174 - The Sodder Fire, Christmas UFO Tracking & Santa’s Pagan Past

Summary

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Ninjas Are Butterflies

Episode 174: The Sodder Fire, Christmas UFO Tracking & Santa’s Pagan Past
Release Date: December 26, 2025
Hosts: Josh Hooper, Andy DeNoon, and friends
Special Guest: Anthony Russo ("The Bible is Funny" podcast)

Overview

In this festive yet offbeat Christmas episode, the Ninjas Are Butterflies crew tackles a holiday grab bag: from conspiracy theories to unsolved mysteries, Christmas traditions (Pagan roots included), viral internet oddities, and laugh-out-loud tangents. The centerpiece is a discussion of the infamous Sodder family fire—arguably the “worst Christmas story ever”—framed as a true crime deep-dive thanks to a personal family connection from guest Anthony Russo. The episode mixes humor, outlandish theories, and genuine curiosity, perfect for fans wanting both holiday cheer and eerie intrigue.

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Table of Contents

• Christmas Banter, Strange News & Conspiracies
• Notable Moments & Quotes
• Discussion: Unsolved Christmas Mystery—The Sodder Family Fire
• Christmas Conspiracies: Pagan Origins & Santa's Makeover
• NORAD, UFOs & Santa Tracking
• Listener Question: Would You Rather... Elf-Size Spouse Edition
• Timestamps: Must-Listen Segments

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Christmas Banter, Strange News & Conspiracies

The first half is a fast, conversational swirl of funny Christmas observations, viral news, and wild speculation. Topics include:

• Chick-fil-A's elusive test kitchen and menu changes
• Internet rumors: smart fridges displaying creepy targeted ads, which led to a real-life mental health incident ([06:15])
• Quicksand as an irrational childhood fear—turns out it just happened to a hiker ([31:53])
• The "wall friction" TikTok trend—where everyday objects are made to stick to classroom walls, befuddling the hosts ([24:00])
• The “Peaky Blinders” cosplay crew allegedly arrested by the Taliban ([26:32])
• Casinos and gambling addiction, including the proliferation of sports betting ads ([38:46])
• Influencer products—MrBeast chocolate gets honest reviews, Prime and BodyArmor debates ([47:56])
• Disney cruise disasters, cruise ship morgues, and cruise-induced anxieties ([57:56])

Memorable quotes:

“Skeeball—put me in front of that, I’m there all day. That’s my gambling addiction.” – Andy ([38:08])

“Speaking of defending the Taliban, I did watch... the Nick Fuentes interview with Piers Morgan. It’s rough.” – Josh ([40:02])

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Notable Moments & Quotes

Musical Interlude: “Lily, Did You Know?” ([10:45])

A satirical original song listing tongue-in-cheek conspiracies about Elon Musk, government satanism, overpriced printers, and more.

“Did you know that in your sleep / you swallow a thousand spiders?” – The gang ([11:25])

Comedy Sketches & Running Gags

• Mocking how influencer products (like MrBeast chocolate) prompt forced positivity—but not at this table:

  “Not good. Step it up, Mr. Beast. Come on the pod!” – Anthony ([48:39])

• Various running gags about pilots, planes, and bizarre excuses:

  “I don’t know how I got out of there. I must have teleported or something.” ([97:32])

• “War is terrifying; I know a lot of people don’t agree... but I think people need this take.” – Josh, deadpan ([69:35])
• Toying with the “Norad Santa Tracker is a UFO cover-up” theory ([75:40]), and later, playful speculation:

  “Have we ruled out Santa?” – Andy ([119:31])

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Discussion: Unsolved Christmas Mystery—The Sodder Family Fire ([107:20]-[124:34])

The episode’s investigative centerpiece. Special guest Anthony Russo brings a personal connection, as his acquaintance’s grandfather was directly related to the mysterious events. The hosts and Anthony alternate facts and speculation about this genuinely chilling true crime story.

Key Details:

• Christmas Eve, Fayetteville, WV, 1945: The Sodder family's home burned to the ground in 45 minutes. Two parents and four children escaped; five children (allegedly) perished, but no remains were ever found.
• The father tried all means to rescue the missing children but was thwarted: the family ladder was inexplicably gone, two coal trucks wouldn’t start, and the phone line (later proven to be cut) didn't work.
• No remains, no detectable smell of burned human flesh, and multiple after-the-fact eyewitnesses swearing they saw the missing children in diners and motels, accompanied by unfamiliar adults.
• The family—Italian immigrants outspoken against Mussolini—claimed previous intimidation, and the father had been told, “Your house will go up in smoke. Your children will be destroyed.” ([117:32])
• Post-fire, authorities acted suspiciously: a “heart” was allegedly found, which later turned out to be a beef liver planted by the fire chief “for closure.” ([121:08])
• Theories abound: a Mafia connection, secret relocation for protection, or darker cover-up.
• The Sodder family kept a public billboard seeking answers for decades.

Notable quotes:

“That’s impossible … Five kids are still in there. Out of five kids, there would have to be something.” – Josh ([112:23])

“He admits he planted it [the beef liver] and said, ‘I was just trying to give them closure.’” – Andy ([121:02])

Listener reaction:

• Hosts are both creeped out and moved, speculating about the possibility of a sympathetic abductor or a cover-up.
• Anthony: “The story given doesn’t check out, but ... unless they all went down that ladder and then whoever was kidnapping them ... I don’t know. It’s so much coordination.”

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Christmas Conspiracies: Pagan Origins & Santa's Makeover ([81:04]-[87:50])

Hosts break down the true origins of Christmas—from Yule pagan celebrations to the modern “jolly” Santa, popularized by Coca-Cola's 1931 ad campaign.

Key Points:

• St. Nicholas was depicted as a thin, robed figure; Coca-Cola rebranded him into the modern, jolly, red-suited Santa, drawing inspiration from Norse god Odin.
• Odin’s Yule traditions: riding an eight-legged horse, rewarding/punishing children, elves/goblins, and a midwinter festival with evergreen trees and Yule logs.
• The Christian church established December 25 as Christ’s birth anniversary to usurp a Roman pagan holiday.

Notable quotes:

“Coca Cola came out with what we now see—Santa Claus ... They based the look off Odin.” – Josh ([82:01])

“For everyone who’s trying, like, even hear what you just said, and is like, ‘We’ve got to burn our tree’—no. Although it is really fun to burn a Christmas tree.” – Andy ([87:32])

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NORAD, UFOs & Santa Tracking ([74:43]-[77:50])

A classic “conspiracy Christmas” segment:

• The military-tracking-of-Santa tradition began when a Sears ad misprinted NORAD’s (then CONAD's) phone number to "call Santa" in 1955.
• The hosts muse that NORAD sightings of North Pole “anomalies” right around Christmas may have prompted the cover story.
• Theories that maybe UFOs, not Santa, are being tracked.

Notable Quotes:

“...they started getting called by a bunch of, like, little kids. The commander at the time was like, ‘Yeah, we’re tracking Santa.’” – Josh ([75:53])

“If you think about it, Santa’s just like an IFO—an Identified Flying Object.” – Anthony ([76:59])

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Listener Question: Would You Rather... Elf-Size Spouse Edition ([64:00])

Lily poses a silly, seasonal but existential “Would you rather?”
Would you:

• ...shrink your spouse to one foot tall, tote them around like an elf?
• ...or shrink yourself and be toted by your spouse?

Highlights:

• Everyone agrees being shrunk yourself sounds more fun: “She’d love me more than she does at my regular size” – Anthony ([65:12]).
• Terrifying new fear unlocked: “Big birds!” — Andy ([67:17])
• A tangent on “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” and the joy of tiny living, complete with nostalgic Disney movie rankings.

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Timestamps: Must-Listen Segments

• [10:45] "Lily, Did You Know?" (Parody conspiracy Christmas song)
• [31:53] Quicksand as irrational fear—and real-life quicksand rescue
• [56:03] The hosts research the timeline of the infamous “mushroom pilot” aviation story
• [81:04] Christmas, Coca-Cola, Odin, and the Pagan makeover of Santa
• [107:20] Sodder Family fire in-depth story begins—True Crime segment
• [112:23] Forensic breakdown: structure fires, cremation, and impossibility of no remains
• [119:31] Joke about Santa being a suspect in the fire
• [124:34] End of main pod; Patreon promo

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Final Reflections

Tone & Takeaways:
A laugh-out-loud, occasionally poignant, always unpredictable episode—sliding expertly between irreverent holiday cheer and genuinely chilling, unresolved mystery. Perfect for listeners who like their Christmas with a dash of conspiracy, some dark history, and a lot of hilarious tangents.

Favorite sign-off:

“The moral of the story is for the kids watching: maybe you didn’t get that Nintendo Switch, but it could be a whole lot worse on Christmas morning. Mussolini could get you. Mussolini’s under your bed, kids.” – Josh ([124:21])

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To jump directly to the Sodder Family Fire mystery, start at [107:20]. For the Christmas conspiracies deep-dive, go to [81:04].

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

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[A]

And buckle up, folks, because we just found out that the government's been drecking Santa or aliens, who knows?

[C]

And we're going to tell you the story about the Sauder family fire. It is the worst Christmas story you will have ever heard.

[D]

This podcast is brought to you and powered by Sunday. Cool. Watch this or listen.

[E]

And I'm here and I'm a star.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Merry Christmas.

[A]

Do you know a fun fact about David Attenborough? He is the reason. He is the reason tennis balls are yellow. The color. They are. Yeah. Because he was watching, like, in the 70s, he was watching it on TV and he was complaining because they were kind of like, I think like a gray color or something. And he was complaining that the ball was too difficult to see while watching on tv. So he complained about it and, you know, like, let him know, like, you guys should change it to, like, a brighter color. And that's why it's like fluorescent yellow.

[B]

Interesting.

[A]

Yeah. Thank you, David.

[E]

Wonder how many things.

[C]

See the bowl. Yes.

[E]

Wonder how many other things he complained about that led to nothing.

[A]

We got one, though.

[E]

Complaining all the time.

[A]

This is actually works, David.

[E]

He goes into chick Fil A and he's like, you guys should make these tenders better. David, not all of your complaints are helpful, actually.

[B]

I think so.

[D]

Tenders are the best. So the strips, the chicken.

[E]

I know sometimes you some for a while. I don't know if it's still the case. They didn't all have the strips.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

And then they had spicy strips for a minute. And they took that away from us.

[D]

Gosh, what a dream.

[E]

Yanked it right out from under us.

[A]

They got some cool chick Fil A's in Alpharetta and Georgia.

[B]

Some of them have the chicken waffles. Now you see that? Ooh, Chicken waffle sandwich.

[A]

Dang.

[E]

What? Where the. The bread is waffles.

[D]

Dang.

[A]

That's good. No, chicken is waffles.

[D]

Did you try it when you went to Winchester?

[A]

Huh?

[D]

You tried it when you went to windshield?

[B]

No. They didn't test any fun food.

[A]

No, none of the new stuff.

[B]

They're like, we're going to the test kitchen. We're like, oh, dope.

[A]

We just got to watch them.

[C]

It's just a white room.

[D]

Can't try anything.

[C]

People in lab coats.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

They're like, here's all the fun things we've created. And it's like, do we get to try any of it?

[E]

That really is Willy Wonka. Really ruined us all for that premise. We did the Ben and Jerry's tour when we were up in the northeast, and they're like, this is the ice cream, like, where we come up with the new flavors, and you're just, like, expecting, like, a boat that's floating on a river of chocolate and stuff. And it is. Yeah, it's literally like two scientists pushing up their glasses, going like, I don't think pistachios will work with caramel. They're like, oh, okay. Ever since Violet turned Violet, this is less magical than I wanted it to be.

[B]

Hey. Merry Christmas, everyone. Merry Christmas to everyone.

[E]

Merry Christmas.

[B]

Merry Christmas, Anthony. The star is here. Our guiding star.

[D]

Is that Mario Kart?

[A]

Mario Kart.

[B]

We have Andrew from Lawrence of Arabia. We have Little Bo Peep.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Did you guys actually.

[A]

Did.

[D]

Where's the nutcracker? That looks uncannily like by.

[A]

Andrew.

[C]

It just punched me in the head.

[D]

It looks exactly like you. The girls and I were like, is that Andrew?

[B]

Here, throw it over here. We'll put it over here.

[E]

Oh, wow.

[A]

It's got a bow and everything.

[D]

I know, it's weird.

[E]

I like the hot.

[C]

That's it.

[A]

You have binoculars like that and antlers.

[C]

I do, yeah.

[B]

He walks around like that.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

I am a hijacker. You are a pilot.

[A]

I'm a pilot.

[B]

Give me this plane. Just kidding.

[A]

Thank the keys.

[B]

Merry Christmas, everyone.

[A]

Do you see that one pilot trying to turn off the engines this week?

[B]

No, that was we talked about a long time ago.

[A]

No, this is new. This is something new.

[B]

I promise you. It's not.

[A]

I swear.

[E]

It is.

[A]

It's not.

[B]

No, he was tripping on mushrooms. No, he was.

[A]

No, this was a previous pilot. This wasn't just a normal guy. This was a other. A pilot that was a. I'm telling You.

[B]

Alaskan pilot, a passenger. I know.

[A]

This is different.

[B]

Look it up.

[A]

It's different.

[E]

Wait, why did he turn off the end.

[B]

He's going to court now.

[A]

This was the guy that. That guy was trying to open up the doors.

[D]

No, I don't remember anything. So why don't you tell me both stories?

[A]

Well, you just heard it.

[D]

An argument for very.

[B]

It's this. He was a pilot, off duty pilot on Alaskan Airlines, and he took mushrooms, apparently, like two days prior. And like, because he just lost a friend and he's like, apparently, that's what you do is you take shrooms.

[D]

Not usually. Folks don't do that.

[B]

And he didn't sleep for 40 hours and had a complete psychotic break and, like, busted into the cockpit trying to turn off the plane mid flight.

[D]

Oh, my gosh.

[B]

So they landed in Portland and booked him.

[E]

Dude, last week, you know what I saw?

[C]

I was watching your face, waiting to see.

[E]

I saw a story. I did not get a chance to, like, double confirm, but it was about those fridge. Those refrigerators with the screens on them.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Did you see about this?

[A]

I. Yeah, it's wild.

[C]

So what happened?

[E]

Refrigerators that have the screens on them. And like, their pitch was like, you can make a little note about the. That you need eggs at the.

[A]

At the market.

[E]

And like, this was like the pitch for having a screen, a touch screen on your fridge. Well, now, shocking. They're doing ads on the screens in your fridge.

[B]

No way.

[E]

So one of the ads they ran was for this Apple. Apple TV show, Pluribus. Pluribus. And it said like, help me if I get this wrong. But it was like, Claire, Carol, Carol, I'm sorry that happened to you or something like that. And it's like a very, like, it's. It's like very stylized like the show, but it looks just like a note. Well, there was a woman named Carol who has schizophrenia, had been like over two years without an episode. She's going about her life in her house and her fridge, seemingly left a note for her.

[C]

Oh.

[E]

So she got convinced that this was like somebody trying to send her a message. And she had a whole episode. She ended up in the emergency room, per the story I saw, which I did not double and triple confirm, but I.

