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Powers Point Podcast Christmas Spectacular: Celebrating Songs, Gifts, and Traditions
Have you ever wondered what makes Christmas truly magical? Join us on the Powers Point Podcast Christmas Spectacular as we gather with an amazing lineup of guests including Seth, Jim, Keith, Kiley, Gavin, Mike, Shannelle, and Cove Boy, to celebrate the holiday season in style. Experience the warmth and nostalgia of the season as we share our favorite Christmas songs, from Gwen Stefani's festive tunes to the timeless classics of Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers. Cove Boy even brings a special treat with his musical piece, "Cove Boy Christmas," adding an extra layer of cheer to our holiday playlist discussions.
Join our lively chat as we unwrap the joy of giving and receiving meaningful Christmas gifts. From nostalgic childhood treasures like the iconic Jurassic Park T-Rex, to heartfelt presents that honor lost loved ones, we explore the sentimental value behind each cherished gift. Kylie and Jim share their own memorable presents that sparked joy and connection, while stories of encounters with music legends add a rock 'n' roll twist to the festive fun. Through these reflections, we highlight the importance of keeping family traditions alive and creating new memories that last a lifetime.
The Christmas spirit doesn't end there! Our festive gathering also includes a fun-filled Christmas trivia session, challenging each other's knowledge of holiday films and traditions. As we exchange festive goodbyes, we raise a toast to loved ones who have passed and share heartfelt well wishes for a safe and joyful holiday season. The episode wraps up on a serene note with a beautiful rendition of "Ave Maria," leaving you with a sense of warmth, gratitude, and the comforting glow of holiday spirit. Cozy up with some hot chocolate and join us for this heartwarming holiday celebration—you won't want to miss it!
Thank you for joining us on today's show, as always, we appreciate each and every one of you! Talk to you soon.
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On this episode of the Powers Point Podcast, gather around the fireplace. Scott has invited many friends to talk about favorite Christmas songs, movies, tv specials, favorite Christmas gifts and memories, and a little bit more. So grab some hot chocolate, snuggle up and enjoy the Powers Point Podcast Christmas episode. Hey Scott, give us some holiday jingle.
Speaker 2:I wanted to share a little holiday spirit.
Speaker 3:This is my song. I hope that you hear it. Christmas means so much to me, the most important family. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my loved ones, far and near. Keep in mind the ones you love and don't forget the Lord above. Born in a manger, he lay in the hay. A star shined bright to lead the way. Can you hear the children singing? Can you hear the sleigh bells ringing? All around, the lights are blinking, music plays, folks are drinking, time to laugh, shout and sing.
Speaker 3:Thank, thank for everything. I wish happiness, I wish joy for every girl and for every boy who are waiting anxiously for the gifts on the tree. Crack of dawn eyes open, wide sight in the skull deep inside, smiles on all the children's faces, lots of food and you'll die graceful. In my mind forever lasts memories from Christmas past, peace on earth and mercy. Mild, mild God and sinners reconciled. This is Kovai and I want to take this time To wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. Remember Christmas is not all about presents and gifts. It is a time of gathering, rejoicing and spending time With family, friends and loved ones. It's time to be thankful for all that we are blessed with, to realize the things that are worth most cannot be bought in a store Peace, love and happiness, and all the best in 2014.
Speaker 4:Well, hello, hello. Welcome to the Powers Point Christmas Spectacular. I have been looking forward to this for the last couple of weeks. As Jim said at the beginning of the show, we're going to be joined by quite a few people on the show In fact, more people than I've ever had at one time and we're going to be talking about our favorite Christmas memories, favorite Christmas songs, favorite Christmas gifts. It's going to be a lot of Christmas.
Speaker 4:This show is going to be long, so sit back, enjoy. And also, I just wanted to point out the song at the beginning was done by one of our guests who's on with us today. I'm talking about the Coveboy Christmas. He put a lot of heart in this about 10 years ago. Yeah, I'd also like to thank everybody that took the time to come out on the show. We got Seth, jim, heath, riley, gavin, mike, chanel and Coveboy. So sit back, kick your feet up that is if you're not driving and just have a great Christmas time From my house to yours, from my podcast to your ears. Have a Merry Christmas. Here we go.
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Speaker 4:Let's get this started because I know everybody's got things to do except me. Let's get this started because I know everybody's got things to do except me. I gave everybody their homework Some I gave later, like Nell just got it last night or the day before. But Christmas music usually starts after Thanksgiving, unless you live in my house, because it starts in the night air. Talk about what our top four songs are. We're going to start with number four first, and I apologize for my crappy internet. Who wants to start this off? Start for four, golly.
Speaker 7:Golly, we'll have to go first. Go ahead. My fourth Christmas song is Hear this Christmas by Gwen Stefani.
Speaker 4:He sings Christmas songs. I didn't even know that.
Speaker 7:Yeah, it's often used on the Hallmark Movie Channel. I just like the way it sounds. I'm not really into Hallmark movies at all, or anything.
Speaker 8:I thought she just married guys.
Speaker 4:That was her job, it was just confessions.
Speaker 8:We're watching hallmark now, so good here, go ahead, since you're right next door um, I have no real order, I guess, but uh, I suppose my number four would be by the band slade and it's uh merry christmas. Everybody english one's kind of got a little bit of a riot. And then uh, camp freddy with uh dave devaro and scott wyland did a pretty mean cover of it later on that uh hot, wild winds christmas album no oh okay, because I like that album. Oh, we love it here too.
Speaker 4:Go ahead, mike. What do you like? This is kind of like yeah, I'm just doing number four. You're going to think this is weird, but I've never heard of Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers upon a Christmas album. Yeah, that was actually a movie, wasn't it? Oh, I don't know. I don't know if it was a movie or not, but they have this album. It's got like 30 minutes worth of Christmas songs that they wrote. Some are not written by them, but one of the songs is called A Christmas to Remember. It's an awesome album. It's a Christmas tradition in our house. It's called A Christmas to Remember. It's an awesome album. It's a Christmas tradition in our house.
Speaker 8:That's great. Did Barry Gibb write any of those? Sorry, did Barry Gibb write any of those? Like he wrote Islands in the Stream? Did he write any on that album? Oh, I don't know. From the Bee Gees.
Speaker 7:Yeah, sounds pretty jazzy. We can probably check it out. Yeah Sounds pretty jazzy, we can probably check it out.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we should check it out. How do you bring the album downstairs, actually, and see who wrote the songs? I thought it was Dolly and Kenny writing the songs and he always throws something different at us, so he just throws random facts out there. He's like my Google guy. There you go. How about you now?
Speaker 7:Have yourself a merry little Christmas with all the goodies.
Speaker 1:Love it.
Speaker 10:Classic.
Speaker 7:The original that you always hear. I don't know who it's by, but like from the 50s or 60s.
Speaker 4:Kind of like Andy Williams or.
Speaker 7:Yeah, something like that. I think I'm very well prepared for it With the fourth one.
