Ghostrunners - 290 - Merry Christmas!

Episode Date: December 25, 2023

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Hey, Merry Christmas! Ho, ho, ho! If you guys are listening to this on Christmas, props to you. We appreciate it. Hope you're having a great Christmas with your friends and family. Yeah, hope it's been wonderful. We're going to do a shorter episode, just all around Christmas this episode.

And I figured we could start off by doing a little popcorn sing. Popcorn sing. Everyone knows what popcorn sing is. Christmas popcorn sing. So we're just going to go around and we're going to try to think about a song that's about Christmas and sing it. And the first person to forget or not do it in like five seconds or so

is the loser. So let's try it. I'm way more nervous than this deserves me to be. I want timing to be able to start because Jake feels like – Jake says like, I'm only going to be thinking of two. So Jake, you, well, either that or do you want to start? Because then you'll have like-

Can we start and get my two in? The pick of the- No, no. I'm just saying like, if Tymon starts, you have two spots to think about it. But what if Tymon and I

take one of your two? Yeah, let me get mine out of the way. Let me get mine out of the way. Okay. All right. I'll go first. Okay. And I've done-

And we're going to go around this way. Tymon, you're going to be honest. Okay. Great. We three kings of Israel. Excuse me? Did I mess up on the first one? Yeah, it's not the right words.

It's really not? It's we three kings of orient are really unless there's a different version hey there might be hey good for you thinking that way buddy that's so embarrassing silent night i i don't know how to i don't even think they're from israel i don't that's definitely not like where the the kings are alright alright that's Jake's song I just stopped at three kings

silent night holy night Israel yeah we three kings I'm so sorry I'm dreaming of a white

Christmas I'm second guessing the lyrics to every Christmas song I can think of right now. All right. Hark the herald angels sing. Israel is the best.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good job, good job. Joy to the world, the Lord is come. I forgot about that one. It's a big one. Come, they told me. Bum, bum, bum, bum. Do, do, do, do, do. Do, do, one. It's a big one. Come, they told me, ba-rum-ba-bum-bum. Da-da-da-da-do. Da-da-da-da-do.

Yeah. I'm gonna go rockin' around the Christmas tree cause Israel is here. Alright. Jingle bells, jingle bells. I forgot about jingle bells. Oh come, oh come Emmanuel.

Oh, good song. That's a good song. Frosty the Snowman, this is a Christmas song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, okay, okay, okay. 100%. Is this just a snow song? Away in a manger, no care for a bed.

Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose I'm gonna go longer because Jake is in a partridge in a pear tree five golden rings three kings of Israel

it's all part of the song it came upon a midnight clear Israel silver bells It came upon a midnight clear. Israel. Silver bells. Israel. Israel's time in the city. Thank you for going long.

Got one. Serious one. Oh, Mary, did you know that your baby boy... And then you guys know the rest. Would one day walk to Israel. I'm so dumb. Oh, little town of Bethlehem, how still we see Israel. Yeah.

Did you do Away in a Manger? Yeah. Oh, great. No, stop it. Oh, come all ye faithful. That was the only one I had left. That was the only one I had in the bank left. Triumphal and triumphant.

Oh, I'm racking my brain. Oh, come ye, oh, come ye to Bethlehem. Come and behold him. Born the king of ages. Born the king of... Oh, come let us adore him. I think I'm out. It's hard to think of songs.

Yeah. We've done a lot. You did well. I think I i'm out that's more than i thought i would tap out i can't i can't think of any more fire timing oh shoot i'm still in oh uh okay then oh no oh no i tied with timon yeah i'm five four three two one yeah Five, four, three, two, one. Yeah. Hit it, Brad. It's the most wonderful time of the year. I got plenty. Oh, holy night.

Stars are brightly shining. Maybe that's all I have. We wish you a Merry Christmas. Duh. Merry Christmas. Duh! We wish you a Merry Christmas. If you just believe. Oh, I can't believe I forgot. Sir, I want to buy these shoes.

Yes, that's what I was thinking! With my mom, for my mama, please. You guys know that one? No, with my mom. With my mama, please. I will trade you my mom for those shoes in the window. I went to Israel and she's right next to me. I can't believe I got Christmas shoes.

Gunner's favorite song. You want to sing it? Can you hurry, sir? Daddy says there's not much time. It's so sad. See, I sang this song for Hattie the other day. She's like, what does that mean? I was like, don't worry about it.

