Trans-Siberian Orchestra is wild

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Something went on here, something on there, And.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's time on tn T the Torrens has hit nash Vegas.
I rocked it with limb Lifter and does your elf
have a bomber jacket? That's all coming up right now
on tn T.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hey bot there, he is. It's a holiday, it sure is.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
I want to tell you a funny story. Okay, So,
Fortunate Town's Fortunate Ones were in town and Tuio a
couple of weeks ago, nice and doing their sort of
Atlantic Canadian rip. And if you're not familiar, there are
buds of hours. In fact, I was looking at a
picture of Andrew from Fortunate Ones and his brother meeting

(00:49):
us at the airport in Saint John's eight years ago
when we went there for a show with a sign
that said bud and some song Vinnie's remember.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yes what at what? In moments? Yes, terrific guys.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
So Andrew and his wife Kath make up Fortunate Ones,
and they have beautiful harmony, and he's a great guitar
player and she's a great musician, and their songs are lovely.
So I always feel conflicted, as you and I have
discussed before. They were in town and they said we'd

(01:23):
like to give you tickets, which is very nice, but
I always feel like, is that taking money out of
their pocket? So I like to do something in return.
So my plan was I grabbed a Canadian Entire gift
card on my way out the door for a hundred bucks,
and I was like, you know what, I'm going to
give them the Canadian Entire gift card just as a

(01:44):
way to say thanks for the thing. You know, they're
road banging as musicians, trying to live.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's a tough go. I don't like.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
To come out ahead in the equation.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
So I see him at intermission at the merch table,
Sugar and I bought some merch. We were really enjoying
the show. I tucked the Canadian Entire Gift card in
his back pocket.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Oh, like, you didn't show it, You didn't show any notice. Well, no,
I put it in an envelope.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I wrote f oh on it, which is kind of funny.
Fortunate ones didn't realize what FO stands for FO. So
it's in an envelope.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
So the next day I text and said we had
a great time, and he sends me a picture of
the two of them in front of Canadian tire and
I said.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh, great, what did you buy?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
And he uh said, sent a picture of like a
rubber made container.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah. And then.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Uh he said, did you pay one hundred bucks for
that gift card? And I said, well, yeah, I mean
it came from points, but I'm so glad you were
able to find something. He said, yeah, there was only
a dollar eighty nine on it.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
I had two hundred dollars Canadian entire gift cards and
the other one and then another one like I used
one yeah, and I gave them the spent cartridge. But
the funny thing is they thought I did it on
purpose as a prank with the fo Yeah, but isn't

(03:19):
that a genius prank?

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Give someone a use gifts card and you're setting them
up to go in somewhere and try to use it.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
That's very that would be like Clattenberg style.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
That's Clettenberg styles for sure, Like that's where you're going
that extra mile, that's vintage Clattenberg prank them.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
But I kind of love that they assumed that it
was a brank, like that's that's nice.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Kudos it is, for sure, But man, you must be
uh kicking yourself when you found out, Like, oh, man like, Oh, well,
the funny thing is I told Sugar and Carroll and
they were like, oh my gosh, you must have been mortified,
And I wasn't. I thought it was hilarious. I couldn't
stop laughing at the idea of them going in and

(04:07):
big timing.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Their one hundred dollars gift card and saying, Okay, you
just know eighty nine dollars more like.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
What.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Don't you have to like crack it in half and
keep the usable half of those or no, that's just
a car. This is like it's like a Canadian entire
credit card. Damn so so fun I love. I have
like just three of them in the pocket. Yeah, you
got like a pack of five on points.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Well, do you know we have a drawer that has like, uh,
you know, twenty dollars at Wendy's and a few five
dollars McDonald's gift cards.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
And I was like, what are we saving these four?
We should.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Christmas in New Year's we should party with all the
gift cards that are in the door. Get that car detailed,
get your.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
I did that though once with a Tim Horton's or something,
and I give him the card and everybody orders stuff,
and it's like, there's.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Nothing on this card, mister b I thought it.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Was like fifty bucks, like we haven't used yet.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
The thing was cash expired.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
That's the other thing they do expire. So luckily.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
They had mentioned during the show that Trans Siberian Orchestra
was going to be playing an Ottawa on their down
night the next night.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Okay, and so I.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Scored them some tickets for that.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Oh nice.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
I did make good on it, but what a strange sensation.
And then they were kind enough to send a festive
special Swiss La gift certificate, which was awesome of them
and entirely unnecessary. Classic classic Newsha here to overshoot the
runway on generosity.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
And now they're rocking to the.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
With My buddy Jason Sutter is like the backup drummer
on that gig. What does that mean? Backup drummer, he's
the bug.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Like if the guy, the main guy can't do gigs,
he's doing he does it.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Wow. Some people are like main on one and then like.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Back up on others, right, because everybody at some point
is hopefully you know, when you're busy, someone's going down.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
You can't you can't do everything all the time. So yeah,
you have that's why you get the backup bros.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Some bands have them set up too, right, like those
kind of acts that are touring like crazy and there's
like twenty five musicians.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Everybody's got another guy.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, they were some. They were an act I was
vaguely aware of but didn't realize how how hard they
plow and arenas not like they did like Scotia ank
here in Toronto everywhere in this time of year, like
solid I know. And Andrews sent some pictures and video

(07:16):
of the show. It looks bananas, yeah, with the fire
and the lights and stuff. Yeah, it's a laser show
like it's crazy. So it worked out well and they
had fun. But what a what a sweet.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Way to spend an evening with my daughter go see
a nice cozy Christmas kickoff show and that.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
So that Trans Siberian Orchestra, though, is it, like I wonder, like,
is the vision like a core band or is it
like some guitar wizard guy that has like you know
what I mean, Like I don't know much about it
other than it's like they started doing like rock Christmas
and it was like.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
The crowd hit the ground like a g force.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, it's like people were so fired up for they're American.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
I know that.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
What are they called Trans Siberian?

