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Boxing Day 2022
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole, complaints about the cold, physicals, Pizza, and some Yule Facts; Ron runs us through some great inventions that have come about since we were born; Chris talks about some odd holiday traditions from around the world. As always please like, subscribe and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Transcript
Introduction and Gym Anecdotes
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome back to another episode of the mythic draft podcast. I'm Chris and I'm Ron and swollen sore. Oh yeah. Just got back from the gym. Yep. All roided out and ready to rage. Yeah. And I had a son go with my cousin and I had that terrible thing. I hate. I'm watching these people next. I mean these two older women who clearly are trying to get in the gym, but they don't really know what they're doing.
00:00:29
Speaker
And they're doing deadlifts and squats, and they're doing it so poorly. You're going to hurt your back. Yeah. But I just don't want to step in. Why do people always do deadlifts? I don't know. I don't know. And I think Bart, because they were doing the Smith machine, I think that's even harder. Yeah, because you can't move forward and back at all, so you can't kind of adjust. Yeah, so you can't adjust the bar as you pull up.
00:00:55
Speaker
So I wouldn't do them on a Smith machine. But people do them. But if you're going to do them, you could really hurt your back.
Health Scares and Stress Tests
00:01:03
Speaker
Yeah. Well, maybe they were hoping the stubbly young man next to them was going to help them lift. Well, he looked like he was 20. I don't think he was going to help. Yeah, I was talking about you. Yeah, OK.
00:01:21
Speaker
It is funny because we went at 5.30. It's kind of when we're going. And you have the professional gym rats at 5.30 somewhere else. Oh, yeah. Looks like the guys are like, I get off work, I go to the gym. And they're in there doing it. And that's what Stephanie and I are talking about is nobody's looking at anybody else. They're not judging you. They're all just like, I'm here to get mine. You're on the machine. Get off the machine. That's the only thing they're looking at you for.
00:01:51
Speaker
I'm always looking around going, are you going to hurt yourself? Do I need to help? Yeah. That's because you're a good person and you're looking out for people. Well, I have had a person go into syncope next to me at the gym before. Yeah, that's not good. At that gym. And then the person was like, well, I don't think I really need to go to the hospital. I'm like, not to toot my own horn, but I think you do. Yeah.
00:02:18
Speaker
Had a fun scare of the 42 year old man I am now. Oh God, what? Laying in bed the other night. Uh, Sunday. Yeah, it must've been Sunday night. Laying in bed. I guess I had pulled something, um, like on my intercostal muscles. Okay. But I didn't feel it really until I went to lay down. Oh. And it's on my left side. Oh no. So I got to lay down and I'm like, Oh my God.
00:02:48
Speaker
Am I having chest pain? Is this what chest pain feels like? This is the stab of the reaper. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, oh my god, this is how they get you. Because then you're like, well, it's not chest pain, so you don't call 911, and then you have the big heart attack. So I sat there, and I was like, I can't get comfortable. So then I'm like doing the, let's take a deep breath. That still hurts. Fuck. All right.
00:03:13
Speaker
The dogs looking at you are like, God, this dog looking at me because it can sense I'm dying. Exactly. Yeah. Luckily, I think it was just a pulled muscle in the intercostals. But I mean, when you're 30, you don't really think about it, but in your 40s, you're like, Oh my God, this is the big one. Yeah, it can. Yeah.
00:03:33
Speaker
And you should take all chest pain seriously. Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Sadly, I think a lot of people probably do do that and go, oh, it's just I pulled a muscle and. Right. Ignore it. Yeah. Well, I'm glad you're OK. Yeah. Well, you know, we'll find out next week if I'm really OK because I have my stress test. Ah, yes. Yeah. Well, hopefully yours is in like mine where I had four people in the room. Oh.
00:04:03
Speaker
So there was the tech, there was the girl getting cut loose to do stress tests, the doctor, and then the doctor had a PA student with her.
Cookies and Infomercial Memories
00:04:12
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Too many people watching me sweat and be fat. And they were like, do you want to take your shirt off or put it back on? I was like, well, I sweat a lot. I'd rather put my shirt back on. Thank you. Plus, I don't need you looking at me. Did they make you run in a mask? No, no mask.
00:04:29
Speaker
Yeah, yep. But I hit my, she was like, you know, telling the PA student or whatever, you know, yeah, you know, we got to get them to 12 Mets and da, da, da. And it was like 10 and a half minutes and I'm at my 12 Mets and she's like, okay. And the girl who's like about to get cut loose, she's like, I just have to take ACLS. So I was like, that's a worthless, whatever. And she was like,
00:04:52
Speaker
Okay. Well, you know, when are you done? I was like, well, if you've got my Mets, let's, let's stop. And then the doc was like, I want you to get to at least 12 so that the student can see more stuff. I was like, Oh, oh, okay. Yes. Here. Let me help her. Yeah.
00:05:08
Speaker
I'm not here for her. Yeah. I'm here for me to get to out of this as quickly as possible. And then the P.A. student, she's like, I believe I see some P.V.C.'s. I was like, yeah, I bet you do. And she got looked at me. So, yeah, we finally stopped. And then the doctor was like, if you look at his previous ones about, you know, 10 minutes in, he has occasional P.V.C.'s. This has happened for the last 10 years. This is normal.
00:05:35
Speaker
PVCs can be normal. Yeah, you know a lot of people running them. Well, I'm worried now because The last time I started running before I did my 12 lead my stress test
00:05:48
Speaker
They could never get my heart rate up high enough. Oh yeah. I never hit my max heart rate. And they kept going, Oh, just keep running to your heart rate. I'm like, and the machine is it's like near vertical. And I'm like, Oh, please stop. Yeah. Yeah. No, the big thing. She was like, I know you won't hit your heart rate. Just hit your meds. So I think the highest, my heart rate got was like 160. Right.
00:06:13
Speaker
So I think I was like, I was sure I was like holding my breath, biting my cheek, all kinds of stuff. No. Yesterday, I went running. I tried to push myself the last five minutes. I only got to 154. Yeah. Yeah. And that was after 20 minutes of running. Beast. Not looking forward to the we've got to keep going. Nah, they shouldn't make you do that. But I am going to be smart and shave myself beforehand. Yeah, I forgot to do that. And now I look like an octopus attacked me.
00:06:41
Speaker
And it itches. Oh my God, it's so itches. It is one of the worst, my wife thinks it's the funniest thing in the world. Yeah. When I come back from my stress test and take off my shirt, it's like a Christmas present for her every year. Happy early Christmas, babe. Yeah, this is what you get. Look at this. That's what you thought about when you were a little girl. Aw. I'm a little dreamed of a guy coming in with patches all over his chest. Yeah.
00:07:09
Speaker
Well, that's like, and I react to the adhesive. So I get these red circles everywhere. Yeah. I don't react to the adhesive. What I react to is the scrape-y thing that they scrape my skin with and then put alcohol on. Oh, yeah. Isn't that fun? It's, you know, razor, razor, scrape, scrape, alcohol. It's a car.
