80s Christmas Nostalgia: Holiday Movies, Music & Memories

Hey y'all, welcome to Pastimes at 80s High. Got a good one for you today. We are gonna do a Christmas slash New Year's slash winter hodgepodge for ya. Um, I did just want to apologize to everyone out there for the lack of episodes in the past month. Um, I've been moving, so it's been a bit of a nightmare. However, we are back, and I have Dongo, Kevin, and brother Mark here with me today. Donald, how are you? Great, and good to be back. Indeed. Kevin? Exceptionally okay. Good, and brother.

I'm doing pretty well.

Under the blade.

Yeah.

Yes. Awesome. And I'm AJ, of course, and we are gonna do, like I said, a Christmas hodgepodge. So let me just see here, because I don't have my whiteboard per usual. So it's uh our first category today is gonna be our favorite gift received or wished for. So I believe uh we gave Mark the on hairs, yes? Yeah, that's right. Brother, let's get it underway.

All right, well, this is gonna be taking you way back to, I believe, the year was 1972. I'm not even sure you were out of the hospital yet, AJ, because you were a preemie.

Yes.

But um anyway, two.

Two and three quarter pounds. Two and three-quarter pounds. Meaning uh, they gave me 24 hours to kick it or go, but I was a fighter, clearly.

That's right. Last time you were on time as well.

Just curious.

I was way early for the first time in my life. And last.

So, anyways, if you remember uh back in the day, um they had catalogs like Sears Catalog and Montgomery Wards catalog.

Monkey Wards. The monkey wards.

Yeah. So back then, um, believe it or not, fun fact for all you people that know me as a Patriots, diehard. I did not start out as a Patriots fan. I started out as a Dallas Cowboys fan. Um I I don't know. I just back then the Patriots were very rarely on, particularly up in Littleton because we weren't technically in the market. So they played the uh Cowboys a lot, and I really like their uniforms. You know, I'm six, seven years old. I like the Rams uniforms too, but anyway, I fell in love with the Dallas Cowboys and they were my team for uh you know until 76. And um they had football uniforms in the these catalogs. And you know, obviously America's team was one of the prominent uniforms on the I called them football suits back in the day, but I got that in 1972 for Christmas. We were still living at 6 Bryant Street in Littleton, and I was just so thrilled. I wore that thing everywhere. I dad took pictures of me, you know, just acting like the toughest guy ever. So I they just thought that was so neat. So that was my favorite.

It was it was a uniform, Mark. Full on.

I had the helmet, the jersey, the shoulder head. It had yeah.

I mean because I I didn't realize till we started talking about this that that uh I always had I had a pair of pajamas, NFL pajamas, but they were the Minnesota Vikings, and I realized that probably the reason I got them is they were like marked down to nothing in New England. Who the fuck wanted Minnesota Vikings pajamas in New England, right?

Back in those days, most people were not Patriots fans. I mean, at least uh there wasn't much reason. Well, you know, fair weather fan mark. That's right.

But you know how um when it when the team, this is a little off topic, like loses the Super Bowl and they print the shirts just oh yeah, yeah. And then they end up go selling them down in South America or something. I would actually have to pay money to to wear the, you know, yeah, right. But say that. Oh, right, the 19 and oh once for the Patriots at 07.

Yeah, I know. Especially like we should have won that game. It was a bad fucking call, you know. Right, it's I got the shit when they prove it.

It's pretty funny when they do a broadcast from somewhere, you know what I mean? Whether there's an earthquake or something in Africa, and then you see somebody wearing like the you know, a jersey with the losing team from that year, and you're like, wait, what? No, I watched that Super Bowl. That's that's not all. Not what happened. That's not the way it went.

You are incorrect, sir.

Yes, wrong.

All right, well, just to end on you, Mark, here. Um in my storage unit at this moment, because I haven't pulled all the pictures out and started hanging them throughout the house. I have a photo of you in said uniform. So I shall send it to all the boys as soon as I dig it out.

All right, cool.

Awesome. All right, so to me for favorite gift. Now, this one is sentimental to me, and this is uh, I think it was nine, now I can't remember, 1984. It was 1984, Christmas, and I received from my late beautiful brother David, Brian, Brian Adams Reckless. Now, this is when David used to buy me gifts that he could utilize, boomerang. Yeah, and I exactly, and I've already talked about it in an older cast, but yep, it was just beautiful because David's like, trust me, you're gonna love it. So I opened it, I'm like, what the fuck is this? Who is this guy? And that album from top to bottom is fucking incredible. Songwriter, yeah. Just a great, great album, and that that's my number one gift, you know. I mean, there's several others that I could have used here.

Was that prophetic on David's part? Had had Brian started writing with the boys at that time? Oh, yeah. I don't know. Yeah, we had. Two years prior. Two years prior, three years prior.

I don't know if he knew he wrote for KISS. I don't know that he knew that, but that's a good call, Kev, because I mean it's interesting. I mean, I do songs on creatures, would you know? Right. So that's you then, Donald.

Yeah, so I went with um the the desired gift that I didn't get. Ah, yeah, and it was the G.I. Joe aircraft carrier. Oh, the big boy thing, everybody else so bad. Oh, the thing was awesome. Uh at least it looked awesome. I've never seen one up close. It could have been a disappointment when it came out of the box, but when you look at it, thing looks huge, and you know, there's all kinds of jets and helicopters and stuff on it. I just wanted that thing big time.

I do believe my cousin had that. Oh, yeah, it was rather massive. Yeah, he had all the fucking good toys, which I will not stuff say because we don't know what Kevin's gonna pick, but boy, did he have all the goods. I used to love going over there.

Yeah.

Well, Kev, go ahead.

I didn't no, I just I I remember seeing that and and reading about it again recently, and and I don't know if more than three or four kids even got those. I I I think they were so like massive and ridiculous. It yeah, any parent that had the money to purchase it was like, no. We need a different room for it. Yeah, right, right. Have to put an edition on a kid's bedroom to get that thing in there.

But right, right. What would you have done with it, Donald, if you had gotten right all that, which yeah, I I would have played with it for hours. I didn't have anybody in wire nearby. It would have been like a sandbox aircraft carrier, probably.

Oh, nice, nice. All right, Kev. What did you do? All right. So I had to think about this one because, well, I'm old and I don't remember shit very well. CRS. So I had to think way back, and I remember I had an older cousin that was very, very um electrically and mechanically inclined. As a matter of fact, he's in charge of one entire airplane for I don't think it's Boeing, but one of the big one of the big companies. And um he he helped me with it because I was a little young for it at the time, but it was the um the Science Fair kit. Ooh. The 50 and one. I don't know if you guys remember these. It was a board capacitors and transistors in the PZO buzzer, and it had the little key on it, and you could wire it up, but it could be a telegraph, you could, and it had Morse code right on the right on the front of it, or you could wire it a different way. It was a burglar alarm. Um yeah, it was it was really cool. It was just, I mean, it was for smart people.