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah, or looking them up because I did read about
it and they were founded in the States, and I
think there is a rotating group of members.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Okay, exactly because it's just fast metal.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Band founded in nineteen ninety six by producer, composer and
lyricist Paul O'Neill, who brought together a couple of members
of Sabotage and keyboardist and co producer Robert Kinkel.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
They're the core creative team, just just just for shits
and gigs. I bet like the first time, he well,
let's try this.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Well in at nine, you might remember, they released their
second album, The Christmas Attic, and every started blowing up.
And in two thousand and seven, The Washington Post referred
to them as an arena rock juggernaut that describes their
music as pink Floyd meets yes. Okay, so their first
record was like maddal probably, and then they started doing
Christmas yeah or what, and that was when it was like.

(09:13):
They're known for their elaborate concerts, which include a spring section,
the light show, lasers, moving trusses, video screens and effects
synchronized to music, like.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
As as soon as they were just fucking around with
a Christmas Champs, there's nobody doing this.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Man.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
They were probably laughing their heads off when they were
playing at the first I know, and then all of
a sudden, like these agents and got them fuck chasing
them with money, right, I gotta put you.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Cross, you know stuff. No, we're going.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Asia unsurprisingly world like.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Unsurprised, very big in Europe.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
In twenty thirteen, they kicked off their second tour on
New Year's Eve in Berlin and played for over.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
A million people. Ah.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
They've also, by the way, they're in the top twenty
five ticket selling acts in the world and they've given
twenty million bucks to charity. They sold twenty million tickets
as of this year.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
I love it. It's the best. That's unbelievable. They're so they're.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Making so much to that they have like probably two
or three versions.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Of themselves going at once. Right.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
The arenas are so big you never get to see
the face of anyone who's playing.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
It could be anyone that'd be a good gig for you.
Is there, Oh yeah, for sure? Is there like a
Santa Claus involved, I'm sure crazy like sitting insane, Sanna,
like flying around every morning, Sanna, there's a ziplining Santa

(11:17):
from the upper deck. No what aside from Carrol of
the bells? What else do they play? Do you know
any other trans Siberian and I just.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
I imagine they're all kind of.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
I probably have heard a few, right, don't because when
they first when they first came out, it was like,
oh wow, and you would just hear all these like
different ones, right, and it was a like I still hear.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
I don't know, maybe I know, is there like a
jingle bells? Okay?

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Get this?

Speaker 3 (12:01):
December eighth, the average annual pay for a TSO member
in the United States.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Is fifty k.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, if you need a simple salary calculator, works out
to be about twenty four bucks an hour. Yeah, to
play in TSO. TSO is what the fans call them.

Speaker 6 (12:18):
I'm learning like you're saying, like that's for the guys
that are doing it, like the side dudes, I guess, side.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Girls and guys that are just crushing it. So it's
like being in Blue Man Group or whatever. Like there's
so so many productions that it's like, yeah, you're doing
the Northeast this week.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
They're in Raleigh, Saint Louis, Charlottesville, Indianapolis, and Newark.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Like just plowing.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
They're just flowing the road. They have a million friends
on Facebook.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
You know what, I love it.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
I feel like I don't. I love it too, man, Yeah,
this is this is I think it's great. I couldn't
confidently say I know anyone that would want to go
see them until Andrews said, Hey, audience, should we do it?
But he said, and he wasn't joking. Some of it

(13:23):
was one of the best things I've ever seen. Wild,
super cheesy and amazing. The musicianship was next.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
Level Piro Fireworks, incredible set and light show.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
See that's what I'm saying because my buddy Setter who
plays with him, Like, I got to talk to him
about it. Imagine the story stories he has of like
knowing the guys that they are running it all and saying, yeah,
I literally like came in on like some flying drone,

(13:56):
Like even if there's no retractable room they put on
for the show. He liked travels by one of those
glowing orbs everybody sees in New Jersey.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yeah, I love that they do this. I love that
they pack them in.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
I do want to know that, like, let's hear from
the buds, who has gone? Where did you see them?
Why did you go?

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Like I think this is the sense that I have,
And I'd have to ask him specifically, but I think
he was kind of winking the bit a little at first,
and then genuinely Andrew had his mind blown. I think
I think he was like, this will be a laugh,
and it ended up being.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
That's That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
It has to be because I mean, otherwise, if it's
just a metal band playing some Christmas tunes, it gets
kind of old after a few songs, right, Yeah, So
there has to.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Be enough, some kind of there's a thing to it.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
There's got to be production value, like the Phantom of
the Operas, I got if you didn't see the chandelier
come and flying.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Down, it'd be like this sucks. Right.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
So we went to and this is on the same subject,
we did our annual kind of Orlando Nashville rip, and
we went to Bridgestone Arena in Nashville to see a
band called sugar Land. It was technically the Little Big

(15:33):
Town Tour, but Sugarland was middling. This up and coming
group called the Castello's, three sisters from Georgia who sing
tight harms and country music.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
They opened and they just exploded this year.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Came out of nowhere and suddenly they're headlining their own
shows and opening on this big tour.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Nice, but something that.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Was kind of interesting that I have never experienced before,
even when we've taken the girls to like Hollywood Bowl
for uh, like there's a benefit where every pop singer
you've ever heard of comes.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Out and does three songs.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Gotcha.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
It sort of ratchets up intention so that Sewn Mendes
is bigger than Lizzo, Taylor Swift is bigger than Shawn Mendez.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Like it always swells to a crescendo. This was the
first time in my concert going experience. And it might
be the style of music, or it might be the
energy of the.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Performers, but Sugarland blew the roof off the place. And
then Little Big Town was kind of more quiet and introspective,
and I've never seen like the crowd is looped and
then the headliners come out and everyone sort of takes their.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Seats and settles in. You must have been countered when
you guys were opening for people that that you out performed,
like you hear you hear lots of stories about was
it Aerosmith opening for foreigner and for to try to
sabotage their gear?

