Holiday Spectacular 2024

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Speaker 1 He's an object.

Speaker 1 He's an object.

Speaker 1 He's an object

Speaker 1 friend.

Speaker 2 Money, there's a sparkly hat. No, wait.
You have a special one, too.

Speaker 2 You don't have to switch with.

Speaker 2 So there's right next to you, Daddy, is a bunch of different hats. There's a sparkly version.
I also got you some antler antler ones if you wanted.

Speaker 2 That one I got for you, money.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. Fun!

Speaker 1 Yes! And if anyone gets it,

Speaker 2 that's really something.

Speaker 1 Jacob, are you in need of a hat? Someone else wears that.

Speaker 1 Are you still pushing your merch brand? Do you want to get that out on the. This is actually a friend of mine,

Speaker 1 but I'll wear that. Which one? Sparkly? I think I'll go sparkly.
You feel like a sparkly guy to me.

Speaker 1 You feels like a sparkly guy. Okay.
Welcome everybody to the Christmas episode.

Speaker 2 Happy holidays.

Speaker 1 Happy holidays. Jingle, jingle.
Okay, so we have really fun guests. Of course, people will know you, Anna Kendrick.
People will know you, Kristen Bell. People are going to,

Speaker 1 a lot of people will know you guys, but a lot of people will be meeting you. Yeah.
Gabe Gibbs. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I got to see you for the first time perform. What were you guys doing? What was that called? A cabaret show.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 A cabaret show, yes. Okay, great.
Emily Goliath's cabaret show.

Speaker 2 That's how it's pronounced.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 first check in the great category is your Michigander. Yeah, baby.
Yeah. If the hat didn't.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. Thank you guys for the hat.
The lion's hat. Oh, so good.
Go team. And where are you from in Michigan, Gabe? I'm from like Rochester area.
Right. Yeah.
We talked about that.

Speaker 1 Exit 69, Big Beaver. That's right.
That was your exit. That's right.
That's a for real thing.

Speaker 1 And you don't know that about Michigan.

Speaker 2 I don't know anything about Michigan.

Speaker 1 Big Beaver Road is exit number 69. Okay, it's high 75.

Speaker 1 Yeah. We did it on purpose.

Speaker 2 We had a field day with that growing up.

Speaker 1 We were all learning to drive.

Speaker 2 Where are you going to drive, Joe? Like, Big Beaver, 69.

Speaker 1 Some nasty city planners.

Speaker 1 And someone had a Nintendo.

Speaker 1 And then where are you from? I'm from South Florida. You are? Yeah.
Okay. Let's get his name.
Oh, Jacob. Jacob Jeffries.
Yeah. Yeah.
And you and Wabby Wab already know each other. Yeah, I know Wabby.

Speaker 1 I met Wabby at a pool party, right? A long time ago. Yeah, that's right.
That's right. Was Wabby in swimwear?

Speaker 1 We might have been in swimwear together.

Speaker 2 Was he wearing his speedo?

Speaker 1 No, but picture it. It could be fun.

Speaker 2 Well, he told us that he just shaved his pubic hair.

Speaker 1 No, no, not just. Wow.

Speaker 2 One time you did it one time and do a landing strip for funnies.

Speaker 1 We were talking about whether a Brazilian had the landing strip or not. And then somehow we learned, this was just a couple weeks ago, that Wab gave himself a landing strip just to make Natalie laugh.

Speaker 1 Wabby, in the comments, I'm sure you've seen people love that. Of course.
Who doesn't love that? Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's a wascal. Okay.
So we're going to sing a bunch of songs.

Speaker 1 We're going to

Speaker 1 learn some backstory on Christmas, favorite presents, that type of thing. We're going to eat a lot of cookies and sweets.

Speaker 1 Wobby Wab, of course, always makes really delicious cookies and rice krispie treats. And then I have a surprise too, a culinary surprise.
And so we'll be breaking to Chowdown at some point too.

Speaker 1 And then we'll do a gift exchange. And that's the run of the show.

Speaker 1 So what I would love to do, instead of trying to describe, Gabe, your genius, I would love to start with a little taste of your

Speaker 1 focus as a musician. Jacob and I can switch.
We can switch real quick. A little shuffle roo.

Speaker 1 Oh, also, huge shout out to Wobby Wob because the garage looks insane. Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 I especially love that the sorting hat is wearing a Christmas hat.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 It's very, it's a nice touch.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 Also, the crow is wearing a

Speaker 1 Which is so cute. And thank you, Lincoln and Delta.
I stole the tree out of their bedroom, and they don't know that. That's the tree from their bedrooms?

Speaker 2 Yes. I thought you threw it out because they were both saying the needles were falling.
And I was like, thank God he threw it out.

Speaker 1 No, I threw it in here. I threw it in.

Speaker 2 You know what I like? I like a candy cane ornament. It's very classic.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You would with some white lights.
Yeah, well. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Candy cane ornament is really for colored lights.

Speaker 1 Sorry, before we kick off, just a quick vote. I know where you two stand, but are you a white light or a colored light person on your Christmas tree?

Speaker 2 I can't really decide. I have

Speaker 2 scared people away by bringing them to my house around Christmas time because I really go crazy. You do? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Harder than we do. All signs of mental illness come forward at Christmas time.

Speaker 2 I have a silver and gold room. So it's like a monochromatic, so that's all, you know.
Great. And then I have a green and brass room.
So that's more like traditional, warm, right? And then

Speaker 2 I started a couple years years ago, I started collecting antique ornaments from like the 50s and 60s. And

Speaker 2 that's kind of my like candy colored explosion room.

Speaker 1 Do you need new pants, mommy? Do you need them?

Speaker 2 You can slip right off this couch.

Speaker 1 You know, I love a theme and I love a holiday.

Speaker 2 And that really was wondering in the living room, I was wondering like who did everything. And I didn't, I mean, I assume it was sort of everyone, a team effort.
I don't know. No?

Speaker 2 There are some touches in there that I'm very impressed by. I like to have a theme every year.
We've done Whoville and the Grinch. We've done Vintage Christmas.
We've done a couple different things.

Speaker 2 Candy? This year was going to be Candy Christmas, a lot of pepperminty stuff.

Speaker 2 And then Wicked came out and I said, psych, we're going to rip it all down, which I did, and then went for the wicked theme and did everything pink and green. But I love a theme.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, that's like a problem. And

Speaker 2 we're the same.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And it's, it's not a problem. Okay, okay.
So the thing I hope people are tracking is like just a month ago, Anna said, you know, Kristen texts me and I really felt bad.

Speaker 1 I ghosted to her because I was just nervous. And then we fixed that.
And then you guys started texting.

Speaker 2 Oh, just wait. Yes.
You'll never see me again.

Speaker 1 And now you're singing together. I just have, I have so much optimism about where this is going.
Now we find out about this spectacular design Christmas display.

Speaker 2 Yeah, this is exciting. This is exciting.

Speaker 2 Although, I think the last time I saw you two, I did say, I don't know if it was in the episode or not, but I did say, oh, if I had to sing with Kristen, I would be very nervous. I did say that.

Speaker 2 And I would want to get prepped for months and months.

Speaker 1 And did I have time for that? No, ma'am. So

Speaker 2 do I have a knot in my shoulder?

Speaker 1 Yes, I do.

Speaker 1 Oh, it'll be. Did I pull out some of my eyebrows this morning? No, I did.
It's a secret.

Speaker 2 I think you're...

Speaker 1 Delusional. You're delusional.

Speaker 2 Well, I felt all the same things, and I'm sweating. In fact, I even put on a red tank top because I know I'm going to start flashing when we start singing.
I'm going to have to take this off.

Speaker 1 Also, let's make sure your visitor badge is still on your side.

Speaker 1 Yeah, let's make sure. She wanted to brag that she helped kids today.
Oh, that's funny. Yeah, that's why I mean, that's really cool.
I went to children. Children's Hospital was a student.

Speaker 1 Okay, Gabe, why don't you rock our world a little bit? Yeah.

Speaker 1 This needs a tiny bit of setup, if that's okay.

Speaker 1 Broadway does these things where they take existing, they're called jukebox musicals, and they take existing people's music and turn them into Broadway shows.

Speaker 1 And so I've been having fun on the internet and elsewhere turning things that I think should never be made into Broadway shows, into Broadway shows. And they're on your Instagram.

Speaker 1 You have the most entertaining Instagram of all.

Speaker 1 What do people go to for that? It's just Gabe Gibbs at G-A-B-E-G-I-B-B-S. Wonderful.
Thank you. It's also insane that I'm about to play these out loud in public.
Here we go.

Speaker 1 This one is from a fictional

Speaker 1 Fergie musical.

Speaker 1 I'll be playing the role of Fergie.

Speaker 1 Just once,

Speaker 1 I want someone to ask me, ask me out on a date and ask me the questions I've been wanting to get asked. Like,

Speaker 1 what you gonna do

Speaker 1 with

Speaker 1 all that junk

Speaker 1 with all that junk inside

Speaker 1 your trunk?

