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A Solid 4 Beer Thoughts Thanksgiving 2024 Wrap
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We wrap up Thanksgiving and mention the fact that we have been doing this for 3 whole years! Now, you would think we would talk about that, but nah we will do that next week as we kick off season 4!
Pour a cold one, grab some leftovers, and enjoy!
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Pour a cold one, grab some leftovers, and enjoy!
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-solid-4-beer-thoughts--5506935/support.
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Introduction and Social Media Engagement
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A solid four beer thoughts. Papa Coldwell, no interactive with us on YouTube, Facebook, X, or Instagram. And away we go. Winter
Holiday Preparations: Are You Ready?
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time is upon us. Holiday season, all that good stuff, so turkey eating, done. Christmas shopping, completely done, I'm sure.
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You are Tommy? What's up? Well...
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No, not yet. I assume so. Black Friday, everybody just went out and wrapped it up. Isn't that how it works? Black Friday, Shop Small Saturday, Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday. And then Giving Tuesday yesterday. So if you weren't done, I
Third Anniversary Celebration
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don't know what else to tell you. And you had every opportunity known to man in three days. Is it December 23rd yet? Feels like it. Then I'm not done. Almost. It's another episode of A Solid Four Beer Thoughts. Send us an email, foursolidbeersatgmail.com. Like, subscribe on YouTube, and follow us on Facebook.
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X for Instagram. Tonight, we have something to celebrate. Something significant. A
Anniversary Gift Humor
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landmark moment. Uh-oh. Whoa, whoa. Three. What? Whole.
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Fuck years. Yeah. What are we doing? Three whole years. That's incredible. Unbelievable. That is unbelievable. I don't even know what to say. It's unbelievable. It's like just yesterday we had our hundredth.
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Seems like it. Our hundredth episode, but yeah. Up at Divot Golf. Yeah, it wasn't that long ago. But yeah, so now we're officially, what is that, 156 episodes into it? I don't know. Something like that, right? Didn't it? 52 times? Fireworks. That's how the math would work. Yeah. Yeah. So congratulations, boys. We've tolerated each other longer than we ever anticipated. Sure. Sure we do. There is that. All right. So there's always good on the other side. Tolerated is a good word. Good job. For sure. Third year anniversary gift. Any guesses to what it is?
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Ooh. It's not paper. Cut. It's not paper? I don't think so. Cotton is
Weekend and Holiday Plans
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wood, too. So this has three columns. It has a traditional, a modern, and a metal or gemstone. We're going traditional. Traditional. You have wood, so what? Yes, I have wood right now, but I'm going to say third year is potassium. Photo. Photo? Yeah. Photo.
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I don't know. I'm going with lace, traditional. Lace. I will see your lace and give you the other, the Stevie Nicks half of that. Leather. Leather. Leather is the three year. Wood, Link, however. Yeah. Five year. Need a little whippin'. Huh. Need a little whippin'. What does that mean? Leather. Leather strap. Whoa, Tommy. Our belt is made of leather. You could have said ball gag. No, that's not the same.
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All right. Well, that's fantastic. What was it? Rihanna said, I don't know, but something, the S and M song, you know, I'm talking about. I don't know. I don't know a single Rihanna song. I just learned windows to the wall. I mean, he just, he just learned whips and chains, excite me, something like that. Anyway, I can't sing it because I don't want to get to, you know, we're going to talk about how old we are and the fact that it's our third year anniversary.
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It's not even the same. Ball gag is the fourth year.
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The modern version is crystal or glass. Okay. Oh, we have glasses right here. Beer glasses. And then the metal or gemstone of course. I shouldn't even started this. Dictatium. It's spurt, spurt, spurtiminium. It's a pearl.
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She wore Yeah, we all know that song. Don't we? Anyhow, so we'll talk about that as we go through the night We'll also gonna talk about our weekends and our holiday celebrations sure did and I'm sure our We everybody had a great weekend this past weekend. So we'll talk about all that good stuff And it's gonna be exciting. It's gonna be a good time and I think
Ryan Thompson's Murder Discussion
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because everybody's weekends were so full of things Yeah, I think first we do this week in history
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Instead of the weekend thing because if not we won't get to this weekend history till like three-fourths of the way Come on after three years. I'm a freaking
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Nobody does it better. We didn't do this. This week, boys, the CEO of United Healthcare, Ryan Thompson. I was wondering if you saw that fatally shot. Did you see the video? Well, not today. No, I did not see it this morning. Wednesday. Yeah, whatever. Wednesday. Uh, just before 7 a.m. Wednesday morning outside a New York city Hilton, uh, where he was attending an investor conference. Uh, he was 50 years old.
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New York City police are calling it a, quote, premeditated, preplanned, targeted attack. Most commonly known as a hit. And said it does not appear to be a random act of violence. They are offering a reward of $10,000. You'd think the CEO of United Health, if I got shot outside of Hilton Hotel, I would hope I would get like maybe 10, 20 bucks. You'd think the United Healthcare CEO,
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I would have to wait till our bet hit to pay some of the reward money. So nobody's ever gonna reward for me. So don't get shot anytime next two, three years. So yeah, I saw that video and I don't like watching videos like that. People dying is not my thing.
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You can go on Twitter and see people getting killed all the time and I just choose not to see that dude walks out of hotel there's a guy in a backpack dressed in complete black dudes walking away he's 15 feet away with a silencer you see the silencer on the gun so it was an obvious hit yeah did you hear it
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No. Well, I don't turn the volume up because I don't want to hear that. The suspect then, uh, apparently got on a bicycle in road to central park, central park. And that's where it was last time. Yeah. They needed those central park cops that they had in Santa Claus. They would have found the central park rangers, the rangers.
Historical Mysteries and Events
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Yeah. Oh yeah. And that was an elf. Yeah. Central park rangers too. Elf had same Santa Claus. You didn't watch that. You didn't get that far. You know why?
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because the movie sucked, but go ahead. So yeah, yeah, as, as Jeff alluded to, uh, they, they have the thing on camera, uh, light skinned male wearing a light brown jacket, black face mask, black and white sneakers, and a very distinctive gray backpack. They did not describe the backpack. They just told you it was distinctive. So if you see somebody with that description with a distinctive backpack, please call the FBI.
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It's terrible. I know. It is terrible. So his wife apparently told NBC that he had been receiving some threats, and according to her, her quote was, I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him, and that's all I know. Yeah. Crazy. This is a hit. Anyway. There's a reason.
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Uh, so this week in history, uh, 1945, is this happy movie? Happy news. Oh, no, this is not happening. I know where he's going on this one. A day that will, no living in for me. No, no, no. That's next week. It's December 7th. Yeah. Which is Saturday. Yeah. That's coming.
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True. Five United States Navy Avenger torpedo bombers disappear in the Bermuda Triangle. Flight 19, as it's called, 14 crew on five planes take off from Fort Lauderdale on a three hour tour training mission. After compass failures, instrument malfunctions, so their guitars weren't working, instrument malfunctions, you know.
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A search plane was sent out a few hours later with 13 crew. It also was never heard from again. Crazy. 27 people. That is crazy. Gonzo. Bermuda Triangle. Fort Lauderdale area. It's kind of a crazy. Which created the craze of the Bermuda Triangle. But the stories, people have gone through it. It just watches totally stop working in search of back in the day. Yeah.
