The One That Ruins Christmas: Part 2 (Ep. 105)

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Oh, we were also going to talk
about the Little Drummer Boy

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Challenge.
I have that in here for some

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reason.
Oh, so I've heard it three times

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and I've taken a picture each
time.

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Today it was Joan Jett's
version.

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Who knew she did that?
You're.

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Getting the good stuff.
What are you listening to?

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Jimmy Fallon's holiday channel
on Sirius.

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Boy, I'd be all over that.
There's your problem right

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there.
Probably would be all over that.

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Well, there's your problem right
there.

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I've I'll bet Joan Jett's
version of Little Drummer Boys

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A1.
It's not, which is why I didn't

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want to hear it, not which is.
Why you shouldn't be listening

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to Jimmy Fallon A.
Lot of other holiday there's

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either traditional holiday which
is Jim Neighbors or Jimmy Fallon

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holiday or I can't remember what
the other channel is so it's

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only Jimmy Fallon holiday.
No, I heart the holidays and you

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get you get everything you need
you.

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Don't listen to I Heart I.
Listen to the classic.

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In my car, that's what I listen
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That's why you're, you got mice
in your stove.

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They're saying please turn it
on.

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Yes, turn that off or turn this
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Turn the.
Stove on.

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Yeah, kill us.
I was cooking that day.

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I'll tell you what, I had a lot
of fun with our classic bit.

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Where is it snowing this past
week?

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Well, I bet.
You did.

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Did.
You find out where it wasn't

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snowing.
I did have a couple of people

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informed me of where it was not
snowing.

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Yeah, don't tell me where it's
not snowing.

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Yeah, not the game.
That's not the game.

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Hey, this is due to
underwhelming demand.

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The podcast that.
Brace yourself, guys.

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Looks like we're on the naughty
list.

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Yeah, although I would like to
plead our case, Foreman.

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We didn't organize a murder
mystery for two, you know,

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preteens.
We didn't put up a sex swing.

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Please, please don't include.
I mean, I think we know who's on

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the naughty.
List Santa is anti sex swing.

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I did not say that Santa was
anti.

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Well, I thought we were on the.
Naughty list, but the Oves are.

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Oh, I see.
OK, they don't like to.

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Make for a very good reason,
Rachel, which we won't go into.

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OK, OK, alright, we are Dave,
Rachel and Foreman.

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Apologies for no new episode
last week or whenever you

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download your podcasts.
I couldn't talk.

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If you're not listening as soon
as this comes out, this doesn't

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matter to you.
No it doesn't.

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It's still episode 105, but we
skipped a week.

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It just was because.
Of Dave.

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It's a week late because I had
a, you know, although I, I read

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on social media the the podcast
been cancelled.

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I was like, what happened?
How did it get?

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Cancelled you happy you got sick
you couldn't.

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Talk.
No, we just we missed the week.

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That's.
Postponed.

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We're.
Not we're still here.

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We did and we heard from you and
thank you.

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Like Julie had said, she wanted
you to get well soon, Dave.

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Looking forward to listening
next week.

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We'll miss you, but I'll try to
make it through the week without

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you guys.
It'll be a struggle, but I'll

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make it.
Oh, that's nice.

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And Bob chimed in to say, by the
way, too, get better soon, Dave,

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you should have had the flu
shot.

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I did.
Actually, I did get the flu

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shot.
It wasn't that I had AII don't

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know what it was.
It was one of those weird, you

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know when you get a cold,
sometimes it's the full blown,

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you get the headache and you're
all stuffed up and you're

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coughing and you're doing all of
that.

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I had a little cough.
That's how it started.

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It never really materialized.
It got a little louder and a

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little more annoying, and then
it got, you know, to the point

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where I was awake at night.
But it was a cough.

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That was it.
But I lost out of that cough.

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I lost my voice, which is still
a little raspy, but coming back

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slowly but surely.
It sounds OK to us.

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Yeah, I feel fine now.
And we're back during.

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Boy, I really wanted to talk.
I really wanted to do the

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podcast last week because all of
you people who are and I don't

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know where you are, but if
you're dreaming of a white

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Christmas, slow your F and roll
holy cow, like.

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Can we?
Just a week or two ago, yeah.

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Can we just back up for a
second?

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Can we just kind of, you know,
maybe sing that song maybe one

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or three or or 500 times less?
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Because.
We got a dumping.

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Well, you guys I'm sure got some
snow farming.

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You're in Saint Thomas, Rachel,
you're in small town nowhere and

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I'm sure that you guys got snow,
but you didn't get I think

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Gravenhurst.
I read the the mayor of

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Gravenhurst who's lived there 25
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never seen that much snow in in
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They got 140 centimeters.
That's.

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Like almost.
Five feet.

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That's 5 feet.
Unreal.

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That's insane.
That's unreal.

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But we caught starting on it.
It began overnight Sunday into

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Monday, and then when it got up
early Monday, I looked outside

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and went, oh, we have snow.
And then I backed the truck out.

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I'm taking my wife to work and I
back.

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What kind of truck?
A black 1 and I backed it out

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and I went, well, there's more
snow out there than you really

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think there is.
So I, I came back, I got about

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15 minutes into my exercise and
said, the hell with this.

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Where is my snow blower?
Well, yeah, it's still snowing.

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Like you're out there doing it
and you're in a snow globe like

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it's still coming down.
It's the kind of snow that when

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my, when I was a kid, my dad and
now Jeremy died, he goes out

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shovels just to kind of keep up
with it so that you don't wait

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for it all.
And yes, and then you're doing

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like exactly 2 feet at once,
right?

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So I, so I snowball.
I snow blew out the back.

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I snow.
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You get that all done and then,
you know, I'm back in the house

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and I'm like, I got a little bit
of this cold.

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Oh, I'm suffering.
I better have a nap.

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So I napped and then when I get
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went.
It's still snowing.

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Is it ever going to stop snow?
No it didn't.

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So the next morning my wife gets
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She usually gets up and works
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I get up at my normal time and I
look out and, or I, I, I hear

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her coming in from the garage
and I think, what's she doing

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out in the garage?
Well, she decided not to do a

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little workout downstairs.
She decided to go out and shovel

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half of the driveway, the half
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I also seem to to live with
people who are taking the

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opportunity for exercise and we
only had two days we needed to

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shovel.
The first day, Yeah, Harley did

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it.
Yeah, I saw that I posted that.

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And the second day Ashley did
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I haven't shoveled at all of
your.

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Lucky man.
Well, lucky man anyway, so.

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I usually do do a lot of
shoveling.

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I haven't shoveled at all
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So I go around the front.
Surprised by that?

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Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.
Now I gotta dig out this, this

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big ear of my front walk.
Now it's not that five, but you

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know, you've got A and it's
huge.

