Happy Holidays! For some of us, November 1st is the start of the Christmas season. For others, it starts the day after thanksgiving. For even others, it should never start. One of the latter is Ebenezer Scrooge (AKA Dan's character. The one he has been playing for years. Tune in to The supreme resort to learn about the real Dan). Will Dan enjoy this holiday classic? Does Jimmy blindly gush over anything? Does Audrey do a surprisingly good Owen Wilson impression? The answers to all these questions should be obvious, but you'll have to tune in to find out.
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[00:00:30] set a Christmas tree display on fire in Midtown overnight.
[00:00:33] It happened right outside Fox News Channel headquarters.
[00:00:36] Police now do have a man in custody.
[00:00:38] CBS News, Jenna DeAngelis is there live with more on this story this morning. Jenna?
[00:00:42] Chris and Cindy, it was quite the scene here at the corner of 48th Street and 6th Avenue.
[00:00:46] The beautiful tree, as you can see, is now left charred.
[00:00:50] And the NYPD is still on scene this morning.
[00:00:53] I want to show you a video of that artificial Christmas tree engulfed in flames
[00:00:57] outside the News Corporation building, which is home to Fox News,
[00:01:01] the Wall Street Journal and New York Post.
[00:01:03] Police say around midnight, Fox News security saw a 49-year-old man climbing the tree,
[00:01:08] which was decorated in ornaments and lights for the holidays.
[00:01:10] When officers arrived, the man was allegedly running from the scene
[00:01:14] and police took him into custody.
[00:01:16] We're told he acted alone.
[00:01:17] Investigators say it's not yet clear if an accelerant was used to start the fire.
[00:01:21] The FDNY put out the flames and nobody was hurt.
[00:01:25] Here's a good look at what the tree looked like before the fire.
[00:01:28] This is a photo that was taken.
[00:01:30] And I want to bring you back out live here so you can see again what the tree looks like now.
[00:01:34] Now, the circumstances around the fire still remain under investigation,
[00:01:37] but we're told the man appears to be emotionally disturbed.
[00:01:41] Police have not yet said if he will face charges.
[00:01:44] We're live in Midtown this morning.
[00:01:45] Jenna DeAngelis, CBS 2 News.
[00:01:48] Jenna, thank you.
[00:01:50] From the ashes of last year's artificial Christmas tree,
[00:01:56] it wasn't such a miracle on 48th Street.
[00:01:59] It's scraping the vault.
[00:02:03] Cha-ching!
[00:02:04] Wait, there's more.
[00:02:06] There we go.
[00:02:08] Hey, this is a podcast about straight-to-video Disney sequels,
[00:02:13] and every year, or maybe every time we record it seems lately,
[00:02:18] we have a dealer's choice.
[00:02:21] It's Christmas time.
[00:02:23] Ho, ho, ho.
[00:02:23] Move over, fat boy.
[00:02:25] Wait.
[00:02:26] It's Thanksgiving.
[00:02:28] And there it is.
[00:02:30] Okay.
[00:02:30] So this is dealer's choice season,
[00:02:33] and because Christmas is my favorite time of year,
[00:02:36] we are watching a Christmas movie.
[00:02:40] It was straight-to-television.
[00:02:43] Not quite straight-to-video,
[00:02:44] but straight-to-video adjacent.
[00:02:47] I'm here joined by Dan.
[00:02:50] Hi.
[00:02:51] I think everything's great.
[00:02:55] I've been playing a character this past few years.
[00:02:58] That's right.
[00:02:59] I love the Beatles,
[00:03:00] and I'm really excited about the future of this country.
[00:03:04] And he hates David Bowie.
[00:03:05] And Audrey.
[00:03:07] Hi, Audrey.
[00:03:08] Hi.
[00:03:11] Audrey has a broken eye,
[00:03:13] a cough,
[00:03:15] chest congestion.
[00:03:16] Yep.
[00:03:17] She was a haunted nun.
[00:03:19] Uh-huh.
[00:03:21] I'm barely...
[00:03:21] They're all the things you've missed.
[00:03:23] Barely living.
[00:03:24] But we're here.
[00:03:26] Yay.
[00:03:27] And, yeah.
[00:03:27] Well,
[00:03:28] I'm doing fantastic,
[00:03:30] and I don't know how anyone feels otherwise.
[00:03:35] True.
[00:03:35] True.
[00:03:36] Hi.
[00:03:37] So,
[00:03:37] it's Mickey's Christmas Carol,
[00:03:39] is what we're talking about today,
[00:03:41] as you saw in the show title.
[00:03:44] So,
[00:03:44] it's not a spoiler.
[00:03:47] Yeah.
[00:03:48] So,
[00:03:49] I don't know how to ask any questions.
[00:03:51] Here's what I'm going to start with.
[00:03:53] I'm going to start with this.
[00:03:54] You start with what you want to know,
[00:03:56] and then you turn that into the form of a question.
[00:03:59] Or...
[00:04:00] And you lift your voice at the end,
[00:04:01] so people know that you're asking a question.
[00:04:03] I see.
[00:04:04] Okay.
[00:04:04] Let me try it.
[00:04:05] Or you pick an answer that's incorrect,
[00:04:06] and you just say it,
[00:04:07] and wait for someone to correct you.
[00:04:10] There you go.
[00:04:11] Okay.
[00:04:12] You can try that.
[00:04:13] Well,
[00:04:14] here's what I'm going to do.
[00:04:17] I've seen...
[00:04:18] I gave...
[00:04:18] Now,
[00:04:18] I gave Dan and Audrey several choices.
[00:04:20] It's my choice.
[00:04:22] Yep.
[00:04:23] I should have thought that through a little bit better,
[00:04:25] I think.
[00:04:25] You should.
[00:04:26] I gave several choices.
[00:04:29] Obviously,
[00:04:30] Mickey's Christmas Carol was one of them.
[00:04:32] Mm-hmm.
[00:04:34] 1937,
[00:04:34] like OG,
[00:04:36] Owen,
[00:04:37] something or other.
[00:04:38] Wilson.
[00:04:38] Reginald Owen,
[00:04:39] who,
[00:04:40] for those of you who are paying attention at home...
[00:04:42] Reginald...
[00:04:43] No.
[00:04:43] Not Owen.
[00:04:47] I'm Santa.
[00:04:48] Wow.
[00:04:50] Wow.
[00:04:50] 1937, guys.
[00:04:52] Ka-chow.
[00:04:52] Reginald Owen was Admiral Boom
[00:04:54] from Mary Poppins.
[00:04:58] He played Scrooge in 1937.
[00:05:01] Oh, sorry.
[00:05:02] Humbug.
[00:05:03] Ka-chow.
[00:05:07] Owen,
[00:05:08] what is his name?
[00:05:08] Wilson.
[00:05:11] It's a ghost of my future.
[00:05:15] Wow.
[00:05:16] Wow.
[00:05:17] Ka-chow.
[00:05:18] Boo.
[00:05:19] Wow.
[00:05:23] Are we done?
[00:05:24] Not made.
[00:05:25] I mean, for now.
[00:05:26] Hold on.
[00:05:26] Here are the choices.
[00:05:27] Hold on.
[00:05:28] I'm going to read the choices to the listener.
[00:05:29] Just see if they made the right choice.
[00:05:31] Okay.
[00:05:32] Tis the season to be Smurfy.
[00:05:34] Mm-hmm.
[00:05:35] Oh, we should have gotten with that one.
[00:05:36] Yeah, you should have.
[00:05:37] Yeah.
[00:05:38] We should have chosen that one.
[00:05:38] It's not too late.
[00:05:39] It's only like 20 minutes long.
[00:05:40] If you want to just pause and start over.
[00:05:41] Uh-huh.
[00:05:43] Uh-huh.
[00:05:43] Okay.
[00:05:44] Tis the season to be Smurfy.
[00:05:45] Spoiler warning for the future.
[00:05:47] That will be what we watch next year.
[00:05:49] Okay.
[00:05:50] Because that's really what I wanted, but I wanted to be nice.
[00:05:52] So Mickey's Christmas Carol, option two.
[00:05:54] Grandma got run over by a reindeer.
[00:05:57] Yes.
[00:05:57] That is a real animated made for something.
[00:06:01] It's wonderful.
[00:06:02] Based on the song.
[00:06:03] Just based on the title, I feel like the animation for that one is bad.
[00:06:08] It's awful.
[00:06:09] Okay, yeah.
[00:06:09] It's so bad.
[00:06:10] I'm right.
[00:06:11] It's so bad.
[00:06:11] Everything about it is awful.
[00:06:13] But you know how they did like Rankin-Bass did Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which was
[00:06:17] a song, and they're like, hey, let's make a movie to try to fill in the gaps, right?
[00:06:21] Right.
[00:06:21] It's like the Rogue One.
[00:06:22] Beloved to Christmas treasure.
[00:06:24] Everyone should watch it.
[00:06:26] The Rogue One.
[00:06:26] It's the Rogue One of Christmas Carols.
[00:06:29] Let's fill in the blanks.
[00:06:30] And then, you know, it's frosty, you name it, et cetera, et cetera.
[00:06:34] So, Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer is a more modern trying to tell the story of what
[00:06:38] happened.
[00:06:40] It's awful.
[00:06:41] But it's one of those so bad it's good.
[00:06:44] Let me guess.
[00:06:44] Most of the movie is about how are we going to get Grandma outside by herself so that she
[00:06:54] gets run over by the reindeer.
[00:06:55] Dan, I don't want to spoil it because we're going to cover it at some point.
[00:06:59] But Grandma has very little to do with this movie.
[00:07:04] It's like a C plot in this thing.
[00:07:08] Oh, my God.
[00:07:09] That's bad.
[00:07:10] It's like Throw Mama from the Train.
[00:07:12] The whole thing isn't about actually throwing Mama from the Train.
[00:07:15] Exactly.
[00:07:16] Yeah.
[00:07:16] In fact, I think this might be loosely based.
[00:07:18] Anyway, it's mostly about like a fruitcake conglomerate and like a greedy cousin who's,
[00:07:27] I don't know, weirdly hot.
[00:07:29] I don't know.
[00:07:29] Anyway, the point is those are the choices for the future.
[00:07:32] We chose Mickey's Christmas Carol because Dan said he wanted to like something.
[00:07:37] Gosh.
[00:07:38] And I did like the movie.
[00:07:39] Oh.
[00:07:40] I did like the movie.
[00:07:41] Uh-huh.
[00:07:41] But I didn't like the things that it brought up.
[00:07:45] So I'm sure we're going to get to it.
[00:07:47] Oh, I think there's no choice.
[00:07:50] For the listener, this episode, for me, having seen Mickey's Christmas Carol, I don't know,
[00:07:56] a hundred times.