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Yep. That was, that was actually a very good episode about the Bermuda. Pretty crazy. Uh, Josh Gates with expedition unknown on discovery channel. He did an episode on it as well. Kind of crazy. So, uh,
Thanksgiving Weekend Recap
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this weekend, actually in 1955, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, which was at that time a violation of the city's racial segregation laws.
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It ultimately led to a bus boycott in the city, and then this city ended up desegregating the bus system. So yeah, it ended up leading to that after a whole bunch of other stuff. Anyway, that's what I'm doing.
00:09:44
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Also, titties. This is when you guys are Jeopardy fans. Yes. Ken Jennings lost. Oh, was it? Yeah. After what? 75 ish. There was a whole bunch of stuff. There was a whole bunch of stuff, whole bunch of stuff that happened this week. How long ago was that? I thought there was a part of saying it wasn't important to put you on the spot, but how long ago? 10, 15, 15. Was it that long? I bet it was longer than what you think. 10 or 15 would. Yeah.
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It doesn't matter. Yeah, we talked about something else while he Googles that. I'm not Googling. I took a picture of it. So I'd remember it. There you go. So, boys, yeah, I find it. Is that this week in history? You're paper to do the Ken Jennings thing to make it more official.
00:10:36
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And now he's won the war. So now that we're on the other side of Thanksgiving, Jeff, how was your weekend? It was good. What'd you do? Michigan. We had Thanksgiving and we'll talk about that. We flew up to Michigan on Friday with some good friends of ours and went
College Football Rivalries
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over to their neighbor's house Friday night, drank a
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Um, shit, ton of bourbon. Yeah. And, uh, and Saturday got up and did some running around. So it was fast. And that's not fascinating, but up there, we go to a Christmas tree farm. Jim always puts one out on his back deck, live Christmas tree farm, the cold, six foot, seven foot tree, eight foot. Yeah. Spruce. Yeah. Yeah. Nice and full. How much would you guess that would cost six foot, seven foot, eight foot? What's one 150?
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How about $36? Shit. Go cut it down yourself, Clark. Not kidding you, no. They had them stacked up. So they had wreaths and we always buy a live, you know, quote unquote live wreath for the house. So last year I went to Dole's farm or whatever it is up in. I got a Dole story. So got a wreath up there. Did you get a wreath up there?
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No, we never buy a wreath up there. So the wreaths, wreaths down here, like a 24 inch wreath with just a ribbon on it, 75 fucking dollars. Oh yeah, all day. You know where they are up here? We got a 36 inch wreath, 24 bucks.
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Wow, you should just got a tree and made your own I know I couldn't stick it in an eight-foot tree make two feet of it out of wreath and Because we always get a life it's economics when we get home when we trim the bottom of it We just use those branches and we make a wreath and you make your own wreath Yeah, but this year we didn't because we didn't trim that much off of it because we makes their own wreath we do I do
00:12:29
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He makes his own, he makes his own orange fluff also, or whatever the shit that's called. Seven rolls. I don't make it in my mind, whatever it is. Up there at Dole's, they take the limbs that they cut off the trees and just throw them on it. And you can make a donation or whatever. Is that what you just said?
00:12:48
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No, but that's what we do. So who makes her own wreaths? Current wife does. She'll go up there, throw five bucks in the donation thing, grab a bunch of branches and make her own, pick them up. So she's got a wire ring that she owns? Yeah, yeah. That's pretty cool. That's pretty awesome. And it's just a little jar. It's like, oh, donations for these limbs that they cut off the bottom. These branches we cut off these trees that people didn't want to take home with them. They literally had this 72 inch wreath up there. Oh, yeah.
00:13:17
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It was like 60 bucks. Down here, that'd be 300, it's a mess. Yeah. So I was telling the owner of the tree farm how much shit is down and indeed he goes, are you kidding me? I go, no, I'm not kidding you at all. I said, I can tell you what I paid for my six foot tree.
00:13:34
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Saturday. So my buddy Jim, who flew us up there, he was flying his dad back up there the next day. He goes, well, I'll just go by the tree farm and get us a couple of wreaths. I go, you don't have to do that. He goes, yeah. He goes, I'll put them in the bag, throw them in the plane. And we're good. It's about 24 bucks. It's the only way to go. It's ridiculous how much a live wreath is. If only I had a friend with a plane. Well, there's that.
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Yeah. Plainly. So no, but this is why I buy dead wreaths because they're a lot cheaper. Yeah. Just saying. It looks like a Charlie Brown, but it's in a circle. If you wait a year, the price goes way down. Yeah. Dirt cheap brown wreath and just paint it green. There you go. No spray paint. Yeah. So that's what I did this weekend.
00:14:21
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Well, first of all, Ken Jennings lost 20 years ago. November 30th, 20 not four. Holy shit. That was that long ago. Every, every time somebody that you always say, I said it's longer than what you think.
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And it was. Well, Thanksgiving. I've never had anybody say that to me. It's longer than what you think. I'm like, no, it is not. If I had a nickel, let me count the sense that I would have. Okay. Anyhow, honestly, so.
00:15:05
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The family is so large that leftovers are slim to none, right? I mean, we have some, but you don't get enough turkey. And that's what current wife says. She's like, I love turkey leftovers. If you need any.
00:15:22
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And so, well, yeah, if you need any, so what did we do on Friday? Cooked the turkey. We cooked another turkey. Did you really? We cooked a 15 pounder. Deep fry or? No, because I didn't have a time to mess with that. I threw it in a bag and threw it in the oven.
00:15:38
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Bagged in the oven made a 15 pound turkey. That's awesome and up until last night From Thursday until last night three or four days a fourth day of turkey. I'm like yeah, I'm ready to move on We made chicken noodle soup or sorry some chicken noodle soup with turkey there you go
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last night. Did you make a pot pie? Well, we threw mashed potatoes in the bottom noodles and then the soup on top. It's pretty, it's pretty, pretty tasty. I'm sure other than that, I mean, I watched a shit little football and, and that's about it. Well, we watched, uh, sorry, sorry. Blocky, uh, turn your radio off right now. Oh man.
00:16:20
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We watch the Ohio State game. I'm not going to do that. I know how he feels because when we lost to the fucking Patriots every year, I know the feeling. No, no. When you're... No, no, no, no. If that's your team, if that's your team, your main rival that you absolutely hate,
00:16:42
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And you haven't beaten four years. And you were supposed to win by 23 and a half or three touchdowns. And you still lost. At home.
00:16:54
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I'm telling you, if that was Colt's Patriots, then everybody decides to show their ass at the end. Instead of Ohio State, Michigan, I would have been fripping furious at my team, my coach, at everything. Dude, I would have turned the house upside down. Well, truth be told, I hate both teams equally. I hate Michigan, I hate Ohio State.
00:17:19
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I wouldn't care who won that game. I don't care. I didn't really care. I cared for my team's benefit, for Indiana's
Reflecting on Thanksgiving Football
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benefit, because I think it does help Indiana's cause a little bit. I think it should. But we also, I think we need to talk about flag planting. Yeah, I was going to say that. Let's circle back around to that. We'll get to that. We'll hear about Brett's weekend.
