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Christmas Traditions, Holiday Food & Christmas Music Hot Takes
The cameras are rolling and the tinsel is out—we just leveled up to a multicam studio and used the fresh setup to wrestle with December in all its messy glory. From last-minute outdoor lights in a cold snap to the art of turning Halloween props into holiday cheer, we share how we actually decorate, not how Instagram says we should.
Money and time get real fast when your calendar stacks Christmas next to birthdays and New Year. We swap partner gifts for a great date night, map out smarter shopping timelines, and make the case for the 26th as a stealth power move for deals and returns. There’s travel talk too: theme parks can be magical this time of year, but we’ve lived the lines and learned the hard lessons about expectations, schedules, and patience.
Food is the soft heart of the episode. We celebrate Puerto Rican favorites like pernil, arroz con gandules, coquito, and pasteles, nod to Italian classics from lasagna to the Feast of the Seven Fishes, and shine a light on Jewish comfort dishes like lokshen kugel and potato kugel. We even explore vegan swaps that keep tradition alive without leaving anyone out. Along the way, we open up about the years when the holidays felt heavy and share simple ways to guard your headspace—drive to see neighborhood lights, buy gifts on your timeline, and practice gentleness with strangers.
And then the soundtrack wars begin. Wham overplay, Mariah inevitability, Springsteen’s Santa, Trans-Siberian fireworks, novelty songs we love to hate, and a few unexpected bangers from metal to a cappella. Whether music or visuals make it feel like Christmas for you, we’ll help you curate a season that fits. Hit play, join the conversation, and tell us your ride-or-die holiday track. If this episode made you smile or sparked an idea, follow, share with a friend, and drop a review so others can find the show.
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SPEAKER_02:How is everybody?
SPEAKER_06:What's up? My fellas, how you doing? So, if anybody's watching the video, they're gonna notice this looks a lot different than it looked before. Because we are have upgraded to a CC and NJ guy 3.0, as I say. You know, 1.0 is just the audio, 2.0 is video, and now we're doing multicam.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. We're good. So we chill to make a video. Yeah. Yep. Good stuff. Yes.
SPEAKER_06:So it'll be fun when we have guests on too.
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SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Fourth camera. I get to change up my background and put different things and people. Oh, I'm getting the I always say Jimmy Kimmel and Fallon. Here we come. Oh put them right here. I'm gonna put them right here next to me. That's gonna be my next one for the show. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah. That's gonna be awesome.
SPEAKER_00:Hey you guys.
SPEAKER_01:Oh god. I love it. Can't wait. Hell yeah. But yeah, so going with our uh idea of sticking with the uh holidays. So the holidays. No, we were in the month of December now. I know, it's freaking great, isn't it? Right. See, this is what I'm saying. Now I'm ready for Christmas. Not back in November when it was uh scarvy. I know. Now I'm ready, ready, ready. So yes, I can't wait, man. You guys set up already?
SPEAKER_00:You guys are like my wife takes care of everything.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I mean it's a good one. We're doing this one for that one and we're doing them. I'm like perfect. Everything's great. We we yeah, we set up. If I had to do it, I could do it. You know what I'm saying? If I had to do it, I could do it, but most of the time it's just better that she just does it anyway. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I still buy gifts, but not on the level that she's at because she's like at everybody.
SPEAKER_01:Well, you're right. So she does everybody's real shopping, you get like the little stuff for her for maybe like something extra for the kids or something like that. Yeah, stuff like that. Yeah, I got you. Yeah, I got you. And Tom, you didn't get a chance to finish the outdoors. Oh man, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:It it's like, you know what? I'm just gonna pay attention. I hate, I I I hate to go with like consensus, but if everybody else is doing it, is what because everybody put up their Halloween their how I I can't. Can't stop saying Halloween. I love Halloween so freaking much. No, no, I they everybody started putting up their Christmas decorations the weekend before Thanksgiving. And you know, I I got the same material you do. I'm not that's not going up till after Thanksgiving. Right. Well, I should have put it up anyway, just the outdoor decorations because they got it was like raining the next weekend, this weekend it's snowing. Right. And we managed to get like a couple up like la this Monday, but it was like the temperature light dropped in a flash. Oh wow. So I was like, we put up like we put up like four or five inflatables, and we're like, all right, let's go in, we're gonna finish this another day, and then you know, it's just well, did you do every day is better? I was already wearing the Long Johns, man.
SPEAKER_01:Dude, yeah, hell yeah. We're making thermos right now. It's cool outside. But did you take and decorate some of your Halloween stuff that was outside to into Christmas stuff? I thought one of them you said that uh you're putting the the Santa Claus hat on what, the skeleton, I think.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we got Bobby Bones, as I mentioned before. He's got the skeleton he's got the Santa hat on. And then we have the from Nightmare Before Christmas, our wreath is the wreath, the haunted wreath with the nice man.
SPEAKER_01:That's what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_02:That's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_01:See, I love it. That's the I and that's what I did. Because so, dude, you know, I went to the store, I went to go find a giant hat for my jack-o'-lantern that I got sitting in my front seat. Yeah. They don't have a big enough one, bro. So my feelings are kind of hurt. The jack-o' lantern is the giant is, yeah. Well, no, no. So it's a pumpkin head, you know? Well, he's got like the pilgrim hat on now.
unknown:Right.
SPEAKER_01:Right? So I need something that's gonna be able to get that can tuck in that hat. But there's nothing, like I need it, bro. If so, if it's like a uh uh 536 size hat, I need it like a four. I mean a six. So just like to stuff everything into that, and then it'll sit just right on his head, you know what I mean? Gotcha. So I'm gonna have to figure out something real quickie because I mean we only got a few weeks till Christmas, so I gotta come up with something really, really groovy to make that happen. But yeah, it's great. And I said now you do you know, shot the Christmas lists are already in, and oh no, I'm lying, I'm missing two and two people Christmas lists. So with that, they just gonna get nothing, nigga and shit. Now I'm lying. I'm lying, I'm not gonna I get them something, but it's gonna be something I want them to get now. So yeah.
