way she looked at it. 207 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys remember back the late 208 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,959 Speaker 4: seventies how hot outdoor light bulbs used to get. You 209 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 4: could put your hand on and you would burn yourself, 210 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 4: serious burns. 211 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, people would have a just completely desiccated, dried 212 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:21,319 Speaker 3: out Christmas tree by the twenty sixth, running incandescent bulbs 213 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 3: on it that got super hot, with the obvious result 214 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,199 Speaker 3: in many a household. Mmoof. 215 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's it.