00:17:43
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Why do you do that? Why do you want the game? Why do it? I don't know when this clip happened, but I've seen a lot of these flags or anything. It's not unique to the Ohio state, Michigan. It hasn't, it hasn't been going on for a while. It happened three or four times just this past weekend. Yes. So, uh, the Penn state coach actually knocked one of his players
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Took the flag away from him Ohio State or Penn State Penn State on another game Sarkeesian from Texas he stood in the middle field and was like Nobody's coming in I just I just don't Understand that man if it's your own field and you want to do something to a flow on your own field fine If you just beat me
00:18:37
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Just because that's you because that is me. So is that not what makes the rivalry great? No that makes the
00:18:49
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Michigan hates Ohio State. Ohio State hates Michigan, Auburn hates Alabama, blah, blah. That kind of behavior isn't just that part of it. I think that takes it too far. I see both sides of it, but I think it's classless. If I'm coaching that team, yeah, that doesn't happen. You win the game, you've made a statement, right? If you're unranked Michigan this year, and that's not always the case,
00:19:17
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you're unranked Michigan and you go into Ohio state and you beat them at home.
00:19:26
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You beat that speaks volumes. You don't have to say another word. You're nationally televised. You beat their ass on their field. I get that. I get that. They won by three. They didn't beat their ass. Show your ass and act like a dick. I mean, what's the point of that? They could have shut their damn mouths, walked to the locker room and the language would have been just as loud.
00:19:47
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100% so all the chatter of I'm walking off the field right sign shut up crowd all that I don't like it I can live with that but just doing something to somebody's feel that's just that's a different kind of playing a flag in our official turf number one which that's
00:20:07
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So guess what, you know, all these, I don't think it adds to the rivalry, by the way. I just, I just think it cheapens what just happened. Agreed. And to turn around and to blame Ohio state for being poor losers after you do that and they want to beat your ass. And then you
Sports Celebrations Debate
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go, and then the one guy on, on microphone, on the field, as soon as it happened goes, some people just need to learn how to lose.
00:20:34
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Fuck off, by the way. Exactly. Well, shit. You've lost four straight years to your biggest rival. I don't care. I don't care. When the fucking game? When the game on your home field, then you don't have to worry about that. What if Wabash did that to DePaul after they beat them on their field? When DePaul beat Wabash, when Jake was there, when he was injured, the fans stormed the field at Wabash, and the Wabash coach was pissed about it. And he's yelling at people, get off the field.
00:21:03
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Fuck you, you know. We're talking we're talking fans versus athletes. Yes, that's different to me. So so the all the talking heads on sports, which I listened to a lot, they were all, oh, that's that's not right. That's, you know, blah, blah. We shouldn't be doing that. Yada, yada, yada. But guess what? Next year's game, the Michigan Ohio State game. Guess what? The television
00:21:30
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company ABC ESPN who's ever gonna broadcast it. Guess what they're gonna promote? They're gonna promote that flag planning. They're gonna promote the day I'm fighting. They're gonna promote the day I'm fighting. They're gonna promote the day I'm fighting. They're gonna promote the day I'm fighting. They're gonna promote the day I'm fighting. They're gonna promote the day I'm fighting. They're gonna promote the day I'm fighting.
00:21:50
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So this is angels now? Yeah. Yeah. If you lay one hand for that porcelain worthless girl, watch out! Squeezer! Squeezer! Squeezer! Get your brains out! Bucker brains out! Bucker brains out!
00:22:04
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We want kids to behave better, right? And we want kids to be more responsible, be role models, be all of this stuff. To me, and I'm not putting this all on the kids, because I think a coach, you know. Ryan Day sat there and watched the whole thing go on, didn't do a fucking thing. I saw that video.
00:22:25
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I saw that video of him. I'm not sure what he does at that point. And I will also say, if I'm an Ohio State kid, I am taking that flag. There's no question. But you as a coach know some shit might be going down. Right. Right. So on the sidelines, when you know you've got like, hey, we're leaving this place the right way.
00:22:49
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And that just didn't happen. Hey, on the other side, what mission would Sharon more Sharon? Yeah, I know what he's doing before the end of the game. He's walking over to the sideline waving. Goodbye. I don't by the way. So it's I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that. If a kid does that. Absolutely. If a kid does that, that's fine. The head coach should not be doing it. How can you even say that?
00:23:15
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It's okay for the kids to go out and plant a flag in the middle of the field. No, no, no, no. I didn't say that. No, he said that. I said that. I am not... I absolutely can separate the two. I am okay with... You're a 50-year-old man waving a bite to the crowd. These are 22-year-old kids. Eight, 18, 19. Whatever. They're not kids, they're young men. You're right, they're young men. I fucked up on the kids. Sorry, whatever.
00:23:39
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that are full testosterone. They were 23 point underdogs. They had no chance of winning that game. It, you know, that happens everywhere. I get that. And it happened in every game, every rivalry game. That's what I'm saying. I'm okay with the, the, I don't like it. I'll say that I can live with the kids on the sideline going quiet down, whatever. I can live with that when a head coach does something like that. That's bullshit. Yeah, that's absolutely bullshit.
00:24:05
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I don't like any of it. I hate taunting. Agree. I hate all of it. Agree. I hate when you hit some guy hard and then you stand over him and look down at him like, hey, fuck you, I just hit you hard. I saw what you did. Everybody saw the hardest hit. So get the hell out of there. So when a guy scores a touchdown, he should not celebrate that? Because that would be a form of taunting. Not in somebody else's face.
Thanksgiving Culinary Adventures
00:24:25
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But still, if you're celebrating your hands off, you're taunting. You sure you don't want to run. I think what Link's saying. It's still taunting. No, no, no. No, it's not. Sorry. If I knock you on your ass and I'm standing right over you. That's a problem. Correct. That's a problem. If I'm celebrating a touchdown with my team, by the way, I don't like it either. I like Barry Sanders, right? I like that old school. Andrew and James. Go back to the bench. Go back to the bench. You did your job.
00:24:54
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We will never go back to those days. No. That ship is long freaking gone. So in the NFL, when a defensive team intercepts a ball and they all run down, that is taunting. If they ran down the other person's sidelines and pointed at him and laughed at him, taunting is usually somebody else's. It's to somebody else. If you're celebrating something, that's not taunting.
00:25:18
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I don't mind the celebration for the touchdown. I don't mind. I don't like it I don't I mean as long as it's not ridiculous and I but I do get annoyed with every time There's a great defensive play the in the everything stops so the entire defense can run to the end zone That's and do stupid shit. Yeah, who gives a fuck your yes, that's your job millions of fucking dollars You better do your job
00:25:42
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You know what, that's the bottom line. The fact that the NFL used to penalize that a bunch of years ago, now they put up a camera for it. So they promote it just as... Yeah, I mean, they promote celebrating, but it's celebrating with your team. Get your thought out here. It doesn't add anything to the game. Get your thought out here. When did celebrating after touchdown become OK in college football?
00:26:06
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That is recently, like this year, maybe last year. I have no, in the referees I have seen are standing right by the celeb and they're fucking dancing and doing all kinds of shit in the end zone now. I'm like, when did that start?
00:26:19
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Mimic down from the NFL. I mean, that's, that's what it is. It's going to be in high school if it's not already. So anyhow, Hey Brett, tell us about your weekend. Holy shit. I said, I didn't want to get into it now. I think it's a good time. You don't have to check the clock. Oh, I had a lot of, a lot of first, this, uh, you guys can laugh at me.