SPEAKER_02:But yeah, I don't like I said, I don't do a lot of the shopping, but I know the the specific things I need to get for the close people, you know, like my wife, my kids, or grandchildren or whatever like that. Yeah. So uh and I already already got I think I already got one of my grandchildren something already. It was like a good learning toy, help out. But it was fun at the same time, kind of thing. So that's the kind of stuff I'm looking at. And then of course Tanya. I got her whatever she likes and she does the same thing for me. We pretty much already know what we're getting, but we still go through through the whole rapping and everything and tradition, you know, just to do it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's cool, that's good. How about you, Tom? You got anybody stepping out? It's always fun to open presents. Any what? Oh yeah, you got everybody you gotta get.
SPEAKER_06:Like you get Santa Claus went and got chased his stuff and I mean, like I said, Tara and I, we don't we don't exchange gifts. You don't? No, because you know what it was? When we first moved in together, we were like, we're like, yeah, we're doing joint checking account, even though we weren't even engaged yet. We were just boyfriend and girlfriend living together, you know? Uh we're like, we're gonna do joint checking account. It's just easier because I don't want to have to say, oh, you pay for this, I pay for that. So we did that, and then we're like, look, gifts are kind of stupid now because like you know, we spent it. I'm buying it myself. Right. You know what I mean? So we're like, yeah, you know, so what we do is we we we go out for a nice meal. We like do a date night, like a like a ball or date night.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, you know, we're like, oh, we're gonna order, you know, going to Taco Bell, baby. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, we're upgrading from Taco Bell to Chipotle.
SPEAKER_04:Woohoo! No, we go to like a nice restaurant, we order lots of appetizers, desserts.
SPEAKER_01:Right, you know, you take taste, or you like give them some Benadryl and leave them home. Benadryl.
SPEAKER_06:Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nah, it's just a day night, you know. That's cool, that's good.
SPEAKER_01:I didn't that's not a bad idea. Yeah, yeah. Well, see, so my little thing is that well, my problem is that Christmas, and then second week of January is the wife's birthday. So you gotta split it up. Well, I got right, so I have to split it up. My son is in December. See, so but my son Jason, his birthday is the first of January 1st. He's a New Year's baby. Right. So it's Christmas and then New Year's right there. Gotcha. So you know. Yeah. At least the other two well, oh no, yeah, because Maggie and I are in October. Samantha and Andrew are in the beginning of September. Middle week of September, and then wife and Jason are January, so they're closer to the Christmas shit. I'm like, Dag nabbit. And like, we don't want like no one big gift. We're gonna have the bread. I'm like, well, check this out. You're lucky you're getting something. No, I'm kidding. You know, I gotta I do I go all out. I don't go all out, but I try to do, you know, make them as, you know, try to get them the stuff that they've heard them speak on and such.
SPEAKER_02:So Yeah. Have you ever always stayed in one place for Christmas, or you always go somewhere different? You travel, you go to or is it always the same every year? So you know, this person's house, that person's gonna be a good one.
SPEAKER_01:When I was a kid, we used to kind of like travel back and forth and stuff like that. And not so much like out of state, just different neighborhood, you know what I mean? Right. But as I've gotten older, basically stayed in the same area, you know? Well, yeah, when the kids were growing up, it was basically stayed in the same area.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, for me, like it was just like most all my family lived in state. So like we never really traveled for that. The only family I did have that was out of state the one time we went to my grandmother's house and she lived in Florida, and we were like, oh, well, we you know, she was like an hour and a half from Disney. We went because she lived in Ocala. We went to, you know, we went one year for like Disney. I think we were there on like New Year's Eve at Magic Kingdom. Yeah. It must have been fireworks and all of that. It was cool, but it was a fucking shit show. Oh my god. It's it is the crowded. It is the most crowded at Disney during the holidays. Really by far. Higher than the summer. It I've never seen it that crowded in my life before.
SPEAKER_02:That makes sense.
SPEAKER_06:Like it's Christmas. Holidays are like of Disney. Yeah, Disney. We didn't think it was gonna be. So like you're in like for a shock because you're like, oh, it's like, ah, there's probably not gonna be a lot of people because people are doing, you know, whatever. No, some people like that's their destination for the holidays. That's crazy. I never even thought about that. I didn't think it was gonna be that kind of ex that kind of crowded. People are off from school, it's a good time, you know. But it's a I mean, good, it's it it's a a time when you could bring the family there, you know. Uh and if I guess if you don't have a lot of family or you're just like uh, you know, you go to it's a it's it's it's decent, but it's just so crowded. Yeah, it's like I can imagine. And that's before and when I went, that was before they did fast passes and all that.
SPEAKER_02:So you had those friends, you know. Oh no, we didn't go to Disney. We went to I went to what is the other one in Florida? Uh University, yeah. Went there to uh during Halloween season. Did the you know the scare thing.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Never did that during Christmas. I wonder if they do anything for Christmas on the even if they were open. Are they open all year around? I guess they are.
SPEAKER_01:I'm gonna have to say yeah. Because I mean if they're gonna be down there for for uh Christmas time at Disney, then they've gotta have that open and have some kind of, you know, adult Christmas.
SPEAKER_02:Christmas as long as the weather is holding up.
SPEAKER_01:They must close for a certain amount of time at some point in the season. Maybe. Well, I know they said they do close off certain um uh parts of the park, you know, it's certain theme. Like, you know, like they had the Harry Potter, they closed that down but leave the rest of it open while they were, you know, cleaning it up or setting it up for the Halloween walk stuff, you know. Right. I know they did that because I said I was there once year for for Halloween. Right. But I don't I don't say I wonder what they do for Christmas.