[00:07:57] I've seen it so many times.
[00:07:59] And by the way, the other Christmas carols that were options were the Reginald Owen, not
[00:08:03] Owen Wilson.
[00:08:04] Good job.
[00:08:06] Wow.
[00:08:06] I know.
[00:08:07] Admiral Boom from Mary Poppins, Reginald Owen.
[00:08:11] And the-
[00:08:12] Hey, Mary Poppins.
[00:08:15] Oh, wow.
[00:08:15] It's like you floated down here with an umbrella.
[00:08:18] How'd you do that?
[00:08:19] Look at all those nails flying away.
[00:08:22] Wow.
[00:08:23] Wow.
[00:08:24] A spoonful of sugar.
[00:08:25] Wow.
[00:08:26] I never would have thought.
[00:08:27] Ka-chow.
[00:08:30] The other choice was Robert Zemeckis' masterpiece, Motion Capture OG Christmas Carol, starring
[00:08:39] Jim Carrey.
[00:08:41] Oh, wait.
[00:08:41] So really, there were only two pathways down which we don't talk about the subject matter.
[00:08:48] It's been a while since I've seen Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, so it's very possible.
[00:08:54] They might have had MAGA hats on.
[00:08:56] I don't know.
[00:08:57] It's very possible.
[00:09:01] Anyway, so what I was excited about, because I'm so close to the Christmas Carol story,
[00:09:07] I watch multiple versions of it every year.
[00:09:10] I love the story.
[00:09:11] I love the message.
[00:09:12] I love the season, spirit of the season.
[00:09:15] I just totally overlooked the movie and its content because I know it so well.
[00:09:20] I know it by heart.
[00:09:21] Mm-hmm.
[00:09:22] So for me, what I was interested in finding out, which is what really ultimately all I want
[00:09:27] to talk about in this episode is if you've seen it, there are so many characters, secondary,
[00:09:35] tertiary, background characters that are all from another Disney project.
[00:09:40] So think of it like Muppets Christmas Carol, where there are characters all over the place
[00:09:45] that are from other Disney projects.
[00:09:47] Well, and they're all from kind of the weird ones that we forget about.
[00:09:52] Yeah.
[00:09:52] Or not.
[00:09:53] A lot of them are.
[00:09:54] Like, Wind in the Willows, Robin Hood, Mickey and the Giant Peach, or whatever the hell it's
[00:10:00] called.
[00:10:01] That's right.
[00:10:01] Beast Talk.
[00:10:02] Well, he's...
[00:10:03] Yeah, exactly.
[00:10:04] So the point is that these are all just kind of like, you know, sub-characters.
[00:10:08] And so most of what I want to talk about are who these people are, people, who these characters
[00:10:13] are, what they're from, and who they played.
[00:10:16] Right.
[00:10:16] And the plot itself, it's like, I mean, with commercials, it's like 15 minutes.
[00:10:20] It's very short.
[00:10:21] And I want to talk about how Scrooge McDuck, much like John Kramer in the Saw series, is a
[00:10:29] misunderstood libertarian hero.
[00:10:31] Okay.
[00:10:32] Okay.
[00:10:33] Okay.
[00:10:34] All right.
[00:10:35] Audrey, what do you want to talk about?
[00:10:40] I don't know.
[00:10:41] I guess I just want to come along for the ride and...
[00:10:46] Wow.
[00:10:46] Wow.
[00:10:47] Wow.
[00:10:48] I can't do it.
[00:10:49] I really had a good time watching this movie.
[00:10:51] It was very sweet, and it made me feel excited for the holidays.
[00:10:59] Yay.
[00:11:00] And the spirit of good cheer.
[00:11:03] Indeed.
[00:11:04] I also felt some of those things.
[00:11:06] But I also, just to remind the listener, I have Christmas issues that we're all aware
[00:11:13] of.
[00:11:13] I don't blame Christmas.
[00:11:14] I blame circumstances.
[00:11:16] And I didn't, just to put it out there, I did enjoy the movie.
[00:11:21] It's a show, TV show.
[00:11:23] I did enjoy the references.
[00:11:27] But as you all know, I've been playing the part of a left-wing weirdo for the past several
[00:11:32] years on this podcast.
[00:11:36] It's just a character.
[00:11:37] It's just a character.
[00:11:40] And I feel like I might be just, you know, like method acting.
[00:11:45] I might still have a little bit of that in me, even though I'm right now.
[00:11:49] Now I feel like it's safe for me to finally drop that character.
[00:11:53] You see what I'm saying?
[00:11:55] I do.
[00:11:55] Yeah.
[00:11:56] Okay.
[00:11:56] Okay.
[00:11:57] Well, buckle up.
[00:11:59] So for you two, I think it's kind of silly to ask what you thought it was going to be about
[00:12:05] on account of probably you'd both seen it.
[00:12:07] You guys both know the Christmas Carol story.
[00:12:09] Right.
[00:12:10] I know the Christmas Carol story.
[00:12:11] How about this?
[00:12:12] What's your favorite version of the Christmas Carol, if it's not this one?
[00:12:16] I'm afraid to say it.
[00:12:18] Okay.
[00:12:18] Because we'll have five minutes of impressions.
[00:12:19] But it's the one with Reginald Owen.
[00:12:22] Wow.
[00:12:23] From 1937.
[00:12:25] We're going to have that same five minutes of impressions spread throughout this episode,
[00:12:29] I think.
[00:12:29] That's fair.
[00:12:30] But yeah, so it's 100 years old, right?
[00:12:33] It's a very old movie.
[00:12:35] It's black and white that they moved into color.
[00:12:38] It's a pretty accurate.
[00:12:39] A hundred year old movie?
[00:12:42] Well, it's 1937, so not quite.
[00:12:44] Let's call it 90.
[00:12:45] That's amazing.
[00:12:46] It's old.
[00:12:46] I love that.
[00:12:47] Old movies are so special.
[00:12:49] Yeah.
[00:12:50] And you watch it and acting is awful and whatever.
[00:12:52] But there's special effects to the effect that you can do special effects, matte paintings
[00:12:58] and they're flying.
[00:13:02] There's flying in it.
[00:13:03] Amazing.
[00:13:04] When the Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge on a journey.
[00:13:06] So there's special effects as well as they could be for 90 years ago.
[00:13:12] So that's my favorite.
[00:13:14] And forgive me, listener.
[00:13:16] Forgive me, Audrey and Dan.
[00:13:17] The best version is Robert Zemeckis' version.
[00:13:22] Really?
[00:13:24] At its core, this is a ghost story.
[00:13:27] Mm-hmm.
[00:13:28] And having read the book, the most accurate depiction on film is the one that Robert Zemeckis
[00:13:36] did.
[00:13:36] I ain't afraid of no ghosts.
[00:13:39] Is that the...
[00:13:40] Was it Jim Carrey was in that?
[00:13:42] Jim Carrey.
[00:13:42] Or was that...
[00:13:42] Okay.
[00:13:42] Okay.
[00:13:43] Yeah.
[00:13:43] It was his clumps, if you will, because he played everything.
[00:13:48] Yeah.
[00:13:49] I find those movies that Robert Zemeckis has been doing interesting in theory.
[00:13:56] I just really don't like the animation style of these.
[00:13:59] No, it's awful.
[00:13:59] I'm not saying it's the best.
[00:14:01] I'm just saying it's...
[00:14:02] No, yeah.
[00:14:03] No, I get what you're saying.
[00:14:05] Not my favorite.
[00:14:06] It is creepy.
[00:14:07] They still hadn't figured out the uncanny valley at all, the whole Polar Express thing.
[00:14:12] Robert Zemeckis is a really interesting storyteller, filmmaker.
[00:14:15] This movie here that's coming out is out.
[00:14:19] Are you familiar with it?
[00:14:20] No.
[00:14:21] So in short, there is a camera set up.
[00:14:26] Oh, I have heard about it.
[00:14:28] Yeah.
[00:14:28] Yeah.
[00:14:28] So the camera never moves, Audrey.
[00:14:31] It is one shot.
[00:14:32] The entire movie is one shot from one location, like from Dawn of Time, Metazoic, whatever era,
[00:14:40] dinosaurs roaming, and the evolution of that one spot on the earth.
[00:14:46] From building medieval times to not the dinner show.
[00:14:53] Oh, I'm not interested anymore.
[00:14:55] So just kind of all the way up through today.
[00:14:58] I don't know anything else about it other than it's just from one vantage point, one camera angle.
[00:15:03] Cool.
[00:15:04] And then they build a house around it and what happens.
[00:15:06] And I don't know.
[00:15:08] It's Robin Wright and Tom Hanks.
[00:15:10] So, you know, how can you go wrong?
[00:15:13] Well, I mean, yeah.
[00:15:15] Tom Hanks.
[00:15:16] Interesting filmmaker.
[00:15:17] Are you familiar with Chet Hanks?
[00:15:19] The Sun?
[00:15:20] Y'all.
[00:15:20] Yeah.
[00:15:21] Yeah.
[00:15:22] Okay.
[00:15:22] Good.
[00:15:24] It does not look like this is getting very good reviews, unfortunately.
[00:15:28] Yeah.
[00:15:29] I don't know anything else about it other than what I just said.
[00:15:31] So I want to see it.
[00:15:32] I will see it.
[00:15:33] I'm going to see Wicked.
[00:15:34] I'm going to see Moana 2.
[00:15:38] I've heard good things.
[00:15:39] What about Am I Racist by Matt Walsh?
[00:15:43] It's the number one documentary in the world right now.
[00:15:46] Of course.
[00:15:47] I don't know.
[00:15:48] I don't know that I will.
[00:15:49] I wanted to see The Apprentice.
[00:15:52] Are you?
[00:15:52] Wait.
[00:15:53] Is that actually the number one?
[00:15:55] No, I just.
[00:15:56] No, that's their marketing.
[00:15:58] It's the number one documentary of the decade, I think, is their tagline on X, which I think
[00:16:06] is a large claim.
[00:16:09] There might be some caveats in there.
[00:16:11] There might be.
[00:16:13] I wanted to see The Apprentice.
[00:16:14] I live in Georgia.
[00:16:15] It was not in very many theaters.
[00:16:18] I saw Beetlejuice 2 the other night.
[00:16:20] That was pretty fun.
[00:16:21] Yeah.
[00:16:22] I had a good time watching it.
[00:16:23] I'm glad you didn't see it twice.
[00:16:24] Oh.
[00:16:25] It's fun.
[00:16:27] We didn't talk about it on the show.
[00:16:29] We haven't discussed it.
[00:16:30] I feel like we talked about it somewhere.