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And so I look over Boo hags out
there and she's picking up the

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chunks.
There are so and and it's a

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double driveway, right?
They've got A2 car garage.

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And she's.
Picking up chunks off of this

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stuff because you can't even
shovel it.

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It's too heavy.
Yeah.

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And she's picking them up and
tossing them, right.

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She's picked and she's shaking
her head.

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And then she looks over at me
and I, you know, I'm, I'm

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grinding with my, you know, but
I get it out of there because I

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got a snow blower.
It goes through and eventually

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it goes.
Through.

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Yeah, it does.
So then I think to myself.

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Should I go help?
Should I be good neighbor and go

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over and help?
Does Dave help Dave do what

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would?
Dave, do you know I'm actually

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stumped on what you would do
right now?

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Like, I don't know, she.
Has been such a Dick to you

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guys, yeah.
Yes.

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What do you think?
Dave.

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Did you?
Being the nice guy and helping

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with your snow blower would
probably go a long way to

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repairing some of that I.
Think you were to describe me in

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a word you would say,
sweetheart, I think both of.

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You obviously, of course, yes,
that's the first thing I.

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Think no.
I did.

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I think you, sweetheart.
Did you help?

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I don't know.
I was expecting you to say that

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she was picking up the ice
chunks and throwing them onto

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your walk.
That's what I expected too.

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I thought you were going to say
she picked them up and threw

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them right in front of your snow
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That wouldn't surprise me if she
did, but.

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I know you're going.
To do that, I think you

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pretended that your snow blower
broke and you went inside.

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It did not help.
I'm going to do a vote for

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helping.
You're closer to the truth form

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and then you are from the I
didn't pretend my snow blower

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didn't work.
I just put it back in the garage

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and I thought if I were to help
her, if I were to help her,

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here's what I here's here's how
I wrestled with this.

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If I were to help her, I feel
like when I come in the house

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and I say to my beautiful wife
Jenna, well I helped the Boo hag

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out.
I dug her out, dug the bottom

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end of her driveway.
She would have she would have

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lost her mind with Boo and said,
are you crazy?

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The woman that called the city
on us, the woman who is like

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this, you helped her.
So I wrestled with it.

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Yeah.
But you kill her with kindness,

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she'll she'll regret all those
terrible things, perhaps.

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If you helped.
Down inside.

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Yeah, I think she would have
some regrets for.

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Being wheeled back into my
driveway, I got around into my

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driveway.
I see my other neighbor who I

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like very much.
His name is Gary, and he's out.

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He's got one of those big metal
things, you know, that you push

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like the great big shovels,
that's what.

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He oh the giant.
Scooper shovel.

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Scooper shovel.
And he's doing the bottom of his

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driveway with that.
And I went, well, I gotta help

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him like I'll help him.
I'll help you, Gary.

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Yeah, so.
You get the wheel blower back

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out.
Here, I'll, I'll help you dig it

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out.
And he goes, no, no, no, no, no,

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no, don't, no.
This is my exercise.

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Don't do it.
I see you running all the time.

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That's your exercise.
This is my exercise.

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This is what I do.
I said no, I'll help.

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No, I don't want any help.
Is that OK?

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So I went in and I went.
Well, I feel better now.

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At least I offered to help
someone, right?

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Offered one neighbor.
I offered to help one neighbor.

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You know what, let this be a
lesson to the Boo hag if you are

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going to continue to be an
asshole.

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Well, nobody.
'S going to help you when you

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need it.
The sign says karma is a bitch,

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yeah.
But I thank you.

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Thank you for giving us one hate
listen download every week

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though one hate listen.
I don't.

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Think so?
I don't think.

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This is due to underwhelming
demand.

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The podcast.
That's like opening a Christmas

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present and getting underwear
and socks.

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Just what I needed.
Yeah, yeah.

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Something you really you really
don't.

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Relies on his his annual
Christmas underwear and socks

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gift for to get him through the
year, quite frankly so.

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But it's something, yes, you
really need that.

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Honestly, when you open it,
you're like, great, thanks.

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This is what I want.
Someone to buy me underwear and

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socks you.
May need this podcast just like

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new underwear and socks, you're
gonna.

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Get you may need it.
Yes, you.

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May need it you.
Need it like you need a new pair

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of undies.
That's well, I wouldn't go that

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far.
OK, well, you know what I didn't

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need recently is I know so good,
so good.

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Thank you.
Thank you didn't.

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Need.
I didn't need, yeah.

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Double negative segue.
I you know what, I did not need

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to have happen.
You know what I did not need?

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Is finding a mouse in the house,
Yeah.

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Yeah.
Happened last week and Jeremy

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wasn't home.
It was just me and the girls.

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Even better, that was.
So much worse.

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You don't even really have.
So much worse.

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You don't even have to tell the
story.

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Now you.
Know what happened?

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Wait.
A second It's Christmas time.

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Sit by the warmth of your fire
while you listen to the podcast,

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and Foreman and I will do the
same thing.

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Just pause for a second and
imagine.

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Imagine how this went with no
Jeremy in the house and of most.

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Oh my God.
And three, three of us girls.

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You don't even have.
You don't even have to talk.

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That was exactly the same when
it happened over here.

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That was exactly, yeah.
Were you not there?

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No, I said no, I wasn't home.
And I said you had sent a

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message about you didn't explain
what happened.

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And we still don't know.
You had just said we're having a

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mouse crisis over here and
Jeremy isn't home.

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Yeah.
And Ashley said you weren't home

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either.
Why does this happen when you

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guys aren't home?
And.

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You know where?
And then you and then you're

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blamed.
You are blamed for what happened

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because you weren't here.
Exactly.

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You, the mouse catcher, should
be in the home at all at all

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times.
How am I the mouse catcher

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You're.
Nowhere.

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Nowhere not.
Me.

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I can tell you that right now.
In my case, on any business card

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that I've ever had in my life.
Does this say really, if it

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comes down to Ashley and I,
who's the mouse catcher, it's

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really her because in our case,
it she found it dead in her

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sweater.
Oh.

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My gosh, that she.
Wore around the house and made

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dinner with.
You were home that time, right?

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It was.
Not home.

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Oh, I thought that was a
different OK, I came home.

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Later in the night when she was
a horrified and stripped down to

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nothing after cuddling with it
on the couch.

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And it was.
Dead on the couch.

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Beside her.
Oh.

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My no thank you.
Yeah, Tom, last story rage.

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Well.
I didn't cuddle with the dead

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mouse, no, it was very much
alive.

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You cuddled with the live.
Mouse.

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No, I didn't touch anything.
Where was said mouse?

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So the girls and I were playing
charades in the living room.

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We just were.
We were just having fun.

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That's what happens when
Jeremies not.

