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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Friday, December 20, 2024
Episode summary introduction:
We play acceptable or not, happy anniversary to text messaging, football players give the best gifts, there are a couple of new Christmas movies in theaters, the Grinch had wickedness thrust upon him, you’re uncultured or unpasteurized, Chantel found the greatest Christmas album of all time, the Misfit Island Christmas Light Spectacular, there are a lot of rules about giving gifts to the folks that deliver packages, and Scut Farkus has an adorable hat collection.
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Full show transcript:
This is Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast. It's a replay of today's full show. It's Friday, December 20th. Friday, December 20th. Today, the show, we play acceptable or not.
It's probably mostly not acceptable. I don't remember. Happy anniversary to text messaging. Yeah. And thank goodness we got rid of t 9.
Yeah. T 9 was bad. Football players give the best gifts, some of them. They're good gifts all around. Yeah.
That's true. Some of them are more heartwarming than others. There are a couple of new Christmas movies in theaters. How are you feeling? Nah.
Meh? Meh. Okay. The Grinch had wickedness thrust upon him. Yeah.
See, some people are born wicked, but then some people have wickedness thrust upon them. Yeah. You know what else? He's green. Isn't that interesting?
Isn't that interesting? Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You're uncultured or unpasteurized? Yes. I found the greatest Christmas album of all time. I won't listen to the whole thing. I you're reading this.
The whole thing. Before you write these and I just read them, but I it's not my favorite. It's not my favorite. It is your favorite, but not mine. And we're gonna listen to the whole thing as a family gathered around.
The Misfit Island Christmas Lights Spectacular. A fantastic name. There are a lot of rules about giving gifts to the folks that deliver packages. Did you know that? I did not.
And Scut Farkas has an adorable half collection. Yes. He He does. And you get to wear them if you hang out with them. That's true.
Yeah. Thanks for listening to the show. We hope that you'll subscribe wherever you listen and wherever you're listening now. And rate the show so other people can find it easier. That helps us out.
Find us on YouTube and all over socials. Just search for wake up classy 97. Here's today's show. Good morning. Oh, good morning.
How are you today? Great. I'll tell you why it's great. Why? Because it's Friday.
It is Friday. It's the Friday before Christmas. It's, the final day of school for a lot of kids. Some people some kids already have school out. This is true.
Some some are already on holiday breaks. Some are already sleeping in going, you fools, we're out. Yeah. I want that. Me too.
That sounds real nice. Couple of weeks of just resting, sleeping in. And the thing is, most kids, their parents still have to work. Right. So they're home alone, and their mom says, hey.
Maybe you could load the dishwasher today. And they're like, I'll get around stuff. I'll get around to it. Yeah. Maybe in between Fortnite battles.
And then mom gets home, and they go, why didn't you load the dishwasher? It was it was Fortnite. I forgot. Yeah. And I know time got away from me.
Oh, you rotten kids. I know it. It's games day, so you could play some games. I like games. Yeah.
All kinds of games, board games, strategy games, video games. Games. Mobile games. Yard games. Sure.
Reindeer games? Yeah. Yeah. It's also Go Caroling Day. Oh, we talked about this.
Yeah. And it is ugly Christmas sweater day. Is it? Yes. It is.
It happens once a year. We had an ugly Christmas sweater party last night. Yeah. You and I went dressed as, matching twin Santa shirts. Now how did you feel about the matching twin Santa shirts?
I liked it. Yeah. I wish that you would let my Santa kiss your Santa. I know. It was strange.
You wanted to, like, chest bump Santas. Yeah. Not chest bump. Yeah. A nice squeeze.
Oh. Strange. You never let me have any fun. But there were some ugly sweaters, involved. There was a Bill Cosby one.
Bill Cosby sweater. That was a sweater. Like a horse, a pink horse one that our son was wearing. It's a unicorn. Sure it is.
It's it is something else. I'll tell you that. There's some good ones. Let's see. Anything else, of note happening today?
I don't think so. K. Well, that's what's going on. It's Friday. It's Friday.
Woo hoo. And we're here, and it's Josh and Chantel, and good morning. Hey. Hey. Good morning.
Alright. I'm gonna give you some gift items. I want you to tell me if you think they're acceptable or not. Okay. Okay?
I think I understand. Okay. It's not difficult to understand. Don't tell me my business. Okay.
This one's not necessarily a gift, but leaving the price tag on a gift, acceptable or not? It's it's unacceptable. Unacceptable? Yeah. I mean, look.
I I'm saying that sounds harsh. Yeah. It is. Because you've given me 2 criteria, acceptable or unacceptable. It's not like, I don't ever do this or, you know, like, you go to jail.
Like, it's not that level unacceptable. You've given me 2 choices. Okay. It's black or white. It's an accidental thing sometimes, and then you feel like a goof because you you maybe didn't want somebody to know how much or how little that you spent.
Yeah. That's cute. Then we did it backwards. Well, you know, half empty, half full, all that. Giving a pet is a gift.
Unacceptable. I'm on the fence about that one. This is a terrible game so far. I know. Why are you on the fence?
