Frosty the Snowman watchalong (w/ CJ, Jeff, Anthony, Matt & Jeremy)

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What’s up, dudes? It's July, and it's ridiculously hot, so we’re gonna have a watch-along party for the Rankin Bass classic “Frosty the Snowman”. I’ve got CJ Bélanger from Rose Suchak Ladder, Jeff Loftin from Lost Christmas podcast, Anthony Caruso from ‘Tis the Podcast, Santa Ambassador Matt Spaulding from North Pole Radio, and Jeremy Phelps the Alamo City Santa with me to provide commentary and enjoy the ride!

The story chronicles the experiences of Frosty the Snowman, an anthropomorphic being of precipitation who magically comes to life one Christmas. Embraced by the town's children because they created him, Frosty decides to escape the sweltering heat of the south and head to the North Pole. Throughout, he's chased Thunderbolt Ross-style by Prof. Hinkle, the Hogwarts reject. Unfortunately, the subpar magician even traps the enchanted snowman in a greenhouse which causes him to melt. Luckily, Santa Claus rescues the snowman and reanimates him with eldritch winter sorcery. He also forces the treacherous professor to write lines until he repents.

Hogwarts flunkie? Check. All-powerful Santa? Yep. Sideshow Bob-level of vengeance plots? Messy, messy, messy! So grab your magic hat, pull out the super smart rabbit, and bellywhop to this episode on "Frosty the Snowman!"

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Transcript

SPEAKER_06 0:46

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, movie specials, music, and fads. If it was gnarly during Christmas in the 80s, we got it covered. Now, I've got a few of my friends here with me for a very special episode. We're continuing our rank and bass tradition here, and we're going to have a watch-along party for the animated classic Frosty the Snowman. Now, this is one of the big three rankin bass specials. In fact, I'd say it's even in the top five Christmas TV specials, along with the Grinch and Charlie Brown. Now, joining me is a whole crew of Frosty fans from Rose Such a Gladder, Lost Christmas Podcast, Tiz the Podcast, North Pole Radio. It's CJ Belanger, Jeff Lofton, Anthony Caruso, Matt Spaulding, and Alamo City Santa, Jeremy Phelps. Guys, how's it going? I'm doing well. Doing great. Glad to be here, guys.

SPEAKER_03 1:39

Awesome, awesome.

SPEAKER_06 1:41

Well, it's good to have you all here. I'm super excited about this one. This is one of my all-time favorites. Like I said, it's like top three rankin' bass specials. And it was one of those that if I didn't see it that Christmas, like that year just didn't feel like Christmas.

SPEAKER_05 1:56

So back when you only had one chance before.

SPEAKER_06 2:00

That's right. It's like they showed it this date, and you better not be shopping, you know, with your mom, or you better not be doing anything else, because like it's on at this time, and that's when you got to be home.

SPEAKER_04 2:11

Yeah, and they actually used to show it in December. Now Frosty the Snowman comes on like the Sunday after Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_05 2:20

I think last year actually, or Thanksgiving night, actually. Yeah, yeah, you're probably right.

SPEAKER_06 2:26

Yeah. So before we watch this thing, and I found a really cool version of it. It's a 1985 CBS aired with commercials. So I'm excited to dig into that. But before we do that, what's your guys' like experience with it? Like, what do you remember about it? And we'll go in this order. We'll do Anthony, Jeff, CJ, Matt, and Jeremy.

SPEAKER_05 2:47

Well, Frosty the Snowman, this may be my favorite rink and bath special. This vies for the top spot with Santa Claus is coming to town. Like you said, Jerry, it wasn't Christmas, but I didn't catch it every year. Have fond memories watching it with my parents and sister every single December. It's also associated with my saddest Christmas memory because it was on TV the year I found out a certain somebody wasn't necessarily real.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

And uh I take offense to that. So does Matt. Paul Hogan?

unknown 3:21

Paul Cogan.

SPEAKER_05 3:25

They can't be Terry's holding abbreviated version. You know, this is on TV. Afterwards, I calmed down. I was like, well, at least the Easter bunny's still real. And then I was like, wait, does that mean the Easter bunny's not real either? And then Frosty is linked with that memory. But yeah, I love it. This is wonderful. And the animation is so cozy, it's not Christmas without him. This big lug saying happy birthday 10 times in 20 minutes.

SPEAKER_06 3:55

It's true. Jeff?

SPEAKER_00 3:57

Yeah, I have fond memories of it too. We we didn't have cable like most people, I guess, back in the 80s and 90s. And so, you know, broadcast TV when this came on, it was the oh, can we please not be watching whatever else somebody wants to watch so we can watch Frosty? Have fond memories, and then you know, in my high school years, the conspiracy theories around it, which we can get into as we live watch this one.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

That's uh would it be a Jeff podcast without conspiracies or universes? That's true.

SPEAKER_00 4:24

Uh I'll just leave it at this. It involves some summoning and evil spirits. So we'll we'll go there. Hey, guys, let us go away, you know. I love Frosty. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 4:34

Hey Jerry, like every time we talk rink and bass, I have the Charlie Day conspiracy board out figuring out how this is connected to the rest.

SPEAKER_06 4:42

Very true. True. CJ.

SPEAKER_03 4:45

Yeah, you know, grew up watching this. This uh felt like Christmas. Could not get through a December without it. Yeah, I do have it on Blu-ray now. I know it's readily available on YouTube. I try not to watch it until December because I kind of I really want, you know, it's like savoring it. I don't know. Maybe I'm a weirdo.

SPEAKER_06 5:04

No, no, I totally get it.

SPEAKER_03 5:06

Yeah. So yeah, growing up as a kid, like you would get ready, it would it would come on normally the week before Christmas. You get the snacks ready, and it was like I've always said it. It's it felt like an event. Felt like you had to be there, and if you didn't see it, you didn't get to watch it unless you had it pre-recorded on a VHS somewhere, which I did not. Uh much like Anthony probably tops for me for Rankin Bass. Yeah, just the whole animation of it, the whole feeling of it every time I turned it on, the corniness of it. It's just it's it's Christmas. It's it's uh it's beautiful. I love it.

SPEAKER_04 5:39

Right on. Matt, uh yeah. I mean, come on, it's Frosty the Snowman, it's been there forever. I did have a VHS of it. I don't know. Does anybody remember a little company called Family Home Entertainment F-A-G?

SPEAKER_01 5:53

Yeah, I had the I'm pretty sure I had their V DVDs too at one point.

