Fruitcake, Lacy Underwear & Peace For All

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Follow us on Social Leave us A review of the Podcaster really helps more people discover what we're doing and keeps this community growing. Today's episode is pre recorded since it's Christmas Eve and we're spending the day with family and friends, but we still wanted to bring you one final episode of the year for your listening enjoyment. We'll be taking the month of January off to regroup and gear up for the 2026 season, but we'll be back in February with brand new episodes. It is December 24, episode 24. That doesn't happen very often and I'm stalling as I try to find my intro that I had for everybody. [00:01:31] Speaker C: Merry Christmas. [00:01:32] Speaker B: Merry Christmas everybody. Do you guys like this festive music? [00:01:35] Speaker A: It's great. I want to be sledding downhill. [00:01:38] Speaker D: Makes me want to dance. [00:01:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:01:40] Speaker A: Or on a horse drawn sleigh drinking hot cocoa. [00:01:43] Speaker D: No, I want to be sitting in front of a fire drinking spiked cocoa. [00:01:46] Speaker C: I feel like we have to hear a turkey at some point in this mix. [00:01:50] Speaker D: No. Thanksgiving's over. Don't do it. No turkeys. [00:01:54] Speaker B: Music. So festive. Anyway, today we actually have. I can't find my intro so I'm just gonna say today we have in studio the one and only round of applause, our famous YouTuber, the man from Rhode Island, Tiberius Giblin. Hold on, hold on. The first shoot. [00:02:13] Speaker D: Don't turn it off. [00:02:14] Speaker B: I'm trying to find the. There we go. [00:02:17] Speaker C: Yay. [00:02:20] Speaker D: I made it to Ohio. [00:02:21] Speaker A: Barely through many delays. [00:02:24] Speaker C: There was some delays. [00:02:25] Speaker A: Many delays. Thanks Chicago. [00:02:27] Speaker D: Yeah. You know, winter in Wisconsin, Chicago and Ohio will do that. [00:02:33] Speaker B: True to my right we have the man in the stocking cap. Even though it's 90 degrees in here, we have Michael Billings. And then to his right, in the Demolition Ranch. Ugly Christmas sweater. [00:02:48] Speaker A: Hey, man. [00:02:49] Speaker B: We have Nate Hills bringing it back. [00:02:52] Speaker C: Transformers. [00:02:53] Speaker D: We need to bring Demolition Ranch. [00:02:54] Speaker A: Yeah, we brought him back. [00:02:55] Speaker C: Retired. [00:02:56] Speaker A: He's retired, but he's in the studio today. [00:02:59] Speaker B: There is a gap in the YouTube universe that you could fill with. [00:03:02] Speaker A: You want to be demo Ranch? Be demo ranch. [00:03:03] Speaker D: I'm not creative enough. [00:03:04] Speaker B: The Rhode island ranch. [00:03:06] Speaker A: Rhode Island Ranch. [00:03:07] Speaker D: I'm definitely not creative enough. [00:03:09] Speaker B: Well, today we just have. We're just gonna have some fun today. Not that we don't have fun every episode, but we're just gonna. Nate's already cracked open a beer. Giant first form energy drink. Energy drink. He's gonna be hopped up. [00:03:25] Speaker A: I gotta. I gotta be energetic for the podcast. [00:03:29] Speaker B: I agree. So bring, bring, bring the Christmas energy. [00:03:34] Speaker A: There it is. [00:03:38] Speaker B: Yeah. So we just kind of have some. Have some silly Christmas stuff going on today. If you're. If you're watching the video. I brought my Christmas tree out of my office to put it in the background here. [00:03:48] Speaker A: Tib's wearing a Christmas sweater. [00:03:49] Speaker B: Tim and Nader wearing. [00:03:50] Speaker A: I'm wearing a Christmas sweater. [00:03:52] Speaker B: Me and Mike, we actually. We totally plan this. I'm wearing red. [00:03:55] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:03:56] Speaker D: That was good. See, look at that. [00:03:57] Speaker A: Christmas. [00:03:57] Speaker B: We called each other this morning. Hey, what are you wearing? [00:03:59] Speaker C: Christmas colors. [00:04:00] Speaker B: Well done. So cute. So fresh. [00:04:04] Speaker C: And my Christmas lights are on still at the house right now. [00:04:07] Speaker A: My Christmas lights have been on since we put up the stuff. [00:04:09] Speaker B: Yeah, they basically just stay. [00:04:10] Speaker D: You don't turn them off when you leave? [00:04:12] Speaker C: I usually turn them off. I usually do. We. [00:04:14] Speaker D: When we go home at night, we turn them on because I always forget. My wife does. And then before we go to bed, we unplug them. [00:04:21] Speaker B: I do have my stuff on a timer. Okay. [00:04:23] Speaker C: All right. [00:04:23] Speaker B: But it turns off at like 1am and I think it comes back on at, like, 5. [00:04:27] Speaker A: So it's basically. [00:04:28] Speaker B: It's. Basically it's on all the time. Because I'm like, I'm not gonna set up per day. Whatever. It's just sometimes we're up late. Especially come Christmas break, we're up late watching movies or whatever. We want everything to be on. So I have it staying on extra late. I never stay up to one, but it stays on extra late. And then I want it to be on. Want to come down the stairs in the morning. [00:04:44] Speaker A: Even if I get up early, we only have the two trees, and they're just on all the time. [00:04:48] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm really cheap. I unplug and turn everything. [00:04:51] Speaker A: It doesn't, it doesn't take that much power. [00:04:53] Speaker D: It's okay. [00:04:54] Speaker B: Let's just use them like the old nose. [00:04:58] Speaker D: My son wanted lights in front of the house on the fence. So we didn't have any outdoor lights, so I ordered solar ones. [00:05:05] Speaker A: If I had like outdoor lights and all the other stuff, that'd be different. The only lights I really have are on the two trees. The kids have trees in their room, but those get unplugged. Well, yeah, they get unplugged at night just so they don't have the light in the room. But the two main trees, they just stay on. We plug them in and then when it's time to take them down, that's when they get unplugged for the first time. [00:05:23] Speaker B: There you go. [00:05:24] Speaker A: So this goes like that. [00:05:26] Speaker C: Well, my tree came with the lights already on it. Perfect. So before Thanksgiving and before my back went, I drug it upstairs and set it up so everything's lit up except this one little small section. [00:05:39] Speaker B: I, I bought one of those trees and one in the middle segments died. It was like the second year. First year was great, but the second year, half of them died. I don't even use them anymore. [00:05:47] Speaker C: I still put plates on the tree so bad. If you look at my tree like where everything's plugged in, I'm like three plugs into one and still trying to figure out where is the missing link. [00:05:56] Speaker A: But say the, the one we have in our living room is a pre lit tree and I have to manipulate the power control unit just right for all of them. [00:06:05] Speaker D: You guys are just waiting for your houses to burn down. [00:06:07] Speaker A: No, it's not. It's not. [00:06:08] Speaker C: I usually turn mine off when I leave. [00:06:10] Speaker A: So it's just soak it in a bucket of water. It plugs in fine. I literally just have to touch the switch just right. And then all of them come on. And I'm like, okay, it's not like. [00:06:18] Speaker B: Christmas story where you have like a bunch of things plugged into the sink into one outlet in the room. [00:06:23] Speaker C: Do you have a surge protector? It's just not for the Christmas tree. It's for the TV and the Xbox. You know, important things, priorities. [00:06:28] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Not the house. [00:06:30] Speaker D: Not the house. [00:06:30] Speaker C: There's a window. We can shatter the window and toss the tree out. It's. It's right there. [00:06:33] Speaker A: It's perfectly fine. [00:06:34] Speaker D: What could go wrong? [00:06:35] Speaker B: So do you guys like decorating for Christmas? Well, let me see. Would you rather Decorate or undecorate? [00:06:40] Speaker C: Decorate. [00:06:41] Speaker D: Decorate. [00:06:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:42] Speaker D: I get excited because my family gets so excited. [00:06:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:45] Speaker D: Like, I don't. It's not bad decorating, but watching how exciting my kids get and how excited my wife gets and that, that's what makes it exciting. [00:06:53] Speaker A: I like having my house decorated. I like decorating the tree. I don't care to decorate the rest of it. Yeah, yeah, I, I like it being decorated. I don't want to do the rest of it. I just want to do the tree. [00:07:04] Speaker C: You know, like climbing on the roof. [00:07:06] Speaker A: I don't, I don't do any outside decoration. I mean, we have like, my wife made these pallet trees years ago with her dad that we have outside, but that just. You literally take it out and you set it outside. So that's not any effort. And I think we have a snowman we hang on the door. So neither. None of that is any actual work. But I only really care about setting up the tree. And the only one that I actually do is our family quote unquote family tree in the basement, which is all the fun ornaments. My. My wife has the pretty tree upstairs that has the color coordinated stuff with the ribbon and all that. I don't touch that one. If she asks for my help, I'll help her. But like, I don't care about doing that one because that's hers. She has a look that she's going for. I totally understand. I want to do the one with the family ornaments that. It's a combination of ornaments I grew up with. She grew up with ones that we've gotten for the kids. That's the one that I care about. [00:07:53] Speaker C: So do you guys put Christmas lights out like outside the house? [00:07:57] Speaker D: We did this year. We haven't in several years, but I ordered some solo ones. And I'm not kidding, there's solar ones and every day my son puts a different color on and whatever. Whatever makes him happy. [00:08:10] Speaker C: That is the only one that I would say the reverse that taking down the decorations when you have to put them on the gutters and all those little. [00:08:18] Speaker D: They're just wound around the fence. [00:08:20] Speaker C: I made the mistake of doing that last year. Did the entire roof. Wrapped it, even wrapped the siding, everything. Putting it up was a pain in the butt. Just because the clips tearing down was fun. Because I just need to scrap it and just yank and then all the. [00:08:32] Speaker A: Clips break and you have to buy new clips next year. [00:08:34] Speaker C: Well, we were already made the general idea in the consensus of we don't like those clips not happening again. Yeah, it was just pull, yank, you know, and let it go. [00:08:42] Speaker B: So I've, I've done, I've done just about everything thing where we're at now is a happy place. But let me, let me take you on a quick, quick journey to, to where I'm at