Because I think, here's Our kids got a pet for Christmas. I know. But but it was, it was a shared responsibility decision. And I think sometimes people don't do it on like, they they'll do it, but not understand that that's now something that you have to take care of for its entire life. Yeah.
That's a a live bait. It's a big deal. Like, yes, it's fun and it's cute and it's a puppy or a kitten or a rabbit or whatever, but, it's a big responsibility that you've put on somebody. So I I just wanna say it's a little gray area for me. These are all gray areas for you.
I overthink. Alright. Giving a gift that's secondhand or used. I think that's totally acceptable. I think that's acceptable too.
Not giving a gift to a close family member. I sure, I guess. I don't know your situation. Asking for cash is a gift. I think that's fine if that's what you wanna do and somebody wants to follow through.
Throwing away wrapping paper instead of recycling it. I don't recycle it. Where we live. And, where we live happens to not have a solid plan for recycling, so I would say acceptable. Okay.
You finally answered 1 finally. Giving someone else's child a gift that makes a lot of noise. Ah, totally acceptable. Do it and then run away. Giving a gag gift instead of a serious one.
Sure. I guess, you know, whatever. I don't think everything has to be all serious. Yeah. I don't think so either.
Giving a gift that's wrapped. Acceptable? Unwrapped. Sorry. Unwrapped.
Acceptable? I think giving a gift is nice. Yeah. Returning a gift. Fine.
That's part of after the holidays. Fine. Giving cash as a gift? Sure. Get we I was like, we just said that one, but that was asking for cash.
Right. Giving cash is fine. Right. Where's the other one? There was one more.
Did I say waiting until the last minute to shop for gifts? No. Done it. Doing it now. Give me a heart.
Might as well say that's acceptable. It was not my plan. We just got waylaid Yeah. By a lot of activities. Okay.
Well, there you go. Acceptable or not? It was a game. Initially, I thought I read the date wrong, and I thought today was the day, but today is not the day. It happened much earlier in December.
But What was it? I'm still gonna talk about it. The first ever text message. Oh. It was sent on December 3, 1992.
Really? Yeah. Do you know what it said? LOL. Nope.
No. No. Hi. Merry Christmas. No kidding.
No kidding. On December 3rd. Yeah. Okay? He sent it.
It was Neil Papworth who sent the world's first text message. He was working on text messaging features. Mhmm. He sent it from his computer to Richard Jarvis Jarvis. At a Christmas party.
Uh-huh. And it was sent to Jarvis's mobile phone from a computer. Wonder what it looked like. The what? Like I bet it Which phone did he have?
M and ended with an s. It was what year? 1992. So what phones existed in 1992? Do you see what I'm saying?
Yeah. Okay. It was probably the Nokia 101, if I had to guess. Okay. I'm pretty sure it was gonna be the Nokia 101.
At that time, mobile phones didn't have keyboards, so Jarvis wasn't that one. He couldn't respond. So he just got the text message, and then was like, well, Gary's phone. Well, interesting. I wonder what phone was then.
Because when you got to Nokia introduced their text friendly phones Yeah. In 1993. So it wasn't a Nokia. Interesting. And then in 1995, t 9 Yeah.
Had Became a thing. Remember t 9? Yeah. Kids these days What a pain. Never know t 9.
Nokia did have a the Nokia 100 and the Nokia 101 came out in 1992, both of those. So there's a little bit of information discrepancy there. In late 92, they both came out with keypads that had the alphabet on them just like a regular phone. Oh. Landline phone.
So that's existed, but maybe it didn't have a texting functionality, but it did certainly have a keypad. And then you remember the big brick phone, the Zack Morris phone. Yep. Right? That one, also had a big keypad and a tiny little screen, but I suppose it could have figured out how to how to display a message.
It would have been very robotic looking. It would have been, like, calculating letters. Well, so the this thing I'm reading says Nokia released the 90,001 communicator that had the full QWERTY keyboard. Yeah. That one was cool.
That was the first Do you remember that? Texting phone. Like, I mean, the sidekick was cool with the, swing out screen and the full keyboard underneath it. There were a couple of really cool phones. Once they started introducing the full QWERTY keyboard in there, but the buttons were so small.
I didn't get a phone until 2,000. 2,000. Yeah. Same. That was my first cell phone.
Yeah. Same. So I didn't pay attention to those. That's right, kids. We existed before the Internet and before cell phones.
And before text messaging. That's right. We're so cool. I was 10 years old when the first text message was sent. 11.
Yeah. I was happy happily living my life. I know. Someone across the pond was getting a text message. Merry Christmas, it said.
And he said, nothing because he couldn't respond. Yep. Exactly. This is one of those stories that you're gonna be, pretty envious about. You're gonna go, why can't that happen to me?
Oh, man. Are you prepared? I'm ready. Go. Well, this comes from New York.
It's a story, where, there was a guy who was doing some yard work, and, he found a couple of teeth Ew. That were I don't want that to happen to me. They were con yeah. You do. They were concealed by the fronds of a plant on his property.
And upon further investigation, the homeowner unearthed 2 additional teeth just inches underground. And now you're thinking I don't want that to happen to me. These teeth are huge. What happened, is they brought in an excavation crew from the museum and, some faculty from, the the community college in town. Okay.