SPEAKER_04 5:57

Yeah, I had them on VHS when I was a kid. Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Santa Claus is coming to town. So, like, you know, Frosty the Snowman. We would watch it on TV, but then we would watch it a couple more times because we had the VHS. And um I know this special so well. I'm trying to, I'll I'll talk more about it. I'm trying to look up right now, but I know this special so well that there I bought it on Blu-ray and I'm almost positive there's like vocal redubs on the Blu-ray. I was watching it and I was like, some of these kids sound wrong. And so once we get the special going, I'll I'll look that up and I I'm gonna listen to this one and see if I can catch the parts where I think it's been redubbed. I'll I'll I'll get back to you.

SPEAKER_06 6:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

And Jeremy, well, first off, before I even go into my history, I want to piggyback off of what Anthony said when he found out the secret. It was actually the reverse for uh my son when he was like seven or eight. And we crushed him. But okay, enough about enough about crushing my kids' uh history. Frosty has been a part of my life as far as I can remember, because I'm older than you guys, so I was watching this in the 70s. As a matter of fact, you know, every year on Christmas Eve, my mom would read us the night before Christmas, the tradition I still do now. But also she would read Frosty, and it was the golden book version, which wasn't Rankin Bass, but it was just the classic 1950 version that was available in the 70s, and that was part of my Christmas tradition.

SPEAKER_05 7:44

I had that one too growing up.

SPEAKER_01 7:46

Yeah, I looked it up today to try to figure out yeah, that one that was the one. It was I didn't realize it was a golden book for sure until I looked it up, and that was part of the tradition. And to be honest, as far as rank and bass, it was my third favorite rank and bass, and I thought that put it pretty down low until I bought the rank and bass Blu-ray collection. And then there's a whole lot of stuff that's so far below frosty. And my other problem with Frosty is in my young adulthood, I associated it with Frosty Returns. I don't know if you've seen that one. The one with John Goodman, and it's like a bad Charlie Brown cartoon.

SPEAKER_06 8:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

And I hated that. So I kind of avoided Frosty for a while, but not anymore. It it's top three ranking bass. It probably still has top five Christmas specials, too.

SPEAKER_06 8:31

So yeah, yeah, for sure. I'm right there with you guys. This has always been in my life. I don't remember a Christmas without it, maybe one or two, but it yeah, I mean, it's just it's fantastic. Paul Freeze's Santa. You get the the bunny, the uh the words that I always say when my kids make a mistake messy, messy, messy, you know, just you know, just little things like that that just like burn in your brain, and uh it just gives you all the vibes and the feels, right? So without further ado, I'm gonna go ahead and start Wait.

SPEAKER_05 9:02

I have a question for you guys before you start go for it, go for it for just for all of you. Yeah, go for it. Because obviously, movies like Home Alone and Crucification and Elf and all that stuff is shown like 50 million times a year. Like I think most of us catch them all at least twice, or at least that them in part at least twice. The ranking bass stuff, do you watch more than once per year or just once? Because I tried personally try to keep them special and watch them all once per year.

SPEAKER_03 9:30

Just once. I try to watch them once, but there are times when you know I'm in a uh I was gonna say the S-word, a crappy mood. And even just for background noise, I want to put on like Rudolph or Santa Claus's coming to town. Just if I'm having like a crap week, I'm like, I need a pick-me-up, and it's an instant pick-me-up, but I then I feel like I'm cheating because I really love waiting till December, but at most, maybe three times a year, but I try to keep it to one personally, and I and I'm the same way.

SPEAKER_06 10:00

I I want to keep it in the Christmas season to keep that like specialness, you know, to preserve that. But sometimes you just need a dose of Christmas, like when it's blasting hot outside, or when it's like in the dead of March and nothing's going on, you're like, Man, I gotta get some Christmas feels in here. So I'm the same way, mostly once a year, but every once in a while, two or three times a year. I personally try to yeah, I personally try to watch those kind of stuff only at Christmas time, but at the same time, my schedule gets really busy right after Thanksgiving, so sometimes I don't ever get to catch it at all, and that's really the one year where I didn't get to see it during the season, so I had to see it after Christmas, and while it still gave me like the nostalgia vibes, I didn't get quite like the full experience that I always get. So uh I'm like I'm never letting that happen again. So now we we schedule it, it's like December 1st. We're gonna be out, you know, watching uh Rudolph and Frosty or Rudolph and Santa Claus is coming to town, and then the next night we'll watch the other, you know, or the other couple. So it's definitely one that that I have to watch. I I just have to watch it. So on that note, I'm gonna go ahead and hit play here. So I'm gonna share the link. You can watch this with us, or you can just enjoy it. But if you do watch this version, or if you watch another version, I'm gonna count you down. So here we go. Three, two, one. Can you all be old CBS special presentation?

SPEAKER_01 11:34

I love that spinny logo.

SPEAKER_06 11:36

Is the sound coming through?

SPEAKER_01 11:37

Yep, faintly.

SPEAKER_06 11:39

Okay, I can raise it. I can probably get all started with the with the snow.

SPEAKER_05 11:45

I know this is Jimmy Duran, and he looks exactly like Jimmy Duran, but he also kind of gives off Mel Brooks Mel Brooks vibes to me.

SPEAKER_06 11:54

What about are you all hearing it now?

SPEAKER_00 11:57

Yeah, okay, cool. We we've all seen it enough too, we can probably recite it. That's true.

SPEAKER_06 12:07

I like the uh the scarf, right? Because it's like the same scarf that Frosty wears later on in some of the other specials as well.

SPEAKER_05 12:15

I was thinking Gryffindor, but I was about to I was about to say Frosty's a Gryffindor.

SPEAKER_03 12:23

It's so funny you mentioned that, Jerry, that you use one of the lines from the show because I always use the one busy, busy, busy. Right?

SPEAKER_06 12:31

They're just so memorable. What are these kids wearing shorts for? They're Vermonters, or they're from Texas.

SPEAKER_04 12:40

They should have paid wearing pants because it would be cold.

SPEAKER_05 12:44

They should have paid Texas, it could be 85 and had this teacher like off-screen, blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_04 12:53

I love the sound effects in this. The ones for Professor Hinkle, the just great sound effects.

SPEAKER_06 13:00

I'm always I'm always a little mad every time I drop something that those sound effects don't play, right?

SPEAKER_04 13:11

Messy, messy, messy.

SPEAKER_05 13:15

I also think Hocus Pocus is one of the great uh Rankin Bass side characters here.

SPEAKER_06 13:22

Yeah, I I do agree.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

Yeah, I was hoping he'd have a cameo and another one at some point, but never did. Missed opportunity.

SPEAKER_05 13:30

Yeah. When me when me and Jerry we finally get to write our when we get to write our uh Rankin Bass remake connected universe. We already plotted it out, and he was sure did.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

Who does it? So part of the part of part of the conspiracy theory is that uh oh yeah, you guys have been on that for a while.