Do you remember Peter Corey and Jeff Corey? Those guys, I the they had one of those, I believe.

Oh, have like the flasks and everything, the the beakers and all the oh no, no, this was strictly electronic.

So it was one one panel, it basically a piece of cardboard that was printed, and then there were little springs that shot up, and you would bend the spring over and put the lead wire in between, and you would follow the diagram to wire the different things. But it was probably a dollar fifty worth of of you know capacitors and resistors and transistors and whatever else, and you could just wire them up in different ways to make little different projects 50 and one. Of course, you look for them now, and they've they've the snap circuits has kind of taken that over, and you can make like a thousand things out of it because it's got all the different things.

But I'm sure it's too dangerous too now.

Oh, yeah, probably, yes. Right, adult supervision is required. But that was that was kind of a did it plug into the wall, was it like a nine volt? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Battery operated two double A's and or a nine volt battery connection, depending on and then, of course, the project you always wanted to do was like the nine-volt battery one. Yeah, nobody had one.

You click it to see if the battery was good.

Of course, we didn't even have smoke detectors back then to get a nine-volt battery out of.

Awesome, man. That sounds awesome. I didn't never knew it. Wow. But speaking of batteries, this is off-subject as well. But my trash can for my kitchen came today, and it requires four of the dumbest batteries ever invented, and that would be the C battery.

Very fucking D is actually dumber. The B battery.

I don't even know the B.

I don't even know they Yeah, it's photography, I think. It's dumb. It's dumb.

Exactly.

I always thought the D was dumber than the C. Anyway, because they don't seem to last any longer.

Yeah, exactly. No kidding. Twice the size. So I was gonna shout out a few more gifts, but we do have a wild card at the end, so I'm not gonna say anything. We do. But anyway, so we're gonna go to you, Mark, for number two, and that is going to be our favorite Christmas movie, and everyone's probably gonna fucking have mine. To you, brother.

Okay, mine is is a very modern one. I I know we try to keep it nostalgic and everything, but in this case, I I had to. We we did discuss this, and it it's Christmas Chronicles because that is the real Santa Claus.

It's a good one.

Kurt Russell is by far the most believable. He is the real Santa Claus. There's no question about it. And by the way, it's fake news. He doesn't go ho ho ho. Thank you very much. Can you go ho ho ho? I don't go ho ho ho.

That's a myth. But I'm sorry.

He knew what he remembers what the kids wanted when they were little, even when they were adults.

And um I need to see this. I haven't even seen it.

Oh, it's a good one. It's a if for a new one, it's pretty good. And I love the elves in it. They're very good. He's a good musician, too. He can sing. Really? Oh my god, can he sing? Yeah.

And uh, you know, he's even Mrs. Claus is played by Goldie Hahn. She's had some work done. I don't think it really she did well by it. It's weird that they're in a movie together. Yeah, I understand that. They married. But Kurt Russell, if I do do believe, he was uh the best man of uh my favorite uncle, Uncle Ted.

Uh-huh.

The great guitar player, Patriot. Yes. Wow. I believe her. Yeah, his li his most recent uh wedding. Well, well, you know, which was quite a while ago, but but uh yeah, you know, the Pears is they always see things through. Um the father was killed in a fire trying to save people, and uh you know, the son, he he didn't he wasn't he lost belief, he was not a true believer.

So anyway, just a great great movie and and spoiler alert um we do have a Ted Nugent episode in the works. But anyway, all right, so to me then for favorite movie, and I had to go with George C. Scott in the Christmas Carol, a Christmas Carol. Just this movie to me was so I don't, you know, the ghost of Christmas future was so bad at battle acts, just there's that word again. He freaked me out when I was a kid, and just such an incredible story and a close second, although, oh shit, we have a cartoon coming up, damn it, but I didn't take it, so I'm not gonna ruin anything, right? But I shall discuss if it comes along. But man, that movie just I mean, first of all, it's just a classic, but secondly, the best version of a real movie, you know, for a Christmas carol. I disagree, but I do too. I will fad and disagree. It's gotta be I saw this is my pick, not yours.

That's AJ, it's AJ's pick.

I saw it.

Second of all, George Scott was a great first baseman for the Red Sox and a lot for the Brewers, too.

All right, Donald, see one of the most um redone storylines. Oh, absolutely.

I it's gotta be you know, it's like the headless demon from our the Halloween show, yeah.

Yeah, all right.

Well, once Kevin goes, you can we can discuss what the best version is.

So so if you can tell me your version, because I'm kind of chomping at the bit, because I'm pretty adamant about my version.

All right, so my version is the Scrooge, which is a musical version of the Christmas care. The one that has the likes. I like life, life likes me.

I like life, life likes me, life and I fairly fully agree. Life is fine, life is good, especially mine, which is just as it should be. I like pouring the wine and why not? Life, a pleasure that I deny not.

Isn't that it? Aren't I talking about the same Fargin one?

Nope. George C. Scott's a different different actor. I like life. Life likes me, life and I seem to agree or whatever it is.

All right, Donald, you're not. I'm talking about the Bill Murray.

No, no, that's screwed up with the D at the end. That was a great thing.

Are you talking about the Albert Finney?

Albert Finney. That is it. All right. Well, good for you.

So my mine was the the um the Alistair Sim, like 1938.

Christmas time, the want is most keenly felt, and abundance rejoices. Uh, what can I put you down for? Nothing. You wish to be anonymous. I wish to be left alone. Since you asked me what I wish, sir, that is my answer. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned. Those who are badly off must go there. Many can't go there, and some would rather die. If they would rather die, they'd better do it and decrease the surplus population. Side, it's not my business, isn't it? No. It is enough for a man to understand his own business without interfering with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen. Yeah.

Fantastic. And talk about you talk about the George C. Scott one scaring you. That one was pretty fucking scary. Pretty scary. Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Watching all of these. Maybe I have not seen them just yet, but I definitely remember I like life. That's what I thought that was the same one. Maybe I'm wrong out there people. Maybe this is not my favorite. But to you, Donald.

Cool. So I went with the you know the um It's a wonderful life. It's kind of a cheesy show. Fucking Valerie Glass.

Wait. No, wait.

You couldn't even call it a Christmas show. It does occur around Christmas, but it there's really not a lot of Christmas theme to it. It's more about, you know, suicide and redemption and getting a second chance and all that kind of stuff. But I mean the bell rings.

