Do you want to know how to survive the holiday season with your sanity intact? Ever wondered what leads us to put up with the hustle of Christmas shopping and how traditions such as Santa Claus and Elf on the Shelf shape our holidays? Buckle up because we, your hosts Kenny Cottman, Louis Crawford, and Tom Rammage will be your guides in this wild holiday ride. We start off with a hearty discussion about our own Christmas shopping adventures and the hilarious holiday memes that have kept us laughing amidst the rush.
Remember the feeling of watching "It's a Wonderful Life" or "Home Alone" for the first time? Or the magic of unwrapping that one special toy on Christmas morning? We reminisce about our favorite holiday movies and gifts from our childhoods, from Super Nintendo to Hess trucks, and the joy they brought us. We also share our experiences of celebrating both Hanukkah and Christmas, doubling the festive fun and gifts! Join us as we relive these warm memories and share a few laughs.
Brace yourself for the holiday chaos because no festive gathering is complete without it! From kids causing mayhem at the dinner table to tipsy relatives revealing their true selves, we've seen it all. And let's not forget the festive drinks: we'll share our recipe for Kokito, the perfect companion for these moments of family craziness. As we wrap up, we delve into the pagan roots of Christmas and envision a future of holiday celebrations that are more about love, joy, and gratitude than religious affiliations. So, sit back, relax, and let us entertain you with our holiday tales and plans for the upcoming year as we close with our heartfelt holiday wishes for each of you.
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Do you want to know how to survive the holiday season with your sanity intact? Ever wondered what leads us to put up with the hustle of Christmas shopping and how traditions such as Santa Claus and Elf on the Shelf shape our holidays? Buckle up because we, your hosts Kenny Cottman, Louis Crawford, and Tom Rammage will be your guides in this wild holiday ride. We start off with a hearty discussion about our own Christmas shopping adventures and the hilarious holiday memes that have kept us laughing amidst the rush.
Remember the feeling of watching "It's a Wonderful Life" or "Home Alone" for the first time? Or the magic of unwrapping that one special toy on Christmas morning? We reminisce about our favorite holiday movies and gifts from our childhoods, from Super Nintendo to Hess trucks, and the joy they brought us. We also share our experiences of celebrating both Hanukkah and Christmas, doubling the festive fun and gifts! Join us as we relive these warm memories and share a few laughs.
Brace yourself for the holiday chaos because no festive gathering is complete without it! From kids causing mayhem at the dinner table to tipsy relatives revealing their true selves, we've seen it all. And let's not forget the festive drinks: we'll share our recipe for Kokito, the perfect companion for these moments of family craziness. As we wrap up, we delve into the pagan roots of Christmas and envision a future of holiday celebrations that are more about love, joy, and gratitude than religious affiliations. So, sit back, relax, and let us entertain you with our holiday tales and plans for the upcoming year as we close with our heartfelt holiday wishes for each of you.
Please Subscribe/Follow the Cottman, Crawford & The Jersey Guy Podcast.
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Speaker 2:This is.
Speaker 3:Kenny Cotman, louis Crawford and I'm Tom Rammage.
Speaker 1:Merry.
Speaker 3:Christmas. Ho ho, ho, ho ho Happy.
Speaker 2:Hanukkah Happy holidays.
Speaker 3:Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2:Happy Hanukkah, coming blow on the harmonica.
Speaker 1:Happy, happy Hanukkah miss.
Speaker 2:Yes, hanukkah miss, that's not bad Festivus for the rest of us. Yes, yes, yes, I celebrate Festivus.
Speaker 1:Yes for the rest of us. And I am going to have my airing of grievances. Yes, I got a lot of problems with you people and you're going to hear about it.
Speaker 2:All right, we know who wants to sign for a wall tonight. That is great, yes. So welcome listeners, welcome guys. How's everybody doing Good, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 3:Yes, we're at the holiday season now.
Speaker 2:The holiday season so this is the holiday episode.
Speaker 3:And this will be our last podcast for the year. And then we'll be back after the new year, we're going to take a few weeks off, be with our families, do our thing, hang out and you know we cool.
Speaker 2:come back with some quality content for you. Content for you. Amazing listeners Appreciate you guys being here. Yeah Kind of come up with some more good stuff. We have a few good ones, too, that we've been thinking about. Yeah, we got much. Yeah.
Speaker 3:We got a lot. Yeah, but yeah, I'm looking forward to it, but now we're in the holidays, so we're hanging out and this is the shopping time of the year. Yes, shopping, you know.
Speaker 1:buy presents for everybody, yeah, you know the thing is the part of Jersey. I grew up in the Jersey guy, yeah, jersey I grew up in. I grew up in a small town, rochelle Park, but it was right next to Paramus New Jersey, which has one of the larger shopping malls in New Jersey before you know, the one that opened up Over by the Stooccus Right but that was the biggest shopping mall in Jersey at the time and Gorn State Plaza, so we always had like traffic just coming through because it was the main road to there and it was just like nonstop.
Speaker 1:So like I hate Christmas shopping.
Speaker 3:It's the worst man.
Speaker 1:I really do, I, I I just.
Speaker 3:They say people are supposed to be. You know, this is the time of year. People will nice.
Speaker 2:Everything is bullshit because when you go to the main is people boy, they're like so aggravated. Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 3:yeah, it's the opposite of what supposed to be doing.
Speaker 2:But how do you not like? I don't know, I don't mind Christmas shopping, I don't mind going out and well, now shopping is great. I do it for my yeah, no, man, I can't actually my wife does you know Tara does all the shopping.
Speaker 1:She's probably listening. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm good, I'm doing yeah.
Speaker 1:I guess you better say yeah, listen, time is pretty much the one who does all of it.
Speaker 3:And if I do get anything, it's if I'm sending to somebody else is from both of us, but night has it just getting for her Right. I usually get it offline or something.