SPEAKER_06 13:55

At this point, I'll just get like Chad GPT to write it or something.

SPEAKER_00 14:00

You guys could do a much better job than that than Chad GPT could.

SPEAKER_06 14:03

I know, I'm just just for time's sake.

SPEAKER_01 14:07

So stop using AI, it kills creativity, kills the environment.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

So so Hocus Pocus allegedly is actually a transformed magician that's in a rabbit's body. He captured a spirit inside the hat, and so the spirit possesses the snowman. That's what happens. That's why Hocus Pocus wants it inside.

SPEAKER_03 14:28

Give me a different version where that's true, and Rossi becomes a serial killer.

SPEAKER_06 14:33

I was gonna say, right? That's like a horror, a horror version.

SPEAKER_05 14:37

I was about to say that is definitely one of those like public domain, like just do it that way. Type.

SPEAKER_04 14:42

Thank goodness Frosty. Or what is it?

SPEAKER_06 14:46

Blood and honey.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

Oh, like Winnie the Pooh?

SPEAKER_06 14:49

Yeah, like the Winnie the Pooh one.

SPEAKER_00 14:52

And the Steamboat Willie make it. Steamboat Willie, that's right. Popeye. Popeye, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

I haven't watched those yet, but I need to.

SPEAKER_06 15:02

I love the style of rank and bass. Like the designs, they're they're so like you you see it, and immediately you know it's like a rankin bass special.

SPEAKER_03 15:10

You see that part? Whenever it's your birthday, you get that from Jerry every day. All the time.

SPEAKER_01 15:15

I got it. We got it earlier, we got it last month. That's my favorite.

SPEAKER_05 15:22

I don't know if any of you have seen the Angela Lansbury Mrs. Claus movie, but the villain reminds me a lot of the magician here. Who does? The villain in that one. Remind me. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:34

Oh, yeah, yeah. I've watched that one twice now because it is a podcast. I watched it by myself, then I watched it with my wife like two months ago.

SPEAKER_03 15:45

I have a scene from this special tattooed on my body. I'll show it when it comes. That's cool. CJ, keep your pants on. I'm glad you're gonna be. I definitely I definitely have a I definitely have a frosty tattoo across my brajole.

SPEAKER_01 16:05

Happy birthday.

SPEAKER_03 16:08

Just give it a second, you'll see it in a moment. Let it grow.

SPEAKER_06 16:24

Like, that's a lot of work to sculpt legs and arms on a snowman, right?

SPEAKER_00 16:28

And the physics behind it.

SPEAKER_01 16:29

Yeah, that was the arms, the arms are possible. Legs, I don't think they can really pull that off from reality.

SPEAKER_05 16:34

That was the longest cold open ever. We finally got a title card.

SPEAKER_06 16:40

It's a James Bond.

SPEAKER_05 16:44

I will say when he finally makes the jump to uh stop motion in Rudolph of Frozen's Christmas July, they do a good job translating him into that.

SPEAKER_01 16:54

Yeah, they do. Totally agree. Are we gonna cover that this month too? Christmas in July. Oh, we should. Missed opportunity.

SPEAKER_04 17:05

McDonald's!

SPEAKER_00 17:06

Oh man, back when a half a meal was worth it.

SPEAKER_06 17:11

God, look how good those look. They never look that good.

SPEAKER_03 17:15

They don't give nuts anymore, though.

SPEAKER_05 17:18

I know. Oh, look at that classic old school Christmas living room.

SPEAKER_06 17:23

She got like a bowl cut, this little girl.

SPEAKER_05 17:26

Poor kid.

SPEAKER_04 17:27

I know they all have the same haircut.

SPEAKER_03 17:31

Same thing now with the broccoli heads, man.

SPEAKER_04 17:33

Oh remember the gift certificates.

SPEAKER_01 17:36

I love those. I always heard about those. I don't think I ever had.

SPEAKER_04 17:39

I used to get those in my stocking. Remember those?

SPEAKER_03 17:46

Do you remember when gift certificates were actually a certificate? It was the best because um, whenever I used to get one, you can go to the mall, make a purchase, and they'd have to give you your change in the cash. Or sorry, your yeah, your change in cash. So I was like, okay, I'm gonna buy something worth 10 bucks. Now I got like 40 more dollars left on me in cash. In the 90s, that felt like a million dollars.

SPEAKER_05 18:08

It's a doubleman commercial, yes. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:11

I love how I knew that without speaking doubleman twins. Look like the Princess Diana twins. What the you know?

SPEAKER_00 18:18

I was thinking the exact same thing.

SPEAKER_03 18:20

Yeah, agreed. Must have been the style then, right?

unknown 18:23

Oh god.

SPEAKER_04 18:25

You're right. That is the exact scarf they give Frosty in um Frosty's Winter Wonderland, and then later on in Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July.

SPEAKER_05 18:34

Frosty's Winter Wonderland animation is not compared to this at all. No, no. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_06 18:42

I do love his when he's like using the wreath as a hat.

unknown 18:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:49

Do you think Professor Hinkle tried to be a teacher at Hogwarts and now he's like a traveling, like going to these public schools and stuff?

SPEAKER_05 18:56

He was against a dark arts teacher for one year before 7.5.

SPEAKER_06 19:01

The curse got him. That's right. All he could do after that was this.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

So will that make Frosty's hat a cousin to the sorting hat?

SPEAKER_00 19:18

Oh, it could be. Oh, 100%. Except, you know, more malevolent.

SPEAKER_01 19:25

All right. Come on now. And what do they call a wizard who can turn into an animal? I can't remember the name. Animaticus. Yeah, that's what uh Hocus Pocus is. Nerds.

SPEAKER_06 19:40

Oh, I love this part. I can count to 10.

SPEAKER_02 19:42

Three, four, five, nine, six, eight.

SPEAKER_06 19:48

I'll never forget the first time my my four-year-old daughter or my 14-year-old back when she was four watching this, and she's like, that's not how you count to ten.

SPEAKER_05 19:58

What did the magic turn his nose into?

SPEAKER_02 20:01

A nice guy like me. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

It's like uh one of those little that was easy buttons.

SPEAKER_04 20:10

Oh, maybe I like how all these kids have the exact same face, like they just decided to put a different pair of the the jittery VHS dubbed to digital quality is like making my eyes feel weird.

SPEAKER_06 20:34

It is, but also like it it's very much like the old CRTs, right?

SPEAKER_04 20:39

Like back I've been thinking about this scene a lot lately.

SPEAKER_03 20:44

CG, has it been hot up there in Canada? Holy crap, man. Today, like no, Tuesday and Wednesday was bad. So like equivalent up there would be like almost like 110 or something.

