December 19, 2023 • 49 mins
Tune in for a holiday-packed episode where we journey through eggnog aging with "sugar bug" Aaron Pete, reminisce about our fiery hot sauce challenge, delve into the heart of Christmas traditions and the meaning of gift-giving, share personal stories about supporting cancer research, and wrap up with an animated chat on Christmas movies, potential fasting challenges, and the intricacies of Christmas music, all steeped in the true spirit of the festive season.
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Baby Srigley (00:01):
What kind of a podcast?
Here's a House Erum Pete.
Aaron Pete (00:10):
Merry Christmas everyone.
We are doing a tremendousepisode Again.
This is our last one of 2023,so we had to celebrate and we
had to have the unforgettable,the magical Tim Srigley on the
podcast again, Tim, thank you somuch for coming back on.
Tim Srigley (00:26):
Thanks for having me, man.
Aaron Pete (00:27):
Let's cheers Merry Christmas.
The other thing we shouldmention is that the voice at the
beginning of the episode isactually your daughter.
So when I was working on myrebrand and updating things,
your voice is typically the onethat starts all the episodes off
, and then your daughter.
How did that come about?
Tim Srigley (00:45):
So she started when I do like YouTube videos
and stuff, she's really likegotten into, coming down and she
like puts on like I don't havea crazy studio like this, but I
have like a little like boxwhere all my audio goes into and
there's like a headset that youcan listen to on microphone and
stuff.
So she puts that on and standsin front of me while I'm making
(01:06):
my YouTube videos and then itjust kind of she always comes
and helps with that stuff.
And so when you asked me to dothe voice at the start of your
podcast, she was on board and soher and I went up to the room
and just started recording those.
And then she's like, can I doone?
And so I think she did a couple.
But yeah, so she did the oneand I figured I'd send it across
(01:27):
to you too, because it ended uppretty funny.
Aaron Pete (01:29):
That's got to be so cool to have her interest in
what you're working on.
Tim Srigley (01:33):
Yeah, it's one.
It's handy, because then I cankind of do what I want to do and
she'll just come as long as youkeep her busy.
But two, it's neat that she'sshowing an interest in it and I
don't know she.
She did like I didn't make itpublic, but she recorded like an
intro to a YouTube episode too.
It's super funny.
And so I have that like whyhaven't you heard this?
(01:54):
I don't know.
I have this weird thing about.
I don't want to put her face onthe internet.
I don't know, it might go liveat some point.
But don't ask me, I wouldn'tknow what that yeah, I don't
know, I kind of feel weird aboutit.
So it's private so far.
But yeah, I have an episode,like a starting episode, of her
(02:15):
like sitting at my like YouTubeset and could you do that one
for like premium subscribers?
Aaron Pete (02:20):
I don't know I like that Cause.
Then it's not really out thereto the world.
That's true, yeah.
Tim Srigley (02:25):
Middle ground.
Yeah, I don't know, it's notjust my say either.
Aaron Pete (02:29):
That's true.
Yeah, interesting, that's gotto be a balance.
Tim Srigley (02:33):
It is, and I don't know what's appropriate in
terms of putting kids on theinternet.
Aaron Pete (02:37):
It's yeah, that's far too complicated for me.
Tell us about this drink.
Tim Srigley (02:42):
So this is a weird kind of Christmas tradition
that I started five years ago.
Okay, so this is eggnog andthis is five year old eggnog.
What does that mean?
So every year I make a batch ofeggnog it has some alcohol in
it, yeah and then we drinkwhatever eggnog we drink for the
(03:03):
year, and then it goes into thefridge for that year and then
the next year we make anotherbatch of the same eggnog or
similar eggnog, mix it alltogether and drink whatever of
that that we will for the year,and then bottle it back up, it
doesn't go bad.
No, cause there's a.
Are you sure?
There's a good amount ofalcohol in it that kills
(03:24):
anything that would cause it togo bad.
So this is kind of liketraditional eggnog, like it was
originally aged cause it was aform of storing it, so the
alcohol in it preserves it.
Aaron Pete (03:38):
Yeah, I'm going to trust you and we're going to
give this a try.
You've had this before, right?
Tim Srigley (03:42):
You know what?
I do trust it, but I tried somelast night just to make sure
that I don't get poisoned.
Yes, okay.
Aaron Pete (03:50):
Are you sure your stomach hasn't acclimated to it
and like a virgin stomach?
Tim Srigley (03:56):
I think we're going to find out, Okay let's go
, okay, merry Christmas.
Aaron Pete (03:59):
Merry Christmas what ?
Tim Srigley (04:06):
do you think?
Aaron Pete (04:09):
That's very pleasant , not bad.
Hey, I was ready to do anotherone of those faces where I like
squint and my eyes roll back tothe back of my head.
This is very smooth.
Tim Srigley (04:17):
Yeah, and it's weird it kind of changes every
year, like we kind of putdifferent alcohols in it each
year.
Aaron Pete (04:25):
So it's kind of what are some of the common?
Tim Srigley (04:27):
ones Often rum, some kind of whiskey.
Aaron Pete (04:33):
Right.
Tim Srigley (04:33):
I'm trying to think what we did last year.
I can't remember.
There was tequila in it at onepoint.
Aaron Pete (04:37):
And what's in an egg nog?
Tim Srigley (04:39):
This one is eggs.
Yeah, eggs, got it.
Nogs, nogs.
It's basically eggs and sugarand milk and cream, and then
whatever alcohol that you put init, it's really good yeah thank
you.
Aaron Pete (04:58):
Okay.
Not so bad, I was really readyto die again.
Tim Srigley (05:03):
To run for the bathroom.
Aaron Pete (05:04):
This is not ending up like a hot ones episode.
Tim Srigley (05:07):
No, no, it's actually really pleasant to not
be here and have to shovel backspicy stuff or ice cream.
Last time you had a lot of icecream.
I think my favorite thing thatyou did was the loaves of bread
and you were just licking themand then tossing them.
Aaron Pete (05:24):
Not one of my finer moments.
Tim Srigley (05:27):
It was.
It was good.
Yeah, that was a fun episode.
Aaron Pete (05:30):
What else is in here like nutmeg?
Yeah?
It's something that we put inhere.
Tim Srigley (05:34):
Nutmeg, a whole bunch of sugar.
I like sugar.
I think there's cinnamon.
I think we did vanilla lastyear.
Aaron Pete (05:41):
Rebecca has called me a sugar bug.
Are you?
Yeah, do you or a sugar bug?
Like when I have coffee?
I like sugar Really.
That's like we could.
We could go with less cream,but it needs lots of sugar
Really.
Tim Srigley (05:53):
Yeah, I'm kind of a black coffee year round sort
of guy, until you look like it.
Until you hit October, yeah.
And then I go like, yeah, Ilove the stupid pumpkin spice
and I pumpkin spice everything.
And then, going into November,then I switched to like, yeah,
the fancy Christmas drinks, thepeppermint mochas and stuff like
that.
But, then the rest of the year,like New Year's hits, and then
(06:15):
I'm black coffee again untilOctober.
Aaron Pete (06:17):
But do you like?
Look at yourself in the mirrorand go like this is how I want
to present myself, because youlook like a person who's like
black coffee.
For me, like you've got thatessence.
Tim Srigley (06:29):
There's a black coffee.
Aaron Pete (06:30):
I have an essence of sugar, please.
Tim Srigley (06:33):
You know what?
I didn't like coffee for thelongest time and I had this
roommate that loved coffee andthen he started me on these,
like starting at Tim Hortons.
It was like I guess that's amocha.
It's like half hot chocolate,half coffee.
I would drink those.
And then he, then I starteddoing the double, double thing
and then removed a sugar,removed a sugar, and then it
(06:55):
just kind of progressed to blackcoffee at some point.
But there was an origin storywhere I was a sugar bug as well.
Aaron Pete (07:03):
Really Okay.
Good, we're on the same pageabout that, and I'd also like to
say that I'm very grateful thatyou've come home to me, son.
Tim Srigley (07:12):
Yeah, I'm happy to be home.
Aaron Pete (07:15):
Your daughter thinks that I'm your father.
Tim Srigley (07:17):
Yes, I don't know at all where it came from.
She started talking about it afew months ago and then she just
I thought she had dropped itand then, like was it last week?
I texted you, yeah, and shesaid something about going to do
something with your father,aaron, and I was like, yeah,
(07:40):
that's weird.
How old are you?
I'm 37.
I'm 28.
Yeah, my daughter's four, to beclear.
Aaron Pete (07:49):
Yeah, she's like 20 years old.
Tim Srigley (07:52):
But she's convinced that you're my dad.
Aaron Pete (07:54):
And I was gin from the Abominable, abominable.
Tim Srigley (07:58):
Abominable.
Aaron Pete (07:59):
Abominable, abominable.
Tim Srigley (08:02):
Yeah, for a while.
Where did?
We saw you at some event andshe thought you were gin from
the movie Abominable.
That's the movie she waswatching at the time.
Yeah, but although you do kindof look like him, you don't look
like my dad.
Aaron Pete (08:17):
You don't think so, to be fair, no.
Tim Srigley (08:18):
Is it the skin?
It's a bit of everything, oh nobeard as well.
Aaron Pete (08:23):
I couldn't grow that .
If I tried, yours is prettymiraculous.
Thank you.
I'm surprised you didn't doanything where you could have
made it.
Maybe white, you know what.
You pulled it off.
Tim Srigley (08:34):
So I'm sure that's coming for me, right?
I haven't had to be Santa yet,right, but I feel like that's in
my future in the next coupleyears.
Aaron Pete (08:43):
You're made for it.
You've got the hair for it.
Tim Srigley (08:45):
It's El Naturel.
I think so.
I think that's going to happen,yeah, I think so.
Aaron Pete (08:51):
This is dollar store .
The white fluff for me for life.
You could grow it.
I don't have, you know, I don'tthink I could pull it off.
The other thing we need to tryare these Starbucks drinks.
I thought, what would a whitegirl do?
And so I have the caramelbrulee and you have.
Tim Srigley (09:10):
I have the chestnut praline.
Aaron Pete (09:12):
Okay, what's praline ?
Tim Srigley (09:15):
I asked my wife this because this is like her,
that's her favorite.
I think it's her favorite oneat Starbucks Up there anyway,
and Praline, I think, was like acookie, oh, or like a crumbly
cookie, like not a spice oranything.
Aaron Pete (09:31):
No, no, okay, okay, give it a try.
Give us your feedback.
Put your white girl hat on.
Tim Srigley (09:40):
You know it is pretty good, but it's no pumpkin
spice.
Aaron Pete (09:42):
Okay, okay, okay, caramel brulee.
Tim Srigley (09:46):
It is good, though it doesn't taste like chestnut
to me.
Aaron Pete (09:51):
I don't know what mine tastes like.
They kind of taste like lickinga gingerbread cookie or
something.
That's okay, yeah, not bad, toosugary for me.
So there's a sugar max.
Tim Srigley (10:02):
Okay, and has it come down to.
Maybe you like sugar more.
Maybe you're on the same paththat I was on.
I don't think so.
Aaron Pete (10:08):
I don't know.
I don't know.
Black coffee is terrible,terrible.
You wait?
Tim Srigley (10:14):
Next year's Christmas episode, we'll be
drinking black coffee.
Aaron Pete (10:18):
We'll see about that .
Yeah, You've come back withyour YouTube channel and you're
back to life.
Catch us up on what we'vemissed.
Yeah.
Tim Srigley (10:25):
So I haven't really been doing much with
other YouTube since April.
I think it's the last time Iposted, and then now I'm just
sort of getting back into it andmaking some things.
I haven't done a YouTube videoyet, but I've been, I don't know
, working on some leather thingsand just kind of making things
that I feel like making.
(10:45):
Yeah, fair enough.
Aaron Pete (10:47):
And what did you think of the live event?
You came out, it was so muchfun.
Tim Srigley (10:50):
Yeah, okay, tell us about it, yeah.
Aaron Pete (10:52):
How'd I do, you did great, I liked your.
Tim Srigley (10:55):
What was the thing you said?
Ask better questions?
Yeah, yeah, I like that.
That kind of makes sense, causeyou were like I don't know.
Well, we were talking the otherday about where you started and
where you are now, and so I'mhappy that I've got to do one of
these in every studio thatyou've had.
Yeah, but, like, thinking backand looking back, you can see
(11:17):
that you continue to ask betterquestions as you go, so you can
see that you're evolving as aninterviewer and now you're like
well, you were amazing then andnow you're like unreal now and
it's.
It was cool to see the liveevent and it was I don't know.
It was neat to like see all thepeople sitting here and there's
like there's like your little Idon't know it was like a party,
(11:41):
but it was like food andmingling and stuff before.
I liked your introverts loungeupstairs.
Aaron Pete (11:47):
Yeah.
Tim Srigley (11:49):
We went and sat up there for a bit and talked to a
couple of your previous gueststhat you've had on.
I had a number of people comeup to me and say, hey, you were
the guy that did the hot saucewith Aaron, so I was good at the
music.