Speaker 1 And others, like, what you gonna do

Speaker 1 with

Speaker 1 all that ass,

Speaker 1 all that ass

Speaker 1 inside those jeans.

Speaker 1 So I can tell him,

Speaker 1 I will make you scream

Speaker 1 with my humps, my humps,

Speaker 1 my lady lumps.

Speaker 1 Oh my God.

Speaker 1 It's so good because it's also really great. Thank you.
It's great that something's really funny and also really great. Thank you.
So what is your background, Gabe?

Speaker 1 You, you, have you been on Broadway? I have. I was in the Book of Mormon, the one the South Park guys wrote.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, not original.

Speaker 1 I ended up standing by for the now late, great Gavin Creel, who just recently was there in that company for a while, toured with it for a while, did it at the Pantages, which was cool.

Speaker 1 That's a cool theater.

Speaker 1 and then now you moved to LA how many years ago yeah I've been in LA for like almost 10 years now oh okay okay yeah just bopping around the comedy scene sure with my with my wares yes yeah okay I have a favorite and I've requested that you play it and I think that's next yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah this is from again I will be playing the titular role I'll be playing the role of Missy Elliott in this

Speaker 1 Missy Elliott musical Are You a Missy Elliott? I'm so excited. Hell yeah, dude.

Speaker 1 Is

Speaker 1 it worth it?

Speaker 1 Let me work it.

Speaker 1 I'll put my thing

Speaker 1 down,

Speaker 1 flip it and

Speaker 1 reverse it.

Speaker 1 If you got a big

Speaker 1 let me search ya

Speaker 1 and find out

Speaker 1 how hard I gotta work ya

Speaker 1 is

Speaker 1 it worth it.

Speaker 1 Oh my god.

Speaker 2 Incredible.

Speaker 1 Those are the bits.

Speaker 1 Those are the bits. And there's a couple thousand of them on his Instagram.

Speaker 1 Kristen spends a good hour and a half every night on her little Space Age mat. I get at home like that.

Speaker 1 So sweet. Okay, so

Speaker 1 we've got quite a few Christmas songs to get through and quite a few great singers. So I think we should hop into

Speaker 1 a switcheroo. You're so playful when you say if you've got a big one.

Speaker 2 No, the expression on your face, I was like, oh, I hate it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I hate it.
Yeah, yeah. Yes.

Speaker 2 Because it's that pleased with yourself kind of.

Speaker 2 I mean, I wouldn't, but you know.

Speaker 1 You're a theater actor. Yes.

Speaker 1 But no one behaves this way except musical theater people. I was praying you'd say it.
I'm not allowed to say it. Oh, it's too dangerous.
But it's born out of, that's what it's born out of.

Speaker 1 It's born out of theater people don't live in reality. And so then we take these songs and we make them insane.
In fairness, I don't want them to live in reality. Of course, they're singing.

Speaker 1 They're singing.

Speaker 2 I'm in love with you. Because the reason he said he's not allowed to say it is because sometimes he could come at it too hard.
Because I'd be like, yes, I agree. A lot of it is cheesy.

Speaker 2 And yes, I agree. Nobody walks.
Like, when you see a musical theater actor walk across the stage, they're always in like an earthquake windstorm.

Speaker 2 That's never how people walk. And I love it.
I love it. And I can agree with you.
That's sometimes really silly. But then sometimes Dax will like dig in and I'll say like, uh-uh.

Speaker 2 No, that's my medium. So I like it.

Speaker 2 I think that's true of like ballet and opera. Like they, everyone has their own kind of set of rules and gestures and like the world is different.
So I think musical theater is similar. Yeah.

Speaker 2 You're like, well, yeah, I mean, in ballet, they go to sleep like this.

Speaker 2 And we go, yeah, okay, you're sleeping.

Speaker 1 I'm into it because I'm into the medium.

Speaker 2 I guess if you came hard at ballet for sleeping like that, I'd feel a little bit more like you were, you know,

Speaker 2 a little bit more critical of everyone. But I think it's just because we discuss musical theater so often because I bring it up.

Speaker 1 Exactly. We just have not yet talked.
In 17 years, we've not gotten around to ballet yet.

Speaker 1 Other than the fact that I was in ballet for some period of time. That's true.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. A tiny, I had one recital, and my dad, who was never around, did come to that.
And he watched the thing. And then when we were leaving, he said to my mother, okay, that was his last recital.

Speaker 1 no more of that.

Speaker 1 How many of that Michigan? I similarly. I'm probably seven.

Speaker 1 Yeah, lame. Yeah, I know.
He's a bummer. Yeah, that's something you could do in 1982.
You could unilaterally say, That's a wrap on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm a dad.

Speaker 1 It's not around, but I still have this veto card.

Speaker 2 He missed an opportunity because

Speaker 2 Easter eggs, someone's coming here in a bit to help with the singing, whose son is a dancer.

Speaker 1 The best dancer.

Speaker 2 He's 11.

Speaker 2 He's the best dancer in the world and perfect 10 charlie his father posted a whole thing a video and a whole thing about it and he called himself a dance dad and there's nothing hotter a dance dad than a man calling themselves a dance dad so your dad missed out he could have been a dance dad and like that would have been hot cleaned up yes yeah okay what is the first song my love why don't we start out with a classic yes why don't we start out with something with the three of us we're gonna hit you with one of the hot christmas classics oh wonderful

Speaker 2 What are we getting to begin this?

Speaker 1 Would it be disrespectful if I'm enjoying a snack while you guys are doing it? No, no, no. Encourage it.

Speaker 1 Okay, great. Dinner theater.

Speaker 2 Great. And what's my start?

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 God, rest ye, merry gentlemen. Let nothing you dismay.

Speaker 1 Remember, Christ our Savior was born on Christmas Day to save us all from Satan's power when we were gone astray. Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy.

Speaker 1 Oh, tidings of comfort and joy.

Speaker 1 In Bethlehem, in Israel, this blessed babe was born and laid within a manger upon this blessed morn. To which his mother Mary did nothing take in scorn.
Oh tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy.

Speaker 1 Oh tidings of comfort and joy.

Speaker 1 From God our heavenly Father, a blessed angel came

Speaker 1 and unto certain shepherds brought tidings of the same

Speaker 1 Bethlehem was born the Son of God by name.

Speaker 1 Oh tidings of comfort and joy. Comfort and joy.

Speaker 1 Oh tidings of comfort and joy.

Speaker 1 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 That's a slog. Hannah, do you want to do a musical at any point?

Speaker 2 Like on stage? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Honestly,

Speaker 2 I've heard

Speaker 2 from folks that it's just so much harder than you think and it's harder than you remember. And I barely remember because I was 12.

Speaker 2 So the last time I did a live show, like a stage show, I think I was 17.

Speaker 2 So yeah, I really like the part where I just have to like get my voice ready for recording or filming and then I don't have to think about it anymore.

Speaker 2 Even when we did, we did a bunch of the last five years live as much as we could, which wasn't a ton, but

Speaker 2 that I didn't like having to kind of like live like a soldier and not like drink and not have cheese. And I'm just such a big fan of cheese.

Speaker 1 sure sure i didn't know what show were you in when you were a kid high society sorry i didn't know no

Speaker 1 son of a bitch

Speaker 2 and who were you in the last five years with jeremy jordan

Speaker 2 what what's happening that somehow was a huge burn but i it was that a burn you know art that uh lincoln's like

Speaker 1 oh

Speaker 2 she's obsessed she can't even say his name without being like jeremy jordan oh i see she loves him so much she asked for jeremy jordan t-shirts for christmas are there such t-shirts No, but I just got one on Amazon that said Jeremy.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 2 make sure it's not like Brandon or some sort of

Speaker 1 Jeremy, Jeremy, Jeremy on it.

Speaker 2 And then I don't think that's what she wanted.

Speaker 1 What is all they had?

Speaker 2 So, what's his, what's his Riz? Like, why is she so upset?

Speaker 1 Hotty, Hottie, Broadway, Hotty, Hotty, Broadway.

Speaker 1 He's been like the dude for

Speaker 1 like a decade. Yeah, where did it go? If you're a Broadway nerd.

Speaker 1 Respectfully. Who is your idol? Mine? In the Broad world.
In the Broadway world. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was Gavin Creel, who just passed a couple months ago. He was like,

Speaker 1 he was the dude. He was like, people my age that were doing theater were looking up to him, and he was the guy.
Did you go to the thing Kristen went to? Which one? The memorial? No, I didn't.

Speaker 1 I didn't. You went? It was really beautiful.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And they dimmed the lights. Yeah.
Yeah. It's a classy theater tradition.
Mama had the best week of her entire life. She almost didn't come home.
I did.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I did. I did.
I did end up coming home. But in my mind, I'm still there.

Speaker 2 I talked to them on FaceTime, and both Dax and the girls were like,

Speaker 2 You look different.

Speaker 1 You look

Speaker 1 12 years younger. On those FaceTimes, I was like, Oh my god, mom's 26 right now.

Speaker 1 Look at her.

Speaker 1 Your face was, yeah, was so youthful. You were with all your Broadway friends.
That does something so special to you. Yeah.
It's very, very sweet.

