Favorite Christmas Traditions + Christmas Movies | Inside The Bus

Recorded: December 17th 2025 | Welcome back to another episode of Inside The Bus. The week we have a Christmas pod as we will not have an episode the next two weeks. The boys gets into some of the Christmas traditions that they have. Mitch gets into his caroling that he does every year with his college buddies, and the rest of the guys talk about their family traditions. The boys then get into their favorite Christmas movies, let us know in the comments if there are any we missed. Finally, the boys get into their favorite Christmas gifts they received and gave. Tap in and enjoy another Friday hang with the boys. Merry Christmas. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to Inside the Bus. This is the Christmas episode,
Episode thirty. Steph Curry, Todd Gurley.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
You say King Geoffy Junior, King Griffy or senior or junior?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Uh Price, I think senior.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, dang what Jalen Warren, Derek Seth Curry, Julius Randall, Dang, thirty.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Is such a goofy sports number. Now I'm trying to
think of another running backs that were number thirty, Like why,
there's a lot of basketball players that were at thirty.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Curry Dell.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Okay, so it's a cry. It's a family fair, the
family thing.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Sam Houser, who is that?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Howser? What are we talking about today? We got Cooke,
we got on the docket, Nolan Ryan, Yeah, forty.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Not for the Rangers though, so it don't matter, it
don't count.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
King Griffy Junior was thirty on the Reds, That's what
it was. Herolda Davis.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
I forgot about Torrell Davis.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
The fact that King Griffy Junior and his dad got
to play in the league together on the same team
is so insane. Yeah, to this day it will it
will always be the probably the coolest sports.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
That's a better moment, that's better than Lebron and Brownie debatable.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Debatable, Yeah, because Junior Griffy was good.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
Whoa dude, whoa no Bronni slander on this?

Speaker 4 (01:28):
We love.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Have Bronnie on.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Dude, you still think Luka Doncic is better than Cooper Flag.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
I still do think that.

Speaker 6 (01:35):
I'm right.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
I don't think I didn't see Luka Doncic break Lebron's record.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Back.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
I can't get into this. R Welcome back, miss Luca.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Rashid Wallace also number thirty one of my way hated
NBA players of all time Wallace. I hated him.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
I weirdly used to love Ben Wallace.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Loved Ben Wallace, hated Rashid Wallace. Some question they related, No, nope,
one's cool ones now they're both on the Pistons. Hated
that Pistons team.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Really, I thought they were kind of cool.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
I think I actually just hated Rashida.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Rip was on there.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Fun fact, Rip Hamilton is actually from reading PA. Really.
Oh love Rip Hamilton reading Rip.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Henriklud Quiz, that's who Henrik lud Quiz.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Seth Curry was goalie.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, yeah, no, I know who he is.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Awesome guitar player too, magleo six.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, I don't know. All I know is my one
and true goalie, which is the brick wall Pepcerine thirty five?

Speaker 3 (02:39):
I thought it was That's my bad. I was thinking
of that guy one day.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
We're going to have to figure out the best number.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
But I feel like the best sports numbers. We got
so many numbers to go, I know, but which we
were doing this to? One and three?

Speaker 4 (02:54):
I know, like I wonder which number has the most
Hall of famers mmmm, across all all sports.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
We probably should do an episode like a trivia episode
sports trivia episode.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Definitely one episode one so far away?

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Not if we start doing four a week.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Dang, a live show. We should just do a live show,
daily show?

Speaker 4 (03:14):
True?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Should we? Are we going to be opening up for Jared?
Are we? I heard you might be five minutes saying
you're singing I not want me to open up for
Jared because everybody I would be extremely me saying I
don't want you is gonna make everybody.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Like none have to Where did this idea even come from?
I don't know, But let you just like put yourself
in the spot. Yeah, it would suck right now, I mean,
because what would be your opening joke.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
How about that airline food? How about it?

Speaker 5 (03:47):
Tomato tomato, tomato?

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Have one?

Speaker 2 (03:53):
What's that tomatoes? What's the airplace?

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Peas and episode time? How about airline food? All right,
and it's slapped. I mean everybody was laughing. Play the hits.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
But yeah, I think what Gary was saying to you
could sing. You got Carolyn coming up, your self proclaimed
great singer.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
We heard, Yeah, I mean still do you have Carolyn?
This this uh this weekend? Definitely, we'll have the pipes
all warmed up, looking forward to it. This is the
first year that Dietrich is not like my Dietrich is
not like the overseer and plainer of it all. It

(04:35):
is his younger brother, Adam past the torch. He's now
a state trooper, which is awesome.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
You like drink and drive and you bego go that far,
but like, don't rat, don't screw him over.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
I'm not gonna say I'm not going to say nothing.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
Okay, say something.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Would be like a little drunken drive. No, but yeah,
we we like have I have no clue what's going on,
just because dietrichs not hasn't been the one planning it.
It's him. It's Adam and one of Dietrich's buddy Ryan,
who I'm really good friends with as well. But yeah,
we're looking forward to it. Will is going to be.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
In New York and will not be there.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
But I will give shoot him a text to be
like for the listener.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
For the listener, give a quick background to explain what
Carolyn is.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, so Caroling, it's uh, it's been going on for
I think this is our seventh or eighth year a decade. Yeah,
it's been a minute, like at least my seventh or
eighth year doing it, but I guess apparently it was
going on for a couple of years beforehand. But well,
it's all of my buddies from college, and then uh,
Dietrich's like hometown friends. He's from Hawthorne, New Jersey, and yeah,

(05:50):
we literally just go. He's he's like in like a
small little community where it's just like blocks of houses
and then there's like a bar at the end of
the street. So the last three or four years you
ran out the back of the bar for three or
four hours and it's like open drink, open food. And
then we have a wagon full of like whether it's

(06:10):
jungle juice or beer, like a keg? Yeah, what do
you go to? The beer? The jungle juice? Probably the beer,
because jungle juice. We all we've all been there. Yeah,
the jungle juice.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
It's like uh PJ, you know, PJ.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
It's just it's like cheap liquor mixed with like any
kind of.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
It's like fruit juice. It's juices with like an absurd
amount of alcohol in it. And its like like in.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
The movies when they just make the worst looking drink
of a long time. Yeah, and then in the movie
everyone goes nuts.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
What do you call that?

Speaker 1 (06:46):
I didn't even know how to name.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
That's called Saturday Night.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, but pre game. Yeah, so we're we there's I mean,
it has grown exponentially. The first year we did, I
think there was like ten to fifteen people and it
was just at Dietrich's house because we weren't twenty one yet.
And then each year it's gone. It went from like
then to twenty and then thirty, and then last year
I think we had over one hundred people at the

(07:10):
whole choir. It's it's insane and it's an absolute shit show.
But last year kind of was.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
It just like everyone and then like now they're little
brothers and like how are you collecting new people?

Speaker 3 (07:21):
It's also it's like now that Adam is of age,
like he has all of his college buddies come in
and then like their significant others and whatnot, and then
uh is Brooke going, yeah, Brook, this will be Brooks
second year. Like we all have our significant others and
like then it's all like like their hometown friends and

(07:41):
some of their coaches and then their kids and stuff
like that. But yeah, last year was just so so cold,
and I think it was like ten to fifteen degrees
outside that we were We were literally, I think caroling
for thirty to forty five minutes. What's the group's best song?
Probably deck the Halls? Can you give us a little? Well,
I mean I'm not in the mode. Can we get
a little yeah sing? No, But it's like it's it's

(08:04):
better because we're all like we're all drunk, and it's.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Just also when y'all go up to the door, break
it down, Like I've never been carolling in neighborhoods. Yeah,
you literally just knock they open, you start singing, or
do you like you mind if we play a few
songs for you guys.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
So yeah, so it's exactly you're going to be. Typically
you have a designated knocker. I have been that once
or twice. Uh, you go up there and be like,
you knock on the door, you kind of wait if
the lights are if they don't geez, if there's no
lights on, you don't go up to that house because
they're like they don't want to be bothered. But if
you see a light on in the living room, knock
on the door respectful. They come out and like normally

(08:41):
and then they just open up and it's like oh
ship deck, yeah, and then you as soon as the
door opens.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's not what's the first song? What's the first song?