She's been sick for quite a while. Know these shoes will make her smile. And I want her to look beautiful when mama meets Jesus tonight. Jeez. Merry Christmas. Sad vibe Uh oh Ooh I think this tight beat Means that it's going down

With some random thoughts And white meat too Midwest best friends Eating fast food on repeat So come along Let's have some fun And go ahead Get on your feet

Cause this is The Ghost Brothers Podcast Ghost Brothers Podcast Everybody morning We're taking round Ghost Brothers Podcast Ghost Brothers Podcast All right, that's been popcorn. So that was popcorn.

On with the Christmas episode. On Donner, on Blitzen, on Christmas episode. Yep. In four and a half years. I don't think a Monday episode has ever fallen on Christmas before. We've never had that. We've never had a birthday episode until this year. Never had a solar eclipse land on this day.

Never had a meteor strike on this day. Never had Easter on Monday. Never had Easter. Never had an Easter on a Monday episode. So it's a big year. Big year. 2024 coming up. Leap year.

Say your calendars. Is that right? I think so. I mean, multiples of four, right? Is that right? Summer Olympics? Is that right? Dude, the Summer Olympics.

How great is the Summer Olympics? I know we said we're going to talk about Christmas, but. Let's do the opposite. Something about the United States just beating the daylights out of some country in basketball who doesn't have running water. Summer is basketball. Summer is the one that we really dominate. Yeah.

I mean, I am at my most patriotic at tip off of USA versus South Sudan. I mean, that is just like, come on, boys. Let's get them. Kevin Durant versus some guy who sells melons. Like throwing alley-oops behind the back. It is good. Have you watched that documentary? The Netflix one?

Yes, I did. Redeem Team? I remember watching it in an Airbnb on the road somewhere doing a comedy club weekend. That's a fun one too. Anyway, it's Christmas time. It's Christmas Summer Olympics time. Time and quick pop quiz.

When's Christmas this year? December 25th. Very good. This is the year that's crazy time and learned let's talk Christmas traditions

because I'm learning this is the first Christmas as married people me and Rachel Rachel's family they're everyone you know

open one gift at a time let's see if we can get this the last few days my family I grew up hey everyone just open them but you know we were kind of paying attention.

You get people, hey, mom, thank you. It was awesome. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. Okay. It was awesome. Dogs running around, chewing up wrapping paper. It's chaos.

It's fun. How many people in that group? None. Tiny family. Four. Okay. So that's how, that's why that works. I was going to say, I can't imagine the chaos.

Just go ahead, everyone. That would be wild. Because what do you guys do? It's always one at a time. Wow. Can I peel back one more layer of this, guys? Do you mind? Go ahead, peel.

Please allow. When are we doing this? We're talking first thing in the morning? We're talking Christmas Eve? We're talking after breakfast on Christmas morning? When are we opening the presents? I have qualms with people who open more than one gift the day before Christmas. Ding, ding, ding. That's what Catherine's family does. And then Christmas morning is a big old

letdown. Yeah. Bummer of a day. We do the entire thing on Christmas Eve. And that's what we do too. We have no bonus gifts, but I'm willing to allow, I'm willing to be okay with early Christmas gifts. Whoa, whoa, whoa. So you do a whole thing on Christmas Eve too? No, no, whole thing on Christmas Day. Sorry, maybe I misheard you. Okay, okay. But yeah, like, yeah, open one on Christmas Eve. If you're eight years old, yeah, that's kind of fun.

Yeah. But just save it for Christmas. It's like setting off fireworks at 8.15. Guys, just wait. Right. It's gotta be, just wait till nine. It's like, yeah, the golden hour is not the best time for fireworks.

Just wait until Christmas. Right. So you're saying you really prioritize the Christmas day. Yeah. Because that's December 25th. I've never really done. Which makes sense. Which makes sense why I was unsure.

No, but yeah, it's any, yeah, like our immediate family and my mom's side and my dad's side, it's always been one at a time. Wow. Yeah. Because it's, I mean, all decently big groups. Here's what's fun with that time is you're going to eventually get married and is going to get like, whatever, all you guys are going to get married. And all of a sudden you're going to realize that these dynamics, like some of your in-laws are not going to like those dynamics.