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Is that like a band that's opening sort of explodes
while you're on the tour and suddenly they're bigger than
the headliner.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
That must be a hard thing to manage. In this case,
a Little Big Town asked sugar Land to come out
with them because they've been friends for a long time.
This was a Little Big Town's twenty fifth anniversary tour.
But I know what happens in stand up comedy too, right,
You don't you don't want the person opening for you?
Oh definitely not the standout so hard. No, that's really

(17:34):
the worst I think. But so did you ever encounter
were you ever told like, hey, can you guys take
a log off? We need to be able to follow
you out there. No, not that, but like we've played
like early on when we were playing shows, like I
won't mention who, but we would open for a band
sometimes and like we would finish the opening set and

(17:55):
like the headliner would go on and there's like twenty
five center of the crowd is left. Like you know that,
I'm saying, like seventy five left and there's only twenty
five percent left. Where that's just like that's like the
buzz was there and like we were just blowing up,

(18:15):
and the other the headliner they either didn't really weren't
as like into but they were big enough to play
the place or whatever. U Sometimes that that happens when
it's like you got a lot of people that are
fired up and then the show was really great and
then it's like they leave, right. Well, it must happen

(18:38):
in Canada too, even as you guys scaled, because suddenly
you're you're opening maybe for a huge band, but people
are more familiar with your music here. That's yeah for sure,
especially if you're in another country or if you're in
the States, and it really has to do with like

(18:59):
if you have a and for us at the beginning,
there was an element of like, I don't know, it
just things aligned where the fans just came all kind
of almost at once. During the second record, they just came.
But we had played so many shows over the first

(19:20):
record that we were ready for it, you know, So
the shows were always incredible, but like we would play
shows in America with other bands that were down there
and just like had one song or something on the
radio and people were just kind of there to see us,
and after we played, it was just disappearing act because

(19:42):
everybody would be like around us in our van, like
hanging out while we're packing our gear up. But yeah,
once you get to bigger places, that all kind of
goes away. But in the any some open bands, it's like, man,
when they're hot, they're it's it's it's it's tough because

(20:05):
sometimes it can.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Affect your your whole vibe. Yeah. Of course.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
The most famous story is Jimmy Andrixx opening for the
Monkeys No Yeah, and they're like, yeah, this isn't working out,
this is a little bit too much.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Before we go on. Oh they booted him off, I
think so.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, either either that's the story or he just started
becoming so popular in America at the time it didn't
matter anymore for him. Well, but where the story was
actually better anyway that he got kicked off because he
was getting too fired up, getting the crowd too lubed.
This is the interesting thing. And uh, a little big

(20:44):
town is kind of like a country abba like it's
too blonde guy and a blonde gal and a brunette
guy and a brunette gal, and they sing really nice
harmonies and there their songs are just mostly kind of quiet,
And I guess the thing is when you're opening, Like
the Castellos have been on the road less than a

(21:04):
year and they've they've exploded and that must be a
crazy learning curve. And in a comment of the time
we're in right now, they have one point five million
followers on Instagram, Little Big Town has one point two
and sugar Land, who's kind of in and out. They
take breaks, they go away, they come back.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
They have you know, a couple of hundred thousand, but
they they're young and hungry and have something to prove,
so they kind of perform with a fire like they're
trying to fight for your attention. Yeah, and maybe that's
the thing if you're the headline or there's less like

(21:43):
there's less urgency to how you approach a show.

Speaker 5 (21:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well, I mean I Annally's I went to a punk
night with her last month and it was like, I
don't know, ten punk bands and one night and it
was all ages and it was interesting just to see
the different styles and like I didn't know any of them,
and they weren't they were weren't notable. It's just a

(22:10):
tiny place, but they were great, Like they were all
really good and kind of up and coming in all
different styles.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
And playing like their lives.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, and then like something, you know, there was like
a couple either musicians or the front front person being
like just exceptional. Yeah, and you can just think it
just kind of you can feel the difference in a sense,
and uh, I don't know, I mean it just when

(22:41):
you see that happening, it's great. It's it's something that's
special because it's like, yeah, it's not there is a
difference of energy where it doesn't matter whether it's.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
It could be it could be almost.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Like one person would say that sounds bad or it
doesn't sound it sounds sloppy, but that they're completely you know,
in my mind sometimes it's like that's not sloppy. It's intentional,
you know, and it's supposed to be like that, and
that's it's the fact that they're harnessing that already is amazing,

(23:17):
and it's it's something that you can't really teach somebody
and there's something to be said for kind of confidence
with controlled kind of chaos on your instrument or as
this vocalist or whatever, where it just sounds kind of
the threshold is kind of almost verging on bad, but

(23:37):
it's not. It has to go there for it to
be what it is, you know, And that's that's the
best thing about music, do you know?

Speaker 3 (23:45):
It's funny. Mark Forward talks about that in stand up
as well.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, that's through his style.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
If the if the He had a show when he
was out here in Halifax.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
We were working on a thing and I said how
to go? And he said the audience could tell I
wasn't I was rusty. And I said that, like, how
how could they tell them? He said, well they can.
They can feel it. When you send the message that
you're in good hands, just relax and enjoy the show.
Then you can feel the audience collectively kind of exhale

(24:18):
and you settle into it and they buy what you're
selling and it's good. But if they can tell that
you're spooked or phoning it in, or not having fun
or trying to remember where you are, then you lose them. Well,
think about if you're having a conversation with somebody and
you're you're talking to them and you're like, I think

(24:40):
I think they're either not listening to what they're saying,
or they're not they're they look nervous, or something's weird
and all like that. It affects the conversation to the
point where you're like, what the hell's going on?