Look, Daddy Peter says, every time the bell rings, I mean you'll get his wings.

I try.

I just I love George Bailey. And uh yeah.

Don't we all feel a little bit like George Bailey? Right, right. Whether it's leaving Bedford Falls or whatever else in your life that you just missed opportunity, things that you wanted to try that you just didn't get the opportunity to do. So I think we all relate with George.

You've never seen that, Mark?

I maybe I have, I don't know.

You need to watch it on now tonight. It's that is the one of the greatest Christmas movies ever made. And uh just another side note is I was watching a I get into documentaries all the time, and it was like a World War II documentary on Netflix, and Jimmy Stewart did an ad, you know, for joining the army, and you know, it was really cool because he did, and yeah, which he was back in the day when those guys from the war, and yeah, you know, it wasn't like they were making fucking 10 million dollars of film no cork suckers, and you know, but just cool, you know. Ted Williams did it. I mean, so many people did it, but yeah, anyway, awesome fucking pick.

And to you, Kevin. I I that's one of my favorites. And I that was on my short list, It's a Wonderful Life, is just a fantastic, fantastic movie. Everybody in it is a solid, solid actor, solid performance, and it's it's fun in a lot of parts, too.

Oh, the his angel so fun. What's his name? Does anyone remember?

What's that? His buddy?

Yeah, the angel.

Oh, the angel Clarence. Yeah, yeah, that was his buddy that uh that bails him out. But yeah, um, so anyway, I really didn't think I would make it this far with to me. I I just every year I end up the Christmas Eve wrapping presents, you know, while while everybody off is off doing other stuff. Having fun. And I usually get what's that? Having fun. Having fun, yeah. And I usually get about to the scene where Clark is talking to the woman in Macy's and and she's showing him that she has no underwear lines and he turns and there's a study goes, Look, Rusty, no line.

These are cut really high on the head. Look, I'm like something similar. Can't see the line.

Can't see the line, can you, Rusty?

No.

Christmas vacation is just one of the most affordable.

Three of you would have that.

Most hilarious movies ever. That's I don't think I could ever watch a Christmas movie outside of the Christmas season, but if it had to be one, it would be Christmas Vacation.

Like you said, classic. Last time you talked about it, it's one of those ones you just have to watch every year. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Elf's right up there, too. I gotta throw a elf to elf.

But you you catch something. It's one of those movies that every time you watch it, uh, you catch something else that you didn't just the ridiculousness of it. Or like I think I've probably said it before, when when Chevy Chase walks in, he's standing there in the entryway when the crazy aunt gives him the box and and there's a cat in it. It's like the fifth or sixth time that you realize that that's Chevy Chase. There's no cat in the box. He's actually he's doing it so well you think that there's you know what I mean? You think there's a cat in the box, but it's really just it's just Chevy doing his thing.

And until before I go to you, Mark, I just want to say, well, a couple things is uh the line that you said in the previous cast, Donald, with Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, kiss my ass.

Thank you. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, kiss my ass. Kiss his ass, kiss your ass. Happy Hanukkah.

Kiss his ass. Great, great line. But Chevy Chase just we, you know, in our comedy thing or whatever episode it was where we said that Eddie Murphy fell off a cliff. The fucking same thing happened to Chevy Chase. Like he just later in life became unfunny. It's the most fucked up thing how that happened. Is that writing? Is it like people just go brain dead? I don't know, but man. But anyway, he seems like a bit old man.

Crazy how that happens.

Yes. So so far, no repeats, which is great. Now on this one, I'm doubting. I mean, I would like to think that there's gonna be a couple repeats here. But number three here is our favorite Christmas meal to you, Mark.

All right, well, thank you. Just to tie that last category up, I meant to say when you were talking about a Christmas carol, me and Valerie saw Jeff Dunham. Oh his latest pun. Yeah, and it's it's about they're gonna do a uh they're gonna do the Christmas carol or and uh each one of the uh dummy, you know, the the realmies, yeah. Yeah, yeah. They're all gonna be in the play, and Jeff tells them who they're gonna be, and it's just so friggin' hilarious. Oh yeah, he's even less politically correct, too. So anyway, my favorite Christmas meal that I ever had, and I'm sure it was several times back in Littleton at Arn Sill's. Um her main dish on Christmas was uh roasted chicken filled with hushua, which is a rice dish mixed with hamburger and spices. Yes. And it was so delicious, but that was just the beginning. I mean, we had kiba with humsel, which is a sauce. Yes, a red sauce. Yes, a red, you know, with onions and just absolutely the the company was wonderful. Lebanese uh cuisine galore. I'm sure we had we had the rice, we had the sloto, which is salad, and we had uh I'm sure we had stuffed cast. Everything else, grape leaves, everything, unbelievable.

I am ashamed of myself right now, brother. I am ashamed.

You were so little that we got.

I know, because later in life we never had that at Christmas, and but those Lebanese gatherings, man. Well, mine is the most obvious. I mean, now I probably would go with Mark's pick, but I gotta go with prime rib, you know, and this to me is kind of a you know a sin for me to say this because that's the one day of the year where I really love prime rib, although I'm the type of guy that wants a sear on the outside of my stake. Absolutely. So prime rib to me is a little backwards, but as long as that outside edge has that nice sear and soft like fat that you I eat the fat, I eat everything off that fucking thing. Right, but just prime rib, and what more can I say about it? And it's gotta be bloody rare, okay? Bloody rare to medium rare. I mean medium rare in real world time, not New Hampshire time, because in New Hampshire, everyone medium rare is medium well to people, so they just don't cook right here in this state.

But let's just the people that come up from Massachusetts, yeah, yeah.

Maybe uh people what is the difference between a presidential roast and a prime rib, or is that just another name?

Uh I think the presidential roast has the bones in it still. And you know, I think it's uh actually the bone is carved off the prime rib, and then they tie it back to it, I think.

Oh typically what they do is they cut it to the front. So the the the bone in the back, they cut to the front just underneath the eye of the rib, and it's still connected there so that when you're cutting it, it doesn't fall apart.

And then they tie it up with the twine, right? Yeah, yeah.

Well, back back in the day when I used to make it at the restaurant, it was we got a couple, I believe it was an 1109, which was bone in fat cap on. Oh, yeah. That's that's what they call. That's how I ordered them. So you had all of the beauty of the bone, you had that nice piece of meat in the middle, and then we get a it had to have been a three-inch fat cap on top of it. And that was trimmed back to the front and hinged as well. So I would put seasoning and onion and whatever else underneath that gunyon, onion, and then and then fold that fat cap over and then wrap it up with its wine and slow roast it all day. And it was just that was that was my Montreal seasoning phase where I probably overdid it, but yeah, damn.

