The Fart Walk - Episode 23

Summary

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The Musers The Podcast – Episode 23: The Fart Walk

Date: December 3, 2025
Hosts: George Dunham, Craig “Junior” Miller, Gordon Keith

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Overview

This Thanksgiving-themed episode captures The Musers' trademark blend of absurd humor, nostalgia, and insightful banter. From dissecting the overrated status of turkey to debating classic holiday films and sharing “fart walk” science, George, Craig, and Gordon riff on family gatherings, American road trips, weird traditions, and the inevitable slide into “grandpa fashion.” Listeners get an intimate, hilarious glimpse into the trio’s holiday traditions, personal quirks, and enduring friendship.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Thanksgiving Traditions & Reflections

• Reuniting for Thanksgiving: The hosts remark on spending Thanksgiving together at George’s house, reminiscing about past holidays worked together at the radio station.
• The Family Dynamic (03:40–11:12):
  • George and Craig cherish the multi-generational family aspect, while Gordon finds large gatherings both heartwarming and challenging:

    "I had a very unusual childhood...the extended family all got together. Three, four generations...it was the greatest study in humanity ever."
    —Gordon, (10:17)

  • They note generational changes, with fewer big gatherings these days.
• Letters From Listeners (02:25–06:01):
  • A listener shares his cross-country trip, prompting discussion of great American drives (Route 66, Pacific Coast) and the bittersweetness of ghost towns along old highways.

    "You feel like you're in 1950 driving down that road."
    —Craig, (05:03)

2. Debating Thanksgiving’s Worth (06:46–15:10)

• Is Thanksgiving Overrated?
  • Gordon provocatively asks if Thanksgiving is "just not that great."
  • George and Craig defend it as a top holiday, emphasizing its family-reunion feel and traditions:

    "It's more family oriented, I think, than even Christmas."
    —Craig, (08:03)

• Nostalgia for Childhood Thanksgivings:
  • Vivid descriptions of extended family, specialty dishes (Aunt Nancy’s banana pudding, mystery casseroles), and slapstick football games in the yard.
  • Rolls as the universally beloved menu item:

    "As a kid, we would mainly just load up on a bunch of rolls."
    —Gordon, (12:18)

3. Turkey, Traditions, and the "Fart Walk" (13:39–19:50)

• The Great Turkey Debate:
  • Gordon: "Turkey is the worst food of all time." (13:44)
  • Craig partly agrees, preferring chicken or red meat, while George defends turkey only if "infused or smoked" and not dry.
• Cranberry Sauce Wars:
  • Gordon advocates for the can-shaped tradition; George touts homemade.
• The “Fart Walk” Science Segment (16:43–19:50):
  • George reads advice from Dr. Trisha Pasricha, touting a post-Thanksgiving “fart walk” to aid digestion and regulate blood sugar:

    "So the fart walk is the highly scientific term for just a walk that you take for about 10 to 15 minutes shortly after eating a big meal...”
    —George reading Dr. Pasricha, (17:14)

  • The hosts riff on the uptightness about discussing farts, especially with a female doctor as source material.

    “It's just uncomfortable for men and women to talk about farts.”
    —George, (17:16)

4. Black Friday, Buicks & Road Trip Fantasies (27:05–36:07)

• Cyber Monday vs. Black Friday:
  • They marvel at the shift to online shopping; Cyber Monday now surpasses Black Friday in sales (27:56–28:10).
• Gordon's Grand Car Dream (28:32–36:07):
  • Gordon’s story of trying to buy an old Buick LeSabre on Black Friday, missing out to an even more hardcore enthusiast.

    “I collect the uncollectible.”
    —Gordon, (32:03)

  • Expresses desire to do a classic American road trip in a '90s Buick: "It's going to be great. I'm going to get it in tip top shape. It's going to live forever as well as me. I'm gonna live forever as well." (32:29)
• Car nostalgia:
  • Stories about parents’ Buicks and 1970s “grandpa cars.”
  • Craig quips: "You're like a very poor man's Jay Leno. You have a kind of a spare car collection…" (31:51)

5. Friendsgiving, Leftovers & Food Safety (24:09–26:51)

• None are Friendsgiving diehards.
  • Craig’s been to a few, Gordon resists the rebrand, George doesn't see the point.
  • Jokingly mourn not having regular friend gatherings anymore.
• How Long Can You Eat Thanksgiving Leftovers?
  • George: three to four days.
  • Gordon claims “pies never go bad.” Craig consults AI for actual guidance (26:28–26:51).

6. Holiday Movies Showdown (40:10–47:08)

• Favorites Revealed:
  • George: “Elf” or “Home Alone.”
  • Craig: The ‘39 “A Christmas Carol” with Alistair Sim.
  • Gordon: “Die Hard”—and launches into a compelling critique of modern action movies vs. Die Hard’s storytelling craft:

    “Not everything shake cam...I hate that movies are that way...In Die Hard so much of things, something is just shown briefly that if you miss that scene then you don't see that that is tied in with something that's going to happen later.”
    —Gordon, (41:57–43:10)

• Planes, Trains and Automobiles:
  • Hailed as the “Thanksgiving movie.” Craig and George love it, Gordon calls it “a shit movie” (jokingly), prompting a mock-argument.

    “Stop it. That's in my top five comedies of all time list.”
    —Craig, (45:49)

7. Humor & Heart: Giving Thanks for Each Other (48:18–49:12)

• Touching Moment:
  • Gordon thanks his co-hosts, celebrating their decades of camaraderie:

    “That we have been doing this for as long as we've been doing it and how well we've gotten along and how many laughs we still have...I was thankful for it and I thought I would thank you.”
    —Gordon, (48:26)

  • Craig and George reciprocate, each sharing how much the friendship and show mean to them.

8. Grandpa Fashion & Comfort (49:32–51:58)

• Gordon’s Move to “Dress Sweatpants”:
  • Declares he’s “going full give up man,” wearing sweatpants with dress shoes and shopping for Velcro footwear:

    “I think these are new sweatpants. I found them in my closet and I put them on. I was like, damn, these are comfortable. And so I'm thinking about just going full give up, man.”
    —Gordon, (49:55)

  • George and Craig riff on the “grandpa” aesthetic, commiserate about comfort over style, and tease Gordon about his new look.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Why Thanksgiving Still Matters:

  "It's an incredible family gathering day and that's more and more important to me as my kids get older...Four different generations. And it was wonderful."
  —George, (07:19)

• Turkey Hot Take:

  “Turkey is the worst food of all time. Like, even turkeys hate that they're made of turkey because it embarrasses them.”
  —Gordon, (13:44)

• The ‘Fart Walk’ Recommendation:

  “So the fart walk is the highly scientific term for just a walk that you take for about 10 to 15 minutes shortly after eating a big meal, like the kinds we're all going to be having tomorrow.”
  —George, reading Dr. Trisha Pasricha, (17:14)

• On the Decline of Family Gatherings:

