Holly AND Jolly! (Ep. 106)

0:00 Should I go get a Christmas hat? I'll go get one. If you want. Let me see if they'll throw I. Might have to. You don't have to. You don't have to. I only did this because I, you know, I just thought, well, it's the last. I can hear the hat. Or does it make noise? No, I'm. Just. Oh, you're going to hear mine soon. Oh God. We're all going to have hats. Merry Christmas. Why do you look at like me like that? That's funny. I don't think you get any. Like when for voice overs does anybody ask you to be Santa? No, nobody asked. I didn't think. So, oh, here comes my Santa hat.

0:42 Don't come in here. close your eyes. There's gifts in here. Thank you. close your eyes and walk. Don't look down. Look up at the ceiling. Now leave. It's Jeremy. Look. Don't hit your head, Jeremy. Oh. I've got a cup of cheer. A cup of cheer? I don't, but I do have a hat. Look at our festive hats today. And I have Terry Clark's Jingle Bells still. Oh, good for. You recently. Actually, well done. Well, a long.

1:23 Time ago that we had her in on Christmas we had to read the show before Christmas so we like last day of school or something and she did Christmas carols with us. This is due to underwhelming demand. Felice Dhabi podcast. Felice Dhabi podcast, Yes. That's us. We are Dave Ray Children foreman, getting along as usual with our festive hats. Yeah, say we have the same one, me and Dave. Yeah, not on YouTube. They sound great do. They ever. I just want to let you know that I have so many of these. Christmas hats? Santa hat, Yeah. Because. Everyone. We used to do the lighting and the lights over here with Nick Paparello.

2:05 Come on, come on, Nick, Nick, Nick would do. And every time we would show up, I would have a Santa hat stuffed in my coat somewhere just in case I needed, you know, to put the sand. But they would always do. You remember, Rachel, they always gave us Santa hats and said, oh, no, no, keep. And I would go, well, here, you can have it back. Oh, no, keep it. And, you know, actually, once you put it on, you're not giving it to anybody else. I mean, you really shouldn't anyways. If you're a a taxpayer in the City of London, thank you very much. This is where your tax dollars go. I have a few of them floating around my house too. They got all kinds of them. It was. Nice. Because they would. I don't. I have a child's one. Because they apparently we they could only splurge on two extra hats and not a third. Ever.

2:50 I was never ever on that stage once. No, ever. You ever? Met No No. There were so many people on that stage with us like it was it was just like everybody in their kid was up there all the I. Don't know why it's come on a Christmas. Band really know what was going on. I wouldn't show up and they had sort of a thing that they were all doing, but Nick kind of ran the whole show because they did it on TV and so whatever he said like come on out I'm like OK, don't come out OK, I'll just keep my hat. By the way, there's hot chocolate and cookies downstairs so I'm fine leave me alone anyway, I enjoyed it. I always enjoyed doing the and. I. Got lots of Christmas hats so thank you very much. Yeah, sounds great. We have them.

3:31 Sorry Forman, it was between this or I have antlers with a bell today. There you go. That's not that's a terrible bell foreman's. Got a little decorative? Foreman's got real. That's a bell. That's a bell. OK. All right. This is a bell too. Are you done? Is that you done or no? Are you going to keep going? Well, yes, I'll keep. I'll talk about Christmas and Christmas songs. So every year, no. I'm not the sort of segue. I'm just I OK, fine. Just keep going. Just keep. The songs every year three of us would play the Little Drummer Boy challenge, and if you haven't done this, it's basically whoever whoever you try and avoid hearing the song Little Drummer boy I mean, you can't really it's just the.

4:16 Goal is to avoid. Hearing it just happens. To you, some people might play Whammageddon this time of year. Yes. To avoid last, it's impossible. To avoid last, it's impossible. Well now everybody has a version of of Last Christmas now too, as they do with Little Drummer Boy. So I was I the 1st to hear Little Drummer Boy or was that day this year? Was. Who? Who did you hear? I don't know what version you heard, but I'd never heard of whoever did it. I'll look it up as you talk here. It was something just. Terrible. And then about. Look mine up too. No, I know yours because about two weeks later, maybe a week and a half, Rachel sends a photo of what were you listening to? Serious.

5:00 Your car is serious. In your car? Yeah, she's she's listening to Little Drummer Boy by Jim Neighbors. Jim Neighbors, yeah. You pay money to have serious feed you Jim neighbors. Yeah, Little Drummer Boy the. Ant at least my torture was for free from David Bowie and Bing Crosby on at least fresh. Radio. Yeah, that's, that's a standard too. Sure. And the worst version. I don't know why people love that. I don't know. But he actually had a couple of versions that you might hate because after gym neighbors. Please give me gym neighbors after Bing from. Saving and you're going to have this discussion, but I am, I'm going to assure you at this point I have not yet heard the little drum.

5:45 I have a voice and really. So you have this. Is for sure now we are recording this before but this this podcast is released on Christmas Eve and God help me, I hope I'm still avoiding the Little Drummer void by Christmas Eve. Well, you've already won. For anybody that doesn't understand why, if it's your favorite Christmas song, have at it. Enjoy. I don't know where that song came from. I don't know why it exists. I don't really like it. I never did like it. It just was. At one point you just sort of accepted, well, it's Christmas and I have to listen to this, but you don't. I always used to get, oh, you're a drummer, so you must love the Little Drummer Boy Christmas. I don't.

