Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer watchalong (w/ Jeff and Jeremy)

What’s up, dudes? We had a blast covering the last few movies, so we’re continuing our live commentary series! This time we’re breaking into TV Specials, and we had to start with  the Rankin Bass classic that launched it all: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer! Jeff Loftin from Lost Christmas podcast, Jeremy Phelps the Alamo City Santa, and I have a blast with this watch along! 

The story chronicles the experiences of Rudolph, a youthful reindeer buck who possesses an unusual luminous red nose. Mocked and excluded by his peers because of this trait, Rudolph proves himself one Christmas Eve with poor visibility due to inclement weather. After Santa Claus catches sight of Rudolph's nose and asks Rudolph to lead his sleigh for the evening, Rudolph agrees and is finally favored by his fellow reindeer for his heroism and accomplishment.

Grumpy Santa? Check. Complete tooth extraction? Yep. Flying lion creature? Maybe he's from an alternate dimension! So grab your pickaxe and float down to this episode on Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:41

What's up, dudes? It's me, Jerry D, with another episode of Totally Rad Christmas, the podcast that talks all things Christmas in the 80s, toys, movies, specials, music, and fads. If it was gnarly during Christmas in the 80s, we got it covered. Now, I've got two of my friends here with me for a very special episode. We're gonna have a watch-along party for the Rankin Bass classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. That's right. From Lost Christmas Podcast and the Alamo City. It's Jeff Lofton and Jeremy Phelps. Guys, how's it going?

SPEAKER_03 1:14

Doing well, Jerry.

SPEAKER_05 1:15

How you doing?

SPEAKER_02 1:16

I'm alright.

SPEAKER_05 1:17

Yeah, living the dream. Living the dream.

SPEAKER_02 1:20

I love it, man. I love it. I'm a little out of breath. Sorry, guys. I literally ran from my car to my computer and turned it on and hit zoom, and here we go. So um you're gonna have to bear with me for a little bit until I catch my breath. That just tells you how shape I am. Um we're here to talk Rudolph. What's your guys' experience with rank and bass in general and Rudop in particular? Let's start with you, Jeff.

SPEAKER_05 1:43

Uh, so I mean, I grew up with it, it was always on TV, and uh I loved it. I have seen the original before they added, made the changes, um, just because I cut it. You just don't watch the the very end uh where they return. Um, but yeah, I mean I've I love Rankin Bass in general. Um and Rudolph is is a fun one. It's not my favorite uh Rankin Bass special, but it is a it is one that um I make my kids watch even though they're not into it. I make them watch it every year.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

For sure. Same same thing, yeah. Jeremy?

SPEAKER_03 2:13

I grew up watching some of the Rankin Bass, and I I would have said, you know, a few years ago that I was a big Rankin Bass fan. Then I got the Blu-ray set. There's a lot of stuff that's really weird, but Rudolph is one of my favorites. Not my favorite either, but it's up there. It's the top of the list, just not number one. We'll get there eventually.

SPEAKER_02 2:33

There there is a lot of really weird, yes, that is true. There's some things that don't make sense at all. Uh, you I mean, even in this one, a winged lion that's like in charge of this island with toys that are just manufactured incorrectly or used incorrectly, just kind of hang out. I mean, it's that's bizarre. Um, but also I love it. There's a charm to it. There's uh oh yeah, I love it too. Nostalgia, and same thing. I grew up, you know, with it just like you guys did, and uh so I'm excited. And this one has been my favorite, it kind of cycles on and off with my you know, being my favorite between this one and Rudolph, but it's definitely one of like the big three, right? It's like Santa Claus is I mean I said Rudolph, sorry, Frosty. Yeah, you did yeah, Santa Claus is coming to town, Frosty and Rudolph are like the big three, and if I miss any one of those, it just doesn't feel like Christmas.

SPEAKER_05 3:26

For sure.

SPEAKER_02 3:27

So um, without further ado, let's go ahead and dive right in, and we'll hit play one, two, three, play.

SPEAKER_03 3:36

Alright. Yep. Piracy is not a freedomless crime.

SPEAKER_02 3:46

Arc. I'm excited for this one. This is uh this kind of like was the granddaddy of the Christmas specials, right? Because after this, I mean we had all the rank and bass, but then we also had the Grinch. This is before Charlie Brown, too, yeah. Charlie Brown, right. And I always forget about this opening. We're frozen, ice peril warning, tough.

SPEAKER_03 4:12

Are you already at the are you already at the frozen parts?

SPEAKER_02 4:15

Yeah, I just got the universal logo, so oh my my universal logo just happened because I was at the uh I'm I'm watching it on Amazon.

SPEAKER_03 4:24

Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm watching on Blu-ray.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

I have the Blu-ray, but it's in a whole other room.

SPEAKER_05 4:30

Yeah, mine are uh in the in storage right now. All my physical media.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

Yeah, yeah, they just take up so much space, right?

SPEAKER_03 4:39

But it makes our wall look nice, so it does, you're right about that.

SPEAKER_02 4:43

I do like Sam the snowman. Very burrow's. Yeah. And I want that hat. That little bowler hat with like the Holly and the That's true, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:55

I'll probably be the guy who's a little bit you know, the last time we did one of these, I think CJ was behind. Looks like I'm gonna be the behind guy, so sorry, man. That's alright.

SPEAKER_04 5:08

Nice place to live, you know.

SPEAKER_02 5:11

Christmas seals.

unknown 5:13

Of course, the number one citizen.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

The number one citizen. What did you guys think of the design of this North Pole? I mean, it looks like a big old like castle complex, you know.

SPEAKER_05 5:24

Okay, so I'm gonna get meta here. Um, which North Pole, Jerry? Because there there are plenty of them. Um so is this supposed to be the geographic North Pole, the magnetic north pole, or the geomagnetic north pole?

SPEAKER_02 5:38

This is the town in Alaska. Santa Claus Land.

SPEAKER_05 5:41

Or the town in Alaska.

SPEAKER_03 5:43

I'm going with the town in Alaska because there's an awful lot of land there.

SPEAKER_05 5:47

Yeah, a lot of empty space and some sparse trees. So we'll go with uh with we'll go with Alaska.

SPEAKER_02 5:53

Okay, well, what do you think of this depiction of the clause's home in the North Pole?

SPEAKER_03 6:00

I like it. This is the North Pole thing. Is it really? Yeah, same. Very much so. Yeah, that's why I loved Elf too, because they recreated this so hard.

SPEAKER_05 6:09

Exactly. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 6:10

And they did a great job, yeah. The the uniforms or outfits, whatever, really, really popped. Right? Exactly. This kind of also began the whole trope of rank and bass, a famous person saying, What? You don't know the story of blank?

SPEAKER_03 6:27

Exactly. Yeah, that's true. You know for better or for worse sometimes. That's right. Talking to you, Easter bunny is coming to town.

SPEAKER_05 6:36

Oh gosh, we're not gonna talk about that.

SPEAKER_02 6:38

That one, no. I probably will not uh do a watch along for that one.

SPEAKER_05 6:42

Yeah, that one I don't own. No, if you want to do a watch along for an Easter movie, we're doing uh Rise of the Guardians. That's the Easter movie to watch.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

That is, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:51

I've only watched it once. It is. Set at Easter.

SPEAKER_03 6:57

I own it, but I've only watched it once.

