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In 2023, Jason Aldean's groundbreaking song and video "Try That In A Small Town" resonated with a resurgence of conservative values in America. The writers of the song, Kurt, Neil, Tully, and Kelley, took the opportunity to launch the Try That In A Small Town Podcast. This platform allows them to reveal the true inspiration behind the song and discuss the importance of common-sense values. With a lineup of influential guests, the hosts will entertain you with the stories behind their music, while also addressing challenging topics affecting our communities and country.
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Christmas Nostalgia, "Spirited" Debates, and Festive Traditions Collide :: Ep 35 Try That in a Small Town Podcast
The latest episode captures the joy of the Christmas season with laughter, personal memories, and festive movie discussions. We explore our favorite holiday films, highlight the darkly entertaining Krampus, share memorable childhood gifts, and engage in a fun trivia game about Christmas traditions.
• Reflecting on favorite Christmas movies and their impact
• Discussing why Krampus deserves attention during the holidays
• Sharing nostalgic childhood gift memories
• Debating holiday dinner traditions and favorite foods
• Playing a fun Christmas trivia game
• Expressing gratitude and holiday wishes for our listeners
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Krampus. You guys gotta watch Krampus, man, I don't remember much about that Get people.
Speaker 2:What is?
Speaker 4:Krampus. Tell people what Krampus is.
Speaker 2:What is that?
Speaker 4:Krampus, is that like a time of the month kind?
Speaker 1:of Christmas movie.
Speaker 4:What is that? I think we could all talk about how we're scarred from past Christmases, and we shouldn't At this time. We shouldn't. I could, I'm not going to, I'm not going to, I'm not going to, I'm not going to throw my folks under the bus, I'm not going to do it, you just did.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know right.
Speaker 2:When I was really young, my grandmother got me one of these four-wheelers or whatever it was. You know, I could ride it around. I was probably five or something like that, and I don't know how or why, but it was discussed that it could be too dangerous, so it got taken away.
Speaker 3:Wow, that is oh, after you received.
Speaker 5:Yeah, oh my gosh. The Try that in a Small Town podcast begins now. Try that in a small town begins now I want to wish you a.
Speaker 4:Merry Christmas. We want to wish you a Merry Christmas. You got anything you want to say, kayla, we want to wish you a Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3:A Merry Christmas from the Try that in a Small Town podcast. Wow, wow, hey, neal, yeah, we do, bringing it on.
Speaker 4:Oh, it's bringing the heat early right there. Hey, tell them happy holidays Neal. Absolutely not.
Speaker 3:Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2:That was fresh. That them. Happy holidays, neil. Absolutely not. Merry Christmas, that was fresh. That's Caleb TK. I'm Kurt. This is the Try that in Small Town podcast and we're having fun. Well, this will officially be our loosest podcast, which is saying something, because they're all loose. But first of all Merry Christmas right.
Speaker 3:Merry Christmas, Neil Merry.
Speaker 2:Christmas.
Speaker 4:We're in the spirit. Don't you even dare.
Speaker 2:We are definitely in the spirit. I don't know what kind of stuff you got in your lap, but do you want to explain it?
Speaker 3:Oh, oh my God. First, do we know when this will come out? Yeah, December 23rd, 23rd, okay It'll be two days after this reference.
Speaker 4:It'll be two days after Tennessee lost to Ohio State, but go ahead. Yeah well, we don't know that. I know we don't, we don't know that.
Speaker 3:I know.
Speaker 4:No different than you know we thought Alabama would be.
Speaker 7:I can't even believe you brought that in my house we thought Alabama would beat Vanderbilt, and anyway this is my ball Santa and I thought I'd bring him your ball sack.
Speaker 3:What did you say, ball Santa? Oh, I thought you said my ball sack. Language, neil, language, it's the family show. I thought you said ball sack. I wasn't listening, wow cut, cut cut, no, no no make him talk.
Speaker 7:Make him talk, his legs won't bend.
Speaker 3:His legs won't bend so he can't sit on my lap. Creepy yeah.
Speaker 1:You're creeping our listeners out.
Speaker 2:Jim, is that even fitting in the camera?
Speaker 3:They can't see that it's all neck down.
Speaker 4:Okay, all neck down, neck down, that's good we can just leave him here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, him here. Yeah, it's okay, that is creepy, it's okay. Uh, so do you think that the so who did the vols play ohio state? Is that right at ohio?
Speaker 4:state it's gonna be tough. Bad in columbus can be really, really tough but I, I'm thankful.
Speaker 3:As a vols fan, I always just want one more game, you know. So I'm thankful we're in it. I I mean, it's a huge test and we'll see. I mean Ohio. State's offensive line is a little suspect, so we'll see.
Speaker 4:When did the?
Speaker 3:game start the 20th. One game on the 20th and the Vols is on the 21st. Yeah, prime time, nighttime game, it'll be cool.
Speaker 2:Who does everybody got? Who do you got?
Speaker 7:Ohio State or Boston? What do you?
Speaker 3:mean Just go around the table. Don't be making fun of these hideous colors, as you say.
Speaker 2:You ain't even in it, beep. Who do you got Neil? Who do you got, yeah, ohio State or Tennessee? Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 4:Tennessee's got a really good defense, really good defense, and Ohio State's going to win that game. I know that Ryan Day's gone.
Speaker 3:If he loses, I really don't know, he's gone Because the Michigan loss, because the way college football is how do you ever know?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't. You can't because you don't know it could be a blowout. You don't know, because it's all weird. Yeah, it's all weird. Yeah, real quickly. You just don't know Go ahead.
Speaker 3:What do you think? What do?
Speaker 7:you think about that game I?
Speaker 3:think Tennessee takes it.
Speaker 2:Really I think they go into Columbus and win Now this episode will have aired when it's already happened. I think they get the W. I do. It's a good team. Okay, I love it.
Speaker 6:They got a great defense.
Speaker 2:I like the.
Speaker 4:Tennessee's quarterback. I do. He's a freshman, you and quarterbacks, man, you and Levis and quarterbacks.
Speaker 3:I mean I'm like no, he's a solid quarterback, he's a kid, I mean, he's a freshman.
Speaker 7:He's doing good.
Speaker 4:And I'm looking at the Christmas hat. Is that the best you can do tonight?
Speaker 1:To be honest with you, I'm just messing with you because I watched him play a couple times times. He's fine. He'll play a couple years in college.
Speaker 3:Nah, you can't make that projection right now. I can absolutely make that projection right now.
Speaker 4:Let him go, not in that hat?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Lee Tully's got a good beat on if a quarterback's going to be successful. He called the Will Levis thing pretty early. What are the easier calls?
Speaker 4:I made Tully could have been the downfall of Will Levis he could have gotten his head early, who knows? I mean if Tully hadn't opened his mouth, who knows what Levis would have been.
Speaker 1:Might have passed for 170 yards in a game. I don't know, sorry Will Merry Christmas brother.
Speaker 4:You know what? You're going to meet him one day in a Publix.
Speaker 7:It's time for forgiveness.
Speaker 4:You're going to meet him in Publix.
Speaker 7:You're going to have to fess up.
Speaker 3:You're going to have to. He's going to kill you In a PubSub.
Speaker 7:Yeah, our listeners probably are sick of this.
Speaker 1:He's a great athlete. I say, use him like a Taysom Hill.
Speaker 2:I say get rid of him Well.
Speaker 1:I've been saying it, Kurt, but I can't get any support it's mismanagement. I'm going to support you. We're with you.
