Speaker 1: Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and welcome to Movie Crush. Big Bro, Little
Speaker 1: Bro a ditch, Chuck, That warm is my heart little bro? Hey,
Speaker 1: big brawl. What makes you think you're a little bro?
Speaker 1: Good question. I do have the deeper voice because you
Speaker 1: just everyone what you just said? Oh, I just said.
Speaker 1: My my girlfriend listens to the show and she says
Speaker 1: she she enjoys our our dynamic and uh classified it
Speaker 1: as a big bro little bro sitch and then she
Speaker 1: thought it was fun. Well, no, I'm the baby. I've
Speaker 1: never had a little brother. You beat my little brother absolutely.
Speaker 1: You know I'm an only child. Chuck. Oh, so you've
Speaker 1: never had you never noticed about me? Yeah? I knew
Speaker 1: that about it. Okay, Well that's a thing. Uh, that's
Speaker 1: that's This is like the scene in Boogie Nights where
Speaker 1: roller Girl in uh amber Waves are all coked up?
Speaker 1: Would you be my mom? Oh no, that's not the
Speaker 1: same thing at all, because we're not coked up. We're
Speaker 1: just moderately coked, that's true, and fully cooked up. You'd
Speaker 1: be a great mom, And Chuck, you have I ever
Speaker 1: told you that? A pretty good mom? Yeah? Uh, that's funny.
Speaker 1: I feel like I do feel like a lot of
Speaker 1: you guys are little brothers in a way, because I've
Speaker 1: done you for less time but still a while. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been a minute, But you know, Casey and Paula,
Speaker 1: Maddie and those guys have known those guys for many,
Speaker 1: many years. You've known me longer than you've done Paul,
Speaker 1: Chuck and I have No, that's not true. It is true. Really, yes,
Speaker 1: I thought Paul started before you know, I got Paul
Speaker 1: the job. I want to doubt you know you don't
Speaker 1: gas like me. Chuck. Well, Paul just reeks of little
Speaker 1: brother he does, so maybe that's what it does. And
Speaker 1: I have a have long desired I'm not desired of long, relished, relished.
Speaker 1: What the fun is wround relished is right? What is
Speaker 1: relished mean just means enjoyed. YEA experienced with the role
Speaker 1: of mentor and have tried to do that with a
Speaker 1: lot of those guys. But you're older, so I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't feel like a mentor. Are you gonna keep
Speaker 1: in starting? Are you gonna keep insulting me tonight? I'm
Speaker 1: not insulting older is insulting? I don't know, so you've
Speaker 1: already figured out your own way. No, that's fair. Daughter
Speaker 1: is older than mine. It's true, Chuck, it's true. Um,
Speaker 1: just for a little background though, Chuck, Paul and I
Speaker 1: worked together at a terrible, terrible place, and I left
Speaker 1: there to come here, and then I kind of rescued
Speaker 1: him from there to come here. So that feel like
Speaker 1: Paul was just always around. I don't know, but it
Speaker 1: hurts me. What a mat chopped Liva. Well, Noel, it's
Speaker 1: beginning to look a lot like Mini Crush. Yeah, Chris,
Speaker 1: miss episode it must be October one. Yeah, that's true. Now,
Speaker 1: these next couple, we're going to concentrate on some holiday content.
Speaker 1: And of course I say Christmas, because uh I was
Speaker 1: born a good Christian boy. What happened? I think that's
Speaker 1: well documented. But uh we we certainly don't want to
Speaker 1: forget about our Jewish friends, and our Agnostic friends, and
Speaker 1: our our demon Satanist friends and people who don't participate
Speaker 1: in Christmas at all. Kuanza. Sure, hopefully this time of year,
Speaker 1: at least you're spending time with friends and family. That's important.
Speaker 1: So I just don't want to feel like I'm excluding folks.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm a big proponent of, you know,
Speaker 1: a holiday break, but I like the idea of making
Speaker 1: it more secular, you know. And that's why when politicians
Speaker 1: get all up in arms about they're killing Christmas, it's
Speaker 1: like giving a break. It's it's just an overly Christmas
Speaker 1: is stronger than ever. Yeah, it's well exactly, And and
Speaker 1: you know it's such a commercial holiday anyway, like any
Speaker 1: religious aspect of it has sort of been drained out anyway,
Speaker 1: just by like corporate you know, uh, piles of Amazon
Speaker 1: boxes there you go. Well that's yeah, man, dude, speaking
Speaker 1: of piles of Amazon boxes. You ever just walked around
Speaker 1: New York City? I know you have? They like get
Speaker 1: everything the groceries delivered through Amazon now. So it's like
Speaker 1: Amazon boxes are just everywhere. It's it's taking over the city,
Speaker 1: taking over the city. Well, you know, you know, no,
Speaker 1: the war on Christmas, it's just part of that fearmongering,
Speaker 1: that's what they call it. Garbage that uh that happens
Speaker 1: in a certain sector of this country. That just really
Speaker 1: pisces me on just no need for it, man, no
Speaker 1: need make people afraid. I saw that trailer for the
Speaker 1: Fox News movie looks fun it's coming out, and they said,
Speaker 1: and this was I saw it in a book as well.
Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't in the movie. I can't remember, but um,
Speaker 1: one of the former higher ups there said, I think
Speaker 1: the rule of thumb was, what was it something that
Speaker 1: will make your grandfather angry and make your grandmother scared?
Speaker 1: And that's a Fox News story? Yeah, I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right that I remember. For the trailer. I saw
Speaker 1: it before knives out over the Thanksgiving holiday. Um, and
Speaker 1: my daughter was with us, and she didn't know. She
Speaker 1: just knows Fox News bad. Um. She didn't know anything
Speaker 1: about any of the players or sort of about sexual
Speaker 1: harassment stuff, so it was a little over her head.
Speaker 1: But Billie Eilish is bad Guy is in the soundtrack
Speaker 1: for the for the trailer. So is that a song? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got Julie Eilish. She goes, I'm the bird guy
Speaker 1: and she goes dudsd and she goes duh. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: that's for the kids. They love it. I like it. Actually,
Speaker 1: Uh did you see the van Halen dust up that happened?
Speaker 1: And did you see how Wolf getting van Halen handled it?
Speaker 1: It was rate well, he's like, what's the issue, It's
Speaker 1: not an issue backstory if you didn't hear. Billie Eilish
Speaker 1: was on Jimmy Kimmel and he asked her about certain
Speaker 1: modern or older groups, and he asked her about van Halen.
Speaker 1: She said, who's that? And a bunch of old van
Speaker 1: Halen fans kind of attacked her on Twitter and Wolfgang
Speaker 1: van Halen came out and he said, why do you
Speaker 1: call him Wolfgang? His name is Eddie, isn't not? That's funny?
Speaker 1: What Wolfgang van Halen the bass player, Eddie van Halen's son.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, excuse me for van Halen. Come on, Billie Eilish,
Speaker 1: what happened to the other guy that was played bass
Speaker 1: for van Halen? Michael Anthony hadn't been in the bandon
Speaker 1: many many years? That right, Yeah, his Eddie van Halen's
Speaker 1: son replaced him of bass many years. Hey, listen, I
Speaker 1: know Wolfgang the reference I mean like because he had
Speaker 1: his his his signature guitar was called the wolf Gang.
Speaker 1: Sure I remember named after his son? Is that true?
Speaker 1: You don't think he named his son after the guitar
Speaker 1: the guitar game later it's like you coming after that,
Speaker 1: and he put on Twitter he said, you know If
Speaker 1: you don't know about Billie Eilish, you should listen to
Speaker 1: her because she's cool. If you don't know about van Halen,
Speaker 1: you should listen because we're cool. And he said music
Speaker 1: is not supposed to divide people. It's supposed to bring
Speaker 1: us all together. Listen to what you like. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: people and the trolls just jump on that ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he handled it really well. I was very, very proud
Speaker 1: of Wolfie. She's seventeen. Why do you keep saying wolf
Speaker 1: because she were referring to God. My daughter doesn't know
Speaker 1: who van Halen is, but she knows who a lot
Speaker 1: of eighties are. She knows who Kate Bush is because
Speaker 1: she doesn't know who van Halen is. That because I've
Speaker 1: never I'm not a van Halen guy. So they're just
Speaker 1: distressing the old Play her and yourself unchained and just
Speaker 1: talk to me later for teacher. I like that one.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna go with the Christmas content. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get going here because today as this is releases
Speaker 1: December sixtel, and we're gonna do a little tribute to
Speaker 1: a movie called Elf that is fast become perhaps my
Speaker 1: favorite Christmas movie. I think we covered the last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've really not seen elf. Still I've seen some choice
Speaker 1: scenes and what's the deal you just had didn't get
Speaker 1: around to it? Are you fighting the fighting it? Not
Speaker 1: at this point, I'm no, I'm not fighting it. It's
Speaker 1: just is there any reason? Do you like fer Old?
Speaker 1: Do you like to laugh? Do you like I hate
Speaker 1: all of those things. I hate comedy, I hate to
Speaker 1: like Mary Steinberg. I hate Happy mainly anti happiness Chuck.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big Christmas movie guy first of all,
Speaker 1: so maybe that's maybe that's a disconnect there. Um, I
Speaker 1: watched step Brothers the other day. I've never seen that.
Speaker 1: I thought of Christmas. Well, I know, but I'm just talking.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm not anyway. You're trying to prove
Speaker 1: that you laugh. I have one at least once I've laughed.
