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Speaker 2 Guys,

Speaker 2 what a good idea, huh? Listen, let me be the first to wish you happy Christmas Eve morning. Yeah, happy Christmas Eve morning to you guys.
What are you guys going to do tonight?

Speaker 2 You know what we're going to do?

Speaker 1 We're all going to see each other, I think. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Uh-huh. Happy Christmas Eve.
No, no, not me.

Speaker 2 I'm not going to see you guys tonight because I'm not with you guys right now. Oh, well, that's okay.
We'll just zoom in. But we're going to zoom in.

Speaker 2 Let's make this a little, our little family tradition. That no matter what, we do a little Zoom sees with our fams and stuff.
Yeah. I would love that.
I would love that. Let's do it.

Speaker 2 Do you guys have an ugly Christmas sweater? I went to an ugly Christmas sweater party once, and I went on Etsy and bought one for like freaking $300. It like plugs into a battery pack and everything.

Speaker 2 It's got lights and stuff on it. Really? Yeah, I might dust that thing off and

Speaker 2 break it out for the night. I'm not a big fan of the

Speaker 2 ugly Christmas sweater thing.

Speaker 2 But I will say this. I do own one that somebody had made for me.
It's really nice.

Speaker 1 That's just a sweater.

Speaker 2 And it says, Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.

Speaker 2 But like in nice Christmassy letters, I swear to God, it's really cool. It's cute.
Speaking of sweaters, by the way, it's Christmas Eve. It is Christmas Eve, and I do want to say this.

Speaker 2 My mom has been asking me a lot about the sweaters that she knitted for both you guys. She knitted me a real fetching vest.
Yes, and she wants photos. Will you guys do me a favor?

Speaker 2 It will make her Christmas morning if I can tomorrow morning show her a picture from each of you just wearing this.

Speaker 2 I'm going to give your mother a picture of me in a sweater vest so she can go off and do her mad posting like she's she's so known for. She put mad

Speaker 2 social media profile on her. She's not posting anything.

Speaker 2 She wants to see, she spent weeks knitting those sweaters for you guys.

Speaker 2 I'll totally do that.

Speaker 1 Wait, do you guys open gifts on Christmas Eve or Christmas?

Speaker 2 Christmas Eve? We'll do one on Christmas Eve, but we'll just morning one. Just to release the valve a little bit? A little bit for the kids, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, we don't.
We'll do that, too.

Speaker 2 But we'll do Christmas morning. And it's just a matter of tomorrow morning, it's going to be keep, especially the littles,

Speaker 2 keeping them from just. I just want to to be able to get past 8.30 in the morning, you know, without all the gifts unwrapped and like, well, now what do we do? I know.

Speaker 2 Like, just stretch it out a little bit. Yeah.
I know.

Speaker 1 And watch TV. It's just another day.
It ends up being just another day.

Speaker 2 Just another day to watch TV. It's like when Sean, every time Sean buys a new house, it's just another place to watch TV.

Speaker 2 It is really true. I mean, if

Speaker 2 any, any link I've ever seen of any piece of real estate, it's always like, where's the TV room? Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 Where would I be watching it?

Speaker 2 It's like when we're on tour, remember every time we go into any hotel, Jason would find the couch that was perpendicular to the TV, and you'd have the remote, and he's like, this is my spot. Uh-huh.

Speaker 2 Well, you know what? On Christmas, you can do whatever you want. And Christmas is such a magical time of the year.
And I feel really blessed that we got our guests who we got today.

Speaker 2 And that we do have somebody here who knows a thing or two about Christmas. This is somebody who lives way up north in the northernmost part of the world.

Speaker 2 It's the North Pole. We are so lucky.
Without further ado, you guys, it's Santa Claus. What? Wait, what? We're talking to Santa Claus.
Is there a real Santa Claus? Well, Santa. Santa, this is.

Speaker 2 So you're just resting up before... Are you smoking a butt?

Speaker 2 How are you guys? Listen, I don't have a lot of time, right?

Speaker 2 And he's Persian. No, I'm not Persian.
What are you talking about?

Speaker 2 St. Nicholas, a Serbian.
I'm Serbian. I'm sick and tired of everyone thinking Santa Claus is American, English, whatever.
Look in the history books. It's always been Serbian.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Saint Nick. So

Speaker 2 Saint Nicholas. St.
Nikolai. He's Serbian.
From St. Nicholas,

Speaker 2 light of three.

