December 4, 2025 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We always take a little time off around the holidays
because it's Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Or everyone stops.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I mean, I really hope it sucks for people who
can't have you know, I wish everybody got I want
so many Christmas as a servers.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, working for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
We love you.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, everyone except my butler. They get time out what
he's brooking Jeffrey in the morning. But thanks to the
video board that they installed out in our lobby, I
realized our technical director, Ashton has a birthday on December twentieth,
which means we miss it every year, but not this time.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
That might be a gift is that he doesn't have
to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
No, you know, we're going to celebrate that little redheaded
rascal with a fun fact about his life.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Oh, he's sharing a fact.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
He's in the room.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You're acting like you're not talking. This is this is
in celebration.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
He doesn't have to talk about it because participate. I
go back exactly nine months from his birthday. It lands
on March twentieth.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Okay, okay, that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The vernal equinox, the first day of spring, where his
mom and dad came out of hibernation and made sweet,
sweet love to be very day. Yes, think about that,
mister and missus Ashton squishing goodies on the first day
of spring, just shaking those cherry bloss wears. So yes,
(01:31):
it was beautiful, Ashton. Are you picturing it right now?
Close your eyes? Was it in a field of flowers
or was it behind a Joeanne fabrics? We don't know,
but we do know those three and a half minutes
of unbridled passion created our boy Ashton.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
That's very generous.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Strangely enough, same size as when he came out of
the womb.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
He's just as big today.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So Ashton happy for the very time on this show.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That must make you feel so good.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Tomorrow we'll get Ashton's parents on the phone to go
into more detail about that glorious spring day blow by
blow by blow Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
They could just do an audio reenact live.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh that yeah, really special.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now we're all in the perfect headspace to get into
the shock collar question of the day. Yeah, and I
hope Jake has some questions lined.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Up about the vernal equinox for this.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Let's get into it.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Well, friends, it's the magical time of year, when we
all gather around our TV screens, pour a warm mug
of cocoa, and rewatch the same twelve holiday movies we've
seen every single year.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Alive.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yes, Home Alone was on TV the other day and
I was like, I can't watch it. I gotta save
it for my family.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, it hundred times.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
But to celebrate the peak of holiday movie season, People
magazine came out with a list of the greatest Christmas
movie villains all time. You'll have to tell me which
characters made the cut during a special Christmas Crooks and
Creeps edition.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Of Ty of twenty. Here's how it works.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I have a list of the top twenty most iconic
holiday bad guys according to People Magazine. You could give
me the name of the character or the actor who
played them. Just get one from the list to stay
in the game. And yes, the silver save isn't play.
We'll start with the woman who's always seen The conductor
from Polar Express is kind of a father figure.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That move is so weird.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I hate it, the animations. That's your dad you're talking about. Well,
I'm going to go.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I mean, he eventually turns good, but I guess maybe
he's considered villain the Grinch, making.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
The Cinch.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Even on our list, played by Jimmy Garry from How
the Grinch Stole Yeah, he becomes good at the end.
There's some purely evil gods. The okay is number eight,
Alexis you're in there brook?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Okay? Well, when I think of Christmas batties, I mean
the most iconic is Scrooge right?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Oh yeah? Why is he bad?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Because he lives in a gated community.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Suddenly he's a bad guy.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Wow, he's not pain is employees enough for them to
even feed their families?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
On Scrooge right above the Grinch at number seven, I
think from a Christmas Carol nineteen before We're played by
George C.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Scott Jose, We're over to you now.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I don't know what to say here?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Oh, from A Night Before Christmas as Oogie Boogie on there.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Number two ninety three is the Nightmare Before Christmas Jack Skellington.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And then I thought, when I was sixteen years old,
I remember being so mad at the movie theater when
Santa Claus three came out.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
The escape clause.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Is that the one with Tim Allen?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It's all three of the that's the third in Make
Sure The third one has Martin shorten it and he
ruined everything playing Jack Frost one, he was a bad.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Are you saying Martin short or Jack from I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
The actor or the character? And Jack Frost is number nine,
the Santa Claus three, the escape Clause terrible. We're on
around two Alexis. We're naming the top twenty Christmas villains
of all time according to People magazine, and number one
is still on the board.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Can I say the two Burglars from Home Alone?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Or do I need their name?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Do they call themselves like the Wet Bandits.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Or whatever and the water that would you like to say? Yeah?
Those two Burglars? Okay? A number four in the list? Yeah,
nineteen nineties Home Alone Brook?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Okay, you know like the weird stop motion maybe from
the seventies where the little boy is trying to say
Shanta and I think they have the abdominal snowman abominable.