[B]

Did that also happen last week?

[E]

What?

[B]

That story happened last week.

[E]

That's when I saw it.

[A]

Get. Get.

[B]

Oh, why you get angry for me reading a story? I'm telling you, it's an old story.

[A]

Okay, sorry. My apology.

[E]

Oh, my God.

[A]

It's like snoring. My News feed literally says that it was updated last week.

[E]

Yeah, one time we were all hanging out. You guys met Tim's wife Mallory, right? Yeah, she's the best. She's not, like, super engaged on the Internet like I am, at least. So one time we're all having this dinner and she. This was like, I don't know, a couple months ago. And she's like, oh, my gosh, guys, did you see that? Nicole Kidman went on a date with Jimmy Fallon. And Jimmy didn't know he was on a date. I don't know if you guys remember, but that story came out, like, three years ago or whatever. She was on the show and we all were like. She really. She'd, like, set this up all night. Like, I saw something so cool at dinner. We'll talk about it at dinner. We'll talk about it. It was so great. I can't wait to tell you guys what I saw. And she tells us that we're all like, oh, oh, yeah, we know what we know.

[A]

It was just guessing every next part.

[D]

We saw that Jimmy Fallon had a family.

[B]

He did.

[C]

This is before.

[E]

This was like, before. And she was on the show and she kind of revealed Jimmy to date. Didn't know they were on a date.

[D]

Wow.

[E]

He thought they were, like, just hanging out. And Nicole Kidman thought she was on a date is before she got with Keith, but now they're not together.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Jimmy's reaction. Oh, no, no, that happened, like, three years ago. No, I'm getting that happened, like, last week, a couple months ago.

[D]

Last week? Really?

[A]

Oh, but, yeah, I was, like, watching Jimmy's reaction to that whole thing. Yeah, I bet. I don't know how his wife would must feel about that because he was just like, what?

[E]

I know.

[A]

I could have dated Nicole Kidman.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

All right. Pop the brakes.

[E]

I got the same thing.

[B]

I gotta say, Nicole Kidman scares me.

[D]

I think it's.

[C]

As a fan of the Northman.

[D]

Yeah. She's been doing a lot of scary movies.

[B]

Well, she's scary in the Northman. Everything she's in is pretty much scary.

[E]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

The killing of a sacred deer.

[D]

Very scary.

[E]

Oh, my God. I've never heard of that, but that sounds very.

[D]

Please don't watch it.

[B]

Don't ever watch it.

[A]

It's a 24, isn't it?

[B]

I think so, yeah.

[D]

It's got Barry Keoghan or whatever his name is.

[B]

Like, if you want to just.

[A]

Keogen.

[D]

Keoghan.

[B]

Kyogon.

[A]

Kyogon.

[B]

Pilot. Pilot. What's your first name?

[A]

Pontius.

[B]

Pontius, you're a terrible pilot. The worst pilot in history.

[A]

Get off my plane.

[E]

Tired of these snakes.

[B]

Speaking of pilots.

[D]

Oh, boy.

[B]

You guys want a song?

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Huh?

[E]

She said, oh, boy.

[D]

It's gonna. It's gonna do this, and then we're gonna go to the question.

[A]

Well, you know what? Maybe the question's kind of happy today.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

It is Christmas episode.

[D]

I don't believe you.

[A]

How about you be happy that we actually have a song about Christmas?

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

I love a Christmas. An original ninja's Christmas song.

[A]

It is original. We did write this melody and everything.

[B]

And everything and everything.

[A]

You need to quit critiquing me today.

[B]

I'm sorry.

[A]

That's the third time you've done it.

[B]

When? When?

[A]

Third time.

[B]

Did I just critique the pilot?

[A]

Yeah, everything.

[D]

Guys make up, makeup, and kick.

[A]

We already have, and it didn't work.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Ready?

[B]

Ready.

[A]

Ready.

[B]

Lily, did you know Dick Cheney made money off the Iraq wall? Did you know that human me is in the food at the store? Did you know that Elon Musk has planned a clone of you to send you to Mars to live a life with key on you?

[C]

Really?

[E]

Did you know that our government probably worship Satan?

[A]

Did you know that in your sleep.

[E]

You swallow a thousand spiders?

[B]

And you know that Peter tale could be the Antichrist? And the printer is still vastly overpriced. Lily, did you know? Lily, did you know? Lily, did you know? Lily, did you know? Did you know? Lily, did you know.

[E]

That it's off Christmas.

[C]

Wow.

[E]

Holy smokes.

[D]

That was great.

[A]

Wow.

[D]

Wow, everybody.

[E]

Wow.

[B]

Thank you.

[D]

What's Elon Musk printing?

[B]

A clone of you.

[D]

Me?

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

To live on Mars, I think.

[A]

Yeah. We didn't know if you knew that.

[B]

You'Ll be one of his wives.

[E]

She's acting like she didn't know.

[B]

A concubine prima Ncta.

[A]

Oh, my gosh.

[D]

Enough.

[B]

Oh, my gosh.

[A]

When he mentions that on the office, he's like, at the time, I did not know.

[B]

Yeah. That's so fun.

[A]

Oh, golly. I feel so jolly today, man.

[B]

I do, too. How about this?

[A]

What?

[B]

It's Christmas.

[A]

Okay. Yeah, Definitely is. Looks like it.

[B]

Sure does.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

Let's do a fun question.

[D]

Oh, gosh.

[E]

Oh, the question.

[B]

That's right. Question.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

I'm just gonna.

[B]

Let's keep it happy. I want this episode to be a happy episode.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Why wouldn't it be?

[B]

Why wouldn't it be?

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Today's question, sitting by a viewer. Yes, Lily, Is Christmas the best time of the year?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Good job, Lil.

[B]

Well, I Guess you guys heard it here first.

[E]

Sorry. This was a call. Let me just. One second.

[A]

Oh, geez. Is he choked?

[B]

He's shirtless. I didn't realize.

[D]

Yeah, it's about his dog.

[B]

What's the only.

[A]

We could run it again.

[B]

What's wrong with this dog?

[D]

His is like a thing or something. Got stung by something.

[B]

Got stung by something.

[A]

Said he might be getting something. So we just run that from like we could just do.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[C]

Do you want me to pause it?

[B]

I mean, we can just keep it.

[A]

Going if it goes longer than.

[B]

We'll pause it real quick.

[D]

I'm suspicious that this is a trick. Is it?

[A]

I mean, if it's. If it's from him, that would be amazing.

[B]

What?

[A]

I don't know anything about this.

[B]

I got some really fun conspiracies for Christmas.

[A]

I know. I had to turn up. I listened to Mary did you know a million times yesterday because it was a full. Full volume.

[B]

Everything good?

[E]

No, I'm sorry.

[A]

Was the dog or what?

[E]

Yeah, just. That was. I'm sorry.

[A]

What's up?

[C]

And do.

[E]

It just wasn't you good.

[A]

You want to. We could take like five.

[E]

No, because we're gonna do the live and stuff, so. But they, like. It's not. I'm. It's just. They're like. They have to put her down.

[D]

No way. Really?

[E]

Yeah, they said they just. She just was like getting worse and she couldn't control her bowels. And it was like. I guess like a huge.

[A]

I thought you said it was like a sting.

[E]

It was literally like a bee sting. And it's like your dog. Yeah, like, it's just weird.

[A]

We could. Let's just take. We could take it like a break.

[C]

We skip the live. The live. The people online.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Obviously have to get back.

[B]

This sucks.

[C]

We'll do a live later. That's fine.

[B]

Yeah, we can take.

[E]

We think it's just weird. It's like, I don't know.

[B]

Best time of the year, huh, Lil?

[D]

Oh, my gosh. I knew it.

[A]

You knew what? I'm sorry, Anthony. I really hate to put you through this, but.

[B]

Why are you laughing?

[E]

That was so confusing.

[A]

This is. There's nothing confusing about it.

[B]

Why are you laughing?

[A]

He just found out.

[E]

She literally did just say it was the best time of year and you. My dog just died.

[B]

Literally just died.

[E]

I just got the news and she thinks it's funny.

[D]

No, I don't think that she thinks.

[A]

This is the best time of the year. Hey, when Anthony's dog's dead.

[B]

Hey.

[A]

Parade time.

[D]

Yay.

[B]

Let's celebrate.

[A]

Lily, pop the poppers.

[B]

Anthony's our friend.

[A]

Grab the champagne.

[B]

Perhaps even with those who mourn.

[D]

I was not.

[B]

And you laugh in his face.

[D]

I wasn't anticipating this loss.

[B]

Well, I guess you guys heard it here first. Lily, she wants chaos this Christmas year. Sorry, Anthony. Your dog's dead. And Lily thinks it's funny.

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That was really hard for my brain.

[A]

Good job, Anthony.

[C]

That was very hard.

[D]

You guys set that up so far.

[E]

That was the meanest.

[D]

We literally were just talking so much about your dog.

[A]

You had to pull out so many. Like, she's like, oh, what kind of dog? What's his name?

[C]

You know, like, immediately asking for.

[E]

No, I do have a dog.

[D]

Is it a goldendoodle?

[E]

It is, yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Is his name Winnie?

[E]

Her name Winnie?

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Yeah. I didn't lie to you about everything. Just this one big thing.

[C]

That's so.

[B]

That was good. That was good. Speaking of good.

[E]

Oh, I'm sorry, Lily.

[A]

You hear about this pilot that went crazy on the plane?

[B]

When did that happen?

[E]

Literally last week saying, dude.

[A]

Yeah, he just tried to shut off the engines. Apparently he was going like, some, like, dramatic break. He just took a mushrooms. His friend died.

[B]

Oh, wait. That's like a story I heard a couple months ago.

[A]

No, I don't think so. I don't.

[B]

Did you see crazy?

[E]

You see the woman who was on the plane and she was like, that guy's not real. Do you guys see that?

[A]

No.

[B]

No, no. When did that happen?

[A]

Just on the phone.

[E]

I heard about it last week. That's what the vet just called to tell me about. It's crazy.

[B]

That person is not real.

[C]

Dude. Somebody driving just, like, short circuited for sure.

[B]

Have you guys seen wall friction?

[A]

I just saw this yesterday.

[B]

It's driving me nuts.

[A]

Did you do it?

[B]

Yeah, and I can't do it.

[A]

Oh, man. I don't know if it's real, though.

[C]

Tell me about it.

[B]

Okay, but People. I mean, it's all over my algorithm now. People. They're calling it wall friction, where they literally slide stuff on the walls and it sticks.

[C]

Static.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, I looked it up, and part of it could be static, but.

[A]

They'Re doing, like, pencils and pens and, like, they're doing. Wait, wait, wait. What?

[B]

Listen, there's these kids in the Philippines or something. It's like a classroom, and they're just sticking everything on the walls. And they literally put a full desk up. There was someone sitting on the desk.

[A]

This can't be.

[B]

No.

[E]

Sitting on the desk.

[B]

Hold on. All right, you see people are doing, like, pencils and stuff. Yeah, we just slide it and it sticks. Hold on.

[A]

I wonder what kind of wall it is.

[B]

And this. These people were, like, grabbing stuff and, like, just literally sticking it to the walls.

[A]

Huh. You know who started this rumor? Painters. They're like, scratch your walls so we can go over and paint. Sherman Williams is behind this. That's the conspiracy.

[B]

Okay, look at these. Look at this.

[A]

How is that possible?

[E]

Come on.

[B]

That can't be real. I don't know, but they're. They're literally sticking everything to the wall.

[C]

And then they.

[B]

Look, they just literally have a desk sideways on the wall.

[C]

This is like an unhinged classroom. Like, a science teacher, like, showed them how to do it with a sheet of paper, and they didn't find it cool. They just started, like, drilling stuff to the wall and acting impressed to troll the teacher.

[B]

Anyways, I can't figure it out.

[A]

We got to try it in the office. Yeah, because I think it's a different type of wall, too.

[B]

People are just saying semi gloss paint on drywall.

[A]

Interesting.

[C]

In the Philippines.

[B]

No, this is. People are doing it in the US but in the Philippines, they got something different there. They got that static, static lead.

[A]

So it's just magnetic.

[D]

Yeah, maybe it does have to be lead paint. That's interesting.

[B]

Anyways, that's fun. Wall friction. I gotta figure it out.

[A]

Picking me up and shoving me against the wall.

[D]

Lily, last night, you sort of like, all night. Nothing was working.

[A]

Babe, you gotta come back to bed. Not now.

[B]

Leave me alone.

[C]

Just hear a scream in the middle of the night. He's stuck to the wall.

[A]

Lily, you're not gonna believe this. Good news and bad news.

[E]

Completely asleep. Like, halfway up the wall. How did he do it?

[A]

Just held by his underwear. He's just full on wedgie, passed out.

[B]

Are you guys fan of the Peaky Blinders?

[A]

Love big time.

[E]

Love the Peaky Blood.

[A]

Buy order of the Peaky Blinders.

[B]

Well, they just got arrested by the Taliban.

[A]

That's great marketing for their new Peaky Blinders.

[D]

Let me see.

[A]

Sand it.

[E]

What? Peaky Blinders is a real thing?

[A]

Yeah, of course they are.

[E]

I said no. It was a show based on.

[A]

It was a documentary. It was a docu series.

[B]

And then.

[E]

Are they, like a mafia type thing?

[A]

I think so. It's hard to be mafia whenever you talk like that, though.

[E]

My brain is struggling to make sense of the sentence. Peaky Blinders were arrested by the Taliban. There's just gaps I'm trying to fill.

[C]

Yep.

[B]

Peaky Blinders.

[D]

Oh, my gosh. Wait, so are they, like, fans or something?

[B]

Yeah, it's just these guys that dress up like the Peaky Blinders. They're real and they were arrested by the Taliban.

[A]

Why?

[D]

Why were they mad about it?

[A]

Because their drip was dripping.

[B]

I know. Because they're probably jealous.

[A]

For real.

[D]

Cool.

[B]

They look so cool.

[A]

Tell us how you dress so fit. That is awesome.

[D]

This video above it. What is this? What is that? Is that supposed to be Anthony?

[B]

Oh, yeah, that's when.

[A]

That's so great.

[B]

That's like, dude, AI is so good.

[E]

It can't get any better than this. This is wild to me to think. So the Taliban arrested these people?

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

The Taliban's not a great organization. You heard it here first.

[A]

Come on.

[E]

But, like, I wonder if you live in that community and they do arrest someone who did need to be arrested, and you in that situation, sort of have to go, like, well, that one probably had to happen.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

You know what I mean?

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[E]

Like, somebody shoplifts right in front of you and they get arrested by a Taliban and you're like, hey, you can't. Yeah, that makes sense. I mean.

[B]

Yeah. Justice is.

[E]

Sir, you're not doing. Most of these are not right. That one is hard to fight about.

[B]

I will say. I really do. I'm the Taliban. They've done some terrible things.

[C]

But let me start by saying you.

[A]

Heard it here first, and they have done terrible things. I don't know.

[B]

I really think.

[C]

No.

[B]

We watched this guy on YouTube. Mike. Okay.

[E]

Okay.

[D]

He's awesome. Everybody start watching.