00:26:43
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Okay, because I know how this is going to fetch you because Tom's gonna go well You just do this and this and this and like now I know that I've never done that before so We're Turkey's getting ready come out of the oven whatever he's over. Yep. Everybody maybe two hours early. Sorry Turkey's not ready to come out, but We realized we didn't get gravy. Oh, I'm like oh
00:27:07
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Okay. You didn't get gravy? Yeah, at the store. You get what? Yeah, I know. I just... I told you guys we're going to be pricks about this. I said I hear it coming. Here it is. How am I being a prick? I'm not being a prick. You're in prick mode right now. I was judging. I was judging. Full prick mode. I was getting ready to come. Full prick mode is here. Yeah. I was judging. Let's talk about not eating roast beef. Tom, see how big a prick you can be then. And the way I see it, you're taunting him because he buys his gravy at the store. Yes, you are.
00:27:38
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Just sayin'. I'm gonna do a fuckin' touchdown celebration here. So you buy jar gravy. Y'all have flour and milk at home? Here's the prick part. Let's go. Yeah. Tom, what'd you do this week? I'm going like... He told you what you were... You literally... And you couldn't stand it. Holy shit.
00:27:59
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He told you you were going to do that, and you did it. And you couldn't help yourself. You couldn't help yourself. I was there with you, Tommy. Tommy, I was there with you. Holy crap, dude. And Tom's defense, I was there with him. So throw shade at me also. Go on with your story. I just said. Just lower our mics, Tom. Just lower our mics.
00:28:16
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So I'm like, hey, this can't be that hard. I look up the recipe, I'm like, wow, there's like three ingredients and one of them sitting in the bottom of this pan. So, yeah, Kylie and I made homemade gravy. Did you really? You can't come back.
00:28:35
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No, seriously, I'm glad you did that. How did it turn out? Was it lumpy early? No, it's legit. Was it lumpy? No, it's good. You made good gravy there. It was better than you get in a jar, wasn't it? Yes, but not as good as I get in a can.
00:28:54
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I might not have phrased that right. That might have been a shot at me, I'm not sure. Have you ever seen your gravy wrestle? So Kylie did all the mixing, it was good. She did a nice job.
Family Time Importance
00:29:09
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Yeah, stirring that gravy forever. But the second thing, I actually did the turkey brining process. How'd that go? What's Tom gonna do after you tell us about this, Brad? No, how did you use sugar to brine it? No, how did yours come up?
00:29:25
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Everybody thought it was extremely good. I'm not gonna say I didn't notice a difference, because I thought it was very good, but I didn't think it was like, whoa. Way over the top. Kinda like deep fried turkey, I've had it before. I'm like, it's good. But I'd heard so much positive about it, I was expecting a religious experience, and I didn't even get in the door at church, really.
00:29:48
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But it was it was very more is all is all very good. So but the brining process, I'll do it again for the Christmas party. But I'm like, yeah, that's that's worth the investment. You haven't liked it. You haven't baked it oven baked. I've never not. That's the only way I've ever cooked in a bag or just a little foil over it. Roasted oil foil the breast. And oh, I foiled the fuck out of those breasts.
00:30:14
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That's fondled sir. Yes. Yes get my cooking terms confused So yeah, those were the two first on on Thanksgiving awesome cool. There you go Oh, I went to the IU football game Saturday So this was a
00:30:37
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I ended up taking, uh, Kylie's boyfriend, Dave, because he was in town to watch his high school playing the state championship game. So, uh, the weather was frightful for sure. But it was, it was awesome. It didn't get as cold as I expected, but it was still like 25. Yeah, that's still pretty joke. That's not candy. But if you dress for it, yeah, you're good.
00:30:59
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the the
00:31:14
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Football game. Yeah, you know, it's kind of what football probably should be like, right? I am pretty happy though. It went with some friends before as we're heading down there. He's like, hey, if this is a blowout at halftime, you cool if we leave like, yeah, I think I am. Yeah. So and it was 66 to nothing.
00:31:35
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I don't know if anybody looked it up. How long has it been since I you won the Oakland buckets? Like four years They won they won with Tom Allen But 66 nothing's got to be the worst beat down on the rivalry. I'm assuming without googling I'm assuming that's the worst beat. I think Purdue won in 1895 like 70 did okay. Okay. Yeah
00:31:57
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That was back when they didn't wear helmets. But it wasn't the bucket yet. The bucket didn't start until 1930-ish, 1925-ish, somewhere in there. So the interesting stat to me in that whole game was not how much I spent on beers because it was a lot.
00:32:14
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I spent more on beers by far than Purdue had total yards. So here's the real stat though. IU scores 66 points. Purdue has 67 total yards of offense. Wow. That's pretty bad. I heard that last night from a buddy at the bar.
00:32:35
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Here's what I like about IU and where they're at with Signetti. He's up 35-nothing. Started the third quarter. I didn't see a lick of the game until it was 59-nothing. Get back to the house, and I go, jeez Christ, they're beating at 59-nothing. I go, minute and a half, two minutes left. I go, game's over, you know, ball, ball, ball.
00:32:57
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They hung 66 on them. Did you put 20 down on them? No, I wish for whatever. What I liked about Signeti, and this tells you where he's at, they're up 35-nothing in the third quarter, I think, maybe into the second quarter. It's 28-and-a-half. 28-and-a-half. So it's 35-nothing and he runs a fake punt.
00:33:17
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Oh, did he? Wow. Oh yeah. Ran a fake punk. Got the first out. That's a rivalry game. And so that's what, you know, everybody's got, well, signeti was a dick for doing that. All the Purdue fans. Well, he's a dick for the, you know what? Stop it. Stop it. How many times have we seen college teams run up the score because, and he had to run up at school. It's about scoring points, especially how it works down. Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:43
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Yeah, he's not sure if he's gonna be playoffs. So he's got to be the shit out of Purdue. The only thing I'll say about that and when when Ohio State beat IU in their quarterback like puts out a cigarette on the sideline and is yelling Google me, whatever.
00:33:59
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If you're that guy that's gonna fake the punt, you have to be willing to receive. So there's some years that's gonna come back against you, and I think he is. I'm just
Holiday Traditions and Mishaps
00:34:09
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saying that's a two-way street, because Purdue has kicked IU's ass forever. When you got an opportunity, you gotta do it. I also lost some wrestling matches. Vision question. Your turn, Tommy.
00:34:25
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Well we did the traditional Thanksgiving on Thursday, then Saturday we did the Christmas tree cut down. I don't know why you got it there. Wasn't that good? Yeah, I'm not a huge fan. Okay, sorry. I've not tried it. I just grabbed it. I'm not sure why you grabbed that.
00:34:40
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It might be okay. It says ale. It does say ale. It's a Christmas ale. Anyhow, we did the traditional Thanksgiving, and every Saturday after Thanksgiving, we go and get our Christmas tree as a family. So me and my current wife and my sister and her current husband, we all go out and cut down Christmas trees. Oh, both families.
00:35:01
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Yeah, so we make a day of it, or half a day of it. We get there right when they open, and Saturday was the coldest day we've ever had going and getting to Christmas. It was colder down here than it was up by the UP. Frickin' miserable.
00:35:19
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But we got a tree and It's sitting in my living room undecorated currently. Oh, there you go. But it is. Well, you gotta let those limbs fall out right Tom. Well, we got it Saturday. I Think it's as relaxed as it's gonna get then why in the day. Well, we've been busy So Friday and Saturday. We also had the Christmas light outside stuff that had to get done Did you have an official
00:35:50
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It looks good all day Friday we built Christmas trees for outside for the display That took most of the afternoon. What do you mean you built them PVC and pecs and built them and then put lights on them and
00:36:12
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I'm not being a dick. Did you YouTube that? How did you figure out how to do that? I'm in like three or four different groups of DIY Christmas stuff. Another trip up to Kokomo this month? Yeah, did your boyfriend come down? So funny story. Funny story. All the stuff I bought from Kokomo guy, that's going to be a 2025 adventure. Not working?