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Speaker 1 Should we, I think we should hear, are you guys ready to play your song? I also have one quick question.

Speaker 1 Ergonomically.

Speaker 1 Is it easy to

Speaker 1 sing seated? Is that not a challenge? It's a little harder. It is, right?

Speaker 2 Maybe not for this one.

Speaker 2 But I will say,

Speaker 2 this is not. This is the opposite of a flex.
You know, this is the opposite of a flex.

Speaker 2 I am worried about distorting on the mic because I, I, not that I am like, because I'm so, my voice is so big, but it's because like I

Speaker 2 have to get very loud to

Speaker 1 change the notes.

Speaker 2 So I just want to make sure that that, you know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Rob is prepared.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 He's riding it. He rides it hard, too.
He rides it like a Brazilian strip.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, you're smart. Oh, this is great.

Speaker 1 You've gone on your knees. That's

Speaker 1 what it is.

Speaker 2 It's more the, right?

Speaker 1 It's got to be

Speaker 1 here, don't you? No, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 I don't want to stand. No, then it just gets awkward, right? When you stand up, and then if it doesn't, tell me if you have this.

Speaker 2 If you stand and you go, like, oh, I'm going to need to stand, and you don't hit it, it's fucking the worst.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you don't absolutely sort.

Speaker 1 It's like, you're doing a lot for

Speaker 2 real machine.

Speaker 1 I'm not standing. Why didn't it it work? And you've got a built-in excuse.
Like,

Speaker 1 I was sitting.

Speaker 1 Can you imagine what that would have sounded like if I was standing?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah, it would have been perfect.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That would be my preferred approach.

Speaker 1 Sure, it's nice to open a gift that's tied up with a perfect bow.

Speaker 1 But the greatest present of all was given to me long ago. It's something I would never trade.
It's the family that we made.

Speaker 1 Cause when we're together,

Speaker 1 I have everything on my list.

Speaker 1 And when we're together,

Speaker 1 I have all

Speaker 1 I wished.

Speaker 1 All around the Christmas tree, there'll be dreams coming true.

Speaker 1 But when we're we're together,

Speaker 1 then my favorite gift

Speaker 1 is you.

Speaker 1 I would travel miles and miles, and I would follow any star.

Speaker 1 I'd go almost any place if it's any place you are.

Speaker 1 Cause when we're together, together, I'll forever feel at home.

Speaker 1 And when we're together

Speaker 1 together, be safe, safe, and warm.

Speaker 1 Doesn't matter where we are,

Speaker 2 if you're here with me.

Speaker 1 Cause when we're together,

Speaker 2 that's my favorite place

Speaker 2 to be.

Speaker 2 Cause when we're two

Speaker 2 together,

Speaker 2 it's a holiday every night.

Speaker 1 And when we're together,

Speaker 1 then the seasons bright.

Speaker 1 I don't need the belly. I'll ring a bell.

Speaker 1 I'll know when it's here. I'll know when it's here.

Speaker 1 Cause when we're together,

Speaker 1 I could stay forever.

Speaker 1 And when we're together,

Speaker 1 it's my favorite

Speaker 1 time

Speaker 1 of

Speaker 1 year.

Speaker 1 Oh, fuck. Beautiful.

Speaker 2 Did you bring anything special?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I actually brought a little gift,

Speaker 1 if that's okay. Well, I brought two gifts.

Speaker 1 One is in the fridge right now in the house, which my sister, who is a huge armchair, huge, huge, huge, couldn't let me show up without having us make some homemade Emily burger sauce. No,

Speaker 2 amazing.

Speaker 1 Which

Speaker 1 is sugar-free as well. We've made it sugar-free.
I love it. Unnecessary, but that's great.
Just added volume.

Speaker 1 Really slather it on and guilt-free.

Speaker 1 So, there's some of that in the fridge in your home. She made Emily Burger sauce.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Emily Burger, right there.

Speaker 1 I've seen this photo because my sister sent it to me and said, You guys better fucking make that Emily Burger sauce. What's your singer's name? Allie.
She must be a genius. She really loves this show.

Speaker 1 She loves this show. She sounds so smart and

Speaker 1 passionate.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she is the best of us, really.

Speaker 1 Okay, so you know, I want to make it very clear.

Speaker 1 You're my all-time queen of the bell, the ball you're the number one singer in my heart of all time so that you know that but i do need to talk about anna's voice for a second

Speaker 1 i when you have notes no you're like a race horse racehorses they can like can it walk i don't know is it gonna and then all of a sudden it takes off and it's just like

Speaker 1 or like a car a motor you guys will know with a huge cam it sounds like it's not even gonna roll

Speaker 1 and then you hit the gas and it's fucking out of there yeah there is something so

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 just

Speaker 1 powerful And it just, like, it just shoots into the air. It's really, I love it.
I don't think I heard you sing enough. Or timbre.

Speaker 2 Is that what it is?

Speaker 1 It's timbre is dear. Tambor, yeah.
It's dear. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's so nice. And that's really.
That's the unteachable part, too.

Speaker 1 Yep. No, you can't teach timbre.
No. Can't teach timber.
No, that's what they say. You can't teach timber.
Can't teach timber.

Speaker 1 Can't teach timber new tricks.

Speaker 2 Did you feel like after Pitch Perfect, everyone was saying that to you? Like, oh my God.

Speaker 2 No, I mean, I think Pitch Perfect, the singing in Pitch Perfect, actually, like, I, I, there was some reason that there was like a performance that my mom sent me, I don't know, where they were dancing to the first movie, and I was like, oh, I haven't listened to this in forever.

Speaker 2 And I was like, I don't sound that good.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 Because I think I was just sort of trying to look, because

Speaker 2 they make us learn so many weird harmonies. Like, and you're, you're playing the percussion and you're, you know, like you're playing the guitar or whatever.

Speaker 2 Like, so you're just trying to, like, actually learn the notes, and there's not a ton of time for you to decide, like, your musicality for each song.

Speaker 1 So I was like, oh, man, that sounds good. Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 Well, you sound amazing. I'm having a real-time realization.
Okay.

Speaker 2 I cannot believe I have not put this together before.

Speaker 2 The thing, the song that I've listened to probably the most in my life is you and Justin Tibberlake singing True Colors. Shut up.

Speaker 2 And I just now am realizing that that's you because now I know you to some extent that I've like removed that as put it in its own compartment. I used to watch that video on repeat.

Speaker 1 You wait. Hold on.
I think you knew that because we talked about the fact that I was walking by UCB.

Speaker 1 You were sitting behind the counter and I walked in and you are currently listening to that song at once.

Speaker 2 We've talked about it, but I didn't realize it was our friend Anna Kendrick. I mean, I did realize, but this Monica did not realize it in her heart until right this morning.

Speaker 2 Wait, when you say the the video, are you talking about the can performance? There was a performance you guys did. I just watched it on YouTube over and over and over and over.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we were both really sick.

Speaker 2 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 And we were sitting there standing.

Speaker 1 I was standing. Thank God.

Speaker 1 Yeah, diarrhea is what I remember from the story. Yeah, Justin Dimmer, like at her explosive diarrhea.

Speaker 1 No, but

Speaker 2 he's so sweet. And we were both really, really sick, but he is like, you know, one of the great all-time like pop recording artists, you know, whatever.

Speaker 2 So we had like, did a very, very simple version of True Colors. And like right before, and we just kept drilling it and drilling it and drilling it.

Speaker 2 And then like right before we were about to go on, he was just singing his part to himself and added in like 20 riffs or whatever. And I went, Are you gonna do it like that?

Speaker 1 And he was like, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine.

Speaker 2 Because I was like, No, no, no, you have, you still have access to like so much of your voice that I like do not have right now.

Speaker 2 No, it's not that, but he was very, very sweetly like, no, no, no, it's gonna be exactly how we did it. It's gonna be fine.

Speaker 1 Have you guys ever heard my my version? I have to cover my face because it'll make everyone uncomfortable. This is like a rule Monica.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 And I see your twins, and that's why I love

Speaker 1 you. I'm so long away, so don't be afraid.

Speaker 1 The way and go

Speaker 1 twice

Speaker 1 are beautiful. I go away.
I'm so long away.

Speaker 1 That was so cute.

Speaker 1 I just saw the whole thing because I hate Fox D.

Speaker 1 Exactly.

Speaker 1 I had a bad stage passed out of it. I saw the whole thing.
BTS.

Speaker 1 I think you got there because of Tamborlake.

Speaker 1 Tambourlake. We were talking about her Tambor.

Speaker 1 I think that's how you got there.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 You searched Tambour, I think. Yeah.
Best Tambor. I love that.

Speaker 1 Oh, that was fantastic.

Speaker 2 Right before this,

Speaker 2 Gabe was mentioning the Emily burger sauce, and you said you had one more thing.

Speaker 1 Oh, I do have another gift, if that's okay.

Speaker 1 No, there's a one-gift limit here.

Speaker 1 This day has been filled. I'll check that from the top.