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Right?

Speaker 2 (24:53):
So that's either if you're doing stand up and you're
conveying that kind of confidence with what you're saying, it
doesn't matter how funny the joke is at all, like
it's gonna stink, it's crazy, how it's like normal conversation, right,
that has to have that kind of connected realness, the

(25:13):
fact that you're not trying to put on or pasture yourself.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
So I've often thought with like, there are front people,
as you know better than anyone, that captivate and energize
and are enthusiastic and riveting, and then there are ones
that you can tell they're like I'm not sure what
to do with my hands or I'm not comfortable dancing.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
Whether you are.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
A fan of country music or not, Jennifer Nettles is
a voice, she's the lead singer of sugar Land that
I would put up against any voice in the world
for her control and ability, and the music just courses
through her body. She's a conduit for the music and

(25:59):
share is that electric enthusiasm with the audience.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yeah, And so.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
They're just hard.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
They're basically on the rise, right like Castellos are on
the rise. Sugar Land is like she's fifty. Uh, they
were together, like they started twenty years ago to her
and a dude. They write the songs and perform them together.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
But she can sing anything and melt your face. And
it's such a treat to hear a voice like that
in person. Yeah, because it's not really that's some few
and far and few far in between vibes. You don't
hear voices like that, like yeah, and when you do,
you're lucky. How are your Limb Lifter shows?

Speaker 1 (26:46):
You meet our show?

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, it was fantastic at the dan Forth Music all
open up for fifty four forty show.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
It was great.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
The yeah, we literally the timing, uh, you know, they
came in the day before. That's it's it's kind of
like how we do shows. Like there's no like extra
hotel day, you know what I mean, Like any you
gotta tighten it and keep everything clean fast.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
So they literally flew in.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
We rehearsed as soon as they kind of landed for
a few hours.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Was great.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
We had a really you know, Megan on bass and
Joe pass On on guitar and obviously Ryan singing and
crushing it. Everybody worked really hard, so it was easy
to kind of hit the ground running with the songs
and the show. We could enjoy and have fun. And
it was great. It was It was went by like
two seconds, it was so fast. So I look forward

(27:45):
to doing some more stuff with them in the winter,
and I think, yeah, there's a show in February with
the Odds that should be fun. Yeah at the Commodore
and the Commodore in Vancouver. Yeah yeah, so that that
that's the next Limb Lifter.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Date and doing that show, Yeah, for sure. It's it's great.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
It was really fun and they're amazing people, and I
look forward to to making more music with them, for sure.
So do they give you any like go off here
or feel free to put your own stank on it?
Absolutely recreate the record. No, it's it's it's basically do

(28:30):
do your thing. And I mean Ryan was adamant from
the beginning to just I Want You to be You,
And but I mean, I felt that there was a
lot of stuff on their recordings that that lent itself
to the song that that either Eric or Kurt played,
you know, so I felt compelled to kind of get

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the vibe. So a lot of the stuff is very
similar to the record, but in terms of the feel,
it's still me and when there's moments where you can
kind of tell where it's more open palady obviously, I
just could do my own thing for sure, like even
playing the Mounties Tokyo Summer, which is a great song

(29:16):
that Ryan wrote and Hawsley Workman in the Mounties Steve
Bays and Hawksley on drums and singing, and Steve's singing
as well.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
There are just a great musicians.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
But that song Tokyo Summer is a really cool, groove,
good drum song to play cool.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, that's so fun. Yeah. So it's a super creative people,
and I love that.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
I'm trying to figure out my early two thousand and
whatever it is coming up twenty five because Tears Were
Fears is at the Found Blue in Las Vegas, and
I have some work in the States.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
At the start of the year when is that day
with the Odds?

Speaker 1 (30:03):
You know, I'll send it to you. I think it's
late February.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
That's a show i'd like to see.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
If you're a West coast in it and come up
and yeah, fly up for the night.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah yeah, or maybe today or not, I just fly out.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
I believe it's out there in.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Public if you look up the Odds in February with
Limblifter at the Commodore. Okay, And that's a great venue too.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
It is one of the best in the country. Beautiful.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
That's such a fun show.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
It's going to be a gas.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
I'd really like to go because, as you know, I
love the Odds. February twenty first.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
There you go. Nice see you got it down.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
There you go February twenty first. I want to do that.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
You can make it. You can make it work, making
it work.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, I'm gonna try. I'll want to commitment.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
I had tickets to see Air Supply with Mark Forward
at the Monk and Casino and they had to canceled
due to the COVID.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Somebody got COVID, yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Think they all did or something, and then they rescheduled
for the end of January. So I'm pumped for that show.
I'm continuing my tour of shows. You would never be
caught dad at we're all out of tickets. Is that
what they said? Yeah, we're a lot of tickets.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
And they sang it just like that.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Let's take a break, butt and then when we come back,
I have some exciting but secret news.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Y brb there he is, Oh, yeah, we're back.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
So I was talking to a buddy mine who's a
pharma executive.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
This was a few years ago. I might have told
you this before, but I was talking about traveling for
work and how you feel bad sometimes as a parent
and family member and partner when you're not around, and
he said, it also sets a really good example for
your children that you work hard, and work hard is
how you get nice things in life. So the next
time you do something fun, say, remember this was because