Speaker 2:We're with you. Okay, thank you, hey. So let's do this really quick. It's the week of Christmas. I hope it's your guys' favorite holiday, right? Yes?
Speaker 6:Come on Christmas, Not even close. It's amazing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we had Jeremy Popoff on last week and we quickly got to his go-to Christmas movies. Give me your go-to Christmas movies. What are you in Atlanta watching Christmas?
Speaker 4:Vacation, of course, christmas Vacation. You have to watch that. Yeah, what's another one? Lana Elf Elf is really really good. I mean, I know that Will Ferrell's a big lib, but I watch it anyway. You're right. I mean, I know that Will Ferrell's a big lib, but I watch it anyway.
Speaker 2:You're right, I stomach him now.
Speaker 4:The more I learn about him, the more.
Speaker 1:I have to stomach that movie. You have to separate it. He's great.
Speaker 3:Separate the art.
Speaker 4:Well, whatever I don't, and which one? It's getting harder every year, home Alone, home.
Speaker 2:Alone's good. My kid loves Home.
Speaker 4:Alone.
Speaker 3:All of them, yep, yeah, and you got Christmas Story, which is a classic, you know, beautiful.
Speaker 2:Yeah, beautiful Christmas Story is a definite, classic.
Speaker 1:You guys are missing Love.
Speaker 3:Actually it's hilarious. Well, Love Actually is actually a pretty good movie. It's hilarious and it's about the music business.
Speaker 7:How could you not like that Love? Feel it in my fingers.
Speaker 3:Love Actually. I feel it in my toes.
Speaker 7:We're going to lose sponsors. We only have two. That's actually very good.
Speaker 2:Love Actually.
Speaker 3:Anyway, not bad. What's the?
Speaker 4:asshole elf, think what's your favorite.
Speaker 3:I have many Language now. Language. It's a Christmas episode. I know Christmas Vacation. You have to watch that. Yeah, that's already been. It's a must. I'm just saying it's a must, yes.
Speaker 1:We agree. I love Elf. You guys are leaving out the Grinch, which is the most classic.
Speaker 3:That's a great one. All the claymations of the Grinch? Yeah, there is.
Speaker 1:I like to watch the original cartoon.
Speaker 6:And then, you can go into the movies, Both movies.
Speaker 1:They're all great Krampus. You guys gotta watch Krampus man.
Speaker 3:I don't remember much about that.
Speaker 4:What is Krampus? Tell people what Krampus is.
Speaker 2:What is that?
Speaker 4:Krampus, is that like a time of the month kind?
Speaker 1:of Christmas movie. What is that? Before I get to Krampus, Daddy's Home 2. Daddy's.
Speaker 2:Home 2 is good, one of my favorites. It's an underrated Christmas movie you ever see it.
Speaker 3:I don't think so.
Speaker 1:No, that's on you.
Speaker 3:I'm stuck on.
Speaker 2:Krampus.
Speaker 1:What's that? Krampus is okay. I don't think I have the backstory right. I believe it's based on a German folklore. I think Jim Sounds like it. Do your job, text me what it's from, but I think it's a German story. It's kind of a scary Christmas story, it's very scary right. Have you guys not watched it? No, no, no.
Speaker 2:I haven't watched it. I would see the title and not watch it. No, no, no, I haven't watched it.
Speaker 1:I would see the title and not watch it.
Speaker 2:We have Krampus Night at our house. Does your whole family watch it, or just you and your son?
Speaker 1:No, no, no, all of us I thought you were going to say it Delaney loves it the most. Do you eat popcorn?
Speaker 4:while watching.
Speaker 1:Krampus. Yeah, of course I. You guys have to watch.
Speaker 3:Krampus? Is Krampus kind of like Festivus, like Seinfeld, where they started that whole holiday?
Speaker 1:No, this is actually Jim. Did you get the? I did Okay, so let me Jim's Krampus. Are you ready? Yeah, I'm ready.
Speaker 2:Oh, he's coming on as a voiceover right here.
Speaker 3:I'm the disembodied voice If we have to Google your favorite movie, Google your favorite movie.
Speaker 4:It's probably not that good I feel like you're cramping us now.
Speaker 1:You don't ask me. You ask me what my Krampus.
Speaker 2:You guys got to see it. All right, jim, give it to us. What's going on, okay?
Speaker 5:Krampus is a half goat, half demon figure from Central European folklore.
Speaker 3:I don't like it.
Speaker 5:The word demon who punishes children who misbehave at Christmas time.
Speaker 7:What was the?
Speaker 2:last part with the children.
Speaker 5:Who punishes children who misbehave at Christmas time, telly, that's really weird. That makes sense. Now, it's not that weird, it makes sense now, it's not that weird, it's on you.
Speaker 1:If you don't want to watch Krampus, fine, but you asked me who hurt you as a child. Are you kidding me, that's a loaded question, huh Gosh. That's a you poor thing. The Christmas spirits are flowing.
Speaker 2:My telly prayers are getting amped up right now. Krampus is very entertaining. I don't know if my son's ready to watch Krampus.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't know Demons at Christmas.
Speaker 2:You're so scared You're not afraid they don't go together.
Speaker 1:You need to watch it I got a question.
Speaker 2:It's not a demon. I got a question for you.
Speaker 1:It's not a demon, it's a scary Christmas story.
Speaker 4:The only one with tattoos at the tables wants you to watch Krampus.
Speaker 1:No, here we go. 1940s Neil.
Speaker 2:Okay, I got a question for you Is this a Christmas movie or not? I want a simple yes or no.
Speaker 4:Die hard Christmas movie or not, semi-christmas yeah, it's a semi-Christmas.
Speaker 3:I'll say yes, yeah.
Speaker 1:I guess, so I never thought about it.
Speaker 3:There's decorations and stuff.
Speaker 4:It takes place during Christmas. Yeah, that's fine, I like all.
Speaker 1:Christmas movies. I like all scary ones and funny ones ones, the funny ones.
Speaker 4:It has a great happy ending. It's a good Christmas.
Speaker 3:It works within the season. I watched the original Frosty was on the other night. You mean the cartoon? Oh, I bet you did the original Frosty. It's cold as ice. What is with you, krampus and demons.
Speaker 7:It's about.
Speaker 3:Jesus Christ, not demons. Anyway, gee, sorry for my language, lay it on thick caleb, good lord, oh I'm gonna make you watch krampus caleb bring us somewhere.
Speaker 2:What do you got here?
Speaker 3:oh, okay, let's. Uh, I'll tell you what. Um how much time do you guys take in thinking about the gift you're gonna purchase for your wife?
Speaker 2:oh my gosh are you a day?
Speaker 3:of. Are you Christmas Eve? Can I go first? You can go first.
Speaker 4:No, we've worked it out After 31 years of marriage. We've worked this out because it's much easier for her to shop for me than it is for me to shop for her. She knows I have so many hobbies and she knows what I love. I can only get her so many pairs of cowboy boots and so many hats and things like that. So we've come to a new understanding where we'll we will go shopping together and pick something out, and it's so much easier now. Just stay married, stay happy, and it'll all work itself out.
Speaker 2:Christmas will work itself out, yeah kaylo, you're coming from a slightly different perspective because you're newly married, but but doesn't change your dynamic, though. Like oh, it changes the dynamic it doesn't well your age gap will the dynamics a lot different because I think, as you've been married longer, things like this happen.
Speaker 3:It's a lot different, yeah Well.
Speaker 2:But I'll say this Try to get to. Your point Is that it would be difficult.
Speaker 4:What do you mean? A little difficult?
Speaker 2:I was trying to help this conversation get to a different point.