SPEAKER_01 20:55

Oh gosh, it's not the highest down there.

SPEAKER_03 20:59

It's the friggin' humidity that's the problem, man.

SPEAKER_04 21:02

Yeah, I think I think Ashley told me it was like 111 there yesterday or something like that. Yeah, it was bad, man.

SPEAKER_05 21:09

It was bad when you think about it because it's only like a 20-minute special here. Like a party frosty gets to enjoy life for like two minutes before he starts melting, and they have to get kind of cruel.

SPEAKER_06 21:25

Yeah, I like this little parade though.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

I mean, it gets kind of dark if you think why he's trying to march these kids off into nowhere.

SPEAKER_01 21:36

The Piper.

SPEAKER_00 21:38

Yeah, that's right. And there comes Hocus Pocus. He's like, Hey, I need you guys to get my body back.

SPEAKER_06 21:45

Gotta sacrifice these kids.

SPEAKER_04 21:46

Man, I want to see just like a band just playing, hanging out, just playing in the street like that.

SPEAKER_03 21:54

Go to a football game.

SPEAKER_04 21:56

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_03 21:58

I was at a Raven's. Game in Baltimore, and all of a sudden they just come marching in off the street right into the stadium. I was like, holy crap!

SPEAKER_01 22:05

Nice. So did Beauty the Beast rip off that scene with the barber? They cut off the mustache. That was right. I was like, that's Beauty Beast, but this was way before that. Oh homage.

SPEAKER_06 22:18

This is what 69, I think, right?

SPEAKER_01 22:20

Something like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 22:21

69. Sorry, Billy.

SPEAKER_01 22:24

Billy Madison references.

SPEAKER_06 22:25

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:26

I was thinking Bill and Ted.

SPEAKER_06 22:27

Or Bill and Ted, also, yeah. What number I think is. I love this traffic cop here.

SPEAKER_05 22:34

This is supposed to be upstate New York, right? Right.

SPEAKER_06 22:37

I mean, he's gotta be because he's like stereotypical Irish cop.

SPEAKER_03 22:42

Upstate New York. What is that? Buffalo?

SPEAKER_05 22:44

Yeah, up that way. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:46

North Tanawanda. Where Selino and Barnes is out of.

SPEAKER_06 22:56

Hey, didn't Taylor Swift and Travis Kelst just get married?

SPEAKER_05 22:59

Who gives Adam Sandler officiated a wedding? What? That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

Only if he did his voices. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:07

His little voice.

SPEAKER_06 23:08

And we'll life. And then he swallows the whistle. I love that. Continue with the march.

SPEAKER_05 23:22

I always wish they put that cop that cop back for the cop in Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July, who ends up arresting them. Arresting uh acid dream, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:33

He's in Winter Wonderland again.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

Oh, yeah, he is.

SPEAKER_04 23:38

Yeah, yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_05 23:40

It also bothered me that they didn't just use SD Kluger throughout all of these. This is a different little narrator, dude.

SPEAKER_01 23:47

Yeah. SD Kluger didn't exist yet. That's true.

SPEAKER_05 23:52

Okay, well then I then I wish this guy was the narrator throughout all of them. Yeah, but just consistency.

SPEAKER_06 23:58

Yeah, but Sam the snowman for all of them.

SPEAKER_04 24:00

Yeah, well, that's the thing, is each each one gets their own narrator because you know they're from that, like that this dude that narrates his story is from that town, and then Sam is from the North Pole, and then SD Kluger.

SPEAKER_06 24:13

It's like a big network is also from the North Pole.

SPEAKER_02 24:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:16

If you want SD Kluger, no money, no ticket. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

We get SD Kluger back for the Easter bunnies coming to town.

SPEAKER_05 24:25

I was gonna say, Matt, when when we when we make our remake of the Rick and Bass Universe, we'll put you in the SD Kluger role.

SPEAKER_06 24:33

That's all right. What were you gonna say, CJ?

SPEAKER_03 24:35

No, I was gonna say someone to Jeremy whenever you guys were mentioning him, and reminded me of a video I seen of uh Tiffany Stratton. Did you see her opening up cards of wrestlers and she called Sergeant Slaughter SGT Slaughter? I heard about that. I don't even know who these people are, and then she's like Viscera for Viscera, and I'm just like, oh my god. I've met Sergeant Slaughter, he was pretty cool. That's awesome. Sorry, it was just a little wrestling reference. I like how that clear this. I would eat all of that, dude.

SPEAKER_06 25:03

I right, yes, diabetic coma there for real. 100%. Where'd all the other kids go? They were all right there. Like literally, just they were all right there, and now they're not.

SPEAKER_05 25:16

So well, the little one went to go join the seven dwarves because he's clearly dopey.

SPEAKER_01 25:28

Yeah now, Frosty's a kidnapper. Yeah, basically. Child of the kid.

SPEAKER_04 25:37

Actually, that kid looks more like an elf than he does. Look like an elf.

SPEAKER_06 25:45

Oh man. I like how he's just hanging out like sideshow bob, right? Like he's literally just sideshow bobbing it underneath the train.

SPEAKER_03 25:56

This scene always reminded me after. So there was this freight train that stopped in like my town when I was younger.

SPEAKER_02 26:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:02

And um, me and my buddy, we would climb to the top one because like there was like two levels, right? There was like uh I guess stairs on the side to go to the top. Well, while we were up there messing around, the freaking thing jolted and started going. So like we had like classic, we had to go down the freaking side and like jump off halfway, man. And it always reminded me of that when he's like hanging on on the bottom.

SPEAKER_05 26:25

I'm like, let me tell you, if I walk through a wooded clearing and came upon an ice, uh natural ice rink, it's a clown doing twirls on it. I would fit the other one. You gotta run, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_03 26:37

Yeah, I've watched too much it for all floods down here. You'll eat Big Max 2.

SPEAKER_02 26:45

Who's your favorite penny?

SPEAKER_01 26:46

Welcome, you got me. Who's the best Pennywise? Quick pull Tim Curry.

SPEAKER_06 26:51

No, it's definitely Phil Scar. Yeah, what's his name? Skarsgard.

SPEAKER_04 26:54

Yeah, I tell you what, though, watching these um old McDonald's commercials, like the world is so boring now. Like, there's no right like all the McDonald's are like gray, corporate, boring buildings, they're not even interesting buildings for crying out loud.

SPEAKER_05 27:14

My friend Erica at work, her biggest thing with movies and TV too is there's no whimsy anymore. And I'm like, yeah, no one, you're right. There's no whimsy anymore.