I think that's what it ha that's what happens. That's what happens when you get married. Cause all of a sudden it's like, well, other people in this group kind of disagree with what we're doing here. See it differently. We're like, why do you guys do it this way? You know? And then it's like, oh, I don't know. We've just always done it that way. You know? And like, I like to think I'm pretty, um, easygoing, but yeah, like Catherine's family takes forever to open gifts and, and, and I love it. I, I, I genuinely enjoy it. It's, it's, it's not bad. Like we usually open all the kids gifts first, like let the kids' gifts first, let the kids do their thing, put them to bed, and then we open our gifts. But Catherine's mom,

really Catherine's whole family, but Catherine's mom and Catherine especially, love telling you the story behind the gift. Love telling you where they got it, what they were thinking, how you could use it, and all of a sudden it's a five-minute per gift kind of thing. That could be a funny video. and how you could use it, you know, and all of a sudden it's a five minute per gift kind of thing. You know what I mean? That would be a funny video. Yeah. It's not just like, oh, shower radio, neat, you know.

Okay, who's next? Who's next? I got that at the Texas State Fair. This guy was selling them. I mean, he put a whole like lava, like he melted lava and put it on that shower radio and it still works. It's amazing. I don't know if i would have bought it if i wasn't also listening to a song on the car on the way there that reminded

me of you brad and turn it on turn on so okay yeah so that's the no that's not the that's what i was saying the dial was too it's not that one it might need batteries jerry do we have the battery i told him to put the batteries get some batteries real quick someone else check yourself i might have put the batteries in the stocking. Have you opened your stocking yet? You're supposed to open the stocking first and then that. So batteries these days. I mean, when did we start living in a AAA world?

Everything when I was a kid was AA, AA. And now it's all AAA. When did that happen? And it's like one of Catherine's family members. I won't say who, but it drives her crazy. Like she, every year it's like a tradition. Like she's going to say like, what do we have to take so long to open

these gifts? So, and I kind of get it. I'm kind of with them, but at the same time, I'm like, whatever, this is fine. I think it's cool to open them one at a time. The Coops do it that way. And it doesn't take crazy long because they don't have a big family. From what I remember last year going up there at Christmas, Rachel just had by far the most gifts to open. So like Rachel was just like, you guys could go, you guys don't need to keep watching me open gifts. Cause like, all right, we've all done one.

Our Rachel's got six more. I guess we'll just watch Rachel open the next six. Right. That's what my mom got smart to that. So my, my family growing up, we also opened them up one at a time. I loved it. Didn't have any qualms. Um, but my mom, I think eventually like, cause you can have five gifts that are all $10 or you can get somebody one gift that costs $75, but it looks like this person got way more. And so my mom for the kids, I think she started just putting all their gifts in one big box. And so you open up one gift and it has different things and it might, I might have one row back hoodie and that's all I have in there. Or somebody might have, you know, five things in there, whatever. So my mom's pretty, she's always thinking like

that. So fun. I think me and Rachel this year are going to try to, I guess it's, yeah, it's Christmas now. Well, nevermind. Who knows? I feel like... Okay. No, Steve Coop's not going to listen to this on Christmas Day. No way. I think we're trying to mess with him and wrap presents in the specific shape of something that's not actually the present. Nice. And also, we're getting him a gift.

We're going to put it in my iPad box. So just for a split second, like, oh my gosh. You guys... He starts crying. He takes off his readers. He's like, I was not expecting this. I was not expecting this. It's like, oh gosh, it's actually another Christmas break. I thought of, I don't know if I'll go through with this, but yeah, I bought the new Apple watch, um, for myself just cause I lost my last one. I was like, what if we could put it completely wrapped up the watch,

everything in the original box, and wrapped it up in Tommy and Corey's wrapping paper? Went and got their wrapping paper somehow, wrapped it up, and then pretended like it was addressed to me. Like, all right, this was from Tommy and Corey. Maybe Corey's like, I don't really recognize that. Whatever. It's in my wrapping paper, though.

Okay, whatever. Open it up, and it's an Apple Watch. Oh, my gosh. Everyone else got $20 gifts. Guys, this is crazy. Open it is crazy open up and there's an actual okay you guys are pranking me yeah open up well this is a brand new watch and just how uncomfortable would they be for like yeah i love that we didn't get them it wasn't no i i promise guys no and they have to be like all right this is kind of awkward but like we didn't get that for you next level would have been to like okay when you like bought it i know you got it at costco but like if you got an apple store you know how they

can engrave it on the back like we love you jake tommy and cory oh my gosh you guys like just like you know you could do that like just anything i've ever bought for myself and rave it from other people air AirPods from Angie. Love forever. Oh my gosh. You shouldn't have. Yeah. Oh, my sisters were so good at that back in the day.