00:36:33
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No, no, I'm sure it'll work. So now he thinks you lied to him. Not at all. So in our conversations, when I first got up there to buy this stuff.
00:36:44
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His comment was, so you're planning for 2025, right? And I'm like, oh, hell no, we're going to get this going this year. And so as I got into the programming of stuff and doing stuff and everything else, I realized this is going to take a very long time to get everything set up. And I actually sent him a text message and I said, well,
00:37:04
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We got the lights on, but I think all the other stuff's gonna be next year. And he said, I think that is a very wise choice because he told me, he's like, you have a lot of work to get the programming done. And I was like, okay. Right. Then do you think you guys can sustain a relationship for an entire year? Oh yeah. Cause I'm probably going to buy more stuff from him before it's over. But yeah. Is he hot?
00:37:30
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He said he's Greek and like implied there's some weird connection. It's not it's not weird It's just oh, he just has some things that I can use well Tommy for this qualities that you like in a man No, not really. No does oh what I saw on my house. I do know for sure Is it I do know how to make gravy? Okay? I'm sure he does to the white kind All turkey graves what
00:37:59
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What? It sounds like Brett's and Kylie's turned out pretty good. If it wasn't lumpy, if they, if they, good job, gravy's not lumpy. It's good gravy. If you, if you've got flour, grease, and a milk on hand, you can, we didn't use grease. Yeah, you did Turkey, Turkey, Turkey drippings, drippings. That's, that's what the professionals call grease bread. That's,
00:38:24
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Come on. That's culinary lingo, Brett. Come on. Spries your head in on that culinary. We want to do another color. Have you ever made biscuits and gravy at home? No. What? Dude, I still have never made that yourself. I still have never made Jello. He never made gravy until this past weekend. I just wanted to ask. I almost bought Jello to store honest just to make it. I've almost done that like 10 times since I've admitted that on the show, but I've never done it.
00:38:51
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It's just hot water and cold water. Don't let it intimidate you. Don't let it intimidate you. Hey, I have a serious question though. How was the prayer? It was good. Oh, yeah. He did, Ryan... Brother-in-law did a very good job on it. Very simple, very... It was about what I expected. Exactly. It wasn't over the top. Yeah, it was good. It was good. He had written down some stuff on his phone and... I think when I did it, I pretty much...
00:39:20
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That's who you are. Spelled it out. I mean, and so I'm like, I can, I'm not going to remember all of this. You got a blueprint. And so, uh, yeah, I mean, he, he kind of, he had some lines that he said ready. He told a little story. Maybe anyway, I thought it was good. It was, it wasn't long. It wasn't sappy. It wasn't like, it didn't, it wasn't like super heartfelt, but that's the way he is. I think.
00:39:44
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It fit him. But he's also newer to... He's just a man of few words. Yes, not heartfelt as in he didn't mean what he was saying. I mean, heartfelt as in not like... Nobody cried. It wasn't like, oh my gosh, oh yeah. And you get a little emotional type. It wasn't heavy. It wasn't super heavy. It was just kind of surface level stuff.
00:40:07
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He did lube up with two martinis before he started the prayer. With two solid martinis. And a few more after that. Let's get to that question. It's a fun time. How much do you guys drink on Thanksgiving?
00:40:22
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I didn't start drinking until after I ate. Tom, do you mind? We're trying to do a podcast. Dude, is this week, seriously, this week in history is over. I already crunched the piece doing next week in history, the new segments. So then what was, what was cool was the sister sat around. Nance Alex was there. Lincoln was in the chick chat. I came over the chick chat. You know, you watch football and it's, there were shitty football going on. We're on the porch and we're just drinking and
00:40:50
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Nobody's getting stupid, hammered drunk, but just shooting shit. And that to me was cool as hell. Sitting around shooting shit. Those conversations that make you have more beers than you think you're having, not because you're like, oh, I got a drink. It's just you're in the flow. Just spending time with family. You're in the right.
00:41:10
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conversation there was there were Five five of the seven siblings in the in the circle in the chitchat in the chitchat Jeff warmed his way in there somehow chitchat I did my my current wife and the northern Irish twin and we just kind of talking hijack the chitchat so Alex was a hoot. I know absolute jess
Thanksgiving Gratitude and Humor
00:41:33
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when she vote
00:41:35
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No. What? Well we did vote. Where the fuck did that come from, Tom? We did vote. Seriously, where the fuck did that come from? No, we tried to vote Jeff out of the circle, but he wouldn't leave. So, yes.
00:41:46
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So somebody had farted in the circle. No, no. Alex goes, that was me. I wasn't in the circle yet. You weren't. I wasn't in the circle yet. And I go, really? And everybody knew somebody farted. And so then all of a sudden she just goes, got them.
00:42:07
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Nice. Wow. So then you got to somewhat family history is so you. So Alex is sitting catty corner to me hurt. It hurts. My sister-in-law, his sister Tana is standing right over the top of me. She's massaging my back. Don't go there. She does this to everybody. She's touchy. Feel whatever. Oh, and it doesn't matter. Man doesn't care. She's, she's very, she has very strong hands. I owe you. It will kill you. Like no joke, man. Yeah.
00:42:36
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to where you're crouching down in your chair and you're like, no, no, no, you're crying. You're like, stop. So anyway, she's down over top of me and I look at Alex and I look at Alex and my sister-in-law standing over right over back of my chair and I go,
00:42:53
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Watch, she goes, what? I go, rip one out. Silent. Silent. Oh, yeah. All of a sudden it comes walking. And then Jeff, and then, yeah. Did you still lift your teeth? And he says the words out loud. He said the words out loud, wait for it. And the sister who is standing right behind him goes, what are you talking about? And about a second and a half later,
00:43:21
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Yeah. Oh my God. Oh my. And she's, she's one sister mold. I would appreciate it. Oh yeah. She's not, she's not weak to the stomach. Not hilarious. All right. So I was at a Kroger today real quick and uh, I saw something and it made me think of Jeff. So I bought it Magnum because we've established it. Were you in the meat? Were you in the meat?
00:43:47
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I know Walmart, I know Walmart sells vibrators. Was that it? It wasn't at Walmart either. Okay, all right. Got it, my rabbit. And I found... Elf? Elf goldfish. Huh, let me taste him. I think he should. I don't think he should be allowed to eat it. I think you should read the flavor before you throw them all in your mouth. It's not goldfish though. It's not goldfish.
00:44:08
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It's it's graham crackers, right? They're maple syrup grams. Yeah, those are probably pretty good. Those are pretty. I'm trying. I just know those are pretty damn good.
00:44:18
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but I thought a little holiday, we need a little holiday flavor. They made up candy corn and syrup candies, candy, corns, candy, canes. Oh, those are pretty good. Oh, that's legit. I like it. I like that. That's like maple syrupy graham cracker. Well, that's why they're called maple syrup grams. That's what it is. All right. Favorite thing you guys ate. Uh, sorry. Favorite food you ate at Thanksgiving. Okay. Ooh, covered you there, Tom. Thanks.