Speaker 3 (08:53):
First song? Like the first song at the first house
is I think it's typically either jingle bells or Frost
to the snow Man play the hits. And then the
longer we go that, I feel like the more the
more ballsy we get with some of our songs where
it's like not everybody knows the words. However, we do
have packets of lyrics and you just get around, so

(09:16):
like we won't have packets for it, we won't have
a hundred packets, but like we'll have one like the
five of us will just get around yep and choir.
It's it is something that I look forward to you
every single year because one, it's awesome, like you're just
spreading Christmas chyre for all to hear. But also but
also you just like you're just with your buddies that

(09:37):
you don't you see once or twice a year and
you catch you up. And like I think last year,
for the thirty to forty five minutes we were outside,
I ended up talking to somebody that I don't even
think I really knew, but you know, like juices are flowing,
You're just like, what's going on? Brother? They're nice to
see you get tipsy?

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Are anyone ever?

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Just we don't accept tips because it's all for the
love of the game. You gotta pay for the bar tab,
so yes, but like it's like seventy five eighty dollars
to go to rent out the back of the bar
and then we get like we buy keg with that
extra money and then that's where.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
So people try to tip, y'all.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
I feel like we have at least once or twice,
but we're like maybe thrice. Yeah, but it's all it's
all fun and it's all fun and like what's funny
is like Chris Dietrich's dad is like buddies with like
the some of the police department, Like, hey, this is
what's going on tonight.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
They're going to be driving.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Like if you if you hear stuff like that, it's
just us. But then I feel like we kind of
like low key have a curfew kind of thing in
the sense of like orderance. Yeah, eventually they'll come up like, hey.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
Guys, yeah, be like seven to nine almost give a
little range.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, and then they're like time to head back. Time
to head back to the to the bar, because I
mean a hundred drunk people just walking around it's never
un is crazy, but.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
Like would be won't have it this year, but Carolyn
would be a sweet place to propose. It would get
everybody singing, it would that is a great idea. Everybody's
already there.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, but yeah it's last year. We had somebody get
picked up by a cop. She was just banging on
everybody's I need to get home. She was hammered. No,
she was like we it starts as we started Dietrich's
house and we u No. Last year is the Penn

(11:33):
State SMU game was like the early slate game. So
we got there and like every year, you would just
start with a bottle of Rumplemans and you're just passing
it around and no majority of the people meet us
at the bar.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
Oh, this is this is the pre before the pre Yes.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
This is this is the at Dietrich's house kind of
all like you're catching up all like the main college
buddies are coming over saying what's up to the fans
and whatnot. But it is the most fun every This
is my this will be my third year doing it here,
third or fourth year doing it while I'm here every
year d Trich is like, we need the boys to come,
We need the boys to come. So and it has

(12:15):
been an open invite, but I think there needs to
be a year where the fellas need to come out.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
And this isistically this falls when when this is Saturday
December twentieth?

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Is that what the date is? Yees, Saturday? It's December twentieth,
I understand logistically.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
And where is it?

Speaker 3 (12:37):
It's in New Jersey, Northern New Jersey.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
Because like we so people are like being coop. We
would have to fly to New Jersey go do it
for the weekend, fly back here, and then go home
for the holidays.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
So my thought process is I have the solution because
next year, what is Christmas going to be on a
Thursday or Friday? It's a good question. Thursday this year,
so so it'll be Friday next year.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
I don't know if that works, but I have no
idea if that's how that works.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
Like if it is on a Friday, let us know
in the comments it is on a Friday.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Next year, somebody find that. I feel like, next.

Speaker 5 (13:14):
Day, there's JP's birthday on a Friday next year, Oh
dang day.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
I appreciate y'all tuning in.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Next year it'll be on a Friday. So I'm assuming
we would have like that we would have to go
home that Wednesday where we would get to go home
and have off for work. So I'm thinking next year
I would fly up to Jersey, have d Trich pick
me up or somebody picked me up, and then do
it and then fly home Sunday. The next year is
the year, is what you're saying. If there if there's

(13:45):
a year, there's a year, next year would be the year.
Inside the bus vlog, I feel like it would be
incredible I.

Speaker 5 (13:54):
Think a good way to get us involved is you
got to put something on paper. This year, we need
some videos.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, I know, that's like I want to bring up
my camera to like vlog it and whatnot.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
I mean, you've got to bring your big camera. You
can just go horizontal with the phone. Just give us
a taste.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Right now, it is all talk.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
We've never seen anything.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Let's zoom in and have we ever actually seen one thing?

Speaker 3 (14:19):
We don't know if he really got I mean, I
got the video. Can you just sing really quick? Deck
the Hosman? I forget see I don't that sounded good though.
That's what the that's what the lyrics are.

Speaker 5 (14:35):
Fortis the season too. After that, I would accept not
knowing the lyrics, but you got to at least know
that second.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, I didn't know if it was like this is
just yeah, mitche's it's so hard at the beginning and
then falls back.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
But like the knocker is typically the maestro, like dude
the composer. Yeah, but it is the most fun. You
gotta see believe it. Next year, if I so let
me put this out there, if I make a mini
vlog of it.

Speaker 5 (15:08):
We're not even expecting like a full on production, but
we would like to see at least a few stops.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Four a minute log would go hard on the phone.

Speaker 5 (15:15):
That would be it would be great for our channel,
and we see the pre before the pre the bar,
you know, maybe an interview with like a couple of
random guys, an interview with Dietrich's little brother, Andy Trick.
How's the you know, passing of the torch going? And
then maybe I feel like there's probably got to be
a straggler at some point during the night, if you
guys are drinking pretty hard, get you know, up close

(15:35):
and personal with him, maybe throwing up some fun something.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Maybe maybe when you are driving around.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Oh yeah, I'm gonna h Are you guys taking the
the phone mics this weekend?

Speaker 5 (15:50):
I don't think so, probably not.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
I might bring those with me and then we'll well,
I promise you guys there will be some content. Let's
go from this.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
Because it is cool when when you do talk about it,
it's cool, like it's the biggest Christmas tradition of all
of my friends that I have ever heard of. Hundreds
people showing up to do caroling. It does sound like
a something you'd see in a movie.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, so it is.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
It is all love to the caroling.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
It is really so much fun, and I'm like, I
look forward to it every year. I mean, I start
talking about it the same summer, the same way I'm
started talking about like Supercross.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
Right, which we do need to get that booked.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
You where are we on that. I've been scared to
bring it up, but I've had people reach out. Maybe
we could. There's a chance we could have an interview
inside the bus.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Wow, dang, does it hit bikes for everybody?