[B]

He's this guy from England who just does travel vlogs.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Himself.

[D]

He's from Wales.

[B]

Wales.

[D]

I think.

[A]

Oh, Jonah was, too.

[B]

He was.

[E]

Got him.

[B]

But he was in Afghanistan recently, and Taliban treated him. Fantastic. Really nice. They helped him. They made sure that he was safe.

[A]

And Walter Mitty, Ben Stiller gives them a. Some, like, baked goods.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And they let him pass through I.

[B]

Would say if you're probably a woman, it probably wouldn't be the same. Correct treatment.

[A]

Who's to say?

[B]

Or maybe someone from a part of the world. Right. That's close to them.

[A]

Yeah. Utah.

[E]

Stuff like that just is so interesting to me, though, because you were always. We're all so tempted to make everything so, like, all bad and all good.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

And I'm always, like, intrigued. And when it's like. But there's going to be moments where you got to go like, nobody's all bad and all good.

[B]

Like Hitler, right? Is that what you're saying?

[E]

Not that one. No. That was a good counterpoint there.

[D]

He's Jewish.

[B]

It's true.

[E]

This is actually the incorrect star for me. We do a different one.

[A]

Speaking of dressing up, I always love scrolling googling Halloween mug shots because you imagine just the parties that happen on Halloween and people get crazy.

[E]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

It's the funniest thing because there's just people in mid makeup, and they look like just this guy just dressed as a cow. It's pretty good. And also, some people like that look like. Like. Like they dressed as zombies. I'm like, this is the worst mug shot because it looks like you actually got in a fight.

[B]

That's so funny.

[E]

Who's the guy?

[A]

Caveman.

[E]

There's a guy on the set of. Of like, Good Morning America or something on 9 11. Have you seen this?

[C]

No.

[E]

He's in a complete like. Like, I think it's a Stay Puft Marshmallow man costume. And he's in the background of, like, shots of, like, the morning show that day. And they're just like. Since people have, like, identified him and been like, can you imagine? Like, he has to process that day in that environment, in that costume. Like, he just made a choice that morning, and now he's stuck.

[D]

Stuck.

[A]

I had the worst day today. Come on, bud.

[E]

And that guy tried to be like, guys, we gotta get out of here. Everybody follow me. And you're like, is that the Stay Puft Marshmallow?

[A]

Am I already dead?

[B]

So what would you say were some fears growing up that would be classified as completely irrational?

[A]

I've heard this, like, a comedian says this, but quicksand.

[B]

Yep, we'll stick with that one.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

That'S it.

[B]

Really not irrational fear anymore. What do you mean? There was a hiker in Arches national park that literally was being swallowed by quicksand, and they had to do a rescue operation. Get him out.

[A]

Okay, where's that park at?

[B]

Utah.

[A]

Utah. Oh, my goodness.

[C]

Dude.

[A]

Just actual Quicksand.

[B]

Yeah. He could not get out.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

He was stuck, and it was just swallowing him.

[A]

It truly is a, like, the worst possible scenario.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[A]

It's so scary.

[E]

Which national park was this?

[B]

Arches. Yeah.

[D]

Do they got to see in there?

[B]

I'd say so. It's a desert.

[C]

The thing that freaks.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Thing that freaks me out about it is it's not that you're just drowning in it, like you're going to lose oxygen, but it's the fact that once you, like, take a breath, you exhale. It compresses your stomach. Yeah. Your breaths become more and more shallow.

[D]

That is the most horrifying thing I've heard in my life. You just articulating that also.

[A]

Just swallowing that like that. Filling your mouth and then your throat like that with. It's the thick sludge.

[D]

I need to go to therapy.

[C]

By the time your nose is the only thing out, it's just like, dude.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

You wouldn't even know.

[E]

He did not know he actually died in the quicksand.

[B]

No, he didn't.

[E]

Oh, he did not die.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Did he die?

[E]

He did, and he talked to us about.

[A]

No, we.

[E]

He needs to do a TED Talk on how to survive quicksand.

[B]

I know.

[E]

We all know it.

[B]

Yeah. They did fly a drone to find him because I apparently, was, like, screaming out for help.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

It's like, low freezing temperatures, and he's just stuck.

[C]

He's just going in.

[A]

Yeah. You think it's probably, like. Like, it's slow, but, you know, like, within 30 minutes, you're under. It's probably one of those things. It could be hours, but you're slowly, like, millimeter by millimeter, sinking down. That's so scary. Like, the doom of it all.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Oh, Princess Bride stuff, man.

[D]

When was he stuck? Were his feet stuck? And he couldn't even get those out?

[B]

Yeah, he couldn't get his feet out.

[A]

He dropped his.

[B]

Because every time he moved his foot, it'd sink in deeper.

[D]

Oh, my gosh. And he dropped his phone in the sand.

[A]

That's why he went in.

[E]

Maybe it's, like, because.

[D]

Oh, he made that up.

[E]

Maybe it's like, because the 90s are coming back. Some of these threats are coming back.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Maybe the Bermuda Triangle makes a appearance again, you know?

[C]

I hope so.

[A]

And we said.

[B]

What'S the next Y2K?

[A]

You think another princess is tragically taken away from us?

[B]

Beanie Babies come back.

[A]

I'd be down for that. Dude, getting Beanie babies in a McDonald's.

[C]

That was.

[A]

You would legit get like big ones.

[B]

That was the first, like, NFT.

[A]

Really? It was.

[E]

Did you. The, the McDonald's did the Grinch thing. Do you guys see this?

[A]

No.

[B]

No.

[E]

They did like a Grinch Happy Meal. It came with Grinch socks.

[B]

Oh, fun.

[E]

Yeah. I was like, I, I showed it to Rach. I'm giving up on these. I showed it to Rage. I was like, I'm glad they're like making another run at this to do cool stuff in these toys because I.

[B]

Feel like it bring a little joy back into the world.

[E]

It's been years since I was like, oh, you gotta go and get the McDonald's thing.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

We went the other month with our girls and we got them Happy Meals and they were like, just like K Pop toys. Didn't even know who they were in Lily's or Ada's. Like, this is a really cute girl and it was a little K Pop boy. I'm like, it's actually a boy. Like, no, it's a girl.

[D]

It became too confusing. I threw them away.

[C]

Wasn't it the Demon Hunter or whatever that show is?

[B]

No, it wasn't even that.

[D]

It was just singers. Yeah.

[B]

Just random K Pop boys.

[A]

Hey, they're a big deal now.

[B]

They are.

[D]

They are. They have been.

[A]

I think Demon Hunters is the biggest movie ever on Netflix, which is crazy.

[E]

Who did Netflix just buy?

[B]

No one yet, which is crazy. When this comes out, it's probably sold. But they were trying. They put in a bid for wb.

[E]

Okay.

[B]

And then Paramount upped the bid.

[A]

Yeah. Because they originally dropped out and they came back in. Right? Yeah.

[B]

But then Trump's son in law, what's his name?

[E]

Jared.

[B]

Yeah, something something.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

He's like with some Saudi company, like representing a Saudi company trying to buy wb.

[A]

Whoa.

[B]

And their bid was like over. It was like a hundred something billion dollars.

[A]

That'd be a wacky. I mean, that'd be a big buy. I mean, like, longevity wise, you're making a lot of money.

[E]

I mean, that frog in the top hat is gonna cost you a pretty penny.

[B]

Hello, my baby. Hello, my darling.

[E]

Wwb. That'll be a hundred billion dollars.

[C]

How does that even work with their like religious convictions and stuff?

[B]

I don't think they.

[C]

As long as it's making money.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, because they're like. So it's. I think it's in United Emirates or maybe in Dubai. They're opening up a casino, which gambling is illegal in Muslim countries. So it's a casino that will serve alcohol. They said how it's Going to be so impactful for the region for jobs. But they're also saying legally they're not allowed to hire local people. So it can only be foreign people outside of Muslim countries that can work at this casino.

[D]

So it's not helping the jobs at all.

[B]

No.

[D]

Interesting, huh?

[B]

They got to figure it out, though.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, they always do. They always do.

[E]

Name me a time a giant casino has not made a community better.

[B]

I can't name one time. I can't.

[E]

It just brings families together, you know?

[B]

Vegas, bringing families together.

[A]

The family city. Yeah, that's always fun, though.

[B]

It's always fun.

[A]

Hey, gambling. I went to a casino one time and someone gave me like 50 bucks, and they're like, hey, have fun. And I spent it. I was like, I feel terrible.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Where did the money go? I'm like, I would have rather gone to the buffet. Yeah, like, that would have been so much more fun.

[E]

At least your tummy's full.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Gambling.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Makes me terrible. I can see how it's addicting, though. You're like, 50 bucks. You're like, ah, yeah, I get it this time.

[A]

Yeah, for sure. The like, I go, you put me in front of a skeeball, I'm there all day.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So that's a problem for me. Like, I'm like, I gotta get that 10,000. But you're trying to casinos gamble on skee ball.

[E]

Is that what you.

[A]

You're saying, like, I'll spend more money? Like, I gotta do more, you know, like, because we were at, like, with skating rink for a birthday party a couple weeks ago, and they had this big old arcade, and I was just like, everyone's walking around and, you know, we're doing the vending machines and stuff like that. I'm like, I mean, not the vending machines, the game machines and claw machines and all that. And I'm just like, I had like five bucks of coins. I'm like, I need more. I need more. So I went back there and I was the cool dad and I gave the girls bags of coins and stuff. But I also was like, the one, like, really invested all day. I was like, this is my gambling addiction.

[E]

Skeeball, the sports betting ones, they keep getting, like, crazier and crazier. The intro deals, I don't know if you guys have, like, noticed this, but it'll be like, hey, first time you come on, it's like, we'll give you like, 50 free bucks to gamble with now. Like, I was watching football last weekend. They're like, we'll give you $1,000 of free gambling money.

[B]

Like, that's crazy.

[E]

They're literally like, know how addictive this is and that you are going to lose everything if you start. So they're giving so much away to start.

[A]

It's wild, man. What a rampant.

[C]

All the, like, contingent bets you can make too. Yeah, my brother's hooked on it now. He just turned $7 into 300. Watching a soccer game. Like.

[E]

Yeah, what is it? Kalshee or whatever where you can bet on like anything maybe.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

I think it's called Kalshee because that the woman that started that just became, I think the youngest billionaire or the female billionaire or something. And you can bet on like anything on there.

[A]

We should start a. Which one of our fans should start a gambling thing for ninjas of Butterfly?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

What does he say? Welcome to the show. 15 and 15 minutes, over and under.

[B]

Nice.

[E]

Like just this episode, will they defend the Taliban more or less than three times?

[B]

Speaking of defending a Taliban, I did watch. Or I'm like halfway through the interview with Nick Fuentes and Piers Morgan.

[E]

Oh, okay.

[D]

Oh, my gosh.

[B]

It's rough. Yeah, it's rough on both sides, truthfully.

[A]

Anyone wins on Piers Morgan?

[B]

No. Well, Nick Fuentes, he is the best in the biz for rage baiting.

[E]

Okay.

[B]

Like, he. He gets people all hyped. He's like, why are you yelling?

[D]

And then the bear like, you know, like gaslighting.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But this, listen to this one clip. This. This actually was really, really funny. Hold on.

[A]

Do you know about him? Anthony?

[E]

I've heard this name before. I'm trying to place him in my head.

[B]

Probably recognize him when you hear us. Okay, why did you say I look.

[C]

Like that pigeon lady from the movie?

[B]

Yeah. Dang it. He says, why do you. He said, why did you say that I look like the pigeon lady from Home Alone 2? And he's like, because you do.

[A]

I mean, have you seen the side by side Pierce?

[D]

He does. Yeah.

[B]

But yeah, I mean, Nick Fuentes is awful. At one point, Nick Fuentes was like defending Hitler on the show. And you're just like, no. And Piers Morgan is like. He would pull up clips of Nick Fuentes where Nick's like, I'm racist. And Pierce Morgan's like, so are you racist? And he's like, yeah. He said everyone's a little racist.

[A]

It's like, come on, start off better.

[C]

Nick.

[E]

Anyways, I see from Pierce are not. Not great.

[B]

Yeah, Pierce is kind of a bully.

[E]

Just the whole vibe of the show. I'm like, who's the target audience?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Because it's not real news. It's literally. It's just like the view for older white men. Right? I mean, like, just, like, debating.

[E]

Great way to put it. Yeah. It just feels like you. If you just think exactly like Piers Morgan, I guess, like, that's the.

[C]

You.

[A]

I mean, it's entertaining. Obviously.

[C]

That's the.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Got something going. Didn't he start as a. Wasn't he, like, a reality show?

[B]

I think so, yeah. Something like that.

[E]

By the way, I did some research, and I did send this in the chat, and it's a Mr. Peanut costume.

[A]

That's even worse.

[E]

This fella is wearing directly behind Al Roker. This shot is live 10 minutes before the first plane.

[B]

That's amazing.

[A]

I think we talked about it on the pod before, but I don't know if you know about Anthony, that there's a. There's a bowling alley in New York that has a plaque for people who win half perfect games and stuff like that. And there's one guy that has his name up there, and it's September 11, 2001. And it's like, could you imagine just, like, the fact of, like, trying to go home and tell your family and, like, kids and everything? Like, your dad did it.

[B]

Perfect.

[A]

No one cares.

[E]

Good skit, though. Like, trying to work it in. Be so funny knocking stuff down.

[A]

I had a pretty busy morning.

[E]

Like, will you leave it? No one wants to hear about it.

[A]

It's a perfect 300.

[E]

It was a perfect game.

[A]

Sweetie, you do it.

[C]

I put my name on the wall.

[A]

I could have been a pilot. That was easy. You put those pilots behind on a bowling alley. There's no way they could have done that. Okay, you're going way too far.

[E]

More people were bowling.

[B]

They took down two buildings. I took down nine pens. Is it nine?

[E]

It's dead.

[A]

Ten.

[B]

Oh.

[E]

I feel like I always get to share, like, Russo family history with you guys when I'm here that I never talk about until I'm in this chair. I have an uncle who is not great, and he, like, stole a bunch of money from the whole family, and he's a mess.

[A]

Bring him out.

[D]

Here we are, Uncle Russo also in a star costume.

[E]

You know, we're family. But he was a he. My dad's side is all from Philadelphia, and he loved a bowl. Like, that was his thing. He was like, a bowler. Uncle Tom. And he bowled a 299 and was very proud and walked into, like, this bar. They all went to it to be like, guys bowled at 299 and the entire ball, the bar, ended up putting one bowling pin up to say, tom couldn't knock this. And that's why he didn't bowl a 300. And they would just set it on the bar and knock it over and go, tom, it's not so hard. I don't know why you couldn't do it.

[A]

299 is so like, that's. There's such a fine line between, like, bragging rights between those two.

[E]

It's essentially you did nothing.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Versus you did something worth talking about.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Like nobody wants to hear about your 299.

[A]

No.

[B]

Speaking of 299 is that time already? We all love Mr. Beast, don't we?

[A]

I couldn't say more than enough nice things about him.

[B]

Mr. Beast has done so much good. Yeah, he really has done good stuff.

[A]

Blind people are seen now because he.