SPEAKER_06 27:22

Yeah, we'll just look at all the McDonald's.

SPEAKER_03 27:24

There is an old school McDonald's out here about an hour from me that still has the arches, like it's built like on art, like the red building and stuff. It's really cool. Oh, that's cool.

SPEAKER_06 27:33

That's cool. Yeah, no, they all look like depressed middle-aged restaurants.

SPEAKER_05 27:38

Yeah, I I thought you were gonna say, like, oh, all these McDonald's commercials, I'm gonna have to get McDonald's after this. I was like, maybe me too.

SPEAKER_03 27:48

Subliminal messaging has worked tonight.

SPEAKER_01 27:52

We've seen three McDonald's commercials already, and she's so she's so no, that's frozen.

SPEAKER_05 27:59

I like how Frost was just there twiddling his fingers. She's getting a pneumonia.

SPEAKER_00 28:06

Yeah, you gotta keep her alive till the ceremony, right? That's right. They're just putting her on ice later.

SPEAKER_05 28:11

That's right. I think out of all the kids in these regular bath specials, though, she's wake up in a bathtub.

SPEAKER_02 28:18

Oh, yeah. I agree. CJ, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 28:24

She's definitely a better kid than the one in the year without a Santa Claus. I couldn't tell that that dog was a reindeer with socks on his head. Was it Izzy?

SPEAKER_01 28:32

Yeah, Izzy. But how many kids bet you had seen a real reindeer before, Anthony? Come on. Ignatius at this point.

SPEAKER_00 28:42

And every time you think the better question, that is how many kids had seen a dog.

SPEAKER_02 28:47

That's yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:51

A different breed. You know, some breeds are really different.

SPEAKER_06 28:54

I do like the transitions here with all the snowflakes. Like that's just beautifully done. And I love the snowflakes.

SPEAKER_05 29:00

They're actually very Grinchy, the snowflakes, too, from the Grinch. Yeah, they are.

SPEAKER_06 29:03

They're kind of Sucian, right?

SPEAKER_05 29:05

But the uh imagine if this magician put as much work into his act as he did chasing his hat across the country.

SPEAKER_04 29:13

Is he like David Blaine or something?

SPEAKER_00 29:16

I mean, really, Professor Hinkle's kind of a hero here. He's trying to stop the the process of what's happening, right? He's chasing it down. He was the protector of the hat.

SPEAKER_05 29:27

Jerry, when you said David Blaine, all I can think of now is a post-credit scene one of the future ones where David hit Mr. Hinkle. Professor Hinkle's on stage in Vegas with like mascara.

SPEAKER_06 29:37

With his big old mustache, but he's got the dark mascara. Black fingernails. Man, look at this tree that these animals are decorating. Like, this is a good looking tree.

SPEAKER_04 29:54

Man, and I know this is such an old man thing to say, but like I know there's so much great, great-looking computer 3D animated films. There really are. I'm not taking away from the artistry of those. People work real hard on them, but come on, look at this special and tell me you don't miss cartoons looking like this.

SPEAKER_06 30:20

Yeah, yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

Yeah, no doubt.

SPEAKER_00 30:24

No doubt.

SPEAKER_06 30:26

Yeah, these animals are smart too.

SPEAKER_00 30:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 30:36

I mean, we're not there yet. We're gonna get to it in a minute, but I love how there's a random greenhouse in the middle of nowhere.

SPEAKER_06 30:42

Yeah, that is true. And poor Frosty's melted from this fire. When is your tattoo? Have we gotten there yet?

SPEAKER_03 30:51

I don't know. Has she slid down his back yet? This is coming up, isn't it? Oh yeah, no, no, it's not quite yet yet.

SPEAKER_04 31:00

No, not the marines.

SPEAKER_05 31:03

Oh, because I love how his first instinct was some military, military industrial complex.

SPEAKER_06 31:11

That's right. G.I. Joe, right?

SPEAKER_02 31:16

Yeah. Pentaclause. That's a great idea. Pentaclaws.

SPEAKER_04 31:21

That's a great idea. I love the why didn't I think of that before? And then the look off of Hocus Pocus.

SPEAKER_01 31:28

Fox has been alive for a day and he should know everything, right?

SPEAKER_06 31:32

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 31:39

Then he'd be a demonic presence. I'm telling you, Jeff Siri has some rank.

SPEAKER_01 31:47

And once you add once you figure out who plays Santa, it all adds up because he's like the ultimate rank and best bad guy. Just wake up speaking Latin, just like old crap.

unknown 31:56

Right.

SPEAKER_03 32:01

No.

SPEAKER_04 32:02

I love that his blowing out is like and it blows away that whole fire.

unknown 32:08

Don't bother me with details.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

Telling you, man, he had some some some hotwards training.

SPEAKER_06 32:14

Oh, here we go.

SPEAKER_00 32:17

There we go.

SPEAKER_03 32:19

I don't know if you can see it. Hold on. Wait, wait, wait. Okay. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 32:25

Yeah. Very cool. Awesome. How long did that take?

SPEAKER_03 32:28

Um, I got like a bunch. Like, I got Rudolph and stuff here too. I got like uh can you see the pink nightmare there? A little bit. Oh, yeah, yeah. Roughly. I even got Kevin McAllister, but he's upside down there. I don't know. It took a while. It took like a couple of sessions. Like, because on my right arm I have all the good of Christmas, and the right one I have like all the villains, but I gotta finish it. I still have like my inner to do, but like here I have like the wet bandits and walkshaw. My right leg is obviously the Grinch and then Santa on the other side, but yeah, we're getting there.

SPEAKER_06 33:01

To your point, Anthony. Here's uh this random the random greenhouse and the random greenhouse.

SPEAKER_05 33:07

I've been meaning to take a look at it's clearly a Canadian greenhouse because they're away from New York already. Stay in here much more. There's a lot of poinsettes, too. I have to say, like, this is a bitch move or villain just shutting the door, just waiting for her to melt.

SPEAKER_04 33:26

It's true. It always bothers me when people get locked inside stuff.

SPEAKER_05 33:32

That's right. Especially if you're in a house, it could use a pot to shatter the window. Santa's for reindeer.

SPEAKER_06 33:44

I think when I covered this with Mike Westfall and Matt Urick, we discovered or we decided that this was just a side quest. This wasn't the official his official mission yet.

SPEAKER_05 33:55

Why? Jerry, where do we put this one in the timeline when we did it? Because like I love how drastically Santa different, drastically different Santa looks in all of these.

SPEAKER_06 34:07

I don't remember. Uh I'll have to go back and revisit it. It's sometime before Rudolph. It was definitely before Rudolph, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 34:15

Must have been after post uh Santa Claus coming to town, but I can't remember if it was before the year without a Santa Claus.