6:26 Do you the? Reason. The reason? I feel the opposite actually. Yes. I always see those memes and it's like Mary haven't just given birth to our Lord awakes to find a small boy with a drummer. Yeah, no, it didn't happen. He wasn't there. Heart. The Herald Angels did sing, but there was no drummer. There was no drummer. No, there was. No, they were. Inviting them, they were welcome. No, right? There was no drummer there. And when you recorded Christmas song and you are a name performer like I wonder if Bruce Springsteen has ever regretted doing Santa Claus's Coming to town live because I feel like I've that's. The only version that's ever played. I know, I feel like I heard it.

7:14 Did he? Do a recorded version because I. Would like to do that. He did it the smartest way possible because you did. You performed it once and they recorded it and then you didn't have to do the whole studio treatment. None of that. It was so smart anyway. Yeah, you know you. Get paid forever if. Bob Seger, when you were deciding which Christmas song you would put your stamp on. Yeah, Bob Seger, who I have a great deal of respect for, you know, and, and from the Detroit area, for some reason, he did Little Drummer Boy. What's wrong with the Bob we used to have? And I know that there's been some radio stations sold, so we're here in the London area.

7:56 And Foreman, your radio station does not do the whole all Christmas thing. We have, well we're HD Radio and on our HD Channel 2 is 100%. Christmas music. All right. Well. It is. I would say it's very tasteful. It sticks to the classics. It doesn't get what you want. Version. And when I say classics, that doesn't mean Little Drummer Boy. It it's not about 50% Canadian original an old Christmas music like there is on some other radio station in London. Yeah. What's that mean? Is it fresh? Is it fresh because there used to be the other radio station, but they've been sold and they're not doing it this year. Their Christmas music? Little way better. Yes, way way. Yeah, whoever.

8:38 Like there's two. Yeah, whoever was chimed that together was doing a great job. But on Chime, they're doing a great job. Is it Chime? OK, fine. That's right and I'm correct. That's Rogers Radio. Yes, and I'm sure in Halifax Move is the one that does 100% Christmas music. I'm sure it's perfectly acceptable. I'm telling you, I'm telling you what the guys that are doing, whoever's doing that, you know, they do hit like it's the weirdest stuff 'cause you will hear like Frank Sinatra doing Jingle Bell and then you'll hear White Christmas by Bing Crosby and then all of a sudden you'll hear this morning, I think the Payolas Christmas is coming. You ever heard that one?

9:18 It's horrible. I don't know. It should never be played. It's. Probably not as bad as Sean Kingston, Little Drummer Boy. I'm pretty sure it is. Kingston Little drummer boy, it's it's like. Paola they the reason they're they're feeding you the Paolas. And who are some of the other Kim Stockwood? You know who Kim Stockwood is? Yeah, she has a career every December, thanks to Fred. Yes, I heard hers the other day. Because they're Canadian. They need, yeah, they need to play. You Canadian. True, you don't need to play that much. Canadian Well, they don't need to play the payolas doing Christmas is coming ever again. Guys are so into it, most people would not even notice. You know I don't need to. Hear it was I've heard the Little Drummer Boy a million times, and Dave won our challenge. The end.

10:01 That was my point. Yeah, the other point is, what are you doing listening to Jim Naver's Little Drummer? Well, I wasn't trying to, OK, really was trying not to, and I was bummed that I lost this year's challenge. So that's got to be worse. Unless the Paolas did it. I don't know, maybe. Rocking around the Christmas tree at the Christmas party house. Mistletoe hung where you can see every couple tries to stop rocking around the Christmas tree. Let the Christmas spirit ring. Later we'll have some pumpkin pie and we'll do some caroling. You will get a little feeling when you're here. Voices singing Let's be jolly.

10:54 The halls with thousands highly rocking around the Christmas tree. Have a happy holiday. Hey everyone dancing there running in the new oh fashion way. Excellent. Excellent. Thank you. Great. You are hired to play kazoo in my band. Excellent. Job, I'm about to hear you losers.

11:37 This is due to underwhelming demand with Dave, Rachel and Foreman podcasted around the Christmas tree at the Christmas party hall. Everybody sing. Everybody sing. Podcast and. Around. The Christmas? Yeah. OK, never mind. Don't podcast. Please don't see hop. No. Why? Let's not that's not Don't forget about our website by the. Way that sings. No, we're not underwhelming.ca Go to our website, we need sponsors. We need sponsors, but there's lots of things to do on on our website because we've been slowly building it up. You can leave us a voice message so we could play it on our show. You could buy us a coffee. You can check out Dave's blogs.

12:19 You can check out our host BIOS. I don't know, I put Oh, and one of the blogs is behind the scenes photos of our live show if you haven't looked at that yet. Behind the scenes so. Yeah, yeah. You can check out sponsorship info, you can send us a message, you can, you know, all kinds of stuff out there. So but I cannot. Yeah, I cannot book myself a haircut. That's a segue. We don't offer that service, no. Segue out of nowhere. Even with my guy I did just get my haircut because someone else that I live with demanded it happen. But even my regular guy for several weeks leading up to Christmas now has been booked like a can't. You can't get in because everyone wants a haircut for Christmas. Yes.