Speaker 1: Does your daughter watch Christmas movies or do you ban
Speaker 1: them in the household? I yes, I am a totalitarian
Speaker 1: dictator like head of household, and there's no dancing or
Speaker 1: fun or Christmas or candy. I'm just trying to do
Speaker 1: a little here. I know what you're I see what
Speaker 1: you're doing. Well, let me say this, if you want
Speaker 1: to watch a funny, genuinely very very funny film. Elf
Speaker 1: is the one. It is legit, super super funny, very
Speaker 1: good movie two thousand three, directed by John Favreau. Of course,
Speaker 1: written by David Baron Baum. Smash Hit inspired a Broadway musical. Initially,
Speaker 1: Baron Bond wrote it with Jim Carey in mind. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonnaugh wrote it. Now, what did you say, David
Speaker 1: Baron Baum? Oh? I thought you said Baron Vaughan, the comedian.
Speaker 1: You know, the comedian Baron Vaughan. Yes, he's great. He
Speaker 1: actually warmed up for stuff you should know one time.
Speaker 1: He's very funny. We did Tigna Taro's Festival and they said, hey,
Speaker 1: we always have a warm up comedian. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: we've never had one. They said, well, would you mind
Speaker 1: if Baron von went up there and honor that Guy's
Speaker 1: did this hilarious. He's fantastic. He's a very nice guy.
Speaker 1: I love to get him on the show. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna go through some trivia. Then I asked the movie
Speaker 1: crushers what their favorite parts of that film were, uh,
Speaker 1: and they responded in spades because normal people love that movie.
Speaker 1: All Right, Well, here's some trivia first. Uh, and this
Speaker 1: is gonna spoil things for you knowl because Will Ferrell
Speaker 1: eats spaghetti with maple syrup. See that. I don't know
Speaker 1: about that part. And he really did it and he vomited.
Speaker 1: Oh that's in real life. So it's is it just
Speaker 1: spaghetti noodles with maple syrup? Is their tomato situation involved
Speaker 1: as well? Just the noodles with the maple syrup? Yes,
Speaker 1: no tomato, Saulso it's supplanted. He has he drinks a
Speaker 1: two leader of Coca Cola and has an epic belch.
Speaker 1: That belch was real from voice actor Maurice la Marsh
Speaker 1: who you might know his brain of Pinky in the brain. Oh,
Speaker 1: he did the belch. He did the belch, absolutely did. Uh.
Speaker 1: Jon Favreau voices the narwhal and the stop motion animation scene.
Speaker 1: The director A lot of the movie was shot in
Speaker 1: an abandoned mental hospital kind of in an office building.
Speaker 1: I mean there is an office building. What's the abandoned Uh,
Speaker 1: interior sets for the apartment, Uh, the toy department, and
Speaker 1: there's a prison scene. But they shot it at Riverview
Speaker 1: Hospital where they have shot X files. Jennifer's body final
Speaker 1: destination they just set decked it out to make it
Speaker 1: the studio. It's its own thing. But it's very funny
Speaker 1: if you see elf to think about it being an
Speaker 1: abandoned mental is pretty funny. Uh. Let me psychiatric institute
Speaker 1: if you will chunk please. Wilfarell's Farrell's brother played one
Speaker 1: of the security guards. I didn't know Will Ferrell had
Speaker 1: a brother. Is he is he in? Is he in
Speaker 1: show business? Or was? This? Doesn't think so? Uh? And
Speaker 1: this is for all of the Ghostbusters fans. The apartment
Speaker 1: that James conn lives in Buddy's dad. Uh. The exterior
Speaker 1: is the same apartment that Dana Barrett lived in in Ghostbusters. Now,
Speaker 1: is that the building that ends up being the spooky
Speaker 1: building and Ghostbusters? Like we're with with the zoul situation
Speaker 1: on the roof, Yeah, that's the iconic that happened in her.
Speaker 1: I thought so too, because that's where what's his face
Speaker 1: lips too? That's an iconic building marine Orc's skyline. It's
Speaker 1: like it's a thing people point out. It's the Ghostbusters
Speaker 1: building when you're very much iconic. Absolutely. Uh. And now
Speaker 1: we're going to read some of the movie Crusher's favorite lines.
Speaker 1: These will be lost on you because you have never
Speaker 1: seen elf. Yeah, most of the references that you're dropping, Uh,
Speaker 1: the nar I didn't know there was an animated he was.
Speaker 1: I know a little bit. I know about the part
Speaker 1: where he gets on the isn't there like a Peter
Speaker 1: Dinklage is in it? And he gets on the table
Speaker 1: and yells at people. Yeah, that happens. Plays a book publisher, right, um,
Speaker 1: and the the he's a lot of practical effects like
Speaker 1: you dig it he he He homages many Christmas films,
Speaker 1: including the Rank and Bass stop motion animation. That so
Speaker 1: he uses practical effects he uses instead of c g
Speaker 1: I because the whole gag is he's an Elf that's
Speaker 1: six ft four or whatever and an adult. Well sure
Speaker 1: we so, semi. I guess he's sort of in a
Speaker 1: state of arrested development. Yeah, but the rest of the
Speaker 1: elves are adults too, but they're small. But he didn't
Speaker 1: see g I that he used forts perspective and build
Speaker 1: these cool sets like Hobbit style. Yeah, well I would
Speaker 1: know about that. But sure you've heard you are familiar
Speaker 1: with the very popular franchise of film The Lord of
Speaker 1: the Rings. Yes, I have, and yeah for its use
Speaker 1: of practical effects. So Alicia Dietz says when he tries
Speaker 1: to put the star on top of the tree by
Speaker 1: springboarding off the couch and jumping like it's a trampoline.
