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Pod Warriors 12: Christmas Munchies
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The Pod Warriors are back with a mini-pod just for the holidays! Heel Husband & Fig God are spreading the holiday cheer and counting down their Top 5 Christmas treats! Merry Christmas and thanks for the support all year!
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Transcript
Introduction and Episode Theme
00:00:12
Speaker
Merry Christmas foley fam me and Jordan are back with a very special bonus mini pod warriors episode for you guys We're gonna be talking about the top five Christmas treats ever Jordan. How you doing, man? You in the Christmas spirit? I am very much in the Christmas spirit. It is a Christmas week We are festive at the Wells household. We are ready for this weekend and I
00:00:36
Speaker
Yeah man, like you said, Merry Christmas fully fam. I hope you guys all have a great Christmas this weekend and hope it's everything you guys wish it is.
Musical Preferences for the Episode
00:00:44
Speaker
That song is such a banger, dude. I kind of just want to leave it playing on a loop in the background the entire episode. Just let it roll, man. It'll sound beautiful. I didn't want to turn it off, man, but yeah, it's just a really, really great song, man. Yeah, this was an idea Jordan cooked up and we were originally going to tack it on to the end of the WrestleMania figures episode.
00:01:06
Speaker
It's like a little bonus content that you know that episode is a couple days old as you guys are hearing this But you know we figured why not just make a little Christmas treat now We know everybody is on the road over holidays traveling around or or maybe you know maybe if you're not traveling if you're hosting Christmas Maybe you're just going up to your room to hide out and isolate yourself for about 20 or 30 minutes And this will this will be something you can listen to to help you chill out While you know you got a bunch of guests over because we all know that can be pretty exhausting
00:01:33
Speaker
Yeah. Or maybe you're like Clark Griswold and you're just going to go park some cars and be outside for the season.
Debating Christmas Treats
00:01:42
Speaker
All right, let's get right into it, man. Jordan, you can kick this off, man. Do you have these in order or are you just dropping your... These are in order. These are in order for me. Okay. All right, you go first. I'll quickly put mine in order. Okay, so five for me is peppermint ice cream. Now, I know some people are gonna be like, oh, that's a yearly thing, but there is a
00:02:04
Speaker
particular kind of peppermint ice cream it's peppermint stick ice cream and Wells blue bunny makes it it is the top tier ice cream for the Christmas season I always get excited when it comes out it always tells me it's getting closer to Christmas even though now it comes out in like mid-October so it gets me a little excited for Christmas a little early but nonetheless this is definitely one of my favorite treats every Christmas season
00:02:30
Speaker
Yeah, dude, I've never been a fan of like the toothpaste flavored ice creams, man, like peppermint, mint chocolate chip. They just they don't do it for me, dude. So you're on an island for this one. So anybody listening, make sure you guys chime in. Let us know. Let us know where you stand on peppermint ice cream, though. I mean, I could see the appeal of it, man, if you're in that kind of thing. But it's just never been a flavor profile that I've gotten into.
00:02:54
Speaker
You're entitled to an opinion. It can be wrong, but yeah, I get you. I am starting with my first of two cocktails that are on this.
Merry's Festive Cocktail Recipe
00:03:03
Speaker
So Jordan has been extremely liberal with the definition of a Christmas treat, man. We basically expanded it out to anything that you want to eat or drink around the holidays, man. So I got two cocktails on here for me. First off is a creation that we invented last year. It's called the Drunken Stay Puft.
00:03:22
Speaker
What this is, you need to take some doughball whiskey, which thanks Jordan for turning me on too. This is a cookie dough, basically a cookie dough flavored whiskey. It's really, really delicious. It's not like chocolate chip cookie, it's just like straight up cookie. Like if you like the cookie butter from Trader Joe's, it's in the same flavor profile as that, but it's on top of a really nice whiskey. And yeah, so you take that, you mix it with a cream soda, right? Fill a rocks glass up.