SPEAKER_03 34:23

I will say this. This Santa does resemble the Christmas vacation Santa.

SPEAKER_06 34:28

Yeah, yeah, he does. He does.

SPEAKER_01 34:31

Well, that's probably not a cool.

SPEAKER_06 34:32

I wonder, I was gonna say, I wonder how deliberate that was.

SPEAKER_01 34:35

Timeline, man.

SPEAKER_04 34:37

We don't come by it's like the status version of Frosty's Commercial. That's right.

SPEAKER_05 34:45

I love how because this has been a 20-minute special and she's only known him for about like two hours, she's just literally remembering everything we've already said, already said.

SPEAKER_06 34:55

You know what, though, this Santa also kind of looks like Ed Asner. Yeah, he kind of does.

SPEAKER_05 35:00

Well, but don't cry.

SPEAKER_03 35:02

Well, I remember a kid being a kid, and I was physically angry. Yeah, this guy did it this to like to Frosty, bro. I was so mad. I'm like, how could you do this? I was so upset, man. It would make me cry every time. I hated it.

SPEAKER_05 35:17

I I do also have to question this guy's abilities, like he never realized the hat was magic to begin with, and he still sucked at the whole job. So, what was he gonna do when he got the hat back?

SPEAKER_00 35:31

I'm telling you, he was the watcher. That's it. The the incompetence was a mask. I mean, the greenhouses date back to ancient Egypt, like 4000 BC, right? So we're talking like ancient ceremony site, that's where they went.

SPEAKER_05 35:46

Now we need like Rankin Bass to do what Disney does, and like the movie from the villain's point of view, where you sympathize with them. That's what we need, right?

SPEAKER_06 35:54

Professor Hinkle.

SPEAKER_00 35:56

Professor Hinkle, he's he's outcast from Hogwarts because he uh he had to protect the society from this evil hat. There you go, you tie Rankin Bass and Harry Potter universes together. Come on.

SPEAKER_04 36:11

Never mind. What I like about this Santa though is he says, you know, yeah, unless you go home and write, I'm very sorry for what I did to Frosty a hundred zillion times, you'll never get another Christmas present ever. But you get the idea that Professor Hinkle is you also get the idea that Professor Hinkle is absolutely gonna find something in his stocking. Like Santa knows and write it a hundred zillion times.

SPEAKER_05 36:42

Which which again reminds me of the Mrs. Santa Claus with Angela Lansberry, where she basically brings it back to childhood to get the reindeer back at the end, like talks about the teddy bear and everything like that.

SPEAKER_04 36:55

Like Santa's gonna go, okay, he went home and he maybe wrote it a couple hundred times. That's enough. He he learned his lesson.

SPEAKER_03 37:02

Did any of you have to do lines in school when you got in trouble? Yes. No, no, I never had to do it. Were you a whole line writer, or would you write each word out one by one, like I, I, I all the way down, will, will, will, will, will all the way down, or did you write the whole line?

SPEAKER_05 37:14

I am I got in trouble for talking a lot, so it was either or I only had to write lines once, and it was the whole class because somebody else got it classes off first sub and I was one of the good kids, and then I still got punished. You do give off of teacher's pet vibe.

SPEAKER_00 37:31

100% was anybody else have to copy the dictionary?

SPEAKER_06 37:36

Pound puppies. Well, no, I had to do that. That would suck.

SPEAKER_00 37:40

It was not fun.

SPEAKER_01 37:41

I had pound puppies for the best card, we get we'll my freshman year in high school, a friend of mine had to write lines in our computer class, and so he's he got smart and used the printer.

SPEAKER_05 37:52

I didn't realize pound puppies used to be that big. Yeah, in the 90s they were like miniaturized.

SPEAKER_03 37:58

Well, they had smaller ones back then too, but these are the ones where you can flip up the lips and they look like they're angry.

SPEAKER_00 38:06

No, I don't think. Wait, were they made by Tonka? Is that what that just said?

SPEAKER_03 38:08

That's what that said. Yeah. Tonka Jihari. They used to have the dogs like that, the same ones, but you can lift up the side of their lips.

SPEAKER_04 38:17

I would never order a whole pizza. I'm Tonka Jihari, but I would never order a whole pizza.

SPEAKER_03 38:24

I would absolutely order a whole pizza.

SPEAKER_06 38:31

Gotta have a psychedelic moment in rank and bass.

SPEAKER_05 38:34

Yep. This definitely can't be Christmas. This is definitely a side quest because Santa took some time to do some uh circle dancing with them.

SPEAKER_06 38:41

Well, and there's no sack of toys anywhere either.

SPEAKER_03 38:46

So and of course, you know, my favorite part about all this old stuff is is like the story's so rushed, it's kind of a crap story, but we don't care. We love it anyway. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 38:59

On the roof, mom and dad come out in the morning to find her sitting up there. Like, how'd you get up there? But she's frozen like the journey I went on last night.

SPEAKER_06 39:10

She's frozen like Jack Nicholson in the shiny, right?

SPEAKER_04 39:13

June Foray's voice was still in credited in this.

SPEAKER_03 39:17

Speaking of Nicholson, man, I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest the other day, still stands at test. Such a good movie.

SPEAKER_01 39:22

Julie Andrews, James Garner, and Robert Preston star. They're talking over the song. Yeah, they used to do it. That's TV for you.

SPEAKER_06 39:36

Oh man. And then he just gets in the back with Santa. So this is a good one.

SPEAKER_05 39:39

Did it ever bother anyone else, though? Like in Frosty's Winter Wonderland, they didn't use the same kids or at least the same girl.

SPEAKER_06 39:44

Oh, always bothered me. Yes. Aaron? Karen, yeah. There's a reason for all that. Not this family Christmas. Yeah, but I can't. We can't do that one without Mike Westphal.

SPEAKER_00 39:57

That's true. That's definitely true.

SPEAKER_06 39:59

That's like a must. And Tim Bab, like Mike would leave the group.

SPEAKER_04 40:05

Unfortunately, like there's a reason that Frosty's Winner of Wonderland didn't use the same like kids and also didn't look the same. It's because it different they were all owned by different networks.

SPEAKER_06 40:19

Yeah. Different networks. Sponsored by different companies, and they all wanted it a little different.

SPEAKER_03 40:24

If I ever won the lottery, I'm talking like 50 mil, I would try to acquire the rank and bass, you know, like the figures, the information style. I would because I know they exist, I know they're in bad shape. Oh, but to have claim to those, bro, I would do it in a second.

SPEAKER_04 40:40

There's very the the five million easily. Santa and Rudolph are are currently in a museum. Yeah they were privately owned and in bad shape for a very, very long time.