00:44:48
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I'm going to go with a little bit bias. I mean, Turkey was good. Pick on a pie. Sorry. No, I've got two or three now. That's fine. You're not limited. And it's all, it's all my wife's. Yes. The cranberry relish was
00:45:08
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to die for, the pecan pie to die for. The turkey, all of it was good. The turkey and ham, it seemed to me this year, the turkey and ham, it's always good. Jesus Christ, Jeff, you're not running for office. I know I'm not. I'm not politicking, but it seemed like the turkey and ham tasted a lot better. Not that it's ever been bad. You are running for office.
00:45:30
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It's not
00:45:44
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It was very good. All of it was good. I didn't try the ham. I had too much stuff on my plate. Dude, this guy walked out. I was already sitting at the table. And I kid you not. I hadn't eaten any breakfast. Neither did I. And he comes walking out. I swear to Christ, this fucking plate was like Mount Vesuvius. He couldn't go back?
00:46:08
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Well, yeah. And then shortly after it looked like Mount St. Helens, like half of it had
Community Bonds and Traditions
00:46:16
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just blown off. And, uh, and then he was sleepy, sleepy a half hour later. So I hit you. I, I,
00:46:26
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I ate so much. You did. I mean, I finished almost like the entire team. There's no way he's going to eat this. I had a little bit of everything. So, you know, favorite stuff we talked about last week, you know, I mean, mashed potatoes were good. It rolls. Rolls. The not seven layer salad, 24 hour salad.
00:46:45
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Maybe when we talk about it with the P. Yeah, you do. Yeah. They call it 20, 24 whatever. Um, I mean, just dude, I so much, I swear to my stomach hurt.
00:47:02
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I'm not joking So maybe when I took a deuce didn't you? Oh, yeah, so about 15 minutes after eight my I was like man I'm really full about 30 minutes after eight I could not move my stomach literally that's miserable physically hurt because I ate so much I did not eat any I ate one tiny little sliver of pumpkin pie but that was about
00:47:25
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two and a half to three hours after I ate my meal because I couldn't. It didn't even sound good. I was like, man, not pumpkin pie. It looks good. Didn't sound good at all. And so, yeah, for sure, I gluttoned my way through Thanksgiving. A hundred percent. So anyway, that's how it works. Oh my gosh.
00:47:44
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So what was your favorite thing though? Yeah, you just said you're a fat ass. I would tell all of it. You just said you're a fat ass. You didn't say you had one. The stuffing was really good. That was it. Yeah. Was it? Because I get it once a year and it was, dude, it was spot on. Same for me. It was spot on. The stuffing, yes. Yeah. Got it. So anyway. How about you, Brett?
00:48:04
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I smashed a half a thing of pumpkin bread like out of the gate. That's your mom's pumpkin. Yeah The turkey was good. I'm not gonna say it wasn't good but Turkey to me is just yeah, whatever. It's okay But like I said, just like ham if it's not cooked properly it sucks Like you have to load that bitch up with gravy whether store-bought or homemade
00:48:31
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Just to stomach it, because it's dry. So yeah, that was, and we didn't do the homemade rolls, but yeah, I probably had about 12 rolls through the day, easy, yeah, easy. Tommy? So we did a Thanksgiving on Thursday at my sister's, and Sunday we did a second Thanksgiving to include some people that weren't there. So. I appreciate you having that. Thank you.
00:49:02
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At the Thanksgiving Day celebration, my sister always makes homemade noodles every year for Thanksgiving. It's the only time she makes them. Always the best. Hey, when you say noodles, I'm not being a jerk here. Dumplings or? No, noodles. Just straight up, like chicken noodles, but with that. Like threads. Threads, yeah. And she always does a great job with that. It's always a big deal. She brings the kids over the day before and they make all the noodles and everything, whatever.
00:49:28
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So those are always fantastic. So they're homemade noodles always a favorite part. She always makes Stuffing that same recipe. My mom used to use which is fantastic and I'm I'm a we always argue about it because she has to make a
00:49:47
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two pans of it, because I like it a little bit crispier than she likes it. So I think that stuffing is much better when it's crispy versus wet and flimsy. So yeah, those are the highlights and the dish.
00:50:03
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For Sunday, I did brine a turkey as well. The plan was to smoke it. Weather made that... Well, I was worried about the smoker keeping temp for me to smoke it. So instead I cooked it inside, tinted it, and I'm going to tell you that was... Talk me through the rhyme. What did you do?
00:50:24
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So I actually bought a pre-made brine. I can't remember whose it was. I didn't mix it up. So it was just add water to this. I felt like an idiot mixing mine. So because there were, here's the problem.
00:50:41
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There's like a thousand different recipes for people that make brine. Just like ribs. And every time I would read one, I would be like, I don't think I want that flavor. I don't think that one, that's later. So I just bought a pre-made, you add water, you put it all in the bag and let it go. Now I will add that with the Brian, I also take a Jesus Christ. Sorry, Tom. Um,
00:51:10
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I also take a stick of butter and push half that stick of butter up under the skin of the turkey. And then I take the other half and I stick it inside the cavity with a bunch more seasoning. Where the turkey dick normally is? I think it's where it takes the fist.
00:51:30
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We're the large intestines usually are yes. Yeah, I know turkeys had that big a dick But but I load that thing with with different seasonings and put a half a stick of butter in there But that was honestly that was the best flavored juiciest turkey I ever had cooked in the oven
00:51:47
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And it was fantastic. It really was. And it was a little 12 pound turkey. We still have probably eight pounds of it in my refrigerator. Do you really? Yeah. Well, yeah, because literally we're only us and two other people sticking your fist up there. Nope. Did all that fresh. I might run out there when I pick up the albums tomorrow. I don't know how fresh it is. I cooked it. I know, but still.
00:52:11
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It's still, it should still be good. We did not have. And then we ate turkey Monday and then everybody by Tuesday, everybody was like, yeah, can we like make dinner? Yeah, I guess. But the last thing that I always enjoy making, I make it and it's kind of selfish that I love it. But corn casserole. Oh yeah, I got to try something. You said there's corn bread in that, right? And you don't let other people make it because you think they'll mess it up. It's so freaking simple.
00:52:40
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but it's like making gravy it almost is but make some white gravy right on your spider in your ass but it's so easy but it is so freaking good because all it is is corn bread and corn i mean that's it green corn yeah you put uh half no
00:52:58
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because you use the cream corn because you don't put any milk in it. That provides the fluid. I get that. You put a little sugar in it and cook it. We should not use the word fluid. It's fantastic. It's just fantastic. And every time I make it, I'm like, why don't we eat this all year? Because that's a family thing. Isn't that amazing? You love the corn pudding. Pecan pie to me. There is nothing better to me on
00:53:28
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And I'm sitting there selling it. I'm like, God damn it. And it truly was. I took pictures of it on my side. Why would you sell it? I would want fewer people to eat it. So there's more left. Because it's only got a shelf life. 24, 30 seconds. Our shelf life. And it's just, it's heaven. To me, it's heaven. To me, it's a little slice of heaven on earth. Yeah. I mean, and that's the thing is that there's,
00:53:55
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Everybody brings stuff that that's their thing right and whatever their thing is usually is really effing good Yeah, it just doesn't yeah doesn't matter what I mean green bean casserole 27 people can make green bean casserole, but if you're always used to This person's green bean casserole. That's the one you're looking for. Yeah. Yep. Hey, I might take this off food for a little bit There's one point I sat down at the table. There's always that rush if you're the host of
00:54:22
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Give me everything where I can get up. Time to get up. At some point I don't care anymore. I'm like, these people know who I am. They understand that they're lucky to get, you know, frozen pizza. And homemade gravy. Yes.
