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Cajun Christmas Chuckles Over Coffee

• Chris Logan Media • Season 3 • Episode 34

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The fastest way to light up a room during the holidays? A perfectly terrible Christmas joke and a kitchen that smells like something good. We pour fresh coffee, pull out a stack of groaners, and laugh until the eyes water while the house fills with Cajun-seasoned daydreams of chili, dips, and crawfish boils. It’s cozy, chaotic, and exactly what December is supposed to feel like.

We trade kid-ready punchlines about Santa, snowmen, reindeer, the Grinch, and knock-knocks you can hand to the youngest cousin at the party. Between laughs, we wander through real life: glasses perched on heads, memories of Thomas Kinkade calendars, the cookie jar snowman that used to hold Santa’s stash, and the gentle debate over knitting versus crochet. Those little detours make the jokes land even harder, because they come wrapped in nostalgia, family rituals, and the sound of a house getting ready for a gathering.

Our sponsor, Hal’s Cajun seasonings, gets a well-earned spotlight as we riff on easy ways to turn weeknight comfort into holiday magic. Think chili with Fritos and shredded cheese, tangy rim salts on an ice-cold beer, and dip mixes that keep the snacks table busy while jokes fly across the room. If you’ve been hunting for simple holiday recipes and family-friendly comedy you can remember without notes, this one’s your toolkit: fast Cajun flavor, clean puns, and warm wishes all in one place.

Hit play, borrow a few lines, and hand a punchline to a kid so they can steal the show at your next gathering. If you smiled, tapped your steering wheel, or wrote down a recipe idea, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review so more families can find a little Cajun Christmas cheer.

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Like boiling water, boiling, boiling water.

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Okay. Alright. Oh my god, you cry for that. Oh god, I don't think you. Oh god.

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Every time you cackle, it's like an instant water works for me. So you bring yourself in. Okay, alright. I'm trying to be good.

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I didn't bring any clean next.

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Welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. Grab a cup of coffee, settle in, and let's dive into real conversations about life, motherhood, and a little inspiration to brighten your day.

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Welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. We got a special episode for y'all. It's the one y'all been waiting for.

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Oh, I bet they've been just biting their nails.

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Oh, don't do that. Don't do that. All right, it's the Christmas joke episode. But first, we're gonna thank our lovely sponsor, Hal, the Cajun Lady Accent. Thank you so much, Hal, for sponsoring this month of December. Um, Hal is our friend. She cooks like a queen and she has a seasoning and dip and crawfish ball lined to boot. Okay. Yeah, and we didn't talk about the beer salt yet.

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So you like a little ice cold beer, you line the rim of your beer can or the bottle. I had it out here. I don't know where I was. It's over there. Oh, it's over here. It's a uh crawfish crawfish seasoning. Seasoning, but it has like lime lemon lime kind of taste to it, too. It's so nice and salty. It'll make you drink more now. Watch out. Oh, oh, but that might be what you want.

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Gonna make you wish you was eating some crawfish. That's what.

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It might make you hungry too. Because I can tell you right now, I've been smelling these seasonings all morning on this table, and I'm it's making me more hungry.

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I want to go cook a chili right now. Put a little frito, put a little shreddy cheese, sour cream, little sour cream. And if we're gonna get fancy while we're fancy, we're gonna cut some green onions. Oh, yeah. In there.

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That would be fancy.

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We might go make that.

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I don't know if she wants us to tell you, but she brought us some things to try as guinea pigs. And let me tell you what, it's not a bad day if you how the Cajun Lady accents. Guinea pigs.

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All right, corny Christmas jokes. I'm gonna have to put my glasses on first.

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You do need your glasses. I'm glad you brought them. They're usually on top of your head.

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I don't know why I wear them. And you know, when we when we like go into a store, I always put them on top of my head like they sunglasses. Yeah.

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Why do I even wear them? And then I'm like, where are they? Where are they? I don't know. What do they do for you? They magnifiers, or you really can't see without you.

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You can't see. Oh, okay. You know, especially at night.

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Okay.

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Um, it's blurry. That I have that thing that a lot of people have where your eyeballs are wrong, like it's astigmatism. Yeah, that. I have that. So, you know, it's kind of pertinent.

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I mean, a little bit, but I'm just wondering how many times I've said, hey, dude, do I have something in my teeth? Like, can you see if I ask you that?

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Oh, I can see things in your teeth.

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Okay.

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But like crispy things like reading, that's hard for me.

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Sharp things you have to focus on. Missing stops. Like something in my teeth.

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That's that also happens. Something in your teeth, I'll know. I don't want you going around with nothing in your teeth. I hope not.

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Okay. You go first. Okay. Buckle up.