  "Even when I was a kid, this had a feeling like this was an older person's tradition...my grandmother's generation that came through World War II...But we all gathered at my Grandma Mary's house."
  —Gordon, (10:39)

• On Black Friday Buicks:

  “I was going to go, you know how much it was listed for? …$995. Of course, the whole time I'm thinking, like, how is this gonna go over at home? When I pull up in this vehicle.”
  —Gordon, (30:14)

• Holiday Movie Disputes:

  “Die Hard. Absolutely. Still holds up.”
  —Gordon, (40:53)
  “Stop it. That's in my top five comedies of all time list.”
  —Craig on Planes, Trains and Automobiles, (45:49)

• On Embracing Grandpa Fashion:

  “Both of you gentlemen are looking at a guy who's wearing...sweatpants with dress shoes and who wants to own a Buick Park Avenue.”
  —Gordon, (50:17)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Listener Email & Great American Road Trips: 02:25 – 06:10
• Debating Thanksgiving’s Value: 06:46 – 15:10
• Thanksgiving Foods & Fart Walk Science: 13:39 – 19:50
• Leftovers & Pie Safety: 24:09 – 26:51
• Black Friday, Buick Saga: 28:32 – 36:07
• Holiday Movie Showdown: 40:10 – 47:08
• Giving Thanks for Each Other: 48:18 – 49:12
• Grandpa Fashion Revelations: 49:32 – 51:58

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Tone & Vibe

The conversation is loose, affectionate, and mercilessly funny. The hosts don’t shy away from good-natured ribbing, unloading on traditions, each other’s quirks, and even their own aging process. Yet underneath the humor is real affection—a celebration of life’s small joys and the friendships that anchor them through every season.

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Recommended for: Fans of witty, slice-of-life banter, anyone who loves Thanksgiving, and listeners nostalgic for big family gatherings and old Buicks.

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Transcript

[Gordon]

Close your eyes. Exhale.

[George]

Feel your body relax and let go.

[Gordon]

Of whatever you're carrying today.

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[Gordon]

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[Craig]

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[Gordon]

Of course, we always had the set up to where there was the white meat platter and then there was that mystery dark meat platter.

[George]

Nobody got the dark meat.

[Gordon]

Looked like a turkey that had cancer or something.

[Podcast Announcer]

Welcome back to Bemusers, the podcast. This is episode 23, the Fart Walk.

[Gordon]

Hey, hey. Welcome to episode two three of the Musers, the podcast. That's 23.

[George]

Oh, okay.

[Gordon]

Yeah. I'm Gordon.

[George]

I'm George.

[Craig]

I'm Craig.

[Gordon]

All right, it's time to get started. Now this. We have not done a podcast since we all got together for Thanksgiving over at George's house. And that was a lot of fun.

[George]

Yeah, y' all drank way too much. But it was fun.

[Gordon]

We did. I hate that I broke my sobriety, my 15 year sobriety Thanksgiving. George's homemade wine.

[Craig]

I thought it was great until we all started talking politics.

[Gordon]

Yeah, I know.

[George]

The idea was that so divisive.

[Gordon]

We were all trying to out maga each other and out progressive each other. It was wonderful. Now the three of us have never spent a Thanksgiving together.

[Craig]

Except when we used to work on Thanksgiving doing our radio show.

[Gordon]

Remember that?

[Craig]

Oh, yeah.

[George]

Did we really?

[Craig]

Many, many years. We would even bring in turkey and dressing and we'd have a meal up there.

[George]

We do the morning, then go home.

[Craig]

Yeah, I bet we did our radio show on Thanksgiving Day probably five, maybe even 10 times back in the early days.

[Gordon]

Yeah.

[Craig]

So we have kind of spent Thanksgiving together. You're right. Not at each other's fun, not at each other's home. You know, there was actually something kind of fun about it because we were at work, but it was a holiday and it felt like we were kind of in the bunker together.

[Gordon]

Yeah, it kind of feels like a substitute teacher day.

[Craig]

Yeah.

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

It's kind of a holiday while you're still at school.

[Additional Speaker]

Yeah.

[George]

We didn't have to do a real show that day.

[Gordon]

Right. All right, we're going to do some many fun Thanksgiving things that we have planned today. But first, as always, we have to Start off with our letter of the week. Now, if you, the good podcast listener, would like to send in a letter, make a submission, you can email [e-mail] that's our. That's our email address. This comes to us from a Aaron, or Aaron, I guess.

[George]

Yeah, I think that's it.

[Gordon]

Says, hey, fellas, love what you're doing. Oh, that's very sweet. And love what you're doing to your bodies. I don't know even know what that means. Says George mentioned during the Bucket List Bucket List episode of the Muse of the podcast that he wanted to take a drive to California and maybe even up to Oregon. Aaron says, it's like you were speaking right to me, Giorgio and I just had to email in. He said, I actually did that drive with my girlfriend last summer. I moved her down from Portland. So we decided to make a mini vacation in a budget truck. We drove down along the coast of Oregon in California, through the gorgeous valleys, thick forest and sheer cliffs, and every kind of small fishing town. We drove through a portion of the redwood forest north of San Francisco, drove through downtown, and then chose to bypass LA by cutting through at Bakersfield. And he said, we eventually made it through Arizona. We stopped at the Grand Canyon, then straight through to New Mexico, saw Albuquerque, but didn't stop. Then down the Panhandle via 287. He said it was awesome. I bet he said he recommends you do this trip while you have the energy, George. I don't know what that means.

[George]

By tomorrow, maybe kind of a shot.

[Gordon]

Across your bow there and to stop along the one or the one to one. Any chance you want to. To take a picture. So it's all very picturesque. And Gordon, you're absolutely right. It was one of the most romantic drives I've ever taken. I felt so connected to America and really appreciate the beauty of our country and the different biomes.

[George]

That's great.

[Gordon]

Yeah. Said, thanks for your time and kiss each other on the mouth for me.

[Craig]

Okay. Okay.

[George]

But no, but that, yeah, I've always wanted to take the drive from Texas to California and the drive going up the one on in California, up the Oregon. That has to be a top five drive in America.

[Craig]

Yeah, I would think so.

[George]

Coast.

[Craig]

Yeah, that's my favorite part of the country. Anything from Texas over the American Southwest. I just love the wide open spaces, the big skies, the rock formations, the mountains, the desert, it's got it all. Lots of great wildlife. And if you do part of that on what's left of Route 66, that's really cool too. Yes. You can go through some of the old towns. When I drive up to New Mexico a lot from Texas and you go through Tucum, Carey and I always take the business route, get off the highway, the interstate, do the business route. And it is stepping back in time. And a lot of those hotels that were booming in the 40s and 50s are now empty. But it's great. You feel like you're in 1950 driving down that road. Yeah.

[Gordon]

But isn't it also depressing because it's a ghost town? It gets a little bit of that feeling of faded glory, faded energy, but there. But I want to see it.

[Craig]

You should do it because there are a couple diners that are still open and you, you go in and you feel like Kerouac must have sat right here in this booth. And it's, it's really cool. But also depressing someday.