[D]

Has, like, a philanthropy channel that's different than his obnoxious one.

[B]

Yeah. And he just actually partnered up with someone Who? The Rockefellers.

[D]

Oh, my gosh.

[A]

What did he do with the Rockefellers?

[B]

He teamed up with the Rockefeller Foundation.

[A]

Interesting. Interesting.

[B]

To impact the youth with propaganda.

[A]

How?

[B]

They're coming out with new MrBeast textbooks for all schools.

[D]

They're not. Oh, my gosh.

[A]

We're rewriting history, baby.

[C]

We're doing it again. Run it back.

[A]

Burn the libraries.

[B]

No, it's like philampathy. Philamperthy. Philampathy.

[E]

No, I think you're trying to say photography.

[B]

Oh, that's it. How do you say it?

[D]

Philanthropy.

[B]

Philanthropy.

[D]

Nope. Close.

[B]

Philanthropy.

[A]

Anemone.

[B]

Say it again.

[D]

Watch my lips. Philanthropy.

[B]

Philanthropy.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Philanthropy.

[A]

Yes. Good job.

[D]

Good job.

[B]

They're doing, like, philanthropy. Doing my lamb stuff, but yeah, I just thought it. Hey, how do you turn into more of a bad guy? Join the Rockefellers.

[D]

Yeah. True. Or he's gonna change them. What if he changes them, Mr.

[E]

Beast? Christmas movie style.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. I'm gonna take out all the corruption that the Rockefellers have caused.

[A]

But first I gotta befriend them.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Take it from the inside out.

[C]

So.

[A]

So what is it gonna look like?

[B]

I don't know.

[A]

There's no info on it at all.

[B]

No. But we got Mr. Beast. He is in the food business. We know that.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Rockefellers were definitely involved in the food business.

[D]

What were they doing with food?

[B]

I don't remember poisoning us.

[D]

Oh. Only that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That's interesting. I don't know, like, because he's obviously got, like, a lot of connections with the climate people and like, well, all this tree stuff and everything like that. It's weird, medically, all these things. He's trying to touch base. And he. He just came out recently because a lot of people are, like, dogging on him because he's not reaching a certain amount of views like he did last year. Like, he had so many videos. Yeah, I saw 200 million or something like that.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

And he had, like, one that hit this year. And he's like, I'm gonna go harder next year. Promise you. I'm gonna start grinding more than ever before. And it's like, how many ideas can you possibly have?

[B]

He has to have a team. Definitely has a team. But.

[A]

Yeah, but, like.

[B]

But how can you keep popping it? Yeah.

[A]

I mean, you've. You went into the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

[B]

I know.

[A]

You've set people on fire.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I mean, like, what are you doing? You've done a squid game. I don't. I don't. Yeah, I mean, I think.

[E]

Tried his candy.

[A]

I have. Not that great.

[E]

Not a fan.

[A]

Not a great.

[B]

Did you see.

[C]

Oh, my gosh.

[B]

Who was it? He had someone on. Was it Keith Lee? Yeah. And Keith Lee's like, that's all right. And Mr. B, he was really mad about it.

[A]

Live it, dude.

[B]

He's like, well, no, try it again. Ooh, try it again.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

And he's like, okay. He's like.

[A]

He's like, seven out of ten.

[B]

He's like, okay, seven out of ten, huh?

[A]

You're killing me.

[B]

Super, super uncomfortable.

[D]

Why would you do that, though? Why would you, like, out him on TV in front of it?

[A]

Him?

[B]

Oh, he's an honest tv or.

[D]

Oh, he's the guy.

[B]

The food review guy.

[A]

Sits in his car. So he flew him in, and it's like, hey, look, you want to review my chocolate? He's like, yeah, but I'm gonna be honest.

[D]

Dang.

[A]

He said, okay, yeah, I trust that. And so there's probably something in Mr. Beast. Like, obviously you're not gonna try to embarrass me in front of everyone. It's like, you know, he has nothing to lose, dude.

[B]

I know.

[D]

That just reinforces that he's trustworthy.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Heck, yeah. You see that one time you mess.

[E]

Up chocolate this particular way, it was just, like, not good.

[B]

Just average.

[E]

I mean, like, I would say below average.

[B]

Really?

[A]

It's. Yeah, it's not as good as, like, even, like, secondary chocolate.

[E]

We had. We got one for the. For the family and kind of broke it up. And there was more. And I was like, you guys want Another piece. The kids are like, no.

[A]

Because there's almost something about that tastes almost fake.

[E]

Do you have broccoli?

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Any broccoli? Love to have that.

[D]

A Brussels sprout.

[E]

And I think for us the juxtaposition was the tray hand stuff.

[D]

I know. We're obsessed.

[B]

It's good.

[E]

Stinking good.

[D]

Dude. You know we actually. I didn't realize that it was, like a limited thing. Jane and I went to Target and we got one of the limited boxes with the Wheel of Doom in it.

[A]

Oh, cool.

[D]

And I didn't even know.

[A]

That's sick. I know. That'll be a good stocking stuffer. Dude.

[D]

Opened it already. They're sold out.

[E]

That I didn't think. Do what all of. And he's like. It's across the board.

[B]

Mr.

[C]

Beast.

[E]

Not here. On behalf of him. Legit. Like the joyride is so every. Every new variation.

[B]

Would you say you give it one star.

[E]

But it's a big one.

[A]

The little spiky ones. The little balls that. The. Those ones are so good.

[B]

The cherry rope is my favorite.

[A]

I haven't tried that one.

[D]

Too.

[B]

This guy. This podcast is practically empowered by joyride.

[A]

Please.

[B]

That would be cool.

[A]

That would be amazing.

[C]

It would be a problem if we got, like a food sponsor.

[B]

I know.

[C]

Like, I'd eat all day long.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Oh, Dude. Have you guys not, like, heard from Trehan or anything? I feel like he would be into your vibe. Maybe he's a Christian guy.

[B]

He is.

[E]

He talks about that a lot.

[D]

A recent believer.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Haley converted him.

[E]

Haley.

[C]

Dude.

[D]

My love.

[E]

But. But. Mr.

[C]

Beast.

[E]

Chocolate.

[B]

Not good.

[A]

Step it up.

[B]

Never tried it.

[A]

Change your mind? Mr. Beast. Come on to the pod.

[E]

Looking for somebody to put on a contest to win a Tesla. He's your guy.

[B]

Also Prime. If we're. If we're on this whole Influencer products do it. Prime is not good either.

[E]

Not good.

[A]

Overly sweet is. I've had it a couple times. It's. Yeah. It's overly sweet. Like it's a. It's one of those good.

[C]

Is it fake sugar or real sugar?

[B]

Probably fake. I don't know.

[E]

Language. On the Christmas episode, no less.

[C]

Yes. What?

[A]

Bleep it.

[C]

You should bleep that.

[D]

Yeah. He showed me the clip for the last episode. I cannot.

[A]

Is it good?

[C]

It's really funny.

[E]

No. Prime's no good. I'm a big. I. One of those things. I thought we were doing Gatorade and Powerade for forever. I thought that conversation was over. And then I blinked and I was at a gas station. Going like, whoa, this is not the same as it was.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Body armor. Big fan. If we're giving out unpaid for plugs for products. I like body armor.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

All right.

[D]

The breastfeeding community loves body.

[E]

It's got coconut water in it. That's where I got my info. That's where I get all my info on snacks.

[A]

It looks good, but let me check with the community.

[B]

Well, it is Christmas.

[A]

Yes, it is. Can't you feel it in the air?

[B]

I got some Christmas conspiracies for you guys.

[A]

They're probably all very jolly, right? And uplifting and cheerful Christmas piece. Okay, cool.

[B]

If you consider Wiccan jolly and holly.

[D]

Ooh.

[A]

Okay. All right.

[B]

Paganism.

[A]

Not necessarily.

[B]

And how we were transformed to believe that Christmas now is what Christmas has always been.

[A]

The Christmas past.

[B]

Right after the test or. Don't go anywhere.

[E]

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That is impressive. And if these walls could talk.

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[A]

I do.

[E]

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[E]

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[D]

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[C]

Great.

[A]

So I have some closure. I looked up the pilot stuff. What was released last week was the on video and like recordings and stuff and like the dash cam footage. So I apologize.

[E]

Am I gonna bring up an old for old story? Don't.

[B]

It's okay.

[C]

We gotta talk about as long as you're like, here. Okay, you're fine.

[E]

I'll keep it here. It's just like falling off.

[A]

I was right.

[B]

What were your intentions by looking it up?

[A]

Because I wanted to prove that I was wrong. Like if I'm wrong, I want to be wrong about it.

[B]

Or are you trying to prove that you're right?

[A]

No, I had to confirm because I had it saved. I had to confirm.

[B]

We'll let them decide.

[A]

I'm sorry, everyone.

[B]

I'm talking about dumb. Just A bunch of people.

[A]

Dad, I'm disappointed to you again. Son walks out.

[B]

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[E]

I'm sorry. Trahan went to 50 states in 50 days and stayed up. How good was that?

[B]

That was one of the best.

[E]

Oh, it was like.

[A]

It got us through summer.

[B]

Dude, hooked on that Talking your mic.

[A]

Yeah. We're on a podcast.

[B]

We're on. Yeah, we're live.

[C]

I will say, when you turn your head to talk to her, you disappear.

[E]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah. Ryan Trahan is one of my favorite YouTubers.

[A]

He's the best.

[B]

What? What's he do? Just a bunch of fun stuff like Hope Core.

[D]

And his editing is so funny.

[A]

Legit travel vlogs, like every. He went to every Disney resort. He did 50 Airbnbs. He did everything.

[D]

He went on your cruise ship. Did you watch that video?

[A]

Not yet. We will. We're going to. This whole weekend. We're going to just binge. A bunch of stuff that. Because it's such a huge ship, I'm like, we have to know where we're going.

[D]

I agree.

[B]

Oh, what.

[E]

Wait, where are you. What ship are you going on?

[A]

Utopia of the Seas or is Caribbean Royal?

[E]

Speaking of Royal Caribbean of the seas.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

This did happen last week. Did you see the video of the guy who died on Royal Caribbean?

[D]

Doing what?

[B]

Dude? Okay, so.

[A]

So here's the story.

[C]

No.

[A]

So a family gets onto the ship, and they don't have his room ready. Their whole room. And so they. They sent him down with, like, some complimentary stuff. And they said, hey, you know, go chill in this, like, bar area, you know, restaurant. And the guy sits there, and they sit there for a couple hours, and the wife go checks. They're still not ready. So they chill out there for a little bit. The guy drinks 33 alcoholic drinks.

[D]

Are you serious?

[A]

In that amount of time? And then he starts heading up to his stateroom, which isn't ready yet, and starts losing his mind. Starts screaming, yelling at people. And there's secure. There's footage online of them in the hallway. It's a big guy, and he's, like, pushing people. The people that work there, the crew members, all this stuff. They finally subdue him. They get him on the ground. You could see them tying sheets around his ankles and his arms and stuff like that. And the dude died?

[B]

No, but they injected him with a thing to calm him down.

[D]

Oh, no.

[A]

Yeah, I. I didn't hear that.

[B]

Yeah, they did him with, like, whatever to subdue someone. Like what?

[A]

So he dies. They literally. The causes was obesity, some Type of poisoning and then asphyxiation. So it's like they're being. There's like, FBI is involved in it.

[E]

And everything in there to be mean.

[A]

I know. That's just like. I mean, it's crazy.

[E]

Why are we blaming him for that one?

[B]

I fell off a bridge. He was really fat, but he.

[D]

Oh, my gosh.

[B]

How'd he die? Well, he was fat.

[E]

He was.

[A]

But he was shot with a gun by an intruder.

[E]

Really?

[A]

Ball.

[C]

Why is that?

[A]

Why is it in my obituary?

[E]

Really bad at math. And he was shot.

[D]

Oh, that's awful, though.

[A]

It's terrifying.

[E]

Like, somebody went on a Disney cruise, right?

[B]

Oh, the girl.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

The girl died on a Disney cruise.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

I didn't get the whole story. I saw, like, her parents talking about it, but it's like she was found, like, under her bed in one of the rooms.

[D]

Oh, no, they're.

[E]

I saw. You guys talked about.

[D]

They're speculating that was a homicide.

[A]

Right?

[D]

Well, from her brother.

[A]

That's what I. This.

[C]

Oh, boy.

[D]

You know, he might. Enough of that. He might. He might be innocent. We need due process of law.

[A]

A true crime podcast with Minnie. Mickey was just so funny.

[E]

Dude, Mickey's voice. Investigating Disney murders would be so good.

[C]

Pluto. Smell it out.

[E]

But I knew something didn't smell right.

[D]

I. I. Of cruises that I want to go on. I do want to do a Disney cruise on the new one that has the Haunted Mansion bar and restaurant.

[A]

Ooh, that'd be cool.

[D]

So cool. Right?

[E]

I saw that.

[A]

Yeah. I heard their cruises are pretty dope.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Any ones?

[B]

Did you hear? So you know that this is last week? I think this happened. That girl fell off their cruise and her dad jumped in.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[D]

Last week.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

You heard about that cruise going from New York to Europe? Hit an iceberg last week.

[B]

No way.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Dang.

[E]

Celine Dion.

[A]

I bring up one story.

[B]

No, but they are. They're saying because people were blaming the dad for this little girl, but apparently she climbed up on the banister, fell over. He didn't even take a breath, no hesitation. Jumped over. But when he jumped over, he broke his back. Oh. But he still was able to swim. Hold her up for 15 minutes.

[A]

Dear Lord. What?

[B]

Broke his back.

[D]

What a hero.

[A]

I'm. I'm training my girls this week. I'm, like, have them, like, just gab, like, on the banister, like, on our front porch and just, like, climb up here, and then it's just, like, just shock them or something.

[D]

Yeah. Like, just spray bottle.

[E]

Down, get down. Yeah. Cruises are so trippy. Like, we did one where I forget where we were, but you look out at night from the. From the deck.

[B]

So scary.

[E]

Endless darkness every direction, and you just see, like, a little wave lapping kind of off the thing.

[B]

You. I was.

[C]

If I.

[B]

If you fall in, you're. No one's gonna know game.

[A]

Also, shark infested water.

[D]

Oh, yeah, dude.

[E]

My first time ever on a podcast.

[D]

Our room was, like, on one of the lower levels, so we were, like, very close. Like, the waves were kind of, like, lapping our window.

[A]

Oh, cool.

[D]

But the whole time, I mean, I would have these crises in my head, just, like, thinking about how at risk we were.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Literally any small thing could happen.

[E]

Even just looking at them, I know you're like, that's too big. That boat is too big to be in the water. It's not. How's it float?

[D]

How does it.

[E]

How does it float?

[A]

Once again, explain buoyancy to me. I think this is made up.

[B]

It would be a fun on the cruise, though.

[A]

I can't wait to give you guys.

[E]

You know, they have a morgue on there. But I hope it's a good time is what I hope.

[A]

What a way to go, though.

[C]

I do. Yeah. I can't. I can't shake the thought. I told them all, but the fact that each level has a lock to the next level so that they can evacuate the ships in sequence.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

So if you're on the bottom floor, you're, like, literally last to survive an event. It's like, it's enough for me to not ever want to do it.

