1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,680 This week on the Donut Box Podcast, it's our Christmas episode. 2 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:09,840 We're feeling festive and we're going through one of our favorite stories first and that 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:12,260 is Christmas at the trailer park. 4 00:00:12,260 --> 00:00:15,120 We attended a wedding on Christmas Day. 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:16,120 Pretty wild stuff. 6 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:17,120 What else we got Christopher? 7 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,360 Also, find out how people down under throw a few shrimp on the Bobby as they celebrate 8 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:23,120 Christmas at the beach. 9 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:28,120 And also, does Micah know how long it took Charles Dickens to write Christmas Carol? 10 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:29,360 Find out on the donut hole. 11 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,640 Charles Dickens, I don't even know who Charles Dickens is. 12 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:33,640 I'm joking. 13 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:35,160 I do know who Charles Dickens is. 14 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:39,120 We'll find out the donut hole, but we'll also find out what fries my donuts, what really 15 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,400 fires me up about the holiday season. 16 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:46,940 There's some things that really get my goat, but we'll also talk about why I am no longer 17 00:00:46,940 --> 00:00:51,480 a big Grinch and maybe I'm on my path to enlightenment. 18 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:56,160 And two pastors celebrate Christmas Eve services in a fun and interesting way. 19 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:00,360 All that and more on this Christmas episode of the Donut Box Podcast. 20 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:01,360 Let's roll the intro. 21 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,160 Hi, I'm Micah. 22 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:04,400 And I'm Chris. 23 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,680 And we've been friends for over 20 years. 24 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,040 Surprisingly, we haven't killed each other yet. 25 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:13,560 Years ago, we started our own variety show and it's now that we're adults, we decided 26 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:14,720 to give it another try. 27 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,520 And you know what it says like in the movie, life is like a box of donuts. 28 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,080 You never know which one's going to be the next one. 29 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:22,080 Wait a second. 30 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:23,360 It's chocolates. 31 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:26,240 Life is like a box of chocolates. 32 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,640 You never know what you're going to get. 33 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:29,640 Oh, right. 34 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:30,640 Okay. 35 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:32,720 Well, let's start the show. 36 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:36,480 This is the Donut Box Podcast. 37 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:37,480 All right, man. 38 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:38,480 It's Christmas. 39 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:40,640 Merry Christmas, everyone. 40 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:41,640 It's been great. 41 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,600 I can't believe this year is wrapping up, dude. 42 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,080 It's been a really fast year. 43 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:52,840 Every, I know everybody says it, but every year you're on this rock, this planet Earth, 44 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:54,800 it just seems to go faster and faster. 45 00:01:54,800 --> 00:02:00,280 And so we're coming to a close in 2024 and we have started season four of the Donut Box 46 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:01,440 Podcast. 47 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:02,440 Here we are. 48 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,680 We are on episode five. 49 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,320 It is great. 50 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:11,880 I am just thrilled that we're over in five and you know, you can still see our faces 51 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:12,880 on episode five. 52 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:14,520 But Chris, how you doing, man? 53 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:16,120 You looking really festive? 54 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,000 Is that a John Cena Christmas sweater? 55 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Yes, it is. 56 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,680 It is my John Cena Christmas sweater. 57 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:27,840 I have a wrestling shirt for every occasion, my friend, and I like to pull this bad boy 58 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,200 out of the closet around this time. 59 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:31,200 It's great. 60 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:32,200 I love this sweater. 61 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,080 Oh, well, that's fantastic. 62 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,160 I mean, it's good. 63 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,600 You know, a lot of people call things like ugly Christmas sweaters. 64 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,080 I don't know what constitutes. 65 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,400 Would you constitute that as an ugly Christmas sweater? 66 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:44,520 Yeah, no. 67 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:45,520 That's kind of the thing. 68 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:51,240 I know that there are like ugly, ugly Christmas sweaters, but now it's just Christmas sweater, 69 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:52,240 whatever. 70 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:55,600 I mean, say ugly Christmas, people just wear normal Christmas. 71 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:56,600 Oh, yeah. 72 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,720 It should be one Christmas sweater day or whatever. 73 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:01,120 Yeah, no. 74 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:02,520 And that was something that I was wondering. 75 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:06,760 I kind of had an office Christmas party and of course, office Christmas parties, they 76 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:07,760 always do that. 77 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:12,040 And the contest was the ugly Christmas sweater thing, but I noticed that none of them were 78 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:13,040 really ugly. 79 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,120 Like it wasn't that it was crazy colors. 80 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,600 It was all pretty normal stuff I felt like. 81 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,000 So yeah, I feel you. 82 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,920 But anyways, off that rabbit trail, welcome to the Donut Box podcast. 83 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:28,480 And we have a great episode for you for this festive holiday Christmas. 84 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:35,200 And I am really, really excited for our first segment, which is the old fashioned donut, 85 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,200 which is a story from our past. 86 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,760 And this story is near and dear to my heart. 87 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:45,240 Oh, you love this story. 88 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:52,840 It's just because it's uniquely an environment that I grew up somewhat in. 89 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:54,800 So let's get ready. 90 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:56,040 Let's set the scene. 91 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:57,800 Let's get in the Christmas spirit. 92 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:02,200 Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to get your eggnog or whatever Christmas beverage, your 93 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:08,360 Christmas cookies and get ready for a Christmas story for the ages, a tale is all this time 94 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,520 gathered the children around. 95 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:11,520 No, I'm joking. 96 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:12,520 Do not. 97 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:16,480 No, it's not one of those kind of Christmas stories. 98 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:22,480 So my grandfather, so I actually I need to go one step before this. 99 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:27,320 So Christopher and I, we moved to Texas. 100 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:33,640 And pretty much the entire reason was because my grandmother, she was when we made the decision 101 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:39,160 to move to Texas was passing away slowly or however you would like to put that. 102 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,320 I'm trying to put that delicately. 103 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,080 And so it was OK. 104 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,480 We need to be out there to kind of help with things and that sort of thing. 105 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,400 She ended up passing away before we moved out there. 106 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,520 But then we still said, OK, we're going to take care of my grandfather out there. 107 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,700 However, my grandfather, what was the time of the lady department? 108 00:04:58,700 --> 00:05:01,960 We moved in June, ladies and gentlemen, June. 109 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,880 So timeframe for you, June. 110 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:12,640 And so we move in June and my grandmother had been barely passed away at that point. 111 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:16,440 And so we move and get everything in there. 112 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:20,480 And my grandfather starts dating a few people. 113 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:28,680 But one of the people he starts dating is this lady who was the housekeeper at the place 114 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:29,800 that he worked at. 115 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,800 Like he was a contractor and he was and she was the housekeeper. 116 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:41,120 So they end up, you know, getting a relationship and they got married quite quickly. 117 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:42,120 And hold on. 118 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:50,960 Before you know before you do that, OK, OK, let me let me set up some more of the background. 119 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:55,280 OK, so while we were there, he was living with us. 120 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:56,280 OK. 121 00:05:56,280 --> 00:06:02,480 And this man is a very at the time, very conservative, very Christian, all that. 122 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:04,240 And we're two young teenage boys. 123 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,000 So he's given us lectures like you don't ever need to be alone with a girl. 124 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,160 Like, of course, spending the night with a girl is like, oh, that's awesome. 125 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:13,160 No, no. 126 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:14,160 Right. 127 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:16,600 Even if you come home past midnight, right? 128 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:18,480 Big no, no. 129 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:27,520 And so I remember one particular time, Micah's parental units, shall we call them? 130 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:31,640 They were like, oh, yeah, they were packing a bag for his grandfather. 131 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,040 And I was like, are you going somewhere? 132 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:35,040 You going out of town? 133 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,520 Like, you're going to see some of your other kids who was like, oh, no, I'm going to stay 134 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,280 the weekend at my girlfriend's house. 135 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:45,760 And I remember us being like, oh, that's really, really. 136 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:49,480 Oh, OK, so you want to preach to us about not staying. 137 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,120 And when we talked about it, they were like, well, they're older. 138 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:53,120 It's OK. 139 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,120 Like, they're not going to do anything. 140 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:56,640 They're not going to do anything. 141 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,640 It's like, OK, whatever. 142 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:02,280 Just like, yeah, whatever, sure. 143 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:05,880 We're packing a weekend bag and we're going over there and they're just going to stay. 144 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:09,360 You know, they're just going to watch TV while they're sitting there, you know. 145 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,360 And Netflix and chill. 146 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:16,760 And so, yeah, no, good, good set ups there. 147 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:22,160 But so shortly thereafter, was there a ring? 148 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,160 I don't remember like an engagement ring. 149 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,000 I don't ever remember that happening. 150 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,000 It was just like, it was just like, OK. 151 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,000 We're going to get married. 152 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,240 It's like, oh, OK. 153 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:36,960 And so at the time we were going to this church and my grandfather was a deacon at this church 154 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,280 and pretty high up in the thing. 155 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,560 And so he had talked to one of the pastors and was like, hey, we want to get married on 156 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:45,880 Christmas Day the 25th. 157 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:47,280 Why did they say Christmas Day? 158 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:48,280 Do you remember? 159 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:49,880 I don't know. 160 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,360 I really, I really don't know. 161 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,960 Yeah, I really don't know. 162 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:57,960 I don't think that was ever explained. 163 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:04,560 So and so they said, OK, we're going to have it at this lady's house, the lady that he 164 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:08,120 was marrying's house because it wasn't ever preface to me. 165 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,080 I had never been over there before. 166 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,880 I don't had you before to like this lady's place. 167 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:16,520 No, we had never been there. 168 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,160 So do you want to tell them about the morning of the wedding? 169 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,000 Are you getting to that point? 170 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,000 You can go ahead. 171 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,000 I'm going to let you know. 172 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:29,920 I think you should because I mean, it has more to do with your with your grandmother. 173 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,760 It was a little bit more sensitive to you. 174 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:38,840 OK, so first and foremost, the biggest thing that happened. 175 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:43,000 My maternal unit, is that how you would say that? 176 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,000 Yes, I think so. 177 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,960 I remember we got to a kerfluffle that morning. 178 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:49,240 That's what you're referring to. 179 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:50,240 Yes. 180 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:57,800 And we got to a nice kerfluffle because basically my maternal unit told me that the lady that 181 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:02,720 my grandfather was marrying was better than my grandmother, like the grandmother that 182 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:08,400 I knew grew up with and also had a pretty special relationship with who had just passed 183 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:09,400 the wave. 184 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,080 Less than at that point, I think it was about six months. 185 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:14,080 Yeah. 186 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:18,400 And Michael is really, I think, I don't know, you're pretty close to all your grandparents, 187 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:22,680 but like I would say out of all your grandparents, that was probably when you were the closest 188 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:28,560 to or had the most special relationship with, I would say, like you had you had a lot of 189 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:30,320 love for your Nana. 190 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:31,600 So yeah, for sure. 191 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:34,800 And so when she said that, it was like, oh, that that ain't cool. 192 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:41,120 So I just I remember it was already like a bad deal. 193 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:46,800 And man, I'll be honest, I kind of blocked a lot of that out. 194 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:48,400 I don't remember. 195 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,040 I really I don't remember like what happened after that. 196 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:52,040 I remember. 197 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:53,040 Do you remember? 198 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:54,040 So what happened? 199 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:55,360 I remember what led up to it. 200 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:59,000 So what happened was they're over the fireplace. 