Speaker 8:Oh, that was a good one.
Speaker 4:That's a good choice. I bet that's a classic. You know Santa From the North. Hold on which one I said Santa from the North, what's yours? I've caught three songs From the North. Hold on which one. Hold on which one I said Santa from the North.
Speaker 9:What's yours?
Speaker 4:I've got three songs, no four Start with four.
Speaker 9:Oh, I like Jingle Bells. Here Comes Santa Claus. Does Santa Claus Rain Song? Man, one song? Oh, the one that hit Santa Claus is Coming to Town.
Speaker 4:Oh, right on, that's a song about you. I get it. He might be a little too egotistical.
Speaker 8:That's a little yeah, it's a little vain Of course he'd like the song that's about himself.
Speaker 4:How about you, Mrs Claus?
Speaker 10:For me he's Fairy Tale of New York by the Pogues.
Speaker 8:That's my fourth favorite that was my number one.
Speaker 10:Yeah, it's a great song that is a great song.
Speaker 8:It is so hard to listen to, though, isn't it?
Speaker 10:yeah, it is. Yeah, yeah it is. It reminds me of growing up.
Speaker 4:It was always played in the UK, so very popular and Seth, I'm probably going to have to say Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms classic one. I've always liked that one, it figures. I loaned him one of my webcams and it keeps going out on him, just like my internet. For me it's from a cartoon from my youth. It's the Chipmunks' Christmas. Don't Be Late.
Speaker 10:Oh, that one's good. Oh yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he says he just wants a hula hoop. Yeah, all right, kylie, back up to you.
Speaker 7:Are we still on songs, or Okay? My third pick is Underneath the Tree by Kelly Clarkson. This is just another one that I like, because I just like the way it sounds. I mean it has like a nice little strumming beat to it, you know.
Speaker 8:Also another one I didn't know would be music.
Speaker 4:You want to go tell Birdie to come on.
Speaker 9:Oh, hell, yeah, yeah, I have to go anyway.
Speaker 4:I have some other kids wanting me to video chat with them, as they're Right right, I know you're super busy man, so head out and then I'll come back in. All right it was great, that was great, that is great. We miss him already and I'm still waiting for my bike, my story, to start yelling at him. For that would have been classic. You could swear man, I don't care, no more.
Speaker 4:Back in the day it used to be like no, no, no, don't say anything. And I think, yeah, I think he like Back to me, correct?
Speaker 7:Yeah.
Speaker 8:You're the next one. Okay, uh, for my next choice I'm choosing, uh, stevie wonder someday at christmas, and uh, with that one I give a shout out to my buddy, uh, dominic zaroza from letter kenny, he's. He's also a big fan of that song, good guy he's a really good actor too.
Speaker 7:Go ahead mike.
Speaker 4:My third favorite I just thought of it is Baby. It's Cold Outside.
Speaker 7:They're still in all my songs.
Speaker 4:What do you mean that's on your list?
Speaker 7:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Oh, it's like. One of my top three favorites is Baby, it's Cold Outside. I know everybody canceled it for a while because they didn't actually understand the meaning. They all took it too literally, but it's still a classic. I love it. Zooey Deschanel covered that song. That's the other guy from the movie Alps. They did a really good rendition of it, yeah, when they were in the bathroom. Yeah, nell, what's your next one?
Speaker 7:Hard Candy Christmas by Dolly Parton, that's another song off that Christmas album.
Speaker 8:We'll be checking that one out.
Speaker 4:Hey Birdie, you just missed out on Santa. Gavin put his head down and Birdie disappeared. Wish him away with Christmas magic.
Speaker 7:You're so disappointed you didn't get to see Santa.
Speaker 4:He's now saying that his speaker's not working. How is?
Speaker 10:that Doesn't make any sense, does it?
Speaker 4:It just worked right. Yeah, put some headphones in. Hence why he doesn't come on the podcast. Gavin, what's the next one for you?
Speaker 10:uh, driving home for christmas by chris ria.
Speaker 4:It's a great song what's the name of that?
Speaker 10:artist chris ria. I've never heard that. Yeah, you know the song.
Speaker 8:I imagine everyone knows the song yeah, my dad played that for me yesterday and they actually on youtube.
Speaker 10:They have it mislabeled as being by mark lanigan yeah, I mean it's probably been covered by a bunch of different people but chris it was definitely the original version.
Speaker 8:It's just, uh, lanigan, are you familiar with lanigan at all? I know the name, but okay, well, he has the same kind of deep, uh raspy voice uh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10:So yeah, probably an innocent mistake, very yeah what do you got sad Seth?
Speaker 4:I say the Little Drummer Boy. I'm not sure who the original artist was for that, but whoever made the original for the Little Drummer Boy, that'd be my third, one, seth.
Speaker 10:Did you steal your mic off the top of a police car? Possibly? It's like so bright, isn't it?
Speaker 4:Hey, I got a bunch of different colors where that comes from. Oh, there you go, you're going with your address, chip David Grant. Hey, gavin, before you came on, man, his name on the screen was Stroop Time, mind you, mind you, I guess Zoom saw something in me, because I did not name myself that. Yeah, that's what I'd say too. I'm the Trojan one, I guess. Birdie Santa split. No, so sorry you missed him, but why don't you pick up where Santa left off? What's your number two?
Speaker 9:My number two would have to be Away in a Manger.
Speaker 4:Great one All right, like the original, or is there a?
Speaker 8:No, just the original Elvis does that one right?
Speaker 4:Yeah, elvis does that as well, so does Nat King Cole, so does Bing Crosby, perry Como.
Speaker 10:Well, you said Bill Cosby. You were going to say that's a slightly different feel to it, isn't it? Yeah, bill Cosby.
Speaker 4:So, Carleen, go ahead with your number two.
Speaker 7:My second song. I actually discovered it this year. It's a Marshmallow World by Dean Martin. It just has a very musical feel to it. It's not a song you could just listen to and it pulls on your heartstrings. That's kind of why I like it so much.
Speaker 4:It sounds like a diabetic song.
Speaker 7:Someone in the comments of the video did say it sounds that Dean Martin's one of the people who can sing and sound like they're intoxicated while doing it.
Speaker 4:So how about?
Speaker 8:you, keith. For my number two I'm going with the Waitress's Christmas Wrapping. It's kind of an 80s new waver. You know a fun one, definitely it's one you hear anywhere you go shopping. You hear it all the time. It's kind of an 80s new waver. You know a fun one, definitely it's one you hear anywhere you go shopping. You hear it all the time. It's very upbeat. It's a good one.
Speaker 4:The Waitress's Christmas Wrapping.
Speaker 8:Yeah, I bet, if you played it, you'll say it instantly. I know this one for sure.
Speaker 4:But Mike, what do you got, man? What's next? My second favorite Christmas song of all time is Jingle Bell Rock the Brenda Lee version I really love. I have to get that album Someday somehow. I have to get the Brenda Lee Christmas album. It's a classic. We have it at Target, but I forgot you guys don't have Target out there anymore. No, we did for like a week. We have this one guy that goes to the farmer's market and he's always got the primo stuff, so maybe I'll stop by his Nice, nice.