13:02 Yeah, I don't want a haircut. For you. I just had one yesterday. I would like I would like to have hair to cut. Did you notice? IO No, it did not notice, but it looks great, did you? Are wearing a hat. I got my hair done yesterday. Yeah. Did you? I'm wearing a hat. Yes, I did. How much did that cost? Quite a bit. Quite a bit more than what Foreman would pay. Without knowing either amount, you are very correct. You are very correct. And quite a bit more time spent in the chair too. I. Yeah, I'm there for about 3 hours, 3 hours, yeah, every time. But I only go like hours 3-4 times a year so. That's Ashley's excuse, too. I don't go that often. Yeah, it still doesn't even out.

13:43 It does. Not even. It never evens out. And it is like 3 or 4 hours when she goes there. It looks beautiful and love it so much. Work it better, Of course you better say that, right? Yeah, it looks great, Rach. Thanks you guys. Never noticed. You've never noticed. Now you've never noticed before. We would always notice each others though. Yes, I would. Always when you, I don't know why it's so much more obvious when you guys get haircuts, it's like so much shorter. Because the whole. Point I feel like when you get a haircut at one point in my life, I think, and I know some people who are like this now, men, OK, that when you go for a haircut, you don't want anybody to notice. Did you got a haircut?

14:24 I'd rather not. Yeah, some. Some are so regimented that their hair low always looks exactly the same way they. Want to look exactly the same? That's the whole purpose of scheduling a haircut. Maybe every three. Weeks if you want. Anybody. Yeah, where makes sense now for me, I'm like, shave it, go ahead, dodge more of it off. I don't care. Yeah, it's a lot easier to deal with when you do that. Right, so I shaved Jeremy's head. I'm his Barber. Well, that's a lot easier. Yeah, yeah, I have to put myself in. How is he a good tipper? No, Nope. He's just like, OK, thanks. Like, hey, you can put the razor away, then the Clippers.

15:05 That's it. Anyway, so you got a haircut for me. Oh, he didn't get a haircut. He can't get a haircut. No, I did. I did. It's not long. Wait a minute, problem. Is. It first needs a haircut, you notice 'cause it's quite nuffy, yes. It was getting puffy and shaggy, yeah. I don't know, I don't, I don't have that issue. Yeah, it's so thick that you can't. You can fill it with product, whatever, and at the end of the day, it's just as like a clown wig no matter what. Yeah. You know what? I know that you don't like that, but you are blessed. That's it's. It's a guess. I'd rather have this problem than the opposite problem. Yeah, it is a terrible thing to have a full head of hair, Foreman. I just, I wish I could give you some Dave.

15:47 Yeah. Wow. All I want for Christmas is Foremans problem. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I couldn't get it my the little barbershop I've I've found in Saint Thomas. Yeah, and the guy I go to and. What is the what is the guy you go to? What is he? What's the typical foreman do cost? It's like 35 bucks plus tax. How much does your hair cost your haircut, Dave? It's not that much. Well, my place. Is nice. He gets it. He has a little machine and he and he gets at this hot shaving cream that he puts on your neck and he does the neck thing and yeah, it's nice. It's a good little process. Yeah, that's worth the extra. Yeah, it might be worth 30.

16:27 Five treats you. That's nice. And he's like a real Barbie. He, he's either the manager or the owner of this place, too. He knows what he's doing. So I found that, you know, go right to the top and he's my guy. Absolutely. Get in with them because before Christmas, everyone, and I misspoke earlier, not everyone wants to get a haircut. Everyone's being told that they have to get a haircut. So I was one of those, yeah, couldn't get in. And you can book online and there's options to join waiting lists for times and want. So I joined the waiting list for like a week and a half, never got a call so I just. You're on the waiting list. For a haircut, I know, but there's lots of people that work there and they always say your walk insurance welcome. And whenever I'm there, people just walk in off the street and someone's available and we'll cut their hair, whatever. So I walked in.

17:12 And. There's a guy that wasn't busy, so he started cutting my hair and then my regular guy is there and I thought, oh, I well, at least I know that he's there. He can tell this other guy what he does. Because. The new guy's asking, what do you want done? I'm like, ask him. He knows, yeah. Exactly, Yeah. My regular guy tells him and halfway through my haircut another person walks in the door and says oh hey, hi, whatever. Obviously to see my regular guy, but it's clear that it's for the time frame after mine. Like I'm there at 9:00, this guy's there at like 920, obviously ready for a 930 and my guy hasn't been doing anything the whole time.

17:59 And my guy says, well, it's great. You know, it's great that you came in early. We could start right now because I had a no show. What, so you could have had your guy? I could have had my guy the whole time. But he didn't. He was probably waiting for the client. And then you sat down with the other guy. Maybe, maybe, maybe. I don't know. Was he annoying? If you were with the. Different. No, he was not. What is a foreman? Because does your guy not want to do your hair foreman? And does Foreman just switch guys in the same establishment? Yeah, maybe. I think it was just very a misunderstanding. Very, very. No. I don't know. I I. Don't think there's anything to that do. You.