SPEAKER_02:I'm gonna have to call my sister and be like, hey, would you have a I could probably ask Tanya because her sister used to work at Disney and she she would know. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:She was there for a while. That's great though. That is great. I would I wouldn't mind. See, so when I lived in Florida, I I I couldn't get my head wrapped around it's freaking warm for Christmas. You know, like I didn't even know it was Christmas my first year out there, bro. Because it was like it was so hot. Because of the temperature, yeah. Yeah, no snow. They're they're they're putting lights on the freaking on the uh palm trees. Right. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_02:I'm like, what the people still put the decorations and everything out when you're there. It's yeah, it's pretty uh it's pretty interesting to see, you know, lizards running around and you got a Santa Claus standing on the lawn. Yeah, that's the yellows, they're like the little lizards. That's pretty crazy, yeah. Freaking hilarious. But you know, it's it's just the same out there, but you know, it's warm.
SPEAKER_01:That's it, you know. And I couldn't wrap my head around it, bro. Like there was no snow, there was no cold. Like the coldest it got was I maybe threw on a you know a bomber kind of thing. You know what I'm saying? Like I didn't have a like now I've got a shirt on.
SPEAKER_02:I think it's like close to 39 or something once.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, a couple of times that it got down. Like I know it when you know, I know when it, you know, I felt that when it was 29 degrees, you know, until maybe, I want to tell you maybe eight o'clock in the morning, nine o'clock in the morning, then it got hot and it's like you're pulling you're pulling stuff on, like, okay, I don't know, where's my shorts? Like it's too hot for this shit, you know. I mean, but that's us being from up here, right? Going down there, so that anything over, you know, 50 degrees, you're like, all right, cool, we could run out here and just t-shirts and you know, wife beaters and keep it moving. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. What the hell's wrong with you? It's hot, you know. AC still pumping and shit, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02:I remember when I was down at that that particular when I was down there, that Thanksgiving was actually pretty, pretty chilly one. And I was by the water when I worked at my job there, Target at the time. Target. Um we were right by the water, so it was it was pretty chilly that night as far as I had to stand outside and help people to line and all that shit. Because it was Black Friday and all that other stuff. But it was pretty chilly that night. It was pretty crazy. And then you get home at like three, four o'clock in the morning, because they started early. They let me leave at like a certain time, you know, kind of thing. So I was like, yeah, whatever, I'm down.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you know. Oh yeah, listen, you know, I I'm always cool with that, you know.
SPEAKER_02:Uh but people decorate though.
SPEAKER_01:Right, yeah. People go bananas decorating, and it is a different experience, the decorating when you see it in like the warm climate like that, you know? Like you know it's great.
SPEAKER_02:You know, sorry, Tom. No, no, go real quick. No, not great. Growing up when I lived in Brooklyn, well, when whenever you might have, and you go to Cropsier Avenue, you go to all those houses that decorate, like you go all out. Yeah. All these houses are like freaking totally decked out. Yeah. Uh and you would just go to drive through the neighborhoods to see the Christmas lights that people put on their houses. Yeah. It was fantastic. Yeah. You know? That was fun. It was a fun thing. That was a good thing about Christmas. That was always fun too. Because you know, the lights, the decorations, and how everybody has a different eye as far as what they they see or how they celebrate it, which is pretty interesting. Yeah, it is. It's cool. We're gonna say tough stuff. That's what I loved about being in the city as far as that was concerned. And my father always decorated the hallway. Oh, oh, that's why you did tell us that. Yeah, I think I spoke about this one. You had the record player out and music playing with Chris Music and hanging everything. Yeah. Up. Honora one side, Christmas tree on the other. I love some of the harmonics coming too. Yeah, that's true.
SPEAKER_06:Yes, that's coming. Oh, Sunday.
SPEAKER_02:Not this one, next Sunday.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. The decorations, the thing I love is when people get like the the sound ones with the music and stuff like that, where they have like Trans-Siberian office. Oh, yeah. Yep.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I love it. I love it. Oh. Yeah. Yeah, but it is, it's freaking, it's insane. It is freaking insane. I love that stuff. I love when when uh I I say I like Christmas songs. You know what I'm saying? I do like the Christmas songs. I do enjoy the uh the the the all the festivities. I I I really dig them. I'm not even gonna tell you different. I I'm really, really dig them.
SPEAKER_02:Well that's the whole thing, right? We talked about this last time on our last podcast, uh podcast, excuse me. About how we it's a it's a good time of the year to have it. You know, you're at the end of the year, everybody's stressed on top of whatever else they got going on, and so they gotta go shop now. They're going shopping, this time, and the other thing. Just time to hopefully let your hair down, be with family. Hopefully things will go in good for you, and you're just able to enjoy the season. You know, that's what's fun about it, because like again, the lights, the presents, the food, except for the fruitcake, of course.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know. I I maybe I think maybe I've heard of one or two people like in person that I'm like, I love fruitcake. Fruitcake.
SPEAKER_02:It's like okay, to each his own.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, I can't really say that's wrong because you know. Yeah, no, it wasn't anything for me. I mean, it lasts what I think shelf life for a fruitcake is like five years, something like that. You know, I don't know. It's like a sea ration for the army.
SPEAKER_06:I got the first fruitcake that was ever invented. It's still moldy or nothing. Between that and and minced meat. Yeah. Which isn't even meat, it's just fruit chopped up. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Like dried fruit chopped up, like currant and I don't like it. I don't like it.
SPEAKER_01:No, I So that's that's another interesting thing, right?
SPEAKER_02:The food isn't good, depending on whose house you go to, of course. Yeah, right. Cooking. Right. You know, it could be anything, right? Because we grew up. I know if I go back to a growing up in the city, most of my friends were Italian. My Joe, my friend Joe Cap, who's Puerto Rican, uh F, I should say, but he was still his mom was straight up. And everybody's house was different. You know, they had the tree was always different. You know, like again, they have a different way of looking at it or so it was always interesting going to my friends. I always loved going to different people's houses to to see that stuff and be around them because they love the holidays so much. And it was always fun. They were never crazy. Right. You know, it was always laughing and eating and whatever. And joining each other's company. So that's the that was a fun part about it, you know. If and if you all lived in Brooklyn, you only had to do this go house to house, right? Because you know, oh we gotta go down the block. Yeah, you gotta go away. That's crazy.