Speaker 3 (16:38):
I don't know if that could make that op.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
Does anyone here have any Christmas traditions of the same Vein?
I agree with you, like this is the biggest kind
of Christmas tradition I hear of. But does he don't
have anything else? It's like once Holidays here, you're doing
X y Z with your family.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Uh, every Christmas Day morning me, jeff Ame, Mary Haley, Mattie.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
We all go to wallflouse. That's pretty cool. Smothered and covered, chunked.
It's chunked still never it's still never been.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Actually I don't really get chunked. I don't want him
in my hash browns.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Just smothered.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
That's a good one.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
For my birthday dinner.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
We didn't do this all the time growing up, but
ever since I've probably been a senior in high school,
my dad will make lamb chops and it's my favorite meal.
And my dad is an amazing cook. And every single
year I look forward to it. And it's, you know,
a it's a bone friendly meal, so you can pick
it up, chomp down. And I look forward to those
lamb chops every year.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
Poros so underrated, are.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Like tradition, and it's like so different than mitches is
going to y'all know the like the Galored Opera land
here and they do ice here. They do that in
Texas too, at the Galer Texan and we would like
my favorite memory is just we'd always carve out a night.
We go get dinner and then we go see Santa
and then go to like ice in the sledding and
all that there, and like, I have not done that

(17:58):
in a few years, you know, because I've been away
from home. And so me and Addie went to the
one at the Aubrey Land and so I felt like
a kid again walking through ice, like doing the whole thing.
I don't do the slide, I did not We didn't do.
So there's like a sledding thing that you pay for
separately that's like separate of ice, but it's part of it,

(18:20):
if that makes sense. And then there's like the ice
slides in there, and I did not go because it
was it was kind of you know, Addie went, I
filed her and then I didn't go because I was scared.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
I was cold, man cold.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
They give you like the big like thermal jackets though,
right to walk through.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah, And a lot of people bring babies into there,
and that is crazy. There's like fifty strollers and babies.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Are instruct you saying the sledding remind me of something
that my family sometimes does, but it's typically after Christmas
because it's colder.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
We have like a mountain house where my dad and
brother go hunting, and up there they have a toboggan
run where like the like it's like a massive hill
and it goes out onto a lake and the lake
has to be like two feet thick of ice and
it gets like really cold up there. So like that's
not a crazy thing to happen, but we've gone like
four or five times and bro, you get launched out

(19:18):
onto the lake you're going at least like fifty by
the time you're going down, Yes.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
Fifty fifty.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Bro's sitting on the top of a sled. No, like
you know, there's a it's a toboggan. So like, how
big is this lake? Huge? Like going across the lake,
you're you're going out to like the middle of it,
and then what you got to.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
Just get back and then you just walk it back
is a toboggan the rail sled.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, so you're like, I got one on the port
right now. Some of us would be on it, like
it is, hooked up at each other and a lot
of like that much weight going out there and then
you just gotta walk walk your ass all the way
back up. But it is it's so much fun.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
You feel sketched out like on the ies.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Oh, Bro, when you get out there, when you know
because it has to be thick enough so you know
you're straight, but like.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
SI, but how do you know it's thick?

Speaker 2 (20:04):
There's still that Yeah, who's the one that's like we're good.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
The scary part is when you're out there it's so
dark because like there's only like a couple of spotlights
at the top of the hill. But then you just
have to like walk all the way back and then
you have to walk up the hill like it's a
it's in a hole ordeal, but it is. It's really
cool to do. Dude.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
That's like whenever I hear people, really hear people, really
whenever we see Steve Vanella and he's talking about ice fishing. Yeah, dude,
ice fishing sketches me out so much. And I was
watching A Secret Life of Walter Mittie on the plane
and when he moved back and when he jumps from
the helicopter into the ocean, they're like, you got about,
you know, three minutes before you go into hypothermia.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
I immediately thought about men.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
If Will and Taylor ever went ice fishing with Steve Vanella,
I don't think I'm going because what if it does
crack and Steve would just be there probably laughing.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
I think you're out there for a long time too.
I know you got a camp people like build campfires.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
One of my uh my old next door neighbor, uh
Tanner Elmore Shadow Tanner lives in Minnesota and he does
that in the winter.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
All right. I have a buddy, a couple of buddies
in New Jersey. That'll do that like drill the hole
and then it's like you just basically build a hut. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
I used to crush that game on Club Penguin two.
I'll be catching that Mondo.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
Fish the Meglodon.

Speaker 4 (21:22):
Played them. Oh who else had the Who hasn't said one?

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Derek?

Speaker 4 (21:27):
You got one? Uh we I.

Speaker 7 (21:29):
I just going back to Pittsburgh with my parents now
that I moved here, and it's fun. We don't really
have too many traditions. We'll always go over we have
like two high school buddies we're best friends with. We'll
always go over the one dude house because he's like
the Weasleys. He has seven brothers and sisters.

Speaker 6 (21:41):
His parents were substitute teachers at the school.

Speaker 7 (21:43):
Like they live in the middle of nowhere and it's
like wood surrounded, so we'll always go there for it.
And then last year I started one where I just
I just cooked for my parents. Now, so I had
my two high school best friends over and I just
cooked like a big meal steak, chicken, potatoes, a bunch
of sides. And so that's the first Christmas tradition I've
like developed in the night.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
That is cool.

Speaker 7 (22:00):
But now there's not. I mean ever since I moved,
there's not too much. I just want to go home
and be at my parents' house and like enjoy it,
which is kind of nice.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
But I love that for sure.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
For sure, there's nothing better going home seeing your childhood dog.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
Yeah, my mind's getting older. Gotta meet Kai.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
What a legend he getting old?

Speaker 7 (22:16):
Man?

Speaker 3 (22:17):
Sad my dog Coda is? I think he's like nine
or ten now? Choco a lab? Oh boy? Does he
go caroling? No, he would be. Does your brother go
make the cut? No, my brother doesn't.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
This could be the year on the bus y'all want
to get the relationship going, to get out there. I know,
I think my I guess you don't live in New Jersey.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
He like he knows a couple of my buddies. But
I feel like he'd be out of place. But I mean,
Nate loves drinking, so I mean he could do, he
would be, he'd fit right in. It's not like nobody
knows who he is. But I feel like he's always
got ship planned with his buddies back home. Yeah, you
can make one hundred shit, that'd be crazy. I don't

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know what you think about it. This is the first neighborhood.
This is the first year I'm not staying at Dietrich's house,
which kind of you're in the hotel. Yeah, I gotta
get a hotel, buddy man, Mitch. It was for one night.
It's like three hundred bucks, but it's nothing. Charge it
to the game.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
We want to do best Christmas. Everybody says their favorite
Christmas movie and then we talk our favorite gift or
that works.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
Should we do it to where you have to say
one singular movie. I think it's really hard to pinpoint one,
but you have to lay down.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
I feel like I have one, and I like, I
have always felt very strongly about this and it's Jim
Carries the Grinch.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
Love it now.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
It's just it will always be, forever, will be.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
I know I'm only allowed to say one, but I
did just recently watch the animated one, and if you
haven't seen.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
That one, it's amazing.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
I need to watch it.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
One of It's one of my favorite animation styles. To
the colors are so vibrant. It's just a very fun watch.
And yeah, it's fantastic for them to try and redo
a Grinch movie that is so good with Jim Carrey.
But Jim Carrey Grinch. That character might be in one

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of the top movie characters for me of all time.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
The Grinch is just dude. Even the people that dress
up as the Grinch at the amusement parks and mess
with the kids, the parents that put on the Grinch
outfit and scare their kids or friends.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Kids, those videos are funny.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
The Grinch has given us so many great gifts for Christmas,
one of the greatest on the.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Internet, which is kind of ironic.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
I know, right, little does he know he makes the
holiday season.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
It's heart grew three size.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
I bet he's sick here in this got you Grinch?

Speaker 4 (24:47):
Who wants to go?