201 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,920 There used to be this big picture. 202 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:02,320 I don't know why I didn't remember that. 203 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:07,720 There used to be this big picture of Micah's grandmother and grandfather. 204 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:12,560 And so the crazy part was is they just kind of it was almost like his grandmother didn't 205 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:13,560 exist. 206 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:17,400 Like she had barely been put in the ground and everyone just forgot about her. 207 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:23,960 So on the day of the wedding, Micah's maternal unit removed the picture from the fireplace 208 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:25,720 right above the fire. 209 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:32,600 And when that happened, something weird happened, like the clock started and again, some clocks, 210 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,120 they start chiming on the hour. 211 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:38,320 But this was like at seven, probably 742. 212 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,280 Well, I'll say this, I already interrupt you. 213 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,040 That clock I had we had traveled. 214 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,440 We had I think got that clock in Germany or something. 215 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,680 It was like one of those mantle clocks and the thing didn't run. 216 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:54,600 So like it never chimed like the thing never like the thing never went off. 217 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:57,920 And so like the only way that you can get it to chime is if you like lifted it up and 218 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,400 shook it around and made all the parts like clang. 219 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:07,080 And so what was creepy about it was when they removed that picture, that clock started going 220 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:08,080 off, right? 221 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:12,560 Like Chris saw I wasn't there, but you were you were there when you when like that clock 222 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:13,800 started going off. 223 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,000 Yep, I did. 224 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,000 And it went off and I was like, that's weird. 225 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,960 And everyone was like, okay. 226 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:23,360 And then Micah was like, yep, that's Nana saying she don't approve of this. 227 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,440 And then his maternal unit was like, no, that's Nana saying she does approve of it. 228 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:29,160 That's her saying she does approve of it. 229 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:34,960 And it's like, okay, how quickly the story changed after they got divorced, spoiler alert, 230 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:35,960 they got divorced. 231 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:45,040 So, and so like, yeah, I don't know why I didn't, for some reason, my mind said that 232 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,040 wasn't the same day, but that was the morning. 233 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:48,040 That was the same day. 234 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:49,360 That was the same day. 235 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:54,480 And so anyways, we, because it was kind of early in the morning, wasn't it? 236 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:58,120 It was like nine or 10. 237 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,200 And I remember or probably yeah. 238 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:06,400 And I remember we were going to pick my mom up at the airport around 11 or noon. 239 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:07,920 It was around lunchtime. 240 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:14,520 And I, me and you, your maternal unit, your paternal unit and the girl I was dating at 241 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:16,400 the time, we all went together. 242 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:17,400 Okay. 243 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,320 I remember that we went, we all went together. 244 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:22,680 And I remember like they said it was going to be at a trailer park. 245 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:24,680 Now granted, this trailer park was nice. 246 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:26,680 This is a nice trailer park. 247 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:28,400 This trailer park is nice. 248 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:29,400 Okay. 249 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:30,400 This is the nicest one in town for sure. 250 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:32,680 This is the nicest one I've ever seen. 251 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:34,200 Yeah, for sure. 252 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:39,640 And you know, it was for a trailer park, very, very nice. 253 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:43,160 And the trailer she had was fairly nice as well. 254 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:50,960 But I remember pulling up and then shortly thereafter, my wonderful aunt pulled up with 255 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:52,480 her biker boyfriend. 256 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:57,920 I remember they pulled up on a Harley and it was like, oh, hello. 257 00:12:57,920 --> 00:12:58,920 How are you? 258 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:04,560 And so, and then, you know, had an aunt and uncle show up and then trying to think there 259 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:08,560 was one other uncle that showed up, I think too. 260 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:12,760 And anyways, what ended up happening is we all went in there and they kind of had like 261 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,080 the couch sectionals and everything like that. 262 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:19,800 And so we all sat on the couch, but I just remembered the main thing was they had this 263 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:26,680 TV and on the TV, they had the fireplace going like the little, at the time it was a DVD 264 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:27,680 of the fireplace. 265 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:31,480 And there's just like, yep, we got this DVD of this fireplace. 266 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:36,080 Doesn't it seem so real because this TV was kind of in a place where it would look like 267 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:41,280 a fireplace would be kind of like, but instead it's and so they were even like, yep, it almost 268 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:42,280 feels warm. 269 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,080 It's like, oh gosh. 270 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:47,240 And what happened next, Chris? 271 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:52,680 So I feel bad for this pastor because this pastor agreed to like come out there on Christmas 272 00:13:52,680 --> 00:13:56,000 and it wasn't like a two o'clock wedding, three o'clock wedding. 273 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,840 This was Christmas morning when he would be opening presents with his kids. 274 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:03,200 Like it was, I want to say eight or nine o'clock. 275 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,160 Like it was still pretty early. 276 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:06,160 Yeah. 277 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:07,160 Yeah. 278 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:11,560 My grandfather is an early, he prefers things rather early. 279 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:13,280 Nine o'clock is noon for him. 280 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:17,240 So we're all like dressed up in this lady's living room. 281 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:24,000 Like granted, we, I think we met her like three times maybe. 282 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:31,160 I remember, I remember two for sure of meeting her and then we, so then we're sitting in 283 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:34,000 the living room and we're just kind of like, okay. 284 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,480 And I remember, I, maybe I'm making this up in my head. 285 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:41,720 Maybe I'm having the Mandela effect, but I felt like something was delayed and we were 286 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:46,960 waiting for a while or maybe, maybe I'm making that up. 287 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:50,400 Maybe so, maybe, maybe I just blocked some of that out. 288 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:55,480 I remember sitting there in that living room and just, it was, it was awkward. 289 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:57,480 I just remember it was really awkward. 290 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,920 Did any of her family show up? 291 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:01,480 I don't know. 292 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:06,000 I don't think, well, she did have a daughter and like a granddaughter, but I don't think 293 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,000 they showed up. 294 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,440 Like I don't remember them being there. 295 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:16,200 And like it was awkward because I think my parental units were the only one that were 296 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:21,560 in somewhat support of it and like the rest of the kids were just like staunchly, I mean, 297 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:26,280 naturally, and then we got a random biker dude who we don't know from Adam and they're 298 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,760 just like, no, he was sketchy. 299 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,840 It wasn't like it was just like regular biker guy. 300 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:33,840 Like it was like, okay. 301 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:35,240 And homie kind of smelled too. 302 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:39,200 I remember having to kind of sit towards him on the couch, like kind of buy it. 303 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:40,200 It was, it was a whole thing. 304 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,840 So I remember like, we're, me and Mike are talking, I don't know, we're passing time. 305 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:46,280 Like that's the thing. 306 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:47,680 Like anytime me and Mike, I got away for something. 307 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:48,680 We just passed the time. 308 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:49,680 We talking about something. 309 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:53,680 So I'll pass our family shows up, they do this wedding and the wedding was probably 310 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:55,480 maybe 15 minutes. 311 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:59,400 Maybe I don't think maybe maybe like five, it was like five, 10 minutes. 312 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,920 Like it was pretty short because I mean, they didn't really say anything. 313 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:02,920 I don't even think they did. 314 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:03,920 They have vowels. 315 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:09,520 Like I remember they did vowels and rings and like that was it. 316 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:10,520 Okay. 317 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:11,520 There was no pictures. 318 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:12,520 Nothing. 319 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:13,800 No, there was no pictures. 320 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:19,600 And then the thing that I remember was it was kind of like, all right, thanks for coming. 321 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,960 And like it was like immediately, I remember it was like the wedding was over. 322 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,040 We stood up, we kind of talked for a minute. 323 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,600 And then it was like everybody kind of like ushered out to the car. 324 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:30,600 Yeah. 325 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:36,280 It wasn't like we're going to go eat a meal, like nothing that you would typically do. 326 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,520 Here's what I assumed. 327 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:40,240 And I'm trying to stay as family friendly. 328 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:47,360 I assumed that it was like we'd married now, get out cause we're trying to enjoy marital 329 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:48,360 bliss. 330 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:49,360 Yes. 331 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:51,840 And it's like, that's what I assumed. 332 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:57,840 But then I remember, so there was in, if you've ever been to a trailer park, a lot of times 333 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,360 it's in a circular deal, right? 334 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:04,200 Like it's one way you kind of have to go down a lane and up a lane. 335 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:05,360 That's how this was. 336 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:09,840 And so to get out of there, you see everybody that's behind you or in front of you because 337 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:11,960 there's only really one way and one way out. 338 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:19,520 So we're leaving and kind of a convoy and all the rest of like my father siblings are 339 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:21,960 back behind there. 340 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:26,760 And all I remember is I remember like there was kind of a road cutoff that like could 341 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:32,160 get you to kind of make another loop within the, to like kind of get back to the trailer. 342 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:36,080 And I remember like they all kind of like cut off and like went back there. 343 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,560 And I remember like my parental units being like, we're going to go back. 344 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:43,760 And then for some reason we didn't, like I don't remember, do you remember that? 345 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:47,240 I remember it was like, we're going to go back because they're going to start trouble. 346 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:48,240 But then we never went back. 347 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:52,440 So I was like, I don't know what I remember that. 348 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:55,640 It was just like, it was just like, okay. 349 00:17:55,640 --> 00:18:00,000 But so then the saga continued. 350 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,680 So it was like, if that experience wasn't glorious enough, we pick up Chris's mom from 351 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:06,400 the airport, Merry Christmas. 352 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:07,400 Right. 353 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:12,440 And I haven't seen my mom in like six months, moved halfway across the country. 354 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,720 And like, so like, there was part of me that's a little homesick, but I was glad to see my 355 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:17,880 mom. 356 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,000 So Chris didn't just move out. 357 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,560 He moved halfway across the country. 358 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:25,600 Like it was just, and that was like, you know, his mom's first move out. 359 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,800 Like that was his, her first son to really move out. 360 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,420 And so halfway across the country was, it was a big thing. 361 00:18:31,420 --> 00:18:36,280 So when she came to visit, I just remember it was like, oh yeah, it's cool. 362 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:39,400 We're going to go out to eat, but it's Christmas. 363 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:41,360 So where are you going to go to eat? 364 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:43,240 And where do we go, Chris? 365 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:44,840 We went to the Chinese buffet. 366 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:49,280 Now Micah's family did not celebrate Christmas at all. 367 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,600 So like there was not going to be any kind of Christmas. 368 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:56,400 I remember us just sitting like around watching TV and be like, man, I'm hungry. 369 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,720 And it's like, well, these are the places we got. 370 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:00,960 We can go to Buffalo Wild Wings. 371 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,480 We can go to IHOP or we can go to the Chinese buffet. 372 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,520 And so we went to the Chinese buffet. 373 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:14,520 And I remember like my, I just remember like it was weird because like my mom was meeting 374 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:15,840 my girlfriend at the time. 375 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:18,080 And like, thankfully we didn't fight on that day. 376 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:22,560 That was one of the rare days that we did not fight me and my girlfriend at the time. 377 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,080 And so it was a good day. 378 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:29,760 And I remember like going to the Chinese buffet and it smelled like sewer. 379 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:30,760 Like I just remember. 380 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,040 Bro, and what's wild is we still ate. 381 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:38,760 Like maybe, maybe I'm more mature now and like, just like, nah, I can't do this. 382 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:42,680 But like for some reason we still just was like, nah, we'll just, we'll just power a 383 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:44,120 third and everybody just still ate. 384 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:49,040 Even though, I don't know, but it was literally like a Christmas vacation or not Christmas 385 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:50,360 vacation Christmas story. 386 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:51,360 We're at the end. 387 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:56,160 They're eating at the Chinese restaurant and like it was us and a few people, but like 388 00:19:56,160 --> 00:20:00,280 I just remember being like, okay, we're eating Chinese food on Christmas. 