I can't remember how to say herlast name Rebecca Cichon
Perfect.
Is that it?
(12:09):
Yeah, yeah, she was awesome.
Yeah, my wife has followed heron Spotify and has been
listening to her since, and thenmy wife actually won a prize
here, which was which wasawesome.
Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
I'm glad.
Yeah, I hope you do another one.
Aaron Pete (12:28):
It was surreal to bring everybody out and have it
go, I think, really smoothly.
I lost my bet with him abouthow much food were people are
going to eat.
Tim Srigley (12:34):
I tried to help you out, man.
I was so full.
I know it was a lot of food.
Aaron Pete (12:38):
What was your favorite?
Banek turkey sandwiches whendid we buy?
Tim Srigley (12:41):
it.
The Banek was really reallygood and I'm not like the
biggest Banek fan.
Aaron Pete (12:46):
Right, wow but.
Tim Srigley (12:46):
I ate a lot of Banek.
Aaron Pete (12:47):
Yeah, yeah, no jam, though I forgot the jam.
Tim Srigley (12:51):
It didn't matter, it didn't, didn't eat it, it
didn't eat it.
Aaron Pete (12:53):
Wow, that's a compliment to the chef.
Tim Srigley (12:55):
But you're the sugar bug, right.
Aaron Pete (12:56):
I am the sugar bug.
I do like sugar a lot.
Tim Srigley (13:00):
Yeah, it was really good.
The whole thing was awesome.
I'm definitely coming out forthe next one.
Aaron Pete (13:05):
And then we're also talking about potentially doing
a cold plunge episode.
Tim Srigley (13:09):
Yeah, it was going to be today, but I had prepared
myself.
But I'll continue to preparemyself for that.
Aaron Pete (13:17):
Senor McKelpine is down for it.
He's going to do it, he's infor it, he's team us.
I think I think so.
Yeah, he did.
He decorated all of this.
I'm blown away it looks amazing.
Tim Srigley (13:28):
Yeah, yeah, it looks amazing.
I think he should have someeggnog as well.
Aaron Pete (13:33):
I agree, I think he come out for some eggnog.
Do you think we could charm himto come out?
Tim Srigley (13:37):
I don't know.
Yeah, I like to think so.
Aaron Pete (13:40):
Yeah, I feel like it would be amazing, like a
Christmas miracle.
Tim Srigley (13:45):
A Christmas miracle, a Christmas miracle.
Baby Srigley (13:48):
Yeah, there will be no eggnog consumed by me.
Thank you very much.
Oh, wow, okay, wow.
Aaron Pete (13:54):
I feel like the audience needs this.
I feel like it would bring usall together.
We would be able to sing a songof Mary.
Tim Srigley (14:00):
Yeah, I think so.
To be clear, we're not singing,though, today.
Aaron Pete (14:04):
You don't think so I hope not.
I feel like you have the vocalsfor it?
Tim Srigley (14:07):
I definitely do not.
No, yeah, that would beembarrassing.
Aaron Pete (14:15):
And what are some of your Christmas traditions?
What are key things in theStrigley household?
Tim Srigley (14:21):
Nothing too crazy other than old eggs and dairy
Mainly.
I don't know.
It's just like family time forus.
This year I've managed to takethree weeks off at Christmas, so
I'm like a big child atChristmas.
And then what does that mean?
I don't know.
I'm just like giddy and happyfor Christmas.
(14:44):
I like all things Christmas.
Like I'm driving here today, Ican see the snow lines coming
down.
It was three degrees when Ileft, a little bit chilly.
I'm like getting excited forsnow because I want all the snow
in December.
So just last weekend we wentand got our Christmas tree, put
our Christmas tree up anddecorated and I don't know what.
The whole thing's just joyous.
(15:06):
But yeah, in terms oftraditions, we have a couple we
um.
A friend of ours has a bigChristmas party every year and
it's I don't know if it's kindof morbid or not, but it honors
a celebrity death from the yearand so it gets like themed, like
(15:28):
oh well as that person.
So I don't remember what lastyear's was.
It might have been NormMcDonald, but then it just gets
a theme.
So this year is Bob Barker andthe party is a big um, who's,
who's that?
Oh man, really.
(15:49):
Wow, here we go.
Aaron Pete (15:53):
Here we go, everybody's gonna start chiming
in.
Tim Srigley (15:54):
Yeah, they, they are on this one.
He was the host of the Price isRight, so so the party is like
a Price is Right party this year.
Oh yeah, and then somebody'slike built like big podiums to
like stand behind, like it'slike a game show thing.
Aaron Pete (16:06):
Wow, that is a big party.
Tim Srigley (16:07):
Yeah, so there's that this year.
And then, um, we go, we got areal tree every year and cut
that down and decorate that.
Aaron Pete (16:17):
Why?
Why do we cut down trees ForChristmas?
Right, but what's the logicbehind this?
Tim Srigley (16:24):
I don't know it's, it's an odd tradition.
Aaron Pete (16:28):
Do you?
Did you think it was so?
I just showed you a videobefore we started um by after
school.
Did you ever think about itprior to that?
Tim Srigley (16:35):
Yeah, I like like question what are we doing here?
I've thought about it and Ilike I never understood why you
bring it, cut down a tree andbring it in, Cause they die,
yeah, so why do you cut down atree and bring it inside?
Aaron Pete (16:49):
Only to grow like we grow it, literally to kill it.
Tim Srigley (16:52):
Yeah, put it in our house, yeah, and like a lot
of them, and they're expensivenow too.
It was like 75 bucks andthey're selling a lot of trees,
so it's like a lot of people arebuying these things and yeah,
so you never thought about itLike really.
I had thought about it but Ihad never like driven sorry,
dove deep into like figuring outwhy.
Aaron Pete (17:13):
Right.
So, how do you process?
So?
I showed you this video andthey basically explain that one
of the theory is not thedefinitive theory, but one of
the theories is that it comesfrom the, the Amonita Moschia
mushroom, and shamans deliveringthat to people's homes in the
wintertime at the wintersolstice.
How do you process thisinformation?
Tim Srigley (17:35):
I mean it, it.
You know I love to be fair.
I think it's the only liketheory I've heard as to where
this comes from, so but it kindof makes sense.
Like it's weird, the mushroomreally looks like Santa.
Aaron Pete (17:52):
And the elves piece makes sense.
Tim Srigley (17:54):
Yeah, flying reindeer.
And yeah, it was interesting.
Aaron Pete (18:00):
For people interested.
You just type in Santa Clausmushrooms and it'll be like the
first video that pops up onYouTube.
Tim Srigley (18:06):
Yeah, you should for sure link it or something.
Aaron Pete (18:07):
Yeah, yeah, cause it blew my mind.
But then you even think like Igrew up in a Catholic household
and there's no explanation forSanta, or you just do it, you
just participate, and I feellike most people participate and
just like walking around in thecommunity, you start to see
people who get really involved.
Like for Halloween, there wasthis one house and they just
(18:28):
went all out, like every spotwas filled up with stuff, and
then it's like then there's theother people who don't do
anything and there are peoplewho have those stupid lights,
that kind of light up the wholewall.
Yeah, and it's not.
There's no effort put in, it'slike a $30 item.
What makes somebody moreexcited about the season then?
Tim Srigley (18:44):
I don't yeah, I'm not sure.
I think for Christmas you haveto kind of like figure out like
what Christmas is to you andfigure out what makes you
excited and what you want to doand participate in and stuff.
I don't know.
I remember as a kid always wealways went and cut down a tree,
like not like went into thewoods and cut down a tree, but
(19:05):
we went to like one of thesetree farms and cut them down and
brought them in and I alwaysloved doing that and just like
smelling the Christmas tree inthe house and stuff is it's
arguably not arguably it'sdefinitely less convenient to go
and cut one of these thingsdown and bring it in and get
pine needles all over your housethan it is to get a fake one
that you can just put up andthey're like pre-lit now.
(19:25):
Like fake ones are actuallyreally.
They look really good now, yeah, but I don't know.
It's just something about thattradition that makes me like
feel like it's Christmas.
Aaron Pete (19:38):
There's something I love about the fact that the
winter solstice is the darkestday of the year, of the whole
year, and what we do as humanbeings is we do the exact
opposite and we light everythingup.
And I think there's somethinglike meaningful about whenever,
like we were just up at sunpeaks.
And the cool thing is like we,as humans, like to figure out a
(20:00):
way to enjoy something despiteall of the challenges it brings.
So, like you go skiing, you goto a place that's freezing cold,
filled with snow, and somehowyou're warm and you have a hot
tub and you've got all the gearto stay warm and you have a
fireplace and it's all cozy, andso we do the exact opposite of
what you would do in the winter,previous to fireplaces and hot
(20:22):
tubs.
And so, like I like that we dothe exact opposite, for when
it's hot out, we go to the beachand we stay cool using freezes
and ice cream, and like we justwe work very hard to do the
exact opposite of what should bethe norm during these seasons.
That's interesting, I like it.
Tim Srigley (20:38):
Like, I like what you just said, but I never knew,
like I never thought of thatbefore.
Aaron Pete (20:42):
You've never seen the like, the weirdness of human
beings in that way that we likework very hard, like my
favorite thing to do is go for adrive in the middle of summer,
crank the AC and roll down thewindow, just this much and like
that fresh air.
And then, when it's cold, Ilike the heat on the heated
seats, the heated steering wheel, and then you roll down that
(21:04):
window and you get a littleglimpse of how cold it is
outside.
But it's like, as humans, welike to master things and we
like have to, we want to controlit.
Tim Srigley (21:11):
Yeah.
Aaron Pete (21:12):
I see that in people a lot.
Tim Srigley (21:14):
Definitely.
Aaron Pete (21:15):
But we don't like think about it.
It's just like a tradition andyou just do it and you don't
know why.
Yeah, that was a big tragedy,like for me, seeing people give
gifts and the mindset can belike I'll give you a $10 gift
and you give me a $10 gift.
Well, why don't we just know it?
Tim Srigley (21:29):
and we could just save ourselves the money.
I hate that, like we we talkedabout that probably Five or ten
years ago my family and, well,my siblings and we just decided
I don't do sibling gifts, it's.
It's exactly that I give you agift card, you give me a gift
card and like who cares?
Just you'll spend your money.
So we stopped doing that andjust kind of enjoy Christmas.
(21:51):
And then there's like I don'tknow, there's like stress of
finding gifts for people too,and so part of it was that like
we just removed the one.
Like I hate it.
Aaron Pete (22:00):
This is wrong.
Tim Srigley (22:01):
I don't need a gift from my, my brother.
Aaron Pete (22:03):
I would rather just like hang out with him at
Christmas and but then, like thegift is like showing that you
know another person.
Tim Srigley (22:10):
Yeah, that's like, that's the kindness, it's not
like, but it got to a pointwhere we were just exchanging
arbitrary yeah which I don'treally Need another gift card.
Aaron Pete (22:20):
Yeah, don't do the gift cards.
But, like it is when they saythat it's the thought that
counts, it's like, think aboutthe person.
So if I know you, then I knowsome of your interest in what
you like to do and what youenjoy doing, yeah, and then I
try and find an area where youcould use more support or you're
interested in, and I supportyour endeavor and that's a way
to show that you care.
Tim Srigley (22:41):
But it's not, yeah , buying a gift card like I'm
not like trying to crap on giftcards, gift cards that like Put,
like that.
But I mean, like my siblingsand I were like just buying like
I don't know best buy gift cardyeah, I'm exchanging them out
of obligation, versus like goingand finding something that that
person would want and andgiving to them I don't know.
(23:01):
It seemed like the the purposewas off, so we were just like
Don't eat that.
Aaron Pete (23:07):
Yeah, I'm notoriously against lists, Like
people like send me like whatyou want.
I won't do it.
Really, if you know me, if youthink of something cool.
If you don't think of anythingcool, I like that.
I don't want.
I don't want to get like giveyou a $15 item that you can find
and then you just go buy thatlike where that's good, too, is,
(23:30):
then you're truly surprisedwhen you do open gifts, because
you didn't have a list.
Rebecca just got me the mostamazing birthday gift I've ever
received and it is a paintedPortrait of my grandmother, who
I lost, and she was the personwho raised my mother up and
supported her.
She was worked at a coca-litaIndian hospital, took care of
(23:50):
her, made sure she hadeverything she needed, took her
into her home and then raisedher up and then ended up raising
me and supporting my growth,and so she's a person who showed
that one person can make adifference and she's always
inspired me in that way.
And she got that portrait andnow I get to see her Every day
and that's that's my favoritegift.
(24:11):
But like I would never put thaton a on a list, yeah, yeah,
that's amazing because it's likepersonal when you get it.
Yeah, and somebody put thoughtin.
It took her three months toplan and figure out who the the
artist was going to be, who'sgoing to paint it and who's
going to put it together and whohad the right style for it.
It didn't happen overnight, butlike I can't force Someone to
(24:32):
do that for me, like that's,that's somebody's heart being
put into that.
That's the idea.
Tim Srigley (24:37):
Oh, that's awesome , I like that.