SPEAKER_05 6:59

Oh my god, my wife loves it. I will say, I love the the trees in the the setting, like how they've done it. Um I it looks like felt, I guess, or something similar. Um but but I just I love the layering and how how it comes together. I think it's uh this is uh again, I'm like I'm like Jeremy. This is how I envision the North Pole. Um as much as I love like Red One and even the later Santa Claus movies, like their depiction of the North Pole, um, it just never this makes more sense to me.

SPEAKER_02 7:28

Yeah, yeah, I gotcha. For me it's Gildedor Heads childhood, so I can't quite decide between this or um Santa Claus the movie, the North Pole there. Both of them, it's kind of like a mix, I guess, in my head.

SPEAKER_05 7:41

As as a as a person who has an 80s podcast, Jerry, I totally understand why you have the 1985 movie as as as the the picture of Christmas.

SPEAKER_03 7:52

I like the movie. As the guy who'd only seen the Santa Claus movie like maybe the third time when we talked about it recently, you know, this is it's that that's too recent of a movie to be the North Pole for me.

SPEAKER_02 8:03

Doesn't quite hit. Yeah, I get it, I get it for sure.

SPEAKER_04 8:05

Springtime and Santa's lead reindeer donner.

SPEAKER_02 8:08

This is uh this is the one that established that Santa's kind of a jerk.

SPEAKER_03 8:12

Yes, as a Santa performer, I don't like this Santa.

SPEAKER_02 8:17

But this is also the Santa that you could see like punching Arius in the face, you know, at the at Nicaea, you know.

SPEAKER_05 8:27

Yeah, this is very much a St. Nicholas, Santa Claus, right?

SPEAKER_02 8:30

That's right.

SPEAKER_05 8:31

This is not a Father Christmas, Santa Claus.

SPEAKER_02 8:33

No, not at all. So Rudolph's born, and right away, like Donner's like, wow, this like like just making fun of his nose right away. Right?

SPEAKER_06 8:46

Well, Donner's the new thing. Shine.

SPEAKER_05 8:49

Did you notice that uh did you also notice that Donner's uh antlers curled when he was talking?

SPEAKER_03 8:55

Oh no, I I don't think I don't think I'm gonna be able to do that, yeah. Yeah, I just saw it.

SPEAKER_05 8:59

Yeah, they like when he gets angry, they like curl yeah pretty well.

SPEAKER_02 9:04

That's a that's a whole layer of reindeer uh magic reindeer mythos that I didn't know about.

SPEAKER_05 9:11

Me neither.

SPEAKER_03 9:12

Well the fact that these are also you know white-tailed deer that they call reindeer, a whole other story. You know with weird antlers. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 9:21

I mean they're they're special reindeer, right? Yes, because uh the males keep their antlers during the winter.

SPEAKER_03 9:27

Santa's magic. They fly too, so yeah, remember that. They can fly, they can keep the antlers. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 9:34

There's a lot of good songs in this one. This one's not my favorite. Jingle, jingle, jingle.

SPEAKER_06 9:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:47

I I just like how Santa wears the plaid pants throughout the story.

SPEAKER_02 9:53

That's Sherlock Holmes kind of yeah.

SPEAKER_05 9:55

I I kind of like Dapper Santa personally.

SPEAKER_03 9:58

I kind of want to recreate this Santa look, we know it's not not quite this part, but you know, where he's got the uh red shirt with the white suspenders and plaid pants.

SPEAKER_05 10:08

Yes, totally agree.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

But his jacket is pretty dope.

SPEAKER_03 10:11

I think I don't know. I can't imagine anybody wanted to hire a Santa who looks like that.

SPEAKER_05 10:15

So hey man, head down to the Renaissance fair the weekend after Thanksgiving north of you in the woodlands. And uh you would you'd you'd be a hit. I imagine. I'm I'm I imagine that might be a professionally busy time for you.

SPEAKER_03 10:32

I'm not booked yet, but you know, it's only makes that's right.

SPEAKER_02 10:38

So he immediately like puts a little covers it with like dirt and grime and is that dirt?

SPEAKER_03 10:46

Is that what it is?

SPEAKER_02 10:47

I mean he yeah, he rubbed his stuff in like the I whatever it is, cave flooring material. Cave floor, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:53

I was just maybe maybe it was fecal matter, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 10:58

I mean that's a whole other cave. Apparently, there's a lot of caves at the uh at the North Pole.

SPEAKER_02 11:04

That's how it keeps shiny. That's you gotta fertilize that bad boy. But most important the uh the bumble sounds here, this growl is quite frightening.

SPEAKER_05 11:19

Oh, I love it. I love the bumble.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

The bumble is green. Look, I mean, they did make the like the hair on it, that material that they uh it's quite realistic.

SPEAKER_05 11:30

Yeah, I thought they did a great job with this. This was the one that they spent the most time, in my opinion. It seems like the one they spent the most like time and energy on to get it right.

unknown 11:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:39

Yeah, I love how the bumbles, the bottom of the sheet were like, you know, pajama slippers.

SPEAKER_06 11:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:46

That's how I always pictured him, you know, from the time I was a little kid. And I remember when I went to Disney World, uh probably the second time we'd bought my son a uh abominable snowman uh stuffed doll, and it was basically a recreation of the bumble at the same time.

SPEAKER_05 12:03

That's awesome. Love it.

SPEAKER_03 12:05

Although in the park, he looked nothing like the bubble, but you know, the toy did.

SPEAKER_02 12:10

I like how all the elves have beady little black eyes except for Hermie and the Elf Foreman.

SPEAKER_03 12:15

Yeah.

unknown 12:16

What's eating you boy? Not happy in nightwork, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 12:20

Yeah, Hermione is either the kid of the foreman or Santa.

SPEAKER_05 12:23

I'm not sure which so I've always had the theory that um that Hermie is like an alternate universe buddy.

SPEAKER_02 12:30

Maybe. Yeah, I like that.

SPEAKER_03 12:34

Only 10 minutes in, we've already stepped into the whole alternate universe. I love it.

SPEAKER_05 12:37

I mean, this is this is my thing.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

I love it, man.

SPEAKER_05 12:43

That's my favorite. I mean, it fits. I mean, look, he's got like their uniform. I mean, he's not in green, but nonetheless, he still fits.

SPEAKER_02 12:49

Moonracer had to come from somewhere, right? That's exactly right.

SPEAKER_05 12:52

That's true.

SPEAKER_02 12:53

Multiverse crossover. That's right. And they all have like these big bulbous kind of noses except for him.

SPEAKER_05 13:03

That's I'm that's what I'm saying, man.

SPEAKER_03 13:06

Yeah. I I like that. I'm into it. With the fluffy blonde hair that nobody else has.

SPEAKER_05 13:12

Ooh, which buddy would be Earth Prime, buddy? Would it be like Will Farrell or would it be?

SPEAKER_02 13:17

Well, Hermie came first, so Well, that doesn't mean he's Earth Prime, though. That's true, that is true. I mean, I guess we were technically introduced to it there in uh in elf, so I guess he would be Earth Prime.

SPEAKER_05 13:35

I mean, I'm all about a Highlander situation too, if we want to go there.

SPEAKER_02 13:39

That can only be one. Well, and it makes me wonder the relation between uh Sam and Leon also. Are they all right? That's right. Come on. Exactly.

unknown 13:55

All right, son, try it on the other.