389 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:06,400 And then I remember like catching up with my mom and that's when she discovered that 390 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,440 we did not share the fudge that she sent us in the care package. 391 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:17,080 Cause my mom, like a couple of weeks before she sent us like, as Micah said in previous 392 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,880 episodes, she would always send us care packages. 393 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:21,880 And so she sent us fudge. 394 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:23,280 I don't mean to interrupt. 395 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:24,560 I don't mean to interrupt. 396 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,560 I'd be watching some of these prison documentaries, especially lately. 397 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,160 This does, this sounds so much like prisons. 398 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:35,280 Like, yeah, man, I got my care package from my girl, like, or from my mom. 399 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,080 And it was full of snacks, right? 400 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,080 Like stuff you can't get at commissary. 401 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:41,680 Here you couldn't get from the pantry. 402 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:47,800 And my mom said it like in this USPS box, like, and I just remember being like, and 403 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:52,120 at the time that's when Micah's grandfather lived with us and I knew that they were all 404 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:55,840 going to eat up the fudge and I was like, man, this wedge is really good. 405 00:20:55,840 --> 00:21:01,400 And so me and Micah like are in our room like hiding, contributing like snacks, like under 406 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:05,600 our mattresses, like under the underneath. 407 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,480 And like we had in that box and I remember I just be like, Micah, my mom sent me this 408 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,800 fudge I said, but I'm not sharing with anybody but you like, we'll keep it in here. 409 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:18,080 Like we're going to, and I think we, I think we hit it somewhere. 410 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:21,480 So Micah's maternal unit wouldn't find it. 411 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:26,240 But I remember my mom getting back and she was like, she was asking his parents like, 412 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,440 Hey, did you enjoy the fudge I sent you? 413 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,960 And they were like, we didn't get any fudge. 414 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,160 She was like, Christopher, did you not get the fudge? 415 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:37,360 And I was like, yeah, we got the fudge, but I didn't share it with nobody. 416 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:42,320 But Micah, Micah was like, it was good, Miss Debbie. 417 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:43,320 Classic. 418 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:48,320 Yeah, that was, that was the kind of stuff, man. 419 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:54,320 Yeah, I'm telling you, like it's weird. 420 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,440 What is the, I think it's the tale of two cities. 421 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,400 It was like the time, and I know I'm rabbit trailing here, but when we first moved to 422 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:05,960 Lubbock for whatever reason, like my parental units did not, we, Chris and I had to share 423 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:10,440 a room even though there was a guest room that was wide open that nobody was using. 424 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:15,240 So we had to share this room and it's, it's interesting because it was like, it was the 425 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:16,240 best of times. 426 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:17,320 It was the worst of times. 427 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:21,240 If you've ever had to share a room with a dude, even your, even your friend, like love 428 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:26,320 the guy, but it's just like, I like to have a room worth this space. 429 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,320 Like it's good to have space. 430 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,960 It was like, and I'm sure it'd be different now as an adult, but it was like, man, the 431 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,960 smells that came out of there was rather interesting. 432 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:39,400 Or it'd be like, it'd be like, and at the time, Micah was more of a night owl. 433 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:43,920 So like, it'd be like, oh, I want to go to sleep, but he's wants to be up playing video 434 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:44,920 games. 435 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:45,920 And I'm like, okay, that's cool. 436 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:46,920 Like I'll play video games. 437 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:48,200 Like I'm trying to go to sleep. 438 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,400 Or you do like, when you're in that close quarters, you just, when like, you're like, 439 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,520 okay, this is my half of the room. 440 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:55,680 This is your half of the room. 441 00:22:55,680 --> 00:23:01,040 Like I, we weren't that bad, but I literally equate it to like stepbrothers. 442 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:05,800 When they're sharing the room together and they're just getting on each other's nerves. 443 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:11,720 And you're like, bro, like you can't put two teenage boys sharing half, because the room 444 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:16,680 wasn't even that big, but like, you can't have them share the room and then like them 445 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:17,680 not fight. 446 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:23,920 Like what, what I think is funny too, it'd be like Chris would be, because it'd be getting 447 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:24,920 into fights. 448 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:28,600 You just be irritated about, I could see why, and I know this is another rabbit drill, but 449 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:32,160 I could see why people in prison in such close quarters, especially if you're doing like a 450 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,680 23 in one with another person, like why you get into fights because it'll be over some 451 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:37,680 like small stuff. 452 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,080 I remember he'd be like, are you playing a fight simulator again? 453 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,680 It's like, yeah, you got a problem with that. 454 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:47,480 Or you know, it's like, we're just like, or like, or like you'd be playing your music 455 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:48,480 and I'm like, stop. 456 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,440 And then you just play it louder. 457 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,240 And then you're like, what are you going to do about it? 458 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:57,160 And then that's when like, I'd be putting them in headlocks and like everything like 459 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,240 bro, he'd be using his police training in crap. 460 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,200 It's just like, aw man, it was, it was a whole thing. 461 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,800 So it's like, stop, stop, stop. 462 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,080 He'd be, he'd be doing like chicken wing maneuver. 463 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:13,280 It's like, nah, dude, but it's like, it's funny because I equate that time. 464 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:14,920 It was like, it was the best of times. 465 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:16,200 It was the worst of times. 466 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,280 It was like, it's like, I have a lot of good memories with that. 467 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,760 It's like, but I also have a lot of like, that really sucked too. 468 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:27,360 Those are also the time where like, we would sneak out of the window to go get Burger King 469 00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:29,360 at like 11 at night. 470 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:34,560 And we were like, open the, because again, like it's not that we could have walked out 471 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:39,280 the front door, but like the, the alarm, not the alarm, but like there will always be a 472 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:44,080 ding whenever the door opened and it'll be like door open, you know, those things. 473 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,920 And so like anytime that they'd be like, why are you going out? 474 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,920 Like you, you'd be getting interrogated when you came back in. 475 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:51,920 It'd be the Spanish Inquisition. 476 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,040 Like they'd be asking you a thousand questions. 477 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:55,600 They'd be like, where'd you go? 478 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:56,600 Who were you with? 479 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:57,800 It's like, it was being Chris. 480 00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:58,800 We went to Burger King. 481 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,720 Look, the bag is right here. 482 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,000 And then it'd be like, why are you going to Burger King for? 483 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,520 How much did that cost? 484 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:05,920 Why are you spending money? 485 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:07,240 You just got your first job. 486 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:08,240 You shouldn't be spending money. 487 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,240 And it's just like, bro, relax. 488 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,600 And it's just like, you really should be saving. 489 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:13,600 College is coming. 490 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:14,600 College ain't cheap. 491 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,600 You think I'm going to be paying all that stuff for college? 492 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,360 And it's just like, dude, relax. 493 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:23,600 And it's just like, then your five for five deal at Burger King is no longer a very good 494 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:24,600 deal. 495 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,240 Now is it because you had to go through all this crap to get it? 496 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:28,240 Yeah. 497 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,920 So we'd be going out the window and then we'd be putting the screen back on, taking 498 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,480 the, bro, it was fun times. 499 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:35,480 Good times, man. 500 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:36,480 Good times. 501 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,760 I'm glad that we could take that little trip down memory lane. 502 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:44,640 But let's keep the ball rolling with this Christmas episode. 503 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:50,400 And so the next donut, normally we do the jelly donut, which is a jail report, but we're 504 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,840 going to do the fruit cake donut. 505 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,120 And this is about Christmas traditions around the world. 506 00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:58,200 Are you ready for this, Micah? 507 00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,960 First of all, I hate fruit cake. 508 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:00,960 And I hate that. 509 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,560 I don't think anybody likes it. 510 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,840 I don't like that the segment has called that, but we're going to go with it. 511 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,000 Yeah, it's okay. 512 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,000 It's Christmas. 513 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,000 It's festive. 514 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,000 Let me not be a cringe. 515 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,000 It's festive. 516 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,000 It's festive. 517 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,000 Go ahead. 518 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,000 Yeah. 519 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,520 So as I alluded to in the intro in Australia, it says there's no such thing as a quote unquote 520 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:24,800 white Christmas because it's warm, right? 521 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:30,200 So since the southern hemisphere, usually it's like summertime. 522 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:35,520 So a lot of times people go to the beach, they do backyard barbecues, walks in the park, 523 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:40,320 and they go swimming on Christmas Day, which we don't go swimming on Christmas Day in Texas, 524 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,520 but we do barbecue on Christmas. 525 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:44,520 We do barbecue. 526 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:48,200 Now, I will say this, it is hot there. 527 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,880 Where I've lived, where I live down here, I've had a few hot Christmases where it's been 528 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:53,240 up in the 90s too. 529 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,320 So like I could see there being some activity. 530 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,520 If there was a beach here, I could see people being on the beach. 531 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:05,640 I was like traditionally here in Texas, Christmas Day has always been warm. 532 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,140 That's kind of tradition. 533 00:27:07,140 --> 00:27:09,760 But yeah, it's interesting. 534 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,200 Not a lot of white Christmas here either. 535 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,200 But go ahead. 536 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:13,200 Okay. 537 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,800 In Czechoslovakia, I hope I'm saying that right. 538 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,520 Hey, you said it right. 539 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:19,520 Yeah. 540 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:20,520 Yeah. 541 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,280 So in the in Czech, I'm just going to. 542 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:29,560 So while Turkey or here may be the centerpiece of Christmas meals everywhere else, it's fish. 543 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,320 So fish is kind of a big deal in Czech. 544 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:37,520 So those that don't wish to eat fish, they can partake in the Christmas tradition by 545 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:42,720 buying a fish, keeping it in the bathtub for a few days before letting it go. 546 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:49,240 Also another carp related practice is to put one or two scales in your wallet to ensure 547 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,760 that there will always be money in it throughout the year. 548 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:55,000 So it's like a superstition or a tradition kind of. 549 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,080 So how do you, how do you feel about fish on Christmas? 550 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:02,160 I wonder, I wanted the smell of the, of the scale that you put in your wallet one, but 551 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:08,520 two, it actually, you unlocked a core memory for me that I haven't remembered in forever. 552 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:14,440 So and I hate to go down memory lane again, but it's Christmas time when I was a child, 553 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:19,200 I lived in Germany and lucky enough, my grandmother was German. 554 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:26,880 So we had family in Germany and my male parental unit was in the military. 555 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,560 And so he would be deployed quite a bit. 556 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,600 And so the first Christmas we were in Germany, he was not there. 557 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:38,840 What we ended up doing is we went to my grandmother's brother's house who was in the north of the 558 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,560 country and he was, I think she might have been checked. 559 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,440 No, I think she was Danish or something. 560 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:49,800 She was not German, but the gal that he was dating was from somewhere else and she did 561 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,200 make fish for Christmas. 562 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:56,600 I remember she made fish, but it was the, not Ludifisk, but it was like in the gelatinous. 563 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:57,600 It was like in the shell. 564 00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:58,600 That is Ludifisk. 565 00:28:58,600 --> 00:28:59,600 Is that Ludifisk? 566 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,680 And I just remember as a kid, I was just like, could you make me mac and cheese? 567 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:08,280 And she was just like, she was just like, she was just like, what is mac and cheese? 568 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:12,040 And they like explained to her like it's just pasta with cheese. 569 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,360 And I remember she was like, sure, I'll make you mac and cheese. 570 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:16,640 But I do remember that. 571 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:20,040 I remember taking one look at that and being like, I don't think so, dude. 572 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,800 I don't not, I don't, I like my fish hot. 573 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,720 I don't like it cold. 574 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,120 And then, and then in jello, you know. 575 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:30,120 Yep. 576 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:37,640 So also another tradition in check is so if you're unmarried, right? 