Like I said the video, only I can see that no one else can see it. So you're not impressing anybody else? Oh, no. Okay, okay. Welcome to Dadz R Us. Be sure to listen on your favorite podcast provider. If you feel so inclined. Please rate sir or even message us on all the socials if you want a hot take from an unqualified opinionated Dad. Okay, so welcome to Dads are Us where dad could be a dad. Today I am joined by a special guest. Long
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time listener. Long time a family member. One of the funniest kids I know. Easily the best looking one out of all three of my sons. My youngest, Brody, also known as bro. How are you doing, Brody?
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Yeah, I'm doing good, you know. Got a lot to be here on the on the show. Yeah.
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Is this, uh, are you nervous? This is weird. No,
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this is this. This is a walk in the park for me, you know? Piece of cake.
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I do feel like you're very comfortable on the microphone. Maybe a little bit too comfortable from what? I always catch you yelling and screaming. Well, I don't even know if you're gaming. Hey. Watching YouTube. I don't get it.
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All right, man, let's jump
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right into it. 1s Gamers got a game. It's a whole vibe, right? 1s All right, so Christmas is around the corner. And I'm going to ask you some hard hitting questions. Kind of holiday related. Do some rapid fire. Want to get your opinion on this? Uh, okay. Let's start off. I want you to name your top three Christmas movies. Go.
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Okay, so number three is the Grinch. You know, the live action Grinch.
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Because I have to clarify. Is it a live action? Is it cartoon? You know, there's a 60s version cartoon. You're going live action, and there's also a cartoon that's modern.
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Yeah, those are not it. We gotta go with the, uh, the original the the Jim Carrey one.
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Okay, that's not the original, but yeah, it's the only live action one that I know of. Yes. And I'm actually bonus points because you knew the lead character was Jim Carrey. I don't think there's another person on this earth that could do that part like he does. All right, watch number two.
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Number two is A Nightmare Before Christmas. I like that one. Really?
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God classic from Tim Burton. So why is this your number two? Because even though it's got Christmas in the title, it does seem very Halloween themed, doesn't it?
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Yeah, I say it's pretty much both. You could clarify it either way as, uh, as a Christmas or a or a Halloween movie, but, you know,
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so what makes a Christmas movie? It. What makes a Christmas movie a Christmas movie?
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Um, you know, if it has all those, those winter holiday elements. I mean, he literally goes around in a Santa costume in a sleigh. And he's like, learn about Christmas. So I think it's pretty Christmassy.
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Well, here's something crazy. I've never watched a movie. So I don't know anything about it. So why does he want to learn about Christmas?
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Well, see, he lives like a scary Halloween world, right? And then, like, he discovers, um, like a bunch of gourds.
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Who's
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he? Oh, the main character, Jack Skellington, the pumpkin King. You already know.
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No. It's it. So Jack skeleton is his name?
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No, it's Jack Skellington. Oh.
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Scowling all right. Yeah. Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king. 1s Hmm. I feel like Pumpkin King would be a good call sign. Yeah. He's like, okay, so he's all about Halloween, and so why is he trying to. Why is he trying to tread on, uh, Christmas time? That seems kind of seems kind of hot. He goes on holiday,
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so he basically he is a bit a while. So I watch the movie. All right. But he he finds like some doors to different holiday worlds. He lives in a Halloween one, but he finds the Christmas one, and he goes in a Christmas one and he pretends to be Santa and he loves it. It's actually pretty funny. Did you did you discover any other holidays on accident? What have you, like rolled into like, I don't know, Thanksgiving? Be like this dumb. Everyone's just eating, I don't know.
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Yeah, and trying to make Thanksgiving scary.
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Yeah, he never went into the other doors, but I went into Christmas one. So another like Easter and stuff.
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That's perfect. So we got Grinch live action nightmare Before Christmas. What's your top topic? No, I don't think you've watched this before, but it's called claws
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spelled with a K at the beginning. Claws.
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Okay, so German version of claws. Not like cat claws? No,
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like Santa Claus,
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I don't think. I think you're right. I don't think I've ever watched this. And for this to be your favorite, you got to tell me some more about it. Where is it? Where's the setting?