Speaker 4:Well, no, the age gap would make it a little difficult.
Speaker 3:Well, what is the age gap? But it still doesn't change the. It doesn't change. You know what you do, right With Christmas? I still am a last minute guy, I just am.
Speaker 4:Oh, you've always been that way regardless.
Speaker 3:So that hasn't changed, oh, oh.
Speaker 4:What about you and Alyssa?
Speaker 2:How does that go? What about you and Alyssa? How?
Speaker 4:does that go? I totally understand that.
Speaker 1:Honestly, we're so focused on kids. Yeah, In the past we've just gotten ourselves a couple little things, but this year for some reason I'm wanting to do a little bit more Really Does she watch us podcast?
Speaker 2:Is she going to hear this? Is she into it? She doesn't like.
Speaker 4:Neil, so she doesn't want to? Okay, nobody likes me. That's a fact. Kidding, move on. Nobody likes me, no.
Speaker 1:Everybody loves you. Of course she watches the podcast, but I love Christmas. I like I. In the morning I want the presents to be just coming out of the room pile them up. I love that me too, so I tend to go way overboard. Let me ask this that's fantastic.
Speaker 2:Your kids are of age now, where I assume santa is a thing of the past. What do you do? You still get them gifts what are you saying?
Speaker 1:what do you mean? Do you still get them?
Speaker 2:terrible, kurt do they still get gifts from santa. They will always get gifts from santa. I love that answer. I love that christmas is all.
Speaker 1:Joking aside, it's the most beautiful time of year. Yeah, I like the morning to be just. Of course they sleep in later. Yeah, now I'm up by myself, but I love the presents coming out. I love the music on. I'll get so much stuff, even if it's inexpensive. I just want to open a bunch of stuff I don't miss putting.
Speaker 4:Barbie Jeeps together. I don't miss that, I tell you what?
Speaker 6:My girls are old enough now. I look forward to it.
Speaker 4:I don't miss putting stuff together.
Speaker 1:I tell you this you will look forward to it.
Speaker 2:Late nights, then you won't yeah.
Speaker 1:I built, you know like everything from drum sets to huge Barbie houses, up till three in the morning. I don't miss it. I don't think I miss it either. I, I, I liked it.
Speaker 2:It's a little stressful. It's a little stressful putting together all that stuff late at night.
Speaker 1:Well, when the kids are small cause you're up late and you know it's going to be early.
Speaker 4:Yeah, check, check, whatever Santa's not real.
Speaker 3:Wow, what if you, because we're in present day, like what if we went back? What?
Speaker 7:Was that wrong?
Speaker 3:Christmas brings out the kid in you and everything you know. Like what if? Do you have a favorite Christmas or two? Like something that happened or a gift, you got something that was special, or things y'all did.
Speaker 1:Your got something that was special or things y'all did your mom made sausage balls, or you don't the one did something. Not everyone at this table had a mother and father together, calo wow wow, just assuming that everyone grow up rich and with a perfect family I mean that podcast just went over the edge.
Speaker 1:It's awesome, One of my favorite memories. We didn't have a lot growing up. I can't remember. I mean it was nine, eight, nine, seven. Remember I got an Atari 2600. Yes, that was like till this day. I remember opening that up Like big deal.
Speaker 4:That would be worth a lot. Today, by the way, still in the box Played that for I mean worth a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, non-stop, you know nothing like table tennis.
Speaker 2:Favorite gift or most memorable gift. When I was really young, my grandmother got me one of these four wheelers or or whatever it was. You know I could ride it around I was probably five or something like that and I don't know how or why, but it was discussed that it could be too dangerous, so she it got taken away wow that is, oh, after you received, yeah was it one of those battery battery powered ones, I assume. But it was a big deal and I was like this is amazing, who did that to you?
Speaker 3:I don't know. You said your grandmother right. I don't know.
Speaker 7:I don't know how it went down. What's so funny about that?
Speaker 2:It was taken away and then I got a sweater.
Speaker 3:Now the other kids at the orphanage? Did they experience the same thing had?
Speaker 1:you been bad, kurt. I gotta tell you another. We have so many crazy parallel stories how we grew up right, yeah, nice bills. All I ever wanted growing up that I can remember was one of those battery-powered four-wheelers or cars.
Speaker 6:Yeah, you had.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you never afford one of those. Never got one of those and you got one and they took it away.
Speaker 2:Because it was yeah, somehow it got discussed.
Speaker 4:It went two miles an hour. It could be too dangerous. I know, yeah. I know yeah, it was a fire hazard.
Speaker 2:Well, whatever it was, yeah. I was like oh my God, this is amazing.
Speaker 6:I guess it's not amazing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely take a drink. Repressed memories, where else are we going? No, I mean, stay on it. No, I can't.
Speaker 4:You're scarred.
Speaker 2:I'm very scarred.
Speaker 4:I'm scarred form, I think we could all talk about how we're scarred from past Christmases, and we shouldn't At this time. We shouldn't. I could. I'm not going to, I'm not going to. I'm not going to throw my folks under the bus. I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 3:You just did.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I know right you just said Nope, wow, okay. Do you have a favorite gift that you received? Uh?
Speaker 2:a guitar, okay, yep, oh, my folks did buy me an electric guitar one year, see, I remember that your parents were married yeah, they were.
Speaker 1:They're still married, yeah and uh your parents are awesome by by the way they really are.
Speaker 4:They really are amazing people and they look amazing for 80 and 81 or 81, 82. I think that's how old they are. They're in their early 80s and they still look amazing. They still do and they're still kicking, they're still going, they're still driving, they're still acting like they're 40.
Speaker 2:God bless them. We're very blessed.
Speaker 3:Caleb, you asked a question but Gift-wise favorite gift was a go-kart that me and my brother shared.
Speaker 1:That's not good, no what do you mean, where did you grow up? A go-kart, got a go-kart for Christmas.
Speaker 3:It was a used go-kart Were your parents millionaires.
Speaker 4:Not at all.
Speaker 3:No, we're just middle class.
Speaker 4:Are you going to hold? That doll all night, I don't know.
Speaker 3:I don't have one of the little nesting tables like you have.
Speaker 1:I think rich kids do. They hold dolls.
Speaker 3:There's only one and Neil gets it, so I don't know what to do with him. I can set him on the floor later. Imagine a go-kart for Christmas.
Speaker 2:No, I had this little battery, it was a shared gift.
Speaker 3:It was an old go-kart. I mean, it wasn't that much, it was probably like $150.
Speaker 4:$150?, Bro. Back then that's like $1,000.
Speaker 3:No, but the things that happen in your childhood Christmases either it was great and you try to carry that on for your kids, or it wasn't great and you try to change that. So, like you were saying, obviously it wasn't amazing, you try to change that, right, you know. So like you're you're saying obviously wasn't amazing.
Speaker 1:No, no, no I didn't say that it amazing. I don't know why I would think that just saying we weren't getting go-karts, you know I mean.
Speaker 3:Well, you're saying you said all people don't have parents.
Speaker 1:That would make me think you know I mean parents, so somehow you're here, you know, yeah, no, no parents, but but they were. You know, I never saw my dad, but my great. Where I grew up I mean we had with my mom, my grandmother, my aunt, my cousin. We had a big family. Like I said, we never had a lot of money, but Christmas was always great. It was always like we had a lot to open.
Speaker 4:It was always special.
Speaker 1:No, Absolutely love it.
Speaker 4:I'm glad you celebrate like you do.
Speaker 1:I get depressed when it's over Like the day I'm like really bummed out.