00:03:52
Speaker
one shot of dough ball, top it with cream soda, and then like the real coup de gras on this one is a toasted marshmallow, man. All right, like so you gotta, you know, go out on the fire pit or you do it over stove, however you want to do it, toast a marshmallow and float that on the top of the drink and it just sets it off, man. Like
00:04:12
Speaker
It gives a little bit of marshmallow flavor to the drink, but every time you take a drink, you're getting that aroma, that roasted marshmallow smell, and it just sets it off. Man, it's a really great cocktail, and it just puts you in the mood to sit on the couch and watch some holiday movies. Now I'm curious, because I feel like you could do this another way too. I obviously have a cocktail smoker, so I feel like I could do maybe just a pump of marshmallow,
00:04:40
Speaker
like the marshmallow flavoring and put it in there and then smoke the cocktail. I wonder what that would do to it. Maybe I'll try that this weekend. Yeah. I feel like you get a lot with the visual of the toasted marshmallow. You know what I mean? Because you taste with your eyes first, but yeah, if you do try that, let us know how it goes, man. I'd be willing to bet you could probably get pretty close to the actual taste experience, but it just looks nice having a cocktail with a toasted marshmallow on top.
00:05:05
Speaker
I get it. I mean, I can certainly appreciate some visuals, but I feel like I'd be wearing that fucking marshmallow by the enemy drinking it because dude, I have some bad luck with garnishes on the top. I had to wear them most of the time. You're not a fan of the bloody Mary's with freaking celery stalk, like mini tomato, olive, cocktail shrimp, cheeseburger.
00:05:30
Speaker
Another smaller Bloody Mary, all on there for the garnish. No, I'm pretty sure I would spill my entire drink getting the cheeseburger off that thing. So that's a hard pass for me. Just feed me the alcohol. That's all I really want. Yeah, some of those Bloody Marys get freaking ridiculous, man. All right, so what is your number four,
Nostalgic Christmas Candies
00:05:48
Speaker
Jordan? All right, so I went candy canes, but not normal candy canes, the cherry candy canes. I love the, these always remind me of being a kid.
00:05:58
Speaker
um they're different colored things like that you can get them at every store around christmas so yeah cherry candy canes have always been a big hit in my house they're still to this day in my mom's candy dish every time i go over to her house for around christmas time so yeah this is definitely a nostalgia one
00:06:14
Speaker
Yeah, candy canes really can't go wrong, man. They've been around since, you know, forever and really haven't had a whole lot of improvement because that's just how damn good they are, dude. I would say if I had to pick a candy cane choice, I always like the Jolly Rancher candy canes. Those are always pretty good. They just come out with way too many damn flavors though. I'm like, some of these don't even sound good. Like do you get an example?
00:06:40
Speaker
I don't know, dude, like I saw Starburst ones this year and that doesn't sound good to me. I've never tried it. Starburst is like, I mean, not that Jolly Ranchers is like, you know, organic candy from Whole Foods, but I do feel like Jolly Ranchers have like at least somewhat to make you like the flavor to make you think of like the fruit they're supposed to be. Whereas Starburst, that's straight up candy flavor, you know? Yeah, also a Jolly Rancher is a hard candy that much like a candy cane that
00:07:08
Speaker
It translates. I'm not going to say suck on because I know where you're going to go with that. I was literally trying to find any word other than suck on for you not to give me shit, but there's no other way to say it. Yeah. Yeah. It's eating candy. That's right. Eating candy canes is tough. Like you're never going to look cool eating a candy cane. That's just a fact, man.
00:07:33
Speaker
All right. My number four is a nostalgia pit candy pretzels, man. This is something that my grandma used to always make. I haven't had these in years, man. Like it's probably been 15 years since I've had a candy pretzel, but I really started thinking whenever I was putting together this list. And that's something that if you put them in front of me right now, I would immediately think
00:07:50
Speaker
Christmas at grandma's house, man. It's a good treat, dude. It's kind of got like, you know, you got multiple experiences going on there because you got the crunch from the pretzel, you got the salt from the pretzel, and then you got the, you know, the sweetness from the icing stuff, man. So I think it's just a really great snack that doesn't really get its proper due.
00:08:07
Speaker
See, I feel like you got to use nostalgia a lot for Christmas snacks because I mean, everybody remembers going to their family members house for Christmas, whether it be their grandma or aunt, uncle, whatever it is. So yeah, man.
00:08:22
Speaker
I definitely have an honorable mention in here that's not on my list, but I'm going to just give it right now. It's definitely not a sweet. It's just like eaten peel shrimp. Every year on Christmas Eve when we would go to my family's house, that was the staple. There'd be a table full of eaten peel shrimp. Like shrimp cocktail style cold or boiled shrimp? So boiled shrimp, yeah.
