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Ep. 45Dec 25, 20251:10:07

Ugly Sweaters, Party Buses, and Christmas Lights

In this episode of "We’re Still Cool, Right?", hosts Shaun, Mike, and Erik kick things off with Erik’s homemade “Paper Plane” cocktails and a laugh over their new personalized middle finger glasses from Shaun’s sister.

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In this episode of "We’re Still Cool, Right?", hosts Shaun, Mike, and Erik kick things off with Erik’s homemade “Paper Plane” cocktails and a laugh over their new personalized middle finger glasses from Shaun’s sister. They reminisce about their wild Christmas party bus adventure—complete with karaoke, pajamas, and stripper pole antics—before diving into nostalgic chats about ugly sweater parties, Christmas lights, favorite holiday movies, Tamagotchis, and social media trends. The episode wraps up with gifts, cigars, and plenty of banter, as the trio debates what keeps them “still cool” during the holidays.

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Welcome to We're Still Cool, Right? The weekly podcast where the conversation flows smoother than top-shelf whiskey. And cool, well, it never really left. Grab a drink and hang out with Erik, Mike, and Shaun while they dive into nostalgia and attempt to answer the age-old question. We're still cool, right?

Santa could move twice as fast if I didn't have to carry this big sack around. Oh, it's going to be a long episode here. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. And welcome back. Yes. With that lovely sound. I am Shaun. I'm Mike. And I'm Erik. And we are, well, at least this guy's playing a little banged up right now. Yeah, we got a lot to get into. Shaun's a little banged up. Yeah. But we'll get in that. We got a question that kind of goes right along with it. So, yeah, it's not our first time. We'll grow up eventually. One of these days, you know, one of these days, yes, we will grow up. But I mean, we got to jump to the.

I was going to say, I mean, one thing that's glaringly obvious right now is what is sitting in front of us. So we should probably get into it, Erik, with this concoction you've put in front of us. Yeah. So the drink of the week brought to you by Benz Beverage Depot is the paper plane. So you can see our fancy little garnish here with the plane, with the airplane. In this drink is bourbon and Amaro. So I use Montenegro, but you can also use Amaro Nonino, Aperol, and then lemon juice. So it's just three equal parts. Shake it with ice. fancy as fuck. It is fancy as all get out and I mean even the glass, it is boy Erik, you really bring us up a notch here, I'll tell you that much.

He's too classy for us. He wears the classy sweaters and all this stuff. So classy. He brought us a package. So boys, cheers. Cheers to everybody at home. Happy Christmas week.

When Mike handed it to me, he said it's tiny but fancy. Yeah, which I've said a lot in my life. I was going to say, it sounds familiar. Just rolls it off the tongue doesn't it? You're so tiny but you fancy. Goddamn right I am. I mean, I don't know. Do we get to count this as a garnish? It's awesome, it's creative. I know, I- as a joke making the drink video, I was like, garnish? Cause I didn't see anything, I was like, oh he doesn't have a garnish, that's fine. And he's like, yeah, and then a paper plane comes out. Yeah, this is literally what they garnish it with when they make it. I like it. Do you remember making those back in the day?

I could never make a good one. Oh really? No, it pissed me off. I can normally make a pretty good big one. And I know the base way to make it like he just did. And mine just never flew right. And then people would always do the weird ones. Like my cousin did one where like it was a square, but like the sides just lifted a lit. It went forever. Yeah. So. They have like a full on like paper airplane championship. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. Of course they do. And they have something for everything, you know. Was it on ESPN? Like chess and. I will say the guy that I watched make this and learn the recipe from, his plane was much more dainty and probably fancy looking than mine yeah that was about as small as i was going with my big ass hands yeah i was gonna say dude yeah i don't know it fits well in the glass when i threw it eric i was just praying it would go in the glass right so yeah that's really good though so it's definitely worth getting the ingredients and doing it and you can feel fancy as fuck it's really good it's it's definitely sweet but it's got a bitterness that's cuts right through it and it's awesome and like right when sean tasted he's like there's so many flavors like there's a lot of flavor to it so it's really good yeah yeah i will say i had aaron taste test it before coming here yeah she didn't like turn her nose up at a bourbon cocktail which is pretty impressive exactly yeah that's like every time i try and make her like try an old-fashioned it's always like well this one will taste different right it's never never winner for her so there you go that might be all the endorsement that you need don't be afraid of the bourbon if you see it you're like i'm out for it oh don't worry about it she asked if i named the cocktail after her erranded because she just got recently got a paper plane tattoo on her side really oh i forgot

about that yeah that's true yes it was for you yeah i told her yes i told her yes yeah we don't have to let the secret out whoever helps you sleep at night yeah i think that's the way it is i mean so and can you why was why did they name it that again um so the guy that made it he's a a big-time bartender in New York, I guess. Okay. And he made it for a bar, and there was some sort of miscommunication. They called it the Paper Airplane. But he really wanted to name it after the Mia Song Paper Planes. Oh, okay. That kind of came back out at the time that he made it. I got you. So then when he went and opened up a different place and was working there, he called it Paper Plane.

And that's where it kind of became famous. Well, that's awesome. Yeah. Well, I look at this stuff, and I'm like, how do they come up with this? I would just pour shit together. It would never work. You know what I mean? Even when you had all the bottles out, I'm like, I don't understand how this is going to taste. Right. I mean, it's a good excuse to experiment with different things. The first time I tried it, I was like, I had to change out the liquor, so I had to have two of them. So if you're like me and you don't even know what half those liquors were, head to Benz. Talk to them about it. They got all of it's there.

They'll help you walk you through it. They're really good guys down there and then for sure for someone. Yeah, it's okay. Don't feel bad. It's worth the effort to go get it. So swing down there. I can't stop drinking. I know. It's really good. Can I get a bigger glass? I know. We should have maybe went with like big mugs of it. Big old jug. Well, that being said, we got a gift. We did. Kelly, my sister, shout out to you, hit us with a little gift. And it's perfect. It is. So let's pull them out, show the world I don't know how she came up with this But it's genius Very impressive These are going to get used a lot So they're doing classes With our name on them And then somehow on the inside She's got the replica of the middle finger Our signature gold yellow finger Which somehow has become our trophy Or our signature thing With our names on it and everything It's awesome I forgot to ask her is this her middle finger or did they just like you know it's a good question i mean she's got little hands but not that long are they getting like little children to put their middle fingers up maybe it's a sweatshop here we don't ask questions okay yeah we just take it hey either not be in the us all right so you know i don't know but it's got her name on it and it looks cool as it does i i've never seen a glass with like a middle finger in the glass yeah sean may or may not have noticed apparently when he first i didn't i didn't notice at all he just thought it

It was like fight the power. I just, yeah, I saw that, and honestly, I was like, is that like an ice cube thing? You know what I mean? I didn't, you know what I mean? I didn't know. Because that would make sense. Yeah, it feels something more like that. And then I'm like looking at it, and I'm like, oh, look, there's a middle finger. And like, my sister and everyone's like, you're an idiot. Like, how do you not see that? So, it was the first thing I noticed. But I will say I'm like going to be so careful cleaning it because I'm like, I don't want that, you know, that thing to break off. Yeah, so.

But. Thank you, Kelly. Fucking awesome. Then you can break it from the bottom. Yeah, there you go. It's a shot glass on the bottom. But it's really awesome, for sure. So thank you, Kelly. Thanks for thinking of us. Thank you. We're actually going to try them out today when we have another drink for us. So shocker. Yeah, it's true. With those going on. But yeah, shout out to you. Thanks for thinking of us. Merry Christmas to you. Yeah. And we've got a couple other gifts we'll get into later on in the episode. But for now, let's get into – we had a weekend. We did. So I feel like, Shaun, you should kind of just kick us off of what's still cool.

