You can stay at A Christmas Story movie house

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, if you always wanted to stay at the Christmas
Story house, you can. It's almost time to to do
that Christmas Story. Of course, everybody starts watching it. Seems
like this one of the channels runs it, I believe,
like twenty four to seven.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
For a while, the Christmas Story Channel. Yeah, I'm just joking.
I don't know what is it?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Zach Sorry, PBS Oh, TBS okay, TBS. Yeah, I knew
somebody would. It seems like every year just runs it.
You watch have you you seen it? Oh?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yes, yes, the Queen is rather obsessed with that movie.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Oh, to the point.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I tried to buy that lamp. There's no way sheet
let it in the house, the leg lamp.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
You have younger boys in the house. Who uh it's
funny how they the way they portray that back then.
I don't think kids now they wouldn't take a second
look at it because they're like, oh, yeah, I see
worse than that on the internet. Yeah. Then it was like,
oh that's really racey. Who you got a leg lay up?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
The nights up?

Speaker 1 (01:10):
What was Ralphie like having a like starting at like
before you open it, and he's like, fragily, well that
must be Italian. I forgot about that. I haven't seen
that in a while. Have you seen the actual house
in Cleveland, either one of you. I haven't been to it,

(01:31):
been up there, Zach No, Yes, no, I have not
seen it, the actual house. It's in Cleveland. Of course.
I think a lot of people know that here. I
suppose there are some ears right now that are like
what it is. You know, maybe you didn't know. But
you can spend the night there and you'll have exclusive
access to the house after museum hours. Hang out on
the living room couch with hot coco, look out the

(01:53):
window where Ralphie dreamed of his baby gun, and then
take photos. Of course, all of that the iconic Christmas tree.
The bedrooms are restored in full nineteen forty style, by
the way, in case you're wondering, it's like, well does
it really look Yes, it will look like the movie
from Twin Beds. The the uh chaneil bedspreads pink bunny

(02:18):
pajamas waiting for you to try on. They also say
they're yours to keep.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Oh well, yeah, nobody else wants them. You've been wearing them.
I don't write.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's not like they're you know, they're gonna have like
community bunny jammys.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Like hotel robes. Just take it with you. You can
wash it, Yeah, you could do. They have ovaltine.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
They don't mention that drink. They don't mention that.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
But those damn dogs still next door because I got
to use for a bb gun. If they come in
my kitchen for a turkey.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
I'm gonna shoot someone's eye out and it ain't gonna
be mine. But I don't I can't imagine there's any
availability left. But they're like, you can reserve your stay
for this month, and all I can't. I can't imagine
yet there's any kind of And it's not like you're
gonna stay there with other people you don't know, so
it's got to be one family at a time. And

(03:11):
I have no idea what this costs either. I can't
imagine that's cheap.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
That's it's I mean, if you've got the whole house
and you can sit on the sofa and all that stuff,
that's probably a grand a night. I would think that's
gonna be you know, it's got the draw of the
movie and then the pink bunny jammis. But picture picture
Ralphie in your head. Right now, both of you. Picture Ralphie.
I'm gonna give you two words to tell you who
I think he grew up to be. He got him
in your head? You got the picture in your head,

(03:36):
the one from the movie? Correct, Yes, yes, got him
in your head. Zack got him in your head? Yep,
got him fringe posh. Oh does he not look like
babyd Wine?

Speaker 1 (03:49):
I could see that he does. I could see that
with the glasses and everything.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Every time I see him, I'm like that, Mike, that's
Mike Dwine.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
That's what he looks like.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Baby do wind to be.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Just hanging there? Kid, don't shoot your eye out. You're
gonna be governor of Ohio one day.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh on second, lad.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Well, those pink jammies from then still fit him.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I just the the biggest moron in the whole thing.
I always laugh at the kid who's so bundled up
he can't get up off the ground, right, But then
the moron who put when he put his tongue on
the pole, Yeah, I'm like, that is so stupid. You
know what happened all over this country. But it's just
so How can any kid, at any point in our
history have been that dumb? How do we move forward

(04:39):
with a nation full of kids that did that?