SPEAKER_06:Awesome. Right. Yeah, so that was always fun. So what are maybe we should let's let's go around and like what are like dishes that you grew up, was there any traditional things that you had growing up during during like the holidays? And I I mean well, I know you got the coquito.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, you mean that kind of food. Like food and drinks like that. So then the food, yes, was the hocning and you know, with almost anything. So there is the yellow rice and pigeon peas. And then coquito. Everybody. Well, we had the panil, you had, you know, of course, we had the ham. Right. Depending on like Thanksgiving, anyways, it would be like the turkey. Right. But uh, yeah, we had all that stuff. The um, oh my goodness, I just lost it. The uh pateles. If you know somebody who is gonna make the pateles for you, papi, listen. Because they like you.
SPEAKER_06:I know, I know pasteles, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:The pateles, bro, if you do get the pateles, that means you had like you left a really good impression on somebody for them to go out and make the pateles. That's such a chore.
SPEAKER_06:I got it. I made them with someone with with with my friend's mother. I and bro, yeah. The way she did it is crazy, right? Labor intensive. Yeah, dude. Because the way she would make it is she would take the plantains. Yes. Uh she did two styles. She did uh one with yucca and one with plantains. Uh-huh. And she put it in the cheese grater. Yeah, man. Yes. For all it's like uh that's the labor-intensive part is getting it that during the putting that through the grater. That is like you gotta get that texture, you gotta get it down to those little pieces, yeah. And by hand. Like I think nowadays, I feel like you could probably cook it up to a kitchen kitchen aid and put the grater setting.
SPEAKER_01:No, yeah, you could. You could do that. That would be so much time saving. That's the only thing that you're saving time on because think of everything else that you have. Oh, the whole the whole rest of the map. The wrap and you got it.
SPEAKER_06:Well, first you gotta cook all of like the meat and you know, with the olives and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, the big the big the big pot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know. So, I mean, like I said, so if you did so between the coquito and the pateles, if you got that But not everybody does the banana leaves, just wax.
SPEAKER_06:No, right. Some people just use partially.
SPEAKER_02:You have to smash with the pan, that special pan? Is that or is that a different one? With the the uh thing. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:You what when you're making the the the bananas, when you're frying the bananas, then you would hit it with the pan, like thing, thing to flatten them out so to cook them. Okay, that's what I'm asking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The platanos and the maduros, yeah. Then but to make the the the pateles, that's that's stuff that's wrapped up in the leaf. Okay and or into the wax paper. And when you're gonna eat it, that you just put it in the boiling water, make sure everything inside gets nice and warm and cook and they freeze good too. They freeze and they last six months easy. That's if they last six months in your house because depending on who made them, they're really, really good. You know what I'm saying? And there's different ways to make them too.
SPEAKER_06:So I feel like I feel like you could because I mean I made that way before I was vegan. I feel like you could that's an easy one to veganize. You just gotta eat vegan meat and just that's uh because the rest is the rest is vegan stuff. Yes. Yeah. Plantain and and you know, or youca, you know.
SPEAKER_01:Right, yeah. Depending on yeah, because yeah, right. You could do it with fish. You could make it with uh with meat, you know, beef, turkey. Yeah, yeah. You can make like any whatever alternative. Yeah. I mean, if you want to do like a seasoned tofu. Yeah. And like anybody else, bro, you gotta remember, bro, it's one of those things, it's to your liking, it's to your taste, you know. So people like that's different too. That's right. Right. So depending on everybody makes it different too. Right. So, you know. That's cool. Yeah. But yeah, and what about you, Tom?
SPEAKER_06:What was your traditional foods? I mean, we did a lot of these, you know, the typical, you know, Americana type stuff. Like we would do the ham for you know, or turkey and stuffing. We did do some like like my my family, obviously this is before I was vegan, we did like the seven fishes. Oh yeah, I've I've heard that Christmas. Sometimes someone would do some Italian stuff, maybe like a someone would make a lasagna in there, yeah, or a ziti. Beg zero zini, a little big zini, a little bit of brujottana. You'll know yeah. I haven't had I haven't.
SPEAKER_01:No, but you know, I can't because I can't have the lactose. Yeah. So I gotta be easy when I'm having the cheese. Unless you're gonna take lactate. Yeah, I gotta take the pill and whatnot. So I might ask why you feed a minute. Hey, honey, can you make me some peas? I want a lasagna.
SPEAKER_02:Right.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. That's great. So then with seven fishes, this is something I never asked anybody, so I'm gonna ask you now. Yeah, yeah. Is it just it doesn't matter how you make the seven different kinds of fish? I know, you know, there's a lot of traditional things people do.
SPEAKER_06:You know, they do the baccala, they do the I know there's uh there's always like an octopus. There's always like uh you had uh what's the little smelts? Okay. Like that. Like, you know, fried galamod that shit. Right, but you chili, yeah. Like that stuff was always like the traditional like the but like I don't I mean that was always but I don't think it was mandatory. I think it was like whatever your family does. Yeah. What? What? I didn't even hear that. I got I I I I I've done the camera.
SPEAKER_01:No, no, no. I'm saying that, but so if you're gonna have um bacala, right? Baccalaf for you guys, right? Bacalau bacala, bacala. Yeah, same shit. So that then you had to only have it when it's for me out. Yeah, no, I'm not a fish guy like that either. But I'm saying like you would have to make that baccala fried. You would have to boil the uh calamari. Like that's how it went, like that was the only way to make them? Or was that you this year it was different at recipes? Well, I'm just not meant. Like if there was only it wasn't like the same thing.
SPEAKER_06:I think it's just like uh it's like that's what's in there, isn't it? That my you know, my family makes, so we make that every year just because it's like it's expected. Right. Like those kind of things. You know what I mean? But I don't think it was ever like, oh, we gotta make it this way. Okay, okay. It's just that's because you know what they like, you know.