Speaker 2:Do you guys take the tree down or your lights down right after Christmas?
Speaker 4:I don't want to, I don't want to, we don't want to. I'll go mid-January, yeah.
Speaker 1:Depending when we go skiing, after we get back, or whatever.
Speaker 4:Oh, you go skiing?
Speaker 3:Yeah, the poor guy goes skiing and my used go-kart's bad I mean golly we go to our place in.
Speaker 1:Colorado our little flat up in the mountains up there, not Cornell, when I was a kid.
Speaker 7:I ride my wooden go-kart down the slopes. My go-kart didn't even have an engine.
Speaker 3:It was like a Fred Flintstone thing I had to do it in my feet, you know well, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:So apparently. Sorry guys, this is super loose, loose, but apparently, uh, we have a game or something that we're gonna play and jim, our producer, is gonna ask us questions you got your mic over there, but listen. What we're gonna do first is we're gonna go to a break this is what they call a tease in the biz. We're going to go to a break from our sponsor. We're going to come back, we're going to do a little game, christmas game, get your spirits on, hang with us.
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Speaker 3:I can't even look at you. It's called heavy christmas.
Speaker 2:I can't even look at my hat you know, I feel like we're like the old crotchety men talking about Christmas.
Speaker 4:That's what the music business has done to us. It tore us down, but no, at the end of the day, we love Christmas. Oh my God, I'm all good. Who doesn't like Christmas?
Speaker 1:Does anyone know anybody? Well, liberals, they might not like Christmas.
Speaker 3:I don't know anybody. They're faking it. I think I know a couple that may not like.
Speaker 1:Christmas. I think I know a couple that may not like Christmas, who I can't say their name here.
Speaker 4:Yes, you can Give me a. Let's go viral, do it.
Speaker 1:Used to run in front of a house for us.
Speaker 2:Wow, okay, I can see that.
Speaker 1:I can see that Anybody that doesn't like children and dogs probably doesn't like Christmas.
Speaker 2:True, it's probably like Margo and Todd from Christmas Vacation.
Speaker 4:That's funny. Maybe, Wow, I think you just hit on it. I want to start naming names.
Speaker 2:I'm tired of this bullshit. Margo and Todd I don't want to say who. I don't want to name names. No, I want to freaking name names no no, it's Margo and Todd.
Speaker 3:Name names of who Neal. What are you talking about? People who don't like Christmas? Yeah, the people that we know that don't that, we would think. Do you know somebody that doesn't like Christmas?
Speaker 4:I don't know, I don't actually know anybody, but I think Tully should bring it.
Speaker 3:Oh, go on, Tully. I'm sorry, did I interrupt you, I don't want to say a name, why not?
Speaker 1:Why not? What are you afraid of? I'm not afraid of anything.
Speaker 2:He's not going to stoop to that level.
Speaker 4:Call him out. I'm not afraid of anything. What are you afraid of? Let's get him to love Christmas. No one said I was afraid.
Speaker 3:They said you were afraid, I'm not afraid. Let's call him, let's give him a blessing. I will do that, I will pray that this person that we know has a great Christmas and happy holiday. Do you guys ever go to Christmas drink? Do you do eggnog? I love the eggnog with a little whiskey in there. Is it dairy-free eggnog?
Speaker 4:I hate it. I like that. I know who invented eggnog.
Speaker 3:Dude. Eggnog is awesome. Eggnog is great. My mom makes the most amazing eggnog. It's so foamy. Eggnog is horrible and as a kid I mean you got to love eggnog.
Speaker 4:Who's going to pour whiskey in a 12-year-old's glass of eggnog, evans Williams.
Speaker 2:I do it every year. I like Christmas mules, christmas mules. What is a Christmas mule? I like horses.
Speaker 1:Well, it's a regular mule like Christmas.
Speaker 7:It's a regular mule.
Speaker 2:It's a mule like Christmas Eve. He doesn't drink it at Christmas, no, okay.
Speaker 1:What it is is. I love meals like a cherry vodka instead of just regular vodka. Okay, and it's very refreshing.
Speaker 2:I'll drink a lot of those at Christmas Eve. Caleb, do you do a Christmas drink Like is there anything special?
Speaker 3:No, I mean I would put some bourbon In the eggnog here and there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know Me too Like white Russians. That's really good. White Russians are good yeah.
Speaker 1:White Russians, I don't love eggnog, as far as I go.
Speaker 4:My family should have started me early On the whiskey when the eggnog Because eggnog by itself Is horrible.
Speaker 2:I've never had eggnog, that's good with. Christmas cookies. There you go.
Speaker 4:It's like they wanted me to drink eggnog. They should put whiskey in it when I was six.
Speaker 2:Hey, neil, you got those caramels. Tell us about those, because is it Meemaw?
Speaker 4:These are Meemaw's caramels from Ohio. She watches our podcast. She's an avid listener, avid watcher. I just had one of those.
Speaker 1:It's like gold. I'm going to bust another one out right here. It's pretty amazing. I'm going to save it for after dinner tonight. Don't put the whole thing in your mouth.
Speaker 4:I mean it'll take you an hour to get it dissolved. It's fantastic, Does?
Speaker 2:she actually make it from scratch.
Speaker 4:Yes, is this, yes, that is.
Speaker 2:She makes it from scratch.
Speaker 7:She'll be sitting's making this. God bless you, Meemaw. It's fantastic. It's fantastic, Meemaw.
Speaker 4:Look at that, it's fantastic. They're so addictive. She could make a lot of money if she decided to go public with this stuff.
Speaker 2:It's amazing. I hope she doesn't go public. I want them all for herself.
Speaker 4:We'll keep what we got and get her to make us some more. Me and my mom make us some more.
Speaker 1:I might invest in those.
Speaker 2:Okay, so we alluded to this before. We've got a little Christmas game. Jim, are you going to help us with this? Just so everybody knows we have no idea what's going on.
Speaker 1:I know something what, ever since Neil put that ridiculous hat on, he's turned mean.
Speaker 7:Neil, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:You might be right, it's an alter ego. No, look at that silly guitar.
Speaker 1:No, that weird sweater.
Speaker 4:Hey, you know how many songs have come out of this silly guitar. You asshole.
Speaker 7:Try that in a small town. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 4:Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1:This hat makes the truth come out, guys oh my god, but it has changed your demeanor, or the whiskey.
Speaker 4:Well, and it's not it's not.
Speaker 3:You just forgot the eggnog.
Speaker 4:That's all it's not whiskey, I don't, I'm, it's in Yeho and we're good, I tell you.
Speaker 1:I am here. It's amazing that when do we start March, April of the podcast? Yeah.
Speaker 5:April, how cool.
Speaker 1:How cool we made it to Christmas. I am very disappointed that we didn't reach a million followers, so Kurt had to get a tattoo. You're in the clear, you are. We were only 990, it got close 95.
Speaker 2:It was a nice thought, though, looking back on it, you know, uh, we had big dreams, we had big hopes, but, uh, being serious, we are very thankful, uh, for everybody that's taken this journey with us right. It's been pretty amazing, we're absolutely very lucky that you even care about what we might say and they might not.
Speaker 4:After this episode you're right, no, you're right. What we we have to start over what we regret we said no no, but seriously, it's been, it's been awesome.
Speaker 2:We appreciate you guys listening. Um, you know, we said in the beginning we, you know we didn't know exactly where we were going with this and maybe we still don't, but we're trying to make even the smallest bit of difference by. We always said this, even with the song. Going back to the song, right, it was trying to make a difference and standing up for what you believe in, and it doesn't mean you're on a soapbox, it's just you know Well, said well said Well, and Tully said it right.