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It's kind of quiet, right?
And which I've noticed, I think

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that's when the mouse comes out
because when you're moving

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around, it's not coming out.
How often do you play charades

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with the girls?
Well, we have the kids charades

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thing and Julia was like, let's
have a family game night.

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So we just, we did, I don't
know, we might play it once a

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month.
We just did.

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So you pick a card and you do
it.

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And anyway, it was fine.
So we're playing this game and I

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all of a sudden I just happened
to look over into the kitchen

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and I see on the stove there's a
pot on the stove that hadn't

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been cleaned yet, but.
Because Jeremy wasn't home,

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Yeah.
That's right.

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Yeah, of course.
Behind the pot, this little

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brown head pops up.
And I was like, Oh my God, Oh my

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God.
And the girls are like what?

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What?
I'm like Oh my God, Oh my God,

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Oh my God.
And they're like what, what,

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what?
So I'm trying to text Jeremy

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immediately and I'm like,
there's a mouse and the girls

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are like, what?
And they're screaming and I'm

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like, I know, like I feel the
same.

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Like I also want to.
Scream, you're supposed to keep

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things calm.
I have to be the adult.

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I know I hate that, But you
don't have to be the adult.

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You can't be and this is what
happens in my house again and

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say you see where they get it
from.

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So, so Jeremy Facetimes me and
I'm like, Oh my God.

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And then the mouse goes away.
I'm like, where the hell did

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that mouse come from and where
did it go?

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It's on top of my stove now.
I have a gas stove, so it's got

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like the grate on top and it
kind of dips down to where the

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burners are, right?
So there's.

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No.
How you deal with that?

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You have a gas stove, That's how
you get rid of the mouse lighter

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up.
No, fire it up right.

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I don't know how it's getting
onto the onto the stove top.

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That's irrelevant.
It's not in the oven.

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You want that mouse to dance?
Well, I didn't want it to jump

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on me.
That's what I didn't want.

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I didn't go frigging near it.
So that's like frad Pussycat.

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OK, I was not sliding a mouse on
fire, although I probably could.

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Have like fire.
I just.

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Well.
You turn the burner on, it's

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fire.
Well, yeah.

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Die immediately.
Not necessarily, they're pretty

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fast.
Yeah, so I screamed and it it

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ran away.
So I think there, so the, I

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don't know how to explain this
very well.

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There's the stove top, right?
But then the back of the stove,

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like where the clock is, it kind
of it obviously connects.

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However, there's a space there
that goes kind of in behind the

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the stove.
Now I don't know if that goes

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into the oven below or if it
like if there's a if it's like a

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wall between the back of the
oven and the back of the stove.

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Do you know what I mean?
It's hard.

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To find out.
I'm not.

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I am not taking that thing
apart.

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I cannot.
Turn on the oven.

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Well.
I guess.

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But again, we get back to making
the most dance.

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We hadn't actually used the oven
for two days because we were out

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for dinner the one day and then
the next day I made like a

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chicken Caesar salad.
So I already had the chicken and

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it was just all kind of cold.
Leftover from the Swiss chalet.

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No, no.
Anyway, so we had that and OK,

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so the mouse goes away.
So Jeremy Facetimes me and I am

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freaking out like, Oh my God,
why is this happening to me

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right now?
So and then I'm trying to text

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my neighbor because Jeremy's
working until like 10:00 PM so

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he's not coming home and the
girls are screaming and they're

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like, where did it go?
I'm like, I don't know, is it on

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the floor?
No, it's not.

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I just, I don't think so.
And then my neighbor who is the

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other husband that I rely on is
not home also, but his wife is

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texting me like ha ha, this is
fun.

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And I'm like this like I'm
freaking out and she's like I'm

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sorry, he's not home.
So then I call She's.

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Not coming over to help 'cause
she doesn't want to go anywhere

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near the no no.
For sure not.

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She's like, I would freak out
too.

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I'm like, I know.
So then I call my, the next

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nearest person is my stepdad who
lives around the corner.

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So he, he comes over
immediately, thank God.

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So he comes over and he sets up
a bunch of traps and I, and I

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tell him where everything, where
the mouse was.

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He's like, yeah, 'cause the
mouse came out again, we saw the

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mouse again.
He's like like, Oh yeah, I saw

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his tail scurry into the into
that little opening then.

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So he set the trap.
We set 2 on top of the stove and

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and then we put two under the
stove because we didn't know if

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they were underneath.
We took the drawer out, put them

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in and then to close the drawer.
And so anyways, then so the

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girls at that point were out on
the front porch.

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They will not come in the house
until this is taken care of.

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So I'm now inside by myself
trying to be an adult with a

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mouse in the house.
And I've heard if you see a

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mouse, if you actually see one,
then you know you have a whole

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family somewhere.
There's a lot more than just

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one.
So now that freaks me out too,

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right?
Canned confirm.

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Anyway, we ended up catching the
mouse overnight.

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Jeremy came home, He's like,
well, when I come home, don't

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worry, I'll deal with it.
I'm like, yeah, you will deal

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with it because I'm not dealing
with it.

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You're dealing with the dead
mouse.

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And you're mad at him.
I'm not mad, I just don't want

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to deal.
With him you sound like you're

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mad at.
Him.

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I'm.
I am.

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You sound like you're mad at
everybody.

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Yeah, because I hate mice and I
don't want them in my house.

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I don't.
I'm mad that the mouse is in the

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house at all.
But every time I screamed, the

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mouse would run away.
So I know it's scared of us

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because it doesn't, it doesn't
like my screens, so it would go

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back into the little hole that
it's in.

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But I don't know where it had
come from.

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Anyway, the next morning we woke
up and the mouse was dead on the

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stove, so that needed a good
cleaning because we did catch it

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in the trap and that's all we've
caught so far.

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Just one.
Just one I know.

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Then I then Jeremy went out and
got, you know, spray foam and

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caulking and more traps and I
was like, we are, we are sealing

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every hole outside.
Make sure we put grates on the

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vents, things like that.
I I just can't.

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I can't with the mice and they
all get in this time of year.

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Because of the snow.
Yeah, it's starting to snow.

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It's cold I.
I do you know the worst part

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about having mice is trying to
set those little traps?

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Yes, I cannot.
They're 'cause they're so

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flimsy.
Yes, that they will crush your

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fingertips.
But the the cheap ones are the

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best ones.
Yeah I know but they will always

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not catch and slam on you and if
you're not like I'm you shit

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like I've never shaken like that
before then when trying to set

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traps.
So when?

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You get setting the one and.
Trying to put it with the

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process of it set in your hand
and how do you get it off your

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hand and.
Put it onto the floor without it

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snapping closed.
Can't it's?