You know, just fat yeah, that is that's good, and then that's good. But that just the number you shouted out just made me think of my dad, and he would always yell it out in his sleep, and I can't remember the number, but it was like 1123 was giant white bread from Nissan. He would yell the codes out all the time. You need seven and eleven twenty-three.

Yes. You might want to explain to the audience what your father did for a living.

He was a bread man, he delivered bread for JJ Nissan, became the manager later. I'll just never forget he had a pension where he when he got his pension, he made more, way more than he did when he worked. And that's the thing I thought.

I don't want to talk about pension uh at the at his funeral. Joey nailed it when he was like, you know, you know, I never thought much about a bread man, but he was like, Man, they work pretty damn hard and they made pretty good money, you know.

Like you wouldn't, but Joey will admit that he was the worst bread man on the face of the planet. He used to say how he would just blow off a couple stops. He's like, they sell like two fucking loaves a year. I'm not stopping in. And I was not so good either. And dad used to, I get it, working for a parent, and the parent just being like, why did I hire him? I'll never forget. Real quick, kid off subject. I slept at Townsend's house one night after a bender and didn't wake up on time. You know, you had to be up 2-3 in the morning. Yeah, and I ended up meeting dad at the Meredith Center store because he started my route because I didn't show up. I was like four hours late. And I got on the truck and he's like, damn it, go back into the store and buy some gum. Oh man. All right. Uh I lost my spot, boys. Are we to you, Donald? Yes, Donald.

All right, so for this pick and for the ones coming, I was like, man, I'm gonna sound like a Grinch. And I I love Christmas, and I I don't want to sound like a Grinch, but sometimes you you kind of so like meals, like big meals, like you're talking about, 40 people and stuff like that. Like that's horrifying to me. Like, you know, social anxiety, small talk with people you may not have seen for a long time, you know. That like I love relatives and all that stuff, but that's an anxiety-provoking event for me. Me too. Now back then it wasn't.

Now I would fucking have a panic attack.

And when I was a kid, like sitting down for a big meal was like, come on, I don't want to sit down at Thanksgiving or at Christmas. Sucks. I want to go play toys stuff, you know, and sit and you know, mash potatoes, which I enjoy, but for some reason they just suck when it's in a huge meal, you know. But so my meal is is prime rib because it's the only thing I can really associate with Christmas. But uh at the firehouse we had this special recipe, and I don't know where it came from. It's written down on like you know, paper that's you know, you can see through it, it's so old kind of thing. I think it might have been a Betty Crocker recipe or something for the it's got like an eighth-inch thick dry rub that you put on the thing, and you know, you sear it and then you bake it for you know like five hours or something ridiculous, and it's awesome. It's kind of like what you describe with that you know, seared outer side outside with the rare on the inside. Pure wicked good. But the the the seasoning is so thick, it's so like it it's like Insta Heart burn too, you know, when you put that thing, yeah. Yeah, but it's it's it's exactly what you're going for. Yeah, and it's fun at the firehouse because it's like you know, people would be like, Don't you touch that oven? Yeah, oh yeah. Like if you open it, it's gonna ruin it.

I used to tape mine shot and put a note on it so you don't yeah, and it's just you. And if you have a call or something, it's like you know, call display.

You don't think about it? Oh, no. Hey, somebody sends somebody to the station to get take the thing out at 2 30 exactly if we're not there.

Donald have I must have contingencies, yeah. What happens if a fire occurs during this? Does somebody hang behind? Well, that's what I was just saying.

Like, we have contingency plans where if we're out on a call, we have like the dispatch will call like a police officer or something to take it out of the oven, you know.

Very important, yeah. One out of 12, one out of 12.

That'd be kind of embarrassing how the firehouse burns down. Please don't leave station.

People leave stuff on the stove and smoke up the place pretty good. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Awesome.

Yeah. Great. Kevin.

All right. So yeah, I'm gonna uh go all the way around. We're gonna call it prime rib. It's interesting because two of the things that you guys just talked about, the the social anxiety, and AJ, you mentioned that that crispy outside when it comes out of the oven. I think those are two of the reasons that that I got into cooking was because I could be in the kitchen cooking the food, kind of sectioned off from the rest of the throngs of people, so I didn't have to socialize as much. I could be like, you know, in my own little space. And then the other thing was that you got when that little crispy piece of fat that curled up and was like golden brown on both sides, and it was just like the crispiest, most delicious piece of anything with the salt. Nobody ever got a look at meat like that.

It never existed because it went right into bacon, you know. No, you know, like people that cut fat off of meat like that and leave it on their plate, and it's like, would you do that to a piece of bacon? Would you cut the fat off of bacon? You know, no, that would cause anger.

People are dumb, right? They're dumb. Like, that's the best fucking part.

Fat is flavor. I've had being in being in the or previously in the food service industry. I've been so how did you like the prime rib? It was kind of fatty. Yeah, okay, we're done talking because you're a moron.

Yep, and for anyone out there, you know, I'm gonna get crucified for this, but I am keto. Well, lately, maybe not so much during this hard time of moving. However, fat and salt are good for you, everyone. And just read a book called The Lies My Doctor Told Me. All right, so this next category is gonna be an A and B, and it's gonna be our favorite Christmas song, and then our least favorite Christmas song, and that goes to you, Mark.

Okay, well, my favorite Christmas song is Hark, the Herald Angels Sing. Uh very emotional song. And my favorite version of this is a bagpike version, which is I ironic because when this song really touched me, um, it was the Mom, she thought, I don't think she thought she was gonna make it until next Christmas. And when I left mom and dad that night, it just hit me. This could be the last time I see Mom. And we were listening to this this tape on the way home, and it just it just went right through my soul, and uh it was just so emotional. And every time I hear this song, it it just fills me with emotion and brings me back to that memory. She did live to one more Christmas and then another nine months.

But uh but it's just spiritual because you were there that day, remember?

Yes, I do remember. Very spiritual song. I I don't I don't like the secular secular songs that much. Um, you know, they're just that's not really what Christmas is about, obviously. Right. Um although the movies, I most of the movies are the Santa Claus version. No, so and my least favorite but go on. I said you're gonna hate my pick then, but go on. I don't I'm not gonna hate anybody's pick. My least favorite song is Santa Claus is coming to town, and my least favorite version is that of that, as you can probably guess, Kevin. Take a wild guess whose version I hate the most.

Springsteen, because it's of course, of course it's broke Springsteen.

I can't stand that version. Because I can't stand Bruce Springsteen. Sounds like he's taking a dump.