All right. So our party bus is still cool. Are you going to have to give a nostalgia rating on this? Because you're not feeling it right now. So your board's a little banged up because I was running the music like I do most of the time. And again, like we've talked about here, I like to be heard. So I think I have to sing over it as I also control the volume that had it on full blast too. And so I think I stripped my voice a little bit here. So before I came down, I was drinking a little bit of tea. yeah um a little that lemon tea here um i got cough drops and um playing through it yeah but there's something about that you know we did it for christmas we did you know so we're wearing people wearing like i had like pj pants on like a christmas shirt and um actually my shirt said nuts it was supposed to be chestnuts but ashley was sick yeah so i didn't have my chest so i'm just walking around nuts yeah so he was just nuts all night so um exactly it worked out worked out better than the other way around yeah yeah you don't want to just be chest right that's fucking random like yeah say what's your chest right yeah so um but yeah so we had that we had jello shots and and coolers of beer and yeah i mean fireballs were flying around jody had brought warm like hot chocolate with caramel booze in it and she was pouring that for people. I was just like it was a lot.

It was a lot of people. It was a lot of fun. So we kicked it off. We're like, alright. I'm like, alright. Well, I got to get Christmas music going. Right? We're going to do Christmas plus. So bust out with your standard Mariah Carey. You know. And then I'm like, now what the fuck am I going to play? And everyone's like, stop with the Christmas music. So we were right back to... Everyone's like, boo! I need to say we are then full on Eminem and the whole rock and the whole thing. We dabbled in some Christmas music here and there. I tried to have Christmas music playing when we pulled up in the bus.

It was Sunday afternoon so we looked a little classy. We don't need to drop it like it's hot. As somebody spinning on the stripper pole in the daylight. Please check out our socials. You'll see our very own Mike who has a clear second career lined up if he needs it yeah i my thighs hurt real bad today but and i couldn't remember why and then i was like it's just these oh it's gripping the pole i get it now so they had a stripper pull on the bus but the whole pole moved so it wasn't like you just had to go around the pole the pole itself moved too yeah you just had to hold on yeah so and then people were like grabbing it at the bottom and spinning it trying to make everyone go faster so yeah it was a dope party bus and the yeah the bus was fucking awesome clean gorgeous all the lights music was great yeah cody was our driver he hooked us up yeah um for sure and yeah i was always right on time taking care of us but as i'm this age banged up today our party bus is still cool i just i don't see him like we used to yeah like and i was talking about this with ashley a little bit this morning we used to do it for birthdays bachelor parties you know like everything like that but fuck now for a bachelor party you like go away for the weekend yeah i mean like there's no such thing as just like a one night thing i feel like there's a point where party buses was the thing or birthdays bachelor parties holiday events like you you went on at least six or seven a year yeah oh for sure and it's just not the case anymore like i don't think i've been on one in

at least a year that's the thing though is at our age or because you know when we went on six seven a year that was in our like early 30s late 20s and i do still see him but you're right like i felt like we saw him all the time it was like a thing but then okay so then i'll throw this out too like i said ashley i go well we go to different bars first of all we don't go to the bars that much anymore but now when we go we go to different ones too is it just that the bars are at we don't see party buses go to that could be because like a lot of times we avoid the crazy because we want to be able to like which is where you want to go unless you get to the small town bars then you'll see buses roll up because it's like yeah like we did because part of having the bus the fun is drinking on that you know i mean so we always pick long trips on the bus them out yeah yeah like we went from downtown to marion back to the northeast side all the way to todd or uh tiffin tiffin yeah and then back so i mean we we were out and we had it for four hours so um but yeah i guess we're talking about it yeah it's like just enough to where you got out You got to go.

You know, like, yeah. Yeah. The rise is enough. So that being said, party buses, are they still cool? It's hard because I enjoy them. We obviously we don't do it very much. I can't. When was the last time we did one before this? I mean, it probably been two years. No more than that, maybe. I mean, we've had some interesting ones. I remember the one year I got it for Ashley and surprised her and then she broke her ankle. That was the very first stop. They parked right by a curb and she stepped off and rolled her ankle. A few people have broken themselves coming off of those things. TJ, God, who's that?

TJ was the hilarious one at the bar. He ran in. He's like, I need ice right now. And he takes care of Ashley and puts it on there and goes, no, don't move. You'll be just fine. Yeah, but there was a bachelor party. I want to say it was Adams. I may be wrong, but we were at the strip club. Again, this was 15, 20 years ago, whatever. And TJ was sprinting. He's very fast. But he tripped, and he slid on gravel with his face. And so he comes onto the bus, and he's just banged up. someone ripped their sleeves off their shirt made a tourniquet then we came into the next bar and the guys were just like what is going on we're in our 20s, leave us alone yeah so the last time we had one, I don't know I was on one different group of friends just happened to be some friends were doing one for a birthday party just about a year ago and it was at first Aaron and I were kind of like, I don't know if I want to do this because we've kind of had mixed feelings about party buses for a while.

And we went on it and it was awesome because we went to all the small town bars. And that's the way to do it. Nobody's driving. Yep. Like, and we, we would go long distances between each one. So it was, it was a lot of fun. It was kind of all night type of thing. It wasn't just a few hours. so like if you get the right people and the right bars and the right situation I think it can be a lot of fun I think our group of friends is kind of that right situation so that's probably why it works yeah I mean you did a good job of calling ahead so they knew we were coming I think it's such a dick move when you roll in yeah cause they're not ready for it now here's something that shows our age we did it from 2 to 6 it was amazing we were home everyone was in bed by 8, 9 o'clock you know that's great um the younger crowd isn't doing that but yeah it's like it's a sunday from two to six a lot of places might have like one waitress working it's like you don't want to roll in but 25 people buying 25 different tabs like that's a dick move yeah but they were ready for so we rolled in and so that's i mean we had to pump up those bars a little bit on a couple sunday afternoons when we even know we were only there for 20 minutes or so you're rolling in and getting yeah one or two drinks so it's 25 to 50 drinks you know i mean that you're ripping off real quick oh yeah shout out to barrel house and marion we that was our first stop and then also one we called ahead at that knew we were coming was daisies over on edgewood because super festive they were decked out for the holidays yeah we're going to the christmas bar yeah we tried to find the christmasy places where you didn't need a reservation obviously um so yeah it was i i think

at our age doing it the way we did where it's from two to six i think that'll always be cool i've seen a lot of people this year in our age group getting one and going and seeing christmas lights and like just doing christmas activities now are they drinking and partying on the bus too yeah but you get home at a good time that's a good day i mean i think that could make christmas lights a little more enjoyable for me you know right there you go yeah well and those for those of you that listen all the time we did kind of discuss those a little bit when we had the deck diary girls on and they did join us so you might see that out on socials too that yeah it's real we hung out afterwards so for those that wonder what happens yes um it was the epitome of their blast having them on it going did we just become best friends yeah yeah yep yeah so yeah pretty much did shout out tab and meg because they were an absolute blast yeah they posted a bunch of the pictures and stuff today um so make sure you're following them if you're not already yeah so that being said let's take a vote what do you think i'm a yes i i would say yes um like i said caveat being right people right place like if a bunch of co-workers ask me i'm gonna be like no agreed sure or or a group that you just don't even know that well it's a no for me you know you gotta you gotta know i agree i would still say yeah it's still cool maybe not quite as popular as it used to be or maybe it is and we just don't know but um it's a good time yeah but the older you get you pay for it okay and you don't have to sing over the the music sean it's okay yeah it's okay You also don't have to on the stripper pole.