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Like a 5050 shot.
It's 5050 or worse.

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Yeah, Stu had to reset one
probably 10 times, and then

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we're like, you know what, let's
just use a different.

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One if you're trapping yourself
form and there could be a

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problem.
Here, those traps are so finicky

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they will snap on anything.
That's why they're the best

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kind.
But you got to make sure you

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don't snap yourself.
Honestly, the stress of setting

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a mousetrap is like watching an
episode of The Bear.

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I wouldn't know because I don't
set them.

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I wouldn't know, says Rachel.
Of course.

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The bear's not stressful.
Did you watch the Christmas

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episode yet?
Yes, but I didn't know.

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It's not that bad.
It's not like having a mouse in

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your house.
I'm going to tell you that right

453
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,240
now.
Just a car.

454
00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:01,520
And for your listening pleasure,
trip back in time to November

455
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:08,040
14th, 2017 with Dave Lindsay
filling in for Rachel and

456
00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:14,160
Foreman on the radio.
This type of thing, of course,

457
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:19,760
would happen to Ashley.
And when I'm not home but three

458
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:24,480
in the morning or so, Ashley is
awoken to hear not just

459
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:29,160
scurrying from above our bedroom
in the attic, no, but a.

460
00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:31,880
Thump.
Thump, OH.

461
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,320
Oh, that's not.
Good not.

462
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,320
Followed by scurrying is not
good.

463
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:41,040
Just an enormous amount of
squeaking, not just like.

464
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,800
Oh dear.
Cute, adorable squeaking.

465
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,000
No, that's not panic, pain,
torture, squeaking.

466
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,600
Here at 3:00 AM.
Yeah, she's pretty.

467
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:54,480
Sure that, as you can imagine,
whatever this is was running

468
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,560
along in the attic and fell down
into the wall.

469
00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,840
And just enjoy just enjoying
life up in the attic and fell

470
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,040
down well.
Misstep.

471
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,320
And she tells me all this over
the phone.

472
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,160
Well, I don't.
It's in the wall.

473
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:12,040
Maybe it climbed back up.
But then I heard another thud.

474
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,120
Oh dear.
I don't know where it is.

475
00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:16,200
Is it still in the wall?
Did it go back up?

476
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,240
It's kind of sounds like it's
near your side of the room

477
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,360
actually.
OK.

478
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,600
I don't know where it is but
after a little while it has

479
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,400
stopped and she's calling me to
tell me about this commotion.

480
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,200
So later in the day I get home
get.

481
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,280
Home.
Yeah, later in the day I get

482
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:32,840
home.
I don't know.

483
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:36,080
I stop and get some random like
a couple of those snap traps for

484
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:41,240
mice on the way home, crawl up
into the attic, look around, and

485
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,720
I see that since the last time
I've been in the attic, boy, you

486
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,480
can tell where they've been.
They have been everywhere.

487
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,800
Digging and stuff.
Well, it's all blown in

488
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,920
insulation, so you can see their
little trails, their little mice

489
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,880
highways, Oh dear.
All the runways all over the

490
00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,160
place.
And I can see one does go along

491
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,640
the top of our bedroom wall
where there is a gap where one

492
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:08,320
definitely could have fallen in.
So her story checks out.

493
00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:12,680
Checks out so far.
Later that evening after dinner,

494
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,920
we're watching some TV on the
couch.

495
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:19,480
It's been maybe an hour.
Yeah, she has a sweater on that

496
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,800
had been on the floor of the
bedroom all day.

497
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,400
Oh, no, I don't even like where
this is.

498
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:25,760
I don't either.
You're getting all squirt.

499
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,280
You're getting squirmy over
there.

500
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,160
You're getting squirmy over
there, Lee.

501
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,200
And she'd already made dinner in
the sweater.

502
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,920
Been on the couch for a while in
the sweater.

503
00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:43,600
Leans forward and notices right
under her leg is a dead mouse on

504
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:48,240
the couch. 4.
Men a dead.

505
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,960
Mouse on the just on the couch,
just lying there that.

506
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:52,280
She's been sitting.
There.

507
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:59,400
How loud was the scream?
I I feel her mind broke like she

508
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,080
needed a straight jacket.
I don't know what.

509
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,840
She was saying.
Honest, like it cracked her.

510
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,400
It.
Destroyed her spirit.

511
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,720
It was complete utter chaos and
commotion because she'd been

512
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,840
sitting with this dead mouth.
Disgusting.

513
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:19,600
This is just so bad.
Our theory is that fell down

514
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,600
through the wall, escaped under
a baseboard, and.

515
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,280
Got some and.
Hid, scared, panicked and

516
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,120
injured inside the pocket of
that sweater all day until they

517
00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:30,840
basically died in there.
And then she wore it around the

518
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,160
house for a while, made dinner
all.

519
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:33,320
Right.
All right.

520
00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:35,400
OK.
Graphic.

521
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,640
I got texts here.
You really let's see here.

522
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,640
OMG poor Ashley burned that
sweater.

523
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,800
Here's another.
My massage yesterday was a waste

524
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,240
of time because now I'm all
tense again.

525
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,880
And then there's I think I need
to shut you off.

526
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,880
There's also You Can Knock Me
Over with a Feather after that

527
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,680
most story.
Well, it was a little

528
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,240
discomforting.
Did you get an expert involved?

529
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,000
We had an expert come over
yesterday.

530
00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:03,040
Good.
He was so not concerned about

531
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,160
any of it because they are
definitely only in the attic.

532
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,480
You know, he put some bait
stations up there, he said.

533
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,800
You will be amazed about how
effective they are.

534
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,720
You don't really need to go
around your house and seal up

535
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,720
every hole and crack you can
find.

536
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,880
Unless you want some sort of
comfort, I suppose.

537
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,840
Because there's no house or
building that is completely

538
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:23,840
sealed, and it's not good for
your house anyway.

539
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:25,440
Yeah.
How's Ashley?

540
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:30,000
Is he OK with all that?
Well, she, she did say last

541
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,120
night, it's, it's funny now, but
make sure when I tell this

542
00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:36,400
story, just make sure everyone
knows how traumatic it was.

543
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:52,000
It wasn't that funny.
This is due to underwhelming

544
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,240
demand.
The ugly Christmas sweater of

545
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:55,880
podcast.
Of course we are.

546
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,080
Yes, of course we are.
That's us.

547
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,560
Underwhelming and ugly, yeah.
Yes, yes, the two U's.

548
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,200
Yeah, we are.
We, we are, Dave.

549
00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:08,360
Maybe we're so sparkly it's off
putting.

550
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,320
Could be.
I doubt it though.

551
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,960
We are Dave, Rachel and Foreman.
You're wearing one right now,

552
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:15,880
David.
I do, yeah.