Aaron Pete (24:38):
Yeah.
Tim Srigley (24:40):
I have a Christmas list.
Aaron Pete (24:43):
What's on your Christmas?
List Tell me about yourChristmas list.
Tim Srigley (24:45):
No I.
Aaron Pete (24:46):
I normally do, I don't.
Is there socks on there?
What's going on?
You know what?
Tim Srigley (24:50):
Socks are not on my Christmas list, but I always
get them and they're very muchappreciated.
Like I don't know that I'veever bought my own socks.
Aaron Pete (24:58):
Really yeah, I always buy my own socks.
Tim Srigley (25:02):
What kind of socks do you like?
Aaron Pete (25:04):
We're not going there, we're not going down on
like what socks do I like Are wefinishing this?
Do you want to?
I kind of want to.
I don't think I'm ever going tobe able to have this again, and
we've been talking about thisfor two years.
Tim Srigley (25:14):
I have lots of this, so if you want to have
some of this again, that's notan issue.
Aaron Pete (25:17):
It's better than the caramel brulee.
Tim Srigley (25:20):
So shout out to Starbucks.
I was going to say just to befair.
You said my drink is betterthan a Starbucks drink.
Aaron Pete (25:25):
Correct, I think it's the fact that it sat in the
back of your fridge for a whilefive years.
That's a romantic place.
Tim Srigley (25:33):
I'm happy that you like it.
Aaron Pete (25:37):
And we got these cute mugs.
Tim Srigley (25:41):
It was nice, this was funny.
So at your live event I wassitting with Matt, your whiskey
guy, yeah, and um, I was talkingabout this with him and uh,
last year so I guess, when wedrank the eggnog last year so I
guess that's the eggnog from twoyears ago we had put a Jamaican
rum in it and when we had it ittasted like this eggnog, tasted
(26:05):
like bananas, like it was likebanana eggnog, right.
And so Matt went into a biglong thing about uh rum and how
it has I'm gonna butcher what hesaid, but uh, banana Like kind
of like the essence of banana inrum inherently, and went into
like tasting notes on rum andstuff.
So it's not just whiskey, heknows about all things alcohol,
(26:26):
I think.
Aaron Pete (26:27):
I agreed.
Isn't it crazy to see how farhe came over the past year?
Tim Srigley (26:30):
Yeah, it's so exciting he's killing youtube.
Aaron Pete (26:32):
Yeah, I'm excited for him really figuring it out
and and moving forward.
It was cool that we got to playsome small roles in him getting
started as he sales passed us.
Yeah, he's going on trips nowto he traveled for it and stuff.
Yeah, he went to Scotland yeah.
Tim Srigley (26:50):
Yeah, it's very cool.
It was.
Yeah, it's it's cool to see himdo that.
It was awesome, like that was.
The first time I met him was Atyour podcast there, so I've
talked to him a bit online andstuff, but yeah, um, yeah, that
was a lot of fun.
That was a good event.
Aaron Pete (27:03):
I agree, I think we got to do more of those new
year's resolutions.
How do we feel about them?
You think new year's resolutionUm?
Tim Srigley (27:11):
I'm not like a resolution fan, in that like you
make a resolution and if youdon't accomplish it you should
feel bad about yourself.
And but I do kind of likedifferent people really so.
Aaron Pete (27:25):
I just interviewed Amon Zahabi.
Yes, and that will be airing.
It'll be our first episode backfrom from hiatus and man, he
makes a really good point thatwho cares about your start date?
What is your finish date?
When are you going to completeyour goal?
Tim Srigley (27:42):
Yeah, david Goggin says there is no finish, so
that's true.
Um, it's a lot of pressure.
I don't.
I come up with goals for theyear for me every year and, um,
um, this year I kind of fellshort.
My goal was to hit 20,000youtube subscribers and I'm at
19 five, so you're close.
Could happen, but I doubt it.
But I also didn't post anything, so that could be a big part of
(28:05):
it, but that's a big mistake.
Yeah, but I'd like to come upwith a goal at New Year's, just
kind of like I don't knowsomething to focus on for the
year.
Aaron Pete (28:14):
And what are you thinking?
You were biking like crazy,right, yeah, like an animal.
Tim Srigley (28:19):
Yeah, I don't look like an endurance athlete.
So I mean, you know, but Ihaven't like shared it.
But my wife has cancer and soI'm then riding in the tour de
cure, so I have to.
There's like a requirement toraise money and then you ride.
It's 200 kilometers over twodays.
Aaron Pete (28:39):
Wow, and what is that?
Tim Srigley (28:40):
It's in August, wow.
So myself and a buddy of mineis doing it with me, right, and
so we've been training prettyhard for it.
It's kind of dropped off alittle bit coming into Christmas
here, but that'll be my goalfor the New Year's.
I think I'm up to 60 kilometersa ride right now, or 60
(29:02):
something, and then, yeah, byAugust I have to be doing 100
and then do two days of it.
Aaron Pete (29:07):
So that's crazy.
Tim Srigley (29:08):
Yeah, so that's probably my main goal this year
is to keep getting in shape forthat.
Aaron Pete (29:16):
Admirable too.
Tim Srigley (29:18):
Yeah, thank you, yeah, how much do you have to
raise?
Well, there's like there's noupper limit.
You have to.
You have to raise a minimum of2,500 to ride in the event.
Aaron Pete (29:28):
Right, and when can people start donating?
Right now?
How would they like?
Do they donate to you or dothey donate to tour de?
Tim Srigley (29:38):
It's through tour de cure.
There's a page like a donationpage.
You go on there, donate howevermuch you want, and it goes
straight to them there.
I don't think every the taxreceipts do everything.
I basically just have topromote it and bring in
donations, but it goes straightto them.
I think they're run by BCCancer, so promote it.
Aaron Pete (30:00):
Tell me why is it important to support?
Tim Srigley (30:03):
Why is it important to support cancer
research?
Yeah, because cancer sucks.
Yeah, I had cancer.
I was diagnosed with cancer themonth after my kid was born, so
that kind of sucked and I'm.
I think I have my last checkupin two weeks now and then I'm
(30:26):
five years, clear of it.
Four years, yeah, I'm almostclear of it anyway.
Aaron Pete (30:31):
Can you talk about how scary it was?
It's scary.
Tim Srigley (30:34):
Yeah, I don't know .
Just kind of, when you'rediagnosed with it, it's like
hearing like the C word and like, oh shit, this kills people,
right, and so yeah, it's weird.
And then now I'm free of it andnow my wife has cancer as well
(30:55):
and she's battling that andgoing through chemo and stuff.
So that's, yeah, cancer reallysucks.
So I I also feel like there'snothing really that I can do to
help other than raise money forthe, for people that can help.
Like I'm no doctor or cancerresearcher, I can't go in the
(31:16):
lab and be like, okay, guys,let's cure cancer today.
So, yeah, it's important toraise money for the people that
could possibly cure cancer.
Aaron Pete (31:26):
Yeah, what would you want people to know about it
and the benefits of supportingthis work, and know about
raising money for it, or knowabout like the weight I feel,
like if people know, like me, Iknow what you've been through
from a distance.
Baby Srigley (31:40):
Yeah.
Aaron Pete (31:40):
But like what would be something you would want,
someone who might not have hadan interaction, who's interested
in supporting, but like givingus a little bit more context as
to the weight, the weight, theheaviness of it all.
Tim Srigley (31:54):
I was like wait for one.
It's hard to describe.
We've had a ton of support fromfriends and family, which has
been huge.
Friends and family is a massivehelp when you're going through
this stuff, yeah.
But it's like a roller coasterman.
(32:14):
It's good days and bad days,and the bad days really really
suck.
I don't know if I could doanything.
If raising money and riding abike is enough to maybe help
stop this thing so that otherpeople don't have to go through
it, I think that's worth it.
(32:35):
It really sucks.
I don't know how to describe it.
Aaron Pete (32:41):
It's got to be meaningful to be able to like.
There's sometimes when you'reon a run you're like, why am I?
I could go home, have somethingto eat.
That seems like a hugemotivator.
Tim Srigley (32:50):
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
You know what?
I have a couple of times in mylife been pretty fit because I
was like training for something,like one of those I did Tough
Mudder a few years and that wasa big thing and I just find it
easier to train for something.
So that's definitely been amotivator for training on the
bike, getting out there onreally cold days when you don't
(33:12):
really want to be outside, andstuff.
Aaron Pete (33:13):
Yeah, have you thought about like vlogging that
or like documenting thatjourney?
Tim Srigley (33:18):
I have.
Yeah, I haven't started yet,but I'm going to try to, I think
, start doing that this year.
There's another goal Maybe juststart another channel and doing
that.
I was thinking about how Iwould do that and grow an
audience and I don't know, I'mlike not the best cyclist or
(33:39):
anything, so I don't know ifanybody would follow that, but I
was gonna try to do some funnystuff or I feel like that would
be why people would tune in.
Aaron Pete (33:48):
It gets different hearing from somebody whose
A-months-a-hobby was talkingabout the fact that there's this
person who did like an ultimatefast and he did like a year of
like fasting, holy crap, yeah,and like he was having like just
he was something like 300 or400 pounds, yeah, and like lost
a bunch of weight as consequence.
But the reason people wanted totune in was because he was
overweight and they wanted tosee, like the effects.
Tim Srigley (34:12):
Yeah, it's different.
Aaron Pete (34:13):
if you're like a pro , what's that guy Hanson?
Tim Srigley (34:17):
Yeah, oh, lance Armstrong, there you go.
Yeah, I'm not gay.
Well, I feel like I'm similarto Lance Armstrong.
Oh, perfect, I had the samecancer and they chopped one of
mine off too.
Right, so, right, so, so, so,so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so,
so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so,so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so
so.
So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so,so, so.
(35:16):
Actually, such as your Gene TWould you.
Aaron Pete (35:24):
It would resonate with me more, if I'm being
honest, than leather videos,because I don't know how to make
leather and I don't have thespace for it yeah, but we'll
still get you doing that at somepoint, ok.
Ok, I feel like that would besomething where I'd get like
motivated by that, yeah, and getlike excited about Because Amon
convinced me to do a three dayfast yeah, that I have to do in
the next before I have him backon.
Tim Srigley (35:44):
A three day fast.
Aaron Pete (35:45):
Yeah, I think you could do it.
Tim Srigley (35:46):
I think so Well, I mean you 100%, could do it.
Aaron Pete (35:48):
Yeah, I don't think it's impossible.
But and then the cold plunge,those are my two kind of things
I want to do in 2024.
Tim Srigley (35:55):
You should end the three day fast with the cold
plunge.
Aaron Pete (35:59):
That would be tough.
I'd be really hungry after that.
Yeah, yeah.
Tim Srigley (36:05):
What would you eat after immediately following
your three day fast?
What would be the meal?
Aaron Pete (36:10):
Nothing Like something very small.
What Because you get like thebenefit of a fast is that your
stomach gets smaller.
So if you had to plan this bigmeal, you really just wasted
three days.
Tim Srigley (36:21):
Oh, I'm like the opposite.
I would get like the biggestburger I could find.
Aaron Pete (36:23):
That's what I'm saying, but then you're back in
the same boaty word You've gotto utilize and stay on that path
.
Tim Srigley (36:30):
Mm.
Aaron Pete (36:30):
You know Any other big Christmas things?
Christmas movies, favoriteChristmas movie oh.
Tim Srigley (36:38):
I have a bunch.
I think obviously the favoriteis Christmas vacation.
Please tell me you know whatChristmas vacation is.
Aaron Pete (36:45):
Do you mean Home Alone?
Tim Srigley (36:47):
No well, that's a good one too OK because that
seems like Christmas vacation.
Have you not watched Christmasvacation?
I have not.
This hurts me, ok.
Aaron Pete (36:54):
I'm a company minors .
Have you watched that?
Tim Srigley (36:56):
I don't think I have I know what it is, though.
Yeah, it's really good, is it?
Aaron Pete (37:00):
It might be my favorite Christmas movie Really
Daddy's Home 2 is up there.
Tim Srigley (37:05):
It's funny.
Yeah, yeah, it's better thanthe first one.
Aaron Pete (37:08):
You're going to get flack for not saying Elf.
Tim Srigley (37:12):
Elf is funny, but I like, yeah, it's damn funny
actually.
Aaron Pete (37:17):
Yeah.
Tim Srigley (37:18):
I don't know.
I don't know.
That's one of my favorites, butI watch it every year.
Aaron Pete (37:22):
It has to be the top five.
Tim Srigley (37:23):
It's up there, christmas with the cranks.
That's a good one.
I like that one.
Aaron Pete (37:28):
That one's like that would be top 20, maybe Top 10.
Top 20 for me, ok, maybe.
Tim Srigley (37:36):
I don't know.
We watch a bunch.
We actually the newest animatedGrinch with, is it Benedict
Cumberbatch is the Grinch'svoice.
Aaron Pete (37:47):
OK Is really good.
I haven't seen that either.
Tim Srigley (37:50):
My kid was watching it.