Your voice is terrible. You don't have to do it. So with the 6 o'clock time frame, did you guys feel like you got at least a little bit of the after dark? Because the party buses usually have the lights and all that. Yeah, the last hour. Yeah, for sure. Which was the best part right home which to my shock Celine Dion biggest hit of the bus And say the song cuz I did not think that would go over as well What was it the power both of them the power of love her No, that's not what it's called is it you know I know I'll find it On my playlist but it started playing and I was like look I I like Celine Dion and all but I'm like this isn't really a party song You know there were actually Yeah, Kara was the one that said it oh is she really to play oh, I didn't even know that It became a hit and then it was it was full-on karaoke and not that it was so loud Celine Dion and meatloaf Those were we had to Celine Dion That's what was it like My heart will get no the power of love yes, that is one and Yeah, I know when I said I was like that's the power of Which I love that song too, by the way.

Yeah. Man. Cause I'm your lady. That's what it was. You are my man. That's what it was. And I was like, how the fuck did we get here? That's right where Shaun lost his voice. Cause I was trying to compete. Yeah. Not a good idea. Yeah. Anyway, so. It was a really good time. So yeah, thank you to everyone that joined. Obviously it was a blast. And we look forward to doing it again. Cause God damn it, it's still cool. we'll still do it it's cool yeah so yeah what about you eric what's your is it still cool okay so i have a sort of uh related one like is this a hot take kind of yeah are ugly sweaters and ugly sweater parties still cool so like ugly sweaters can be cool in the right moment but like going to an ugly sweater party is it still cool the reason that i ask this is i used to have one every year a big one and we would have a blast and it was a big party but the thing that i have noticed is and i'm guilty of wearing the one i have on a lot of them now are like way more mass-produced like screen printed yeah it's not finding your grandma's yeah i love that this isn't a sweater because i would be dying right now yeah sweater yeah itchy hot all that stuff so that being said like is it still cool to do that is it just a holiday thing what do you guys think i love them i've always loved them back when you would have your huge one like it was you know you always have

a huge one but like it's always a big shirt says it's got a big package for you people um i know i think it's always been fun i actually like sometimes when it's not the mass-produced ones only because it was so fun like going to goodwill be like how hideous of and you know it's someone that owned it that enjoyed it. At my old job, people would ugly sweater today. They'd wear this and the ladies would be like, I love this sweater, but I think someone will think it's ugly. I'm like, that is hideous. It is. But I also love the mass produced ones because they're just so goddamn funny. I borrowed one of Nathan's yesterday because I'm obviously a huge Marvel and Deadpool fan and his was Deadpool themed and it said Marvel Jesus really big.

Actually, the best one I saw, I told you that one where it's Jesus and it just says disappointments all of you. I'm like, I want that one. So I agree. There is something to kind of the early years of ugly sweaters in the sense of I was going to Marshalls and any store that had older lady clothes trying to find sweaters around Christmas. It was ridiculous. And also find something that would fit me. Yeah, that's the problem, too. There's not a lot of six, four ladies walking around wearing, you know. And even if you had something, did you have to make it uglier? Did you have to add on Christmas ornaments?

Well, you had one with Christmas balls or shit on it, didn't you? No, you used to put those in your beard. Oh, I used to put ornaments in my beard, yeah. I have mini beard ornaments. But the beard's a little shorter than it used to be when it was down to here. Yeah, a little different. But some people do make their own, and that's cool, too. But I don't know. There's something about finding... TJ's grandma, who, rest in peace, she's been gone for a long time, but like she had this like five piece sweater outfit there was like a vest and then like a blazer and then like a part with shoulder pads it was like the whole deal and i wore that like three years to work just different parts of it and i won every single year that's funny and i was like thanks grandma five outfits out of it yeah i was like this is awesome that's really good and it wasn't even really i didn't think that ugly but yeah so i will say i i never really had one like i had like the one i have one that's like says bottoms up or something yeah that i got from like target you know so i've never done the whole ugly christmas sweater you know um go look for it put in the time there for it i've respected one of the people did i just never did or i felt like we were always broke you know that i didn't want to buy anything while we were buying everything else you know for that i never want to buy anything then i was always like well after christmas we'll go and say and i'll get one and i'll have one for next year well once christmas is over i'm like i don't have any money so i'm like i'm not buying that now yeah so i feel like i just never really had them so but i still enjoyed the events but yeah never never my thing

necessarily yeah and let's be honest at the end of the day it's not even about it's more about the party it's like you're there with all your friends like you're in that festive fucking mood where it's like christmas tunes are cranking and that's what it's really about but yeah when i see someone's sweatshirt like that or whatever though i'm just like fuck yeah dude like we we've evolved this game so that's the thing for me is like it's like when you get that cool ass t-shirt and yeah you want your friends to notice it like it's the same concept yeah so like the reason i got this one i used to throw the ugly sweater party so i didn't have to worry about it being ugly because i'm not in the competition oh that's true i just had a cool ass one and i could be comfortable all night so i would get shit like this what did you guys used to call it when in the early years of you having it at your old place.

There was also this competition of the women with a titty hanging out. What was it called? Did you see Shaun Perk up right there? What are we talking about here? He's like, I said I was banged up. I'm fine. Back in the game.

Shaun, sorry that you weren't in on these in the early days. But we used to, so not only did we do an ugly sweater competition, we also did a sweater puppies competition. That's what it was, yeah. So the idea was, you didn't have to have an ugly sweater you could also be a lady that has a nice looking set of tits in a sweater yeah and so that was sweater puppies that's what i always called it but i always saw the pictures i like that where they like somebody cut like a slit out and they had their boob hanging out and then they put like a reindeer nose and antlers on it so like their titty was out but you couldn't see yeah towards the end people were really trying to win these competitions i'll say what kind of gift are you giving out here i was giving out like 50 amazon gift cards so it's like decent solid gift yeah for something that was free to go ladies right in is a 50 gift card worth it so i was like everyone needs to start carrying these 50 we're a sponsor help us out here you know let's get the again it was the right group of people the right situation it always worked out everyone who knew each other yeah it wasn't like you knew that like you weren't too worried about all these pictures being on the internet and stuff yeah yeah sure so all i'm hearing is 2026 we're still cool right christmas party and we're bringing the sweater puppies back yes we're gonna have to like run out of event space i think my mind has already gone to a couple places because the days of having it at my house are probably over it's true yeah ooh potential on-site party

i'm just saying get the mind send us an email tell us if you want to if you want to have an ugly live event ugly sweater party i like it sweater is optional with that being said i if you're ready to vote i will vote that i still think it's cool yes even yeah to me it's just good clean fun like there's if you don't like it don't do it but i don't see how that would ever not be cool yeah i i agree i i do think like i want to see more people bring the creativity back and not just like google and shit and ordering it um but you see some fucking cool shit like that then you get then you see shit like this and it's hard to not order it some people are just more creative than you know yeah man that guy he'll just live in infamy he has no idea the effect he's had on this world kovat did him so good i know he's passed away now but rest of peace big blacker i mean the only thing that would make it better is if like you could open the present there with a light switch there hey maybe we could add on to it we'll add some stuff to it right yeah you just talked about bringing creativity back it sounds like you have a project we'll go with that that sounds like a way that we can bring it back so yeah all right well you heard it here christmas sweaters are still or other christmas sweaters so far we have a christmas sweaters on a party bus i know that's a great time yeah so yeah uh so for sure to kind of segue into mine obviously we're staying kind of christmas theme this week but mine is uh christmas like lights and light shows and like every year it's been tradition for my kids and i like we've always went out to blue creek