Speaker 8:I had a guy like that too, but they opened up dispensaries around here, so we don't talk as much anymore.
Speaker 4:No, what do you? What's your next?
Speaker 7:Well, wine got mentioned already, so should I still mention it. Maybe it's cold outside is my number one, but Mike already mentioned it.
Speaker 8:That is that one. There's so many versions, Right right Gavin what do you got man?
Speaker 10:Happy Christmas. War is over. John Lennon Love it and Yoko Ono, unfortunately. Yeah, I love it, love the whole feel of it.
Speaker 4:It's just yeah great song, you know that's the only song where I don't mind Yoko's vocals. Birdie, yeah, man. What is that? Wake up, dude, wake up, wake up, man. You're in the same position you were when you were in the mess hall last week.
Speaker 9:Yeah, man.
Speaker 4:And, by the way, you can listen to Major's Mess All Christmas episode which came out last Wednesday, last Thursday. Yeah, it's a good one. After you hear this or tune into that, give them some love, Bertie. What's the next one?
Speaker 9:Rocking around the Christmas tree, man Mine too.
Speaker 4:That's my number one. Whoa man, you skipped my number two. What is this? I think we can all scrap this now, since everybody's saying here's the one thing that I really want to know. I got it written down here Christmas gifts. We've all had some pretty amazing, hopefully Christmas gifts throughout our life. Like, what are gifts that stand out to you guys, you know, like the top of three, and you can say, oh, three to one, you don't have to wait to go around.
Speaker 1:Hello, Glad you made it bud. Thank you.
Speaker 10:What a merry bunch of elves around here and we're all lost without Scott. Now he's just disappeared. Oh, that's nice. What do we do?
Speaker 9:He does his old charm Bounce and break. Yeah, hold on.
Speaker 1:Take five. He's like a dog choking on something and he'll like run away.
Speaker 8:That is the most comfortable looking Santa Claus hat I believe I've ever seen.
Speaker 1:Oh this, I wear this every year at work. I usually stuff it with like paper towels or something and I have it standing up like to where I'm like 10 feet tall or something All right, let me change the speakers here. Oh, I guess it's not the size of the hat, Scott.
Speaker 7:Santa Claus is here. He is Santa.
Speaker 1:Claus, look at that beard. Santa powers Look at that beard.
Speaker 4:Yeah, come on, come, throw in the beard. The beard is easy to color, guys.
Speaker 9:Santa Scott, everybody Santa Scott.
Speaker 8:Why does the Santa hat make him look more, even more, like a wrestler?
Speaker 1:He does. I got the Bianca Belair thing.
Speaker 4:This is my Viagra hat.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, I guess you're happy to see us. Well, now I am. Anytime, anyone don't know what to say, just keep moving it.
Speaker 4:Had to give it a second.
Speaker 1:Just don't do it too much. You're going to go blind for Christmas.
Speaker 4:Jim, we just started doing the top three gift of ours and Kylie, let's start with you. What's your top three? And you can say them all, you know.
Speaker 7:This may be kind of narcissistic, but one of my favorite, my top three. My third favorite gift is actually this collage that my maternal grandparents got me of these art pieces that I did, because I'm an artist, I draw a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4:Keith is shaking his head. No, he's in disarray.
Speaker 8:Yeah, she's there. No, she draws, she's an artist and she draws Right of stuff. Keith is shaking his head. No, he's in disarray. Yeah, no, she draws, she's an artist and she draws.
Speaker 4:Right on. What's the number two?
Speaker 7:That would be. Have you guys ever heard of the Nintendo Wii? I had one of those when I was younger and some of my best memories came from playing Wii games with my mom, so that's why it's my second one, and how about your first? My first one, that would be Bendy and the Ink Machine. Oh, this is a funny story. I actually screamed when I opened. I screamed so loud I heard my dad's eardrums, but that was honestly what was it called Bendy and the Art Machine, bendy and the Ink Machine machine it's my favorite game and I freaked out when I got it for christmas.
Speaker 4:That one year, love you, daddy how about you kid three, two, one?
Speaker 8:okay, um, I guess in no particular order, my first would be well, yeah, I suppose number well, yeah, see, that's hard because they're all like sentimental for some reason. But, um, uh, my aunt, elaine, who's no longer with us God rest her soul uh, gave me a leather bound set of uh dominoes that I still have to this day. That was a really important one to me, one that I liked a lot. And Let me see. Number two would be there was a time when I didn't have Well, I had, I don't know, I was headed this thing for sleeping on the floor and I didn't have like a lot of mattresses and I was complaining a lot about it.
Speaker 8:And a friend of mine obviously had heard me complain about it. And on Christmas he bought me a blanket. And I was surprised because it was like you give me this huge thing. He's like here you go, buddy, and I open it up, and when I open it, he's like you're never going to go cold again. I was like, oh man, I was like you know how thoughtful you know that is. It doesn't seem like you know, necessarily it'd be anything. You know what I mean, but it's like man, that was majorly like, majorly thoughtful. Um, and the number one, I guess, would be, uh, the one that that kind of led me here to uh meeting everybody, which would be, uh, wwe 2k19, and the year that I got that, which was kind of what started me making the game characters, uh, and got us on to the social media, because I didn't, you know, I had no uh social media page and man basically didn't really have any time for it. Uh, you know, before all the famous people started calling right.
Speaker 4:Well, my top three Christmas gifts. The third one is the Jurassic Park, like 90s toys. Yeah, I got the T-Rex with the realistic skin.
Speaker 10:Mike, that's my, that's literally my number one. That's exactly the thing. One, that's exactly that thing. That's exactly what it's about Sutton or Soy.
Speaker 8:I thought there was no way that would happen here.
Speaker 10:Yeah, seriously that's it, man.
Speaker 4:I was obsessed with it the number three for me and I love that thing so much like I basically broke the roaring mechanism because I he's picked up. And then, um, the second greatest Christmas gift, with my first computer cause. It opened me up to the entire world, cause, uh, we, we got internet for it and all that stuff. When I played games on it with people, uh and uh, you remember it was like chat, where you get the different people from all over the world for free that's what I did with that computer.
Speaker 4:And then my first favorite Christmas gift of all time is Stone Temple Pilots picks that were used by Dean DeLeo, which Chanel my wife got me for crystals.
Speaker 8:That is awesome. Actually, I met Scott Weiland in 1998.
Speaker 4:Oh my God, Wow yeah.
Speaker 8:Yeah, he was at St Andrews on his solo tour.
Speaker 7:Oh wow, what was he like?