Yeah.

The only Bruce Springsteen I like ever is that he did this Celtic type thing over in Ireland, I thought was really cool, but it wasn't him that was cool, it was the musicians to me anyway. But uh but I think I loved Born in the USA, that album.

That's the only album I ever liked of his.

Yeah, but if you listen to the lyrics, it's not really exactly pro-American.

No, you're right, but I was a kid and I just liked the music.

Well, we didn't think of it any other way back then, so anyway, yeah, I don't like that song, and I certainly don't like his version. Right. So that's my picks.

All right, brother. All right, mine is, and yes, I am a Christian out there, people. However, my favorite song is Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, and it takes me back to third grade, our chorus concert, you know, in the gymnasium, and just, you know, the stupid things the kids yell out during the song, like a light bulb, all that shit. And it just takes me back to a certain place in my life, and that's when when things become important to me. And that I mean, it's just a fucking great song, and Rudolph's the coolest fucking dude ever. And that's that. So do you oh, and then my least favorite.

Your least and then the least favorite.

And I don't know why, I just fucking can't stand oh tan and bomb.

You know, it's just just the German version? Do you not like Oak Christmas?

I don't like any version of it. Okay, okay. It just bores me. It's you know, I think it just makes me it takes me to work at the restaurant I manage. They start playing Christmas music right after Thanksgiving, and I'm like, this is too soon for this. I hate winter. And this song comes on, and I just want to jump out the window and land on my friggin' head, and that's that. So do you, Donald?

All right, so I'll lighten it up a little bit. I uh there's so many to choose from. They're Christmas songs for a reason is they're catchy. They're they they're they got a good hook, you know, and they hook you in. Um, I do like that that comes on early because I'm one who's like, yeah, good for you. But but I can be Grinch in other ways too. So but uh Felice Navidad.

I just think it's fun, it's like Felice Navidad, Feliz Navidad, Felice Navidad, Felice Navida Christmas.

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas, I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas, I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas on the bottom of my it's funny, it's it's you know you know what I used to think he was saying, it's unique, you know, it's unique, it doesn't you know, you don't it's not like all the other ones.

It's it's standard on its own.

So I used to think when I was a kid that he was saying, I want to wish you a Merry Christmas, but then if you know if you can't have a Merry Christmas, at least Navidad, you know, at least you know it kind of meant well at least have a okay.

At least Navidad.

At least what Navidad. In other words, I want to wish you a Merry. I think I like that better. At least Navidad. Okay, whatever.

Whatever. I was a strange young man.

So anyway. No, I totally get that.

Uh yeah go on, Donald. Upbeat. And then my least favorite is, you know, probably I think it was the first in a long line of awful 80s, like, and this is the Grinch in me, like it was for good, it was for charity, and it was for the poor Ethiopians, but it was uh like feed the world, let's be honest.

We are the world, we are the world.

Do they know it's Christmas time?

Do they know it's Christmas time?

By it was Bob Geldoff who then did the, you know. We you know yeah and then like all the like uh all the movie stars or musicians did it, you know, which it it raised a lot of money for people, but the song sucked. It's so terrible.

And when and when Boner comes in with, but tonight, thank god it's them instead of you. It's like, what the fuck are you saying, dude?

Well tonight, thank God it's them.

What are you saying? It's not that big a deal because it's them, not us. Okay, Bono. That's now we know your worldview. I mean, uh I hope that's not what they were trying to say, but that's the way it always sounded to me. It came across. Thank god it's not me. But oh, could be worse.

To bring me, to bring a little levity. It's well, you know, famine is awful, and but I I always go back to the Sam Kinnison, like, see this? See, this is Sam.

Why don't you move with a fucking food?

And we were driving out here a day across the desert, and it occurred to us there wouldn't be world hunger if you people would live with a few same. You know it's gonna be a hundred years from now, huh? It's gonna be send them something.

Don't send them food. Send them U-Hauls. We have deserts here in America, too. We just don't live in them. All right, Kev, to you. All right. Well, for my favorite, there was there was much struggle for the favorite Christmas song. Because, and well, let me back up for a second because I realized something when you're talking about being in the restaurant business and having it force fed down your throat. This is the first time. I don't have to do it, I don't have to listen to it. I don't have to have Christmas music forced into my ear hole this year. So, yay me.

Yay you.

Um, I just I don't like the like it's it's funny. The the Philly's Navidad probably could have been one of my most hated dawn.

Sorry, I just it's it's a catchy, I'm I'm uh I'm a sucker for the catchy riff, you know.

So and I appreciate that you like hearing it, but when like AJ and I in a captive situation are forced into 18 or 20 hours a day, every day you're hearing it.

So many probably every day.

Exactly. And when you hear Felice Navidad for the fourth time that day, and you've already heard it four times every day leading up to it, it it becomes it becomes painful. But so I'm just very excited that I don't have to listen to all this other stuff. Uh, my favorite, I I had to go because the guy was just so fucking silky smooth, Nat King Cold of Christmas song.

Yeah, the guy chestnuts roasting on an open fire. I mean chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, you tied cows being sung by choir, and folks dressed up like Eskimos, everybody knows a turkey and sun is a toe help to make the season bright tiny tots with their eyes all aglow will find it hard to sleep tonight.

Just I don't know, there's a warmth there that you that you feel.

Have you ever eaten chestnuts?

There's a fire bursting on an open fire, right? Um, other than that, and since I'm last and and nobody else is covering up, I'm just gonna spew out some of my also rants here, real quick, which was I always love the Kink's Father Christmas because it had kind of a snarl to it. So moving on, uh, my least favorite Christmas song, my absolute most hated least favorite Christmas song, Mark already mentioned. So my only backup was anything after like 1985. Yeah. Anything. Anything. Absolutely. With the ex with the exception of maybe the what was the what was the uh what was the run DMC one?

Christmas in in Holland, it's kinda hilarious.

But no, all of those things like like the you know, the do they know it's Christmas. Um even even going back to like and a lot of people had him rant together was the um the Paul McCartney and the and the John Lennon Christmas song. They were quite obvious, you know, opposite. Right, right. You know, McCartney had that la la la, and and Lennon was like, oh, let's let's kill people, or let's not kill whatever. Um just just uh a little different, but I just didn't like anything after after the 80s, really.

So Kevin's pick is anything after 1985. Hey, good for you. That kind of sums up most of my music love anyway. Yeah, right, pretty much. All right. So, Mark, we are going to you for our favorite Christmas cartoon.