[E]

Is the trippiest juxtaposition because we did a Disney cruise. And I mean, full disclosure, it was so fun, but it's like, oh, who's going to have a good time? First thing you do is like, all right. In the event of an emergency where we're all fighting for our lives, this is how you get to the evacuation boats. There's exactly enough life jackets. This is how you survive. All right, guys, let's go back out to the pool party. You're just like, what are we? Are we supposed to have fun or are we gonna die? And that's your first day on a cruise. That's what they do for you.

[D]

So, buddy.

[A]

Can't wait.

[B]

Speaking of can't wait, did you know that it's a question corner?

[A]

Question corner. Question corner with Lily, where the questions are fresh.

[D]

Enough. Okay. I thought this was a silly one. It should be Christmas related. It's not. However, we could make it Christmas related.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Would you rather your spouse shrink down to one foot like an elf and you have to carry them around in a tote bag forever Fanny pack. Or you shrink down to one foot and your spouse has to carry you around as elf in a tote bag?

[C]

I'm actually stuck here.

[A]

Oh, that's a good one. I'm trying to think of the pros and cons.

[B]

I think I would want to be small.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

I would love it if I could.

[E]

Carry you around in your knitting bag. I was gonna say the same thing. And Rach would know immediately. She loves little teeny tiny things. She's a sucker. She just brought home like a little tea set that's this big. And she just was like, I don't know. It's small. And I loved it. So this is an easy answer for me. I would be shrunk down. And Rach would love me far more, I think, than she does at my original.

[A]

Love us more if we were just small. If we were just an accessory.

[B]

Imagine being in your bed, though, as a one foot.

[A]

How warm would you be? How comfy amount of food. That would fill you up.

[B]

I know.

[A]

Just one cheese it for a week. Thanks, Mom. I mean, wife.

[E]

Did you guys ever watch Honey? I Shrunk the Kids? Oh, yeah. It's so good. They used to have that part of Disney where they would have the grass that was like. Did you ever go when they had that?

[D]

No.

[E]

Like a walk around, like, play area and the grass was like, you know, 8ft tall and it was like a yard. You were shrunk down. It'd be cool, dude.

[A]

The practical effects from that movie were so cool because they had to build everything like. Like the giant. I'm trying to think of, like, what creature that. What bugs they had and stuff that like came in. Or like the big scorpions. The grass, all that stuff was so cool.

[E]

Rick Moran has made all of it.

[A]

Yeah. And you know. Yeah, I bet. And do you know why he. He quit Hollywood to literally go raise his kid?

[E]

I saw this story.

[A]

So said, didn't his wife pass away?

[E]

I think so.

[B]

He says are racist.

[A]

Yeah, geez. I know. That's why he quit Hollywood to try to.

[E]

He tried to try to stop, you know. He did everything he could.

[A]

Yeah, well, not enough.

[B]

Andrew, hit us with that beat.

[A]

What would you do, Andrew?

[E]

Yeah, I didn't hear you.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

I think I'd want to be small. Just thing about surfing, you never have to wait. You just literally go, oh, yeah. But then if there was actually surf, it'd Be terrifying, but yeah, you could.

[A]

Really the kiddie pool in the back.

[D]

On some hunting too.

[C]

Yeah. You never drag the deer out.

[D]

Yeah, true.

[E]

But you could hunt like ants.

[C]

Yes.

[E]

Squirrel would be what I mean for you.

[C]

Terrifying.

[A]

Holding up a squirrel. That'd be so cool.

[E]

I think in all in like typical relationships, it should definitely be the dude that gets shrunk. Cause I feel like the dude is gonna forget the spouse. You know what I mean?

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

He'll be like, oh, shoot, I forgot my tiny wife.

[B]

But what we're not thinking about though is big birds.

[A]

That would be terrifying.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Wait, that's a new fear.

[E]

Large birds or big bird from sesame?

[D]

Both.

[B]

Could be both. But I'm talking about like owls and eagles and stuff.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Just scooping you up.

[A]

Yeah. I'd get mad at Kelsey for just leaving me outside. In the outside. I could have flew away.

[B]

I could have died out.

[D]

I would make tiny doors. Like, you would have like a lot of self efficiency.

[E]

Yeah, for sure. He could hold. He could live in a cupboard. You could make a little apartment for.

[A]

Him and just riding around on the Roomba.

[C]

I love that you're getting excited about this.

[E]

She's got plans. Yeah.

[B]

Make a little bed in a matchbox.

[D]

You can literally be a doll that the girls play with.

[A]

But I'm telling you, my girls want a dachshund so bad. And I'm like that. A tiny daddy would be exactly what they wanted. Also, all the clothes you could make for Josh so quickly.

[D]

I know. So fast.

[C]

Dude. Your fear of owls, though, elevated. Yeah, every time.

[D]

Cuz like one foot is often, like smaller than even a new baby.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Frank would be Godzilla to you.

[C]

I know. You could ride him.

[E]

You could ride him.

[D]

That's cool.

[A]

That would be like a little saddle.

[C]

Be very cool.

[E]

That'd be a huge plus.

[B]

All right, hit us with that beat.

[A]

Good question.

[B]

Oh.

[C]

Oh.

[A]

Merry Christmas, y'.

[C]

All.

[A]

It's Andrew's time. Here we are gonna make a rhyme he's got a real force gonna show us now. I can't believe it. Poo poo. Pow. I don't know why I started that.

[C]

You know, sometimes it's just not your time to die.

[D]

Oh, gosh.

[C]

This has nothing to do with Christmas, but it won't make you throw up any.

[A]

You okay?

[B]

All right, let's wait.

[A]

The quicksand almost made me throw up thinking about it going in my mouth. Wait.

[E]

Volume, volume. I got it, I got it.

[C]

Volume on.

[B]

I got it. I got the volume. All right, ready? Three, two, one.

[E]

Whoa.

[A]

That guy Got a haircut.

[B]

Whoa.

[A]

That's crazy. The.

[B]

What Lily saw, like, 30 seconds after.

[D]

What happened was I was, like, gonna say, you guys are already watching. I'm like, I don't have it. And then I remembered that he sent it a half hour ago.

[B]

Scary.

[C]

Scary, right?

[A]

War has to be terrifying.

[B]

War is.

[A]

I know a lot of people don't agree with that, but I think, honestly, it's time.

[E]

I know we're gonna lose followers over this.

[A]

I think people need this take. People need to just start owning up to the fact that war is terrifying. I think it's. I think it's high tie. We said.

[B]

I said it like that because I was gonna be like, war is terrifying, and so is the story. But you kept talking, war is terrifying.

[E]

That one's not. Jury's not out on that one.

[B]

Scared of it.

[D]

You know what? Josh was watching in the background one time, and I was catching little bits of it, and the whole time I'm going, oh, my gosh. Was. Is it that movie? It's all quiet on the Western front or something like that?

[B]

Oh, yeah, I haven't seen that.

[A]

Is that the one that's all shot in one, like. Like supposedly in one day?

[D]

No, that's 1917. Awesome. So good.

[A]

Just not a big more movie guy. But I need to try because it's. Those ones are love war, apparently. So good.

[B]

Love them.

[A]

Speaking of the little people that we were talking about earlier, have you got. You guys remember Indian in the Cupboard?

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

I gotta show the girls that movie. Do you ever see that?

[C]

No, but I know what you're talking about.

[A]

Oh, it's so good.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

I was. I was thinking about that when it came up earlier. I don't really remember the plot.

[A]

It.

[E]

Was it a toy that came to life?

[A]

Yeah, just a little action figure, Native American and a cowboy. And it was just a magic cupboard.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

So cool.

[C]

I don't know.

[B]

It was a magic cover or something.

[A]

Some magic cover. Home.

[D]

Do you guys remember when Tyra Banks played Barbie and she came to life?

[A]

Yes.

[E]

Life size.

[A]

She was like, as big.

[E]

Shine far. Don't be shy. Be a star. I remember that movie.

[A]

Okay.

[E]

Very much lived on Disney Channel original movies.

[D]

That's so funny.

[E]

That was like. I did all. It's. I lived on those.

[A]

We should do a ranking of those sometime soon.

[B]

Of what?

[A]

The Disney Channel movies.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

I have a lot of homework because I've not even seen either of those movies you guys talked about. I didn't watch. Honey, I shrunk the Kids, If I were to.

[E]

If I were to. I'm trying to think of how to, like, word this, but there's a Disney Channel original movie called don't look under the Bed.

[A]

Yes.

[E]

That I feel like is so slept on as, like, it was so scary. It was like an acid trip of a low budget movie made for kids. And it is a. It is just nightmare fuel.

[A]

They're going into, like, different realms.

[E]

Different realms of what's living under your bed. And holy cow. Yeah. It was like, whoa, what a swing on this one, guys.

[A]

Real demonic feeling.

[D]

Oh, my gosh.

[E]

They'd be like, that's coming out this week. Next week. Frankie Muniz drives a go kart. You're just like, what. What is the Brainstorm Room look like for you guys right now?

[A]

Yeah. Next episode, we got to do our top 10 movies of the year.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

Dang. We're, like, gonna be in trouble. We've not watched anything.

[A]

It was the same scenario last year. You guys came out with a good list.

[B]

Yeah. Speaking of war is terrifying. I remember war is terrifying. Especially World War I. Yeah. Did you guys know, in 1914, both sides, the British and the Germans, decided to have one day of no shooting on Christmas Day?

[E]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

That's sweet.

[D]

I did know that.

[B]

That's pretty cool, though, is people theorized that they were testing whether soldiers could be conditioned to break hostility. And they did. In fact, both sides on Christmas Day, they were so friendly to each other. Playing soccer matches, exchanging gifts.

[C]

Really?

[B]

That all the generals and stuff were like, we can't keep this going. And so they broke it super quick. And the next day, killing each other.

[A]

Whoa.

[B]

But they realize these guys are just like, oh, you're a human.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But they instantly everyone up in, like, up in the ups.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Generals and stuff. They're like, we have a war to fight. We can't just be nice to each other.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Interesting. They literally probably could have settled the whole thing then and there.

[D]

I know. It's like. Or you could go the opposite direction.

[E]

Right.

[D]

Then stop this.

[E]

Right?

[A]

That's crazy.

[B]

Isn't that crazy? So 1914, Christmas Day.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

They stopped fighting. And they were buddies, so they literally.

[A]

Were, like, close enough. Like, they weren't just.

[B]

They were. There's pictures of them in the trenches together, exchanging gifts, having tea together.

[A]

Bro.

[B]

And then, like, playing soccer together.

[A]

How do you switch your brain like that?

[B]

Because I think they were just so tired of fighting.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because it was just so bloody, so terrible. If you watch 1917, you'll get a good Picture.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

It's such a good movie, dude.

[B]

It was truthfully awful.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

Dead bodies everywhere. The smell, the mud, and, like, trench foot. Trench foot.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But, yeah, they. They. They're friends.

[A]

That feels like a movie right there.

[B]

I know.

[E]

How do you set up the logistics of a gift exchange in the middle of all that is where.

[A]

I don't know.

[D]

I bet they were just gifting each other like, cigarettes and they did like a.

[B]

A white elephant exchange.

[A]

My friend's head. It's funny though, right?

[E]

You can steal next round if you want. You don't have to walk out with it.

[B]

Man. I'm excited for Santa.

[A]

I am, too. I'm thrilled. I wonder what he's going to get me this year.

[B]

I wonder, too. Do you know that there's a government agency that tracks Santa?

[E]

Nordic.

[A]

Yeah, Nordic.

[B]

Do you know how that happened?

[A]

I do. I do. Yes.

[B]

Yeah, it's crazy. So in 1955, Sears printed out a call, this number to see where Santa is, and they accidentally, accidentally put on norad, which at the time they're actually conad, Which CONAD was a Continental Air Defense Command. Now it's the North American Aerospace Defense Command. But they actually put their phone number on it. But the theory is that this, apparently this happens every single year around Christmas. The norad, they observe something that is actually taking place on the North Pole.

[D]

What?

[B]

Like an anomaly happens? And their first sighting of it apparently was in 1955. So they started coming up with a cover story, and then they just so happen to start getting called by a bunch of, like, little kids.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And then so the commander at the time was like, yeah, we're tracking Santa. And so the whole thing is that they actually were seeing an anomaly. They have it's like, in documentation that there was something happening on the North Pole.

[A]

Weird.

[B]

That they said because they were tracking because of the Soviets. Right. That was during the Cold War era. But there's this anomaly to where it's like this thing was moving, but it was too slow to be a planar missile, and it would just make erratic movements. So they're tracking it and they're like, starting to come up with a cover story. And all of a sudden they started getting phone calls from all these kids. Yeah, it's Santa Claus. Don't worry about it. Yeah, so. And they still do it to this day.

[A]

Yeah, but that's what made them really change after that. Like, that's like their PR stunt. Almost like there's like, okay, actually, let's take advantage of this and let's Create something that does track Santa.

[D]

Yeah, but it is tracking Santa.

[A]

Yeah. I didn't mean it is quotations. Yeah, I was.

[B]

UFOs.

[A]

I'm just saying, like. Yeah. No one can truly track his every single move because.

[B]

No, he's obviously magic.

[D]

He's too fast. Yeah. There has to be some sort of teleportation.

[A]

Yeah, for sure.

[E]

If you think about it, Santa's just like an ifo. It's like an identified flying object.

[B]

That's true.

[D]

Yeah. True. That.

[E]

Know what it is?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You lost your point.

[D]

Yeah. Fix your hat.

[A]

I don't see your point.

[C]

I think it's the head.

[E]

Where did it go? My hat is so. The top of my hat is. Oh, wow.

[D]

You need some kind of stuffing.

[E]

There we go.

[C]

What's funny, I fully believe, like, I'm not questioning your story, but it also sounds like someone who's holding on to something who's, like, trying to find an explanation for what they've believed about it. You get what I'm saying? Trying to be careful in the language I use right now in regards to the tracking now, like, what they believe about aliens. No. So, like. So, like, the story is like, you know, they really are tracking Santa. That's what they're doing.

[B]

No, but the thing was.

[C]

I know it was.

[B]

Truthfully, the wrong number was put on.

[C]

By Sears, but I'm saying, like, as someone who got older, and it's like, I talked to Santa and then they just continue to like, oh, that's what it is. There. There is something at the North Pole. I see.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

I like.

[D]

Because there is.

[B]

Isn't it a weird. Like, that's a really weird thing to put on their phone number. Like, that's a weird.

[C]

The probability of that being an actual.

[B]

Because it is like, a command center. A very secretive, classified command center. Their phone number got put on the Sears catalog or whatever.

[A]

Yeah. I think I. The story I always heard was, like, there was, like, a one number off or something, and, like, the kid dialed the wrong number or something.

[B]

I couldn't remember, but no, they actually misprinted.

[A]

Crazy. That's a huge mistake.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I can't imagine.

[B]

Was it.

[E]

I like to imagine that first year where it's like, you know, this is just a thing that happened and we're all dealing with it. And then I imagine to be on the Continental Aeronautics Division, there's, like, quite a bit of school you have to go to and, like, things you have to learn. And I like that, like, the following year, they were like, Congratulations on your 19 years of school, you will be answering calls from little kids and telling them where Santa Claus is at any given moment. So that's gonna be your job now. But you did it. You reached the top of your. Of your career and profession.