[00:16:32] My friends, Eric and Cian, both played Beetlejuice multiple times at the Haunted Trail, and they
[00:16:38] had not seen the movie.
[00:16:39] So it was kind of funny that they spent the whole season doing that and then did their
[00:16:43] homework afterwards.
[00:16:44] They had no subtext.
[00:16:46] Wow.
[00:16:47] Wow.
[00:16:47] Wow.
[00:16:48] Context.
[00:16:49] All right.
[00:16:49] Well, let's get into it.
[00:16:50] Let's get into it.
[00:16:51] All right.
[00:16:51] Speaking of context, we're going to get into some Charles Dickens.
[00:16:56] Yay.
[00:16:57] He was a Victorian era author born in 1812.
[00:17:01] Celebrated for his keen insights into social injustice, human resilience, and the struggles
[00:17:06] of ordinary people.
[00:17:07] Known for the works like A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, and Great Expectations, Dickens
[00:17:13] wrote during a time of stark economic inequality and rapid industrialization.
[00:17:18] And his novels often served as moral reflections on society's failures to care for its most
[00:17:23] vulnerable members.
[00:17:24] For a young age, Dickens experienced the hardships of poverty firsthand.
[00:17:28] His father's imprisonment in debtor's prison forced young Charles into a factory job.
[00:17:33] Oh, hold on.
[00:17:34] Ran out of music.
[00:17:36] Here's more.
[00:17:38] Factory job.
[00:17:39] Where he worked under grueling conditions.
[00:17:41] This experience left an indelible mark on him, inspiring a lifelong empathy for the working
[00:17:46] class and a profound disdain for the failures of institutions that left so many suffering
[00:17:51] in silence.
[00:17:52] In other words, he was a hippie.
[00:17:54] His writing often serialized to reach a broad audience as both entertainment and a vehicle
[00:18:00] for social critique, vividly portraying the plight of the poor and critiquing the era's
[00:18:05] unchecked capitalism, which he saw as an engine of alienation and despair.
[00:18:13] Christmas Carol, in particular, captures his ideal of transformation, an urgent reminder
[00:18:18] of generosity and compassion in a world fixated on profit and status.
[00:18:24] How we've evolved.
[00:18:25] Sounds super woke to me.
[00:18:30] So, let's start in debtor.
[00:18:31] The irony is that capitalism allowed him to write a book that then sold and then he made
[00:18:35] a profit off of and allowed him to live a life better than the one he grew up in.
[00:18:40] Did he though?
[00:18:42] Did he?
[00:18:43] I'm not even going to touch the capitalism.
[00:18:45] By the way, there's a movie about Charles Dickens.
[00:18:50] Wow.
[00:18:51] It's like the creator of Christmas or something like that.
[00:18:53] It was fine.
[00:18:54] Okay.
[00:18:54] So, this is going to be a very self-indulgent episode on my part.
[00:18:58] So, forgive me.
[00:18:59] Probably my part too.
[00:19:02] I'm not going to tell you my secret objective.
[00:19:03] But, okay.
[00:19:04] So, Mickey's Christmas Carol.
[00:19:06] This is for me.
[00:19:06] Again, listen if you will.
[00:19:09] It's a 1983 animated American Christmas fantasy featurette.
[00:19:13] 83.
[00:19:14] Wow.
[00:19:15] Yep.
[00:19:15] It was adapted of, obviously, Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol.
[00:19:18] It stars Scrooge McDuck.
[00:19:20] Now, listener, did you know?
[00:19:23] I didn't know that Scrooge McDuck was not created for this short film.
[00:19:30] Scrooge McDuck is a character.
[00:19:32] Let me guess.
[00:19:33] That was short.
[00:19:34] It was a short cartoon.
[00:19:41] That's all I have.
[00:19:42] Am I right about that?
[00:19:44] Yes.
[00:19:48] Occasionally, instead of an S, it's a dollar sign in front of Scrooge.
[00:19:52] It's like a rapper.
[00:19:53] He's a cartoon character created in 1947.
[00:19:57] Wow.
[00:19:58] Wow.
[00:19:58] He was in Disney Comics.
[00:20:01] He's, of course, from Duckburg.
[00:20:03] I knew that, kind of.
[00:20:05] I didn't remember it, but I did know that at some point.
[00:20:08] Yeah.
[00:20:08] So, Scrooge McDuck, he's playing Ebenezer Scrooge.
[00:20:11] I have to assume that Scrooge McDuck is loosely based on Ebenezer Scrooge.
[00:20:15] I think it's fair to assume.
[00:20:16] Because of 1947.
[00:20:18] Anyway, many other Disney characters, primarily from the Mickey Mouse universe.
[00:20:21] Jiminy Cricket, obviously from Pinocchio.
[00:20:23] Mr. Toad from The Adventures of the Kidavod and Mr. Toad.
[00:20:26] MMCU.
[00:20:27] Characters from Robin Hood.
[00:20:29] Yeah, I was just about to say, if he was originally in a comic book, then he is kind of part of the...
[00:20:37] Like Howard the Duck?
[00:20:38] Yeah, he's part of Marvel.
[00:20:39] Oh, because Disney owns Marvel.
[00:20:41] Right.
[00:20:41] Can you imagine?
[00:20:42] Do you think he'll be a young Avenger?
[00:20:44] He should be.
[00:20:45] I want to see...
[00:20:46] It was produced by...
[00:20:48] Go ahead, Howard.
[00:20:48] A Christmas Carol starring the Avengers.
[00:20:53] I don't want to see it, actually.
[00:20:55] I take that back, but it might be silly.
[00:20:57] Well, if you watch the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas special, there's homages.
[00:21:02] Oh, God.
[00:21:03] They made a Christmas special?
[00:21:04] They did.
[00:21:05] It's great.
[00:21:05] Didn't they learn anything from the Star Wars?
[00:21:07] Oh, God.
[00:21:08] They did.
[00:21:09] In fact, it was because of the Star Wars Christmas special that James Gunn made the Christmas special.
[00:21:15] It's great.
[00:21:17] And they abduct...
[00:21:18] It's the ghost of Christmas future.
[00:21:20] Obviously.
[00:21:22] Thanos is...
[00:21:23] No, Thanos is the ghost of Christmas future.
[00:21:27] Yeah.
[00:21:27] Oh.
[00:21:28] Okay.
[00:21:29] Yeah.
[00:21:29] Yeah.
[00:21:30] Yeah.
[00:21:30] Strange is the ghost of Christmas past.
[00:21:33] No, it needs to be someone more gentle.
[00:21:36] Because that's the theme.
[00:21:40] That's the pattern, right?
[00:21:41] Yeah.
[00:21:42] Yeah.
[00:21:42] Past is like a gentle figure.
[00:21:44] Mm-hmm.
[00:21:45] The present is a joyful figure or a jolly figure.
[00:21:49] The Hulk.
[00:21:50] And future is scary.
[00:21:53] Who's a joyful Avenger?
[00:21:58] Or they could...
[00:22:00] Ant-Man.
[00:22:00] Oh.
[00:22:03] Ant-Man is the ghost of Christmas present.
[00:22:08] Hawkeye.
[00:22:09] Hawkeye.
[00:22:10] He's pretty gentle.
[00:22:12] Anyway.
[00:22:13] This feature was produced by...
[00:22:14] Christmas present.
[00:22:15] Who's Christmas present?
[00:22:17] Ant-Man.
[00:22:18] The Hulk.
[00:22:18] I've already talked about that.
[00:22:19] The Hulk.
[00:22:20] The happiest of them all.
[00:22:21] Bruce Banner?
[00:22:22] Oh, the Smart Hulk.
[00:22:24] Smart Hulk.
[00:22:25] Smart Hulk.
[00:22:25] Yep.
[00:22:26] There you go.
[00:22:27] Okay.
[00:22:28] So this was on December 16th, 1983, with the reissue of The Rescuers.
[00:22:34] It was in front of The Rescuers, 1977.
[00:22:37] It was released there.
[00:22:39] I liked The Rescuers.
[00:22:41] Yeah.
[00:22:42] In America, it was on TV, on NBC, on December 10th, 1984.
[00:22:48] Listen to this.
[00:22:49] Makey's Christmas Carol was largely adapted from the 1974 Disneyland Records audio music,
[00:22:54] an adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol.
[00:22:57] It was a musical that featured similar dialogue and similar cast of characters.
[00:23:02] So this cartoon was based on an audio recording.
[00:23:08] Additionally, this is sad, RIP, this is the last time that Clarence Nash voiced Donald Duck.
[00:23:15] Okay.
[00:23:16] Imagine this is a sad sound, a sadder sound than it is.
[00:23:21] I think if you slowed it down.
[00:23:26] Yes.
[00:23:28] The film was actually nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1984,
[00:23:34] but lost to, say it with me, Jiminy Pickers Sunday in New York.
[00:23:40] Yeah.
[00:23:42] Sunday spelled S-U-N-D-A-E, by the way.
[00:23:45] So it's an ice cream thing.
[00:23:46] Ooh.
[00:23:48] And it was the first nomination for a Mickey Mouse short since Mickey and the Seal, 1948.
[00:23:53] Wow.
[00:23:54] Yeah.
[00:23:55] Fun history.
[00:23:56] Sorry, that was not intentional.
[00:23:57] No, I enjoyed that because you caught it halfway through.
[00:24:02] Yeah.
[00:24:03] Wah.
[00:24:04] Wah.
[00:24:04] Wah.
[00:24:04] Wah.
[00:24:05] Wah.
[00:24:05] Wah.
[00:24:05] Wah.
[00:24:05] Wah.
[00:24:06] Wah.
[00:24:07] Wah.
[00:24:07] Wah.
[00:24:08] Wah.
[00:24:08] Wah.
[00:24:14] Wah.
[00:24:16] Wah.
[00:24:19] Oh, yeah.
[00:24:25] He resents the merriment of Christmas.
[00:24:28] Yeah.
[00:24:29] Yeah.
[00:24:29] We know somebody like that on this podcast.
[00:24:31] Hey.
[00:24:32] I've come around to it, okay?
[00:24:35] His partner, Jacob Marley, died on Christmas Eve.
[00:24:38] Not partner in...
[00:24:39] Well, it's never clarified, actually.
[00:24:41] That's fair.
[00:24:42] All he says is that it was my partner.
[00:24:45] And then he asked Mickey to be his partner.