Speaker 1 (24:47):
I'll go mine? I mean you said Stamford one. I
guess it is one. There's three of them. But my
best memories the movie I feel like I watched every
year and just like loved it was Santa Claus, like
t Allen ones you love. I mean the first one
is goat right. The other two I still love, But
that first one. When I think of Christmas movies, like

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the first one I go to is that one every
single time.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
It's a great one.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
That's my favorite.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
It's a good one, great movie. Mine. I feel like
this is like in I don't know if it's an
unpopular opinion, but for whatever reason, I love the Polar
Express great one. Just the movie the Hot Chocolate Song,
the like ten or Tom Hanks being the conductor and
looking so much like him, talk about a wild animation style.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
That's what I remember, like going to see that in
theaters and I must have been it might be my
first theater memory. I remember I was maybe seven, and
I just I do have a soft spot for that
movie because of that.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
That's how I am with the ELF.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
I wish I could remember my first movie theater.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
I remember exactly what my first one is, but I
think that might be it because I have a funny story.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
But yeah, the el like uh Polars where it's like
the Hot Chocolate and then also the caribou scene where
he's pulling his beard. I just love that scene for
whatever reason, and it's right left.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
I just.

Speaker 5 (26:12):
If you could be one character in that movie, Like,
who do you think relates to your personality the most?

Speaker 3 (26:19):
I wish I knew their names. I'd be the homeless guy.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Be the homeless guy on top of the I'm looking
for a girl.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
Hey, we all.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Probably probably the homeless guy, because I wouldn't be the
uh I forget the main character's name, and I wouldn't
be that annoying.

Speaker 5 (26:38):
Nerd who I'm sure I wasn't coming out for that one.
That kid is so annoying though.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
The like I also love like even Yeah, Tom Hanks character,
I think we can make that happen. He's like doing it.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yeah, you'd be Tom Hanks, one of that guy in
the home man.

Speaker 5 (27:01):
I will say, Will Compton how to tweet the other
night about it. There is something a little unsettling about
the Polar Express, the way a train just pulls up
in the front yard, has a bunch of kids, takes
them away. I'm not gonna like destroy the value of Christmas.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
You don't do that.

Speaker 5 (27:16):
But what Cooper or someone was saying earlier the there's
like a whole debate about animation styles and how if
it can get too realistic to the human eye. It
feels very unsettling and Polar Express they've done these studies
to where it is the closest you can get two
sets of animation style. Because I feel that a little
bit where when you watch it hyper realism, say what

(27:38):
like the uncanny Valley thing. I think that's is that
what it is.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
You're describing where.

Speaker 7 (27:45):
Something like Bilwolf she looks exactly how she looked. There
is a categorized like fear of that just unsettling.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
Yeah, something about it. It just makes you feel a
little fishy. But yeah, I still like the movie a lot.
I think it's great.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
That's Scarce and the One Box Car. I haven't seen
a movie in a long time, Like when when I
was little.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Scared when they went down like the back alleyway or
whatever they were doing on that trolley, like that part
always just with the with the puppets and like the
uh this song where it gets stuck on repeat like
that always creeped me out. But then why were they
cooking in that scene? But overall great movie. Yeah, and
hearing the bell because he believed in it, Like, yeah,

(28:25):
it's got a good story. Yeah, yeah, Mine has gotta
be the O. G. Rudolph movie.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Okay, I love the playmation Yukon Cornelius one of my
favorite movie characters of all time. Silver and Gold one
of my favorite songs of all time. And then I remember,
I forget when I learned it, But when I learned
that in the real O g Rudolph, he wasn't looking
for silver and gold. He's looking for peppermint. And that's
why he's always licking his pickaxe to see if he

(28:55):
could taste something sweet. One of the greatest adventurers, explorers,
most brave men ever. Story of Rudolph the Ultimate Underdog
and yeah, Rudolph.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
My number one.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Those are a good one.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Like Frosty too, Yeah, those are the narration of it.
Like I mean, even the cartoon Grinch one is great too.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, yeah, they like the one ft in front of
the other song. Yeah, heat, that's what we call ditrich.
This is just so epic.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
What's the what's the what's the little ELFs name? On
Misfit Island? That was they you know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, I know he's talking about.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Those are good.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
That's good.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Some pretty weird.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Characters in that movie though, that work with Santa. Yeah,
I know, think of something.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
It's one of my earliest movie memories, like watching that one.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
That was another one I gotta watch again, Like those
are other ones I gotta watch again because I haven't
seen this a long time.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
I probably would have stuck with the Santa Claus. But
since you've taken that, I'll switch directions. But I do
have a hot take after And this just occurred to
me in the last two weeks because I watched the
first one. I was put my Christmas trip, I put
the Santa Claus on. Love that movie means a lot
to my family. We always watch it on Christmas. I
now believe that the Santa Claus, too, I think is

(30:11):
better than Santa Claus, which is not a very popular take.
But I think there's a lot more that happens at
the North Pole than because if you go and watch
the Santa Claus. Really there's about ten minutes of the
hour and thirty minute movie that are in the North
Pole and the rest is in it. Realistically, you can't
beat the og Santa Claus. But I really liked it.
I love how Charlie becomes this like punk like he's

(30:34):
like anti establishment because their public high school won't support
like a Christian.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
That's that one, Yeah, Is Jack Frost?

Speaker 3 (30:42):
The third one?

Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (30:43):
That one I won't even because yeah, I think it's
Martin Short is like Jack Frost.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
But all was slide in.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
That second one too.

Speaker 5 (30:52):
But if I had to pick another one that's not
like your typical Christmas one for Christmases is just such
a great laugh for a love that one can't go
wrong with Vince Vaughan and John Favreau. They crush it.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
And yeahl whole cast is crazy.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
There's just so many good moments and funny stuff that
that transpires. So if I need a good laugh, I'm
gonna throw four Christmases on. So yeah, I can think
that's where I'm gonna say.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
I feel like there's like a couple of dark Horse
ones that I enjoy, and one would be Fred Claus.
I think that one's hilarious.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
That's also another.

Speaker 5 (31:24):
Yeah, Chris, like Jack Frost honorable mentioned Jack Cross is depressing.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
It is bro mentioned Christmas Vacation. Yeah, that's one of
the gristiest ones. I just rewatched that. I'm like everyone's
seen it.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
That movie will make my dad laugh harder than anything
so to this day. Still, I know we'll probably get
a lot of hate for saying like Home Alone or EL.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
For I Yeah, EL is fantastic. There's so many, like
I'm still trying to think.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
It's a great genre of movie. Yeah, so many good movies.

Speaker 7 (31:56):
Derek, what you got honorable mention for me, I know,
weren't supposed to do. I watch for the first time
the night before. Have you guys seen that. Yeah that's
Seth Rogan, Anthony John's and yeah Jewish and yeah the.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Drugs, trying to impress the new his like new in laws.

Speaker 7 (32:13):
Kind of it's about they always go out on the
same night, except Anthony gets super famous. Seth has a
relationship just for Gordon levit'z like parents passed away, so
they do that to help him, And it's basically about
them trying to find this party and then on the
last time they're doing it, they find tickets to the party,
and Seth Rogan's wife is basically like, hey, we're having
a kid. You've been my rock star. Here's a bucket
full of drugs. Take them all. And then he ends

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up going to church with his in laws.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
So funny.

Speaker 6 (32:38):
But my pick is Jingle all the way. We're talking.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
I'm due to watch that still this this year. I
have a huge soft spot for Jingle all the Way.

Speaker 7 (32:51):
I forgot how crazy the jetpack scene was. Everything's realistic
up until he's flying around the skyline of the city
on a jet pack.

Speaker 6 (32:59):
I was like, Oh, never mind, this isn't real.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
This is Turbo time.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
What's the movie with Miles Teller, Zach Efron and Michael B. Jordan.
I don't know that one Neighbors. No, it's like The
Three Friends.

Speaker 5 (33:11):
No, that's twenty one and up is it? Yeah, but
it's Miles Teller, an Asian guy, and.

Speaker 7 (33:19):
That's the first Tellers in a relationship and they're all
living together.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
That one.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, you guys ever seen the Harold and Kumar Christmas one?
That one's I've only seen the one Harold and Kumar
The White Castle.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
Dude.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
Also, we're all Nicholas Cage fans, right love Nick k Dude,
maybe you've already seen this, but I just watched for
the first time. He's got a Christmas Christmas movie. It's
called The Family Man, and this is one of the
best Christmas movies I've seen, and I was so shocked.
Don Chiegel is in it. He's living this big millionaire life.