right now. I've done the, the whole like all the edges, the peak of the house. I've wrapped the posts and stuff like that. It was beautiful. Honestly, I, I stumped. Amazing. I loved it. It was beautiful. And my thought was because, because I think, I think the end of that year I went, went back and I took it all down. The next year I'm like, why do I take this all down? I'm just gonna leave it up. Nobody. Like all the stuff around the post that I could easily get to, I took that down the stuff on the peak of the house, I'm like, I'm just going to leave that up there. So I did. And so the next year I go to plug everything in and nothing worked. Yeah. And then most of the clips that. So I did leave a lot of the clips up. So I'm like, well, at least then I don't, next year I don't have to put the clips back up. So I go to put the, all the, the string lights back in those clips and those just exploded. [00:09:32] Speaker C: Of course. [00:09:32] Speaker A: Yep. [00:09:33] Speaker B: Who did that? So I've written all that off. My happy place I'm at now. I bought a red spotlight bulb and a green spotlight bulb and I put those in front of the house and I put them in front of the house and honestly, it looks great. It lights us happy. Lights up the whole front of the house. It's, it's red and green. And then we have like two little Christmas trees. You guys see when we got, we're actually going to my house after this, I have like two little Christmas trees on the porch next to, next to the steps. That's simple. Simple, easy takes no time. I bought. This is the other problem. [00:10:03] Speaker D: All this stuff is so expensive. [00:10:04] Speaker B: I bought a bunch of those like candy cane, like the light up candy cane things. And one year I put those down the walkway in front of our house. That's. I've only done that one time because it was just such a pain in the butt. And then it's like when it comes time to take all this stuff down, everything's frozen solid. Yep. [00:10:17] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:18] Speaker B: Everything's shattering when I'm trying to take it down. So I'm like, yeah, it's just, I hate the outside decorations. [00:10:23] Speaker C: I even Thought about just the blow ups. Just. Yeah. [00:10:25] Speaker B: I don't like people at all for the blow up stuff. [00:10:27] Speaker A: No, if I, if I had an unlimited budget, I would pay someone to do the full house decorations because I. [00:10:33] Speaker B: Know you can and it's really not crazy. The first year is expensive because you're paying for the lights. Sure. But. But then from what I've been told, you pay for the lights up front, but then they actually will maintain the lights. [00:10:46] Speaker C: Sure. [00:10:47] Speaker B: So the lights are supposed to last longer and then after that like the actual decoration. It's not crazy expensive. [00:10:52] Speaker A: But that would be again unlimited budget that I don't. That I can just spend. I would pay someone to decorate the outside of my house, make it look like some candy cane forest type deal. But I don't want to put that much effort into the outside of house. [00:11:05] Speaker D: You want the music, you want the lights going to the music. [00:11:08] Speaker A: No, that's too much. That's way too much blasting Christmas music, lights. No, I can just do that inside my house. It's fine. [00:11:13] Speaker C: Yeah, I still think some of the, the funny ones are the ones that you look like somebody's hanging up the Christmas lights and they got the ladder on the ground. [00:11:22] Speaker B: Yeah. The fallen. [00:11:23] Speaker A: You see him falling just hanging on the gutter. [00:11:25] Speaker B: Yeah. So like what's your guys lost my notes here. What's your guys favorite Christmas tradition? Like what do you guys look forward to the most every year? [00:11:39] Speaker A: Well, there's a couple things we, my wife, when we got married, kind of just adopted a lot of my family's traditions. Her family has always traveled for Christmas. They've always gone to her mom's family down near Dayton, Ohio for Christmas up until only a few years ago. So she had never been home for Christmas, literally until we got married. She'd never spent a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day or Christmas morning, I should say, in her own home. So when we got married, one of the hard and fast things was I don't go anywhere on Christmas. I'm sleeping in my bed. I'm waking up in my bed on Christmas. I'm not traveling, especially with kids. [00:12:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:12:23] Speaker A: So she's, she adopted most of my family tradition. So for me, the Christmas Eve service has always been my favorite, especially when we sing. Almost every church I've done does something similar. I'm not going to make a definitive rule that all churches do this, but singing Silent Night under candlelight is my favorite thing. There's been a couple times throughout the years where the churches I've gone to. I can remember one of the churches, they had just redone their auditorium. They're like, ah, we don't want to do the candles because we'll get wax everywhere. I'm like, suck it up, buttercup. Just do the candles. They didn't, they didn't do it that year. It was. I'm not gonna say it was the worst, but it was really a bummer. [00:13:06] Speaker B: You're talking about my church. We did that. [00:13:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I am. [00:13:08] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We did the, the electric handle thing for a while. They did go back to candles. [00:13:13] Speaker A: Did they? [00:13:14] Speaker B: Last year. But I understand it was like, yo, I totally got. I got especially because there are. It is packed. Yeah, yeah. There are people standing and like there are two, three rows deep. Because everybody kind of. Well, they actually, they stopped doing this for a while too. They used to move everybody to the outside perimeter. Oh, they didn't see everybody. It was like. But there's too many people now to do that. Yeah, but they're back to doing candles. Well, I mean. [00:13:35] Speaker A: And again, I can't blame them. They had just built the auditorium. It was. They didn't want to get wax everywhere. It was a whole thing. And I actually understand that. But it was also a major bummer. Truly a major bummer. So that's my favorite thing, is doing Silent Night with the candlelights at Christmas Eve service. And then we always followed that up with having our family Christmas dinner after the Christmas Eve service. Things have changed a little bit just because our Christmas Eve services, at least at our church, is now spread over like four days. So we'll start this year. I think our Christmas Eve starts. Christmas Eve services start on Monday. I don't think the weekend before the Christmas Eve Eve. [00:14:14] Speaker B: Eve Eve service. [00:14:16] Speaker A: Yeah, well, and I'm serving the Tuesday night services. So if you want to go to Grace Medina East Christmas Eve services and see me, I'll be there Tuesday for both the services. So we'll. I'll go to those ones. I won't actually go to Christmas Eve services just because I'll attend one of those ones. I actually think I may be going to a buddy's church for Christmas Eve just because he's just took a new pastor role at a different church. So I may go to his. But yeah, that's my favorite. [00:14:41] Speaker B: I'll actually be starting Christmas. As this podcast goes live at 1 o', clock, I'll be starting our first Christmas Eve service. I'm in a bleeding worship for it. Music for Christmas Eve. So we have a. What is it, 1, 2, 30 and 4 or something. Like that. So if anyone's come, come to Northside Christian and Wadsworth, come see me. [00:15:01] Speaker A: There you go. [00:15:04] Speaker B: Yeah. How about you guys? [00:15:05] Speaker A: What's. [00:15:06] Speaker D: Go ahead, Michael. [00:15:06] Speaker B: First, what's your favorite things? [00:15:08] Speaker C: Honestly, just the. The traveling is a lot, but getting to kind of bounce from one house to another means I get to go see all the family. And it's just fun. We get to gather around, tell some funny stories, laugh at some. Some older moments when we were kids and wrestling and doing the fun things as young adults, not so much. I have one guy cousin in my family and he was an all star collegiate athlete. He got drafted to the NFL. Kick his butts. He chose to get married and join the military, take on his dad. I used to raise up with him and wrestling him. And then I have all. I have a sister and girl cousins and then we'd all wrestle. Now we're all getting older and slowing down a little bit. So they don't. [00:15:57] Speaker A: No excuses. [00:15:58] Speaker C: They don't want to take on the champ, the returning champ. [00:16:00] Speaker B: So sort of wrestling your grown girl cousins. [00:16:04] Speaker C: Listen, kick their butt. They'll probably kick my butt and say like, there's some. There's some tough ladies. But getting to see family and then honestly, for. For many years, I can't say it's so much a tradition. And it's just we all go hunting whether we're in the same stand or not. Typically we're not. We all spread out. We all want to get our own deer, but we'll eat, open up the presents and then go see the rest of the family. And we're like, love y', all, like, time to go. We're on 70 acres. We're going to go ease in the back of the property or go back and go hunting. So I did it for five years in a row. I would hunt on Thanksgiving and hunt on Christmas. And I killed a monster buck for five years straight doing that. So it was kind of became my thing. I had to hunt on Christmas. Dad, he slowed down a little bit. He doesn't hunt in the morning anymore as he prefers the lazy but luxurious box stand that's fully enclosed, carpeted, closed in, windows heated and computer chairs. Like he's got it made. But it's at the front of the property. So us youngins like to ease on back to the bottoms where the. We call them swamp donkeys are. So I am, I'm hoping this Christmas that I get to just. Just do that. See family, obviously. But to ease in the woods. I told my dad the most Important thing for me this year wasn't necessarily a deer, but it's like, I want to sit in the deer stand with you again. We've done that now two years in a row, and I'm hoping as far as we can extend it out and as far as he's willing to put up with me and the deer stand with my snacks and everything else. [00:17:31] Speaker D: First form snacks. [00:17:33] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. First form. Powered by first form in the woods, outdoors. But, yeah, that's. That's kind of the. The. The tradition for me, I guess you would say, is just being with family and. And being in the woods. You know, when we harvest a deer, it is. It's a special moment, because when I was a kid growing up, I'd kill a big deer. My dad was just lit up like a Christmas tree, tickled to death, excited. And now we get to carry that tradition with the kids that all the grandkids hunt. And now they're, you know, they're killing the