00:07:28
Speaker
Are you enjoying this? Yes. This is my favorite thing to do. Let's say she started on my sides, and she takes a handful of alcohol. It felt like it smacked. I was like, she's like, oh, it's going to be cold. You tell me that before, not after, you evil witch. Right. Man. The things we go through. Yeah. Yeah. But they say I'm fairly healthy, so. Good. That was home. Yeah, I'm fat.
00:07:57
Speaker
She did say I put on three pounds since last year. I was like, OK. I wish it was only three pounds. Yeah. Of course, then I get home and I tell Sarah, I was like, I'm fat. I put all three pounds. So what ice cream and a cookie. I'm having so much trouble keeping the diet. It's that time of year where you just like cookies everywhere. Tonight, my children at a Girl Scouts meeting and they're making
00:08:25
Speaker
sugar cookies and gingerbread cookies and all kinds of stuff, which I don't know what they're doing tonight. I don't know if it's some weird potluck, but they both made like gingerbread dough and sugar cookie dough, but they also brought seven layer dip. Oh, that doesn't mix at all for the sugar cookies to make sure they're actually decent. Oh, shut up. They are the worst cookie. No, they are not. Hands down. No. Yes. The the tier of cookies is fairly clearly defined.
00:08:55
Speaker
You have at the top, a good chocolate chip cookie. Right below that, a nice oatmeal raisin or oatmeal cranberry, both delicious. Then you get into the weird stuff like a grasshopper. I'm not a big chocolate and mint person. I know you had the mint problem, but I get it. Then you have the Oreos.
00:09:20
Speaker
The ginger cookies. Oh, good. Ginger snap is a good ginger snap. But see, for me, a ginger snap is like an October, November thing. Yeah. So it's already passed that season. Yeah. With like a hot cider and. Yeah. Yeah. And then you have a garbage anything and then you have a sugar cookie. Because why are you eating crappy sugar cookies? And then you're going to put crappy frosting on them. Oh, no.
00:09:49
Speaker
Take the sugar cookies on ours. We put sprinkles. OK, crappy sprinkles. Yeah. You take the sugar cookies, you put them in a bag. Throw the bag in the trash. Take that bag and you throw that bag in the trash. That's what you do with sugar cookies. So chocolate chip cookies, if you don't put the chocolate chips in them, what flavor are they? Chip? No. I don't know. Is it cookie flavored? Yeah, but I mean, yeah, it's just so confusing.
00:10:19
Speaker
I mean, like vanilla dough, I guess. But they have that like brown sugar. I don't know. I like the cookie part of the chocolate chip cookie. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's part of the experience. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My oldest made some the other day and it was that perfect, like they're a little bit soft, but a little bit chewy.
00:10:40
Speaker
I've gotten to my old age. I did. I used to hate the ones that were like real crispy, not real crispy, but crispy. Yeah. I now love a crispy. I don't know. I like it a little chewy. And look, I'll be that guy in the Salisbury Fire Department. I never really was big on the.
00:10:59
Speaker
records cookies. Oh, no, they're not good. They were too thick and too thick. They're cakes. Yeah, they were cakes and they were just chocolate. Yeah. Yeah. Too much chocolate. Not too much. Yeah. I mean, I always ate like a quarter of one. And then your foot got numb from the diabetes. The diabetes struck. Yeah. Yeah. Guess we won't get those anymore.
Gym Routines and Technology Woes
00:11:20
Speaker
Yeah. We got six more shifts of them. Is that true? Or five more shifts. Sorry. Is that even happening? What?
00:11:29
Speaker
Yeah. Talk about it offline. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's pretty official. No, I didn't think he was coming back for his five shifts. Oh, I don't, who knows about that. I made the joke today that he had that surgery and now he's going to come back for six or 12 months. We said there was going to be all kinds of people calling. The lines are messed up. I wouldn't even, if I had that much of time, I won't jump for a year. No. Yeah.
00:11:59
Speaker
But speaking of cookies, the Girl Scouts have a new flavor of cookie this year. It's like the thin mint, but instead of mint in it, it's raspberry. Oh, it sounds delightful. Dark chocolate and raspberry is great. Raspberry is a C tier fruit at best. Oh my gosh. Raspberries are delightful. Can't do it. Why can't they have a grapefruit cookie? Who wants a grapefruit cookie? I kind of do now.
00:12:30
Speaker
Nice candy, grapefruit on top. Ooh, that sounds delicious. That sounds okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not a big fruit in like raisins and craisins in cookies and baked goods. That's about the only thing I like is an oatmeal raisin or oatmeal cranberry cookie. Nothing worse than biting it. You think it's a oatmeal chocolate chip or a chocolate chip and it's an oatmeal raisin. Oatmeal chocolate chip is gross. No. I don't know. It's something about it. I don't, I don't.
00:13:01
Speaker
It doesn't do it for me. Or a good peanut butter cookie. Well, you know, you hate peanut butter. You might as well take that peanut butter, turn it on top of your stupid sweet potatoes and cover it in fudge and throw that all in the toxic waste dump where it belongs. With the sugar cookies. With the sugar cookies on top. Yeah, we were talking about fudge today. Oh, fudge is so bad. Yeah. Well, we also had a guy at work who ate chunks of
00:13:30
Speaker
bacon fat thinking it was fudge. That did happen. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And it wasn't just one piece. It was multiples. Yeah. Yeah. It's fudge is the, that's the consistency for me that even the flight, it's like putting a turd in your mouth. Yeah. It's like a chucky turd. Yeah. Yeah. It's not great. Oh yeah. This is a peanut butter fudge. And how's it fudge if it's peanut butter? Ah, it's peanut butter fudge.
00:14:00
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, whatever. You can take that and put it in your sugar canes, cover that in sweet potatoes and put butter. Yeah, gross. Tap it off with a nice sweet potato waffle fry. As we all know, waffle fries are some of the worst fries. No.
00:14:25
Speaker
They are the ratio of potato to skin is wrong on a waffle fry. It's got that extra nooks and crannies. Now, but then like. Specifically, the Chick-fil-A waffle fry is too much potato. It's not good. If you get one of those really big ones, yeah, but if you get like a thinner ones, not bad. Just have a regular fry. I think we we really kind of.
00:14:55
Speaker
We peaked on the French fry. We don't need to improve on the French fries. So crinkle cut or shoestring? Neither. Really? What do you stick fry? Oh, boardwalk. Yeah, always boardwalk. If you have the choice. Yeah. I don't like it when they make the French fries way too thin, skinny. They're like julienne almost. It's like, no, I don't want potato sticks. I want a French fry. Yeah, we're French fries. I'm here for French fries.