Speaker 3:I mean, everybody doesn't have the same Christmases, you know, growing up or whatever, and you can only operate out of your paradigm Sorry to use such a huge word there. You can Google that, guys. But just like for me, you know, it was my kind of normal. Mom and dad were there, they stayed together and dad passed a few years ago, but we had just great Christmases and that's all I knew, you know, and so I already loved it. And then, you know, you want to do the same thing and I'd replicate what my dad did and what my mom did and everything. Just because I romanticized that. And for me, you know. But I do pray for other people that don't have those same kind of Christmases and I, you know, I wish everybody had a Christmas like I did when I was a kid.
Speaker 1:Well, you know what's funny Growing up the way, like I said, we didn't have much of very, you know, small town and just everybody worked hard but didn't have a lot. But at Christmas we always had a great Christmas and it really taught me like watching like my mom and my grandmother kind of go without. So we had a good Christmas, which is that is Christmas Like that's, you know. So I have great memories Like which is that is christmas, like that's, you know. So I have great memories like christmas.
Speaker 2:I think that's why it's my favorite time of year I got great memories as well and we obviously grew up similar and my, you know, mother and father were divorced but got along and we still did uh christ. But you know there wasn't a lot of money. We were. You know it was hard times but Christmas always still seemed like it was incredibly special and I think we've carried that along as well.
Speaker 1:It is an amazing.
Speaker 2:I couldn't be happier to be here with you guys. Yeah, god, now I'm getting sentimental.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, neil's been fairly aggressive this Christmas.
Speaker 3:I don't think he's been aggressive. I'm joking, let's get to the game.
Speaker 7:I'm having fun.
Speaker 4:I'm just kidding. I love that hat. Let's get to the game guys.
Speaker 2:I don't know what this is. I have no idea. Jim, you're going to have to guide us along.
Speaker 5:The game is called 11 Minutes to Get to Christmas. 11 Minutes, I'm not sure how stringent we're going to stick to that. Yeah, that sounds too long. It's about lovemaking. See how well you know the festive holiday. Get the most right to win it. So I guess, lana, you'll be keeping store. I'm terrible. What are the?
Speaker 2:rules Like so I guess, lana, you'll be keeping store. I'm terrible. What are the rules Like? You're going to ask a question and what happens? First one to answer gets a point, I guess.
Speaker 5:Do we just yell? Yeah, you can yell it out, I'll decide. If we have a tie, I'll say who it is.
Speaker 2:Make sense. Okay, let's give us the first question. We'll see how this goes, are you?
Speaker 5:ready. Yeah, how many laws to the chorus of Deck the Halls 12?. How many, what?
Speaker 4:15. La, la, la, la, la, la, la la, that's 12, right.
Speaker 3:Nope.
Speaker 4:Eight.
Speaker 1:You're thinking of 12 days of Christmas. Who got it? Who?
Speaker 4:said that, caleb.
Speaker 7:He doesn't know. That's a guess.
Speaker 2:How many is it, Caleb?
Speaker 4:Eight. I'm over here freaking.
Speaker 2:Really eight maids of meat? It's eight. Did you just guess that?
Speaker 5:Well, that's 12 days of Christmas. Okay, I see what you're talking about.
Speaker 3:I'm going to get my head real quick, I'm fairly the spirit.
Speaker 2:Are you sure you're getting your head?
Speaker 3:real quick, that's real quick.
Speaker 2:Okay, so Kalo's got one Ebenezer, I guessed.
Speaker 5:What's the next question?
Speaker 1:Next question hey, welcome to the show, joe, not Scrooge, no, no one said it.
Speaker 4:That's why. Hey, okay, I already said that. You didn't say Scrooge. Yeah, I brought it up.
Speaker 1:You did. I didn't hear you, I did.
Speaker 2:Okay, sorry. Next question Jim Kalo's got one.
Speaker 4:What are two other Chris.
Speaker 5:Kringle. Oh good one, Tully Tully got it. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Tully did not answer that. Tully didn't open his mouth.
Speaker 5:I thought you said Chris. Who said Chris Kringle?
Speaker 4:That was your friend here in the fragile, I wasn't close enough to the mic to take effect.
Speaker 1:But I'll take one, jim. I like your style, though, thank you.
Speaker 5:Sandy Christmas, I get another Christmas apparently.
Speaker 7:Okay.
Speaker 5:So who that's me? That was you, Okay.
Speaker 7:Kurt Got it.
Speaker 1:Okay, this game sucks Merry. Christmas.
Speaker 7:That's terrible, that is sucks.
Speaker 5:Number three what is the fragile package that arrives at the Parker home? Yeah, the leg lamp. There we go, Kurt Jeez Look at me. No it's for G-Lay. Yes, for G-Lay.
Speaker 4:That? Look at me. No, it's for g-lay yes for g-lay. That's right, I didn't want to I never seen it. I don't like it I haven't hold on.
Speaker 2:Hold on jim. What? What are you talking about? Hold the phone.
Speaker 4:What did you just say?
Speaker 1:I know what, I don't know what you're talking about?
Speaker 4:what did you just?
Speaker 2:say you know what I said, what did you just say we talked about this before. This is one of our main differences don't know, I'm gonna walk off the set. I go with you.
Speaker 3:Let's get the hell out of here.
Speaker 2:Never seen it A Christmas story? I haven't either.
Speaker 4:I haven't either.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 4:I'm too busy writing songs.
Speaker 3:No you're not.
Speaker 4:On.
Speaker 3:Christmas I write with you every Tuesday 24 hours a day.
Speaker 1:I've seen pieces of it in passing. I never sat and watched it. Oh my God.
Speaker 4:Goodness, hey, move that ball, not my thing, move the ball off your hat.
Speaker 2:So do you know what this is? A bunny suit? Are you telling me you seriously have never watched a home movie? You have an?
Speaker 4:Easter shirt on. What's that? I wouldn't lie to you, buddy, I wouldn't lie to you.
Speaker 3:That's not. No, it's not.
Speaker 4:Easter, that's an.
Speaker 3:Easter shirt. No, it's not. Are you being?
Speaker 4:serious, I wouldn't lie to you. I've never seen it either I'm watching football or writing songs On Christmas it came out in 1993.
Speaker 3:No, he's not writing songs.
Speaker 4:It's on TBS 24 hours.
Speaker 2:Of the day.
Speaker 4:I don't do a. I haven't seen a Christmas story. I wouldn't lie to you, I've.
Speaker 2:Lana have you seen A Christmas Story? Yep, everybody's seen it.
Speaker 4:I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3:You know what's funny.
Speaker 4:I'm probably hunting. I may be hunting, I've never watched it my wife.
Speaker 2:if my wife watches this, she's going to be hurt. Well, I don't want to hurt people, but she's going to be hurt For some reason.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying I just I don't like it.
Speaker 7:I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1:The pieces I've seen. Oh my gosh, wow, you knew this already. We talked about this years, for years.
Speaker 3:I can't process this. I want to change seats.
Speaker 1:Kurt, we've talked about this. For some reason it's on TV nonstop and I'll see a piece of it. I can't remember what I saw and I'll see another piece of it, but I've never sat down and watched the show.
Speaker 3:You know what's not nonstop going on TV? Krampus, krampus.
Speaker 1:True that you guys don't have to watch Krampus. I don't care.
Speaker 2:We're going to have to talk about this afterwards. We do this. I blocked it out because I couldn't believe it. I thought you were joking. I laughed about it later that night.