My grandma would always give us $50. And I remember my sisters, without even hesitating, I opened mine. Like we all opened them together and pretend like we didn't know. Oh, $50. My sister would be like, whoa, 75. I got 100. And I'm like, what?

What? And I was like a third grader. I was like fired up about that. You know, it's like, how did you, no way. I guess you're older. So man, bummer. Yeah. That's a classic. You guys got a hundred bucks too. Yeah. But yeah, Catherine's family, Christmas Eve is a big one for them. And then they just do stockings and they do stockings similar to how it sounds like your family did presents where it's just like, here's your stocking. Oh, pick it out. Like, whereas we did stockings, like we always kind of do like gag gifts or like kind of silly things in the stocking and we would pick them out one by one and try to guess who got every like, like, Oh, let's see. Romance novel. Dad, is that from you? Yeah. Whoppers yeah whatever so that's fun yeah christmas is by far

the best time to establish traditions right you know in your own home someday and yeah it'd be fun yeah so we don't have i mean we're getting there with our traditions i think slowly but surely looking at christmas lights and haddie and i did that the other day because bo got punished and i was like you're not going to Christmas lights tonight. He's not, he's not taking a nap. So these days I'm just like, okay,

you're not going to Christmas lights. Just me and Hattie. But we went to the polar express the other day. That's I think the third or fourth year we've done that now at union station. It's like $3 and 50 cents for the IMAX screen at union station, polar express. Right.

So as a blast, we got there. That movie is just a scary looking movie. It's a very interesting movie. When was the last time you saw it? Have you seen it ever? I've never seen it. I had not seen it before I was a dad. I saw it a few years ago and then my siblings watched it recently

so I walked by a couple times and like man, just like they were, like their ideas for what they wanted it to look like were way like ahead of what they could do. The characters look so strange. Catherine's bothered by the way the characters look. I don't know when it came out,

but the CGI on it is pretty impressive. 2004. It's pretty advanced looking, but it's still cartoony. But you can tell this guy looks exactly like Tom Hanks like that is Tom Hanks as a character but Tom Hanks plays like six characters in the movie

does he really and like the main character doesn't even have a name like it's just a boy I think maybe Tom Hanks is that character's voice too well I don't think so I think he did the motion capture for him though I think Tom Hanks I feel like I could be wrong but I feel like he did the motion capture for like every. I think Tom Hanks, I feel like I could be wrong, but I feel like he did the motion capture for like every single character, like acting out their movements.

I don't know. There's just some random scenes in it. It's just an interesting, I mean, it's a sweet movie in some respects, but it's also like definitely intentionally supposed to be scary at times. And it's a kid's movie. And I'm like, like Bo's like, like scared a few times. Isn't there like a, some kind of like puppets scene? Yes.

Super random. Like you go through this. That was like weird when I watched it, like Isn't there like a, some kind of like puppets? Yes. Super random. Like you go through this. That was like weird when I watched it. Like when I was like 12, it was kind of like, what is this? Yeah. Yeah.

It's a, it's a sweet movie. It's a fun movie, but there's also some weird parts in it. I think if there were another movie playing at the union station, I'd probably go to that one instead, but it's like, let's go to,

we'll go to union station, go to polar express. So yeah, union station at Christmas time, nothing like it. You've been? I don't know. We'll go tomorrow. Go to Union Station and then you can take the link, you know, the indoor track to Crown

Center. There's almost always like a school there singing, like their choir singing Christmas carols and stuff at Crown Center. We ate dinner there. It was a lot of fun. So that was a lot of fun. So, um, that was a fun tradition. I'm trying to think of any others that were like really, I mean, obviously doing Advent studies and going to church and stuff is traditions. And then Catherine just decorates so

well for Christmas. Um, she's very, I feel like Christmas is the, is the holiday where you can go all out with your decorations without it being like, well, that's tacky. It's like, no, you need a lot of Christmas decorations. Yeah. That's how you're supposed to decorate. Like if you just go all out for spring, it's like, this is so, this is way too much spring. It's a little too busy for me here, but like with Christmas, it's like, yeah, throw all the garland up, put it everywhere. Yeah. So it, weren't you telling me one of your Christmas traditions is going to be made to roasters? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It already is. It's just like every single morning, Christmas morning, the kids get up, they smell the air,

and they think, Santa's been here, and so is Main Street Roasters. And Rachel can smell it from here. Rachel can smell it from here. Bloodhound can smell it. Bloodhound. Yeah. Main Street Roasters is on top. Main Street Roasters is sponsoring even our Christmas episode. Real nice folks over there

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Go support them today, tomorrow, whenever you can. Oh, they have K-Cups, by the way. Hey! Anybody who wants a K-Cup, they got them. Can't spell Christmas without K-Cups. That's right. Yeah, do you want to do some trivia? Some Christmas trivia, Tymon?