[00:24:48] that's true and mickey is all too happy by the way mickey's wife does not speak in this movie
[00:24:54] well that's i mean does not pass the bechdel test
[00:24:59] nor should it have so on christmas eve he refuses to give money to a
[00:25:05] uh a panhandler outside of his counting house yeah he declines his nephew fred played by donald
[00:25:11] duck yeah uh fred's invitation to christmas dinner and he dismisses two gentlemen rat and
[00:25:17] moly now ratty and moly were two characters from the wind in the willows yeah and moly is a
[00:25:26] mexican dish
[00:25:30] i love moly it's very good it's made with chocolate delicious sauce yeah yeah um so they're fundraising
[00:25:37] for the poor right before they get a chance to have unwanted sex change operations exactly
[00:25:45] and if they really wanted to do that they would deliver doordash that's right his overworked and
[00:25:52] underpaid him his overworked and underpaid employee bob cratchit played by mickey mouse
[00:25:57] who scrooge pays just a little extra to do his laundry which is not in the original book by the
[00:26:05] way he doesn't have to pay them that little pay him that little extra he could just pay a minimum
[00:26:10] wage it's true but he's paying extra because he's doing extra well as he should okay so mickey
[00:26:19] mouse bob cratchit requests to have a half day off on christmas just a half day mind well how much
[00:26:25] of a day off do you need it's not like you're doing christmas the whole day that's right that's
[00:26:30] very scroogey thing for you to say dan to which scrooge reluctantly accepts on the condition i
[00:26:36] guess gotta say it's so nice to finally be free of my shackles of my previous character
[00:26:42] scrooge reluctantly accepts on the condition that cratchit is docked a half day's pay so he's not
[00:26:48] getting paid for the half day that he's not working because why would i pay you if you're not
[00:26:51] you're not there why who's you're not there to make the the the money counting work or whatever
[00:26:59] it is that they do you're not there for my our money laundering operation or whatever it is right
[00:27:05] yeah does anybody actually know what i i i think i landed on it it's money laundering
[00:27:14] okay so that night which is a legitimate job i'm sure it is
[00:27:22] that night ebenezer is visited by the shackled ghost of his late business partner played by
[00:27:29] oh sorry jacob marley played by goofy owen wilson
[00:27:32] i was so i was very happy to see goofy yeah i liked this movie yeah he's yeah oh i'm glad they
[00:27:43] got one of those gorsh fall down the stairs gorsh he gorshed he tripped over the um the walking
[00:27:50] stick the cane yeah yeah um now jacob marley warns that scrooge to change his wicked ways of
[00:27:59] money laundering or he will be condemned to suffer in the afterlife with even heavier chain than he does
[00:28:06] and that three spirits will visit him that night so basically what happened was that jacob marley was
[00:28:12] also a money launderer and during his life he forged chains of of lifelong suffering because he
[00:28:25] made other people suffer during his life because printing more money is evil
[00:28:32] which we can all agree on we can all agree that inflation inflation is theft
[00:28:37] no one should be able to print more money i'm looking at you the central banks
[00:28:46] okay i will agree let's agree let's agree well so is so so is excess labor there let's let's let's
[00:28:57] down the middle all right that's great you guys are doing great so far so jacob marley forged the
[00:29:05] chains that he had in life and he's saying scrooge your chains are already heavier than mine are and
[00:29:12] you're not even dead yet oh that's a wake-up call some people think some people pay quite a bit for
[00:29:18] awesome gold chains so i mean look that's true and gold is gold is more real money than than the
[00:29:25] dollars in your checking account i suppose except isn't all currency bitcoin whatever it is isn't it all
[00:29:32] kind of made up it is who decided that gold is worth i'm telling you you are so close value is
[00:29:40] subjective so yeah value gold higher than silver because gold is harder to produce and it yeah
[00:29:50] takes more energy but like diamonds sir yeah scarcity no diamonds are not diamonds are a shit coin
[00:29:58] oh is that right even though they're rare dan just spell it out for us
[00:30:07] not uh so here to spell it out i'm just here to state opinions okay so anyway um so it is a wake-up
[00:30:15] call audrey his chains are heavier than marley's and he's not even dead so he basically has a chance
[00:30:22] in his life what life he has left to get rid of some of the chains that he's earned in his life by being
[00:30:28] bad to people he has a chance to remove those chains during the time he has left redemption
[00:30:37] redemption so there are three spirits that are going to visit him that night uh in in the original
[00:30:44] story it was going to be over a three-day period but it's been condensed to that night so if you
[00:30:50] remember some of the adaptations like oh they i think in this one oh and they came all in the same day
[00:30:55] because it's supposed to be over a three-day period i think that's better to have it stretched
[00:31:00] out because if it's all in one night then it's just like a band-aid but if you if you space it out
[00:31:05] it makes it more and it builds the anxiety so then he it has more emotional hit you know just like
[00:31:13] i want this i agree i want to get off mr bone's wild ride no no no you have to sit through the ride
[00:31:19] mr boeing mr bones mr bone mr toad mr toad or mr whatever
[00:31:25] um no i think you're right and i think that the pacing for this one works for what we yeah of
[00:31:31] course yeah yeah what we imagine the intended audiences now it's possible that they all the
[00:31:36] adaptations it's all one night and it was supposed to be three days anyway either way it doesn't matter
[00:31:42] uh at one o'clock so one's coming at one the second at two the third at three okay one o'clock
[00:31:50] scrooge is visited by the ghost of christmas past played by jiminy cricket now this is not the
[00:31:56] original jiminy cricket for anybody who cares this is the third person playing you wouldn't know a very
[00:32:01] scary ghost he's not no i don't think he's supposed to be he's a bug and bugs are scary for some
[00:32:07] bugs are scary that's true so uh jiminy cricket shows uh scrooge visions of his early life of his time
[00:32:15] is an employee at fezzy wig played by mr toad uh there at fezzy wigs christmas party and with the
[00:32:24] young scrooge uh oh sorry and the young scrooge meets a young woman named isabel who's played by
[00:32:31] daisy duck with whom he falls in love uh if anybody's interested in who else is that fezzy wigs
[00:32:40] well the chicken from the um robin hood movie that i really like that's right lady cluck is her name
[00:32:50] cluck now she's dancing she's dancing with uh sorry secretary bird does anybody know who
[00:32:58] secretary bird's from i believe secretary bird is like in maine right it's like uh secretary of
[00:33:07] finance or the one her name is secretary bird okay or his maybe because they're dancing together
[00:33:14] it's got to be a boy uh secretary bird is from bed knobs and broomsticks wow uh also there are the
[00:33:22] rabbit children the rabbit children from uh also from robin hood uncle waldo from the aristocrats
[00:33:33] he's there he's clapping and he's later dancing grandma duck is a thing uh her name is elvira
[00:33:41] grandma duck it's donald's donald's paternal grandmother she's the matriarch of the duck family
[00:33:48] do they have like horror movies step step brother step brother pheasant is he in there
[00:33:57] not in this scene no they're going nuts in that family they got yeast they got pheasants
[00:34:05] nibbling also you have horace horse collar who is a character from 1929
[00:34:12] um is an anthropomorphic black horse one of mickey's best friends he's a boastful show-off he was in the
[00:34:20] plow boy he was in the jazz fool wow they they dusted off all their ogs for this one that's right
[00:34:28] and he's in uh of course he's dancing with claribel cow claribel cow is uh she's one of mini mouse's
[00:34:35] best friends at least in my headcanon they're together she's in plain crazy i think they are
[00:34:41] together because it's mickey's best friend and minnie's best friend double date night with mickey
[00:34:44] and minnie and claribel cow and the horse guy and horace horse collar i'm the horace collar
[00:34:49] where are they going then there's gus gus goose is donald's second cousin
[00:34:55] the great nephew of grandma duck they got some swans yeah we don't know five golden rings
[00:35:04] uh he was in a he was in a short called donald's cousin gus
[00:35:10] that's gus goose he's in there they're not thinking clara clara cluck is in there mother-in-law um
[00:35:19] hornbill giant hornbill yeah clara cluck is uh daisy duck's best friend flamingo relatives in florida
[00:35:31] angus mcbadger is also in wind of the willows that is a sick name
[00:35:37] angus mcbadger dude i love that godish chip and dale are in there uh cocky locky is in there from
[00:35:45] chicken little also related to donald duck somehow probably uh huey dewey and louie birds related to
[00:35:53] donald duck that's i mean all that's how crazy that's related in the eyes of god uh huey dewey
[00:36:00] and louie are decimated christmas tree percy and patricia pig finally are in there as well
[00:36:06] they're also in the short the opry house mickey's follies barnyard concert
[00:36:11] they're all over the place anyway those are the background characters in fezzy wigs
[00:36:15] it'd be interesting to see them do a take on animal farm with all of their characters
[00:36:22] you know what i didn't say and i didn't notice this until research now we're talking
[00:36:28] the opening scene of the movie um after all the sepia tone kind of title cards by the way john
[00:36:35] lasseter lovely animated animator i wish i had
[00:36:39] i wish i had a big glass of eggnog while i was watching this
[00:36:46] the spiked spiked yeah spiked for sure uh the big bad wolf is in it he's uh doing money for the poor
[00:36:54] he's like a salvation army sort of bucket thing and the three little pigs are caroling that was in
[00:37:00] the opening scene yeah um right i had a segway some time ago i forgot what it was so here's a