553
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,600
Oh, it's a Joe Cool.
Sweater.

554
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,560
Ugly sweater.
Ugly it is.

555
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:25,000
It's very ugly, yes.
So is the elf that's visiting us

556
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,400
right now.
I like that.

557
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,800
Okay, all right.
Do we need a?

558
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,400
Disclaimer here first.
Yes.

559
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:33,360
Okay.
Are we going to talk?

560
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,920
How are we going to present the
elf?

561
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,400
Okay, hang on a second for a
minute.

562
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:43,280
Are you about to, you know, like
you did last year, destroy

563
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,400
Christmas for all kids?
That's what I do yeah.

564
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,280
Shrink 3 sizes today.
That's.

565
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:50,840
Right.
You know what?

566
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,400
I might actually ruin Christmas
as well.

567
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,240
I might pile on that.
So OK, because I also have a

568
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,360
story that I could tell.
Those of you who've been wishing

569
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,360
for little children, if you've
been wishing for a white

570
00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:05,360
Christmas, we.
You know what we think of you

571
00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:10,120
already, so slow your roll I.
Like a white Christmas, just not

572
00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:12,840
a season's worth in a day.
I like it.

573
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,160
If we have a white Christmas, we
get all that dumping when I

574
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,240
don't have to drive.
If I have to drive in it, I

575
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,000
don't want it.
Yeah, you know, like it.

576
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,400
It just was getting.
When you get that much snow,

577
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,000
it's almost too much laughable.
It was really laughable.

578
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,360
OK, anyway, so slow your roll.
On the children are out of the

579
00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:30,080
room, right?
That's right, and get the kids

580
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,320
out of the room, because here is
the foreman who stole Christmas.

581
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:34,600
So what are we talking about
here?

582
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,200
The Elf on the Shelf?
The Elf on the Shelf.

583
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:42,160
Our daughter Harley, who's
eleven, knows that it's just the

584
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,400
toy, right?
This is what we went through

585
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:49,040
last year, right?
She had gone to bed, everyone

586
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,120
gone to bed and had just.
Moved.

587
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,320
Move the elf to a new location.
Uh huh.

588
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,480
OK.
And it's right near the bottom

589
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,920
of the stairs to go upstairs,
where all the bedrooms are.

590
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,320
OK, right.
As Ashley's turning the corner

591
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,320
to go upstairs, Harley's coming
down suddenly.

592
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,720
I don't know why she never gets
out of her bed after she's

593
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:07,640
already going to bed.
Wow.

594
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,000
And Ashley freezes, does not
know what to do.

595
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,160
Asks Harley.
What are you doing?

596
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,000
Harley replies.
I'm just going to get some water

597
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,240
from the fridge.
Ashley still has no idea what to

598
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,600
do, knows what she's just done
with the elf.

599
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,280
So.
She's already moved it.

600
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,120
She's already moved it, it's not
like it's in her hand.

601
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,440
That's because you're not
supposed to touch it, right?

602
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,760
Nobody touches the elf and
magically comes in and out every

603
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,640
night.
And reports back to the North

604
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,200
Pole.
I had no idea there were all

605
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,920
these rules so.
If you touch the elf, it loses

606
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,040
its magic exactly you.
Can't touch it.

607
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:41,880
OK, wow, there's a lot.
Of rules.

608
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,240
So Ashley does not.
She thinks, you know, maybe

609
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,240
Harley won't notice.
I'm just gonna go off up the

610
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,760
stairs and think nothing of it.
She noticed.

611
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,720
She noticed big time and
thought, well, that doesn't make

612
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,960
sense.
I knew something up was up with

613
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,560
that.
She put two and two together and

614
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:03,800
went wait a second and.
Then the next morning, I guess,

615
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,240
well, I'm down here in the
basement doing playing radio for

616
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:11,120
Halifax, they're having a
bawling conversation closed door

617
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:17,040
in Harley's room about how we've
lied to her, about how it's just

618
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:18,520
a toy.
Oh boy.

619
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,760
Starts asking questions about
the big guy Ashley skirts around

620
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,520
those, at least for now, but so
she knows it's just a stuffed

621
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:27,720
animal that we.
Move.

622
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:34,000
But it does actually made this
year more delightful because she

623
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,960
wants to help the elf do things
on a daily basis for the

624
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,160
enjoyment of her younger sister.
Good.

625
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,040
OK.
Yeah, less stress on you, Yes.

626
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,560
I feel like yes, but I also feel
like this isn't gonna workout.

627
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:53,400
There's been several real short,
sharp quips of you better not

628
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,960
ruin this for your sister.
Yes, that's.

629
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:57,600
What?
I don't you dare say anything.

630
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,640
Yeah, exactly.
Because she still love it.

631
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,640
Like Emily will rise up out of
bed and run down the stairs and

632
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,640
like immediately go search for
her and like, look.

633
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,840
Where that is good.
Yes.

634
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,520
You'll hear that from 2 floors
away.

635
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,760
It's adorable and so as long as
she can cling to that, the

636
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,720
better.
So far, her older sister is

637
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,600
doing a fantastic job helping.
Good, good.

638
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,760
Except for earlier this week,
and we don't even know how that

639
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:31,520
we noticed after a night in the
morning the elf didn't have a

640
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:36,360
nose.
Like it's a plush elf.

641
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,600
It's a bigger elf than the usual
elf, but it still is an official

642
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,400
Elf on the Shelf.
But the the.

643
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,680
Nose would be like a hard
plastic piece and it was just

644
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,080
gone.
So she's got like an indent,

645
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,040
like a Michael Jackson, if you
will, that.

646
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,200
Happen a Michael Jackson.
I don't.

647
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:56,000
That's quite sad.
That's.

648
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,960
Funny you can picture it.
Yes, I can.

649
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,080
I can do.
Immediately, I know what you're

650
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:04,040
talking about now.
Yes, you do.

651
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:09,720
OK, what happened to the nose?
We don't know, so the nose is

652
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,040
gone.
You have mice.

653
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,280
It it.
I don't think so.

654
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,080
Not, not.
We already burned that house

655
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,440
down, yeah.
Don't take micey.

656
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:19,560
OK.
Plastic.

657
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,040
No, I haven't burned mine down
yet.

658
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:26,000
No, yeah, so we, but I, I, it
was Ashley setting it up this

659
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,840
morning.
So still set it up.

660
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:32,400
And so the elf is in the the the
main floor little half bathroom

661
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,200
sink fishing for little goldfish
crackers with that.

662
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,560
And she made like a whole
fishing reel and everything.

663
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:39,200
Noseless still.
Noseless.

664
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,360
Noseless, though.
Jeez, we just move it around the

665
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,680
house.
Because we thought, well, I

666
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,400
don't.
I mean, what can you do now?