00:08:45
Speaker
Nice, dude. That sounds pretty good, man. Having a good seafood boil in a while. Yeah, so that always reminds me of Christmas. So that would be an honorable mention for me. OK. What's your number three? Number three is peppermint bark. One of the main reasons this is on my list is like another one that's going to be on my list coming up. I made this a lot with my mom growing up.
00:09:12
Speaker
baking was a was a huge thing in our household. My mom loved to cook so I any chance I got to help her with Christmas cookies or making toffee things like that. I always took advantage of it because man you got to enjoy all the time you can with your parents while they're here so and you definitely want to create those memories and my mom is doing it with my daughter now so
00:09:33
Speaker
Yeah, Peppermint Bark is definitely a nostalgia one just because I grew up on this and I still love it to this day. It's probably not as good now to me because I've had it so much, but still very good for me.
00:09:47
Speaker
Heavy on the peppermint, man. My man went candy canes, peppermint ice cream. I went cherry candy canes. I didn't go peppermint. True. I've been friends with you for 11 years and never realized what a peppermint fetish you had. Yeah, but we've never really talked about like gone deep dive on Christmas, man. That's why I said to do it. I thought this was a good idea for us to do. We'll learn some things about each other.
00:10:10
Speaker
Definitely, man. My number three is a gingerbread house. This is another one. It's got nostalgia, but I've been doing it a lot the last few years with my kids now. And it's something we definitely look forward to every Christmas man is, you know, obviously everybody enjoys putting together their gingerbread houses, but I'm like the rare person that I really like eating my gingerbread house, man. I know like those cookies are like super like
00:10:35
Speaker
freakin stiff and I'll be almost kind of like a little bit stale on like the texture on the stuff but for whatever reason that's always been a guilty pleasure mine and and I love the icing packs too man like I don't know what it is do you like I said I know it's not high quality shit but I love eating a gingerbread house there was a
00:10:51
Speaker
Christmas 2011 at my house in Kentucky. We got knocking back a few beverages and we decided to put one together and I actually snuck off with the, uh, the packet of icing and ate the whole damn thing. So we couldn't finish the gingerbread house. I got some, uh, definitely caught some heat that year, but, but yeah, man, I love putting together a gingerbread house.
00:11:06
Speaker
Man, you're right. We've been friends for 11 years and I never knew you were a serial killer because that is definitely a serial killer move eating the gingerbread house. So yeah, you could take your peppermint slander and stick it up your corn hole. Dude, are you serious? Eat the gingerbread house? My fingers have been on that thing. You're a weirdo. Why would you even build it if you're not eventually going to eat it, dude? For the most fun part of all, crushing it the day after Christmas.
00:11:33
Speaker
No, dude, you got to eat that. You make it. You snap a picture for, you know, for memories and then you start to freaking take it apart and eat it, dude. I remember I got Haribo was putting out a gingerbread house a few years ago. You guys know I love Haribo. And that one was awesome because actually had the Haribo gold bears for like, you know, decoration stuff on it, man. Dude, I'm all about eating a gingerbread house.
00:11:55
Speaker
I'm 100% sure, even when they make those in the factory, those get dropped on the floor before they put them in your box. That's why they're so hard. Those got to sit out and marinate for a while. I appreciate it. I'm cool with it sitting out or even getting dropped on the floor. I'm more worried about what sort of food additive they're spraying all over it to make it strong enough to build a fucking house out of. Oh, you mean them? I don't know.
00:12:18
Speaker
You mean the neutral cereal varnish that Clark Griswold's been working on for 30 years? It all goes back to National Lampoon's Christmas vacation, man. All right, what is your number two
Eggnog: Love it or Hate it?
00:12:31
Speaker
pick? My number two pick is eggnog. It can be normal eggnog or alcoholic eggnog. I am not... I just like all eggnog. I know some people don't like it, and I know Seth's one of them, but I've always... I'm gagging right now hearing this. I've always loved eggnog, man. I don't know what it is. It's just...
00:12:48
Speaker
one of those drinks that I've been drinking since I was a little kid and now my daughter likes it. My wife's not a huge fan, but Zoe likes it. My kids love eggnog, dude. As soon as it starts showing up on the shelf at the groceries now, they start asking for stuff. There's definitely a group of people out there that like it, but I'm not one of them.