[Gordon]

And so it was the big highways that put Route 66 out of the business when we built the huge, huge highways that bypassed all those little towns.

[Craig]

I think I told you guys, when I was a kid living in Oklahoma City, our first house that we lived in there was one block off of Route 66.

[Podcast Announcer]

Really?

[Craig]

Yeah. We lived on 37th Street. It was actually two blocks. And 39th was old Route 66.

[George]

Okay.

[Gordon]

Think of how many famous people came down through there back in the day.

[Craig]

I know it.

[Gordon]

And didn't say hi to you. All right, so I have a Thanksgiving related story I will tell a little bit later that relates to Route 66 and the Great American road trip. But first, I do want to talk about Thanksgiving. And I have a question.

[George]

Today we're both part of the podcast where he rags on turkey question.

[Gordon]

Is Thanksgiving overrated or is it simply just not that great? And we'll, we'll start with you, George. Go ahead and let you.

[George]

What do you have against Thanksgiving?

[Gordon]

I don't have anything against Thanksgiving. I just think that perhaps you overrated a little bit too much and your overrating of it has led you to slag on Christmas.

[George]

No, no, I don't take anything away from Christmas. But it kicks off the holiday season.

[Gordon]

It does.

[George]

It's an incredible family gathering day and that's more and more important to me as my kids get older. And I was telling Craig today, I don't see my, my kids every Thanksgiving now because they're married and we have that rotating thing where they may be at their in laws one particular particular year. But this year they were all home and it was awesome. I just, I. There were several times during the day where I just looked around and thought, this is great. Four different generations. And it was wonderful. The food was great, the conversation was great. And yeah, it's a wonderful, wonderful day.

[Gordon]

And you get football and we got.

[George]

An incredible Cowboys game. Yeah, it was great.

[Craig]

I would almost, almost make the case that Thanksgiving is better than Christmas. Now back away from this microphone. I still have Christmas ranked number one, but I love Thanksgiving. And part of it is that family element. At Thanksgiving. We traditionally go to my aunt Mary's house and it's 30 people. It's aunts, uncles, parents, kids, cousins. And this year we traveled up to the northeast. We went to Connecticut to visit family and we had a house full there as well. It's more family oriented, I think, than even Christmas.

[Gordon]

Maybe that's why I hate it.

[George]

Uh oh, hey, let's examine this.

[Craig]

Those are your own issues with your family that you can sort through. But it's more of a family reunion at Thanksgiving and Christmas. You know, each family wants to do kind of their own Christmas morning with their kids and, and so that's the element and it is the gateway to the holidays. And it's maybe the first time you can actually have a fire and you have this feast and you have football. It's just. I love Thanksgiving.

[George]

Well, I do too. And this Thanksgiving I assembled two rollaway cots for my grandkids.

[Gordon]

Like actually built them. You're talking about.

[George]

Yeah, the assembly was required. It wasn't that hard.

[Gordon]

So they're brand new.

[George]

Still took me several hours because how.

[Gordon]

Long does it take you to build a cot, man?

[George]

Try to shimmy in this, the end piece of it.

[Gordon]

It's got to go in the same time. Yes.

[George]

You get one that's barely on, then the other one slips off. It took forever. But anyway, it brought up great memories because when we went to my grandparents house, we would sleep on rollaway cots and I went, holy cow, I've become my grandparents now. And I just wondered, man, what are they going to do? Think about what are they going to say to each other tonight as they're going to sleep on these cots and yeah, it's just great. It's just, it's such a great family day. And if your family's four to six people or like our Thanksgiving Day, we had 24 people at my house.

[Gordon]

Pretty good.

[George]

It was great. It was a wonderful day.

[Gordon]

So growing up, we did every Thanksgiving at my paternal grandfather's house. I had a very unusual childhood in that every single big holiday, the extended Family all got together. Like I'm talking, you know, three, four generations, like you were talking about that you did this year.

[George]

Do you think that's changing, by the way?

[Gordon]

I think that it is. You know, because even when I was a kid, this had a feeling like this was an older person's tradition. Because a lot of my family, they all lived in the same town. They weren't wealthy, people weren't spread out over America and had travel budgets and stuff. It just seemed like everyone. And so people got together. That's just what that generation did. My grandmother's generation that came through World War II, which was kind of your dad's generation. Georgio and. But we all gathered at my Grandma Mary's house. That was her name.

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

Which was odd because she eventually became a grandmother, but perfect name then. Yeah. And so we got together at her house and there was probably. It was probably in that 30 to 40 people range. And you got to see all these characters that have eventually made it onto the air later on. Sure, in our radio career. But it was the greatest study in humanity ever. It was just so fun listening to all those old World War II guys. They would all be smoking in the kitchen or maybe out up under the carport and telling stories about old guys they knew and just laughing and cutting up and getting quiet when the kids would come around there, you know, a great story was being told then. And then just the feast and Aunt Nancy's banana pudding. And then you got Aunt Glenda's so and so dish. And then there were always the mystery dishes of the green beans that had corn flakes on top of them. Whatever that thing is.

[George]

Some sort of cream soup in there. Yeah.

[Gordon]

There's always these traditional family dishes.

[Craig]

Yeah. Half of the Thanksgiving dishes don't look appetizing.

[Gordon]

No, they don't. And as a kid, we would mainly just load up on a bunch of rolls.

[George]

It seemed like, yes, Boy, those were always good.

[Additional Speaker]

Rolls were huge.

[George]

Or an adult. The rolls are always big time.

[Gordon]

Yeah. And are rolls still using the same technology they used then? I don't know whether my grandmother. I remember yeast rolls being a big deal and those tasting really good. I don't even know what a yeast roll is.

[George]

Well, I guess one that has to rise, huh?

[Gordon]

Yeah. You have to set them out for, I don't know, several months in advance. I don't know what happens, but seemed like it was a production making the yeast rolls. But it was great. And I did love Thanksgiving because we did it at that same house throughout my whole childhood. And there was always the worst football game ever that got organized for the front yard.

[Craig]

Always a tradition.

[Gordon]

Absolutely. And the football would only be used when we went to her house and she didn't live in the same town as we did. We traveled over there. That's when the kids would get together.

[Craig]

So it was deflated.

[Gordon]

Always deflated. No inflator within 50 miles. So we had to play with a deflated football.

[George]

Well, you probably found the pump, but no one had a needle. Anyone have a needle?

[Gordon]

Always lost the needle.

[George]

When do you keep them? So many flat footballs.

[Gordon]

But yes, it was fantastic. And I do love Thanksgiving.

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

For that reason. I hate Thanksgiving. For the reason that you love it so much, though.

[George]

Okay, here is the part where Gordon bags on what we eat for Thanksgiving because.

[Gordon]

And I'm just gonna say it because we're in a podcast, right? So you can say whatever you want. Turkey is the worst food of all time.

[George]

I don't think I'd go that far.