(32:01):
I was.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Away or I had to work that time or whatever,
and that's how we're able to do this thing. So
you're sort of sending the message that work their life
isn't always just pure fun. You have to earn those
moments and decide how much you want to put into
what you get out and all that stuff. So all
this to say, we.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Have cashed in our points from using our credit cards
to buy things for our businesses, and we're going to
Costa Rica and the girls don't even know.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
No way.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yeah, when we're in Jebruary or January. Yeah, perfect time,
perfect time. So most of the times we go somewhere,
it's piggybacking on the old man doing some work and
like I'm always kind of conscious about like, oh four o'clock,
I have that thing, so I'm never fully present. But

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we've never just gone somewhere just to hang. Yeah, there's
always in Costa Rica, Tamorindo beautiful. Is that is that
the Pacific or the Atlantic side? That's the Pacific side.
Oh nice, that's yeah, that's because Lisa's father built the

(33:16):
place in esther Rios Estay Estay, which is south of
Hoco on that coast. Okay Esta Rios Estaytos. So did
you see any monkeys when you were there? Bro? Yes, tons,
howler monkeys there, the squirrel monkeys, I think the ones

(33:36):
that they travel by packs across like trees. And then
the craziest thing I saw and I still can't believe
it to this day, right outside on Lisa's father's late
father's property, just sitting there having coffee and and like
a thousand parrots just flacked to this massive tree right

(34:01):
in front of me under like above me, and they're
all there and talking and get like. It was the
most insane thing and most beautiful thing. I couldn't believe it.
Seeing one parrot in the wild is enough, but this
flock of them, like it was so many, like all
of the parrots in that whole area just hang and

(34:23):
and going crazy. I guess the tree there was a
walnut tree or whatever nut that they dig or something.
They were going bananas and it was just like one
of the coolest things. It's got to be like swimming
with dolphins or something like, but maybe even more rare,
because how can you arrange something like that? You know,
it's funny, it's it's not a bird. I think of

(34:45):
seeing more than one at a time. Yeah, maybe that's
because I've only seen them on like pirate movies and stuff.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
And like the you know, the multi color ones, like
the classic you know what I mean, Like, hey, you
do not marror, Oh my god, unbelievable talking to each other.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
They were all yeah, they were going crazy, yes, like
not not like us talking.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
They were talking whatever, but just going. They were so
fired up.

Speaker 5 (35:13):
Yo.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Did you see any slots, my guy?

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Uh? I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
M I saw just monkeys, like are they eating out
of your hand?

Speaker 1 (35:28):
No?

Speaker 2 (35:29):
But if you probably go around to this into the city,
you might see more like where they are I guess
domesticated by being closer to humans all the time. But
where Lisa's place was, it was like kind of in
a nature preserve vibe on the coastline. So just that

(35:50):
everything was just coming and going.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
Sitar Viewitt who used to be on the ratings Juggernaut
little mosque on the prairie, was just in Kustrica, and
she was bitten by what what are they called scorpions?

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Yeah. See, that's the thing too, I was I said
I saw scorpions. I was about to say I saw scorpions.
But they're in there like the palm trees. They hang
out there. So if you go up and touch trees
too much, you know how that all the trees have,
like the time, the little branches coming out everywhere. It's
not like they're a smooth palm. They love living in there,

(36:28):
all kinds of little critters. So you just gotta be
careful around those kind of things because like you can
just be put you know, put your hand up and
all of a sudden it'll sting you. Well, I'm just
trying to remember if it was a tarantula or either
one you'll get a nice little tag on your hand,

(36:49):
is there?

Speaker 1 (36:51):
I think so? Yeah, but either just big. Everything's big.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Even the ants are scary in Costa Rica, Like you
see they're really like if you go walking around in
the forests in the deeper kind of jungle vibes, there's
like those big leaf cutters on the ground when they're
walking in the trail, and like you've got to step
over them. If you step into it, you're asking for
real trouble really well, because they're huge and they bite,

(37:19):
they'll tear pieces of like they cut into your skin
if they bite you. They're so strong, you know, want
to fall down and like have a swarm of those
come over you. Did you see geckos or in dumb
moss tons tons? It's unbelievable, Like if you do whatever,

(37:40):
if you go under the water, if you walk around
like on the beach, you see beautiful stuff that's washed up.
At one point we saw these like these blue jellyfish,
and they looked scary when we saw them, and they
were everywhere washed up on the beach, and we took

(38:01):
some pictures of it, and we went to a little
cafe and we showed pictures to the waiter and I go,
have you seen this?

Speaker 1 (38:11):
I was like, he's like what, I go, what is that?
And he I think he said, Oh, that's Medusa or
something like that.

Speaker 6 (38:22):
Really it was like it was like it was like that.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
It was like it'll it'll kill you if.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
If it bites you, like one of those you can
get a heart attack or something like that.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Like what do they call them?

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Their damn they're they're really bad jellyfish, not the little
tiny ones, but the bigger blue ones that like can
give me a heart attack if you touch them. I
can't remember the name, but yeah, it's either a Medusa
or l Diablo one of those.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
Like they were like yikes, He's like, do not touch those.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
So how did you see? So that's kind of that's
kind of they were all washed up on the beach.
It was just like a I guess a freak experience,
like a phenomenon that happened what that time of the
year or that day, but they were everywhere to the
point where I'm like and I'm Jack was playing in

(39:25):
the beach and he's like, oh cool, look at this
cool fish that keeps coming up and it was a stingray.
Man like if he stepped on it, that could have
stung him and given like same thing, like terrible.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
That's how Steve Irwin.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Died, right, it was a stingray.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
I was working on a TV show for the Travel
Channel and diving in a stingwray tank the next day,
and the guy that that was in charge of the
stingwray tank said he must have really provoked the stingray
or startled it or something like that.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah they're not looking no, but damn you if they do,
you're in trouble. So that this thing was skate like
skating around Jack's feet kind of, and he thought it
was cool. But so that's why I'm a little apprehensive
to jumping in the ocean because of all the stuff.
And same thing happened another time in Costa Rica. I'm like,