Speaker 1:I'm like, yeah, I can't be bothered, it's the online that Tara does like most of the Christmas shopping right, it's funny. So, like some, when Chase is opening up his gifts, I'm like just a surprise for some of the gifts I don't know.
Speaker 2:I mean, I know what, like the big gifts are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like, you know, like I was like oh, we got that for him. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Santa Claus. Is it all right this year?
Speaker 3:Yeah, Don't not weak Santa.
Speaker 2:Claus, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Does he believe in Santa Claus?
Speaker 3:No, See, is he not.
Speaker 1:No, he believes in Santa.
Speaker 3:Claus, yeah, he does, okay, so don't go you don't believe in.
Speaker 2:Santa Claus People laugh about. I believe in Santa Claus. Right, it wasn't a Santa Claus, bro. Listen, listen, man. We all did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm telling you about now, I believe, now you know it's the weird thing. Now, like, like you know, like you don't want to tell your you know, like, like, is it wrong?
Speaker 3:Like you don't tell them really when you think about it. Did your parents tell you no, no, you figured it out.
Speaker 1:My cousin told me yeah, you figured it out. No, I don't remember how I figured out. I was like what?
Speaker 3:You kind of figure it out because you get golden. You realize, okay, this is really not what's happening and my parents are the one who buy it.
Speaker 1:But you still like the whole idea of Christmas you have every night we're doing the elf on the shelf.
Speaker 2:There you go. No, was it Snoop on the Stoop?
Speaker 3:No Mench on a Bench.
Speaker 2:There you go, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I like that. Yeah, yeah, I like that. I went on a bench. Yeah, good stuff.
Speaker 2:The one you sent me the picture you put out.
Speaker 3:He posted I have, I have them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's Spock on the on a on a rooster, spock on a cock. That wasn't you.
Speaker 3:You asshole, sent it to me.
Speaker 1:Oh no.
Speaker 2:It wasn't me, yeah, and I saw it.
Speaker 3:I replied this is wrong on all levels.
Speaker 1:It's what I was funny when it took me a couple seconds to figure out what it was. But it was. It was Fred Durst on top of a chocolate chip cookie and like. But it was Fred Durst from the music video Nookie so Nookie on a cookie.
Speaker 3:Oh God, cookie, yeah the same.
Speaker 2:That's great. Yeah, no all that shit is fucking hilarious. I love that shit. It's funny bro, it's freaking. I love it. I have fun with it.
Speaker 1:You know, of course, man, it's the best. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2:And I said I said I like the shopping, I like going out, like looking at to see what it is.
Speaker 1:that's going to. I like I like the festive shit. You know it's like my, you know, but I it's because my son's really into it. Like we, like I've mentioned before, on the show we do like the big Halloween, so we have a lot of Christmas decorations out in front of the house and he's really into it. He's into like the inflatables and stuff like that. So, like I love the decorating part.
Speaker 1:You know I even before him. I remember when my wife had my wife and I when we moved and we had our apartment before we moved into our house, I was like the first or second year was like all the stuff we had hanging on the wall I give wrap them all right and put like bows on them and all house was like decorated like presents on the wall Right.
Speaker 2:My wife did. I saw a couple yeah.
Speaker 1:So you had a couple here. So I did all I you know I would. So you know I like, I like the decorative part of, I like the Christmas spirit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, see, but that's the funny. I don't mind doing the Christmas shopping. I'm kind of cool with doing the wrapping or whatever. Yeah, but I'm just not into all the decorations.
Speaker 3:See, I did because my father, when we were superintendents, we grew up. I grew up in an apartment building.
Speaker 2:Right, my father would decorate every year.
Speaker 3:He would have the record player playing in the hallway and be putting on decorations. He had the Christmas tree on one side and the menorah on the other side of the building it was. It was always nice to do that, you know. Of course he was having a few beers while he was doing it Right.
Speaker 2:He's had a good time. It was a good move. Of course, my mother came home and fucking ruined it. That's a whole other episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's the trauma episode. I'm just kidding, but no it usually was always something.
Speaker 3:I always remembered it and look forward to it as a kid Right Right that I always liked it was good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I'm not, I'm not into the fucking decorations, bro. No, no, I'm really not.
Speaker 1:Wifey is certain things. She loves it. My father.
Speaker 2:Jessica is my wife. Jessica, she loves that stuff. She does her Maggie. They love the hell out of it. Yeah, no, I'm, I'm.
Speaker 3:Do you see what my house looks like? Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying I love it, I fucking love it, you too? Yeah, I really do.
Speaker 2:But I think, but you're, you just like the holidays and decorating for the holidays? Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, see, I'm like, look, we got some.
Speaker 1:Yeah, make this change for your house. Looks like for a season. It's cool, yeah, no.
Speaker 2:I said I'm good without it, bro, I don't mind going somewhere, listen.
Speaker 3:The studio is decorated.
Speaker 2:Well, the studio yeah it's going to be good. You guys can see the pictures. But you know, yeah, no, I'm good for that, but I but I love the holiday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I just, I just love everything about except me, having to decorate my apartment, my house, my whatever. I'm just like.
Speaker 1:I just want to have a good time. What about the music?
Speaker 2:Oh, bro, the greatest for me, because I guess, when I grew up, how I grew up, whatever, yeah. Yeah, there was Doc Buzzard's Christmas. What's that? It's like a disco Christmas, oh.
Speaker 1:I know, I know that I was that up.
Speaker 2:Great, I love it. I love it, I love it. I try to pay that and people like turn that shit off. That's not real. I think, he loves it, I love it. It's the greatest.
Speaker 3:What's your favorite Christmas song? What's your you have a song you have a song, a particular song or songs that you like, that when they come on radio you're like, yeah, I'm putting that up.