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At the setting? 1s Look, I don't know. Okay. It doesn't really.
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What? Like what? Like the building we talked about. Is it? Live action is a
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cartoon world. It's a cartoon. Oh, fantasy.
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Okay, good. Okay. Fantasy cartoon. Um, main character is Claus. I'm assuming that's the main.
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No, no. Who's main 1s protagonist? The main guy. He's like a mailman. He's a mailman. Are you serious? What's the. So what's the, uh. What's the
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vibe on this? Like, what are they trying
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to do? So just, uh, Christmas in trouble?
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Is this a musical
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summary of the plot? All right, summary of the plot. So basically, this guy works at a mailman. Boot camp or something like that. All right.
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Are you trying to tell me what a post office is?
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No, it's like a boot camp. Mailman. Boot camp. All right. Is this
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is this where they. So is this where they train mailmen and women? Look, I don't just when you say boot camp, that's that's kind of militarised. I'm, like, interested. I'm like,
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it's kind of like a military thing, but at the. So the guy, the mailman, main character, I forgot his name. He is really lazy. Okay? He's very lazy. And, um. 1s You know, the big mailman. The head mailman who kicks them out of there. All right.
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The only thing enough for the
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camp? No, he wasn't so. So he got kicked out, and he has to move all the way to the North Pole to work in some shabby old town. All right,
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this seems horrible. This is the worst unemployment plan I've ever heard. So you get lazy on your job at a boot camp where they train and militarize postmen. And your punishment is now that you are horrible and you're fired, you have to go to the North Pole and work a shabby, lame job. Am I getting this right?
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Yeah, but it gets better for him. Oh, it does basically. Basically he is here, right? And he shows up. Everyone is being each other up. Okay. Literally everyone is fighting in North
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Pole. He should have he should have took those bootcamp lessons. Serious man. If he's got to start throwing, throwing hands,
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it's like the slums. But in North Pole. Okay. North. Very like
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I gotta watch this.
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Yeah. You do. All right. Is it like a
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watch? It like, is it like a ghetto? They they
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ghetto fighting. Okay. Well more cartoony way. All right. But. Oh, because it is still a
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car. It makes it. Yeah. It makes a family friendly. Uh, if it's cartoon. So basically tries mailman has enough and goes postal. Do you know what the term going postal means?
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Yeah. Means you're gonna hurt someone. You're very violent.
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Do you know where that originated from?
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Yeah. Post office. Where? Postal. 2s Detroit.
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Oh my God, I'm Detroit. Actually, 1s I think so. You might be right on that.
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But yeah, I know the way.
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Right
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I'm right now might have been all right. Mailman have been known to shoot up some post office. Unfortunately, in this some way you and I need to talk about. But later, let's keep this Christmas themed. All right, so he's up north, but, uh,
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yeah, he's he's he's fighting for his life in the North Pole ghetto. Uh, but, you know, how has he turned his life around? Is it a Christmas miracle?
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Yeah, yeah. Okay, so. So, uh, then there's Bell. It rings. Okay, this bell rings, and everybody just go back to normal. Go goes back to normal. Okay. And he's he's really confused. So. Yeah, I'm confused too. You mean they weren't normal? This isn't every day in a bell. Pacifiers. Everyone. I definitely have to watch this. Hey, can you do me a favor and stop taking your camera and putting it up your nose and just put it like I'm about to. You know, I probably could just turn you off about that. What camera? What's in y'all? I don't I don't want to look up your nose, okay? You can't even see. So
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so I, I actually I don't want you to move your camera. I don't know what you're doing with your camera. It's like crazy. Just. Can you set it somewhere to where it doesn't move? 2s That works. Okay, so so everybody's done with North Pole Fight Club. They hear a bell and everybody goes back to normal. What's normal life look like up there.
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So they pretty much just, you know, do their own thing. You know, they're selling stuff um,
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everyday commerce. Gotcha.
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There's like this teacher lady, right. And she tries to teach, but there's like zero kids and they
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all, you just call, you just say teacher. But she's trying to teach and there's no students.