00:13:07
Speaker
I also went for a beverage for my number two. This is probably my favorite cocktail I've ever made. I call this one the Drunken Gingerbread. It was the predecessor of the Drunken Stay Puff. So this one is really, really good, but also very dangerous, man. So you get like a pint glass, right? Like I prefer, I got a metal Hydroflast pint glass. So if you got a nice metal cup like that, it's gonna keep your drink ice cold. That's really choice for this. You wanna fill that motherfucker up with ice, pour a shot of Maker's Mark in there.
00:13:36
Speaker
Hit it with some Coca-Cola, get it close to the top, and then you got to go to Starbucks or you could order it off of Amazon and get some peppermint, or excuse me, some gingerbread syrup. It's the stuff they put in gingerbread lattes and stuff. Put a heavy squirt of the gingerbread syrup in the drink, and then you're going to float another Maker's Mark shot on top of that, man.
00:13:58
Speaker
And something between the coke and the gingerbread flavor, it completely masks any of the bite off the whiskey. You still got a nice bourbon flavor in there, but there's none of that bite that can slow you down for a little bit. So, I mean, you could really pound these things, dude. Like when we used to host Christmas parties and stuff at our house before the kids were born, I would pretty much spend all night being the bartender and just whipping these up for people because they loved them. But I would mourn them like, dude, you're going to feel this. And people would... I'd have multiple people hitting me up the next day like, yo, you weren't lying. I'm fucking hungover right now. So,
00:14:28
Speaker
This is a really strong drink that goes down really easy. You're not going to want to make any major life decisions after having a couple of these, but very, very excellent and well worth the time of going out and piecing together the ingredients to make this thing. I love how you emphasized a heavy squirt also because I know how much you like a heavy squirt. Wow. This is Christmas we're talking about here. Who said I wasn't talking about Christmas?
00:14:52
Speaker
What's wrong with that? What's wrong with the heavy squirt on Christmas? Oh my God. I'm not co-signing any of this, dude. I want no part. I mean, dude, this is a Hollywooder's episode. Christmas, Thanksgiving, they know what they're getting from us. Oh, no. It's fair game. Yeah, trust me. It's fair game, but I'm not going to go there on a Christmas episode. All right. Relax, Santa.
00:15:13
Speaker
Um, uh, number one for me was peanut brittle. This was an easy choice for me. Um, I've just, I've always loved peanut brittle. I make it every year at my house, at my mom's house. Um, I just,
00:15:27
Speaker
This is like my snack of choice during Christmas. I mean, I'd probably eat this every day as unhealthy as that would be. I just love peanut brittle. I always have. It reminds me of my grandma, my mom. So a lot of this analogy wrapped up in this one. Now I make it with my daughter. So just more memories I'm creating with peanut brittle. And I know since pregnant, I have something to say about me liking peanut brittle this much, but he said he's going to be on his good game tonight since it's Christmas.
00:15:55
Speaker
Dude, I feel bad after I mean that was beautiful man that was that really was a beautiful you know soliloquoi to to peanut brittle I fucking hate peanut brittle dude I've hated it since I was a kid I hated it as a teenager I hate it as a young adult and I hate it now man I remember so my grandma used to make it a lot too man and I'll be you know I'll get the disclaimer out there I think I'm part of like the only person in my family that doesn't care for it but
00:16:20
Speaker
I'm not real big on peanuts anyways, man. I don't really don't fuck with peanut butter outside of maybe a Reese's cup. But dude, I never liked it. I remember my grandma would make tons of it, dude. My grandma was famous for her peanut brittle too. Whenever we'd have our big Christmas dinner as a kid, everybody left with a big giant Ziploc bag of peanut brittle. That was your door...
00:16:42
Speaker
whatever your grab bag or whatever, you know, your partying gift when you left from Christmas dinner at her house. And I remember I used to get on my nerves because I never liked it. And I would hear all the grownups and stuff just like phone, you know, like, Oh, yes, you know, we got our peanut brittle. And I just remember even as a kid being like, God, you guys are idiots, man. Like the stuff sucks. It's too damn hard. It breaks your freaking teeth. Like it just tastes like peanuts. Like, yeah, man, not could not I could not be any more anti
Peanut Brittle: A Divisive Treat
00:17:08
Speaker
peanut, peanut brittle, dude.
00:17:11
Speaker
Geez, I'm going to just shit on my entire life, Seth. I thought you said you were being nice tonight. It feels like I feel like I'm reading the night before Christmas and then all of a sudden someone gets shot as Santa enters the house. Like I feel like that's what you've done to me. Santa gets robbed. Santa's burning down my house as he jumps through the chimney like Jesus, dude. I had to speak on it, man. Like my hate for peanut brittle is that intense, dude.