Speaker 1 Great, crazy. Everyone resent back the one.
Keep it rolling, Robin. Yeah, I'm a stand sit.
Doesn't matter. It'll come out the same.

Speaker 2 Standing is the opposite of sitting.

Speaker 1 Sitting.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I do have another gift, actually, for you guys. If you don't mind,

Speaker 1 it goes like this: The day has been filled with holiday cheer, but I know that it can't last.

Speaker 1 So before we run along, I wrote a little song about the king of this podcast. Oh, wow.
Oh,

Speaker 1 Wabby Wab's the reason I signed up for this pod. Sure, the hosts are fine, but I'd wait in line for that audio, God.

Speaker 1 Monica is chic as hell, her fact checks make it clearer. But without the work of Wabby Wab, you couldn't even hear her.
Dax is wise, the kind of guy you'd hang out with gladly.

Speaker 1 But he's nothing in comparison to that decibel daddy.

Speaker 1 Cause Monica and Dax, I'd say no thanks, I'll pass.

Speaker 1 Just Kristen and Anna, I would have made other planners.

Speaker 1 Cause Wabby Wob's the reason I'm here. The rest is Bub Kiss.

Speaker 1 Wabby Wab's the reason I'm here. Feel free to cut this.

Speaker 1 Wabby Wob's the reason I'm here.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. It's about goddamn time, Rob.

Speaker 1 He deserves the gift.

Speaker 1 I ride him like a rented mule, so he deserves it.

Speaker 1 Do you want to pull him? Did you show your face? He'd rather not.

Speaker 1 Absolutely not.

Speaker 2 Oh, that was awesome. I love that.

Speaker 1 That was incredible. It was the best.

Speaker 2 And I was totally going between you and Rob's fame. And you'd never know something weird was happening.

Speaker 2 I mean, I'm sure if you know him well, there's like micro-expressions you could read, but I was like, Is he does he

Speaker 1 listen to that? Does he know what's going on with this dream? Can he hear?

Speaker 1 That's a plot twist.

Speaker 1 Gabe, do you have a favorite Christmas present you remember from your childhood in Michigan on Big Beaver Road, exit 69 in Rochester?

Speaker 1 The first thing in Michigan on Big Beaver Road, exit 69, Rochester, that comes to my mind is getting a getting my first brick cell phone at the time that I was texting.

Speaker 1 I had a crush at the time, and so it was the kind of texting you did where you had to do the ABC, T9 text in paste, T9, T9. Big AB, that kind of thing.
Yeah. So it was a lot of that.
Cell phone.

Speaker 1 What grade?

Speaker 1 I think it was sixth grade that I got my first phone. And you had a big old crush in sixth grade.
Early developer. Sixth grade.

Speaker 1 September was coming in nicely.

Speaker 1 What's up, Shaudy? How are you?

Speaker 1 G2G.

Speaker 1 And I imagine then, too, you had some limited data on your hands. Oh, yeah.
Oh, for sure.

Speaker 1 There was no, yeah, it was very limited. Yeah, you got to be real efficient with that.

Speaker 1 A lot of texts to the same number showing up on the bill at the end of it. Jacob, do you have a favorite gift you got? Yeah.
I can recall

Speaker 1 a nice dino GT bicycle waiting out front. one Christmas morning.
You son of a bitch. Yeah, blue.
Red, white, and blue. Red, white, and blue.
White, white, and blue. Would it make you so long way?

Speaker 1 Yeah, dude, I was cruising all over the neighborhood on that thing, man. It was great.
You had a fucking dino. You remember dino GTs? Yeah, you're a dick.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I had a fucking mongoose. I was going to say, kids either had dinos or mongooses.
No, kids had mongooses and they wanted dinos. Cool.
Yeah. Yeah.
What did your old man do for a...

Speaker 1 No, he sold insurance. Oh, I bet he did quite well.
Yeah. He had one client.
I don't know. I don't think he did well, to be honest with you.
He was always on the phone with Muriel Jacobs.

Speaker 1 I don't know who the hell that was, but it was always like, sorry, guys, shout out Muriel Jacobs.

Speaker 1 Pseudonym.

Speaker 1 Do you have one?

Speaker 2 Maybe an Easy Bake oven.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's a real dream. Because I also, you know, love a little baking moment, but I also love slightly underbaked baked goods.
And the Easy Bake oven really delivers on that.

Speaker 1 It does. It just barely gets there.
It's a light bulb, right? That's the food.

Speaker 2 So you get like warm cookie dough, which is really what I wanted in the first place.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 Do you like giving gifts?

Speaker 2 I'm bad at like birthdays and Christmas because when I

Speaker 2 know of something that I really want to get someone, I'm too excited. And I'm like, I just give it when I, I can't, like, yeah, I can't do the delayed gratification.

Speaker 1 I'm bad at birthdays and Christmas as if there's a bunch of other gift opportunities. You're just straight across the board bad at gifts.
You're bad at birthdays.

Speaker 1 Pretty bad.

Speaker 2 But every now and then there's a fucking winner. And like I cannot go like, well, Christmas is in two months and I'll just save it.
I can't do it.

Speaker 2 Think of somebody, you get it, and then you give it. Yeah.
Yeah, that's lovely. I feel like you're like that.

Speaker 1 And I don't want anyone to think I'm being rude, not asking you, but we both know. I won't remember.
You have no clue. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We have been on vacations to places that she's like, I'd like to go to Colorado once. We've met a couple times.
You know, that kind of thing. Not me, man.

Speaker 2 I'd like to throw in in the mix.

Speaker 1 Please.

Speaker 2 That we got you

Speaker 2 a chandelier

Speaker 2 from Perry.

Speaker 2 Now that I remember.

Speaker 1 Rack gone down.

Speaker 2 We shot

Speaker 2 the season finale,

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 2 series finale of The Good Place in Greece and in Paris. And when I was in Paris, I went to the flea market there.

Speaker 1 And I was looking around and I loved it so much.

Speaker 2 And I saw this white terracotta chandelier that's kind of like, it's huge. And it's like, there's all these little like white terracotta birds all over it.
But it's very, it's kind of minimalist.

Speaker 2 It's very chic, just trust me. And I said, how much is that? And he said,

Speaker 2 and I was like, okay, thanks so much. It was way too expensive.
And then I left, but I came home talking about it. And I was like, oh, Monica, I got to talk to you about decor.

Speaker 2 I saw this chandelier and I loved it so much. And then

Speaker 2 10 months go by. I mean, like a very, very long time, maybe even a year over.

Speaker 2 And Monica had the realization that she could track down someone who lived in Paris that I had known who could go back and see.

Speaker 1 Is the masseuse you guys are both in love with? Laurent? No.

Speaker 1 That's not a bit. Just sideways.

Speaker 1 There is a great masseuse in Paris.

Speaker 2 I mean, half of it is just like hairplay, but it is out of.

Speaker 1 Oh, and there's a dinner involved, and you go to his apartment.

Speaker 2 No, we went to dinner. That's not normally on the docket.

Speaker 1 It's not one of the services he offers.

Speaker 2 But then Monica tracked down this chandelier from our beautiful friend Tibor, and they gave it to me for my 40th birthday, and now it hangs above my bathtub. It's beautiful.

Speaker 1 It's so beautiful.

Speaker 2 It's so beautiful.

Speaker 1 I'm gonna.

Speaker 2 It's a really special.

Speaker 1 What's your favorite gift you've ever received on Christmas?

Speaker 1 By far, and I just shout out to Laura LeBo because we were broke as hell, but she went hard on Christmas. We had great fucking Christmas.
She would go in debt, and she always gave us a good one.

Speaker 1 And I was, I must have been five because we lived in this shithole. And I came out, and there was a plastic indie car like the size of this table.
It was probably like would be a power wheels now.

Speaker 1 I don't know if that was the brand back then, but it was a little car I could drive. And I drove it until the battery is dead, Then I charged it.
Then I drove it. And then I drove it.

Speaker 1 And the embarrassing part is I drove it way too long. Then we moved into a neighborhood.
And I was still, I was driving it at like 11.

Speaker 1 Sometimes I'd get nostalgic and I would drive it down my neighborhood street. And I would be super embarrassed, but I still would do it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just, the steering wheel broke and I steered it with pliers for a while.

Speaker 2 Yeah. This wasn't the Firefox, was it?

Speaker 1 No, that was my worst present because

Speaker 1 my

Speaker 1 grandpa, Papa Bob, he bought my brother and I, these Firefox remote control cars. We wanted them so bad.

Speaker 1 And then my uncle and my brother played with them before Christmas for so long that they were broken and then put them in the boxes and we unwrapped them and they were broken.

Speaker 1 And then they were sold out of Firefox.

Speaker 1 And then this is my chandelier, my,

Speaker 1 what's the sled's name?

Speaker 1 You need Rosebud.

Speaker 1 This was my Rosebud. And Kristen found a Firefox on eBay or somewhere and got it for me for Christmas.
And she healed that wound.