00:15:23
Speaker
Yeah. No. Uh, one of the local bars used to have really good boardwalk type fries. And then they went to thin cut fries and it was terrible. And I literally went to the bartender. I was like, what happened? She's like, Oh, these were cheaper. And these were cheaper sack potatoes is cheap. Right. Yeah. How expensive is potato chips or potato fries? Yeah. Take a,
00:15:47
Speaker
Yeah. Buy a sack of potatoes and get one of those presses that it pushes it right through the blades. Boom. You've got French fries for days. Yeah. That's what Five Guys does. Yeah. They do it right. Yeah. They have some of the best fries. They do. I remember for a while, America was trying to call them freedom fries. It was so stupid. Yeah. We're a dumb country. I don't even think they're French, right? No, they're not. I think that was all a lie. Yeah.
00:16:15
Speaker
Well, it's I'm sure over there, it's like a crisp or something. Palm streets. Ah. French. Fries. French fries. Pika, some hillbilly. Hmm. That's a good pregnant pause. People are checking their zines. Yeah.
00:16:43
Speaker
The story is that during World War I, American soldiers stationed in Belgium discovered palms freets, and then they brought them back to America. They called them French fries, even though they were from Belgium. Look at that. Wow. So yet again, America bastardized language and food. Some crap about Thomas Jefferson. Don't you remember that story? Thomas Jefferson?
00:17:13
Speaker
Yeah, Jefferson and French fries. Jefferson and French fries? No, I don't know. I've heard that one. Oh, yeah. Thomas Jefferson returned to America from France with a recipe for poms de terfrites accrues un petite tranche, which essentially translates to deep fried potatoes in small cuttings. OK. But I bet there were more like chips than they were. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. There you go. Yeah.
00:17:43
Speaker
So how's Destiny going? Destiny's going well, new season. I'm like you, I think they're making a mistake, but not the game, like developers, the characters in the game. Right. Yeah. Seems like a real bad plan. Yeah. No spoilers, but bad plan. I don't see this working out well. Yeah. I don't even notice. I could be wrong.
00:18:06
Speaker
Yeah, my brother and I did the heist on the moon thing. Yeah. Holy nuts. That thing's hard. Yeah. And what are the trials just for no one in your fire team to die? Yeah. That seems impossible. No, it's not impossible. It seems impossible. No. Did you do it yet? Um, I didn't die, but one of the guys in the fire team died. I'm just doing the random, you know, random matchmaking for it so far.
00:18:33
Speaker
But sure, we we know we didn't even we were running out. We ran out of the timer. There's a timer. Yeah, I didn't realize there was a time. I also didn't realize until halfway through that all of my. Mods had gone away, thanks to Bungie. Oh yeah, last season's mods disappear.
00:18:59
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. I meant to tell you that. All of a sudden I'm like, why is this working? Oh, that's all my bots are gone. Great. You get a whole new artifact to unlock new mods. It was just the seasonal mods. I mean, any of the other mods you have will stay.
00:19:18
Speaker
Sure, but yeah, my seasonal was how I killed barrier nights. Yeah. Yeah. Your barrier stuff goes away. That was an important thing to know. It's a very important thing. Yeah. Yeah. So when I walked up to a barrier and I said, I got this, guys, I don't got this, guys. I need help. I need an adult. I need an adult. Someone who knows what they're doing. Yeah. So did you and your brother finally defeat Savathun?
00:19:44
Speaker
We finally defeated Cybertron today. Yes. Oh, it took an hour. Oh my God. Easily. Did you just chip away? Yeah. Yeah. We couldn't figure anything else to do. Yeah. I'm telling you, everybody I talked to was like, yeah, that's what you got to do. There doesn't seem to be another way to do it. No. And even doing that, we almost, we wiped once. Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:13
Speaker
Yeah, but now you got that unlocked and you can do the other stuff. We can. Yeah. Run you through the Vox of Skurra and. Yeah, I can finally move on to the content that I paid for. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's because you started it in legendary. Well, why would you start in normal when you're going to have to go back and do it in legendary? You don't have to do it in legendary. Oh, come on. I mean, maybe you got a cool ship, didn't you?
00:20:38
Speaker
I can't remember when we got something. I literally- Or you get a piece of exotic armor and something else. Yeah, I got a piece of armor. But my wife was standing at the stairs going, we got to go. So I just turned off the Xbox as soon as we finished. Yeah. Good.
00:20:58
Speaker
Yeah, it was fun. Now we're moving on. No other games really popping out right now for me. No. I mean, tonight's the game award, so we'll probably get some announcements. I know Jedi Fall in Order 2 is supposed to be announced, like more about it and all, and it's coming out in March. Is it coming out in March? Yeah. That'll be good. I know Baldur's Gate 3 has a big announcement, but I'll never be able to play it, so. Yeah. I'm not going to play it until it's out.
00:21:27
Speaker
No, I think they're like talking about the actual release of it. Oh, good. But I don't have a computer that can run it, so. There's a problem. Yeah. Stupid PC game. I'll send you screenshots of Minskin. Oh, yeah, I bet you will. Yeah, Minskin's in the trailer. Of course he is. So why wouldn't he be in the trailer? He's the most popular character from the series. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, when I tell my wife in the spring, I have to buy a new computer. That's why.
00:21:58
Speaker
What's wrong with that one? I mean, it's fine. Are you doing something? No, I just need for this game. You make plenty of money. You can buy a computer. But video card prices are down again. You can actually get a decent video card for a good price. Yeah. Where does that plug in? Into the video card slot. Is that underneath? It depends on how you orientate your your motherboard. Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:28
Speaker
So do you have to like, do you crack the shell of the laptop? Is that how you do it? Yes. That's how you do it. You just kind of shove it in there and see how it goes. Okay. All right. Yeah. You can actually buy for some laptops. You can buy a video card.
00:22:47
Speaker
external video card. Oh, yeah. So you can turn your laptop into a gaming PC. I mean, there's a big slot here on the side. I'm sure I could jam something. Yeah, just jam a video card in there. Yeah. All right. Cool. This is my work laptop. I'll just jam this. I'm not using my work laptop. Why would you? Yeah. Our city IT can't figure out how to get a mouse to work. I could have. I could have.
00:23:15
Speaker
I could have destroyed my fire station the other day. I was so angry. I got 90% through one of those paramedic refresher modules and then the mouse broke. Then I lost everything. Oh my God. There wasn't another mouse you could plug in? There was. I had to restart the computer to get the new mouse in there. Oh my God. That's ridiculous.
00:23:38
Speaker
I was- That's when you log back in and have one of your underlings do it for you. Yeah. Then I go to one of the other lieutenants at my station and I said, hey, the mouse broke it. Oh yeah, it's because I slam it around a lot. What? I was like, I'm going to kill you, so you're going to have a five second run. Move your short little legs. Go. I know exactly who it was. Yeah.
00:24:01
Speaker
This is your chance to live. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Run your ass back to Hebron. Well, the other day there was, it was at the fire marshal. He needed a new mouse and we couldn't find any in the office supplies. Well, Shelby's old computer has just been sitting there. So I unplugged a little dongle. I said, here, here's your mouse.