deer, and they're like. My dad's like, oh, you should have let that grow. And I'm like, yeah, I would have shot that one, too. So they're killing all the big deer. So if you guys are listening, I'm coming for you. Uncle Mikey's coming back to get a big deer this year, so it's cool. [00:18:15] Speaker B: I think. I think my favorite thing, and I'm. I. I can probably count the years left to do this on one hand, which is. Which is sad, but, you know, Christmas morning, get. Getting the fire started, getting some music started, getting the coffee on, making the kids wait at the top of the stairs to come down the stairs. Like, my parents did it to us. We had to wait at the top of the stairs. We couldn't see anything. And so, like, I'm taking my good old time. I'm walking, I got music playing, and I'm sipping my coffee and just looking up at them at the top of the stairs. Evil. [00:18:45] Speaker A: Evil. Oh, my dad did it to me. I do it to my kids. [00:18:48] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just. It's kind of a rite of passage. I get to be the one doing that. [00:18:52] Speaker C: Now I'm gonna have to try this one here. [00:18:54] Speaker A: Oh, it's great. No, it's great. You should do it this year. [00:18:57] Speaker B: Just when you go home, be like, dad, don't let me see anything until. [00:19:01] Speaker A: I got a bottle of bourbon last. [00:19:02] Speaker C: Year so he can let me see that earlier, you know? [00:19:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:05] Speaker A: No, I mean, my dad would always do it, and he would say, oh, we would know. We could come Down. When he said santa didn't come this year, that's what he would do. [00:19:14] Speaker C: Santa didn't come up. [00:19:15] Speaker A: Santa didn't come. That's when we knew we could come downstairs. [00:19:17] Speaker B: Yeah. So the kids come running down. It just builds an anticipation. And the kids come running downstairs, and they run to the gifts and. Yeah. Just like, that moment is so special to me because I remember it clearly. So to be on this side of it and see that, and my kids are getting older. So, like I said, the years of being able to experience that or winding down, you know, quickly say, now that. [00:19:41] Speaker A: Tegan's on the first floor, you actually have to kick her up. [00:19:43] Speaker B: We do. I think the last couple years, I've, like, I've covered her eyes, and I've walked her to the stairs, up the stairs. [00:19:49] Speaker A: We had to do that with Amanda when she moved to the basement. Literally, my parents would walk her up the stairs. Be like, all right, go up the stairs. Like, dad, I'm. I'm 19. [00:19:56] Speaker D: He's like, doesn't matter. [00:19:58] Speaker B: I don't care. [00:19:58] Speaker A: Go sit up on the stairs. [00:20:00] Speaker D: My house, my rules. [00:20:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:01] Speaker C: You know, when they have their own house and you come over to do Christmas with them, I hope and hope that they put you at the top of the stairs and make you relive that moment. [00:20:13] Speaker B: That'd be awesome. [00:20:14] Speaker A: I mean, I did it for 20 years. I'm not worried about it. Go for it. [00:20:17] Speaker B: And I hope that one day I get to sit on the stairs with my grandkids and, yeah, there's more cool things to come. But this season of life with these, and this is going to be. Yeah, that's one of my favorite moments. [00:20:31] Speaker D: So my daughter's birthday is Christmas Eve, so we always have a tradition of going out to dinner on Christmas Eve. But as everyone can imagine, this, everything's closed except for Chinese. So on Christmas Eve, we go out and get Chinese for my daughter's birthday, and then the weekend after, we'll do something else. Speaking of birthdays, everyone, two December birthdays here. Nate and Mike. So everyone say happy birthday to them, by the way. [00:20:54] Speaker B: And today would be your daughter's birthday. [00:20:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:20:57] Speaker B: As this episode's coming out. [00:20:59] Speaker D: Happy birthday, Birthday. Daughter. [00:21:01] Speaker A: Daughter. [00:21:02] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:21:03] Speaker A: I guess we shouldn't say her name. No one needs to know her name. Happy birthday, baby Giblin. [00:21:06] Speaker C: Yes. [00:21:06] Speaker A: There you go. [00:21:07] Speaker B: So makeup names. [00:21:07] Speaker A: Susie. [00:21:09] Speaker D: I love Midnight Mass. Midnight Mass, same thing. Candles, beautiful. The music, wonderful. We haven't gone in many years, but I love Midnight Mass. That was more of something when I was A kid. The other thing we used to do when we were a kid, we would do the. Every Christmas Eve, we would do the seven fishes of the sea. [00:21:26] Speaker C: And. [00:21:26] Speaker D: You guys ever hear that? [00:21:27] Speaker C: Okay, good. [00:21:28] Speaker A: I'm from you. Yeah, you're the one that's talked about. [00:21:30] Speaker D: It, so it's an Italian thing. My grandmother lived on the first floor. We lived on the second floor. And as a kid, I didn't appreciate it because I didn't really like fish and seafood. And as I got older, I liked it a little bit more. Now, I would give anything to go back to that because I love anything from the ocean. But the house would smell like fish for days and days and days. And again, as a kid, I hated that. But everyone came over our house and they just cooked for days. Every different type of fish and shellfish and whatever else I don't remember from my kids. And my aunt still continues a tradition on Christmas Eve, but again, it's my daughter's birthday, and we want to be with her, so we've gone over there for a little while. But that's, like, the last thing my daughter wants to do on her birthday, so. [00:22:11] Speaker A: I'm actually really surprised your son doesn't have you guys go to midnight mass. [00:22:15] Speaker D: He's begging us to go this year. [00:22:16] Speaker A: Okay. I was gonna say surprised with some of the things that he's like. He made you guys end your vacation early. What was it last year? [00:22:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:22:22] Speaker A: To come back for Easter services and that kind of stuff. So I'm surprised he hasn't made you. [00:22:26] Speaker D: Guys begging to go to midnight mass. But we're concerned because we host every holiday, as you guys know, and to go to midnight mass and have to clean and cook and get everything ready and. [00:22:38] Speaker B: Yeah, that's also when Santa comes. [00:22:40] Speaker D: Yes, of course, too Santa. So there's a lot. There's a lot there. [00:22:43] Speaker C: But He's Catholic, so. [00:22:45] Speaker A: St. Nicholas. Yes. [00:22:49] Speaker D: Get it right. I had one more thing, and I don't remember what it is. [00:22:55] Speaker B: Sorry. So do you guys either when you were kids or your kids now? When it comes to gift opening, is it just free for all mayhem or is it like one at a time? How do you guys do that? [00:23:06] Speaker A: 100%? I just let my kids just rip into go. My in laws tried to. Well, they apparently always did the whole, like, oh, we're gonna watch each person open a gift, and everyone gets to watch. And I went there the first time, I said, I'm absolutely not sitting here and letting you watch me open gifts. So someone would open a gift. I would secretly, I would just quietly open a gift in the corner. Why are you opening gift? Cuz I'm like I'm not gonna sit here and let you watch me open every single present. I will say thank you to you if you got me the present. I will make sure to make eye contact and say thank you Tiberius for the wonderful present. [00:23:38] Speaker B: You're welcome. [00:23:39] Speaker A: But I absolutely am not gonna sit here and awkwardly watch or have everyone just watch me open the present. So yeah, it was always just open mayhem. And then people are yelling across from. Thanks for this, thanks for that. It was great. That's how we always did it. [00:23:53] Speaker D: My kids self imposed the one at a time thing which is very surprising for kids to do. They'll take turns opening presents and it extends it a little bit. But it's fun. And as a kid we had a tradition where we could pick any of our presents and open it on Christmas Eve. [00:24:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:06] Speaker D: And the rest on Christmas Day. We don't do that because again my daughter's birthday is Christmas Eve. We don't want to take anything away from her birthday. So she opens her birthday present to that day and then Christmas the next. [00:24:16] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:16] Speaker B: Nice. How about you? [00:24:18] Speaker C: So I, your. Your daughter may get spoiled. I used to, I had. [00:24:25] Speaker D: Oh yeah, those days are over for you. [00:24:26] Speaker C: December 18th was my birthday. Right. And then Christmas. Right. Well now it's just Christmas. We don't get the birthday. My mom every year gives me a Christmas and birthday card. Most time I get a phone call at birthday kind of deal. So I got robbed as I got older. However, when we were kids, man, you just. They would start passing them out and we as kids would pass it out to our parents and give them to them and we were the ones that were passing it out a lot. And yeah, everybody, everybody got their presence and they just started ripping it open. Now my stepmom Dede, she would absolutely. She's a professional photographer and she does a great job. She is one that loves to get the photos. And she'd be like, stop. You know, you're in the middle of like slow down. Ah, like holding the bag and half ripped open. He takes the photo. So we, we do now it's more for the kids. We have almost. Almost. We have 13 grandkids in the family between everyone, so. And more coming. Goodness gracious. And not for me. Not for me. I don't have a football team yet. So working on it. [00:25:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:25] Speaker C: But yes. Maybe one day. We'll see. Now it's for the kids and we enjoy just getting to watch the kids get their presents. And they're ranging from 1 years old to, you know, 19 now. So it is just more or less, the younger kids go crazy, and packages are everywhere for the adults. And for me, I do enjoy. We do the dirty Santa, and that's a lot of fun. Instead of trying to buy everybody in the family a Christmas present and not knowing what to get them, we all play the dirty Santa game. And that's fun because then we get to nag with each other and steal each other's Christmas gifts and then barter between family. So that's the fun part for me now. When I was a kid, you couldn't stop me from ripping open a package, and I got double with the Christmas and birthday combo. Now it's. It's. You get the Christmas card and a bottle of bourbon. And I am grateful for that because it's more or less sitting back with the family and watching the kids lose it. But I will say I still to this day love the stockings. [00:26:29] Speaker B: Yeah, stockings are always my favorite. [00:26:31] Speaker