And they found a full, well preserved mastodon jaw No way. Belonging to an adult individual as well as a piece of a toe bone and a rib fragment. No way. They found a mastodon jaw in this dude's backyard. Where was this at?
In New York. Okay. That's pretty cool. I know. I do want that to happen to me.
Are huge. These aren't, like, little, you know, animal teeth. Looked at pictures. Yeah. They're it's a big old it's big old teeth.
I am always amazed that people can find stuff. You would think that We've dug everything up. We've dug everything up, but also things just get more and more buried. Right. That's what's strange about this only being a couple of inches below dirt, I think, really.
The discovery is a testament of the rich paleontology paleontological history, that's a huge word, of New York and the ongoing efforts to understand its past. That is from, one of the, directors of research and collections at the ice age animals at the New York State Museum, which is kinda cool. He said the mastodon jaw provides a unique opportunity to study the ecology of this magnificent species and will enhance our understanding of the ice age ecosystems for this region. Now these were, diverged from elephants and mammoths 27000000 years ago. They died out around 11000 years ago.
So not that long ago I'm in the perspective of things. Looking at the teeth, these the picture of these teeth, it looks like edging, like garden edging. It kind of does. Yeah. So if I discovered those, I'd be like, what are these weird rocks?
I would have just tossed them. I would have been like attached to the whole jaw bone beneath. You see? Oh, I do see. Like, there's a whole jaw bone, and there's some rotted ones.
Like, you see the white teeth. Yeah. But then there's also that, like, black rotted out dirt clogged looking teeth as well. Really fascinating. That is cool.
Yeah. I do want that to happen to me. I know. You wanna find teeth in the yard. Not teeth in the yard.
Weirdo. No. I just wanna I wanna unearth a cool fossil. Yeah. Man.
Be pretty fun. Nothing cool ever happens to me. That's not true. Nothing like that has ever happened to you. I never unearthed any fossils.
You're not out there digging either. No. That's true. You gotta get a shovel if you wanna find some bones. Or a metal detector.
Bones don't show up on that. No. But you can find other cool stuff. That is true. That's absolutely true, And it's good news to get you going.
Hey. You wanna What's up? You know how you like football? Yes. And you know how you like, football players and the stories that go on in the background of football players?
Some of them. Some of them, I don't like. Well, okay. Are kinda jerks, but there's some that are really cool. Listen.
We're gonna start by talking about, Miami Dolphins Anthony Walker Junior. I don't know that guy. He, did a really kinda cool surprise, and I I saw this video. He posted on Instagram. He figured out all of the high schools that all of the Miami Dolphins players went to.
Oh, yeah. I saw this. And he had grown up adult real jerseys made, with their high school names, high school logos, the number they wore in high school, on those jerseys and had them made up for every player on the team, which is really super cool. That's really cool. It's a cool, cool gift.
Because it's gotta be hard to be a millionaire Yeah. And buy for your millionaire friends. Right. What do you get? Oh, you have a room full of shoes.
I can't buy you any of the shoes. You've got all the car accessories you could possibly think of. Yeah. Yeah. You don't need more vacations.
It's it's really cool. That is cool. And they did them in you know, it it's kind of, you know, not the style of jersey that you would get from your high school. They were all the same kind of style of jersey, but they have the school logo on, like, the sleeve and the chest, the name of the school, and the jersey number they wore. I mean, and every single player was, like, surprised and just lit up about it, in the locker room when you hand them to him.
I think it's such a cool That nostalgic thing. Such consideration and planning. Yeah. So that guy He's been working on that for a while. He has been.
And that's that's what makes that gift extra special is because he really put some thought into that, and he really went the extra mile to make he had to reach out to find out what all of their high schools were, what their numbers were, and then he had to find somebody to do it. That's he put some time. So that's one way to do gift giving. Here's the other way to do gift giving. No.
Over in the, chief's locker room, Patrick Mahomes delivered some gifts. He unloaded a Yeti cooler full of goodies for the offensive linemen who it is their job to keep him standing so that he can throw the ball. Right? So here's what he did. He did the, the Yeti cooler.
It's a red Yeti cooler. I'm trying to see everything that's in here. It's he's got there's a watch. There's glasses. There's these horrendous cowboy boots.
There's, this this, like, at home cryo leg thing. So you can it's like these big pants you put on, but they're, like, for healing so they can keep their legs, you know, strong. Okay. There's just a bunch of stuff in here. Just So a ton of stuff.
Loaded these Yeti coolers up with stuff. Basically, yeah. He just threw money at him. Yeah. Yeah.
Look at how cool I am. Including the terrible cowboy boots. They're just I'm just being gator. I know that. That's nice.
A gift is a gift is nice. I just think it's interesting, the two styles. You get one guy who's like, I'm gonna throw extravagance at you, and then you get the other guy who's like, I took the time to get to know what high school you went to, what your mascot was, what your number was, and reproduced a high school jersey. Those are 2 different mentalities. Two different kinds of gifts.
No. It didn't. Not one is better than the other. Just 2 different styles of gift giving. And it's interesting to see the contrast.