[Gordon]

It is like. Like, even turkeys hate that they're made of turkey because it embarrasses them.

[Craig]

I wouldn't go that far. But I do kind of agree with you in that it's overrated. I much would prefer a chicken or red meat or fish or anything. Turkey is just kind of a spare white meat.

[Gordon]

It was always spare. And then they. Of course, we always had the set up to where there was the white meat platter and then there was that mystery dark meat platter.

[George]

Nobody about the dark meat looked like.

[Gordon]

A turkey that had cancer or something.

[George]

Okay, yeah, not so sure about that. But it depends on how you cook them. It depends on how you flavor them. And if you just went with some, you know, generic dry turkey, then I could see why you're thinking, okay, this is overrated. But if you infuse it correctly, infuse it or smoke it or. I mean, call this lazy, but last couple of years, we get our turkey from a barbecue place. That does it for us. Yeah, that's the thing with turkey. So good.

[Gordon]

If you trick turkey up with smoke flavor or barbecue sauce. Now you're talking. Because it de. Emphasizes the turkey aspect of turkey.

[Craig]

That's why you put gravy on it.

[George]

Well, see, I don't. I don't put gravy. But no, in. In my mom's old recipe for stuffing or dressing, whatever you want to call it, my sister still makes. And her cranberry sauce, which is. She makes fresh. It's not from the can. It's so incredible. I seriously could eat that every day.

[Gordon]

All right, wait a second. Cranberry sauce has to come from the can?

[George]

No.

[Gordon]

Because part of the whole experience is that it maintains that can shape when you put it on the plate.

[George]

No, this serving plate, this has been ground up and it's fresh cranberries and oranges and. Oh, man, it's so good.

[Gordon]

There's also something we used to have when I was a kid called ambrosia.

[Craig]

Oh, yeah.

[Gordon]

Weird marshmallows on the top that always.

[George]

So sure about that.

[Craig]

Look too gross to me.

[Gordon]

Yeah, Yeah.

[George]

I can't defend ambrosia.

[Gordon]

I somehow made it through 18 childhood thanksgivings without ever having a taste of it. So I call that a success.

[George]

And we don't. At least I don't eat pieces of pie any other time during the year. But at Thanksgiving and Christmas, you don't know.

[Gordon]

Apparently, I've been doing Thanksgiving every day of my life.

[George]

I mean, I may have the occasional key lime pie or something, maybe, but not very often.

[Craig]

Pumpkin pie. I'll eat pumpkin pie around Thanksgiving and then no other pie the rest of the year.

[George]

That's right.

[Craig]

Maybe a piece of chocolate pie here and there.

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

Well, it should be called Thanksgiving. That's the word that I have for that holiday. No, it was great. It was fine. And I got you a little gift. A Thanksgiving Day gift. Giorgio.

[George]

Okay. Oh, this is going to be.

[Gordon]

I got a story for you.

[George]

Story gone wrong on Thanksgiving.

[Gordon]

And you get to read this because. Gosh, it is. This is from an actual doctor for your health. That this is something that this doctor is recommending.

[Craig]

Okay.

[George]

Okay. This doctor, the headline says, doctor recommends taking a fart walk on Thanksgiving.

[Craig]

After the big meal.

[George]

Yes. Okay. Gosh. It's a woman doctor, too.

[Gordon]

What is that?

[George]

Because men and women should.

[Craig]

They can be doctors, too.

[Gordon]

Why do you think that women should enter the medical field?

[George]

I'm sure she's a terrific doctor, but it's just uncomfortable for men and women to talk about farts.

[Gordon]

Why? Why do you say that?

[George]

It just is that just. It's something we shouldn't talk about together. I don't know what it is. Okay. This is Dr. Tricia Pasricha.

[Gordon]

I think you did a great P.

[George]

A S R I C H A Paprika. After indulging in a big Thanksgiving meal, many may experience discomfort. But Dr. Tricia, she says and suggests a simple remedy with a memorable name called the fart walk.

[Craig]

I take a fart walk every day.

[Gordon]

Craig's been cropped us in his neighborhood, 365.

[George]

Of course, she starts her sentence with so. So the fart walk is the highly scientific term for just a walk that you take for about 10 to 15 minutes shortly after eating a big meal, like the kinds we're all going to be having tomorrow. She says this the day before Thanksgiving and what it does to help relieve bloating and flatulence in addition to easing bloating. And there's actually a second very good reason to engage in the fart walk, which is that going for a walk after eating actually helps prevent spikes in your blood sugar. So kind of bring those blood sugar levels down.

[Gordon]

Why don't you have to add that?

[Craig]

So kind of, you know, bring this sort of.

[Gordon]

So I had not heard of this, that if you take a walk it brings your blood sugar level down.

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

Regardless of what you've eaten before.

[George]

I guess so. I'm sorry, I was distracted with the last line of the article that says.

[Gordon]

Oh, she's written a book, has she?

[George]

Yeah, she's written a book called Ask the Doctor and it's not that original. That's her column in the Washington Post and she delves deeper into the gut science in her book. The name of the book is you've been pooping all wrong. That's enough of Dr. Trisha. All wrong.

[Gordon]

Not just a little bit wrong.

[George]

All wrong. All wrong.

[Craig]

Actually, a lot of times it does feel like I've been pooping wrong.

[Gordon]

It's always a wrong.

[Craig]

I'd like to read this book.

[George]

Yeah, I guess sometimes we all get up and go, man, that was just wrong. Whatever happened just happened right there.

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[Gordon]

So I think I got lost on Thanksgiving one time. No, no, that was Christmas when I was a kid. I went out for a walk. It was not one of these walks. It was on Christmas. Yeah. And I got lost in this neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi. And, like, how old? I was probably 10.

[George]

Oh, no.

[Gordon]

And gone for a couple hours, wandering around the streets of Jackson, turning to a life of crime to survive. Yes. They had a whole search party after me.

[Craig]

You know what happened that. Did you just.

[Gordon]

I think that I got distracted because I'd gotten a Mickey Mouse watch for Christmas, and I really loved this Mickey Mouse watch. And so a lot of the times while I was walking, I would be looking down at my watch, so I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings and, you know, kind of memorizing the streets that I'm going by and knowing the way back. So then I just realized I'd walked for 30, 45 minutes. I was completely lost.

[Craig]

But were you trying to get away from the family or did you just want to explore?

[Gordon]

No, I just wanted to explore.

[Craig]

Okay.

[Gordon]

It was just. Yeah.

[Craig]

You weren't running away like we always.

[Gordon]

Used to run away. This was at a. My aunt, actually, my dad's aunt. We called her Aunt Mary Jane, but it was. It wasn't a pot reference.

[George]

Okay.

[Gordon]

Is my dad's aunt Mary Jane. We all called her that. And it was at her house, which is a smaller house. And they. It was a lot of smoke in that. That house because Mary Jane was married to Jimmy Barnett. It was weird. We called him Jimmy Barnett. His last name was Barnett, and we called him Jimmy Barnett. You didn't just call him Jimmy.