Speaker 1:Can I tell you something? You know how. Every year, you put the leg lamp up. Yes, I don't know what the leg lamp means Sacrilege.
Speaker 4:The leg lamp.
Speaker 1:Whatever that is, I don't know it means they're swingers.
Speaker 2:You have no idea how much you've hurt my wife tonight.
Speaker 3:I didn't want to hurt your wife.
Speaker 1:I thought they were swingers, sorry.
Speaker 2:We have a lot in common, though we love Elf. We have everything in common, we love.
Speaker 1:Elf, which is why.
Speaker 2:I'm stunned.
Speaker 1:For some reason, I just never watched it. But what does that lamp mean though?
Speaker 2:Now you're just being silly. Now you're just being silly, Jim. We've got to get to the next question.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're spending a lot of time on Next question.
Speaker 1:I'm really sorry, Kurt Lana's looking at me like oh my god, I married that.
Speaker 2:Jim, what do we got?
Speaker 5:What happens when a bell rings?
Speaker 2:An angel gets its wings. Kurt. I mean I'm going to quit because I'm going to win.
Speaker 5:I'm running away with this thing, Boat racing y'all that's also a movie no one mentioned.
Speaker 7:It's a wonderful life.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I know, great movie. I've never seen that one either. Do you like Christmas? I love Christmas. It's about my family, not about movies and wasting time watching movies.
Speaker 2:Okay, that was actually a great answer. That was a great answer.
Speaker 4:I come back hard.
Speaker 2:That was a great answer.
Speaker 1:I don't like the setup to this the format's terrible.
Speaker 4:It's not about watching movies.
Speaker 5:Jim, what do you got? How much did the Grinch's Heart grow that day?
Speaker 2:Two and a half sizes Wow. Kurt, I'm going to stop, I'm going to stop.
Speaker 1:Seriously, I'm not even going to answer the next one.
Speaker 7:It's amazing you didn't get it right.
Speaker 2:That wasn't the right answer, oh somebody else go Two, two sides, three sides, kurt, okay.
Speaker 4:It was one of those.
Speaker 2:You were already disqualified, we get to answer. You're right, it should be like Jeopardy Three when you get it wrong.
Speaker 4:I know you don't get to keep answering All right, number six, I'm going to stop.
Speaker 5:What movie had the island of misfit toys? Oh, crap.
Speaker 3:I know this one too. Yeah, it's Rudolph the.
Speaker 5:Rudolph Telly.
Speaker 1:I just brought that up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm going to just let you guys answer.
Speaker 3:I think he won on my reverb.
Speaker 2:I said it first.
Speaker 4:Next, I think he won on my reverb.
Speaker 3:I said it first. Next one I didn't just see a replay Number seven.
Speaker 5:You got to roll that back. Lucy was kissed once during the show. Peanuts, charlie Brown, give me a shot, keep going. Who kissed her?
Speaker 4:Oh, charlie Brown, Linus, linus, nope. Snoopy Yep, thanks. I Snoopy Yep, thanks. I got a point Up yours Got one Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3:We just name all the characters at Vintage.
Speaker 5:You got to go. Number eight Name the ghosts in a Christmas carol.
Speaker 3:Past, present, future. That's right.
Speaker 5:That's oh no. That's right, that's oh no.
Speaker 7:Christmas past Christmas past, I mean.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that's an interesting.
Speaker 1:Well, there's Christmas past present.
Speaker 4:You got to be ready, dude, you got to have your answers, man. That's the past, present, future, the format sucks.
Speaker 1:Sorry guys, Listen to this so there's two more.
Speaker 5:You're missing man.
Speaker 2:I want to think this far what are they?
Speaker 5:Jacob Marley.
Speaker 2:Oh, I would have no idea.
Speaker 3:I had no idea of that. It said in Jeopardy.
Speaker 4:No.
Speaker 1:When was Jacob Marley born?
Speaker 5:Number nine what does Buddy the Elf put on everything?
Speaker 2:Maple syrup who got that? Yeah syrup who got that? Yeah, Tully got that one Tully's got that how.
Speaker 1:You ever watch Elf?
Speaker 4:Yes, not close enough Like a bunch how you.
Speaker 5:Number 10. Yeah, lana's talking to you. In the song Jingle Bells, what kind of sleigh is mentioned? One horse open, one horse riding, one horse riding. There you go, tully. What action causes Frosty to come to life?
Speaker 3:A kiss.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God what.
Speaker 5:Are you serious?
Speaker 4:No, no, no, no, no, the hat.
Speaker 7:The hat oh wait.
Speaker 4:Thank you, neil, that was an old Disney thing.
Speaker 3:That was an old Disney thing.
Speaker 1:That was an old Disney thing, I had to go through it. What is wrong?
Speaker 3:with you?
Speaker 2:No, that was.
Speaker 4:Cinderella, but I was close, I had to go back. Our listeners think you need your kid to grow up.
Speaker 2:Our listeners are like what a bunch of track.
Speaker 7:Caleb, this episode's never coming out Never. Yeah.
Speaker 5:Number 12. We got the. This is three more. What color are the berries of the mistletoe plant?
Speaker 3:Red, no, not red, not red. Oh green, no, white yeah.
Speaker 5:Just keeps guessing. Gold Number 13, which is the most famous Christmas ballet of all time.
Speaker 1:Nutcracker.
Speaker 5:I figured you'd get that Number 14. And a final question what color was the Christmas that Elvis the King Presley had? Blue, who said that.
Speaker 1:Blue Christmas.
Speaker 5:Tully, yeah, good one, there we go A.
Speaker 4:Nutcracker, really Wow. You watch ballet and stuff.
Speaker 5:Tully yeah.
Speaker 4:Good one, a nutcracker, really Wow. You watch ballet and stuff. Tully is the winner. Who's that guy?
Speaker 5:Well, in fairness, I stopped answering after three.
Speaker 1:Kurt Wundberg, in fairness.
Speaker 2:No one told you to, yeah, I got the first one, but I think we've seen here that Tully and I are the true Christmas patriots.
Speaker 4:No, it shows that y'all watch movies Christmas.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I'm not going to be deeming Tully like Mr Christmas based on this episode. I am Goodness gracious. No, yeah, he knew some things Great.
Speaker 4:There's a lot of people that know things that have zero heart. People don't judge me by this episode. Really don't what else.
Speaker 2:you got K-Lo, you got anything in that phone, iphone, of what we got a present, or what is that? Oh, it totally wins a present. Oh, bring it in.
Speaker 4:Bring it in. Allie Totally wins a prize. Bring it in.
Speaker 2:This is Allie. She's newly engaged there it is.
Speaker 3:Congratulations, Allie. She's newly engaged there it is.
Speaker 2:Congratulations, allie. Oh, oh, that's going to be good, serious. Yeah, that's going to be good. Oh yeah, rudolph cereal.
Speaker 3:Got a lot of calories in that.
Speaker 2:Oh, you put that on your car, I bet right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, this is fantastic. Congratulations, and, kurt, you could have taken this home had you not been quiet.
Speaker 2:Well, this is amazing, this needs to go on the Audi and this needs to go with some almond milk.
Speaker 4:Almond milk.
Speaker 1:Do you not do dairy? Your face is amazing.
Speaker 3:I can't look at you right now. He's got a whiskey face.
Speaker 7:Do you not do?
Speaker 4:dairy Neil, do you do dairy? Oh yeah, you do.
Speaker 3:It upsets me sometimes, but I go light. Yeah, you do dairy. Cheese makes it a meal. Okay, yeah, good Lord.