667
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:49,080
Maybe Emily won't notice.
First thing she saw this morning

668
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,680
was where's the nose?
Yeah, of course, we said.

669
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,480
Are you sure Nose?
Maybe.

670
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,840
Maybe the alpha has been like
that the whole time.

671
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,760
You should just gaslight her and
say I can see a nose it's right

672
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:01,640
there.
That's right.

673
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:03,880
The gaslighting has already
begun.

674
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,360
When you go.
Are you sure?

675
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:06,760
Yeah.
The nose is noticing.

676
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,880
Yeah, that never.
Had a nose.

677
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,880
I was pretty foggy getting up to
the North Pole last night.

678
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:13,840
She must have had an accident.
Sure.

679
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,040
Yeah, you could have set up a
little game like, you know, got

680
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,400
your nose with another stuffy or
something like that.

681
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,000
Could have.
You could try.

682
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,520
You could try.
The oh, we didn't even notice.

683
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,600
And then the the elf just never
gets it back.

684
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:27,800
Right.
Yeah.

685
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,600
OK, OK.
I think I feel like that's a

686
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,240
stretch.
That's a bit of a stretch,

687
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,160
Rachel.
Well, we, I mean, we, it seemed

688
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,440
to be OK for the day of starting
with we didn't notice.

689
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,400
Maybe it's been like that for a
while and maybe she had an

690
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,880
accident getting to and from the
North Pole last year, but we've

691
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,160
got to do something about this.
So Ashley's looking up.

692
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,960
OK, where you been?
Buying Elf mid-december.

693
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,520
Like who needs to sell them
mid-december?

694
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,800
Like if we're going to get one,
you already have one, right?

695
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:56,880
Right.
And this isn't your typical

696
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,360
smaller elf.
It's a larger plush elf.

697
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,400
Still looks the same, just a
little bit bigger.

698
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,920
OK, turns out that exact model
of ELF like this is like the

699
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,760
killing the Crystal Spirit as we
speak because that model of ELF

700
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,760
has been discontinued.
Oh no.

701
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,000
You can't get that one now, you
can only get this it a very

702
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,440
similar one, but it's a plush
nose that's sewn on.

703
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,880
Yes, there was a problem with
the nose with the discontinued

704
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:24,120
ELF.
Must have been.

705
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,280
Oh my God.
Oh, that's awful.

706
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,560
OK, what are you going to do?
Well, as luck would have it.

707
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:38,840
Uh huh.
We found the nose in the carpet

708
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:43,360
like it is tiny and Ashley found
it in the carpet where it was,

709
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,679
the near where it was the night
before because that was my first

710
00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:49,600
thought, like it must be
somewhere around there in this

711
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:54,239
little tiny little bead.
Basically we found it so.

712
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,080
Good.
Tomorrow morning the elf will be

713
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:02,880
in a new location with a
Band-Aid on her nose, and then

714
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,680
the following morning she will
once again have a nose.

715
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,080
OK, good.
You could.

716
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,240
You know what I just thought of
if you didn't find the nose.

717
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,560
Now that you have, this is moot.
A moot point.

718
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:16,400
It's very you could.
Tell us anyway.

719
00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:19,760
Put the Band-Aid on and then
give her a different bead for a

720
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,640
nose like she had a nose job.
Well.

721
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,560
She's getting a nose job.
She's getting a nose job anyway,

722
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,200
but if it was a different one,
then you know, that's when you

723
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,800
get a nose job.
You it's a different nose.

724
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:30,400
Why?
Why?

725
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,040
Why don't you just?
Follow up, Michael Jackson.

726
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,880
Yeah, why don't you just have a
Michael Jackson on the shelf?

727
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:40,240
Full circle to the elf and get a
Michael Jackson nose keeps

728
00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:41,920
falling off.
Oh.

729
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,840
That's OK.
I can't wait to see how that

730
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:45,200
plays out.
Actually I want what?

731
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,440
Color Will the Michael be
tomorrow, Dad?

732
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,760
OK, I have an elf on the shelf
story.

733
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:52,840
If you're if you're finished,
are you finished?

734
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,800
Do you have more 2?
Very good.

735
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,080
Every, every are we?
Leaving the nose.

736
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:58,320
Job Every.
Everything.

737
00:35:58,320 --> 00:35:59,480
Well, we haven't.
Seen.

738
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,680
She hasn't seen it with the
Band-Aid, because that'll be for

739
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,000
tomorrow morning, and then she
hasn't seen it with the nose

740
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,800
returned.
On that, I guess you will, yeah.

741
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,400
We will.
OK, so my 11 year old Julia is

742
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,840
same age as Harley.
Our our girls are actually the

743
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,360
exact same ages, Foreman's girls
and my girls.

744
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:20,280
So Julia's 11 last year there
was two times where she asked me

745
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:25,720
if Santa was real and we kind of
got away with the first time I

746
00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:27,800
said yes, of course yes.
And she's like OK.

747
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,640
And then later in the season she
asked again and I said, do you

748
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,600
really want to know?
And she said no super well,

749
00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:38,360
that's saying no, am I?
Do you really want to know?

750
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,680
Is saying no.
I said, do you believe Santa's

751
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,040
real?
She's like, yeah, I'm like,

752
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,720
well, that's all that matters.
Like that's and she's like, OK,

753
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,800
so then this year we're actually
getting ready for the elf to

754
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,480
return.
We're talking about it.

755
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,560
We've I've put it in my
calendar, like elf returns

756
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:56,280
December 1st or whatever, right?
So that I know the day before or

757
00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:00,040
the November 30th and I think
she saw it in there and she's

758
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,960
like the elf returns.
I'm like, yeah, yeah, the elf

759
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:06,120
comes back.
Well, she comes down into my

760
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,720
studio here December 1st and
she's like, mom, I have to ask

761
00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:13,240
you something.
I said OK, She's like, it's

762
00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:18,520
really been bothering me, OK.
She's like, are you and dad

763
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:24,920
moving the elf?
And I said, do you really wanna

764
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,120
know?
Mostly, mostly your dad.

765
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,280
Mostly your dad.
She's like I said, do you really

766
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,000
wanna know?
She's like, yes, like, Oh my

767
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,360
God, yes.
And I'm like, yes, we are.

768
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,080
She's like, okay, good.
I thought like it was.

769
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,360
She was relieved to hear that.
Yeah.

770
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,680
And she was like, thank God, the
whole.

771
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,640
Elf on the Shelf thing is
creepy.

772
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,560
Right.
So that day she was actually

773
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,680
home.
She was home sick or she was

774
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,280
home doing something.
She had a play that she was

775
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:51,760
doing.
So she might have been home by

776
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,360
herself that morning and the elf
was in the same room as her.