00:17:39
Speaker
I don't care for it, man. And if there's... I feel like it's so universally beloved again. I know I'm like deep in the minority on this one, man. I know peanut brittle is so universally adored that what I'm hoping is if there's somebody out there that's listening right now that also hates peanut brittle and has always been too afraid to speak up about it and share that with their friends and family that maybe this year it inspires them to just let everybody know like, dude, this stuff sucks.
00:18:04
Speaker
Yeah, well, that takes you off my Christmas list for the next 20 years. So, let's hear your number one there. Fucking... You'd bought me a Peanut Brutal of the Month Club subscription for Christmas. You gotta fucking cancel it. I'm definitely sending you some now in the mail. There's no question.
00:18:20
Speaker
I mean, dude, it'll get eat up within a day, dude. She loves the stuff and I know the kids would love it too. I just, I don't know, man. I just, I mean, it's really just because I don't like like peanut butter, dude, right? Like it kind of goes back to that. It's just an extension of that. I'm just not a fan, dude. So I will give you my number one pick, man. This is definitely not the standard tradition of a Christmas treat, but this is something I only ever eat at Christmas time.
00:18:43
Speaker
And sometimes Thanksgiving, but traditionally Christmas is when these would come out, man. I freaking love them. It's sausage balls, dude. Now, are you familiar with a sausage ball, Jordan? I am not. So take it away there, meat master, Seth. Dude, so next time you come over, I'm going to get Sheena to whip up a batch, man. So it's basically
00:19:04
Speaker
It's like the redneck cousin of a meatball right like if a meatball is chilling and like an Italian via somewhere on the Mediterranean. It's cousin the sausage ball is in like, like a trailer park in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, right, but it's basically you take like some good like good spicy breakfast sausage like like standard like Jimmy Dean or something.
00:19:22
Speaker
And then it gets mixed in with cheese and breadcrumbs and a little bit of like biscuits usually best, and he's forming a little ball and then bake it man it's like, it's like this little like I had a friend from up north that tried them at a party in Hawaii one time machine man who's like oh it's like a little sausage cookie. Like it's just this little, little ball of deliciousness man like
00:19:44
Speaker
I know it's definitely like a real southern thing, like I said, so because there was a lot of people in Hawaii that had never heard of them or tried to meet them, man, but they were they were always a big hit at our parties, man. And like I said, I don't know, I'm going to kind of like light a fire machine is asked to start making them more than just around Christmas time, because I feel like you could totally make it like a breakfast food, you know. Yeah, I mean, they sound good. So I'm going to take your word for it.
00:20:08
Speaker
Yeah. We'll get some, I'll get you some balls in your mouth, man. Next time you come to, uh, uh, Oakland, you said you were going to be on your best behavior tonight. And then you throw that in there. What I said, I'm going to get you some sausage balls whenever you come to make you sausage balls. Okay. We can't end this at 20 minutes, dude. We got it. We got to add a little bit more to this. Do you and Sheena have anything that you guys do on Christmas night to like wind down the night after like the day with the kids and stuff like that? You guys like watch a movie or anything?
00:20:38
Speaker
Uh, so our big Christmas tradition is always been, it's not on Christmas, but like our, it's something me and Sheena always did. Um, and now we're doing it with the kids to just kind of kick off the Christmas season on Thanksgiving night, like that evening once at Wednesday. And we always watch, uh, Charlie Brown Christmas man. And that's kind of like, that's like kind of like the official, you know, blow the whistle. It's on like Christmas season is here. That's something that we've always done. Um,
00:21:04
Speaker
because I've had some weird work situations the last couple of years. We haven't really nailed down our Christmas Eve slash Christmas day routine just yet. So it's probably something we need to start next year because Brett will be six and Stella will be four. So they're starting to get to the point where they're really going to remember these Christmases. The other big thing we got is Christmas is kind of weird around here because my daughter was born December 23rd. So
00:21:28
Speaker
Uh, we got, you know, we got her birthday rolling into Christmas Eve, rolling into Christmas, which is just, it's always kind of awkward, man. I think we're going to start celebrating her birthday in like June next year. It's just like, we'll just celebrate it on the half birthday. But just so that way we can really like do stuff, do more stuff with her. And it just, I think it'll be easier on everybody, you know?