Speaker 4:This is fantastic.
Speaker 2:Oh guys, Kayla, what else you got? I know you have some stuff in that iPhone. What do you got?
Speaker 3:I don't have a lot. Maybe we could talk about, like what are you guys going to do this Christmas? Like, what's your thing? We'll start with tolls the theme.
Speaker 1:Is that what you said?
Speaker 3:no, just the. What are you going to do, like what's the, what's y'all's thing, you know?
Speaker 1:everybody has a. Everybody has a Christmas thing. Um um. Well, usually my mom would come into town, but she's not going to come in this year, so it's going to be just such a us at the house. You're going to be just real chill, I think nice. I think traveling so much through the year it's like it's nice just to stay home. I know you're looking forward to staying home uh, I'm definitely looking forward to christmas.
Speaker 2:My son's birthday is the day after Christmas. My father's birthday is Christmas.
Speaker 3:Oh really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's an awesome time Having your birthday on Christmas. I don't know, my dad would probably say it's not completely awesome, but it's pretty cool. Yeah, but my son's birthday is the day after, which is boy. That's hard, yeah, how do you follow?
Speaker 3:that up? Yeah, my older brother is the day after, which is boy. That's hard. How do you follow that up? Yeah, my older brother is two days after he's the 27th, okay, so being younger, I was always jealous because, like, oh, he gets double Christmas. No, you get a single present usually yeah.
Speaker 2:You get less in the long run, I think. But, caleb, this is interesting because it's your first Christmas right With the newborn.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, the baby Lucy. So how is that going?
Speaker 2:to be at the Kalo household.
Speaker 3:I haven't thought about that in particular yet, because we kind of do a two-fold Christmas. So starting tomorrow which actually earlier my brother we get this. We go to Hickman County. There's a this place and we rent it the last few years and it's really cool. It's like a bunch of land you can rent four wheelers and stuff and you have. They have a shooting range and all that, but you can run it yourself, you know. So it's kind of like a redneck shooting range and and so we get to shoot guns and whatever guns people have bought that year or something they just want to try and shoot. And we do that. My brother, my sister-in-law, they cook everything. We've got some great friends that cook and we just three nights and we just get in this big lodge and on this property and have what we call love fest. I can't.
Speaker 4:I can't see you shooting what do you mean? I can't see you shooting a shotgun.
Speaker 3:It was in the military. I can, I mean I can, I can handle a weapon Really, yeah. Yeah, I mean I've shot a 50 Cal, I've shot an M60, M16, you know, a .50 cal, MF shot an M60, M16, .45, all the things.
Speaker 7:I can see you shooting.
Speaker 4:Have you ever killed anything? I sure have Really. Oh, you did shoot some pheasants.
Speaker 7:I struck the great beast.
Speaker 3:It fell to the earth with a mighty thunder. I'll take that back, yeah.
Speaker 4:You are a country boy at heart, yeah, I can survive. Yeah, what are?
Speaker 2:you guys doing for Christmas?
Speaker 4:I don't know, ask Lana.
Speaker 2:Are the.
Speaker 7:We're not doing.
Speaker 4:We're just staying here, right, babe?
Speaker 2:Are both of your daughters in town, Emma? Will she be here?
Speaker 4:Yep, she's moving back. They used to live in Orlando and they're moving back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we were talking about that a couple weeks ago right.
Speaker 4:Yep, Emma just got married not too long ago, but they're moving back to Tennessee. Allie's newly engaged Mm-hmm Yay. Allie, Allie On Thanksgiving Day they got engaged and actually Meemaw is her fiance's grandmother who made this fun.
Speaker 1:It is really good.
Speaker 4:So we're looking forward to that and I think we're going to be kind of we had a low-key Thanksgiving here with just them and we're probably going we had a low-key Thanksgiving here with just them and we're probably going to have like a low-key Christmas here.
Speaker 2:What do you guys eat for Christmas? Is it traditional?
Speaker 4:We're doing ribs this year. Oh, I love this. No, I love this.
Speaker 2:No, no, we're doing ribs. You're doing ribs Sounds amazing, though. Absolutely, Caleb. What do you guys do? Is it traditional or is it unique to whatever? Fairly?
Speaker 3:You know the fried turkey which is new, last what I don't know. 10 years or so people have been doing that Right. But we have fried turkey, smoked turkey, regular, old, dry turkey and we have the ham. But dressing is the thing my mom makes the most incredible dressing with some gravy and stuff.
Speaker 2:Oh, that sounds good.
Speaker 3:It's so good, you know, and then ever dessert, it's just traditional.
Speaker 2:Do you guys like ham? Do you guys ever do ham? Yeah, we do ham.
Speaker 4:Ham on Christmas. Yeah, you kind of get tired of it. We do honey baked on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you get right.
Speaker 4:Hawaiian rolls maybe, but we're doing ribs this year, so I think we're going to do something different.
Speaker 3:Ribs Like McRibs or ribs. No, we're not doing McRibs.
Speaker 2:They brought them back for a limited time. Do you go to Melissa's parents?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll go to her parents, but it'll be like probably ham and turkey so traditional, turkey so traditional.
Speaker 4:Yeah, because I I'm stickler, I kind of want ham on christmas. Yeah, used to grow up that way, yeah, I like it, do you not like that I'm doing ribs for christmas? I like ribs I mean, are you making the ribs?
Speaker 3:that wasn't my question it's the same animal, guys, so no need to see, no need to fight about it. Good point.
Speaker 1:That's a good point, you're right, kalo.
Speaker 3:That's a good point.
Speaker 1:I came with that hat.
Speaker 4:What.
Speaker 1:Make.
Speaker 3:America ready, are you?
Speaker 4:smoking the ribs yourself. Like are you?
Speaker 3:doing that.
Speaker 4:Me and Emma's husband Jordan. We're going to do, we're bonding. Yeah, it's family. It's family. We don't watch movies.
Speaker 3:Jordan looks like he can smoke some stuff. We don't watch movies.
Speaker 4:We spend time together. We do quality time. We don't watch you know it's a Wonderful Life and all that stuff. We actually do stuff that's meaningful and spend time together.
Speaker 1:I tell you, this is the most we've ever fought is at the Christmas episode. You're right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we need a house. Yeah, this this is the most we've ever fought is at the Christmas episode. You're right, yeah, we need, yeah, we need. Yeah, this is kind of our own Krampus. See what I've done.
Speaker 4:I've infected it we need a holiday break.
Speaker 7:I've infected it.
Speaker 1:Krampus came in. You guys, you're gonna see Krampus if you don't get your shit together have you ever seen, have you?
Speaker 2:ever seen Bad Santa.
Speaker 1:No, no, I never saw that no, really no. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I saw it. I couldn't I missed that one. I just saw it once, it was a one-timer.
Speaker 1:I think I watched a little bit of it, but then I mean it's.
Speaker 3:Wow, it's pretty raunchy.
Speaker 2:It is pretty raunchy.
Speaker 3:Well, his Santa suit was so disgustingly dirty I couldn't take it after that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they stole that from Trading Places. Yeah, mm-hmm, sure did.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think of an off-the-wall Christmas movie that I've watched, because we do it every year. Kelly and I will watch. We do all the movies, like literally all the movies, whether it's Christmas with the cranks, or we even do Planes, trains and Automobiles the day after Thanksgiving, because it's a Thanksgiving movie it's fantastic In our transition.
Speaker 4:We watch all the movies.
Speaker 2:No wonder you know all the answers. Well, I'm just saying.
Speaker 4:I mean it's quick too.