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Then you also think there it's like, was big medicine
behind that? Because you think about when that movie comes out,
dramatic has to be an elevated amount of visits to
the eo oh yeah, or you know the fire department
runs where they're coming out or they you can just

(05:04):
search it up now, like how do you get your
But I can't imagine. I'll tear the hide right off
your tongue.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, you have no taste buds for a while.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Oh gosh, imagine how much that would hurt.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Parents were tougher back then, though, you know, you do
that to put some vict on it, though you needed.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I mean to be fair. He got triple dog there, Yeah,
and it was a dog. What do you what do
you back out? No? You gotta do it?

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Then, Yeah, double dog's bad enough, but he tripled.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
He went triple so couldn't back out? Were they like, No,
it's like I triple dog. They're like anyway, Yeah, you
can stay at the house and relive it if you, uh,
that's your thing? Did I figured you would look up,
like what what it costs nightly to stay there?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah? I send it to you guys.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, but I'm not I can't look at that.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
While it's that's that.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
They have a suite, you could stay in the upstairs suite.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
That room is two forty five a night. But if
you take the whole house.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Oh, so you can share the house with other people,
like other strangers. That's barely like it. But I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
I don't want to say yes because.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
You're not closed off. It's not like you're in a
hotel where you have a separate door you can lock
when you go to sleep from the room next to you.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, I just leave it open.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yeah, forget that, open it up, m M, share bed.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Whatever.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
How do you feel about a two thousand dollars stimulus check?

Speaker 2 (06:35):
I feel fine? Where do I sign?

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Okay, so you're good with that. There are plenty of
people who are like no, because it's coming from the government.
The government should use that money to pay down debt,
not send it to me. So you're one of those
people that know, I'll take it.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, you know what, nobility, I just had this conversation
a few hours ago to because I'm a firm believer.
If you've got like a net worth of ten million, dollars.
If if that was me, my social Security check would
be designated to a charity. I don't need it.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
They're not gonna give it to you to start with,
because they said no, they said, uh, high incomes accept
those with high end No.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
I mean social Security. Oh I'm just saying if I
had a ten million dollar net worth, I wouldn't accept
Social Security I designated to a charity or something.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
But I thought you misspoke there. I thought you were Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
If you if you uh turn this down, where's that
money gonna go?

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, you can't. I mean it would just automatically go
into your I mean they use if this is anything
like during COVID, they just use your soci Yeah, and
it just pops into your account, just like how you
file taxes. So if the money shows up and you're
one of those people that's like, uh uh, well didn't
donate it to somebody, write it off?

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Wake up, check my balance. It's a beautiful die in
the neighborhood. As soon as it pops in there, I'm
having I'm having dinner.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, I was on true social Trump said the payments
would all go to Americans, or go to all Americans
except those with high incomes, no details on how the
funds would be distributed or when the plan would take effect.
We're taking in trillions of dollars, will soon begin paying
down our enormous debt. Trump wrote. Also, a dividend of
at least two thousand dollars a person, not including high

(08:20):
income people, will be paid to everyone.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
And he wants to use part I understand too, to
bonus those air traffic controllers who continue to show up
to work bonus in ten thousand dollars for making it happen.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Is that what he was saying.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
I just saw that a little while ago.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, so God bless him. And they said a lot
of those people, not only are they not showing up,
they're actually retiring to the tune of fifteen to twenty.
They were talking about basically a month or a week.
What the timeframe escapes me, but they mentioned about fifteen
to twenty, and I was like, are you serious. We
have that many people that are eligible to retire and