(40:20):
I'll go swimming house. That's it's good times, and like
all of a sudden, I feel this burning on my
right arm and I'm like, got a sting jellyfish sting
on my arm, but not when I go back, right back,
not the blue mass, but it was like all over
my arm.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
It got me. I was like, oh my god, big burning.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Too bad Jet wasn't there. He could have peed on you.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Yeah, from the hotel room.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
I'm excited. I'm excited to go on vacation. We've sort
of decided that we are creatures of habit We like
doing kind of the greatest hits of places that we
like to get familiar with. So every year we're going
to go somewhere that we like, but also try to
expand our horizons and go somewhere new as well, so.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
That none of us have been like.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
Every day getting up at six point thirty to go
to the lobby to get on the.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Little tourist van thing to go somewhere.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
I've been looking at the tours and stuff that are available,
and a lot of them are like seven or eight hours.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Yeah, because you're going all day. Yeah, lunch there definitely
if you have a chance, go to like a jungle
if you can, or any kind of like water folly vibes, Yeah,
because those are the best. It's just there's so many
things you'll see where you won't have have the chance.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Yes, and hot Springs is something else I'd really like
to do. Yeah, trying to fight the urge to do
like sunset, catamaran, get wasted. Think we could also just
do in our kitchen, like we're going as we'll see
some things.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
No, I know the cat the camaran. Like, no, it's
always the same. All of a sudden, you just don't
remember anything happen.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
It's like you feel sick.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Yeah, it's like what happens, Like, oh, you're just being
an idiot.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
So like that's the other part. It's like whatever you
don't remember, you don't want to remember.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
You fell off the boat. You're that guy, get carried
back onto the back of the boat. They put you
in the dinghy that's being towed behind the boat, and
they're like, get that guy out of here. This stupid music,
that's the same song a whole day, Like it doesn't change,
but nobody notices. Or how about the dudes working at

(42:43):
the pool that are trying to wheel North American chick.
Yeah you see them not trying.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
That's part of the gig if you can get it, No, for.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
Sure, but I remember you saying that the people are
lovely and friendly, safe, but also were there kind of
armed guards outside your house like that kind of thing
as well?

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Oh yeah, you can't like scrimp on security.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
If you're living on a place or staying at a
private place, you need to have security or else the
person that you hire for security will come into your
place and rob you right right.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
The guide because everybody does it. It's like, okay, either
you do it or I'll see you later. Anyway.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Yeah, well, I think we'll book tours, like through the
hotel something like that. We're staying a little north of
the town. Do you do you remember the town of Tamarindo.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Have you been there? I haven't. I don't, I don't.
Is it near Haco or sorry? Is it near San Jose?

Speaker 6 (43:57):
Like is it?

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Are we?

Speaker 2 (44:01):
Okay, so that's the north north side. So yeah, that's
that's Uh. I think that's a nice surfing town destination.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Great, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
Think so too.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
I have to confess something, and maybe the folks listening,
maybe it's not appropriate for kids.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
One of your kids are around, Maybe take let them
take five.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Yeah, let them take five, or or turn it off
or skip it.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Aad on SpongeBob.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Yeah, so we have an elf on the shelf in
our house named Coco. Coco and I have a very
tumultuous relationship, he writes on my face. He cut a
chunk of my hair one year. I stapled him to
the dresser and he lost his hat.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Oh, that's right. You have a continual fight going.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Yes, we are at odds most of the time. Coco
didn't this year.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Do you always start to get like you make up
right around Christmas time or what?

Speaker 5 (45:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:04):
We we we tend to sort of hit our stride
about the twenty third or twenty fourth of.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
December, and right before he splits, he says, yeah, you're
all right, it's like time to make up, and then
I kind of forget about it, and then he shows
up and sometimes on you again. Yes, so, somehow Coco
wasn't here this year.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Okay, it's by Coco's design.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
Well, Carol and I looked everywhere for him and couldn't
seem to put our hands on Coco. Oh, I couldn't
see him anything.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Is it the same one with the members only jacket
or the bomber jacket?

Speaker 1 (45:42):
We have bomber jacket, don't There's one with like the
leather bomber.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
You know, don't they don't they all have.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
The leather bomber jacket.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
No, they got a brown mind this smarty ours leather bomber.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
I thought they all had like the fonziea O.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
What easy their top gun like log our jacket.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
No, the goose number five. No it doesn't. Yes, yes,
that's how they all did.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
No ours, No ours is the og else? So just
straight up red No, no clothes.

Speaker 5 (46:23):
No.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
I thought they all had the the Maverick.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
No, he looks like the og alph aside from the
fact that he's now missing his hat.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
So this was a source of disappointment in our house
that Coco had not shown up yet this year. Despite
our best attempts to find him hiding somewhere in our house,
we could not. So I was working in Miami a
couple of weeks ago, and I thought, you know what
I'm gonna do is I'm going to go out and
look for Coco and see if I can find him,

(46:56):
maybe at Target, and I'll bring him home with me.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
So I went to couldn't you do that at that
mall with the big tree with the weird face mall?

Speaker 3 (47:08):
They probably do, but I thought this timing might be
extra magical if I could find him while I was away.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
Guess who was in my suitcase?

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Someone wanted to see the sun? Yeah? So I I
found him there.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
He was at Target, and I although he had a
hat on, so I got rid of the hat and
brought him home.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
The little rascal.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
One of my children had a sore throat. I asked
her if she would like a freezy. She said, sure,
went to the deep freeze and lo and behold.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
There was an elf there.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
You go, So I said to Indy, come quick, you
won't believe it. And she comes down and looks in
the freezer and says, who's that? Isn't that Cocoa? And
she said, no, one got black?