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And the whole premise is as he got on the
plane to go to London to go chase the dream,
he had to break up with his girlfriend.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
So then you fast forward.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
He's doing great. He has the big corner office in
New York. He's going to the convenience store. One day,
Don Cheatle is robbing somebody. Nicholas Cage steps in and
it's like, hey, don't do this, here's the money, YadA YadA.
Don Cheatle says something cryptic. The next day, Nicholas Cage
wakes up in the reality in which he stays and
didn't get on that plane. So he has his his wife,

(34:24):
he has two kids, but he has no idea how
to be a dad, how to be a husband. And
then you probably see where it goes. But like he
basically just has to come come to a decision of
like she's the wife, yeah, she's also dude. It is
a good movie.

Speaker 5 (34:45):
Also on the thread of like, well that's this isn't
like a new movie. I would assume it seems like it's.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
From two thousand, Yeah, the new movies.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
I was mentioning this to someone the other day. But
Red One with the Rock and Chris Evans watch It's
like Reason came out last year in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
It is so worth superhero.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
It's just an action Christmas movie that is I like
take what you want about the Rock and like cheesy
this cheesy that that's what Christmas movies are about, like
being cheesy. It's not like over the top cheesy. It
is very entertaining. It's got a lot of good laughs,
like a pretty solid storyline. And then if you like
more violent movies, Violent.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Night, Yeah, that's what Hopper from.

Speaker 5 (35:24):
Yeah, David Bauer what, I can't remember his name.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
That movie rock.

Speaker 5 (35:29):
It's awesome and they have some brutal killings in that
that really will scratch an itch if you're into that
kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
But movie I was thinking of was that awkward moment.

Speaker 7 (35:37):
Sorry you guys seen Crampis. Yes, it's another one that's
kind of like Violent Knight that rips.

Speaker 5 (35:44):
Actually I saw a clip of that, I think on
Twitter a couple of weeks ago. I have not I
need to see that as well.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
There's like there's a bunch of different Crampises. Though the
one I saw like it was my senior year or
it was my freshman year of college. We all watched
it right before like we went home for Christmas, and like, yo,
that was actually an insane movie. It was actually like
really good like back then, but I like it was great.

(36:11):
It was wild.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Office Christmas Party is another just one that is very fun,
except for what's his name apparently sucks now?

Speaker 5 (36:20):
Yeah, but his garlic Bakman.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
The guy who that is, Yeah, he's he's awesome. Have
you not seen that movie?

Speaker 4 (36:28):
No, No, I've seen the movie.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
Yeah in real life though, you should watch its office
Christmas Party.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Jason Bateman, t J. Miller, Jennifer Aniston. I say Ike's
last name.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Family Stone will get the tears going if you haven't.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Yeah one, what's the other one with Jack Black?

Speaker 3 (36:47):
And crap? What is that one?

Speaker 4 (36:52):
The Holidays?

Speaker 3 (36:52):
The Holiday? That's what it is.

Speaker 5 (36:54):
Holiday is a great movie.

Speaker 6 (36:56):
Speaking of new ones, have you guys seen Spirited?

Speaker 4 (36:59):
I need to watch it?

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, Taylor loves that one.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
My mom in twenty twenty two, whenever that came out,
when I was home for Christmas, played that movie on repeat.
I'm I kid you not. She might be the biggest
fan of that movie on repeat. I know all the songs.

Speaker 4 (37:14):
We have to get tip on the podcast.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
We'd go for two hours.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
He's first four apparently she spirited Ryan Reynolds.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Shif Tiff Rocks, she'd be a good listen.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
She would be awesome.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
But that movie, like, yeah, we watched it on thanks.
Even when we went like she made like addie me
and like everybody watched, like, let's watch this movie.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
You gotta love mom rallying people around a movie at
night in the holiday and.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
They also rallied. My sister and her my mom and
they rallied and watched. The Jonas Brothers movie was worth
five minutes of television I've ever seen.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
In my life.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
I went straight upstairs.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Yeah, Rocks come out there coming everyone coming out for real.
I saw something about like they were doing that and
he's coming back out.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
If you had to make a new Christmas movie today,
who would you want the lead actor to be?

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Jared Beman you already know my answer. Chris Hemsworth.

Speaker 5 (38:03):
Yeah, he'd be a good Christmas factor, dude.

Speaker 4 (38:07):
You could get him and Liam involved. Honestly, all of them.
Man luked that they could have that. They'd be a
fun goofy Christmas of family.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yeah, it'd be funny if like Chris had a girl
he was bringing home and his brothers at home where
his actual brothers in the movie.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
They are just going nuts and they're wait, this.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
Is for Christmas? It is, but who cares?

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Trying to see Ryan Gosling Christmas movie.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Like Ryan Gosling.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
Yeah, I feel like he could Hugh Jackman. Yeah, it's
a matter of time before it's.

Speaker 4 (38:41):
He's got to be. He's had to have been one of.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Just his he's the character just from it, like watching
stick thinking how funny he can be. Like, I feel
like he would Price Casell Christmas movie.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
I asked that question, and I don't know who mine
would be, but new Christmas movies. We gotta, we gotta,
we gotta make that happen.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
Uh, do you wanna do gifts?

Speaker 3 (39:12):
This is one of the best. The best gift recency
bias right now that I feel like we can all
relate to is what Will is getting us right now?
Great gift And I've never had my card detailed before,
but it's one of those things that it's like, you
know what, that actually be so sick. So thank you
Will for getting that for all the boys. It means
a lot.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
If you're a boss is listening, yeah, get consider getting
your employees card detailing. And if you're an employee out there,
ask your boss for Christmas blessed with Yeah, would be
a good gift for I asked for every single year
It's on my Christmas list every year I asked for it.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
That's the only thing I've never even like thought I
don't like.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
If there's something that I want, most of the time,
like I feel like I'll go get it. Yeah, but
that's one of those to your point, like how many
times are you gonna be like, let me go schedule
to get this done, let me take all this stuff
out of my car.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
It sounds so lazy, but it just is. It looks
so nice too. Oh dude, I can't wait. This morning
and it was clean, I was like, oh shit, I
know I was. I've been saying. I'm like, I'm obviously
super grateful for getting it, but I'm like pissed because
I'm gonna be driving up twelve hours up to pa
just for it to get on the first the least.

Speaker 5 (40:27):
That's just the outside.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
The inside.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
You're like, the first three minutes of my drive this morning,
some guys blowing Apollo leaves.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
I was like, motherfucker. I just drove as fast as
I could through that little spot. We're still good, though
it's squeaky.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
That was weaky.

Speaker 5 (40:43):
Well that's what what's like the best gift that it
doesn't necessarily to be in your Santa days, but like
when you were getting them on Christmas morning from your family,
Like what can you pinpoint from your childhood of a
gift that really changed everything.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
One that sticks out to me and and because it
like introduced like a whole nother I guess you could
say sport into my life was when my brother and
I got dirt bikes for Christmas.

Speaker 4 (41:08):
We were was it a all right? Yeah, explained it.
I was gonna ask where'd your dad have them sitting?