00:54:38
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White homemade gravy whoa homemade white gravy. Did I say that wrong? But it sit there at the table and I'm fortunate enough to have both my parents still here. Yeah and Brothers there both the kids are home. He like I don't give a shit. Life's good Yeah, it's just like you're talking it like in the circle of trust and and you're like
00:54:59
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You just know there's not, especially with where my kids are at, there's not much of this left, right? Cause things happen and things go on. Like I listened back to last week when you guys talked about how you have kept up this tradition. I think Tom brought it up. Are our kids going to carry this on? Do they give a shit? Whatever. And at some point you're just in a situation where you're like, I am thankful. I'm thankful for this shit. I might not say it or voice it that way, but
00:55:26
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Yeah, just feels good. So I think as we get into that time of year, I know the holidays are tough for a lot of people, it's good just to pause and go, my stuff might not be great, but. I'm thankful for what. Yeah. And I've got a lot. Yeah. And that's the one thing we do on Thanksgiving is at some point in the meal, my sister always coordinates this and she's like, everybody has to
00:55:56
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Perfect, that's got a good beat, I think, in the dance time. My sister always wants people to go around and say what they're thankful for over the last year. And even though family and the ability to gather is an easy answer, there's a whole lot of people that don't have that. So I think taking time to recognize that we're very fortunate in our family, as small as it has become, and at times seems very large anyhow,
00:56:25
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That we have that opportunity and I think there's people in other countries and other places even people in the United States that You know, whatever's going on. They just don't get that opportunity and To stop and think about that for a minute. I think I think it's important. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's easy to
00:56:45
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Think of what you don't have or be frustrated with certain situations Whatever in I mean real the people were around all the time probably have it better than 90% of the world Yeah
00:57:01
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and that was what was fun about sitting around in that chit chat just sitting there shooting shit laughing literally for you yes it was because link was there and you had to fart in the circle of trust at some point no way he was shitting earlier nope he was farting earlier but just to hang out and
00:57:25
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Enjoy, enjoy family, enjoy, you know, laughing, joking. Alex was primo. She's the best. She is, she's the best. It was kind of funny because the room we were in, there's a large picnic table that seats like eight, 10 people around it, with the TV over there watching football.
00:57:51
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This was in the same room, but we were around a tiny little table that had like a small little wicker love seat thing and then maybe another seat. And then other people just brought chairs. Somebody come walking up there like, hey, well, bring a chair out of the kitchen. So they're bringing chairs out of the kitchen onto- And they're all your siblings or siblings in law or siblings in law. And at one point I look over and my brother in law who was hosting
00:58:21
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his neighbor was there and he's the only one at this large eight person table watching football. Everybody else was in this. And what I'm saying, a small little circle, I mean, we had, I don't know, eight, nine people in this small circle, but it was, I mean, the table we were around was like a two by three table.
00:58:47
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And I'm like, why are we all not sitting around the big table? Because nobody likes that guy over there. No, no, no, no. That was it, Joe. I just said it at one point. Because it wasn't his quaint. It wasn't his quaint. Yeah, it wasn't. And Drew's the guy you're talking about, the neighbor that was sitting back there. And he goes, he's an asshole. He shows up there every Thanksgiving. He lives two doors down from church, whatever. And him and his wife show up every Thanksgiving.
00:59:15
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Yeah. And he was sitting back there and he goes, I love how your family gets along. Isn't that weird though? Like how, how you all relate to, he, he just sitting back, not in amazement. I don't mean to make it sound like that, but no, but that's something that you come from a big family and uh,
00:59:38
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big groups, not everybody has that. They don't. And I mean, you guys are fortunate to have a big family and a lot of people love each other. If I hated link, I would not be sitting around the table with link shit. Right.
00:59:56
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Especially not once a week for three years. Well, there's that. So we're an hour deep, by the way, and we haven't said a single word about that. We'll prepare more for the three year celebration next week. Sure. Okay. I did. I did have some stuff, but no, that's okay. We'll, we'll get to it next week. I started listening to old episodes. Did you really?
01:00:18
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I also I started watching your thoughts go back and listen to the first episode. It's worth it. Oh my god It wasn't bad. No, it wasn't bad. It's actually progressively Much worse, but we got more conservative. We got more scared No, first one was was pretty good Was the first one the link when link was bitching about the dudes the truck lights? Oh
01:00:45
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The fourth one was pet peeves. That was pet peeves. That was like the fourth episode. Okay. Yeah. I can't remember. I can't remember what happened last week. I'm going to go back through and cut it down three years of episodes. I'm going to grab some pieces over the last three years for next week. I was going to do it for this week, but I ran out of time. That's fine.
01:01:10
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So it'll be for next week because frankly, I forgot it was three years until Brett sent the text message on what Saturday or Sunday? I think it was supposed to be a dick pic. Sorry about that. I was like, Oh shit. What am I going to get this done? Um, but after he sent it for two days, I did listen to old episodes and I'll, I'll find some pieces and we'll, we'll replay some stuff. That's weird. I go back every once or twice, every, every year, go back. Like I listened to the, uh, the otter. Yeah.
01:01:39
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So I haven't gone back, I haven't gone back to the very beginning. Haven't
Favorite Christmas Movies
01:01:44
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gone back to the very beginning until just Jose, the short stop for it's still Jesus. Jesus. Yeah. So we got some stuff in there. I'll try to find as much of it as I can. So it'll be fine. That's a lot of listening. Uh, no, I, I'm pretty sure I know where most of it happens. So yeah.
01:02:03
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I mean, it's at least 156 hours of listening. I don't have to listen to all of them. I have a good idea what episodes they happen in, so we'll be all right. Think about that. I've started watching Christmas movies already. I'm full on into it.
01:02:20
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I've had two viewings of Christmas vacation in the past weekend. I watched the last half of it. Yes. Oh, by the way, I have to say this because I'm Creed. You're going Creed here. I'm so wide open. My, uh, current wife, Tom's in full fucking Creed mode.
01:02:41
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Anyhow, my current wife got me a gift and it was fantastic. I'm sure it was. It was an advent calendar. Oh, with Christmas story, the gnomes. So every, every window has a character. Okay. Okay.
01:02:59
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So it folds out. Yeah, that's nice. And there's two there's three little fold up things that are the bump kisses dogs are out wandering in the yard. So as you open it, there's a little place to set the characters. So, so that display comes down. Okay. So I love the advent calendar. First one was Randy. Second one was Ralphie. The third one was the Zeppelin he got for, uh, and then, uh, today was, uh,
01:03:26
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I think it was the mom. Yeah. So, yeah. So, so each one you open series as a character from the story. Serious question in today's terms. What was the mom's name in that show? I don't remember. She just, that's your favorite. She just passed away. Well, it's going to seem disrespectful then. So in today's terms, if mom had only fans account, would you be a subscriber? No, no, pretty sure. No.
01:03:50
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Christmas story they're all minifigures Did you notice in that movie Christmas morning when the kids were opening up their presents? Mom and dad were had glasses of wine We do leave a beer out for Santa every
01:04:11
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You don't have rum and eggnog on Christmas morning? No. Dude, no. We've had this conversation. I've had eggnog. I'm bringing eggnog now. And I looked for it last year. Funny story. As far as it's spiced up right, I could drink some eggnog. I looked for it last year and I couldn't find the non-flavored kind.