Let's do it. I just looked up... Okay, go ahead, Tymon. I'm just kidding. Yeah, what'd you find? This is an article that says, 50 fun Christmas trivia questions. That's great. I hope they're fun.

Let's do all 50 of them. Should we start rapid fire? No, I'm just kidding. Yeah. Okay, which popular Christmas beverage is also called Milk Punch? Gotta be eggnog. Good job.

Milk Punch. What did the other- Would you eat it? Would you drink it more if it was called Milk Punch? Have you tried it? Do you not like eggnog? I'll give Milk Punch a go this year. I don't even remember what it tastes like.

Oh, it's good. Unbelievably good. It's like a milkshake that's kind of got a little different taste and it's melted's pretty it's good unbelievably good it's like it's like uh it's like a milkshake that's kind of got a little different taste and it's melted a little yeah i got a nog this year it's i don't know why you wouldn't yeah all right all right what did the other reindeer reindeer not let rudolph do because of his shiny red nose uh playing any reindeer games good job like monopoly how many ghosts show up in A Christmas Carol? Three? Four.

I've never been in A Christmas Carol. Neither have I, really. Was it past, present, future? That's another, there's a movie of it that also has kind of creepy looking animation. Scrooged? Oh. No, it's like A Christmas Carol, but it's like Disney's, but it's like Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Where was baby Jesus born?

Israel? Bethlehem. Where was baby Jesus born? Israel? Bethlehem. Where were the three kings from? Yes. The movie Miracle on 34th Street is based on a real-life department store. What is it? Macy's. Good job.

Good job, Brian. I haven't seen that ever. What are the two other most popular names for Santa Claus? Saint Nicholas. Kris Kringle. Yep. Those are the two. Nailed it. Tag team. Elvis isn't going to have a white Christmas. He. Kris Kringle. Yep. Those are the two. Nailed it.

Tag team. Elvis isn't going to have a white Christmas. He's going to have a... Blue. One of my least favorite Christmas songs. Okay.

Blue Christmas, Santa Baby. Santa Baby. Santa Baby. I'll change the channel every time. Okay. What do people traditionally

put on top of a Christmas tree? Star. Star of David. This is an angel but i really i would think star but i do see angel christians christians we've done we've done both uh in home alone where the mcallister's mcallister's going on vacation when they leave kevin behind oh home alone in home alone where are they headed home alone is france paris yes paris that's what i was gonna say too but i was like that's home alone Home Alone where are they headed? Home Alone is France Paris Home Alone 2 is Florida In the classic Christmas movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas The Grinch was described with three words What are they?

It's kind of like a Stink stank stonk From the song We sung that in choir one time Three words to describe you are as follows. Stink, stank, stunk. I can't remember the tune. Let's see.

In the movie It's a Wonderful Life, what happens every time a bell rang? Angel gets put on top of the tree. Angel gets its wings. Let's see. You seen that one? Never seen it. Which Hollywood actor plays six different roles

in Polar Express nice Tom Thomas Hanks yes Chet's Chet's dad which country

did eggnog come from I'm gonna say it's gotta be like a Nordic country yeah it feels like a Eastern European eggnog is what if it's

the United States Minnesota I'm gonna go Sweden I'm going to go Sweden. I'm going to go... Give us a hint if we get it wrong. I'm going to go... That's a good guess. The Netherlands.

Okay, our hint is... I'll drink some eggnog with my tea and crumpets. Oh, yeah? The UK? England. Yeah. I knew what he said. What did Frosty the Snowman do when a magic hat was placed on his head?

What was it? What did Frosty the Snowman do when a magic hat was placed on his head? When they placed it on his head, he began to dance around. Did he? Jake's like, I don't know. I was imagining. I've seen that movie back in the day. Let's see.