Speaker 1 and it it it broke within 10 minutes of driving so I can't even blame my uncle these are pieces of shit these guys yeah they're like easy bake ovens essentially yeah yeah they were the easy bake oven of the RC car world for sure

Speaker 2 okay what other songs do we have this one's a song that everyone's gonna know but Gabe and I like this particular version

Speaker 2 which is Mel Torme and Judy Garland which we're gonna do it with them in mind because it's very clear clear during this recording that they are sauced.

Speaker 1 Okay, they're,

Speaker 2 yeah, there's some word mangling.

Speaker 2 There's just, it's just

Speaker 1 mostly on the judy pot.

Speaker 2 Mostly on the judy pot.

Speaker 1 Judy was pretty gassed.

Speaker 1 She had a hard life.

Speaker 2 She really did.

Speaker 1 Yeah. What was her hard time? Oh, yeah.
What was her struggle?

Speaker 2 Well, she, we, Britney Speared her. Yeah.

Speaker 1 She was the first Britney Spears. Okay.
Yeah. Um

Speaker 2 so yeah, so we have this little one prepared in the Rob, cue all the crickets.

Speaker 1 Oh my gosh. Are there crickets in here? So fucking many.
I told you this. Someone was having a very emotional moment on the couch.

Speaker 1 And the second they were having this emotional moment, the crickets started.

Speaker 1 How'd you do that?

Speaker 1 If you hit them, they'll come.

Speaker 2 They're in the garage. You know what we need to get? Nice.

Speaker 1 A snake.

Speaker 1 Good idea. Well, let's have a snake in here.
Just

Speaker 1 wandering around the pile of water.

Speaker 2 Well, what if we brought, well, I got an even better idea.

Speaker 1 Do you not know what Monica's number one fear in life is? Yeah, snakes. Oh,

Speaker 1 me too. Upper body

Speaker 1 coming out of your toilet bowl? Yeah,

Speaker 2 and they go all the way up into your

Speaker 1 back. No,

Speaker 1 no, no, no, no,

Speaker 1 no.

Speaker 2 Do you know? Have you fact-checked this? Yeah, it's a real rumor.

Speaker 1 Ah, rumor. What if Erica brought Norbert over, their lizard?

Speaker 2 Although he, last time I heard, he wasn't eating for a while and she was very nervous. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's upset about the election. He's on strike.
He's on strike. Okay, so this is Garland Smashed.

Speaker 2 This is Mel and Mel Tormay trying to keep it together.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 All through the years we've waited.

Speaker 2 That's a great melt.

Speaker 1 Waited through spring and fall, though. This one's going to know it, yeah.

Speaker 1 To hear silver bells ringing and winter time singing.

Speaker 1 The happiest season of all.

Speaker 1 And I wish that Judy Garland would start singing right now.

Speaker 1 Chess nuts roasting on an open fire,

Speaker 1 Jack Frost nipping at your nose,

Speaker 1 your tide carols

Speaker 1 being sung by a choir and folks

Speaker 1 dressed up from head to toe.

Speaker 1 everybody knows

Speaker 1 a turkey and some mistletoe

Speaker 1 help

Speaker 1 to make the season bright

Speaker 1 tiny tots with their eyes all aglow

Speaker 1 will find it hard to sleep tonight

Speaker 1 They know that Santa's on his way

Speaker 2 loaded lots of gifts and toys up on his sleigh,

Speaker 1 and every mother's child is gonna spy

Speaker 1 to see if rainbows really know how to fly.

Speaker 1 and so I'm offering this simple phrase

Speaker 1 to kids from one to ninety-two.

Speaker 1 Although it's been said

Speaker 1 many times,

Speaker 1 many ways,

Speaker 1 Merry Christmas

Speaker 1 to

Speaker 1 you.

Speaker 1 Should we have a godem, some old English? Sure.

Speaker 1 Love and joy come to you and to all your loved ones too.

Speaker 1 And God bless you and send you a happy new year.

Speaker 1 And God send you a happy

Speaker 1 new

Speaker 1 year.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Thank you.
I think you need three more more songs and you got a show.

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Speaker 1 Rainbows really know how to fly.

Speaker 1 So good.

Speaker 2 She didn't nod to it at all. It just, that's what she wanted to sing.
It came out of her mouth. No one's going to argue with it.

Speaker 1 Wait, that didn't really happen. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 We just did the track.

Speaker 1 Yeah. She said rainbows really know how to fly.

Speaker 2 Did she do the Gibson twins?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because I was like, that is crazy. That is hilarious.

Speaker 2 And then I looked, and it was like, she, like, Kristen frosted out the rainbow.

Speaker 1 And then I was like, oh, that wasn't an accident.

Speaker 1 That That was class.

Speaker 1 She was lost.

Speaker 1 That gets you out of the copyright issue. Just throw rainbows in.
It's right in the group.

Speaker 2 Those who don't know, it's titled The Christmas Song, but that is really, that's an incredible version.

Speaker 1 That's my favorite version, and I really wanted to try it with you. And they kept it too.

Speaker 1 They're like, Mike, she said rainbows, right?

Speaker 1 Yo, just keep it. Okay.

Speaker 1 I think that.

Speaker 2 Rainbows over the rainbow.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Maybe the rainbows is her being like, get it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Awesome.

Speaker 2 And I think that was live because I think Mel was playing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's a video online that you can see of him playing. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, because most of the, a lot of those songs from way back when, they were just taken from live performances. They weren't like doing them in the studio.

Speaker 2 They were like, you can hear the live tracks on them.

Speaker 1 Oh. Yeah.
Oh, man. That was funny.
That was delicious.

Speaker 1 Do we want to do

Speaker 1 our culinary surprise?

Speaker 1 I just want to say that we were talking yesterday in a fact check and I was lamenting about how bad I am at giving gifts.

Speaker 1 And then Monica said, well, think of Secret Turkey so fun because you have to make it. And then I thought, Okay,

Speaker 1 that's what I'm gonna do. Oh, great! So we'll all go outside.
There's a buffet set up, what? And we'll make a plate, and then we can eat and open presents. Okay, sound good.
Yay! Wow, a buffet.

Speaker 1 People can pee if they need to. Wow,

Speaker 2 on my word of the day today,

Speaker 2 it was Ba Humbug. No, and I learned the full meaning

Speaker 2 in the 17th century,

Speaker 2 18th century, somewhere on the cusp. Ba essentially meant not,

Speaker 1 right?

Speaker 2 It was a sign of disagreement.

Speaker 2 And humbug meant a hoax or a befooling trick.

Speaker 2 So if you didn't like the merry season,

Speaker 2 you would say not.

Speaker 2 This is a hoax. Oh, interesting.

Speaker 1 Okay, then turn up meaning.

Speaker 2 I'll open first.

Speaker 2 I I always thought it was two words.

Speaker 1 It is. Oh, it is.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Now, full disclosure, I have help for Kristen's Christmas. I don't want to act like

Speaker 1 she has a stylist, Nicole, who has the best taste of any person in the world. Everything Nicole gets, Kristen wants.

Speaker 1 So three years ago, I was like, hey, Nicole, since you know what she's going to want, could you help me? So I have a lot of help, but I still, I feel unethical about that.

Speaker 1 So I still get some stuff on my own. So if this is a miss, it's because Nicole had nothing to do with this.

Speaker 2 And look at this.

Speaker 1 Is wicket theme for your... Now that's where Carly comes in, I think, because I just did the rap job and I did not affix the ribbon.

Speaker 2 I did.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 I knew it would be you or her.

Speaker 2 All the games you two play.

Speaker 1 I see.

Speaker 1 Also, shout out to Carly for... I'm not going to get Dax to lie about rapping this.
And then go, that trap.

Speaker 1 It was a total trap. I walked right into it.
And then shout out Carly for putting out the buffet outside. Oh, incredible.

Speaker 1 Did you do the garlic bread too? She made the garlic bread. I made the spaghetti sauce.

Speaker 2 Both are absolutely delicious. Our listeners have heard a lot about the spaghetti, so I want them to.
It's good that they had to see it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 In action, it's incredible. The prank is in the title on this book.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's there. You go.

Speaker 1 That's right. That's right.
That's exactly where it goes.

Speaker 2 Panzer prank with a shoe footprint like from a murder mystery.

Speaker 1 Ooh.

Speaker 1 You're a hiker. I am a hiker.
Ooh.

Speaker 1 Wow. Nice.

Speaker 2 Ooh, really nice.

Speaker 1 These are sleek hiking shoes, buddy. Thank you.
Yeah, it's some collab between Panda Prank and Nike. I love.

Speaker 1 Those are gorgeous. That's a sexy shoe.

Speaker 1 Oh, thank you. This is a hit.
Oh, thank you. One for one.
One for one.

Speaker 1 I should quit. I should just return the rest of your presents, actually.
I love them.

Speaker 2 Why is the box so big?

Speaker 1 Well, if you loved them so much, you'd be putting them on. That's what I would do.
A pair of shoes I love.

Speaker 1 What's Panda Prank?

Speaker 1 They're like, they do, you know, one-off designs of existing brands, is my understanding of it. Oh, cool.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because now I'm in their algorithm because I bought one pair of shoes, so I see every single pair of shoes they design, and they're all pretty cool. Right.