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Yeah? So we were opened up. We were opening up gifts,
like we got like the little like dirt bike like
action figures, and then we opened up like one gift
was like a like helmets, like motocross helmets, and we
were like this is sick because we were kids, like
you just kind of think it's super cool and then
you just ride it when you wear in your bike.
So we finished up and then my dad was like,
all right, there's one more, like come out here when

(41:34):
and like the bikes were in the garage and we
were like whoa like freaking out about it? Yeah, And
it was like it was how old were you? I
want to say, I was like between ten and twelve
and my brother was between six and nine. I feel
like it had to be to the later part of

(41:54):
it because my brother, I don't think he would have
started riding around six, so I think it was before.
It was when we were still I was still in
middle school. But like, I couldn't for the life of me,
I couldn't figure out how to work the clutch on
the big bike, and Nate learned how to do it instantly.
I'm like, it's just not fair.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
That mast.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
So that's how we got into like supercross and stuff,
and it's like, I mean, now you guys are hearing
my obsession and stuff for it. So core memory one
of the cool one of the coolest gifts. I'm sure
I'm missing some more out there, but yeah, that was
That was probably one of my favorites.

Speaker 5 (42:30):
I also got a dirt bike for Christmas one year,
and I remember because my dad grew up riding super
hard and oneted one. And this was still the time
where my youngest brother, Joey, the lore of Santa Claus
was still like, hey, Joey believes in Santa We're going
to all operate in this capacity. So there was one
room like full of toys, and then me and my
two other older siblings they you know, we have like

(42:52):
the whatever clothes or you know, a gift something like that,
and I'm like, damn, guess we're not getting one this year.
And then the room to directly next to it. My
dad was like, hey, come outside, and so like, oh
my god, and he's like he's like no, no, no,
He's like, I think it might be somewhere else because
Joey's kind of fun. He's like maybe Santa Plus. And
there was three dirt bikes in the living room directly

(43:13):
next to us, and so I got one, my younger
brother James, my older sister Maddie got one. I got
a one fifty cc with the clutch. But the following
summer my parents built the pool. Steve was doing well
for himself.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
At this time.

Speaker 5 (43:27):
They had an issue with the construction people at the pool.
The pool was held for six months, so they had
they had an entire pool of built I mean doug
but no concrete lad so there's just sitting dirt. My
dad built a backyard dirt bike draft that is so
we where we have these home videos of us just
ripping around. I remember there's this one specific video, of course,

(43:49):
it's like the only one that ever gets showed. Me
and my brother and my sister are racing. I dropped
the clutch and stalls out immediately, and I'm so mad
and I'm just like kick starting it. But I remember, yeah,
I was like, this is unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (44:03):
Yeah, dude, what just That's got to be one of
the best dad moves of all time.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
It's kind of freedom to where you're like, man, maybe
I can just take this thing and go wherever. Yeah,
you realize quickly it's like, all right, you can go
here or here. We're gonna take this out of town.
Neighbors were not happy.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
About this bike track, I'll tell you that, but normal neighbors.
One of the things, it's like, come on, we weren't
allowed to ride unless my dad was home for the
longest time. Smart and then like finally like we had
to call and and get permission if you weren't home.
But our neighbors, our next door neighbors literally built or
literally bought like an absorbent amount of trees just to

(44:44):
like deafen the noise, and so they couldn't see us
riding around. And like, if you look at my house
and Google images you can see our Track's awesome.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
I wish I had that.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
I always wanted one, but like my parents didn't grow
up doing that's the same.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
It was just wasn't in the cards. But I always
wanted to know how to ride a bike. So fun
dude now because now I'm just too old and it's scared.

Speaker 5 (45:07):
I'm scared of it, right you when you don't care
if you tip it over fall breaking army the.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
One that we have, the one that we have, scary.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
I would I would try as I would try a.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
Small I have a little pit bike at home. If
y'all come up for caroling. I tried. I talked Broke
out of ten years ago. I taught Broke how to
ride in like ten minutes. Oh really, yeah, she probably
forgets how I love that. Yeah, it was so sick.

Speaker 4 (45:33):
It would be you know.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Mitch was like, Okay, just let me show you how
to do this. Yeah real quick.

Speaker 4 (45:40):
Yeah, my best gift I have. I have a funny
Christmas story that you y'all all know, but it could
be good for the viewers.

Speaker 3 (45:48):
You know, what do y'all do?

Speaker 4 (45:49):
You can open one Crabsman on Christmas Eve and so
my uncle. He always got us the best presence, me
and my two brothers, and usually it was always the
newest video game or you know, something new in the
sports world. That it was Christmas Eve, you open uncle
Bob's present, and because you can play it all night,
and so they open theirs. They get two new video games.

(46:11):
Then they're telling me, Jay, do not open uncle Bob's present.
Open Mime's gift. Me Me at the time was probably
like eighty eight years old, very religious woman, sweet grandma.
She lives with us, but she doesn't understand, you know,
the three boys growing up in the two thousands, and
they're like, you trust me, Jay, You're gonna love it.

(46:32):
You're gonna be playing with it all night. This is
the best gift you could possibly get. And it's like
a smaller box. I'm like, all right, Like let's do it.
Meme's there also, so I'm fired up. Remember Christmas is
my birthday too, so I have extra juice to me
on this day. I open it up and in this
small box is just this baby Jesus figurine just sitting

(46:54):
in a manger. And that's it. I'm and I look
up and I'm just fighting back tears, and I'm like.

Speaker 5 (47:05):
The thank you you were the hug.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
My parents, they they looked at each other.

Speaker 5 (47:09):
And they're like just praying for a new family all night.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
They're like, Jay, you could open you could open another president.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
You could open another president.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Water and watch it grow.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Jesus dude, my brothers are just dying laughing.

Speaker 5 (47:23):
I was so heartbroken, an all time brother praying.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Man, I feel like you you'd be.

Speaker 5 (47:28):
Lying if you wouldn't be in Jay's shoes, just like fighting,
just like the ugliest cry you've ever fell in your life.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
Because I was, you know, and I'm probably like nine
years old, eight or nine, so Christmas.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Peak when the magic of Christmas just comes crashing.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Because they're also the ones, obviously that told me that
Santah wasn't real and that was so stupid. And I
had the most vivid dream of my life that one
of the reindeer got hurt in our front yard and
I went out there and helped it, and I saw
the sled and I have some movie, right, y'all know,
I have a great imagination and or a vivid imagination.

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And I woke up the next morning. Tell the whole family, y'all,
won't believe what happened last night. Santa one of his
reindeer got hurt in our front yard. I went out there,
taped it up, and then they went off and my
brother yeah taped the akle and my brothers said, like, Jay,
that didn't happen.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
How are you gonna tell me it didn't happen.

Speaker 5 (48:22):
I was there.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
Sanna's not real what I just saw him last night?
And Dad get all these presents. Why do you think
Santa's handwriting is the same as theirs? Why do you
think blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
You know that.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
I go to my parent, tell me it's not true.
They're telling me that Sanna, and they're like pissing my
brothers again. All that to say, my favorite Christmas gift
ever was a Sydney Rice game Cock football jersey. And
he was probably the first player I have like memory
of of being an all time like great, actual great

(48:57):
college football player, not just good at South Carolina. But
the best part about it was my parents got the
s Rice custom on the back of the jersey, just
how he had it on his jersey, and I remember
getting that and it was my first one, and I'm
just like man, this. There's no way there's ever going
to be a gift better than this one.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Is that when you wrote cocky Land.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
Probably that was probably wrote cocky Land when we got
back from winter break.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
That's sick.

Speaker 4 (49:23):
That was sick.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
My best gift was not like life changing, but it
was after we had opened like all of our Christmas
gifts from Santa and our parents. My parents are like, hey,
y'a should y'all should go stairs real quick, like in
the media room another thing.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
They were like, hey, there that anticipation, like, wait, some
what's upstairs?