01:04:27
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Funny story, I was going to bring eggnog tonight, but I realized that the eggnog that was in the cooler at Kroger is the same eggnog that I bought last week, and it expires in a couple of days. Because that expiration date on eggnog is a lot shorter than the milk for anything else. Really? So I brought
Streaming Service Frustrations
01:04:46
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this. Well, I was going to bring those and eggnog. I appreciate you thinking about us. We'll be doing eggnog probably next week.
01:04:56
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The Advent Calendar is awesome. I like them. Kids have had one every year, but my sister always gets them an Advent Calendar. So I got the Christmas story, and then I actually found, my wife loves gnomes, and I found her an Advent Calendar that she finally showed up today that was gnomes, and so she is all excited about that, but yeah.
01:05:21
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So she got four gnomes today instead of just one she got three Northern Irish twin what blocky actually just came home from the store tonight and they cut a cat
01:05:40
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Advent calendar that has different toys for each day. What the fuck for? You can literally put every face of your cat that you have in your house in that calendar. You can build your own advent. It's actually like cat toys and treats. That could be a live advent calendar. So he bought an advent calendar for the cats. It's technically for the northern Irish twin. It was for the cats. But it was for the cats ultimately, yes.
01:06:07
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Yeah. He bought it for the Northern Irish twin, but it has toys and treats for his own cats. Yeah. Her cats, but his too. Cause it's our, it's our cats now. Yes. They don't have, they don't have to be, they don't have to be an hour. So next week we're talking a little bit of three year history. All right. Are we doing a calendar stuff?
01:06:30
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are are we starting christmas movies because i saw one the uh... that i actually like that's it's not really that's bullshit deep so we watch one uh... yesterday day before yeah okay so i went to find came home last night
01:06:46
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She and I watch, you know, we catch up on Jeopardy, we're old people, you know, blah, blah, blah. She had just finished Elf again. Give her some goldfish. We watch Yellowstone, you know, blah, blah, blah. So I go to find Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. Oh yeah. Go on my phone.
01:07:02
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How do I fuck? You gotta pay $7.99. And then on Paramount Plus? Yeah, all of them have gone to a service. Fucking ridiculous. Yeah, stupid. That is fucking ridiculous. I rocked Charlie Brown Christmas last night. Did you pay for it? Well, I have Apple. Oh, that's on Apple? It's on Apple. Okay.
01:07:25
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because I've not seen a year without Apple. I've not seen on for Thanksgiving week or whatever. Yeah. This past weekend, it was off. If you didn't have Apple, you could download the app. It's like a drug. They got you hooked. They do. I've seen a traditional. Well, we used to watch. I have not seen that yet. What? Yeah, I did. We watched on Apple. No, not on Apple. Just
01:07:52
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Just right. Yeah. I watched some of them have been on the regular channel. Yeah. Like, uh, I don't know, TNT, TBS had Christmas vacation going on. So I watched the end of that. The Grinch is on damn near every day. The Santa Claus, the Santa Claus two.
01:08:08
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And then we watched the new one, Spirited. I know you're not a big fan. It's a musical thing. It is good. It's a really good story. It's a good twist on the old Christmas Carol story, The Scrooge.
01:08:25
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I'm telling you, it's a good story. They should have come out with a new one every year. Here's what I will give you on that because, I mean, I trust you implicitly. You're like, it is actually pretty good. You sold that like three or four times. I didn't watch the whole thing. I watched the first half just like Elf. When I watched it all the way through, once I got to the end, I'm like,
01:08:45
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Okay, that changes things a little bit. It was decent. And if you're not into the musicals, I get it. Not everybody is, but I'm okay with that. I mean, you know, whatever. Grease is a good person for me, but I agree. I love Grease. It was all last night. It's a musical, right? I mean, I would subscribe to her only fans. I think she has one. She's dead, Brett, so it'll be hard to do. But Grease is the word. But no, it's a really good story.
01:09:15
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whether you're into musicals or not or singing, but I mean, Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds are decent singers. I mean, Will Ferrell is a goofball as that guy is. He's got a decent singing voice and he plays a really good role in this, in this movie too. So for some reason Footloose has been showing up on my TBS. Wow.
01:09:37
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Yeah, it's been showing up. Yeah, a bunch. So watch it. Oh, I watched it when it came. I love that. I was 16 years old. I love that movie. I was 16 years old. He's saying, have you watched it since it's showing off? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, fuck yeah. It's almost not, not really. That skanky, uh, uh, John Lithgow's daughter. She was a skank.
01:10:00
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I mean, seriously, when they, when they did the chicken on the tractors, she was with the other dude. And then all of a sudden, you know, Kevin Bacon wins that battle.
Joke of the Week
01:10:18
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Everybody knows the preacher's kids are the worst. When you did the chicken on the tractor, I want to party with you, cowboy. Once I saw you playing with that cock, I couldn't go back.
01:10:29
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Wow. All right. Now joke of the week. Oh, wow. All right. Add a couple here. I was going with the Santa Claus thing, but we really didn't talk about Christmas, so I'm not going to go with it. All right. I'm going to change it up. Here's comes. I like that intro. So as you know, this joke takes place. Uh, Nevada, West Virginia, Nevada.
01:10:56
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I thought it'd be Utah, but Colorado. I checked my phone. It might be Nevada. Montana? Damn it. Yellowstone? He's making a joke. Check this. Sorry. This changes things. Oh boy. Yellowstone.
01:11:15
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When Miss Piggy's in Utah, why does she douche? Whoa. When Miss Piggy's in Utah, why does she? Sorry, when Miss Piggy's in Utah at Christmas, why does she do? Let's add multiple variables here. To get, oh, the froggy out of her? No, because it's, she's, go ahead, probably making a kosher.
01:11:42
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Ooh. Whoa. Ooh. Is that a gravy joke? Went with the Jewish slant there. Huh? Is Miss Piggy Jewish? A little vinegar on the van probably makes it kosher. Did you say on... I thought she had roast beef down there. Not Miss Piggy. That'd be Miss Cowie. She fucking hit me right now. The hell is going on right now? The hell is going on right now?
01:12:14
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That was pretty good. So if Miss Piggy's in Utah for Christmas, why does she douche? Because Kermit went with her finger. Kermit's finger? No? No. Kermit's favorite Christmas meal is sweet and sour pork.
Show Closing and Next Week's Teaser
01:12:31
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Oh wow. And with that. Brings to close. Who eats sweet and sour pork for Christmas?
01:12:42
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There's nobody's favorite people on Christmas story some young guy hmm cock on the low
01:12:53
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We're going to do it again next week. We're going to really get into the third year. Talk about it. Are we? Yeah. Are we really? We will. We'll kick off the fourth year with a recap of the third year and we'll, I don't know, we'll have eggnog. I'm bringing gravy. Brett's going to make gravy. We're going to throw it on these greens. Just like two ingredients. Three. Three. Three. Until next week. Actually four. I'm Tom.
01:13:20
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I'm you, Corn. Cornelia. Nice. I'm Cousin Edie. Cousin Edie? Oh, Cousin Edie, I'm sorry. I'm Mike Lit. You survived another episode. Send us an email at foursolidbeers at gmail.com for show ideas and input. Until next week, cheers.