18:40 Oh, I sure do. No, that's the thing if. The guy had a no show. Foreman walks in looking for a haircut like I'm just I walk in out of the blue. The guy, his regular guy has a no show and gives Foreman to another guy. No, no, no, no. Were you? A Barber shop. Were you already sitting down with the new guy when this other client walked in to get the new show? But I. Lost the 930 guy, not the 9:00 guy, Yeah. But if the if your regular guy was expecting a 9:00 and you walked in at 9:00, well, he's expecting someone else. He didn't know that they were going to be a nose. Shop I walked in at like 910. Oh, like I wasn't there at an exact appointment time because I did have an appointment. By 910, the 9:00's not showing exactly. Orman shows there's somebody, they're both free and Foreman's regular guy doesn't do Foreman.

19:31 Foreman, I'd be. AI don't know, maybe he gave 20 minutes before he knew it was a no show. Switch guys for me. Really. I think that's a nothing thing, no? I I keep is. This something or nothing? It's nothing. I I think. It's something too. Definitely something. But what does foreman do? Switch. Do I switch with the new? Guy I guess like. Yes, because maybe the old guy now will be offended if you make an appointment with the new guy. Old guy probably doesn't care if he's the owner, he's getting paid anyway. He doesn't care if you book with him or not. But then maybe all the more reason why I should I gave the new guy a bigger tip than normal. Yes. Because I was mad. Now that'll do it. Now I I think you better find.

20:12 They're going to talk. About I, I think you better find a new place. I can't go to the place at all now. Yeah. Would you like? You can. I really, I don't think it's a big deal. Oh, I think it's a huge deal. I can't. Even want my haircut in the first place. Yeah. What a tip. He tipped the other guy more than than his regular. It's a deal. It's really. A deal, It's a deal. I simply must go. Baby, it's cold outside. The answer is no. But baby, it's cold outside. The welcome has been how lucky that you drop so nice and warm. Look out the window. And that's my sister will be stuff because Joshua so delicious. My brother will be there at the door. Waves upon a tropical shore.

20:59 Me Nan's mind is vicious. Joshua's are delicious cigarettes. Never such a get home. Maybe you'll freeze out there. Take lend me your cold up to your knees out there. You've really been grand when you touch my hand. Don't you see? How can you do this thing? You're bound to be taught too much. Thank you. My life long, so there'll be plenty. And fine if she got pneumonia and I can't stay over that old house. Baby, it's cold.

21:39 Baby, it's cold outside. All right, I'll stay for a beer. You didn't bring your own? No. This is due to underwhelming demand with a Rachel and Foreman. Just hear those sleigh bells jingling ring Ting tingling too. Come on, it's lovely weather for a podcast together with you, am I right? Right back at you, David. I'm telling you. Right now and. Foreman, let me ask you, I don't know about you, but are you? You know, I've been enjoying every my nuts roasting by an open fire.

22:21 Yeah, yes, That was one of the great things about Christmas on the radio. You could say things like that and almost and almost get away with it. Yes, OK, Someone would always be upset, even though I don't know how you could be, but someone always would be. You'd always. Get well. People were upset about everything. Because I happen to be Speaking of nuts, I happen to be. Before I go any further, That's the segue by the way, is. It OK. Yeah, well, I, my name's on the Amazon account here in the in the Collins household. So I get emails. I get all the emails from if people are ordering, if they're ordering gifts for me, if they're ordering gifts for anybody, I get the emails saying, Oh yeah, we got your order, we got this.

23:05 Here's something. Do you get those emails from Amazon? Here's something you might. I'm the one that gets them. Here's something that you might like. And last week or two, a week and a half ago, I got an e-mail and I just went, here's something I'm so tired of them. Here's something, you know, like I'm scrolling through my emails, delete, delete, and I see here's something you might like. Happy nuts. And I went what, what, what, what? That sounds like a good idea. Who? Wouldn't want happiness. Yes, and. I don't want sad nuts. No, exactly. No, you don't want unhappy nuts. You you want happy nuts. So hats off to the happy nuts people who create. I don't know. I think it's some sort of cream. I hope. I think I started it because you're nuts. Who doesn't want happy nuts?

23:46 Oh, it actually is for an. I'm happy, Yeah. Still waiting to hear what happened. I've seen. It is what it is. It's something. It's a cream or something. Yeah, I've seen it on Crees on. And if you didn't buy it and put it in Jeremy's stocking, what's wrong with you? Well, I didn't, but I might have to now that you've mentioned it 'cause I think that. Would be funny. No one wants sad nuts. Well, yes, and that the truth. Like everyone, every man should have their. Everyone with nuts should have this. If you got nuts, you need them to stay cheery, you want them. Holly and jolly you want. Them to be jolly, that's. Right, that's you're nuts, Holly and Jolly, they're happy nuts. Well, it's time for headlines. Speaking of.

24:30 Well, this is our this is our final podcast of 2024. Can you? Tell, can you tell I figure we should wrap up with a few headlines, Am I right? Yes, I'm right. These are actual, these are actual headlines, real headlines. I don't make these up. I don't have to. No, it's I, I don't have to. I do get contributions. Again, thank you, Foreman, for contributing a a couple of the headlines out of there coming up. OK. I appreciate it. Oh, somebody sent one that I forgot to pass along to. You. You should have sent that one to me. Well, maybe next. Episode Next. Year I do headlines I'll get. Next year, yeah. Here we go, New Zealand man wins Spanish Scrabble championships despite not speaking Spanish.