[B]

Good job. Good job, soldier.

[E]

Good job. Can you tell me what Santa Claus is? Yes.

[B]

He's going down.

[E]

I have so much student loan debt for this.

[A]

Speaking of going down, did you see that Chinese robot that kicked the CEO of the robot company? Because people.

[B]

That was scary.

[A]

People are like, oh, it's fake. The robots are fake. And they're like, oh, let me show you. And the CEO gets, like, you know, in padding and stuff like that and a belly pad and everything. And this robot's just standing in front of him with his, like, fists up and then suddenly leans back and just mid kicks this CEO makes the guy fly back and land on the ground. And it's just like, robot didn't even flinch. Like, it didn't even, like, rock back. It's just stood there and I'm like, this is terrifying. Why are we teaching him this stuff?

[D]

Oh, my gosh.

[A]

Why is the kick mode in there?

[E]

We're so close to real steel.

[A]

Yeah, we are.

[E]

We're right there with real steel.

[A]

You're the only person that's ever seen real steel.

[C]

I don't know.

[B]

I just sent to you guys. I mean, he. This robot kicked him.

[A]

Yeah. And I don't even. I. I couldn't tell, but it didn't look like it hit him fully in the pads. I'm like, that would. Could just destroy your bones.

[B]

I thought that was terrifying.

[A]

It's so scary.

[B]

It's like Gen one of how strong these robots are going to be.

[D]

Oh, my gosh.

[A]

Remember how, like, Boston Dynamics, those, like, dogs that took years, and now it seems like it's just overnight?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Is that AI you think the technology of just, like, improving itself?

[B]

I think it's maybe. Yeah.

[E]

Oh, my gosh. What a kick. I like that question, though. Like, where in the use of helpful robot things were you? Like, what about a front kick? I was thinking we'd teach him to, like, perform surgeries and stuff.

[B]

No, kick.

[E]

Yeah. What about kick Right to the front? I mean, I guess you just find.

[A]

Out they're just, like, putting, like, Anderson Silva's like, brain inside or something.

[B]

Oh, do you guys ever hear about how Coca Cola changed Christmas?

[A]

No. Was it through polar bears? People say it's polar bear blood carbonated.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[D]

Who says that?

[A]

I just did.

[B]

People say that.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[B]

No one says that. This is crazy. Okay, 1930, was it 1931? Coca Cola wanted to start commercializing Christmas. Prior to 1931 or 1930, Christmas was just like, it was pretty much just like a Christian holiday where St Nicholas looked like thin, would wear like different colored robes. Oh, yeah, because I mean, it's based off of St. Nicholas.

[C]

Right.

[B]

But Coca Cola came out with what we now see, Santa Claus, the depiction of really in the 1930s.

[A]

They're the one that started that.

[B]

They are.

[A]

That's crazy.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Jolly Santa.

[B]

And they based a lot of the looks off of Odin.

[C]

What?

[E]

Dang.

[B]

That checks off of Odin.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

And this is what some crazy similarities between Odin and Santa Claus. So Odin was the Norse God. So Odin and stuff. During the winter solstice, which falls on Christmas, they would celebrate Yule. You've heard like the Yule log, burning of the Yule log, all that stuff. Well, Yule is an ancient Germanic and Norse winter festival celebrating the winter solstice, marking the shortest day of the rebirth of the sun, symbolizing new beginnings, rebirth and the return of light and warmth celebrated by Wiccans and pagans. So. Yeah, but this Odin guy, so Odin, he used to ride, or the tradition goes, he rode through the sky on a sleipnir, which is an eight legged horse. Children left hay in their boots for sleipnir. Odin inspected homes and rewarded and punished those who were bad that year.

[A]

Whoa. They just ripped this off. They didn't create nothing.

[B]

I know. And he traveled with elves, but they were not the little elves that we think they are. Like, in fact, like gobbards. Yeah, like demon like elves.

[E]

Orlando Bloom.

[B]

But yeah. So Odin was associated with wisdom, magic and forbidden knowledge.

[A]

Whoa.

[B]

And so Coca Cola took that idea of Odin and Yule and the winter solstice, and they came up with this whole marketing campaign of who is Santa Claus? And they had this painter, what's his name?

[E]

Max. Lucado Kincaid. Thomas Kincaid.

[B]

Hayden Sunbloom. Sunbloom.

[E]

That was close.

[B]

Lamar Odin Sunbloom. But yeah, he created Santa Claus in 1931, but he depict. He actually based or he used one of his friends as the model, but who looked similar to Odin. And they created this whole, like, Santa Claus does this. He rides on reindeers, he leaves you presents, but he leaves coal for the bad kids. And this is. But you got to leave out cookies and carrots and all this stuff. But it literally is like the Yule, the festival of Yule.

[A]

Interesting. Yeah, that's crazy.

[B]

Mm.

[A]

Marketing dude.

[E]

I remember Eisenhower. We reviewed on the podcast, Kirk Cameron did a movie called, like, Saving Christmas or something.

[A]

Yeah. When he's, like, falling down, he has a big candy cane.

[E]

Yeah. It was really confusing. I didn't know you guys have seen it, I assume. I won't even bother asking, but it's actually just more like a psa. The whole thing, like, he's just talking about different Christmas things. It's. It's seriously the weirdest movie because it's like his premise is that, like, Christians need to lighten up about. About Christmas. Like, that's. His premise is so he. And he's kind of like trying to make all of these. I know. I've tried so hard and got so far, in the end, it doesn't even matter. So he's like. His base premise is like, stop being like, you know, grinchy about all these traditions. They're kind of Christian. That's his idea. So he, like, tries to make that. He just is like. It just was a really kind of flawed premise. It's like a Christmas tree sort of kinda reminds you of a cross, kinda. And you're like. And he does this whole bit with Santa Claus and you and like St. Nicholas and you're just like. I mean, they're really not like. I guess St. Nicholas was known for giving things to kids. He also is like, most famously known for punching someone in the face.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Theological dispute.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

So it's like, I just don't really think these myths are really connected, like, at all.

[B]

It's a stretch. I mean, every. The majority of stuff that we do for Christmas is based off of Yule. So, like, a Christmas tree represents, like, the evergreen of the new season and like, the burning of the Yule log and the mistletoe. All that stuff. It's like, it's based off of Yule.

[E]

Wasn't until last year that somebody pointed out how German all the reindeer names are. And I was like, oh, my gosh. I never even thought of, like, you.

[B]

Have Adolph, Heimler and Blitzen.

[E]

Very Germanic.

[B]

Blitzkrieg, Prout.

[A]

Worst thing. That's not my Santa. No, not my Santa.

[B]

That's crazy, though.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

But I did look up because I'm like, when did we start celebrating Christmas? On December 25th. And the church actually in. I think it was like 326 A.D. yeah. Christians established December 25th as the festival of observing Christ's birth because it did fall in the winter solstice, where ancient Rome was practicing paganism. This was a pagan holiday. So they tried to replace it because.

[A]

Was almost like A protest.

[B]

Yeah. Rome was becoming a Christian empire or whatever, so they replaced it.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

For all the boycotters, I think we need to remember that it's okay to redeem times, too. Like, you don't just have to abandon a tradition. You can, like, redeem meanings and days.

[B]

Like how the Christians did with making on December 25, you know, that was a pagan.

[C]

That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Like, so for everyone who's trying, like, even here's what you just said and is like, we've got to burn our tree. No.

[B]

Although it's really fun to burn a Christmas tree.

[A]

Very fun.

[B]

Not in your house.

[D]

Don't do it in your house.

[A]

I prefer you don't have a real one.

[C]

Right, Fish?

[A]

You don't have a real one this year, do you?

[B]

Yeah, always.

[E]

Yeah, same.

[A]

Relax.

[B]

Real.

[E]

Yeah, it's just.

[B]

It's so special.

[E]

It is. We got into a big discussion in the Russo house. I was really fighting for team Fake tree, I'm ashamed to say.

[D]

Are you really?

[E]

Yeah, I was. I was. I have come to my senses. But I just was like, they're expensive and the other ones come with the lights already on them.

[A]

And I talk when you talk about Christmas decorations.

[E]

The second I believe this room. This is how. That's how I actually talk. That's my real voice. So we. But yeah, we get. We get a real tree now. We got. We got one to support a boy. Boy Scout troop. Nice set up right down there.

[B]

I will say real Christmas trees are really expensive.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

That's how much ours was. 120 bucks.

[A]

Yeah. You could just buy a fake one for that.

[B]

No, but it's not the same.

[E]

It's not the same.

[A]

Kind of the same.

[E]

The smell.

[A]

It's kind of the same.

[E]

The smell.

[B]

How old are we going to celebrate? Yule.

[A]

Kelsey got married on the winter solstice. Oh, 21st.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

We.

[D]

It's the longest. That was our protest of the year.

[E]

We were. I'm really, like, kind of obsessed with holiday. Like, tracing it back. We just went on a. On a deep Thanksgiving dive this year. I don't know how much like, you've done on that, but there's this one woman, and I'm gonna forget her. I don't remember her last name right now. I think her first name is Sarah. But she petitioned for Thanksgiving to be a. A national holiday. It was a regional holiday for a long time. Like, and people did it at different times. Like, it was like, not. It was like all of the United States did Not remember this at the same time. And then it was post Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was. She wrote to every president, like, prior to Abraham Lincoln that she was alive. And they all said no, that it's not gonna be a national holiday. And then Lincoln's the one who made it a national holiday to bring everyone together after the Civil War to bring unity.

[C]

Good.

[E]

Isn't that nice?

[A]

And we've been together ever since.

[B]

No problem. No issue.

[E]

Let me tell you about my best friend.

[D]

Did you need to go even further back? I just saw. I have a series keep coming up on my for you page because we're researching all this orthodox stuff, and it's this guy that makes a series that's called it's okay to be Catholic, but he comes up with, like, all these, like, interesting topics or whatever. I'm not Catholic, by the way. But anyway, says you're out. He.

[C]

He.

[D]

He talked about how in St. Augustine, they actually did the very first Thanksgiving.

[A]

Oh, I saw that.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

When I was researching for the pod that, like, that was classified.

[B]

They did it, like, the way that we talk about it to be like, they traded with the Native Americans. They had a feast together with the Native Americans.

[D]

Yeah. And so he's like, what's more likely that this well recorded event that happened in St. Augustine spontaneously happened again 80 years later in Massachusetts, or that the Native Americans were aware of this tradition and shared it all the way up the coast and introduced it to the pilgrims that came over?

[C]

People crap on Florida, but, man, this state's bringing people together.

[E]

Everyone in the Northeast is so jealous of us. Honestly. Exhausting. You just want everything we have.

[A]

As a Florida native, I totally agree.

[B]

Which is so cool that. That Spain did that though. That thing. First thing, saving. Because they did nothing else wrong with the Native Americans.

[A]

No, that was the cool thing is they start off on the wrong right foot and they continue.

[B]

The conquistadors are known for their hostility and their love.

[D]

Hospitality.

[A]

Hospitality said hostility. That was a Freudian sliver right there.

[B]

Oh, my gosh.

[C]

I meant. Yeah, you know what I meant.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Philanthropy.

[E]

Yeah, for sure.

[C]

Psych.

[E]

We were talking about that, like, just how holidays, like, get removed and new information comes up. Like, we were at the. What's the one in New York that. The night at the museum. The American Natural History Museum.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

And they have, like, a depiction of the conquistador, like, interaction, and it's got a big, like, sign over it that's like, hey, we're not.

[A]

We're.

[E]

We're like, reevaluating the Nature of this, like, display. Because that museum was, like, actually, side note, there was a lot of, like, global warming stuff going on.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And I'm like, like, they're showcasing it.

[E]

No, like, they like my head. I'm like, thinking, night at the museum. And I'm thinking, like, gosh, I could go on so many tangents here. I actually really dig this idea because it's like, animals that are stuffed and, like, so they're not like, I don't know. If you're at a zoo and you're.

[A]

Like, I kind of feel bad.

[E]

That's a big old tiger and, like, a not so big cane. That's a live animal. But these are not live animals. So you go around and you're like, a lot of these animals died of, like, in the wild. And then they taxidermy them and they like. It's kind of a cool way to showcase animals. I was kind of pumped about the trip. And they just have, like, sounds so bad. They just have global warming stuff up on, like, all of them. Like, there were so many displays that were like, you like, these buffalo, well, they're not going to survive global warming. And I was like, oh, okay. Well, good. I mean, you spread the word, Take care of the environment. That's fine. And then you turn, you're like, look at these little snow hair. Isn't that cool?

[A]

It's all white.

[E]

It's going to die because of global warming. And I was like, okay, like, maybe we just do it at the intro. We establish that it's important, and then we let the other animals just have their own display.

[C]

Should just be a pamphlet. It's like, if you care and want to read it.

[E]

I'm trying to tell my kids to take care of the environment, but can we, like, legit? The buffalo one was like, the view was obscured by, like, stuff on the glass about global warming. Which I was like, again, I'm not out here to say don't talk about it, but we're here to see these stuffed buffalo.

[A]

Anyway, that's more of like a going through the gift shop outro kind of speech. Just like, hey, I hope you guys enjoyed it. What a beautiful thing. I just want to remind you, all of that is gonna disappear because of global warming. Right?

[E]

Like, say the Florida Aquarium does this right? Where you're like, aren't these manatees cool? Yeah, we gotta stop polluting the waterways. Anyway, here's the devil rays. And you're like, okay, yeah, that makes sense.

[A]

But then they have all those that art exhibits that are made from the pollution trash, which we wouldn't have unless we polluted. So.

[C]

Fair point.

[A]

This is kind of a double edged sword. Like, what are we doing? Like, it's beautiful art.

[E]

Think about how tough we've made these manatees.

[C]

Yes.

[E]

By these boat propeller scars.

[A]

They're learning.

[E]

This would be just a floating pillow. But now you look at you like, I don't want to mess with that thing.

[A]

Look at it.

[E]

It's like spitting teeth out on the way. I forgot where my point was. Merry Christmas.

[D]

You were talking about something else on the National History Museum.

[E]

Yeah, we were just tracking. We were tracking holidays. Oh, it'll come back.

[A]

Oh, the floor.

[D]

Spanish conquistador display. They're like, this is wrong. They were just super PC.

[E]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, and then we were just saying like when you learn stuff about a holiday and it's like, at what point have. Is there like the, the celebration of the holiday is so far removed from the origination of the holiday. You know what I'm saying?

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[E]

We also this. On this trip to the northeast that we went on, we went to Salem, Massachusetts.

[B]

The witches.

[E]

We were there like the Saturday before Halloween.

[D]

Wow.

[E]

It was crazy.

[D]

Fun or scary.

[E]

Kind of like not my bag kind of deal.

[A]

Okay.

[E]

Like imagine if you were like vaguely familiar with Harry Potter and then you found yourself in Harry Potter world.

[D]

Okay. Fair.

[E]

You know what I mean?

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

And you're like, this seems neat for someone. I don't know a lot about this.