That's all I'm saying. That's all. That's it. End of story. Yeah.
That's it. You know? And then to be somebody like Patrick Mahomes who is, you know, he's done this for his o line for a long time, And then to go, oh, how do I top what I did last year? I gave everybody a scooter or gave everybody a whatever. Why Yeah.
I start low. Like, here, have a cookie? So the expectations are they can only go up. Here's a cookie. Yeah.
Low bar. Yeah. And then next time you go, I brought in brownies. You go, that's better than a cookie. That's how I live my life.
Just start off small. Smart. Keep it Super smart. Low. You were talking about whether we should try to see a movie over the, Christmas holiday Yeah.
Kinda stretch. But I looked, and there wasn't anything that I was super excited about. There are 2 new movies that are out this weekend. You're right. We have seen a couple of the of the, like, we've seen Wicked.
And we've seen Red One. And the new movies that are out this weekend are the new, Mufasa. Meh. Yeah? Mhmm.
Meh? Mhmm. Okay. Here's here's what Moana. Critic says is that Mufasa is fine, and most families will be satisfied.
Yeah. But the jubilant imagination that went into the original makes this one looks, look kinda pale. Exactly. And that's how I see when I see the trailer, I go Yeah. CGI.
A lot of CGI. I, I like that Lin Manuel Miranda did the music in. I did not know that. And he worked with, he he said, one of his favorite albums of all time is the Lion King soundtrack from the animated Lion King with Elton John. He said every single song of that, it's a no skip.
He said you you you don't skip one of them. You sing along. You love them. They're great. I did know that.
So he works, he worked a lot with, some of the original people that were on that, soundtrack. The The Lion King? The animated Lion King? The animated Lion King. Yeah.
So it it's gonna have a lot of familiar sound and a lot of that. And Lin Manuel Miranda is fantastic at what he does. So Musical genius. So maybe don't go for the movie, but maybe go for the Lin Manuel Miranda experience. Well, I'm not gonna go spend money at the movie.
I'll just wait for it to come out on streaming. Alright. That's fair. So next. The other one that came out this week is Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
No. Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz. I love I love both of those people. Mhmm. Ben Schwartz is so funny.
You get Sonic. You get Knuckles. You get Tails, and they're all reunited against a powerful new adversary. Shadow. No.
Yeah? Next. That's it. Those are the 2 new movies. Oh my gosh.
Where's I know. Movie studios? It's Christmas week. Yeah. Come out with cool stuff.
That's why it came out with Mufasa and Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Not it. That's not it, guys. Do better. Do better.
You're so cranky about it. I am cranky about it. I wanna go see a movie, and those two movies are not it. So the other movies that are in theaters right now, you mentioned Moana 2. I I haven't seen that.
I wouldn't mind going to see that. I like Moana. There's a a horror movie called Nosferatu. It's the remake of the old vampire movie. I'm not so much interested in that.
No. You hate horror movies. Kraven the Hunter is a Marvel movie. No. And it flopped at the box office.
No. Next. We have not seen Gladiator 2. No. We haven't seen that.
I don't know. Like That's it. We could go see Wicked again. We could go see Wicked again. I wouldn't be mad about going to see Wicked again.
That's kinda what's up, though. Not all it's it's so weird. So disappointed in the movie companies. Shame. You're you're shaming them?
Shame on you. Mufasa red one. There is the best Christmas pageant ever. And red one is already streaming, so there's no point in going to the movie for that. True.
Moana 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Wicked. That's it. That's it. Like, there's Shame. It's a quiet box office kinda, isn't it?
For Christmas movie execs. Okay. You're so upset about it. Shame on you. Where's, like, we would go to the Hunger Games every Christmas.
Yeah. That was that Thanksgiving. That was right. That's pretty big. Yeah.
Okay. But that was because they that was their marketing plan was to Nah. Release them around the holiday. Smart. Where are those?
I want some of those. Well, they're, on DVD and Blu ray and screaming, so you can watch them. I just want There we go. Something like that. I see.
Well, this is probably why you get people to do Lord of the Rings marathons and Harry Potter marathons and Hunger Games marathons because they they want that experience around the holidays. Yeah. We don't have one of those. Not this year. Oh, so sad.
Coming out of the Grinch, we're gonna talk about the greatest Christmas movie villains. So the Grinch has gotta be on that list. I listen. I I know. You know how I feel about the Grinch.
You you feel like he, had wickedness Bully. Trust upon him Oh. Is what you feel like. Yes. Yeah.
You don't feel like he was actually No. And now, here's a question. Be invited to the party. And then there's a whole song made about him about how he nauseates everyone, and you have a crooked smile. Yeah.
He's like, god, this is just how I smile. This is my face. Like, what? Stop being mean to me. Is his name Grinch?
Is that what he is? Like, is that his species, Grinch? Are there other Grinches? Is Couldn't tell you. What what exactly is he, like, Harold the Grinch?
I don't know. I couldn't tell you, Josh. I couldn't tell you. Because the the Who's are, you know, the Who's And the Sneetches are the Sneetches. Yeah.
That's right. I bet he comes from a land of grinches. There's gotta be more Grinches. Star bellied snitches. Why don't we have more backstory on the Grinch?
