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NONSENSE AND CHILL - A CHRISTMAS STORY
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#podcast #comedy #movie #film #funny #nonsenseandchill #movieclub #follow #jointhediscord Tonight, Blaze and Jeff will be reviewing and commenting on an old Xmas classic, A Christmas Story. Welcome and enjoy. Thanks for joining us! Please LIKE, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE. Don’t forget you can join our discord, Nonsense and Chill Movie Club and watch the movie with us. Network Links https://nonsensical-nonsense.myspreadshop.com/ nonsensicalnonsensepodcast@gmail.com https://bio.link/nonsensicalnetwork https://discord.gg/RuhrJxRT Copyright Disclaimer: - Under section 107 of the copyright Act 1976, allowance is mad for FAIR USE for purpose such a as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statues that might otherwise be infringing. Non- Profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of FAIR USE.
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Nostalgia and Personal Connections
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here
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Dude, hit the button. I picked the wrong time to eat a chewy piece of candy. I was just realizing I'm watching us in the bottom, and we're both dancing to the intro. Oh, yeah. Merry not Christmas anymore day.
00:01:49
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call it's over Let's be honest. But we're going to be in the Christmas spirit for one more episode, at least for this year. Yes. What is what's on deck, Jeff? Well, we are watching one of my favorites, a Christmas story that nostalgically, one of my favorites.
Ralphie and Realism in 'A Christmas Story'
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ah I remember my my older sister who passed away a couple of years ago. We she used to love this movie. So it has a special place in my heart. I have to say, and and I'll get to it when we get to the park. Ralphie's got an asshole.
00:02:27
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Well, yeah, I um so this movie so I used to watch this religiously and I would put it on all day all day. I just put it on. I think it was like P and T or something at that time where they would just play it and I would just have it going in the background as I'm doing whatever I'm going around the house. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was for me. It was just one of the most authentic Christmas stories out there. It was it really portray like some more realistic sort of scenarios of family, hardworking, you know, nothing too crisp, like supernatural about it to tell you the truth. Right. Yeah. It's, it's, it's, it's, uh, Norman Rockwell ish. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't go ahead know i just coined that. I'm pointing that phrase down. So, but yeah, go ahead.
Trivia and Historical Context
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Uh, no. you
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You're going to know who plays in it and all that good. Well, I have that here. Here are is directed by Bob Clark, Gene Shepherd. Actually, Gene Shepherd is the voiceover. Leah Brown and Bob Clark actually wrote this. It starts Peter Billingsley and Morant Millie.
00:03:43
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ah Melinda Dillon Melinda, and thank you lin Melinda Dillon This was this this role was actually written for her in mine and then Darren McCree would he plays a young Ralphie? uh, but uh As I was telling you There is a sequel to this movie Mm-hmm called called my summer story which is It's It's just, I wouldn't say it's just as good, but it's cute. Is it the original is it the same cast as is a as a Christmas story? the only It's the same characters, but not the same cast. Is it has it made like decades after think this one was made? No, I think it was made like only a couple of years later. I can actually just tell you here.
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um bear with me or second What city does this take place in? Do you remember? He mentions it. It's definitely. Almost 10 years later was when the sequel was made.
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Dude, it just looks so cold. What's that? the The scene, you know, the opening scene here looks cold as fuck. Yes, yes. You don't see it's like you don't see winners like this anymore unless you're somewhere in the north. I think that takes place and just just outside of Chicago. Cleveland. and The movie was filmed in Cleveland and Toronto. So it's definitely upper mid, mid, midwest.
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So like Ohio, Pennsylvania, something like that. yeah What's the setting? um they actually I thought they actually said so.
Toys and Childhood Traditions
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but it does take the the The whole thing, even though it was filmed in the 83, takes place in the 40s. Yes. that's okay that's That's one of the things I really liked about this movie. As a child watching this, it kind of it was like this glimpse into like another time.
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Well, not only that, I thought it was made in the 40s when I was a kid. I didn't realize it was only made like four years ago when I first started seeing it. I thought it was like, this is a fucking movie, just really well filmed. I didn't think that. It is based on a book that was written in 1966 or published in 1966. Yeah. called in In God We Trust, all others. others Yeah.
00:06:32
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yeah ah is actually based on the same book. um Dude, you don't get Christmas displays like this anymore. You know what I mean? So there is some towns you can see this like there's a town in Central Oregon, you'll see stuff like this. I'm surprised you don't you wouldn't see anything like this in like up in the area where Glick's from.
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I think it's one of those things like it's a real old tiny thing like to have all those like that crazy window display to drag people into the store. So you don't get that anymore because everything's online. Northwest Indiana. Yeah. This is where I love this. The kid with his face up against the glass.
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old toys. Lincoln logs, dude. I forgot. Oh, dude, I fucking love Lincoln. I used to love those things. Lincoln logs and Legos. I love building shit as a kid. Fucking connect was it not not connects? No, ah Tinker Toys. Tinker Toys was another one. He brings up Tinker Toys in this movie. There it is. I used to make sure there was a ah Christmas train in the house somewhere when I had a and I was married and all that shit. I never done the whole train thing. I never got the understanding. and There was a time where where old Blaze over here was a big Christmas guy. yeah Yeah. Then he grew up and became. I got cynical. I'm not going to lie.
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and Ralphie, the kid that plays Ralphie, if Am I wrong in saying perfect casting?
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Oh, like he's he's he's. Um, not iconic, but not like overly exaggerated. He's a neutral kid. I am. His brother's such a dick. No, well I mean, the actor himself, I don't think came very popular, but no, I mean, the look.
00:08:48
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Yeah, it was I mean, I never lived in the 1940s. But I've been in like, when I was growing up being in like my old my grandparents house when they lived through the 1940s, in the 50s, and you can see that decor and that stuff still. So like, yeah, yeah.
00:09:07
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I love his his his, he's sliding in his his, he thinks she's gonna be trapped into reading a Red Rider sales pitch. Yeah, that doesn't work buddy, I'm sorry. The guy they pick for the father, I don't know his name, but. I do, I have it. i I love, like he, this is an amazing part. I think he does a great job. He
Imagination vs. Reality in Christmas Films
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does such a good job. He's actually,
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ah Peter Billingsley is his name, and and her they were actually the only two famous people in the movie when this movie came out, because he's done a ton of movies, and so is she. OK, so i know I know this. I'm going to draw away from the movie itself and talk about some of the the background when it comes to the set, because it's a time period, of course. Those old antique radios that were built out of wood and stuff, and they
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you know old technology. They weigh like 7,000 pounds. Yes. All right. I understand the technology is old, but I wish like electronics still had that. and Oh, I agree. you got That classiness to it, the elegance to it. It's one of those things like the beauty of the technology being smaller, you can actually build that using new technology and still make it look old.
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yeah know still Yeah. No, I mean, that's true. I mean, stuff like that was just built. It's that retro, that retro feel that Rachel deal is, is, is different. He just said, I saw bears over by the store. Like really dude, but how old is Ralphie's like eight or seven, nine, nine, and nine. Yeah. So, I mean,
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He's at an age where he's curious about everything. He wants, he wants, uh, what's.
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and when a one the night he he's he's He's on that verge of, of going from, I play with toys too. I want to start playing with the bigger kids toys. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I remember when we lived in Germany, we used to get our milk delivered to us. I wish that was milk delivery service.
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I guess technically you can't get it delivered now. I mean, you can't get it delivered now. You can, but... Door dash it or something. Hell, back in Germany, they would ah deliver beer to your place. Oh, I'm kidding. Yeah, I am kidding. I lived in there, and I lived there in the 80s. I was a small child, but I remember my dad getting his beer delivered or wake up in the morning and there's like the couple jars of of milk out out in front of the door and shit.
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I don't think they do that kind of stuff anymore. i you know I want to see a picture of you as a kid because I think you look like Ralphie. Ralphie knows how to manipulate you. In a way. Well, he's learning. I don't think he's got a down pack yet, but he's learning. Good point. yeah he's yeah Yeah, he's trying out different things. He's harnessing that the the manipulation tactic.
00:12:32
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um You were saying earlier, you think Ralphie was an asshole. Well, yeah, his brother is the biggest whiner. He's like, I would knock this kid out. But and and I'll point out the points where I think Ralphie is an asshole. Now, the daydreaming thing. I get that. Yeah. um But this part always the the outfit. So this is as you compared to a compared to other Christmas movies that usually has this um supernatural sort of metaphysics physics to it. This one does. And instead of using like like like a Christmas carol would use ghosts and all this. I mean, it it shows the kids imagination imagination doing but these dreams and I think that's more of a real take on on what ah a child. Well, it's awesome. so
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because he's basing his daydreams on what he hears on the radio. Oh, you know what I mean? This kid is is a a couch potato, a future couch potato. Yeah, 100%. TV dinner, watching Archie Bunker with his wife. Right. was like why he's He shoots. How many times he shoots? There's one.
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That was a weird dying scene, too.
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He's a dead eye, ain't he? I love that. The campiness to this was always fun. Yeah. I like how he has a chaw in. Uh-huh. So he shot three of them. He shot three times. Mm-hmm. And there's like five bodies.
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four bodies when he only shot three times so his his math in his daydream is shit he's nine man give him give him some credit on his on his math on his on his mathiness i love the dad bitching about the oles so okay he okay he reminds me of of like one of my old one of my old grandfathers like my old grandfather I think he was my step. I don't know, man. My family's weird. Anyway, um the old guy that's always complaining about everything, like... But refuse to hire if somebody to fix it. I can fix it myself. Yes. Yes. Everything's breaking on him. I'm that guy. Everything's too expensive. Everything's too expensive. You know, that kind of shit. Why hire somebody? I can fix it myself.