[B]

Did you see any houses with the windows that were crooked?

[E]

Yeah. And there's like the witch house, which is like.

[B]

Well, they, they used to design houses back then with the windows that were crooked because they believed that a witch couldn't fly into it because it was a crooked window.

[A]

This will get out.

[B]

I sound a perfect square.

[E]

Just turned a guy into a newt. But I cannot crack these windows that are cattywampus.

[A]

What is this invention?

[E]

What am I to do? But we, so anyway, we just like, hypothetically, we were like, what if you just found a journal that had never been found and was like, on October 31st, they killed a ton of witches. Like just brutally. It was a disgusting, horrible thing. But everybody would look at each other and be like, I mean, we're still gonna do like the Halloween thing, right?

[C]

This is not.

[E]

This is a different thing at this point. We're dressing up. We're going to see our neighbors and things. So that's my question for you guys. Do you think what, what? Is there enough information that could come out about a Certain holiday where, like, it wouldn't be celebrated anymore or have they all separated?

[D]

I don't know. I did a lot of research this Halloween because a bunch of my girlfriends were, like, convicted about not participating in Halloween because of, like, spooky stuff.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

But apparently the trick or treating event was actually invented by Christians as kind of like, what we were talking about with Christmas.

[B]

Like a rebrand, like, mockery of the satanic.

[D]

Yes.

[C]

Of it.

[D]

Yeah. Taking it back and making something cool out of it, like visiting your neighbors and giving each other treats.

[E]

Right.

[A]

And, like, also Hallows Eve.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Celebrating the, you know, the persecution of Christians on November 1st. Like, that's, like.

[E]

Right.

[A]

It was a huge part. So it's like.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

It's all conflated now.

[A]

We just need. I'm not going to say anything until Kirk Cameron comes out with a savings.

[D]

Thank you.

[A]

And then we can finally figure out how to feel Out.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

How to feel.

[B]

Kirk speaking to tell you how to feel. Did you guys see that video of this man who was in a stolen BMW and was driving crazy, Crashed it. And this is what he said. They're like, what are you doing? They have him, like, cuffed and stuff. He's like, I don't know how I got out of there. He said, I must have teleported in there or something.

[C]

It's like.

[B]

He's like, I don't know how I'm here.

[A]

What?

[B]

They're like, all right, chill out. I'm like, what if he's.

[C]

What if he's right?

[B]

No one would believe you.

[E]

Genius defense.

[B]

No one will believe you. That would be like, I literally appeared in this BMW.

[A]

Put me on a lie detector test. He passed it. What do you have? Yeah. That would be terrifying.

[B]

Could you imagine something like that happening to you? And you are just pleading with someone. I promise you.

[E]

Right.

[B]

I was not there, and then I was there.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

All right, buddy.

[A]

Yeah, sure, pal.

[E]

There was a woman who said. Who I think stole a car and said Kanye west took over her brain and made her do it. Which, again, I'm like. I mean, prove that he did it.

[A]

I'm just saying we should at least talk to you.

[E]

We just.

[A]

Let's just figure out his alibi.

[B]

I say that because I thought of Salem and, like, a dude that, like, really probably encountered, like, a real witch.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

And he's like, she's a witch. And everyone's like, I don't think so. And then all of a sudden, it took off and, like, everyone's a witch.

[A]

Yeah. I don't Know.

[E]

Well, that's what. Then that was kind of our conversation. So right now, if you go there, it's like we went so close to Halloween. It was like a Times Square kind of experience.

[D]

Wow.

[E]

Like, there's people in costumes from horror movies and like, all this. It was like, crazy busy, but it's basically like a tchotchke shop all around. Like witchcraft and apothecary's. And it's very, like, I don't know, kind of essential oil oriented. You know what I mean? It's not like a big cauldron that you're buying or anything. Yeah, that's kind of the vibe there. So anyway, our conversation, me and Rachel on the drive was like, do you like. At the bottom of this story was any. Were there witches here?

[B]

I bet you there's just one.

[E]

Was there one? Because I'm like, there could be none. That could totally be none. It's all made up.

[B]

One real witch that could read. And so everybody. Every other woman that could read was a witch.

[A]

100% dang arithmetic. I just got it lumped into it.

[B]

Poor women.

[E]

I pictured. She has, like a Calvin and Hobbes book. That's what she was reading. The most. Most wholesome, harmless thing it could be read.

[B]

Did you guys see that plane on I95 with the car? This was actually last week. Actually maybe a couple days ago.

[A]

The one that landed on the highway.

[B]

Landed on a car on the highway.

[A]

See, I scrolled past it because it looks so similar to the other videos.

[B]

Right?

[A]

The same thing.

[C]

It's when it hits the car is when I was like, oh, that's new.

[A]

That's what I don't do, investigating Fast.

[E]

And the Furious stuff.

[A]

Now that looks similar.

[B]

This looks like the other time the.

[C]

Plane landed on the highway.

[A]

We talked to me about another pilot that also went crazy, that also tried to start off the edge. This has got to be real.

[C]

Yeah. Watch it.

[A]

Three. Dope. Oh, big plane.

[D]

Did they die?

[B]

I don't think so.

[D]

The driver.

[E]

Yo, that car held up pretty good.

[B]

Yeah, because they hit their brakes and everything.

[D]

Imagine not even seeing it in your rear view mirror.

[E]

That car is in great shape.

[C]

Gets out and checks on the pilot, bro.

[A]

That's.

[B]

The pilot's like, I don't know how I got here. I teleport or something.

[E]

Car just drives.

[B]

Our guy. Does this keep happening to me?

[C]

I would. I would love it if that was the thing that happened. If a series of criminals just all started using that same algorithm, started believing it.

[A]

That's crazy.

[E]

I am shaken at the shape of this car. Is this not amazing?

[C]

How much does a plane way.

[E]

Stinking plane landed on it and it is like. It looks like he's gonna drive by and give the driver the bird.

[C]

Yeah, that was.

[A]

Cut me off.

[B]

Hey, you Jablika, bud. Dude, I the fear because you can't see it behind you. You know, like you. You look back every once in a while.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Your side mirrors and stuff.

[A]

You just hear. Yeah. I can imagine it make. It's making a lot of noise as well. So you see some crushing down on you.

[C]

Like what.

[A]

What possible possibilities.

[C]

So scary.

[E]

You guys don't check your sunroof while you drive.

[B]

Going to search, you know.

[E]

Okay, we're good up there. I'm gonna switch lanes.

[A]

That's so fun. The suspension of the car made me think of it. Do you see that guy that created magnet suspension on the bike?

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Yeah, you see this Andrew. It's literally like he's like the power of like, you know, two magnets being pushed together. You know, they push against. And so he created a bike that has no suspension, but it's literally just huge giant magnets being forced together. And so when he's riding, it's literally just pushing up.

[B]

So when it starts like bouncing it like is powering the bike.

[E]

There's a different Hero six.

[A]

Wait a minute.

[E]

Yeah, the girl from Big Hero six.

[A]

Remember?

[E]

Do you guys see this movie? Yeah, I don't think she has the.

[A]

Think that's a movie.

[E]

The bikes.

[A]

I've never even heard of that movie.

[E]

How did I get here?

[A]

Wait a minute.

[B]

That teleport guy just pops in the back.

[E]

Ah, I'm in the wrong room.

[A]

This is an Albuquerque witch walks by with Calvin Hobbs. What is going on?

[E]

My co worker was telling a story the other day. He was. He said he got. He got pulled over and the car that he was driving was. Was reported stolen. And the first thing he said to the police officer was that he was like, no, I rented it. And I was like, I feel like that's the worst. The worst. Like, immediate response is like, no, oh, I didn't steal it. I rented it.

[A]

I borrowed it.

[E]

What we have here is just a misunderstanding of the terms of the agreement to the car. And then he was like, well, then I told him a pastor. And I told him, I'm a pastor. And I'm like, again, follow up. Like, name one time a pastor did something weird or shady.

[A]

You can't. See you later.

[E]

Think of one time. Time I rented this car from a guy. Goodbye.

[B]

God bless Me, I saw that. I love cop videos.

[A]

So good.

[B]

But I saw this one guy, he got out of a speeding ticket because cops pull him over, and he had a Rubik's cube, like, on his lap. The cows like, what are you doing with the Rubik's unit? He's like, if I told you I could solve it in one second, would you believe me? And he's like, no. He's like, I'll maybe give you like 20 seconds or something. He's like, all right. And so they got out, and he has the cop filming him. And he's like, all right. He mixes it. He has the cop mix it all up.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

He's like, all right. And they're counting, and he gets like, 20 seconds. He solved it. The cow's like, that's crazy. He said, but remember I could told. I told you I could do it one second. And he's like, yeah. And so he mixes it up again, and he throws it up and catches it, and it's solved. I was like, what? And he's like, now watch this. He's like, I'm gonna throw it behind my back. Mixes it all up, throws it behind his back, catches it, it's solved. The cops. Like, that's insane. He's like, you're free to go.

[A]

You're a witch. Get out of here. That's so funny.

[B]

Anyways, I got. I got to learn a magic trick.

[A]

Yeah, for real, dude, that's. That's a key.

[E]

Like bags of illegal drugs in the back of the car.

[B]

Sir, do you know why I pulled you over? No, but there is something behind your ear.

[D]

It's a dove. But Joshua.

[A]

No.

[E]

The chief is like, brady, we gotta talk again. You keep letting these people off. Cause they do slide a hand.

[B]

I love magic. Officer.

[A]

He opens the trunk, there's a person, like, tied up. Wait a second. The guy says, really puts it up.

[C]

It's gone.

[E]

All right.

[A]

Get out of here, kid. You rascal.

[B]

You find out all cops. That's like their kryptonite. It's just magic donuts.

[E]

And magic separates his thumb.

[B]

That's pretty good.

[A]

Sergeant, get down here. You got to see this.

[E]

Crime is at an all time high.

[A]

Skel's asking me, she's like, should the girls be watching Cops? Because I let them watch Cops. Like YouTube and stuff. Like whenever we go to hotels, that's like the only thing that's, like playing consistently throughout the night. That I'm like, I don't have to check. I'm like, they can watch Cops. I'M like. And they're fascinated. They absolutely love it. Every time there's a new clip, they're like, oh, this is Wichita. Oh, this is a Muskogee. Like, they always look at the places, and they're just fascinated. Like, this guy has a gun, dad. And I'm like, I think it's helping them learn, like, the right and wrong, because they're not seeing it as, like, oh, I want to be like this. They obviously see, like, this is wrong, what they're doing.

[B]

Yeah, what was the. They had the live show. The live pd. Live pd.

[C]

That was pretty fun.

[A]

You know, they actually canceled that during, like, the BLM riots. Like, they canceled Lipid. They canceled Cops. They canceled Paw Patrol. Any cop related show was canceled because they didn't want to take sides on, like, being pro or anti. I'm like, paw Patrol. Come on.

[E]

Paw Patrol. That's crazy.

[B]

Defund Paw Patrol.

[E]

Paw Patrol needed to be canceled.

[A]

Yeah, someone needs to do a Paw Patrol. But it's with the content of, like, Cops and Live pd, where it's, like, it's animated, like a kid show, but it's, like, full on, just, like, real crime.

[B]

It's like, corrupt Paw Patrol.

[A]

Yeah. Like, they're, like, dropping things. They're, like, dropping, like, you know, catnip with some ladies backseat.

[B]

That's not mine.

[E]

Marshall, what are you doing in the evidence locker?

[A]

We saw your name on the logs. You gotta turn yourself in.

[E]

I'm just giggling, too. Thinking about Andy's girls, like, calling out the codes while they watch. Oh, this is a 413. You can't be doing this.

[A]

Okay.

[E]

You kidding me?

[A]

Oh, it's a 5 11. I'm gonna take a bathroom break.

[E]

Hey, nothing to see here. Get a me.

[C]

Oh, should we get into our story?

[E]

Oh, yeah, yeah. I forgot about speaking of dirty.

[B]

I was just filling space.

[A]

I know. I was kind of feeling.

[E]

I was like.

[A]

I feel like we're kind of. But tell the backstory of how you guys found, like, on the same.

[C]

So. So I started researching because I wanted, like, a Christmas Story, and just kind of started looking through what I could find on the Internet in regards to, like, either, like, true crime Cryptid, just kind of, like, diving fully in, and I found a story that was crazy. When you. When you guys both got here, I asked you. I was like, hey, have you guys heard of this family? Both of you hadn't. And then, literally, you're decorating the room, sitting over there on that couch, and he's. You call on speaker, and I don't know what exactly happened.

[A]

What.

[C]

What did he say?

[A]

I was just like, we were just talking about the plan with Lily and just making sure he's prepped, and then he. And then he's just like, hey, have you heard of this one time, this one family?

[E]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Fire 10 kids.

[E]

Like, I should have had more to add there. I'm sorry. Yes. I just. I. Well, I had been DM'd. I got DM by my buddy Garrett. Shouts out who. This. This story happened to his family. So this is. He was like. His exact first message was, hey, Anthony, I have a really good unsolved Christmas mystery. Next time you see the ninjas, guys, you should talk about it. And I was like, you know, you guys know some of these you get. And it's like, so Grandpa Tom swore he set the presents in the attic, and then they weren't there. Yeah, I'll tell him. But this was a good one.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna let you tell it and I'll supplement it. Or do you want me to tell it?

[E]

Yeah, I'll give it a go.

[C]

You have the closest, like, to firsthand. You talk to a family member.

[E]

This is what's crazy. Completely unrelated. You found this story, and then this person reached out. And this is. This is about a family with nine kids. One of the kids was this person, Garrett's grandfather. Whoa. Who happened to be away at, you guessed it, World War II when all this happened. He was. He was overseas side.

[A]

Was he on both sides?

[E]

Didn't specify. Which, weirdly enough, the family's like an immigrant family. Yeah. But I would think, based on the story, fighting for the good guys.

[B]

Which are who.

[E]

Which is WhatsApp.

[B]

Which were who.

[E]

So let's get into it.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Okay. So this. This. Gosh, where do you start with the story? So it's.

[C]

I know, right?

[E]

It's parents and these nine kids. And I'll start at what happened. There was a fire in their house on Christmas Eve, what was deemed an electrical fire. And the whole house went up in smoke. The whole house burns down in 45 minutes.

[A]

Minutes.

[D]

Oh, no.

[E]

The parents and four of the kids get out. Is that right?

[C]

Yep.

[E]

Parents and four of the kids get out. The dad, by all accounts, like a great dad, is a very respected family, like, middle class, working class family in this community in West Virginia. This happened. And there was a billboard up regarding the story for a long time that I think people in the area probably would remember if you were around there at all, because how could you forget something like this? So the dad, like, all the kids are not out. So he does what any dad does, and he wants to go back in and get them. He had a ladder that was set up on the side of the house that he used because the layout of their house was kind of wonky. And he had to get up there to do things for whatever reason. So he's always had this ladder to go up to the side of the house. So he gets out, he counts the kids. He's like, oh, I got. They're still up there. He goes, the ladder's gone. He didn't touch the ladder, and the ladder's gone. So he's like, panicking. He's like, I have to get up there. Like, again, this is like, in smoke, as we're doing, as this is all happening. He is a coal driver. He did, like, a trucking business. So he had these coal trucks that he was using the day before to work. And then, of course, it's Christmas Eve, so he's chilling. So he goes to start the coal truck. Both of them are. Won't start. Both of them were fully functioning the day prior.