christmas yeah it's like out in center point it's technically a walker but um it's just this house the guy started doing it 20 i can't remember now 12 it's been a long time um maybe 2015 i don't know but he does it all on his own that i know of and it started like you know as a light show but now it's just grown so much now he lives on a cul-de-sac all the neighbors get into it now They don't do it as much as him, obviously, but like everything is coordinated. So even the songs that all the lights are going to his house They're also doing lights at the other house. Oh, okay Yeah, I remember when I went out I'd spent a while since I've been out there But they just had like some lights on but it wasn't part of the no now it's not again It's not all the things but it's just like sure, you know the gutter lights, but they still go to yeah They're all tied in together. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah, and like this you pull up turn on a radio station Then it all matches up with it and they do do was it every 40 minutes or something or i forget what yeah i mean it's it's constantly it's just loops this i want to say it's five songs um so if you actually sat there and watched the whole thing it'd probably be i don't know 20 minutes or something every 25 yeah yeah and then it just loops again there's some talking in there because like you know he'll come on and say like every year they pick a an organization that uh donations go to and that's the other thing a lot of those things like cost there's no no fee no nothing they just have a donation box sometimes the guy dressed up as Santa. He walks out and gives out candy canes to the kids. I think it's awesome.

Granted, some of the songs aren't my favorite. There could be a couple that are really churchy, Christmas-y kind of. But then there's always Christmas Vacation and some cool ones by Pentatonix and stuff like that. I don't know. I think it's cool. So Christmas Lights, that's the extreme. Those are obviously cool just because they're i mean the amount of work and everything that goes into those things and have that ability to do that i don't but just the christmas lights banging them out at home on the outside yeah i haven't done them in a few years neither i did them once they fucking never like i had four strands or whatever to get around the house and one of them would not match up you know like i had all so the three would run and one wouldn't but they're like these icicle ones i couldn't find them again they're these you know whatever so we always had this stupid corner that didn't match up and that's the thing you go to all that work and you're and then you don't like it anyway you're like oh fuck it's not like what i thought it was going to be you're right it's a pain in the ass and shout out to the people who do it and make it look professional i mean some people just put up permanent ones now which yeah that intrigues me i would kind of like to do that to just know i can move them up i would do that my neighbor has it and like he's got it yeah so he does it for all every seat every fourth of july he has it you know i mean he just has them going on for orange and green on party's day that would be fun to be able to just click a light or use an app i'm sure this will surprise you guys too but my ocd needs

those like clean lines yeah exactly and that's the thing is i would not like when i do the kids uh what is what every kid has in the room the uh led lights yeah every time i do those for the kids like it's like a little bit off and it drives me nuts i'm like i didn't need somebody else to come in and do this because it drives me crazy so yeah i can deal with it i did a little off i'll be all right yeah i got good at doing that for all the kids like oh but you do it so many times by the way my daughter just the other day goes burn out and well that's my kids never burn out but like one time they lost they've lost the remote a couple times that was before there was like an app and then even the apps for them are so garbage like they stop working and then just the other day my my daughter's like i need new led lights i'm like these are only like i don't know under two years old she's like i lost the remote and i was like fuck's sake if you how do you lose the remote you're not because it's tiny i don't know you cover every part of the room every part of the top of the room yeah yeah so how do you not end up having like extra sets because you have to like cut them to do that right yeah but but once you cut it that's just that can't be used anymore what but the controller can so that i use the extra controllers to replace them when they go no because every everyone i get like i just go on amazon and buy what yeah you're buying different brands i buy i buy govi every time it's like the same brand yeah which is like a good brand i'm just like oh these are on sale i'm buying like as long as it has good reviews by the way it's something i can get into i care about reviews so the thing is the light strip is basically the same and it should be functional no matter what yeah but i did it for the controller so that way i had extras i mean that's smart i don't think like you i need to start thinking like an it guy like eric

how much fun like at first like trying to get those strips like you cut it and then you're trying to like use oh i was like i'm gonna throw some shit oh yeah it's such a pain in the ass i would you're like stripping it back and trying to get it to join the first couple times i did them i like dad's crashing out i was ready to put my kid through a wall like i was just like i need you to not be in here right now he's like i just don't understand why it's taking so long i'm like we're done here you're gonna understand how you don't have some lights I will pull them all down. But back to Christmas lights, I don't think it's that fun, but it's something that gets you in the spirit.

And mine, obviously, any traditions with your kids make it more cool. So that's why I love it so much. So I think they're still cool. Okay. I remember how excited I was to put them up when I got a house. You know what I mean? Yeah, I'm going to have this, have that, but it does not sustain time.

Okay, so two-parter, though. Okay. you having them on your house but then also like do you like to go watch them somebody else did all the work yeah i won't spit i mean we've done that that same spot that you're talking about i i we don't ever carve out the time to do it yeah i mean like if we get if it's always been if we've done it it's been like hey we got some time let's you know randomly let's just go do it yeah i mean but we don't plan like you do to go do like a night of it so but i respect it and i think it's good I mean I think they're pretty and what not what they do with it but I'm not gonna I don't schedule my time to go do it so well I do think it's cool I'm just not gonna be a part of it like in that way so but I mean I respect the people that put together but I guess I can see really cool ones on YouTube too you know what I mean like that's not the same I get it but you know what I mean like it's not like I don't have to go do all that stuff like yeah you know what I mean like it kinda kinda can just do that so okay so i hate doing them myself mainly because of my ocd issues and like i hate the idea of paying for something that oh yeah because that's what we should have said there's companies who like professionally install yeah and those you get the straight lines on those so at some point i will get there because my wife really wants christmas lights and i like the technical aspect i would love to make a show out of it and all that but i don't want to do the lights so you I also don't want to get on the fucking roof.

I'm going to say that. I'm just going to say I'm a chicken shit about. I'm not saying I hate them. I don't like them, and I don't like having to do something technical at the top of a ladder. That's fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, if I don't mind getting up on the roof, I don't mind doing things that I've hung cameras, all kinds of different things, totally fine. I don't want to sit there and be doing lights at the top of a ladder. That's a good point. And on the backside of my house especially, it's like incredible. So I was just thinking about your house and I'm like, oh, fuck. Like, yeah, the back is, that's a bad day if you fall off that.

I really couldn't do that. Yeah. I would have to pay it. I only have one corner of my house where it's like, it scares me a little bit, you know, because it's like, it's the furthest point from the ground. And you would almost need to do the back of your house just by the way your setup is. Oh, yeah. It's pointed towards the road. You got that corner. You're on that corner and you got the, yeah. So. Yeah, you kind of set off the neighborhood at that point. So in the sense of lights for my own house, I'm not a big fan because I don't want to put all the effort into it at this point, but if at some point I will pay somebody and or have permanent ones and then it'll be cool.