25:14 Real headlines. Wow. Excellente. Celente. Unfalis, Navidad. I've had these Navidad. He's got happy nuts. That's right, You know how many points you would get for that in Scrabble? At least Navidad, yeah, you get a lot with a zed in there. Yeah, Zed. Yeah, Czech man fails to win right to smile on his driver's license photo ID. Well, it's. Czech man. Yeah, Czech. Czech Republic. Yeah. Headlines. OK, yeah, I thought you meant like a check mark. I was like, well. Who's the check? Who's the? Check Mark. Me ZECHE. Also a high score scrubble. Sure. Yeah, that's true.

25:56 Mosh pit diaper designed to avoid long lines at concert bathrooms sells out. No. Of course. That's an actual headline. Yeah, that's disgusting. I believe it. Nobody wants to stand in that. Put it in Jeremy's stocking with his happy nuts. He'll be. He'll be thrilled. So I. Probably get sworn out on Christmas morning. Scientists may have discovered a new form of ancient humans known as large head people. Think Neanderthals. Real headlines. But larger, they're large. By the way, my sister did 23andMe and we found that we or she, not me, is part Neanderthal.

26:42 That has nothing to do with anything. Yeah, large headed people from does your. Sister have a large head. No, no, not for no. No particular. No, we've evolved since then, Dave. That's. OK. She doesn't live in Cape Breton. Columbus Funeral Home to be the first in the state to operate with a liquor license. That's a good idea. Headlines. How is that a first? No one likes to go into funerals, but if there's an open bar. Yes, absolutely. In I didn't. Know your uncle, but I'm coming. It's a celebration of life, exactly. This is going to happen. That's the best news.

27:24 Ever. Absolutely. They should have liquor and beer. Right fart coin breaks above the 800 million market cap. What? That's an actual headline. I'm not making that up. What is this such a thing as fart coin? Fart coin and. It's almost yes, it's almost at a billion. Like should have bought stock. You should have bought fart coin. It's a joke apparently, but it. Every time you make a transaction. Yeah. They send you a digital fart sound effect. So you sign up for this and you pay for that. It's fart coin. It's like Bitcoin, you buy it. Fart coin instead, because it's fart coin. Bart Coin is going.

28:06 It's selling. And then you own the sounds, the fart sounds, or. Something we're not. It's explaining blockchain. We're not we're not going to do cryptocurrency here. OK, Right. All right, you don't get it. No, I. Don't. We'll move on. You'll get this one. It's. Worth a lot more than hawk to a coin, that's for sure. That's. That's a coin, yeah. That's a coin. Might be landing her in jail coin. Boy Usus City tells residents to stop sticking googly eyes on its statues. No. Real headlines. More googly. Eyes. That's funny. I love that is. Funny googly. Eyes are. Always funny, that's. Always funny, that's. Always funny. Always. Where is that? Which city does it say?

28:47 Somewhere in Oregon, I don't know. OK, I love. Stop, stop jumping in front of oncoming cars, South African government warned citizens. That's that's very morbid. Headlines. Yes, why? Why are they doing too soon? Too soon. Doing that, yeah. Stop doing that. Is it like some sort of insurance scam? I don't know, I have no idea, Maybe I didn't. I just felt like such a good headline, I didn't want to delve any further, no. As as most of them seem to be. Yes, in that Caterpillar. That's right. Fair enough. Woman who heard animal noises from under her house had naked man living there. He had no clothes and was living under the house well. That's that's an actual headline. That's not.

29:33 Something anybody wants to find under the house, I wouldn't think if you're. Living under the house, I mean. I guess I'm not surprised you don't have clothes. Yeah, what? I guess you don't. Well. Now your mouse doesn't seem so bad now, does it? No. Yeah, that's such a bad. Fact. Haven't found another one, thank God. Plane grounded for five days after 130 hamsters escaped from their cages. The last. On the plane. Yeah, that wouldn't be fun. No. Real headlines. Well, it's not as bad as Snakes on a Plane, but. If you unleash the snakes now, it would get rid of the hamsters. Anyway. That's true. Two emus Emus named Thelma and Louise on the run in South Carolina.

30:13 I don't know why. I just like that. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. Headlines. What did they think was going to happen when they named the emus Thelma and Louise? I love that. Yeah, exactly. I followed this one woman on TikTok and she's got a emu farm. Emu farm or anyway, and or maybe it's an ostrich. What's the difference? Well, they're different. Nobody knows. I don't know anyway, the the bird that she has is named Karen, and Karen's a real bitch to her and it's so funny to see her deal with Karen the ostrich or the emu. So. I'm like, what that stuff? Side note. Sounds like it. Thanks continue. Thank you. Great story. This smuggler caught with 320 tarantulas strapped to his body. EW, gross.

30:59 IPhone, Yeah. That's an actual headline. I have a local headline. Thank you to Foreman. Courtesy of Foreman. Local headline. Local headline drug dealer nabbed by police while going through Wendy's drive through in Simcoe. Just got to make a bit stop. Real headline. That's right, it's even worse because he was in the back of a cab. He was a Dr. thru cab with. The police fault they were following him with. The gas, I don't know. Did the cabbie know? I was. Wouldn't have known. I have a subsection of headline Christmas headlines because. It's yeah, that's. Exactly. Santa Claus helps nab car theft suspect in Jefferson County.