SPEAKER_01:Right, right. Yeah, so I I said I'm not a fish guy at all, by no means, you know. Yeah. Uh that's why I'm asking. Like I've never Yeah. Yeah, no, no, that's that's wild. And what about you, Lou?
SPEAKER_02:What was your big uh Well, you know, I grew up in a Jewish household, so I didn't have a Christmas tree. So I we celebrated Hanukkah, but we did have the decorations because we decorated the building, so we did celebrate in a sense. When I was growing up, it was at my Aunt Mickey's house. So if I was eating my Aunt Mickey's, she would be making meatballs and spaghetti probably or something like that. I don't remember. But I always I always remember that about her. So we had Christmas there. So we had a tree there, that's what I So I remembered that with her. But usually it was chicken, I'm sorry, uh luxin coogle, which is noodles, like egg noodles, and it's in a pan, and everyone has their own recipe. Some people have raisins in it, some people don't, some cheese, it depends on what it is. My mother just used straight up noodles, but it was always moist and soft in the middle, and the outside was crispy, you know. And then she also made potato koogle, which is added potatoes using a ch uh a cheese grater, you know, just grating and doing it that way and baking that, same thing. So that was also good because then you had the gravy, sometimes it was pot roast. Not a big fan, but it wasn't bad. Sometimes turkey, you know. But yeah, that stuff was really good. And everybody who knows Luxin Kugel or or uh potato kogel, you know what I'm talking about. And it's always different. Anybody else makes it it's never the same as what you uh you had when you grow up. So remember that. Go to somebody else's house, don't get excited. Yeah because it may not be the same as what you get and you might be disappointed.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, no. Pot roasto. You put what in there?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, that was always cool. And then and then well, yeah, I never really celebrated till I married my first wife, and then I celebrate we had Christmas tree in the house and all that other shit. And then later on my mother put one in. But the food was always good because even when you went somewhere different, nine times out of ten you always ran into something good. But that was always fun.
SPEAKER_06:My aunt would make cookies chip and don't they do like a turnaround? Sorry, I know, I know, we're getting used to it. No, but don't they do like a isn't there like now like a uh like a like a Jewish version of the Christmas tree where they eat they like decorate it like a Hanukkah tree?
SPEAKER_00:Hanukkah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't seen that.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I never I never actually seen one, but I've always heard about it all my life.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, you're gonna get a Hanukkah bush this year?
SPEAKER_02:I'm like, no.
SPEAKER_00:That's funny.
SPEAKER_02:Hey, I still put a menorah up in my house, even though we have a Christmas tree. It's in the window. I think it's good to have both of them up.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, you know, and it's your culture, it's your heritage.
SPEAKER_02:That's I mean, you know, but for me, I don't have enough room in my window because, you know, I have a little thing that's like this big, it's not little eight you know, it's only you know, eight lights. Right.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, no, I mean because well, half black and half recon over here. So that then, you know, whatever Hanukkah Hanukkah stuff, whatever uh oh my god, I just lost it. Wow. That's not good. That's whatever between Christmas and um oh my goodness. Oh my god, man. I just lost it. What is it, Lou? New Year's. New Year's New Year's New Year's, bro. Uh uh holiday. Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa. Okay. All right. Oh my god. We were gonna get there at some point. Yeah, you said Hanukkah, bro, and it threw the shit, man. I'm just saying, listen, yes, all right. I'm entitled to one. I'm entitled to one again.
SPEAKER_02:Don't worry, if it wasn't you, it would have been me. I would have done it. Trust me, I know for a fact. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01:But yeah, it did the Kowanza. But uh I've never officially celebrated Kowanza. I'm not gonna tell you. It didn't even come until later, though. That we all heard about it. Yeah, I didn't start hearing about it until like the 90s. That never was out when we were kids. Late 80s, early 90s, I think that would say. Yeah, but bring it up and I never even bothered. It was a I'm not gonna lie, but it was a time when I wasn't celebrating, like I'm gonna tell you a couple of years that I didn't celebrate like no kind of holidays. Really? You know, yeah. Why? I don't know. I think I was just maybe in a funky place, you know, in in my uh early 20s kind of thing, I guess. I'm gonna say that. I mean I was there, but I wasn't there.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, like I was there, but I was like, holiday was great.
SPEAKER_01:Well, like I said, but then that was when I was down south. So I'm going to hang out and party in Miami, you know, as opposed to, you know, hang out with the family real quick and I come out the door, you know. I'm gonna go and you know, I was out somewhere else, you know. So That makes sense. I think it was just where I was at that, you know, at that time of my life.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, the holidays are funny, you know. Sometimes depends on I I've had holidays where I didn't get much and didn't have a lot and uh things weren't going well, you know. That sucks, but and then you move on. Hopefully you get to the next place, you know what I mean? So But it happens. Yeah. And I'm sure everybody's gone through that, you know?
SPEAKER_01:Mm-hmm. Yeah, no, definitely. And that's the PSA I think that, you know, I like to throw in.
SPEAKER_02:You know me. I you know try to keep your head right. That's why I think the holidays are a good thing. Like I say, it's definitely a therapy thing when you think about it, because it's all about joy and happiness and people being polite and everything. So it kind of comes in at the right time.
SPEAKER_01:Right, yeah. Like just keep your head right. Like you said, be nice to everybody, you know, because you never know who's feeling what when. Right. You know. Everybody wears a happy face and you know you never know. I I I yeah, everybody just try to keep your head right. Don't try to overdo what you can't do, you know. And time it out. You don't have to buy everybody's gift before Christmas. Why? Because there's half those people you're not gonna see until after Christmas, you know, maybe New Year's or whatever. And not for nothing. Better sales are on uh the day after Christmas because everybody's returning shit that didn't fit and they gotta get rid of it and whatnot. So next day though? Well, yeah, the 26th, yeah. Really? Yeah, man, that whole weekend. Yeah, well, you know, so like this year, what Christmas isn't on Thursday?