00:24:22
Speaker
Well, deputy chief the other day comes storming down. Where's the mouse for this computer? It's called missing this and that. Somebody just took it. I said, well, I gave it to the fire marshal because he needed to do plan reviews. So he needed a mouse. I fixed the problem. Well, what if we have somebody on light duty? Do we have somebody on light duty? No, then shut up. Well, yeah, let's think about this computer where they'll do nothing.
00:24:46
Speaker
Yeah. Well, once we have light duty, their first job light duty will be to go out to staples and get a mouse. Yeah. Bam. There you go. Solve that problem.
What Makes a Christmas Movie?
00:25:02
Speaker
Yep. Well, we've entered onto topic one. Yeah, sure. Topic one.
00:25:08
Speaker
topic one you know so i don't know if this even exists anymore i'm sure it does but i'm just not aware because um i don't watch cable tv anymore the good ones start but when we were kids yeah i don't know about you but i would always either get up early or stay up too late especially on weekends and i you know see
00:25:33
Speaker
you know, the Ronco electric rotisserie. Oh, yeah. You know, the Ginsu knives. I don't know why I was just thinking about Ginsu knives other than I was thinking about. Yeah. What? Yeah, the Ronpone peel. Set it and forget it. Set it and forget it. Yeah. What of those products over all the years did you want to buy? Ooh. They were all scams, right? Oh, yeah, absolutely. Like, Ginsu knives were proven to be scams, right? Yeah.
00:25:59
Speaker
It was all basically there were serrated knives that couldn't cut for shit once you didn't use them the right way. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can cut a tin can in half. Great. And then cut a tomato. Right. Now go cut a steak. Oh, you can't. Yeah. Yeah. Gosh, those infomercials. Let's see.
00:26:22
Speaker
Well, there is the the slap chop. Oh, the slap. We actually had one of those for a little bit. We still have a slap. It's a piece of junk. It is a piece of junk. God doesn't do anything. No, all it does. All this stuff gets like trapped on the outside of the little thing. Yeah. Nothing gets actual chopped up or just going to mash it. Yeah. Yeah. It's terrible. Yeah. Poorly designed. Yeah. Um, see, I know there are some of these flashlights always with me.
00:26:53
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. This flashlight, you can broadcast a beam, you know, a quarter mile. Yeah. In case of bear attack, you can blind the bear with this flashlight. Yeah. And look, we brought a bear out. Yeah. And that's the thing, you know, the the people, the actors they had in those commercials, it's like, hey, we need you to go. You're going to be the before the magical product thing. We need you to act like you're the dumbest person on Earth.
00:27:21
Speaker
I guess these people in the, they're like trying to open a carton of milk and they're like chewing on it or something. It's like, I can't open my milk. I've never seen a bottle like this before. With the handy spout, you just screw it into the top and now you have milk. Where's the spin on my life? The worst part to me of all of those commercials was not that, but it was the host and we were supposed to act like the host was someone famous. Oh yeah. Well, there was that one,
00:27:48
Speaker
Kind of creepy guy with the glasses, he always wore a sweater. Oh yeah. Yeah. But you were like, when they first introduced them, they're always like, and here's Billy Bob. And you're like, am I supposed to know who this guy is? Everybody seems excited to see him. I guess I should be clapping. I guess everybody else is clapping. Yeah. Yeah. The only ones that I remember really wanting, I wanted the electricity oven.
00:28:15
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah, again, said I don't forget it. And that guy made magical food in that thing. Yeah. Oh, look, you can cook a you can cook a roast and all the potatoes for a family of 12. It's like, well, one who has a family of 12. But right. I'm a dumb college kid. Ron Pophill's dead. Oh, sad. In 2021. Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:43
Speaker
The dial, the vegematic was his first one. I do remember that. The Bronco Pocket Fisherman. You remember that? Yes. Looks like the crappiest, crappiest tool ever made. Yeah. We had one of those like portable fishing rods. It didn't work. Of course not. Oh, Tony Little and his little magical workout thing. Oh.
00:29:04
Speaker
a little leopard or whatever it was. Yeah. I'll call it the gazelle. The gazelle. You just got all, you just got to like swung your feet back and forth. Yeah. Oh, the rump appeal, uh, pasta maker. Remember that thing? Yeah. Yeah. Basically a pasta extruder and buy one of those. What was that guy? Oh, he's looking for the,
00:29:29
Speaker
Oh God, the sweater guy. The five and one cooking system. You can cook your hot dogs and your buns at the top. That's amazing. Let's order two. Yeah. The Vegematic was terrible. It's just basically a French fry press. Rob Hill, hairspray. Infomercial sweater guy. Oh, there he is. Mike Levy. Yeah. There he is.
00:29:59
Speaker
Oh my gosh. Yep. That's him. Yep. Callie day. Oh, you just watched this. Yeah. For no reason. Oh, the computer tutor. Oh God, some of these things. Matthew Leskew, the free money guy. Yeah. Yeah. The bedazzler. The bedazzler. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:31
Speaker
Mike Levy. Yeah. Six cooking gadgets from the 90s infomercials we still want today. Oh, yeah. Also known as sweater man, Mike Levy hosted his amazing discoveries. That's what the infomercials were called. Oh, they were amazing. Wow. He was killed by an ogre. Die of cancer. 2003. Oh, God. That's why I'm 55. Jeez. Yeah.
00:31:06
Speaker
I just go turbo easy store five tray dehydrator. That is one thing I did one. I was like, Look at this. I can dehydrate my fruit. I can make my own jerky. I can do everything. I know you like you watch that commercial and you're like, Yeah, I should have dehydrated fruit.
00:31:25
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Why am I not making my own jerky? Why am I eating this mushy, wet fruit when I could be eating dry fruit that has all its nutrients compressed into a disc? Why do I dare? So the worst part is I made my own dehydrator one time. Oh, yeah. It was such a pain in the ass. It sort of worked.
00:31:51
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But everything smells bad. Yeah, I remember. Yeah, it's a big fan. Yeah. Yeah. One time my mom tried to dehydrate stuff in the oven, so she set the oven at like 250, but had like a box fan strapped to the top of the oven with the door cracked or something. So our entire house smelled like, yeah, slowly desiccating food. Mm hmm. Oh, yeah. The Jack La Lane juicer.
00:32:19
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Oh, Jacqueline. Yeah. Oh, the six star knives, full commercial. This guy's family, Lauren and Shannon and his cousin, Arnold. Remember that Arnold? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The vegemetic food shopper, the super snacker. What's the super said is the first time I learned we had a super snacker. What? It's a super snacker. Yeah. It's, um,
00:32:49
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is Mr. Belvedere was on the infomercial. It was it was pretty much a panini press. Nice. Yeah, it toasted sandwiches into triangular pockets. Oh, yeah, we had this. We make grilled cheese in them. The Ronco pottery wheel, because everybody needs a pottery wheel now. Of course. Yeah.
00:33:12
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Why am I going downtown and buying my pottery like an animal? I can make my own. The bagel cutter. Remember the bagel cutter that was basically a guillotine? Yes. There's no way people didn't lose their hands with that thing. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The glass froster, because everybody needs their glasses frosted. Yeah. The giant 10-tray food dehydrator. Yep. Yeah. 10-tray. Ooh, yeah, that works. I mean, the one I saw was five. Yeah. Well, that was the original. Got to move it up.