C: Almost more than I do the presents at times, because that is the one that you're like, you know, Christmas Eve, you're trying to sneak in, and there's a candy cane sticking out. Right before you go to bed, the candy cane goes missing. You know, Santa Claus took it for good measures. [00:26:44] Speaker D: I think the stocking is the most unpredictable in our house. [00:26:46] Speaker C: It really is the thing. [00:26:47] Speaker D: I know what I'm getting. [00:26:49] Speaker A: Right. [00:26:49] Speaker D: It's nothing I need, but I kind of know what I'm getting. I have no idea what's in my stocking. And my wife is. Yes, the best gift giver I have ever met. [00:26:56] Speaker C: I love this. [00:26:57] Speaker D: Ever. She's fantastic. [00:26:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:59] Speaker B: Stocking's always my favorite. Just because. Yeah, it's the most. The most unpredictable, Especially if it's a heavy stocking. Then I'm like. Then we're like, what is. What is in this? [00:27:06] Speaker C: And there's so many things you can fit in a stocking. [00:27:08] Speaker B: It's usually a bunch of candy with that. That I'll. [00:27:10] Speaker C: Yep. [00:27:11] Speaker B: I'll open up and let it air out for a while. But I think so if I remember as a kid, I think we just kind of dove headfirst in and. And. And thrashed everything open. But I do feel like once we got a little bit older, we would kind of maybe take turns a little more like we kind of just Santa or whatever. We almost did, like, a mix of the two now. And this is. But our kids prefer this too. So each of the kids Will grab a gift, and then they'll open at the same. Those. At the same time. [00:27:37] Speaker A: See, that's. That seems reasonable. [00:27:38] Speaker B: And then. And then after that, after you look at that whatever, then you grab the next thing, and then they all open at the same time. So it's kind of a mix of the two. Like, you know, you don't have to watch one person at a time open it and then wait for the next person. It's. [00:27:49] Speaker A: And it's not even about. Like, for me, it was never about the anticipation of. I have presence. Someone else is opening it. It's just so awkward. [00:27:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:56] Speaker A: When there's one person. People watching you open a present, I'm. [00:27:59] Speaker D: Like, stop looking at me, and nobody cares what you're getting. [00:28:02] Speaker A: Well, no, that's. The other thing is, like, with the exception of the person that bought it for you, who probably is excited about you opening the present, especially if they put thought into it, with the exception that one person, no one else gives a crap that you got this pair of socks on with whatever special Santa character is on it. Right. No one else cares about it. That's what I always hated about this. Oh, well, everyone's gonna watch me. No, stop watching me. Go away. [00:28:24] Speaker B: And there have been times where it's taken forever to get through everything, because they'll each open it and they want. Then. Then they'll kind of get sucked in on that thing for a while. They want to open it. [00:28:35] Speaker D: You got the third kid, so that's like, you know. [00:28:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:38] Speaker D: A little more extra time there. [00:28:39] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:28:41] Speaker B: So what's the. Like, what's the one Christmas movie that you have to see? [00:28:46] Speaker D: Die Hard. [00:28:49] Speaker C: That's a good one. [00:28:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:50] Speaker D: Chris, Christmas Carol's always been my favorite. Which one is, like, the older Christmas? [00:28:56] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:28:57] Speaker D: The old Christmas Christmas Carol. Like, I got, like, Christmas stories, a lot of other ones we watch, but Christmas Carol is definitely my favorite. [00:29:03] Speaker B: Muppets Christmas Carol is my favorite. [00:29:05] Speaker C: Oh, there you go. [00:29:06] Speaker B: I'm not saying that's my favorite. One of the Christmas Muppets one is. I like the OG I think you'll shoot your eye. I think the. Oh, man, this is so hard, because I was actually gonna say the first Christmas. The first. The first Home Alone. I love that movie. But. But, yeah, Christmas Story is the one movie that. That I have to watch every year. We save it until Christmas morning, like, after everybody's done opening their gifts. Christmas Stories is what we always watch, and it actually comes from back when I was a kid. It would be on TBS it would be on. [00:29:44] Speaker A: It was a 24 hour loop. [00:29:46] Speaker B: It was a 24 hour loop. So that's just what we put on. Which I always loved that movie because a little boy getting a gun. It was. I identified with it. So that is probably my favorite Christmas movie. And that's one that we always watch Christmas. Christmas morning. But yeah, like, Home Alone is one of the ones that is one of my all time favorites too. [00:30:03] Speaker C: Oh, I have to interrupt this podcast for any of my family that's listening. I do not identify with a guy that's ever got a gun for Christmas. Wait, I got one at 16. But it's birthday Christmas combo. I was hunting. So just in case y' all are listening, I like guns too. Yeah, I would like to know if he wants. [00:30:19] Speaker A: He wants to be identified as a guy getting a gun for Christmas. [00:30:23] Speaker C: Yes. [00:30:23] Speaker D: I get you a Red Rider right now. [00:30:25] Speaker C: I'll go, hey, I still have mine. Okay. And they're expensive now, just so you guys know. They're all up there in the price, but. So a Christmas Story. What about the Christmas family vacation? [00:30:35] Speaker B: Yep, that's one of my favorite. [00:30:36] Speaker C: That's. That one I feel like was always playing too, in the background. [00:30:39] Speaker B: We watched. So there's lots of movies we have certain times we watch them. So me and my wife always have that one on when we're wrapping gifts on Christmas Eve. Okay. [00:30:47] Speaker D: You guys are very organized. [00:30:48] Speaker B: Yeah. So, like, structured. That one came. The reason we were doing that is because it's not quite kid. It wasn't quite kid appropriate for as the kids were younger. So that was the one that we'd always saved just to watch. Watch ourselves. And it's kind of stuck now. We watch. We. We watch with our kids now. But. Yeah, anyway. Yeah, that's a great one. [00:31:06] Speaker C: Yeah. Die Hard is still. I gotta go with you. [00:31:08] Speaker B: That. [00:31:08] Speaker C: Those. These three that we've named have probably been the ones that I always saw. I think the most common during Christmas. And I'm looking forward to Die Hard memes. I haven't seen them yet. [00:31:17] Speaker A: Seen what? [00:31:18] Speaker C: The Die Hard memes. Yeah, I haven't seen them out. [00:31:21] Speaker D: Let's break it out right now. [00:31:22] Speaker C: Let's do it. [00:31:23] Speaker A: I have two. So my wife and I always watched White Christmas while we were decorating for Christmas. We stopped doing it when the kids got a little bit older. Just because they don't. They don't care about it. I mean, it is not a. It's not like it's not kid friendly, but it's not a kid movie. [00:31:38] Speaker B: Yeah. This is four hours long. [00:31:40] Speaker A: So good, though. But we'd always watch that when we were decorating for Christmas. So I always have loved White Christmas, and that was always a fun one to watch. So we don't watch it every year anymore. Just because the kids age. When they get a little older, maybe we can get back into it. But that one's a winner. And then I've always, always, always loved the Grinch. I love the original animated Grinch. You're gonna say that I've always loved. I love the original animated Grinch. Jim Carrey's Grinch is. [00:32:07] Speaker D: Did a great job. [00:32:08] Speaker A: Fabulous. And I love that. But even the new. Well, new, I guess it's relative. It's not even new anymore. But the. Is it Dreamworks? [00:32:15] Speaker B: The animated one? [00:32:16] Speaker A: The Benedict. Yeah, Benedict Cumberbatch one. [00:32:19] Speaker B: We just watched it the other day. [00:32:20] Speaker A: It's fabulous. [00:32:21] Speaker B: I still laugh so good. So hard at that movie. [00:32:23] Speaker A: It's such a good one. But anyways, really, any. You could throw any of the Grinch movies on. Jim Carrey is the one that. His is my favorite. [00:32:31] Speaker B: Yeah. For me, I disagree. That's probably my least favorite. I was. I was on TV last night, so. I was watching it last night. [00:32:36] Speaker A: I mean, your taste is terrible. [00:32:37] Speaker B: Terrible. [00:32:38] Speaker A: But it's fine. [00:32:38] Speaker B: Well. [00:32:39] Speaker D: And what's funny is the best Grinch. [00:32:40] Speaker B: Yeah, but what's funny? Like, I love Jim Carrey. I love his movies. There's something about that one I just don't. [00:32:46] Speaker C: Yeah, hang on. We're missing one. Mrs. Doubtfire. I recall that one being played during Christmas time. [00:32:54] Speaker A: It may have been played, but I wouldn't consider it a Christmas movie. [00:32:56] Speaker D: That's more of a stretch than Die Hard. [00:32:59] Speaker C: It's not a Christmasy. Ish. [00:33:00] Speaker B: I've got a hot take for you. Oh, Die Hard is more of a Christmas movie than white Christmases. [00:33:07] Speaker D: Well, that video is coming out on Friday, so. [00:33:09] Speaker B: Okay. [00:33:09] Speaker D: Tomorrow. [00:33:10] Speaker B: That's too late. [00:33:10] Speaker C: Darn. Oh, wait. [00:33:12] Speaker B: I mean, because there's only, like. Well, both movies just like, two weeks ago. Go watch it. [00:33:20] Speaker A: Go watch it. But, yeah, no, I mean, you're not right on that one. But it's fine. [00:33:25] Speaker C: You're not right. [00:33:26] Speaker A: No Grinch is any of the Grinches. I'm good with all of them. [00:33:30] Speaker B: Grinchy. [00:33:30] Speaker C: What about Frosty the Snowman? [00:33:32] Speaker B: We watch that. [00:33:32] Speaker A: That's great. [00:33:33] Speaker B: Yeah. That's a classic, actually. [00:33:34] Speaker A: Any of those classics. The Frosty. The. I actually don't know what any of them are called. The Snow miser? Heat miser1? Any of the Claymation the old claymation ones. I'm. [00:33:44] Speaker B: Those like those are my. [00:33:45] Speaker A: Could put all of those on you. [00:33:47] Speaker D: You would actually make the perfect Grinch. If you need a part time job during like the holiday season here to earn some extra cash for some kids. [00:33:54] Speaker A: I would do that. [00:33:55] Speaker D: You would be the. [00:33:56] Speaker A: I can quote the entire gym. I can sit and you could put Jim the Jim Carrey Grinch on and I could do the entire movie quick witted. [00:34:03] Speaker D: And you have those comebacks and yeah, you'd be perfect. [00:34:06] Speaker B: Did you see in any of the. Of the Thanksgiving Parade Taylor Munson? Yeah, I. Yeah, yeah. [00:34:13] Speaker