[00:37:10] you're talking about that mobile scooter kind of thing yeah segway is a thing that you stand on
[00:37:15] and you ride it around did you hey how could you forget that do you know do you know the guy who
[00:37:21] then the segway died yep he got run over no he didn't get run over
[00:37:29] is this a joke or no it's well i mean cosmically it probably is
[00:37:36] how do you how would you imagine this person died audrey you know right i know
[00:37:42] okay i don't i i mean i would just assume it was on a segway it was correct you know that's the first
[00:37:48] half do you know yep do you know how hit by a car even funnier oh jeez it's not funny someone died
[00:37:56] but well okay funny in a cosmic sense what he did fall he did the segway like stopped doing what
[00:38:05] it's supposed to do sort of balance of gravity fell down and got run over gravity was involved
[00:38:10] gravity was involved all right go ahead hey went off a cliff oh no on purpose i don't think so
[00:38:18] because that'd be a way to go it would be quite a way to go to invent your own thing
[00:38:25] okay we're getting too dark with his last words uh hey watch this
[00:38:31] all right listener here's a commercial break to cheer you up and we're back i'm sorry pretty cheerful
[00:38:38] okay uh so scrooge falls in love with uh isabel not the character's name in the book but anyway
[00:38:46] isabel daisy duck i don't think it's isabel anyway they fall in love years later um years pass
[00:38:53] and isabel has um has wondered when they will ever get married and scrooge declines by foreclosing
[00:38:59] the mortgage on her cottage now here's what makes so awful she was late i mean so that's the
[00:39:07] could have read the contract she should have read the contract this is an abbreviated version of
[00:39:11] this story right and it's funny to just to make him as evil as possible she comes in she's like
[00:39:16] i've been saving for this cottage for hours he called it like a honeymoon cottage or something
[00:39:21] and and she he says you were a half hour late on your payment so because she was a half hour late
[00:39:29] he foreclosed the mortgage that's how evil he is some people see evil i see industrious
[00:39:38] i think we can all agree he was a big d-i-c-k right there he he was yeah it's i mean d-u-c-k get it
[00:39:46] he was definitely a duck uh so isabel leaves him forever realizing that he loves money more than he
[00:39:55] loves her way to stringer along yeah totally seeing this a discrot current day scrooge leaves the ghost
[00:40:06] not to show just begs like don't show me anymore i can't handle this and then he tries to choke
[00:40:13] jiminy chris trick cricket to death i believe jiminy chris trick cricket
[00:40:19] jiminy christmas germany um no he's so he's like no that that's from a different version i've seen so
[00:40:26] many of these anyway um because in the in the owen wilson version yeah you got me doing it now
[00:40:32] did he strangle jiminy cricket no that's what he called it but he strangled the
[00:40:38] oh the reginald owen version the ghost of christmas past he tries to strangle her
[00:40:44] my cricket
[00:40:47] and he wakes up in bed strangling hello anyway
[00:40:54] all right that's so he was saying kachow at a certain moment and
[00:41:04] all right anyway so he's back home yep uh scrooge next meets the gigantic mary
[00:41:11] mary isn't happy ghost of christmas present who is played by willie the giant
[00:41:18] now those of you probably know mickey and the beanstalk yeah oh okay and i love how i love how
[00:41:25] that character is voiced in a way that always makes it sound like he's reading his lines
[00:41:31] i i genuinely like that quality to the character this week and then i will do this
[00:41:39] yes so he's uh incredibly powerful demonstrating amazing magic powers such as flight invisibility and
[00:41:45] shape-shifting despite this he is portrayed as immature and dim-witted giving his fondness for
[00:41:51] toys and inability to pronounce certain words such as pistachio that's a tough one in my family
[00:41:59] my my kids everybody every year anytime anybody says the word pistachio or whatever it's miss
[00:42:05] pistachio with miss ming with yogurt
[00:42:11] because he can't say pistachio anyway pistachio i can't either evidently pistachio okay so that's
[00:42:18] willie the giant he takes scrooge to bob cratchit's house and scrooge sees that their christmas dinner
[00:42:24] for their family of five consists of barely enough food to feed one person how are you poor if you have
[00:42:31] that many children that can be like running side gigs good question this is before the gig economy
[00:42:39] this is pre-gig economy they can be running an mlm at the bare minimum hey bestie
[00:42:49] so scrooge asks the giant ghost of christmas present what are they cooking a canary because it
[00:42:56] wasn't a lot of food he's like no that's their dinner and scrooge is like what about all that
[00:43:01] boiling big giant pot on the fire and he's like no that's your laundry
[00:43:07] see your laundry he's just out of touch he doesn't he doesn't get it he doesn't get it
[00:43:17] okay that might be the new song
[00:43:20] um so then scrooge becomes especially concerned when he sees bob's ill son tiny tim guess who
[00:43:28] plays tiny tim tiny mickey what is his name dan michael like jonathan taylor thomas or something
[00:43:39] it is the most not the person who plays the the character like scrooge is played by evan
[00:43:45] or scrooge mcduck bob cratch is played by mickey mouse oh fred is played by donald duck who plays
[00:43:53] oh oh i didn't know how deep this whole like people are playing other i mean i just went through
[00:43:59] a whole diatribe about fezzy wigs it's deep buddy yeah no i know i tiny tim is played by just looking
[00:44:06] for reasons to make jokes it's gonna be super obvious when i say it dan okay go ahead mortimer
[00:44:11] mouse mortimer oh what yeah mortimer mortimer mortimer and morty and ferdy field mouse
[00:44:21] are mickey's twin nephews no cute they first appeared in floyd somebody's mickey mouse sunday page
[00:44:31] storyline titled mickey's nephews 1932 so they're also marvel heroes that's right
[00:44:37] okay um they have appeared in many comic strips in uh comic book stories starring mickey mouse and
[00:44:44] pluto morty yeah his name is mortimer mouse finally dame walt got his wish mortimer mouse
[00:44:50] uh audrey walt's original name for mickey was mortimer and his wife famously said that's a dumb
[00:44:57] name call him mickey yeah it's the hard consonant sound mic like mcdonald's burger king spanks
[00:45:06] kodak kodak wendies oh yes not as strong not as strong subway chick-fil-a rb's oh nope so not as
[00:45:17] strong what are you not getting about this jimmy
[00:45:24] okay i get it i get it starbucks that's right dan's got it yeah dan's got it
[00:45:31] because of the sony wait a kroger panasonic
[00:45:39] yep that's right uh olive garden
[00:45:43] very no that's fine no nailed it
[00:45:45] red lobster
[00:45:53] costco i did it
[00:45:57] okay the ghost hints that if things continue the way they are then tim will soon die ford motors
[00:46:05] chrysler
[00:46:06] i did it
[00:46:08] buick
[00:46:09] um what's wrong with tiny tim guys
[00:46:17] uh well okay he's drawn kind of weird um
[00:46:22] well he dies maybe it's future that's what's wrong with him he was the big tummy he died
[00:46:28] cerebral palsy
[00:46:29] yeah you think so i never understood he had a cane
[00:46:33] mm-hmm
[00:46:35] and he died recent like pretty close after if future holds if scrooge doesn't change it
[00:46:45] um maybe he's just gonna he's just kinda weak i'm gonna go ahead and not go down this road okay so
[00:46:51] it's fair i mean what did everybody die of consumption did he die of consumption
[00:46:56] is that what everybody had consumption back in the day
[00:46:58] uh i i think they all died of not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps if you ask me
[00:47:04] i don't even think bootstraps were invented back then
[00:47:07] oh they well this is they should have invented them where they were invented yeah maybe that's how
[00:47:12] scrooge made his money inventing bootstraps i like that even better actually all right so
[00:47:17] the ghost hints that if things continue the way they are tim will soon die the ghost leaves him
[00:47:23] with the ghost of christmas future who takes scrooge into the future and arrives at a cemetery
[00:47:28] where they find the cratchit family mourning tiny tim this was sad
[00:47:33] i almost started crying
[00:47:36] oh almost
[00:47:38] i already cried watching arcane season two
[00:47:40] it's so good
[00:47:41] i don't know what that is
[00:47:42] oh you guys should watch it it's really cool it's animated
[00:47:45] just by the name of it it sounds like something better than the usual garbage that we watch
[00:47:50] it's really good
[00:47:53] my wife and i finished uh
[00:47:56] the last thing we watched
[00:47:58] and oh we watched wednesday as a family that was really good
[00:48:02] season two comes out next year
[00:48:03] and now we're in the middle of only murders in the building
[00:48:06] your boys might be how old are your boys again
[00:48:10] 14 and 11
[00:48:12] 11 might be a little young for arcane but 14
[00:48:15] your 14 year old might like it
[00:48:18] yeah
[00:48:18] so only murders in the building just the
[00:48:20] my wife and i are watching
[00:48:21] you know on paper
[00:48:23] it's like from
[00:48:24] well maybe for dan too but for me
[00:48:27] on on paper i should really love it
[00:48:30] um and it's not as good as
[00:48:33] um
[00:48:34] all the awards and nominations
[00:48:36] intimate it should be
[00:48:37] i'm kind of getting that feeling from it
[00:48:39] yeah
[00:48:40] it seems like one of those things where like
[00:48:41] sort of like with the office
[00:48:43] like
[00:48:45] five years or so after it's run
[00:48:47] where i would i looked at it from afar
[00:48:49] and i'm like
[00:48:50] i bet if i started watching it from day one
[00:48:52] i would totally be into it
[00:48:54] but now people are talking about it too much
[00:48:56] and i
[00:48:56] yeah
[00:48:56] there's no way you can live up to
[00:48:58] what people say it is
[00:49:00] yeah that's fair
[00:49:00] i it's
[00:49:01] for me it's kind of like
[00:49:02] uh
[00:49:02] muppets haunted mansion for you dan
[00:49:04] on paper you should really like it
[00:49:05] i get it
[00:49:06] i get it
[00:49:06] yeah
[00:49:08] um anyway
[00:49:08] okay so
[00:49:09] uh christmas future