Speaker 2 Family's from Belgrade. And, you know, it's always been Serbian.
But look, I don't have a lot of fucking time, man.

Speaker 2 Oh, God. Is it true that your slave used to get pulled by goats then instead of reindeer? That's when we, early days, that's all we had.
And then

Speaker 2 my fifth cousin,

Speaker 2 he said, what about the reindeer? And

Speaker 2 just off the top of his head. We're like,

Speaker 2 sure, we can eat them. He's like, no, no, no, they can fly.
And he's like, shut up.

Speaker 2 Shut up.

Speaker 1 Why do you have reading glasses on? You're not reading anything.

Speaker 2 I don't know. Look.
Do you know how old I am?

Speaker 2 Every day I wake up in a ball of pain, okay

Speaker 2 and i can't see four feet in front of my face so so santa you got a hell of a

Speaker 2 glasses you got a real you got a hell of a night ahead of you i mean this is this is your day this is your biggest day of the year right santa this without question what kind of question is that well here it comes only day of the year that counts and you know let me tell you something the strike us okay

Speaker 2 because here's what happened you you guys you know, you do your strikes and everyone loves Hollywood and then the elves start getting ideas. Oh, you guys,

Speaker 2 the elves tried to organize? Elves totally organize. And look, I can't do what I do without the elves.
There's no question. Okay, so I respect them.
Sure. But be honest.

Speaker 2 But be honest, what else is an elf going to do? It's the only, they don't have any other job skills. Right.

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 they could do stand-in work for young actors. I guess.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I guess.

Speaker 2 Wait, Santa, Santa, Santa, are you willing to go on record?

Speaker 2 Did Fran Drescher get to the Elves? Friend, you know what? Let's, that isn't.

Speaker 2 I dropped my cigarette.

Speaker 2 I think it's in your beer. You're on fire, Santa.

Speaker 2 That is a dirty word in our household, Fran Drescher.

Speaker 2 She got them all riled up. And then next thing you know, okay, so.
Here we go. It's always been standard.
They get like four

Speaker 2 sugar plums. Right.

Speaker 2 They wanted a break. They wanted, you know, they wanted standardized working hours.
They wanted to, instead of a 22-hour day, they wanted 21.

Speaker 2 Are they concerned about AI at all? Well, AI is that it's here to stay. Yeah, right.

Speaker 2 So you

Speaker 2 want them. That's a remote gift.
He's got a log starter to like.

Speaker 1 Wow. When did you start smoking?

Speaker 2 I got to tell you, not until the last 10 years, because

Speaker 2 you know what what the number one gift now is? What's that?

Speaker 2 High-end mattresses.

Speaker 2 Yes, nectar.

Speaker 2 So I gotta load them.

Speaker 2 I gotta load mattresses.

Speaker 2 So, oh boy, that takes up a lot of space on the slay, I bet. It goes anything from Paw Patrol and Bluey.

Speaker 2 And then the number three is mattresses. That's everyone's list.
They want a high-end mattress. So I'm like, fine.
But do you realize how much time and effort? I mean, I can only imagine.

Speaker 2 I'm cramming mattresses through doorway. I'm like, I'm busting up windows.

Speaker 2 I'm tearing through French doors, anything to get the mattress in. Because they don't go down the chimney.
Only you go down the chimney, right?

Speaker 2 You can't roll them up and put them down there like that. Yes.
And what's crazy is a lot of mattress guys, they're like, they won't do flights of stairs. They get to the house.

Speaker 2 They're like, no, we don't go down. The yes won't for sure.
So I've got three mattresses strapped to my back,

Speaker 2 and

Speaker 2 I am this close to you know calling it.

Speaker 2 outfit. Yes.
Well, so then you do.

Speaker 2 You might call it quit. This close.

Speaker 2 This could be the last year. Wow.
There's a very good chance. Well, do you do anything? Unless they revolutionize the mattress.
What if you just bring a bunch of yoga mats?

Speaker 2 You think people will go for that? I can't. Instead? Maybe.
Now, what kind of... Do you do any carbo loading? By the way,

Speaker 2 I don't want a ton of letters to the North Pole telling me that elves can't do anything but work on toys and build mattresses. Okay, I don't want to hear about it.
No, dude. Okay,

Speaker 2 we'll reinforce that afterwards.

Speaker 1 How do you spend your time after you deliver all the toys and the gifts and everything? How do you, what's your down? Hold on.