SPEAKER_02 13:57

So he fashioned this out somehow.

unknown 14:00

You like it and wear it.

SPEAKER_05 14:03

Without opposing the thumbs.

SPEAKER_02 14:05

Right. How did he do that?

SPEAKER_05 14:06

Santa, probably. Let's be real.

SPEAKER_02 14:10

Self-respect self-respect. The message of this is really bad. So awful. Yeah, it's so terrible.

SPEAKER_03 14:19

I mean, this is remember this came out in the midst of the 60s, I know. It's a lot about it deals with race. I think it's you know a metaphor for racism or an allegory, I guess is the right word we're looking for, and oppression.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

Or maybe um maybe it's uh they live, the aliens. This was you know, the conform is hidden all over in here subliminally.

SPEAKER_04 14:40

And so time passes. Love it.

SPEAKER_05 14:44

I'm here for it.

SPEAKER_02 14:46

You can just see Rudolph come like Rudolph's here to chew bubblegum. Exactly what I was about to say. Chew bubblegum and he's all out of bubblegum.

unknown 14:57

Now don't worry about your nose.

SPEAKER_02 14:59

These reindeer games also were were odd. I wasn't expecting these kind of reindeer games from the song.

SPEAKER_03 15:04

Yeah. Well, we sang the song as kids, like like Monopoly.

SPEAKER_02 15:08

Alright, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

Where are we going?

SPEAKER_02 15:19

He's got a shock of blonde hair, too. Are you related to Herbie?

unknown 15:25

Come on.

SPEAKER_02 15:26

Oh no. Well then, I mean, the only other offspring that has uh or the only other parents that have offspring that are you know animal and human or humanoid are uh like the Greek gods.

SPEAKER_05 15:39

So maybe there's like a shared fertility clinic up there.

SPEAKER_00 15:48

Could be or they're all sons of Poseidon, you know.

SPEAKER_05 15:51

That's that's right.

SPEAKER_03 15:53

Herbie, Hermes, I mean they're they're close. And then when the elf's voice completely goes up five octaves.

SPEAKER_05 16:10

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 16:13

Before he sings, starts talking falsetto.

SPEAKER_02 16:19

That's an I always thought that doll looked weird.

SPEAKER_05 16:23

Gotta be more specific.

SPEAKER_02 16:26

The doll that he brought out, that little doll.

SPEAKER_05 16:28

The blue-haired one?

SPEAKER_02 16:29

Yeah, yeah. With the stripes. Like, what is that?

unknown 16:33

Santa.

SPEAKER_02 16:34

Santa knows who's good. Do the things you should. And Santa's just so impatient.

SPEAKER_03 16:41

This is Santa, he's uh he's a Grinch.

SPEAKER_02 16:47

He's just grumpy, he needs a break. I will say, as a former band director, um standing on the xylophones really doesn't help them ring any better.

SPEAKER_05 17:02

No.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

And falling into timpani is also bad.

SPEAKER_03 17:06

I would imagine the ones that you're standing on are not gonna make any noise, right?

SPEAKER_02 17:10

Exactly. He just cuts the feather. Look at Santa there, he's just like so distracted, he's staring off into the distance.

unknown 17:35

I have to go away.

SPEAKER_03 17:36

I am so far behind it.

SPEAKER_02 17:38

Oh sorry.

SPEAKER_03 17:39

They just cut the feather right when I said that. I'm like, gosh. I almost want to fast forward, but then I'll probably go too far, even if I just hit it for a half second.

SPEAKER_02 17:57

He's a plain dentist.

SPEAKER_05 18:01

I'm telling you, it brings him down a whole octave.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

We have dolls that run a temperature.

unknown 18:11

Run a temperature.

SPEAKER_00 18:13

We don't know.

SPEAKER_03 18:14

There's that blue haired doll again. I think there's a bunch of those bunch of those blue haired dolls. I've never noticed them before.

SPEAKER_02 18:20

I don't remember many blue haired dolls. There's at least three of them. I guess strawberry shortcake had some, right? Or not strawberry shortcake, um well maybe that one too, but Rainbow Bright.

SPEAKER_03 18:31

That's right. Yeah, so this is like 20 years before that.

unknown 18:37

No, I guess I can't.

SPEAKER_03 18:39

It's like a kind of a raggedy ant looking thing. It is kind of a raggedy ant. The hair's raggedy ant, but blue.

SPEAKER_02 18:49

I like how he's just like, I don't fit in, I'm taking off. I guess I'm on my own, and just jumps out the window. Right.

unknown 18:58

No.

SPEAKER_03 19:00

I guess he can handle the cold, he's an elf, so well, he might not be.

SPEAKER_02 19:06

We don't know. He might be a human. But I guess that does beg the question, how how insulated, like what material do they make elf outfits out of, right?

SPEAKER_03 19:18

Like well, they work indoors, so they're probably not too insulated because they don't want to make it a sweatshop. The North Pole's a sweatshop. Oh man, don't tell Matt Spaulding.

SPEAKER_01 19:30

No.

SPEAKER_02 19:36

I love the baseball cap. Yeah. That's the first game.

unknown 19:51

You go first. Right now, the whole trick is getting up and up speed and jumping.

SPEAKER_02 19:56

And that's it. No magic feed corn, like later on.

SPEAKER_05 20:02

Man, these kids suck.

SPEAKER_02 20:06

But also, like, I feel that's how most kids are. It's true, kids are mean. Especially back then.

SPEAKER_06 20:10

That was like your chance to get acquainted with that toad.

SPEAKER_02 20:17

And they're just kids, and already they're like, hey, go hit on that girl. She's checking you out.

SPEAKER_05 20:23

Have we established how long Rudolph's been alive at this point?

SPEAKER_03 20:26

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_05 20:27

I can't tell if it's like four days or a couple years.

SPEAKER_03 20:30

It's been at least been at least a year. They say that earlier.

SPEAKER_05 20:34

Okay. Do that.

SPEAKER_02 20:36

Okay.

unknown 20:36

You talk kind of funny.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

Yeah, I missed that too then. And I like how she's the only one with the bow as well. Big old eyelashes.

SPEAKER_03 20:51

That's just I mean, female animals have eyelashes and males don't. It's an established scientific fact.

SPEAKER_05 20:57

That's true. That's right. 100% true.

SPEAKER_03 21:02

Those are some long lashes, too. Those lashes ain't cheap in the real world.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

That's right. She got some expensive lashes.

SPEAKER_03 21:12

Yep. Those things are only like six inches tall. Do you know that? The figures.

SPEAKER_02 21:20

Yeah, yeah, they're they're pretty small.

SPEAKER_03 21:22

I always picture them like being huge.

unknown 21:27

Huge.

SPEAKER_02 21:33

Here comes Santa again. I I don't know what that style of hat is called. I just call it like a Sherlock Holmes kind of hat.

SPEAKER_05 21:42

Yeah. But that works, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:45

I like Santa with the in a Sherlock Holmes hat.

SPEAKER_03 21:50

Yes, he's got the brand on the front and the back.

SPEAKER_02 21:53

This is where they find out Rudolph's a mutant. They gonna ship him off to Professor Axe.

SPEAKER_05 21:59

Are we gonna not make it? Bring up the robot chicken episode. We're gonna not do that tonight, right? It's pretty dark. We'll we'll avoid it for tonight. I'll bring it up on another episode, dude.

unknown 22:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 22:09

I don't think I've seen that one.