Speaker 1: Good one. Jennifer Mudge old Friends says, you did it. Congratulations,
Speaker 1: world's best cup of coffee. Good job everyone? Am I
Speaker 1: spoiling all this for you? Like you don't? You don't
Speaker 1: care though, right? I don't know. I kind of care.
Speaker 1: I like comedy. Do you want to leave the room? No?
Speaker 1: For the next ten minutes. No, this is good. This
Speaker 1: just gives me more reasons to like now. I want
Speaker 1: to I want to be a part of these refs,
Speaker 1: you know, for next year. It's all out there for
Speaker 1: you for next year. Aaron snells as when Zoe Deschanel
Speaker 1: sings in the shower. I never knew she had the
Speaker 1: voice of an angel. What is she is? She's some
Speaker 1: sort of publishing agent. No, she is a department store elf.
Speaker 1: That's right. That helps you know? Kids with Santa Claus.
Speaker 1: I can't believe how unfamiliar with this movie I am.
Speaker 1: It's it's sad. You just gotta see it. Krista Mora, Bye, buddy,
Speaker 1: I hope you find your dad. We say it all
Speaker 1: the time, and my son got an inflatable narwhale, so
Speaker 1: we get said even more often. So wait, so is
Speaker 1: the idea that Santa Claus is the father of all
Speaker 1: the elves or just buddy? Uh? Santa? I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's the father of the elves necessarily, but they
Speaker 1: all work for Santa. But he's saying, your dad, Christmas
Speaker 1: works find your dad. Is the Santa is not his dad?
Speaker 1: Who's his dad's supposed to be? Is that a different thing?
Speaker 1: All right? Elf is a story about Will Ferrell being
Speaker 1: this giant elf, got it? Who is not really enough?
Speaker 1: He's a human. He was born of human That's why
Speaker 1: he doesn't it in. That's why he's tall. How did
Speaker 1: he end up? Okay? Go on, and he goes to
Speaker 1: in search of his real father, who's out into the
Speaker 1: real world. James con in New York City? Got it? Okay?
Speaker 1: This is all clicking for me, heartwarming stuff in sus
Speaker 1: laughs galore. Uh, that's that's okay, Okay. John millsap old
Speaker 1: friends says, my brother and I always say to each other, thanks,
Speaker 1: Mr narwhale all the time. See people quote this thing,
Speaker 1: No it's in the zeitguys. Narwhal's like Arctic creatures. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I don't think we've done
Speaker 1: a podcast on those yet. Interesting. They're they're little whales
Speaker 1: with horns. That's well, that's the idea. They're sort of
Speaker 1: they're sort of mystical sea creatures. Yeah, that's sort of
Speaker 1: the joke here. I guess right, I think so. I
Speaker 1: don't think you've see narwhals a lot. They may be
Speaker 1: deep livers, that's my guess. I could probably skewer you
Speaker 1: with that horn, though. Sure, I don't think they're mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you are a squid, they might, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, a little kebab squid kebab uh. Dan Pitts
Speaker 1: has a great line, It's just nice to meet another
Speaker 1: human who shares my affinity for elf culture. Another fan
Speaker 1: of Zoe Decanell singing, that's Heidi Lauman uh Kia Hawkins.
Speaker 1: I'm in a store and I'm singing. It's great. Megan
Speaker 1: Carroll's favorite line. I like whispering too. She quotes that
Speaker 1: all the time. It's so funny. No little smr. Julie
Speaker 1: debt Meyer says, son of a nutcracker it's a great saying.
Speaker 1: Any time of the year, it's safe to say around kids.
Speaker 1: Was this a P G rated film? It maybe g interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean there's really it sounds like there's potentially some
Speaker 1: little body humor. Maybe not even really let's see, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know. Check that out in fact check
Speaker 1: that nul Katherine Rennex says all the spaghetti scenes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess you really for ge, you gotta you can't
Speaker 1: even have like one dick. Well, it's dick free, that's
Speaker 1: what gus free. Um PG. Yeah, I don't know, Like
Speaker 1: the rating system has sort of got a little hazy
Speaker 1: over the years. I think, you know, yeah, I guess,
Speaker 1: I guess in favor of well, I don't know. PG
Speaker 1: thirteen now is almost like what are used to be.