577 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:44,480 Women will throw a shoe on Christmas day and if the tip points towards a certain door, 578 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:49,280 or if a tip points towards the door, she's destined to be married within a year. 579 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:57,480 So that's kind of a like superstitious tradition thing that women do, I guess. 580 00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:58,480 Throw the shoe, huh? 581 00:29:58,480 --> 00:29:59,480 Okay. 582 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:00,480 Yep. 583 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:01,480 Throw the shoe. 584 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:02,480 All right. 585 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,480 In Denmark, literally they dance around the Christmas tree. 586 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,440 They hold hands as a family while they sing Christmas songs. 587 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:13,480 So like in the Grinch, when they sing Fahu Dorees, that is a Denmark tradition. 588 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,360 Hathens, you know what? 589 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,640 There'd be worship and false idols with that. 590 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,680 No, that sounds interesting. 591 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,840 Now, I've seen stuff like that. 592 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:29,600 I don't know if it's the Christmas thing, but I've seen them do the trees with the ribbon. 593 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,800 Have you seen that where they like run around the tree with the ribbon singing song too? 594 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:35,440 So maybe it's something like that. 595 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:36,440 Like that too. 596 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:41,000 They also, the tree is typically adorned with real candles. 597 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:46,240 And I don't know how that works, but apparently they put real candles. 598 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:52,320 So another tradition they also do in Denmark is children will leave a bowl of, and I don't 599 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:58,120 know how to pronounce it, but it's sweet porridge for the house elves outside. 600 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,600 So kind of like how people leave out milk and cookies for Santa. 601 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,600 They leave out sweet, sweet porridge. 602 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:05,600 So. 603 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:06,600 Oh, okay. 604 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,920 But that's cool. 605 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:11,920 They leave it outside? 606 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:18,720 Yeah, they like, or maybe just leave it out like again, kind of how they do it. 607 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:19,720 Okay. 608 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:20,720 Okay. 609 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,520 Because for me, and maybe this is just my practical mind, I'm like, that's how you attract ants 610 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:24,520 and everything. 611 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,040 You know, leave something like that outside. 612 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:28,040 Go ahead. 613 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,800 Thomas, I'm milk and cookies. 614 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:40,960 So in Ethiopia, it says that 44% of Ethiopians are part of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. 615 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:48,160 So a lot of them, like many Orthodox denominations, they celebrate Christmas in January. 616 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,000 So they don't do santo or exchange gifts. 617 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,200 But again, it's more focused on like the Abbot season. 618 00:31:54,200 --> 00:32:02,320 So they, for 43 days, they do a fast before Christmas, so they don't eat meat, fat, eggs, 619 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:03,760 or dairy products. 620 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:09,040 And so they celebrate Christmas day, which is on January 7th. 621 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,920 And then on that day, they dress in white to go to mass in the morning. 622 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,120 And then they play like a field hockey type game. 623 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,360 I don't know how to pronounce it. 624 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:24,400 But it says that that game originated after Ethiopian shepherds heard the news of Jesus' 625 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,600 birth and in their jubilee began flinging things with their crooks. 626 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:33,920 So that's kind of a neat like tradition celebration type deal. 627 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:34,920 Yeah. 628 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,280 Yeah, it sounds fun. 629 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:42,200 It's almost like, you know, having a football game after finding out about Jesus. 630 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,520 Yeah, it's great. 631 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,600 So three more here. 632 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:53,500 In France, so they do Kings cake and Kings cake here is normally associated with Mardi 633 00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:58,400 Goura, but that came from France as a Christmas tradition. 634 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:02,920 And so if you don't know what King cake is, it's a cake and inside the cake is usually 635 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,760 like a little baby Jesus. 636 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:11,840 And then whoever gets the piece with the baby Jesus, I guess they're the winner of whatever 637 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:13,800 it's like you're, it's like you're lucky. 638 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,560 It's basically, it's like, it's like you, it's a superstition thing as well. 639 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,520 It's like, if you get that, then you're the lucky one that got the, yeah. 640 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:22,520 Yeah. 641 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:33,280 So, so a lot of it is like kind of Christmas coupled with the pagan traditions, I think. 642 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:40,600 So which Constantine made Christmas on December 25th to help celebrate the winter solstice 643 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:45,360 to make Christmas more appealing to the pagans, which is an interesting fact. 644 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:52,440 So yeah, in Portugal, they usually have a meal, which is called consada. 645 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:58,640 And so for those who are religious, the meal usually consists of salted cod and other, 646 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:04,160 other dishes and that can usually take place either before or after the midnight mass and 647 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,480 marks the end of a fasting period before Christmas. 648 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:08,480 Okay. 649 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:13,320 Kind of like how they do Dia de los Martos, those that have passed away, they set up a 650 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,040 candle and the light and all that stuff. 651 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:21,080 And it's supposed to help comfort and warm the souls of those that have passed away. 652 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:26,580 So kind of similar to Dia de los Martos that, that is celebrated in Mexico. 653 00:34:26,580 --> 00:34:30,160 So they kind of do the same thing around Christmas time. 654 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:34,660 Last one, in Syria, the camel is the star of serious Christmas. 655 00:34:34,660 --> 00:34:39,120 So the camel takes the place of Santa and bringing gifts to well-behaved children, 656 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:44,440 facing back to the legend that camels carried the three wise men to Bethlehem to see baby 657 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,800 Jesus who then blessed the creatures with eternal life. 658 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,200 So that's the superstition. 659 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:54,680 To welcome him, children fill their shoes with hay and put out bowls of water on Christmas 660 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,680 Eve. 661 00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:02,800 They also read the nativity story under candlelight, burn a bonfire of dried thorn branches with 662 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:07,520 the belief that if the thorns disintegrate completely into ash, the incoming year will 663 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:08,760 have good fortune. 664 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:14,040 So they, in Syria, they kind of base it more on the camel and Santa Claus. 665 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:18,720 So if the thorns are still there after the fire, it's like, oh, Lord, it's about to be 666 00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:19,720 a bad year. 667 00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:20,720 Right. 668 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:21,720 So I guess that's the bad year. 669 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:26,760 I think when you did this two years ago, you shared that in Japan, they ate KFC on Christmas 670 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,960 Day, which is very interesting. 671 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:30,560 I think about that all the time too. 672 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,200 It's like, let's go get some fried chicken on Christmas. 673 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:37,320 Just got out like we ate Chinese food on Christmas Day. 674 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,040 They ate American food. 675 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,160 It's just like, it's just right. 676 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:41,160 The opposite. 677 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:42,560 It's just like, man, I don't know. 678 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:43,880 It's like Western holidays. 679 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:44,880 We go Eastern. 680 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:45,880 They go Western. 681 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,040 I was like, the world goes around. 682 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,040 We are the world. 683 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,040 Ebony and ivory. 684 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,040 I'm just kidding. 685 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:56,040 Okay. 686 00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:57,040 Are you ready to move? 687 00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:03,200 After that, I'm definitely, after that, I'm definitely ready to move on. 688 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,680 I felt like Carlton from Fresh Prince. 689 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,880 That's so bad. 690 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:08,880 Okay. 691 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:09,880 All right. 692 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:10,880 Are you ready? 693 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:11,880 This is a Christmas trivia. 694 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,280 We're going to play a Christmas trivia game and see if you know the answer. 695 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:15,280 Okay. 696 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:16,280 Oh Lord. 697 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:17,280 Yeah. 698 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:18,280 Let's try it. 699 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:19,280 Just take your best guess. 700 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:23,800 This involves Christmas movies, Christmas carols, anything Christmas. 701 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:24,800 Okay. 702 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:25,800 All right. 703 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:26,800 All right. 704 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:32,800 Number one, which movie featured an actor who has only paid $414 for his role in the 705 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:37,400 movie because he did the role as a personal favor to the director. 706 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:44,640 Is it A, Joe Pesci in Home Alone, B, Chevy Chase in Christmas Vacation, C, John Candy 707 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:48,520 in Home Alone, or D, Jim Carrey in the Grinch? 708 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,520 It's actually John Candy in Home Alone. 709 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:51,520 That is. 710 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,040 He did that small cameo. 711 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:54,240 I didn't hear about that. 712 00:36:54,240 --> 00:36:58,960 He did that small cameo as a favor and just didn't want hardly anything for it. 713 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:02,200 I mean, it is a very short part, but it is kind of funny. 714 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,760 They also said he ad-libbed all of his lines, so he didn't have a script or nothing. 715 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,480 He just made them all up. 716 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:11,960 I mean, I think, I wish John Candy didn't pass away. 717 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:13,280 He was a really good actor. 718 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:14,280 Yes, he was. 719 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:15,280 All right. 720 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:19,880 How long did it take Charles Dickens to write A Christmas Carol? 721 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:20,880 A? 722 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:21,880 Who? 723 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:22,880 Huh? 724 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:23,880 Who? 725 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:24,880 Oh my God. 726 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:25,880 Stop playing. 727 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:26,880 I'm going. 728 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:27,880 The Mississippi education. 729 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:28,880 Okay. 730 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:29,880 Sorry. 731 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:30,880 Anyway. 732 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,880 What was the first thing you did to make a Christmas Carol? 733 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:33,880 A, four weeks. 734 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:34,880 B, six weeks. 735 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:36,600 C, eight weeks. 736 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,520 Or D, 10 weeks. 737 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:42,240 I'm going to go with eight weeks because it's not a short deal. 738 00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:45,960 I mean, it's actually six weeks. 739 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:46,960 Six weeks. 740 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:47,960 Wow. 741 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:48,960 He was writing fast. 742 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,160 He must have been writing pretty fast because it's not a short book. 743 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:52,160 Yeah. 744 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:53,160 Crazy. 745 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:54,280 All right. 746 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:59,640 Which country did the Christmas themed ballet, the Nutcracker, first premiere in? 747 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:01,000 Which country? 748 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,160 A, Russia, B, France, C, Italy, or D, England? 749 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,320 I'm going to say France. 750 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:07,560 It's actually Russia. 751 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:08,560 Russia. 752 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:09,560 Okay. 753 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:10,560 I mean, that does make sense. 754 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:14,240 Did they ever take you to go see that as a field trip at school? 755 00:38:14,240 --> 00:38:15,240 The Nutcracker? 756 00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:21,160 No, but did go see it at the opera house in Germany at one point. 757 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:25,520 I didn't understand any of it because it was all in German, but you know, it was, it was 758 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:26,520 still fun. 759 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,040 I do remember it. 760 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,040 That's really good. 761 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:30,040 Okay. 762 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:31,520 All right. 763 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:36,680 Which Christmas song was originally condemned by the Roman Catholic Church? 764 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:37,680 Ooh. 765 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:38,680 Ooh. 766 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:42,440 A, Santa Baby, B, Jingle Bell Rock. 767 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:48,800 C, I want to hipopotamus for Christmas or D, I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus. 768 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:53,000 I'm going to say Santa Baby because that one's kind of an edgy one. 769 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:58,880 It's actually I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus because they said it promotes adulterous 770 00:38:58,880 --> 00:38:59,880 affairs. 771 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:00,880 Okay. 772 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:05,120 My thing is it's like a lot of these songs, we've been promoting some stuff. 773 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,120 I mean, Santa Baby is very. 774 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:09,120 Yep. 775 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:10,120 Yeah. 776 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,000 All right. 777 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:18,640 Which item, which Christmas item is used to help kids remember the birth of Jesus? 778 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:24,400 Is it A, tinsel, B, popcorn strands, C, candy canes or D, nutcrackers? 779 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:31,400 I'm going to say popcorn strands because I feel like I remember making those a lot. 780 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,360 It's actually candy canes. 781 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:34,360 Candy canes? 