Speaker 8:Because he's like a hero of mine um, at the time he was kind of at the, you know, unless it was kind of during his trouble time. So he was to me a hair standoffish because I met him as a fan. But this is actually an interesting story. Uh, my brother is an incredible painter and he painted, uh it was about maybe seven foot tall cardboard um portrait of scott that, yeah, and he actually got to like give it to him personally. So scott was really nice to my brother and gave him a bunch of autographs, stuff like that, but to me it was like the basic fan experience, you know okay, okay I did get to meet, uh, daniel lenoir night.
Speaker 8:I don't know if he's a producer. He did records for like U2 and stuff like that. He was a really cool guy. It was probably the only time I've ever really felt starstruck, wow.
Speaker 4:Yeah, amazing, and they probably saved my life when I was a teenager.
Speaker 8:Yeah, they're awesome.
Speaker 4:They opened my whole world up to rock and roll music and and all sorts of different genres at the time and that was really really meaningful. Oh, that's, that's really cool. What do you, uh? How about you now?
Speaker 7:oh yeah, so my um, in no particular order, was, um, our first cat when we moved in together, daryl, which meant a lot to me because you you know me and I'm next for animals and it was really special to have a cute little kitty cat. Number two was in high school my family made a custom Winnie the Pooh book. Like they ordered it online and they put my name into the story and then they flooded the pages with money like every other page. I thought that was really cool and thoughtful, the pages with money like every other page. I thought that was really cool and thoughtful.
Speaker 7:And um number one was oasis tickets at like the height of oasis and, um, my family is like packed it in this like giant box, and then it was like those babushka dolls, like smaller and smaller and smaller boxes until it was like the size of a lighter. Because it left to embarrass me and I hate to be like the focus of attention, but uh, still a little bit of me left. There was a cool concert and I had pinky damon albert in there, so that was pretty cool too oh, that's great you.
Speaker 4:Uh, you guys have been going to some cool concerts lately. I've been following you guys on I don't know. Yeah, I touched. I touched him, gavin rossdale, as he was in the crowd. He was right beside me and I patted him on the back, gently, of course, and I said you rock, dude. And then I got this epic picture of him singing in the crowd. This guy has got a lot of energy. He is all over the place. He's like what? 60? He's dead up there. Yeah, I'm only in like 40, so hey, wait till you get to be my age. Phew, gavin europe yo.
Speaker 10:So for me, um I was. I remember what I was about. Probably about 18, I got um, some calvin klein crave it was called, and it's just like um. Cologne I was obsessed with the smell, was amazing. It's just like cologne. I was obsessed with the smell. It was amazing. It's since been discontinued, which is like heartbreaking.
Speaker 10:They stopped making it like I don't know 10 or 15, 10, 12 years ago, something like that, and I can still. You know, like the way you can associate smells and memories and if you think of the memory, you can kind of still smell it. Yeah, absolutely, kind of still smelly. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that's how I feel about that man. It was so it was like a citrusy smell, but it was like my signature smell and I remember at the time I was in the band I was in and one of the other guys was like copying me and so he went out and bought it and I was so pissed because I was like that's my scent, like get your own scent. But that's definitely one of the best gifts I ever got, just because I can still remember it when I think of it, I can still smell it. It was an awesome smell.
Speaker 10:So, yeah, it's a shame it's discontinued, so that's probably number three. Number two is probably Scott. You already know this, but, like I've got a, I'm a big Clint Eastwood fan and I've got a tattoo of him on my arm which I for I don't know what Christmas it was, it was about probably about eight years ago now my wife actually sent a photo of the tattoo to Clint Eastwood's, like management, and with a letter explaining like my husband's a massive fan, blah, blah, blah, and he actually signed the picture for me and sent it, so I have it framed. I'll show you the picture. I have it framed on the wall. Yeah, I don't know if we can.
Speaker 4:Amazing Gavin.
Speaker 10:Yeah, it's so awesome. Dirty Harry is my favourite Clint Eastwood movie and that's what the tattoo is from and there's the signature there. So I keep meaning to go in and get the signature tattooed to my tattoo, but I just haven't got around to it yet. But that's definitely like. That's definitely number two. And then number one, as I said before, same as Mike Mike's number three is my number one. My number one is the Jurassic Park T-Rex.
Speaker 10:I was obsessed with it and Mike mentioned there that like, eventually, like the roar broke on it and that's exactly what happened to mine. I don't know if it's the same with you, but it just started. It just would not stop roaring. It like boring, yeah, like it. Just it was like over and over and it was.
Speaker 10:I was to the point where I was in tears because it wouldn't stop and there was no like from what I can remember. If I remember correctly, there was no battery pack on it. You had to like get inside the dinosaur, to like get the batteries out. So my grandfather actually sliced I don't know if you know this, mike, but my grandfather actually sliced the side, like the realistic skin on the side open to get to the battery cage and then there's a rib cage in there. Man, there's an actual rib cage underneath that skin and that's where the sound box was was underneath, was inside that rib cage, and that's how he got. He managed to stop it, but as soon as you put the battery back in, it continued to roar. It wouldn't stop. So, unfortunately, the end of it.
Speaker 9:And I stitched mine up.
Speaker 4:After I got to the battery I stitched mine up and you have, like this cool surgery scar.
Speaker 10:That's awesome, see, I just left mine open because it looked cool. Anyway, it looked like you'd been attacked or something. It's a great toy. They don't make toys like that anymore. It looked way. It's kind of creepy. It was really. It was like a proper rubber skin. It just looked like real, like dinosaur skin. Well, actually not the coloring on it was just realistic.
Speaker 10:Yeah, I mean I got. I remember that Christmas I got everything, like I was so fortunate to get, like the Jurassic Park compound, some of the figures. The car I got the car was awesome as well, but the T-Rex was the shit, it was the, it was the top.
Speaker 10:Yeah, yeah, they actually. A few years ago they released when the newer, you know, jurassic World came out they released a T-Rex which was it's like a giant one, looked kind of the same but made of like hard plastic and it had this like feature on it. Oh yeah, see, I've got one. I was going to go and get it and show you and you could. You could put toys inside it which would, oh, yeah, yeah, and then you open it up from under and even get the toys out. So, yeah, I got that on sale in Toys R Us a few years ago yeah, Toys R Us.
Speaker 4:Seth Gavin still has Toys R Us by his house.
Speaker 10:Yeah, we do, and it still exists, here.
Speaker 4:Like the full store or the one in like a busy the full store. Yeah yeah, Canada has Toys R Us. I'll be making a trip up there soon.
Speaker 1:To have their own building in Illinois.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they have a new store that they just opened up. It's 10,000 square feet, wow, nice. I would ask the Mike Brady office paneling what its favorite gifts are. I can't really tell on the shelves there Half-empty water bottle. But, jim, top three gifts.
Speaker 1:Number three I have the Etch-a-Sketch Animator from the early 90s.
Speaker 7:Animator.
Speaker 1:Did everybody leave? What the heck Did they move? Let me animate like a few different sketch. Did the sketch move? It was hold on, let's take a picture. I got a picture here. It was yeah, it was pretty much like this. Okay, yeah, it was pretty much like this. Okay, it was just like an Etch-A-Sketch but it was like pixels and you made the thing and then you saved each one that you did as screen, like cartooning.