Somebody should write that movie. Well, I mean, in the movie with Jim Carrey, you get some backstory of him as a kid, but he still just is just a he came out of nowhere. He came out of a thundercloud. I feel bad for the Grinch. I think people are just mean to him.
How would you feel if somebody wrote a song about you that was like, you're gross? Yeah. Termites in your smile. Every time we look at you had a brush by 2. Think yeah.
Yeah. I I don't know what to do. So he's on the list. Alright. He is on the list.
Yeah. Mister Potter from it's a wonderful life Okay. Sure. Who is played by Drew Barrymore's great uncle. Really?
Yes. How about that? Lionel Barrymore. Alright. I'm gonna get a lot of flack for this, but I don't necessary I've seen it's a wonderful life, but I don't I don't know who mister Potter is.
I get it. I have probably sat through the movie. I have not I've seen it. Focused on it, and you're right. That's bad on us.
I know. We're talking about holiday movies and how there's nothing to watch. Maybe there is. Maybe. Maybe there is something to watch.
Maybe there is something to watch after all. Maybe. Alright. Oogie Boogie. Oh, okay.
From my birthday party. Christmas. Uh-huh. Scut Farkas. Oh, yeah.
Farkas. Farkas. From a Christmas story. Yep. Then we've got Comet and the abominable snow monster from Rudolph the red nosed reindeer that, what is it called?
Slow motion? Stop animation. Animation. Yeah. You got it.
Slow motion. Uh-huh. Do you know that slow motion movie? Yeah. You you watch it slow motion.
Hans Gruber from Die Hard. Oh, okay. So you can't haven't seen Alan Rickman. Okay. Now what I've been seeing a lot is a lot of people will watch Love Actually.
Right. And he Oh, he's in that too. He's in that movie too, and he Right. Buys the necklace for the woman that he works with. So people will watch Love Actually and because they're so mad at him for betraying Emma Thompson Then they go watch him die die hard.
I see. I see. You know, see get there. Everything's Comeuppance. Everything comes around.
Okay? K. Then from jingle all the way is Ted Moulton. Alright. He's the guy that's trying to move in on Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife Okay.
While he's trying to fight for the turbo man. Turbo man. Ted Moulton is, like, played by Phil Hartman. He's decorating the house. Right.
That's right. Okay? Then the sticky bandits. Oh, good. I'm glad they made the list.
They gotta be, like, top of the list when it comes to villains. And then at least he's grooge, of course. Oh, he's gotta he's gotta be top of the list. These are all top of the list. And Jack Frost from Santa Claus 3.
Which was Martin Short. It was Martin Short. I don't know if I've ever seen Santa Claus 3. You shouldn't get on it. Stripe from the gremlins is an honorable mention.
Good good mention if that only that were a Christmas movie. Scut Farkas. Yeah. Farkas. Who names their kids Scut?
Mister and missus Farkas. That's who. Good list, though. I like it. Good rundown of, bad guys bad guys and both of it.
He just just invite him to the party and stop making naughty songs about him. Alright. He's just a nice guy. Yesterday, Emery was telling me a story. She normally spends lunch, in a teacher's classroom.
She loves this teacher, and she and her friends just go and hang out in this teacher's classroom, and they eat their lunch in there. And her friends they all of this teacher. And her friends tried something different yesterday. Okay. They tried having lunch somewhere else.
Norm. So they went into the oh, oh, she called it something Like, the cafe. Yeah. I think she said. Yeah.
In the commons. And I said, oh, you went with gen pop? Yeah. Scary. Okay.
And she said, yeah. And there was so many ops there. And I said, ops? Yeah. And she said, yeah.
Ops. And I go, I don't here's here's where it gets scary. You gotta either admit that you know what she's talking about or you have to admit that you don't know what she's talking about. And if you don't know what she's talking about and you admit it, you go, you get that. If you do know what she's talking about and you're like, oh, yeah.
I know what. I'm sorry. You get it. Well, I I know what it is now because I I didn't hear the original conversation, but I heard the conversation about ops. Told me.
I said I didn't know, and she said, you're so uncultured. Oh, it's uncultured now. It's yeah. Okay. So You should've said, well, you're so unpasteurized.
It's a good comeback. A good comeback. Wasted, though. Wasted. So we found out later that ops are oppositions.
Right. It's it's opposition. So people that are not part of your group People that you might have had a relationship with, that you had a falling out with or something. So her friend saw someone she used to be friends with. They had to avoid that op, and then there was another op they had to avoid.
They were surrounded by ops. Oh, man. That's like much opposition. Which you get in gen pop. Yeah.
You get opposition. Get ops, man. You get ops. It's funny because so many things that, that the kids have come up with are just a a section of a word. I guess.
You know? Ops, opposition, riz, charisma. Like, everything's just snagged. But charisma Riz is spelled with z's, and Charisma is not No. It doesn't matter.
And I don't think they know that is just, like, o p. Like, they're just calling them, like, oh, that's an o p. Like, that's OTP. It's a it's not one of my no. No.
Not that. You know you know me. It's not that. Just that's it's it. That's an OP.