Speaker 1: Uh maybe, I don't know, I don't know the rules,
Speaker 1: like how many you can have. That's sort of the point. Like, um,
Speaker 1: there was an episode of Adam Ruins Everything where he
Speaker 1: talks about the m p A And how it's ultimately
Speaker 1: very arbitrary, where like sex gets you a hard are instantly,
Speaker 1: but like violence is totally fine, and that's literally a
Speaker 1: philosophical debate, you know that, And you don't know who's
Speaker 1: on the m p a A. That's all kind of
Speaker 1: like a mystery and weird. They've made people do very
Speaker 1: weird things to movies to give it a pass, like
Speaker 1: ten percent less blood spatter and stuff, whatever whatever it
Speaker 1: might be. Yeah, we did a great episode on the
Speaker 1: m p A yeah a while ago. Have to check
Speaker 1: that one out. It's robahly recommended. Mike Doyle says, Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Connie, I've never declaude kittens before. How
Speaker 1: many eight? Just bringing them by the camper. I'll see
Speaker 1: what I can do. The great Amy Sadaris her Dylan Thomas,
Speaker 1: I'm twenty six year old. I got nothing to show
Speaker 1: for it. So that's one of the jokes in the
Speaker 1: movie that apparently the studio did not get. There's a
Speaker 1: guy who looks like he's fifty years old and he
Speaker 1: says he's twenty six, and that's the joke, and the
Speaker 1: studio gave a note that was like, he's clearly not
Speaker 1: twenty six, and Jon Favreau had to say, that's the joke, which,
Speaker 1: anytime you're explaining a joke that means you've lost a battle.
Speaker 1: Jon Favreau is such a Maverick. He's such an interesting,
Speaker 1: very versatile guy. Are you up on Mandalorian? I am,
Speaker 1: and I love it. I am one episode behind. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen last week's Uh. Are you up on Watchman?
Speaker 1: Even better? I adore it. I'm only I think it's fantastic.
Speaker 1: What episode are they on? Do you know? I think
Speaker 1: it's six six? I think I swatched four last night.
Speaker 1: Oh it just gets better and more batship for a
Speaker 1: k A to Downtown Decatur, Georgia episode right with the
Speaker 1: with the clock thing. Yeah, yeah, it's great. They don't
Speaker 1: even like you. Usually they block out the business names
Speaker 1: or change them something. It's all straight. It's great. I
Speaker 1: texted Kim Jennings because I took him to eat there.
Speaker 1: I was like, you're watching The Watchman. It's like that's
Speaker 1: where we so we ate um really quickly though. Just
Speaker 1: to plug there is a Watchman Official Watchman podcast that
Speaker 1: HBO puts out. It's fantastic. It's with Craig Mazin, who's
Speaker 1: the host. Who who was the creator of Chernobyl, another
Speaker 1: fantastic HBO show, And every episode is him and uh
Speaker 1: Linda Lof and they do episodes one through three. In
Speaker 1: one episode, and three through six and one, and then
Speaker 1: what are they talking about the making of it? Now?
Speaker 1: They're just talking about everything, like the insights into the
Speaker 1: actions and the characters, and you know a lot of
Speaker 1: the compared comparisons between the source material and like how
Speaker 1: they ended up, you know, how he ended up conceiving
Speaker 1: of this world because it's like he had such reverence
Speaker 1: for the original Watchman. It was like a game cha
Speaker 1: danger for him creatively when he was a kid um
Speaker 1: and so he had to like revere that source material
Speaker 1: while also creating something new and his whole the way
Speaker 1: he describes it as like, oh, yeah, this was the
Speaker 1: guy that should have done this, and he's doing it
Speaker 1: so well, really really really happy with the show. Have
Speaker 1: to listen to that. I love it. It's not Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: but no of it. No, it's not. Let's do a
Speaker 1: couple more here, Jim wine Press says, eating the cotton balls,
Speaker 1: wine Press and the doctor's office. I like that. I
Speaker 1: like that too. Good name. Uh Connor Elliott. Watching James
Speaker 1: con lift up that lingerie in his office gets me
Speaker 1: every time. That is funny. I think my favorite line
Speaker 1: is my finger has a heartbeat, which doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: To you. Nope, he gets a blood test. They prick
Speaker 1: his finger. Oh yeah, and he goes my finger has
Speaker 1: a heartbeat. Because it's very funny. And that's the delight
Speaker 1: of the film is the it's just so sweet. Gosh,
Speaker 1: it sounds great. Chuck it just it just sounds like
Speaker 1: a real Christmas miracle. Get out, just leave, all right,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna finish up today with best Christmas gifts
Speaker 1: as the Facebook community just that question, nol. It's impossible
Speaker 1: for them to screw this one up. Karen drum Bosky says,
Speaker 1: a Costco membership in all seriousness, not romantic or nostalgic,
Speaker 1: but man, is it useful. So just to clarify, are
Speaker 1: these are like the best Christmas gifts you would wish
Speaker 1: to receive, the historically best Christmas gift you have have
Speaker 1: have received? Okay, I think so this is not a
Speaker 1: wish list. Brett well Staid says, I remember getting a
Speaker 1: Sony CD Walkman for Christmas one year, anti skip protection
Speaker 1: cassette player adapter so I could play in my pickup truck.