(08:56):
they're doing it right now. They're actually retire hiring right
now because they're like, all right, I'm done with this. Yeah,
well the government show I don't. You can't really blame them.
I mean think about it, Chuck, we need you to
come to work and do this every day, and yeah,
you're gonna get paid at some point, but not right now.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
If I'm old enough to retire, Honestly, I don't know
if I want the stress of having hundreds of people
in the air that are my responsibility every day. Yeah,
I don't think I'd be sticking around any longer than
I had to invest it got my pension. Say, yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Didn't realize how like the inner workings, and I think
they somewhat expose and look, correct me if I'm wrong
on this, if you're an air traffic controller or you
worked in that business or had a family member that
worked in it. But Pushing ten TI n Pushing ten,
which is John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton's and Angelina Jolie.

(09:48):
Did you see that the movie where they're air traffic controllers.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
I feel like I have watched it, but I don't
know that I paid particular attention to. It's one of
those things that might have been on and I was
doing something else.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
It's really good. Don't agree with anybody's political stances there
that are in the movie, but that is I don't
know how realistic that is. But it looks like and
you see they have a high rate of suicide and
all of these different things. So now throw in addition
to everything else, they get pretty good money I think

(10:21):
starting out. Then you throw into into account, it's like
you're not getting paid right now too, and they're already
stressed out of their minds, probably on you know, well,
I'm just I don't want to speculate what they're on
as far as meds and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
But the thing of it is is I understand some
of them not being able to come. I mean, especially
if you're in an expensive place. Look, I got no
money to pay the daycare or the childcare, whatever I
do with my kids. The gas is still expensive for me.
I can't do it. I understand. I don't actually have

(10:58):
a problem with that. If you're not getting a paycheck
in this paycheck to paycheck country, you got to make decisions.
That makes sense. So if driving for Uber and making
a few bucks is what's going to uh to you know,
feed the kids and pay the bills, do what you
gotta do.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
I will say the Doge dividends that never showed up,
I I it wasn't my favorite thing that they started
even talking about that and that just mysteriously disappeared.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Went into that one trillion dollar pay package.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Well you remember that.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
I'm talking do I'm talking about Elon's newest contract. Oh,
I get you missed that while you were gone. Yeah, yeah,
Tesla will be They've agreed to a one trillion dollar
pay package for what for Elon? Oh for as CEO
from the government corporation from the government. No, oh no,

(11:51):
Tesla Corp. Has guaranteed or agreed to a one trillion
dollar payment to Elon as CEO.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Oh so he'll be the first ever. He'll be the
first trillllionaire.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah. Yeah, but they you know, stock is up seventeen
since he took the reins.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
So arguably is he owed that. I mean, look what
he's done with this company. Okay, I didn't know where
you come down on it, because I don't have any
problem with that's that's that's private. That's a private company
at all.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
You can get Yeah, if they're willing to pay it
and you want to sign here.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, I didn't. I Again, with the Doge dividends, I
the fact that they brought all of that up and
then it just kind of went away. So as far
as this two thousand dollars stimulus check, I'll tell you
if this is not something that he should have thrown
out there, if it's not really going to happen, there
are a lot of people that will hold this against

(12:45):
him and against other Republicans come midterm time if they
keep throwing this stuff up there and then nothing happens
from it. I can totally see where some people would
be like, hey, stop flapping your gums if you're not
serious about it, because you're given you're telling some Americans,
some people who are really really down on their luck

(13:05):
that need this money, really need it, and don't do that.
If you're not completely serious about it, don't just throw
it up there and then be like, oh, well, yeah,
that didn't materialize.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
And I said it out loud in print under his
own account on his social media platform. There's no saying
that this was a misunderstanding.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Which tells me if all of that's happening, it should
be happening. But we read about the dose stuff. I
don't know did he actually come out did he specifically
say that.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
You know, I don't remember him actually saying it.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Like actually uttering the word yeah, so we'll see if
the two thousand dollars stimulus, but I'm going to see
where this goes. This is pretty interesting.