782 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:35,360 Yeah. 783 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:36,360 That makes sense. 784 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:37,360 Do you know what each part of the candy cane represents? 785 00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:38,360 Yeah. 786 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,480 No, I don't actually. 787 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,880 So you could probably put two into get, what do you think the red represents? 788 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:45,880 Not sure. 789 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,720 So the red represents Jesus's blood. 790 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:52,880 The white represents when like Jesus makes your heart. 791 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:54,520 Like pure and clean. 792 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:59,200 And then the staff looks like a shepherd's staff and then you turn around and it's a 793 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:00,200 jade. 794 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:01,200 I never knew this. 795 00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:02,200 Why did I never know this? 796 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:05,080 No, I never knew any of this. 797 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:06,080 Yeah. 798 00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:07,080 This is news to me. 799 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:12,920 The guy who made the candy cane invented it as a way for kids to remember like Jesus. 800 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,000 So I did not know that. 801 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:18,680 I just thought it was like, okay, peppermint and I didn't know how to design, but hey, 802 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:19,680 it makes sense. 803 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:20,680 All right. 804 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,640 Learn something new today. 805 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:23,640 There you go. 806 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:24,640 All right. 807 00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:30,440 The celebrated Christmas truce temporarily halted fighting during what war? 808 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:38,720 A civil war, B World War One, C World War Two, or D the French and Indian War. 809 00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:40,840 It was the first world war, wasn't that? 810 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:41,840 Yeah, it was. 811 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:42,840 Yeah. 812 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:47,600 That's, that's a wild story, man, because I couldn't imagine having to go back to fighting 813 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:48,600 after that. 814 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:52,840 And I mean, I'm sure some of you don't know, I'll make a brief pretty much they called a 815 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:56,680 truce and it was kind of like a field day at school from what it sounded like. 816 00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,680 Basically everybody got to the field of battle that they were doing. 817 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,240 They played soccer together. 818 00:41:01,240 --> 00:41:03,360 They like eight food together. 819 00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:08,360 A lot of the guys were talking about how just, you know, you'd been taught these were the 820 00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:12,400 enemy, but then, you know, you'd be talking about, you know, these are my kids. 821 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:13,400 These are my kids. 822 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,040 And like, you know, everybody's just human. 823 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,840 They imagine how hard it must be then going back to like, okay, now we're shooting at 824 00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:21,000 each other kind of thing. 825 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,320 Yeah, that would have been really, really hard. 826 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:24,320 Yeah. 827 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:25,320 Yeah. 828 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:26,320 Yeah. 829 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:27,320 They had like, like said soccer and snowball fight. 830 00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,800 Like they had a, they had like, it was cool. 831 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,640 Like it was like a moment in history. 832 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:32,640 Yeah. 833 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:33,640 It was like a whole event. 834 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,360 I mean, it was, it was a really cool thing. 835 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:42,360 I wonder, you know, how many stories out of that of like, okay, somebody could have maybe 836 00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:47,160 executed somebody or killed somebody or something bad could have happened and they didn't because 837 00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,400 they had met them during this experience or something like that. 838 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:58,880 How many stories of kind of more, how do I put this, you know, humanity stories coming 839 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,720 out of something like that because things, you know, because they were able to meet up 840 00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:03,720 like they did. 841 00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:04,720 I'm curious. 842 00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:06,240 I don't think we'll ever know though. 843 00:42:06,240 --> 00:42:07,240 Yep. 844 00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:08,240 All right. 845 00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:09,640 Next question. 846 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:15,280 What well-known Christmas Carol became the first song ever broadcasted from space in 847 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:16,280 1965? 848 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,640 A. Jingle Bells. 849 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,200 B. Silent Night. 850 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:24,120 C. Hark the Herald Angels sing or D. Away in a Major. 851 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,360 I'm going to go with A. Yeah. 852 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,520 It's Jingle Bells. 853 00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:30,520 Jingle Bells. 854 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:34,760 I feel like that's the, the classic like banner song of Christmas. 855 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:36,480 I don't know why. 856 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,920 Yeah, I feel like that's the, you know, the whole thing. 857 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:41,760 All right. 858 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,920 In what modern day country was St. Nicholas born? 859 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:47,240 A. Greece. 860 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:48,440 B. Hungary. 861 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,800 C. Romania or D. Turkey? 862 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:53,360 Romania, right? 863 00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:54,360 It was Turkey. 864 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,360 It was Turkey, huh? 865 00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:57,360 Okay. 866 00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:58,360 Heck yeah. 867 00:42:58,360 --> 00:42:59,360 All right. 868 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:05,080 Who was the first person to be credited with putting Christmas lights on a tree? 869 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:06,960 A. Abraham Lincoln. 870 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:08,560 B. Constantine. 871 00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:10,760 C. Martin Luther or D. Jonah Bark? 872 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:15,480 Well, I think you kind of alluded to it earlier, didn't you? 873 00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:20,800 Did you say Constantine and had the candles in the tree? 874 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:28,960 No, I just said Constantine was the one who helped bridge the gap between pagans and all 875 00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:29,960 that. 876 00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:30,960 But it's Martin Luther actually. 877 00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:31,960 Okay. 878 00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:32,960 It was Martin Luther. 879 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:33,960 Okay. 880 00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:39,040 So, I think it's, his story is pretty crazy and I've heard like eight versions of what 881 00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:40,200 actually happened with him. 882 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:41,200 So, it's kind of interesting too. 883 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:42,200 That's crazy. 884 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:43,200 All right. 885 00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,200 Which U.S. President banned Christmas trees at the White House? 886 00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:47,680 A. FDR. 887 00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,560 B. Teddy Roosevelt. 888 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,560 C. Herbert Hoover or D. Howard Taft? 889 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:53,560 You know what? 890 00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,560 I'm going to take a total guess and I'm going to say Hoover because I heard Hoover was kind 891 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:57,560 of a jerk. 892 00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:00,120 So, I'm going to guess Hoover. 893 00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:04,080 It's actually Teddy Roosevelt because he was an environmentalist. 894 00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:05,080 Yeah. 895 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,960 Well, I guess that's true and he did all sorts of stuff. 896 00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,640 My thing is you're going to ban trees but you don't want to did the canal and how many 897 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,840 trees you knocked down to make that Panama Canal? 898 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:15,840 Come on now. 899 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:16,840 Crazy. 900 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:17,840 All right. 901 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:18,840 Two more. 902 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:23,240 The song Jingle Bells was originally written to celebrate what holiday? 903 00:44:23,240 --> 00:44:25,040 A. the Fourth of July. 904 00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:26,040 B. Easter. 905 00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,240 C. Thanksgiving or D. Halloween. 906 00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:30,360 I didn't know it was anything other than Christmas. 907 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:33,560 I think it's going to be Fourth of July. 908 00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,080 What holiday would be associated with bells? 909 00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:37,640 Thanksgiving. 910 00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,440 Maybe they just changed the name. 911 00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:41,440 It's Thanksgiving? 912 00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:42,440 Yep. 913 00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:43,440 That's what I was saying. 914 00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:44,440 Really? 915 00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:45,440 Okay. 916 00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:46,440 Well, shoot. 917 00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:47,440 I guess. 918 00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:48,440 Hey, that's fine with me. 919 00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:53,000 I'd be jingling bells too knowing I'm getting my turkey here in a little bit. 920 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,120 I'm going to move right on past that. 921 00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:56,120 Okay. 922 00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:57,120 All right. 923 00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:58,120 Last one. 924 00:44:58,120 --> 00:44:59,120 Come on, man. 925 00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:00,880 Low and slow over home plate. 926 00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:07,280 What Christmas movie is regarded as one of the all time worst movies ever made? 927 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:11,480 Like of all, not just Christmas movies, worst movies ever made. 928 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:12,640 A. Scrooge. 929 00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,640 B. Santa Claus conquers the Martians. 930 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:20,000 C. Krampmus or D. Twas the night before Christmas starring Clark and Gable. 931 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,600 I'm going to go with B because that sounds terrible. 932 00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:23,600 Yes. 933 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:24,600 That sounds terrible. 934 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,080 And I have watched that movie. 935 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:27,080 Yeah. 936 00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:28,480 That's horrible. 937 00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:33,640 So I don't know if my dad did this, like knowing that the movie was bad, but I remember 938 00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:40,680 one year, like, do you remember at, um, like Walmart, they still have them now, but like, 939 00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:42,720 where you have like the $5 bin, do you? 940 00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:43,720 Right, right. 941 00:45:43,720 --> 00:45:47,320 Back then, like a $1 or like a $3. 942 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:48,320 A $3. 943 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:49,320 Whatever. 944 00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:55,240 And so he brought that movie home and we watched it all together as a family and like, I know 945 00:45:55,240 --> 00:46:00,600 1950 science fiction is bad, but like this movie, like you're sitting here going like, 946 00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:01,600 what are we what? 947 00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,760 Like, are these people on an acid trip? 948 00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:05,360 Was it like a fever dream? 949 00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:06,360 Like was it? 950 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:07,360 Yeah. 951 00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,480 It was, and my dad was like, he was like, this movie is terrible. 952 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,600 He was like, I'm so sorry I got this movie. 953 00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:13,760 He was like, it's bad. 954 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,080 Like, and for my dad to say that it was like, dude. 955 00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:20,520 And so we would always joke, but like, do you want to watch Santa Claus conquers the 956 00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:21,520 Martians? 957 00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,680 We'd be like, no, it's really bad. 958 00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:24,680 You should look it up. 959 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,400 It's out there on YouTube. 960 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,520 Or so movie ever. 961 00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:32,600 So and was there like any redeeming qualities? 962 00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:33,600 Like it was so bad. 963 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,240 It was funny or anything like that. 964 00:46:35,240 --> 00:46:36,240 Or was it straight bad? 965 00:46:36,240 --> 00:46:38,960 No, we turned it off after like 20 minutes. 966 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:40,160 We never finished a movie. 967 00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:41,160 Like it's that bad. 968 00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:42,160 Wow. 969 00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:43,160 Is that bad? 970 00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,840 Like you're sitting like, there's no redeeming qualities about it at all. 971 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:52,720 Like take all the 19 because 1950s movies science fiction again, it's cheesy, right? 972 00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:53,720 Like those are cheesy. 973 00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:56,720 But like you're sitting here going like, this is bad. 974 00:46:56,720 --> 00:47:00,480 Like really everything about this is bad. 975 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:04,880 Like, well, there you go, ladies and gentlemen, Santa Claus conquers the Martians. 976 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,920 Just that's a, that's a no go if you, if you're looking to do that. 977 00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:13,440 Or if you're just a glutton for punishment when it comes to movies, go for it. 978 00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:14,440 I guess. 979 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:22,320 But speaking of that, it's time to move into what fries my donuts and Micah, do you want 980 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:28,000 to share what has gotten you fried up about this Christmas holiday season? 981 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,000 Yes. 982 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:30,000 Yes, I will. 983 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,120 I'll let everybody know what's going on this holiday. 984 00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:40,840 So my thing is, you might have heard me elude and say these things before used to be a grinch. 985 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:45,840 I'm saying I'm not anymore because, Hey, I've actually set up a tree and, you know, actually 986 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:50,880 done some Christmas decorating and watch some Christmas movies, which has been vastly different 987 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:55,240 from the last 15 years of my life there. 988 00:47:55,240 --> 00:47:57,400 So that's really interesting. 989 00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:03,440 I think to, to go back to how I was a grinch, we have to go back to childhood now. 990 00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:05,440 We're not going all the way back to childhood. 991 00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:06,440 Um, no. 992 00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:15,520 So the problems fundamentally that I've had with Christmas is more, I would say, and 993 00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,280 I'm going to call us out. 994 00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,400 They are problems that are exclusive to the United States. 995 00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,200 I'll say that. 996 00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:29,080 And one is the obsessive obligation that this holiday brings. 