Speaker 8:Yeah, I remember that now that you show it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, now you show me that I remember that, and then it animated into a video and stuff that you made.
Speaker 8:That's cool man. I haven't seen that in so long.
Speaker 7:Where was Soul, my Life?
Speaker 8:You was better.
Speaker 4:Since then you didn't need it, nothing would piss or even a gleam in your dance eye.
Speaker 1:yet he was still in middle school, probably. You're saying. Number two would be like I think it was like 1978. It was the 2XL Robot. I don't know if you guys remember this guy.
Speaker 8:Yep, yep Again. Oh man, that was. I definitely didn't. I definitely wanted one of those and didn't have it. You had one of those.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he looked like R2-D2 kind of and he played 8-track cassettes and he came with one and he would be like my name is 2XL and this is my friend R2-D2 and stuff, and then you put your dad's 8-tracks in there and it would play it too.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but nothing's better than my dog.
Speaker 10:Yeah, it's ridiculously like. It's huge. I don't know what to do with it. I hide it behind the couch it's too big, but you can fit like toys inside it and then underneath opens and there's a toy in there. Look I, still there's a toy in there.
Speaker 4:look, I think that toy that just came out is the one that actually comes with it. What's your number one, Jim?
Speaker 1:My number one is okay, that's a long title the Fisher-Price PXL 2000 Pixel Vision Movie Camera. Here's a picture of it.
Speaker 4:Wow, it's named by Fisher-Price.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was rare. You used a regular audio cassette and you could record movies and stuff I think black and white movies. Me and my brother would record a couple movies and some couple years ago, 10 or more years ago, hollywood directors and stuff were trying to find those online that were still running. They were going to buy them from people to add it to their movies and stuff. But me and my brother made a bunch of cheesy movies and stuff but I don't know where those cassettes are oh man, those are priceless if you, if you get a hold of those, yeah I mean it was real fun, just you got to be a director and stuff, just making movies yeah, wow, that's.
Speaker 8:That's gotta be like the uh clark where he's watching the movies of himself and his mom and that and the up in the attic. Oh man, that that would be a rough for me. I'm sure for you too it'd be a rough. Go watching those. Yeah, exactly birdie, birdie.
Speaker 4:Oh man, you fall asleep over there no, I'm looking for something man some eggnog you already got some of that man. Oh, what's your top three gifts? I know you said, oh, man, it's going to be a hard one, man, when I talk to you today, but I'm curious.
Speaker 9:Want me to deal with my top three right now, or just one at a time.
Speaker 4:Top three all at once.
Speaker 9:Number three would probably be the Trailer Park Boys shirts and DVDs my brother got me.
Speaker 8:Wicked.
Speaker 9:Number two would be a poster Gavin sent to me from the Trailer Park Boys. And the number one, ladies and gentlemen, from the bottom of my heart and it means the world to me, it touched me so deeply is a special video Gavin sent me when I was sick in the hospital for nine days. This is a video shout out to me from Rob Wells, john Paul Tremblay and Mike Smith Trailer Park Boys, number one.
Speaker 8:Yeah, I think I've seen that too.
Speaker 10:That was cool. It wasn't a Christmas gift, though, was it, so you've got to name something else, but I appreciate you mentioning it.
Speaker 9:It was a Christmas gift, gavin, that meant the world to me, man, it was early.
Speaker 4:That's nice man, thank you, it touched them, yeah, deeply right on, okay, no, no, that's very cool, man, because I could, I could, you could probably name like a couple people on your hand who they personally sent a video to. You know what I mean. So for you to get that video for gavin, uh, to get it for you. That that's so, that's very cool. And then seth, uh, I'm interested, what's top three? Wow, okay, so I think my third one would be my willwood and the tape word hoodie, my dad uh got me last year for christmas. Uh, I hold on, I have it right here. So remember you were the little woody. Oh, it's that when you got at the background and it blurs out when you stick up to the camera.
Speaker 1:We saw it for a couple of times.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool, we've seen it. Well, what's number two? I think my second one was also the Wii U. I'd say I'm pretty sure. Great minds think alike, right? Yeah, I remember I always played that like a lot. I think my favorite game on there was Mario Maker. Probably Play that one.
Speaker 7:No, I've never played that game. I like how.
Speaker 4:Gavin has the Wally Moose cup. That's very cool. It's from the Christmas Vacation. And what's your number one man? Probably my Oculus, my Oculus Quest 2.
Speaker 4:The Yucker one man, probably my oculus, my oculus quest 2 the yucker, yeah, the vr, yeah, oh boy, just tuning in, uh, when seth first signed down, his name for uh zoom was stroke time, you know. So, like this is I'm birdie, graven is with stroke time. Yeah, I don't know what. I don't know what happened there. I didn't change the internet, sam. He said the internet picked it for him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Someone hacked your account. I bet.
Speaker 4:Yeah, no, it's just my alter ego. I guess I'm the chosen one. Let's go. Alter ego is hard hairy.
Speaker 10:Every time Scott buys a game for the Oculus, I get the receipt for it. I don't know why. Every time Scott buys a game for his Oculus, it comes through to my email address Like you've just purchased this and I'm like what the fuck, why am I getting these emails? Every time you buy something, I get the receipt.
Speaker 4:I didn't know you had one, two and three. Oh, I got the receipt. I didn't know you had one, two and three. Oh, oh right, you tell me about it, never mind Moving on, because this is going kind of slow. The top three for me, so it's my Bernie cube. When my dog died, or I had to put my dog down, he was like my best friend, so it's 2000. Who it is? It's a glass cube and it's got my dog hologrammed into it.
Speaker 1:Hologram.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so now I got to get one for my dog that just left in September.
Speaker 8:How did Nike get those?
Speaker 4:I was going to say Bob Scott, I appreciate that we just lost Jake this year and if you saw my Facebook post or anything, I got his paw print tattooed on my cap so that this way when me and Stevie go for a walk, he's kind of walking with us.
Speaker 8:Oh, that's beautiful. We lost one in May, awesome.
Speaker 7:I'm sorry for your loss.
Speaker 8:Thank you Likewise. I'm sorry for yours, awesome.
Speaker 4:Yeah same same it's not easy.
Speaker 9:Those in the pet boats.
Speaker 4:No, no Children, right, red Sur family, sorry, your family. You know I still got five dogs in my house, but they're not mine. You know what I mean. I didn't bond with them. I run around it's, they steal my socks and everything, but they, they're not mine, you know. Uh, so that that's my number three. Number two uh, when nintendo first came out with robbie the robot, uh, and uh, it came out with mario brothers not super mario brothers I wanted it really bad and my parents were both laid off and, like it's probably the only thing that I'm saying, nice, gavin, so you can report back to her. They were both laid off, but they found a way I got it. They found a way to make ends meet to get me that Nintendo. Yeah, you know what? Whenever I want to know something about my mom, I ask Gavin, yeah, Because I make more effort with her than you do.