A: She released the whole Christmas album. Trust me, I downloaded it immediately. She's out there now. Very out there. [00:34:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:22] Speaker A: Her music is way out there. But her Christmas album is fun. [00:34:25] Speaker B: So I'll check out the whole album. [00:34:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean it's. It's in the nature of her music, but it's not bad. So. [00:34:35] Speaker B: Nice. Yeah, there's. Yeah. We have like a huge list of all the Christmas movies that we. That we have to watch. And I will say if you haven't seen it, the Christmas. A Christmas Story. Christmas is fantastic. It's got. So is Peter Bingsley as the. As a main guy and it's so. It picks up. Spoiled the very, very beginning movie, but it picks up his. His dad dies and so he has to go go home to his mom so he comes back to hot take to the house. [00:35:10] Speaker A: Christmas Story is a terrible movie. [00:35:11] Speaker B: Is not so. You're absolutely. That is the most false thing you've ever said. [00:35:17] Speaker A: You and I will never agree on. [00:35:18] Speaker B: Any of this thing that's ever come. [00:35:19] Speaker C: Out of your mouth. I'm surprised none of y' all said Elf. [00:35:22] Speaker B: I love Elf. Yeah, that is a good one. [00:35:24] Speaker A: So when Elf came out I probably saw it and I'm not actually exaggerating. Probably saw it 22 times. Not in theater, but like between theater and when it hit DVD. I probably saw it 22 times. I can't watch it anymore. Not that it's not a good movie. It's a great movie. [00:35:39] Speaker C: Let's get Burnout on it. Oh my gosh. [00:35:40] Speaker A: It was too much. And I'm like, yep, it's just. It's too much. [00:35:43] Speaker B: I'm good with once. Like I'll. Yeah, I'll. I need to watch it once and I'm good with it. [00:35:47] Speaker A: But after that season that whatever. When it came out. Yeah, I can't. [00:35:51] Speaker D: You guys watch the Christmas Carol. Christmas. Is that Christmas? [00:35:58] Speaker B: Which one? [00:35:59] Speaker D: I'm drawing a blank on it now. My, my Kids always have to watch it. Goldie Hawn's in it. She's Mrs. Claus. [00:36:07] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:36:08] Speaker D: It's not Christmas Carol. [00:36:09] Speaker B: I don't think I even know which one you're talking about. Yeah, it's got. [00:36:13] Speaker D: I can't think of his name. [00:36:13] Speaker B: Got her husband. [00:36:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:36:15] Speaker B: Is Santa. [00:36:16] Speaker D: He's actually there? [00:36:17] Speaker B: Yeah. There's two of them. [00:36:19] Speaker A: I'm not sure. [00:36:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:20] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:36:20] Speaker B: Christmas Chronicles. [00:36:21] Speaker D: Christmas Chronicles. That's it. [00:36:23] Speaker A: I don't think I've ever seen that. [00:36:24] Speaker D: Yeah, the kids like it. [00:36:25] Speaker B: They're pretty good. And then there's this one with Tim Allen. [00:36:30] Speaker A: Oh, Santa Claus. [00:36:31] Speaker B: Yeah, Santa Claus. [00:36:31] Speaker A: Santa Claus. And then the original Santa Claus. Not. There's not a series fan of the sequel movies. Yeah, I haven't seen the series yet. [00:36:39] Speaker B: The series on this is actually pretty good. [00:36:41] Speaker A: I haven't. I've heard good things about the series. I just mean the sequel. Santa Claus to Santa Claus three. There might be even four. [00:36:48] Speaker D: Is there. [00:36:49] Speaker A: There's at least three. [00:36:51] Speaker B: I think it's three. [00:36:52] Speaker A: But I just. Any of the ones after the first is just the first one's fantastic. [00:36:57] Speaker B: That's good. Nice. So I had some would you rather questions for today. Let's go. That I kind of went through and tailored. So would you rather have to wrap every gift with only one hand or assemble every gift without using the instructions? [00:37:15] Speaker D: I don't read instructions anyway. [00:37:18] Speaker B: So you don't know how to read. [00:37:20] Speaker A: I basically. I basically already only wrap with one hand. If you see how I wrap presents. [00:37:25] Speaker D: I can't wrap with two hands. I have no chance with one. [00:37:27] Speaker A: I was gonna say it looks like I wrapped it with one hand. So I'll just stick with wrapping with one hand. [00:37:35] Speaker C: Two parts to this. Right. My wrapping is either hit or miss. So I learned the skill was to buy a bag and put some foo foo fluffs. Yeah, it's bags of the way. And then secondly, I don't read instructions until it got to the point that I was getting expensive items. And like I got this putting it together and breaking something and then having to pay for that expensive part to get fixed. So I don't typically get things now that I have to put together. But I would probably say I would go without using the instructions because a bottle of bourbon is self explanatory. [00:38:11] Speaker B: Easy. [00:38:12] Speaker D: Just look at the. [00:38:13] Speaker A: I don't know, just look at the box drawings. Do you just smash it and have to drink out of the. The top or the. The broken top? Just try to drink what's left in the top. [00:38:21] Speaker C: That would be The. The Viking way of doing it. Right. The Nordic way of doing it. [00:38:24] Speaker B: Instructions unclear. [00:38:26] Speaker A: I wasn't sure what to do. [00:38:27] Speaker C: Unclear. Smash bottle. Didn't drink fluid. [00:38:30] Speaker B: So, yeah, there's that phase. I'm pretty much through that phase two of having put together crazy things. But there were. I spent so many years just frustrated in mad trying to put things together. [00:38:41] Speaker C: As you read the instructions. [00:38:42] Speaker B: It's probably because I wasn't using instructions, though. So I think I would choose. I want both hands to wrap. So I think I'd probably. I'll figure it out without the instructions. [00:38:51] Speaker D: You're smart. [00:38:52] Speaker B: You get it. I'll figure it out. How hard could it be? [00:38:54] Speaker A: You're giving him a lot more credit. [00:38:55] Speaker D: He's wicked smart. [00:38:57] Speaker B: He's just being nice to me. Since he's in town, would you. Would you rather eat nothing but fruitcake for a week or listen to Last Christmas on Loop for 24 hours straight? [00:39:08] Speaker A: So I don't think I've ever actually eaten fruitcake. [00:39:11] Speaker C: Yeah, right. [00:39:11] Speaker A: Because it scares me. [00:39:14] Speaker D: There's some fruitcake that's decent. So are we talking like, grandma's heart as a rock fruitcake or like the decent, somewhat moist, like the survival fruit? [00:39:22] Speaker B: Either way, I'm gonna end up sick after eating it for a week, so that's really. Do I feel like being sick after a week? [00:39:28] Speaker A: I don't want to be on the toilet all the time, which sounds like it's gonna happen 100. So I probably gonna listen to Last Christmas on a loop. [00:39:35] Speaker D: It's 24 hours. [00:39:36] Speaker A: It's fine. [00:39:37] Speaker D: Suck it up. [00:39:38] Speaker C: I mean, I can tone it out. Like, it's not saying I have to listen to it with the AirPods on or anything. Right? [00:39:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I think I'd probably. I think I'm with you guys. I probably do last Christmas just to get it over with, saying fruitcake. A week of fruitcake is a lot. And then another week of. [00:39:50] Speaker A: I mean, there's not almost. [00:39:51] Speaker C: You turn into. [00:39:52] Speaker A: There's almost no food that I would eat for a week. [00:39:55] Speaker D: Well, the thing with fruitcake is you can't really do anything with it. It's not as we've said. [00:39:59] Speaker B: Like, the thing is, though, you probably actually could sustain yourself on fruit. There's probably enough. Yeah, there's probably nuts and. [00:40:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:40:05] Speaker A: Nutrients. [00:40:05] Speaker B: Yeah, there's nutrients in there. You probably. Actually. Other than the sugar, you wouldn't like. You'd probably be. It would fit in with your. With your diet perfectly. [00:40:13] Speaker C: Michael. [00:40:13] Speaker A: Sugar. [00:40:14] Speaker C: I like sugar, but I'm not a fruitcake guy, so. I'm not going with that one. [00:40:19] Speaker A: No, it actually has, it has Whole Foods in it. It has fruit in it, which he hasn't eaten in probably 20 years. [00:40:24] Speaker C: I love fruit. [00:40:25] Speaker B: That's, that's not what we call you behind your back. [00:40:27] Speaker C: There's mixed fruit in here, baby. We're doing good today. [00:40:29] Speaker A: You're not eating it. You're drinking water that had fruit in it. [00:40:32] Speaker C: I'm gonna eat it later. Except for the lemons and limes. [00:40:37] Speaker B: Would you rather accidentally give lacy underwear meant for your wife to your mother in law in front of the family or accidentally receive lacy underwear in front of your whole family? [00:40:46] Speaker C: Easy. [00:40:46] Speaker A: I've had my answer to this one since it came out. Go ahead. I'm giving it to my mother in law on accident just to see the embarrassment on her face when she opens it because, oh my goodness, that's true. She would literally be more mortified if she opened it. And I would be laughing. [00:41:04] Speaker B: It would be giggling. [00:41:05] Speaker A: Derek. So, yes, I'd be giving it to my mother in law on accident. I actually would do it on purpose to be like, oh, that's for Bethany. [00:41:11] Speaker D: Well, you could, you could still do it. [00:41:12] Speaker A: Yeah, potentially. Might just. [00:41:14] Speaker B: This is, this is for you. [00:41:16] Speaker A: My bad. [00:41:17] Speaker D: Just make sure it's very, very. [00:41:19] Speaker B: And they high five. Your father. [00:41:22] Speaker C: All see through, you know. So you guys are trying to get me in. So it's the smarties. [00:41:31] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, Something like that. No. My father in law would literally just probably just stand there and laugh to himself, be like, this is so dumb. And my mother in law would be mortified, like, well, here it is. Enjoy. [00:41:46] Speaker C: So I don't have a mother in law, so I'm meeting my girlfriend's parents for the first time in a couple of weeks. So I don't know if that would go over too well to be like, here you go. [00:41:57] Speaker D: What a great first impression you can make. [00:41:59] Speaker C: So sorry. [00:42:00] Speaker B: They will remember you. You will be a legend. [00:42:03] Speaker A: A legend of an ex boyfriend. [00:42:05] Speaker C: Now Hannah might love it and think it's hilarious, right? But her mom might be more mortified and I might personally be mortified and have to find a place to stay. So I think I'm gonna go with accidentally receiving the lacy underwear because I can, I can pull it off. [00:42:22] Speaker D: You, you do it work out. [00:42:23] Speaker C: I can get away with