Speaker 2 Okay, Jacob's not eating, so I'm going to give him his present.

Speaker 1 Great. You got a present? You got a present.
What the heck? Also, I learned at the buffet bar that you're in Wolfpack, which drives. I can't believe I didn't know that.
That's so embarrassing to me.

Speaker 1 i'm the newest member it's totally okay

Speaker 1 oh

Speaker 1 whoops

Speaker 1 this looks delicious is this wine yes it is thank god i love wine i wasn't sure what it was and then reach on down in that reach on down reach on down reach on down the road let's go

Speaker 1 oh what is this

Speaker 1 Do you know I love this wine bar? And I used to live next to it?

Speaker 2 Wait. I was just guessing.

Speaker 1 Wait, no, did you know this or no i just guessed no someone told you who told you pristine does her research

Speaker 1 whoa santa told me santa

Speaker 1 we have three world-class present givers in this room right now i have to throw yeah this is an amazing gift thank you so much i have to um shout out justine's wine bar in frogtown i love justine oh she's the best

Speaker 1 and i i i used to live right next to it and it was too convenient and i had to move

Speaker 1 she drove you out of the name no no no.

Speaker 1 This is awesome. Thank you so much.
I couldn't live within five miles of Emily Burger. Yeah, that's true.
I would be dead within six, seven years, I think.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 we're going to thank you. It's a huge beaver.
Here we go.

Speaker 1 The biggest beaver you've ever seen. I love beavers.

Speaker 1 Oh my God.

Speaker 1 Tell everyone what happened to yours. Okay.

Speaker 1 Somebody talked to my wife because what happened to mine was I don't know how it happened. I was on the phone with my AirPods on, turned my head in some way.
I'm dramatic. I don't know what happened.

Speaker 1 Theatrical. Yeah.
Theater. I'm a theater kid.

Speaker 1 You know, you're given what you're given. And one of them flew out and went under the fridge in a way that I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to fish it out.

Speaker 1 But the fridge in our apartment is so stuck into the space that it's in that I can't get it out. So I have the case and the other AirPod, and I can see where the AirPod is, and I cannot get to it.

Speaker 1 I've used magnets. That's excruciating.
It's brutal. It's absolutely brutal.
So this is huge. Anna, you're not going to like this, but...
Oh, no.

Speaker 2 I didn't know. I didn't think.

Speaker 1 I didn't bring anything.

Speaker 1 You don't need to be a bad. Yeah, I'm not doing your Christmas show.
You're doing our Christmas show.

Speaker 1 We were interviewing you. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 Oh, God, what did I say?

Speaker 2 Oh, God.

Speaker 1 You were talking about going to your audition audition

Speaker 1 in your combat boots.

Speaker 2 I know what this is.

Speaker 1 And I said. I know what this is.
Yep.

Speaker 1 And it broke my heart that you wouldn't have had the best

Speaker 1 boots a lady can have. Wait, how did you find out my shoe size?

Speaker 1 I asked you your shoe size.

Speaker 2 That's right. And I thought it was for, I thought,

Speaker 2 I can't believe I didn't like think. Well, they asked for my shoe size.
Where am I thinking about? Where would you be wearing like

Speaker 1 silly elf slippers or something? That would have made the most sense.

Speaker 2 Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 Now, watch how nervous Kristen is because she was a part of me looking online for these. I tried to be.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And there were ones I like where she was like, huh, absolutely not.

Speaker 1 And then I just waited till she left, and then I decided. Okay.

Speaker 1 Yep. I hope they're the absolutely not ones.

Speaker 1 They were not. They were a compromise, but I still love them.

Speaker 1 They have fur. They're fur.

Speaker 1 The boots with the fur.

Speaker 1 With the fur.

Speaker 2 Awesome for you, Shorty.

Speaker 2 Platform is great. Those are sweet.

Speaker 1 Who's talking?

Speaker 2 I love a platform, too. I'm here for it.
I love it. Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 It's got a side zipper, so you don't have to fuck with the laces.

Speaker 1 Huge. Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 2 Because

Speaker 2 in, yeah, in my last episode, we were talking about my audition for my Browway Show when I was 12. And I was wearing combat boots and ducks.

Speaker 2 Asked if they were Doc Martins, and I said, no, I think they were like the payless knockoff

Speaker 1 because we couldn't afford them. So this

Speaker 1 shan't ever wear the

Speaker 1 oh, loved it. It's a great brand payload.
It's just

Speaker 1 talks for me with the thing. Yeah,

Speaker 1 okay, great.

Speaker 1 See, she loves hers. She's about to put hers on.

Speaker 2 Wrapping paper is green and pink on the inside.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's a wonderful thing. Damn, you really did.

Speaker 1 You really did all of that. Oh, God.
Oh, God.

Speaker 2 I'm going to knock over everything.

Speaker 1 Monty, can I present you with a present? Sure. I also have to say one thing:

Speaker 1 I bought you something.

Speaker 1 It says it came. Yeah.
I searched the entire house today. It's not here.

Speaker 1 I reordered it. So

Speaker 1 wait, but in the meantime.

Speaker 2 I don't need things.

Speaker 1 You're a woman of means. You can buy your own shoes.
I don't need things.

Speaker 1 Yay.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 sweet. The original mouse.

Speaker 2 Dax drew this.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 2 And I used it on my gift guide. And now it's on our sweatshirt for her.

Speaker 1 I thought she should have the original.

Speaker 2 This was the original drawing.

Speaker 2 I love it. Thank you so much.
What does it say? The world's all-time most special mouse. In quotes, sometimes I think you guys forget this is a podcast.

Speaker 2 We didn't say those were AirPods. We didn't say these were docks.

Speaker 1 Oh, hey, that's why I said, is this one?

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 because I'm like, Jacob, we're looking for someone to turn the entire show over to, so this could be fucking perfect. Whoa,

Speaker 2 can we say these are

Speaker 2 you?

Speaker 2 I don't know why. I think that maybe I owned like one pair of Doc Martins in my early 20s, and I don't know.
I found them very stiff.

Speaker 2 Maybe I was a knockoff, or maybe I got the wrong pair or something. But immediately these feel cool.

Speaker 1 They used to be way sniffers.

Speaker 2 Is that right? Because I'm like, wait, I was expecting these to be like kind of a pain. Yeah.
They feel amazing instantaneously. And there's a hack.
You put them in the freezer overnight.

Speaker 1 You take them out when they're cold and put them directly on.

Speaker 2 Because when leather's cold,

Speaker 2 as it will sort of, I guess, melt essentially, it will form to your foot.

Speaker 1 Shut up.

Speaker 2 Oh my God, these feel amazing. Also, if we're not doing a good job talking about the items, I guess you should just watch it on YouTube.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's the move. Wobby Wob?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I want.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Sorry, let's get you seated for this

Speaker 1 birthday, boy. You got your own song, but that's not where it ends.

Speaker 2 Also, the present I got you two, I need you to open at the same time.

Speaker 1 Okay. I'm excited to see how mama handled this.
I just want to say for this one,

Speaker 1 Kristen spent at least seven and a half hours on the phone this week and was unsuccessful. Wow.
Was that a good setup?

Speaker 2 Merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 Four nights at Tarina Resort. Tyranny.

Speaker 1 Have you ever been? It's really nice.

Speaker 1 It's so fun. It's so close.
Your kids will love it. There's a little slide.

Speaker 1 The fucking buffet is the best in the biz.

Speaker 2 It's good for parents and adults.

Speaker 1 Oh, Jesus Christ. Again, it's yours.

Speaker 1 Lock up, Willie. Thank you.
Thank you. This is great.

Speaker 1 I'm great.

Speaker 1 Any more presents? Do we? Yeah, I want to do that.

Speaker 2 I got presents for you two.

Speaker 1 That's for me. Okay.
That and the big one. That and the big one.
You want Sapphiramani?

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 You got to go. Don't worry about the armchair expert wrapping paper.

Speaker 2 Good old wrapping.

Speaker 1 Okay, you want to go first? Ladies first?

Speaker 1 This is from Wabby Wobb.

Speaker 2 Hollis.

Speaker 1 Who's, again, I got to say, when I said there's three exemplary gift givers in this room, Wabby Wob is.

Speaker 2 He is. He is.
He's going to be amazing. I'd also like to comment on the paper because what I'm not hearing is a bunch of like crazy crunch wrap because this paper, there is a real,

Speaker 2 there is a hierarchy with wrapping paper. And this one has a fabric type quality to it.
It almost feels like

Speaker 2 a dress.

Speaker 1 Ooh, maybe you should wear it as a dress.

Speaker 2 Okay. But it's delicious wrapping paper, Wabby Wab.
Real high-end. That must have cost you you.

Speaker 2 And is that because

Speaker 1 Amazon?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Far out.

Speaker 2 No, I mean, that would make sense to me.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That's what on a set it would be.
Wow. You get that stupid fucking

Speaker 1 bag in the grocery store.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 For the listener, there's a wrap

Speaker 2 present inside the wrapped present.