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Now, this scene right here, when they when they wrote this scene of him yelling at the furnace, they had a bunch of curse words. And and he was like, this is a kid's movie. We can't do curse words. So he improv'd
Key Scenes and Childhood Challenges
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this whole argument with the furnace.
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Let me turn the volume down. But no, it's not even that. It's the vents. And she doesn't, she's not sure which one's which. I know it's the vents. Oh, cause he wants her to close the vent. She does not know. Cause he said who, who, oh who closed the vent all the way down. Oh, so she went to go move it going. Oh shit. You know, kind of thing. Blame it on the kid. Okay. So back before we had thinner cold weather gear, you know, fleeces and shit.
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Um, everything in order to be warm, it was big puffy layers, not, no well, not even layers. It was, did you ever have a snow suit as a kid, a big point? yeah think Oh man. Yes. This is, uh, this is this scene right here. Yeah.
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and and but like Like, how do you move these wearing Ralphie's wearing like a, a, a, a, almost like an overcoat. Well, I mean, his brother's, you know, more sensitive to shit. So his mother probably is the baby of the baby animal he's a baby as a family. Yeah. Oh yeah. Absolutely. I love it. He can't put his arms down. It's so puffy. ah I love that.
00:17:12
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Put your arms down when you get to school, she says. ah Now I think, I think we're kind of, yeah, I think we're getting close to the bully scene. or one of the bully scenes. The first one, yes. The kid they have played the bully with the red hair and the raccoon cap just like screamed Americana. Like... Oh, yeah. Like this... It is the first evil put on redheads, I'm just saying. What are you doing, Pepper? Pepper's like, what are you watching? I want to watch. There you go. Pepper will lay down and watch. Do you have younger siblings?
00:17:50
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Yes, I am the oldest. Okay, so you you always had to like take your kid brother or whatever with you That's the kind of thing here. And and of course, you're like stay fucking back, dude We're gonna be talking other stuff and I I don't care how old they are. I love seeing little kids curse because When your parents were around and you're nine and ten you curse like a fucking sailor Yes, I when I hear when I hear parents out in public when their kids slip and say a cuss word and they're Their parents like, you don't say that. Worst movie ever. I said what I said. Deal with. Shut up, Blake. Nobody asked you. Dealt with, sir. It's been dealt with. um What was I saying? I totally forgot. A little kid's cursing. Oh yeah. I just think to myself, I was like, come on, let's be realistic. You know, your kid does it behind your back. Probably 100%. You do it saying I don't do it around my kids, quote unquote. yeah
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And then you're gonna turn around and it's like, I've always had the the mindset, teach your kids, there's a time and a place. I agree. In the context of of how these words work when you use them. So what did they put in their, what did they put in their mouth? So their fake teeth, they look like little hands. Their fake, their fake wax teeth. threw Remember the wax teeth as a kid? Like those things have been around. Oh, those aren't waxy. Those are just play teeth.
00:19:20
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But you like the wax teeth you would get at Halloween. You bite down on it. It's all made out of wax and it's big lips or they would have like vampire teeth and shit. And you chew on the wax and it's like a cherry flavored or something. You don't swallow the wax, obviously, but some kids would. It was the same kind of wax that goes up. What's up, what's up? I took them out of their mouths and put them in her bare hand.
00:19:48
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yeah That's nasty, dude. All the stuff that she's confiscated over the years, over the past what? Joker teeth. Whenever I see those, I think a ultimate smile the the video game when you're going around battering those little fucking. God damn it, they're wind up fucking teeth. That's what they're called now. This is where you see Robbie as an asshole. Did you ever like did you ever do this as a kid?
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No. I've seen this movie. but well then Right? they They step it up quick, man. They they don't they skip over everything else that goes home from double to triple dog bear. That's fucked up. But you know what? This this was the 40s. They didn't know about the infamous, infinite double dog bear. That trumps all double dog bears in existence.
00:20:48
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See, he just jumped it up. oh Now, Flick needs better friends because once he sticks his tongue in his thing, his friends just ditch him.
Societal Norms and Exaggerations in the 1940s
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See now, you know what makes this a 40s movie and not a 90s movie? Because in the 90s, you would be daring your fucking friend to stick their dick to it.
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all
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Actually, I found out something interesting. The way they did this scene was they actually put a small tube in there that was sucking air. That's how they got his tongue to stuff. Oh, no, shit. So it was like a little vacuum line that his tongue was stuck to. Like he was doing a straw. And I was like, yeah, I'll be damn. I thought it was just really good. I always want because it's it looks like it's actually pulling. So I was like, yeah. some So that's some pretty good art acting right there. No, that's that's how they did it. Oh, that was interesting. And you can't see it because it shot from the side. Yeah. But look at in all honesty. Oh.
00:22:00
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The bell rang. We look needs better friends. Well, I mean, I mean, you go in and tell a kid or you can pee on the stuff, but they say nothing. Oh, that's right. They don't want to get. tell you the Oh, yeah, I get I get not getting in trouble, but your friends remember danger. This this is this is the time where corporal punishment was like, i didn't think you know what I mean? I mean, I don't think they they they don't actually depict it in the movie, but
00:22:32
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Corporal punishment was a thing. This teacher would what I mean, if they found out mean factorctor to this entire class, because she's like. She sees them. Everybody else needs their asses beat. The fact that the only two kids that didn't stand up for the guilty ones is too obvious. Yeah.
00:22:57
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But, yeah, back then, if she wanted to swap them with the ruler man for doing that stunt, they could. All right, so I think calling the fire. Well, maybe maybe yeah it's an example. No, because you could use a cup of hot water. Let's be honest. Yeah. But I mean, there's still going to be some damage. I mean, honestly, he's been out there for a while. I mean, there could be some potential for frostbite. You know, that's so because it. It can't be longer than 10 minutes. I would. I would. Even 10 minutes is a lot because the bell rang. Then the teacher walks in. Did you imagine it frostbite on your tongue?
00:23:30
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that would affect your- that how to slug my friends as I walk by. yeah your This is why we wear ugly sweaters for fun now, because we used to wear them for real.-
00:24:05
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She knows who did it. Look at her. Oh, yeah. She knew as soon as she turned around, and those are the only two kids still sitting there. And she knows their friends. They hang out at freaking recess. Recess and says that whatnot.
00:24:18
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Remember the freaking the alphabet being hung up. Blake is a good friend. Blake is a better friend than his friends because he didn't snitch.
00:24:28
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Well, snitches get, get stitches. But he's got shit friends because they left him in there. Instead of be like, we'll get a teacher. We'll be right back. From the stories I hear, like she's a real nice teacher compared to the horror stories I would hear about. Oh yeah. She's a sweetheart, comparatively speaking.
00:24:48
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Yeah, like she knows. they all shit She's not she's not bringing the thunder down.
00:24:57
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Well, she can't prove it. So I see where it goes. This is true. She doesn't have proof, so she can't really go hard on. That's fair. um I'll give that. No, I've never heard. and I've never heard a a a report called a theme. What do you mean, a theme?
00:25:18
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That's what she said. You guys are going to write a theme. She didn't say write me a paper. She said you're right at theme. Well, that first time I heard it, I was like, what the fuck are they talking about? Like, I think like, well, depends on what the theme is. She's like, you're going to write a paper and the theme is going to be Christmas. Right. You're going to write a paper with the theme. But she calls the whole thing a theme. She just says you're going to write a theme.
The Iconic Leg Lamp and Its Symbolism
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Maybe that's just sloppy, sloppy writing. I don't know. Yeah, I never caught that. Here's the bully showing up.
00:25:52
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Dude, here's the thing. There's na three of them and two bullies, and these bullies, and one of the bullies is shorter than I am. Oh, yeah. If this was, you mean Glick as kids? We would have just beat the bullies' asses and call it a day. I'd laugh at it the way he fucking looked. Yeah. don't know they meant okay I didn't know they had braces in the 40s. Yeah, I don't see why they wouldn't.
00:26:20
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I don't know. I don't know how, how the technology embraces it. It's leaner and linear movement through history. I love that. He had yellow eyes, you know, it's that the imagination of remembering something ah worse than it actually is. You know, I get that, you know, he's like, he had yellow eyes. He was so scary, you know? Yeah. So when you, we, when you watch this movie,
00:26:50
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and compare it like one of the reasons why these kids are I think overacting is because this is from the perspective of a child writing a story and they're going to embellish the yellow eyes and wicking smiles. Snarling teeth. Yeah. Yes. Races were. and Yes. Races were like a slug. ah Yes. voices Braces were available in the 1940s, but they were not the same as the metal braces we know today. Braces in the 40s were ah often made from materials were that were available, such as melted down and pieced together material. Stainless steel was introduced as a material for orthodontic wires and ah brackets in the 40s, replacing the previously used gold and silver. So before, you before the fucking braces and shit were like silver and gold.
00:27:43
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yeah which I'm sorry if that sounds like more cool. So this, the redhead kid, I swear to God, I've seen him in other stuff. Isn't that the redhead dude that played in the movie Coastal? Okay. he played He played the brother in in in, was it Titus? Christopher Titus, the sitcom back in the day? I thought so too. Let let me find him here.
00:28:15
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I have to look at the cast. What was his name? I don't know. I missed his name. Let me look. Let me look it quick. It doesn't say. You mean, are you on IMDB? Are you looking at? Yeah. This is Boy in the School and Roscoe. Roscoe is the younger kid. Hmm.
00:28:47
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Who doesn't give the actor's name? No. Well, I did. I'm on the entire cast list here. Oh, there is Scott Farkas. That's his name. I look up as. See if that's the same dude that played in Christopher Titus or Postol. Well, he would he's been a lot of shit, dude. He has been like a like a very he's like a low budget actor. He's not going to be big things.