Speaker 1: Those were the days. Tom Rhodes Nintendo Entertainment system that
Speaker 1: was the gift. That year. I had a Christians. I
Speaker 1: was a younger, but I had an older cousin that
Speaker 1: got one and I was allowed to play it or whatever. Five. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's old enough. I was counting on my fingers. Chuck,
Speaker 1: that's right, go ahead, go ahead, shame me. I didn't
Speaker 1: have to point that out. It was audibly into a microphone. No,
Speaker 1: but I was actually ticking my fingers as well. I
Speaker 1: counted my fingers. Yeah, it's fine. Um, yeah it was five,
Speaker 1: all right? Got earl pal. Kristin bits a guy. When
Speaker 1: she was a teenager. She thought she was going to
Speaker 1: be the next great American novelist and begged her parents
Speaker 1: for a desk, for a quiet writing spot. But I
Speaker 1: was positive they weren't gonna get me one, and never
Speaker 1: been so happy before to get a piece of particle
Speaker 1: board furniture. How the writing turnout? I don't know, Kristen.
Speaker 1: Are you still writing? You should, even if you don't
Speaker 1: do anything with it. I thought she was going to
Speaker 1: say she asked for like a typewriter or something that
Speaker 1: I thought that's where I was going, or she was going.
Speaker 1: I got a roll top desk when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: and I loved it. What makes it a roll top
Speaker 1: is it that thing that covers the stuff that's underneath. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a roll top desk is a regular kind of hutch
Speaker 1: like desk and it has a top that you pull
Speaker 1: down hide away and it makes it's got slats, kind
Speaker 1: of a little individual slats or old Buddy Aaron Cooper's
Speaker 1: back and he says, my brother and I got matching
Speaker 1: Huffy Vortex bikes. One year. I got a Huffy, both
Speaker 1: of which were completely different stores than the only two
Speaker 1: in town. We begged for him all the year. My
Speaker 1: dear sweet mom saved up for months and made it
Speaker 1: happend what it made it a vortex because I still
Speaker 1: has it. I got a Huffy and that was that
Speaker 1: was probably gonna be my best. Yeah, but I was.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the model though, but I want to
Speaker 1: see what a Huffy vortex. I couldn't get a huffy.
Speaker 1: You know, we were poor kids. No, we weren't poor.
Speaker 1: My dad was an elementary school principle, so we we
Speaker 1: were fine, but we could not get things like Huffies
Speaker 1: and mongooses. We got the sears versions. Well, I will
Speaker 1: say this, Chuck. The Huffy Vortex from nineteen seven is
Speaker 1: pretty bike. It's got like rims almost like you see
Speaker 1: on those those cars. Whoa, I know exactly what it's like.
Speaker 1: They're like star shaped and they're in inside of the
Speaker 1: wheel and those are called I think they were called mag's. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: let's see mag wheels. Mag wheels, it says, oh boy,
Speaker 1: that's even more mag No, those are even different than
Speaker 1: I've seen. Yeah, pretty cool though, huh. Yeah. The cool
Speaker 1: thing to get was the was the sort of hard
Speaker 1: plastic mag wheels instead of spokes. But this is even
Speaker 1: beyond that. These look like Sheriff Stars kind of that,
Speaker 1: you know. And then the the gear it's a single
Speaker 1: gear it looks like and it's uncovered so it's super like,
Speaker 1: you know, shiny and jagged looking. And then it's got
Speaker 1: the big handlebars, the big kind of like almost like
Speaker 1: what do you call those like on a motorcycle where
Speaker 1: they kind of up higher than the seat. A penny
Speaker 1: for you? What a chopper? It's a chopper. Those are
Speaker 1: the mags I was talking about. Yeah, similar, These are
Speaker 1: like almost like like beefed up mags. It does look
Speaker 1: like a Sheriff Star, right, Sheriff Cooper, nice work. I
Speaker 1: love that you still got that thing in your basement
Speaker 1: is pretty cool. Our old friend, Jane Genev says a
Speaker 1: dear friend, I knew that I had an awful holidays
Speaker 1: as a child. I didn't decorate for Christmas due to
Speaker 1: bad memories. Oh man, I'm sorry to hear that, Jane.
Speaker 1: He surprised me by buying and setting up a Christmas
Speaker 1: tree for me and decorating my house with holiday cheer.
Speaker 1: One of the most thoughtful things that anyone has ever
Speaker 1: done for me. That is lovely, that is nice. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of by my mom, you know, is always taking
Speaker 1: a lot of pride and decorating her house for Christmas,
Speaker 1: and this year we're not doing Christmas. Dair. She's coming
Speaker 1: up here and she's a little bit of a drama queen.