SPEAKER_02 22:10

Oh man, you need to check it out.

SPEAKER_05 22:12

Yeah, check it out on YouTube, dude. It's yeah, it's it's dark but funny.

SPEAKER_02 22:15

You're still laughing calling. See, look, his antlers curling. Yeah, his antlers do curl. Wow.

unknown 22:23

All right, all right.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

That's interesting.

unknown 22:27

Oh no, not you.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

You better go home with your folks.

SPEAKER_02 22:30

From now on, I like how they just straight up say, from now on, we're not letting Rudolph play in any reindeer games.

SPEAKER_05 22:38

That's right. Because that's what the verse says.

SPEAKER_02 22:41

Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 22:42

Gotta make it true to the song.

SPEAKER_02 22:44

Rankin Bass was always like better when they were basing something off a song.

SPEAKER_05 22:49

Yeah, source material is helpful for Rankin Bass for sure. Yeah. Even if it's very loose and terrible. Like it's fine.

SPEAKER_03 22:56

Where's a little drummer boy fit to that equation, though?

SPEAKER_02 23:00

Well, little drummer boy's not terrible. It's true. It was Romeo Miller's first. I yeah, I like it.

unknown 23:06

It's different from everybody.

SPEAKER_02 23:07

It's got its issues.

SPEAKER_05 23:08

It's better than Nestor, the long-haired Christmas donkey.

SPEAKER_03 23:10

Hey, we covered that one not that long ago.

SPEAKER_05 23:13

I uh yeah. I I love Nestor. Poor guy.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

But but you know, it's like um you mean uh you mean Rudolph pets, right?

SPEAKER_05 23:21

You all have pets.

SPEAKER_02 23:22

The Rudolph reboot.

SPEAKER_05 23:23

The Rudolph Reboot. The the the Nativity Rudolph.

SPEAKER_02 23:28

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

That was ranked bass just recycling ideas again.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

And man, Clary's has a big thing. That's right. She has such a great singing voice for being only a year old.

SPEAKER_00 23:44

That's true.

SPEAKER_02 23:45

I also like how she's the only one wearing a bow. Like, it's gotta keep her weave on or something.

SPEAKER_05 23:51

I'm I'm confused also why there's like raccoons and like red robins at the North Pole. That seems unlikely.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

Right. The rabbits I get.

SPEAKER_05 24:03

Yeah, rabbits are fine. There's Arctic hares.

SPEAKER_02 24:05

Right.

SPEAKER_05 24:06

Taking some creative liberties with design, but you know, but the raccoons, uh don't know.

SPEAKER_03 24:12

And those robins are cardinals. Oh, they might be.

SPEAKER_05 24:15

Either way, I'd say they're geographically correct.

SPEAKER_02 24:18

That's true. Well, they don't look like cardinals. They don't have like that uh that typical upsweep of feathers at the end.

SPEAKER_03 24:26

But yeah, it's not like they're worried about scientific accuracy on any of these animals.

SPEAKER_05 24:31

Yeah, I'm not sure Annaton's North Pole Cardinals. That's about North Pole Cardinals.

SPEAKER_02 24:38

There's always tomorrow for dreams to come true. I do like that sentiment though.

SPEAKER_03 24:44

You know, I think Annie stole that with the sun will come out tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02 24:51

Which one came first?

SPEAKER_05 24:53

I think this. I think this did.

SPEAKER_03 24:56

I think Annie came out in the 70s.

SPEAKER_05 24:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:00

My first memory was the movie in like 82, but yeah, I remember the movie.

SPEAKER_02 25:06

This instant young lady.

SPEAKER_05 25:08

Yeah, 72.

unknown 25:09

There's one thing I want to make very plain.

SPEAKER_03 25:12

Oh, it came out in 72?

SPEAKER_05 25:14

The Annie did, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:15

Oh wow, okay. That's another musical.

SPEAKER_02 25:17

No girl of mine is gonna be seen with the red-nosed reindeer. Harsh. What was Hermie doing in there?

SPEAKER_05 25:26

Hey man, don't ask questions.

SPEAKER_02 25:29

No, I love it. It's just it's I always wondered that, even as a kid. I was like, is he hiding or maybe he got beat up by the raccoons?

SPEAKER_05 25:38

They shoved him down there.

SPEAKER_03 25:40

Raccoons do beat up elves.

SPEAKER_02 25:41

We established that an elf, that's true. And they beat up humans pretending to be elves.

SPEAKER_05 25:46

Oh man, it's just these layers just woven together.

SPEAKER_02 25:51

I like how all the trees outside are decorated too.

SPEAKER_04 25:55

Hey, what do you say we both be independent again?

SPEAKER_02 25:59

Independent together.

SPEAKER_04 26:01

You wouldn't mind my own.

SPEAKER_05 26:03

Yeah, that's called codependent. That's right. Again, again, bringing up great great stuff here, Rankin Bass. We love it.

SPEAKER_02 26:14

It also kind of reminds me of the jerk a little bit when he's like, I don't need anything. I I just this lamp. This lamp, and that's all I need. I haven't seen that in a long time.

SPEAKER_05 26:28

Also, just see Rudolph just throw him down and just like spike him on his face. I'd never noticed.

SPEAKER_02 26:35

Horse play. Horse play. Reindeer play, I guess. Look at those owls.

SPEAKER_05 26:40

Those are the wrong type of owls, but I guess we're not going there because these are white-tailed deer, too.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

So they're but the well, that's right. But also, like really well done as well.

SPEAKER_05 26:49

I agree. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:52

And they also get, you know, the names of the animals wrong. The uh female deer are not does. They're cows. And they're not bucks.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

Well means I don't wanna be.

SPEAKER_02 27:17

That water effect. I like that water effect from that fish there. Then they totally true Beverly Hills that log.

SPEAKER_04 27:32

Now these two didn't have any idea about what they were letting themselves in for, but the world looked a lot more complicated.

SPEAKER_02 27:48

So this is the part where uh they die and freeze to death? He must see your nose.

SPEAKER_05 27:53

The rest is just a dream.

SPEAKER_02 27:54

It's a Jacob's ladder scenario.

SPEAKER_03 27:56

Yep. It's all kind of like Santa Claus of the movie. They all they die and none of it's really real after they uh die at the end of the movie.

SPEAKER_05 28:05

I prefer it's more like a Lynx awakening thing where they go. Yeah, they're just asleep and don't realize it. You gotta wake the fish that's in an egg or whatever it is.

unknown 28:21

Well, somehow Rudolph and Hardware.

SPEAKER_05 28:23

Here's the hero of the story.

SPEAKER_02 28:25

Yeah, Yukon Cornelius.

SPEAKER_03 28:28

Did you see the stuff they had at Lowe's for Rudolph this past year? It's like life's past life size Yukon Cornelius animatronics.

SPEAKER_02 28:38

Oh, see, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 28:40

You know, with the but everything was proportionately right to the you know story, so he had this huge head. The uh the bubble wasn't, you know, the right size. He was a little small, but you couldn't really make him you know big enough.

SPEAKER_02 28:55

I like his mustache. You know, it's rich with gold. You know, it's like not quite handlebar, but kind of handlebar.

unknown 29:01

Silver, silver and gold.