00:29:15
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Yeah, but like he's been in a ton, dude. This was his first movie, by the way. um The next thing you know, I mean, he this is. This is when this is when the father found that he won some contest. Right. Well, because he was doing those. he He does crossword puzzles and then sends them in to win a prize.
00:29:41
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He's almost famous. Yeah, he wasn't he played Dave and in Titus. Yep. Okay. Cool. Yep. That's the same day the same guy He's been a ton of shit. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I think he might have been one of the kids in a dude on Nickelodeon No, I didn't know not hey dude camp camp on a walk wait
00:30:07
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Like so are my you mean? Yeah. Or am I thinking Pete versus Pete? Hmm. don't see him on any of those. OK, the great stories is probably Anna and I have Green Gables. He was in Friday 13th, the series. Sorry, it's all the gingers out there. You all look the same, don't you? Yeah. His first major TV series was Party Five. You know, I did one episode. Never watched that.
00:30:37
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I didn't either.
00:30:41
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so How many times have you heard that as a kid? Stop messing around, I know you're really sorry. So playing with your food at the table is always gross to me. Like this scene watching this kid. This is worse what she gets him to eat like a pig. Yes, oh my gosh. it like it's funny it's a wholesome moment don't get me wrong and I wouldn't sit there and say don't do that but in my head I'm like oh don't do that but you gotta admit the mom is a fucking sweetheart mom's not bad looking this i good looks like she's a tall glass of milk you know I a i mean it's funny but
00:31:31
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it's It's cutesy. ah
00:31:36
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OK, I'm not OK. I'm not going to lie. I've always been a fan of meatloaf. I know. I love meatloaf. 40s, 50s recipe. If it's done right with breadcrumbs, it's cool. I did have a friend in Phoenix one time. She made me and my roommates a meatloaf. She's from Minnesota. And there was no there was no breadcrumbs in it. It was just a loaf of ground meat.
00:32:01
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yeah yeah better better believe it or not better than uh breadcrumbs rich crackers dude oh yeah buddy you know what else you can do with rich crackers i might have said this before but if you take some of those andy's then andy's mints melt them down and melt them down dip your rich crackers in them and let them Let them solidify it. It tastes like a Girl Scout cookie. You want to take it on a quick break real quick? Yeah, let's do that. So before we go on break, before we go on break, oh, the packet showed up. Fragile. Fragile. Fragile. I do want to go ahead before we go on a break. Yep. We're going to go through the week. What is today? Monday's is speedway stories of blood.
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Cold-blooded conversations
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with with Wally and then later on there is men caring from in Tuesdays we have house house and click music clicks house of music um Pardon the holiday interruption and schedules, but there will be more to come Wednesdays we have what the fuck news Jeff are we doing that next week?
00:33:24
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Say that say that again, please. We doing what the fuck news next week? Probably not. Because it's New Year's. I'm going to be I'm going to be here. Yes. Thursdays, of course, is well, whatever Jeff decides to do with just garage Friday, of course, you're here with us nonsense and chill watching movies and we will be airing some actual common created common creative movies next next week so you will get to watch them live with us. Saturdays we have Cassius Corner in the morning with wrestling talk with Glick in the sun. Cash and then that night we have the flagship show nonsensical nonsense where we have open door challenge. He will come up chitchat yell at Jeff make fun of me. It's all great.
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And then Sunday we wind that down with unnecessary roughness and we hit repeat and go again. And then of course, uh, bio links, check us out. And then of course, uh, you can go, uh, to myspreadshot.com and check out our gear. All right. Yeah. To the discord in the chat. So better go. Let's watch the movie with us. They can.
00:34:47
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um so that is the discord link and I have been kind of I have been being I've been kind of quiet about discord it hadn't really popped but uh just in case I the only reason I did that is because I actually was uh my my kid just called and he's like I'm watching the movie with you but I don't know what movie you guys are watching so uh because he just turned it on he's like I don't know what movie you guys are watching i so I said I'll send you a link so there you go So um for ads this week, I'm just doing some bloopers from movies that I found. So yeah, let's do this. I haven't watched these, so I don't know if they're actually funny or not. Should have gone to China.
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You should have gone to China. He went in pricky.
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hurt me heard By hurting hurting me? I forgot my line. Oh, I love that you're forgetting your line. Keep forgetting it. Okay, reset. You can lose it, Brizzy or two. This is Harriet. Harriet did. I'm sorry. Why did you You did. What's wrong with the corner? The hell should I know? I'm not a mechanic. That car is f***ed up. I don't know what movie that is. I mean,
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no one should know what a bugaboo is. He's not doing too good.
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likegan
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money. I am not going to wind up a 31 year old divorce here in welfare because my scumbag attorney just had a cat. said had a cel i a want heyran out a friend you wrote this life
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What do you think of this huh?
00:37:42
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It was hard to mask our feelings, isn't it? It's hard to mask real feelings. I think I'm just gonna slip my way in. What? I'm slipping. We should stay up here forever. Up here on Brokeback.
00:37:56
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Forgive all these terrors. I wish I could quit you. now feel Does he have a head injury? No! I'm thinking clear. Everything is become.
00:38:17
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And that's the end of Wirewire.
00:38:52
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Good news didn't get run over. That news is so flat.
00:39:05
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All right, I did not watch most of that. Were they funny, Jeff? They were all right. The Bruce Willis and and I can't remember the guy's name from Die Hard 4 was pretty good. Justin Log. I think he's a good actor. I do like him. an interesting like um All right, welcome back. That was um that break number one.
00:39:33
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so So no go ahead and send us at where where we're at, Jeff. OK, so um earlier in the movie, the dad was doing a crossword puzzle and he he came home the night that day, that next day, and he said, I want a prize and they're going to deliver it tonight. So while they're eating, they hear a knock on the door and the prize has shown up. I don't know if you noticed it, but the delivery guy cracks me up.
00:40:01
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Watch the delivery guy's face when he asked him, he's like, what is it? He's like, I don't know. And then he says. That's about 40 seconds. That's fine. But there it is. It's here. And he at one point said, maybe it's a bowling alley. She's like, how are they going to deliver to bowling? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I love it.
00:40:32
Speaker
You don't care. And I'm sorry this is the most over-packaged thing ever. What's that? that the the Well, everybody knows it's a lamp, but it's overly packaged. Well, this was before cardboard boxes were a thing, I think. Like oh dead lot yes a lot. but you like It's like three times the size that it needs to be.
00:40:59
Speaker
And it's ah a big giant wooden box. Of course, the box is taller than the father. And the box has got to be six foot three. And the lamp is probably about the same size as the little kid right there in the sea. Yeah, well, the leg is actually the is is scale to a woman's leg. It's not very big. You want to bring up a picture of that? I i can bring up one. I can get one.
00:41:29
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Because I mean, we got to show the icon. I mean, it's I have it on. It is. It's iconic. I mean, I have it on the only right there next to his ear of a nonsense and chill. It's the fragile leg. I like to have the picture of the mob moving it when they first set it up.
Ralphie's Resourcefulness and Growth
00:41:50
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So you've been taking French.
00:41:52
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on on the side. Fred Gilet, is that French? but julie That is not a French word. i I'm sorry, but it's not. I've looked it up twice. ah but Yeah. Here's here is the leg lamp in question. Oh, yes. Yeah. Yes. Back before it is. is like It's it's kind of like a it's a thin fiberglass with a fishnet stocking on it.
00:42:23
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back before we had access to porn, we had, we had our imagination in Sears catalogs. I love the fact and that Ralphie keeps feeling the leg. ah The tassel on that just completes it. I don't know about you, but I won't. You can buy them on, uh,
00:42:46
Speaker
You absolutely can. And I used to want one. I used to want one and over time, I'm like, you know, I don't, I think if I were to have one now, it would just look tax. There are 50 inches tall, by the way. Okay. Uh, I just looked it up. There's a 45 inch and a 50 inch. Uh, they're $200. I don't want one now. $300, $299.
00:43:16
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That right there, this that's that's why we have the biggest fire hazard. That's why they tell us not to do that now. Yeah, I mean, it's amazing that our house doesn't burn down throughout the movie. He's got eight plugs into this two socket using some weird extension cord. Yeah, like it' scary it's Well, he's got a plug in it that actually plugs out four different ways.
00:43:44
Speaker
So you plug it in, then it goes four different ways. But he's got multiples of those plugged into one. It's amazing the breaker doesn't blow every time they turn something on. No shit. Didn't they have that TV? So they had that. No, they had the radio. You had to go in the 40s. You had to go to the theater to watch any film. Yeah. Yeah. So like that, that's why like Ralphie later on, he gets the so um little orphan anti-decoder ring.
00:44:13
Speaker
Yes. The Dakota ring. Yes. Jack in the box. Shit. Or a cracker jack shit. Cracker jack style. But they were made proper like that. If you found one of those Orbanani Dakota rings now, it probably still works. Like it is in mint condition because they were made out of tin. So they would last. The guy that the neighbor looks familiar.
00:44:44
Speaker
do Do they have antique stores in Mexico and Cancun? No. Really? Not in Cancun, but in Mexico City, yeah. Okay. Not gonna lie. Maybe because it's my age, but sometimes I like going to antique stores, not to buy stuff, but to look at things. My dream is to actually buy a bunch of antique stuff and just display it.
00:45:10
Speaker
On a shelf just because it's, you know, find some, he keeps, it's a major ward. you know So the major ward and chief radio. Yes. like He's got to hit like 10 buttons and a dial to get it to turn on. And you lay on the floor and you just listen to it instead of one. Yeah.