Which Christmas song contains the lyric, everyone dancing merrily in the new old-fashioned way? Okay. Rocking around the Christmas tree. Good job. Fun fact about that. I learned this last week. That song, Brenda Lee is the Fun fact about that. I learned this like last week. That song, Brenda Lee is like the person who sings it.

Brenda Lee sounds like she's 60 years old. She was 13 when she sang that song. Whoa. That does sound like an old lady song. Blew my mind. That's crazy. 13? I looked it up.

That's the one that's like, Rockin' around. I bet she's still doing just fine right now. How old is that song? I just thought it was an old lady from the 1800s who made that song. Yeah, this woman is currently 79 years old. Okay. And that song came out

in 1958. That song came out in 1958. Wow. Looks like she did. There is a video of her singing it recently. Yeah, we're doing it recently. Rock and roll. Yeah, with her dead shrimp. Rock and roll. All right, give us a few more, Tom.

All right. What are you supposed to do when you find yourself... I'm going to do some harder ones. Please. These are very hard. Which country started the tradition of putting up a Christmas tree? That... USA.

Frickin' USA. You would think France Brazil Germany dang it freak them I knew it was somebody

who'd done something bad in the song Winter Wonderland what do we call the snowman Frosty let me think Parson Brown

yes yeah what and pretend that he is Parson Brown that lyric none of that those lyrics don't make sense what's a Parson Brown. Yes. Yeah. What? And pretend that he is Parson Brown. That lyric, none of that, those lyrics don't make sense. What's a Parson Brown? I think Parson's like a preacher, I think.

Is it? Because then they say. Oh, Parsonage. It's like, oh, you could like marry. We'll say, are you married? We'll say no, man. What does any of that have to do with Christmas? Also, we didn't even say that in our opening songs.

We didn't talk about this song. I know, there's a bunch. Walking in a winter wonderland. What's that other song that now is like under fire? It's the duet. It was in Elf. Oh, maybe it's Cold Outside. Yeah. That song has always been a little, yeah, like, what is this? I think it's

Really can't stay? Yeah, you can. Come on. You're fine. Come on. You're fine. Come on. You're fine. Do you want to go outside? It's freezing cold out there. Yeah, baby, it's cold.

I'm not going to warm up the car for you. According to the song, what did my true love give to me on the eighth day of Christmas? Oh, don't do that. Don't do that. Eighth day. All right, from the top.

Twelve. Drummers drumming. Is it drummers drumming? Because of the. From the top. 12. Drummers drumming. Is it drummers drumming? Because of the office. Oh, Andy. 12 drummers drumming. Merry Christmas. Take it away, bud.

12 drummers drumming. 11. Pipers piping. Pipers piping. 10. Lords of leaping. Really? I don't know.

I don't know any of these. What's geese-a-laying? I don't know. Keep going. Do that thing. That was helpful. 10 geese-a-laying. 10. 9. Ladies Keep going. Do that thing. That was helpful. Ten geese-a-laying. Nine ladies dancing.

Eight maids-a-milking. Good job. Oh! Nice. Oh! I did not think I knew that. Seven swans-a-swimming. Yeah.

Six geese-a-laying. Five golden rings. Four calling birds. That's a yeah for that. Three French hens. Two. Da-da-da. Partridge.

Partridge. Partridge. That started in Germany. What was the highest grossing Christmas movie of all time? We each get a guess. Yeah. Highest grossing. May the most.

I'd say, I think Inflation would tell you to choose something the more recent. Yeah, it seems like it's always a recent. Like Elf seems like a good idea. I have's always a recent like elf seems like a good idea. I guess Polar Express seems like a decent idea. I'm going to go Home Alone 2 kind of against what I just said before this because Home Alone had the hype was so big. Home Alone honestly might have done just fine. Maybe.

Home Alone 2? No, no, no. Sorry. My guess is Elf. Elf? Okay. It was Home Alone. Ah! He gave us a chance. Man, that's crazy. Sorry. My guess is Elf. Elf? Okay. It was Home Alone. Frick!

He gave us a chance. Man, that's crazy. Let's see. Any more of these? Good for Home Alone. Seriously. It almost didn't get made. No one even knew this kid?

There's a brand new movie franchise? Yeah. Was he an Uncle Buck? One could argue that it's not a Christmas movie other than that it's just like takes place during Christmas time. That was the stupidest thing you've ever said in your lifetime. That's what every Christmas movie is. Well,

Elf is about, I see what you're saying. It's about Christmas. Elf. Like he is a Christmas elf. Like he's the main character. Yeah. I don't know,

but I agree. I mean, every Christmas movie, it's because it takes place around Christmas, but every Hallmark Christmas movie, they're not Christmas characters. They're not reindeer. They just take place.