He's got abdominals dominate, the really ripped snowman.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That's right, because I have that written.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I need you to say the a word, Brooke, What
a word are you going with?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Abominable?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Abominable? We'll count that from Rudolph The Red Nose Reindier
in nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I hate that.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Word, Jose one, three, five, and then like all of
the ten through twenties.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Wow, I'm trying to think of the other Christmas movies
and I'm stuck. So I'm gonna have to go on
a lamb and say The bad Father from Elf.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
James Kahan and El James Kahan. I'm sorry, Jeffrey, you
got any more?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, it's always debated if it's a Christmas movie or not.
Die Hard with Hans Gruber.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Number five on five.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Run out of time, which means this is the end of.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Save the Lexus.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
But let's go over this.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Let's go over the list to see the ones you miss.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Number one mister Potter from It's a Wonderful Life, the
guy who the bank.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yes, oh so terrible. What do you mean he's so
so Ashton, he did a so so hand.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
I believe that It's a Wonderful Life is not a
Christmas movie, and I will down that hill.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Get out of here, get out.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Yeah, Scott Farcas from a Christmas.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Story, Uh, brother the Bully.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Yeah, Howard's neighbor Ted Malton, who tries to win over
Howard's wife in the Greatest Christmas movie of all Time,
Jingle All the Way, played by Phil Hartman. Crampis from
Crampis Meister Berger Burgermeister from Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.
The snow Miser, Professor Hinkle, the Ghost of Christmas Yet
to come from a Christmas Carol, The Heap Miser Below,
the Snow Miser, The Marley's the Mean Landlords from screen
(07:45):
cousin Nettie's Boss, Frank Shirley from National Landline, Christmas Vacation,
and the Winter Warlock before He turns Good and Santa
Claus Is Coming to Town.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Jesus, Well, there's a lot of villains say, you're.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
The only one who didn't get all the ones right,
so you're gonna be getting shocked.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Somebody wanted to hear jingle bells for Christmas. I literally
was like, please do it.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Christmas Carol, Jingle bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the Way.
Oh what fun it has two riding a one horse
open slag.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
That was your shock collar question of the day.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
We got your phone tap coming up in just a
few minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Brooking Jeffrey in the morning
We always take a little time off around the holidays
because it's Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Or everyone stops.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I mean, I really hope it sucks for people who
can't have you know, I wish everybody got I want
so many Christmas as a servers.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, working for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
We love you.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, everyone except my butler. They get time out what
he's brooking Jeffrey in the morning. But thanks to the
video board that they installed out in our lobby, I
realized our technical director, Ashton has a birthday on December twentieth,
which means we miss it every year, but not this time.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
That might be a gift is that he doesn't have
to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
No, you know, we're going to celebrate that little redheaded
rascal with a fun fact about his life.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Oh, he's sharing a fact.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
He's in the room.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You're acting like you're not talking. This is this is
in celebration.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
He doesn't have to talk about it because participate. I
go back exactly nine months from his birthday. It lands
on March twentieth.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Okay, okay, that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The vernal equinox, the first day of spring, where his
mom and dad came out of hibernation and made sweet,
sweet love to be very day. Yes, think about that,
mister and missus Ashton squishing goodies on the first day
of spring, just shaking those cherry bloss wears. So yes,
(01:31):
it was beautiful, Ashton. Are you picturing it right now?
Close your eyes? Was it in a field of flowers
or was it behind a Joeanne fabrics? We don't know,
but we do know those three and a half minutes
of unbridled passion created our boy Ashton.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
That's very generous.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Strangely enough, same size as when he came out of
the womb.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
He's just as big today.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So Ashton happy for the very time on this show.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That must make you feel so good.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Tomorrow we'll get Ashton's parents on the phone to go
into more detail about that glorious spring day blow by
blow by blow Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
They could just do an audio reenact live.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh that yeah, really special.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now we're all in the perfect headspace to get into
the shock collar question of the day. Yeah, and I
hope Jake has some questions lined.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Up about the vernal equinox for this.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Let's get into it.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Well, friends, it's the magical time of year, when we
all gather around our TV screens, pour a warm mug
of cocoa, and rewatch the same twelve holiday movies we've
seen every single year.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Alive.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yes, Home Alone was on TV the other day and
I was like, I can't watch it. I gotta save
it for my family.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, it hundred times.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
But to celebrate the peak of holiday movie season, People
magazine came out with a list of the greatest Christmas
movie villains all time. You'll have to tell me which
characters made the cut during a special Christmas Crooks and
Creeps edition.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Of Ty of twenty. Here's how it works.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I have a list of the top twenty most iconic
holiday bad guys according to People Magazine. You could give
me the name of the character or the actor who
played them. Just get one from the list to stay
in the game. And yes, the silver save isn't play.