00:45:38
Speaker
me look at that a little orphan Annie show or the mom unplugged a lamp she turned it off la what the fuck she's like shows over neighbors fuck this shit yeah she hates it like they're running from the bullies again the bully runs like a goof the tall ones you see him he like spreads his legs out as he runs those chicken yeah maybe
00:46:11
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Watch the teacher when he pans in his theme that writing, she puts pluses all the way around the room in his daydream to the point where she's being on the wall.
00:46:26
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He, okay. This kid has a very grandiose kind of self-impression of himself. a Seems like later on that might be a problem. Yeah.
00:46:40
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thing I was just saying. yeah he's He's, he's. It's, it's awesome too, because the, when they do these daydreams, it seems like in character, it's even farther back a couple of decades from the forties.
00:47:01
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, because, well, once again, the shows that they were listening to in the 40s were technically revamp re relived from the 30s. Really? Yeah, makes it makes you brought to radio. So I get it. And I love the, the what when he's daydreaming, they got like the fog around the edges, like it's, so you to know. It's a dream. Yeah, it's dream sequence kind of thing.
00:47:31
Speaker
Ralph she writes in a plus plus plus plus and she goes all the way around her room and he's like wow thank you thank you my subject such a you know know it's crazy she's using she's using blue chalk you know I didn't really think about it until you said yeah Ralph he is a little bit of an asshole it's kind of an asshole right yeah yeah I never really looked at a little fucker I hadn't watched this movie and and in in and some years. My ex didn't like this movie, so I wasn't really... That's why she's your ex? I wasn't i wasn't allowed to play it, literally. I wasn't allowed to play it like I used to before we would get married. It was weird. That's the reason why she's your ex, buddy. I was just saying, this is a good movie. Right? I love this movie, but I'm just realizing at 44 years old that Ralphie's kind of a dickhead.
00:48:31
Speaker
Like he stood there at her desk the entire time daydreaming He's a star and This is what I mean, this is like the story from the child's perspective as if he was writing like he's a hero of his own And I get that hmm dude this car ride Mm-hmm I love this. She's like, she's, she turns off the leg lamp and she says, I don't want to waste electricity. Then they back up the camera and every other light in the house is on. I wouldn't want it on cause I want to fuck. I wouldn't want the house to burn the fuck down. But she says the door to waste electricity, the porch lights on the upstairs lights, the living room light, they're all of the lights are on. She's like, don't want to lose electricity.
00:49:24
Speaker
I don't know what the dad does. I don't know what the dad does for a living, but I think they're, I wouldn't say they're well off, but they're comfortable. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's definitely more well off than, uh, Bill Murray Scrooge character was when he was. Agreed. Agreed. These are what adores or salesman, right? What's that? This guy.
00:49:51
Speaker
It's a possibility. No, I think he works in an office. Like he manages the plant or something, you know? Oh, no. I'm gonna look that up. I don't know. and Last name's Parker, by the way. Mm-hmm. But because, like, he's like, you know what? Why not? And two bucks. What is $2 in 40s?
00:50:18
Speaker
Oh. He's a salesman who works in his showroom that sells major awards. Oh, really? So, by knocking $2 off, dude just saved $45 worth of today's money. $2 in the 40s. It's $45 today. He's a haggler. He says he... How he does not crash the car with these kids screaming in his ears?
00:50:47
Speaker
You know what's funny is if you like if you go to a Christmas tree place like that, those are all privately owned, they just up-crisp, yeah, thank you. You're not gonna haggle prices. This is not something that- Yeah, you do. You always haggle. Dude, I love to haggle. Now, I love the, this is the the Mr. Fix-It in his brain saying, I don't need somebody I can fix it myself. And he's like, give me two minutes.
00:51:16
Speaker
I'm gonna have this done in two minutes. And that fucking tire is flat as fuck. Well, it's a blowout, so. And Ralphie, your mom says to Ralphie, why don't you go help him? Yeah, be a good little man. That fucking tire looks bald as fuck. Bullshit. How they driving around in this snow and ice on that? Well, that's his spare. He says his tires are just spares that he got from the junkyard.
00:51:45
Speaker
Oh, well, that's why. Well, that's why he looks like he's doing so. He's a very frugal person. Yeah, he's frugal. He spends it when it needs it, like Christmas and stuff like that. What are you doing here? Mom said I should help. Oh, no, no. But to be fair, technology was a little bit easier to work on back
Evolving Christmas Traditions
00:52:05
Speaker
then. Agreed. You know what I mean? Well, when you bought the car back then, in the owner's mail, it showed you how to adjust the carburetor. Yes.
00:52:14
Speaker
When you bought a John Deere tractor back then, you didn't get sued by the company who sold it to you because you did your own personal work on it. Amen, brother. Amen. I'm on that train. Now, I remember the first time I saw this with my sister, the kid says fudge. Yeah. It wasn't even the kid's fault.
00:52:37
Speaker
but Yeah. He says, oh fudge. And then he says, I didn't say fudge. I said, F dash dash dash. And my sister sat there and went, F dash dash. And she sat there for like 15 minutes. And all of a sudden she went, oh, I know what he said. And I was young. I was like four, four or five. And I was like, what do you think? What do you think? And she's like, I'm not for it. I'm not telling you.
00:53:03
Speaker
and Couple years later, I saw it and I went, I get it.
00:53:36
Speaker
this is what i mean by when i see yeah kind like Because, yeah, because when when like when the kid said, oh, fuck in that context, like I'd be like, well, you use that word in the right context. Like I don't agree that I don't see why that's in here. Well, I actually I actually have an answer for you. Just tuned in. fun to This story was originally called The Winter Duel. And it is a story in Playboy magazine.
00:54:05
Speaker
Um, the reason why they get upset about him saying the word buck. It's the 40s. No, it comes down to something. My wife says when their kids let them be kids, they're going to have their whole lives to have them worry about adulthood. Don't let them grow up. It's preserving the innocence. I think that's so weird. I agree. Did you ever, ever have to eat, eat a bar of soap? Never.
00:54:34
Speaker
I got threatened with it a lot, but never. I did once and it wasn't even from my parents. It was like my aunt. It was my aunt. Yeah. No. I would get smacked in the mouth. So it doesn't taste good. And it lingers for a bit. It lingers. You know what? The other day, I was lying in bed eating chips and I just left the bathroom and a little bit of piece of soap was on my shirt.
00:55:04
Speaker
And I thought it was a chip chip. So I was paying dude. That wasn't a Dorito. It was late. It was late. It was in the, it was in the dark watching the movie and I was like, Oh, look at chip. Oh God. That wasn't a chip. It lingers. Like you read about like the next 10 chips. I was like, Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can't eat anything right afterwards. Everything tastes like horrible. It's like, um,
00:55:32
Speaker
You know the lady she called she called Schwartz's he blamed it on Schwartz. He friend once again, Ralphie's an asshole Blame his friend that he learned it from it, but he probably learned from his own dad and love thing He did he said he said it right before she called in the monologue or the the narrator said I learned it from my old man But when he caught when she calls s Schwartz's mom She says mrs. Schwartz Do you know what Ralphie just said? And then she whispers fucking the thing. She's, well, she probably heard it from his father. So Schwartz's mom called it.
00:56:15
Speaker
like do give it look in the you're getting I love it. I love it. She tries it. This is like, well, how bad can it be? Oh, oh.
00:56:28
Speaker
And she's like, oh, I'm a, I'm a bitch for doing this. ah that Now, this is a true thing. Every time you get in trouble as a kid and you get punished for it, you're like, if only, you know, if I, you know, they, they hit me, I wish I would have crippled me. So they feel bad, you know, that kind of thing. Cause he does this, the soap poisoning blindness that he imagines. Yes.
00:56:58
Speaker
My parents punished me with soap so much, I am, I'm just but a wee, wee blind little boy, filthy, filthy. Where are you man? This is like, what have you been at work? He's, you're 10. He's got a king. He's all, he looks like he's homeless. Hmm? Like, yeah. He ends up with a conflict change?
00:57:24
Speaker
Change change something we walk he walks through his parents house. I'm homeless. I need money mom and dad I'm gonna go upstairs in my bed but i need money Yeah But that's the the child mentality you don't imagine yourself older it's true in your daydream, you know, you don't imagine yourself at 45. He's got hair. I just said he's got hair sticking out of the top of his head. I didn't realize it was. Oh, I just noticed that. Oh, because it's ripped. I see.
00:57:58
Speaker
Oh, what do we do? Make you onlyll make your parents um make your parents feel guilty in your own daydream. that Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying data it was nice. I'm not saying what they did was was was right. But Well, you know, you're like, if you get when you get spanked as a kid, you're like, I wish it would have crippled me. They'd go back now. That evil smile. I'm sorry. That was just an evil fucking. He's an asshole. Ralph, so he's He's again running from the bag to the. The bullies. He spends half his time running from the bullies back and forth to school. Now, everybody giving the teacher gift. Did you ever give your teacher a gift as a kid?
00:58:43
Speaker
I remember one teacher. Yeah, it was really weird because it was like your parents bought it was like, it was like a big Hershey's Kisses. This is years and years. Ralphie brings out a fucking fruit basket from hell. And I think a giant pineapple was like in first or second grade. And this teacher was a bitch. I don't even, I look back. I was like, I don't even know why I gave her a gift because it was just the thing to do. But she wasn't, she was not a nice teacher.
00:59:18
Speaker
So in the 40s, I was thinking this was a daydream. It's not though, but in the 40, he gives her a pineapple in that. Where he get that? Like this pineapple would have cost a few dollars. And we just discovered that $2 back then was $45 today's month.
00:59:41
Speaker
My thing is you have this kid that's got frugal parents shows up to class with the wicker basket, pineapples and orange and apple and bananas and grapes and all this like where did he get the money? He stole it from his mom. Did he steal? Did he steal the fruit basket? No, I think he stole the money from his mom and bought it because he's trying to bribe his teacher into telling Santa that he should get a, you know, ah the BB gun.