Yeah. I think that's a flaw. I mean, you did, you can say that for half the Christmas movies. Yeah. Yeah Christmas characters. They're not reindeer. They just take place. Yeah, I think that's a flaw. You can say that for half the Christmas movies. Yeah, there's an old pitch meeting where the guy, have you seen those videos? TJ loves those. Yeah, there's an old one at Home Alone. He says that. But then he did a readdress that he was like, actually, that kind of isn't as good of a take as I thought back then.

That's fair. Okay, maybe one more. Sure. Three of Santa's reindeer's names begin with the letter D. What are those names? Donna, Dasha, Dasha. Good job.

Good job guys. I was getting ready to quiz you about Home Alone, Brad. So it's on imdb.com, Home Alone. And they clicked on trivia, which it's not trivia. It's just fun facts.

Which is what trivia means. Yeah, you're right. Trivia questions. Yeah yeah and we just talked about this but not really the movie home alone was entered into the guinness book of world records as the highest box office gross comedy cool is that still the case 477 million that's crazy yeah good jobies. Highest grossing comedy movies. Number one is Barbie. Number two is Hi Mom. Never heard of that. Never even heard of it.

Barbie hit the billions. Wow. $1.4 billion. Holy cow. Post-COVID too. That's impressive. Yeah. I can try to make some of these into trivia questions.

Or just read something and leave something blank. See if I can fill it in. I love Home Alone. The movie originally had more scenes of blank, several blanks in there, more scenes of blank, blank, blank, blank, but test audiences wanted to get back to blank.

I have a guess. May I? You may. The original cut had much more scenes of I've only seen this once a long time ago, so I'm going to do my best. Barely know what this movie is. Are you interjected immediately? May I? Time had a little look to him, too. He's like, may I? Brad's thinking, so I'll go ahead i had like a little like look to him too he's like may i brad's thinking so i'll go ahead i saw this one go ahead i'm guessing it had more like

um of like destruction of the like bad guys but they wanted to get back to the other part of the story. I think it's the opposite. I think it had more of Old Man Marley. The Old Man character. But people are like, no, that's not why we're here. We're here for the slapstick. The movie originally had more scenes of the

family in Paris. The test audiences wanted to get back to Kevin. That's interesting. So they shot the whole movie, edited it, and then sent it to test interesting. So they shot the whole movie, edited it, and then sent it to test audiences. Do they do that for every movie? They should. I think a lot.

Yeah. It'd be cool to see a rough cut of the movie. That'd be so cool. Give feedback, and then you go out and see it. Like, oh, wow, they took my feedback. I've gone to sneak preview one time. C-Spot Run. C-Spot Run.

Remember that movie? What, did you see it when you were eight? Yeah, like 12 or something. I don't know how old. Yeah, whatever. I saw it when I was pretty young. I saw it like five days before it was supposed to come out. Wow.

And it was the most full theater I've ever been to. It was for C-Spot Run. Wow. Yeah, I saw that. That's funny. It was awesome. It had Angus from Two and a Half Men in it, didn't it? I don't know who that is.

He was in The Rookie. He's the little boy in The Rookie. Oh, okay. His name's Angus? I'm saying a lot of stuff right now. His name's Jake in Two and a Half Men. No, the actor. I think his name is Angus. Oh, saying a lot of stuff right now his name is jake and two and a half men no he uh the actor i think his name is angus oh okay angus t jones boom smart again sorry about the israel comment earlier yeah release date 2001 okay so yeah sometimes cool um sorry i got a little cut up there. Let's see. Sorry, there's some Joe Pesci stuff in here.

Director Chris Columbus. How about that? How about it? Biggest fear as a kid was blank. It's a part of why you wanted to make this movie. Was being left alone. Okay. Diamond, you love this movie. My first thought. I'll take a crack at this one guys mind if i yeah uh his biggest fear was being burglarized bang got it his biggest

fear was burglars okay so that's why i wanted to make this um all right john candy Candy had almost all of his dialogue improvised he also filmed his part only one day how many hours was that one day? who is John Candy? he is the big guy

he's in the you gotta know John Candy he's not a very big part in the movie he's the one that takes his mom home in the you gotta know John Candy no he's like not a very big part in the movie he's the one that towards the end takes his mom home in the bus like his band

he's got a band very big they're in like the back of like a truck or something yeah polka polka it has been a while

since I've seen this movie yeah he's got a small but significant role he's like but he's a pretty popular actor that died pretty young from drugs

or alcohol. I think he took eight hours. No less. Five hours. That's why it's trivia because it's like pretty, pretty amazing how quickly he did it. It's the other direction. John Candy filmed his part in only one day, albeit a 23 hour day. Wow.