00:33:43
Speaker
And it was always, but wait, but wait, there's more. If you call now, we'll throw in the juicer or the yeah, the whatever the French fry attachment. Mike, how can we sell this and still make a profit? I don't know, Bob, but we do it. Do you want to take a guess how much Ron Pope was worth when he died?
00:34:07
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Uh, $10 million. $200 million. Wow. Wow. God. Do you think his like funeral service when he was he cremated and was it just a rotisserie? That's horrible. I'm sorry. That's pretty bad. That's pretty bad. That's pretty bad. I mean, just put him in the dehydrator. Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:34
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Oh, gosh. But yeah, and there were so many of those weird little gimmicks. And I remember you would see like the ones with Ram Poppil and Mike Levy and all those. And then there would be the ones that come on like an hour or two later. And it was like the really shysters and you're like, you know, Mike Levy, I'm not paying attention to this. Oh, the Cody Little guys. Well, look at that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm.
00:35:03
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Well, and I mean, there was even like the, you know, there was the Chuck Norris workout. Oh, the Chuck Norris. What was that? We had that thing at station one. Yeah. What was that thing called? It wasn't a Nautilus, but it was. It was like, yeah, you use body weight and stuff. And yeah. Was it the total gym? Maybe. I don't know. Yeah. Suzanne Summers with a Thymaster. Thymaster. Yeah. Yeah. My mother had one of those.
00:35:35
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I think it was the total gym was the total gym. Yeah. Yeah. It was the check doors one, the thymaster. Yeah. The crazy thing you put in your mouth and it was supposed to work your jaw muscles or something. Martial products. I think we just get the dehydrator and decided ourselves some jerky. Yeah. Yeah. Who doesn't like jerky?
00:36:00
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The fat magnet. I have seen that. The fat magnet. Yeah, it's supposed to. It's basically just a cold piece of metal that you're supposed to. It's supposed to be able to pull fat. Oh, yeah. OK. That's not a real product. The flow be. Oh, yeah. That was a. Oh, yeah. Oh, the flow be. For those of you youngsters out there listening, the flow be was this
00:36:29
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set of clippers you attach to a vacuum. So as you cut your hair, it cleaned up after itself. Yeah. Yeah. You can cut your own hair. And there was different attachments. You could have all the different kinds of lengths. Yeah, because that's going to work. Oh, gosh. ShamWow. ShamWow. Yeah. Yeah. Just a little shammy. For God's sake. Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:54
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I guess these things, these commercials haven't died, but Amazon probably this. Oh, the shake weight. Oh, the shake weight. Danger in the new road. Hey. Yeah, the shake weight's not going to do anything. No. Except make it look like you're whacking somebody off. Oh, the Snuggie.
00:37:19
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Remember how excited those people with this army were? Oh, yeah. The whole family had their Snuggie and they went to like sporting events in their Snuggie. Then they had a Snuggie. Didn't they make a Snuggie with a hood at one point? Yeah, that was like the. OK, what was that thing called? But yeah, yeah, it had a hood. There's all kinds. Oh, and then you would get the knockoff ones like the sack letter or something.
00:37:42
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Yeah, the slap top. Yeah. The Gintu 2000. Well, at least they threw the 2000 on there. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know. Yeah. Mm hmm. Golly day. All right. And then you've got, you know, like your blue blocker glasses and blue blocker on the hairspray. Remember the hairspray? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Spray this on your head. You're it. It'll look like you have a full head of hair. Yeah. You're just basically spraying hairspray or paint on your head. But yeah, exactly.
00:38:13
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Oh, gosh. All right. But again, some of the it's like, you know, have you ever found it hard to walk outside during the summer fighting your screen door? Well, look no further. And they had like the magnetic screen doors or whatever. Oh, I have one of those. Yeah. But it's like who really has, you know, such a. Yeah. But the people in the commercial are like, oh, God, I'm stuck in this door. I don't know what to do. The worst part is I have one of those doors because of the dogs. Well, yeah, it's great for dogs. Yeah. Let's the dogs out. Yeah.
00:38:42
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Yeah. Oh, I mean, a Snuggie. What's the thing? Yeah, I think you're right. I think Amazon has kind of killed the infomercial itself. Yeah, I mean. I mean, if you go to a Walmart at the checkout line, that's all it is, is infomercial things. True. Yeah, it's there everywhere. Yeah, so. And see, I think that's part of the problem is where now the infomercials have kind of died off.
00:39:12
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And there's actual TV 24 seven. This is why people call 911 in the middle of the night because they're there, you know, you used to be, well, TV's going off at midnight. I might as well go to sleep. But now the idiots are awake all night. It's true. Yeah. I mean, when we were kids, I remember the TVs would sign off. Yeah. They would play the national anthem and then that's it. You're done. Yeah.
00:39:37
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And that was the thing. If you woke up too early, you turn the TV on and you just have the bars going across, you're like, OK, I got to wait for TV to come on. Oh, the clapper clapper. I mean, we basically have clappers now, but they're called Alexa. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. Like I was ahead of his time. Yeah. Oh, my God. You can get a Snuggie with pockets like a front pocket. Oh.
00:40:10
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Mm-hmm. So the sleeves and super soft fleet also has a hood and a belt So women in these snuggies like this some You know sexism going on here the potty putter. Oh Yeah, gotta practice golf. Can't wait to get shit George Foreman grill George Foreman. Oh, I had one of those I Think everybody had a George
00:40:38
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It was so disgusting too. Like the whole idea was that was slanted. So the fat ran out until your counter had that little cup that nobody cleaned. Oh, so gross. Oh, here's a Darth Vader. Snuggie. There you go. Moon shoes. Oh, oh, do I remember my shoes? Were those the ones that worked you out as you walked? Yeah, they didn't do anything. No, of course not. Yeah. Ah.
00:41:08
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25 infomercial products that don't suck. I'm sure this is going to put a virus on my iPad. Right. Good old shake weight. I have a shake weight. It's like whoever designed that, they knew exactly what they were doing. Of course. Look at the commercials. They knew what that was. The Hercules hook, the Hercules hook.
00:41:40
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Should I create the Hawaii chair? I don't know what the Hawaii chair is, but now I want to see. Oh, all these images are no longer available. Oh, yeah. The Hercules hook a 40. It'll hold 68 pounds in drywall. Oh, but the drywall won't handle the pressure. Just look good. Yeah. Pocket fishermen pass back football. I was a football. You threw it against the wall.
00:42:10
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Tater mitts, it's a struggle to peel potatoes. On the second thought, we'll stop right there. It was in a textured glove that you could just. Use the texture to rip the peel off your potatoes, carrots or whatever. Hmm. The hangar Cascader. I do remember that thing. Yeah.