Speaker 9:Come on, Scott.
Speaker 4:You know, I feel like Gavin knows more about mom than I know mom.
Speaker 10:Honestly, in the past, in the past I've said how's your mom doing? And he goes. I don't know. And I go, well, is she still in hospital?
Speaker 1:And he goes, she's in hospital and I'm like, well, yeah, from me that your mom's in hospital and then he sits on your complaints, that oh, everybody, all mean people around me, and that people do bad things around to me. I'm like are you wonder why karma's catching up with you?
Speaker 4:hey hey, you think that nintendo's buried in the backyard somewhere? It is, it's, it's probably in the attic and upstairs, all right. So number one when xbox one came out here and uh, she, she made it like a damn fort. She put it in a box inside a box, and each one was heavy duct tape. I meant heavy, and there was like four boxes and it's kind of thick where my food didn't even cut it. So I had to sit there and peel each little piece off and yeah, that's really my number one gift.
Speaker 1:You were probably being rotten to her at the time, so she did that.
Speaker 10:Well, that's the story of it. I didn't know what was in it.
Speaker 4:I didn't know if anything was in it, so I didn't want to just go stabbing it and break it or whatever. We're doing something.
Speaker 1:Yeah it's stroke time. I saw some strips on. Daddy said don't interrupt them. Holiday season.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm getting jolly up in here. Oh, let's not talk about that. What's? Alex's category hey, real fast, real fast. I want to do a little bit of movie trivia, okay, something that'll kind of go fast.
Speaker 9:Okay.
Speaker 4:I will say the quote you guys make the movie or who the character is. So, like the first one, Kylie, you're up. So like the first one, Kylie, you're up. What is the name of the main character in Elf?
Speaker 7:Buddy.
Speaker 4:Buddy the Elf Correct, Keith in Home Alone. Where are the McAllisters going on vacation when they leave, Kevin?
Speaker 8:behind New York.
Speaker 1:City.
Speaker 4:That's number two. What's number one?
Speaker 8:I've never seen either one of them All right.
Speaker 10:Technically. Number two they're going to Florida. It's Kevin that ends up in New York. The quiz master was incorrect there and in the first one it's Paris.
Speaker 4:Yes, paris is what I was looking for. Oh my God, I'll tell you, mike, in a Christmas story, what gift does Ralphie want so badly? He wants the oh gee Rax from Jurassic Park. He wants the BB gun, the Red Rider yes, oh shit, you're in your eye out, kid. I like the meme where it's a BC Rich guitar and it says in the meme you'll melt your face off kid. That's every year. I love that meme. Okay, now what is the name?
Speaker 7:of the department store in Miracle on 34th Street. Oh, I've never seen that.
Speaker 4:I don't know I'm tired. Macy's would be your answer. I was good Macy's, I've never seen it. Okay, now how about this one? You see Santa Claus.
Speaker 7:Was Tim Allen.
Speaker 4:Yes, yeah, in Santa Claus. What does Scott Calvin do for a living before becoming Santa?
Speaker 7:Oh, he's the toy manufacturer. Yeah, he's like I'm this.
Speaker 4:Gavin, which actor plays Clark Griswold in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Chevy Chase. So, easy, bertie. What drink is served with the Polar Express song? Hot Chocolate, Bertie. What drink is served in the Polar Express song? Hot Chocolate. One more time, bertie. What is the drink? What drink is served in the Polar Express song? Hot Chocolate, bertie.
Speaker 10:I have no idea. No, listen to what he's saying to you, because it's there's a hint in there.
Speaker 9:Hot chocolate with me cocoa.
Speaker 4:Hot chocolate sasson correct, that's the most you're going to get.
Speaker 10:Okay, I got a quote for you, scott, as well, when you finished.
Speaker 4:Okay, jim. What is the last line of the movie? It's a Wonderful Life. Hold on, they're singing right.
Speaker 1:No, there is singing going on. There is to what is the last line of the movie. It's a wonderful life, hold on.
Speaker 10:They're singing right. No, there is singing going on. There is to be fair to him. There is singing going on.
Speaker 1:Let's see In the background it fades off to singing. I know what I'm talking about. Okay, the last lines were by Jimmy Stewart saying Attaboy Clarence.
Speaker 4:There you go. That's the last line said in the movie Fucking A man I would have never had.
Speaker 1:Technically they were singing. Should old acquaintance be forgot?
Speaker 4:Seth, all right. What is the most popular Christmas tree? Topper Star. Correct, it's a tie between angel and star.
Speaker 10:Does that have?
Speaker 4:to do with movies. It's the movie, it's just trivia all together.
Speaker 10:Listen, it's literally the only one that has nothing to do with a movie that you've asked so far.
Speaker 1:Okay, this reminds me of like Hollywood Squares. We need to have like a Hollywood Squares.
Speaker 10:I know, in a minute he's going to go like who invented the plug? Like just stick to this thing.
Speaker 9:And you say oh, what's that?
Speaker 4:Just for hot chocolate. Calm down, Right, Scott. I'll go on for you Okay.
Speaker 10:Trailer Park Boys Christmas special. At the end, oh, boy Bubbles opens a gift from his parents. What is it? It?
Speaker 4:is the gift that he would never open until he was, because he wanted to be with his family. They told him him you are with family. So when he opened up the gift by the fire, it was a bubble machine correct correct. It's a little heartbreaking because that's the bubble machine that got burned up in the fire. Perky burned down his clients. All right, these are just random trivia questions.
Speaker 1:Now the category is US capitals.
Speaker 4:Which country is the largest exporter of Christmas trees? You've got four of them right on with us, kylie Four, canada.
Speaker 7:Say.
Speaker 4:Canada. Yeah, that's a major industry in Nova Scotia.
Speaker 9:Would America be?
Speaker 4:He just said no, no, it's Canada. You can have four people from Canada.
Speaker 9:Also, guys, I'm going to plug this for Gavin If you guys haven't seen it. You guys want to check the schedule to see it? Check out in your theaters, standing on the shoulders of kitties Gavin's acting in it.
Speaker 10:Literally all you can see is this I'm really not in the film. I am in the film.
Speaker 1:It's the money maker right there For a long while.
Speaker 7:Yeah, we were at travel.
Speaker 4:We went to be in the back room like the before party. I got to shake Alex Lifeson's hand and tell us you're in a lunch.
Speaker 10:Yeah, that's a mate.
Speaker 4:I got to talk to pat about uh fishing and it was an amazing experience yeah, so, cool hey, gaff, hey, can you uh somewhere other than right now, can you uh do like a picture like that from the shoulders down, and autograph it for me, man, and then I'll hang it up on the studio here yeah, actually, as soon as it comes out on streaming, I'll screenshot it and I'll I'll do that as a joke.