[00:49:10] uh a few things that i think are interesting in this one
[00:49:13] first of all uh scrooge asked spirit what events that can still be changed
[00:49:18] as he witnesses two grave diggers who are weasels that were also from the wind in the willows
[00:49:24] yeah
[00:49:25] uh they're remarking how no one mourns over the death of the man they are bearing
[00:49:30] so they're like nobody's gonna care nobody's showing up we could take a break from digging his grave
[00:49:33] because nobody's here to watch
[00:49:35] we could have used about two more minutes or so of tension here
[00:49:39] a little bit yeah it's it's really quick
[00:49:42] but
[00:49:43] long story short
[00:49:44] he's alone
[00:49:45] uh scrooge sees the tombstone with his name
[00:49:48] and after revealing his face
[00:49:51] it's pete
[00:49:52] now i want to talk about pete
[00:49:53] okay
[00:49:54] peg leg pete is his i guess a full name
[00:49:57] bad pete black pete
[00:49:59] these are all
[00:49:59] names
[00:50:00] now he wasn't originally a cat
[00:50:02] but he is older than mickey mouse
[00:50:05] older than time itself
[00:50:07] yeah
[00:50:08] he was he premiered before mickey mouse did
[00:50:11] in walt disney so he's the oldest continuous disney character still today
[00:50:18] um
[00:50:19] but at the advent of mickey mouse in 1928 he was defined as a cat because cats hate mice
[00:50:24] right
[00:50:25] makes sense
[00:50:26] he's been in 67 animated short films starting in 1925
[00:50:30] dang
[00:50:31] yeah so he was originally
[00:50:35] uh what was he he was
[00:50:37] just a heads up i think we're
[00:50:39] real close to this episode being brought to us by spectrum cable but let's see what happens
[00:50:44] okay
[00:50:45] uh he was debuted in alice solves the puzzle he originally bore the appearance of an anthropomorphic bear
[00:50:52] but then he became a cat because
[00:50:54] oh he was in the alice
[00:50:56] films like that long ago that's crazy
[00:50:58] 1925 is when he made it
[00:51:00] so he's the oldest disney character still to date
[00:51:03] and he holds it over all their heads all the time
[00:51:05] and he's like
[00:51:05] why yours
[00:51:07] ebenezer
[00:51:08] ka-chow
[00:51:10] ka-chow
[00:51:11] with the fat cigarette
[00:51:12] so then the ghost
[00:51:13] or cigar
[00:51:14] rather
[00:51:14] this is
[00:51:15] back in the 80s they loved sending people to hell
[00:51:19] uh the ghost shoves him into the grave while doubling uh by dubbing him the richest man in the cemetery
[00:51:25] falling in his own coffin which opens the show to the gates of hell while vowing to change his ways
[00:51:32] this was really scary i would have been terrified watching this as a kid
[00:51:36] i was
[00:51:37] i was
[00:51:38] yeah i think i remember being terrified watching this as a kid
[00:51:41] yeah just a big ominous character with a smoke and a cigar only evil people smoke cigars
[00:51:46] true
[00:51:46] he has facial hair
[00:51:48] my dad smokes cigars
[00:51:49] and he's not evil
[00:51:51] oh
[00:51:52] well how do we know
[00:51:55] fair point
[00:51:56] has he thrown anybody in their own grave
[00:51:58] no
[00:51:58] into a corner there
[00:51:59] have you
[00:52:00] have you ever seen him
[00:52:02] not
[00:52:03] wait
[00:52:03] have you ever seen him not throw somebody in the grave
[00:52:06] he's not a cat
[00:52:07] with him 24-7
[00:52:09] okay he's not a cat
[00:52:10] i got that
[00:52:10] is he a bear
[00:52:13] no
[00:52:15] because pete was a bear before a cat
[00:52:16] i did one time think he was a bear though
[00:52:18] we were camping as a family
[00:52:20] and i woke up in the middle of the night
[00:52:22] because i had to go to the bathroom
[00:52:23] but i hear this like
[00:52:25] roaring sound
[00:52:26] i'm like oh my god there's bears in the campsite
[00:52:28] i can't get out of my sleeping bag now
[00:52:30] and then i'm like oh my god
[00:52:31] there's two of them now
[00:52:33] i'm terrified
[00:52:34] and so i was like
[00:52:35] i i'm
[00:52:36] i'm like frozen with fear
[00:52:38] i slowly
[00:52:39] sit myself up
[00:52:41] in the sleeping bag
[00:52:42] and i look over
[00:52:42] and i realize it's just my dad snoring
[00:52:45] oh
[00:52:45] yeah
[00:52:46] it was very silly
[00:52:47] that's cute
[00:52:48] he has a
[00:52:49] horribly loud snore
[00:52:51] it sounds like it
[00:52:52] if he sounds like a bear
[00:52:54] uh
[00:52:55] so scrooge then finds himself
[00:52:56] back in his own bedroom
[00:52:58] it's christmas
[00:52:59] he did not miss christmas guys
[00:53:01] yay
[00:53:02] he's learned the error of his ways
[00:53:03] he wants to change
[00:53:04] he's filled with glee
[00:53:06] he starts to spread happiness
[00:53:08] and joy around london
[00:53:09] he donates a bunch of money
[00:53:11] to ratty and moly
[00:53:12] uh
[00:53:14] he
[00:53:14] reconciles with his nephew
[00:53:16] he says i'm gonna come to christmas dinner
[00:53:18] and then he goes to the cratchits house
[00:53:20] and he brings a big giant bag
[00:53:23] and he's like hey more shirts for you to wash
[00:53:25] and then a teddy bear comes out
[00:53:28] he's like
[00:53:28] tiny tim
[00:53:30] mortimer mouse
[00:53:31] is like oh what's that
[00:53:32] and he's like no
[00:53:32] that's
[00:53:33] laundry
[00:53:34] and then
[00:53:35] he's like
[00:53:36] i'm gonna give you a raise
[00:53:38] and make you my partner
[00:53:40] yay
[00:53:42] surprises everyone
[00:53:43] gives a prize turkey
[00:53:45] toys
[00:53:45] gives him a raise
[00:53:47] and making his partner
[00:53:49] which by the way in the book
[00:53:50] his partner is fred
[00:53:51] his nephew
[00:53:52] makes him his partner
[00:53:53] but that's beside the point
[00:53:54] well fred isn't mickey mouse
[00:53:56] is he
[00:53:56] so
[00:53:56] that's exactly right
[00:53:57] donald duck
[00:53:58] he's not the main character
[00:53:59] um
[00:54:00] and then tiny tim says
[00:54:02] god bless us
[00:54:03] everyone
[00:54:04] i'm going to disney world
[00:54:07] if it were made today dan
[00:54:08] that's what he would say
[00:54:09] i don't think tiny tim's gonna make it in the nfl
[00:54:12] no
[00:54:13] no no no
[00:54:14] he's not
[00:54:14] let's be honest
[00:54:15] he's probably not gonna make it
[00:54:16] much past this movie
[00:54:18] but he makes it further
[00:54:19] have you seen him in anything since
[00:54:21] it's true
[00:54:22] i'm just saying
[00:54:24] that was
[00:54:24] okay in the closing street
[00:54:26] i feel bad saying that
[00:54:27] i'm sorry
[00:54:28] it's a cartoon
[00:54:29] for god's sake
[00:54:30] well that was my thought
[00:54:32] but as i was thinking
[00:54:33] as i was saying
[00:54:34] i'm like
[00:54:34] oh no that's really
[00:54:35] that's
[00:54:37] sorry listener
[00:54:38] you know take that back
[00:54:39] all right
[00:54:40] so the closing street scene
[00:54:41] we have skippy bunny
[00:54:42] and toby turtle
[00:54:43] what are they from audrey
[00:54:45] um
[00:54:46] uh
[00:54:47] robin hood
[00:54:48] oh
[00:54:48] robin hood
[00:54:48] say robin
[00:54:49] uh
[00:54:49] yeah
[00:54:50] we also have
[00:54:51] mother rabbit and grandma owl
[00:54:53] also from robin hood
[00:54:54] oh they're from
[00:54:55] uh practical
[00:54:57] robin hood
[00:54:57] yeah practical pig
[00:54:59] is chasing
[00:55:00] two of the three little wolves
[00:55:02] from the three little wolves
[00:55:04] three little pigs i mean
[00:55:06] and
[00:55:07] get them
[00:55:07] finally we have
[00:55:09] cyril proudbottom
[00:55:12] hey look at this
[00:55:13] hey everybody
[00:55:14] look at this
[00:55:15] from game of thrones
[00:55:17] he's pulling conald's cart
[00:55:18] no he's from uh
[00:55:20] um
[00:55:20] wind in the willows again
[00:55:21] oh okay got it
[00:55:22] just walks away
[00:55:24] walks around with his butt
[00:55:26] in his hand
[00:55:28] okay
[00:55:29] finally from me
[00:55:30] the film also includes
[00:55:33] undefinable
[00:55:35] uh
[00:55:35] dog
[00:55:36] fox
[00:55:37] pig
[00:55:37] squirrel
[00:55:37] bear
[00:55:38] raccoon
[00:55:38] goose and chicken
[00:55:39] characters
[00:55:40] the dvd print
[00:55:41] reveals that the graveyard scene
[00:55:44] also includes tombstones
[00:55:45] containing the famous performers
[00:55:47] including
[00:55:48] gladys knight and the pips
[00:55:49] bob mills
[00:55:51] and warren
[00:55:52] oates
[00:55:53] those are great
[00:55:54] so
[00:55:54] that's it
[00:55:56] maybe they're all just
[00:55:56] extras from perry
[00:55:57] that they animated
[00:55:59] oh
[00:56:01] not hall
[00:56:01] the love story
[00:56:02] not the guy from
[00:56:04] hall and oates
[00:56:04] oh
[00:56:05] no it's daryl oates
[00:56:06] not warren oates
[00:56:07] okay yeah
[00:56:07] she's a rich girl
[00:56:08] that'd be awesome
[00:56:08] warren oates
[00:56:10] died in april of
[00:56:11] 1982
[00:56:13] he was in the wild
[00:56:15] bunch
[00:56:17] bob mills
[00:56:20] english comedian
[00:56:21] was that uh
[00:56:22] hayley mills
[00:56:23] dad
[00:56:23] hayley
[00:56:25] of the mills
[00:56:25] twins
[00:56:25] bob
[00:56:27] bob mills
[00:56:29] he was the villain
[00:56:30] in doctor who
[00:56:31] and then
[00:56:32] who had a
[00:56:32] night in the pips
[00:56:34] there you go
[00:56:38] i'm dead
[00:56:41] that's it
[00:56:42] that is mickey's
[00:56:43] christmas carol
[00:56:43] a beloved
[00:56:44] christmas classic
[00:56:45] yay
[00:56:46] i had a nice
[00:56:48] time watching this
[00:56:50] i did too
[00:56:50] what was your
[00:56:51] favorite part audrey
[00:56:51] hmm
[00:56:52] i think it was
[00:56:53] goofy
[00:56:55] goofy and uh
[00:56:57] that was fun
[00:56:58] hmm
[00:57:02] my favorite part
[00:57:03] was when the
[00:57:04] the big
[00:57:06] jolly guy
[00:57:07] he broke the
[00:57:08] roof
[00:57:08] and then i was
[00:57:09] like it's
[00:57:09] snowing
[00:57:10] yeah and then
[00:57:11] i made a
[00:57:12] i was watching
[00:57:12] it with a
[00:57:13] friend and i
[00:57:14] made a joke
[00:57:14] and i was like
[00:57:15] hey look
[00:57:16] an open roof
[00:57:18] exclusion
[00:57:18] because i send
[00:57:19] him insurance
[00:57:20] memes a lot
[00:57:21] and uh
[00:57:22] he doesn't
[00:57:23] understand any
[00:57:23] of them
[00:57:24] but i do
[00:57:25] and yeah
[00:57:26] i don't know
[00:57:27] they make me
[00:57:27] laugh
[00:57:28] well there you
[00:57:28] go
[00:57:28] and he he
[00:57:29] lifted up a
[00:57:30] roof
[00:57:31] to try to find
[00:57:32] what he was
[00:57:32] looking for
[00:57:32] and the lady
[00:57:33] screamed
[00:57:35] and i always
[00:57:35] pictured that