As I left to come here thismorning, she put that on and
made her an egg and then left.
Ok yeah, that's a good one.
When I was a kid I think it waslike my grade eight year we
went down to California and theywere actually designing the set
for the Jim Carrey Grinch movie, right, that was super cool to
(38:10):
see.
Aaron Pete (38:11):
Really.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Yeah, favorite Christmas album?
Oh God, it has to be.
Michael Buble Does it.
Well, he's Canadian, I don'tknow, and it's very classy, I
feel like.
Classy, I feel like.
Tim Srigley (38:23):
I should have a favorite Christmas song.
Aaron Pete (38:24):
What's the thing called a monocle?
When I listen to that album.
Tim Srigley (38:29):
You should wear a monocle anyway.
Aaron Pete (38:31):
I think I could pull it off Me, and the Monopoly are
hanging out.
Tim Srigley (38:36):
I don't know that I have a favorite Christmas
album.
Aaron Pete (38:39):
Wow, yeah Nothing.
Tim Srigley (38:40):
I've never really thought about it.
Just random Christmas songs,just random Christmas songs, ok
yeah.
Aaron Pete (38:46):
Favorite food at Christmas dinner?
What has to be on the table?
Tim Srigley (38:52):
We switch it up all the time, Like what do you
guys do for Christmas dinner?
A?
Aaron Pete (38:56):
traditional Christmas dinner Like just
turkey dinner.
Yeah, stuffing mashed potatoes,gravy, lots of gravy for
Rebecca, so gravy themed Reallyshe's a gravy animal man, really
.
Yeah, oh, that's interesting,she'll have potatoes with her
gravy.
Tim Srigley (39:10):
That's what you're supposed to have with your
gravy.
Aaron Pete (39:11):
No, I'm saying like she'll have all gravy and then
like a little bit of potatoes tomix it up.
Tim Srigley (39:17):
Like you with sugar and coffee.
There you go, I see.
Aaron Pete (39:20):
No, we're talking.
Tim Srigley (39:21):
So we should call her gravy bug.
Aaron Pete (39:22):
Gravy bug, that would be a good name.
She's laughing in the back.
Tim Srigley (39:29):
We, I think it might be.
So we have Thanksgiving inOctober like a Canadian one, and
then we do that like a familyThanksgiving, like a normal
turkey dinner and stuff, andthen we usually do like a
friends Thanksgiving around thetime.
American Thanksgiving is inNovember and so we don't end up
(39:53):
always doing a turkey dinner atChristmas.
We've done.
We did a big lasagna one oneyear we did a lasagna one.
Yeah, lasagna Christmas.
You're a bad person.
It was good.
Aaron Pete (40:04):
You're a bad person.
It was good, I'm sure it was.
It was amazing, lasagna's great.
You're a bad person.
This is irresponsible.
Tim Srigley (40:10):
That's fair.
Ok, we did that one year.
We've done roast like a niceroast beef a bunch of years we
did.
Aaron Pete (40:17):
That one passes by like this much, this much.
Tim Srigley (40:21):
We did a porketta one year which is like pork
belly, like that you would makebacon out of rolled up and roast
it.
Oh, that's so good.
Aaron Pete (40:30):
A pork bella Porketta, porketta, yeah,
porketta, yeah.
It's like where would you evenbuy that?
Tim Srigley (40:36):
You just buy a pork belly.
I think we got it from Costco.
Have you ever had porketta?
Oh, that's good.
Aaron Pete (40:42):
I don't even know where I would Like.
I'm thinking of myself in thehardware section saying that
word Really Porketta.
Tim Srigley (40:48):
Yeah, that was good Pork belly.
It's a pork belly and you putsome like garlic and herbs and
stuff, you roll it up and thenyou just do it like a roast.
Aaron Pete (40:56):
Mr McAlpine, am I crazy?
Have you ever heard of thisword before Porketta?
I have not.
Have you ever?
Do you cook?
Are you a big cook guy?
No, you're not the person whomakes the tricky dinners no, or
the eggnog no, no, do you wantto make that.
What's your signature meal,that you?
Baby Srigley (41:15):
make.
Are you asking me, or I thinkmy contribution is nil at this
point.
Aaron Pete (41:21):
What have you made for yourself that other people
would eat?
Baby Srigley (41:25):
I make a mean macaroni lasagna.
Aaron Pete (41:27):
Macaroni lasagna.
Tim Srigley (41:29):
Would you eat it for Christmas?
Baby Srigley (41:31):
No, and back to you.
Aaron Pete (41:36):
My last question for you, though is not for you, for
Mr McAlpine is there anyChristmas traditions that stand
out to you?
Baby Srigley (41:44):
Christmas dinner at my parents.
It's been always.
Aaron Pete (41:48):
Wow, ok, never specific on the turkey, whether
or not it's Because it doesn'talways have to be turkey, it
needs to be turkey.
Tim Srigley (41:56):
Turkey is fine.
Aaron Pete (41:58):
I'm part of big turkey industry.
This is sponsored by turkeyindustries.
Then I'm just going to stopsaying what I'm saying.
Tim Srigley (42:04):
No, I think turkey is good because you don't have
it often Agreed.
I think if turkey was a regularthing, I think the chicken's
better Agreed Both friends.
So I think that turkey'shealthier.
I'm sure it is, yeah, but Ithink what makes turkey good is
that it's several times a year.
Baby Srigley (42:24):
Yeah.
Tim Srigley (42:25):
But by the time we've had a few turkeys in a row
.
I don't always want turkey forChristmas, so I think this year
we're doing pork crown roast.
Aaron Pete (42:34):
Right.
My big proposition is I thinkwe need something between
February and summer.
I think we need a strongerholiday that stands out.
We have Easter, but we needsomething with a little bit more
je ne sais quoi.
Tim Srigley (42:48):
OK, what do you propose?
Aaron Pete (42:49):
I have no idea.
Something spicy.
I think I could pull that off.
Tim Srigley (42:55):
A spicy holiday.
Aaron Pete (42:56):
There you go yeah.
Tim Srigley (42:58):
I'm on board for the record.
Aaron Pete (43:00):
Yeah, I just find that that's the time where it's
the most vanilla.
Yeah, like, christmas is theone where we all seem to get on
the same page, and this is mymost controversial question of
the day.
Tim Srigley (43:11):
OK, ok.
Aaron Pete (43:11):
So you've got to get ready for it.
Ok, how do we feel about reallyworking and just being like
happy holidays, removing anyspecificity to the specific
event?
Tim Srigley (43:26):
I'm not opposed to happy holidays, but I feel that
everyone should be able to wishsomebody that holiday of their
choosing.
I don't feel like it's a biglike if somebody you know happy
Hanukkahed me.
I would be happy that they'rejust like greeting me with
anything Like I don't.
(43:48):
It's like almost likepolarizing, like if you say
happy holidays to me, that'sgreat, that's nice, that's a
nice thing to do.
I don't care what you wish me.
Aaron Pete (43:56):
My only thing is it feels like you're afraid to say
what you mean.
That's the only thing I do,like just say what it is, yeah,
why you're happy.
That's what I want to hear.
Merry Christmas, that's fair.
Like we never say the wordmerry, I like the word merry
holidays.
Tim Srigley (44:12):
It sounds weird.
Aaron Pete (44:13):
Okay.
Tim Srigley (44:16):
Well, I like it Sounds kind of weird.
Yeah, you don't.
You don't say merry, though,like you wouldn't say merry
birthday.
Aaron Pete (44:20):
Like this is going to be called a Christmas episode
.
It is yeah.
Tim Srigley (44:23):
I like it, like Christmas in here.
Aaron Pete (44:26):
Yeah, not a December episode.
What is with the pointe sedits?
Can somebody explain that to me?
Tim Srigley (44:31):
I don't know.
You explained to me the originof the Christmas tree.
Aaron Pete (44:33):
Can't explain the pointe.
Sedits man.
Tim Srigley (44:35):
No, I don't know.
Aaron Pete (44:36):
They've got the red and the green man.
He did such a good job on this.
Tim Srigley (44:42):
It's kind of weird .
I like the fire burning.
Aaron Pete (44:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's very cozy in here.
It is good yeah.
Tim Srigley (44:48):
I don't know, Christmas just feels cozy.
But I think you're right aboutthat.
Um, missing holiday.
Because there's like this leadup to Christmas and New Year's
and stuff, where it's like Idon't know just that build up.
You can feel it and even likegoing into like Halloween is
kind of exciting and then fromHalloween you start just kind of
(45:11):
building to Christmas and itgets happier and happier and
then that's there, and thenthere's just nothing again.
Yeah, Just after New Year's,yeah, Just like.
Aaron Pete (45:21):
Levels out.
Tim Srigley (45:22):
Yeah, it's just as dark and stuff after New Year's
as it was leading up to it, soit's, I don't know.
I think you're right, I thinkyou're onto something, but you
would need to have like it wouldstill need to be a merry time
at your proposed holiday.
Aaron Pete (45:39):
Exactly what would you want people to know?
Oh, here we go.
Baby Srigley (45:44):
So, based on your research department, it wasn't
until the 17th century that theplant first became associated
with Christmas.
This was from the Franciscanmonks in the town of Taxco del
Arcan First used the shrub innativity processions.
Aaron Pete (46:02):
Wow, man, I kind of like to have just like Wikipedia
come through the walls.
Tim Srigley (46:09):
Having Tim come through there One.
It's kind of like my conscienceor God is speaking to me or
something.
Just the voice comes through.
But it's almost like the Roganpodcast, with Jamie in the
background.
Aaron Pete (46:21):
Yeah.
Tim Srigley (46:22):
Like the guy in the chair doing the research and
jumping in with the In thecontrol room.
Aaron Pete (46:27):
Yeah, it's awesome.
Okay, let's end this off.
What would you want to wishpeople genuinely as they head
into the holiday season?
Merry Christmas.
We'll say more.
It's very general.
Tim Srigley (46:40):
What else would I wish somebody?
Aaron Pete (46:42):
Like personally, I would hope that everybody is
able to spend time with lovedones who care about them, who
are there for them throughoutthe year, that they're able to
share gifts with the peoplewho've supported them over the
course of their year, celebrategood times and then really come
up with a good plan for theirnext year on how they're going
(47:03):
to take care of themselves, howthey're going to make a
difference in their community,how they're going to grow as an
individual mentally, physically,in all the different ways.
Those are some of the thingsthat I hope people go into 2024
with.
Tim Srigley (47:17):
Yeah, that's what I meant.
Yeah, you were getting there.
You were getting there.
Yeah, I wish all those things.
Can I do that?
You're much better spoken thanI am from talking to people for
work.
Aaron Pete (47:36):
But that's a job.
Tim Srigley (47:37):
Yeah, I would just wish people a good time in the
holidays, a better I mean abetter year every year.
Do the next year one betterthan the last one, whatever that
is to you.
Aaron Pete (47:52):
That's very general and the worst Christmas card
I've ever heard of.
Tim Srigley (47:56):
That is your Christmas card actually.
I wish you a happy whatever.
Happy, whatever that means toyou, yeah.
Aaron Pete (48:05):
Well, I really appreciate.
Every time we get to sit downtogether, it's always memorable.
It's a little wild, it's alittle gnauggy, if you will.
Tim Srigley (48:13):
A little gnauggy.
Thank you for drinkingfive-year-old eggs.
Aaron Pete (48:15):
It was fantastic.
I'm glad you liked it Waybetter than I thought it was
going to be.
It was a pleasure doing the HotOnes episode with you.
Oh, it was fun being in allthese different studios and it's
always fun to just causeshenanigans together.
Tim Srigley (48:27):
Yeah, Merry Christmas buddy.
Aaron Pete (48:30):
Merry Christmas.
Can we get some of thatChristmas music going on?
I'd like to dance us out, ifthat's at all an option.
Baby Srigley (48:34):
They might demonetize you.
Aaron Pete (48:36):
Yeah, they can demonetize my face off.
We can dim the music a littlebit, or I could talk over it so
they can't hear it as clearly,but I feel like we need a little
music to play us out, you know.
Baby Srigley (48:46):
I think you can add that in post and make sure
it's royalty-free.
But what I will add isChristmas, the only time of year
in which one can sit in frontof a dead tree and eat candy out
of socks.
Aaron Pete (48:58):
That was a savage way to talk about Christmas.
Tim Srigley (49:01):
It is but Accurate , Delicious Wow.
Aaron Pete (49:05):
Bring in the facts today, Tim.
Tim Srigley (49:07):
I really like that .
Aaron Pete (49:08):
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a good mixture.
We've got a few looks into thecamera before we close out.
Something dramatic that we canuse as a thumbnail A thumbnail.
Tim Srigley (49:22):
I don't do dramatic for you.
That was very good.
Aaron Pete (49:26):
Thank you.
Making faces is one of the onlyways I can be able to tune in
every time.
Baby Srigley (49:30):
So make sure you turn the stair right into the
one under the TV.
This one.
I was looking at this one, theone with the red light on it,
yeah.
Tim Srigley (49:37):
Oh, that makes sense.