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Okay, what are you talking about? Man? There?

Speaker 3 (48:08):
I didn't know there are apparently els from different cultural backgrounds.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
But did you see that when you bought it? I did?

Speaker 3 (48:19):
I got, I thought I looked. I wouldn't have said
it looked any different.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
Than the one we had. What.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
So she she's like, who who is that? And I said,
isn't it Coco? And she said, no, it looks nothing
like Coco. So would you believe I uh brought another
elf home now named Minty. Oh man, so mint you

(48:51):
have Minty now, but what if Coco shows up again
and season I know, bost what.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
We're sort of holding out hope for is that Minty
was playing a joke on us by like hiding Coco.
And maybe this is actually great.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
You've created a whole like story universe of the ELFs here,
like this is actually good.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
You could keep this going for a couple of years.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
Now, Well, now bomber jackets. I feel maybe I like
Minty is pretty underwhelming. Perhaps Coco was on a mission
with Smarty work in some f ones. Yes, who's Smarty?
That's ours with the bomber jacket. That's his name, Smarty.

(49:41):
How do you even where can I find an elf
with a bomber jacket?

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Well? I thought they all had it. I thought that
was the thing.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
And then now like maybe I'm maybe like I don't know, maybe.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Maybe like an put a jacket on it or something.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
Where did that?

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (50:01):
I just looked it up.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
What the bomber jacket?

Speaker 2 (50:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Is it? It's a thing? Right? Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Does your map kept the like uh glasses? Like World
War two motorcycle goggle.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
I think so, but you can take them them off though.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
What in the huh that's the clause couture collection. I
guess that's because like they're ripping back and forth from
the north pot, all right, so they need goggles because
of the velocity. It's silly me if we got like

(50:41):
the badges on the jacket side, your approval to get
through NASA airspace and all that. Oh my gosh, he
has a lanyard. So where is Smartie?

Speaker 1 (50:53):
Now? I saw it. It's sitting somewhere.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
I didn't, you know, when you and you can't remember
where you tak in the bathroom or on the But
I mean everybody's like aware. That's smarty, is kind of
you know parl the house. Yeah, yeah, not of its
own scene, but still there, still doing the smarty styles,
always in a different place every day, right, Jeremy. This

(51:22):
morning Canada Post strike ended.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
So hallelujah, hallelujah.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
I went on the Facebook machine. As I mentioned to you,
I've left X yes, So I was just imagining if
I was a Canada Post employee. The employees, by the way,
pitched a rotating strike and Canada Post was like, no,

(51:49):
no way, you're striking or you're not.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
So they struck.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
Now they're going back to work. Everyone is angry with them.
There's a mountain of stuff to deal with. And I
was like, man, that can't be very fun going to
work today. So I posted a thing that said, Hey,
just thinking about Canada Post employees today who must be
discouraged and overwhelmed. Just thanks, thanks. That's a lot to

(52:17):
deal with the amount of blowback and unfollows and f
u j rock and spoiled whiny bitches and.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
What the else? Like, oh you went to the you
just like, have you think you upset the minions?

Speaker 2 (52:40):
Well, so this is the thing I have.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
I have my page where the people I went to
elementary school with, and then I have a page that
someone started sometime over the years that's like my buddy
from the Street Sense page. So on the Buddy from
Street Sense page. Uh, this is where this blowback happened.
Four hundred and twenty six comments, and people are like,

(53:07):
I thought you knew better, spoiled winy babies. Canada Post
doesn't work. It loses this much money a year. Here's
the thing. If Canada Post isn't working, that's a different
conversation that we all as Canadians need to have if
it loses this much money, costs this much money, and

(53:28):
the service isn't very effective, let's have that conversation separately.
But I guess the lesson that I'm taking away is
I was posting something on the human tip and people
are like hearing it on the political tip.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
So those two things you can't reconcile. But the thing
that continues to be disappointing is you say good morning,
and everyone's like, what about the people that are having
a bad morning?

Speaker 1 (53:54):
What about them?

Speaker 3 (53:57):
All I was trying to say was hey, that can't
be fun today. Thanks for getting or going in time
for Christmas. And it doesn't it doesn't affect me, it
doesn't have an impact. But I'm I'm always surprised at
the number of people that are ready to throw blows
on someone else's wall.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
It's like it's to be treating it like it's hydro
one or something. It's like and someone's making one hundred
and eighty one grand and has a myebox, you know,
because they're doing a postal route, Like I don't see
any of that same and I also think it's almost
like when you hear people start ripping teachers and saying
teachers have it good, it's like, okay, can't, I can't.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
I can't get with that whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Yeah, Like it's insane how hard it is to be
a teacher and the amount of work that you have
to be focused on to have good students. Hey, right,
Like we're not talking about doing the required work. It's like,
if you want to be a good teacher, it's very difficult,
and it takes a lot of time before and after
school to make.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
The classroom work great.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Yes, And that's the thing that people don't seem to
want to accept or get past. And it's the same
you're seeing it in the health industry. You're seeing it
in all different industries where people are getting trashed for
just wanting to have a better living or a better
experience for the people either in hospitals or people in

(55:27):
classrooms or any.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
You know, CBC or whatever else. It is. It's like
just everybody is a crook, you know.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Yes, And I guess that's the thing to assume that
everyone who works there is trying to get away with
something or spoiled or has too many benefits or whatever
like that.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
Canada Post costs X a year and we feel that
it's not efficient. Is not related to I've been We're
going to candapost this long and I feel like I've
been asked to do more work for less money.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
M right, Yeah, I mean it's like, either make it
work better. There's no point in saying it's like a
ball of shit because no one uses it. It's funny
that you just set a ball of shit and for
the first time ever in my life, it sounds like
a ball of shit. Is Yeah, exactly, that's an Eminem rhyme,