Speaker 1 It's a wrap with an

Speaker 1 skeleton inside of a sand peep.

Speaker 2 Kind of like the hat on the hat. Is there going to be another?

Speaker 1 Oh boy.

Speaker 1 Oh! He did it! Oh, yeah!

Speaker 1 Another box in a box.

Speaker 2 And this paper is a smellograph.

Speaker 1 Shut up. Ooh.

Speaker 1 Has it gave him? Has it? Ooh, it's duckling. Smellograph.

Speaker 2 That's what it's.

Speaker 1 Now, again,

Speaker 1 if you're listening, you can't smell it. And even if you're watching, you can't smell it.

Speaker 1 If you're on YouTube, you can smell it.

Speaker 1 There's just a button you click. It smells great.

Speaker 1 That's a gift in itself. Smells it.

Speaker 1 Wow. Did you spray something, or is it that how it goes?

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 It's really nice. I'm telling you.
He's got like a little workshop at his house.

Speaker 2 The high-end wrapping store.

Speaker 1 They hired it. We're down to the actual gift.

Speaker 2 Is there a store? Or maybe.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 Your gift also didn't come yet? It's supposed to come today.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God. It's my dream.
Is that a real picture?

Speaker 2 No. Yeah, I spent time.

Speaker 1 Dreams.

Speaker 2 In my dreams.

Speaker 2 Oh, and it's a picture it's a picture of me okay well for the listener and not the viewer um there's a sweater coming oh thank you oh my gosh how sweet but this is the real gift it's a picture of me with mary kate and ashley and i look like i'm friends with them

Speaker 1 it's so cute iconic unbelievable and i love it and I I'll buy these pants for sure.

Speaker 1 Ugh.

Speaker 2 Okay, this one, this one can live like that.

Speaker 2 And that's a manifest.

Speaker 1 Because they're going to come on at some point.

Speaker 2 Thank you, Rob. That's so sweet.
Okay, now I need you guys to open. But you, can you open yours of this too?

Speaker 1 Grace. Quickly.

Speaker 2 For the listener, it seems to be a race. And Dax is in the lead.

Speaker 1 He's in Domingo Estate, Los Angeles, California. Ooh, these are really nice.
Do you know about these? Ooh. What is this? Olive oil.
Oh, it's olive oil, but they were personalized.

Speaker 1 It pairs nicely with elk.

Speaker 1 And says wabby sobby for wabby wabby. Oh.

Speaker 1 Personal solid.

Speaker 2 And for people who don't know, Jax has been on a real kick of eating elk lately. And so in the mornings, he has elk and eggs, which makes the house smell terrible, but is actually pretty tasty.

Speaker 2 And he gets like 160 grams of protein during breakfast.

Speaker 1 It's a lot of protein. And now I'll get a little, I'll get a little omega in them, too.
Yeah, yeah. And let's both say something at the same time.
Three, two, one. Oh, I almost kissed God.

Speaker 1 For the listener, I almost kissed Rob's lips.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Here we go.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I've just not,

Speaker 1 ever since I learned about that landing strip, I'm just having the most confusing feelings about you. Oh, Sax is opening the present from Brock.

Speaker 1 I was lying at one point that you didn't have enough knickknacks behind you, and Monica had more.

Speaker 1 Oh, Rodman and Isaiah Thomas, 88, 89.

Speaker 1 You were too young, but that was the team. Oh, my God.
Oh, that was crazy.

Speaker 2 Was that an eBay?

Speaker 1 Nope, it was Target. Oh,

Speaker 1 Target had that.

Speaker 1 Had those two guys together from 1989?

Speaker 1 They won back-to-back titles. Oh, yeah, but Target had that.

Speaker 1 I know I had a lot of people.

Speaker 1 That's wild. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, very deep cut for Target.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Amazing.

Speaker 1 Oh, this is great. Oh, this is.

Speaker 1 Oh, I got a biggie.

Speaker 1 Whoa.

Speaker 1 Oh, great. And this has a yeti wrapping paper not to be confused with the cooling brand an actual yeti

Speaker 1 oh does it smell is it a smell of that's having trouble opening this package i'm gonna here's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna play a game where you guys will see it first and try to describe

Speaker 1 guessing on your reaction i'm gonna see if i can figure out what it is i'm guessing on our reaction okay okay well it is for the

Speaker 1 it is a car accident

Speaker 2 a piece of art it's a piece of art

Speaker 1 okay so gabe it seems like it might be a bad bad car accident. Is that what it is?

Speaker 1 It's someone eating a corpse? Oh.

Speaker 2 Wow, Rob, that's beautiful.

Speaker 1 So it's this Australian artist, Bella McGoldrick. Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 It's a pencil drawing.

Speaker 1 It looks like that is so cool. Oh, man.

Speaker 2 I was going to ask. Yeah.
15 of 20, I read at the bottom.

Speaker 1 Oh, I love a limited intellect. Your eyes aren't that good.
How'd you get that?

Speaker 1 Check my work. No, you got it, but we both know you and I are blind.
That's true.

Speaker 2 I don't know. Somehow I caught it.

Speaker 1 Wow. Oh my God.
That's gorgeous. Wobby Wobb.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 Wow. Thoughtful son of a bitch.
3-2-1.

Speaker 1 3-2-1. We say something.

Speaker 1 You're not coming back out.

Speaker 1 You know, the artist's all.

Speaker 2 And then you two have Eleanor Goldrick.

Speaker 1 Beautiful. We have one more.

Speaker 2 You two have another one from me.

Speaker 1 Oh, my gosh. Okay.

Speaker 2 They're the white boxes.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 Wait, I know this paper.

Speaker 1 Three.

Speaker 1 Well, Monica, they don't deserve this.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 I were about to find out.

Speaker 1 They do make voice and stuff, but let's make sure.

Speaker 2 I mean, also, obviously, we can return if things don't fit.

Speaker 2 But it was imperative that everyone in this room had something from the row based on how much we talk about it.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 2 Beautiful. You're welcome.
But if it doesn't fit, obviously.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. Let me see.

Speaker 1 Oh, yours? Okay, yours are a little thinner. Yours more of a springtime.
Mine's more of a

Speaker 1 slope.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, thank you, Mommy. That's beautiful.

Speaker 2 And I got a row sweater, too.

Speaker 1 It all worked out.

Speaker 1 All came out in the wash. Okay.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 we've had our pasta. We've had some desserts.
It's time to land the plane hard with some more music. So,

Speaker 1 musical director, what's our next offering?

Speaker 2 Monica requested Old Lang Syne.

Speaker 1 I did, I love it.

Speaker 1 Two, three.

Speaker 1 Should old

Speaker 1 acquaintance

Speaker 1 be

Speaker 1 forgot

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 never

Speaker 1 brought to mind?

Speaker 1 Should old acquaintance be

Speaker 1 forgot

Speaker 1 and days of old langzine

Speaker 1 for old

Speaker 1 lang

Speaker 1 sign,

Speaker 1 my dear,

Speaker 1 for

Speaker 1 old

Speaker 1 langzine

Speaker 1 will take

Speaker 1 a cup of kindness yet for

Speaker 1 old

Speaker 1 lang

Speaker 1 sign I'm the hand, my trusty friend,

Speaker 1 and he's a hand of thine

Speaker 1 will

Speaker 1 take

Speaker 1 a cup of

Speaker 1 kindness yet for old

Speaker 1 lands I

Speaker 1 for

Speaker 1 old

Speaker 1 lands I

Speaker 1 dear,

Speaker 1 for old

Speaker 1 lands I

Speaker 1 will

Speaker 1 take

Speaker 1 a cup of

Speaker 1 kindness yet

Speaker 1 for old

Speaker 1 lands I

Speaker 1 don't even like that song and I loved it. I liked the song

Speaker 1 Thank you. That was very special.
Oh, that was good.

Speaker 2 It was really fun to sing that for the first time two days ago.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 2 because it was like, oh, we don't really know it yet, but that was already so fun.

Speaker 2 I like to picture my whole year when I hear it.

Speaker 1 Wow. The one you just had, or when you're about to get it.

Speaker 2 The one I just had, it's bye.

Speaker 1 It's bye to the year.

Speaker 1 You were doing like the Apple photo. Yeah, Jesus.

Speaker 1 And what's the verdict on this year?

Speaker 2 Oh, it was a complicated year. Yeah.
But

Speaker 2 a good, a building year.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 building year.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Deep.

Speaker 1 Ask me.

Speaker 2 Yeah, what's the verdict on this year for you, Doc?

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 It was

Speaker 1 good. It was good.

Speaker 2 It was a building year.

Speaker 1 I'm stronger for it.

Speaker 1 What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. No, I had a great fucking year.
I really did.

Speaker 1 We had a lot of fun trips.

Speaker 1 Kids just get more and more and more interesting and funny and more fun to be around. Yeah.
We had a great year work-wise. Yeah.
And then a great year. It was a good year.
And I can't get it.

Speaker 1 The big one. Oh, we should get.

Speaker 2 Erica, we have a closer. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We're going to bring in a closer, closing pitcher.