777
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,320
And she said, I just been
staring at that elf all day and

778
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,880
the elf just staring at me.
It's so creepy.

779
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,480
And she's like, I just, I wanted
to touch it and I was going to

780
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,320
touch it because I think it's
just a toy, but then I didn't

781
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,760
want to touch it because if I
touch it, the magic goes away.

782
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,160
So I almost did.
And then I was like, Nope, don't

783
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:12,760
do it.
Julia.

784
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,560
She's talking to herself and
she's telling me this whole

785
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,840
story about how she's I'm going
to touch it.

786
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:18,960
No, I'm not not.
Yes, I am.

787
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,000
No, I'm not.
You know, she's going wrestling

788
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,880
with this in her head.
And then she tells me that in

789
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,840
the summer sometime she was in
the furnace room and she saw the

790
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:32,680
Elf on the Shelf in the box.
And she had asked me about that

791
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:34,760
earlier.
And I said, well, the elf,

792
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,600
remember when we got the Elf on
the Shelf and it came in a box?

793
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,840
And she said, yeah, I was like,
well, that's it, we still have

794
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,840
the box.
And then she was like, oh, and

795
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,160
then the elf just stays there
all, all year.

796
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,320
I'm like, yeah, exactly.
Like that's what the ELF does.

797
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,360
No, it's supposed to have gone
to the North Pole.

798
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,360
No, it stays in our box,
Foreman.

799
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,440
That's what it does.
It stays in the box in the

800
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,160
forest room.
That's our story.

801
00:38:56,240 --> 00:39:00,600
We're sticking to it.
Anyway, so she was she was

802
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,440
actually like relieved to hear
that, yes, we are the ones

803
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,760
moving it.
It's just a toy.

804
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,080
And she'd obviously been
thinking about this for a while

805
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:11,520
and kind of and wrestling with
it.

806
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,000
But now it's kind of kind of
it's come out.

807
00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:18,280
So when when we were talking, I
said, now listen, now that you

808
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:22,840
know this, you're in on the
Christmas spirit secret, like

809
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,040
you're in on it.
So you need to help keep this

810
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,640
alive for your sister.
You can help us move it if you

811
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,360
want.
You can set up little things.

812
00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:33,720
And she's like, OK, yeah, yeah,
I'm going to.

813
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:35,760
So now she's kind of on board
with that.

814
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,600
So I said, you can't tell
Kendall because she's only 7 and

815
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:42,000
she's she loves it too, right?
So she was totally on board for

816
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,480
that.
And then throughout the rest of

817
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:47,920
the day, she would say to me,
Mom, when the elf was in a

818
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,040
bubble bath full of
marshmallows, that was you.

819
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:56,080
I said, yeah, I did that.
She's like, oh, you know, And

820
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,160
then she would think of
something else the elf did, and

821
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,280
she's like, you did that.
I said, yeah, She's like when

822
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,840
the elf was climbing the wall
with, like, RIP bows for

823
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,200
presents, that was you.
I said, yeah, that was me.

824
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,840
And she's like, what?
Like her mind was blown that

825
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:16,960
like we did all this stuff.
But now she's in on it, so I

826
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:18,880
mean, and she actually loves
being in on it.

827
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,640
So she'll be like Harley.
We haven't left the nose yet

828
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:23,880
though on ours.
Best place to hide the elf in

829
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,360
the offseason, by the way, is
one of your old purses at the

830
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,240
back of the closet.
Yeah, because no one else will

831
00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:31,720
look at it and either will you.
There you go.

832
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:49,920
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833
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834
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00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,920
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856
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:03,680
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857
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,040
Foreman, thank you for your
show.

858
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:06,960
Always.
I thought I would share with you

859
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,000
this link from Facebook for
inflatable Santa's, and it's a

860
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,960
video of a humongous inflatable
Santa in somebody's

861
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,200
neighborhood.
And then we were talking about

862
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,640
anonymous posting on Facebook,
he says.

863
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:22,920
I've created a private group for
the Strathroy Army Cadets,

864
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,800
Cathroy 11 Army Cadets and I've
turned off anonymous postings so

865
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,280
it is possible.
Being in charge of groups is a

866
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,720
full time job.
Luckily for me it's a small

867
00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:33,080
group.
It is a full time you're.

868
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,160
You're like, it would be, it
would be.

869
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:36,280
That's.
Ridiculous.

870
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,080
And by the way, the, the big
inflatables now, you know, and

871
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,960
I'm, I, I told you that I'm not
a huge fan of the inflatables,

872
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,880
but my wife is starting to lean
that way, which is bad news for

873
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,840
me because eventually this might
happen to me.

874
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:55,760
But we were driving through a
very, the old N neighborhood,

875
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,680
the, you know, old North in
London a very, and we're, so

876
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,440
we're, we like to drive around
and look at big houses and there

877
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,320
are big, beautiful old homes
there.

878
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:08,520
You know, anyway, there's this
one area where they all have the

879
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:14,200
same inflate.
These are Tony, beautiful old

880
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:18,360
houses all decorated up with
great big inflatable Santas.

881
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:22,720
It's all the same, all the same.
And I thought, I thought to

882
00:43:22,720 --> 00:43:25,760
myself, good for you people.
Yeah, I love that.

883
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,280
But the update I have, I guess I
haven't been able to share it

884
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,640
with you guys, is that, you
know, the Embro is trying to get

885
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,000
the whole town on Ambro to do
it.

886
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,800
So there's, there's well over
200 Santas there.

887
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:40,920
Wow.
I took the Hard FM car through

888
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:45,560
the Santa Claus parade in Embro
and down you go down the Main

889
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:49,000
Street and there's barely a
single house without a Santa.

890
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,680
I have to go.
You just.

891
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:52,360
So cool.
And I tried.

892
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,520
We had one and I was trying to
rig it up to put it onto the

893
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:57,920
roof of the car.
Well, a couple problems.

894
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:02,960
It was super windy that night
and 12 when you think, oh it's a

895
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:07,000
12 foot tall Santa, you don't
realize how Big 12 feet are.

896
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:07,640
It's.
Big.

897
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,680
Yeah, they're big.
He turned into a sail, and then

898
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,040
he tore wide open sail.
Oh my.

899
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,240
God that answered that question
for me anyway.

900
00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:18,480
And besides, there's plenty of
power lines going across the

901
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,520
Main St. in Ambo, so even if I
tried to put them up there it

902
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,040
would have been a disaster.
Right.

903
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,960
Probably.
Probably, although I would like

904
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:29,080
to have seen video of that.
Well, and the cool thing is I

905
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,520
say.
Video of it broken because you

906
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,360
posted it.
Exactly, and I took a video

907
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,360
montage of all the not, not even
half of the ones I saw

908
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:39,560
documented of different Santas.
They're great.