SPEAKER_02:It's on a Thursday. Right.
SPEAKER_01:So then you got Friday, Saturday, and Sunday that people are running around returning stuff, people are coming back from you know, whatever trips.
SPEAKER_02:It's a crazy time. I don't even want to be involved with that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, no, you dude. You say that now, bro.
SPEAKER_02:You're being for the day after.
SPEAKER_01:Oh man, well, see, I like the crowds. I like the customer. Yeah, no, I'm good with it. I don't want to.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, I can get through it, no problem. I just go into like new like I'm walking through Manhattan.
SPEAKER_01:Right, yeah, right. Yeah, no, no. So dodging people because there's something that somebody will return you, like, oh shit, you're giving that back. Yeah, yo, let's switch out, you know what I mean? And then, you know, get something back, you know, switch up something that you liked and whatnot, you know. So here's the thing, because everybody knows, you know, I'm into the sneakers. The problem is that my size of sneakers goes, they sell out quick.
SPEAKER_06:It's a common size. It's a common size. What is it?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, yeah. So between yeah, so nine to ten, nine, nine and a half, ten, ten and a half. Twelve's another size that's. Yeah, it's another big one. So that then, but right there in that little space, they're sold out no sooner that they're hitting the uh, you know, the the uh the sti this this freaking shelves or whatever, you know what I mean? And it just it sucks, man, because I missed a color a couple of colorways.
SPEAKER_02:How many pairs of sneakers you have already? You don't need any more sneakers, man. Bro, why bite your tongue? There's a couple I saw. You're gonna have to you're gonna have to rent space out just to put those things away soon.
SPEAKER_01:Well not yet. I can there's some stuff I could still do to make it fit in the room. Wai she won't be uh, you know, too acceptant of it, but you know there's still things, you know. But yeah, no, listen.
SPEAKER_06:So no, I was saying like uh just wanted to change topics just a little bit. I was thinking like so like Christmas music, right? We we all know the funny Christmas songs and all those songs, but like there's a lot of songs that bring up a lot of debate where people either love them or they hate them. I'm gonna bring up a couple. So listening to Quham. Wham, but some people I hear people, they go, Oh my god, that's on again.
SPEAKER_01:In that case, we're gonna talk. So we're talking more about how many times it's played.
SPEAKER_06:Well, I think a month time, you're gonna hear it all the time. I feel like that song by Wham, I hear that more than any other song. Really? I feel like it's constantly that one does come up a lot.
SPEAKER_01:Oh that's funny because I hear So this is Christmas.
SPEAKER_00:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01:That shit right there. I hear that song, I'm like, fuck, I'm lowering the stage. I'm like, all right, no, I can't do that one, bro.
SPEAKER_06:Yes. Now, how do people feel now? This is gonna be probably one of the most controversial ones. How do people feel about Mariah Carey's? I love Maria's. I remember when it first came out and I always liked it sits. You know, there's memes about it. Like um, it's like it's almost Thanksgiving. She's thawing out.
SPEAKER_00:I saw that. Oh my god. I saw that. That's funny.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I saw that. But see, I can deal with that every other Christmas because they play it so freaking much. It's that it's the opening, too.
SPEAKER_06:It's like din and you're like, oh Christmas.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know, dude. Oh my god, I can't. I can't, I can't. I don't even turn the radio up. Like, I seriously don't even have the radio on in my car. I just I'm just listening to the hum of the road. Because I just too much Christmas shit. And yeah, yeah. The youngest child comes home from college.
SPEAKER_02:I was in Maryland when that song came out, actually. I was living in Maryland when that song came.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, dude, I don't even know where I was. I'm like Twilight Zone for that fucking song.
SPEAKER_02:I remember that.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, no way. I remember that.
SPEAKER_02:And I liked it then. I still like it now. It's not that it's not that song. It's just it's classic now. Now, because it's on that list now where it's gonna, you're gonna hear it. Yeah. No matter what. The Beatles, Paul McCartney. Right. Old school ones, Sinatra, Dean Martin, right?
SPEAKER_06:Mm-hmm. Yeah. I remember when that album came out with Mariah Carey. That I was in like seventh or eighth grade. I remember like some girl in my class was like, I just got this album. I was like, okay. I don't know why you brought it to school. Right. Oh, wait, maybe she had a Walkman. That's right. That's back in the day. People had the discussion.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, she had to work real slow so I wouldn't skip. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know that. Yeah, no, no. I I I just there's a lot of songs I don't mind. Yeah. You know, tastes have changed, you know, like Trans uh Siberian Orchestra. Like those, like this, yeah, like I was I was gonna talk about that. Yeah, I know, yeah, yeah, yeah. See, I jumped in there. Sorry, sorry. No, no, no, no, go ahead. Tony Bennett. Well, go ahead, sorry. Tony Bennett, size Siberian Orchestra. Yo, I wonder what the remix for that is.
SPEAKER_06:But it's funny, uh Lou has a funny no knew someone that was in it right before they blew up.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Maybe still listen to the podcast because when you were, I mean, when when he used to be he used to be in the union, so he was the union rep for the.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know if he still does or not.
SPEAKER_02:If he does, well, shout out to him and Merry Christmas to you guys. Yeah, yeah. Thanks for everything. Help me out with everything. And help me. And hope you feel him's good. But yeah, he's a cool guy, very laid-back, individual. Right before they uh blew up, he was in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, get out, man. He and I remember he sent me a picture and I don't I can't look for it now because I won't I don't know where I saved it, but I remember him sending me the picture. It was pretty cool. That's funny. Yeah. It's funny how you just bump into people and you don't realize and you're like, and you look and go, Really? You were another? Like, you know, because I remember that. Yeah. Remember when that band came out, right?
SPEAKER_01:When when all that exactly, you know what that always reminded me of, bro? No lie. Remember the uh back in the day, Revenge of the Nerds?
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So everyone's it's like they grew up and they did that. And they start, you're right. Oh my god. So yeah.