SPEAKER_02 40:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 40:54

And they aren't the there are no the ones that exist now weren't like studio or not like screen used, but what what ended up happening to them was like they just went home with like a I know a guy that is the uh like official rank and bass historian.

SPEAKER_06 41:17

Yeah, Rick, Rick Goldschmidt.

SPEAKER_04 41:18

Yeah, Rick Goldschmidt. Yeah, he has books on the whole, yeah. You have them, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:25

Yeah, I got the Funko Pops. Does that count?

SPEAKER_05 41:28

Do y'all remember the really bad 90s frosty specials like Frosty Returns? I like Frosty. Mike Westfall just had an episode. I loved it. Stuck in my head.

SPEAKER_04 41:41

Advent calendar house just yeah, Advent Calendar House just had an episode about it. It was really funny.

SPEAKER_05 41:50

Yeah, his version is a weird rap version of that song.

SPEAKER_04 41:53

So John Goodman is frosty in that one.

SPEAKER_05 41:57

John Goodman had to actually still make a good frosty. Yeah, I agree. I agree. He played the live action here without a Santa Claus.

SPEAKER_06 42:08

Yep, it's terrible. It's so bad, but I've never seen it. But Harvey Feirestein was the Harvey Feirestein was the heat miser.

SPEAKER_05 42:17

And Michael McKean could have been a good snow miser. I always think Martin Short would be a good snow miser every time I watched the Santa Claus 3.

SPEAKER_03 42:25

That's who he basically is. That's all.

SPEAKER_05 42:27

Yeah, it's exactly right.

SPEAKER_01 42:28

I like that. Santa Claus III doesn't exist.

SPEAKER_05 42:32

I I love how Carol Kane was Mother Nature. She was the best part of that movie. Yeah. It was kind of trash.

SPEAKER_00 42:38

I I love how they ripped off the uh the Guardians of Childhood for that one. Where they ripped off the books. Yeah, The Rise of the Guardians. Have you seen that movie? Yeah. That was out long before that movie came out and they were just kind of pull all those characters from it. I like it. Look, I like Santa Claus 3.

SPEAKER_06 42:56

I do too. Yeah, it's not my favorite, but it's it's it's yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:00

Carol Kane wasn't Mother Nature in that movie.

SPEAKER_05 43:02

No, I was I was talking The Year Without a Santa Claus. Oh yeah, yeah. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

SPEAKER_06 43:07

Yeah, Aisha Tyler was Mother Nature in Santa Claus.

SPEAKER_02 43:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 43:11

Yeah, and what's his name? Alan Arkin had the really awkward moment at the end where he rests his head on her breast.

SPEAKER_03 43:18

Anyway, does anybody find it funny that in the Santa Claus one? So, like, you know, Frank Barone, I think his name is Peter Boyle. Peter Boyle, yeah. He plays his boss in the beginning and then he plays Father Time and Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 43:33

I always thought that's a good agent right there, man. You know you have a good agent.

SPEAKER_05 43:37

I always thought that that was a purpose for purposeful thing, like how Captain Hook is always the same guy who plays Wendy's dad and Peter Pan and Jumanji played uh Van Pelt as well. Like I just thought that was a purposeful thing. Oh, maybe I don't know what it is.

SPEAKER_03 43:52

Every time I hear Jumanji, I have I just have to say Juman G. That's because you're French. No, it's not even that. Jumanji.

SPEAKER_06 44:04

But that reminds me of that Saturday Night Live sketch where it's this guy brings and it's Kristen Wig, but he brings his girlfriend to like meet his friends and they're gonna play a board game. And she's like, No, I'm not playing any board games because I don't want to be Jumanji'd. And they're like arguing back and forth about Jumanji, and at the end, like the one of the guys is like, We're playing this game, and he opens it, and then it's like an actual like Jumanji situation, but the guy lets her go because she's like, Except you, you refuse to play, so you can you're free to go.

SPEAKER_05 44:33

Well, though the way CJ was saying Jumanji, how do you say it, CJ? How do you manji? Yeah, he's gonna get to the end. Van Pelt has a gun to his head, and he's gonna say it that way, and the game rejects him, and then just shoots him in the face.

SPEAKER_06 44:47

It doesn't count.

SPEAKER_05 44:48

That's sick. That's a great ending.

SPEAKER_06 44:53

I mean, it's many the poo, blood and honey, right? I mean, so guys, this was a lot of fun. I needed this. It's stupid hot outside right now, and yeah, and it's just this was a the perfect amount of Christmas now that we're here in July. So um, thanks again. Let's talk about your shows and and what you want to plug. Why don't we start with you, CJ?

SPEAKER_03 45:14

Yeah, I'm uh on Roast Such Gladder Podcast. Just released an episode with Anthony. We reviewed our top 10 favorite Christmas movies. Got something coming up for Christmas in July, maybe a watch along. Also, top five Christmas TV specials, not actual movies, but like TV show specials that they did for Christmas. Other than that, nothing, man. I hope that you're having a good July. Or when are you releasing this?

SPEAKER_06 45:38

This is uh this week.

SPEAKER_03 45:39

So okay, cool. Yeah. So I hope you're having a good Christmas in July. I hope that you're surviving the heat because it's bad out there. Otherwise, I always plug someone else to watch. Who am I gonna say? Watch watch Lost Christmas because uh Jeff Jeff kind of intrigued me tonight with his little theory. So I hope I got that right. I don't remember I don't remember everybody's podcast to be honest.

SPEAKER_06 45:58

Yeah, no, that was right. Every every time Jeff's on, we always go into the weird conspiracy alternate dimension theory.

SPEAKER_05 46:06

Which just means, Jeff, you'd have to join our uh Ring Bass rebooted universe. Oh, for sure.

SPEAKER_06 46:12

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:13

But anyway, you can catch me on Road Central Gladder Pod on Instagram, and yeah, I'll see you next time. Right up. Thanks for having me on, Jerry. You're the best. I love you.

SPEAKER_06 46:23

I love you too, dude. You're one of my best friends, even though we've never met in real life.

SPEAKER_03 46:27

I told you, I'm gonna come to your work one day randomly and ask you if you have dildo-shaped Christmas lights. You're gonna know it's me.

SPEAKER_02 46:35

I'll know it's you.

SPEAKER_06 46:36

Now set it to explicit. Uh Anthony, why don't why don't you plug your shows?

SPEAKER_05 46:43

Sure. Well, I've been on the show enough. You guys know to the podcast, so you can find us linktree.com slash to podcast. We'll take you to all of our show pages. Also have a DC film podcast. It's called DC Unlimited. Wasn't the best week or two for that podcast, but uh check it out.

