EITM: Juan Wish (For Christmas) 12/1/23

A former MLB pitcher turned Santa's elf needs a little (Xmas?) help.

Episode Transcript

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Do you remember Wan Padia? Ofcourse you do. Former Major League Baseball

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player pitch with the New York Yankees, the Reds, and the Mets.
But he was a pitcher for theNew York Yankees. Listens to the show.
A very very nice man. Ithink the last time we heard from
Wan Padilla were we examining the carsin his garage. Oh yeah, yeah,
wow, Well he's got a collectionanyway. Anyway, look, I
played major League baseball. What doyou want? One? Padia sent over

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a note he needs the listener's help. Morning. That's to us. Hope
you guys had a good Thanksgiving.Thank you one I did. I had
a very nice thanks I hope thePadia has had a nice Thanksgiving as well.
Many blessings to yours and one toyours too. Question, anyone know

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where to go see light shows?People do in their houses that synchronize with
the music. I did one,but it doesn't look anything like what kind
that you see on the internet.Mine's pretty ghetto in comparison. He SyncE
to music. How about that?The Pas like their house song, probably
Gondam style. I would think that'sthe Halloween one. Oh damn it,

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what is the I don't what's hisradio station? That's eighty eight point something?
No, that's what Lou uses forthe bone or does he just blast
through speus? Oh? I don'tknow. I don't know. Oh my
god. Yeah, but how aboutWan has got a home setup? Damn,
Wanda's got time on his hands,but he he's he doesn't like his

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so he needs someone to go seehelp for. Is it just for insfimation
or does he need someone's actual assistance. I don't know, Like maybe he
drives around to look at him andKnox. He goes wand a former major
league baseball player. What's your radiostations? I'm trying to synchronize my house
in a better fashion. Mine's ghettocompared to yours. The but also,

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but why do I feel like that'skind of gone out of style? The
videos may not go as a viral? Is that what it is? People
still do it? So like genderreveals, people are still doing them.
Yeah, it's just the videos aren'tas there. I just saw one this
week, and remember, like TheGreat Christmas Light Fight just came back this

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past weekend, So I'm sure thatshow gets people going where they want theirs
to be seen by ABC? Right, so maybe you'll see some rule out
this weekend, not Win's I'm hearing. Well, no, well his is
ghetto. You don't even want tosee his Christian Will you do me a
favor? It takes a big manto admit that. Will you see what

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that yours? Is horrible? Letyou say that I did one, but
it doesn't look anything like what I'veseen on the internet. Well try again,
minus pretty ghetto in comparison. I'mjust trying to spread a little bit
of happiness in the season. Wow, wait, is it possible? Is

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would this be wands set up?What do you mean? Would this be
he? I just printed this outand I didn't pay attention to it.
I hadn't. But there's a videohe sent, Oh would this be his
house? Well, why would hesend another one? Or was he saying
like mine's ghetto like this one?Oh, it's got to be his wand

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you barely have if this is yourhouse, you don't even really have any
lights? Well maybe that's mid likesong? Yeah, oh like did it
automatically produce the still from the video? So you think that it went like
that? Like it's the Silent night, and when they say silent everything just
kind of goes like five Christmas treesare lit up there right during the song.

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The one hundred Christmas trees at somepoint all light up. Two things,
Kristen, will you do me afavor? Would you see if you
could find me people who have likeneighbors maybe it's somebody listening who has it
at their own house. Good synchronizedlights to music. Please? That so
much work? The oh so youapplauded, I mean you could appreciate what

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goes into it. Yeah, eightsixty six to Elliott eight six six two
three five five four six eight.So yeah, I need people who either
have it at their own house orlike somebody in their neighborhood has it.
I just would I'd like to helpWan pide out former picture of the New
York Yankees now lives in Maryland.Wow, So if I took Carter or

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Tanya back behind the scenes of Juanset up, is his whole thing,
like he's got the computer programming anddo just the whole epicenter? Or is
he saying his is not the bestbecause of the size. It's it's not
as large as not as displays.Yeah that could I don't know the answer