Speaker 2 Hold on, boy. Real quick, hold on.
I need to pay the bills. I'm sorry.
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Yeah.

Speaker 2 That read. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Is that a GMC sleigh that you're rocking? Did I get a thumbs up from your audio team? Do you think that it was good? It came through clean.

Speaker 2 It came through clean, guys. Is it clean? Yeah, it's been

Speaker 2 super clean. It came through perfect.
Great. Thank you.
Now,

Speaker 2 Sean, Sean had a great question.

Speaker 2 My question is: do you have any sort of prep that you do to get ready for tonight as far as like you know, stretching out or eating a bunch of carbs?

Speaker 2 And then Sean wanted to know what do you do to relax after your big night? Like, do you have a spa day tomorrow? I'll do, yeah, I'll definitely do a coat blunge tomorrow.

Speaker 2 Do a coat lunch that's just right there outside the house up north.

Speaker 2 Mostly, I'm just I have a lot of lists. I have a lot of coordinates navigating.
I have to figure out, you know, I've got

Speaker 2 Jason. I don't know if you know, I have to do the whole world in one night, okay? So

Speaker 2 I got to get my ducks in a row. And I, in fact, it's unbelievable that I'm talking to you right now.

Speaker 2 We've really

Speaker 1 do you ever wear anything else besides that outfit, or is that the outfit you wear every single night?

Speaker 2 Sean, I have to tell you something. I don't know the other two so much, but you, my friend,

Speaker 2 you're very talented. Growing up in Serbia as a young man, we only had two channels.
And we loved you in Three's company. Thank you.
I mean, what

Speaker 2 you did

Speaker 2 was, and that was a very subversive show. We knew all the things you guys were saying.
Yeah, sure.

Speaker 2 And the commentary on American propaganda and consumerism and the fact that Jack was a spy for the U.S. government.
Anyway, thank you.

Speaker 2 Thank you for getting it. Thank you for getting it.
And just right, and everything behind it, I remember the song, all the kisses are hers and his and hers. Yes.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 2 That was very racy for Serbia.

Speaker 2 That was good shit.

Speaker 2 Hey, have you ever seen the film Elf? I've always wondered that. Have you ever seen that?

Speaker 2 I don't like any of the Christmas movies. No, I haven't seen it.

Speaker 2 You should try that one. That one is very, very good.
Very good. The one I watched and I absolutely loved was A Divas Christmas Carol starring Diana Ross.

Speaker 2 That one is the most realistic one

Speaker 2 I've seen so far. Excuse me for laughing.
I'm not laughing.

Speaker 2 But Diana Ross,

Speaker 2 she can sing. Yep.
But boy, can she act.

Speaker 2 Okay, well, we'll have to check that out.

Speaker 2 Yeah, please, please do. If you're going to see what was it called again?

Speaker 2 A Divas Christmas Carol. Diana Ross.
Sure. A Divas Christmas Carol.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 So you don't care for any of the actors who have portrayed you in films, like the... No, of course it's all crap.
It's all bullshit.

Speaker 2 And no one, you would think someone would get on a Zoom with me and say, hey, what's it really like? But no, you know, and

Speaker 2 whatever. I don't have time to talk about this.
I know you don't have time. So let me just ask you really quick, because I know you do have to go.

Speaker 2 What are you going to go do? What do you do to go and kind of relax after your cold plunge? What do you do to kind of

Speaker 2 release Valve?

Speaker 2 Do you and the Mrs. Mrs.
Santa Claus, you guys, do you guys do anything to just kind of take? We have a timeshare in Boca, so we'll do that. Okay.

Speaker 2 But seriously, I say don't look at me till St. Patrick's Day.
Okay. I just

Speaker 2 don't even look at me. You're a wreck.
I'm a wreck. I'm an absolute wreck.
Do you have kids?

Speaker 2 No, we never got around to to it.

Speaker 2 We never got around to it.

Speaker 2 How many sigs do you get through on this? Oh,

Speaker 2 I go through. I mean, this is on my wish list, parliaments.
And I go through.

Speaker 2 It must be difficult to get those things fired up once you're up there on the sleigh. Yep, once you're in high altitude,

Speaker 2 and that's when I get that nicotine withdrawal.

Speaker 2 Right around Southeast Asia, it's

Speaker 2 just go right to the patch. That's a real kick in the pants.
Yes, or the gum. Or the gum, but the gum will get caught in the beard.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You sound a little like Will Arnett

Speaker 1 now that you're older and you're smoking more.