Yeah. Yeah. So that's my vote on that. I will say I just had an experience, uh, this weekend that changed my mind about light displays Cause I had gone to the um one that you had mentioned blue Creek blue creek yeah um the the problem with it it super cool i hate the lines of cars oh it and that sucks like think about driving down collins road how many stupid people we deal with yeah you're you're getting all of those people in a concentrated place and nobody has any idea how to like have common courtesy well there's a natural flow to do it it's just some people feel like no i want this spot and so i don't care i'm gonna fucking ruin every natural flow just so i'm like right here and it's like like if every car's like school pickup they'll fucking double part they'll do all this shit yeah it's the same concept it's people are stupid and inconsiderate yeah because if every car pulled in i've thought about this since i've seen it so many years i'm like and every one song that played you just pulled up a little bit because it's a cul-de-sac you'll still see it even on the other side yeah but then the cars would constantly move but instead people will pull in and they're like well i'm not moving for 20 minutes and you're like you just screwed so many people right out of getting or they don't keep up though with her but like even if you get to it like we're gonna watch the show and you get up to the spot they're like well i don't want to be over there so i'm not going over there which then all of a sudden backs everybody up out there and then you're waiting longer just because they won't go over yeah to this one spot where you can yep turn and see it i think it's fine if there's a way for people to navigate that where you could be parked you could do a little bit of both but most of the time that's not the case no um i went to um it's called

harvest court lights i haven't heard of that one um i uh randomly happened upon it because i didn't want to do that one because i knew i'd had a bad experience with the traffic yeah and my alternative option that was proposed to me was to drive to des moines and i said no um so i came up with a different one and i don't know if i just randomly got an evening that it wasn't that busy but it was a weekend this place was awesome like it's a cul-de-sac and there were some people there but other than maybe a couple of people everybody kind of pulled in stayed in a spot watched what they wanted to watch and then got the hell out and kept their lights off yeah um the other cool thing is you can control this via their website you can go on and like request songs what like add them to the queue they have a limited number right sure it was cool that's badass is was this here in town build your own adventure like on the southwest side really just out like you're headed towards mount vernon i had i've never even heard of that all right yeah we did go to one in decoro once we literally on a whim found it online drove down there you know two hours or whatever for to watch these lights but it was a park and a lot of the lights were more like like animatronic lights like you know where it's just like they basically had them up and they would just go off but it was like a 20 minute thing there was tons of them and then we went and had mabe's pizza which if you've never had that in decor you're really missing out right and then we drove home but that was a really good one too so yeah some of them have the cool videos and stuff too yeah those are the ones i see on the

internet you know the yeah yeah i saw the youtube yeah spoken like a true 40 year old all back on the google i found it yeah oh man go post about that on your face yeah i'm gonna put it on the the line on the facebook yeah so yeah i don't know i think it's fun i i will say it when my kids are grown and gone one day and like they don't come home to do that stuff or anything i i won't go do it like just me and kara or you know whatever it's like i i don't care that much it's more christmas is so fun because of kids in my opinion like i hated christmas growing up but like now the minute i had kids i was like i fucking love christmas you know what i mean so yeah that's what it yeah my my kids didn't have any aaron and i went by ourselves because the kids didn't have any interest. Now Audrey's on a cruise so maybe she would have gone. She's on a cruise.

We'll get into that later. Jesus Christ. Lucky girl. Right? That was her Christmas present. She's not getting anything else. Fair. What else does she need? Yeah, I'm good. Well, I was going to say, while I said I wouldn't just go, it is like a fun date night thing though, now that I think about it. If you have no plans at night, it's like grab some coffees or whatever and go watch that. It's something to do. Yeah, we went and did Starbucks and did that. See? A little handy while you're watching the lights? Hey-o! And then the song that starts playing is It's the final countdown! I was like, how do I request that on the app?

I was told there was handjobs. Here comes Santa Claus with his hands on his pants. Yeah. So, that's awesome. Oh, boys. My throat. Every time I laugh, I'm, like, gonna die. I loved walking in today. I just looked at you and I was like, I feel fucking awesome today. And you're like, I'm pretty beat up today. I'm not gonna lie. i saw him get off the elevator and it looked like somebody had punched his dog in the face like i was like a disheveled man it was fun it was fun it was fun it was fun yeah so uh i felt like i was behaved too but evidently you were you really were we got some we got some great pictures uh some great videos like yeah it was a good time um with that being said do we actually we got another gift we do we should i'm willing to try out that other cocktail try this cocktail here so sean's doing everything he can to not drink this bush light over here i i know he hasn't even cracked it he's like give me one i might have it i'm thinking the odds are low right now uh so we talked about our besties from the other local podcast uh well one of many but the deck diaries so tabitha makes this every year and gives it out to her friends and family and i'm totally gonna fuck up the name of this so you might want to google it see what's it called coquito it's c-o-q-u-i-t-o um but it's so fancy she even makes like little labels and uh homemade served chilled all i know puerto rican coconut nog there it is thank you yes all right coconut nog yeah because i asked her she's like you know like eggnog and i'm like yeah most people don't like eggnog she's like this has like no dairy and it's like it's coconut milk coconut well coconut

water coconut um i think cinnamon was in it nice um but yeah so thank you tabitha we are very excited to drink it so i'm gonna crack this and pour us a little bit i kind of feel like family now right like that's what they do it's like olive garden when you're here yeah you're family yeah hey we're stepping it up yeah thanks tabitha i can open the goddamn so it's coconut milk cream of coconut puerto rican rum and sweetened condensed milk is what it says maybe some cinnamon sticks I'm sure there's lots of different family recipes but the general concept she gave us two bottles I don't know how strong it is I think she said it's a little bit strong it doesn't taste strong but there's a good amount of rum in it I'm guessing I'm not going to lie I'm looking forward to something coating my throat a little bit here it smells like heaven too pass your glasses down I'm going to pour a little for Logan too I'll go grab a cup she gave us two bottles I don't know how much to pour Here you go, Kelly. We're breaking in the...

Yeah, that seems about right. Is that about right? Knuckle deep. First time I've heard that in my life. Hotter, deeper, stronger. Hotter.

Alright, I'll be right back. You guys keep talking. Why don't you guys try it? Let's talk about this. It's very thick. She's thick. Yeah, she's thick. so i don't know have you tried it oh yeah that's really nice yeah oh man that's dangerous like i could just sit there she gave it to me and i just saw him like i want to drink this right now other than the thickness and like feeling like if you have multiple glasses of milk you know yeah it's definitely like a look it's like a one and i could drink a whole glass of that but yeah amazing dude that is so much better than eggnog oh my god that's like the answer to my sore throat too She saw the future and she's like, he's going to need this on that Monday.

Celine Dion's going to need this. Yes. God, that is fantastic. Maybe that's Celine's secret. Maybe she drinks this all the time. So she gave us two bottles. We just used one. I think I'm just going to steal the second one. You guys can fuck off.

I love these glasses. If you drink this way, you kind of feel the middle finger poke you. You got to watch it post a little bit. Yeah. It's just a little tickle. That is really good. Thank you, Tabitha, so much. Yeah, thank you. It's really, really good. But now you screwed yourself because you got to make us this every year. Yeah, you're going to put us on the list. All right. Remember, we're family, damn it. You can't do that and then pull out, you know. That was a weird way to say that. But you know what I mean. So, yeah. I will say, too, you know, we talked about when we had them on the podcast, we talked about Megan DaBaby and the masks and stuff.

she totally go figure found a giant santa head to wear and so she comes in wearing that i'm like where the fuck did you find that and she's like just i don't know at some vintage store i'm like jesus christ it called for her it really did and i'm so glad it did because i got to wear it and it was a blast you can actually see through it pretty well you can i wore it on the stripper pole but as you would spin the headlight didn't move so all of a sudden it looked like my neck was just snapping i think right i don't know but yeah it got a little loose there but all of a sudden you're looking out of the one hole but uh everybody's gonna be like that's ai his head's not moving right yeah exactly jesus but it ended up being pretty good that thing was pretty cool so yeah yeah the baby died but the santa claus is back yeah i'm gonna say eventually was that the official name i don't know i don't know i think we just coined it yes santa if you have the baby i think you have to have to santa yeah um i was gonna ask guys though like uh recently there's our friends at the Confused Breakfast did like their big bracket of Christmas movies. Oh yeah. So just on the spot, we haven't talked about this or thought about it all, but like if you had to pick one Christmas movie where it's like it's the only Christmas movie you can ever watch again, what would it be?