Okay, well, anyway, just getting back to the bagpipes. I did I mention that mom hated bagpipes? That's what I'm saying. Oh, I know she did. Interesting. Yeah. And anyway, so this one is uh my hero is on this uh claymation cartoon, if you will. His name is Heat Miser. The name of the movie is The Year Without a Santa Claus, or Year Without a Santa Claus. And uh, you know, um Mr. Heat Miser, I'm Mr. Sons, I'm Mr. Heat Blister, um Mr. Hundred and One.

I'm gonna interrupt here. I'm sorry, Mark, but I want to let everyone know out there that my brother Mark hates snow so much that we had a patch on our front lawn one year, and when I pulled into the driveway, he was out there with our garden hose melting. But go on, brother.

I I just they had that evil, evil son of a bitch, snow miser. He know he likes it with his head below all the time. He thinks he's too much. Yeah, he is too much. And you know, Santa Claus, he's calling it sick this year. He's calling it sick that he has a nipples and he doesn't want to go to work. But fortunately, you know, the children just come to his melt his heart strings and everything. But anyway, you know, my hero is in this that that's good enough for me. I like green Christmases, I like warm weather, I don't like a day that's under 60 degrees. Not a bull.

Well, mine's gonna be another claymation. And yes, the obvious due to my song, but it is with Hermione the dentist and Yukon Cornelius, and it's Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, and Donald, please go. Nothing. Not a boy, yes, just that every time he'd lick for gold. Yukon Cornelius.

Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.

Nothing. Nothing. We do that probably at least once a month. Yes. But what a great fucking function. Well, now you go to Lowe's and and you see they have like this fucking 12-foot bumble. Yeah, exactly. And the thing is awesome.

The bumble, the abominable snowman, the bumble. Where are you gonna put that for the side of the year?

Somebody down the road has that.

Poor guy just needed a dentist, and there's Herman. You know, I mean just by the great I had a toothache for God's sake. Exactly. And I just waited every Christmas to see that. And now, mind you, people out there, I mean, obviously, if you're listening to this podcast, you're probably in our age group. But if anyone out there is younger, you know, it was just you had to fucking wait until it aired on television. You had a TV guide that came in the mail, you saw at what time the show was on, and you couldn't watch it at any drop of a dime. If you missed it, you missed it. And I fucking waited for that cartoon acclaimation and couldn't miss it, man. It was just yeah, yeah, it's incredible. Yep. Appointment viewing. Appointment viewing.

Appointment viewing must see.

Yes. So do you, Donald?

So I love the two picks that you have, and I'll just keep in that uh keep in that genre real BBC specials that Christmas specials, and it was Santa Claus's coming to town, even though it was the least hated song. The most hated song, but Bruce Rings. But it had the Burger Meister Meister Burger. Yes.

Ah, yes, Burger Meister A toy, as I suspected. I hate toys, and toys hate me. Either they are going or I am going. And I am certainly not going, Glinsley.

So do you, Kevin? All right, again, surprised that we made it this far with this one, and realized that it was the same year as the ultimate Batman. We're talking about 1966. The Grinch.

Yes. Yeah. I know. I can't believe no one picked that. All the little who's and who will. Oh, yeah.

Well, you know, David would have picked that.

We all rooted for him.

Right? Max. Great show until the ending.

Poor Max. Poor Max the dog.

Reindeer handlers tied to his head.

Because just not a hat Alicia and I have an age difference, and sh for her, the the Grinch was always the Jim Carrey one. Yeah. And I was like, you haven't seen the cartoon? And I was all excited. Like, you have to see the cartoon. Right.

The greatest cartoon too. Go on, Kev, though. I'm sorry.

It's the OG. Yes, but what did your missus think of it? Oh, she loved it. Yeah. Of course. Okay, good. She's a keeper then. That's good. Yeah.

So did she like the end or the beginning, though?

Yeah.

All right. Kev, you got more to say on that one? That's all for me. All right. So let's see here. Let's see here. We are going to our favorite New Year's memory, I believe. Am I correct there, boys? Thanks for memories.

Yeah, that's right. That's right. So my pick, it's a very quiet, you know, kind of a nice memory. Uh it was going into 1996. Me and David were living in Manchester, and we, you know, we had talked to our neighbors, but we never really got to know them. Uh Dana was his name, God rest his soul. And Anita was his wife. And uh Dana was on the city. Yeah. And uh we had plans that night. I mean, we had no plans, and uh we just I traipsed over there and and David came over and we just sat there and we talked all night. It was really nice. You know, we got to know each other and just drank multiple cans of Budweiser. That was before IPA.

The good days came out.

Yeah, you know, we just sat and talked and got to know them. We became really good friends. And uh, Dana passed away, unfortunately, in uh uh 2001, and then I lost touch with Anita, and it really sucks, but it was just a great night, and uh And you guys were great friends for a while, man.

So that's yeah, very good.

Yeah, so but yeah, that that that was my best memory.

Awesome, awesome. Well, mine's a little more uh lighthearted, and I will leave names out of this. But there was a certain someone and used to have parties in Gunstock Acres all the time. We frequented this home, and we were at a party there one night, and another someone special and beautiful. Um, you know, we were in two different realms at this point, you know. Um I mean, I guess I will say I kind of hung around everyone in high school. I wasn't clicky, but you know, I hung out in the smoking area, and this girl was on the other end of the spectrum. Can you imagine that in 2024? She smoking area, she brought me up to a bedroom. And as everything was about to go exactly the way I wanted it to, the fucking police broke up this party. And I did see this woman years later, and maybe someday, but it was just a very like, I don't know, man. It was it was uh a bucketless thing that never followed through. So maybe someday, but yeah, it was just a great, great memory of mine. And I just remember back then, Donald, I know you were with me, I believe, this night, and just the scatter. Remember the scatter into the woods and lying on your belly like the army man sniper you didn't like. Yeah, right.

What is this girl weigh down? Four or five hundred pounds?

No, no, she's gorgeous. Yeah, or at least she was last time I saw her. Maybe she'll hear this someday and know I'm talking about her and be single. But anyway, to you, Donald.

All right, so this is I get a little grinchy on this one too, because this is supposed to be a best memory. New Year's Eve has always been like a shit show, like you said. For me, too. That's why I find it memories of like parties and is always fights and you know, and misery, and as a kid, like you try to stay up and you fall asleep, and it just seems big letdown night. But um, so yeah, I don't have a lot of good memories from New Year's Eve. I don't, unfortunately. There was probably times at your house that we had good times and stuff. I remember I was in the wait.

Are you telling me at this moment that you do not have an answer? I don't, I I couldn't think of one for this one.