Speaker 1 And this, a lot of people know Perfect 10 Charlie, and they know. He's married to Erica, and they've met Perfect 10 Charlie on here.
And now you're going to get to meet Erica on here.

Speaker 2 And if you listened to Synced, Erica had made an appearance on Synced, and people were like, She needs to be on every episode.

Speaker 1 She's a boss bitch. She's a tough, cool, radical,

Speaker 1 the kind of gal that Kristen falls in love with.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Erica's a very powerful presence,

Speaker 2 very decisive, assertive. She's also can she can wail.
She's got such a beautiful voice.

Speaker 1 Hi, Erica. You're no stranger to some side zippies.
Welcome. I think it's just B for me, right?

Speaker 1 Christmas time is here.

Speaker 1 Happiness and cheer.

Speaker 1 Oh, this is oh, cozy.

Speaker 2 Cozy. It's tight.

Speaker 1 Lucy.

Speaker 2 Cute sweater.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Hi, Erica.
Welcome to the program. We gave you an intro, but you weren't in the room.
No, I'm here now. We're saying your praises.
Pull that mic a little closer to yourself.

Speaker 1 Although you got a big old

Speaker 1 powerful.

Speaker 1 You'll love it.

Speaker 1 I'll turtle it.

Speaker 2 Well, Rob said he's going to ride it. Do you want this for when you ride it?

Speaker 1 He's going to ride it. He's going to what?

Speaker 1 Anyways, in our intro, we said you're

Speaker 1 people know Perfect 10 Charlie. Yes.
And now the beautiful bride, the

Speaker 1 right here. Takes a big woman to live up to those looks, and boy, does she do it.

Speaker 2 I'm a pitch hitter today.

Speaker 1 Get it? Get it.

Speaker 1 Musical theater jokes.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 earlier you said pitch hitter.

Speaker 2 I did.

Speaker 1 And so she said she's a pitch hitter.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like a

Speaker 1 hitter.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's a really cool theater kids are typically cool.

Speaker 1 They're generally rocking.

Speaker 1 That's right.

Speaker 1 They're bullies, though. That's the only thing I don't like about them.
They're always shoving guys in lockers.

Speaker 1 And then singing about it.

Speaker 1 Okay. I also just want to say, for my money, this is my favorite Christmas song in the world.
This is number one.

Speaker 1 You say that right before we started. Pressure.
Yeah. Oh, that's too much pressure.
Okay, I just broke up. I broke one of the rules.
One of the

Speaker 1 theater rules.

Speaker 2 But I love that you love it, it, and that is why it was important to get it. Because Charlie Brown Christmas is very important to us.

Speaker 2 It's the one to watch.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's who brought you to the party. That's right.
It's our first Christmas cartoon. That's right.
I'm going to tell a one-second story.

Speaker 1 My mother encouraged me to do this. Back in the old days, I was trying to explain this to our children, and they could not conceptualize what I was saying.

Speaker 1 I was like, girls, there was only three channels. That's it.
And if you didn't see it, you missed it. And there was no way to record it.
And these bastards in Detroit, you had two, four, and seven.

Speaker 1 They would counter program so you'd have the grinch on channel two at eight and you would have charlie brown and channel four at eight and you had to pick and you were seven and it was not cool and my mother said you should write a letter to the stations and i did i wrote a letter to the stations and they did not respond

Speaker 1 well but i do think streaming might be a result of that letter right and now you can watch it it's on what is it on apple plus oh right now charlie brown's on apple plus and i think everyone can watch it for free right now i think that particular cartoon can be watched on Apple Plus.

Speaker 2 And it's the one to watch.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Charlie Black. I watched it last night.

Speaker 1 Christmas time

Speaker 1 is here.

Speaker 1 Happy Lisa.

Speaker 1 Fun for all that children call their favorite time of year.

Speaker 1 Snowflakes in the air.

Speaker 1 carols everywhere,

Speaker 1 olden times and ancient rhymes of songs and dreams to share

Speaker 1 sleigh bells in the air,

Speaker 1 beauty everywhere

Speaker 1 fuel tied by the fireside

Speaker 1 and joyful memories there.

Speaker 1 Christmas time

Speaker 1 is here.

Speaker 1 Happiness

Speaker 1 and cheer.

Speaker 1 Fun for all

Speaker 1 that children call

Speaker 1 their favorite time

Speaker 1 of

Speaker 1 year.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 There we go.

Speaker 1 Now we're talking. Plus, now Christmas is here.

Speaker 2 Amazing.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. Beautiful.
Guys, that is so hard. What they just did.

Speaker 1 That is so cool. This was Kristen.
She in

Speaker 1 you guys just did this in your choir class. So she's just coming off of hearing it with like 25 of you singing.

Speaker 1 So I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart because I know that's not how you want to do it.

Speaker 2 And Dax was like, like, just sing it alone.

Speaker 1 I was like, I cannot sing it alone. That will ruin the integrity of the arrangement.
I must have Erica popping into the alto part.

Speaker 2 That doesn't align with your values.

Speaker 1 It's a good time for defying it. That's right.
That's right.

Speaker 2 Tell us about your choir class. You want to tell the world about your choir class?

Speaker 1 So fun.

Speaker 2 Well, we were talking a long time ago about how if you're an adult and you have hobbies, like you like to dance, or maybe you played baseball in high school, you could go do that again.

Speaker 2 You could join a league.

Speaker 1 You could, you know, you could take on a professional.

Speaker 2 You can do that just for fun. And so we were like, you can't do that anywhere singing wise.

Speaker 1 And so we're like, well, do we have to make it, right?

Speaker 2 And Erica, who knows everything about publicity and marketing, she was like, let's beta test this. And after I looked that up, I was like, yes, let's do that.

Speaker 2 And we like basically emailed, DMed a bunch of like local singers that we know, some that aren't local, some people that we know that have different jobs, but just like really, really wail.

Speaker 2 And one of the coolest things is when we first started, and now it's like probably 35 of us. Yeah.
And about 25 or 28 come every week. And it's like, that's sort of rotating.

Speaker 1 You got a bogey too, right? You guys all have a guy no one knows, which I love. Oh, now you probably do.
He's the best.

Speaker 2 He's the absolute best. We don't know how he got there, but he's incredible.
And now, and he helps us set up and it's wonderful. He bakes bread.

Speaker 1 Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
And the...

Speaker 2 You're not supposed to eat stuff from strangers.

Speaker 1 Well, we are eating. In this choir, We're eating a lot of stuff from strangers.
Everybody bakes something. We bring wine.

Speaker 2 We sit around. We harmonize.

Speaker 1 If you don't love a potlight, look, it's not for you.

Speaker 2 And one of the first times when we were at a theater, there was a security guard at the theater. And halfway through the class, he starts

Speaker 2 just riffing. Oh, okay.
And it was the most beautiful

Speaker 2 sounds we had ever. And we were like, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
What? Sir? Sir?

Speaker 1 Get on in here.

Speaker 2 He was singing with us. We've had a lot of drop-ins of like very cool people.
and it's just been

Speaker 2 very soul-fulfilling.

Speaker 1 Lovely.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's a great group.

Speaker 1 It's a great thing, you guys.

Speaker 2 It's so casual.

Speaker 2 We just socialize. It's great.

Speaker 1 I can't go to my AA meeting anymore, but that's okay. I'm sure we've prioritized the right thing.

Speaker 1 We're done with Mondays. We're done with Mondays.
We're done with Mondays. It's going back to its original day.

Speaker 1 I'm so glad you guys have that. Kristen's always so happy when she comes home from that.
It's so nurturing to her, her beautiful little soul. Mama, thank you.
You put this whole thing together.

Speaker 1 You rehearsed. You swindled everyone into coming and doing this.
And thank you so much for doing that. Erica, thank you for popping by.
Gabe, thank you so much. Jacob, come on now.

Speaker 1 Vobe, even more excited. Anna.

Speaker 1 I'm off mic, but oh.

Speaker 1 Okay, girls. Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 You're using your mic for bed.

Speaker 1 Of course, I am.

Speaker 1 All right, I love you guys. guys.
Merry Christmas. Happy holidays.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Love everyone here.

Speaker 1 May everyone get a dyno this year.

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Speaker 1 Mom and dad, uh, mom and mom, dad and dad, whatever, parents, are you about to spend five hours in the car with your beloved kids this holiday season? Driving to old granny's house?

Speaker 1 I'm setting the scene. I'm picturing screaming, fighting, back-to-back hours of the K-pop Demon Hunters soundtrack on repeat.

Speaker 1 Well, when your ears start to bleed, I have the perfect thing to keep you from rolling out of that moving vehicle. Something for the whole family.
He's filled with laughs. He's filled with rage.

Speaker 1 The OG Green Gronk give it up for me, James Austin Johnson, as the Grinch.

Speaker 1 And like any insufferable influencer these days, I'm bringing my crew of lesser talented friends along for the ride with A-list guests like Gronk, Mark Hamill, and the Jonas Brothers, whoever they are.

Speaker 1 There's a little bit of something for everyone. Listen to Tis the Grinch Holiday Podcast, wherever you get your podcasts.