01:00:12
Speaker
Oh, the decoder ring. He's getting it right now. It was, there was a contest through oval team. Well, yeah, you, you write in, you send in like box stops from old team. Yeah. Do you remember, do you remember? Okay. Nobody knows what oval teen is. It's a chocolate drinking mix with milk, like chocolate milk, but it's fortified with vitamins and minerals and all that. Okay. It's got to, it's like, it was supposed to be like,
01:00:41
Speaker
healthy chocolate milk option. But yeah, that's what oval, oval tea is. And I think they still, it always sound, just sounds gross. Yeah. Yeah. I think I've had it once and I wasn't a huge, huge fan. Well, there he goes. He's writing out Annie's secret message. Ooh.
01:01:09
Speaker
He's so excited. He's got his pen and paper. He's written right down these numbers. Manny is depending on you. This is the old cereals, man. You know? Yeah. Everything was taken so serious. God, back in the 80s, I think was the last decade of like the coolest toys you would get in a box of cereal. After that, they went to get plastic crap.
01:01:36
Speaker
It went cheap, cheap, cheap. And then it turned into just. Yeah. I don't, I don't think you get free toys and and so i've I've never seen it here. No, the, the box might have like puzzles and
Moral Lessons and Ralphie's Growth
01:01:50
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mazes. Yeah. But not a toy like this. Cause you're right. That's like, that's, ten that's 10. It's not one of those. three i'm getting adonald's
01:02:07
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nineteen forty. s
01:02:11
Speaker
It's like he's hiding off in the bathroom jerking off or something, but this is like. Right. Dakota ring. So. You sure? Be sure to watch the next episode. No, it says be sure to drink your oval team. Oh, yeah. Such a. It's a fucking commercial. Yes. And he I think he gets a little upset about it. He does. He's like a fucking commercial.
01:02:35
Speaker
So that's the decoder ring right there. It's a decoder pin. So advertising really ramped up in, I want to say the fifties, but it was throughout the forties where the I mean, and propaganda has been something that we've known about for a long time when it comes to rhetorical. You can't space shit either. Persuasion. That's the decoder ring right there on your screen. But this kid goes through all this work.
01:03:05
Speaker
just to be told to buy more Ovaltine after um all that Ovaltine. I'd be pissed off, too. It's like I didn't really get anything out of that. Yeah. There was no secret message. But I'm just trying to find out how much one of those costs today. What in the fuck is that in the pot? It's kind of like red cabbage, he says. Oh, OK.
01:03:34
Speaker
Like a lot of people, original a lot of people, a lot of people had to be frugal during, during this time period. I mean, you still do during this time period, but they came up with some crazy recipes, like, like, and it's still, some of them are still around today, like here in Kentucky, when it comes to like chili with beans and meat, which I'm used to. So because of past times of not having a lot of food available and trying to make what you can spread out.
01:04:03
Speaker
but not was that bad then you had to poison They would put spaghetti noodles in there and it would make that pot of chili bigger. I was like, whoa. And it's really not that bad chili with spaghetti. Isn't it not that bad? brilliant in Oh, she broke the lamp. Oh, no. and So I this is the first time I realized that the the fishnets that are on that lamp, they're not like store bought there.
01:04:31
Speaker
built onto it. Oh, because when she broke it, no, it's not like paint. It's almost like ah they're their fiberglass etched in because when she broke it, it's parts.
01:04:46
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She was holding in three parts. It looks it looks like plastic, like blown plastic. Oh, well, I guess he understood. I guess he understands what fragile. Yeah, that's what fragile he means.
01:05:03
Speaker
and apparently it became a controversy for the rest of their marriage too of this broken lamb. I'm sure it did. Well, he says that right before he's a what happened next will be a controversy in our family for the rest of our days. 20 years down the road. Remember that lamp you fucking broke, bitch. Fucking broke that lamp, you fucking bitch. You'll never live that down. Not a finger! He says. He's trying to fix it.
01:05:33
Speaker
oh dude just it's it's it's done. Now, it looks like it belongs in the trailer. Yeah. It's like you found it in the trash and that's what it looks like. Oh. And she's not even the slightest. She's trying not. She's trying to
01:05:58
Speaker
look if She's laughing in the background she' like this dumb motherfucker just throw he's out oh oh ah good so Okay, I want to point I want to point she looks younger compared to him She is I think she's like good ten years younger than he is. Yeah Just he said later that night ah alone in the backyard he buried it next to the garage and I swore that I heard tax playing.
01:06:27
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ah
01:06:29
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He buried it like a wounded soldier. So you never actually see these, this kid were these goggles. No, they're in the face, in the face, just, ah okay. So this, this little dude, the way he's just like,
01:06:50
Speaker
Remember the old Warner Brothers cartoons with the fucking big bulldog and the little fucking po people Hey boss, hey boss. Hey, but that's what that's what the height man. Yeah Give me the me Yeah, your aunt to See you go another asshole they just i't know Oh, yeah, dude, they are horrible friends to each other. They're terrible friends. Oh Oh, yeah, they're horrible. I'll go say he went over there and he assumed the position. He had his head ready. So what you fucking private, buns private joker, choke yourself. know Exactly. um He's got a black eye. Oh, man. Oh, look, and his friends don't even fucking care. Dicks. Oh, see, plus aha motherfucker.
01:07:46
Speaker
C plus she now she's the wicked way now now she's a witch the teacher doesn't like me and and you see when he looks again his mom is dressed as a joker there are hardly any kind of things and the teacher leaves and though you'll shoot your eye out i don't you think that's why he's mine you think you think that's why you got a c plus because the teacher didn't like his idea of a gift possible but see look his mom is is dressed as ah is a as a I didn't, I didn't kill me. Let me back that up for a moment. Yeah, back it up. Just yeah look, that's his mom. Harley Quinn. Does it look like Harley Quinn? Back where there was... Well, it's it's technically a fool because she's got the weird hat and stuff. and he was actually harley pointberg was but Have you ever looked into the idea of where the fool came from?
01:08:42
Speaker
like the concept of what it is throughout history. and flow was it was to make It was to make the king laugh. a No, it wasn't just that. that He was he was just pretty much, he was pretty much the only one that could sit there and tell the king no, but in a stack, like a satire, satire way. right Or even the only one who could legally make fun of the king. He was basically sort of like maybe the, the,
01:09:23
Speaker
um you regard it insightful that there we insight yeah this is where raphy viin loses his shit we're gonna craig look at this kid is wearing a fucking sweater like he fucking pickeds like so like how does it the garbage So this kid is obviously from a family that's poorer than Ralphie's family. Yeah. So, of course, he takes his frustration out. He probably gets beaten at home. He probably gets beaten at home. Yeah. Yeah. And Ralphie just plows into him. Sorry. Fuck yeah. That's the way to do it. That's the way to fucking do it. Do you remember the gloves that were attached to your coat? Yeah. I'm sorry. Ralphie's got one.
01:10:10
Speaker
I've always heard that if you if you just ignore a bully, they'll go away. Now, go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. i'm I'm not saying I'm not saying like resort to violence first but stand up to a bully. Exactly. Show them what's what. Go ten toes. They'll stop. Go ten toes. A lot of them are just they do it for attention. You give them you give them that attention and and you know, one up them or or something. They'll usually stop or But like tell me when Ralphie goes back to school, he's not made to be a fucking king because everybody saw him beat this dude's ass. So this right here, like any any like self or whatnot, yeah I would accept it. I mean, yeah, what he did was pretty fucking cool. But he's he's imitating his father with his words. He's like, you fucking prick.
01:11:08
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He's his father going off on the furnace. Yeah. His friend, his friend Schwartz is like, your mother, your mother's coming. You know, what's fucked up is that Rafi gets in trouble. No, he doesn't. He doesn't. I thought he did. I thought he got in trouble. No, because your mother, your mother, she sees it and she she kind of she lets him play it off.
Mall Santa and Misplaced Expectations
01:11:38
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Damn. Fuck. That was going to die. Ralphie was like murder. He's not for blood, dude. Yeah.
01:11:52
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yeah But she she she tells his dad, you probably got in a fight today. And dad gets ready to say something. She's like, hey, I see the Bears are playing Green Bay. Look at that. and Oh, shit. You know, he loses. He forgets what he but was talking about because she starts talking about sports. I can imagine that. He cleans him up.
01:12:15
Speaker
I can imagine that's how Nicki fucking distracts Glick. She knows he's upset. she She's a good mom, you know? Yeah, I think she learned a lesson on the soap thing too. Yeah. But he's upset because he got a C plus and that's what said put him over the edge.
01:12:45
Speaker
Well, yeah, he was definitely upset about that, but we'll put him over the edges. I think it was straw, straw broke, gambles back kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. He was, he was fed up. He was done. He went postal. Yeah. you weren fucking raw i ah I was going to go to another break. Yeah. I set up another break. He's going to lay down. I got to go make the bladder. It's glad. as they the same thing I was thinking the same thing. All right. So you and a few.
01:13:20
Speaker
but Is that not the most handsome young man you've ever seen in your life? It's true. I used to call him a young Dustin Hoffman. No.
01:13:33
Speaker
And here's to you. Like you have popcorn stuck in the throat. It's a huh. Now you're fucking coming off. What the fuck was that about? Hey, Kimberly, I can't talk right now. I don't know what the girls are. Calm down, Brantley. The girls are with me. Where? The strip club. Oh, which one? Gotta tell me. Male or female? Go, go, gah, gah, gah, gah, gah. Hi, Rhett. I met Dom. Oh, yeah, Dom. Yeah, good guy. That's first cousin. First? Yeah, and his kids, Randy and Ornie.