00:21:47
Speaker
Yeah, that's tough, man. My sister was born on New Year's Day and I feel bad for her because, dude, it's kind of just covered up by the holidays, man. As sad as that is to say, I mean, you try to make it special for him, but dude, I'm with you. It just doesn't seem like you're celebrating a birthday when Christmas is two days later, you know, it just... It's tough to compete with Jesus, man. It is tough to compete with Jesus and you don't want to be like the office cast and have a shitty birthday for Jesus.
00:22:15
Speaker
Yeah. And like, I just think about like, as she gets older, like it's going to be hard coordinating stuff like with her friends. Cause so many people travel around that time. Like I caught a little bit of that cause my birthday is November 24th. So like it was almost always a year on Thanksgiving or part of like the, like the typical four day weekend for Thanksgiving. Um, but it wasn't nearly to the same level as, you know, two days before Christmas.
00:22:37
Speaker
Yeah, that is definitely tough. Yeah, me and Ari always try to watch Christmas vacation. We don't, it's not necessarily the last time we watch it, but we always try to watch it on Christmas night after we're done with everything.
00:22:50
Speaker
Zoe doesn't go to bed real early. So that's kind of a problem. We don't get a lot of alone time because Zoe is usually up till about midnight on weekends and stuff like that. We don't really have them assigned bedtime for her. So definitely our fault, but we love spending time with her. So, but yeah, I mean, that's usually what we do to wind down the night. We'll, we'll turn something on whether it's usually Christmas vacation, but I mean, Christmas story and all that stuff is on, even though I hate that movie, but
00:23:16
Speaker
It's for another episode. I remember as a kid, Christmas night always seemed so bleak to me. Yeah. Because I would just be thinking like, fuck. It's over. It's 364 days before this is coming back. You know what I mean? My parents always went all out. Like we always had really big Christmases growing up.
00:23:32
Speaker
But I would still you know, I mean I was definitely just I wouldn't say I was spoiled I think I was just like looking at things wrong because I definitely appreciated like the stuff we had growing up But I would I always remember having like that little like slightly sad feeling that like damn Christmas is a whole This is the farthest away from the next Christmas as I possibly could be. Yeah, dude I'll argue that Christmas night as an adult it when you have a kid is just as depressing because you're like
00:24:00
Speaker
man all that work that we just did and now it's over and what do we have to look forward to now the dead of winter like it is it's a depressing night man it still is this day for me i know a lot of people are happy when christmas is over i am not one of those people dude it's just and it's just depressing for me which i didn't know this until a couple of years ago and you probably did because you're like smartest person alive but i didn't realize that the 12 days of christmas actually kicked off on christmas night i never knew that growing up
00:24:30
Speaker
I didn't either. I thought it was like an appetizer type deal. No, no, no. I always thought the 12 days of Christmas started on the 13th. Nope. 12 days of Christmas starts on Christmas night and goes through January 6th. So there, I just taught you something today. Nice, man. The more you know. Yeah, so a lot of people celebrate the 12 days of Christmas and I literally had no idea that
00:24:52
Speaker
I thought the exact same thing it started on the 13th and you count down 12 days till Christmas But no, it actually is starting on Christmas night. So The more you know celebrating Christmas on like January 6th, like that just seems weird to me man. I Well January 6th is the epiphany that's when like the three Kings came and gave The gifts so like that's why it's the 12 days of Christmas. I
00:25:17
Speaker
God damn dude, we're getting a freaking theology lesson here. Hey man, I'm just trying to, hey, the more you know about Christmas, if we're gonna do a Christmas episode, might as well break into a little bit of Christmas facts. I think we've, dude, we, I don't think there's ever been an episode in the four years of the Chick Foley show that has been, that has hit these different extremes on like the morality scale. You know what I mean? We've had some straight up nasty debauchery talk and then we've also had, you know, lessons right out of the Bible. Yeah, man.
00:25:47
Speaker
Just shows you how well-rounded I am, man. I got a lot of facts. We'll do one last question, man. What was your all-time favorite Christmas present you got as a kid?
Jordan's Childhood Christmas Memory
00:26:01
Speaker
So the most vivid memory I have, it was when I was 12 years old and my mom was a single parent at this time. And I just remember getting, it was like a red sled. We lived in an apartment complex. It was a red sled and it was filled with like a GI Joe tank, a bunch of GI Joes, some wrestlers, everything like that. And I just, I always remember that image in my head when I think of Christmas morning.