Aaron Pete (49:39):
And give a smile, Giba.
Tim Srigley (49:45):
How did I do?
Aaron Pete (49:46):
Beautiful, perfect.
Thank you, we did it, thank you.
Baby Srigley (49:55):
Thank you.
What kind of a podcast?
Here's a House Erum Pete.
Aaron Pete (00:10):
Merry Christmas everyone.
We are doing a tremendousepisode Again.
This is our last one of 2023,so we had to celebrate and we
had to have the unforgettable,the magical Tim Srigley on the
podcast again, Tim, thank you somuch for coming back on.
Tim Srigley (00:26):
Thanks for having me, man.
Aaron Pete (00:27):
Let's cheers Merry Christmas.
The other thing we shouldmention is that the voice at the
beginning of the episode isactually your daughter.
So when I was working on myrebrand and updating things,
your voice is typically the onethat starts all the episodes off
, and then your daughter.
How did that come about?
Tim Srigley (00:45):
So she started when I do like YouTube videos
and stuff, she's really likegotten into, coming down and she
like puts on like I don't havea crazy studio like this, but I
have like a little like boxwhere all my audio goes into and
there's like a headset that youcan listen to on microphone and
stuff.
So she puts that on and standsin front of me while I'm making
(01:06):
my YouTube videos and then itjust kind of she always comes
and helps with that stuff.
And so when you asked me to dothe voice at the start of your
podcast, she was on board and soher and I went up to the room
and just started recording those.
And then she's like, can I doone?
And so I think she did a couple.
But yeah, so she did the oneand I figured I'd send it across
(01:27):
to you too, because it ended uppretty funny.
Aaron Pete (01:29):
That's got to be so cool to have her interest in
what you're working on.
Tim Srigley (01:33):
Yeah, it's one.
It's handy, because then I cankind of do what I want to do and
she'll just come as long as youkeep her busy.
But two, it's neat that she'sshowing an interest in it and I
don't know she.
She did like I didn't make itpublic, but she recorded like an
intro to a YouTube episode too.
It's super funny.
And so I have that like whyhaven't you heard this?
(01:54):
I don't know.
I have this weird thing about.
I don't want to put her face onthe internet.
I don't know, it might go liveat some point.
But don't ask me, I wouldn'tknow what that yeah, I don't
know, I kind of feel weird aboutit.
So it's private so far.
But yeah, I have an episode,like a starting episode, of her
(02:15):
like sitting at my like YouTubeset and could you do that one
for like premium subscribers?
Aaron Pete (02:20):
I don't know I like that Cause.
Then it's not really out thereto the world.
That's true, yeah.
Tim Srigley (02:25):
Middle ground.
Yeah, I don't know, it's notjust my say either.
Aaron Pete (02:29):
That's true.
Yeah, interesting, that's gotto be a balance.
Tim Srigley (02:33):
It is, and I don't know what's appropriate in
terms of putting kids on theinternet.
Aaron Pete (02:37):
It's yeah, that's far too complicated for me.
Tell us about this drink.
Tim Srigley (02:42):
So this is a weird kind of Christmas tradition
that I started five years ago.
Okay, so this is eggnog andthis is five year old eggnog.
What does that mean?
So every year I make a batch ofeggnog it has some alcohol in
it, yeah and then we drinkwhatever eggnog we drink for the
(03:03):
year, and then it goes into thefridge for that year and then
the next year we make anotherbatch of the same eggnog or
similar eggnog, mix it alltogether and drink whatever of
that that we will for the year,and then bottle it back up, it
doesn't go bad.
No, cause there's a.
Are you sure?
There's a good amount ofalcohol in it that kills
(03:24):
anything that would cause it togo bad.
So this is kind of liketraditional eggnog, like it was
originally aged cause it was aform of storing it, so the
alcohol in it preserves it.
Aaron Pete (03:38):
Yeah, I'm going to trust you and we're going to
give this a try.
You've had this before, right?
Tim Srigley (03:42):
You know what?
I do trust it, but I tried somelast night just to make sure
that I don't get poisoned.
Yes, okay.
Aaron Pete (03:50):
Are you sure your stomach hasn't acclimated to it
and like a virgin stomach?
Tim Srigley (03:56):
I think we're going to find out, Okay let's go
, okay, merry Christmas.
Aaron Pete (03:59):
Merry Christmas what ?
Tim Srigley (04:06):
do you think?
Aaron Pete (04:09):
That's very pleasant , not bad.
Hey, I was ready to do anotherone of those faces where I like
squint and my eyes roll back tothe back of my head.
This is very smooth.
Tim Srigley (04:17):
Yeah, and it's weird it kind of changes every
year, like we kind of putdifferent alcohols in it each
year.
Aaron Pete (04:25):
So it's kind of what are some of the common?
Tim Srigley (04:27):
ones Often rum, some kind of whiskey.
Aaron Pete (04:33):
Right.
Tim Srigley (04:33):
I'm trying to think what we did last year.
I can't remember.
There was tequila in it at onepoint.
Aaron Pete (04:37):
And what's in an egg nog?
Tim Srigley (04:39):
This one is eggs.
Yeah, eggs, got it.
Nogs, nogs.
It's basically eggs and sugarand milk and cream, and then
whatever alcohol that you put init, it's really good yeah thank
you.
Aaron Pete (04:58):
Okay.
Not so bad, I was really readyto die again.
Tim Srigley (05:03):
To run for the bathroom.
Aaron Pete (05:04):
This is not ending up like a hot ones episode.
Tim Srigley (05:07):
No, no, it's actually really pleasant to not
be here and have to shovel backspicy stuff or ice cream.
Last time you had a lot of icecream.
I think my favorite thing thatyou did was the loaves of bread
and you were just licking themand then tossing them.
Aaron Pete (05:24):
Not one of my finer moments.
Tim Srigley (05:27):
It was.
It was good.
Yeah, that was a fun episode.
Aaron Pete (05:30):
What else is in here like nutmeg?
Yeah?
It's something that we put inhere.
Tim Srigley (05:34):
Nutmeg, a whole bunch of sugar.
I like sugar.
I think there's cinnamon.
I think we did vanilla lastyear.
Aaron Pete (05:41):
Rebecca has called me a sugar bug.
Are you?
Yeah, do you or a sugar bug?
Like when I have coffee?
I like sugar Really.
That's like we could.
We could go with less cream,but it needs lots of sugar
Really.
Tim Srigley (05:53):
Yeah, I'm kind of a black coffee year round sort
of guy, until you look like it.
Until you hit October, yeah.
And then I go like, yeah, Ilove the stupid pumpkin spice
and I pumpkin spice everything.
And then, going into November,then I switched to like, yeah,
the fancy Christmas drinks, thepeppermint mochas and stuff like
that.
But, then the rest of the year,like New Year's hits, and then
(06:15):
I'm black coffee again untilOctober.
Aaron Pete (06:17):
But do you like?
Look at yourself in the mirrorand go like this is how I want
to present myself, because youlook like a person who's like
black coffee.
For me, like you've got thatessence.
Tim Srigley (06:29):
There's a black coffee.
Aaron Pete (06:30):
I have an essence of sugar, please.
Tim Srigley (06:33):
You know what?
I didn't like coffee for thelongest time and I had this
roommate that loved coffee andthen he started me on these,
like starting at Tim Hortons.
It was like I guess that's amocha.
It's like half hot chocolate,half coffee.
I would drink those.
And then he, then I starteddoing the double, double thing
and then removed a sugar,removed a sugar, and then it
(06:55):
just kind of progressed to blackcoffee at some point.
But there was an origin storywhere I was a sugar bug as well.
Aaron Pete (07:03):
Really Okay.
Good, we're on the same pageabout that, and I'd also like to
say that I'm very grateful thatyou've come home to me, son.
Tim Srigley (07:12):
Yeah, I'm happy to be home.
Aaron Pete (07:15):
Your daughter thinks that I'm your father.
Tim Srigley (07:17):
Yes, I don't know at all where it came from.
She started talking about it afew months ago and then she just
I thought she had dropped itand then, like was it last week?
I texted you, yeah, and shesaid something about going to do
something with your father,aaron, and I was like, yeah,
(07:40):
that's weird.
How old are you?
I'm 37.
I'm 28.
Yeah, my daughter's four, to beclear.
Aaron Pete (07:49):
Yeah, she's like 20 years old.
Tim Srigley (07:52):
But she's convinced that you're my dad.
Aaron Pete (07:54):
And I was gin from the Abominable, abominable.
Tim Srigley (07:58):
Abominable.
Aaron Pete (07:59):
Abominable, abominable.
Tim Srigley (08:02):
Yeah, for a while.
Where did?
We saw you at some event andshe thought you were gin from
the movie Abominable.
That's the movie she waswatching at the time.
Yeah, but although you do kindof look like him, you don't look
like my dad.
Aaron Pete (08:17):
You don't think so, to be fair, no.
Tim Srigley (08:18):
Is it the skin?
It's a bit of everything, oh nobeard as well.
Aaron Pete (08:23):
I couldn't grow that .
If I tried, yours is prettymiraculous.
Thank you.
I'm surprised you didn't doanything where you could have
made it.
Maybe white, you know what.
You pulled it off.
Tim Srigley (08:34):
So I'm sure that's coming for me, right?
I haven't had to be Santa yet,right, but I feel like that's in
my future in the next coupleyears.
Aaron Pete (08:43):
You're made for it.
You've got the hair for it.
Tim Srigley (08:45):
It's El Naturel.
I think so.
I think that's going to happen,yeah, I think so.
Aaron Pete (08:51):
This is dollar store .
The white fluff for me for life.
You could grow it.
I don't have, you know, I don'tthink I could pull it off.
The other thing we need to tryare these Starbucks drinks.
I thought, what would a whitegirl do?
And so I have the caramelbrulee and you have.
Tim Srigley (09:10):
I have the chestnut praline.
Aaron Pete (09:12):
Okay, what's praline ?
Tim Srigley (09:15):
I asked my wife this because this is like her,
that's her favorite.
I think it's her favorite oneat Starbucks Up there anyway,
and Praline, I think, was like acookie, oh, or like a crumbly
cookie, like not a spice oranything.
Aaron Pete (09:31):
No, no, okay, okay, give it a try.
Give us your feedback.
Put your white girl hat on.
Tim Srigley (09:40):
You know it is pretty good, but it's no pumpkin
spice.
Aaron Pete (09:42):
Okay, okay, okay, caramel brulee.
Tim Srigley (09:46):
It is good, though it doesn't taste like chestnut
to me.
Aaron Pete (09:51):
I don't know what mine tastes like.
They kind of taste like lickinga gingerbread cookie or
something.
That's okay, yeah, not bad, toosugary for me.
So there's a sugar max.
Tim Srigley (10:02):
Okay, and has it come down to.
Maybe you like sugar more.
Maybe you're on the same paththat I was on.
I don't think so.
Aaron Pete (10:08):
I don't know.
I don't know.
Black coffee is terrible,terrible.
You wait?
Tim Srigley (10:14):
Next year's Christmas episode, we'll be
drinking black coffee.
Aaron Pete (10:18):
We'll see about that .
Yeah, You've come back withyour YouTube channel and you're
back to life.
Catch us up on what we'vemissed.
Yeah.
Tim Srigley (10:25):
So I haven't really been doing much with
other YouTube since April.
I think it's the last time Iposted, and then now I'm just
sort of getting back into it andmaking some things.
I haven't done a YouTube videoyet, but I've been, I don't know
, working on some leather thingsand just kind of making things
that I feel like making.
(10:45):
Yeah, fair enough.
Aaron Pete (10:47):
And what did you think of the live event?
You came out, it was so muchfun.
Tim Srigley (10:50):
Yeah, okay, tell us about it, yeah.
Aaron Pete (10:52):
How'd I do, you did great, I liked your.
Tim Srigley (10:55):
What was the thing you said?
Ask better questions?
Yeah, yeah, I like that.
That kind of makes sense, causeyou were like I don't know.
Well, we were talking the otherday about where you started and
where you are now, and so I'mhappy that I've got to do one of
these in every studio thatyou've had.
Yeah, but, like, thinking backand looking back, you can see
(11:17):
that you continue to ask betterquestions as you go, so you can
see that you're evolving as aninterviewer and now you're like
well, you were amazing then andnow you're like unreal now and
it's.
It was cool to see the liveevent and it was I don't know.
It was neat to like see all thepeople sitting here and there's
like there's like your little Idon't know it was like a party,
(11:41):
but it was like food andmingling and stuff before.
I liked your introverts loungeupstairs.
Aaron Pete (11:47):
Yeah.
Tim Srigley (11:49):
We went and sat up there for a bit and talked to a
couple of your previous gueststhat you've had on.
I had a number of people comeup to me and say, hey, you were
the guy that did the hot saucewith Aaron, so I was good at the
music.
I can't remember how to say herlast name Rebecca Cichon
Perfect.
Is that it?
(12:09):
Yeah, yeah, she was awesome.
Yeah, my wife has followed heron Spotify and has been
listening to her since, and thenmy wife actually won a prize
here, which was which wasawesome.
Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
I'm glad.
Yeah, I hope you do another one.
Aaron Pete (12:28):
It was surreal to bring everybody out and have it
go, I think, really smoothly.
I lost my bet with him abouthow much food were people are
going to eat.
Tim Srigley (12:34):
I tried to help you out, man.
I was so full.
I know it was a lot of food.
Aaron Pete (12:38):
What was your favorite?
Banek turkey sandwiches whendid we buy?
Tim Srigley (12:41):
it.
The Banek was really reallygood and I'm not like the
biggest Banek fan.
Aaron Pete (12:46):
Right, wow but.
Tim Srigley (12:46):
I ate a lot of Banek.
Aaron Pete (12:47):
Yeah, yeah, no jam, though I forgot the jam.
Tim Srigley (12:51):
It didn't matter, it didn't, didn't eat it, it
didn't eat it.
Aaron Pete (12:53):
Wow, that's a compliment to the chef.
Tim Srigley (12:55):
But you're the sugar bug, right.
Aaron Pete (12:56):
I am the sugar bug.
I do like sugar a lot.
Tim Srigley (13:00):
Yeah, it was really good.
The whole thing was awesome.
I'm definitely coming out forthe next one.
Aaron Pete (13:05):
And then we're also talking about potentially doing
a cold plunge episode.
Tim Srigley (13:09):
Yeah, it was going to be today, but I had prepared
myself.
But I'll continue to preparemyself for that.
Aaron Pete (13:17):
Senor McKelpine is down for it.
He's going to do it, he's infor it, he's team us.
I think I think so.
Yeah, he did.
He decorated all of this.
I'm blown away it looks amazing.
Tim Srigley (13:28):
Yeah, yeah, it looks amazing.
I think he should have someeggnog as well.
Aaron Pete (13:33):
I agree, I think he come out for some eggnog.
Do you think we could charm himto come out?
Tim Srigley (13:37):
I don't know.
Yeah, I like to think so.
Aaron Pete (13:40):
Yeah, I feel like it would be amazing, like a
Christmas miracle.
Tim Srigley (13:45):
A Christmas miracle, a Christmas miracle.
Baby Srigley (13:48):
Yeah, there will be no eggnog consumed by me.
Thank you very much.
Oh, wow, okay, wow.
Aaron Pete (13:54):
I feel like the audience needs this.
I feel like it would bring usall together.
We would be able to sing a songof Mary.
Tim Srigley (14:00):
Yeah, I think so.
To be clear, we're not singing,though, today.
Aaron Pete (14:04):
You don't think so I hope not.
I feel like you have the vocalsfor it?
Tim Srigley (14:07):
I definitely do not.
No, yeah, that would beembarrassing.
Aaron Pete (14:15):
And what are some of your Christmas traditions?
What are key things in theStrigley household?
Tim Srigley (14:21):
Nothing too crazy other than old eggs and dairy
Mainly.
I don't know.
It's just like family time forus.
This year I've managed to takethree weeks off at Christmas, so
I'm like a big child atChristmas.
And then what does that mean?
I don't know.
I'm just like giddy and happyfor Christmas.
(14:44):
I like all things Christmas.
Like I'm driving here today, Ican see the snow lines coming
down.
It was three degrees when Ileft, a little bit chilly.
I'm like getting excited forsnow because I want all the snow
in December.
So just last weekend we wentand got our Christmas tree, put
our Christmas tree up anddecorated and I don't know what.
The whole thing's just joyous.
(15:06):
But yeah, in terms oftraditions, we have a couple we
um.
A friend of ours has a bigChristmas party every year and
it's I don't know if it's kindof morbid or not, but it honors
a celebrity death from the yearand so it gets like themed, like
(15:28):
oh well as that person.
So I don't remember what lastyear's was.
It might have been NormMcDonald, but then it just gets
a theme.
So this year is Bob Barker andthe party is a big um, who's,
who's that?
Oh man, really.
(15:49):
Wow, here we go.
Aaron Pete (15:53):
Here we go, everybody's gonna start chiming
in.
Tim Srigley (15:54):
Yeah, they, they are on this one.
He was the host of the Price isRight, so so the party is like
a Price is Right party this year.
Oh yeah, and then somebody'slike built like big podiums to
like stand behind, like it'slike a game show thing.
Aaron Pete (16:06):
Wow, that is a big party.
Tim Srigley (16:07):
Yeah, so there's that this year.
And then, um, we go, we got areal tree every year and cut
that down and decorate that.
Aaron Pete (16:17):
Why?
Why do we cut down trees ForChristmas?
Right, but what's the logicbehind this?
Tim Srigley (16:24):
I don't know it's, it's an odd tradition.
Aaron Pete (16:28):
Do you?
Did you think it was so?
I just showed you a videobefore we started um by after
school.
Did you ever think about itprior to that?
Tim Srigley (16:35):
Yeah, I like like question what are we doing here?
I've thought about it and Ilike I never understood why you
bring it, cut down a tree andbring it in, Cause they die,
yeah, so why do you cut down atree and bring it inside?
Aaron Pete (16:49):
Only to grow like we grow it, literally to kill it.
Tim Srigley (16:52):
Yeah, put it in our house, yeah, and like a lot
of them, and they're expensivenow too.
It was like 75 bucks andthey're selling a lot of trees,
so it's like a lot of people arebuying these things and yeah,
so you never thought about itLike really.
I had thought about it but Ihad never like driven sorry,
dove deep into like figuring outwhy.
Aaron Pete (17:13):
Right.
So, how do you process?
So?
I showed you this video andthey basically explain that one
of the theory is not thedefinitive theory, but one of
the theories is that it comesfrom the, the Amonita Moschia
mushroom, and shamans deliveringthat to people's homes in the
wintertime at the wintersolstice.
How do you process thisinformation?
Tim Srigley (17:35):
I mean it, it.
You know I love to be fair.
I think it's the only liketheory I've heard as to where
this comes from, so but it kindof makes sense.
Like it's weird, the mushroomreally looks like Santa.
Aaron Pete (17:52):
And the elves piece makes sense.
Tim Srigley (17:54):
Yeah, flying reindeer.
And yeah, it was interesting.
Aaron Pete (18:00):
For people interested.
You just type in Santa Clausmushrooms and it'll be like the
first video that pops up onYouTube.
Tim Srigley (18:06):
Yeah, you should for sure link it or something.
Aaron Pete (18:07):
Yeah, yeah, cause it blew my mind.
But then you even think like Igrew up in a Catholic household
and there's no explanation forSanta, or you just do it, you
just participate, and I feellike most people participate and
just like walking around in thecommunity, you start to see
people who get really involved.
Like for Halloween, there wasthis one house and they just
(18:28):
went all out, like every spotwas filled up with stuff, and
then it's like then there's theother people who don't do
anything and there are peoplewho have those stupid lights,
that kind of light up the wholewall.
Yeah, and it's not.
There's no effort put in, it'slike a $30 item.
What makes somebody moreexcited about the season then?
Tim Srigley (18:44):
I don't yeah, I'm not sure.
I think for Christmas you haveto kind of like figure out like
what Christmas is to you andfigure out what makes you
excited and what you want to doand participate in and stuff.
I don't know.
I remember as a kid always wealways went and cut down a tree,
like not like went into thewoods and cut down a tree, but
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we went to like one of thesetree farms and cut them down and
brought them in and I alwaysloved doing that and just like
smelling the Christmas tree inthe house and stuff is it's
arguably not arguably it'sdefinitely less convenient to go
and cut one of these thingsdown and bring it in and get
pine needles all over your housethan it is to get a fake one
that you can just put up andthey're like pre-lit now.
(19:25):
Like fake ones are actuallyreally.
They look really good now, yeah, but I don't know.
It's just something about thattradition that makes me like
feel like it's Christmas.
Aaron Pete (19:38):
There's something I love about the fact that the
winter solstice is the darkestday of the year, of the whole
year, and what we do as humanbeings is we do the exact
opposite and we light everythingup.
And I think there's somethinglike meaningful about whenever,
like we were just up at sunpeaks.
And the cool thing is like we,as humans, like to figure out a
(20:00):
way to enjoy something despiteall of the challenges it brings.
So, like you go skiing, you goto a place that's freezing cold,
filled with snow, and somehowyou're warm and you have a hot
tub and you've got all the gearto stay warm and you have a
fireplace and it's all cozy, andso we do the exact opposite of
what you would do in the winter,previous to fireplaces and hot
(20:22):
tubs.
And so, like I like that we dothe exact opposite, for when
it's hot out, we go to the beachand we stay cool using freezes
and ice cream, and like we justwe work very hard to do the
exact opposite of what should bethe norm during these seasons.
That's interesting, I like it.
Tim Srigley (20:38):
Like, I like what you just said, but I never knew,
like I never thought of thatbefore.
Aaron Pete (20:42):
You've never seen the like, the weirdness of human
beings in that way that we likework very hard, like my
favorite thing to do is go for adrive in the middle of summer,
crank the AC and roll down thewindow, just this much and like
that fresh air.
And then, when it's cold, Ilike the heat on the heated
seats, the heated steering wheel, and then you roll down that
(21:04):
window and you get a littleglimpse of how cold it is
outside.
But it's like, as humans, welike to master things and we
like have to, we want to controlit.
Tim Srigley (21:11):
Yeah.
Aaron Pete (21:12):
I see that in people a lot.
Tim Srigley (21:14):
Definitely.
Aaron Pete (21:15):
But we don't like think about it.
It's just like a tradition andyou just do it and you don't
know why.
Yeah, that was a big tragedy,like for me, seeing people give
gifts and the mindset can belike I'll give you a $10 gift
and you give me a $10 gift.
Well, why don't we just know it?
Tim Srigley (21:29):
and we could just save ourselves the money.
I hate that, like we we talkedabout that probably Five or ten
years ago my family and, well,my siblings and we just decided
I don't do sibling gifts, it's.
It's exactly that I give you agift card, you give me a gift
card and like who cares?
Just you'll spend your money.
So we stopped doing that andjust kind of enjoy Christmas.
(21:51):
And then there's like I don'tknow, there's like stress of
finding gifts for people too,and so part of it was that like
we just removed the one.
Like I hate it.
Aaron Pete (22:00):
This is wrong.
Tim Srigley (22:01):
I don't need a gift from my, my brother.
Aaron Pete (22:03):
I would rather just like hang out with him at
Christmas and but then, like thegift is like showing that you
know another person.
Tim Srigley (22:10):
Yeah, that's like, that's the kindness, it's not
like, but it got to a pointwhere we were just exchanging
arbitrary yeah which I don'treally Need another gift card.
Aaron Pete (22:20):
Yeah, don't do the gift cards.
But, like it is when they saythat it's the thought that
counts, it's like, think aboutthe person.
So if I know you, then I knowsome of your interest in what
you like to do and what youenjoy doing, yeah, and then I
try and find an area where youcould use more support or you're
interested in, and I supportyour endeavor and that's a way
to show that you care.
Tim Srigley (22:41):
But it's not, yeah , buying a gift card like I'm
not like trying to crap on giftcards, gift cards that like Put,
like that.
But I mean, like my siblingsand I were like just buying like
I don't know best buy gift cardyeah, I'm exchanging them out
of obligation, versus like goingand finding something that that
person would want and andgiving to them I don't know.
(23:01):
It seemed like the the purposewas off, so we were just like
Don't eat that.
Aaron Pete (23:07):
Yeah, I'm notoriously against lists, Like
people like send me like whatyou want.
I won't do it.
Really, if you know me, if youthink of something cool.
If you don't think of anythingcool, I like that.
I don't want.
I don't want to get like giveyou a $15 item that you can find
and then you just go buy thatlike where that's good, too, is,
(23:30):
then you're truly surprisedwhen you do open gifts, because
you didn't have a list.
Rebecca just got me the mostamazing birthday gift I've ever
received and it is a paintedPortrait of my grandmother, who
I lost, and she was the personwho raised my mother up and
supported her.
She was worked at a coca-litaIndian hospital, took care of
(23:50):
her, made sure she hadeverything she needed, took her
into her home and then raisedher up and then ended up raising
me and supporting my growth,and so she's a person who showed
that one person can make adifference and she's always
inspired me in that way.
And she got that portrait andnow I get to see her Every day
and that's that's my favoritegift.
(24:11):
But like I would never put thaton a on a list, yeah, yeah,
that's amazing because it's likepersonal when you get it.
Yeah, and somebody put thoughtin.
It took her three months toplan and figure out who the the
artist was going to be, who'sgoing to paint it and who's
going to put it together and whohad the right style for it.
It didn't happen overnight, butlike I can't force Someone to
(24:32):
do that for me, like that's,that's somebody's heart being
put into that.
That's the idea.
Tim Srigley (24:37):
Oh, that's awesome , I like that.
Aaron Pete (24:38):
Yeah.
Tim Srigley (24:40):
I have a Christmas list.
Aaron Pete (24:43):
What's on your Christmas?
List Tell me about yourChristmas list.
Tim Srigley (24:45):
No I.