SPEAKER_06:You know the only difference is they got a little metal element to it.
SPEAKER_01:They added a metal, and that's what changed it up a little bit. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, without the metal element or nothing.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly, bro. Exactly. You know? No, I I I I I will say though, serious shit.
SPEAKER_02:Tony Bennett. All right, a few of my favorite things. Right, yes. Great freaking song, man. Yeah. It's classic. I love his version the best out of everything I heard. Even you know, it's it's awesome because it came from the South of Music, right? So he does it in such a way, and you're like, God, he just makes this song so much better than the way he does it. Right. It's just so good. Yeah. Really, I love it. And that's like one of my favorite songs.
SPEAKER_01:So for me, that's one of the songs that when I was a kid, I'm like, oh my God, we need something more upbeat, like something just, you know, a little bit more just catchy. And, you know, that's what I'm saying. Now it's changed because I had all that catchy, you know, run DMC and a whole bunch of other rappers and stuff like that, you know, making Christmas songs, and then, you know, is that Trans Siberian Orchestra, listen to that a little bit. You know, you had some of the metal heads, and they had a couple of, you know, of that rock Christmas stuff, you know.
SPEAKER_02:The metal guys did their stuff too. There was some famous songs.
SPEAKER_01:And then the Panatonics, the uh a cappella group, you know? Right. They're they're freaking amazing, you know, and like I said, tastes have changed because now I'm like, yo, this is cool. But again, I'll do it like every couple of days. I can't sit and listen to the Christmas songs all day.
SPEAKER_02:Well, as long as you're not sitting there all day long, right? Look and you're actually buying, I mean, you can always change the station, right? I usually are there sometimes.
SPEAKER_01:Every station now has like, you know, for us up here, I go through three stations and it's, you know, they're still playing some Christmas song. And I'm like, oh no, man. Like I kissed. If it's a good one, I don't mind it. Yeah, no, I can't. I I just all of it. I just I can't. Yeah. I'm mad at having the. I was supposed to go out and buy an Uggy sweater the other day. I forgot to do it.
SPEAKER_06:I forgot Twisted Sister did Completely Faithful.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yep. Yeah. I bet you nah. He's he's on tour right now. I bet you money, he's freaking uh Twisted Sister. They, I should say, they're doing it. They're out on tour. I bet you money, he's probably singing that song now.
SPEAKER_06:And when he was doing solo, Rob Halford of Judas Priests did A Holy Night.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. I I oh I can't even remember how that one went.
SPEAKER_06:I'm I bet you Judas Priest did uh Rob Halford, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, a solo project. But yeah, yeah. Amon Amarth, they're like a heavy metal band, like Viking, like heavy metal. They did Little Drummer Boy. Yes, for real. They did that shit. And Korn did jingle bells.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, that was a good thing, really.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. That actually sounded good. It was pretty good. It sounded pretty good.
SPEAKER_01:And boys to men, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, tone.
SPEAKER_02:Even in country music.
SPEAKER_01:I like the country music. Listen, I'm not a country music person, neither am I, but my father loves country music music, man. I like the country music uh Christmas songs.
SPEAKER_06:I feel like there's a little oh, that's because I was switching. He was messing around. I feel like though, there is a little bit of a money grab with that shit too, because they know that they're gonna get residual because it dies every year. Same thing with the movies, that's why actors always want to get in Christmas movies because they get that residual if it ends up being like the Christmas movie. Like I said, we were talking about last week. Look at what happened.
SPEAKER_01:The Christmas movie a rebranding of Die Hard. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, Die Hard. And then they say, oh, it's an official Christmas movie because it's happening during Christmas and all this stuff. Rebranded them, bro.
SPEAKER_06:There was another action movie I was watching the other day that happened during Christmas. I can't remember what it was. I was like, Tara, this is a Christmas movie because it's happening during Christmas. If Die Hard's a Christmas movie, this movie is. I forget what movie it was. Oh my God.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Well, it doesn't matter. But we're Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. No, no, but we were talking about Christmas last week. So I mean movies last week. So, you know. No, but that's it, but then there's Oh no. No, no, you first, you first. No, there's and then there's songs like that are just corny for Christmas. Like Grandma got ran over by a corny, bro. That is the corniest Christmas! No way. From our hound, Christmas.
SPEAKER_02:Have you guys got the Indian Christmas grandpa? I haven't heard the Indian Christmas. The Indian Christmas when the music is exactly the same as a channel.
SPEAKER_06:Dude, my fucking because it's they got the accent and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_00:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, that's borderline. Everybody's listening to this.
SPEAKER_00:It's a thing. Dude, it's not.
SPEAKER_06:You feel guilty laughing at it, but at the same time, it's hysterical because you're like, this is so fucking wrong. How do we know no?
SPEAKER_02:How do we know if it wasn't someone who was actually Indian and I don't know if it's fake or real school and they're laughing at it and rolling around laughing at us, like, look at these fucking idiots making a nail about it.
SPEAKER_00:Meanwhile, you pin and I'm Edicans. Right.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, see, I don't think that that's a uh a what you call it. I don't think that that's a corny song, bro. Dominic the Donkey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dominic the Donkey.
SPEAKER_06:The first time I heard that is on my my my father just had CBS FM on, you know. Uh-uh, yeah, yeah. They were playing that shit on the oldies station.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Cousin Brucey in them. Yes. That's actually that's probably Yeah, that's exactly what it was.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, cousin Brucey playing on that stuff, man.
SPEAKER_06:Bob Shannon. And they always used to have the uh they used to have the uh echo in the background because it was supposed to emulate like they were in like a dance hall or something like that.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, yep. They have to hop and stuff. Yeah, oh my god, yo, you guys are hilarious. That is not a corny one. But other one, you're gonna tell me he's corny. What? You have another one? He's saying the corny Christmas songs.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know if they I think they all are in their own way. Like forcedly Snowman's corny, but still, it's a good story. I feel like you know, it's about a magical being that's you know, comes a certain time of the year that you know, imagine that actually happening. So when you're a kid and you're watching that, you're like, oh, this is just the greatest shit ever. You know?