SPEAKER_04 47:04

Check it out. Anthony, I have an article to send you if you haven't already seen it. Oh, I know what you have. Anthony thinks it's the best movie ever made.

SPEAKER_05 47:11

I never said that. CM Chuck did.

SPEAKER_06 47:16

He really loved it. Did he actually nobody did like it though? I was talking about it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:21

Oh okay. I'll wait for it to show up on HBO Max.

SPEAKER_03 47:27

I spent five dollars on it on a Tuesday, and it was about worth that.

SPEAKER_06 47:31

Gotcha, gotcha.

SPEAKER_05 47:34

All right, anyway. Yeah, search CC Unlimited, all your podcast apps, and you can find it.

SPEAKER_06 47:39

Right on.

unknown 47:40

Matt.

SPEAKER_03 47:40

It really wasn't that bad, Anthony. I just love pissing you off sometimes.

SPEAKER_02 47:43

Oh, I'm aware.

SPEAKER_03 47:45

It was like a three point three point five out of five. Like I it was whatever. I've I've it was fun. I just love calling it stupid so you get upset.

SPEAKER_04 47:54

Matt? Yeah. Go ahead and uh find me over on North Pole Radio coming up on my 100th episode. It'll be like the the very next episode. It won't come out until after everybody's heard this. So that way you'll know. I have nothing big planned. It's gonna be just a regular episode, but I just happened to realize it's gonna be my 100th episode, which is pretty cool. And that's you know, North Pole Radio, wherever there are podcasts. So pretty easy to find.

SPEAKER_06 48:27

Right on. Jeff.

SPEAKER_00 48:29

Yeah, you can find me. The website is lostchristmaspodcast.com, or you can find the Lost Christmas Podcast on any podcast service. What website relaunch is coming up soon. I finally lazily finished my automation. So I'm gonna have all my all my episodes and blurbs up. Yeah, and then um hopefully some some good news recently. All my beta readers have finished for the book and edits are in. So I'll I'll have updates coming up soon. But new seasons coming, it'll be a lot of fun. And uh and Anthony, I'm looking forward to lanterns in August. So we're gonna we're gonna have a great time. Yeah, it's gonna be.

SPEAKER_01 49:02

I'm excited for that.

SPEAKER_04 49:03

Yeah, totally forgot to tell everybody to buy my book.

SPEAKER_00 49:06

Yes, please check out man's book. I've got a copy right behind me.

SPEAKER_03 49:10

Oh, you do? Cool. I can't see perfectly, but it's quite blurred out because it's it's not safe for work. That's exactly right.

SPEAKER_05 49:19

I actually like to put two different people at work who read it and really liked it.

SPEAKER_04 49:23

So you did, really, thank you. I appreciate that. Anybody listening that doesn't know my book is called Santa in his own words. It's by Santa Claus with help from me. So check it out.

SPEAKER_00 49:35

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 49:35

And I I I I I always feel weird plugging it because I feel like I'm trying to like sell myself and like make money, but I promise you, I am a self-published author. I make pretty much no money off of this book. I make like two dollars or less per book. It's I just want people to read it and put their reviews on Amazon and Barnes and Noble so that more people can see it because I put a lot of work into it and it makes me happy when people read it.

SPEAKER_06 50:02

So right on, man. And Jeremy?

SPEAKER_01 50:05

Okay, well, if you want to find me on a podcast, I might be on this show again in the future. That's pretty much all I do podcast-wise. If I can ever get it, I am kind of yeah, if you ever get the schedule going, but you know, if you want to watch alongs, and we'll be recording the episode next week. So oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah. This is actually this week is the one year anniversary of me opening the Etsy store North Pole General Store. You can check out the shirts I sell there. Northpole General Store.com will get you to everywhere you need to go. If if I don't get billed soon, I might cancel it though because nobody's buying anything. And I don't know. But it's but it is Christmas in July, so at AlamoCitysanta.com, if you place an order for a Christmas Eve encounter, that's uh what Matt would call a sneak a peek. What do you call it, Matt?

SPEAKER_04 50:55

I call it a Santa a Christmas Eve Santa sighting, and other guys call it just a sneak a peek.

SPEAKER_01 51:00

That's just one of those moments where you catch Santa in the act, and I'm running a sale on those. If you want to contact me, if you're looking for a Santa in the San Antonio area, uh AlamoCitiSanta.com, Alamo City Santa on Facebook and Instagram, and that's pretty much all I got. Not even gonna plug my wrestling stuff.

SPEAKER_06 51:19

And we'll do another wrestling episode for sure.

SPEAKER_03 51:22

By the way, Jeremy, I plan on having you on sometime in November, so plan for that.

SPEAKER_01 51:26

Absolutely. If anybody wants me on any shows, I'm usually available unless it's Christmas time.

SPEAKER_06 51:34

Yeah, good stuff, guys. This was fun. I needed it, missed y'all. I've been traveling and doing so much stuff for work that it's I've been way behind, so it was great seeing everybody.

SPEAKER_01 51:46

Am I the only one who's met you physically here? No, I met Jeff. Oh, you met Jeff, okay.

SPEAKER_03 51:51

Yeah, recently, these freaking studs.

SPEAKER_06 51:54

Well, I happen to be in Dallas. Yeah, is it good? It's so much fun.

SPEAKER_01 52:00

Yeah, I haven't seen it yet, but I want to see it.

SPEAKER_05 52:04

Oh, Masters of the Universe. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 52:06

It's so much fun.

SPEAKER_06 52:07

It is twice uh now, Jerry. I've seen it three times, so I oh because you saw it at Disney too, right? Uh I saw it with Mike Westfall, and then I saw it with Jeff, and then I saw it with my family.

SPEAKER_03 52:17

So nice. Now I'm jealous.

SPEAKER_05 52:19

Jared Leto's best ever role because you can't tell it's him. That's exactly what's true. That's so true.

SPEAKER_00 52:25

Dell, he's good in Dallas Buyers Club.

SPEAKER_06 52:27

Well, yeah, I mean he didn't know.

SPEAKER_00 52:29

Because he's strung out, right?

SPEAKER_06 52:32

Well, you didn't like him in Morbius? No, I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_04 52:34

I'm gonna say Morbius we have made, and I'm still waiting for Morbius too. It's Morbin time. Morbin time, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:41

I'm pretty sure somebody made a like a deep fake of uh Morbius with a Nick Cage, his face over his face.

SPEAKER_06 52:49

It's funny. That's that's the best thing ever. But 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 radchmas. And if you're feeling like Santa reanimating Frosty through Christmas snow, 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. Happy birthday.