it. I do my squats every now and then. [00:42:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I, I, I think it'd be fun. I think it'd be funnier to receive it. I don't know. I'm, I'm Actually fine with either of these because I think my mother in law would laugh hysterically too, at the first one. So either one would be pretty darn funny. [00:42:42] Speaker D: I am not giving my mother in law Lacey underwear. So you guys know how feisty my wife is. Amplify that a hundred for my mother in law. Like, my wife is a muted version of my mother in law. Plus, she's 85, 84 years old. [00:42:57] Speaker A: It could be a whole, like, no wild card. [00:43:00] Speaker B: No. [00:43:01] Speaker D: Oh, she would laugh and it would be hilarious and her whole family would laugh. [00:43:04] Speaker B: Put it on and come out and show you. [00:43:09] Speaker D: I gotta go, guys. But I would much rather receive than. Yeah, no, I'm good. [00:43:15] Speaker B: But that was a funny one. I should have saved that one for last. [00:43:17] Speaker A: Like I said, I just. I could just. I can see my mother in law going red from embarrassment and then white. [00:43:24] Speaker B: From passing out, probably. [00:43:25] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, Interesting. [00:43:27] Speaker B: All sorts of colors. [00:43:27] Speaker A: It would be great. [00:43:28] Speaker B: So I think you should. You should do it. [00:43:31] Speaker D: Hey, I'll buy it and you give it to me. [00:43:33] Speaker B: Yeah, but record it. I should have saved them for last. It's probably the best one. [00:43:37] Speaker C: All right. [00:43:37] Speaker B: Would you rather get stuck at a Christmas party with a guy who won't stop talking about crypto? We know him. Or the lady who. Or the lady who insists you watch videos of her cat in Santa costume. [00:43:46] Speaker A: Cat. Cat lady. [00:43:50] Speaker B: Done the first one. [00:43:52] Speaker A: Been there, done that. Going to cat lady. [00:43:55] Speaker C: So you guys don't want me to talk about crypto tomorrow? [00:43:57] Speaker A: We're not talking about you at the Christmas party. [00:43:59] Speaker C: I'm just saying we got a Christmas party tomorrow. [00:44:01] Speaker A: That's fine. We're not talking about you. [00:44:02] Speaker C: I'm just saying the market is. Yeah, I'm gonna probably have to go with the. The cat lady, because I know exactly who you guys are talking about, and I'm gonna pass. [00:44:12] Speaker D: Yeah, I guess the cat lady. Can I shut either one of them up somehow? Or watch the cat. [00:44:16] Speaker A: Just watch the cat videos. She'll stop talking about it. [00:44:20] Speaker B: That's what I'm hoping. I'm hoping if I. [00:44:21] Speaker A: If you're agreeable. [00:44:22] Speaker B: I'm hoping. Yeah. If I say, yeah, show it to me. But I don't know, she might take that. [00:44:26] Speaker D: She might have a. [00:44:27] Speaker B: Wait. I have 100,000 more. I want you to watch all of them. [00:44:30] Speaker C: Well, did you guys buy your crypto today? [00:44:32] Speaker D: No. [00:44:32] Speaker B: No. Too high. [00:44:35] Speaker C: Somebody knows. We're gonna be talking about this tomorrow. I can feel it. [00:44:39] Speaker A: That was an easy one. [00:44:39] Speaker B: Would you rather wear Christmas lights playing Christmas music on speaker mode, like on your phone 247 for a week or have your Alexa randomly announce your search history to the whole house on Christmas morning. [00:44:54] Speaker D: As long as there's no follow up questions. I'm gonna pick the Christmas lights and Christmas music. [00:44:59] Speaker B: Music. [00:45:01] Speaker A: I'm. I'm thinking about wearing Christmas lights. [00:45:05] Speaker B: Yeah, you got them like wrapped around you or something. It'd be awesome. [00:45:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm wearing Christmas lights and who cares? [00:45:10] Speaker C: That'd be cool. [00:45:10] Speaker A: I. I listen to Christmas music all year round. You're not. Listening to Christmas music is no punishment to me. [00:45:15] Speaker B: And it's like the only. [00:45:16] Speaker D: Wait. [00:45:16] Speaker B: The only thing that's changes with this is that I'm putting lights on. [00:45:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Like it's not that big a deal unless they burn somehow. Like it's not that big a deal. It's just Christmas lights. [00:45:24] Speaker C: I could go with either. Honestly, like I would be down for the festive side of Christmas lights and music 247 for a week. That's. It's kind of a lot. But on Christmas morning if Alexa randomly announces my search history, it's going to be everything that they didn't buy me for Christmas that I want to buy myself. See, it's going to be the gifts that I bought for them. [00:45:43] Speaker A: I don't have anything inappropriate. Like there's nothing inappropriate in my search history. There's weird things in my search history. I think it's like the random crap that I've. Well, what about this? What about this? [00:45:53] Speaker C: Do deer hibernate in the winter? Yeah. [00:45:55] Speaker A: I mean it's just the random stuff that I've googled, have searched people just like what is he looking for? Who is he? Yeah, what domestic terrorism is he trying to commit? [00:46:05] Speaker C: It's going to show him watching videos of a cat. [00:46:10] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean so I don't think either one is a big deal. But yeah, I think I'm just going to go with lights and Christmas music. [00:46:16] Speaker B: I probably take the search history thing because again I don't have anything to hide or bad in there. So it'd be somewhat entertaining or people just be my family be bored to death listening to the same to whatever it is. [00:46:27] Speaker C: The diomag website. [00:46:29] Speaker A: That's actually half the stuff. It's just like top mount clip. [00:46:32] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. What does that cost? [00:46:34] Speaker A: I don't remember Century strap cost. [00:46:38] Speaker C: What's the price of the coffee mug? [00:46:40] Speaker B: But the, you know for to have to listen to music. Not for 247 and wear lights. [00:46:45] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:46:45] Speaker B: Even 247 for a week. Yeah. [00:46:47] Speaker D: Yeah. I wasn't thinking sleeping. [00:46:49] Speaker B: That's a Hard. [00:46:50] Speaker C: No. [00:46:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:52] Speaker C: I'm deaf, so it doesn't matter. I can turn it down real well. Can't hear it. [00:46:58] Speaker B: You have one. [00:46:59] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. I said the Christmas lights and music. [00:47:01] Speaker B: Okay, you're going with that. [00:47:02] Speaker D: Okay, I'm going with that. [00:47:04] Speaker C: All right. [00:47:04] Speaker B: Would you rather be forced to wear matching Christmas pajamas with your entire family or host the entire family at your house with zero warning? [00:47:14] Speaker A: Absolutely. Wearing Christmas pajamas? Yeah. I don't want to ever host my entire family at my house, period. With warning or without. So I'm going Christmas pajamas every time. [00:47:24] Speaker B: Yeah, we've already done that. Like, we. [00:47:26] Speaker C: It's got to have the butt flap, though. It's got to have the butt. [00:47:29] Speaker B: It's too hot in there. You need something. [00:47:30] Speaker A: Air it all out. [00:47:31] Speaker D: Ventilation. [00:47:32] Speaker C: And coffee. And eggnog. [00:47:34] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:47:34] Speaker A: What does that have to do with. What does that have to do with your butt flap? [00:47:37] Speaker C: You got to go to the bathroom somehow. It has to be a onesie. It's quick. Yeah. [00:47:43] Speaker B: Straight through your system. [00:47:45] Speaker A: I'm very confused. [00:47:46] Speaker C: The butt flap is great for going to the bathroom. [00:47:48] Speaker A: I know, but what does that have to do with eggnog? [00:47:50] Speaker B: Mike likes to take eggnog. [00:47:52] Speaker A: Do you not. [00:47:56] Speaker B: The rum Hits you a lot. A lot harder, though. [00:47:58] Speaker C: Excuse me. But, like, eggnog's got eggs in it, you know, and so. [00:48:02] Speaker D: Oh, I. I knew what you meant. [00:48:03] Speaker C: Okay, well, eggs and coffee. [00:48:04] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:48:05] Speaker C: Yeah, it's one high speed. [00:48:06] Speaker D: I get it. [00:48:06] Speaker C: Put a dip in, you're good to go. [00:48:09] Speaker D: You're just trying to ignite something down there, aren't you? [00:48:11] Speaker C: Just cleaning out the fruitcake. [00:48:14] Speaker A: Oh, that's that week long fruitcake. [00:48:15] Speaker D: Got it. [00:48:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:18] Speaker C: Oh, man. [00:48:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that one. I think that was pretty easy. I'll do the pajamas because I think we already do that. [00:48:23] Speaker A: I mean, you actually do host your entire family, but not unannounced. [00:48:27] Speaker D: Like, I don't want all them coming over unannounced because you're not going to have food to feed them and that the house is going to be messy. And my wife will be so stressed out at that. [00:48:34] Speaker B: Good news, though. They probably won't stay as long if there's no food. True. So, yeah. Like, why do we come here? [00:48:39] Speaker D: I'll be busting out things at the bottom of the freezer. [00:48:42] Speaker B: I got corn. [00:48:43] Speaker C: We got bags of chicken. [00:48:44] Speaker B: You got some chickens. [00:48:47] Speaker A: Here. Go, go kill a chicken. [00:48:48] Speaker D: Who knows how to harvest a chicken? [00:48:50] Speaker B: Come help me. If you kill it, you can eat it. Would you rather have Santa's beard or Santa's sleigh? I thought this was a good one. [00:48:58] Speaker D: Oh, if I could fly the sleigh. I think sleigh. Because I could grow a beard. [00:49:04] Speaker A: I have Santa's beard, so I'm going slay. It flies. [00:49:06] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:49:07] Speaker B: You're already halfway there. [00:49:08] Speaker C: Yeah. I just trimmed the beard. I can get Santa's beard. I'm going to take it. A sleigh. [00:49:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Fly. Yeah. Something flies, flies and it doesn't even matter. [00:49:15] Speaker A: It could be the Santa Claus from the Santa Claus movie sleigh, which has a cookie and a hot cocoa dispenser. But even if it's just the basic magic sleigh. It flies. [00:49:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:26] Speaker D: And reindeer. That'd be. [00:49:28] Speaker C: Does it fly because it's the sleigh or does it fly because of the rain? [00:49:31] Speaker A: I assume that the reindeer comes on. [00:49:33] Speaker B: How much Christmas cheer there is having. [00:49:34] Speaker D: Not much. [00:49:34] Speaker B: The movies. [00:49:35] Speaker C: Oh, it's true. [00:49:36] Speaker A: I just assume that the reindeer come with the