Speaker 2 Well, but it has an effect on the vocal cords. I mean,

Speaker 2 how old were you when your beard turned white?

Speaker 2 19.

Speaker 2 That's nice. 19.

Speaker 2 Who are the naughtiest kids?

Speaker 2 Just what area of the world do you find the naughtiest kids? I'll give you their names right now. Brian Gardner,

Speaker 2 Patrick Russo,

Speaker 2 Jerry Hampton,

Speaker 2 Tom Robinson,

Speaker 2 Alexander Nails.

Speaker 2 Alexander Nails.

Speaker 2 So they're getting, what do they get? Do they get John Malcolm?

Speaker 2 Do they really get coal, or is that just a wives' tale? They get coal. They get coal.
I can't find coal as easily as and it's no one wants to. Yeah, the Wokesters.
They got rid of all the coal.

Speaker 2 With the mattress, it weighs down the sleigh and etc.

Speaker 2 So, you know what I find that they were really bummed out about fruit? I give them fruit. Oh.

Speaker 2 Give them a pineapple or a kamquat.

Speaker 2 Overly ripe or not ripe at all. It can't be or a lemon.
And sometimes if I'll put a little inscription on note on a lemon and I say, suck it.

Speaker 2 Just to personalize it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 What's the dumbest letter you ever got? Do you remember any of your dumb letters? The dumbest letter I ever got was from Jimmy Carter's brother, Billy Carter. Yep.
And

Speaker 2 he

Speaker 2 wanted

Speaker 2 to. I don't even remember what it was, but I just remember thinking, this guy's a jackass.
And,

Speaker 2 you know, clearly banged up. It proved to be true.

Speaker 1 And having no kids of yourself and having only to like deal with them all these years, do you still love kids? Do you still love being around them? Like, do you look forward to this year?

Speaker 2 Look, I come off like I'm in a bad mood. I love kids.
I do.

Speaker 2 The kids are why I come back to it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Because, you know, for the most part, the kids are, they are the future, right? Right. Yes.
I guess so. I mean, it feels like you're just quoting a song, like a Whitney Houston song.

Speaker 2 All the kids are the future.

Speaker 2 And it could get all the kids to hold hands around the world

Speaker 2 and sing a song in harmony. Oh, no.

Speaker 2 What a better place this would be. This is a Coca-Cola.
If we could get animated polar bears along with kids. Oh, my God.
This is a Coca-Cola. And if the polar bear drank a bottle of pop,

Speaker 2 how would you?

Speaker 2 What are you making in endorsements pre-tax? What are you pulling into your gross, would you estimate?

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 talking

Speaker 2 euros?

Speaker 2 Euros is fine. We'll take it in

Speaker 2 pre-text?

Speaker 2 Pre-text. Well,

Speaker 2 the Serbian tax system is...

Speaker 2 I'm making about 47 million.

Speaker 2 47 million Euros. Gross.
Lots of trouble finding things to spend that on up north. I'm I'm about to buy Chelsea.
Chelsea, South Carolina.

Speaker 2 Chelsea Football Club. Yeah, you got to bid in.

Speaker 2 So here's the thing. If that goes through.
Right.

Speaker 2 I'm done. You're done with Christmas.
I'm done with all Christmas. You hand over the gig to who? To the missus? I'll hand it over to me.
I'll hand it over to, you know. I don't care.

Speaker 2 I'll hand it over to you, three jokers.

Speaker 2 Can you make this plea? If you buy Chelsea, if that ends up happening, I know it's in the works and you don't want to talk too much about it because it's still in the works. No, I can't.

Speaker 2 I really can't. You can't say too much, but maybe just ask me this.
If you retain control of Chelsea Football Club, will you try to get American Christian Pulisich back on the squad?

Speaker 2 That will be my first movie. That's your first movie.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wait, Santa, I want to know:

Speaker 1 what does somebody get you as a gift?

Speaker 2 Like the guy who has everything.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well,

Speaker 2 obviously, I'm never going to say no to parliaments.

Speaker 2 I like a comfortable walking shoe

Speaker 2 like Clark's or

Speaker 2 Johnston's. Sure.

Speaker 2 Have you tried the

Speaker 2 oh gosh, what's the

Speaker 2 I should know this? How about the shoes that you don't have to reach down to put on? Do you

Speaker 2 have a step?