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to that. If it's not aslarge, he has no excuse to have
not buried the extension chords. Youhave to tear up your yard for this
if you really want to commit.But by the way, you don't have
to have so much though that you'relike a tacky lighthouse. No, some
of these are done. I mean, yes, there's a lot of lights,

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very tastefully, but they still maintainsome semblance of class, right,
And I know that's coming from somebodywho has three inflatables. Let's see if
that was a video that we canplay and hear the song? Oh what

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song does he go with? It'sgot to be upbeat, like somebody who
mentioned Silent Night. I don't thinkI couldn't see him doing I can't see
any answer, there's no no.You know what. I see Padia doing
it too. We eat a littleChristmas write this very minute. That's what

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I see wand using. I dothink a lot of these homes there where
my autographed Wampadia jersey to the showtonight? Am I gonna be able to
watch this video twice? What doyou mean? Because what if I hit
play because we want to hear theaudio and one one up? He's so
upset with a blue sir man,f let's try it? Are you ready?

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Yeah? All right? Whoa morethan five trees? Yes? Wait,
that's Padilla's house. Gotta be right, dude, he's got more than
he's letting on in the message.Why would he hate that? It is

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kind of ghetto on see, Itold you that there had to be some
techno. No, there is.Look at the deal. How long did
he spend on this? He's notplaying anymore. He's got nothing but time

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he starts. Hey, he goesto work on it every morning at eleven
am as soon as the show's over, and then he gets after it.
By the way, if I didthat, you could not do this.
I watch you. I know wehave the of seeing right, thanks some
march mooney, of seeing what's goingon there. There's no way in hell

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you could pull this off. You'reabsolutely right. But if I did,
do you know how proud of thatI would be? And he's being hard
on himself. I bet his namethat's what made him great. I bet
his neighbors love it because it's clearlynot a radio station. No, that's
just blaring and traffic. I'm justtrying to get to my house. Wow,

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that was a lot more advanced thanI was expecting from his description.
Well not only that, how aboutthe little still that it pulls from the
video. I was team Wan itwas ghetto, but now I'm not team
Wan anymore. That's good, bro. Line one, Hi Ellie in the

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morning. Hi? Yeah? Isthis me? Yeah? Hi? Who's
this? Hi? This is Colleenfrom Leesburg, Virginia. Yes. What
can I do for you? So? I was calling about the light special
that you were talking about. I'venot actually gone and seen these myself,
but Capture Loud in their instagram posteda few weeks ago. Maybe some different

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houses in and around the I thinkLouding County area of different like light specials
that the individual houses do, andthey have all the addresses there, and
I think some of them sink upto music and stuff too. The ones
at Wanpadia's house, they definitely do. And those speakers are loud. By
the way, does it also looklike he filmed that so you could see

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his whole yard from like way acrossthe street and listen to how loud that
music is? God, he wantedto capture every candy cake. So wait,
you said capture capture louder capture Leesburg. I got, I got all

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right, very good, very good. I'll send that over to wan Padia.
Thank you, thank you, ma'am. I love I love that Wanda
has his house going. Line three. You know the other thing is when
I look at the video, allI think about is his garage and what's
sitting in there. Uh yeah,well you don't want to attract too much
attention to that. But you didnotice that there were rope lights around the

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garage doors. Did you see that. I don't know that I paid attention.
Yeah, yeah, you know what. Good on him? Good on
him Christmas, says line three.Does he join a fraternity of former Major
League baseball players? Who are theyall know? They're all known for Christmas
life? Hi Elliot in the morning, Hey Elliott are you this morning?

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I am doing great? Thank you? Or is it a Yankees tradition?
Is it like him and Ron Gidrey, like all of them, like from
way back in the day, TommyJohn, they all have their houses going.
I'm sorry, who is this?We'll switch from Kaydensville, Yes,
sir, and I uh just contactedthe guy that actually uh owns the Facebook

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page lights on West Oak and heis going to call you. He has
a huge display. It's beautiful insomething mount airy and you can see it
on like say, lights on WestOak. But I know he spends months,

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absolutely months building, programming, andthen putting that display up each year.
So wait a minute, so lightslights on whistle like that's his own
thing, right, Like that's nota like he's not a company. That's
just his house. No, no, no, absolutely, it's his house.
He started doing this when his daughterwas born, and and just it

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has just grown and grown and nowit's kind of become a tradition for him
in his neighborhood. I like abig piece of property too, does he
really? Is it nicer than lightson Padilla's all right, very good,

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very good, Thank you sir,thank you. And I know that he
said it's not the best display,but as Diane has agreed and I think
too, it's much better than anyof us expected. Yeah, when he
starts with minds bad, yeah,I thought it's gonna be one tree.