[George]

Was there your Uncle Jimmy or.

[Gordon]

Yeah.

[Craig]

Was there another Jimmy? You were trying to my dad was.

[Gordon]

Called Jimmy when he was growing up, so maybe that's why they. I don't know why they did it.

[Craig]

Okay.

[Gordon]

I don't know why. I never thought it was weird until I just said it to you guys. Anytime we referenced him, it was always his full name.

[Craig]

I never thought of your dad as a Jimmy.

[Gordon]

I know. Yeah, he grew up as little Jimmy.

[Craig]

Interesting.

[Gordon]

But, yeah, I got lost. But that was on Thanksgiving. But that was on Christmas, which we're heading into Christmas.

[Craig]

We are. Don't you love Thanksgiving also? Because the leaves are all changing. Like when we went up to Connecticut this last weekend for this Thanksgiving. I guess because our seasons are all messed up now. They still had the fall foliage, so you had all the yellow leaves and the red and the orange and just. You don't get that at Christmas. The trees are bare by Christmas.

[Gordon]

Yeah, I don't care about that stuff.

[Craig]

Oh, that adds to it.

[George]

I bet it was awesome.

[Gordon]

My computer has better graphics than real life, so.

[George]

Gosh, he really feels that way.

[Gordon]

None of you guys participated in Friendsgiving, correct? None.

[Craig]

Correct.

[Gordon]

None of us have had a Friendsgiving party.

[Craig]

I've done that. I've gone to a couple friends giving parties. Like when we had to keep working through the holidays. And my parents were at the time living down in Galveston. I couldn't make it down there to my sister's house in Austin. I went to a couple friends givings, but I've never hosted one.

[Gordon]

I've never been to one or hosted one.

[Craig]

They're not bad.

[Gordon]

I don't even remember this term until a few years ago.

[Craig]

Yeah, when I went. This is 20 years ago. We didn't call it that. It was just. Hey, a get together at a friend's house.

[Gordon]

Yeah, get together. Why do we have to relabel it Friendsgiving? I guess we need a cute name for it. Yes, fine. If that makes people more apt to get together with people.

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

And actually get together. I can't remember the last time, like, I got together with a bunch of friends and had a party.

[Craig]

That's kind of sad.

[Gordon]

I know it's kind of sad. You know what? I can't remember having friends. I don't know that I ever had friends. Okay, so Thanksgiving was good. We all survived. How long is it okay to still be eaten off the buffet table that's been put in the fridge?

[George]

I say three to four days. After that, I think it gets a little blinky.

[Gordon]

I have a theory that pies never go bad.

[George]

You know, that's interesting. You bring that up, because do you keep, like, the pecan and the pumpkin pie at room temperature? You put them in the fridge.

[Gordon]

Put them in the fridge.

[Craig]

Do you have this?

[Gordon]

You leave them out.

[George]

We kept ours out.

[Craig]

Yeah, you're supposed to put them in the fridge. Well, do you have this theory? Because anytime you go into a restaurant that serves pie, they always have that pie display and it looks like they've been in there for years.

[Gordon]

Yeah.

[George]

Yeah.

[Craig]

And they seem okay.

[Gordon]

And they do temperature. They always last. I just don't think that pies go bad. And so, like, we'll make about four or five pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving, and I'll eat on that for the next month.

[George]

The next month?

[Gordon]

Yeah, just go in there and go. Four weeks later, you graze on pumpkin pie.

[George]

Yeah, I wouldn't go more than a week, I don't think.

[Craig]

According to AI, pies can go bad. And their shelf life depends on the type of pie and how it's stored. Fruit pies can be left at room temperature for a couple of days, but pies with dairy or eggs, like pumpkin pies, need to be refrigerated immediately.

[Gordon]

Okay, but once they're refrigerated, they last for months, right? Yeah, they do last for months.

[Craig]

It says here they last for months. It's right here in writing. They last for months.

[Gordon]

All right. And then after Thanksgiving, you know what comes next, right?

[George]

Oh, yeah.

[Gordon]

Not Christmas.

[George]

Conference championship week.

[Gordon]

No. Shut up with that. Black Friday, the shopping day.

[George]

Is Cyber Monday bigger than Black Friday? No. I think it is.

[Craig]

Yeah, I think it is.

[Gordon]

Well, I think that Black Friday has become Cyber Friday, basically because a lot of shopping people do online on Black Friday, too. And I noticed when I went online on Friday, there were people. I mean, there were websites that was all, or, hey, our big Black Friday sale. And they're showing you stuff that they're selling online for Black Friday.

[George]

Huh.

[Gordon]

So it's not like they. You're prohibited from doing a sale online on Friday after Thanksgiving, but Black Friday.

[Craig]

Is the day that everybody lines up at 6am at the Walmart. And when they open the doors, there's this land rush that still happens. Yeah, I saw a video of it from this weekend.

[George]

Okay.

[Craig]

According to the Internet, Cyber Monday this year will be worth about 14 billion in sales. Black Friday, 11 billion. Okay, so Cyber Monday is a little bigger.

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

This says that 12 and a half million dollars pass through online shopping carts every minute during Black Friday.

[George]

Wow.

[Gordon]

12 and a half million every single minute.

[George]

Wow.

[Gordon]

So, yeah, I actually participated in Black Friday for the first time online or you actually got out in person?

[George]

Wow, Georgio. Okay.

[Gordon]

And it failed for me.

[Craig]

Why?

[Gordon]

All right, so here's the story. And this relates to our big email that we had, our big viewer email of the week. So I am determined that I'm going to give myself a gift.

[George]

Okay.

[Gordon]

I want me a big ass old Buick, unlike the one I already have.

[George]

I thought you already had one.

[Gordon]

Yes, but I'm wanting one that was made from like 1995 to around 2008 in that time period with a 3800 engine in it. That one in particular. Very reliable car. So I thought of you, Giorgio, because the big old Buick LeSabre.

[George]

Yeah, my dad always had one of those.

[Craig]

My dad had one too.

[Gordon]

Everyone had a LeSabre at some point. Yeah, we had a LeSabre. We had a 1995 LeSabre as a matter of fact. And there was one cowboys training camp in Wichita Falls where I borrowed a car from one of my car dealer friends. And it was a Park Avenue Ultra.

[George]

Just.

[Gordon]

It was the biggest grandpa car you've ever seen it. And I freaking loved that.

[Craig]

Crushed velvet seats.

[Gordon]

This one had the leather seats in it. This is after they had moved. That is my favorite era of the park avenues. And the Sabers is when you had that huge pillow top, cloth, whatever, that velour. Yes, that is awesome. But those are a little bit too old for me. I want something with airbags and things like that. So, Black Friday sale. I noticed that they had this 1995 Buick Lesaber at a car dealership. It was one of their Friday doorbuster sales for Black Friday.

[George]

Door Buster.

[Gordon]

Door buster, yeah. And. And so I was going to go, you know how much it was listed for? It probably had maybe 110,000 miles on it.