SPEAKER_05 29:04

Have y'all um have y'all read the uh the theory that Yukon Cornelius is uh Santa's son that he ran off?

SPEAKER_02 29:10

No, I haven't, but I love that.

SPEAKER_05 29:12

Yeah. That's why he's up near the North Pole. He's like a wild man up there.

SPEAKER_03 29:17

What do you think about Hermes' brother? He thinks about his silver half half brother, yeah, half brother. Because you know, Hermes obviously half elf.

SPEAKER_02 29:27

Oh, maybe that's why um everyone maybe that's why Santa's so grumpy. Right. He's like, oh my um son is a failure, and he's uh he's a hobo.

SPEAKER_05 29:42

He just travels around on a he's deranged. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 29:50

Thinks he's some sort of prospector. Trying to make a quick buck. Silver and gold's a nice song, though.

SPEAKER_03 30:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 30:03

Yeah, it's a great song.

SPEAKER_02 30:05

And I like um how the birds come and just decorate this Christmas tree.

SPEAKER_03 30:22

And his, you know, you know, commercial version of you know the songs he sang from this. Rudolph Holly Jolly Christmas.

SPEAKER_02 30:31

I mean, he was in some uh movies and things. He also comes out in that uh Dolly Parton special I covered.

SPEAKER_03 30:40

Oh yeah, yeah. You've covered a couple of those, haven't you?

SPEAKER_02 30:44

Yeah, I'm doing uh I'm covering another one with um CJ and Kristen on Monday.

SPEAKER_05 30:50

Dolly. Dolly is my wife's thing at Christmas time.

SPEAKER_02 30:54

Yeah. Yeah, it's great.

SPEAKER_03 30:59

I got two of her Christmas albums. I got her the newest one, the Holly Dolly Christmas. And then I got the one with uh Kenny Rogers that they did a special, and I think you covered it at some point.

SPEAKER_02 31:09

Yeah, that's I mean that one's the classic.

SPEAKER_05 31:18

Also, doesn't Santa have like a miniature poodle? I mean not Santa, Yukon. He does, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:23

There's like a his all his sled dogs are like totally mismatched. Yeah, just crazy.

SPEAKER_03 31:28

Not sleigh dogs.

SPEAKER_02 31:29

Sled, sled dogs.

SPEAKER_03 31:31

Sled dogs, yeah, not sled dogs, yeah. Not sleigh dogs either, see?

SPEAKER_05 31:35

That's true.

SPEAKER_03 31:36

So they can't fly the sleigh.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

So this is where we establish the bumble's chasing Rudolph's nose. It is funny that it's the abominable snow monster, but he calls him a bumble.

SPEAKER_03 31:55

I mean, it's a better, you know, being nicknamed than Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. That's not even a name, that's just an observation.

SPEAKER_05 32:03

That's yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's just a factual statement.

SPEAKER_03 32:07

It's like calling him Jeremy the brown haired dude.

unknown 32:14

We're trapped. There's no way out. It's my nose again.

SPEAKER_02 32:20

My nose has ruined us. I love that.

SPEAKER_03 32:25

I love how Yukon Cornelius has to pull the sled because the dogs are too lazy.

SPEAKER_02 32:30

You know what? I think Yukon Cornelius is related to Indiana Jones. He's got a whip, he's got a pistol, he's searching for lost things.

SPEAKER_03 32:40

He's searching for treasures, yeah. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_05 32:42

Yeah, he's got a name that's a geographic region.

SPEAKER_02 32:44

Yukon, Indiana's. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 32:48

That's not Indiana's Indiana's real name.

SPEAKER_02 32:52

Well, we don't know if Yukon's his real name either.

SPEAKER_03 32:54

That's true. His name makes more sense than Indiana.

SPEAKER_05 33:01

He's also got a gun, I just realized.

SPEAKER_02 33:04

Yeah. Nope, no peppermint.

unknown 33:10

Nothing.

SPEAKER_02 33:11

He just licks his pig. That's yeah. You know, you're up up there, you're might stick to that thing.

SPEAKER_03 33:18

Yeah, we got old Christmas story, flying.

SPEAKER_02 33:21

Right, triple dog here. And then they're just floating.

SPEAKER_05 33:34

Right. Aimlessly.

SPEAKER_02 33:36

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 33:38

Now we just need a uh narwhal shock. Hi, Rudolph. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 33:48

Sorry about your dad.

SPEAKER_03 33:50

There you go.

SPEAKER_02 33:55

No, this is man's work.

SPEAKER_05 33:59

I'm wondering if um the like the what is it? This Saint Nicholas what's the specific Saint Nicholas Magicalis, which is like the specific name for Santa's reindeer, the breed. Um, I'm wondering if they can only like jest ate once a a a lifetime, and that's why he didn't just have another kid.

SPEAKER_02 34:19

Oh, maybe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 34:23

Because you know, it might be better just yeah, okay, let's have another one. And we can still have Rudolph, and he's not chastised and cast out of our society. We can just have another kid.

SPEAKER_02 34:31

So the magic feed corn from the you know, from Santa Claus coming to town, maybe it alters our DNA.

SPEAKER_05 34:41

They get one? Yeah. They get one shot, that's it.

SPEAKER_02 34:44

But it also passes on the ability to fly. That's why they don't need it anymore. Okay, so now we get our our strange just oddities here, which I know is redundant. Charlie in the box. Just change your name. Change your name to Jack.

SPEAKER_05 35:02

That's right.

SPEAKER_02 35:03

Then you're not a misfit anymore.

SPEAKER_05 35:04

Or Charlie in the cube. There you go.

SPEAKER_02 35:07

That's right. You can be a whole other thing.

unknown 35:10

Yes, my name is Don't tell me Jack.

SPEAKER_03 35:14

I always tell you she's well. What's the problem with the one doll? I mean, it turns out it was she got depression or something.

SPEAKER_01 35:20

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:21

No kid's gonna notice that.

SPEAKER_02 35:24

But also, it makes it brilliant, right? I mean, it's it's just takes it to a whole other level.

SPEAKER_05 35:31

It gets uh quite a bit darker, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:36

All of these misfit toys.

SPEAKER_03 35:42

How do they get to the island?

SPEAKER_02 35:45

That's a good question.

SPEAKER_03 35:46

Yeah, yeah, Charlie's like, I had to come here. I'm like, you can't even walk.

SPEAKER_02 35:50

How'd you get to the TVA comes and blasts them and they go to the void?

SPEAKER_03 35:55

I guess they didn't take spirit.

SPEAKER_02 35:56

They might have taken spirit airlines because they can't take them anymore, so it's spirit airlines, spirit Halloween airlines now.

SPEAKER_03 36:05

Yeah, I flew them once, it wasn't a pleasant experience.

SPEAKER_02 36:10

That's what I've heard.

SPEAKER_03 36:11

Actually, I I still have credit with them too, and I'll never get that back.

SPEAKER_05 36:14

Not anymore. Past tense, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:21

That's a good uh that's a good song.

SPEAKER_05 36:25

Mm-hmm. It is a good one. Underrated for sure.

SPEAKER_03 36:30

This one just got great music throughout the whole thing.

SPEAKER_00 36:32

Agreed.

SPEAKER_02 36:33

Yeah. Later on, there's like you might get the one song that the special's based off of, and then all the rest are not great. And I love Maury Laws, but sometimes he uh he didn't quite hit some singles.