00:42:39
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Like you can hang 10 pairs of pants on a single hook. Except now that single hook weighs 80 pounds. Yeah. Yeah. And your two screws and your drywall that are holding your bar up. See how that goes. Yeah. I think I'm going to buy myself a dehydrator and make a lot of dehydrated fruit. Good. Or I'll just go to store and buy bags of dehydrated fruit. Yeah. Well, see, but Ron, you won't know what they've put in the fruit. If you dehydrate at home,
00:43:09
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You control what goes in the product. Hmm. I think that's what the label's for. I think that's what that part. Is that what it is? I think that's what it's for. To tell me what's inside bag of product. And if it says more than pineapple dehydrated, then I'll know if I got a problem.
00:43:37
Speaker
This watch really is loud. Kanoki foot pads? I gotta keep your foots, Kanoki. Well, these, you know, you strap these special pads on the soles of your feet overnight and it'll help rid you of toxins, metabolic waste, heavy metals, and more. Oh, heavy metals come out of your pores? I guess. With magnets? Well, they're heavy metals. They go down. That's how that works. Yeah, well.
00:44:06
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I think the house, the show house, made people think everybody has heavy metals just floating around their body all the time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good show, but you're not all poisoned with copper right now. Yeah. Oh, and there was all the knee bands and elbow pads and everything, but copper. Oh, yeah. Everything. Copper. Copper. Everything's got copper. Copper is the new gold.
00:44:34
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It fixes everything somehow. Yeah. Let me just start carrying on the ambulance. Let's say you're having chest pain. Here's some copper. Look, copper fit, you're probably a perfectly good product because it's just a compression brace. Yeah. Right? Yeah. The copper has nothing to do with it. No. Don't sue me copper fit, but Red Fire for the career didn't come back because of the copper fit.
00:44:59
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When then there's also now the like insoles and everything with silver ion technology that kills foot odor. It's like does silver kill odor? I didn't know that's how that worked. I know it kills a werewolf. I know the brass doorknobs are antiseptic, right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That is a thing. That's actually a thing. So most.
00:45:28
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hard surfaces are antiseptic, to be honest. Yeah. I mean, if it's a non-porous, yeah. Yeah, germs don't survive very long in dry air.
00:45:38
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I think it's actually because brass of the electrical conduction, static electricity, something like that. Yeah. It's like got a permanent ionic state or something. Yeah. Science. Science. I guess you could use uranium because it's always. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah. I mean, you're going to get- My doorknobs. There are no germs on them.
00:46:01
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And also, little Timmy's hand has rotted off. I've got this weird third foot, but the doorknobs are clean. Ah, golly day. Hmm. You wouldn't have to, you know, at night you'd be able to see it would glow. So you'd be able to see where to go to the bathroom. Yeah. Yeah. So you got lots of upsides that really be tritium would glow. Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
00:46:28
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No, all radioactive things glow, don't they? No, I don't think that's true. No, I know it's not true. I think uranium will glow if it's under water. What can I think? Yeah, because, I mean, bananas are given off radiation at all times, and they're not glowing. Yeah. I mean, limestone is radioactive. Yeah. I'll say those glow. Or do you?
00:46:56
Speaker
It's fair. It's fair. Well, everybody go out and buy yourself a Snuggie. Yeah. As we move on to topic two. So topic two is remember those infomercials. So there's always, you know, the debate about what is a holiday movie and what isn't a holiday movie. Oh yeah.
00:47:22
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So I've got 21 movies that are sure to fire up the, is it a really a Christmas movie debate? Okay. Yeah. Strap in everybody. Strap in. If the first one's not Nightmare Before Christmas, the list is invalid. Well, it's close, but Sleepless in Seattle. I have no opinion because I don't think I've ever seen the movie. It could technically be a New Year's movie or a Valentine's Day movie. Both are represented prominently in the rom-com, but it's always been a Christmas movie for most.
00:47:52
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Meg Ryan first hears Sam's voice over the radio on Christmas Eve as she's driving to her parent, the, her boyfriend's parents' house, plus the rendition of Jingle Bells. Huh. I did not know that. No opinion. Die hard. Christmas movie. Yeah. There's a Christmas party. It is pivotal to the entire plot of the movie that it's a Christmas movie. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:48:19
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Yeah, definitely Christmas. Yeah, it actually occurs while Santa is delivering his gifts because it occurs on Christmas Eve. Yeah. Which animal has a Christmas party on Christmas Eve? Mr. Tamagotky Tamagotky. Yeah. That is definitely a good story. Yeah. I don't care what Bruce also says. Yeah. Gremlins Christmas movie. Yeah. It's that that's not even close to us. That's not even a question.
00:48:48
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Yeah, it is definitely a Christmas movie. You have the story of Santa coming, burning up in the chimney. Oh, God. Yeah, that's horrible. You have snow. You have snow. You have the grumpy old lady who's going to foreclose on their house after Christmas. All of the Christmas memes. It is a Christmas movie. Gizmo wears a Santa. Yeah. Stripe ends up wearing a Santa's hat. Yeah. Yeah. Christmas movie. Yeah.
00:49:19
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Yeah. Nightmare Before Christmas. Halloween movie. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. It's... I mean, he steals stuff from Christmas Town and all that. He does, but it's still a Halloween movie. Yeah. I know. This, I think, is the biggest debate of all our generation. But
00:49:46
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It's Halloween town. It takes place in Halloween town. Yeah. Jack doesn't survive. He doesn't pull off Christmas because he's a Halloween character. Yeah. Oogie boogie. Oogie boogie. It's a Christmas. It's a Halloween movie. Okay. Yeah. Frozen. Never seen it. People treat Frozen like it's a Christmas movie because it was released in late November.
00:50:15
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And it has a lot of snow. There's also snowmen, reindeer, which are Christmas characters. Yet there's nothing about it that makes a Christmas movie. Yeah, a little I know about it does doesn't have anything to do with Christmas. It's just a winter movie. It's a Disney winter movie. Right. Kiss, kiss, bang, bang. Kiss, kiss, bang. Is that the Morgan Freeman movie? No, Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer.
00:50:45
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Oh, Robert Downey Jr. Plays Harry, who is trained by private investigator Perry Van Shrike AKA Val Kilmer, who's openly gay. Shrike's orientation is for some reason supposed to be hilarious. It's all very 2000s and very uncool. Perry initially is just training Harry for a role. Why Perry and Harry? For a role as a private investigator, but then things get super real when they accidentally witness a car getting dumped into a lake. What does this have to do with Christmas? Because it takes place during late December. Oh.
00:51:16
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OK. And I'm going to say that's not a Christmas movie. Even looking at the Wikipedia, nothing is mentioned about Christmas. Yeah. Batman Returns. Batman Returns. Batman Returns is a Christmas movie. Batman Returns is a Christmas movie. Yeah. All the.
00:51:43
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Every it's all happening around Christmas time. Yeah. I mean, the penguin has the cute little penguins around with, you know, missiles on them, but it's missiles and stuff. Hmm. I guess if. Think about Christmas. It's a movie about people without a family coming together. To fight.