31:43 Headline. Wow, way to go Santa. Yeah, he knows if you've been naughty or nice. You know what? I'm saying yeah, he sure does. Yeah, Reverend's Santa sermon ruins Christmas for sobbing school pupils. That's not very nice. What woolly? That's an actual headline. Should have asked them to come and speak at the Christmas. Good grief, that's worse than our last podcast. Man gets stuck in chimney while fleeing from police. I think that could be a Christmas headline. I'm just saying. Yes. Real headlines, yeah. Doesn't say Christmas, but. You're probably, you know, I have a feeling. You know who? Else spins down the chimney.

32:23 Well, exactly, I could do it. Buckingham Palace maid arrested after drunken brawl at work Christmas party. That's a great headline. That's one of my favorite headlines. Headlines. Yeah, there's a lot there to unpack. I think we all want. To know what happens? Well, I guess we do know what happens at the Buckingham Palace Christmas party. Another. Local Christmas headline courtesy Forum. Thank you. Forum and Local 1 here. Here we go. Saint Thomas woman punches Santa Claus for blocking her parade view. Yeah, that's right. That's an actual headline. At the Saint Thomas parade. Yes, it was 25% more Grinches.

33:04 Yes. I'm here to see the Santa Claus parade. Get out of my way. Santa. Not only what's that local news, but it also ended up on TMZ. It was on TMZ. Of course. This is so ridiculous. Yes, yeah. All right, we have time for a couple of Florida's. Here we go off the floor. Hey, plants, but no pants. Florida Maine gardens in the nude. Real headline. Yeah, well. Of course, of course, he's just hotter than stink down right? Florida Man, by the way, gets naked in Uber after getting a feeling. A feeling. Yeah, I just had this feeling. To get naked. Yeah, headlines.

33:45 What was the feeling of the driver? Unhappy. That's another headline. Unhappy nuts. Yeah, sad. Nuts. Sad nuts. Florida man accused of threatening person with Molotov cocktail and a sword to make a point. Point me. Yeah. That's an actual headline. You're not exactly the one you thought you were making, but. Made one. We all know you're crazy now. Yes, Florida man wearing blue bonnet and flowery dress allegedly steals 28 cans of baby formula from Publix. Real. Headlines I don't. Think I need to focus on what this man's wearing. It sounds nice.

34:28 Probably match well the. Bonnet. Really. You want to wear a dress? Fine. It's the bonnet that really had me. But then he stole the baby formula so that that makes sense. Did he think that babies get the formula for free? They go shopping for themselves. I do not know, Florida Man Florida man who lied about identity, arrested after forgetting who he said he was. Headlines, naturally. It's a really good one. You just have to sit. And make sure you know the story. Yeah, you may want to listen to that one again. I'm not doing it twice, but that's there's a lot to unpack, right? Half naked Florida man high on meth breaks into home, steals carpet cleaner that checks I think. It's an actual headline.

35:12 Finally, Matt. That's just if they had had a crocodile, he would have stolen that too. I'm pretty sure. Probably. Yes, yeah, again, mess smoking Florida Man attacks mattress in jealous rage. Attacks the mattress. Just. He's jealous of the mattress. What goes on between a man and his mattresses? Between the man and his mattresses. That's. Right. Yeah, Well, OK. Maybe not a Matt case. Yeah, right. One more. Here we go. Last one Florida Man plastic surgeon known as doctor downtown. Speaking of happy nuts. Florida. Man. Plastic surgeon known as doctor downtown loses license over tragic Brazilian butt lift death. Oh death, My goodness.

36:01 Headlines and. That's how we're ending the year. That's exactly. Tragic Brazilian butt lift by doctor downtown. Wow, you guys are? Amazing.

36:48 We do it all, Dave. We do it all. Christmas. Merry Christmas. Oh, the mic dropping. Yeah, 3 mic. Drop. That was a big finish. Actually, I was. I was proud of us if. You're gonna go out, That's how you go up.

37:45 The this is due to underwhelming demand. It's Dave, Rachel and Foreman. This is the podcast in a Pear tree, just in time for Christmas. Yes, I like that one podcast. In a pear tree, by the way, I middle of the day we happened to find ourselves very close to embro. And I said to my wife, we need to drive through embro. I need to drive through embro. I forgot they have, they've got the Santa Clauses. Yeah, Genesis to do. I said they sure do. Well, then we have to go. It was delightful. It it was worth all of the hype, these Santa Clauses. And you got them where you got them? Home Hardware, Right. They were Home Hardware, which you didn't like Rachel, But I'm telling you right now, if they if they weren't all the same Santas, it just wouldn't work.

38:35 So like, they are all the exact same Santas and they're everywhere. They're over 200. Yeah, I only went down the Main Street and you, they're everywhere is awesome. And I'm there in the daytime. I'm sure at night when they're all lit up they look great. Yeah. Oh, they do. They ever. I think it it's a great idea, it's a great community thing to do. I just don't, I don't love that it's it was brought about by the retail store. They raised like $9000. It worked. Absolutely. They raised all that money. I was talking to the women who were spearheading the Mount Elgin gingerbread men. Yeah. How'd that go? Yeah. Situation.