Speaker 2:Only the disco one. Like I said anything on that album, that Christmas album, real shit.
Speaker 1:But it's like little drummer boy and the good thing is, you know what I like Every once in a while, like the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's really good.
Speaker 3:I don't think we could say his name, but yes, we know someone who actually was in it yeah, we know somebody.
Speaker 2:And we said that yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1:He's been listening to the show for a while, so I don't know if he still is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that's a shout out, Shout out to Mr Person. We know him, but anyway yeah. I like that.
Speaker 1:You know, I mean I like you know, I was, I was, I did the whole Christmas music thing when I was in like middle school, elementary school, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you did chorus and you would sing the song. Yeah, I did chorus, I would sing the song. So I like all the classics.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like rocking around the.
Speaker 1:Christmas tree.
Speaker 3:See what's your favorite song oh God, there's so many man.
Speaker 1:I can't even dig them. What's that? That's hilarious.
Speaker 3:The one I like is a few of my favorite things, but done by Tony.
Speaker 1:A few of my favorite.
Speaker 3:But when Tony Bennett does it.
Speaker 1:Oh, I haven't heard that. Oh, that's, he nailed it. He just destroys the song. It's great.
Speaker 3:One of my favorites anyway at least for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that one is good. You know what I love? All the memes right now about the Ryokari Christmas song.
Speaker 2:There's so many fucking memes.
Speaker 1:I love how like she hit it big, though it was that one song.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:But I love that, like there's a meme of her, like a picture of her Like and it's, and she's like encased in ice and it's like it's like it's Thanksgiving, she's still hung out.
Speaker 2:Because, I know that fucking song is going to come out. It's coming, she's. Yeah, I know and see. But again.
Speaker 3:I get annoyed, though Place like home for the holidays?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's another one.
Speaker 2:I think you know what I get annoyed, though that you know like the decoration and stuff.
Speaker 1:So, because it's before Thanksgiving, oh, it's coming out, so I think that kind of just throws me off.
Speaker 2:I know we're talking about that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think that's what I just think about it now, because you know we're talking about right now.
Speaker 1:Not to say that, but we don't decorate until the, the the weekend after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:Okay, we will not decorate.
Speaker 1:Until then she starts the, that's.
Speaker 3:Sunday She'll do it.
Speaker 1:That's okay.
Speaker 3:And then, once it's over, she'll do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Usually this time she was late. This year she actually got a lease on what she's kind of been busy as hell though. Yeah, but now she's like going to town.
Speaker 1:So so Christmas right. So now we talked about you know what we like music, but what about Christmas movies?
Speaker 3:I mean, this is a Christmas movie, Die hard, sorry bro, sorry, I'm sorry, guys don't like the end of the debate.
Speaker 1:But it is a Christmas I like yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, no, no, all right, but then so let's go. So like you got the classic Christmas movie that the air on TV at midnight all the time, it's a wonderful life.
Speaker 2:It is my most favorite movie of all Ever see the colorized version. Yeah, no, I don't like it. Color is like yeah, color sucks. I like the black and white.
Speaker 1:It's such a classic fucking movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love that movie and I cry.
Speaker 1:That is my favorite.
Speaker 2:I'm not admitting that shit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I do, it just comes. Yeah, you can't help.
Speaker 1:You can't help it you don't cry. You can't not be like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, no, listen. So in in Middletown, new York, right, yeah, yeah, the day after Thanksgiving they have the tree lighting downtown. They have this groovy parade right on East Main. Really nice, bro, like we've been. It's a tradition now. It's great, I love it. And at the movie theater, the Paramount, right around the corner from where the trees live, they show it. They show it's a wonderful life and you get to sit in the theater old school movie theater and watch it. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 3:That's what we've been doing, bro.
Speaker 2:We didn't do it this year because they switched up. They put it earlier, they put the movie on before they did the tree lighting, Right. So everybody you know, by the time you got out of work and everything, it was just like whatever.
Speaker 3:Right, so Miracle on 34th Street?
Speaker 1:Oh yes, Two smooth, that's a good one right, another classic, but for me, because of the time I grew up in, you know again, I was born 81. Christmas, fucking vacation.
Speaker 2:That is my favorite.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is the most quote of I quote that movie. I quote that movie year round.
Speaker 3:Can you do the rant?
Speaker 1:Which rant?
Speaker 3:The rant when you snap stuff. You know what?
Speaker 1:That one. I never, really I never nailed that one. I always remember the small parts like fucking Anthony.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:Grace died 30 years ago. They want you to say grace, god bless you.
Speaker 2:Yes, damn, I forgot about that, oh God.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a good one, that was a good one. Go fetch me my Stogie Home Alone, home Alone, yeah.
Speaker 2:Shitter's full yeah, yeah, home alone. Yes, I have nine lives, but he just spent them all. Yeah, you gotta start, he's gonna be set the whole thing.
Speaker 1:I'm like talk. I'm sorry, I was like stuck in. If you notice, I was stuck in quote mode right now.
Speaker 2:That is the fun. Yeah, I'm alone. Home alone is another yeah, I was definitely a good fucking movie, yeah sure, what else I? Can't what I mean. One I'm gonna go the animated to, so you got Of course. Rudolph and frosty from a steak.
Speaker 1:And another movie friend that I grew up with is is Christmas story man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's everything. Yeah, love that thing. Yeah, yeah, that's great man, I love it. I love it. I watched and I do the Marathon. They showed on TV the marathon for Christmas story.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'll be watching that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm gonna start at that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so many. Like. There was a lot of weird Christmas movies, dude. You remember that movie in the 80s I think it was called the Santa Claus it was. It was with Dudley Moore and he was like a elf and he like tried, like man they try, he tried doing his own Christmas shit without Santa and like had a toy factor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I don't think it wasn't the Santa Claus. Santa Claus is the one with what is face, so with Tim Allen, I don't think that was the one with a son into that he liked it. Yeah, they have a new one now.