Here we are, everyone. Don't come up with a positive on New Year's. Although I do remember in when I was in the military in Italy and I was stationed in Sicily on New Year's Eve. I thought it was kind of cool where you know they have strict rules over there or whatever, but on New Year's Eve, it sounded like a lot of small arms fire in the air, like people had AK-47s or something. It was like machine guns, you know, like fireworks and stuff on New Year's. I thought that was kind of cool.

Yes.

Well, very interesting, right? Right, right. McDonald. Yeah, militias and and mob mafia types automatic weapons in the air. But that's what it sounded like. And I was like, because I was in Palermo, if anybody knows what Palermo is, but I've heard of it. Sisley, yeah.

Yeah. All right, Kevin. Let's go to you maybe for something a bit more uplifting.

Well, the bitch.

That's okay, Darn, but it kind of breaks my heart a bit.

Well, it's a lot of people.

Because I thought we had some good New Year's together.

Most of the memories I have positive memories were of Christmas. Like we'd open up presents with parents, and then I'd come over to AJ's after Christmas. Yeah, yeah. So it'd be like Christmas night, you know.

Oh, so very positive. God, I missed that. You, Kevin.

All right. So I have had um two experiences um for New Year's Eve. And and uh the first one ran from the age of zero to probably twelve. And the second, and and then again from 37 till currently is 12 years old. When you learned about down below those years in between, uh 13 to 37-ish or so. I would love to tell you great stories from those times, but I did it right. I have no fucking recollection because I was absolutely obliterated.

Yeah. Plasters.

Um, I did we we just, you know, New Year's Eve, I was working, most New Year's Eve in that era, and uh, and we were enjoying ourselves back then behind the bar as well, or wherever else we were kitchen or or or whatever else. So I know I had good times, but I just can't tell you about them because that's kind of where I was at. Even if I could remember them, I probably shouldn't be talking about them. Right, right. Uh, but the 0 to 12 and the 37 to current, the one thing that I do remember, aside from usually just dozing off before it even happens, is the three stooges. Oh, you motherfucker!

I was just about to get into that. Go ahead. Good for you. That's what I do now.

What are you talking about? You had your chance. I know it was my honorable. Yeah, no kidding. You can't jump on me for last.

Go on it.

That's all. No, you can talk about it. It's just three stooges' marathons were fantastic. Sure, being it was it was so great to just sit there and one after the other. I mean, and some of them are you know, some of them aren't our favorites, but they're still good. But then, you know, they'd mix them up pretty good that you'd end up with, you know, either Men in Black or or the plumbing one or something that was, you know, classic, absolute classic stooges. At least one an hour. Oh yeah. No hunting allowed. Yeah. How do you know there's no hunting there? How do you know that's a good place to go hunting? There's a sign, it says fine fun. Yeah, exactly. What about what about over there? Oh, that's not a good place to hunt. How do you know? There's a sign it says bear left.

But I and that's for us anyway, up here in the northeast. That was WSBK TV38. Yeah, 111 Alive out of New York. Oh, the Twilight Zone.

Twilight Zone 2, yeah.

My name is Taki Tina, and I'm going to kill you.

That's uh what's it what's the ball dudes? Telling some all it's great, great, great great pick, Kevin. Yeah. Fucker, that was on the movie lost to a Gene Cavinci.

Yeah, he had one of the green voices.

Yeah. What about Dana Hersy? Uh where was Dana Hur? I thought Dana Herse was a little bit of a short. Dana Hersy. Yeah.

Yes, he he was beforehand.

Maybe I'm saying the wrong name.

Dana Hersy.

No, well, it wasn't Jorge Hiroga.

Dana Hersy had that deep voice. Yeah.

Do you remember? Do you remember him, Jorge Hiroga? I don't. He he would do the man on the street thing, he'd be like, and that's the way it happened night here in South Boston. He'd have a perfect, like, non-regional dialect, and he'd say, This is Jorge Hiroga for Channel Six. It's like the only thing that he said with a Spanish accent with his name, and everything else was perfectly.

Oh, I remember that guy. I'm sorry.

When you were talking about Zelig, how we good one always change up, like when the people were around. Yes. All right. So here we are, moving on to our last category, number seven, which is a wild card. You boys can choose whatever the fuck you want.

All right. Well, I I'm gonna say my main one, then two very quick ones.

This is a single category, brother.

All right, all right, go ahead.

As long as you're quick, the guy that called me on something.

Okay. This is also on New Year's Eve, and this is some lessons here on this one. This was uh two years after that. Uh at this point, 97 to 98. I yes, it was definitely 97 to 98. And uh and we had a New Year's party in our apartment. Uh and Valerie was only there for a while. And anyway, so it was a pretty raucous party. Freddie came down with Jeff. Jeff uh was uh he was a quadriplegic. Um I I don't know if I was supposed to call Val later on that night. I forgot to because uh I don't remember what happened. But the next day I called her up and I probably called her late because I was exhausted. And I'm sitting there on the couch watching football, and Fred and Jeff are still there, and she says, Don't come out here. So I didn't come out here. Then she calls up later. Why aren't you here? You said don't come out here. They don't mean what they say. You have to read women code.

They are they are messed up in the head, they are gone.

No, you don't read women code and didn't pick up on the message.

She told me not to come out here. Exactly.

You dunce, that means come out.

Right. I didn't want to. I was tired. Drummer Boy is a song that I almost picked because it goes right through. It makes me think of my brother. I can't get through the song without being in tears. And uh and dad's roast beef when we moved to Guildford. That that was right up there with Arn Sill's roasted chicken. It was just incredible.

Roast beef is the exact word. It was not prime rib, so it was seared to a mother F. All right. Is it to me now? Yeah, you all right. So this is gonna be of probably zero interest to our audience, but it's my wild card. Who gives a fuck what they think? Who gives a fuck? Exactly. But I just kidding, guys. I mean, for me, this wild card is just, you know, I've been divorced for probably what now 10, 12 years. But every other year, you know, Ricky and I agree about it, where I have the girls Christmas Eve or Christmas morning, but just Christmas mornings with my kiddos. I have twin daughters, and just them tearing presents open every year, you know, or every other year, I shouldn't say. But just how important that's been to me. And like you said, Kevin, earlier, Christmas Eve, everyone else have else is out having fun, and it's four in the morning, and I'm fucking rapping shit while they're asleep, you know, and just the importance of that to me, nothing can match it.

I I mean, we had a slightly different arrangement, but I never got him until Christmas morning. So by the time he was three years old, I never got to see him come down the stairs Christmas morning. And you know, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and and opening his first present of the day. By the time I got him, there was a four-hour drive in between to go to my family, and he's already got presents to play with and whatever else. So I get it, I understand where you're coming from. Yeah, but I told you that was one piece of of life that that I completely missed because I never got that, you know, Christmas morning.