That's opposition right there. I don't know. They make it up. They just are making it up. But here's the thing.
It's one person who makes it up Yeah. And then it takes another person to be like, yeah. That's cool. That's cool. And then before long, you have a group of people that are like, yeah.
That's cool. Let's all say off. Let's all do it. Let's all do it. Let's do it.
Yeah. I'm, I'm happy that, she's in high school, not middle school. I think the brain rot and the and the this kind of stuff is so prevalent in middle school, and it spreads so much faster. Yeah. I feel like it slowed down a little bit.
I I I think it still exists. But you're not in But it's not. In the circle. So I get it. You don't really know.
But I am. You're pretty uncultured. Hang with youth. So You do not. Yeah.
I'm hip. I'm cool. I go to the skate park. What are you talking about? You don't know me.
I do know you. You're a dork. You're an old man dork. Whatever. I'm still hip and cool and connected, and I know what's up.
We're uncultured, and it's okay. Unpasteurized. Watch out for those ops. Yeah. You never know.
It could be right around the corner. Okay. Sorry. I forgot what we were talking about. I am distracted today.
You're fine. It's okay. Have you heard of Christmas in the stars? Is this like dancing with stars? What is this?
This is a record album produced in 1980. No. Christmas in the stars. Give you the full title. Christmas in the stars, a Star Wars Christmas album.
Oh, really? Was a these were recordings of Star Wars themed Christmas songs and stories about a droid factory Uh-huh. Where the robots make toys year round for s claws. Okay. Sith claws.
Oh, really? Maybe. I don't know. Much of the album is sung and narrated by a British actor named Anthony Daniels, He and he was the voice of c three p o from this Star Wars film. Right.
And then they had some sound effects from r two d two and Chewbacca. I'm surprised you haven't heard of this. You're a Star Wars fan. You're right. My fault.
Some of the songs on this, there's only 9 songs on it, but there is one called r two d two, we wish you a Merry Christmas. Uh-huh. And that was Jon Bon Jovi's first professional recording job. He sang the lead vocals on that song in 1980. That was his kidding.
First professional recording gig. Really? Really, really. Alright. Hold on.
Hold on. I'm surprised you haven't added some of these to the playlist. You're right. I my fault. My brother is a huge Star Wars fan.
I don't know if he's heard of this. Our friend Dana is a huge Star Wars fan. I don't know if he's heard of this. I can't play it. I'm I've found it on, on Spotify.
I can't play it, though. Why? I don't know. It's all grayed out. I can't play the I can't play the record.
Aw. Sad. I was gonna try I'm gonna have to let's see. So there was a there was a song there's a song on here on this album called, what can you get a Wookiee for Christmas Uh-huh. When he already owns owns a comb.
And that song Yeah. Made top 69 on the Billboard top 100 charts. It made it well into the top 100. No kidding. Yeah.
Wow. It's a long title for a song. What can he get a wookie for Christmas when he already owns a comb? Alright. Hang on.
Hang on. Are you still trying to Yeah. I'm I found a playlist here, so I think I can play alright. R 2d2. You said this was Bon Jovi?
Yeah. Okay. Bon Jovi sang the lead vocals. R2, where are you? Alright.
C 3 p o in there. Yeah. If you come over here Uh-huh. You'll find a wonderful surprise. Okay.
You'll have to plug into the central computer to hear what it is. So, Star Wars? No. It's not a phase, Vector. It's your I'm gonna jump ahead.
Yeah. Get some vodka. Let's go. So you tell me that's Montoya. I need to Oh, no.
That's that's not. That's c 3 PO. Okay. We'll get to the Chot Pachoey part. This is fantastic.
Like, as a Star Wars nerd, like, I'm I'm really happy that you've stumbled across this. This is really good. They have a version of sleigh ride. They do have sleigh ride. They have me not.
There's a whole lot of commentary. You see? That's the norm. Oh, no art I can't. I can't do it.
Kind of feeling when you sing a man. Oh my god. And another. Yeah? Sings along in my head.
Well, no. Not you. And you I shouldn't have told you about it. Yeah. That is very Star Wars.
So happy about it. That is so Star Wars. Christmas in the stars, a Star Wars Christmas album. I had no idea this existed. What a great find.
Christmas in the stars. There you go. What a great find. There's 9 9 tracks. If you had this on vinyl, what a what a great thing.
Yeah. So They only made a 150,000 copies of it because then they got sued. By who? By I don't think that I'm trying to find some information. They were sued, and then they had to include George Lucas's name Ah.
Credited beside his concept by. So I think he they didn't give him credit before when they printed the first copies, and then they got sued. Interesting. And then they got shut down to a to a different lawsuit. Oh.
No. What can you get? A would be for Christmas if he already has a call. I'm just saying. It's it's really good.
I'm gonna listen to the whole thing. This album was written before Empire Strikes Back came out. So it was A real early star wars. The third one or the second one? That's 2.
Right? I don't know. Now I feel like I'm I'm not it's been a long time. That one's in 1980. Empire Strikes Back is 3 years after plump plump.
It's it's number, 5. So it's the 3rd. It's the 3rd? No. 5 is is the second.