Speaker 1:The third one wasn't that good. I haven't seen the TV.
Speaker 2:There's a new one now.
Speaker 1:They gotta find a new yeah.
Speaker 2:They got a finding new Santa because yeah, that's right, that's right. Yeah, that's gonna be cool.
Speaker 3:That's gonna be cool.
Speaker 2:Which one is yours? Lou, you didn't say what movie you like. What was your favorite?
Speaker 3:movies. It would probably be um, Um wonderful life. Yeah, absolutely that would definitely be one of mine, for sure. Oh, I also, like, I do, like it's a Christmas Carol, the animated one that they did through Disney with Jim Carrey, oh that one is about what about? Yeah, so that one is awesome and I do like the original still the old black and white one right. You know, ebenezer screw right right. I like the whole uh it's if it's done right and the good ones. You know the.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you grew up with you know then, it.
Speaker 1:You know it's a good one another one I grew up with because of my age is um Scrooge.
Speaker 3:That was a great one. That was a good one.
Speaker 2:That was great. Yeah, I like the well, I mean think about it, I think the 80s and 90s movies, when they put a little bit of a spin on those movies on the Classic right and they made them more like.
Speaker 3:Current time.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, just a little bit funnier yeah that was very 80s.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was very 80s. Hell yeah. And then, of course, you know, we can't forget elf, oh.
Speaker 2:That's it. That's, that's 2000, right? That's Right, I think it's 20 is?
Speaker 3:oh alright? No, it's not. Yes, it is elf. Yes.
Speaker 1:I was 2003. You think it might be more than that Shut up 2002, man, maybe 2003. Whoa crazy, right, god Lee. What a fuck to the time go. And what's her name? She had a really good 2003. What that is 20. Yeah, it's 20 years old. Yes, my friend, the one who sings at the end that that was you would go his girlfriend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's a lot. She did singing voice. Yeah, she did. Yeah, yeah, she did. That was a good movie, yeah. Oh, my classic already 20 years old, geez, you just kick me in the nuts, oh my god, I know it goes by fast yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, it's crazy how fast it's going fast nefuri's movies 22 years old yeah, furious.
Speaker 2:I've been watching them since the beginning. Yeah, they should make a Christmas one now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, we got a help sign it close.
Speaker 2:I was just gonna say we got a help, sign it close, get the presents Cringle trapped, then these are in the family. Yeah, who's gonna save? Yeah?
Speaker 1:They actually have Star Wars Christmas stuff on yeah, yeah yeah, they always do something. Yeah, the Lego stuff.
Speaker 3:I have, I have two. What dog stockings upstairs?
Speaker 2:one's.
Speaker 3:Chewbacca the other ones are to do to the other ones. And dog, my son was wearing that he they had their.
Speaker 1:They had their hollow Halloween Christmas Concert today. Mm-hmm winter concert, whatever they call it, and he was wearing the Yoda. He has a Yoda Christmas hat.
Speaker 2:It's like the green Christmas hat.
Speaker 1:It's got that fucking Yoda ears coming out.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. I gotta go find me matter fact, for I gotta get. I want to get a Christmas hat for work so I could wear a little either L4 Santa Claus hat, I want to wear one for work. That's gonna be fun. That is cool. Yeah, I think so. Anyways, we'll see, I'll do it. Yeah, I should do a wee sweater day or something like that. Oh dude no that's.
Speaker 3:I've never done that, that's.
Speaker 1:I never did that, you know.
Speaker 3:I heard people having those. I wouldn't mind doing it.
Speaker 1:I would love to do it too, you know.
Speaker 3:But I know if I'm ugly enough, but I've never been invited to one.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, but now they sell them. Yeah, it's a big thing Everybody's doing, you know, that's what happens, we everybody jumps on the bandwagon right, beat it to death and.
Speaker 2:I'm bored now, yeah, yeah my new, what my watch?
Speaker 1:I download a watch face. That's only Christmas.
Speaker 2:That's funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's hilarious, bro, holy shit as far as I go, I don't even know what any no, I've had ugly sweaters, but I don't remember I never had a ugly Christmas sweater, that.
Speaker 2:And it's like the same thing with the fruit cake. Like you said, nobody wanted a fruit cake. Then everybody, all of a sudden I don't know where it got to started getting fruit cakes because it was like a gag it's, and they always hated those things. People were doing it as a gag. Oh, okay, you know, I know that people trying to eat it and stuff like oh, they can't get to a whole Thing. Don't ever need a fruit cake but there are people that love it.
Speaker 3:And if anybody gives you a fruit cake they're the fruit cake. They're the fruit cake, you know it's good they ever see the Italian version of them.
Speaker 1:They come in that like box, that's like a dome. No, they sell them in all the Italian markets. It's like it's like their version of fruit cake, but it's way better Like you can eat it like it's not, it's not like good thing.
Speaker 3:You do that in that, just yeah.
Speaker 2:What is a fruit cake like you know it's like jello with fruit in it.
Speaker 1:Oh, am I thinking? It's something else I thought you're talking about. Like the, it's like a bread to low foot, like oh.
Speaker 2:No, right, no, no, no, it's like. It's like this crazy looking jello looking shit.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm thinking a bread, oh no, no, Actual fruit cake yeah it's not like a cake.
Speaker 2:No, no, it's well, it's shaped like a cake, but it's not, it's just fucking that's weird.
Speaker 1:That's weird.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, no, no, I never had that leader and I never had that no yeah, no, okay, I saw the first time I saw it I was like what the hell is this? Yeah, you got a picture of it.
Speaker 3:I just sent it to you guys. I mean, yes, we're using, yeah, and it's not new and tight, the fruit cake isn't losing tight. Yeah, no, yeah, so everybody, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm just so. A fruit cake for the first time ever.