Speaker 1: So she's saying things like, well, I guess when I
Speaker 1: this will be the first year I don't decorate for Christmas.
Speaker 1: I guess it's the beginning of the end for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm familiar with that line of talk. Dramatic like, Mom,
Speaker 1: why why do you have to? Like I'll help you.
Speaker 1: She's like, no, no, yeah you no, No, I couldn't that,
Speaker 1: I couldn't possibly. I know, I I know what you mean. No, uh,
Speaker 1: that's a lot. I'm gonna decorate outside this year for
Speaker 1: the first time. I think I might do the same.
Speaker 1: I'm out of ton. Might just string up some stuff
Speaker 1: around the porch, ship get some nice outside. Maybe our
Speaker 1: a little dog with tree might get a little love.
Speaker 1: That'll be nice. Yeah. Oldest of friends. Greta Coning says,
Speaker 1: my husband surprising me with tickets to Book of Mormon
Speaker 1: one year. He isn't great with presents or surprises, but
Speaker 1: this is a good one. It's supposed to be a
Speaker 1: real funny show. I think if I'm not mistaken or
Speaker 1: pal Greta as a singer like with I don't know
Speaker 1: about opera, but I think coral performances, and maybe she's
Speaker 1: in the swingle singers. What's that? That's a Christmas group
Speaker 1: that they do like acapella. They they're not exclusively Christmas,
Speaker 1: but I believe they do a lot of Christmas a
Speaker 1: cappella um. That's where they make very polyphonic harmonies and stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's an ongoing concern. It's like a
Speaker 1: thing from like the fifties or something. I don't know. Interesting,
Speaker 1: you know a lot nol Thanks Chuck, unless it's about
Speaker 1: alf that's true. Let's see Swingle Singers. Uh no, no,
Speaker 1: it is ongoing yep yep vocal group. The Swingles are
Speaker 1: a vocal group formed in nineteen fifty two, in sixty two,
Speaker 1: and it's like the Wifan poofs at Yale. It's a
Speaker 1: lot like the Whiffin poofs. John mills Up, one of
Speaker 1: our oldest papal says the Millennium Falcon Lego set one
Speaker 1: of the best sets ever. That's a pricey set, is it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all those big guys are pretty pricey, like the I mean,
Speaker 1: the Death Star would be a step above even that one.
Speaker 1: But I think the Death Star lego set is like
Speaker 1: somewhere in the neighborhood of like three bucks. Did those
Speaker 1: come with instructions? Are you just supposed to figure it out?
Speaker 1: There'd be no fucking way. Yeah we don't. We don't
Speaker 1: do lego yet in our house. Yeah, well you're you're
Speaker 1: saving yourself some foot injuries with that. One's your daughter
Speaker 1: into it, not really, but like we like it's the
Speaker 1: thing we like to do together occasionally. But the little
Speaker 1: kids with the legos, they just tear them apart and
Speaker 1: you get the little legos everywhere, all with the floor
Speaker 1: and you step on on barefoot and your toast. My friend,
Speaker 1: I hear you, Lee Leonard says, cliche and cheesy. But
Speaker 1: my two sons lived two hours away, and you don't
Speaker 1: get to see him as much as I like. I
Speaker 1: get that whole week of Christmas. He's six, and I
Speaker 1: get to experience joy as a child once again every year.
Speaker 1: Best gift ever. That's really sweet, cheesy. Well, that's weird,
Speaker 1: old because you were just talking on the way in
Speaker 1: about how you couldn't wait to get rid of your
Speaker 1: daughter this Christmas. Yeah, it's true. I just kind of
Speaker 1: punt her right out the door, go to Florida. Get
Speaker 1: ye to Florida. So not true, that's not true. You
Speaker 1: adore your although I don't have her this Christmas. So
Speaker 1: now you're really triggering me. Chuck And I'm sorry, but
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a Christmas And on a different day.
Speaker 1: It's also her birthday this weekend. She has a Christmas
Speaker 1: birthday situation. So we tend to go light on the
Speaker 1: Birthday and a little heavier on the Christmas because the
Speaker 1: Christmas is fun because it's the you know, the anticipation
Speaker 1: of the tree and all that business. You know, I
Speaker 1: feel like that's more fun than a birthday. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: gift giving situation now that she doesn't get anything for
Speaker 1: her birthday, but we tend to like wait it a
Speaker 1: little more towards Christmas, now, hear you. I always felt
Speaker 1: bad for kids who had birthdays around Christmas. It is
Speaker 1: a bummer because you do clean up more if your
Speaker 1: birthdays like months months away from Christmas. It's really just
Speaker 1: a financial calculation if we're being honest, you know, right.