Aaron Pete (24:46):
I normally do, I don't.
Is there socks on there?
What's going on?
You know what?
Tim Srigley (24:50):
Socks are not on my Christmas list, but I always
get them and they're very muchappreciated.
Like I don't know that I'veever bought my own socks.
Aaron Pete (24:58):
Really yeah, I always buy my own socks.
Tim Srigley (25:02):
What kind of socks do you like?
Aaron Pete (25:04):
We're not going there, we're not going down on
like what socks do I like Are wefinishing this?
Do you want to?
I kind of want to.
I don't think I'm ever going tobe able to have this again, and
we've been talking about thisfor two years.
Tim Srigley (25:14):
I have lots of this, so if you want to have
some of this again, that's notan issue.
Aaron Pete (25:17):
It's better than the caramel brulee.
Tim Srigley (25:20):
So shout out to Starbucks.
I was going to say just to befair.
You said my drink is betterthan a Starbucks drink.
Aaron Pete (25:25):
Correct, I think it's the fact that it sat in the
back of your fridge for a whilefive years.
That's a romantic place.
Tim Srigley (25:33):
I'm happy that you like it.
Aaron Pete (25:37):
And we got these cute mugs.
Tim Srigley (25:41):
It was nice, this was funny.
So at your live event I wassitting with Matt, your whiskey
guy, yeah, and um, I was talkingabout this with him and uh,
last year so I guess, when wedrank the eggnog last year so I
guess that's the eggnog from twoyears ago we had put a Jamaican
rum in it and when we had it ittasted like this eggnog, tasted
(26:05):
like bananas, like it was likebanana eggnog, right.
And so Matt went into a biglong thing about uh rum and how
it has I'm gonna butcher what hesaid, but uh, banana Like kind
of like the essence of banana inrum inherently, and went into
like tasting notes on rum andstuff.
So it's not just whiskey, heknows about all things alcohol,
(26:26):
I think.
Aaron Pete (26:27):
I agreed.
Isn't it crazy to see how farhe came over the past year?
Tim Srigley (26:30):
Yeah, it's so exciting he's killing youtube.
Aaron Pete (26:32):
Yeah, I'm excited for him really figuring it out
and and moving forward.
It was cool that we got to playsome small roles in him getting
started as he sales passed us.
Yeah, he's going on trips nowto he traveled for it and stuff.
Yeah, he went to Scotland yeah.
Tim Srigley (26:50):
Yeah, it's very cool.
It was.
Yeah, it's it's cool to see himdo that.
It was awesome, like that was.
The first time I met him was Atyour podcast there, so I've
talked to him a bit online andstuff, but yeah, um, yeah, that
was a lot of fun.
That was a good event.
Aaron Pete (27:03):
I agree, I think we got to do more of those new
year's resolutions.
How do we feel about them?
You think new year's resolutionUm?
Tim Srigley (27:11):
I'm not like a resolution fan, in that like you
make a resolution and if youdon't accomplish it you should
feel bad about yourself.
And but I do kind of likedifferent people really so.
Aaron Pete (27:25):
I just interviewed Amon Zahabi.
Yes, and that will be airing.
It'll be our first episode backfrom from hiatus and man, he
makes a really good point thatwho cares about your start date?
What is your finish date?
When are you going to completeyour goal?
Tim Srigley (27:42):
Yeah, david Goggin says there is no finish, so
that's true.
Um, it's a lot of pressure.
I don't.
I come up with goals for theyear for me every year and, um,
um, this year I kind of fellshort.
My goal was to hit 20,000youtube subscribers and I'm at
19 five, so you're close.
Could happen, but I doubt it.
But I also didn't post anything, so that could be a big part of
(28:05):
it, but that's a big mistake.
Yeah, but I'd like to come upwith a goal at New Year's, just
kind of like I don't knowsomething to focus on for the
year.
Aaron Pete (28:14):
And what are you thinking?
You were biking like crazy,right, yeah, like an animal.
Tim Srigley (28:19):
Yeah, I don't look like an endurance athlete.
So I mean, you know, but Ihaven't like shared it.
But my wife has cancer and soI'm then riding in the tour de
cure, so I have to.
There's like a requirement toraise money and then you ride.
It's 200 kilometers over twodays.
Aaron Pete (28:39):
Wow, and what is that?
Tim Srigley (28:40):
It's in August, wow.
So myself and a buddy of mineis doing it with me, right, and
so we've been training prettyhard for it.
It's kind of dropped off alittle bit coming into Christmas
here, but that'll be my goalfor the New Year's.
I think I'm up to 60 kilometersa ride right now, or 60
(29:02):
something, and then, yeah, byAugust I have to be doing 100
and then do two days of it.
Aaron Pete (29:07):
So that's crazy.
Tim Srigley (29:08):
Yeah, so that's probably my main goal this year
is to keep getting in shape forthat.
Aaron Pete (29:16):
Admirable too.
Tim Srigley (29:18):
Yeah, thank you, yeah, how much do you have to
raise?
Well, there's like there's noupper limit.
You have to.
You have to raise a minimum of2,500 to ride in the event.
Aaron Pete (29:28):
Right, and when can people start donating?
Right now?
How would they like?
Do they donate to you or dothey donate to tour de?
Tim Srigley (29:38):
It's through tour de cure.
There's a page like a donationpage.
You go on there, donate howevermuch you want, and it goes
straight to them there.
I don't think every the taxreceipts do everything.
I basically just have topromote it and bring in
donations, but it goes straightto them.
I think they're run by BCCancer, so promote it.
Aaron Pete (30:00):
Tell me why is it important to support?
Tim Srigley (30:03):
Why is it important to support cancer
research?
Yeah, because cancer sucks.
Yeah, I had cancer.
I was diagnosed with cancer themonth after my kid was born, so
that kind of sucked and I'm.
I think I have my last checkupin two weeks now and then I'm
(30:26):
five years, clear of it.
Four years, yeah, I'm almostclear of it anyway.
Aaron Pete (30:31):
Can you talk about how scary it was?
It's scary.
Tim Srigley (30:34):
Yeah, I don't know .
Just kind of, when you'rediagnosed with it, it's like
hearing like the C word and like, oh shit, this kills people,
right, and so yeah, it's weird.
And then now I'm free of it andnow my wife has cancer as well
(30:55):
and she's battling that andgoing through chemo and stuff.
So that's, yeah, cancer reallysucks.
So I I also feel like there'snothing really that I can do to
help other than raise money forthe, for people that can help.
Like I'm no doctor or cancerresearcher, I can't go in the
(31:16):
lab and be like, okay, guys,let's cure cancer today.
So, yeah, it's important toraise money for the people that
could possibly cure cancer.
Aaron Pete (31:26):
Yeah, what would you want people to know about it
and the benefits of supportingthis work, and know about
raising money for it, or knowabout like the weight I feel,
like if people know, like me, Iknow what you've been through
from a distance.
Baby Srigley (31:40):
Yeah.
Aaron Pete (31:40):
But like what would be something you would want,
someone who might not have hadan interaction, who's interested
in supporting, but like givingus a little bit more context as
to the weight, the weight, theheaviness of it all.
Tim Srigley (31:54):
I was like wait for one.
It's hard to describe.
We've had a ton of support fromfriends and family, which has
been huge.
Friends and family is a massivehelp when you're going through
this stuff, yeah.
But it's like a roller coasterman.
(32:14):
It's good days and bad days,and the bad days really really
suck.
I don't know if I could doanything.
If raising money and riding abike is enough to maybe help
stop this thing so that otherpeople don't have to go through
it, I think that's worth it.
(32:35):
It really sucks.
I don't know how to describe it.
Aaron Pete (32:41):
It's got to be meaningful to be able to like.
There's sometimes when you'reon a run you're like, why am I?
I could go home, have somethingto eat.
That seems like a hugemotivator.
Tim Srigley (32:50):
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
You know what?
I have a couple of times in mylife been pretty fit because I
was like training for something,like one of those I did Tough
Mudder a few years and that wasa big thing and I just find it
easier to train for something.
So that's definitely been amotivator for training on the
bike, getting out there onreally cold days when you don't
(33:12):
really want to be outside, andstuff.
Aaron Pete (33:13):
Yeah, have you thought about like vlogging that
or like documenting thatjourney?
Tim Srigley (33:18):
I have.
Yeah, I haven't started yet,but I'm going to try to, I think
, start doing that this year.
There's another goal Maybe juststart another channel and doing
that.
I was thinking about how Iwould do that and grow an
audience and I don't know, I'mlike not the best cyclist or
(33:39):
anything, so I don't know ifanybody would follow that, but I
was gonna try to do some funnystuff or I feel like that would
be why people would tune in.
Aaron Pete (33:48):
It gets different hearing from somebody whose
A-months-a-hobby was talkingabout the fact that there's this
person who did like an ultimatefast and he did like a year of
like fasting, holy crap, yeah,and like he was having like just
he was something like 300 or400 pounds, yeah, and like lost
a bunch of weight as consequence.
But the reason people wanted totune in was because he was
overweight and they wanted tosee, like the effects.
Tim Srigley (34:12):
Yeah, it's different.
Aaron Pete (34:13):
if you're like a pro , what's that guy Hanson?
Tim Srigley (34:17):
Yeah, oh, lance Armstrong, there you go.
Yeah, I'm not gay.
Well, I feel like I'm similarto Lance Armstrong.
Oh, perfect, I had the samecancer and they chopped one of
mine off too.
Right, so, right, so, so, so,so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so,
so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so,so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so
so.
So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so,so, so.
(35:16):
Actually, such as your Gene TWould you.
Aaron Pete (35:24):
It would resonate with me more, if I'm being
honest, than leather videos,because I don't know how to make
leather and I don't have thespace for it yeah, but we'll
still get you doing that at somepoint, ok.
Ok, I feel like that would besomething where I'd get like
motivated by that, yeah, and getlike excited about Because Amon
convinced me to do a three dayfast yeah, that I have to do in
the next before I have him backon.
Tim Srigley (35:44):
A three day fast.
Aaron Pete (35:45):
Yeah, I think you could do it.
Tim Srigley (35:46):
I think so Well, I mean you 100%, could do it.
Aaron Pete (35:48):
Yeah, I don't think it's impossible.
But and then the cold plunge,those are my two kind of things
I want to do in 2024.
Tim Srigley (35:55):
You should end the three day fast with the cold
plunge.
Aaron Pete (35:59):
That would be tough.
I'd be really hungry after that.
Yeah, yeah.
Tim Srigley (36:05):
What would you eat after immediately following
your three day fast?
What would be the meal?
Aaron Pete (36:10):
Nothing Like something very small.
What Because you get like thebenefit of a fast is that your
stomach gets smaller.
So if you had to plan this bigmeal, you really just wasted
three days.
Tim Srigley (36:21):
Oh, I'm like the opposite.
I would get like the biggestburger I could find.
Aaron Pete (36:23):
That's what I'm saying, but then you're back in
the same boaty word You've gotto utilize and stay on that path
.
Tim Srigley (36:30):
Mm.
Aaron Pete (36:30):
You know Any other big Christmas things?
Christmas movies, favoriteChristmas movie oh.
Tim Srigley (36:38):
I have a bunch.
I think obviously the favoriteis Christmas vacation.
Please tell me you know whatChristmas vacation is.
Aaron Pete (36:45):
Do you mean Home Alone?
Tim Srigley (36:47):
No well, that's a good one too OK because that
seems like Christmas vacation.
Have you not watched Christmasvacation?
I have not.
This hurts me, ok.
Aaron Pete (36:54):
I'm a company minors .
Have you watched that?
Tim Srigley (36:56):
I don't think I have I know what it is, though.
Yeah, it's really good, is it?
Aaron Pete (37:00):
It might be my favorite Christmas movie Really
Daddy's Home 2 is up there.
Tim Srigley (37:05):
It's funny.
Yeah, yeah, it's better thanthe first one.
Aaron Pete (37:08):
You're going to get flack for not saying Elf.
Tim Srigley (37:12):
Elf is funny, but I like, yeah, it's damn funny
actually.
Aaron Pete (37:17):
Yeah.
Tim Srigley (37:18):
I don't know.
I don't know.
That's one of my favorites, butI watch it every year.
Aaron Pete (37:22):
It has to be the top five.
Tim Srigley (37:23):
It's up there, christmas with the cranks.
That's a good one.
I like that one.
Aaron Pete (37:28):
That one's like that would be top 20, maybe Top 10.
Top 20 for me, ok, maybe.
Tim Srigley (37:36):
I don't know.
We watch a bunch.
We actually the newest animatedGrinch with, is it Benedict
Cumberbatch is the Grinch'svoice.
Aaron Pete (37:47):
OK Is really good.
I haven't seen that either.
Tim Srigley (37:50):
My kid was watching it.
As I left to come here thismorning, she put that on and
made her an egg and then left.
Ok yeah, that's a good one.
When I was a kid I think it waslike my grade eight year we
went down to California and theywere actually designing the set
for the Jim Carrey Grinch movie, right, that was super cool to
(38:10):
see.