Speaker 3:I was it. I know I'm good. I mean that's good. Yeah, that is the.
Speaker 2:All right, so now, what was your greatest Santa Claus, but Christmas toy?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would have to say, you know, it's more than when Super Nintendo came out. Okay, super Nintendo was one of the coolest gifts I ever had, and or was it that? Or, and I remember also, I think I got it the same year that it. They had the gun for Super Nintendo, but it was a scope, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:That's crazy.
Speaker 1:It was like a rocket launcher that was cool.
Speaker 2:That was fucking cool. I had a friend of mine I had. That was yours I.
Speaker 3:Um, no, no, no, yeah, mine. Um, yeah, probably would have been. I don't know what it was called. It's fine, Thank you. Um my uncle Frank Back in Brooklyn. We used to always go to the house my aunt and Laura and uncle Frank. We would go to the house and he had this Crazy toy that was a helicopter. It was on like a wire Right and he had controls and it was on this board and you were able to fly it around it. We're flying a perfect circle.
Speaker 2:It was great, I know you're talking about go up and down. Yeah, I think it was fan.
Speaker 3:I love the same, fell in love with it and you could pick things up with it.
Speaker 2:No, that's exactly backwards.
Speaker 3:You could hover, you know right. So he wound up getting me one when I was a kid, and he got me the one with the picked up the space capsule.
Speaker 2:I know exactly talking about.
Speaker 3:It was great toy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a great toy, for sure. See, there was a one toy I don't remember the name of it now and it was a tube, and you can put the tube. You know, however what you want to make it no shape it or whatever the tubes are, you know, just long like hoses, and you had to build it so you can put your Almost like here. It was like a transport and it ran on air, so then you had your little man and his little cart that used to run through that thing. That was my greatest one.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know, what my, my father used to buy me every year was Hess trucks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do you still have them?
Speaker 1:I sold them. My cousin Fred has everyone I only kept the first, the one that are the oldest, like the three oldest right, and then I sold the rest of them off, because they've you know, those ones really weren't that much right that much, so I just kept the ones that were more valuable.
Speaker 2:Yeah, can we ask about how much would he worth?
Speaker 1:Oh, they're like, Maybe like a hundred bucks. Okay not like a whole lot and that's like what they're worth, but we can actually get for them, is you know?
Speaker 3:right, we have, because how far back you was going.
Speaker 1:Well, um 89. Oh see, now I don't have.
Speaker 3:He's got super old. Those are worth a lot. Yeah, like 56. He's got a big right, yeah, those that.
Speaker 2:yeah, that's money cuz I saw one online a while back in the box.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I'm in the box, yeah.
Speaker 2:I saw one that went for three grand, I don't. I do not remember what year was, but it was about three thousand dollars, right?
Speaker 1:Oh, like what you know what I had to do to my as good thing, cuz like it was like I was in my 20s already. My my one friend was like it was the one with the Lamborghini had like a yeah, it was like a Lamborghini came out of the. It was like it was like a Heshtruck, but it was like a show car, like oh, get out. Like yeah, but it had lights in it and my buddy was I was like 22, it's like fucking things, like already 10 years old. Yeah, he's like dude, you got, he goes, the batteries might have explode and that's gonna ruin it. He's got take out the box and take the batteries out and then put it back. I was like, oh, but this post-op. And he's like, well, then you're gonna ruin it from the batteries. We took it out and took the salt. Surprisingly they didn't explode.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's great yeah yeah, dude, because we have to my attic too. So what the heat?
Speaker 2:yeah, and everything in there blow, yeah, yeah, those.
Speaker 1:I grew up was built in the 20s, so you know oh yeah, matchstick right there, bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, there was some good toys, though. Right, there was some good toys.
Speaker 3:Yeah, skateboard would be another one. Usually got closing. But see, I had the best of well, technically you're the best of both worlds I had.
Speaker 2:Hanukkah, and that's right. Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 3:Hanukkah, you would get a really big gift on or the or the, the thing that you were looking forward to, or whatever it might be like. Let's see, the skateboard Right would have been the first gift and everything else it would have been a little thing.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3:You know clothes or another toy or something, but nothing crazy like it's big as what so you got eight days of toys or Gifts, gifts, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then you got the.
Speaker 3:Christmas, christmas, yeah, well, for my wow, yeah, see. Yeah yeah, you know whoever we, you know that, we knew, yeah, but we sell it. We never celebrate, we never had a Christian house, we just had the menorah and but my father did the building, like I was saying early.
Speaker 1:Yes so we had that, we had both, so that me that was right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, yes, the best of both worlds.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely, yeah, it's funny. So we did the music, the toys, the movies. Yeah, yeah for the coolest one that like. Well, I guess, yeah, you know the favorite toy that you've gotten, but what was the coolest Christmas remember having outside of just a toy?
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, so like holiday man.
Speaker 2:No, no, no Christmas. So dig it for us when we used to go to my godmother's house in Manhattan and we would just go and you know the Puerto Rican stuff it was going around and singing in the hallways and the kids are running around or whatever in the project buildings and we would just sing Christmas songs to people in the building.
Speaker 1:And go to their houses like Christmas Cavalier in Spanish. You know, so like those are fun.
Speaker 2:Like. So when we did those like, that was like one of my favorite. Well, those were always my favorite ones because I had to go see cousins that we hadn't seen in a long time, and aunts and uncles or whatever, and everybody laughing and joking and having a blast on Christmas Eve. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:So like it was a good one that you remember oh was there one in particular, either one of y'all, not really not that I can think of. I think the best ones was when I went to my uncles, because they always they had to Treat in the house and everything so that was what made that fun. You know, it wasn't just one that sticks out in my head, just the fact that we were able to do both. You know what I used to love, and they still do it, but it's not.