Yeah. Yeah. Did you know they the well, this Christmas album was produced by the same guy who recorded a different Star Wars album. It was Star Wars and other galactic funk. Oh, cool.
So that's not a Christmas album. Nope. That's another one to add to the playlist, though. Cool. Cool.
Cool. Cool. Cool. Thanks for sharing that. I'm I'm super excited about it.
Me too. Okay. This is a cool story. There is a 19 year old kid on Long Island named Andrew. And he found a bunch of decorations that were being thrown out, and he said, listen.
I don't want these to end up in the landfill. Maybe there's something we can do. We can recycle. We can repurpose. We can reuse.
K. So he fixed them up to make them all Christmassy. I looked at his little house up the decorations to make them all? Yeah. Because they're not all Christmas decorations.
Like, there's a cow, and he put a wreath around its neck. I see. There is a lot of Christmas decorations, but there are a lot of decorations that he was like, I don't want this to go to the dump. So he fixed them all up. The house that he the display that he has is pretty incredible.
He fixed up all of these decorations. His display includes more than 500 decorations and close to 100,000 lights. Wow. Then Very grisly. He kinda started he was like, there's something I can do more with this.
So he turned it into a charity fundraiser, and all of the proceeds that he's made and is going to make are gonna go to the Ronald McDonald House. Wow. And he's calling it the Misfit Island Christmas lights spectacular. Cool. I like Misfit Island because that's that's very fitting for what he's dealing with.
So that's cool. And looking at this display, there are some Misfit toys in this display. Uh-huh. And Misfit decorations. Wonder if he's I just saw some I don't have sound on my computer, and so I don't know what's happening.
But I'm watching the video and somebody walked away with something, so maybe he's charging for Oh, like, maybe it's a shop. Maybe you can make a donation or something, and and you can, take some of those decorations home. Like, if you want that cow with a wreath. Yeah. I think it's lovely.
Yeah. That's a cool idea. And then he's like, yeah. I'm taking donations. So if there's something that you no longer want and you're going to just throw it away, bring it over.
It over. My one question is, where do you store all of this? That's Yeah. That's Andrew's problem. It is Andrew.
Where is Andrew at? He is in Long Island. Okay. But there are people who come from all over to see his display. Yeah.
Interesting. I think that's so great. Yeah. Way to go. And, and, you know, saving saving space in the oceans and the landfills.
Saving all those misfit toys. I'm into it. I'm into it. Good job, Andrew. Did you know that the 12 days of Christmas actually starts on Christmas day Nuh-uh.
And ends on January 5th. Okay. Here's an interesting 12 days leading up to Christmas. Okay. Alright.
It is starts on Christmas day. Our daughter has been asking me, why it's 12 days because she feels like it should be an advent calendar countdown to the days of Christmas. Starting December 1st. What's interesting is that I was trying to find a fun advent calendar for here in the studio and for a home. I was trying to find something clever and unique, and there was a lot of stuff that was like, here is chocolate.
And I was like, meh. And then it was like, here is soap. Didn't want that. And that like, everything else was just, like, little items that what are you gonna do with that when it's over? I saw 1 that, you build a robot.
Oh, cool. Every, every day, you get a new part of the robot. There was a Lego one where you could build a train, but then again, I go, and then I mean, I guess you could build that every year, but I don't know. There's one where you take the Santa and move the Santa down. I thought that one was cute.
Yeah. Yeah. But a lot of them were 12 days, and I wanted a 25 days one. In the advent calendars. Interesting.
But we don't know. We I never knew that it started on Christmas day. Yeah. So on the 1st day of Christmas, that would make sense. That would make sense.
That's when you got the partridge. It's a lot of birds, I will say. It is a lot of birds. We need an updated version of the 12 days that's like, oh, you got a cell phone, and then you got Yeah. 2, roller skates.
The ones 10 lords leaping. Right. I don't want that. Right. We need we need a new updated version.
Maybe that's our money ticket. Maybe that's what it is. That's our that's our Christmas song. It's the new I updated version of 12 days. Don't But we're gonna do it in one verse.
Think that that it's that. I don't think it's that. Okay. Because everybody hates that song. Because it's so long.
Because it lasts long. What I'm saying. We're gonna do it in one verse, and we're gonna hit with updated stuff. I don't I don't think that's the way that we're gonna And we'll get Von Jovi on it. We didn't even why Bon Jovi?
Well, I don't know. He's got, real good ties to Christmas. There are lots of people that have ties to Christmas. Let's get Burl Ives. Yeah.
But have you heard Bon Jovi? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. John Bon Jovi? Oh, it just ends like that?
It just ends. It just ends. Stop. It's like I'm done. Alright.
So we talked a couple of weeks ago or days ago about my mom used to give the mailman Mhmm. Suspicious gifts. Christmas present. Not suspicious. It was like a plate of goodies, and she would say, thank you for delivering our mail.
Okay. It was a nice gesture. Alright. I get that. So I was just reading a thing that said if you plan on gifting your mailman or mailwoman around Christmas time, We know a postal worker, so we should have verified this.
Okay. Yeah. But it says that they are not allowed to accept gifts if they cost more than $20. Really? Because they're a federal employee.