997 00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:30,400 That really ticks me off. 998 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:38,120 And for examples, everybody feels obligated to do gifts and I've seen it to varying degrees. 999 00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:39,120 Right. 1000 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:44,280 I've seen it to the point where it's like, we need to get Joe's cousins, second, third 1001 00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:48,200 nephew, a gift card because we're seeing them at this point. 1002 00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,640 And I'm not saying don't see anybody. 1003 00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:51,640 That's a whole different topic. 1004 00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:55,440 And I'm going to talk about seeing people and what that experience is like too. 1005 00:48:55,440 --> 00:49:02,240 But the biggest thing that I've noticed is there are so many, it's like people don't 1006 00:49:02,240 --> 00:49:06,760 even necessarily have to give other people gifts, but it starts a chain reaction. 1007 00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:07,760 Right. 1008 00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:11,520 It's like, okay, you get Joe's brother's whatever a gift card, right? 1009 00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:12,880 His son a gift card. 1010 00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:16,440 Now Joe feels obligated like, Oh, I didn't get them anything. 1011 00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:17,920 So I got to get them something. 1012 00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:20,200 Now they go and get them something. 1013 00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:25,000 And now what ends up happening is there's all this like, okay, I didn't get them for 1014 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:26,000 this. 1015 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:27,000 I didn't get them for that. 1016 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:32,840 And so everybody's doing this, not to mention, let's be real, the economy is down, times 1017 00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:34,200 are a little tougher. 1018 00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,800 And so everybody stretches themselves at Christmas. 1019 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:38,480 That's point number two. 1020 00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:44,000 Everybody's all upset because the money's tight because again, we had to get Joe's 1021 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:48,960 Schmoes so and so cousin's daughter's kid something. 1022 00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:53,800 And so it's like, since we had to get Joe's something, his kid something, his wife's 1023 00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:59,520 something, and it's just like you have that times 30 family members or coworkers or whatever 1024 00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:00,960 the case may be. 1025 00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:02,800 You've now maxed out your credit cards. 1026 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:03,800 Congratulations. 1027 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,880 You've now maxed yourself out and you're sitting here going, okay. 1028 00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:11,560 And a lot of times it's like, it's in the back of people's mind, but they're like, we'll 1029 00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:13,240 solve it in the new year. 1030 00:50:13,240 --> 00:50:14,240 That's fine. 1031 00:50:14,240 --> 00:50:15,640 Like it's okay. 1032 00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:20,960 But the problem is you start going through the holiday and this is the third point. 1033 00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:27,680 You get to be with family and chances are family, at least one person is going to cause 1034 00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:29,280 something. 1035 00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:35,560 That's the thing that I can't stand about Christmas and being around family is because 1036 00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:42,320 somebody is going to say something and it's either going to hurt or offend you or somebody 1037 00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:45,760 else in the room and it all of a sudden side start forming. 1038 00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:50,640 And then what ends up happening is now you got two camps and then it's like there, there 1039 00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:55,280 could be an eventual blow up and all this other crap and it's just like, dude, not to 1040 00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:58,400 mention the gift time comes up, right? 1041 00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,000 We're going back to the gifts. 1042 00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:03,520 Now we're with people and we're in this whole setting. 1043 00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:05,600 We're sitting in front of everybody. 1044 00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:10,600 They have now stretched themselves, maxed out their credit card to get you whatever this 1045 00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:13,560 gift you're about to open is, right? 1046 00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:17,240 And so you're now sitting there, the eyes of the world are upon you. 1047 00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:18,960 The pictures are being taken. 1048 00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:24,240 If you react anything other than on par and what's hard is you have to get it into a balance 1049 00:51:24,240 --> 00:51:26,120 range, right? 1050 00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:30,200 This is where it really just gets me because you have to get it in a range. 1051 00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:31,840 You can't be like, oh yeah, thanks. 1052 00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:34,560 I appreciate it because they're going to be like, oh, well, he doesn't like it. 1053 00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,960 And then all of a sudden next thing you know, internally they're going, well, why did I get 1054 00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:39,080 this shmuck something? 1055 00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:40,080 That's 40 bucks. 1056 00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:41,360 I'm going to save whatever, right? 1057 00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,200 And then all of a sudden this is this whole thing. 1058 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,480 Now if you go too far, like, oh my God, I love it. 1059 00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:47,480 I love it. 1060 00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:48,480 This is great. 1061 00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:52,960 People are going to be like, dude, if you don't like it, you could just say something, right? 1062 00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:57,520 Like you don't have to go all crazy to try to convince me and all this other stuff, right? 1063 00:51:57,520 --> 00:51:59,160 So you have to hit it right on par. 1064 00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:00,520 Like, oh man, hey, thanks. 1065 00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:05,760 I really appreciate it, which over the years gotten okay at, but really at first. 1066 00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:09,720 So all that to say this, look at how much you're. 1067 00:52:09,720 --> 00:52:15,320 I'm having and you're having to pay attention to and contend with all for a holiday that's 1068 00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:20,840 supposed to be about peace, relaxation and celebrating the birth of Jesus. 1069 00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:25,720 Like that's what it's supposed to be about, but it's, it tends to be stressful, full of 1070 00:52:25,720 --> 00:52:30,640 obligation and then not to mention, I didn't even mention if you're traveling. 1071 00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:35,560 This is even, this is even if you're just in town, like I'm talking these are the frustrations, 1072 00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:41,200 if you have family and events in town, because if you're talking about flying, flying with 1073 00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:46,800 kids, whatever the case is, it just triples quadruples because the airport experience 1074 00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:49,120 during holidays is 10 times worse. 1075 00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:54,320 Nobody has their mind, including, you know, shopping places as well. 1076 00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:59,280 You know, last minute shopping, don't want to try that either because nobody has any 1077 00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:00,280 sense. 1078 00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:01,720 Nobody has their minds. 1079 00:53:01,720 --> 00:53:04,120 And again, they've maxed out their credit cards. 1080 00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:05,400 So they ready to swaying. 1081 00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:09,680 So it's like, it's one of those things of you gotta, you gotta really be careful what's 1082 00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:10,680 going on. 1083 00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:16,680 And so for me, and why I said, I feel like that's really endemic to the United States. 1084 00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:21,280 I don't know why this episode I brought up being in Germany so much, but here we are, 1085 00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:25,960 I guess, because there's such a difference in Christmas and how they celebrated over there 1086 00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:28,320 versus how they celebrated over here. 1087 00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:30,160 Over here, it's very gift centric. 1088 00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:31,160 It's all about the gifts. 1089 00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:34,920 It's all about what you're doing for other people kind of thing, right? 1090 00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:41,400 And it's part of it is how it makes you feel good or whatever to in German culture and 1091 00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:43,360 how they celebrate in Germany. 1092 00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:48,280 Like, yes, there's gifts, but you get everybody like one gift and it's small and it's not 1093 00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:49,280 really about the gift. 1094 00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:53,760 It's like, here are your Christmas slippers that are made out of like sheep's wool. 1095 00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:58,480 And it's like, that's a nice gift keeps my feet warm when it's cold, but it's not anything 1096 00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:02,800 that you're sitting here going like, you're not doing the whole Michael Scott at a gift 1097 00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:07,360 event where it's like, oh my gosh, I got 400 bucks of an iPod and I'm trying to figure 1098 00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:08,360 this out. 1099 00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:13,520 You know, it's very simple and the rest of it is spend time with your family. 1100 00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:14,960 Every business is closed. 1101 00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,280 You couldn't shop if you want to. 1102 00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:18,800 Just relax. 1103 00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:20,240 Just don't do anything. 1104 00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:21,560 That's the whole point. 1105 00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:27,120 And so I think we've got it all wrong when how we do a lot of things and, you know, but 1106 00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:30,880 at the same time, we can also make the holiday, whatever we want to make it. 1107 00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:35,600 And so that's why I'm trying to make it what you want to make it and kind of be a little 1108 00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:36,600 bit more restful and relaxing. 1109 00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:41,000 I know that was long, but there's a lot that fires me up about Christmas. 1110 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:42,800 This is what I want to say. 1111 00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:46,920 I appreciate when people just bring like baked goods. 1112 00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:50,200 Like if you just, when they bring you like a base, like that's all you have to do for 1113 00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:55,760 like you baked me things, you brought me pot, whatever, like that's good. 1114 00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:56,760 That's good enough for me. 1115 00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:58,080 Like you don't have to go all out. 1116 00:54:58,080 --> 00:54:59,080 Like, yeah, right. 1117 00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:00,080 Enjoy. 1118 00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:01,680 And this is what I want to normalize. 1119 00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:05,680 I want to normal, like go back to the family thing. 1120 00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:12,120 Like I want to normalize like, I've seen this in several Christmas movies, like for Christmas's 1121 00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:15,640 or Christmas with the cranks where they're like, Hey, we're, we're just going to go on 1122 00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:17,120 vacation on Christmas day. 1123 00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,160 Like we're going to go on a cruise. 1124 00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:22,680 We're going to go on vacation, but like no one can comprehend that. 1125 00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:23,960 Like everyone is upset. 1126 00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:25,640 They're like, you're being a grinch. 1127 00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:26,640 You're being bad. 1128 00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:30,520 And like literally in Christmas with the cranks, they're like, we're not going to do Christmas 1129 00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:31,520 this year. 1130 00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:35,040 And they let everyone know, Hey, like, do not feel obligated to get me a gift. 1131 00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:38,840 I'm not going to get you a gift because we're not celebrating Christmas because we're going 1132 00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:41,000 to go on a cruise instead. 1133 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,760 And every time that they say that people just cannot understand, they're like, you're being 1134 00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:45,760 a grinch. 1135 00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:48,200 And it's like, it's not that we're not celebrating Christmas. 1136 00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:51,720 We're just celebrating Christmas and we're going on a cruise. 1137 00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:57,200 We're letting you know upfront so that if you don't receive a gift from us, don't feel 1138 00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:59,840 obligated to get us a gift because we're not getting you a gift. 1139 00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:03,640 Like I feel like that was the mature thing to the mature way to handle it. 1140 00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:06,200 Like, yeah, I'll be real with you. 1141 00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:10,240 Christmas with the cranks, that movie just drives me up the wall and it's not just because 1142 00:56:10,240 --> 00:56:15,240 of like, okay, the daughter's coming in town abruptly and all the problems they're facing 1143 00:56:15,240 --> 00:56:16,240 there. 1144 00:56:16,240 --> 00:56:17,520 It's exactly what you're talking about. 1145 00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:19,080 The neighbors have this expectation. 1146 00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:24,680 It's like, well, every year you set up and have this set up and it's very selfish of 1147 00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:29,320 them because they tell the neighbors like, hey, we're going to go on this cruise. 1148 00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:30,480 It's really nice. 1149 00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:32,640 Our daughter's not going to be in town. 1150 00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,600 Why do we need to do the big to do? 1151 00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:39,080 And they're like, no, you need to do the big to do for our kids and for our stuff. 1152 00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:42,320 And it's just like, bro, if you want the big lights and the big set up, you can put that 1153 00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:43,320 on your house. 1154 00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,520 You know what I mean? 1155 00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:46,520 It's one of those things. 1156 00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:51,200 But again, you look at that movie and what did they end up doing? 1157 00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:55,640 He ended up doing a lot of that stuff out of obligation because it was like, he got 1158 00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:59,560 harped on so many times to where it's like, okay, fine, I'll just put it up. 1159 00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:01,160 And that's not what it's supposed to be about. 1160 00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:02,160 You know what I mean? 1161 00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:03,840 That's not what Christmas is supposed to be about at all. 1162 00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:09,600 To me, if I want to celebrate the birth of Jesus by going on vacation and having a good 1163 00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:14,240 time like with my wife and the people that I like hanging out with like, okay, and I 1164 00:57:14,240 --> 00:57:19,120 get it, I know family, that's the one time a year like you get together and you don't 1165 00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:21,520 only see it, but here's what I learned. 1166 00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:25,520 And I think we just need to, and this isn't the positive advice, but I think we need to 1167 00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:26,520 be okay. 1168 00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:30,480 Like your immediate family, okay, that's a different situation, right? 1169 00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:34,520 Like, yes, maybe you should be more intentional about it. 1170 00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:39,240 And there are some situations not going to go into them where you have to cut your immediate 1171 00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:47,840 family off, but for like aunts, uncles, like all cousins, boy, cut them people off, bro. 1172 00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:51,160 You don't see them all year. 1173 00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:55,960 Now it's one thing if you all are like a normal family, you all do see each other, but that 1174 00:57:55,960 --> 00:58:01,400 one cousin, cousin Jimmy that you only see once at Christmas, cut that. 1175 00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:06,400 Or that I, or I haven't seen him in like eight years and it's just like, why don't you ever 1176 00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:07,400 come and see me? 1177 00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:09,600 It's like, why don't you ever come and see me? 1178 00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:12,160 Yeah, it's like, oh, you need to be around for it. 1179 00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:14,280 I ain't seen that fool in six years. 