Mine's Christmas Vacation. It's always been my favorite one. It just always has been. Mine's diehard. Same. And here's the thing, as long as you classify it a Christmas movie, which I It's fine that people say it's not. I can appreciate that opinion, but you're wrong. Yeah. And that's the only thing I want to watch around the holidays. Yeah. I will say my son just turned 18. And for 18 years, as long as I can remember, my Christmas Eve tradition is always to watch that. The kids go to bed. If I had to put some things together, then I would be doing that. Which, by the way, as I get older, I don't miss putting dollhouses and stuff together.

That's great. But yeah, they go to bed and it's like, pour myself a little hot toddy. and watch Die Hard. And after that, I can go to bed. That's how it goes. Every time, every night. For me, I treat it more as like Aaron's, you know, she's like, we're all watching Christmas movies. And I'm like, well, the one I'm going to pick is Die Hard. So you guys can pick something else. There you go. Home Alone is definitely up there. One and two, I like them both. But like I just, I watched maybe 20 minutes of one the other day because it was on while we were all like socializing and stuff. and it is so fucking good.

Yeah, it is. It's so unrealistic and stupid in so many ways. Did you send the Saturday Night Live thing? Was that you? Dude, yes. You were on that. On what? So on Saturday Night Live, recently they did a skit of Home Alone. And basically what it was, by the way, Ariana Grande was fucking Kevin. Yeah. I haven't watched the whole thing. Oh my God. So it's basically the premise that whoever came up with this is a genius. Awesome. Basically the family gets home and none of the traps have been set off yet. So as the family is standing there talking, like, Kevin, we missed you. People just start getting murdered.

I'm going to put my coat away over the closet and then burns his head. He catches on fire. One of them, like a giant industrial fan comes in the door and just literally shreds somebody down to the bones. Dude, it's so funny. I started watching, like, what is this? Thinking, like, I don't know if I want to watch this. I'm so glad I stuck around. It was just a funny take on i will say having kids if i had to pick not die hard and like not home not one of the ones you guys said an underrated one that i feel like not a lot of people i mean a lot of people have seen it but christmas chronicles with kurt russell it came out on netflix it's like what my kids and i is like one of our favorites and we watch it usually every christmas eve so sure i'd like to get uh call logan here to the to the table here because i'm sure you were a part of that discussion so oh that's a good point yeah how did you feel or maybe maybe you weren't necessarily a part of it but you were for the actual confused breakfast yeah i wasn't there oh okay um i don't think yeah i wasn't i wasn't there but i was offended by it by the way my i'm learning my favorite thing of doing brackets uh and having logan around is just the disdain he has right yeah him as the producers like i almost walked out when you guys said that yeah i mean it doesn't really matter what the bracket is like i'll find a way to be offended for sure what's your favorite i was so offended that we actually recorded another episode okay uh as a brunch and put that out that i was on maybe it was a patreon episode as a loser's bracket and i got to air all of my nice oh good

well i didn't hear that one so i know i need to pay for that one that was a patreon okay that's awesome um they let me do those sometimes yeah uh my favorite's a christmas story probably okay okay um i'm also a big jim carrey grinch guy oh yeah the performance is just iconic it's so good have you ever seen that thing where he what he talks about going through getting all that makeup wasn't it like wasn't it like eight hours a day or something to get all eight hours and he basically didn't want to do it after he did it the one time because he was just miserable and they put him through like the training that you that like the hair to coach well like it's like the training like let's cia agents yeah go through like when you get captured like to be tortured like what yeah how you handle being tortured like that's kind of like jesus the training he went through yeah and it's like just weird shit like all of a sudden you just slap yourself all right like just like you you get bogged down with all that stuff and yeah he's like slap yourself or you just smoke a cigarette or you know like i get it though eight hours of like sitting in a chair and having people like poking and prodding and sticking shit to you like and it's got to be also so hot well what he says he just felt like he was being like smothered yeah i mean because that all that stuff on there Yeah, it's alpaca hair.

Yeah, and the alpaca hair, yeah. It's, I believe, the 25th anniversary this year, so he's been doing a lot of interviews. Really? Yeah. He had to do it 50 times, I think. Holy shit. How many times he shot with it? I think it was 50 times. I hope he got paid a lot of money for that. I think he did. I don't know if it's enough. Just in residuals, I'm sure he's doing pretty good from that movie. That being said. But it kind of explains why he was so iconic in that. The pissed-off-ness and the grouchiness. I mean, yeah, I guess I get it at that point. But he's the perfect animated... Yeah. I mean, what a great role for facial expressions.

I mean, I don't know. Yeah. In terms of definitive Christmas roles, he just nailed it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So my more, if you were like, it has to be Christmas outside of Home Alone and Die Hard. Spirited, if you guys haven't seen it. What the hell is that? It's Apple TV. It's the Ryan Reynolds one. Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell. What? It's a take on Scrooge. Okay. It just came out a couple years ago. Yeah. Oh. It's newer, but it's like a musical, and it's them, and it's really good. It's a musical? Yeah. Well, it's not all musical. It's not like 100% musical. Okay. There's a lot of singing, and they both sing in it.

I'm not going to lie. Everything you did to sell that to me was the worst way to do it. Christmas music or Christmas movie musical but I do like Ryan Reynolds and I do like Will Ferrell so like it's like okay I would at least do that but you talked about like yeah the two of them playing off of each other is ridiculous oh I can see that I can see that for sure I'm gonna have to check it out cause yeah I'm not a big musical person either like I don't like disdain them but if I don't have to watch one I usually won't but we do like a one of the traditions me and the kids have is Christmas Eve Eve so Tuesday this week we always like make a big fort not a fort but like we camp out in the living room by the christmas tree and we just watch christmas movies all night we when we sleep out there and so like and that's where we found christmas chronicles originally was like that and by the way the opening can crack line they're like i could move twice as fast if i didn't have to carry in this huge sack that's from that movie because the minute that i remember watching it for the first time and i was like what a fucking great line right and then it's cool too because if you watch christmas chronicles 2 they made a second one i'm pretty sure they show it in one but uh mrs claus is goldie hawn which is kind of cool because like they're married in real life so yeah it's a great movie all right i'm on board but yeah i was gonna say like we do that camp i'm gonna have to ask if they'll watch spirited my son's smart though he's like for this year i just want to watch every christmas episode from the office i'm like that's a good idea like because those are great so yeah yeah really iconic christmas episodes from like sitcoms and tv shows so good so good yeah same thing with like thanksgiving from friends like they always had such great They always pick their thing that they go for, right?

You know what I mean? Roseanne was always Halloween. Yeah. But I feel like they all kind of pick one holiday and whatever and go for it. Do we have an email? We do. God, this is so good. You know what I feel like I'm drinking? It thicker than this obviously but after you finish a bowl of my favorite cereal Cinnamon Toast Crunch it just tastes like the milk But that like ranchata is supposed to be that right but this is way better This is way better than rum chata It feels like ice cream melted Yeah It kind of like the consistency of that Yeah. Thick. She's thick. I like it. Look at my glass. It's like stained.