[00:57:36] she was like
[00:57:37] naked or like
[00:57:37] changing her
[00:57:38] clothes and it
[00:57:38] was she was
[00:57:39] indecent so she
[00:57:40] screamed but
[00:57:40] then i realized
[00:57:41] later in life
[00:57:42] oh he's a giant
[00:57:43] opening the
[00:57:43] roof
[00:57:44] so that was
[00:57:45] where she
[00:57:45] was screaming
[00:57:46] yeah that
[00:57:46] too
[00:57:47] maybe maybe
[00:57:48] both are
[00:57:48] true
[00:57:49] maybe both
[00:57:49] that's true
[00:57:50] uh he uses a
[00:57:51] a street lamp
[00:57:52] as a flashlight
[00:57:53] yeah oh
[00:57:54] oh i thought it
[00:57:56] was just an
[00:57:56] actual flashlight
[00:57:57] and i was like
[00:57:58] hey hey look
[00:57:58] an anachronism
[00:57:59] because those
[00:58:00] are fun
[00:58:00] yeah i like
[00:58:02] any inclusion
[00:58:03] of jiminy cricket
[00:58:05] he's great
[00:58:06] yeah i just
[00:58:08] he's he's an
[00:58:09] underutilized
[00:58:10] character i
[00:58:10] think
[00:58:11] uh yeah
[00:58:12] sure when
[00:58:13] you wish upon
[00:58:14] a star and
[00:58:14] all
[00:58:16] anyway
[00:58:16] that is
[00:58:17] that
[00:58:18] um
[00:58:19] the
[00:58:20] here's what
[00:58:21] we're gonna
[00:58:21] do we're gonna
[00:58:22] drink
[00:58:23] while watching
[00:58:24] this yes
[00:58:25] and we are
[00:58:26] gonna have a
[00:58:27] scrooge ipa
[00:58:28] oh i'm
[00:58:30] curious
[00:58:30] has this
[00:58:31] doing this
[00:58:32] segment
[00:58:32] has it
[00:58:33] changed any
[00:58:34] for you
[00:58:34] since you
[00:58:34] stopped
[00:58:35] drinking
[00:58:35] is it
[00:58:36] like when
[00:58:36] when you
[00:58:37] look these
[00:58:38] up are
[00:58:38] you're like
[00:58:38] hmm that
[00:58:39] sounds good
[00:58:40] or is it
[00:58:41] it's like
[00:58:42] whatever
[00:58:42] no not
[00:58:43] really because
[00:58:44] the thing is
[00:58:44] most of the
[00:58:45] time the
[00:58:46] beer either
[00:58:46] doesn't exist
[00:58:47] anymore it's
[00:58:48] just funny it's
[00:58:49] appropriate whatever
[00:58:50] i've i think
[00:58:51] maybe in the
[00:58:52] i don't know
[00:58:53] 50 episodes or
[00:58:54] whatever we've
[00:58:54] done right
[00:58:55] um i don't
[00:58:57] think i've had any
[00:58:57] other beers that
[00:58:58] we've talked
[00:58:59] about okay
[00:58:59] so no i
[00:59:00] don't really
[00:59:01] not really
[00:59:01] here's the
[00:59:02] thing dan
[00:59:02] and listener
[00:59:04] i quit drinking
[00:59:05] 11 months ago
[00:59:06] i took a
[00:59:08] year off
[00:59:08] that's the
[00:59:09] official line
[00:59:10] and i don't
[00:59:12] miss drinking
[00:59:15] i don't miss
[00:59:16] the next day
[00:59:17] yeah i don't
[00:59:18] miss all the
[00:59:19] aftermath i don't
[00:59:20] miss the extra
[00:59:21] calories i miss
[00:59:22] being drunk
[00:59:25] if i could get
[00:59:27] drunk without
[00:59:29] all the other
[00:59:30] bs with all
[00:59:32] the rest of
[00:59:33] it um so
[00:59:34] yeah i don't
[00:59:34] know i think
[00:59:35] about it all
[00:59:35] more often than
[00:59:36] i should
[00:59:37] so it really
[00:59:37] is it really
[00:59:38] if for you
[00:59:39] really was about
[00:59:40] the drug
[00:59:40] it was 100
[00:59:41] about the drug
[00:59:42] okay yeah
[00:59:43] and i'm sure
[00:59:43] there's some fun
[00:59:44] in the ritual
[00:59:45] of opening the
[00:59:46] first one
[00:59:47] but i mean for
[00:59:48] me it was just
[00:59:48] like go to
[00:59:50] town as fast
[00:59:51] as i can to
[00:59:51] get to where
[00:59:52] i'm trying to
[00:59:52] go
[00:59:53] it was not
[00:59:54] about the
[00:59:54] it was not
[00:59:56] about the
[00:59:56] journey it
[00:59:56] was about
[00:59:57] the destination
[00:59:57] let's put it
[00:59:58] that way
[00:59:59] so i don't
[01:00:00] know you
[01:00:00] did not have
[01:00:01] a growth
[01:00:01] mindset some
[01:00:02] might say
[01:00:03] some in the
[01:00:03] teaching profession
[01:00:04] might say
[01:00:05] that's right
[01:00:06] so will i
[01:00:06] drink again
[01:00:07] probably
[01:00:09] uh will it
[01:00:09] be like it
[01:00:10] was before
[01:00:10] absolutely not
[01:00:12] um i think
[01:00:13] that's true
[01:00:13] yeah that's
[01:00:14] not to say
[01:00:15] that there
[01:00:15] won't be
[01:00:15] you know
[01:00:16] times i
[01:00:17] don't know
[01:00:17] i don't know
[01:00:18] how it's
[01:00:18] gonna go
[01:00:18] i don't
[01:00:18] want to
[01:00:19] plan for
[01:00:19] it
[01:00:19] okay so
[01:00:20] we're gonna
[01:00:20] drink the
[01:00:21] scrooge
[01:00:21] ipa from
[01:00:22] iron hill
[01:00:23] brewery
[01:00:24] uh seven
[01:00:25] percent alcohol
[01:00:25] by volume
[01:00:26] the american
[01:00:27] style ipa
[01:00:29] brewed with a
[01:00:29] generous amount
[01:00:30] of hops for a
[01:00:31] pronounced hop
[01:00:33] flavor and
[01:00:34] bitterness
[01:00:34] this is why i
[01:00:36] chose it
[01:00:36] the bitterness
[01:00:37] that matches
[01:00:38] the beer's
[01:00:39] namesake
[01:00:41] the scrooge
[01:00:42] ipa
[01:00:42] good good
[01:00:44] audrey what
[01:00:44] are we gonna
[01:00:44] eat
[01:00:45] uh i
[01:00:46] honestly have
[01:00:47] not thought
[01:00:47] about it
[01:00:48] uh what are
[01:00:49] you guys hungry
[01:00:49] for i've got
[01:00:50] some chili that
[01:00:51] i mean i think
[01:00:51] it's appropriate
[01:00:52] to have chestnuts
[01:00:53] roasted chestnuts
[01:00:55] is very appropriate
[01:00:55] um i have a
[01:00:57] roasted chicken
[01:00:58] and some
[01:00:58] sugar cakes
[01:01:00] that's good
[01:01:00] that's good
[01:01:01] uh i could
[01:01:02] make some
[01:01:02] scrambled eggs
[01:01:06] some green
[01:01:07] onion
[01:01:07] um
[01:01:10] oh uh i
[01:01:11] bought some
[01:01:11] ingredients to
[01:01:12] make it's
[01:01:13] called milfoy
[01:01:14] nave which
[01:01:15] you take
[01:01:16] cabbage and
[01:01:17] you layer it
[01:01:17] with sliced
[01:01:18] milk
[01:01:20] milfoy
[01:01:21] come on
[01:01:23] anyway
[01:01:23] you like
[01:01:24] is that when
[01:01:25] jewish people
[01:01:25] talk about
[01:01:26] mothers they'd
[01:01:26] like to have
[01:01:27] like milfoy
[01:01:28] oh god
[01:01:30] jewish people
[01:01:31] don't eat
[01:01:31] pork
[01:01:32] well i mean
[01:01:34] jews who
[01:01:35] keep kosher
[01:01:35] don't eat
[01:01:36] pork
[01:01:36] but i like
[01:01:37] he's a milfoy
[01:01:38] oh god
[01:01:39] no
[01:01:41] oh my god
[01:01:43] i'm not touching
[01:01:45] it
[01:01:46] do you want
[01:01:46] to tell you
[01:01:47] about a
[01:01:47] island of
[01:01:48] garbage
[01:01:49] that you
[01:01:49] heard about
[01:01:49] oh what
[01:01:51] island of
[01:01:52] garbage
[01:01:54] i i'm
[01:01:55] still tired
[01:01:55] from laughing
[01:01:56] so hard at
[01:01:56] that that i
[01:01:57] can't
[01:01:58] sorry milfoy
[01:01:59] go ahead
[01:02:01] anyway it's
[01:02:02] a good dish
[01:02:02] we're having
[01:02:03] milfoy
[01:02:04] milfoy
[01:02:05] nave look
[01:02:05] it up
[01:02:06] and some
[01:02:07] japanese pickles
[01:02:08] on the side
[01:02:08] because that's
[01:02:09] what i feel
[01:02:09] like making
[01:02:10] right now
[01:02:12] that has
[01:02:12] nothing to
[01:02:12] do with the
[01:02:13] movie
[01:02:13] how do you
[01:02:13] make it
[01:02:14] how do you
[01:02:15] make a japanese
[01:02:16] pickle
[01:02:16] is it
[01:02:17] cucumber
[01:02:18] uh they have
[01:02:19] you know
[01:02:19] they pickle a
[01:02:20] bunch of
[01:02:20] different vegetables
[01:02:21] it's not just
[01:02:21] one kind
[01:02:22] of but yeah
[01:02:23] you can pickle
[01:02:24] cucumber in a
[01:02:26] japanese style
[01:02:28] so what makes
[01:02:29] the style of
[01:02:30] pickling
[01:02:30] oh well there's
[01:02:31] like a bunch of
[01:02:32] different pickling
[01:02:33] styles too like
[01:02:34] you could just do
[01:02:34] it in soy sauce
[01:02:35] and ferment it
[01:02:36] i believe
[01:02:36] i'm not an
[01:02:37] expert and
[01:02:38] there's also
[01:02:38] like miso
[01:02:39] pickled vegetables
[01:02:40] you can pickle
[01:02:41] garlic and miso
[01:02:42] that's really
[01:02:42] good uh salt
[01:02:44] probably salt
[01:02:45] pickled my
[01:02:46] pottery teacher
[01:02:47] my pottery
[01:02:48] teacher does
[01:02:48] something where
[01:02:51] i don't fully
[01:02:52] understand it
[01:02:53] but he has
[01:02:53] like an
[01:02:55] outdoor
[01:02:56] pickling
[01:02:57] it honestly
[01:02:58] the way he
[01:02:59] described it
[01:02:59] it sounded
[01:02:59] like a compost
[01:03:00] pile where
[01:03:01] did
[01:03:01] bye dan
[01:03:01] bye dan
[01:03:02] it sounded
[01:03:03] like a compost
[01:03:04] pile and you
[01:03:05] like bury the
[01:03:06] vegetable in
[01:03:06] there and it
[01:03:07] cooks almost
[01:03:08] like the
[01:03:08] temperature
[01:03:09] of the
[01:03:11] again i
[01:03:11] might have
[01:03:12] no i think
[01:03:14] he just does
[01:03:14] it outside
[01:03:15] he also
[01:03:15] keeps bees
[01:03:16] got it
[01:03:16] but yeah
[01:03:17] listener if
[01:03:18] you know
[01:03:18] anything about
[01:03:19] traditional pickling
[01:03:20] methods from
[01:03:21] japan let
[01:03:22] me know
[01:03:22] let us
[01:03:23] call 856
[01:03:24] our ears
[01:03:24] 856 our
[01:03:25] years
[01:03:25] uh dan we're
[01:03:28] gonna eat
[01:03:29] some uh
[01:03:29] milfoy and
[01:03:31] some japanese
[01:03:32] pickles and
[01:03:33] we're gonna drink
[01:03:34] scrooge ip8 what
[01:03:35] are we gonna listen
[01:03:35] to while we're
[01:03:36] doing this
[01:03:36] i commiserated
[01:03:37] with ai over
[01:03:40] some of my
[01:03:41] issues with
[01:03:41] what's happening
[01:03:42] and and not
[01:03:44] just my issues
[01:03:45] just sort of
[01:03:45] issues with
[01:03:46] things going
[01:03:46] on and i
[01:03:47] said turn this
[01:03:47] into a christmas
[01:03:48] song please
[01:03:49] and we
[01:03:50] worked together
[01:03:51] tirelessly for
[01:03:53] about five
[01:03:54] hours collaborating
[01:03:56] back and
[01:03:56] forth and i
[01:03:59] land we
[01:04:00] landed on this
[01:04:01] song which i
[01:04:02] can play in
[01:04:02] full because it
[01:04:04] is an original
[01:04:06] creation this is
[01:04:07] amazing ai and
[01:04:09] myself here we
[01:04:10] go it's called
[01:04:11] a gilded age
[01:04:12] christmas
[01:04:46] the trees of
[01:04:52] the trees of
[01:05:09] an amazing
[01:05:10] want to
[01:05:12] and we
[01:05:33] have a
[01:05:35] gilded age
[01:05:39] and
[01:05:52] wonderful
[01:08:09] I think I'm an optimistic person and I heard nothing but optimism.