01:14:20
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that Randy's a good kid. He had some problems Cool man. What are you playing? I just did it waste some film but feel i'm gonna tea lawris some justice
01:14:51
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Sexy time. that for the eighteen jesus i knew we do what so said man
01:15:05
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yeah um
01:15:33
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because we're not gonna tell him. Shoot. What the hell? What the hell are you doing? My dog is drowning. I got a toilet. I gotta save Moses. You schmuck.
01:15:50
Speaker
I want to steal the present stuff. I'm going to arrest the man for that. I'm going to do this.
01:16:00
Speaker
good Come up for it, are you? What? That's my choice. Pam, I gotta tell you about whatever positions he's tried on you, she talks. It's true, Pam. It's true, Pam. Stand, stand. Sorry.
01:16:26
Speaker
Good evening, miss. I'm here to clean your carpet. Can put some foam down on your rug?
01:16:32
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a clean car some bone down and your
01:16:39
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and some hit a clean carpet
01:16:45
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by my way
01:16:53
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I guess you gotta watch some of those movies to get the joke. I've seen them that's that's meet the fuckers it's a good movie i think but i think i have seen it yes it is a good movie and it's funny i'm not the biggest been been stiller fan but he's he's he's played us some good stuff yes welcome back welcome back welcome back everybody bio dot.link slash nonsensical network if you want to find more of the stuff we do uh and don't forget check out our nonsensical dash nonsense dot myspreadshop.com and you can get our merch as well
01:17:30
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ah So we're, we're, Ralphie's just gotten back from the fight and he's laying down and he's still crying. Little bitch. Well, he's scared because he knows his dad's going to find out and he thinks his dad's going to whoop his ass. Even his brothers in the cabinet going, dad's going to kill Ralphie. There was, there was some moments, there was some moments in my childhood who where I did something that I thought I was going to get in trouble and it turned out that that's kind of.
01:18:00
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kind of the way like yeah Yeah, and you know and and I think the reason why is because Ralphie cursed up a storm while beating up that bully Yeah, and he got in trouble the first time for saying no fuck. So last still yeah, and he was going off Yeah Dude, his fists were flying as fast as fucking mouth was right.
01:18:22
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And a kid yader well he was basically imitating his, I think his mom noticed he was imitating his dad fighting with burners. You know, so she's like, yeah, I get it now. She's like, yeah, it is his dad that's teaching him this shit. She's kind of figured it out. She closes the kid back. in ah Gives him a glass of milk. That's, that's a safe space.
01:18:49
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Do those old sink bases like that or? Yeah. Amazing. Hello, Melissa. why na How are you? Hi, Melissa. So the Bumpus' is dogs, they're gorgeous dogs. Yeah. Bloodhounds, I think they're pretty.
01:19:14
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i am
01:19:17
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I interact with a lot of dogs in my job because of customers dogs and some of the customers around here, they have like those electric fences where the dogs don't go out of the yard, but they don't. Yeah. And I haven't, there's only one, one dog that is scared because I pulled up, it was dark and I, and he came up barking out at the car. We had the window down and scared the shit. I mean, but it was a cool look.
01:19:46
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mom's covering for him oh yeah see what else happened today oh nothing much rob we gotta do a bite so these are these mashed potatoes like thick like fuck Yes. Yes. Like they're, they're solid. They're paste. She's like, I gave him a talking to and she's a scratcher. I see that bears are playing green Bay.
01:20:15
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He's distracted him. Look at the way the, ma the mashed potatoes just still, they don't move. They're, they're, they're solid as well.
01:20:28
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yeah yeah needs needs more clean than taters needed some milk and butter. Exactly, exactly. Yeah, they did. Meat and potatoes. point Yeah, the the the so potato master has spoken app apparently.
01:20:52
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it's a You mentioned, you mentioned potatoes and Chris is like, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, somebody said potatoes?
01:21:00
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For somebody who doesn't like this movie, he really does remember the mashed potatoes. Yeah. I don't see them in Discord. You know what? As a tater guy, that's probably why he doesn't like the movie and it's a triggering event. This piece of my taters will not be tolerated. So they they go to the Christmas parade and and good the Huckabee store to meet Santa.
01:21:31
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lord of the taters lord of the taters look good wicked witch uh micky can beat up my bunch of flying monkeys nikki made him watch it good for nikki good for you i know i like that chick ah So was this ah is this a Disney movie? Was this movie made by Disney? No, but or yeah because okay I know I know this movie was made in like the early 80s and shit like that wouldn't pop off. But this was a today movie. Oh, Disney would have had their asses, boy. Or at least been on the fucking production title somewhere. Yeah. Say it. Now, I think this was a Metro Gold win.
01:22:18
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you know And Ravi's like, can we go see Santa now? And he's like, shut up, Ravi. You know, I get it. You know, he's like, hey, we're here to see the parade. We'll see Santa later. Calm the fuck down. they're saying And Ravi, Ravi was kind of bitching. And and dad finally had enough. He's like, shut the fuck up, little shit. It would go now. Yeah, Jesus, you little shit. You know,
01:22:42
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usually kids around by the time they hit nine, if they're not already questioning it, come in on it they know Santa Claus. Yeah. yeah realize Unless, unless their parents really, really dig on it. Right. No, that makes sense. But I think that's the other thing is like, yeah what for In other words, you think you're for allowing you to sit next to her on the couch. Yeah and He probably fell asleep halfway through the fucking movie don't lie he's got bucket of mashed potatoes he's like So they go back to the Molly he is there all there is
01:23:32
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but like dress i mean forty these walls weren't a thing they're they huy department store That's a good point. That's yeah. there or This elf standing right there behind him. I thought that was Martha Plumpton, but it's not. Well, her bump is pretty but pretty bump. No, Martha. blukin She's the blonde chick from the Goonies. Oh, I was I was I thought you were talking about the other elf standing right there. No, the elf. I just the you only see her for a second, but I thought it was it's not.
01:24:02
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I was kind of disappointed. Look, terra this kid in front of him, i like and creepy as fuck, dude. He's like, yeah. That's the kid that's homeschooled. He doesn't know other kids. like He's wearing his goggles. He's wearing his goggles. But I thought it was flick. I thought it was flick at first.
01:24:30
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And it's not. It's just none of the kids has got goggles. Okay, so Wizard of Oz had just came out when this movie, like, it just came out in the 40s when this movie was, takes place in. That's why it shows up so much. When was... Because it was the first movie in color.
01:25:00
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hey like yeah
01:25:04
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Yeah Because oh No, he says that they think I'm working a minute past nine, but rally doesn't get up there until like 915. So that guy's bullshit Call his bluff. Fuck him. That's why he was fucking get out of here kid Yeah, he wants to get the fuck out of there Dude I want to go down that slide
01:25:29
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I could not. smell it i'd be Okay. he said Okay. Yeah. So it came out in 1939. Yeah. um August 1939. It still doesn't make sense why there's Wizard of Oz characters dressed up for Christmas in this. because Once again, you got to remember in, in, in the Wizard of Oz being the first movie ever in color, it was a big fucking deal.
01:25:56
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Yeah. Yeah. I guess it'd be, I guess it'd be like going to a mall now during Christmas to seeing people dressed up like Star Wars or some shit. Or Grinch. Yeah. I'm sorry. This fucking Santa Claus is a straight up evil, evil person. Oh yeah, he's mean. Oh my gosh. He just makes the kids cry. Like Ralphie's scared.
01:26:20
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his yeah His old brother is crying. I think Ralphie's more in shock. I think Ralphie's more in shock because he's talking to Santa. But it's like, wait, this is your first time? Fuck off. Like the the the the Santa Claus helper elf like grabs the kid and jerks him. Well, it's actually nice. I want to get the fuck out of there. I don't care. Somebody punched that dude. But once again, it's it's embellished because he's telling Ralphie's the one telling the story. So it's really not like that.
01:26:51
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sadie it's that's why it's right isnt my land Right to the moon with you, Alice. Bang zoom!
01:27:02
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Christmas, little boy. See, this movie would be awesome if you went off on that Santa like you did that bully. That would be amazing. Fuck you, Santa. I don't know, and the elves. I'm sorry, I just think this Santa Claus and elves are assholes.
01:27:20
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even though it it is for my kids. But once again, if you're working all day having kids sit on your lap, you want to get the fuck out of there already, too. Yeah, but you would think you would think a prerequisite to be a ah a mall Santa or Macy Santa in this instance would be, I don't know, patient and compassionate with children. But this is the 40s. I don't think it was the 40s. They don't give a shit.
01:27:49
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Yeah. And we were allowed to hit him. So fair. Yeah.
Christmas Eve Traditions and Surprises
01:27:54
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You know, Ralphie stops him as he's gone down and he's, he's got that pitch down boy. He's like, I want to official right writer, maybe gun with 200 shot and compass in the stock and bla blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you'll shi your like that real you'll shoot your eye out and then what's him in the face, dude? Yeah. Good. Look, uses the bottom and.
01:28:19
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apps him on the forehead, shoves him down the thing. Now, no lie. I mean, going down the slide afterwards, it would be fun. The way you get pushed down, I'm getting buffering issues. No, that's right. So. No, but but like. The the fact that Rafi supposedly doesn't move and other kids are sliding down the slide, how did that land on? Hmm. You know what I mean?
01:28:49
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and it kind of weird That way that that the dads with the Wizard of Oz guys the buffering was from the record Okay, that's why I thought let's see. Look Ralphie hasn't loose. He's terrorized dude. He's in it bummed out cuz he's in his It's like you're gonna you're gonna shoot your eye out. You're not getting that yeah, I mean for for for for him. From his perspective right now, this fucking Christmas sucks ass. So mom and dad have bought Christmas presents, taken them out of the car, then gone back for the kids. Because they're not carrying anything.