Speaker 2:What's that? It's quick, you answer quick. I love Christmas. I love Christmas movies. My wife, I was telling Lana before we got here I was saying we decided we were going to do a Christmas episode tonight. I told her like a half hour before we left oh, I think we're doing a Christmas episode. Uh, I might need to bring a hat, whatever. And she was so mad at me. She was so mad what she loves Christmas was so mad what she loves Christmas and that's an understatement. Yeah, she was like oh my God, I would have made leg lamp cookies, I would have done this, I would have made whatever. She gave me the hat, she gave me the shirt. This is her shirt.
Speaker 1:She rivals me with the like getting the decorations up Like it's it, she's all in. Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's awesome, she's all in on Christmas Christmas can't long like last. Long enough for me Like I'd love the whole season.
Speaker 3:I got Kurt. I got the same on the way out the door and I said hey, have you seen my little orange Tennessee Vols thing on it? She goes no, why? I said because we're doing a Christmas episode tonight. It was like five minutes before I walked out. She goes no, when did you know? Did you do a Christmas episode? I said I don't know. A few days. And she goes that's great, I'm going to look like a terrible wife. You're the only one going over there, not prepared.
Speaker 7:And yeah so and look at me.
Speaker 3:I get it. No, you're very prepared. You got your tags on like mini pearl and stuff.
Speaker 4:Right there, that's great.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you've had that forever. Yeah, I'm taking it back tomorrow. Yeah, it's a rental.
Speaker 4:Where did you get that? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Lana. Where do we buy this Lana's so embarrassed right now? No, lana probably made it.
Speaker 3:She probably made it this morning yeah we were at Walmart.
Speaker 4:I was picking up ammunition. And we saw this hanging on the rack. Worst grade and they had one left in my size, beautiful. And then I picked the hat up and the hair in St Augustine, florida. By God I did it.
Speaker 2:Size angry and I said look at this, I'm trying to remember. We played it. We played it on a Christmas track. Who was that we did? We Christmas track? Who was that we did? We've done a couple. Aldine did a Christmas song we did Christmas in Dixie.
Speaker 1:Christmas in.
Speaker 2:Dixie.
Speaker 3:That's a great one. Gosh, what's that? That's a great song. I just love that song.
Speaker 1:That's a great song when the McClimates we played on. I can't remember what the song was, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't remember either, but we did Christmas in Dixie, which is a great song that can be great too, you want me to play it?
Speaker 4:Love it. Do you know it?
Speaker 2:It's a lot of chords.
Speaker 7:It ain't 1-4-5. I don't know it.
Speaker 2:It ain't 1-4-5. That's probably it, right? Do we guys have anything?
Speaker 4:Anything you want to say. Do you want to end on a good note? I want to wish, wish all of our listeners a very merry christmas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, seriously it's. We've been all over the map tonight.
Speaker 1:Well, it's kind of the end of the sauce.
Speaker 4:People listen and then you see that our hearts are good.
Speaker 2:The spirits are in the right place. I think so too, and listen, we've been having a lot of fun tonight, but we do want to say we're very thankful and, by the way, jesus is the reason for the season and we're very thankful for all of you that have listened and watched through the year and we'll have a New Year's episode probably too but we're thankful that you guys have kind of taken this journey with us this year right, and I mean Neil.
Speaker 7:What.
Speaker 3:Yeah we kind of had a little fun tonight. Yeah, we did, we had a lot of fun tonight.
Speaker 4:They know we're having fun. Everybody knows Amen. You got to know me by now. You got to know all you guys by now.
Speaker 2:We're having a good time. Before we leave, I do have to say this. I've had numerous people ask me so what happened to Thrashtalk? I swear to you, I've had numerous people ask me what happened to Thrashtalk.
Speaker 4:We're in the holiday season, the Christmas season. I don't usually use the word holiday, but I'll use it Is it coming. Yeah, I'm trying to keep everything on a lighter, more positive note. It's coming, it's coming.
Speaker 2:Because I think people want it.
Speaker 4:No, it also depends on the subject matter. Yeah, we're not going to force it. No, you can't force that kind of thing, because once you get going, it's like you know, we have to use some bleeping and there's some editing. Yeah, it's fun. It's fun. Yeah, the truth hurts sometimes.
Speaker 2:The truth does hurt.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I want Thrashtalk edited, though, because I think you're at your best when you're. I've told you this before.
Speaker 2:Like you're at your best when you're unfiltered.
Speaker 4:You're probably the most honest of us, while we're well, no, I'm. I'm probably the one that doesn't really care what anybody else thinks more than others. I don't, because I'm at the age now where I don't really I don't care, and if I get kicked off this show for some reason, I'm fine with it. I've had a good career. Can we still do it at your house? If I'm off the show, y'all get charged a buttload for studio time.
Speaker 2:Okay, we're going to leave on this. All I want for Christmas is what TK that's a good one.
Speaker 1:New QB for the Titans I think we all want that right In Middle Tennessee.
Speaker 2:He's out. As far as you're concerned, he's out. I'm sure he's a nice guy.
Speaker 3:Kalo what do you want for Christmas? I want my family and friends to have a super long life.
Speaker 7:No, that's true, I know. Now I feel like a jerk.
Speaker 3:And I'll say no, I mean of course I want that. I'll stay there with you. I do wish that my Tennessee Vols win at.
Speaker 4:Ohio State. You wanted to run the whole deal. I'm with you, bro. I'm with you. No, you don't.
Speaker 3:And that for me, I say this just for me, because I'm not there yet, because we're not close to Christmas and it takes me I mean, I get it takes me a long time to get there. I don't get in the Christmas spirit until almost right there and I just hope that I remember, like Kurt said, jesus is the reason for the season and celebrate his birth and think about that. And Jesus you talk about try that in small town. He came from small town. Oh, look about that. And Jesus you talk about try that in small town.
Speaker 1:He came from small town. Oh, look at that. I wish all those things too, Just for the record, I know we're being serious, all of a sudden we're being serious today.
Speaker 3:I'm hoping for a big wheel like the four wheeler.
Speaker 4:I didn't get Kelly. You want another shot at it, Rich kid.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, what Kayla said. No no, no, what Kayla said. Okay, what do you got, neil?
Speaker 1:I'm not going to take up your turn In a new QB. Nah, I don't even care. I mean they can do what they want with the Titans. I mean it's fine.
Speaker 4:I want some more of Meemaw's fudge here. Really good. Her caramels are fantastic.
Speaker 2:You know what I want. I hope we're doing this. Last year we did, uh, taco night. I don't know if it's happening, but I hope that we get it. I'm just putting that out there. Anybody wants to listen can, and I've had one more.
Speaker 3:If you don't mind, telly, can I add one more? Yeah, I hope that we're still doing this podcast next christmas. Wow, well, why wouldn't? Well, well, it didn't start out great tonight.
Speaker 2:In all seriousness, I mean we had a lot of fun tonight. We know it was super loose. We hope all of you have a great Christmas. It's been amazing that you guys have taken this journey with us. We're very thankful, thankful. We're super appreciative for.
Speaker 4:Neil for. Klo I hope we don't lose our sponsors.
Speaker 2:I hope we don't either for TK we are coming to you from the Patriot Mobile Studios you got something.
Speaker 3:No, no, just don't leave yourself out. Oh, I'm Kurt.
Speaker 2:Kurt, my wish for Christmas is that you guys give me a good nickname for next year. I'm working on it, okay, thanks, interesting. Yeah, alright, merry Christmas.
Speaker 3:Merry.
Speaker 2:Christmas, Merry Christmas everybody.
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