39:15 Right. Well, both those towns and the inflatable snowmen in Folden as well. Folden. Folden, Zoya, all, and there was quite a few. I guess for for an intersection. They've done pretty well with the drive for sure. Even the Township of Southwest Oxford had a Christmas lights competition. And you know how when I first mentioned the gingerbread men situation and the woman who alerted me to what they were doing on Heart FM was the woman who also didn't want to partake? Yeah, I'm a snowman lover. I would have totally been all in on a snowman. Her house won the Christmas lights prize from the Township, which included several gingerbread men.

40:04 Wow, good. For her. Yeah, and the women who organized the whole thing are a little bit miffed. So she didn't want to partake in the gingerbread. Thing she didn't. She's alerted me to the fact that the town was trying to do everyone get an inflatable gingerbread man just because she doesn't like inflatables. Did not want to participate. Turns out she won the Township Christmas light contest for her. Yes, Anita, who called in originally the one that doesn't want the gingerbread. You have got to be kidding. No, it's her and her display is a Wiener dog eating free light up gingerbread like a little one.

40:45 We did. We won for most original. So there's 3 zip tied together and there's one in the mouth of a dash hound, a light up dash hound, Christmas lawn ornaments. So we won on that. So Miss I Don't Like Gingerbread Men won an award for having three of them. 443 running away, 3 running away from the from the dash hound and one in the dash hound's mouth getting eat. Do you even have a single snowman in your display? I absolutely do. He had the snowman is standing there with the leash around the dash hound. OK, so the snowman's walking the dog. Who's eating the gingerbread man, Correct. I mean, I like it.

41:34 It does still conflict with your previous comments though. Hey, we compromise. We got these miniature gingerbread masks, you know, so we are still in the spirit and supporting the community. Yeah, I love those are I like that go. To the Enbrel drive through Enbrel the. Overwhelming sentiment now, especially now that we get to after Christmas, is everyone's complaining that any degree of weather whatsoever will make them fall over. They'll RIP. You can't keep them in the ground, no matter how many ropes and stakes and whatever you put on them, they RIP people, try to repair them, return them. I don't think a lot of these competitions will come back next year. Oh, really? OK, I'll tell you what I'm doing on Boxing Day. I'm looking for, I'm looking for an inflatable Santa. Maybe there's deals of?

42:21 Course there will. Be. They're all about the inflate because. You didn't like inflatable, I'd, I'd take one, but I know all the snow that we had, the snow in the blue and all that stuff. It would knock Santa down. You would never have lasted so. There's one person in our neighborhood that has it's like a 12 foot frosty and we all love it. And that's just one, one person. So you. Need to get one rach. But in the snowstorm we had, yeah, it was knocked over a lot. So you're not getting one, are you? No I'm not. I didn't think so. I have deer and a tree lights and lights lots of. Lights. Yeah, Going skiing. Yep, yeah. We buy the skis. No, no, no, we're just, we'll just rent them and see if we. Like oh, I see, when are you going? Yeah, I don't know yet. There's no snow right now. So they're open.

43:02 You get a season pass like that, that ladies golf league that you joined. You guys think you know me so well, but I. We don't think we do know you. We do know you're a. Little no. Better than you know yourself. As it turns out, you don't. You don't see me very much at all. So. Enough. It's not. It's a no. Turns out that's unnecessary. All right, anyway. We're moving on now. Show that to Ambro. And by the way, this is the point we're going to we're going to read some of your communications with us. Don't forget the website due to, I'm sorry, underwhelming.ca. You can get a hold of us, Dave, rachelforeman@gmail.com or anywhere on social media. If you would like to sponsor the podcast. We're looking for sponsors.

43:49 If you'd like to buy us a coffee, any of those things, but just go to the website. You can take a, you can sign up for the newsletter. You can. There's a oh. Yeah, please sign up for the newsletter. I put a lot of work into that each week and I'd like more people to sign up. Please, there's a poll there too. You can tell us what you like and don't want in a listener survey. Yeah, survey there. Go. Yeah. Which is nice because it tells us what what you want to hear and what you don't want to hear so that it's there you go. You can tell we haven't paid attention to the results yet. No. Clearly I have. I've read through them. I have. Oh, yeah. OK, OK. So I talked about was last time or the time before watching Christmas movies making Jeremy turn off sports. So we watched Hot Frosty and I gave a little Hot Frosty review.

44:31 And it was bad. It's not. Worth it? Yeah, it's not very. It's so it's so bad that you won't turn it off, though. You're just like, does this get better? And then it doesn't really. And then I watched the Chad Michael Murray one because where he's going to be a he's a stripper for Christmas and so. Just to save the town or the something's going to close. And if only every man in the town that happens to have an 8 pack strips, then enough money goes into the jar and Christmas will be saved and we'll all fall in love at the same time. That's right. So that didn't. Even watch it, but that's the movie. That is, that is exactly what happens in the movie, and it's very good. So anyway. Very good. It is actually very. Good. Yeah, I. Mean for a Christmas movie it's you know it's the same it's not like hot frosty was bad but.