SPEAKER_05 36:46

Yeah, not everything's knocked out of the park, right? Sometimes you hit some singles, sometimes it's a home run.

SPEAKER_03 36:51

That's okay. Stan Claude's coming to town's got something.

SPEAKER_02 36:56

Yeah. I mean, that's like a weird 60s uh psychedelic.

SPEAKER_03 37:00

Yeah, yeah, you get that drug trip, you know, that's Jessica, but we'll we'll get to that, you know, another time.

SPEAKER_02 37:06

The water pistol. Just stop loading it with jelly. Right. Just fill it with water, you're fine.

SPEAKER_05 37:12

Man, I want a cowboy that rides an ostrich. Come on, man. No, I do too.

SPEAKER_02 37:15

It's very joust, right? It's like joust.

SPEAKER_05 37:21

I mean, I wonder if this is where the Final Fantasy got the idea for the Chocobos and whatnot, like riding those.

SPEAKER_03 37:27

Could be. A bird that doesn't fly that swims. It sounds like a penguin.

SPEAKER_05 37:33

Or an ostrich that the cowboy is literally riding.

SPEAKER_02 37:36

Right.

SPEAKER_05 37:37

Wonderful, wonderful wonderful.

SPEAKER_02 37:40

There's a few of these that I would like to know more about, but Yeah, maybe it's their personality that's like so off-lipping.

SPEAKER_00 37:50

Well, you'd have to get permission from King Moonraiser.

SPEAKER_05 37:53

King Aslan, I mean Moonraiser.

SPEAKER_02 37:58

Oh, it'd be amazing if like the Pevensies were there. Right. They actually accidentally went to Narnia as they crossed that uh.

SPEAKER_05 38:07

I mean, this crossover would be killer. It'd be so good. I'm in. And terrible. I'd I'd watch it.

SPEAKER_02 38:12

I would too.

unknown 38:15

Come closer.

SPEAKER_02 38:17

Oh I love his palace, though. His palace is.

SPEAKER_03 38:19

Moonra finds the misfit toys. They don't get through on their own, that's right.

SPEAKER_02 38:24

Right.

unknown 38:25

No, that would not be possible.

SPEAKER_04 38:27

This island is for toys alone.

SPEAKER_02 38:30

Even among misfits, you're misfits.

unknown 38:34

Unlike playthings, a living creature cannot hide himself.

SPEAKER_02 38:38

He's wise.

SPEAKER_05 38:40

Is he isn't he a living creature hiding himself on the island?

SPEAKER_02 38:44

I mean, maybe he's pure spirit. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 38:48

I mean he's got wing, so I don't know. Lions don't have wing, so I'm sure he's not just cosplaying. He was fine. Moon racer is the moth lion prophecies. The moth lion prophecies. Love it.

unknown 39:08

You are free to spend the night.

SPEAKER_02 39:10

I mean he does seem like a very mythological type creature, right? Yeah. Griffith. Um hippogriff.

SPEAKER_04 39:21

But the abominable say my nose anymore.

SPEAKER_03 39:40

Yukon barely fits in there. You gotta share it with a deer and elf.

SPEAKER_02 39:45

Sharing it with the deer already is Yeah, it's gonna smell. And a lot of time has to pass. I know I'm um kind of jumping ahead, but his antlers grow quite a bit. And then in Rudolph's Shiny New Year, this is how we know it's a multiverse, because in Rudolph's Shiny New Year they're back to looking like this.

SPEAKER_03 40:07

I guess continuity wasn't a big thing back then.

SPEAKER_02 40:10

Well, there was a bunch of different companies doing it, all one in slightly different things.

SPEAKER_03 40:17

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:19

But no, I mean they threw most of them, they just trashed the the puppets afterwards.

SPEAKER_05 40:25

That's fair. Trash or disappeared, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:30

Man, I would have kept one.

unknown 40:31

Right.

SPEAKER_03 40:32

You kept a brother, those belong in a museum.

SPEAKER_02 40:42

Even the polar bears have little beady eyes.

unknown 40:48

But doing all that.

SPEAKER_02 40:49

But like, so he starts growing up, and already there, he's got like bigger antlers.

SPEAKER_06 40:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:57

Rudolph was growing up, but not in the sequel. That's right. Or he um flew so fast he rewound time like Superman. I mean, I I know that's not how time works, and I know you know that's not how time works, but we're gonna go with the uh Richard Donner version of it. That's right.

SPEAKER_05 41:22

We're just gonna ignore reality.

SPEAKER_02 41:24

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 41:26

I guess we really gotta blame Star Trek for the whole slingshot theory. You know, you go around the sun fast enough, you could turn back time. I guess Superman just took that to another level.

SPEAKER_05 41:36

Yeah, I'm gonna spin the earth in reverse.

SPEAKER_02 41:39

Oh man, that's so crazy.

SPEAKER_05 41:43

I mean, at least flashpoint makes more sense. Maybe Rudolph would have a flashpoint situation. I'd watch that.

SPEAKER_02 41:48

I would watch that too. He tries, I don't know, whatever.

SPEAKER_05 41:51

Raken bass point. That's what we call it.

SPEAKER_03 41:55

Yes. DC tried to do flashpoint, you know, not that long ago.

SPEAKER_05 42:02

We don't talk about that. We don't talk about Ezra Miller, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 42:05

Although I did laugh when George Clooney showed up at the end of the movie, though. I did too. That was great.

SPEAKER_05 42:10

Me too. Yeah, Clooney and Keaton in a in a in a movie together, as yeah, both as Batman.

SPEAKER_03 42:15

Winners, yeah. With Ben Affleck.

SPEAKER_02 42:19

That's right. All three.

SPEAKER_03 42:24

And it wasn't bad CGI. Well, well, I mean, for that part. For that part it was not correct. As opposed to, you know, when you know they were watching all the timelines floor together, and you're getting all those deep fakes with, you know, Dor Dreaves, Christopher Reeve.

SPEAKER_02 42:41

So I love how quickly this escalates. I know, like all of a sudden the abominable snowman's like ready to eat Claire East.

SPEAKER_03 42:50

I love how the cave looks like a monster too.

SPEAKER_06 42:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:53

Yeah, it does. Get him, Rudolph.

SPEAKER_05 42:59

Or not.

SPEAKER_02 43:01

Oh, never mind. Smash you over the head with the boulder.

SPEAKER_05 43:05

Yeah, literally crush you.

SPEAKER_02 43:10

Look at those teeth though. Man, he's got some chompers on him.

SPEAKER_05 43:13

Yeah, he does.

SPEAKER_03 43:14

There's a good uh here we get a good shot of the bottom of his feet. His slipper feet.

SPEAKER_02 43:19

Ever since Rudolph left them, is it bad? I kind of want to I kind of want that vest that Sam's wearing.

SPEAKER_05 43:26

No, not at all. I was thinking the same thing. And a pocket watch to go with it.

SPEAKER_02 43:29

Right, right. Wear that to Christmas Eve service, you know?

SPEAKER_03 43:33

Well, as a Santa, I'm definitely known to wear a vest and a pocket watch. So Yeah. I didn't like I I don't want, you know, a po I didn't want a wristwatch. Definitely didn't want a smart watch.

SPEAKER_05 43:44

No.

SPEAKER_03 43:44

So I bought this cheap pocket watch from some store in the mall. I put my monogram on it. It looks great.