Speaker 1:The same Is when Santa would come on the fire truck around town. They do it here, you know, but they used to um, they don't used to hand out these giant fucking candy canes like mega-sized candy canes yeah.
Speaker 3:Now they don't do it anymore, they hand us if they hand anything.
Speaker 1:They're like little candy canes right, right like little treat bags I think I still love. I still wait all the time it's coming on the fire truck I love it. That was my favorite thing.
Speaker 3:So here's the funny thing. So yeah, I grew up in a house because I was Jewish house on that Celebrated Hanukkah. But up the block from us, when we lived in Brooklyn, was a pharmacist I think it was Vinnie's pharmacist. It was on 60th and 14th Avenue, right off New York trick, and he always had or did Christmas or did Santa, I should say, and that's where I used to go when I wanted to see Santa, cause I love, even though I celebrated that, I still loved Christmas. I love Santa and everything. I remember writing letters to Santa Claus when I was little. You know I can, you know, so was it? So I kind of you know, like both growing up, so I would go there to sit on his lap and talk to Santa and I remember that. And my friend Andrea just put up a picture on Facebook and she'll probably put it up again this year when we have, when Christmas gets closer, she'll put it up of her sitting on his lap in that, in that pharmacist.
Speaker 2:That's when you get asked, and then you get asked to write the name of the pharmacist.
Speaker 3:I think it is. I'm thinking pretty right on that, but God, that's something like that. I think that would probably be something that will always stick with me, cause I'll never forget that, right, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, we used to go to Macy's and go see the Santa over there for hours it looked like a Christmas story. It was like, just like that bro, hours standing online waiting for Santa and then you're passing all the toys and like, well, you're not getting that. You wear your good dish and you hear all the parents preaching to the kids and the kids are like crying cause they they all did some dumb shit so they're not going to get the really cool gift while you're waiting online for Santa. Right, yeah, that shit was wrong, that shit was so wrong. But yeah, no, we used to go to Macy's and do Santa Claus at Macy's. Really, yeah, that was like the big thing for my mom, you know, for us to go and do that. That was funny, man Jeez.
Speaker 3:But yeah, you know it was fun, though, when you think about it now, the dysfunctional houses you went to for Christmas and the shit that went on in there. Now what you think about it. Now you're like, damn, that's some funny shit, that happened. Yeah, everybody's always got that like one on the whole.
Speaker 1:It's like that video they have with the kid turning over the table and starting all kinds, starting a political debate, and you know it's just like, oh my God, no no, but I mean like super like you know that video where the guy that they have on Facebook where the kids stand at the table you're gonna and you're just the guy's yelling at him and everything.
Speaker 2:He takes the table and he just throws the food just turns the table, just turns it over, like that kind of shit. I'm like, yeah, that's the kind of shit you would say, oh my God, no, I never had a crazy. I don't think I would. Oh, yeah, man, no.
Speaker 3:Super dysfunction at its best especially on the holidays, because you know it's always worse than the holidays.
Speaker 2:Knives are breaking out the knives. What party were you?
Speaker 1:in what did you say, tom? The what? It's always the holidays, man. Yeah, oh my God, yeah, yeah, yeah, because that's when you're crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because everybody's in their emotions and drinking Right right.
Speaker 3:You know it's Christmas time and then they real feel as the real person comes out. Yeah, man, the one that you're like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yes, that eggnog make you a talking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Kokito makes you talk Right, got a little. Yeah man it's crazy. Oh yeah, Well, I gotta do that too. Somebody asked me to make Kokito. I gotta go do that. I'm gonna give it a shot.
Speaker 1:Kokito.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's Spanish Sean.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:I know, oh, look at, he got that one.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know, I know. I have a friend who makes a good vegan Kokito.
Speaker 2:What's vegan? It's coconut milk. Isn't there milk in there? Is there milk?
Speaker 1:He said he makes it with oat milk or almond milk.
Speaker 2:So maybe I mean, I know carnation milk is one thing that people put in and coconut milk, though it's pasteurized right.
Speaker 3:Is that what carnation is? Or maybe?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, yeah, I know there's evaporated milk Vaporated yeah. But I know, like I know, there's coconut milk, which is coconut milk, Right.
Speaker 2:so that's the. There's a coconut cream.
Speaker 1:Right, because I know this. I've seen it in the aisle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. But I mean people, everybody makes it different. I'll probably ask Tanya for her recipe.
Speaker 3:Tanya, yeah, yeah, that's cause she, she's, yeah, I think she, yeah, she makes it good. Everybody loves it and I actually tasted it for the first time. It was the other yeah.
Speaker 2:I know she made it for me one time, bro Listen. Yeah, I mean other than I. Just I wanted to make it Kokito, what's that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, Sounds festive. Yeah, it is A Latin flavor. No, you don't. That's for no, it's a commercial.
Speaker 3:It's a commercial that plays all the time.
Speaker 2:I'd stop but you know, at the supermarket right, no way I'm gonna throw this SNL in the vicinity. Dom, Dom, Dom.
Speaker 1:but you know what, but you know Up and down.
Speaker 3:But you know they they.
Speaker 1:It's like the whitest guy.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's so white.
Speaker 1:The way he says it, like Kokito. What's that Sounds festive with?
Speaker 2:a Latin flair Wow.
Speaker 3:It's so corny on all levels, oh my God. It's like yeah, that's not racist. Yeah, no, no, there's a little bit, and then they changed it up a little bit right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they made like an updated version. They made like a super ethnic one. Right yeah, not to spend it. They're getting a lot of feedback, but we gotta go back the ethnic way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's awesome, we're fucking up. Yeah, oh, that's so funny man. Yeah, but yeah, no, I got it.