sleigh. It's kind of one with the other. [00:49:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:41] Speaker A: You can't have the slate without them, so. [00:49:43] Speaker C: But do you need all of them? [00:49:45] Speaker D: Well, of course I would. I would think it depends on the speed. Like if you only had five, maybe you could fly. But not as fast. [00:49:51] Speaker C: It's good. Meat in the freezer. What? Come on. [00:49:57] Speaker B: The opposite of Christmas cheer right there. [00:49:58] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure Santa just, you know, pooped down your chimney. [00:50:01] Speaker B: You just got on the naughty list. [00:50:02] Speaker D: Coal and poop. That's what you're getting in your stocking. [00:50:04] Speaker C: He said you're gonna get this white beard and nothing else. [00:50:08] Speaker B: Would you rather decorate a 12 foot Christmas tree all by yourself or untangle a 200 foot knot of Christmas lights? [00:50:15] Speaker D: Oh, Christmas tree. I don't have patience for the lights. I'd start cutting them. I'll go buy new ones. [00:50:22] Speaker A: Do the lights all work? Yes, I think I'm gonna unknot it. [00:50:28] Speaker B: I don't know why you would not. Lights that don't work. So I'm just gonna go. [00:50:31] Speaker A: Well, I mean, it's. I'm just asking the question. [00:50:34] Speaker D: He doesn't want to unknot them to find out. [00:50:36] Speaker A: To plug. [00:50:36] Speaker D: Find out they don't work. [00:50:37] Speaker A: That's what I'm saying. Like if you. If I do all and find out that you would lose it. I would lose my mind. I actually. There are times where it's kind of fun. The challenge of unknotting the thing is kind of fun. Whereas a. How tall was a tree? [00:50:48] Speaker B: 12 foot. [00:50:49] Speaker A: See, it gets hard. You actually need a ladder. [00:50:51] Speaker B: Ladder? [00:50:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Like I'm thinking Of actually wrapping. [00:50:54] Speaker B: Move the ladder and get back up. [00:50:55] Speaker A: Well, I'm thinking about, like wrapping the lights around it because that's my job. That's like my primary responsibility with the tree is wrapping the lights. And at some point, like, it's exhausting. Even with my little like six foot tree, it gets just 12 foot. Exhausting. Walking around that stupid tree and all that stuff. And I actually enjoy doing the job. So adding another six feet to it, which at the bottom means it's probably wide. Six feet around. Right. That's a lot of lights. I think I'd rather just sit there. [00:51:23] Speaker B: Big old glass of half rum, half eggnog in my entangled. [00:51:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:27] Speaker B: Knot of lights. And I'll be. [00:51:28] Speaker A: I'm gonna go untangle. I'm gonna untangle my working lights. Yes. [00:51:33] Speaker B: And then I'll hand them to one. [00:51:34] Speaker A: Of you guys and you can decorate. [00:51:36] Speaker B: The tree on the 12 foot tree. [00:51:37] Speaker C: Sure. I'll get on the ladder and just do a lasso for the light to just let it stick. [00:51:45] Speaker A: It does not look good. [00:51:46] Speaker D: I had to do a good job decorating the tree. [00:51:50] Speaker C: Okay. I'll have somebody hold the base and the tip and I'll spin it as I'm just holding the lights. Right. [00:51:56] Speaker A: Sounds like a good time. [00:51:57] Speaker C: That actually would work pretty quick. [00:51:58] Speaker D: I had a joke. I let it go. I let it go. [00:52:01] Speaker A: Good time. Okay. [00:52:04] Speaker B: Would you rather only be able to speak in Christmas song lyrics for a day or everyone around you speaks only in Hallmark movie quotes? [00:52:13] Speaker C: Both would be funny. She's a beaut. Come on, we need some quotes. [00:52:19] Speaker A: Oh, I don't watch Hallmark movie quotes. Like, I don't watch Hallmark movies. [00:52:22] Speaker B: I'm not sure I would know that they're Hallmark movie quotes, but. [00:52:24] Speaker D: Well, you would automatically get them, like. [00:52:26] Speaker A: Embedded in your brain at some point. [00:52:28] Speaker B: Well, they're all. [00:52:29] Speaker A: They have to all be the same because every Hallmark Christmas movie is the exact same thing with a different name and different people. [00:52:34] Speaker B: Businessman moves into a small town with a lady that owns a bookstore. [00:52:37] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:52:37] Speaker A: Yeah. And they fall in love. [00:52:38] Speaker B: That's everyone. [00:52:39] Speaker D: I want nothing to do with anything. [00:52:40] Speaker C: Hallmark movie was a Christmas story on Hallmark. [00:52:43] Speaker A: No, probably. [00:52:44] Speaker B: It's probably. [00:52:45] Speaker C: I was gonna say. It's gotta be. I was gonna say you'll shoot your eye out. [00:52:47] Speaker A: It's probably. Probably an. Originally a Hallmark movie or where he's. [00:52:50] Speaker C: Got his tongue stuck. It would be fun either way. [00:52:58] Speaker A: I don't know. Either one would be enjoyable. Wait, hold on. Am I speaking? Did you say I'm speaking? [00:53:03] Speaker B: In Christmas, you are only able to speak in Christmas song lyrics for a day or everyone around you speaks only in Hallmark movie quotes. [00:53:13] Speaker D: I want nothing to do with Hallmark movies. [00:53:15] Speaker B: I really like to quote movies, so the first one would probably be easier. [00:53:20] Speaker A: Well, I'm trying to think. Do you actually have to go through the process of, like, thinking of a lyric or are they just gonna pop in your head? [00:53:28] Speaker B: I think they just. I think they just. [00:53:29] Speaker A: If they just flow, then I'm gonna speak in Christmas. In Christmas song lyrics all day. It'll be great if it's just easy and flows. I'm gonna do that. It'd be fun. I don't care either way. Both of them sound great because either people sound ridiculous or I sound awesome. [00:53:45] Speaker D: So win. Win. [00:53:46] Speaker A: It's a win to me. [00:53:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Did you guys all answer that? [00:53:50] Speaker C: I think so. [00:53:51] Speaker B: All right, last one. Would you rather get every gift you want but they all arrive late, or all your gifts are on time but they're slightly wrong versions? [00:54:01] Speaker C: Yeah. Where's my tracking number? I haven't got my order yet. [00:54:05] Speaker B: You should definitely email the company with a threat. [00:54:08] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:54:09] Speaker A: Commerce manners, guys. E Commerce manners. [00:54:12] Speaker C: I'm going to go with get the gift late. Like, if you're going to get what you want, I'd rather wait for it than get something that's not necessarily something that I wanted. [00:54:20] Speaker B: I kind of picture this as, like, Christmas morning. You're sitting there twiddling your thumbs because. [00:54:23] Speaker C: Nothing came but that email. I'm okay with that. [00:54:27] Speaker D: There's nothing I need. I have everything I need. [00:54:29] Speaker A: Well, and I've been in the position where something didn't come, and usually the person either prints out a picture and walks over and like, this is what I got you. It just hasn't gotten here yet. I'm like, oh, that's awesome. I can't wait for it to be here. So it still just adds to the anticipation of. [00:54:42] Speaker B: You just have 12 crazy days of. [00:54:44] Speaker D: Gifts and imagine opening every gift like, oh, this is not what I wanted. Oh, this is wrong. Oh, this is the wrong side. [00:54:50] Speaker C: Also, how to say thank you. [00:54:52] Speaker A: I've also been. [00:54:52] Speaker B: There are the gift receipts in with it, though. [00:54:55] Speaker A: I've also been in the situation where you've opened stuff that it is slightly wrong. And you're like, yay. [00:55:03] Speaker C: We're all staring. Like, open your presents. [00:55:05] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Everyone's looking at you and you're like. [00:55:07] Speaker D: When you open the lacy underwear in front of your mother, that's the one you wanted, right? [00:55:11] Speaker A: Well, it's. It's like, I don't know if you guys have saw, you've seen that. I'm sure you've seen, seen the video from the little kid on Christmas opens the present and it's an avocado. He goes, it's an avocado. Than. He's such a sweet kid. Like, he's trying so hard to be thankful for the wonderful avocado that the. His parents gave him as a joke. But that's how you'd feel. [00:55:30] Speaker D: It's like, oh, avocado. [00:55:33] Speaker C: Thanks. From Mexico. [00:55:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:35] Speaker A: Like, you're like, oh, great, this is not what I asked for. Yeah, I think I'd rather have it late. Then a slightly worse version than I actually wanted. Just don't. Don't get me the worst version. [00:55:45] Speaker B: Just. [00:55:46] Speaker A: Or don't get me. Don't get anything at all or get me something else entirely. I'm perfectly fine with people getting me something that they thought about. I actually would rather, 100% would rather people put thought into a gift than say, here, give me a list and buy off my list. [00:56:03] Speaker D: You know what I almost bought you guys? I came across those old school Casio watches with the calculators. I seriously, they still sell them on Amazon. They're like 30 bucks. I almost bought one for each of you for Christmas. [00:56:13] Speaker A: I would have worn it. It was so cool. [00:56:15] Speaker D: I should have. [00:56:15] Speaker A: I regret it. [00:56:16] Speaker B: But. [00:56:16] Speaker A: No, I mean, really though, like, if someone puts thought into a gift, I would much rather somebody buy me a gift that they put thought into. Like, I think you would like that. Even if I was like me about the actual gift, but they put thought into. I think this person would like this than them saying, hey, tell me what you want and I'm going to go. [00:56:34] Speaker D: Buy it, get it for you. [00:56:35] Speaker A: Like, just give me the money then. [00:56:37] Speaker D: I'm very excited what I got you. I can't wait till you see it tomorrow. It's fantastic. [00:56:42] Speaker C: Is it cereal? [00:56:44] Speaker D: No, no, no. I thought about it. I did. [00:56:47] Speaker A: But no, you know what I mean? Like, that's what I'd rather have 100 of the time than people like, oh, just tell me what you want. Like, just give me the money then. Like, what did you have budgeted? Because I'll buy it for myself then. I might as well. There's people in my life that I do that with, by the way. [00:57:02] Speaker C: Yep. [00:57:02] Speaker A: They're just giving my. Giving me money for Christmas. That's what I told them to do. [00:57:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:57:07] Speaker C: As I got older, my parents did that too. Like my dad, he likes to drink bourbon with me now. So we buy a bottle of bourbon so we have something to share and drink on and tip together. But it became either money or gift cards so that you can go get what