Speaker 1 (49:44):
And we walk up and it is a And I
was maybe like eleven, and this is like the biggest
deal to me because I really wanted one of these things,
but I got three of them. It was a three
and one air hockey ping pong pole table.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
And it was like like, look like it was not
perfect size for each of them, but I got each
of them. And I just remember I was so hyphe
because I just wanted to play air hockey and pink
pong all the time. And I remember like it was
magical on Christmas, and maybe for like the next two years,
I was like always convinced, Hey, come on, like, let's
try to convince people, let's go play peponge.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
No one wanted to. I was like, I was pissed, dude,
I know, Bob, I want to play crowd.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
It was.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
It was awesome. And then like on the same Christmas
they're like, oh, in what's outside? We heard something hit
the roof last night, like Santa must have drop some toys,
and we'd go outside and for whatever reason, this was
also like huge for me. I had this in my room,
just gumball machines on the like big ass like those
big gumball machines like on the ground. They're like, oh,
he must have dropped those like on his way out.
So I got a gumball machine. I got pool, air hockey,

(50:46):
pink pong damn. So I was like, yeah, this is Christmas.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
Yeah, I don't really know what my favorite would be, Derek,
do you have one? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (50:56):
We had so two things. I'll say one. My parents
had a similar like open then before. But what they
would do is because me and my brother would wake
up at like five am, they would put a gift
in her room that Santa put in the room, and
so it's something that we could play with until they
woke up right sick by them.

Speaker 6 (51:12):
Dude, the best gift I ever got was I remember.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
I mean I was young.

Speaker 7 (51:15):
I got the first game Boy game Mario game from Santa.
And I'm sitting there and I'm looking at all the gifts.
I opened everything, and my mom was like, that's so weird.
It didn't get you the thing to play it. We
go through her side of the family. I'm holding it
like as opening other people's gifts, like holding it, not
being able to play it the whole day for eight hours.

Speaker 6 (51:32):
And they get to my dad's side.

Speaker 7 (51:34):
My grandma got me the game Boy. My Mom's like,
thank goodness you kept it with you. Santa, kew your
grandma got the game Boy. I'm like, Santa's sick. Santa's
the man. I don't know how he talked to my grandma,
but this is dope, but I ripped that. The first
Mario like cartridge on game Boy was my favorite thing.

Speaker 5 (51:50):
That's is there any everyone Everyone's don't.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
I don't know what my favorite would be, but I
will shift it to I remember like I'm the oldest
sibling at one of the at my dad's house, and
I remember the Christmas that he kind of looked at
me and was like, hey, I'm gonna need your help
with the younger siblings, Like we gotta get it. Build
everything in the garage, build everything. Point I had I

(52:20):
had known, but now I was a part of you
were an elf.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Yeah, I wish I had gotten that far because they
didn't ask for my hope when.

Speaker 3 (52:29):
It was Uh, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
I took a lot of pride in it, obviously, like
being the big bro, you're just like hell yeah, Like
I know that they're about to enjoy tomorrow so much. Uh.
But listening to all of that, like the creativity that
parents somehow come up with hearing Christmas is so impressive,
And the fact that you guys don't keep that up

(52:51):
yere around is kind of bullshit, but it it is
very impressive that they're like, what can we do? How
do we set up just enough inside that like leads
the trails to like wait, hold on, I need this though,
come outside. It's always been very impressive to me, and
so getting to help my dad do that was a
lot of fun. And then a couple of years ago,

(53:13):
maybe two years ago, my on my mom's side, my
stepdad's daughter, my sister Melssa has my niece Goldie, and
she was like, I need your help building stuff. And
we build, you know, like on the playground, like the
I'm gonna really fuck up what it's called, but like

(53:33):
you would climb on it. It's like a metal piece
on the playground. We'll put a reference photo up. But
we had to build this fucking thing in the freezing cold.
Oh hands not moving, not moving, and that's like, of
course the bolts are like this big.

Speaker 4 (53:51):
I get mad at you.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
She got Goldie got like an airplane that you could
sit in and like fly it. So we had to
build all these things made of me at all at
like seven pm, yeah, and like twenty something degree weather.
But I feel like those stuck out to me the most,
just because it's like I'm getting to give this to
my younger siblings or my nieces and nephews and then yeah,

(54:15):
just like the next day, you're just kind of like,
that's so sick that they believe this crazy thing that exists.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
Like, do you have a favorite gift that you've given somebody? Anybody?
I have a favorite gift?

Speaker 2 (54:28):
I have one and if I can get yeah, go ahead,
I'll think.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
Favorite gift I gave somebody.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
I got something I need to say later on too.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
My it was my senior year football like that Christmas.
So I think if it's twenty nineteen Christmas, it was
twenty nineteen Christmas. Just finished my senior year football. I
got a game ball from my last game ever, from
like our bowl game. I went to the equipment man like, hey,
I need two balls from this game. I'm gonna give

(54:57):
him to my dad and uncle for uh Christmas. So
then I had my brother's girlfriend who had like nice handwriting.
I had her write down all of my stats, like
my career stats and all like punt return, wide receiver stats,
all that, I mean what. I wrote down everything that
she needed to write. I wrote down everything I needed
that she needed to write down on it, and like

(55:19):
got like a glass case for it and gave it
to my dad. He opened it immediately started crying, like
my mom was crying. I was crying. But it was
like just for whatever reason, a part like a gift
that just stood out, and it was like because like
now I'm done playing football, Like here's the last thing
from the last ball, like the last game I played
in with everything on it, Like now it's sitting on
his like dresser in his room, which is pretty cool.

(55:41):
That's badass.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
I uh, mine's gonna be quick because I feel like
the anticipation of yours is amazing.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
But my my favorite gift I gave my family again,
like Mom's side and Dad's side. It's a lot of people,
but I gave everyone a T shirt or sweatshirt with
my face on it.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
That's probably my favorite gift.

Speaker 4 (56:02):
Mine's not like a gift thing. Also, your thing just
made me think of I don't know if y'all saw
this TikTok video of there was this older brother. He
was definitely an old lineman in high school, and he's
like walking off the field for his last time to
his younger brother. And this the older brother is like
a bigger, heavier set dude. Hopefully he was a beast

(56:22):
all region, but didn't really look like it. And he's
walking off the field and he has his helmet and
he hands it to his little brother and puts his
hand on his shoulder and they like say something and
then the little brother like runs out onto the field
and the song is if today was your last day,

(56:43):
And it was so serious and I felt for those
brothers in that moment. But the thing I was going
to say, as we're talking about Santa and just the
magic of Christmas, there's there's a group of people, a
small pop population, hopefully it's a small population that exists
out there, and I think we're sanding ice after the

(57:06):
wrong people in this country. They need to be going
after these people. And it is the people that refuse
to tell their kids about Santa or they they tell
their kids.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
Oh, they take like the moral high grounds.

Speaker 4 (57:20):
Yes, yeah, I never want to lie to my kid,
so I'm not gonna let them believe in Santa. I
think those are actually the worst parents of all time
and they need to be investigated.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
I feel like there's somebody you're talking about. No, not really,
because we're all almost thirty years old and we're talking
about like whoa, you're in your latter half year. I
get I get it.

Speaker 5 (57:40):
You'll be at the uncion next year, don't you worry
for good?

Speaker 3 (57:43):
I was twenty six, Like we're all at like old
enough now, older now, and we're like we talk about
like the magic of right saying that the magic of
Christmas and if that got ruined me when I was
five or six, years old, I'd be like, what the
fuck are we doing here? Yeah, all these kids are
so happy about ring and everything, and I'm like, i
have to be the bearer of bad news, and I'm
the grumpy the grinch, like, like, I'm with you, child Services.