00:52:13
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All right, I'll give it a Christmas movie because there's there's giant Christmas trees in the setting and it takes place in Christmas. So, yep, I'll give it to you. OK, it's it's a it's on the line. Yeah, I'll give you it's on the line, but I've been warned. Trading places. Definitely Christmas movie. Yeah.
00:52:34
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I mean, I mean, there's an iconic scene where Dan Aykroyd is dressed as Santa Claus and gets hammered. Windthorpe. Windthorpe. Get down off that table, Windthorpe. And he's got his pimp shoes on at the same time. Yeah. Oh, God, that's right. And it's that really dirty beard. Yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, I want to watch Trading Places now. It's a good movie. It is. It is. I've never heard of this one.
00:53:04
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Carol, which came out in 2015. Bitch Media called it the lesbian Christmas movie of my dreams. So it focuses on the affair between two women living in Manhattan and takes place during the holiday season. It's very festive. My employees wear Santa hats and silver pelvis place at one point. Sure. I mean, the first thing in the Wikipedia is during the Christmas season of 1952. Yeah. So bear. Okay.
00:53:35
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Um, Metropolitan. It's a 90s indie version of Gossip Girl. Middle-class misfit Tom Townsend, who decides to go to a debutante ball one night, leads him to befriending a group of rich Princeton college kids. It's not much of a Christmas movie, except that it takes place on the East Coast during the holiday season. There are plenty of looked trees and red bows. Okay. No. No, give it. On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
00:54:05
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The Bond movie? Yeah. Boy, I don't think I remember this quality time in the Alps and finds love and gets married. I don't think that's a Christmas movie. I don't remember Christmas being at all part of that movie. Oh.
00:54:23
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I mean, there's another Bond movie where the woman is named Christmas. Christmasy. Yeah. So I thought Christmas only came once. Right. So I would give that one. Yeah. But on Her Majesty's service? No, definitely not. Catch me if you can. Oh. A lot of Christmas imagery and he's arrested on Christmas Eve. He is arrested on Christmas Eve. There's a lot of Christmas themed through that movie.
00:54:53
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You know, I'm going to give it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The Harry Potter movies. Don't care, but I guess it's because the first few ones, they always have like a Christmas scene in them. I honestly have never seen them, so I couldn't tell you. Yeah. So I'll defer to you. I don't know. I don't know that they're actually a Christmas movie.
00:55:21
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I mean, it's not that Christmas doesn't affect the story one little bit. Yeah, I feel like Christmas has to be, you know, part of the plot to count as a Christmas movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, something like the Grinch. Yeah. There's three versions of the Grinch now. Well, no, because they're going to look like a two. But so there's the original one with God, what's his name? The the animated one. Yeah, the animated one that had
00:55:51
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Tony the Tiger that voiced him. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, it's Tony the Tiger. Or no, I'm sorry, he sang the song. Boris Karloff was the original voice of the Grinch. Yep. And the song was sang by the same guy who did Tony the Tiger. Yeah. But then there was the remake with Jim Carrey. Right. And now there's another animated one with Benedict Cumberbatch. Did not know that. Yeah.
00:56:22
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evidently it's not bad. I thought that the Jim Caron was pretty good, actually. Yeah, it wasn't bad, but oh my gosh, the who parents are horrible. Yep. Shows how bad they are. They're just materialistic and don't care about their kid.
00:56:42
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Yeah, it was. It's it's it's kind of a commentary and nation of modern day Christmas. Yeah. The singer of the main one, Mr. Grinch, his name's Thurl Ravenscroft, which is an amazing name. That is. Oh, my gosh. I would. Yeah. If that's your name, you should say it every day of the week.
00:57:02
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And he was one of the Kelly's drusset drugger fakes, totally a tiger for more than five decades. Yep. He was also the uncredited bug list, like you're the mean one, Mr. Grinch. And he did some attractions at Disneyland, including Country Bear Jammery, Mark Twain, Gerber, and Pirates of the Caribbean. And Waltz, Disney, and Canada, Chanted Tiki Room. Huh. The Enchanted Tiki Room. That sounds like an adult version.
00:57:32
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That can't be his real name. Thorell Ravenscroft? That is such a badass name. I'm changing my name today. Yeah, right. Joe kick ass. Yeah. Thorell's Ravenscroft. It's an amazing name. Golly day. Yeah. That's like one of those names you think of when it's like, you know, medieval or something like that. Right. It's like, oh yeah, he's the Ravenscroft.
00:58:02
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Yeah, so yeah, those are some of the Christmas movies that... Did we get all through all 21? We did. Yeah. What is your favorite Christmas movie? What's the Christmas movie you have to watch? It's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. It's got to be National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. It's such a good movie. Oh my God. Such a good movie. Eddie, if I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I couldn't be more surprised.
00:58:31
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I would say that definitely it is the one movie I have to watch. Yes. And you know what? I don't like the Rudolph and Frosty and everything that we grew up with. Oh, the old like claymation ones. Oh, yeah, they're weird. What are those called? The Abominable Snowman and Yukon Jack. You was a Yukon Jack Cornelius or whatever. Yeah.
00:58:57
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Um, was it called like the Ranskin Rudolph or something? Something like that. It's got a weird name. Yeah. Yeah. They're weird. Yeah. We usually watch elf also. Yeah. I, you know, I think I just came to elf too late to really care about it. It's fine. Yeah. Did you watch the guardians of the galaxy holiday special? I did not. I didn't even know it was a thing. Yeah. It's on Disney plus. It's actually quite delightful.
00:59:27
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It stars Kevin Bacon. Is it better than the Star Wars one? Yes. Yes. It's just not that difficult, sadly. No, that's it. But the poor star was a Star Wars one. Remember, that used to be a thing like everything had to have a holiday special. Oh, yeah. It was always a shoehorn thing. And well, yeah, we just found out that, you know, cousin Zeke is missing a kidney. We've got to remember.
00:59:57
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The best, the best Christmas special for wayward kids. Oh, what is the name of that? I got it. It's the. Otter River Boys. What is that? Oh, what was that? What was that Christmas? Otter movie. I don't know.
01:00:23
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Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas. Yes. 1977. I do remember that. Yes. Yes. That was the best Christmas movie. Yeah. The Muppets' Christmas Girl is good. Actually, the Muppets' Christmas Girl is a classic Christmas movie. It was great. John Denver and the Muppets. Oh, no, no, no, not that one. I know. But yeah, that too. Oh, that's one of my favorite Christmas songs is the 12 Days of Christmas with John Denver. Yeah, that's a good one.
01:00:53
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But yeah, Emmett Otter's Joke Band Christmas. Yeah. Look it up, folks. Snake River Band, I think that's what it's called. Snake River Band. The other band they're fighting, I think. I think it's the Snake River Band. Oh, OK. I can't remember. Emmett Otter.