SPEAKER_05 43:51

So love it.

SPEAKER_02 44:00

He has a gun and he doesn't use it. He just comes up with his plan. Hey, let's do this.

SPEAKER_03 44:07

It's kind of like Nigiturtles having nuts and not using them as Nigiturtles do.

SPEAKER_02 44:12

Right, and the sequels. Why doesn't he get it over with? That's a good question. It's like the trolls from The Hobbit arguing about how they're gonna whether to smash them or cook them. He's just trying to think. Pork dinner. I love Romeo Muller.

SPEAKER_05 44:36

He just So the Oink Oink, is this a reference to the Odyssey?

SPEAKER_02 44:40

Oh, maybe.

SPEAKER_05 44:41

I think it is, right?

SPEAKER_02 44:42

Maybe it is. Because they draw the cyclops out.

SPEAKER_05 44:45

Yeah. That's pretty deep, Jeff. Pretty deep. Hey man, I was a nerd. I read all the mythology when I was in school.

SPEAKER_02 44:51

Man, I love Greek and Roman mythology is my favorite.

unknown 44:56

Terrible Way.

SPEAKER_02 44:58

I dabbled in Egyptian and um Norse as well, too.

SPEAKER_05 45:02

Yes, yeah. I love I love Norse mythology too. I love it all. It's I do too.

SPEAKER_02 45:07

Yeah.

unknown 45:08

Alright, Dennis.

SPEAKER_02 45:10

Alright, dentist.

unknown 45:19

Let's get out of here.

SPEAKER_00 45:20

I'll light the way to our doom.

SPEAKER_02 45:27

Blast your hairy bumble hide. I gotta start saying that. Just whenever something doesn't go my way. Oh blast your hairy bumble hide.

SPEAKER_05 45:38

Can we just take a moment to admit how quickly and terrifyingly he pulled all of his teeth? I mean, it was literally like 15 seconds. And he pulled an entire mouthful of like sword and dagger shaped teeth.

SPEAKER_03 45:55

He's I don't know if I want to put my hands near. He got him up quickly.

SPEAKER_02 45:59

But now he's scared because he doesn't have teeth.

SPEAKER_05 46:02

Yeah. I mean he's probably in excruciating pain.

SPEAKER_01 46:06

So his mouth is probably bloody and bleeding, you know.

SPEAKER_05 46:10

Well, abominable snowmen don't have blood. Oh, is it ice in their veins? It's ice. It's ice and water, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:16

Oh yeah, it's uh Freon, Freon in their veins. Freon. But they're the best thing to do is to get the windows down.

SPEAKER_04 46:28

So they make it back, and when everybody hears their story, they even pulled it.

SPEAKER_01 46:35

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 46:41

Well, theatrically Indy did it first. That's that's true, yeah. Oh no, I guess now Gandalf's all do it first, you know. The back sheet movie.

SPEAKER_02 46:49

The back sheet, yeah. I love how how quickly Santa puts on weight.

SPEAKER_03 46:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:55

Because he's still skinny Santa here.

SPEAKER_03 46:58

Yeah, his pants are way too big.

SPEAKER_02 47:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:04

I better set up an appointment for you.

SPEAKER_03 47:07

He's just one of those Santa's who puts on a fat suit and he goes out.

SPEAKER_02 47:12

Well, Saint Nicholas probably was then, so many here we get the nice reveal. Here's Yukon is alive.

unknown 47:23

Here's the man. And here's the beast.

SPEAKER_02 47:29

Calm down, calm down. I reformed this bumble.

unknown 47:32

He wants a job.

SPEAKER_02 47:33

He wants a job.

SPEAKER_05 47:35

That's right. Love it.

SPEAKER_02 47:37

Well, now his job is done. We don't need to hire him. He did it already.

SPEAKER_05 47:42

You wanted to know what they made their outfits out of. And I think he just understood now. You did your job, buddy.

SPEAKER_02 47:49

Insulated very well. That's right. And their fur is white. Maybe that's why he's so grumpy. He killed the wife of the kids to make it. Oh wow. He just took a whole dark turn.

SPEAKER_05 48:02

He's the last of his kind.

unknown 48:04

Christmas Eve.

SPEAKER_05 48:05

Maybe they uh maybe they just do like graphs. They just like take pieces of his skin over time, let it grow back, release them back into the lines.

SPEAKER_03 48:12

Oh man. Ouch. That's why he hates all the elves right here.

unknown 48:18

They expect a fat.

SPEAKER_02 48:20

They expect a fat center. I like that dude's got the aviation cap on.

SPEAKER_05 48:24

Yeah.

unknown 48:25

Well, this is it. The storm won't subside by tonight.

SPEAKER_05 48:29

What are your thoughts about Mrs. Claws here? We haven't talked about her.

SPEAKER_03 48:35

Why has she got a foreign accent? Nobody else does.

SPEAKER_02 48:39

Well, where was Sombertown? Yeah. Assuming this is Jet Jessica. I mean it burgerweist. It's definitely it's definitely a Germanic, you know, like Austria, Germany, something like that.

SPEAKER_03 48:51

Jessica had no accent and she had red hair.

SPEAKER_02 48:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 48:56

Yeah, I think this is more I think this is further east than than Germany.

SPEAKER_02 49:01

Hmm. Could be. I liked her look. Uh I think I like the look from you know Year Without a Santa Claus better.

SPEAKER_05 49:13

Same.

unknown 49:15

I mean that's the one.

SPEAKER_03 49:16

Yeah, that's the most true one I think of, you know.

SPEAKER_02 49:18

But even Santa here's got the little teeny tiny little beady black eyes.

SPEAKER_03 49:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:26

Tell you what, if I ever win the lottery like millions, I'm buying these from whoever owns them now.

SPEAKER_05 49:32

Oh, the the like miniatures? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:35

Yeah. Yeah, I'm totally totally buying them up from him.

SPEAKER_05 49:39

Yep, Jerry's gonna spend all of his lottery winnings. Hell yeah. That counts.

SPEAKER_03 49:46

I don't have any Funko Pops left, but I do have some Rudolph ones.

SPEAKER_02 49:49

I do too, yeah. Oh, he said the line.

unknown 49:54

It will be an honor, sir.

SPEAKER_03 49:56

I wanted to buy Yukon Cornelius when he was 150 bucks. I'm like, yeah, that's never gonna happen. No, no, thank you. I paid 50 for Santa, that was too much.

SPEAKER_05 50:07

Oh man. Well, you're useful now, Rudolph. Welcome back.

SPEAKER_02 50:11

That's right. As long as you can exploit their their abilities or their differences. That's right. Man, what a terrible message. But also it's a good message because yes, you're still useful and can still fit in. That's right, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 50:29

Despite your differences, you're still a useful part of society.

SPEAKER_02 50:33

Right.

SPEAKER_03 50:34

That's how you have to look at it.

SPEAKER_02 50:35

But we don't like you till you're useful. That's right. Apparently.

SPEAKER_05 50:38

You will be outcast and chastised, but you know. But you better be available when we need you.

SPEAKER_02 50:44

That's it. Save us now. Yeah, see.

SPEAKER_03 50:47

Occasionally I'll tell them when I'm doing Santa work, I'll tell the true story of Rudolph and it makes Santa to a better person.

SPEAKER_02 50:55

I like how that's that uh elf has sunglasses on. It always made me wonder how bright is Rudolph's nose.