45:17 You're saying it's very good, but the Asterix is bigger than the words. Very good, you know. Yes, well, OK anyway, so we posted a little reel of of me giving a a review and Crystal says the Chad Michael Murray movie is so much better, which I agree with now having watched it, Foreman said that Ashley was already skeptical of which one the hot frosty. Yeah, yeah. I was initially suggesting that maybe we should watch it because of people are talking about it and saying it's actually kind of. Good, I said to Janet. And Janet just went, that's the dumbest idea I've ever heard of. No, we heard your review. So that put an end to that. And you know me, I watch a lot of stupid shit. And then actually, a friend of mine said Hot Frosty was filmed in her husband's hometown of Brockville.

46:01 Yes, it's so bad, but I love those cheesy movies. And I was like, yes. They were having watch parties, like if you go to a cafe in Brockville, they have the drinks named after stuff from the movie. Like they're all. Why not? I didn't know that. Why not? So anyways, that's that's the review, but I think the merry gentleman is the other one. That's what it's called. That one's. A lot better now. I can't think of the name of it. A new one on Amazon that has Michael Bubl�� in it and Jimmy Fallon and all other bunch of celebrities in it. Oh, I have to look for that one. OK. I would do. That one too sounds better than what the one with the strippers. Yeah, anything. So I was also talking about having a mouse in my house recently.

46:44 Ainsley sent us a message, she says. Rachel, I was out shoveling, and guess what came scurrying across my laneway? I've never swung a shovel so fast in my life. We live in an old farmhouse, and this time of year a mousetrap snapping is like an alarm clock for us. I'm sorry about that. Yeah. Oh boy. Somebody else wrote yeah, make sure to seal the mice out of your house. Don't seal them in. They will be way more active and will scramble around your house and then they'll die in the wall and we'll have a horrific smell you can't get rid of for weeks. Speaking from personal experience. Yeah, you want them to. Yeah. Don't seal them in and seal them out. Seal them out.

47:25 I did see that message. And how do I seal them out? That was from Aaron, by the way. Well, I think you make sure you get one of the rid of the ones that are in the house and then seal. But Aaron said by the. Wall. I don't know. Well he says, I wish I had a helpful answer but best of luck. I'm sending sending thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers for my most problem. Well, we haven't seen another one, so we're all clear so far. OK, Dave, you were talking about having to buy a bra and a sports bra for your wife Jada. Yeah. Have you purchased? I'll let you know how that turns out. Oh, OK. I'll wait till next year for that one. Yeah, well, Daniel had written us to say unless she's giving me a make, model, sizing and serial numbers of what she wants, there ain't no way I'm buying it. That's exactly how I sort of felt about that too. But we will resolve said story.

48:15 Yeah. I'll give her the cash I'm not attempting to buy. And even Linda commented that I'm a woman and I can't even stand buying a bra for myself. That's. Part of the problem, I don't believe my wife wants to do it either. No, which is why she's sending me out to do it. Buying bras and pants are like are no is no fun pants. Yeah, pants are just no fun either. Underpants. No. Just regular pants. Like jeans, mostly. Pants. Yeah, really. Well, you got to find like a cert. Everybody has a brand that they like. Women probably, I don't know about men, but everybody's got a brand, certain brand cuz that's the style that fits them and it fits them well for their body type and what blah blah blah blah. So.

48:55 My brand is what's on sale. Yeah, exactly. What size is it and is it on sale? That's my brand. Right. It's not the option I've learned in my life. If you find a bra, pants, or a dress that fits and you like it, and you especially if you love it, no matter the time of year, whether you need it or not, you buy it because you will need it eventually. If you find a bra, pants, or a dress, just buy it. Yeah. Well, it's helpful advice as we go out on the note that we all hope we would go out on this year. OK, Our final commentary will come in the form of a voice memo from Scotty Scotty. All right.

49:38 Scotty, go. Hi, guys, it's Scotty calling back. Foreman. I was very surprised you didn't want a Costco bath bomb. Like, wouldn't you love just to sit there and watch a Costco just melt into nothingness? You know, though, I'm melting 'cause you were talking about Wicked too, but I don't think that actually happens in the movie. I'm rambling again, Dave. I've had the same issue with my wife. She's wanted me to buy bras before she meant to. Something about buying them off the rack, but I honestly didn't think she'd want second hand bras so I didn't do that. But. Then I heard someone suggest that Foreman goes to the the equine center. I don't think he's going to do that because Mama didn't raise no foal.

50:24 Well, I guess technically she did. Foreman's brother. Anyway, I can't think of anything else right now, so I will talk to you guys later. Bye. That's awesome, Scotty. Thank you very much. And that's Foreman. Foreman's mom didn't raise no pole. Except she did. Foreman's brother. Merry Christmas. So I think before we dazzle everyone's ears with Anne Murray, we dazzle well, we torture everyone with Foreman singing it. First, there it is. Jeez, Wes, guys, the holly green, the ivory green, the prettiest picture you've ever seen is Christmas. And Kalarney, well, all the folks at home, it's nice, you know, to kiss your bow while cuddling under the mistletoes and Santa Claus, you know.

51:22 Of course, if one of the boys from home, the door is always open. The neighbor pays a call. Father John. Before he's gone, we'll bust the house and all. Hey, how grand it feels to click your heels and join in the fun of the jigs and rails the likes you've never known. It's. Christmas.