Speaker 1:I just want to make it without that, it's like yeah, it's like you hear like a guy's voice goes. It's like Kokito whoo, you know like, and it's like it's like playing like Puerto Rican music in the background Like oh, now that you know Caribbean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh see, yeah, I've never paid, no mind. Now I'm going to go to shop right and see if I hear some dumb shit like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's great. Go to Walmart just to listen.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, when they play it on the radio overhead, that is freaking hilarious bro.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, shit man. Yeah, what are you guys going to do this year? For how are they so?
Speaker 1:yeah, I'm going to have friends over again. It's probably going to be the same crew. It's going to be like Suzanne. You know Eric's going to be there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, say hi to them for us, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is he going to come dressed up? Because he could be like a badass? Anna, he could be, yeah, he could be?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I'll ask him. Come and play into guitar and shit. Da-da-da-da, he could be black metal Santa.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there you go. There's no saying Hell yeah.
Speaker 3:There you go, and then they got some a little bit of witchcraft in there too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, she put something up there.
Speaker 1:She said yule, it's yule. She said yule.
Speaker 3:You put a tree up in your house. Yeah, that's yule.
Speaker 1:Yule what that's? Well, a lot of the, and she'll tell you.
Speaker 3:It's all pagan.
Speaker 1:A lot of the Christmas traditions are pagan Right Traditions the yule, the Christmas tree Right, the yule log Right.
Speaker 3:All of it. Hell yeah, there's a lot of yule. Yule is like you just should see.
Speaker 2:In fact, the only Christian part of Christmas.
Speaker 1:The only like Christian part of Christmas is the the like the Jesus part. Like the rest is all pagan, right?
Speaker 3:And the date is actually not his date because they don't even have any clue when he was actually. The 25th is a pagan thing, it's a pagan holiday and it comes up in different ways, right?
Speaker 1:Christmas, december 25th comes up, like in several religions.
Speaker 2:Yes, so I don't know it does, yeah, it does. But yeah it's anyway.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so it's cool stuff. You know it's just but a lot of the pagan stuff, so it's cool, though I love it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, whatever I loved it. We enjoy the whole the lights, so all that shit it's great.
Speaker 1:It's also another thing. Yeah, it's all. I love it, you know.
Speaker 3:I have this thing in my head that I always think about when it comes to what the future will be like. You know, if everything goes.
Speaker 3:Hopefully we got our shit together as a fucking plot, not as a country, but as a planet, right, and we can just live and be happy and do whatever right, whatever I know, Bluebirds yeah, you know but that we get to a point where where it's not about the holidays, doesn't have to be about a religion or anything, it's just it could be around the same time. It'll just be the holidays, it'll just be this is the time here. We're festive, you put the lights up, we enjoy it. Whatever we eat food, we give presents this is a thing that thanks for another year that went by in a different right sense, where it's not. You know what I mean. Okay, like yeah, we evolved, hopefully some point where that is not the main objective, but more of the fact that hey so not just naming a Christmas or Hanukkah or whatever Come on just just one big holiday.
Speaker 3:So holiday at the big, yeah, so I'm like the part of a day parade, yeah, why not? Definitely yeah, it's just you know that's probably the Star Trek part of me of course, but you know, hey, but it is, it is what it is. Yeah, well, people fingers crossed Never know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no there's this, and I don't mind eight, you know, presents.
Speaker 3:Eight days of presents, that would be oh man Yo, I didn't mind that either. Yeah, it was great so you know you always got a mention on the bench and everything you know yeah, you got.
Speaker 2:See, so Lou has his little doll.
Speaker 1:Mench, I remember that was on Shark Tank, yeah it's good stuff.
Speaker 2:That was on Shark Tank. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 1:Was is they had because he was like, he didn't look is like friendly, so they had to make it more friendly, like I remember they did look like a mean rabbi, that's great. Yeah, we're gonna take a picture, lou, with that and post it oh man, this is great Well that's everybody wants to know whenever they want to learn word from another language.
Speaker 3:They want to know the dirty words. Yeah, oh, yeah. Funny, you can always learn something from mention the bench. Yeah, that is pretty cool though it is, man, it was great If one time you got that for me.
Speaker 2:I was hysterical laugh it man, I was like that is awesome. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3:I said that to all my friends. To that, yeah, we have a chat that we have going that's been going on for Few years like right of us. So usually in the holidays we always go back and forth. I sent that to them. They were hysterical.
Speaker 2:They're like that is great.
Speaker 3:It was funny, so cool. Disagree, I see, for me. I like the, the, the fun part of it, that's a serious part of it. I get it. It's about you know. You know, put christ in christmas and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:I say you know.
Speaker 3:However, you got to do it as long as you enjoy yourself and right angry and not like yeah pissed off at the world, and I get that's gonna happen too, because nothing's ever good, regardless of what it is Love, peace and joy.
Speaker 2:That's what you know they always show about christmas. Anyways, this time of year, love, peace and joy. You start off with Thanksgiving. Give thanks, for you know what you have, who you with, who you around, right, you know let's not forget the other.
Speaker 1:The Undermined rock star is, you know, new Year's.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, yes another holiday.
Speaker 1:That is the same. You know, it's all put in together, right, yeah, you guys have any new year's traditions besides, like the watching? The ball on TV. You know well. I like to say what I'm thankful for is I'm definitely thankful for both you.
Speaker 3:Moish, and oh Am I slow mo.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm slow mo. Am I slow mo?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm slow mo he's moish because I'm a liasa, that's right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I thought it was guilt, wasn't it Guilt and what you're calling bro?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's guilt on the thing, but uh, no, we usually we don't go out anymore for new years, no, no, I know we sit at home, we watch a movie or something, and I don't even watch the ball drop anymore.
Speaker 1:I'm the fucking bed before.
Speaker 3:Bro, that's bad man. I'm like last year was seen that bullshit already.