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Well, yeah, she doesn't have any students because, like, none of the none of the parents are bringing their kids. All right. Oh, so
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my ADHD is taking over. Can I ask you some side questions? Who's your favorite teacher?
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My favorite teacher. Yeah. Miss Smith. All
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right, who's number two?
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Uh, Miss Berger.
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Okay, what makes and what's your third?
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Um, 2s probably Miss Bertha. Okay,
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now, of those three, which one would you rather play video games with?
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Um, I probably play video games with Miss Berger.
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Okay. Why is that?
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Because one time I made her take my Elden Ring quiz on it. Oh, I didn't get to take no Elden quiz. Elden ring quiz. Are you doing
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all the fun stuff with the teachers and not your
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dad? Because I'd do it at school and you're not at school. Oh. Thank God. All right. Uh, number two, which teacher would you rather, uh, go party with?
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What's your definition of party? Drinking a lot of Mountain Dew and eating candy. Play video games. Weird. He's kind of talking about videogames.
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Yeah, well, he's not really a teacher. He's like a staff. Does that count?
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Heck, yeah.
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All right. His name is Mr. Watson.
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Okay, cool. So he's a bro. Go hang out with him. Yeah. 1s Um, who would you rather be stuck in an airplane with for teachers?
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Probably none of them.
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Uh, yeah, I hear you, dude. They're boring. Right? Yeah. Okay. Uh. All right, so, Watson, he's your hangout, bro. No teacher is going to make any trips with you. And video game partner in crime would be burger. What? What video game? Don't say Elden Ring. That's on the nose.
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Okay, well, probably like Mario Kart or something like that,
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you know? Oh, man, that sounds fun. 1s That's something you, Taylor and Troy play with you, man. Uh, legit. All right, 1s let's move on to the next question. Brody, what's your favorite Christmas tradition? Uh, probably, you know, just waking up in the morning at 5:00, waking up all my family members and, you know,
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opening gifts.
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Yeah, that is probably the best part of the whole year. Is that moment even though it's 5 a.m.. But here's the deal. I wake up before you all the time. Why do you pick that one day to wake up before me? Uh
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uh, because it's Christmas and I said it right.
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So it's Christmas. Comes in a few days. You waken it up early. What if I. Oh, my God, what if I unplugged your alarms? All I'd have to do is cycle the power off in the house. And that would do it. It would reset your life. So you're gonna
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say you want to go through the trouble of putting it back on in the morning?
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Yeah, that's a good point. I'm pretty lazy. Plus, you might just use your phone. It's hard to reset that. Um, but then again, your brother sets nine alarms your older brother, and he sleeps through all of them. I don't even know how that's physically possible. All right, I need some new slang. What are the kids up at? Uh, junior high. What are they slanging? Um. What's the latest and greatest?
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Okay, well, I try to stay away from, uh, from a lot of these words, because you know
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what? What not to say. Because, like, back when I was your age, I used to say slay. Yo, dude, that slays like, dude. Is that still cool, dude? Sleigh.
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Okay, well. Oh. That's wicked. It is kind of like a girl term now.
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Oh, no. Are you
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serious? Yeah. Okay.
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Sleigh, I'm writing this down girl term. Um. What's it mean?
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Okay. So it's basically means like you're killing it right now, you know, like, you look you look great,
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okay. Killing it, but with looks that's close to what it meant for me, but it was more general neutral. All right, number two, what do you got? In other word?
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All right. A lot of kids in my school say, uh, you ally.
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You, ally? That sounds kind of cool. You ally.
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Yeah, I mean, you, ally. It means, uh, like you're a liar or like, you gotta quit clouding. That's basically what it means.
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Really? We don't say cap. No cap anymore. You lie. I like you a lot better, honestly. Like, am I wrong? Yeah.
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You know, can I not say these? 1s I never said that. You can say whatever you want. Whatever makes you happy.
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That's where I'm king of this castle. All right. Uh, you lie, though I like that. Would you get mad if I use that on you all the times you lie to me?
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What have I ever done that
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like I say, hey, did you do your laundry 2s or, um. Let's talk about how I bought your uncle a present. You know, I had it boxed up on the counter, and it said be period, Barnes, because you all have the same first initial. You opened it. 2s Oh, no.