Speaker 1: And I was about to say, what can you do
Speaker 1: about it? But what you can do is not make
Speaker 1: love in March or whenever. Yeah, well you know that
Speaker 1: that ship is sailed, and Chuck, I just counted in
Speaker 1: my fingers, it's about nine months out. It's about nine
Speaker 1: months out. I wonder if people think about that stuff
Speaker 1: like I want to have a summer baby, or I
Speaker 1: want I don't want to have a winter baby because
Speaker 1: I live in Minnesota. Uh so they play in their
Speaker 1: pregnancy as best they can can. I always wonder if
Speaker 1: people ever have kids on purpose. It's very funny. All right,
Speaker 1: let's do a couple of more here. Old pal Louis
Speaker 1: Silva says, air Jordan's in high school that the pump No, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, I'm thinking of they were just pumps and
Speaker 1: just just really quickly. That's it's a stupid thing, right,
Speaker 1: Like it doesn't do anything. I think it was all
Speaker 1: pretty much a big scamp. Yeah, and it like it was.
Speaker 1: The idea was it would give you more more bounced
Speaker 1: or something. Would you think it was the idea just
Speaker 1: gave a more snug fit because it wouldn't pump the soul.
Speaker 1: It would pump around the shoe to sort of snug
Speaker 1: it up on your foot. But I feel like there
Speaker 1: was a false perception that it would make you better
Speaker 1: at basketball. Yo, for sure. I mean it was all
Speaker 1: a big marketing boy, yeah, pump it up. I never
Speaker 1: had the pumps. I had the basketball player that please
Speaker 1: or not? You know you did? Yeah? Yeah? Did you
Speaker 1: play hoops or did you just like like shoes? Sure? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had air walks and skateboard either. That was a
Speaker 1: total sports poser. Oh yeah, that's all right. Our oldest
Speaker 1: of friends, Vanessa Lopez a huge redwood swing set in
Speaker 1: the backyard when I was ten. Redwood is a brand.
Speaker 1: I think the wood it was made out of redwood
Speaker 1: it's very specific. Yeah, I never really think of things
Speaker 1: being made of redwood. I know what she's talking about, though,
Speaker 1: redwood swing set. Sure, just picture it in your brain,
Speaker 1: picturing redwood. I don't know if that's accurate or not.
Speaker 1: Look it up. No, look it's the thing. It comes
Speaker 1: right up. Look, everything comes right up. It is kind
Speaker 1: of red. So yeah, no, I know you're talking about.
Speaker 1: I think they call it redwood. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just know they're very large trees out in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: A little brother, so much to learn? Uh, jaf Rager says,
Speaker 1: anything not plugged in. But I used to and still
Speaker 1: do love getting tickets to a very close event. Oh
Speaker 1: I've never really done that, Like Merry Christmas. We're going
Speaker 1: to see uh fish. Sure, I've definitely never done that. No,
Speaker 1: you ever seen fish? Not a fish guy. I am
Speaker 1: not a fishy. Nope, fish head, are you? No. I
Speaker 1: think they're very talented. Oh yeah, yeah one of those guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Trey is a real fine noodler. All right, I'm not
Speaker 1: into noodling. Maybe that's the problem. They do really good
Speaker 1: cover sets. I will tell you that they I've heard
Speaker 1: a couple of their like they'll do the whole white
Speaker 1: album and yeah, you know, I mean, whatever, man, No,
Speaker 1: that's kind of cool, I guess. But they're the reason
Speaker 1: that Ween got the big hippie following because they started
Speaker 1: covering roses are free at their shows. Because I was
Speaker 1: a Ween fan from the beginning, and I saw them
Speaker 1: trajectory like it was Ween fans were a specific thing.
Speaker 1: And then I went to one show one time I
Speaker 1: was like, who are all these people all of a sudden, Uh, Well,
Speaker 1: for me, I was into them, for you differ over
Speaker 1: seeing them live, And the first time I saw them live,
Speaker 1: obviously it was past that line of comcation and I
Speaker 1: was sort of confused because I was like, this doesn't compute, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't understand. They got a big hippie following. He
Speaker 1: had a big hippie following because that was not Wean, No,
Speaker 1: it really wasn't. They were much more. They were like druggy,
Speaker 1: but not that kind of druggy. They were like like
Speaker 1: sniffing solvents drug metal spoofs. And it was always a
Speaker 1: weird thing. I mean, it's the best thing that ever
Speaker 1: happened to Wean because they went from playing the you know,
Speaker 1: the earl to the Tabernacle because of those people. And
Speaker 1: you've seen them live obviously many times. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: a fabulous live band. Great and you wouldn't think that
Speaker 1: listening to some of their old weird you know, like
Speaker 1: lo fi kind of stuff. Yeah. No. I saw them
Speaker 1: when they were two dudes with a drum machine a
Speaker 1: few times, which was great. But their band is top
Speaker 1: notch test always has been, so they really filled it
Speaker 1: up and seeing them the thrice Alright, Well, let's end
Speaker 1: this one on a high note and just which everyone,
Speaker 1: Happy holidays, very respectable time where our attiresses me out,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, all right, goodbye everyone, sleep well to night
Speaker 1: and dream of us. Yeah. For more podcasts for my
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