Aaron Pete (38:11):
Really.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Yeah, favorite Christmas album?
Oh God, it has to be.
Michael Buble Does it.
Well, he's Canadian, I don'tknow, and it's very classy, I
feel like.
Classy, I feel like.
Tim Srigley (38:23):
I should have a favorite Christmas song.
Aaron Pete (38:24):
What's the thing called a monocle?
When I listen to that album.
Tim Srigley (38:29):
You should wear a monocle anyway.
Aaron Pete (38:31):
I think I could pull it off Me, and the Monopoly are
hanging out.
Tim Srigley (38:36):
I don't know that I have a favorite Christmas
album.
Aaron Pete (38:39):
Wow, yeah Nothing.
Tim Srigley (38:40):
I've never really thought about it.
Just random Christmas songs,just random Christmas songs, ok
yeah.
Aaron Pete (38:46):
Favorite food at Christmas dinner?
What has to be on the table?
Tim Srigley (38:52):
We switch it up all the time, Like what do you
guys do for Christmas dinner?
A?
Aaron Pete (38:56):
traditional Christmas dinner Like just
turkey dinner.
Yeah, stuffing mashed potatoes,gravy, lots of gravy for
Rebecca, so gravy themed Reallyshe's a gravy animal man, really
.
Yeah, oh, that's interesting,she'll have potatoes with her
gravy.
Tim Srigley (39:10):
That's what you're supposed to have with your
gravy.
Aaron Pete (39:11):
No, I'm saying like she'll have all gravy and then
like a little bit of potatoes tomix it up.
Tim Srigley (39:17):
Like you with sugar and coffee.
There you go, I see.
Aaron Pete (39:20):
No, we're talking.
Tim Srigley (39:21):
So we should call her gravy bug.
Aaron Pete (39:22):
Gravy bug, that would be a good name.
She's laughing in the back.
Tim Srigley (39:29):
We, I think it might be.
So we have Thanksgiving inOctober like a Canadian one, and
then we do that like a familyThanksgiving, like a normal
turkey dinner and stuff, andthen we usually do like a
friends Thanksgiving around thetime.
American Thanksgiving is inNovember and so we don't end up
(39:53):
always doing a turkey dinner atChristmas.
We've done.
We did a big lasagna one oneyear we did a lasagna one.
Yeah, lasagna Christmas.
You're a bad person.
It was good.
Aaron Pete (40:04):
You're a bad person.
It was good, I'm sure it was.
It was amazing, lasagna's great.
You're a bad person.
This is irresponsible.
Tim Srigley (40:10):
That's fair.
Ok, we did that one year.
We've done roast like a niceroast beef a bunch of years we
did.
Aaron Pete (40:17):
That one passes by like this much, this much.
Tim Srigley (40:21):
We did a porketta one year which is like pork
belly, like that you would makebacon out of rolled up and roast
it.
Oh, that's so good.
Aaron Pete (40:30):
A pork bella Porketta, porketta, yeah,
porketta, yeah.
It's like where would you evenbuy that?
Tim Srigley (40:36):
You just buy a pork belly.
I think we got it from Costco.
Have you ever had porketta?
Oh, that's good.
Aaron Pete (40:42):
I don't even know where I would Like.
I'm thinking of myself in thehardware section saying that
word Really Porketta.
Tim Srigley (40:48):
Yeah, that was good Pork belly.
It's a pork belly and you putsome like garlic and herbs and
stuff, you roll it up and thenyou just do it like a roast.
Aaron Pete (40:56):
Mr McAlpine, am I crazy?
Have you ever heard of thisword before Porketta?
I have not.
Have you ever?
Do you cook?
Are you a big cook guy?
No, you're not the person whomakes the tricky dinners no, or
the eggnog no, no, do you wantto make that.
What's your signature meal,that you?
Baby Srigley (41:15):
make.
Are you asking me, or I thinkmy contribution is nil at this
point.
Aaron Pete (41:21):
What have you made for yourself that other people
would eat?
Baby Srigley (41:25):
I make a mean macaroni lasagna.
Aaron Pete (41:27):
Macaroni lasagna.
Tim Srigley (41:29):
Would you eat it for Christmas?
Baby Srigley (41:31):
No, and back to you.
Aaron Pete (41:36):
My last question for you, though is not for you, for
Mr McAlpine is there anyChristmas traditions that stand
out to you?
Baby Srigley (41:44):
Christmas dinner at my parents.
It's been always.
Aaron Pete (41:48):
Wow, ok, never specific on the turkey, whether
or not it's Because it doesn'talways have to be turkey, it
needs to be turkey.
Tim Srigley (41:56):
Turkey is fine.
Aaron Pete (41:58):
I'm part of big turkey industry.
This is sponsored by turkeyindustries.
Then I'm just going to stopsaying what I'm saying.
Tim Srigley (42:04):
No, I think turkey is good because you don't have
it often Agreed.
I think if turkey was a regularthing, I think the chicken's
better Agreed Both friends.
So I think that turkey'shealthier.
I'm sure it is, yeah, but Ithink what makes turkey good is
that it's several times a year.
Baby Srigley (42:24):
Yeah.
Tim Srigley (42:25):
But by the time we've had a few turkeys in a row
.
I don't always want turkey forChristmas, so I think this year
we're doing pork crown roast.
Aaron Pete (42:34):
Right.
My big proposition is I thinkwe need something between
February and summer.
I think we need a strongerholiday that stands out.
We have Easter, but we needsomething with a little bit more
je ne sais quoi.
Tim Srigley (42:48):
OK, what do you propose?
Aaron Pete (42:49):
I have no idea.
Something spicy.
I think I could pull that off.
Tim Srigley (42:55):
A spicy holiday.
Aaron Pete (42:56):
There you go yeah.
Tim Srigley (42:58):
I'm on board for the record.
Aaron Pete (43:00):
Yeah, I just find that that's the time where it's
the most vanilla.
Yeah, like, christmas is theone where we all seem to get on
the same page, and this is mymost controversial question of
the day.
Tim Srigley (43:11):
OK, ok.
Aaron Pete (43:11):
So you've got to get ready for it.
Ok, how do we feel about reallyworking and just being like
happy holidays, removing anyspecificity to the specific
event?
Tim Srigley (43:26):
I'm not opposed to happy holidays, but I feel that
everyone should be able to wishsomebody that holiday of their
choosing.
I don't feel like it's a biglike if somebody you know happy
Hanukkahed me.
I would be happy that they'rejust like greeting me with
anything Like I don't.
(43:48):
It's like almost likepolarizing, like if you say
happy holidays to me, that'sgreat, that's nice, that's a
nice thing to do.
I don't care what you wish me.
Aaron Pete (43:56):
My only thing is it feels like you're afraid to say
what you mean.
That's the only thing I do,like just say what it is, yeah,
why you're happy.
That's what I want to hear.
Merry Christmas, that's fair.
Like we never say the wordmerry, I like the word merry
holidays.
Tim Srigley (44:12):
It sounds weird.
Aaron Pete (44:13):
Okay.
Tim Srigley (44:16):
Well, I like it Sounds kind of weird.
Yeah, you don't.
You don't say merry, though,like you wouldn't say merry
birthday.
Aaron Pete (44:20):
Like this is going to be called a Christmas episode
.
It is yeah.
Tim Srigley (44:23):
I like it, like Christmas in here.
Aaron Pete (44:26):
Yeah, not a December episode.
What is with the pointe sedits?
Can somebody explain that to me?
Tim Srigley (44:31):
I don't know.
You explained to me the originof the Christmas tree.
Aaron Pete (44:33):
Can't explain the pointe.
Sedits man.
Tim Srigley (44:35):
No, I don't know.
Aaron Pete (44:36):
They've got the red and the green man.
He did such a good job on this.
Tim Srigley (44:42):
It's kind of weird .
I like the fire burning.
Aaron Pete (44:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's very cozy in here.
It is good yeah.
Tim Srigley (44:48):
I don't know, Christmas just feels cozy.
But I think you're right aboutthat.
Um, missing holiday.
Because there's like this leadup to Christmas and New Year's
and stuff, where it's like Idon't know just that build up.
You can feel it and even likegoing into like Halloween is
kind of exciting and then fromHalloween you start just kind of
(45:11):
building to Christmas and itgets happier and happier and
then that's there, and thenthere's just nothing again.
Yeah, Just after New Year's,yeah, Just like.
Aaron Pete (45:21):
Levels out.
Tim Srigley (45:22):
Yeah, it's just as dark and stuff after New Year's
as it was leading up to it, soit's, I don't know.
I think you're right, I thinkyou're onto something, but you
would need to have like it wouldstill need to be a merry time
at your proposed holiday.
Aaron Pete (45:39):
Exactly what would you want people to know?
Oh, here we go.
Baby Srigley (45:44):
So, based on your research department, it wasn't
until the 17th century that theplant first became associated
with Christmas.
This was from the Franciscanmonks in the town of Taxco del
Arcan First used the shrub innativity processions.
Aaron Pete (46:02):
Wow, man, I kind of like to have just like Wikipedia
come through the walls.
Tim Srigley (46:09):
Having Tim come through there One.
It's kind of like my conscienceor God is speaking to me or
something.
Just the voice comes through.
But it's almost like the Roganpodcast, with Jamie in the
background.
Aaron Pete (46:21):
Yeah.
Tim Srigley (46:22):
Like the guy in the chair doing the research and
jumping in with the In thecontrol room.
Aaron Pete (46:27):
Yeah, it's awesome.
Okay, let's end this off.
What would you want to wishpeople genuinely as they head
into the holiday season?
Merry Christmas.
We'll say more.
It's very general.
Tim Srigley (46:40):
What else would I wish somebody?
Aaron Pete (46:42):
Like personally, I would hope that everybody is
able to spend time with lovedones who care about them, who
are there for them throughoutthe year, that they're able to
share gifts with the peoplewho've supported them over the
course of their year, celebrategood times and then really come
up with a good plan for theirnext year on how they're going
(47:03):
to take care of themselves, howthey're going to make a
difference in their community,how they're going to grow as an
individual mentally, physically,in all the different ways.
Those are some of the thingsthat I hope people go into 2024
with.
Tim Srigley (47:17):
Yeah, that's what I meant.
Yeah, you were getting there.
You were getting there.
Yeah, I wish all those things.
Can I do that?
You're much better spoken thanI am from talking to people for
work.
Aaron Pete (47:36):
But that's a job.
Tim Srigley (47:37):
Yeah, I would just wish people a good time in the
holidays, a better I mean abetter year every year.
Do the next year one betterthan the last one, whatever that
is to you.
Aaron Pete (47:52):
That's very general and the worst Christmas card
I've ever heard of.
Tim Srigley (47:56):
That is your Christmas card actually.
I wish you a happy whatever.
Happy, whatever that means toyou, yeah.
Aaron Pete (48:05):
Well, I really appreciate.
Every time we get to sit downtogether, it's always memorable.
It's a little wild, it's alittle gnauggy, if you will.
Tim Srigley (48:13):
A little gnauggy.
Thank you for drinkingfive-year-old eggs.
Aaron Pete (48:15):
It was fantastic.
I'm glad you liked it Waybetter than I thought it was
going to be.
It was a pleasure doing the HotOnes episode with you.
Oh, it was fun being in allthese different studios and it's
always fun to just causeshenanigans together.
Tim Srigley (48:27):
Yeah, Merry Christmas buddy.
Aaron Pete (48:30):
Merry Christmas.
Can we get some of thatChristmas music going on?
I'd like to dance us out, ifthat's at all an option.
Baby Srigley (48:34):
They might demonetize you.
Aaron Pete (48:36):
Yeah, they can demonetize my face off.
We can dim the music a littlebit, or I could talk over it so
they can't hear it as clearly,but I feel like we need a little
music to play us out, you know.
Baby Srigley (48:46):
I think you can add that in post and make sure
it's royalty-free.
But what I will add isChristmas, the only time of year
in which one can sit in frontof a dead tree and eat candy out
of socks.
Aaron Pete (48:58):
That was a savage way to talk about Christmas.
Tim Srigley (49:01):
It is but Accurate , Delicious Wow.
Aaron Pete (49:05):
Bring in the facts today, Tim.
Tim Srigley (49:07):
I really like that .
Aaron Pete (49:08):
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a good mixture.
We've got a few looks into thecamera before we close out.
Something dramatic that we canuse as a thumbnail A thumbnail.
Tim Srigley (49:22):
I don't do dramatic for you.
That was very good.
Aaron Pete (49:26):
Thank you.
Making faces is one of the onlyways I can be able to tune in
every time.
Baby Srigley (49:30):
So make sure you turn the stair right into the
one under the TV.
This one.
I was looking at this one, theone with the red light on it,
yeah.
Tim Srigley (49:37):
Oh, that makes sense.
Aaron Pete (49:39):
And give a smile, Giba.
Tim Srigley (49:45):
How did I do?
Aaron Pete (49:46):
Beautiful, perfect.
Thank you, we did it, thank you.
Baby Srigley (49:55):
Thank you.
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