Speaker 10:I'll print a bunch off and sign them. It could feel it. It was was awesome. Being on set was so much fun and like the director actually directed me and specifically like told me like do this, make sure you're looking at the comics as they're walking by, and it was this whole thing. And then in the movie it's like two seconds I'm on screen and you can't see my face at all. It's just like the torso and that day.
Speaker 8:It's quite funny really you should offer cameos that way yeah, definitely slow down on the eggnog birdie.
Speaker 4:Slow down, all right, keith. What's the name of the plant people kiss under during Christmas?
Speaker 8:That would be the mistletoe Hooray, particularly well on your belt buckle Thought it was the Robert plant.
Speaker 9:Keep that one, julian, too.
Speaker 4:Eh, mike, here's one, the Zeke Christmas Trivia, or Christmas song. In the salt and the chow days of Christmas, how many total gifts are given? Are you expecting me to do math, scott? Just pull off the slippers, and that would be a lot. The correct answer is 364.
Speaker 9:Oh, wow.
Speaker 4:Wow, you think that was made on purpose.
Speaker 8:No, that sounds very, very like I wouldn't even want half that crap.
Speaker 4:Quite the panel, if not Birds for my table. No Best thing Christmas of all time. But panel, if not Birds for my table, They'll best-selling Christmas of all time.
Speaker 7:But, sir, you broke up a little.
Speaker 4:He always does that. What is the best-selling Christmas of all time?
Speaker 10:Oh, Mariah Carey yeah, Mariah Carey yeah.
Speaker 4:All I Want for Christmas is you by Mariah Carey. Correct answer is Bing Crosby. White Christmas, Really.
Speaker 8:I thought for sure it would have been Mariah Carey.
Speaker 7:It's played every year.
Speaker 4:I thought it would be Mariah Carey as well. All right, gavin in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, what's the name of the reindeer who wants to be a dentist?
Speaker 10:Yeah, I'll make. Do we even have that, phil? I've seen it like once and I was only half watching it. It's not. Can I have a different question, because that's not a British thing? Isn't one of them called Clarice or something Like? I've literally only seen it like once.
Speaker 7:We're off girlfriend.
Speaker 4:That's not what I said, because the one that wants to be a dentist is the Adeptus is actually an elf named Hermes, so it's misworded it's Adeptus.
Speaker 1:You said the reindeer that wanted to be a dentist.
Speaker 10:Yeah, I was like I don't want any of that.
Speaker 4:It's written wrong. I was like I don't want any of that. It's written wrong. Okay, here we go. Oh my gosh, what Christmas carol contains the lyrics? We're not even drunk. Which Christmas carol contains the lyrics? Ba-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, I don't know.
Speaker 10:I know it, but I just don't know the name of the song. I don't care. I actually don't care to answer Like there's nothing, there's no prize or anything, so it doesn't matter. The answer is Heddle Deck the whole.
Speaker 4:Yes, Well, Betty's pointing All right, moving along, throw the trivia out the window. No Favorite.
Speaker 7:Christmas memory.
Speaker 4:Favorite Christmas memory One Kylie.
Speaker 7:Oh okay. So last year for Christmas, my dad made this little game where, like, an image would flash on the screen and whoever's image flashed on the screen would get to open the presents and honestly, it was such a fun way of doing Christmas and honestly, it may have been my favorite Christmas memory so far. And we haven't even done Christmas yet this year, so who knows what we have in store for that.
Speaker 8:Thank you.
Speaker 1:So if somebody wasn't paying attention, their thing flashed. They didn't get to open a present. It almost happened. It did go a little quick it started a fight yeah.
Speaker 4:How about you, keith? Mine I'd say they were right in my day.
Speaker 8:Let me see, when Kylie was a baby this is, I guess, more of just a memorable, I guess odd memory she was staying out at my mother-in-law's because we were going to do Christmas morning out there the next morning and so it was still Christmas Eve and Heather and I was getting all our stuff ready and it was maybe 2 in the morning, something like that. But the second I walked out around my side door and into my front yard, a car across the street exploded. Whoa, yeah, yeah't know, yeah, and it's just like all the windows and everything is. I don't know if somebody had just hit it right before, cause it's like it was really crazy snowy, like it was like blizzard level snow and uh, but it was like dead, like the direct corner across from my house, the, uh, the car that was sitting across from there. The second it could not have been like any more perfectly timed. The second I walked out, that car exploded, diehards.
Speaker 4:That's some diehard stuff right there. Right, did at least somebody film you with the explosion in the background. That would have been cool.
Speaker 1:I walked away from it and I looked. I look how you say Merry Christmas in Toledo.
Speaker 4:How about you Favorite memory, mike? Easy one, but you remember when you were a kid and you still believed in Santa and everything was magic and all that. Well, I have this childhood memory of coming downstairs it's still dark, so around six or seven in the morning and my parents aka santa got me every single thing on my christmas list. I didn't ask for like crazy things like I. I asked for the michael keaton batman figure, uh, with yeah, belt that would uh retract him on something you know that sort of stuff. Also, they got me his bat cane and basically they got every single thing on my list and they set it up so nothing was in boxes. I didn't have to open presents at my house, santa just laid everything out so it was ready to go so you could play right away. And basically I went downstairs, I saw this old play and I just started playing and the loud noises woke the parents up and they got themselves coffee and they just took some pictures and they said oh, what's that over there, mike, what's that over there?
Speaker 4:And you, you know just a cheesy christmas uh memory, but you know like those christmases were like the magic christmases. You know, like I, we never had kids ourselves, so we don't get to do that for our kids, but you know like I can imagine what it's like for you guys. Yeah, you say your parents got woken up by loud noises. Was that like explosion in toledo? Yeah, no, that's, that's pretty cool. You know like when I I got into this family, my kids were already like 16 and 19. So I don't really have any memories of like little kids opening up gifts. But yeah, it was a different time back then. You know like it was more magical when you know that the family wasn't in a good place and all of a sudden you got everything you wanted. Yeah, how about you, nell?
Speaker 7:everything you wanted. Yeah, how about you, nell? Well, the reason why Muppet Family Christmas is my favorite movie is because it reminds me of going up to my grandma's house in Elwood on the farm and, like you know, everyone would come over and you'd have like a fresh Christmas tree, and so that's my favorite memory is just like Christmas is on the farm. That's pretty cool nice which is a lot like what where I'm on it, though me going round to my grandparents house every Christmas night.
Speaker 10:So obviously we do the gifts and the dinner in the daytime and then my nan would always do like a buffet.
Speaker 10:So we'd just go round and it was just like it was just a big, massive, long table of food and it was only my family. So that was me and my brother, my parents, and then my dad's sister, her husband and her two boys, and then my nan and granddad, so it wasn't a massive group of people, but we did it every single Christmas night for as long as I can remember and we'd get bored toward the end of the night because we wanted to go home and play with our toys. Obviously, the bigger items we couldn't bring with us, um, but like I would do anything to have that again, just because, like, my nan's passed away and my granddad's like he doesn't have long left, he's not in the best of health and um, yeah, those, those days will never happen again. I mean they happen and we're creating new memories with our kids now and stuff, which is lovely, but as for me, like a memory from my childhood, it definitely would go around there Just every Christmas. We did it and it was amazing.