01:01:11
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Man, I kind of want to watch that. I haven't seen that in forever. The old jug ban. Scrooge. Scrooge is a good movie. Yeah. Good movie. I haven't watched that in a long time. I haven't either. You know what movie I can't stand? What? And it's going to be the one that's going to make people mad. The Charlie Brown Christmas. It's horrible. It's so bad. Well, Charlie Brown's an abomination to start with. It's D-tier comic. Everybody knows. Gosh.
01:01:41
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Ah, but yeah, the Christmas special. I got this stupid little tree. Well, it's because your parents don't love you. You're a balding little moron. Oh, look, your dog and the bird are the only thing worthwhile in that whole comic strip. But sir, sir. It doesn't have good music.
01:02:08
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No, none of the Charlie Brown music is good. The only Charlie Brown special that's okay is the one really good at Europe. Wait, Charlie Brown goes to Europe? Of course! Are you kidding me? Of course! Yeah, because that's when Snoopy becomes Red Baron.
01:02:29
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Oh, that's I thought that was the Halloween special. No, it's probably right goes back to France. What's that called? Charlie Brown goes. Charlie Brown. Oh, OK. Yeah. Come on. Goes to France. Charlie Brown goes to France. This is one of the best ones. Charlie Brown goes to France. It's probably the only one that's worth watching. Yeah, it's not a Christmas special. Jingle all the way.
01:02:59
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Oh, with Arnold. Yeah. I don't know that I've ever seen it. Well, I said the problem was it came out kind of in what, 90, I'd say 94 and five. Yeah. And we were just a little, I think a little too sophisticated for that coming. Polar Express, like the Polar Express, I never watched that. Oh, God, it looks horrible. I don't like that animation style. Yeah.
01:03:24
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Noel, 2019. I've never seen that with Bill Hader, looks like four Christmases. I do want to watch the new one that's out. Oh, Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. No, no, that looks delightful. It looks terrible. No, the no, the one with the guy from Stranger Things. Oh, yeah. Oh, God, what is that? Christmas Fright or something?
01:03:53
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Yes, something. It just came out this week. Well, evidently, Mel Gibson was in a Christmas action movie named Fat Man in 2020. OK. Santa fights terrorists. Well, that's Fat Man.
01:04:21
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Violent night. Violent night. Yeah, that does look pretty good. Yeah, let's get home alone. Christmas meeting. Oh, I'm alone. Yeah. Oh, Arthur. The first two are decent after that. No, I didn't even know there were more than two until very recently. Really? Oh, yeah, there's like six of them now. Yeah. Uh, I heard of some of these. Merry Christmas.
01:04:49
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The Christmas Chronicles. Kurt Russell was. Thanks. Bad Santa. Bad Santa, yeah. Yeah. Merry freaking Christmas. Never seen that one. Oh, you know what's terrible? Christmas story. Oh.
01:05:09
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Christmas story. Oh, with the little Ralphie or whatever. Yeah, my God. Very annoying. I think the sequel to it. I know. I know. But the thing is about the Christmas story is I don't know what decision was made 30 years ago that has to be played for 24 hours. But I am over it. Somebody lost a bet. Yeah. So bad. Yeah. Miracle 34 Street. That's a classically good movie. Yeah.
01:05:38
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Uh, white Christmas. It's fine. Santa Claus. We were too old for that. I like the Santa Claus. It's fine, but yeah. Home sweet alone. Plane trays and automobiles. Now that's one that should have been on your list. Oh, that should be on the list because that is Ernest saves Christmas. Ernest saves Christmas. There you go.
01:06:03
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I'll make my kids watch that this year. In the top 25 Christmas movies on IMDB, the number 24 Christmas movie on IMDB is called Groundhog Day.
Misremembered Christmas Movies
01:06:14
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What? Groundhog Day? Right. Groundhog Day, a movie classically about Christmas and not any other holiday. Yeah, not about
01:06:25
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Groundhog Day. Oh, my God. Literally is no other holiday. What is the one after that born on the 4th of July? There's no other holiday it could be about. What the crap. There's a holiday movie called The Tangerine Bear. OK. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. Mickey's twice upon a Christmas. Don't care about Mickey. Oh, the Disney one wasn't bad. Mm hmm. Casper's haunted Christmas.
01:06:59
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Christmas Chronicles, Nutcracker. Oh, Black Christmas. What? Black Christmas. What is Black Christmas? It's about the sort of girls that'll get killed. Oh. So like 60s. Yeah. Yeah. The ref. What? With Dennis Leary. How is that a Christmas movie? Because he kidnapped them on Christmas Eve. Oh, OK. The Family Man with Nick Cage. Yeah, I did see that. Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
01:07:30
Speaker
Shazam. It does happen around the holidays. There we go. Yeah. See, it's a thing. Well, you say it's got to be Christmas has to be woven into the story. Yeah. Has to have to do with Christmas. Can't just be that Christmas is somewhere happening. Yeah. Because that's like saying, oh, yeah, this. Yeah, this film took place, you know, in early February. It's a Groundhog Day film. Which is classically about Christmas.
01:08:00
Speaker
Yeah. And when he comes around Groundhog Day this year, I'm like, all right, kids, let's gather around and watch a Christmas movie. Groundhog Day. Mix nuts with Steve Martin. I don't think I've ever seen that movie. I haven't seen it either. Friday after next? How is that a Christmas movie? Because the guy steals their Christmas presents? No. A delightful romp through Compton, but not a Christmas movie.
01:08:33
Speaker
Ah, yeah. And a save Christmas makes it at number 97 on the top 100.
Earnest Praise and Holiday Plans
01:08:38
Speaker
Come on, guys. Arnold saves Christmas. Earnest. Oh, yeah. Earnest. Earnest was a delight. Great. Who's a treasure? Yeah. Earnest P. Worrell. Yep. Avorn. Avorn. Know what I mean? Mm-mm-mm. The variety of characters he played. Very known for his range. Oh, yeah. Huge range.
01:09:03
Speaker
Huge range. Oh, Jim Varney. Oh, Jim Varney. Yep. Hey, man knew what he was good at. Oh yeah. Yep. Yep. He was. He was good at slapstick and. Well, this isn't our Christmas special. No. Because we have one more break before Christmas. We will. Yeah. Well, hmm. Right? No. Our next one will actually post.
01:09:29
Speaker
Oh, on Boxing Day. Oh no, I ruined Christmas. Because I was planning on having a Christmas one next episode. Nah, it'll be fine. Well, maybe we can get it out right before the holidays as a special gift to everybody. Yeah, I guess that's what we're good at.
01:09:50
Speaker
Yeah, we could do that. Yeah. Well, at least you stepped up some Christmas. I totally missed. I had a whole plan. I said, Oh, I got this one. And then one more took Christmas one. It'll be a Yule. It'll be a Yule episode. Okay. All right. We'll make it work. Yeah. But until then follow us on the Twitter. Yeah. Let's see. I'll throw 22. We'd love to hear from you. Yeah.
01:10:20
Speaker
Other than that, have a safe holiday season. Yeah, enjoy the 13 pranksters from Iceland are going to start coming around soon. Yeah, put them out, folks. All right, take care. All right, folks. See you.