Two C's. Yeah. You're going to have to scrub that thing. By the way, under my ugly sweater yesterday, I did have my Thickless Cage shirt on. I wanted you to know that. Nice. Did everybody get to see it? No, it got way, way hot. and so i ended up taking it off like took that off put the sweater back on because he had fucking nut huggers on for pants so i did it's hard i you know i've i've now worn leggings twice in my life the first time was last year on christmas ugly sweater dan this was again and yeah it's you didn't miss the boat to put are they still kara's leggings no fuck no the minute my balls touch those they became my she still says like well he stole my legs like they're my christmas leggings by the way since i wore them the first time i've owned like they've been at my house they are my leggings you need to get the old fake dong or something put in there so that way when you like reach for something people like oh my god is that banana it's actually it is yeah hey you want a banana yeah yeah but i would say like i see why women are obsessed with leggings they are so comfy but they really really strangle your olsen twins there is not a lot of room there all right email sorry go ahead yeah okay uh so this one's from julie hey you sexy ass mofos she can't be talking about us first off sexy intro uh for those that don't know julie is is the uh wonderful voice on our new intro she is the 900 number uh behind uh and so thank you very much julie we love you yes uh second are tamagotchi still cool dude i never thought they're

cool before but i know they're popular yeah she says my niece is getting one for christmas this year and the nostalgia is coming back also was tamagotchi a girl thing or did boys have these back in the day pretty sure mine died very quickly not sure how i still kept a human alive after 18 years but here we are the real life time she says love you all shout out logan he's awesome so props to you there you go um fuck yeah i i was i almost got layloin this year because i i did see they made a comeback so like amazon was obviously like hey like things you kids are buying or whatever and i'm like god they're they're back all i remember about him is like in grade school a lot of the girls had him i don't think i ever remember a guy having one and that's not saying they couldn't but i just don't remember one right and i remember everyone being like i killed it again so i was like i don't understand the point of this like i did dude i don't like plants for the same reason like i already keep my kids alive i don't want more to you know i never really got them either it was before like when they came out i was too old because i remember like my sister had them yeah i mean like that would have been like your senior like that type of yeah you know yeah that wasn't even an old joke you hold on you that was just me stating fact i was waiting for you to bust on me for something but no you were in church you were in school and the nuns were hitting you with rulers i get it yeah what i totally remember was my dad going if that fucking thing goes off in the middle of night one more goddamn time you know because it would it'd go off or whatever and then

you'd kill it but it would beep and all that other shit you know he's like trying to sleep my sisters are asleep don't care about it and he's like yeah keeping him up all hours of the I get it. It's the same thing when, remember they'd send home certain schools had those real babies and you had to take care of them for a week. You couldn't just turn them off, so they'd be screaming all night. They never gave us one of those. I never got one. Yeah, I think just certain schools or something. I remember hearing about parents like, I'm going to fucking throw that thing outside. If you don't figure it out.

My school had those. I just bumped the mic again. At least you didn't hit yourself in the face with it. Damn. My school had those and I remember everybody doing them, but I never took that level of home ec that. Yeah. There. So, um, no, I, the, the Tamagotchi thing, I remember people having them. I even remember a couple of guys like having them, but I was always like, I just like the whole home ec baby thing. I don't need something to, like when I was that age, I was like, fuck that. You're like tied to it. You know what I mean? Like you gotta like, yeah. Okay. So I'll say, I'll say something like bringing it back to more modern now that these are coming back.

um have you guys heard of there's a like app called be real and it's like you have to post every day like you got to post a picture of you and picture i'm like that sounds like fucking work and i don't need another job but what do you mean you have to because like like in snapchat for example like i learned what streaks are right and so like that goes away but it doesn't do anything yeah it's it's the same concept but like with be real eventually you get i don't know if there's some sort of repercussions and don't quote me on any of this because i don't fucking do it sure but my children were explaining it to me and i'm like this sounds terrible i don't need another obligation right of bullshit that i have to do yeah so ashley did it and the only thing i know about is like you take like a selfie and it takes a picture of both sides yeah it's like if i took like to be real like so then it'd be both of us like yeah instead of everybody it's the idea i love the idea of you have to take something real without filters and all the other bullshit i love I don't want to be told I have to do it this day because you know what, today I might be like might be a little banged up from being on the party bus you know what I mean I saw Logan I thought maybe he had something to say about Be Real because we mentioned it and I saw his mic get close I was just speaking of things that aren't cool anymore Be Real's out I don't even know I'm like I don't even know when it came out but I do remember my I think my daughter either might do it or used to it.

I don't know. I never knew it. I actually used to do it. I haven't heard her say anything about it. I think it's toast. I think it was like a- Logan, did you try it? It was one hit wonder. Be real? Yeah, was that like a- I consider it part of my job to know- Sure. Like what is what's going on the internet, what people are doing and how they're engaging other people. No, I never did it. It's stupid. Yeah. I'm trying to figure out if streaks matter at all. I don't- They don't. They don't. I have one with some people now. Wait, streaks. What are you talking about? On Snapchat. on b-real specifically oh gotcha gotcha gotcha but also snapchat you just lose the streak which is the little flame but you're not like yeah i think it's the same thing on b-real you get a little flame yeah okay yeah not like of course my daughter made it sound like it was way more important than that oh weird wait you're saying over dad i gotta do this yeah yeah well thank yeah i don't know there's a lot of those things and i i'll just never understand them like some like i'll do it like i have a streak with my kids because like they're always on snapchat so it's It's something fun for me to just keep up with them on.

Obviously, I had spired into a few friends, and I have one, but I also could give a single shit if it went away. You know what I mean? What a good idea to keep you coming back. Well, that's just it. That's like in video games, right? Remember, so Erik and I used to play World of Warcraft, and they were smart though. That's when all this thing started where it's like, if you don't do this, you miss out on all these things until you were like, fuck, I have to log in. I have to get this done. And once that started, you're laughing. You know it's true though. you're getting like cosmetics and stuff or whatever in the game yeah like badass items like I want to do a be real streak and after a month I want to mail me like an Apple watch or something yeah that's just it I'll do that shit fuck I'll take a $50 Amazon gift card you don't even have to pull your titties out full circle I do have a little it's amazing what girls with great tits will do to get those babies up.

No, it'll be amazing what we will do to get that to happen. I got a little something for each of you guys. Uh-oh. More presents? Yeah, there's a couple gifts in there. Man, this is the best Christmas ever. And literally, they're the exact same so it doesn't matter who takes what. It's not like one of you has a bomb and the other one doesn't. Just a little something because I feel like this is just coming right. There's a couple things in there. Just be careful. So Shaun mentioned recently how you said last week By the way, I tried to find a Playboy for this episode, and I cannot find one. Yes. Because you said all I need is whiskey and a cigar and a Playboy, and I feel like we've got the perfect setup or something.

Oh, these are the Buffalo Trace ones. I've been wanting to try that. Those are from Matt. Matt gave me three of them, and so there's one for each of you guys. So we can celebrate some time with those. And then there's a couple other things in there, so just be careful how you pull it out. So, yeah, there's that. I figured this was coming. Yeah. The wrapping paper gave it away. Yeah. But there's also a scratcher so if you win I get half so yeah I told you I'm banged up. Why do we have to we gotta get the smear by the way ask me how long how soon I planned this When I stopped home to grab stuff I remembered I had some smear nofs from something and I was like ooh I bet I could throw together a quick thing. I figured you were playing this from when I got you No, I'm not there's as big of an asshole. It's those three things. That's it. Okay good I don't wanna I'm more just wanna diggin shit out I didn't want you to instantly assume it was an ice.