Another uplifting story.

But I just done that.

All I can ever think of is the you know six thousand dollars I spent to watch them tear it open in eight seconds. Right, and then play with the boxes, stack it away somewhere and play with the paper. Right.

Can we go to our friend's house now, dad?

Right, all right, don't go. Mine was the getting that Sears or JC Panty catalog, and I know Mark, you mentioned that. Like, that was awesome when that came in the mail. Yes, and you started like planning out your list and circling down your list. Yeah, that was awesome. And then to know that in later years, like, oh, my parents were probably working hard to try to make sure they got some of those things on the list, but couldn't get the G.I. Joe aircraft carrier. Because like another thing I wanted was a motorized vehicle, like when back in like the 70s and the 80s, like motorized vehicles were pretty like you had to be rich to get a motorized vehicle. Like now I could go to the Guilford dump and probably find one in there. They have like a most amazing like pick and pull or whatever you want to call it, where people just leave stuff where you can grab stuff, and there's always like a motorized battery-operated vehicle and shit like that. Like, you can get it so easy now. But for me as a child, was like, oh my god, I want a fucking motorized vehicle.

Which I will go into after Kevin goes, but oh the motorized vehicle.

Yeah, yeah. When you're a kid, absolutely we had big wheels and all that shit, but green machine to get one that had battery operated was back then was pretty big deal. Now it's like nothing, you can find them everywhere, you know. Go to home goods or whatever.

Yeah, yeah. Richie Richie Rich was the only kid that had it when I was Richie Rich. All right, Kev, yeah, last but not least. All right, so my wild card has to be, and I I'm I'm sure I've talked about this in previous casts, but um the blizzard of 78. I was across the street from the school that I went to, the elementary school, and of course there was a big parking lot, and that parking lot got plowed all that winter, and the snowbanks were easily eight, nine feet tall, and we spent that whole winter tunneling through building roadways on top of. It was like it was it was a housing development by the time we were done. There were so many, you know, caves and caverns. So, of course, you could you could get down, you and your buddy could get down into your pit or your you know the hole that you dug, and there'd be people down the way on the other side in theirs, and you'd be baking snowballs all day long, and then you'd attack. I mean, it was the ultimate outdoor winter that ever could have been. Yes.

Do you know when the snow melted that year? You know when the snow melted that year. It melted almost, it was like the last week in April. It walked up to the ball. I think in Boston it was March.

Timeouts in June March. Timeout. Kevin, continue.

The last of the snow, I believe, down in Boston from the parking lots, the piles, was into the summer that year when they finally the last of them disappeared. It was it was amazing. That I don't like I don't like winter any better, Mark. But as a kid, that was a winter wonderland. It was amazing because it was just there was so much to do with all of that snow. And it was, you know, it was it was an incredible event.

Yeah, something that online doesn't happen. T-shirts and stuff, Blizzard 78. That was a seminal event.

That fucking was absolutely I remember people on the news standing on the roofs of their houses waiting for helicopters to rescue them. I mean, it was it was insane.

Now I have to interject here because I have three things I must speak of, and then of course, you guys will all have your chance. However, the motorized vehicles, just all the kids that had the fucking dirt bikes, like the little CZ 80s, like those motherfuckers. Boy, did I want one, and fuck, it pissed me off, but anyway. Um Blizzard of 78. Two things I have to talk about about that. One, Mark, I don't know if you recall, I know you hated Farmer Drive, but do you remember the fort you and David built in that snowbank at the bottom of our driveway? Kevin, you were talking about this tunneling, tunneling. But you guys built inside this snowbank two tunnel, a tunnel on each end, and then this huge hollowed-out area. They poked like three holes at the top of the snowbank and put those round saucer sleds on it, so like fucking light could come through a bit in different colors, and I lived in that thing all winter. But more importantly, is the next day. I don't know if you remember this, brother, but the we had the Gamash's hill beside us. That was our neighbors, and that was our sledding hill. And the snow was so deep that they built like 10 different trails coming down like three feet deep, and they all interjected at different points. So we would have smash up derbies. Remember the orange long sleds, they were the best ever. Yeah. Um, and we would all say, one, two, three, go run and dive on our sled, and every once in a while you just fucking wail into the other person. It was just so incredible to me. And I don't know, I fucking hate snow with the best of them now that we're adults and we actually have to shovel it and move it around.

Anyway, I have to say something about the storm. A lot of people forget that not even two weeks prior to that, there was a storm almost as big as that storm. That was the big storm of of like the decade, and it just got surpassed by the the blizzard of 78.

Right. It was bigger than the blizzard of 78.

Well, so it was it was just about as much snow, and of course, it becomes more potent when it happens in the big city. If we got buried by four or five feet of snow up here and Boston got three inches, it would not be a big deal. And I'm not even joking. I am not joking.

Right. We don't matter. I mean, us Gen Xers are definitely gonna be able to survive in a, you know, oh yeah, we know how to tunnel and make snow fort. Because when you get into a snow fort, it's nice and cozy, it's warm. Yes, you're like, holy shit, this is cool. So we we all have training in how to build a snow fort and we could survive should we be trapped out in the wilderness, which most people today would just donald. Yes, they would, or they'd walk up Mount Washington.

All right, boys, they would die. Anyone else have anything to say before we end this? All right, boys. Well, cool, everyone out there, we cannot thank you enough. We wish you a very Merry Christmas and happy new year. And uh please email us at PTA80H at gmail.com. PTA80H at gmail.com. And anyway, great show, boys. Mark, Merry Christmas to you, my brother. I love you.

Merry Christmas, eight. I love you too. AJ, thank you so much for all your hard work on the show, all the editing. I hope you have a great time in your new house. Everything goes well. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas to Reagan and Sydney. I love you both. And uh I'm so proud of you, AJ, and I'm so happy for you.

Thank you. Don't forget about those boys below you or that.

Yes, I mean, you guys are you guys are my brothers, you're my brothers, and I'm so proud of you guys too, and so happy to be in your life, and you're in my life.

Yes, Dungo. Thank you, Merry Christmas, everyone, and to all good night. Kevin.

Oh, Merry Christmas to all of my brothers here, you bunch of farting ice holes. Um, congratulations on the new home, AJ. Um, I hope it brings you much happiness in the new year. Uh, Merry Christmas to everybody out there, and thank you for listening to us. And I hope you all have a fantastic new year.

Indeed. And thank you all so much for listening. Uh, all you guys, Mark, Kevin Donnie. I love you guys so much, man. You are family to me, and Merry Christmas to all our listeners, and thank you for your kind wishes, and we are out.