Speaker 4:I believe, Right on Beautiful Gavin.
Speaker 10:Yeah, my God, good stuff.
Speaker 4:Brody, what do you got Talking?
Speaker 9:Right now from. My favorite Christmas memory was when my grandparents were alive and all my family would gather at their own stead and just sit around and talk and they'd tell us the stories about what it was like for them growing up.
Speaker 10:Nice.
Speaker 4:Tradition is that.
Speaker 8:That's awesome. See, I sound like such a jerk now. It's like I'm telling a story about an exploding car. Like you know, I had a grand and all of them used to do the same thing.
Speaker 10:That's variety. That's what we want.
Speaker 1:There you variety. That's what we want. There you go. Yeah, how about you, jim?
Speaker 1:Um, mine would be christmas eve at my grandparents house and there was like 20, 20 or 30 of us, uh, all ages, big family would all get their christmas eve and, um, everybody would sit in the old yellow leather chair in the center of the basement and stuff, like against the wall, youngest to oldest. Everybody would go up and open one gift. They pass out the gifts and then everybody opened one gift on can't like the. 1983 the camera came out and everybody's before that. It was real to real and everybody films, everybody taking opening one picture every year as they grow up and the in the photographs and stuff.
Speaker 1:And then, um, when you got to the last person, the old grandpa or grandma or something, then everybody tore into their gifts and it was like the whole room was just people ripping it and just paper flying and everybody laughing and just the loudness of everybody having fun and talking and, like gavin said, you just missed that from like the well me, 70s, 80s and 90s just everybody, just always just laughing and having a great time. Yeah, a special time. And if, when your family grows apart, sadly into their own groups and stuff and cousins and that that you miss that now with your. It'll never be like that back then.
Speaker 4:It seems like when everything goes away when grandma and grandpa aren't with us no more.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and there's a couple like aunts or uncles. There's a lynch. Like I always say, there's a lynchpin family member, one or two lynchpins, and when they go they're the ones keeping everyone coming together and when they go, sadly, it just starts breaking off 100%.
Speaker 10:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's so hard with the internet and nowadays to wrangle everybody and have everybody agree to come and do it. It's just real hard.
Speaker 4:How about you, seth? I'd say I remember on Christmas Eve we had a giant, like almost like party here at the house. That one time, you know, everyone was there you, kristen, john, kenzie, john, john, johnny, everybody, even like the Stampers. And John Melnick was there, you know.
Speaker 8:That's a lot of Johns.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, it runs my family. It was a lot of Johns, I think my family got lazy and everybody's name is John, john, johnny.
Speaker 7:Agent of the John.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you know, yeah, that's family. I don't even know well it. It was even more than just family. Like I said, you know, it was john melnick too, it was the stampers, it was right, but I get it, man. Uh, again, nothing beats old traditions with family. Everybody's too busy to do, too busy to slow down. You know, and I, and I think you know Karen, she keeps up these traditions that her grandmother you know, like trying to get the family together and big meal. But for me I'm going to change it up a little bit. So at 13, I got to meet my sister Michelle for the first time. I didn't even know she existed. She was seven years older than me and you know like when she walked through the door I was like well, she looks like my other sister. So it was kind of weird. I was only with her for a couple years before we lost her.
Speaker 4:So I'm just man sorry guys, I'm just getting a little. You know, that's like. My biggest memory is her showing up to Christmas, because you'd heard her for the first time, so, but that's all I have, guys.
Speaker 7:Okay, Scott.
Speaker 4:And when two sisters who were like like always with you, you know, like always there when you want to like vent, you know, and they listen and then they're gone. You know, both of them, covid took one and then the other one got electrocuted. That's why I appreciate you guys all coming on the show. I'm taking this little bit of time out, you know. I know you guys are busy. Got to work early in the morning and got the door locked, so mom can't come in the door for Seth. Well, no, I can't lock my door. Remember the lock's on the other side. Sure, lock my door. Remember the lock's on the other side. Sure, set that extra sleep and pills to my mom. She's nice, like you are.
Speaker 1:This whole thing is going to have to be edited. No, just let's redo this on another night.
Speaker 4:No, but what's? We should all have a toast for the people and family members, like pets, that we lost, because this would be the first Christmas without my dad and without my dog, jake and um, your sisters. That's a tragic loss, scott and gavin, your, your, your nan, it's uh. We should have a toast for everybody that we lost I agree it's a great idea.
Speaker 4:I don't got any, and well, it's not full, but it's whatever. Let's sort up that police car thing. No, cheers to you guys, cheers the families, and cheers to the ones that aren't. Oh, it was no more. Oops, it caught us a lot. What? What are you doing? Way to ruin my toast. You screw up stroke time. You know, even though they're not here with us, they're with us in spirit. You know, especially in this time of year, nothing is lost, no energy is lost in the universe, right? So they're back to the start, as they once were, and they'll always be remembered and always be remembered Every show. I end with Jim giving a quote. Jim, I don't know if you got one prepared, if not, I got one.
Speaker 1:You can get yours, go ahead.
Speaker 4:All right. So my quote for this year is gifts that were icon oh shoot, that's not that. Oh, all right, here we go see, I do it once and I mess up. Here it is we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we've given. And that's from winston churchill guys. Again, I really appreciate each and every one of you guys for for just popping on with this christmas show talking about memories. You know that's all we have left of the past. You guys, even though I don't talk to you guys every day now, you're always online and you say quick hi and Keith and Kylie. For Kylie, for people that know she was on FAKE Radio, she was Carla, the cat lady, seth, he did a call in on FAKE Radio on episode one, caller six Gavin, jim and Keith. We all started on a new. It's not a podcast, it's just something different. It's called FAKE Radio, where we talk about or we play different characters. I'm not Scott Powers, my name's Abe Henderson.
Speaker 1:It's the popular podcast. If you don't know folks, go to that one. It's more popular than us.
Speaker 4:Again. Check out Majors Mess Hall. They got some really awesome guests on Gavin's the host, like I said, and you'll definitely have a laugh more than here. So I will talk to you all later and you all have a good Christmas.
Speaker 10:Thanks for inviting me, scott. That's it, lads. Merry Christmas to all you guys as well. Have a great one, merry.
Speaker 9:Christmas to everybody and stay safe, and we'll see you at 2020, blake.
Speaker 4:Merry Christmas brother. See you guys, make it easy Right now if I might, maria Grazia plena.
Speaker 2:Maria Grazia plena ¶¶. Dominus tecum, benedicta tui mulieribus Et benedictus Amen. Ave Maria, choir SINGS. Ora, ora pro nobis. Ora ora pro nobis, peccatori. Pus CHOIR SINGS. Ave Maria. © transcript Emily Beynon.