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Buckle up, ready.

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Read it for the lameness.

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Oh, it's gonna be bad. Okay. This one's just for you because I know how much you want to ice skate. Okay. Okay. But what's the hardest thing about learning to skate?

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Um balancing yourself on the balancing yourself on the skates, but that's not a funny answer. The ice is the hardest thing. The ice, obviously. We need a drum roll. We need one of them. Yeah. Okay. What do you get? This this might be too easy for you. What do you get if you cross a snowman and a dog?

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A dog sled.

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That sucks. No, not a dog sled. You get frostbite.

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No dog. No dog. Frostbite. That makes more sense. Yes. Okay. Frostbite. All right.

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The eye rolls are very hard right now. If you're not on our YouTube channel, you're missing out.

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Yeah. Go. Go like and subscribe there because the eye rolls are gonna be the eyes are gonna be rolling out. Okay. What do you call a reindeer with only two legs?

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Oh bet. That's what I call it.

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No, her name's Eileen. Eileen. Eileen. It's a girl one, too. It's a girl one. I'm guessing if her name's Eileen. If it's a boy, it's boiling.

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Like boiling water. Boiling. Boiling.

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Okay. All right. Oh my god, you cry for that. Oh, God. I'm crying for you.

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Oh gosh. Every time you cackle, it's like an instant water works for me. So you rein yourself in. Okay, alright. I'm gonna try to be good. I didn't bring any kleenex.

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Use the doily.

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Okay. All right. Um, somebody's message. Make sure it ain't your kids. It is. Uh-oh.

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Just put them both down for a nap. We're good. Bless it, Lord. Bless it. Bless it, Jesus.

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Blessed. Okay. Why are Christmas trees bad at knitting?

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Because they can't keep track of their needles.

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Because they always drop their needles. Oh. Yeah.

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Always drop their needles.

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Always.

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Do you know how to knit?

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No. My mama is just waiting to show me how to do it. And I don't make enough time to do it.

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I don't want to learn how to knit it.

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My mother-in-law can knit. My mama can crochet. Yeah. So I couldn't get both of them.

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I just don't understand what the difference is. Knitting's like Oh, there's a difference. Like this is knitted or crocheted.

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Uh that looks knitted, I think.

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Because knits like smaller? Smaller, yeah. Crochets the big yarn. The big holes.

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Yeah. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. My mama made those. And now that it's a knit. And I think there's even like a name for the Titani things. Stitches. Tiny. I don't know. Did you have a cross stitch?

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Oh, yes.

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Yeah, me too, as a kid. I used to love doing my mama would cross-stitch like elaborate scene. My mama too. Thomas Kincaid.

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Thomas Kincaid was quite a thing back in the day. In the 90s. My fancy ain't male. She had all the Thomas Kincaid paintings. She was fancy.

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That is fancy. I'm pretty sure Mama had a calendar of Thomas Kincaid, and then she would do cross stitches of that.

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Oh, he was a whole vibe.

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Yeah. Kind of like home. What is it? Home interiors.

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This is Home Interiors.

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Oh.

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This is Home Interiors. This is uh this snowman has been in my family for a very long time, and all Santa's cookies when I was a kid was in here.

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I was gonna ask, what goes in that snowman? What kind of chocolate chip cookies? Chocolate chips, yeah. Chippers.

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Okay. That's the kind Santa Claus likes.

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That's the only kind Santa likes. Yeah. His favorite.

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Yeah.

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All right. Uh did you do Eileen last?

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Um you did what? Needles. Needles. So it's your turn. Why did Santa go to the podiatrist?

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Oh.

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Something about a mistletoe. He had mistletoes, yeah. Girls, I don't like talking about fish. You don't like talking about feet. Or podiatrist.

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That's a good thing.

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Love you. I love that there are podiatrists in the world that I'm just wondering. I've been to one. I just wonder what makes you wake up in the morning and say, today is the day. I love feet so much.

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I'm gonna look at all the nasty toes. I guess, but we need them, you know. Ah, we need them. Yeah.

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So I ain't mad at it, but I'm just like wondering.

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Or a dermatologist.

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Like they see some.

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No, that's okay. Yeah. No, so there's a good side and a not so nice, pretty side. Yeah, I've been there too.

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Me too. Luckily.

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But I mean, I had this thing blazed off my nose because by dermatologist. I wouldn't want to look at that if I was him because this was mild compared to some of the stuff they look at.

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Oh, they see some gnarly stuff.

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Gnarly, you hear me? And the pimple poppers. Now that I'm gonna do that. Oh, listen.

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Oh no. Digging in the ears, though, I do that. I like to see, I like to see wax coming out.