That's why I threw in a couple other things to maybe hide the scent a little bit. That's a good idea. I know. Thanks, buddy. I love you. And because I'm committed to this, I'm going to do it. I was going to say. Once you get iced, you got to fucking do it. But you're a dick right now. So this means you have to talk the entire time that we're doing this bullshit. It sounds great. I don't have to listen to you fucks, Ann. I just, yeah, it's fine. The funniest part of this is walking in and seeing Shaun and him going, I'm a little banged up. And I'm going, oh, fuck. Well, you're about to chug an ice on top of it.

so you're going to have to deal with that. Logan, I'm sorry I didn't ice you, but something tells me. You know what? We're going to be all right. I was going to say, I think we're going to be just fine. You and me. Good job, boys. Now, that's a new flavor I hadn't seen. Is it good? That's not bad.

Mixed with a cough drop? Kind of weird. Hold on, and then after some coconut milk, it's great. Let's just keep piling shit. My body's like a hodgepodge of different shit that I've had here today. You are a Petri dish. is there actually like a rule to this like liquor before beer thing at all i don't know that's something we should talk about time because you remember how everyone was so psychotic about that like it was liquor before beer you're in the clear i'm like dude all i know when i never sicker yeah when i was young i did it both ways and it didn't matter if you drank enough of whatever in whatever order it didn't end the importance is what does it do now because young people can do exactly yeah they get away with everything yeah like i don't know you don't throw up now you just fucking pay for it for four days.

A couple days, yeah. Say, I don't... Yeah, I don't know, man. I feel great today. Thanks, buddy. I'm really excited for these cigars. Yeah, shout out to Matt for the cigars. Thanks, Matt. That stemmed from... He was at a town at a wedding, and he Snapchat me. He knows I love Buffalo Trace, and they had a whole box of them. And he's like, I'm thinking about buying it. I'm like, I want the box. So, like, if you do, and you want to sell me the box, like, I just want the box. Do you have a humidor? I do. I got one. Yeah, I'll have you store it. If you want me to store them, then we can set a goal for these babies and sit down and drink.

So let's think about that. Let's share it with the group. This is kind of cool. Once winter is over. Yeah. Let's think of a goal that we could hit, and then let's sit back and enjoy these. You probably got a bottle of this. Buffalo Trace? A couple. Yeah. A couple. Yeah. We'll just take a mirror selection. I actually just the other day saw this. Somebody was doing a holiday gift set of all the Happy Van Winkles plus a Happy Van Winkles. Was that real? No, this guy made up the little samples. He literally took samples from each bottle and made up the bottles. It was cool. And he was selling them?

Yeah, a lot of money. How much? We had four different sets, and I think each one went for somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand each. And it was probably an ounce of each? Yeah. Jesus. So four ounces of bourbon and a cigar. Crazy, crazy. Yeah. Huh. It's crazy. Yeah, shout out to Matt for the cigars. He ended up, somebody bought a ton of them, but he was able to get three of them, and so he knows we're Buffalo Trays fans. That's awesome. What a great day with all these gifts. I know. We are spoiled, and we don't take it lightly, so we really appreciate it. I think it's time for dad joke. Yeah, it is.

I got one. I don't like this one already, though, because before we started, he started just snickering to himself, and I'm like, oh, fuck. Which basically just means Mike's not going to get it. Mike's going to be pissed off. Exactly. That's exactly what it means. what do you call a paper airplane that can't fly scratch paper that's kind of good I don't know stationary I got that one right away I would have never gotten that in a million fucking years by the way as bad as I want to I can't even be mad at that there was no chance that is really fucking good I will say were you literally googling paper plane dad jokes Paper airplane dad jokes.

Hey, we had a theme. See, I was going to say, if you can't tell we're committed to what we talk about, there you go. We put minutes of effort into this every week. Absolutely. Hey, by the way, boys, you got to swing by the way home, grab a lottery ticket. It's over a billion. 1.6. Worth it. So here's what's funny. It's worth the investment. I've done the math. It's worth the two bucks. Here's what's funny. Give two bucks to somebody else. Thank you, money manager Shaun. Yeah. I stopped I don't ever play No matter how big it's like I usually unless our friend Group goes like hey let's all go in and I'll do it But I stopped by the scratchers Last minute not planning on getting you guys Shit no offense but I was like well I I used to and I have the cigar so I'll do that and then so I was there I bought Two Powerballs so if I hit We're all gonna be okay We're gonna be doing a lot more traveling Podcasts on the road so Yeah So pack your shit boys I can travel I was going to say, I know you can pull it off.

Get your passport ready, Logan. I was going to say. But thank you guys for joining us. What a great one with the gifts. Thank you for thinking about us. We were in the spirit, so it's good to talk about Christmas stuff. We had a great weekend. I hope everybody else did too. Yeah, when this one comes out. So, hey, Merry Christmas to all you guys. We know that this is Wednesday before, so Christmas Eve. Yeah, we're thinking about you guys and your family, and thanks for joining us. Yeah. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, everybody. Check out, we got all our episodes out on YouTube now, and we're going to keep that up going forward.

Yeah, the new video and stuff on there is awesome, too. You can get it on Spotify, too. Yeah. By the way, that weirded me out. You told me it was going to happen, but I start playing it on Spotify in my car to re-listen for the first time, and all of a sudden we pop up. I'm like, what the fuck? It threw me off completely. I've talked to like 10 people, though, since we've been doing it. They're like, that's, I like, they're not like, I always listen to my car. Cause I've just always done that. But so many people aren't like that. They're like, no, I listen on YouTube. That's where I like to do things.

Yeah. And I like video with it. I was like, I want video like Chris and Sheena. Yeah. They would listen to us every Thursday and now they're going to hook up, put it on their TV on their garage and do it. You know what I mean? Cause they just like to see it. So hi Chris and Sheena, whatever camera. Yeah. Yeah. So we have episode eight through 44, which was our last week episode already out on YouTube and then we'll have this week's out there as soon as possible. So yeah. So if you're not subscribed, please go do so. And again, don't forget we love emails. So if you've got anything to talk about or if you just want to tell us we're stupid, whatever, we're fine with it. It's we're still cool, right? At gmail.com.

You gotcha. Any bad press is still press. Take it. I told you guys, oh, recently we had a TikTok kind of blow up and there was someone in there like, God, what did he say? Oh, so like, yeah, bro, let's start a podcast, bro. And I was like, bro, you in? there was a lot of there was a lot of hate on the uh candy bar podcast there was short yeah and i was like this is amazing it's so fun to read that stuff you know even if you're mad it's just like i enjoy reading it so um i made sure to click like on every one of them yeah so i will say we we got some shit there guy was like god where are all these guys with fucking backwards hats coming from. I'm like, your mom's house.

That's where. That was good. None of those guys look like they skipped a meal or something. Oh, yeah. They called us fat. Come on, buddy. We can do better than that. That's low-hanging fruit. I really did like the he likes to eat the Snickers vein side down comment. That was fucking great. Your response was the best. Did you see what I said? That's what the flavor is. That's so good.

Love a good chocolate. It was so good. We finally got Logan to die behind us. That's where all the flavors at. So if you're not eating your Snickers vein side down, you're really missing out. So do yourself a favor, and if Santa leaves one of those in your stocking, you know what I'm doing. I'm not thinking about Snickers having veins at all. Oh, yeah, yeah. And now that's the only thing you'll think of. Every time you open one of you, you'll be like, oh, God. Snickers are veiny. Not again. Yeah. Well, I'm supposed to turn it upside down and give this a try. Just eat a white taco and they're a little bit shorter.

So, yeah. Oh, you got it. Oh, God. Anyway, on that note, Merry Christmas. Exactly. We'll be back again. See you guys. Cheers.