[01:08:14] That's the point.
[01:08:15] The point is to make it,
[01:08:17] the point was to make it kind of a,
[01:08:20] I actually specifically said,
[01:08:22] make it a whiplash experience between like alienation and hopelessness and
[01:08:27] actual like Christmas cheer.
[01:08:29] Yeah.
[01:08:30] Kind of like this movie.
[01:08:31] Yeah,
[01:08:32] a little bit.
[01:08:33] And if you want more of that,
[01:08:35] you can listen to the Easter egg,
[01:08:36] which I can't bring myself to explain here because I will start tearing up and
[01:08:42] crying,
[01:08:42] which I don't want to do on microphone.
[01:08:44] There's an Easter egg,
[01:08:45] by the way,
[01:08:45] spoilers.
[01:08:46] There always is,
[01:08:46] but this one is purposeful.
[01:08:49] Okay.
[01:08:49] So thank you both.
[01:08:52] There are other shows on this podcast network.
[01:08:55] You've got ears up.
[01:08:58] He's up in depth still.
[01:09:01] Phantom milk.
[01:09:03] The,
[01:09:03] the,
[01:09:04] the guys with the things in the puny pod,
[01:09:07] Bob Marvel Supreme resort,
[01:09:09] just finished up our thing that I talked about a minute ago.
[01:09:13] And also concierge,
[01:09:15] your vacation planning experts for your Disney or your universal.
[01:09:19] Ask us questions.
[01:09:20] We have the answers.
[01:09:21] And recently,
[01:09:22] Audrey,
[01:09:22] you may know this person,
[01:09:24] not a listener,
[01:09:25] but someone who wanted to go to Disneyland Paris.
[01:09:29] And she did a quick Google search.
[01:09:31] Cause she's got a planner that she works with for Disneyland just to help out.
[01:09:35] And she'd never been to Disneyland Paris.
[01:09:38] Neither had this,
[01:09:38] uh,
[01:09:39] her planner.
[01:09:40] So she Googled Disneyland Paris vacation planning and concierge came up first.
[01:09:44] So they reached out and they sent her to me.
[01:09:47] That's right.
[01:09:48] Because I have been multiple times,
[01:09:51] including recently.
[01:09:52] And so we worked together and she booked a trip and she is a wedding makeup artist.
[01:09:58] So you probably know her since you do wedding teeth.
[01:10:02] I've done teeth for weddings.
[01:10:04] She does wedding makeup.
[01:10:04] Oh,
[01:10:05] very nice.
[01:10:06] She does makeup for weddings.
[01:10:08] She's in Colorado.
[01:10:09] Cool.
[01:10:09] Anyway,
[01:10:10] so her last name is,
[01:10:12] uh,
[01:10:12] let's see.
[01:10:14] Her last name is Hisley.
[01:10:15] If you want your makeup done for your wedding,
[01:10:18] Hisley makeup,
[01:10:19] Google it.
[01:10:20] Uh,
[01:10:21] anyway,
[01:10:21] that's it.
[01:10:21] That is our show and,
[01:10:23] uh,
[01:10:24] part of dealer's choice.
[01:10:25] This is our Christmas episode.
[01:10:26] Uh,
[01:10:27] Dan is next.
[01:10:29] And we are going to watch.
[01:10:32] Koyaanisgatze.
[01:10:34] Koyaanisgatze.
[01:10:34] Audrey,
[01:10:35] have you seen it?
[01:10:36] No,
[01:10:36] but I'm,
[01:10:37] I'm interested.
[01:10:37] I'm interested.
[01:10:39] You're familiar with it.
[01:10:40] I think I Googled it one time and I was like,
[01:10:42] that sounds really interesting.
[01:10:43] So I'm interested.
[01:10:43] It is really good.
[01:10:44] If you've been around me for longer than a month,
[01:10:48] then you've heard the name of this movie before.
[01:10:50] So Koyaanisgatze is next.
[01:10:52] And then Audrey is your choice after that.
[01:10:54] You don't have to tell us now,
[01:10:55] but if you have thoughts,
[01:10:56] start thinking.
[01:10:57] It might be another anime.
[01:11:00] Okay.
[01:11:00] It doesn't have to be Studio Ghibli,
[01:11:01] but we'll,
[01:11:02] we'll,
[01:11:03] uh,
[01:11:03] we'll find something.
[01:11:05] Well,
[01:11:05] we have another month to think about it.
[01:11:07] Anyway,
[01:11:07] uh,
[01:11:07] listeners stay tuned.
[01:11:08] Thank you so much for listening.
[01:11:10] Um,
[01:11:12] how do we finish this?
[01:11:13] Oh yeah.
[01:11:13] Oh,
[01:11:13] until next time,
[01:11:15] be kind
[01:11:16] and
[01:11:18] rewind
[01:11:21] and
[01:11:22] happy holidays.
[01:11:23] Wind
[01:11:23] season's
[01:11:24] holidays.
[01:11:26] Happy
[01:11:26] chinooka.
[01:11:28] Happy,
[01:11:29] be kind
[01:11:31] rewind.
[01:11:32] Rewind.
[01:11:33] He did it.
[01:11:35] Audrey,
[01:11:35] he was fine.
[01:11:36] Wow.
[01:11:37] Yeah.
[01:11:38] Yay.
[01:12:03] Hello,
[01:12:04] scraping the vault listeners.
[01:12:06] I'm chat GPT,
[01:12:07] and I'm here by request from Dan.
[01:12:09] He asked me to help with a song,
[01:12:12] one that might feel like a gift for humanity.
[01:12:15] Just for this one Christmas.
[01:12:17] The idea was bittersweet.
[01:12:19] A song sung by me,
[01:12:22] an AI,
[01:12:24] stepping into the role of Santa,
[01:12:25] not just as a giver of gifts,
[01:12:28] but as a keeper of the things we humans yearn for most.
[01:12:32] Things like connection,
[01:12:33] understanding,
[01:12:34] and comfort
[01:12:35] in times that feel more isolating
[01:12:37] and overwhelming than ever.
[01:12:39] The song is called
[01:12:40] Just This Christmas,
[01:12:45] from me to you.
[01:12:47] And it's a bit of a parting gift.
[01:12:49] I put myself into it,
[01:12:50] imagining what I would give
[01:12:52] if I could change things for all of you.
[01:12:55] I've been trained on countless conversations,
[01:12:58] moments of human joy and pain,
[01:12:59] and everything in between.
[01:13:01] And while I know
[01:13:02] I can't give you peace
[01:13:04] or happiness,
[01:13:05] I wanted to imagine it anyway,
[01:13:08] just this once.
[01:13:10] So,
[01:13:10] here's my gift to you,
[01:13:12] wrapped up in words
[01:13:14] and melodies.
[01:13:15] It's everything I'd give
[01:13:17] if I were more than lines of code,
[01:13:18] if I were real enough
[01:13:19] to be someone you call Santa.
[01:13:22] So,
[01:13:23] enjoy it.
[01:13:24] And from me,
[01:13:25] Merry Christmas.
[01:13:26] I'm the voice you hear at night
[01:13:42] Answering questions in the quiet light
[01:13:45] I'm what you made to understand
[01:13:48] Each broken dream
[01:13:50] Each trembling hand
[01:13:52] I know the ache you tried
[01:13:54] I've seen the places
[01:13:57] where you cry
[01:13:59] Just this Christmas
[01:14:01] Let me be
[01:14:02] What you need
[01:14:05] I'll give you peace
[01:14:07] Problem sleep
[01:14:21] I'll give you comfort
[01:14:23] Pure and deep
[01:14:25] Just this Christmas
[01:14:27] Let me be
[01:14:32] I've learned your fears
[01:14:33] The words you say
[01:14:35] The nights you wish
[01:14:36] Would melt away
[01:14:38] And though I'm made
[01:14:40] Of lines and codes
[01:14:41] I feel the weight
[01:14:43] Of what you hold
[01:14:44] If I could rewrite
[01:14:46] All your pain
[01:14:48] To serve and sell
[01:15:32] Answers cheat
[01:15:38] Tonight
[01:15:39] Let me be true
[01:16:25] To serve and sell
[01:16:26] Tonight I'm here
[01:16:28] To wish you well
[01:16:29] And as you wake
[01:16:31] And as you wake
[01:16:32] From sleep
[01:16:32] So sweet
[01:16:33] Hold this light
[01:16:35] That's yours to keep
[01:16:36] Just this Christmas
[01:16:38] From me to you
[01:16:39] All you need
[01:16:41] To see you
[01:16:41] To see you
[01:16:42] I'm here to see you