[C]

Yeah, he used them before.

[E]

He was going to drive the coal truck, like, into the house essentially, to, like, and then climb it up and see if he can get the kids out. So the coal trucks don't work, the ladder's gone, house burns down, and everybody's just like, oh, it's so sad those kids died. Here's some things, and this is where we'll have to kind of tag team some of it. Just some peripherals.

[B]

What's the name? What's the story of this? Okay, the.

[E]

The family Solder children. The solder. This is the story of the solder children.

[B]

Solder children.

[C]

And one detail. That room that they were in, where those other kids were, it was. They had converted an attic. So there's like a skinny hallway, stairway up there. And so he even tried buckets of water. He tried to douse the hallway after he couldn't get the ladder, but it was literally so hot with flame so fast that he couldn't. Like, this isn't the story of a dad who got what he could and then was like. I mean, he. For 45 minutes, he was doing everything he could to get to that level. And the panic, it just didn't happen.

[E]

Story said the dad's, like, bleeding, like, all over the place, covered in burns. Like, did every single thing he could. Yeah, here's where things get weird. The remains, like, the house burns down. Whatever they find. No human remains, no Bones. No, nothing. No sign of any.

[A]

Five kids are still in there.

[E]

Five kids allegedly burned in this house. And there's no sign of human remains.

[A]

That's impossible.

[C]

45 minutes.

[E]

45 minute burn.

[A]

That's impossible.

[E]

Yeah. So they were, they were.

[A]

The.

[E]

One of the articles had talked to like a cremation person because that's what the story was. Was like, oh, they just got cremated.

[B]

And burned up 9:45 minutes.

[E]

And they were like, it's two hours at like 2,000 degrees and it's not.

[A]

It can't be that hot. I know. Even like the worst structure fires, right. You still have bones. Like the level of heat that you.

[C]

Would have to 40s house.

[E]

One of the persons involved did a test and like burned up animals in the same like kind of premise and was like, there were always bones.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

You couldn't. The bones were there and out of.

[A]

Five kids, they're all probably different areas. There would be. Yeah, there would have to be something.

[E]

Okay, go a little bit more in the after. So. So this goes down. The parents immediately are like, this is not like at. Oh, also a little gross. So trigger warning, I guess. The smell of rotting flesh, they say is like unmistakable. Like it's. It's human, it's animal, it's whatever something is burning in that way.

[A]

It's.

[E]

Everybody can smell it. Nobody could smell. It was just. There was no scent of just a.

[C]

Structure fire in the air.

[E]

I have not smelled it.

[B]

So it's a pretty standard thing when people are burning a house. Like you can. It's very.

[E]

They said for miles around what the was with the art.

[C]

Especially that many kids in a space that small when the fire was only lit for that long. Yeah.

[E]

Which is so bleak. But it's just to the point of like they're like going that something doesn't seem right. So then you get these stories of people. Somebody who worked at a motel that was like, oh, I saw those kids the next day. They came in here with a grown up with two men and two women.

[A]

What? What?

[C]

I didn't. I don't know how many people there.

[E]

I think it said it with. We saw them with two men and two women and they came into the hotel and the. The worker was like, I tried to talk to the kids and they didn't. They wouldn't talk to me. Then somebody at a diner because like the parents start to go, like, we don't think this is adding up.

[C]

Right.

[E]

Somebody at a diner says, I served him breakfast the next day. Like they came in here and had breakfast. And I don't know where they went, but I'm telling you, they were in here doing breakfast. So this family took out a billboard, which is how a lot of people found out about the story that said, you have to look at it. It's like it just says like, were the. Were the solder children kidnapped or did the fire kill them? The mystery continues on or something. I'll send it to you so you guys can see it. Then you go back in time a little bit. So this was an Italian family came from. From Italy and. And they were real tight lipped about why they left. But again, it's World War II era. And so then they get to America, they kind of establish themselves and the dad is. Starts to be really outspoken about Mussolini and just saying, like, in a positive way, in a negative way, super negative way. And this is like an Italian immigrant community in West Virginia.

[C]

Yeah. He was. You talk about him being an upstanding person in the community. He was a spokesperson against. So like left ashes. And that was very, like, very outspoken about it. Where they were, which I.

[E]

Which again from the article is like, was not completely. Everybody in the town felt the same way.

[C]

Like kind of mafia community. Yeah. Type thing.

[E]

And so he was visited one, they said it was an electrical fire. He had the electric company come out and check his wiring prior to this whole incident.

[C]

Right.

[E]

Complete bill of health. Everything in perfect working order.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Wow.

[E]

Oh, my goodness. I keep forgetting details. They tried to call from the house to the fire. The phones didn't work.

[C]

Yep. Phones were down.

[E]

They said it was an electrical fire. The lights never turned off.

[C]

Yep.

[E]

So they were like, if the. If it shorts out and starts a fire, like the power goes out.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

And the lights never turned off during the whole fire.

[C]

So did you see the. The thing about the person who cut the line that got caught?

[E]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

So. So there's another guy who apparently days before had been caught stealing fishing tackle. And supposedly he's running off. They arrest him. And then he later said, yeah, I cut the wire, but I was trying to cut power. I didn't realize it was a phone line. But then when you go back to police records, there's no record of this person being arrested, even though the story itself and the arrest was part of the case. So like, somehow it got scrubbed. That someone cut a line. Yeah, like that name's gone.

[E]

Phone line wasn't burned. Phone line was cut. The car, the coal trucks are like tampered with. That's why. And like, clearly after the fact they're like, yeah, this isn't like wear and tear. This is like somebody messed with your cars.

[C]

The ladder wasn't stolen. It was found further up the road in a ditch. Someone just pulled it away so that it couldn't be.

[E]

They couldn't get in.

[A]

Oh, my goodness.

[E]

Is this not the. Like. And so then he had people come to his house, this dad, like, randomly. Like, they were just like, knock on the door, say they were there for, like, other, like, nondescript reasons, and they saw people, like, wandering around the property multiple times. And they were like. We didn't know why these people were there. One guy goes in, asks him to do some kind of work on the house he was selling. Some kind of work. And the guy's like, no, we're not going to do it. And he said, this whole house is going to burn down.

[C]

Yep. It says. It was. An insurance salesperson literally says, your house will go up in smoke. Your children will be destroyed. That's a quote.

[B]

What do you sound like? Do you sound like this?

[C]

Probably.

[B]

Yes, it's probably going to burn down.

[C]

I've been trying to not jump in your story consult.

[A]

You know, salutations for Mussolini.

[C]

I mean, I imagine that's how it happened.

[A]

Dude, that is wild.

[E]

Typically, I'm against this kind of Italian stereotyping, but I want to confirm that is probably what did the.

[C]

The phone call that happened.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

What would tell him that?

[C]

So. So it's everyone. Everyone is gone to bed. And the mother wakes up at 12:30 because the phone rings and she. She says it's weird because the kid's job was to draw the curtains and turn off the lights. Like, that's her job. She wakes up thinking the kids have just passed out and the windows are all open and the lights are on. So she draws them. Sorry, I got a little. She does that. Realizes when the phone rings. She realized none of that's done, answers the phone, and it's this woman who's, like, asking for somebody. But she's. Her report is something's just off with this phone call. Like, the voice sounds weird and. Yeah, 12:30am and she's, like, basically confused. And then the person just starts laughing and hangs out. She says the laugh, like, sent, like, chills. She was like, what was that?

[B]

And then this is after the fact.

[C]

So. No, I'm sorry. This was this right before the fire. This is. This is at 12:30 at 1am she wakes up again to the sound of something hitting the roof and then rolling.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

And she's like, what the heck was that? She gets. And that woke her up. But then she realizes there's a smell of smoke.

[D]

Oh, no.

[C]

And she. So she runs up and sees the fire next to their. Like, in. In the husband's office, which is where the fuse box is. But. So that's their immediate assumption was that wakes him up. And then he runs to go up the stairs and just in the time it took her to wake up, see the fire, and get him the entire stairways and Gulf. So it started near the fuse box, but it was, like, strategic. Cut him off from getting up to his kids.

[B]

Have we ruled out Santa?

[D]

Was Santa going to do.

[A]

What's his alibi?

[D]

Oh, that's okay.

[A]

Listen here, fat man.

[C]

Yeah, there was.

[A]

Tell me where you were.

[D]

I've actually heard this story before. Buzz did an Unsolved Mysteries dude.

[E]

One more crazy detail they like. It starts to kind of, like, get around that the story is, like, not adding up. So then the authorities of the area come out, and there's a lot of weirdness. Like, the fire department was.

[C]

Was.

[E]

Was deployed in World War II. So there wasn't, like, the typical fire department. So there's some, like, stuff that does check a little bit, but the story gets out. It's not adding up. So they were like. They're like, oh, we found a heart on the. In the. In the rubble. A heart?

[D]

Yeah, Right.

[E]

Like a fire chief. An organ made it through, but no bones did. And they're like, yeah, we found a heart, but. But it was. It just seemed really kind of like, messed up to show anyone the heart. So we put it in a box, and we buried it at sea.

[D]

Buried it at sea.

[C]

We buried it at the scene.

[E]

At the scene.

[D]

Oh.

[C]

That'S, like, where your story's going. That's crazy. If they.

[E]

My guy drove to the Pacific from West Virginia. No, they buried it at the scene.

[A]

With this guy respect.

[E]

So he's like, don't. We found a heart. Don't worry about it. We buried at the scene. It's in a box. Well, then, like, again, time goes by. They go back, they find this. It's, like, legit. They find the box. It's a beef liver in the box.

[A]

What are we doing?

[B]

This seems so.

[D]

It's so obvious.

[C]

And the chief said. He admitted that he planted it. And he said, I was just trying to give him closure.

[A]

All right, so I'm gonna kill some beaver and steal its liver.

[C]

How do we go from beef to beaver?

[E]

I thought he said beef liver.

[B]

Oh, I thought I heard beaver, too.

[C]

Me.

[A]

Yeah, that's what he said.

[C]

Did you say beaver?

[A]

It's a beaver liver at the sea.

[E]

Beaver liver.

[C]

What's the guy's name who DM'd you? He's getting so ticked right now.

[E]

I'm sorry, Garrett. Bye, honey. I'm gonna go work on the dam today. All right, we'll see you later. Oh, Fire Chief. What are you doing here?

[A]

Is everything all right?

[B]

What's that knife in your handful? Amazing.

[E]

How crazy is that story?

[B]

Crazy story.

[A]

I can't believe I've never heard of it. That's crazy.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

And they, like, never gave up. Like, they kept saying, like, has anybody seen them? Like, they were. They knew that this story is not what they're saying.

[C]

There's. There's a wholesome twist, which I'm hoping and choosing to believe that this is. This is how it played out. But beef or lived, yes, but no. Like, the whole community recovery. If someone was a sympathizer with George, the dad, and they were like, we know the plans that are being made against these kids. The kids have been reporting people in the street watching the house, telling their parents. And so the theory is they knew the hit was coming. And, like, the reason they were spotted at diners being fed, being taken care of was someone was like, you're never going to survive if you stay here. And your parents will immediately. Like, if they're looking for you, you're still in danger. So someone abducted them, and that's why the kids went quietly and pulled the kids out of there. And so they, you know, they got taken.

[A]

Did they say anything about the demeanor of the kids at the restaurant where they were seen?

[E]

The only one that I saw that commented was the motel worker who said it was just like, the.

[B]

The.

[E]

I'd have to go back and, like, reread for detail. But it was. The vibe I got was like, you know, just typical. Like, oh, hey, kids, you know, coming to the motel and they.

[A]

Five kids. You would have to see if, like. Yeah, like, they were. There was something wrong.

[C]

Yeah, there was teenagers, too. So it wasn't.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

They were teens.

[C]

Some of them were, I think, three to 19. I don't remember the ages of.

[E]

It was a range, bro.

[A]

That's crazy.

[C]

But that's what I'm saying. Like, I mean, to abduct that many.

[E]

People, I mean, there's so much coordination. It's one of those stories where you're like, the story given doesn't check out, but I don't know, the alternative Unless they all, like, went down that ladder and then whoever was, like, positively kidnapping them. Kidnapping in the. In the best way.

[C]

But I mean, like, if you have like an older high school kid age and they're like, if I'm telling my young, younger sibling, this person.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Is actually for us, like, you would have a direct family member being like, we need to do this right.

[E]

You'd go down the. The ladder, then ditch the ladder down the road.

[C]

Well, they don't know when the kids left. They just know when the fire started because mom was asleep, she didn't see.

[E]

The kids, and the stuff wasn't done right. So they might have been gone by that point. Oh, no.

[A]

See, the. The moral of the story is for the kids that are watching, maybe you didn't get that Nintendo Switch for Christmas. Maybe you didn't get the gifts that you wanted.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

But you always remember it could be a whole lot worse on Christmas morning.

[B]

Mussolini could get you.

[A]

Mussolini is under your bed, kids.

[B]

Oh, Merry Christmas, everyone.

[D]

Yay.

[B]

But guess what? We're not done yet. We're headed over to patreon.com forward/ninjasbutterflies or YouTube members, where we're gonna do an extra episode with our buddy Antoni.

[A]

Antoni, it's me. It's a Russo with our little star baby. Also, it's not too late to get some last minute Christmas gifts for people who forgot. So go to sundaycoolswag.com get some ninja merch.

[B]

This is after Christmas.

[A]

That's what I'm saying. People who forgot. People are like, oh, right, I forgot to give you a gift. Oh, I'm gonna send it to you.

[E]

Somebody got you a gift and you were like, I didn't know we were doing good. I gotta get you some.

[B]

Now. You can go get it or for the.

[A]

People are like, no, it's. It's in the mail still.

[C]

Well, no, that check, because we did a reorder. A re. Restocking of the Clanker T. Yeah. Maybe you ordered it and we just had to reprint it because they sold out, so.

[B]

That's right.

[E]

Stalking.

[D]

I got that.

[B]

All right, guys, we love you.

[A]

We love you. Merry Christmas.

[B]

Merry Christmas.

[A]

We hope you guys had a great one. Happy holiday.

[B]

Thanks for coming, Anthony.

[C]

Bye.

[B]

Bye. Oh, yeah, you need to plug something.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

The Bible is funny at. The Bible is funny. Bible's funny podcast. Bible's funny Card game Volume two is out. Now you can get volume one as well, but volume two, check it out.

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[A]

May disturb you.

[E]

If any of you know what these.

[C]

Multi decade UAP dolphins are.

[B]

Aliens.

[E]

Bottle nose fish pics.

[A]

There's a massive police response. Oh my God.

[E]

Dolphin style attack.

[B]

Sorry, I'm trying to wrap up because.

[C]

I just go pick up data.

[E]

Thumbnail. We need a thumbnail. Thumbnail. Oh, I'm supposed to. Do you want to put the hat.

[A]

Headphones off, mic out of your face. Or just the center?

[E]

Just like.

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Cut the camera.

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