909
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,880
But the cool thing about Ambro
that I'll just say too is that

910
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:47,640
they turn into a fundraiser.
So anyone who had a Santa could

911
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,120
put in like 10 bucks.
Some of the businesses around

912
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:51,920
the area were collecting
donations.

913
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:57,160
You raised $8724.
Yeah.

914
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:02,960
Come.
On Wow.

915
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,080
All thanks to what you got the
Grain Farmers of Ontario on

916
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:07,560
board.
Well, it's actually going to be

917
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,640
more than that because grain
farmers are going to bump theirs

918
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:13,560
to 2000.
Wow, so we're getting even more

919
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,120
than 8700?
Yeah.

920
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:17,920
That's the way more than I would
have expected.

921
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,840
And you know what?
Some people have offered more.

922
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,200
Some people threw in what they
had and it it just it takes a

923
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,000
village.
And there's a number of

924
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:27,600
different charities.
All that money is going to go

925
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:28,480
help, right?
Yes.

926
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,960
So grain farmers, for one, are
going to donate 1000 even to

927
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:35,120
Operation Sharing 1000 to DASO.
Amazing.

928
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:40,600
The OCFA was going to donate
their entire 1600 to Operation

929
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:44,280
Sharing and then the the local
schools or a Highland Park

930
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:49,600
public school is getting at
least the same 1600 for their

931
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,040
nutrition program.
Wow.

932
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:56,800
And then we have a local lady
getting grocery store gift card

933
00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:01,440
and she's helping 11 families.
As of yesterday, 11 families had

934
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:03,080
anonymously asked for a bit of
help.

935
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:04,800
Very.
Cool.

936
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,760
We have an e-mail from Bonnie
who says I've been listening to

937
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:10,000
you guys again and I'm slowly
catching up.

938
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,160
I started listening from day
one, but I fell off the

939
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,320
bandwagon because, you know,
life gets busy.

940
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:16,240
That's OK welcome back, she
says.

941
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:19,880
I moved to northern BC and
shocker radio stations are slim

942
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,920
pickings and radio signal is
even worse in the foothills of

943
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,960
the Rockies so Spotify has been
my go to.

944
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:29,000
I always used to listen to you
guys on the radio station on my

945
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,920
morning commute so catching up
on the podcast gives me a

946
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,360
reminder of some of the best
parts in Ontario.

947
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:38,480
Just finished episode 88.
I must say I will never tire of

948
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:42,040
the Foreman Windsor drama.
Please never stop bringing it

949
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,280
up.
It makes me literally laugh out

950
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:45,680
out loud every single.
Time.

951
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,480
We also never tire of that,
Bonnie, so you don't have to be,

952
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:53,640
don't have to worry about that.
I also want to bring up Service

953
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:55,720
Ontario because wow, is it
garbage.

954
00:46:55,720 --> 00:46:59,240
Now that I've experienced
something else, ICBC is

955
00:46:59,240 --> 00:47:02,200
incredible here.
Not only is everything cheaper,

956
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:05,640
but a lot of insurance brokers,
municipal offices are ICBC

957
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:09,840
agents so there's no lack of
places to go and many are open

958
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:13,200
past five PM, some open
Saturdays and Sundays.

959
00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:17,200
Since moving here I've realized
Ontario's 25% worse than BC.

960
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,920
All right.
Ontario, the Saint Thomas of

961
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:22,400
Canada.
There you go, Saint Thomas of

962
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:23,760
Canada.
Thank you, Bonnie.

963
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:25,640
That made me laugh out loud, all
of that.

964
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,680
So thank you.
On the same subject as the the

965
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,080
one that she doesn't tire of.
Right.

966
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:35,120
I did mention in the previous
episode about how one time my

967
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,840
mom served me raw chicken.
Oh yes, yeah.

968
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:39,800
Did she?
She didn't send us an e-mail,

969
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,840
though.
No, but Jackie sent us a

970
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:43,920
comment.
OK.

971
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:48,440
And all Jackie said was the raw
chicken Foreman's mom fed him

972
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,680
was probably cooked in the
fucking microwave.

973
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:55,560
Was it?
Was it cooked in the microwave

974
00:47:55,560 --> 00:48:00,560
for me?
Not completely clearly, Clearly.

975
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,560
So it was awesome.
Oh my gosh.

976
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,840
OK.
Oh and I want to get with weed

977
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:08,240
because this is getting older
and older.

978
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,120
It's a comment from John.
OK.

979
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:16,960
John had said Because you, Dave
had the tale of John buying his

980
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,680
wife Jan a scale.
A scale, yes.

981
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:23,840
The scale yes, for her birthday.
For her birthday and it was all

982
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,200
great and they're both still
living together.

983
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:29,560
Yes, they're very happy.
Yeah, and they're married still.

984
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,280
Yeah, still as far as I know,
yes, last check as.

985
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,840
Far as I know.
John, just wanted to say a big

986
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:40,040
thank you to you Dave for not
telling the folks I gave Jan a

987
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:44,040
low flow toilet for her landmark
birthday 14 years ago.

988
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:46,880
A low flow toilet?
Did he really?

989
00:48:47,240 --> 00:48:50,200
I I believe he told me that.
That's amazing.

990
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:53,880
John, you're the king of useful
gifts.

991
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,400
That's.
Very useful, I mean.

992
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,200
You're not, you're not clearly
she not going to use that

993
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,400
clearly.
She needed a low flow toilet.

994
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:03,920
Sure.
It doesn't.

995
00:49:04,720 --> 00:49:09,920
I I I mean sure.
What did she say?

996
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:12,040
When she opened it, was she
pleased?

997
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:14,360
I.
I wonder, I just, I want.

998
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:15,880
I wish there was a video that I
forgot.

999
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:19,320
The first thing out of her mouth
was, well, I hope it's low flow.

1000
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:23,240
Right.
I hope it has a a soft closed.

1001
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:24,560
Seat.
That's right.

1002
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,400
Better be low flow with a soft
closed seat.

1003
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,600
Don't ever think about giving me
a scale after this for.

1004
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:37,680
Christmas she'll get a bidet,
which might actually be OK.

1005
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:38,960
I would probably be all for
that.

1006
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,800
I don't think a low flow bidet
would do much for you though.

1007
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:50,080
No, if I get a bidet I want it
to be as high flow as possible

1008
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,040
because otherwise what is the
point?

1009
00:49:52,320 --> 00:50:02,520
Who gave me a low flow bidet?
I'm supposed to fucking

1010
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:05,040
pressure.
All it's doing is making the

1011
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:09,280
floor wet.
It's just spreading it around

1012
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:10,200
now.
Oh.

1013
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:20,560
God.
What is it?