Speaker 5 (58:06):
I have one more thing, and it's It wasn't the
best gift I've ever given, but probably the funniest gift
I've received. And it took me years to come to
the conclusion that it is funny and I'm not upset.
But this was I don't know, probably three or four
years after my brother Jimmy had moved to Hawaii his
first Christmas home. So I'm making my big boy money

(58:27):
this time. So I'm like, I'm gonna get him something good,
something practical. I got him this awesome beach umbrella that
had a really cool design from a company that he liked.
It was like three hundred bucks, which was way too
expensively buying. When you have three siblings, a brother in law, parents,
it's like you got to keep, you know, financially responsible
gifts flowing. So I give him that and he's like, oh, dude, thanks,

(58:47):
and you can just see it in his eyes opening
it being like, oh shit, like I didn't get this.
Either he got me something of much lesser value or
he didn't give me something at all. So James disappears
upstairs and it's not like Key's up next to give
me mine. So he comes down and like he kind
of like runs into a different room, like dude worldbing gifts,
Like what's this dude doing? He comes down, he's like, Jack,

(59:08):
here's your gift, Like, toss it to me, and it's
clearly in the shape of a ball, and I unwrap
it to see my first ever game ball that I
got in T ball that was up in my room
on a trophy. He took a sharpie and signed his
name and gave it to me. My whole my whole
family lost their minds and I am fuming, acting like

(59:30):
the ball like still meet, like you know, but I
was like, I was like, I was more pissed that
I spent so much money on him and he was waiting,
defiled like one of my childhood memnto's, I was like,
And then looking back on it, it's like, honestly one
of the funnier things that's ever been done. But so
I guess it's a lesson, Like don't buy your family.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
I thought I thought you were gonna tell the story
when you were just handing out bread to the to
the family.

Speaker 5 (59:56):
Oh yeah, yeah. That was like two or three years ago.
I think it was like after one of my first
Dagas trips, and like I was just lacking on Christmas
presents and it just hit me with like four days
and I was like, dude, fuck this. I let everyone
give their gifts out and I just pulled out six
hundred dollars and I just go, here's one hundred for years.
And then I gave a hundred to my niece who
wasn't I had just turned one, and I was like,

(01:00:17):
here you go. And like, honestly, I feel like they
were probably like, yeah, we love this, but.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
Dude, cash is king Cash's that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
Did like two or three years ago. My dad he
got zero stocking stuff for gifts for my mom, and
the Christmas night he went in my mom. He went
in his stocking that my mom had packed, took everything out,
put a different sticker on it that says two Mom
from Dad. We get there. The next morning he gets

(01:00:46):
his stock and he's like, you really didn't get me anything, Diane.
She's like what are you talking about? I filled this
whole thing. And then she starts opening all these gifts.
She's like, I got I got this for you. He's like, well,
I don't see anything, like it's crazy. And then finally
at the end she's like, wait a second, these are
all of my gifts. And it was so fun that Yeah, we.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
All in agree, and so that stocking gifts are sometimes
low key the best present you get.

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
They're the ones who use the most, like.

Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
I don't know, gift cards, some sort of like little
gag thing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
Yeah, I'd always get I love my stocking.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
Me and Ca would always get like a pack of
football cards and ours, and that was I like look
forward to opening that the most. I was like, all right,
I'm gonna go put it back. Christmas over the stocking
is the best I.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
Growing up, it was like, okay, whatever, we're gonna cram
these the stockings as fool as we can get them.
So in my brain I was like, I'm gonna go
buy the biggest stocking I can find. So I everyone
has like matching stockings and I have this enormous stocking
because I was like, I don't like I love what
goes into stocking more than most of the other things.
So let me just going up my stocking game. It's

(01:01:57):
like so funny.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
It's pretty epic though. I saw another video of that.
Somebody had like one of these big balloon.

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
It wasn't a pinata, but it was serving the same
purpose and it was going to get popped, and all
the kids were standing underneath it. And then the last second,
right before somebody pops it, one of the bigger kids
comes in and just holds his shirt out it pops,
almost all the candy falls into it, and he just
takes off running for a gringe.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
Grine for sure, Derek, you got one.

Speaker 6 (01:02:29):
Gift I given?

Speaker 7 (01:02:30):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm trying to think through it because, like
I give some pretty intentional ones that I like, I
can't think of one that I've given off the top.
But one thing I will say that I was thinking
about is how, like my mom broke to me Santa
wasn't real is she made me watch a video Like
she showed me this video of a It was like
a story. So it's just a video of a guy
talking about like pictures, but it was basically about a
kid going up to his grandpa being like Grandpa tell

(01:02:52):
me is Santa Lana, And the Grandpa's like, come with me,
and they go to the store and they bought like
a pack of diapers and like kid stuff, and then
they went to a house that the kid had no
idea who was on the door, left the basket and
ran to the car and watched and outwalked a brand
like a pregnant woman and a husband, and they looked
down and saw the basket like looking around in one away,
and the Grandpa's like, there might not be a bearded man,
but that is Santa Claus. And so just like I

(01:03:13):
don't even know if a gift I got, but I've
always held that close because I'm like to your point
about like people that say, like I'm making this about Jesus.
I grew up thinking baby Jesus and Santa, we're homies.
Like I assumed Christianity and Santa were one and the
same Santa. That's what I thought, And so I'm the same.
You can take those people out back, But yeah, that's
a given a gift.

Speaker 6 (01:03:32):
No, I just I like to give gifts. I think
it's fun, but I try to make it personal, being.

Speaker 4 (01:03:36):
Like a VHS tape like show to Derek when he's eight.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
Yeah, basically I have a I have a funny one.
It's not like the best gift I've given. I don't
I think it's funny. My brother and my dad are
Cowboys fans. I'm a Cardinals fan. We always not really anymore.
Unfortunately for me, we used to a few years ago
argue like Kyler Murray, Verus, Dak Prescott, and I just
thought it'd be so funny for Christmas. I got them

(01:04:01):
a normal gift, so like this was not their gift.
But like, after it's all down, I was like, hey, y'all,
look up on TV. I got a what's it called
when you can pay for someone to cameo? A cameo?
And I was not going to sholl out for this cameo. Y'all,
this this friend of the show cameo. I think I
got Dean Blandino to basically just eviscerate that argument like
for me and like just say, like Kyler so much better,

(01:04:23):
like Bobby and camp y'ar are dumb, Like that's I
still have the video on my phone, but I just
I was like you heard it, Like I was like,
Merry Christmas.

Speaker 7 (01:04:34):
He do a good job at yours because he did
a fantasy league for me once and the guy he
would had notes for everybody, and he goes, oh, it's six.

Speaker 6 (01:04:41):
That's Timmy. Timmy just got married.

Speaker 7 (01:04:43):
Well, I'm going through a divorce Timmy, so good, look
at yours and went on for a forty five second
rant about his divorce and we're like.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
Who's pick five?

Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
I kind of told I gave him a prompt. I
remember he started it off. I can show I can
send it in the group chat. He starts it off
watching like Larry Fitzgerald Highlight, like Lake Career, like Kyler
through Passion Larry fits He's like, oh, sorry, I didn't
see there, and then he starts arguing about like why
Kyler's better, and I'm like, yeah, this.

Speaker 4 (01:05:10):
Is the guy.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
This is the this is the referee guy, like that's
head official. That's funny. Shout out Dean Blanding Man, how
long we've been going?

Speaker 6 (01:05:20):
Hour in six minutes?

Speaker 4 (01:05:21):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
You feel good? Feel great? You want to take us
out on a song? Yeah? This will be our last
episode of the year as we're off the next semi
we're moving to Netflix. Guys, so I believe first episode
of the new year we have our big guest. Something

(01:05:45):
schedules got conflicted this week, so unfortunately we were able
to have him on. But I believe I'd like to
think the next beginning of the year we will have
a guest for you guys. But what song we want
to sing?

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
Just not true sting on it because we Jack Frost
sniffing at your nas All right, what do you want
to say?

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
Dude? I just want to do keep it, Play the heads,
jingle bells, dun't sit up, dum.

Speaker 4 (01:06:18):
Oh night.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
That's all we got for you. Thirty Merry Christmas, christ