SPEAKER_06:I feel the cartoons were great. I feel like the the more popular ones that people like, like the most famous ones, like from back in the day, I feel like those ones are very show tuney. You know what I mean? I feel I feel like you know what. I mean like like jingle bell, jingle bell. Yeah. Like it's it's it's very show tuney. I I is that yeah, no no.
SPEAKER_01:It does it makes sense. You it makes sense. I hear that. I think but that's why I think what made it so catchy, why it's lasted so long. That's true. You know, and then it's just a matter of depending because the way, like we said before with Mariah Carey, the way Mariah sings it, you know, it's just brings a whole different touch. Holly Jolly Christmas. I love it. Holly Jolly Christmas. You see, I love that.
SPEAKER_02:So I can hear that shit. If you play that at Christmas and it comes up, I'm gonna be happy.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're gonna be holly and jolly.
SPEAKER_02:I'm gonna be holly and jolly for sure.
SPEAKER_00:No doubt about it. That's gonna be your ringtop for the Holly Jolly.
SPEAKER_06:Without that song, it is not a Holly Jolly Christmas.
SPEAKER_00:That's funny as hell.
SPEAKER_01:I just I don't it it for me, the songs aren't what make me happy. Well, it's the visual.
SPEAKER_06:That's what makes me happy. I'm the opposite, music. I feel like yeah, like it Christmas doesn't feel Christmas without Christmas music.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, no, you gotta have Christmas music. No, no, yeah, you gotta have it, but that's not what does it for me. The visual stuff, and I'm a music dude, bro. I love music all day long. But I I rather see the Christmas stuff than listen to the Christmas songs.
SPEAKER_02:Rudolph the red nose ring, dude.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, see, I'm like, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Rudolph the red nose ring.
SPEAKER_01:So now you just sang it. I don't need to hear it until maybe the end of next year again. Uh-huh. Like, you know what I'm saying? You're singing it now. I don't need to hear it.
SPEAKER_02:But I'm not just looking at a list of songs here, you know? Uh-huh. There's a bunch of songs here. Uh-huh. How did you like uh Rock Around the Christmas tree?
SPEAKER_01:Which one was that?
SPEAKER_00:Rocking around the Christmas.
SPEAKER_02:That one for me kind of gets on my nerves. I can only hear it like a few times. Oh, yeah. But that particular one's like, all right, switch it over.
SPEAKER_01:But depending on who's singing it or just the original.
SPEAKER_02:I like the original best. Okay. Gotcha. I got it. For me, an original. Yeah, I got it. Uh Feliz Navidad.
SPEAKER_01:Feliz Navidad.
SPEAKER_02:Santa Claus is coming to town. Yeah. Great song. Now you have different renditions of that, right? Because Bruce Springsteen is his own. I can't eat that dude, bro. And I love that one. I cannot.
SPEAKER_00:That one is great when he does that one. Got the sacks. You know, he does a whole thing. Yeah, no, I can't. I love that one. But you notice?
SPEAKER_01:I know people get mad at me. I know. Well, people can get mad at me, bro. Gotta use words, bro. He's like, he's like thinking like I'm not a Springsteen fan. I'm not a Springsteen fan like that.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I, you know, I'm never a big Springsteen fan either. But that's the one. And of course I'm the Jersey guy.
SPEAKER_02:I'm supposed to be a Springsteens fan. But no, I think I I'm not a big Springsteen fan either. But for that song for Christmas, it was a classic song from a different audience, and it sounded good. Yeah. No, I get I hear it. No, I get it.
SPEAKER_00:I like that one.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I'm like, ugh, uh, yeah, no. That's a joke. You guys don't know what you're missing, man. Right? I'm sorry. Yeah, I can't, bro. I just The most wonderful time of the year is one of my other favorite. Who's singing it? Is that Ben Crosby? No, it's Danny uh Danny Kay. I think so.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yep, yep, yep. I'm going on with it.
SPEAKER_00:Wonderful time of the year.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, oh, I'm lying, bro. I forgot. I forgot. Which one? So, an album. Sound soul orchestra. That was a freaking discussion at Christmas. That right there, I'll listen to that shit. That was pretty good again.
SPEAKER_02:That would get on my nerves after a while, too. I'd have to throw the fucking CD out the window.
SPEAKER_00:And I'd smash up the fucking building next to me. Fuck! It's a good thing you can't get to my phone. Matter of fact, I'm about to play that shit right now. And that shows how old I am because I'm thinking CD. I'm like that. I didn't want to say nothing, bro.
SPEAKER_01:I was gonna leave that alone. But seriously.
SPEAKER_00:That's where I'm at. I'll do that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Brum brum brum boom bum pum. And it was just like a lot of the the beat that you could dance to the whole disco. Well, again, that's the disco case. Each his own, my friend. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_02:Especially if you're in your groove and you're in your house by yourself and you got the decorations and the music playing. Yeah. And you go in your own little world, like you're that kid that used to be in the mirror with a paintbrush singing in the mirror like you were a rock star.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. Yeah. Matter of fact, I might go home and uh blast that shit because wifey's not home tonight. She'll be home later. Okay. And uh so I might turn around and get in and start playing this. Nice. Yeah, I'll send you guys the video. All right. Nice. Yes. But so with that, my gentlemen, it is Tom. My brethren, I appreciate y'all for being here with me. You're welcome, brother. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. And you know, Merry Christmas. And you're still gonna be there. Happy Hanukkah, happy Kwans.
SPEAKER_02:And happy everything else. Of course, we don't know it all, but to all of you as well. Yes, happy holidays. Thank you for having me. Happy here with us. Happy holidays. Happy holidays.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's it. Yes. So appreciate you guys. Thank you for being here. Love, peace, and hair grease. Live long and prosper and stay merry.
SPEAKER_04:Hello.