We'll start with the woman who's always seen The conductor
from Polar Express is kind of a father figure.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That move is so weird.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I hate it, the animations. That's your dad you're talking about. Well,
I'm going to go.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I mean, he eventually turns good, but I guess maybe
he's considered villain the Grinch, making.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
The Cinch.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Even on our list, played by Jimmy Garry from How
the Grinch Stole Yeah, he becomes good at the end.
There's some purely evil gods. The okay is number eight,
Alexis you're in there brook?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Okay? Well, when I think of Christmas batties, I mean
the most iconic is Scrooge right?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Oh yeah? Why is he bad?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Because he lives in a gated community.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Suddenly he's a bad guy.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Wow, he's not pain is employees enough for them to
even feed their families?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
On Scrooge right above the Grinch at number seven, I
think from a Christmas Carol nineteen before We're played by
George C.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Scott Jose, We're over to you now.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I don't know what to say here?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Oh, from A Night Before Christmas as Oogie Boogie on there.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Number two ninety three is the Nightmare Before Christmas Jack Skellington.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And then I thought, when I was sixteen years old,
I remember being so mad at the movie theater when
Santa Claus three came out.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
The escape clause.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Is that the one with Tim Allen?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It's all three of the that's the third in Make
Sure The third one has Martin shorten it and he
ruined everything playing Jack Frost one, he was a bad.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Are you saying Martin short or Jack from I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
The actor or the character? And Jack Frost is number nine,
the Santa Claus three, the escape Clause terrible. We're on
around two Alexis. We're naming the top twenty Christmas villains
of all time according to People magazine, and number one
is still on the board.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Can I say the two Burglars from Home Alone?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Or do I need their name?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Do they call themselves like the Wet Bandits.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Or whatever and the water that would you like to say? Yeah?
Those two Burglars? Okay? A number four in the list? Yeah,
nineteen nineties Home Alone Brook?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Okay, you know like the weird stop motion maybe from
the seventies where the little boy is trying to say
Shanta and I think they have the abdominal snowman abominable.
He's got abdominals dominate, the really ripped snowman.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That's right, because I have that written.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I need you to say the a word, Brooke, What
a word are you going with?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Abominable?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Abominable? We'll count that from Rudolph The Red Nose Reindier
in nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I hate that.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Word, Jose one, three, five, and then like all of
the ten through twenties.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Wow, I'm trying to think of the other Christmas movies
and I'm stuck. So I'm gonna have to go on
a lamb and say The bad Father from Elf.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
James Kahan and El James Kahan. I'm sorry, Jeffrey, you
got any more?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, it's always debated if it's a Christmas movie or not.
Die Hard with Hans Gruber.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Number five on five.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Run out of time, which means this is the end of.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Save the Lexus.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
But let's go over this.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Let's go over the list to see the ones you miss.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Number one mister Potter from It's a Wonderful Life, the
guy who the bank.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yes, oh so terrible. What do you mean he's so
so Ashton, he did a so so hand.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
I believe that It's a Wonderful Life is not a
Christmas movie, and I will down that hill.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Get out of here, get out.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Yeah, Scott Farcas from a Christmas.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Story, Uh, brother the Bully.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Yeah, Howard's neighbor Ted Malton, who tries to win over
Howard's wife in the Greatest Christmas movie of all Time,
Jingle All the Way, played by Phil Hartman. Crampis from
Crampis Meister Berger Burgermeister from Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.
The snow Miser, Professor Hinkle, the Ghost of Christmas Yet
to come from a Christmas Carol, The Heap Miser Below,
the Snow Miser, The Marley's the Mean Landlords from screen
(07:45):
cousin Nettie's Boss, Frank Shirley from National Landline, Christmas Vacation,
and the Winter Warlock before He turns Good and Santa
Claus Is Coming to Town.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Jesus, Well, there's a lot of villains say, you're.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
The only one who didn't get all the ones right,
so you're gonna be getting shocked.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Somebody wanted to hear jingle bells for Christmas. I literally
was like, please do it.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Christmas Carol, Jingle bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the Way.
Oh what fun it has two riding a one horse
open slag.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
That was your shock collar question of the day.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
We got your phone tap coming up in just a
few minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Brooking Jeffrey in the morning
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