SPEAKER_03 51:06

You know? It's gotta be pretty bright.

SPEAKER_02 51:10

Right?

SPEAKER_03 51:10

Yeah, no kidding.

SPEAKER_02 51:12

Well, we know that uh Lady Boreal infused her magic into his nose when he was born.

SPEAKER_03 51:18

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:18

That's uh so I mean I suppose it's pretty bright, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:22

That's the uh Rudolph and Chris Rudolph and Frosty July, right?

SPEAKER_02 51:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:29

Is that on our watch list at some point?

SPEAKER_02 51:31

Yeah, yeah. We'll definitely do all the uh That's the long one, right? It is that one with such your length. That's the main one.

SPEAKER_05 51:37

It's like 90 minutes or something, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:39

The movie that flopped, so they made it into a long TV special.

SPEAKER_02 51:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 51:44

So apparently Rudolph's nose needs to be about 15,000 lumens, which is what's needed for a forward-facing light on airborne craft to prevent glare.

SPEAKER_02 51:53

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 51:54

So so yeah, it's bright.

SPEAKER_02 51:57

That's insane.

SPEAKER_05 52:00

In that case, I kind of get it from their perspective. Yeah, yeah, for sure. You can't be in the same room with Guy.

SPEAKER_02 52:05

Put those sunglasses. That's when you need one of those welders' masks, you know. That's right.

SPEAKER_05 52:10

Like not just Yeah, there comes a point, Rudolph, where it's a safety issue.

SPEAKER_02 52:14

Yeah, you're literally gonna blind everybody. No wonder they cast you out.

SPEAKER_05 52:19

That's right. Is that a dochin? I love it. UConn Cornelius has a dochin and a poodle.

SPEAKER_02 52:25

There's St. Bernard's Dachshunds, and then he finds his peppermint.

unknown 52:31

Peppermint! What I've been searching for all my life! I've struck it with the city.

SPEAKER_05 52:36

He found his peppermint mine 50 feet from Santa's front door, so I don't know who owns that property.

SPEAKER_02 52:43

That's right. It's not yours. You don't own the land rights to that mineral mineral rights.

SPEAKER_05 52:50

Well, if he is Santa's uh you know dis estranged son, then he's just waiting for his dad to, you know, kick the bucket, and then it says But he's immortal.

SPEAKER_02 52:59

Remember the Council of uh Immortals made him so well that just means he won't die of old age. Oh, so he's like uh the el okay, alright. Tulkien elves here.

unknown 53:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 53:11

It's also like uh the Santa Claus Tim Allen style.

SPEAKER_02 53:14

That's true.

unknown 53:15

I haven't any dreams.

SPEAKER_03 53:19

Well, because of course she's depressed. She was left, she was promised to go to uh to be saved and she was left behind.

SPEAKER_05 53:26

And the fire went out magically.

SPEAKER_02 53:29

She cried it out.

SPEAKER_05 53:31

That's right. I don't yeah, some of these toys actually look pretty cool. I know. A cowboy and an ostrich.

SPEAKER_02 53:41

I'd take it. What's wrong with those um soldiers?

SPEAKER_05 53:47

Yeah, I want like a thorough examination and then accounting for it's funny.

SPEAKER_02 53:55

Somehow the quality control was skipped on that day. That's that's right. In the assembly line.

unknown 54:03

Well, folks.

SPEAKER_02 54:04

They hired Lucy and Ethel.

unknown 54:10

Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, had a very good one.

SPEAKER_03 54:13

That's a pretty small sleigh to hold all those torques.

SPEAKER_02 54:16

Are there actually eight reindeer?

SPEAKER_05 54:17

Or it looked like there were eight plus Rudolph.

SPEAKER_02 54:21

Okay, well, because from that angle it only looked like six plus Rudolph, so I wasn't sure, but uh well now I'm gonna rewind it.

SPEAKER_03 54:28

There's only seven when they're flying in the floods.

SPEAKER_05 54:31

Yeah. Yeah, you're right. They had to refuel.

SPEAKER_02 54:38

I'm not gonna go into that, but how does that work? Just regular food, I guess.

SPEAKER_05 54:45

It's dark. It's a soil and green situation, just reindeer.

SPEAKER_00 54:50

It's made of people. It's reindeer. It's reindeer, man.

SPEAKER_02 54:59

But the animation on them running is also really well done.

SPEAKER_05 55:03

I agree.

SPEAKER_02 55:05

For the first one. Maybe he'll land in water.

SPEAKER_05 55:13

Yeah, I hope so. Even then, the impact might not be good. Kids, don't try this at home.

SPEAKER_02 55:22

Merry Christmas.

SPEAKER_05 55:25

Oh man, that was great.

SPEAKER_02 55:26

That was good, so good. Man, that ranking bass. And then the logo just classic. Yeah, so good.

SPEAKER_05 55:39

I needed this in my life. This was uh, I needed this at this time of year. This is great.

SPEAKER_02 55:44

I know what you mean. I know what you mean.

SPEAKER_05 55:46

I just need I need all year. I I need to be more diligent. I I usually go through the spring months and don't don't watch as much as I should.

SPEAKER_02 55:55

Yeah, same. I only watch what I have to for the you know, for for the show, um, and listen to what I have to for the show. And you know what? We gotta change that. So luckily we got some other stuff coming up, some other watch alongs, but this was fun. This was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_03 56:09

This was fun. This was great. Yeah, I love it. So next time I'm gonna start mine before the countdown's done.

SPEAKER_02 56:15

But well, just yeah, get it past the you know the the copyright stuff.

SPEAKER_06 56:21

That's right.

SPEAKER_02 56:21

Um, guys, real quick, tell me about anything you want to plug. Why don't we start with you, Jeff?

SPEAKER_05 56:28

Yeah, uh, so the podcast. I've got a bunch of new stuff coming out this season. Super excited. Got more Santas, more traditions, more recipes, and food. Um, and I've got another monster episode for more Christmas monsters you might not have heard of around the world. Um, but yeah, check out all the other amazing Christmas podcasts. And uh, you know, there's there's so many of us. If no matter what you like, you can find something that uh that suits your needs. So check us out. There's a whole bunch of us. We're weirdos and we love it.

SPEAKER_02 56:53

Yes, we are. Uh Jeremy.

SPEAKER_03 56:57

Um, let's see. I don't have a podcast, but uh check out uh something else on the Christmas Podcast Network. I've been listening to Charlie's Closer to Christmas for the past, I don't know, almost a year now. That's a great show. Uh I've listened to Jeff's show, good show. Um listen to what you can. Uh check me out Alamo City Santa.com. Um if you want to buy some cool Santa theme t-shirts, check out uh Northpole Generalstore.com. And uh I think that's all yet.

SPEAKER_02 57:28

Right on. Well, on that note, let me say, gentlemen, thanks again. This is a lot of fun, and I love our I think this might earn a ratty for uh I think so. This is a good one. This is a good one. Uh and on that note, I'll end it with check us out on our social media pages, which you can find at linktree.com slash totally rad Christmas. And if you're feeling like Rudolph leading Santa Slay, leave us a review in iTunes. It helps us reach more people and spread some rad holiday cheer. Now don't forget to check out our merch shop on tpublic.com and our super dope website, totally radchmas.com. Merry Christmas to all and to all a safe night. Later, dudes.