00:26:31
Speaker
I knew my mom didn't have a lot of money, but she always made Christmas important for us when we were growing up. So that is definitely a memory that will always be ingrained in my mind.
00:26:42
Speaker
That sounds really lovely, man. That sounds awesome, dude. For mine, I got a Sega Genesis for Christmas in 1992. Looking back now, I know they were just working me, man, because I do the same thing as my dad did.
00:27:03
Speaker
They're comfortable middle class, right? Not rich by any means, but like, you know, like we were comfortable middle class, but they had completely convinced me that we could not afford a Sega, right? Like they were like, you know, acting all sad about it because they knew that's what me and my brother wanted. And they're like, you know, we wish we could, but we just can't afford it this year. And I fucking bought it hook, line and sinker to the point where like I had given up on getting it and like
00:27:25
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I was just like, well, you know, I guess it's just not gonna happen. I actually felt bad for even asking about it. And like, I remember as a kid, like thinking like, man, I hope I didn't make my parents feel bad by asking for this. And then sure as shit on Christmas, we opened up all the presents, right? And my mom loved to do like the Steve Jobs, like one more thing type gimmick. So like, we opened up all the presents and the dust is starting to settle a little bit. And then my mom's like, Hey, I think we got one more present, you know, and then like it was back tucked behind a coffee table or something. It was a big old box with the
00:27:52
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the OG Sega Genesis with Sonic the Hedgehog. And I remember just loving it, dude. She hit you with the Ralphie's dad thing. Like, Oh, well, did you get everything you want? And you're like, Oh, not really. I wanted to say that. And then she's like, well, bam, here's the Sega.
00:28:07
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You know, it is pretty crazy to think about, dude. I don't think I got another game for like nine months, dude. I think I Sonic the Hedgehog was the first game I got. And I think the next game I got was Mortal Kombat, which it may have been November, dude. Like I literally played just Sonic the Hedgehog on my Sega for damn near a year, man. Like, could you imagine only playing one video game that you can't even save for that long? I can because, dude, I feel like I did that with Donkey Kong Country and Sonic. I love both of those games.
00:28:37
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Growing up. So yeah, man, that's that's awesome. I love hearing stuff like that, dude I love Christmas morning stories about when you were a kid like I could do an entire episode on just Christmas morning Stories about when we were kids so another time Yeah, for sure
00:28:54
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All right, well, that's it. Thank you guys again for all the support this year. I hope this was something to kill 30 minutes of either your drive or, you know, your unwanted company you got over if you just need a break. We appreciate everything that you guys have, you know, all the support, all the love you guys have shown the Podwear series this year, and it's going to be even better stuff.
00:29:13
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For next year Jordan you get any last words for us? Yeah, man We always try to keep it light and funny around here, but I'm being dead serious here like Merry Christmas you guys happy new year I hope you guys get to spend lots of time with family and friends definitely enjoy making those memories cuz uh
00:29:30
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At some point, those people ain't going to be there to be morbid, but I mean, they're not and you got to enjoy. Let me, let me cue up the undertakers. Dude, I'm being serious. Like you got to enjoy that. After the last, I mean, I don't know, man, I don't know about you, but after the last three years, dude, just everything, everyone's went through in the last three years. Like it just really makes me appreciate more like memories and stuff like that with my family. So.
00:29:54
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No, you're 100% right, dude. Like I said, this episode, this is probably the most schizo episode we've ever dropped. I feel like the tone has gone up and down all over the place within a 30-minute episode. But I'm right there with you, dude. I would give anything in the world to have another big Christmas at my grandma's house when I was a kid with everybody there, man. So yeah, cherish those memories.
00:30:15
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You never gonna there there's maybe like one or two gifts from your whole childhood or you know, if you got kids right now You know their whole childhood that they're actually gonna remember they're gonna remember the experiences though and the the times and you know The memories of stuff that you make when you're when you're together. So yeah, 100% good good way to end this Jordan, even though you took it, uh, you definitely you said we like to keep the light damn but you can't get pretty heavy there and
00:30:37
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Yeah, well, you know what happens when I get in the mood. Like an emo bear man. Merry Christmas guys.
00:31:02
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Hang all the mistletoe I'm gonna get to know you better This Christmas