[George]

I don't know, is it to the point of being classic where it's worth.

[Gordon]

Like 20,000 or $10,995? Of course, the whole time I'm thinking, like, how is this gonna go over at home? When I pull up in this vehicle.

[George]

It backfires as you're pulling in, fires.

[Gordon]

Shoots the tailpipe through the front window of the house. So I wait. It's, you know, the dealership opens and it's a door buster sale. So I know I got to get there pretty early. So I head to the dealership and I think they opened at 9. I'm still having coffee and everything. So I probably got there around 10. And I'm thinking, I'm just gonna buy this thing. I mean, it's 995 bucks. Right. It's my Christmas gift to myself. So I show up there and I asked about it and they said dude, that thing's been gone for hours. Said that a guy showed up at 4:30 in the morning.

[Craig]

Wow. Really?

[Gordon]

Yeah. And then there was a line for that car.

[George]

Wow.

[Gordon]

I know. So the one time that I decide, okay, I am going to go for a Black Friday sale and actually buy something. I was way too late. So apparently people still do line up for things on Black Friday.

[George]

30 year old car.

[Gordon]

Yep.

[George]

Wow.

[Gordon]

So the reason I'm almost glad you.

[George]

Didn'T get it because where are you going to keep it then? It's going to be. You're going to spend money on it.

[Gordon]

I know. Yes.

[Craig]

You're like a very poor man's Jay Leno.

[Gordon]

Yes.

[Craig]

You have. You have a kind of a spare car collection, but you like to collect.

[Gordon]

An extremely spare car collection of uncollectible cars.

[Craig]

Right.

[Gordon]

That's my motto. I collect the uncollectible.

[George]

But.

[Gordon]

But I want to get that car because I want to do a road trip during my Christmas vacation. Maybe drive out to the west. You could go with me, George. 95 Buick in an old Buick with that great 3800v6 that they made for.

[George]

Many years overheat in Arizona.

[Gordon]

It's going to be great. I'm going to get it in tip top shape. It's going to live forever as well as me. I'm gonna live forever as well. So it's gonna be awesome.

[George]

Okay.

[Gordon]

Well I'm in a big old American sedan which there are not hardly any anymore. I'm trying to think of what American company even makes a sedan.

[Craig]

Why don't you drive that trip in the old Buick that you currently own. That's an old American sedan.

[Gordon]

That one ain't gonna make it. I let that one set up too.

[George]

Long cracked block on it or something.

[Gordon]

No, it's got, you know, you let it set up and those got carburetors so those will get all gummed and just. And it's got zero safety features in that thing.

[Craig]

Right. Doesn't even have seat belts.

[Gordon]

I'm trying to think that may be the first year that they had breakaway steering columns. Before that because of mine's in 1974. My bolt old Buick Electra 225. And before that year if you got head on collision, the steering wheel was a jousting lance that went right through you.

[George]

Oh my gosh.

[Craig]

Why don't you get rid of that then since you're never going to drive it.

[Gordon]

That's the plan. I'm going to list that on bringatrailer.com and somebody can. That's just a place where people sell old cars.

[George]

Okay.

[Gordon]

But you can get some great cars.

[George]

On that because you can't drive it away.

[Gordon]

You can't drive it. That's why they call it bring a trailer. Yeah.

[Craig]

Why don't you trade it for a 95 LeSabre?

[Gordon]

Yes. Yeah, now you're talking.

[George]

No, I think that's good. That something you want to do and you're going to act on it. That goes back to.

[Gordon]

Well, I was going to act on it, but I didn't line up at 4:00am for it.

[George]

Yeah, but you're still motivated to look for another one.

[Gordon]

Here's the problem with those cars, these old Buicks is the, the words out on them and people know that they had. That had one of the best engines that GM ever made as far as reliability and longevity. But you only have two kinds of old Buick Lesabers in Buick Park Avenues. And there were several others. You know, the Regal had that in there. And they're either grandpa cars, which is what you want, right. You want the old grandpa that had the thing because he always took it to the dealership and always got the work done on it.

[Craig]

Didn't drive it hard, didn't drive it.

[Gordon]

Very much at all and didn't drive it hard. And then you have the people that came in and bought them afterwards and tricked them out so much that they're just destroyed. So there really is kind of not a lot in between. And it's harder and harder to find a car that was made, you know, in 2005 that is coming straight from Grandpa because Grandpa checked out a while ago and that thing's been sold.

[George]

So once you get one with some.

[Gordon]

Hydraulics on it, I may do that. I don't. I've never understood that. I mean, it looks really cool, I guess, when you bounce the thing, but have you seen the dudes who build up the hydraulic cars and then they basically have contests where they all show up and they just bounce them until they destroy and that like they don't mind their car being destroyed afterwards because that's part of the experience. You build it to self destruct when you're bouncing it and fenders flying off and man kind of craziness.

[Craig]

It's so great if you got one of those and you pulled up to a red light and person in the car next to you is like, wow, that's Gordo. I listened to him. And then you just stare at him and start going up and down. I think, what a weirdo. I didn't know he was into this.

[Gordon]

So that's. That's my Black Friday story for you. Trying to get a Buick. So if. If a listener has an grandpa email that has a Buick Park Avenue, particularly the Ultra, which was supercharged. Oh, yeah, okay, supercharged. But that was my greatest. You know what. What? Cowboy training camp. That was when I borrowed that Park Avenue Ultra and drove it out there. The thing one where George went fishing with the kids and they thought that he was a slow. They did not.

[George]

They didn't. You guys made that up.

[Gordon]

You had a Mickey Mouse rod.

[Craig]

We came back from dinner and the apartment complex we were staying in Wichita Falls had a little pond behind it, very spare pond. And George had been telling us he's going to go fishing.

[Gordon]

The whole time he'd been threatening us that he was going to go fishing.

[Craig]

So we pull up in the parking lot and we look out there and there are three people fishing. Big George with like a hat on that didn't quite fit him and a.

[Gordon]

Little miniature T shirt on him, rotting.

[George]

Up over his belly.

[Craig]

Miniature fishing pole and 28 year old.

[George]

It looked so it was better than just sitting around the apartment talking about whatever ridiculous topic you guys were talking about. And I made friends. There were kids in the neighborhood and we fished together. I didn't creep them out either.

[Gordon]

Out by him. Especially when you told them to keep telling you about the rabbits. You want to hear about the rabbits again?

[Craig]

They 100% thought that you rode your adult tricycle to the pond either.

[George]

They look at me as a great fishing leader.

[Gordon]

What?

[George]

Fishing leader out of there. They thought that was awesome.

[Gordon]

You didn't catch a damn thing out.

[George]

Of that pond that I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be.

[Gordon]

Like a. I want that on a T shirt. It wasn't the pond I thought it was going to be.

[George]

Well, you know, like a golf course pond that just loaded with big bass. I did catch several bass.

[Gordon]

Wait, they stop.

[George]

Delicious bass.