01:29:29
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Ooh, sneaky parents. That's what parents do. Yeah.
01:29:37
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They're just not setting up the tree and that shows janky as fuck So was Christmas lights outside on the house in the 40s another thing. I thought it was No, I don't think they were because I don't think they were necessarily waterproof Because you gotta know look how big the bulb is. Why did he do? yeah he wouldn It's it's it's connectivity. Oh, no, I get that But that too
01:30:09
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I'm sorry. The fact he's like here the fact that the that the shit still works after he just re plugs and switches plugs around is no. and He flips the breaker. OK. Because that's that's where he left the room to flip the breaker because they blow breaker. OK, so 400 things plugged into one plug. One of my biggest things about Christmas that I absolutely fucking hate is that tassel, the fucking I agree. Silver.
01:30:39
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Streams of tassel that you know, I don't do it. It gets everywhere. It's not allowed in my house. Oh, I hate that shit. i like um We don't buy it. Because because six months later, you still find the ship find out in your house. It's like giant glitter. Yeah. I know I can barely keep his eyes open. I feel that kid right now, though. I feel like you do.
01:31:04
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like two After last night Last was last night's impromptu freakin string lasted five fucking hours saying yeah Almost five and a half. Yeah. Yeah Gotta do it again tomorrow. I'm just saying I tried telling I gotta download them here those those kids are dicks each other They just but that's a brother thing, you know, you throw your brother down the stairs as you go out The one time a year kids don't mind being told to go to bed right But they don't go to sleep right away. No. Some of them don't. The anticipation. i think I think his brother probably fell asleep pretty quick because he was already falling asleep. Like 15 minutes when he was out. I mean, a kid like that, the way he is, you drag him around the mall for a while. He's tired. He's tired by 10. He's past his nap time. How do you think his brother is? Like five, maybe six? And for Alfie's nine? Yeah, about four or five.
01:32:03
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well going to school you have about five or six Yeah, first grade at least now This is the most unrealistic part of this whole movie. It's Christmas morning and he's looking out the fucking window who gives a shit and Yeah, you run down to the fucking tree So New York had a white Christmas the first time in 14 years new New York. So Wow, I Technically, we had a white Christmas year because it pissed down rain. If it was colder, it would have been snow. We've been in the mid to high fifties here. Nice. Yeah, I guess, yeah. I kind of wanted it to be cold. You know what? did When you were a kid, or do you do it now, open one present on New Year's Eve, Christmas Eve, I mean? Yeah, we did that with our kids, yeah. It was usually it was usually pajamas.
01:32:56
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For me, it's always like, okay, I am the worst Christmas gift giver because I'm like, fuck it, open it now. I bought it in July, but whatever, open it now. I want to see what I'm going to see your reaction. Now for our kids to shop until Christmas Eve. So for our kids, they got two gifts. They got, it was always a pair of pajamas and some sort of activity activity to do that night. Like a little game okay coloring book, depending on how old they were. Yeah. Yeah. Dad's like, I need a drink already.
01:33:28
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and Christmas was spoiled by my fucking.
01:33:33
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ah Those old fucking hard candies. Oh, I haven't seen those since like I went to my grandma's house. I know right. Five bucks at that is fake fruit, even though it's already fake fruit yeah for the sea, but like wax fruit displays things or or war. Yeah, big, big thing. Yeah, especially if they were if you find them in the living.
01:33:58
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Here it comes. Ralphie's gift from his aunt. The bun. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I want it. I would wear that shit. The socks. Fuck that. The bunny suit. I would totally wear that, dude. I would too. Fuck yeah. I'd rock that. Look, that kid's got a bat.
01:34:25
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Am I going to tie this here? that's it's that's practical I know she breaks your lamp and only gets you a tie. What did she get him? What was that? It was like 10. I don't know. It was a blimp. No, no, no. The dad. A tie. No, no, no. In the can. It was like, it was like some sort of food or something like that. Oh, I don't know. It was like.
01:34:54
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ham in a can or like spam but not spam. The thing about this bunny suit is back then you know the aunt didn't go buy it at the store. No she made that shit. Yes. I would totally rock it even though it's pink. ah in the dad Even the dad is trying to laugh. He's like I don't blame him. Look at it look his dad's face. and like yeah yeah I don't know man. just Hey Ralphie just be lucky po Polaroid cameras weren't around yet.
01:35:23
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was high and dis same about as a kid I'd be like I'm burning this fucker as soon as chance I get dude just leave it underneath your dad's fucking socket of L and eventually it'll catch you on fire II when he is sad turn on the radio up there goes the money suit dude she hands him this present of a bowling ball drops it right on his nuts man what did And it's wrapped like a second. yeah so He's like, gee, I wonder what it is.
Bowling in the 1940s
01:35:57
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Like a bowling ball. Well, you did mention about getting a bowling alley earlier. So maybe she was like, well, he's in the bowling. Bowling was a thing big thing in the 40s, though. Dude, it still is in some places. Bowling league. Oh, great. I was in a bowling league as a kid. i can't I can't bowl to save my life. I will go with friends just to have fun.
01:36:17
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Like, I would rather go bowling than carry out. Dude, I would walk around the mall with that on. I'm just saying. Just to be different. Fuck, yeah. It does look warm as fuck, though. Right? Like, there's nothing wrong. It looks like it's not wrong. It just looks like it's like 400 degrees. We are going to take our last break before we come in and finish up the movie and give our ratings.
01:36:44
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on this absolutely classic American Christmas movie from 1983. If you don't like it, well, then you can, you can go hang out. with gold You can wear a bunny suit.
01:36:57
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01:37:02
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ae I would like to rear up and jackknife my legs and kick you both in the jaw with my foot bone. That's what I would love.
01:37:13
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I wish my foot would go right through your skull.
01:37:19
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But to get intimate with a canvas, he would just... just finger the pain. You can do it. You can do it. You like to finger his pain. My gosh! Now kick my ass! Yeah, yeah, Josh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:37:44
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01:38:02
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01:38:07
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01:38:28
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01:38:35
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01:38:39
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You're on Facebook? I can't and you're out of this here. Are you guys on Facebook? Now! Sheesh, you've brought me all of me. I wasn't ready for that. Your father didn't have this. Or that. You got another one of this? He didn't have this cheap souvenir.
01:39:09
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01:39:13
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01:39:26
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right we can win this absolutely yeah george ah put it in george George a I'm gonna get up on your boat. I'm gonna get up on your bones Mmm If I could just scrape my dick on you, just... I'm gonna get... I wanna squeeze out some of that... juice. Some of the juice. What?
01:39:56
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Oh, my God. I'm gonna... I'm gonna... Hey, onion tint. Get out of the way. Oh, God. Oh, God, Mad Dog. I know CPR, everybody. Oh, I got to stretch. You got to use your hips. I'm using my a little victory music, shall we? Yes, please.
01:40:48
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All right. All right. he is especially not movie ah movie's alertious yes he right Welcome back. We're going to finish this up.
01:41:03
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Give our ratings. I'm going to bed early tonight. And then nonsense and chill are going to sign off for this for the last time this year. Yeah. So. um I'm telling you that. That bunny suit, tell me it doesn't like that dude is not like sweating profusely. Oh, God, yeah. Well, I mean.
01:41:31
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It depends on how cold hot the house is, but yeah. Yeah, that's true. Shut Randy. What's funny is, what's his brother's name again? Randy. Randy. Randy didn't get shit. I know, he didn't get a costume. Yeah, that's what I call bullshit. That would have been like, what a biased ant. Take it off. Look, Randy's passed out again.
01:42:00
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It's like, look at that mess. I'm not cleaning that **** up. There's all that excitement. Yeah. Got some of those toys I've seen in antique stores. yeah Look, he's like, you want something? No, you don't. He's like, he beat up his first bully. You should get a little sip wine.
01:42:24
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I mean, been better for this beer. Now, this is where the dad ah wins Christmas right here. And he's like, hey, what's that? Like the mom has no fucking clue that dad went and got the BB gun for the kid. Well, i mean I mean, she's like, wait, what is it? It's not a lamp. It's not a leg. It's definitely not a lamp.
01:42:56
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My dad hit it too. What a dick. Have you ever wrapped like this christmas me ki Christmas gift for your kids but in like some sort of like comical prankster kind of way? Oh, I always do. I wrap shit in zip ties to fuck with them. Zip ties, duct tape, fucking small gifts in giant boxes. Yes, but they they go through 14 boxes. Yeah. it's It's like a small little like or even like a CD or a game duct taped to the very bottom of a big tall box filled with packing peanuts.
01:43:35
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ah Is it me or is that Red Ryder gun just look really cheap for the forties? Like it's it i all plastic. yeah i remember with Yeah, I have a real wood as opposed to that looks like fake plastic wood.
01:43:53
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I would imagine because this movie was made in 1983, maybe some props they couldn't get that were very realistic to the time period. right That makes sense. I'm just guessing. I'm a just a guessing.
The Long-Desired BB Gun
01:44:09
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That is just as excited as he is too. Now go shoot your eye out kid.
01:44:15
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no cook bla but outside. Look. Oh, Robbie running through the house. He's ready, boy. We're no supervision. This has to be. Let's go. We'll be all right. I had one on a Z. See, I turned out fine. Yeah, I'm like, oh, Robbie Ray, man. one He was clear in the room. Just be him. He was clear in the room. Making sure Santa.
01:44:45
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Make sure Santa's not in there fucking still in the turkey. You have turkey for Thanksgiving. You have ham, ham for Christmas. Bitch, get it right. I'm joking. You do it your way, people. Well, no, but here's the thing. Somebody was talking to me about this movie the other day, and they were like, what? She bitches at him saying the turkey's not ready. Don't eat it. And they were like, why did she take the turkey out? It's to baste it. Yeah. You have to baste it or else it gets dry.