1180 00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:15,280 Cut that fool off. 1181 00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:19,440 That's what I, my deal is family is like, he's your family. 1182 00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:20,440 Family is more than blood. 1183 00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:21,960 I'll tell you that right now. 1184 00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:24,960 Like the older I get, choose your family. 1185 00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:26,560 Like you get to choose your family. 1186 00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:28,840 It saves, it saves so many headaches. 1187 00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:33,820 It really does because my thing is, and you know what Chris was talking about, about normalizing 1188 00:58:33,820 --> 00:58:34,820 this stuff. 1189 00:58:34,820 --> 00:58:38,920 And the other thing is if I had all the money in the world and, you know, and things like 1190 00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:42,600 that, it's like, I would get all the people that I consider family. 1191 00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:46,240 We just get like a big old Airbnb house or something like that, right? 1192 00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:48,800 Everybody has their own room, but we all just hang out for Christmas. 1193 00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:50,480 Like that sounds like a good plan. 1194 00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:54,080 We don't necessarily have to have it at somebody's house and it doesn't have to be like a load 1195 00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:55,080 of gifts. 1196 00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:57,160 Like what if it's just a trip to the mountains? 1197 00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:59,360 Like what if it's an experience instead of a gift? 1198 00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:02,480 Like why, why is that not a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, 1199 00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:07,040 be honest, I can't tell you what I got for Christmas five years ago, but I can remember, 1200 00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:11,520 but I can remember Thanksgiving last year when we hung out with y'all. 1201 00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:18,680 Like you experiences, I feel like you should do like, I remember before Christmas, me and 1202 00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:24,920 my wife went to this Harry Potter, whatever thing in Dallas and it was like, I remember 1203 00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:25,920 that. 1204 00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:30,160 So it's like, yeah, but anyways, we can talk a long time about that. 1205 00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:34,640 Yeah, we can, we could go all day about, you know, Christmas and, you know, some of the 1206 00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:38,520 things, but you know, it is a wonderful time of year. 1207 00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:44,360 And I'll tell you this much, I'm really excited for our next segment because I know Chris 1208 00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:45,360 is too. 1209 00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,440 I see the look on his face because it's our improv segment. 1210 00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:55,440 And I'm going to say this, it was, it might have been a little pre-chosen, but it's okay 1211 00:59:55,440 --> 01:00:00,920 because it's our Christmas episode and one of our favorite things to do. 1212 01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:05,480 Chris and I, Chris is a man of the cloth currently. 1213 01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:11,160 And you know, I had aspirations to be something like that. 1214 01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:17,760 So the thing is, if you watched our previous episode, when it talked about the siblings 1215 01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:22,960 of God and things like that, listen, man, we know how to kind of preach like that. 1216 01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:29,400 But on the realm of, let's just say this, I think if we wanted to start a church, like 1217 01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:32,680 I really would want to start an African American style church. 1218 01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:35,680 I love the way that they be doing things. 1219 01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:38,960 And I tell you, when our preacher voice be coming out, it does have that little bit 1220 01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:39,960 of twang to it. 1221 01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:40,960 I will say that. 1222 01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:41,960 Yep. 1223 01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:43,080 I'm excited. 1224 01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:48,800 So we're going to do two pastors at Christmas Eve services. 1225 01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:49,800 Easy softball. 1226 01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:50,800 Are you ready? 1227 01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:51,800 Easy softball. 1228 01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:52,800 All right. 1229 01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:53,920 Do you want to start? 1230 01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:54,920 I will start. 1231 01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:55,920 All right. 1232 01:00:55,920 --> 01:01:07,560 We're gathered here today to celebrate the Savior whose name is Jesus, who was born over 1233 01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:10,920 2000 years in a manger. 1234 01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:14,560 He was born in a manger so he could down across. 1235 01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:17,880 And we're here today because it's not about Santa Claus. 1236 01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:19,760 It's not about the presents. 1237 01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:23,640 It's not about the Easter Bunny, even though Easter's six months away. 1238 01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:24,640 It's about Jesus. 1239 01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:25,640 Can I get an amen? 1240 01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:26,640 Hallelujah. 1241 01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:32,760 I'm seeing a lot of you faces in here today that I hadn't seen from last Easter come to 1242 01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:33,760 think of it. 1243 01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:39,680 So I just want to reach out to you and ask, where's the time's been? 1244 01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:42,000 Where's the visitation been? 1245 01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:47,240 Where has things been in these few months since we've seen you? 1246 01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:49,680 I just want to ask you a question. 1247 01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:51,680 Is it something we did wrong? 1248 01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:56,200 Or are you finally ready to accept the fact that Jesus has a plan for your life? 1249 01:01:56,200 --> 01:02:02,640 And the next thing that I want out of your mouth is to say Jesus has come to save me 1250 01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:04,480 at this church at this time. 1251 01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:08,920 And I'm going to come back for more than just Easter because we need the ties at this church. 1252 01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:10,720 Oh, come on, somebody. 1253 01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:15,280 Let me tell you, and you better not say amen because I know I'm about to make a few folks 1254 01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:16,280 angry. 1255 01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:21,360 But some of y'all in here, you treat Jesus like an Amazon Prime membership. 1256 01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:25,720 You like the seven day free trial, but as soon as it costs you something, you want to hit 1257 01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:28,240 cancel on the whole relationship. 1258 01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:29,880 But you need to subscribe. 1259 01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:35,520 You need to pay that premium because Jesus paid the premium price when he came down here 1260 01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:36,520 in a manger. 1261 01:02:36,520 --> 01:02:38,520 He didn't cancel his account. 1262 01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:40,480 He didn't cancel his relationship. 1263 01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:42,560 He didn't cancel the destination. 1264 01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:48,560 Because some of y'all, you put more on your Christmas list and you believe in Santa more 1265 01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:50,920 than in your relationship with God. 1266 01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:55,040 So you can sing the songs to every Taylor Swift song. 1267 01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:58,360 You can sing the songs to every Metro boom and song. 1268 01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:02,200 But when it comes to the old holy night, you become like a mime and you get silent on this 1269 01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:03,200 piece. 1270 01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:08,880 Oh, and the thing is, if we looked at your Netflix, if we looked at your Hulu, if we 1271 01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:15,040 looked at your Amazon video and we saw the login timestamps, we would see that it was 1272 01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:19,440 yesterday, it was today, and you'd be bench watching. 1273 01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:23,880 You'd be watching the Dexter and you'd be watching all the shows that got the drugs 1274 01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:24,880 and the violence. 1275 01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:29,600 But the thing that you ain't doing, if we were to check to see when you cracked the Bible 1276 01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:34,120 open, you would have a timestamp that was six months old. 1277 01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:39,200 I would tell you this right now, the Lord is telling me that you need to get rid of 1278 01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:41,400 the subscriptions in the new year. 1279 01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:45,040 The subscription you need to take is the Lord Jesus Christ. 1280 01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:49,480 And if you don't take his subscription, well, your time might be running out. 1281 01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:51,600 Your trial might be running out. 1282 01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:55,320 And you ain't going to be able to update the card information to get that back. 1283 01:03:55,320 --> 01:03:56,800 I'll tell you this much right now. 1284 01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:58,800 Oh, I feel it right now. 1285 01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:00,640 Oh, let me tell you. 1286 01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:05,520 Tell me you're so worried about the hustle and the bustle of daily life. 1287 01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:10,400 You going out in the highways and the byways and you got things on your list. 1288 01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:12,320 You got to get the Christmas gifts. 1289 01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:14,240 You got to do the Christmas party. 1290 01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:17,440 You got to do the Christmas ugly sweater contest. 1291 01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:22,560 But instead of that list, there's one list called the Lamb's Book of Life. 1292 01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:24,280 Is your name on it today? 1293 01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:27,000 I said, is your name on the Lamb's Book of Life? 1294 01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:31,760 Because there was a baby who came down over 2000 years ago. 1295 01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:35,640 They said his name shall be Emmanuel, God with us. 1296 01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:38,320 God with us here everlasting father. 1297 01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:42,760 See some of the things that you have that are lasting, they're going to burn up that 1298 01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:47,240 Netflix account, that job, that 401k. 1299 01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:52,000 So go ahead and write a check to the ministry because we know that you can't take it with 1300 01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:53,000 you when you go. 1301 01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:55,560 What are the last things I got to say? 1302 01:04:55,560 --> 01:05:02,000 The Lord was laying in that major and some of y'all would rather be in the end away from 1303 01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:07,080 Jesus, away from everything that needs to be because you want to be comfortable and 1304 01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:10,120 you want to have it your way like BK. 1305 01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:11,720 But you ain't a king. 1306 01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:13,160 You ain't the man. 1307 01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:14,160 You ain't the woman. 1308 01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:17,880 And the thing is, you got to give it all to him. 1309 01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:20,560 Just like you got to give it to MC ministries. 1310 01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:25,200 That's what I got to say because the Lord is telling me right now that instead of getting 1311 01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:30,880 that Mercedes Benz and putting that red ribbon on there and say, honey, this is yours. 1312 01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:35,360 You could be giving that check and low it out pay the thousand for the big check for 1313 01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:36,360 the picture. 1314 01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:41,360 And I'll have it personally assigned to me and we'll have that picture out there. 1315 01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:45,520 And if you want to have that happen, I feel like somebody in this audience wants to have 1316 01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:46,520 that happen. 1317 01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:49,000 The 50 grand check could happen. 1318 01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:54,600 And I believe that this Christmas and he's all about the miracles and I believe in miracles 1319 01:05:54,600 --> 01:05:55,600 in this situation. 1320 01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:58,120 You know what, I think it's time to pray. 1321 01:05:58,120 --> 01:05:59,640 Yep, it's time to pray. 1322 01:05:59,640 --> 01:06:05,080 Lord, we thank you for coming down from heaven to come down here on earth. 1323 01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:09,560 We pray for sisters and brothers who don't have joy. 1324 01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:10,560 They got anger. 1325 01:06:10,560 --> 01:06:12,560 They got gossip in the house. 1326 01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:17,600 But Lord, we thank you that you are the everlasting father, the wonderful counselor, the mighty 1327 01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:19,920 prince of peace Emmanuel. 1328 01:06:19,920 --> 01:06:24,160 So God, we thank you Lord that you didn't put us on the naughty list. 1329 01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:28,080 But you put us on the same list and Lord, you don't have to check it twice because you 1330 01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:29,880 already know Jesus. 1331 01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:35,240 So I pray that some of these people will put their name not on a Christmas list, but on 1332 01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:37,480 the list of the Lamb's Book of Life. 1333 01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:43,160 And God, I thank you that we don't have to worship a fat man with a beard that we can 1334 01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:44,660 worship you. 1335 01:06:44,660 --> 01:06:49,720 The only man with the beard, the carpenter, and you could put our name on the Lamb's Book 1336 01:06:49,720 --> 01:06:50,720 of Life. 1337 01:06:50,720 --> 01:06:52,360 Oh Lord, I'm stuck on that. 1338 01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:54,240 I'll tell you this. 1339 01:06:54,240 --> 01:06:59,640 Life has been good this year, but I tell you this much. 1340 01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:06,720 I ask that the life in 2025 be even better for these people, especially whoever decides 1341 01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:09,840 to give the big check to the ministry. 1342 01:07:09,840 --> 01:07:13,760 Their life is going to accelerate and it is going to grow. 1343 01:07:13,760 --> 01:07:18,200 Exponential growth, I believe in the number seven, seven times. 1344 01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:20,520 It ain't just in the casino, seven, seven, seven. 1345 01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:21,520 It's in the bottle too. 1346 01:07:21,520 --> 01:07:23,680 And I'll tell you this much. 1347 01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:29,360 I see sevenfold coming for whoever wants it in Jesus' name. 1348 01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:31,400 I'll tell you this. 1349 01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:39,560 Last thing and last but not least, I think and I know that there are saints in this house 1350 01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:44,680 tonight that want more than 50K. 1351 01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:45,680 You know what? 1352 01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:46,680 We ask it for that million. 1353 01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:47,680 You know what? 1354 01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:49,320 No, no, we ask it for the jet, Lord. 1355 01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:55,000 We ask it for the jet because I believe that somebody is going to give us that jet. 1356 01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:56,000 You know what? 1357 01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:57,000 I think that's good enough. 1358 01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:58,000 You want to say it? 1359 01:07:58,000 --> 01:07:59,000 In Jesus' name. 1360 01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:00,000 Amen. 1361 01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:04,040 Oh, I love how you added the jet on there. 