Yeah. It's gotta be because of that. Okay. And then it says, okay. USPS workers are allowed to accept gifts as long as they cost $20 or less.
There's no official policy for UPS, but they're discouraged from accepting anything. FedEx employees can accept gifts valued at $75 or less Woah. But they cannot accept cash or gift cards. Okay. And Amazon drivers are allowed to accept tips, though it's not expected.
Interesting. I had no idea. You can also tip your grocery delivery person if you have one of those. If you have a newspaper, you can tip your newspaper delivery person. Sure.
My mom used to do that too. I had a friend who lived just down the street, and he delivered our newspaper. She would always give him a small gift. And then suspicious. Your garbage collector.
Oh. You can tip or give I'm at work when they show up. I know. You could leave it on top of your garbage can. How are they gonna know?
They don't even That's true. They don't even come out anymore. That's right. They just the truck does the thing. I think it's fascinating FedEx employees.
Who's gonna give a gift for the FedEx employee at? $75? Mhmm. Sheesh. That's a lot of moola.
If you're a company that does a lot of shipping, though, and you regularly have, like, a FedEx or UPS or even a, you know, a mail care steady person and you do a lot of, like, shipping and you're maybe a company, that might make sense where you'd be like, hey. Hey. Thank you so much. You make it possible for us to do business, and we appreciate that, and here's a little something. I could see that being a thing.
It's probably not your just your residential, thanks for dropping off my packages when I order stuff that's given out. Right. And then it because that changes all the time. Right. Because the routes the driver routes change all the time.
Yep. So it's not even gonna be the same person. So you would just happen to be that lucky FedEx driver on that day that's like, I got a gift, a $75 gift from this person who buys a lot of stuff. Yeah. Yep.
So I'm thinking it's probably coming more from the business world, where they have to say, hey. Listen. That's nice you wanna do that for your regular, driver, but maybe let's put some rails on that thing. I I don't know. I mean, look.
It's all gotta be reported. Right? Or there's gotta be a complaint filed for anybody to do anything. So do what you want. You wanna give somebody a a glamorous thank you gift?
Go wild. Keep it secret. Just don't just say, hey. Don't tell your boss. Hey.
Don't tell your boss. Just just try put it in your pocket. And maybe keep this one for yourself. And Merry Christmas. That's, that's the way it works.
Anyway, what what was what was, underneath all the treats that your mom left on the plate? What else was were there 2 plates with some cash in between the two plates? I don't Suspicious. It's a little Christmas edition of Would You Rather This OR That. Okay.
This one is we talked a little bit about Christmas movie villains earlier Sure. In the show. So this one is, would you rather be friends with Scott Farkas from the Christmas story Farkas. Or Ebenezer Scrooge. I would rather be friends with, Farkas.
Farkas? Yeah. Why? I'll tell you why. Tell me.
Scrooge, as Scrooge prior to the Jacob Marley experience, which is a good name for a band, by the way. To what? The Jacob Marley experience. Before being visited by the ghost, Scrooge, I don't think was a cheerful No. Kinda hombre.
You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, I don't think he was like, let's hang out and chitchat and and, have a have a laugh. No. He was all working.
No play. Yeah. He was all counting money and, and just kinda being a a curmudgeon, just a just a Grinch. Just like a garage y'all man. Yeah.
So I don't think he'd be a barrel of laughs. Now post Jacob Marley experience Scrooge might be a little fun hangout. And he's rich, so he'd be like, let's go do this fun thing. I got the I'll pay for it. Yeah.
And post Jacob Marley experience Scrooge is a different Scrooge. Post Ebenezer or post Jacob Marley Scrooge is a Yeah. He's a fun guy. Right. So you see what I'm saying?
Barrel of laughs. Right. So I'm assuming you are putting me, with pre Jacob Marley experience Correct. Scrooge. Yes.
In which case, I wanna hang with that guy. You wanna hang with Scut Farkas? Yeah. Let's go get in trouble. We're gonna have an adventure.
We're gonna, you know, climb over fences and throw snowballs. It'll be it'll be a time. What's, the friend of Scut Farkas? Grover Dill? Grover Dill.
So Grover Dill is the one that wore, like, the new boy news Newsboys. Boys hat. Yeah. Looks like the lead singer of ACD's hat. That guy.
Yeah. I see. Angus Young. He does. He does.
Oh, that's funny, Josh. Yeah. I'm gonna pick Scott Farkas too because then I'd be like, dude, let's just go have some fun. Let's go ride some bikes. Let's not pick on these kids anymore.
Let's just go ride some bikes. Else. Let's go slide down that hill. Right. Let's quit picking on these kids.
Plus, you get to wear cool hats because you mentioned the the Newsy hat, but Farkas had the raccoon hat. Yeah. So you're gonna be in, like, a wear a cool hat club. Cool hat club. That.
You know, they're into head fashion, so that's good. Would you rather this or that? And just like that, the Friday show has come to an end. Just like that. And here we find ourselves Saying goodbye.
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I don't know what else to say. I got nothing else to say. 5 days till Christmas. 5 days until Christmas. Time.
Man. Peppermint crunch time. Peppermint. Okay. I like it.
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