[Gordon]

Golf. Golf course ponds are stocked.

[George]

Some of them are. That's some of the best fishing I've ever done. Some golf courses.

[Gordon]

I don't know about that.

[Craig]

There's a tiny golf course south of Dallas, Fort Worth, where they stock the pond. And Deion Sanders was famous for going down there.

[George]

Yeah.

[Craig]

And fishing. Star Hollow. Yeah. He was famous for going down there and fishing.

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

I wonder if Dion still fishes or whether the because didn't he lose a. He didn't lose a foot.

[George]

Issues. Some toes and. Yeah, he has.

[Craig]

He's battling cancer. Right.

[George]

He got through that. But he has these blood clot problems.

[Gordon]

I think, cropping up.

[Craig]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

Don't you hate to see that? Especially from a. An athlete like him? Like one of the greatest specimens of a human ever.

[Craig]

Yes. Hate it. It's horrible.

[Gordon]

Remember when he showed us his leg that looked like it had a shark.

[George]

Bite out of it because he got that infection.

[Gordon]

Oh, is that what it was? I. I just assumed it was a shark bite because I liked fishing so much?

[George]

I don't think so.

[Craig]

That shows the danger of a surgery. It was a fairly routine surgery on his toe.

[George]

Right.

[Craig]

But he had that infection.

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[Gordon]

Okay. Speaking of Christmas, since we're going into Christmas, favorite Christmas movie.

[George]

I think it's become Elf. It used to be Home Alone first Home Alone.

[Gordon]

I bet you Craig has never seen either of those.

[Craig]

I've seen both of them.

[Gordon]

Really?

[Craig]

Yeah. I like them both. My favorite is the second generation of A Christmas Carol. Not the very first one made in 1929 or something. It was the one made in 39, roughly, I think, with Alistair Sim.

[Gordon]

Oh, my gosh. It's a talkie, isn't it?

[Craig]

It's a talkie. It's black and white. It's kind of short, but I love it. I watch it every year, so I.

[Gordon]

Watched the greatest Christmas movie of all time.

[George]

Here comes a vast overrating Die Hard. Oh, okay.

[Craig]

It does that.

[George]

Eternal.

[Gordon]

Absolutely. Still holds up.

[George]

It does.

[Craig]

It's great.

[Gordon]

It's so fantastic.

[Craig]

And it is a Christmas movie, right?

[Gordon]

Yeah, that's the big Stupid debate that people have culturally is, is it a Christmas movie or not?

[George]

I don't care whether Christmas party at the big office.

[Gordon]

Bruce Willis says that it's not because it came out in July and it was a summer blockbuster, but it's set at Christmas time, so. And it's become a tradition for people to watch it during the holiday season.

[Craig]

Why wouldn't they release that at Christmas time?

[Gordon]

I don't know.

[Craig]

Because that's a big movie release time as well.

[Gordon]

Yeah, I don't know. They wanted it to be a summer blockbuster, I guess. But it is so good and it's so unlike movies that are made now. And I hope that I. I'm not good old days syndrome in this because I read a bunch of reputable people talking about. No, no. It actually is a very like a fantastic movie. It's not just you thinking, oh, back in my day things were better. But there are things that I like about it because it's not like present day movies. Number one is you have not everything shake cam.

[Craig]

Right.

[Gordon]

You know, now today action movies, they edit them so fast and shaky like their ideas to make you be able to not even follow the action.

[Craig]

Yes. I hate that you're supposed to.

[Gordon]

It's like almost the modern films give you the feeling of action without ever showing much action, right? Yeah, just by camera movements and confusion. But it's so well shot. And also it's a non second screen kind of movie. We've talked about this before, about how now movie makers make movies that you don't have to watch because most people can't watch movies anymore because they like to look at their phone at the same time and they have the movie on in the background and you have to make it to where you can follow the movie without watching it, which is.

[George]

My gosh, are you serious?

[Gordon]

I know, I hate that movies are that way. But they have to respond to the way people are. And in Die Hard so much of things, something is just shown briefly that if you miss that scene then you don't see that that is tied in with something that's going to happen later. You know, you got to actually you're getting visual information as well as just auditory information.

[George]

He takes his shoes off. That's very important to.

[Gordon]

I noticed this this time as I watched it more carefully that almost everything that was introduced played some part in the story.

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

Like there wasn't a lot of loose ends that were there. You know, they were a lot of Chekhov's guns in the movie. You know, something was if they show the gun in the first act, it was gonna have to go off in the second act.

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

Whether it's just the mention of the watch that she gets, whether it's him, the guy telling me about the shoe trick, and then he's the whole movie without the shoes. That's great.

[George]

Son of a bitch.

[Gordon]

I know. And the other thing that I love, which they don't seem to get these days, is a hero is a guy who's really fallible, who's up against it, and you see his humanity. I don't want the superhero who all you ever feel from him is plot armor.

[Craig]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

I like the guy, like Bruce Willis, that, like, when he's fighting with Carl, he's just yelling at him, calling him an mfer, like. Like, that's the way people fight in the street.

[George]

Right?

[Gordon]

You know?

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

Is this really frantic kind of thing. Not this cinematic kind of fighting. It's a real grapple and a real, you know, two dudes battling at a bar.

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

That all just made it so fantastic. And Bruce Willis is so good and so likable in it and so relatably human in it.

[George]

The newscaster almost ruins that movie.

[Gordon]

Yeah. That was a little over the top. Which one you talk about? The reporter. The actual news.

[George]

Yeah, the reporter. Yeah. Who?

[Gordon]

I thought he was pretty good.

[George]

It's just so ridiculous, though.

[Craig]

Die hard gets 94% on the tomato meter.

[Gordon]

Yeah.

[Craig]

It's great for both critics and the audience.

[Gordon]

It's so good. It's so good. And the crazy thing about it, Alan Rickman, that was his very first movie.

[Craig]

Wow.

[Gordon]

He was a stage actor and he agreed to do this movie. And he makes one of the most iconic villain characters of all time with Hans Gruber.

[George]

God, he was so good. Yeah.

[Craig]

Did you guys take part in the greatest Thanksgiving movie to watch? Planes, Trains and Automobiles?

[George]

I did. I thought about you. I watched it when I was putting those cots together. And to me, it holds up, I think, because I'm an old guy. But my kids love that movie, too. They think it's hilarious.

[Craig]

It has become the Thanksgiving movie. Like, there are a lot of Christmas movies, but that's the Thanksgiving movie. Right.

[Gordon]

You know what I call that movie?

[George]

Oh, no.

[Gordon]

A shit movie.

[Craig]

That is.

[Gordon]

No offense by it. I don't mean that. I don't mean that as a negative.

[Craig]

It. Stop it. That's in my top five comedies of all time list.

[Gordon]

No, it's a great movie.

[George]

When John Candy's driving with the lit cigarette mess around playing the piano on the dash, and it's all crossed up. Oh, my gosh.