01:45:14
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Yeah, or a you know and modern Nowadays, there's better ways where you don't have to base red riders are a single pump They don't have that much of a ricochet. I'm sorry. I'm calling bullshit And he was a big 10 feet away. I didn't even see a mark on his eye really know bruise No easy he's got a little markets it's almost like a bruise I that I remember this feeling a few times as a kid, you fall off your bike or you're out playing, you get, you know, uh, clotheslined by a tree limb or you trip or whatever. Now, as a, as a person with glasses, have you ever accidentally stepped on your own glasses? I never stepped on it, but I've, I have like hit myself or not hit myself. It like fell down as a kid or something. I'm like, oh shit, where'd my glasses go? My hair's going to kick my ass. Do the old Delma thing. Yeah. Well, I'm like, I might have like a bleeding knee, but it's the glasses that are really going to get me out of trouble. But he steps on them.
01:46:14
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but see, yeah, he's got a little mark under his eye. Oh, right after their parents bought all that money on Christmas gifts. Now they have to go buy buy them $200 on glasses. But, like, and he's like, I'll blame it on an icicle, but the the broken lens is on the opposite side where it's cut on his faces.
01:46:42
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Do you think as kids we would lie like that because just the fear from our parents? Oh, 100%. Yeah. Do you think that's healthy? Oh, probably not. No.
01:46:57
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But it's kind of like part of growing up, you know what I mean? It was a nice thing when he fell. Yeah, he plays it so well. He's like, oh my God. He's like, the father's like, oh, shit. He put his eye out.
01:47:13
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Wake up, Randy. You know what's cool about that fucking play blimp, though? It's made out of metal. That thing will last 10 centuries. That thing's still around.
01:47:25
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Oh, yeah. Dude, if I was ah if I was an actor in this movie, I'd be like, I'm taking all this shit, guys. I'm keeping all this because it's going to be worse on.
01:47:37
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Oh no, the turkeys left. That's unattended. Dad going after the turkey. Like he's getting ready to eat. You'll get worms. It's not fully cooked. You'll get worms. It's not worms. It's salmonella. She was basting it when ralph would that happened. So she didn't have time to put it back in the oven.
01:48:03
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Oh, he breaks the fourth wall. yeah ah such an assle The iodine or peroxide or I think it's peroxide. Yeah. The old man's reading his funny papers.
01:48:24
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those house slippers. Oh my God. But look how white the dad's ankles are because he's always wearing like suit and stuff. Yeah. And the dogs walk through and he's like barely notices. He's like, what was that? I don't have, I don't have dogs. Yeah. So that's something my dog Molly would do. If you left the Turkey on the table and you left that kitchen, it's gone. Like Molly, cause Molly can literally put her hand on the table. Like she's a tall. ah
01:49:00
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he but they broke the screen door
01:49:10
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now watch rafi here when mom starts to cry ralphe taps are on the arm and hands are the rag that she just gave him watching Watch it. Watch Ralphie. It's funniest thing. I noticed it last time when I was watching this movie. Oh, Oh, no. Oh, it's left. Have you ever been to a Oktoberfest like a, like a more authentic one? He's like, here, mom. Go buy one of those giant turkey legs. I want one. They look amazing.
01:49:45
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oh My god, I've been to an Oktoberfest by giant turkey lay big they go to this chop suey restaurant that Used to be a bowling alley Bowling yeah, it's this bowling but it's too small of a building to be a bowling alley so I think what happened is because these are Asians they blocked the sign and Called it bowling because they can't pronounce the L's as They're singing here So for everybody out there that doesn't do Christmas very much, or you do do Christmas, but you don't, you want some, some more ah Asian food, majority of Asian restaurants are open on Christmas.
A Christmas Dinner Surprise
01:50:28
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Oh, they don't celebrate Christmas. Yeah. And there's just one, more there's just one where where I'm at Asian express and it's amazing. Same subject house.
01:50:43
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They fuck up Jingle Bells so bad.
01:50:47
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I don't know if this is- Do they bring out a duck? I can't, I've had duck, I don't know. No, no, interesting back, the lady that plays the mom didn't know they were gonna bring out a duck and cut its head off. So her reaction is real. No way, really? Yeah. She had no idea, that's why, that's a real reaction. That's all. That's why she's laughing the whole time.
01:51:12
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And the dad, it's smiling at me.
01:51:19
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She's losing her mind laughing. That's a real reaction. yeah Have you ever had duck though? Yeah. Watch him. He puts the duck head in his pocket. It's better. It's better now. There's no head. It's all good. Yeah. But watch him. He puts it in his pocket. White people aren't using birds with heads on it.
01:51:43
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Right.
01:51:46
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Now, make that rice into a rice fucking cake. Now, this is the perfect ending right here.
Reflecting on the Year
01:51:54
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The dad's sitting there they're having a drink. They're both dressed up still for dinner. Kids are asleep and they just sit and look out the window. Next to the tree. With the radio playing a nice song and they're like, you know what, we made it through another fucking year. God love it.
01:52:13
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It's it's a Christmas miracle. Well, it's it's a it's a really sweet ending. I really like this part of the movie, even though, you know, they just kind of, you know, cheers, baby. We were doing it all right as parents. You know, he's like frisky time. He's like, yeah, kids are asleep. That's time for my real Christmas. That kid loves that fucking Zeppelin. It's time to get these jingle bells rolling.
01:52:42
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Yeah, he does. He does. He likes his Zeppelin in that house and might actually catch on fire, though. Yeah, we were like a real Hindenburg.
01:52:58
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Oh, I didn't. I tried to trim this down. That's cool. it was It's the last one anyway. It's almost robb sleeping with his gun, which is something I'll do for the rest of his life.
01:53:12
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yeah being there and... Oh my gosh. Bloom's field beauty, he calls it.
01:53:23
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So this is, you know, he's retelling this story because this is the greatest Christmas gift he's ever received or ever will receive. Hmm. That's what he just said. That's why he's basically telling the story. So,
01:53:40
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That is a Christmas story. Uh-huh, yeah. Now, now my Christmas is complete. All right, so. started when you start it You started with Die Hard and you end it with a Christmas story. You know what? There's no better combo. With a little screw just mixed in, I'm not mad at it. um On IMDB, this is a 7.9 out of 10.
01:54:07
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Okay. It's a 4.3 out of five on the popcorn meter and a 7.4 out of 10 on the tomato meter and a 89% popcorn movie. I've like not posted our software in the eighties for myself. You know, like like you said, I have, this is very nostalgic for me. I'm going to go, I'm going to go hit it with straight up four. Okay.
01:54:37
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because it, you know, it, it holds up, but not a hundred percent. um Yeah. there's I think there's some older person watching. I'm like, yeah, you could cut that. You could, you could have made this movie an hour and 20. Maybe, maybe. I don't know. I, um, man, I got nothing bad to say about this movie. I know. it's made It was made, it was made, it came out when I was six years old. ah So I've watched this movie a lot in my life. It never gets bad. It never gets old. Like I said, I used to watch this. It holds up. I didn't used to watch it back to back, but I'd have it playing back to back. It's again, it's the,
01:55:27
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One of the reasons why I find this Christmas movie good for me, because it doesn't have a lot of that other Christmas religion and spirits and all that. Yeah. It's it's more about family than it is about the the actual Christmas. Yeah. Yeah. It's about a family during Christmas, celebrating. Yeah. Yeah. um and And in the... There's no religious overtones either.
01:55:53
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it's It's a wholesome story for a kids movie. I'm not usually a big family movie guy, but there was a time where when they made a family movie, it was really good. It was for the family, not for the kids. You know what I mean? There's. Yeah, there's some adult jokes in this and there's there's kids. Yeah. like Everybody can enjoy this. Exactly. um I'm giving it a four point five because.
01:56:21
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I just love this movie. This is one of those movies up there with like, for me, the Big Lebowski. So, yeah. So for the Christmas season, this is your highest rated movie out of this. say watch yeah this is probably me This is my second highest. So probably be my highest rated movie, of probably a lot of stuff we watch. Yeah. You know, like I said, this is a movie that you can watch. Yeah. Granted, you're going to watch it during Christmas, but technically you can watch it anytime.
01:56:51
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Yeah. You know, you're like, Oh, it's like 10,000 degrees outside. Let's watch something to make us feel cold. You can watch this movie because it, it looks cold, dude. It does. It has that classic. Would you think of a white Christmas field? Agreed. And, um, but yeah, you know, you know what you didn't do is, is movie like no fix. Oh, you know what? I just, brought I would just realize that. But i I mean to do that, like after the second break, I need to get but I do have one though. So, I mean, it makes sense. It is at the end of the movie. It is at the end of the year. So it's going to be a wrap for 2024. A wrap is the complete, the wrap is a completion of shootings, either for the entire production or at the end of a single day. Now it's, it's, I found this out. It's a slang term decades ago. Yeah. Yeah. Decades decades ago, cameramen would say,
01:57:48
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wind, reel, and print, which later became abbreviated to as wrapped. Oh, look at that. I thought that was for you. And I thought it was appropriate because we are wrapping up this year. That that is 100% appropriate. um i Once again, I think everybody should see this movie at least once.
01:58:12
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Glick, I think you should watch it every day with your eyes held open with toothpicks and tied to a chair in orchard because you love Nikki and that's what you would do for. That's right. Yeah. so That's what's on my Christmas list for next year, I'm just saying.
01:58:30
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but that that ah But yeah, the that is the end of this movie. um What are you going to say to the people, sir? Uh, well, from the perspective of nonsense and chill, see you next year and still bring your own fucking popcorn. Jeff, you got any last words? See you at the movies.
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the stories we embrace
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right.