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Anyways. Yeah. I'm back. So,
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uh, anyways, I'm probably just cutting all that out and boring all your technical issues, and and now I can hear myself. All right. Number two, you lie, you lie, you lie. Uh, three. What's another good one?
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Another good one. Um, I know you know about ribs, right? Yeah.
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It's literally one of my new favorite words. And Webster dictionary said is the word of the year for 2023.
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That's
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fun. Do you guys really use it a lot? I feel like it's not used a lot. Yeah, it's. Yeah, people do use a lot. Um, I hate it though. So, like, if you talk to anyone of the opposite gender of you people, some guy walk by thinking he's, uh, funniest guy ever. You're going to say he's going to shout out W is. So, uh,
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yeah. And it really, really
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is a kind of a flex. Everybody competing for more ribs.
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No, I mean, maybe not me.
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I might have to put echo Cancellation on for you again. Actually, you only you can do that. Did it cut off?
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Run! Mike. Did. Yeah. What is back? Oh, I didn't have it on. There you go. All right, I fixed it.
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Thanks. Uh. All right. Ribs. You know, if if you don't like it, that means it's going away. It's gonna lose steam. All right, next question. What's your ideal dream Christmas meal? If you got to pick, uh,
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probably subway sandwich.
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Okay. What's on it? Uh. 1s Some
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some rotisserie chicken.
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Okay, I can dig. I can get down with the rotisserie chicken. Any condiments? Are you just straight rod? Do you stray Rod Doggett playing chicken?
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I don't tell you that.
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Never. Do you know what that means? All right. Well, no.
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Yes. Um. You know, I like to put cheese on it as well. Uh. American cheese. All right. Since I won't say Rod Doggett. I guess now that you're a teenager, we're probably going to have to have that talk. 1s I don't want to, but I'm not going to. 1s Yeah, right. Oh, great. Okay, that's another episode. I don't want to know what you know.
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Um. All right, last question,
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man.
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When did you find out that I lied to you your whole life about Santa Claus?
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Uh, probably when I was, like, eight years old.
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That was a long time ago. So how many years did you go pretending it was still a thing, even though you knew the truth?
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Probably like to sew all the way to ten. So in third grade, Christmas, a third grade. You knew? Yeah. Santa wasn't real. So that was literally
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all your time here in Illinois, right? Yeah. 1s And I was afraid you stop pretending. When did we stop pretending?
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I was in denial, I watched you, I was watching YouTube, and like, I heard some guy say, Santa is not real. And then, like, I was like, what? Oh
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my God. 1s So there's some lesson learned here for the parents is if you let your kids watch YouTube unsupervised, they're going to know everything about the birds and the bees and Santa Claus.
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Yeah, I am not going to be teaching my kids about Santa.
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I know you're gonna start your own new traditions. So you're going to eat. You're going to get each other gifts, though. No Santa and your subway sandwiches. Rotisserie chicken every Christmas.
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Yeah, that sounds like that. You lie. That's. You didn't even say, right?
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You lie. But hey, man, I owe you a lie. You alive, but with your wrist. You slay it, all right. Um. Awesome movies, by the way. So can we watch claws together? And you explain to me exactly what kind of weird dystopian cartoon future this fantasy world is with a militarized mailman taking over the North Pole?
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He does. He doesn't take over the North Pole.
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What does he like? Does he learn a life lesson about being lazy and not being lazy?
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Something like that. All right. All I know is, is that he meets Santa Claus, but his name is Claus, and they work together to make the kids of the sad town have Christmas.
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Uh, this is this is perfect. I really want to watch this with you today. If there's no football on and you can get pulled away from YouTube. Hey, man, I want to thank you for doing this with me. Brody. It's been a pleasure. A nice holiday. You know, set up. And honestly, after asking these questions, I feel like I don't even know you. And you're my own son. We got to fix that, right?
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Uh, yeah. Yeah yeah yeah.
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All right, man, keep it Gucci. Till next time.
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Yeah. Keep it good you guys. Shout out to.