Speaker 2:Well, I go to parties. So, yeah, yeah, like we'll. So my son's birthday, my oldest son, jason, his birthday. He's a January, he's a new year's baby. So we usually go up to Albany to my other family Uh, eddie and Marty's house and we'll go over there and hang out and party. And, you know, celebrate my son's birthday at the same time is happy new year, so we'll do happy new year. Happy birthday to you and do that whole thing yeah, nice.
Speaker 2:So yeah, it's pretty groupie, that's what we do. We're in the party and drinking and you know we're not in bed by 10 o'clock. You know, depending on how the party's going, we're probably still rockin.
Speaker 3:That's the main thing I mean yeah depends on how the party's. If parties going decent, you're gonna stay up and hang out.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm talking like you know the it's still one o'clock, two o'clock in the morning. You know what?
Speaker 1:was one of my worst New Year's experiences was fucking going to Webster Hall for new years.
Speaker 2:Oh, dude, you never go to a club for new years, bro. You don't go to the club and you don't go to Times Square.
Speaker 1:It's like it's open bar. No, I had to drink the whole fucking night and we're open bar. You couldn't fucking. They understaffed the bar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, everything's gone. No, you never do that you don't go to a club and you don't go to Times Square unless you're in a hotel room. Yeah but you could see the ball drop from your hotel room. Yep, because now they the so many, they don't let people up in front, so you can't, even if you get there this book now.
Speaker 3:You can't right yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm saying so, then you can't. There is no going up there, like back in the day you go there and I saw it on TV all my life.
Speaker 3:I'll continue watching on TV I never went.
Speaker 2:I never had an urge. I had an urge to go once, and then never.
Speaker 3:I am not standing there. Yeah, in the cold or whatever it is, and yeah, no.
Speaker 2:I'm not. Yeah, it wasn't to see a dick Clark back in the day. He's not to see Ryan. See crash right now.
Speaker 3:I'm like I get it. She thinks change and that's cool. But you know what? It's not something that I have a respite to do.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean? No, no, yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm good. So, yeah, but no, I like to hang out, just watch.
Speaker 2:Uh well, watch movies, eat and whatever, and Enjoy the night, so you don't have anybody come over here and nothing either.
Speaker 3:We haven't done anything like that in a while. Once in a while we go to someone's house for like a Christmas thing and just We'll all get together for dinner or Beat up at someone else's house. Yeah, like the couple nights before Christmas.
Speaker 2:No, no, no years.
Speaker 3:On and new years as well. You know so, but we haven't done that in a while. You know, I think would everything have to, you know, covid, covid and everything, kind of going back to normal again, which is kind of where we're at now. So, um, we'll see what happens. I don't think we're doing anything, yeah you either.
Speaker 2:You're not gonna, he's gonna be analysis crash.
Speaker 1:I'm good, you know um music about my parents for new years Down in Delaware, but we're probably coming back new years Eve, okay, that day, so we're probably just gonna hang at home. Yeah, we don't, really, we don't have.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're boring. I wish I could say something with you, yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, we're just gonna. I'm looking forward to starting a new one.
Speaker 1:We're like making you know what I still like, even though we're just home, I still like making the finger food, the uh, you know, yeah, yeah. I do just a vegan version, you know right, I get it. I'll buffalo cauliflower wings. Uh, you know, I'll do uh like a you know, like a pigs in a blanket with like vegan hot dogs or something you know right, all right.
Speaker 2:So then real quick, before we time is almost up. Yeah, the craziest new year's wildest story for new years that you have.
Speaker 1:Oh, um, I would. I would say, um, I just like, yeah, what I guess? Just you know I've done always all the party stuff, but like I think, uh, the under eight drinking shit, we were fucking crazy, like I remember, just like way over drinking and just like crazy shit. My friend's basement, like his brother bought us the alcohol. His brother was 21 and we were like 18. He bought us, you know, just that kind of stuff. Yeah nothing, nothing too exciting, I guess that once they're all which was like crazy, so you?
Speaker 2:know I would never do that again. Yeah, no, no, I can't say. You can't say because, uh, taking the fifth, no, I'm just.
Speaker 3:I can't say if anything that really sticks out of my mind as far as you know, One that was my favorite or one that just stands out, you know yeah, no, I had a few.
Speaker 2:I mean, uh, I had one, uh, I got snowed in in Buffalo.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I made it new year's day. I ended up catching like three o'clock in four o'clock in the morning flight from Buffalo back to Brooklyn. Yeah, because we got snowed in in in Buffalo. I was so pissed I go.
Speaker 1:They grow. They got snowed in all right, so choked in yeah, but I'm my whole shit.
Speaker 2:What did they put snow tires on the plane? What the fuck? That should piss me off, man. But yeah, so that is our time, gentlemen. So happy holidays, merry Christmas.
Speaker 1:Happy holidays and we are taking some time off, so we'll, we'll see you. We'll see you next year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, definitely, and uh have some awesome content. Yes, it's gonna be great, so we're gonna sit in, uh, this mind meld, yeah, yeah, yeah, and we're gonna come with some good stuff.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 2:I'm looking forward to it. Hell yeah, it's gonna be a great new year, so so, but yes. So our listeners Love you guys, appreciate you.
Speaker 3:Have a good have, have a new, happy new year and, yes, great and uh be safe.
Speaker 2:Yes, be kind, be safe, be safe. Love, peace and harmony to everybody Like, just enjoy yourselves and be there for one another. That should be what we're gonna try to be for the new year. Yep, all right, so strive to be a better person. Yes, yes, yeah, and don't do the um. What's the new year's resolutions? Just be a better person.
Speaker 3:Yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because that'll just.
Speaker 3:I mean I'm gonna say don't do it, but whatever, anyway yeah so thank you everybody.
Speaker 2:I love peace and he agrees live long and prosper and go vegan.
Speaker 1:Hello.