Speaker 2 Those work for you? I love a good sketcher, yep.

Speaker 2 There may be, I can't say anything, but fingers crossed, there may be a skechers collab with Snoop in the future.

Speaker 2 With you,

Speaker 2 me and St. Nicholas, Nicolaus,

Speaker 2 and Snoop. Wow.
Yeah. Wow.
Huh. Now, so we're making news.
Is that okay to report that? That's okay. That's okay.
That's that's like we're on the five-yard line on that one.

Speaker 2 All right, so Santa, again, before we let you go, uh, what are you, what are you looking at? What's your, what's your uh, when are you looking to be wheels up? Uh, wheels up, we've got to start.

Speaker 2 Um, oh, God, let me see. What's that?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 No, I know.

Speaker 2 What happened? No, just

Speaker 2 my

Speaker 2 chief navigator says there's

Speaker 2 that

Speaker 2 Icelandic volcano erupted again. So we're going to have to go around radio.
Oh, you're going to have to circumvent. Okay.
So we'll probably have to leave three o'clock my time. 3 p.m.

Speaker 2 3 p.m. your time.

Speaker 2 Here's another sequence. In order to deliver all the toys in time, I have to do do some of it in daylight, and it's just you know, wow, oh, the kids must hate that.

Speaker 2 And the kids sometimes see me and I have to threaten them. I'm like, don't tell anyone, or you won't get another gift.

Speaker 2 Oh, so kids have seen you, but you've the reason it hasn't come out is because you've threatened that they'll never get another gift.

Speaker 2 And I also have their little uh memory wiper from Mac. That little machine

Speaker 2 started with you, huh? I have that, yeah.

Speaker 2 I have that,

Speaker 2 I have that.

Speaker 2 I love that you're Serbian. I can't wait to spread that around.
Are you spending a lot of time back in Belgrade these days?

Speaker 2 Well, look,

Speaker 2 it's not a safe place to be. It's still pretty hot.
Sure. Yeah, it's awesome.
Yes. And

Speaker 2 I,

Speaker 2 you know, I have to roll heavy when I go to Belgrade.

Speaker 2 The elves look sweet, yes, but they are they are well trained. And

Speaker 2 and they know

Speaker 2 they know how to handle themselves if you want to yes,

Speaker 2 sure. Do you know personally? But we'll stop, we'll go to Belgrade, we'll go, we'll go to Nobu and uh we'll say hi to people

Speaker 2 and uh yeah, we'll do all the usual places and maybe have a meal with Novak Jokovich or you know maybe with the Joker, yeah, sure,

Speaker 2 and uh

Speaker 2 some of Eli Nastasi's family. Oh, no kidding, yeah, yeah, that's funny.
He's a Romanian,

Speaker 2 Yeah, he is a manian. But he spends time in.
He comes over for the shops.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he loves the shopping.

Speaker 2 Okay, well, Santa, listen, again, obviously, it's a really busy day. Is there any message that you want to sort of leave our listener with or the kids of the world just on this

Speaker 2 epic? Well, yeah, I think I said it. I want all the kids to hold hands around the world and sing a song, peace and joy and harmony.
All right.

Speaker 2 Brought to us by who?

Speaker 2 By Cook. Coke Zero.
The new Coke Zero. The new Coke Zero.
It might be, and I'm not just saying this. I'm not just saying this.
It might be the best Coke ever. I'm not just saying it.

Speaker 2 Okay. I'm not just saying it.

Speaker 2 Well, listen, Santa, what a treat for us to be able to spend just a bit part of Christmas. Yeah, it was a treat for you.
It's a waste of time for me. So I know.

Speaker 2 I'm going to look. Are we done? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Listen, best of luck tonight. I hope you have.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
So safe light. Oh, he's out.

Speaker 2 Oh, he's gone. He left so quickly.
Well, we wish him luck. We hope he sobers up just a little bit before he gets behind the reins.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 To all our fans and everywhere and from Santa, we can speak for Santa. Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas, everyone. We love you guys.
Merry Christmas to you guys. I love you guys so much.

Speaker 2 Love you guys.

Speaker 2 Have a great, great rest of the Christmas Eve and an incredible day tomorrow.

Speaker 1 Merry Christmas, you guys, and happy holidays. We love you.

Speaker 2 And let's just say a very, very special Christmas.

Speaker 2 Bye. Bye.

Speaker 2 Bye.

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