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I'll pass on the wax, but I will watch a pimple popper any day.

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No, that's yucky. Uh-uh. They be having like whole uh uh that ain't coming out. I ain't doing that.

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All right, what do you call Santa when he takes a break?

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Santa pause. That's it. A pause. He's taking a pause. He's taking a little pause. Oh okay. What do you call a snowman who works out?

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Oh I don't know.

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An abdominal snowman.

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Oh, instead of abominable. Right. Abominable abominable. Abominable. Abominal?

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Abdominal. Abominal.

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Okay.

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What do you call an old snowman? I don't know.

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Water.

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I know. Like what?

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I got one similar to that though. That's funny though. Okay. I didn't laugh. So funny, I forgot to laugh. Did the kids say that at school? Oh yeah.

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Whenever you went to school? Uh-huh. So funny, I forgot to laugh.

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So funny, I forgot to laugh. I had one like that way in the back. It says, it was like, what um, what do uh Hawaiian snowmen look like? Water. Water. Like, because they meant. Yeah. So I won't tell you. Oh, look, on this page, what do they call snowman in Hawaiian? Okay. How do Santa's Leon's elves get around the North Pole?

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I know you just made that up now.

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The bicycle it. They ride icicles. Icicles. He was so easily put into that, but it was your face.

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It was your face that said it all. Like, whoa, what this happened? I know Leonce's name is not on that plane.

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Leonc's at the North Pole. Oh, he probably is.

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You don't know with him. You never know. Okay, let's see. How did Joseph and Mary weigh baby Jesus at birth?

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What is it?

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They had a way in the manger. Away in the manger. A manger.

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No cry for his pen.

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They weighed him in the manger. They await him in the manger. Okay.

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Alright. How does Santa avoid getting sick before Christmas? I don't know. He uses sanitizer.

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Oh, I like that one. Santitizer.

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Tell that one to Bryn and Rhea.

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Oh, Bryn told me a good one. It's not Christmas, but it said, why why don't you want to give Elsa a balloon?

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Because she can let it go.

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She'll let it go. How didn't I see that coming?

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Oh, you should've done it. Because you don't have a three-year-old right now who's obsessed with Elsa.

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What does Santa suffer from if he gets stuck in a chimney?

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Chimneys. I don't know. Chimneys. Claustrophobia.

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Claws. Trophobia. Claustrophobia. I don't have anything about Mrs. Claws in here now that I just think about it. Why did Rudolph get braces?

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I don't know.

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Because he had book teeth.

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Oh. I guess he did have a book teeth.

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Pull off that little Rudolph. Okay, just checking on my babysitter.

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What do you call an elf that runs away from Santa's workshop?

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I love his claws.

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A rebel without a claws. Oh rebel. Like, what's that little one on uh Hermy? Hermy doesn't like to make toys. Oh. On Rudolph, the red-nosed Raimi. Hermy doesn't like to make toys. He wants to go be a dentist. That's another one.

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Is it Hermy? I think so. It was something weird like that.

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Hermy doesn't like to make toys. I think so.

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You want to be a dentist.

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I mean, imagine. He's kind of like a podiatrist. I don't know why you want to look at them teeth all day. Scraggly teeth. Book teeth.

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Oh man.

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But we need them.

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We need them. And thank you, podiatrists, dentists, and vaginalists of the world. Now that's enough. Okay. I've been getting a little racy in this.

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I'm starting to sweat. Sweating here.

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Oh. Did you hear that Santa lost his wallet?

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Oh. Yeah.

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He's Saint Nicholas.

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He's Nicholas. Poor Santa. Hmm. What's the difference between the Christmas alphabet and the ordinary alphabet?

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Hmm. I don't know.

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The Christmas alphabet has no L.

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No Well, no Well. Okay. Why do Christmas sweaters hang out together?

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I don't know. They close knit. Oh, precious. Like kind of like us. Close knit. The Christmas sweaters.

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We definitely some funky Christmas sweaters.

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Some some tacky ones.

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Tacky for sure.

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Some of these are repeated on mine. God, they don't. Santa Tizer. I got that one. That was that was a good one.

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That was your favorite.

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That was my favorite so far. Oh, this is easy, but where do Santa's reindeer stop for coffee?

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Starbucks. Starbucks. Yeah.

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Think about it.

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I saw that one. I saw that one this morning. We try to get we go on different websites to get our stuff so we don't use the same ones, but I did see that one. What did one Santa hat say to the other?

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I don't know. You go on ahead. You go on ahead. Go on ahead. Yes. Got it. I like that one. I do. How do you know when Santa's around?

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I don't know.

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You can always sense his presence.

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What is green covered in Tanto and goes ribbit ribbot? Green.