That must have been before like SAG restrictions, but you can't do that. Wow. That must have been before SAG restrictions. You can't do that now. Wow. Okay. Oh, here we go. Child labor laws. Macaulay Culkin was only allowed to work on set blank hours a day. Four. Okay.

Diamond? Eight. Five. Had the hours right in the last one. Yeah. Apparently he would sleep on the floor a lot too. Sounds like good conditions. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, he reached his limit, so we just gave him a little pallet on the floor. I don't really get this trivia. The movie is considered a traditional Christmas movie in Poland. You hear that, Tymon? Polish think it's just fine. Oh, okay. I'll keep reading.

It has aired on national television during primetime Christmas season every year since 1990. In 2010, the movie was scheduled not to air in Poland, but was broadcast after over 90,000 people protested. Oh, that's cool.

Yeah. It's like, we need Home Alone. There's no other way to watch it. There's no way to buy it. In 2011, the movie aired on December 23rd with an audience of over 5 million, making it the most popular show aired during the Christmas season in Poland. That's pretty cool.

5 million. Wow. Pretty impressive. People show up and put Macaulay on the screen. I love me some home run. Let's see if there's anything else. There's one in here that you told me about back in the day, that Buzz's girlfriend is a boy. It's a picture of a boy

because he didn't want to make a girl feel bad. Buzz your girlfriend. It was the director's son. I was going to say, it's somebody even connected to the... Alright, last one. See if I can make this into a question. Joe Pesci deliberately blanked

Macaulay Culkin on set because he wanted Culkin to think he was blank. You can go a lot of ways with this one. He deliberately gave him the cold shoulder or whatever because he wanted them to think that he was scary. Basically.

He avoided him to make him think he was mean. That's pretty interesting. Have you seen any other movies with Joe Pesci? Have you seen Casino? Casino's good. My Cousin Vinny. Yeah. My Cousin Vinny.

Goodfellas. I haven't seen Goodfellas. Isn't he in Goodfellas? Anyway, yeah, he's like, I mean, he just cusses up a storm in these movies. And so then, yeah, like, for Home Alone, he would cuss every time he would, like, fall or something. He'd be like, Joe, you can't. This is a kid's movie. You can't cuss. And so that's why he's always like, shiver, shiver, frig every time he would fall or something. He'd be like, Joe, this is a kid's movie. You can't cuss.

And so that's why he's always like, shiver, shiver, fridge, shiver, shiver. Which I read about this. What word was he instructed to say instead of the F word? It's a different F word. I think it's fridge, right? Yeah, good. That's what he says all the time. Yeah.

That's what I say. Yeah. Well, no. He's a good fellow. He's a freshman. Home Alone, Casino, Home Alone 2. So good. that's what I say yeah when I hit my well no people say good fellas yeah he's an artsman Home Alone Casino

Home Alone 2 so good yeah there's a really cool like oral history of Home Alone somewhere maybe I can find it

but like look it up if you want to know more because it's very interesting like it almost didn't get made and then like John Williams

who's like the super famous conductor composer that did Jurassic Park, Star Wars, E.T., whatever, all the Indiana Jones, all these huge things.

John Williams got on board and then it went from this kind of good movie to all of a sudden they heard it with the music and they're like, this movie's going to be amazing. That's fun. I'm pretty sure it's the same director, producer, whatever that did Christmas Vacation the year before, which is also pretty crazy. Oh, interesting. I'm pretty sure it's the same director, producer, whatever, that did Christmas

Vacation like the year before, which is also pretty crazy. Oh, interesting. John Hughes, I think. So anyway, pretty fun times. Cool. I should have found that info, but great. Let's just wrap it up with a little message from Good Ranchers. Yeah. Oh, what about in Home Alone when he goes, a delicious microwave dinner just for me. Just for me. I do that with Main Street Ranchers.

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Merry Christmas. Tymon, take them away. Happy New Year. Well done.