[Craig]

It still goes out of control. Car spins around and then. And Steve sleeps through it all and then wakes up. What? What happened? Oh, we just almost hit a deer.

[Gordon]

That's all. That's all.

[Craig]

Are you okay?

[George]

Yes, I'm fine. To the devil, when he tries to go in between the two trucks, man, it's. That will always be funny to me.

[Craig]

Don't big time it.

[George]

Don't big time it. You're just mad that you weren't in the movie, and it's a great movie.

[Gordon]

Okay, but don't you consider Die Hard a better action movie than Plane strains and automobiles?

[George]

It's a different movie.

[Craig]

And George is right. You're Matt. You've always been mad that you weren't in that movie.

[George]

Yes.

[Craig]

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Stupid.

[Gordon]

That's stupid. I don't even know if that's in the top five of John Hughes movies.

[Craig]

Oh, please.

[Gordon]

Dude, you put that above Breakfast club.

[Craig]

Yes, yes.

[George]

100. Absolutely.

[Craig]

It's number one.

[Gordon]

You put it above Pretty in Pink.

[Craig]

Yes.

[Gordon]

Ferris Bueller's.

[Craig]

That's great.

[George]

That's closer.

[Craig]

Yeah, I. That's. That's a good comparison.

[George]

But as a holiday movie, which it is. It's just. Yeah, it's the best.

[Gordon]

You know, it. It suffered from what I think a lot of movies suffered from during that period of time. Not enough. Molly Ringwald. That's the big knock against planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

[George]

Boy, the rental car scene, again, it's been rehearsed. You know, it's been talked about for 30 years.

[Gordon]

Okay, 30 years old. Now, let's hear you recite the you can do it here podcast.

[George]

I can do it. It's not. It's not Caddyshack, so I can't hit it word for word.

[Craig]

When they show Steve walking back from the vacant rental car spot and how he has to slide down that snowy hill, walk across a Runway.

[George]

Runway.

[Craig]

Because this rental car wasn't there. And then how mad he is at the counter, and she tells him to hold just a minute because she's on the phone. Gobble, gobble, gobble. She's having this cute conversation. He's so mad.

[George]

Oh, man.

[Craig]

He's only trying to rile us up by.

[George]

Watch. Wiping that stupid.

[Gordon]

Stupid what?

[George]

Smile. Stupid.

[Gordon]

Did he say something before that?

[George]

He may have. I can't remember. Like I said, I couldn't do it word for word.

[Gordon]

All right, now, this is a little bit sappy, but I just want to take this moment to tell you Guys, how thankful I am for each of you.

[George]

Oh, that's really.

[Gordon]

I thought about you over the holidays and I was so thankful to think that I found these two guys. That we have been doing this for as long as we've been doing it and how well we've gotten along and how many laughs we still have. That's. So I was thankful for it and I thought I would thank you. Not personally, but on the podcast.

[George]

Okay.

[Gordon]

Because George still refuses to give me his number, so I can't text him.

[Craig]

You know what? That's very sweet of you. And I actually thought of you guys too, on Thanksgiving. And I had that same thought. How thankful I was to have the two of you in my life. And I said, you should text them and tell them that here on Thanksgiving. And of course, I never did. Yeah, yeah.

[George]

It's just I said I'm gonna wait and tell you guys on the podcast. So I too would like to.

[Gordon]

Oh, you're getting credit too?

[George]

Yes. Okay, good. That I am very thankful.

[Gordon]

And even though you guys are like my bestest friends of all time, you didn't notice something about me today that's very different.

[Craig]

I noticed you had falsies, but I've seen you wear those before.

[Gordon]

Not true.

[George]

I don't know what's up with you.

[Gordon]

What do you know what's different?

[George]

He's wearing sweats or action pants?

[Gordon]

Oh, yeah, these are sweatpants, brother.

[George]

Wow. Old school.

[Gordon]

Right out of the Rocky Balbano. Rocky Valvano.

[Craig]

Okay.

[George]

That is the most old man look in the history.

[Gordon]

But wait, isn't it horrible?

[Craig]

But wait a minute. Are they new sweatpants or are they old?

[Gordon]

I think these are new sweatpants. I found them in my closet and I put them on. I was like, damn, these are comfortable. And so I'm thinking about just going full give up, man. So now you're you. Both of you gentlemen are looking at a guy who's wearing is amazing sweatpants with dress shoes and who wants to own a Buick Park Avenue.

[George]

So in a typewriter T shirt.

[Gordon]

Wow.

[George]

You have given up.

[Gordon]

Yes, thank you. Thank you for noticing that.

[Craig]

That is amazing.

[George]

We always used to ask that when does a guy start giving up when he dresses. And well, for Gordon, it's. What are you, 81?

[Gordon]

81 now. And I guess women have switched away from the sweatpants. Those used to be the give up pants that women would wear, but I think now it's gone to that yoga yoga pants.

[Craig]

They all wear that.

[George]

It's so funny you did that because I wore sweats over the Thanksgiving break.

[Gordon]

And gosh, I just love it.

[George]

So comfy, especially now that the temperatures are getting colder.

[Gordon]

It makes you feel like God's giving your legs a hug.

[George]

And as I was putting on my pair of jeans to go to work, I said, no, I can't put on that pair of sweats because they will just kill me if I wear them.

[Gordon]

And then I show up, and then you show up.

[George]

We don't say a thing.

[Gordon]

That's right.

[George]

And didn't notice.

[Gordon]

Yeah. These are my dress sweatpants.

[George]

Sweatpants with dress shoes, though.

[Gordon]

Don't worry about that part of it.

[Craig]

So you feel like you're gonna go with these, grandpa a lot from here on out?

[Gordon]

I think so.

[Craig]

Okay.

[Gordon]

Yeah.

[Craig]

All right.

[Gordon]

And I'm investigating buying some shoes that are velcroed that you, you know, you fasten with Velcro.

[George]

Yeah.

[Gordon]

And they're orthopedic.

[George]

Do we have, in the building where we work, do we have a dress code of no sweats?

[Craig]

I don't think so.

[Gordon]

No. Just no sandals.

[George]

Yeah. That gets violated the summertime. Yeah.

[Craig]

I finally said, do you also have very long, dark dress socks on with garters? Dark socks.

[Gordon]

You do.

[George]

You do.

[Gordon]

I look great.

[George]

I'm gonna start calling you Grandpa Gordo.

[Gordon]

All the ladies love me. All the ladies love me. All right, we're done for this episode. Happy Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving.

[Craig]

Belated Thanksgiving.

[Gordon]

It's belated. We're all very thankful, of course, and thanks to Peter Welton, our producer on this episode of the Musers of the podcast. Once again, thank you for listening to this episode and the reminder. All our former episodes, they're still out there. They're not really former episodes. I guess they still are episodes.

[Craig]

Right?

[George]

Get caught up.

[Gordon]

Yeah, get caught up on the Musers of the podcast.

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[George]

Stop smelling me.

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[George]

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[George]

We've got a lot to talk about.

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