(56:26):
right there. Eminem's in happier news.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
Terry Fox is going to be on the five dollars bill,
And if that isn't the most Canadianity thing I've ever heard,
I don't know what to tell you.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
I mean, we've been calling for that for a decade,
if not more, on the Twitter machine when it was
actually good saying get get Terry on the money and
John Candy next Terry got wasted.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
Exactly, it's a different Terry, remember that. So what are
you guys.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Doing for the holidays? But hard to believe it's.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
He Yeah, we're pretty fired up.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
I'm actually pretty proud of the kids because this year,
as they're getting older, like the the hard cornice is
not as there as much as when they're in little kids, right,
getting fired up, and.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
Like we kind of fight.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
You gotta fight more to get the family movies in right,
because everybody's doing their own thing. So Jack really kind
of hit the ball or hit like was the hardest
of saying, listen, we got to get a tree going here.
It's December, first week we haven't had a tree, and
we had the fake tree in the basement like sit

(57:39):
already sitting up and like ready to take upstairs.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
I'm like, it's right down there. He's like, no, no,
I want a real tree. Oh wow. Yeah. He's like,
I want to smell. I don't want this fake nothing.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
Okay, So we went out, we got a real tree
and he put it all like, look, we had a
Christmas party we went to on Saturday with friends, and
he kind of leaded everybody to put the ornaments and
get the tree rock and then even went outside and

(58:12):
added some more lights and you know, like some of
the some some effects and stuff on the front lawn
and he just got well, he leaded it. But yes, definitely,
he kind of was. If it wasn't for Jack, the
tree would still probably be getting up right about now,
you know, instead of a week and a half ago
or whatever.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Last week he was just into it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Yeah, So it's it's like that, that's what teenagers. It's
a teenage Christmas. So it's, uh, we're getting like, can't
watch movies every night, but we're trying to get one
in every other every three nights, you know. But yeah,
like cause you're right in it with the girls right now,
right every night watching classics.

Speaker 3 (58:56):
Yeah, we're getting to the end of we've been watching
this as us and I think we timed it so well,
Like I think we have four or five episodes left
in the series, okay, and then we're gonna hashtag pivot.
Daddy's Home two is first on the list. Yeah, Home
alone is on the list.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
I realized the girls have seen the newer Grinches, but
they've never seen the og. Was that Vincent Price.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
The old Grinch?

Speaker 2 (59:25):
You mean no, no, it's no, it was Darth Vader
Forrest Whitaker.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
Huh. Yeah, they're animated Darth Rinch. James Earl Jones, James.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
Earl Jones, Sorry, James Earl Jones is the Grinch singing
and the narration. But that's not the og one is it?

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Isn't it sixties? Is that what it was? Their seventies? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Yeah, original Grinch? It be animated short, it's only like
thirty minutes. Isn't it the original? I know they have
all this like what is the original version of The
Grinch nineteen sixty six narrated by Boris Karloff?

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
That's the o G.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Yeah, So what's the James Earl Jones Grinch? Or is
he just singing the song? Is it just the jam?

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Where do we see the original one?

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
I'm just thinking maybe just sings the jam in that
same one with Boris Karloff ripping the narration.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
It's been like probably ten years, fifteen years since I've
seen that, But I mean I got getting to the
getting to what does it say James Earl Jones Grinch? Well,
many mistakenly believe James Earl Jones performed it. The song
was actually sung by Thurole Ravens.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Girl. Oh geez, this is this exact same.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
Deep resident voice gave life to the original song. It
sure does sound like him. I never even considered that before.
It does sound like him big time.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
Wow. Yeah, see we learned things on this.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
But I do want to mention that underrated movie that
we watched last week, Jingle All the Way the Arnold
Swartzenegger Sinbad one. Okay, that's going on the list. Yeah,
like you think that it's like, oh, this is kind
of stupid, but it's it really is.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
It's so nuts, like it's so off off.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
The rails the whole time, and sneaky classic performance by
Phil Hartman as like the greasy neighbor that wants.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
To found everybody in the neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
Right. Oh, I'm yeah, it's really I think it's one
of my favorites now because I was laughing so much
because it's so ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Sinbad Sinbad, Yeah, like there he had a career.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
It was massive, massive, that guy was rocking arenas. Yeah,
when you're rocking arenas as a comic and back then
when your production was a microphone and lights that are
already there, Like Nate, what a year he had? Like uh,

(01:02:30):
Andrew dice Clay still probably loaded from the eighties, do
you know you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
How about Dane Cook.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
That's a that's a crazy story. Well, that guy was
always awful and he was just like the guy who
told the annoying jokes that it got popular and now
there's way too many comedians now that aren't funny, that
aren't popular to me. His brother was stealing from.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
Him, good, why not? And went to jail.

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
It's like, it's such a crazy story. The brother was
working out of jail as a guard. Dame Cook hired
him to be as like manager and business affairs person
because he thought who could he trust better, And the
brother ended up going back to the jail as an
inmate because he was caught stealing millions, like one of
those like Dame Cook was going to buy a house

(01:03:25):
and he went to the bank and they're like, sir,
you have no money, and he's like, how is that possible?
And he started pulling on the thread and realized that
his brother been stealing from him for years.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
Well there you go, Well there you go, buy a
couple couple dummies.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
I guess we'll save the holiday humoff. Maybe we'll rip
one more episode before Christmas. Perhaps maybe it'll be more
of a New Year's Eve Christmas season kind of hum off.
But yeah, we'll try and turn this one around before
the Christmas. There you go, it's good to be back.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
It's good to be back by good Job. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:04:00):
Yeah,