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It's not even to the music.There are people who are now going to
see his video and be like,god mine sucks bad. It's not no,
no, no, no disrespect one. But now you guys are building
it up like like essentially cancel yourplace. That is a solid effort.
Though he didn't put months in onthat. I bet that was a lot

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of work. You think he spentno again months, but I know there's
a couple of weeks in there.No, yeah, yes you think so.
How couldn't you spend at least amonth plus on it? So you
think he spent than Goose Gossage spenton his Listen, I don't think Santa

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is showing up in the vintage car, honking the horn and then presenting the
holiday themed trophy. God, youlove that show. It's so good.
I have not watched the season fromCarter and whoever you said are than the
host of the show. They didit. They go off and judge it
gotcha. But it's still like thiscould certainly bring joy to a town.

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Wait, can I can I cutyou off there for one second? Hearing
that music eight hours a day,NonStop, that's bringing you the joy?
Well, maybe, as you seein the TV show, which you clearly
don't watch, maybe you have todo something like open up the mailbox to
get the music to play. Likethere's some sort of something that triggers it
button if you will, so yousee one, he goes, He opens

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the mailbox, and all of hisneighbors put on noisecanceling headphones. By too,
I'm kidding one, you know.I love you Hi Elly in the
morning. Hello, how are you. I'm doing great? Thank you?
How are you? I'm good.I'm the lights on West Oak. Oh

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dude, what by the way,Petti is kicking your ass? Bro Hey,
so the so that other guy called, I'm sorry, I don't I
don't know about your house, butDiane looked it up said that there's a
lot going on there. Yeah.Yeah, it's a lot. It's been
crows every year, it you know, it's been My daughter just turned eight.

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So I started with a couple ofjust a couple of blow ups like
eight years ago, and we Ihad done it when I had a smaller
piece of property a little bit,and then we moved to Mount Airy and
we have like about acre and ahalf now, so I have a lot
more room. Right, So everyyear when stuff goes on sale, I
would just buy more and more.And about three years ago I started doing

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the music that the you know,coordinated with the lights. Do you switch
it? Just kind of growth doyou switch the music every year. I
add a couple more songs every year. Yes, oh so it's longer good
the yeah, yeah, yeah,right now, it's about uh forty eight
minutes. I believe house for fortyeight minutes to wait for it to go,

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I gotta bring my stadium there.Some people do uh. Some people
said that. I had someone saidthere for a while last night. Some
people will come and watch a song. You know a lot of people will
come and on the way home theyjust stop with their kids or having a
lot of people with kids that stop. It makes people happy. We'll stop
for a song or two. Imean not your neighbors, but it makes

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people happy. What is the whenwhen do you fire it up? I
try to do it right around Thanksgiving, right right after Thanksgiving. And you'll
leave that up. Don't don't tellme you take it down the day after
Christmas? Like, let that gofor a while. No, it's too
much work, probably like about aweek at like usually the first week of
January. I'll take it down.You know what? Good for you?

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Good for you? Yeah? Yeah? Has any that your neighbors don't Your
neighbors don't complain, right, No, No, I think it's pretty pretty
well received. I think most peopleenjoy it. I'm sure people sometimes get
a little, you know, upset. The traffic gets you know, a
little busy, and people are tryingto get out. But we have two

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entrances, so I think you know, people know it's going to be busy.
They they know, yeah, theyknow. Well, listen, I
am going to send one padilla toyour house. He he would like to
take some notes. Okay, allright, dude, and not just good
not too far away from the no, I mean it's not horribly far.
Hey, I just I just wantedto make sure you said this started with

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you just having a couple of inflatables, right, yeah, two two inflatables
of Mecky Mouse and U, oneof the minions.