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I mean it's a frog. A mistletoad. A mistletoad, of course. What goes oh oh oh? I don't know. Your face. Santa walking backwards. Like instead of ho ho ho, it's oh oh oh.

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Oh may we're oh, here's a good one. Why does the Grinch enjoy Gordoning?

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He has a green thumb.

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He has a green thumb. Yeah.

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What do you get if you cross a Santa with a duck? Oh, some about some quackers.

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A Christmas Quacker. A Christmas Quacker. Oh, a cr that one's for you, Wayne Mott. Quacker. A Christmas Quacker. Christmas Quacker?

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Why Wayne Mott? I don't know. He loves these little jokes. Oh, good. I hope he likes this. He's gonna like this whole episode.

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Did you hear about Rudolph's roller coaster ride? No, tell me about it.

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He held on for deer life. Oh, I bet he did. Bet we're all gonna hang on for deer life. What do you call a Chris What do you call a Christmas tree in a bad mood? I don't know. I don't know if I understand this. A sour fur. A source. Dash fur. Like I know a fur is a type of tree, but like I don't want to say a fur. Sour fur. I don't know. I don't get it. Maybe I'll get it.

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I don't know. I don't know that word. Me neither. Where do you find reindeer? The North Pole. I don't know, depends on where you left it.

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Why did the Christmas tree get uh uh promoted? I don't know. It it had great roots in the company.

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You know what's the most famous Christmas tree?

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The Rockefeller one.

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Yeah. I mean they was really after that one whenever they put it up.

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I wonder when that started.

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I don't know. Like in history?

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Like in New York when they had when was the first big, big, big giant Christmas tree.

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Could you imagine the traffic on the day they brought that thing in?

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They have to be a big 18-wheeler thing.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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Get out of the way. I'm walking here. I'm walking here. Knock knock. Who's there? Normally. Normally who? Normally we have ham on Christmas.

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I don't understand that.

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Normally? Normally? Like a brand. Is that a brand? No, I'm just saying, Normally. Who's here? Normally. Nug knock. Who's there? Normally. Normally we have ham on Christmas.

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It's a name and a word. Okay, I get it now. I don't like that. You didn't give it a few.

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We both didn't get sour fur, and that was a little bit.

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Oh, we didn't. Yeah. Yeah, sorry. What is a Christmas tree's favorite candy?

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I don't know.

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Ornaments.

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Oh, that's an ornaments.

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I'm gonna end on a high note on that one.

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Okay, I'm I'm gonna wrap it up good. Okay. Okay. Tell me. Ready? Yeah. Knock knock. Who's there? Gladys. Gladys who. Gladys finally Christmas. Me too. Oh. Oh, thank y'all so much for hanging out with us today. We hope you had at least a chuckle, if not a couple of eye rolls.

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A couple of eye rolls. And you know, share these with your kids because if your kids learn how to say these at the Christmas gathering, surely there's gonna you have to laugh when a child says something, even though it's silly.

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Maybe you listen to this on the way to the Christmas game. There's gonna be the kids are gonna be having so much fun telling these all day today little cousins.

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Yeah, and and the uncles. You know, the uncles that uh laugh, like the silly uncle. There's always a silly uncle. The funkal. The fun uncle. Agree. Yes. Okay, y'all. Thanks for hanging out with us. We hope you have the most wonderful Merry Christmas that you could possibly have. And a happy new year, too. And a happy new year.

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Yes. And that's gonna be interesting. Can't wait to see what that's gonna hold.

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I know. Okay.

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Y'all have a blessed, Merry Christmas. And we're gonna end up.

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We're gonna end it by thanking our sponsor for December, How the Cajun Lady Accent. Y'all go check out how the Cajun LadyAccent.com for a whole list and a whole line of delicious Cajun spices, seasonings, mixes, dip mixes, cracker mixes, chili mix, spaghetti mix, um, what else? Seafood ball, butter, dips. She's got it all, y'all. She got it all.

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My love, my seasonings, my dips, all the things, fry batter, and the mixes. Oh, I'm gonna work on that a little bit. We'll work on it. Uh, but thank you so much, Hal, for uh sponsoring two months in a row. Yes, and we hope that we got some people converted to cooking with Hal the Cajun Lady Axe.

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Yes, and go follow her on all the social media outlets so you can see how to use the season. Absolutely, you know, and make some good Cajun recipes with that. Um, go subscribe to her email list. Uh, sign up for emails on her website, is what I meant to say. Because she has merch items that are dropping. She's gonna have new products coming out, and you don't want to miss out on that. So thank you so much, Hal, and thank you to everybody listening. We love y'all, and we hope you'll have a Merry Christmas and a happy, happy new year.

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