1362 01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:10,960 If you guys don't know, there is one of these famous televangelists who asked for a jet 1363 01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:14,240 and when he was like, well, how are you going to pay for it? 1364 01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:18,080 He said, the Lord told me, Jesse, you ain't got to worry about how you're going to pay 1365 01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:19,080 for it. 1366 01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:20,080 He said, you're going to leave me for it. 1367 01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:23,880 I said, oh, okay. 1368 01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:28,360 Another thing too is we actually saw him in person, this like televangelist guy. 1369 01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:32,280 We didn't know he was going to do all the jet business later on that he went viral for, 1370 01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:35,200 but yeah, we ended up seeing him at one point. 1371 01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:39,160 But anyways, yeah, I love doing the preacher voice like Chris and I just just a little 1372 01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:41,240 tidbit. 1373 01:08:41,240 --> 01:08:45,080 So I got a little microphone for my wedding because I didn't think that the venue was going 1374 01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:49,120 to provide one and it's got like a speaker built in and you can you can do Bluetooth with 1375 01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:50,520 it. 1376 01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:54,880 But we would do preacher chords behind it and we'll give each other topics and we'll 1377 01:08:54,880 --> 01:09:00,360 just preach about whatever and we'll just go into and it always ends up being really 1378 01:09:00,360 --> 01:09:01,360 good. 1379 01:09:01,360 --> 01:09:03,800 I'm just going to shout out Chris. 1380 01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:07,000 There was one time we went into, I was, I'd be giving Chris hard with, I was like, you 1381 01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:08,680 got to preach about dog food. 1382 01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:09,680 Like somehow equated. 1383 01:09:09,680 --> 01:09:13,800 I just remember he was like, he's like, some of y'all be smelling like you be eating the 1384 01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:17,160 apple and the kibble and bitch. 1385 01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:19,520 What is wrong with you? 1386 01:09:19,520 --> 01:09:22,560 You can take anything and you can turn into a sermon. 1387 01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:23,560 You can. 1388 01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:28,720 It's like a, it's like a, I do use it sometimes like in real life though. 1389 01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:31,880 Like I don't just play like it's a fun like little challenge. 1390 01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:35,360 It's like, how can you use this and turn it into a sermon? 1391 01:09:35,360 --> 01:09:39,080 So yeah, but anyways, I'm glad you guys enjoyed that. 1392 01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:40,080 Maybe you did. 1393 01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:43,040 Maybe you used to get past it, but we're going to maybe you're just like, wow, I can't 1394 01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:44,560 believe they're, they're doing this. 1395 01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:48,520 Anyway, we're going to move into our last segment, which is our E clear and that's our 1396 01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:50,600 positive advice and I'll go first. 1397 01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:52,480 I think you went first the last time. 1398 01:09:52,480 --> 01:09:59,760 I'm not sure, but I know that the holidays sometimes for people is not a joyous time. 1399 01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:02,440 And so for some people, it's a lot of firsts, right? 1400 01:10:02,440 --> 01:10:09,720 Like sometimes it's the first Christmas without a loved one, or maybe it's the first Christmas 1401 01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:10,880 going through a divorce. 1402 01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:15,320 Maybe it's the first Christmas without a job, whatever it is, maybe Christmas is a dark 1403 01:10:15,320 --> 01:10:16,560 season for you. 1404 01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:20,320 And I just want to remind you like we, I don't want to be cliche and be like the reason for 1405 01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:21,640 the season, but right? 1406 01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:28,480 We just, and again, we joked in the, in the improv segment, but what a lot of what we 1407 01:10:28,480 --> 01:10:33,360 said was true minus the money part that Jesus down here to be the light of the world. 1408 01:10:33,360 --> 01:10:35,000 And so there is hope. 1409 01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:39,580 And so if you're struggling, going through a tough time this season, like it's okay. 1410 01:10:39,580 --> 01:10:43,520 You don't have to feel like you have to be joyous and it's okay. 1411 01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:47,320 Um, cause the Bible says that God sees every tear that you cry. 1412 01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:52,360 And so no one is expecting, maybe they are expecting, I don't know, but like just be 1413 01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:58,080 okay with if it's not a joyous time for you, don't feel like you have to be fake or perform 1414 01:10:58,080 --> 01:10:59,560 or put on. 1415 01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:03,760 And if you're struggling, I know this season, cause it's coming in the winter, it can be 1416 01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:05,320 depressing and lonely. 1417 01:11:05,320 --> 01:11:08,040 Reach out to someone, please and share it with them. 1418 01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:15,160 Cause I don't know, man, I, I feel this like, I don't know why, um, but someone is wondering 1419 01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:19,040 like maybe this is the last Christmas that I'll spend the life. 1420 01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:23,920 Like I don't know why, but I feel like there's someone that's struggling with, maybe I shouldn't 1421 01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:25,480 even be here anymore. 1422 01:11:25,480 --> 01:11:28,160 And I want to tell you like, that's not true. 1423 01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:29,480 Like you are needed. 1424 01:11:29,480 --> 01:11:36,600 And I, I would rather you share your Christmas heart aches and all that, like with somebody, 1425 01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:37,800 because there are people who love you. 1426 01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:39,280 There's someone that loves you. 1427 01:11:39,280 --> 01:11:41,080 If anybody loves you, it's Jesus, right? 1428 01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:45,240 Like there are people that love you and a lot of times we think no one cares, um, but 1429 01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:46,760 there are people that are that care. 1430 01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:51,560 So if you are struggling and you think, man, maybe I shouldn't be here anymore. 1431 01:11:51,560 --> 01:11:53,120 Um, that's not true. 1432 01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:56,960 Like you, you were made for a reason for a purpose. 1433 01:11:56,960 --> 01:11:58,760 I don't know why I feel so strongly about that. 1434 01:11:58,760 --> 01:12:02,160 I don't know who's listening to this, but like, I just had that sense. 1435 01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:06,760 Like someone's thinking, man, like this is going to be my last Christmas. 1436 01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:11,320 And then I'm just going to end it all not to be dark, but like, dude, like I feel, I 1437 01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:15,160 feel that because Christmas is a hard time, but you're important. 1438 01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:18,520 You matter, you matter to God, you matter to the people that are around you. 1439 01:12:18,520 --> 01:12:22,080 Uh, and maybe they don't vocalize that, but there are people that love you. 1440 01:12:22,080 --> 01:12:24,480 And so ending your life is not worth it. 1441 01:12:24,480 --> 01:12:25,480 Okay. 1442 01:12:25,480 --> 01:12:27,000 So I don't know why I went on that tangent. 1443 01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:29,760 I just felt that like I felt that in my spirit. 1444 01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:32,480 No, I, I, I get you. 1445 01:12:32,480 --> 01:12:34,240 And you know, breakthroughs are possible. 1446 01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:39,840 Like the, the thing is a lot of times if you're, if you're feeling that low, what I've noticed 1447 01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:42,000 is cause we've, we've all been there. 1448 01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:45,680 People don't want to admit it, but we've all been there to where it's like, man, maybe, 1449 01:12:45,680 --> 01:12:46,680 maybe this is it. 1450 01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:48,200 Maybe I should call it quits. 1451 01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:53,400 Maybe there's certain situations that are like, I can't ever get out of this. 1452 01:12:53,400 --> 01:12:58,680 You know, it's, there are ways to absolutely get out of it. 1453 01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:03,000 And a lot of the times you have to hit this point in order to come up from that. 1454 01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:08,800 And a lot of times the ascent is very rapid to where it's, you know, I've, I don't know 1455 01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:13,680 why I want to say this too, but what I've noticed is sometimes the difference just a 1456 01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:15,560 day will make. 1457 01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:18,080 Sometimes it's just 24 hours. 1458 01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:20,800 It's literally just one day it's bad. 1459 01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:23,280 The next day there is a brighter outlook. 1460 01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:30,320 And so the thing is whatever problems you're facing, absolutely got it. 1461 01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:35,520 And if you don't have anybody like, like Chris said, you always got somebody in Jesus. 1462 01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:37,200 And then we're always here at the donut box podcast. 1463 01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:39,720 Put it in the comments. 1464 01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:44,600 We've got, we've got plenty of content to where if you, if you need family members 1465 01:13:44,600 --> 01:13:50,520 to talk to around the Christmas table, you can always put us on and have a conversation 1466 01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:51,520 with us. 1467 01:13:51,520 --> 01:13:52,520 We won't judge. 1468 01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:54,120 All right. 1469 01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:58,080 So for my eclair, it's a lot of the same. 1470 01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:00,320 But I'm trying to find this holiday season. 1471 01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:03,920 So one of my favorite actors is Jim Carrey. 1472 01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:06,120 Like I really, really like Jim Carrey. 1473 01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:07,600 And I think Chris will say this too. 1474 01:14:07,600 --> 01:14:11,040 I think what's interesting, I don't put a lot of stock into the whole like, okay, we're 1475 01:14:11,040 --> 01:14:16,080 the same zodiac sign or whatever, but Jim Carrey's birthday and mine are pretty close. 1476 01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:23,120 And I think that's why, like when I was a kid, I wouldn't say I had Jim Carrey as qualities, 1477 01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:26,120 but I definitely tried to emulate the guy quite a bit. 1478 01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:32,360 And so a lot of the humor was the same, but I wouldn't say that I've lost it along the 1479 01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:33,360 way. 1480 01:14:33,360 --> 01:14:36,400 I know that I've definitely gotten more mature in things like that, but I'm also trying to 1481 01:14:36,400 --> 01:14:39,000 find the funner, lighter side of life. 1482 01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:43,440 Like I think I've swung to the two serious point where it's like, okay, I used to have 1483 01:14:43,440 --> 01:14:48,480 a lot more fun even in regular normal conversations, like even the conversations I've had with 1484 01:14:48,480 --> 01:14:49,480 Chris, don't get me wrong. 1485 01:14:49,480 --> 01:14:54,840 We laugh and have a good time, but I'm not nearly as goofy or saying some of the outlandish 1486 01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:59,120 and I'm not trying to get back to that point, but what I'm saying is I think there's room 1487 01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:02,040 to be, have more fun in life. 1488 01:15:02,040 --> 01:15:07,040 And so my positive advice this week is it's okay to have fun in life. 1489 01:15:07,040 --> 01:15:11,240 Yeah, it's there are times to be serious and there are times to be whatever, but that's 1490 01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:13,280 not who I am. 1491 01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:18,280 And so that's also not who you are to be serious and uptight all of a sudden. 1492 01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:21,640 What's really funny and by me saying this, I just thought about this. 1493 01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:27,960 Chris, whenever I first met him, he was incredibly uptight and that's what he was would say is 1494 01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:32,800 just like, I didn't have any fun, didn't have any, but having a friendship with me started 1495 01:15:32,800 --> 01:15:33,800 having fun. 1496 01:15:33,800 --> 01:15:39,320 And what's interesting to me is I look at Chris and a lot of times he's not as uptight 1497 01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:44,960 as I am and he's having more and so it's almost like, you know, it's almost kind of getting 1498 01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:48,480 back to that, but something I'm working on too. 1499 01:15:48,480 --> 01:15:53,440 And just for everybody out there, it's okay to have fun and try to try to have a little 1500 01:15:53,440 --> 01:15:58,680 bit more of the Jim Carrey because watching the Jim Carrey Grinch is just like, yeah, 1501 01:15:58,680 --> 01:16:00,800 I remember being that goofy. 1502 01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:01,800 I remember that. 1503 01:16:01,800 --> 01:16:05,960 And if you're having a hard time, get you a friend who will make you have fun. 1504 01:16:05,960 --> 01:16:10,000 Like that's important to get people that will make you have our be like, Hey, bro, we're 1505 01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:11,000 going to go have fun. 1506 01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:15,960 It'll be a life that'll be even if you're like, I don't even know how to have fun. 1507 01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:17,240 What do I do? 1508 01:16:17,240 --> 01:16:18,240 Get a friend. 1509 01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:19,240 Get someone. 1510 01:16:19,240 --> 01:16:23,800 You can rent us our hourly rate is $1,600 for the day. 1511 01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:24,800 A piece. 1512 01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:25,800 Yeah. 1513 01:16:25,800 --> 01:16:28,160 If you want to fly us out, that'll work too. 1514 01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:29,160 Oh yeah. 1515 01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:30,800 Well, you wouldn't even have to pay for Mike. 1516 01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:35,120 It's like probably he just do it for while you might have to pay for his flight. 1517 01:16:35,120 --> 01:16:36,120 Let's pay for my flight. 1518 01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:37,120 Let's pay for my flight. 1519 01:16:37,120 --> 01:16:38,120 We're not. 1520 01:16:38,120 --> 01:16:41,320 Listen, let's not under negotiate already. 1521 01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:42,320 Let's pay for my flight. 1522 01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:43,760 We need to contact your people. 1523 01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:49,640 So speaking of which, if you are listening on Spotify, go check us out on YouTube at 1524 01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:51,040 the donut box. 1525 01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:57,080 That's D O U G H and UT box podcast on YouTube. 1526 01:16:57,080 --> 01:16:59,080 You'll see our faces. 1527 01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:00,080 So yeah, check us out. 1528 01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:04,320 Also, I'm not sure if you know this too, Chris, but it also works. 1529 01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:09,800 If you still put in at the trash can network, it'll still pull up the, the new donut box 1530 01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:11,240 podcast channel. 1531 01:17:11,240 --> 01:17:15,720 So it's like you could either do the donut box pod or however you want to type that in. 1532 01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:23,160 And like Chris said, it's D O U G H in UT box podcast. 1533 01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:25,080 It's like, I don't know what else you're going to find over there. 1534 01:17:25,080 --> 01:17:29,320 There's like four of the people that are trying to start a donut box with the D O in UT, but 1535 01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:31,440 they all failed anyways. 1536 01:17:31,440 --> 01:17:34,960 So the I'm just kidding. 1537 01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:36,920 Good luck to all of them. 1538 01:17:36,920 --> 01:17:39,080 But go ahead and go find us over there. 1539 01:17:39,080 --> 01:17:43,400 Like I said, trash can network, or if you want to look at it, donut box pod, go ahead 1540 01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:45,560 and subscribe to us over there. 1541 01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:47,280 We're going, growing pretty fast. 1542 01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:55,440 And then over on the aviator side, it is trash can travel, which is going really well. 1543 01:17:55,440 --> 01:17:58,560 That thing is growing pretty fast too. 1544 01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:04,680 And something that's going to be interesting when I get a little bit more time, then we 1545 01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:08,560 might have something in the works where you'll see my face over on that side too. 1546 01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:10,360 And we'll be talking about it. 1547 01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:12,560 So little, little precursor there. 1548 01:18:12,560 --> 01:18:15,440 So if you're interested in that, keep an eye out for that. 1549 01:18:15,440 --> 01:18:21,280 But of course, Facebook and Instagram, all that good jazz trash can network, keep, keep 1550 01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:22,840 an eye out for us. 1551 01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:25,240 And so yeah, that's pretty much all I got, man. 1552 01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:29,640 Well, the Starship isn't going to take us out because it's not Christmas, but wham 1553 01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:32,800 is we're going to have an eighties Christmas, uh, take us out. 1554 01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:35,240 So with that, I'm signing off. 1555 01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:36,240 I'm Chris. 1556 01:18:36,240 --> 01:18:38,440 And I'm like, and this has been. 1557 01:18:38,440 --> 01:18:40,440 The Donut Box podcast.