you want instead of, you know, getting something that you have to, you know, still be appreciative for. But I have to go with you on that, too. I love the, the do it yourself gifts, like, where you take the time because it means, like, you really put in the effort, even if it's. The value is less than an expensive ticket item. It's. [00:57:37] Speaker A: If it was five bucks, I don't care. But you put thought into it. [00:57:40] Speaker C: Like, yeah, I think that means a lot. And like, and don't get me wrong, like, like, I love my socks. Like, as a kid, I hated. I'm like, oh, this is stupid. [00:57:46] Speaker D: But that nice wool set of socks. [00:57:49] Speaker C: For, like, house cleaning supplies and socks and stuff. But I actually found. [00:57:55] Speaker B: I found socks. I think I got them last Christmas. I found a brand new, unpackaged, nice. An open package of, like, nice new socks and underwear. Oh, bonus. [00:58:05] Speaker D: When I hate when people ask me, what do you want for Christmas? Or what do you want for your birthday? Nothing. [00:58:09] Speaker A: I don't want. [00:58:09] Speaker D: Like, I have to tell my wife and kids something. I get it. But I really do not want anything for Christmas or my birthday. There's nothing I want. I'm an adult. If I want something, I'll go get it. [00:58:18] Speaker C: And that's the hard part. Even I was talking to your wife about this. It's like, what do I get Greg for Christmas? So I was like, where do I get a man that has everything that he wants? And she's like. I was like, awesome, thanks for your help. But she had no response, right? Because it's. What do you get for somebody that has everything that they need in this world? And that's, you know, as I get older, I'm starting to realize that, like, if I want something, I'll just buy it. And if I don't want it, or if now's not the time, I'll just. I'm not worried about it. Right? But I think the holidays, if we go into this with anything for Christmas, it's just remember the moments that you have with the family, because that's the most cherishable memory that you're going to have, because there's going to come a time that we're not all going to be on this earth together. So the older I get, it's seeing them smile and seeing them light up, knowing that they're seeing their grandkids or their babies Or. Or their family members. Because, you know, as my grandparents are in their late 80s, a year is a long time in their life. And only seeing them a couple times in a year, that's a long time for them. That might be the last year. You know, I pray that it's not. I pray my grandparents live forever, but you never know. But. Exactly, exactly. So being able to do that, I. [00:59:28] Speaker B: Can tell you they're not going to live forever. [00:59:29] Speaker C: I know, I know. They're going. They're going home to the good Lord upstairs, but at least long enough for me to have kids. They got to stick around long enough to spoil the grandkids. [00:59:38] Speaker D: Let me piggyback off that. I did a little experiment with my kids because we're talking about experiences versus presence. And you and I have talked about this a lot. And I said to my kids, what did you get for Christmas the past three years? I think we got phones three years ago. I'm not sure. Okay, what did we do? Vacation. The past. The past five years. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. So I encourage everyone listening and watching, try to get experiences instead of presents. Because when I've done that with my wife, we have a lot more fun and we remember it forever. I have no idea what I got for the Christmas past. I couldn't tell you the past 10 years. [01:00:13] Speaker A: I have no idea. [01:00:14] Speaker B: I forgot that I had socks. I just found socks. [01:00:15] Speaker D: I have no idea. [01:00:16] Speaker B: But I. Yeah, I remember. Yeah. So we've done like concert tickets for. [01:00:21] Speaker D: Exactly any of that. We've done pottery lessons together. We've done horseback surfing. It doesn't matter. Just go do experience. [01:00:29] Speaker B: Grandparents used to. Used to get them, like a membership at this. At the zoo. [01:00:33] Speaker A: Yep. [01:00:33] Speaker B: For you or whatever. Like, they would use the heck out of that when. When the kids were little and stuff. [01:00:37] Speaker D: So. [01:00:37] Speaker B: Yeah, that. That stuff. Yeah, I agree. I'd rather have experiences. I mean, just take me out to dinner. I love to eat. I love to eat and drink and have a good time together. [01:00:48] Speaker C: Speaking of eating, what about this steak restaurant? You know, your favorite YouTube stars in town, I think. [01:00:56] Speaker D: Oh, what's that? What is the name of that place? Timber Lodge people were talking about? [01:01:00] Speaker B: That's one of my favorite gifts. They got a gift card for there for a couple years ago. I don't even know if you remember that. I remember it. [01:01:07] Speaker D: As a perfect example. He remembered it. [01:01:09] Speaker C: Yeah. You're welcome. All of us. [01:01:11] Speaker A: I don't remember that. [01:01:12] Speaker C: Delicious. [01:01:13] Speaker B: Unfortunately, we don't have time to get. [01:01:17] Speaker D: Heck of a guy. [01:01:17] Speaker C: Heck of a guy. [01:01:18] Speaker D: When I Grow up. I'm gonna be just like you. [01:01:20] Speaker B: Yeah. All right, so as we kind of get ready to wrap up here, every week this month, I've been. I've been reading a devotional for Advent. This is our last one again. This is going to be our last. Our last episode for the year. So I thought we would end with this. The fourth Sunday of Advent is the Sunday of love. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son. Advent is a time when we prepare our hearts to celebrate the birth of Jesus. The most powerful demonstration of God's love for us is that he gave us his one and only Son to take on flesh, die and be raised again for us. But God's love for us didn't begin with the birth of Jesus. His love has no beginning and no end. The Bible tells one long story of God's love for us and the gift of Jesus at the center of the of the story. Now, Jesus already existed before his birth, enjoying the perfect loving fellowship of the Trinity, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Jesus loved us from the beginning as he participated in the creation of the world. God didn't create the world because he was lonely for that he or that he needed us. It was out of his overflowing Trinitarian love that God made the world and everything in it. The Jesus Storybook Bible puts it this way. God wrote I love you. He wrote it in the sky and on the earth and under the sea. He wrote the message everywhere because God created everything in his world to reflect him like a mirror, to show us what he is like, to help us know him, to make our hearts sing. For God so loved the world that he called what he made good and blessed it. And he blessed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and all they needed to flourish. And best of all, they enjoyed intimate communion with God. But all that changed when they disobeyed God and ate the apple. For the loving fellowship with God was broken and they felt ashamed and hid from Him. But out of love, God already had a plan in place to restore us to Himself. The entirety of Scripture tells of God's relentless pursuit to reconnect a loving relationship with us. In the Old Testament, God told Abraham that he would make him into a great nation and that all families on earth would be blessed through him. Abraham's descendants became Israel. And God called them to be a holy nation, a kingdom of priests. Israel was to be set apart as a community of worship, love and justice so that they could represent God to the other nations. They were to display his character so that the other nations would come to know him. And God also spent sent prophet after prophet to point to the coming Messiah. There are at least 300 prophecies in the Old Testament that were all fulfilled in Jesus. For God so loved the world that at the right time in history, God carried out the plan that he had from the beginning. It culminated at the moment more than 2,000 years ago, when Jesus, who being in the very nature of God, who was with God in the beginning, was born as a baby in a manger in Bethlehem. He fled to Egypt with his parents as refugees and grew up in Nazareth, likely learning carpentry from his stepfather, Joseph. Jesus only spent three years in public ministry where he was functionally homeless. As he traveled in ministry, Jesus humbled himself in every way to live and walk among us and to show his great love for us. In his short time on earth, he alone perfectly revealed who God is to the world. Jesus loved us to the very end by giving his life for us. And by his death and resurrection on the cross, the world is saved through him. Now in Christ, all who believed are adopted into God's family. Now we are all in the kingdom of priests. Joining Jesus in his mission to make God known by living a life of love, Jesus said a new commandment I give you love one another as I have loved you, so that you must love one another. By this, everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another. This command was new because before Jesus came, we didn't know what love incarnate looked like. Jesus embodied the heights, depths and breadths of the love of God in a person. And he made the love of God fully accessible to us through what he accomplished on the cross. This new command Jesus gave us can be summed up by this question. How can I love others as Jesus loves me? May we daily ask ourselves how we can love like Jesus in humble, gentle, sacrificial ways, big and small. Mother Teresa said, I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. May we be instruments in the hand of God as He continues to write the story of his love through us for the world today. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. One day, all things will will consummate in an act of love. When Jesus comes again in the second Advent to fully reconcile the Word to Himself. That's beautiful. Are you guys ready to wrap this up? [01:05:57] Speaker A: Let's do it. [01:05:59] Speaker B: I love this song. Thank you all for your incredible support through the year. Whether you've been with us since the beginning or just joined the community, we seriously appreciate every one of you. Your encouragement, your feedback, and the way you show up for us and for each other is what makes all this worth doing. [01:06:17] Speaker A: From our NeoMag family to yours, we want to wish you a very Merry Christmas. We hope you have an amazing holiday surrounded by the people who matter most. [01:06:26] Speaker C: And thanks again for being a of part of this community. We can't wait to see what the New Year brings. [01:06:31] Speaker D: Until next time, live boldly, stand for liberty and stay equipped. [01:06:34] Speaker B: We'll see you soon. [01:06:35] Speaker C: Merry Christmas. [01:06:36] Speaker B: Merry Christmas. [01:06:37] Speaker D: Merry Christmas. [01:06:38] Speaker B: Happy New Year.