[SPEAKER_01]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, wow, well, oh, listen to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Listen to that wonderful music that's just like saying, I can't go a whole week without being on this podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this is, uh, this is very Manila with, I can't get away from you.
[SPEAKER_01]: um... greetings to uh... all of you little before new years here in uh... made this are last day up in Maine and tradition music of i can't talk when you say us micots are less it used make it seem as if we're all in Maine with you and we're not that didn't happen here yeah but we're all together back rub yeah we are well that's the real background that's off my back porch here in uh... the great state of Maine and uh...
[SPEAKER_01]: We uh, I have to be honest with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I look forward to recapping you with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have to be honest with the family and everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the best gift for me was if we got snow as you can tell by looking back to me we got it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't get a ton of it, but we got enough to make it beautiful up here and it's fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: I saw a post from Carla that said that this is Michael's first snow of his life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was trying to explain to Robert, you have to understand.
[SPEAKER_02]: Michael hasn't seen snow and he's almost a grown-up now and it had to be unreal to watch that through his eyes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, the night before Christmas Eve, uh, they, the plate started the fall.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to say about 10 o'clock.
[SPEAKER_01]: We, we're going to stay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I told everybody in the family.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was going to stay up till 2 o'clock in the morning to wait for the snowflakes to come.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so to see him sticking his tongue out and going to eat out, trying to get the snowflakes on his tongue.
[SPEAKER_02]: My kids, my kids stuck their tongue out too, but just it me.
[SPEAKER_01]: it was phenomenal and you know what I don't use the word much in your videos that you've posted on social you look at boolean this is a happiest I've seen you in ten years uh... the present the best present that i could get for christmas uh... you know outside of my uh... tj max sonic here toothbrush was uh...
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a new Christmas.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a new era in oral health.
[SPEAKER_02]: White teeth, white Christmas, Mike, it's going to be great for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought they're always as careless and looked like George Washington to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, the podcast takes into another level.
[SPEAKER_01]: I get those beautiful, delicious, even air.
[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not the right answer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will I took this coffee cup out for Rob specifically.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, oh, what is it say?
[SPEAKER_02]: Hello, gorgeous.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, I'll look, it's been...
[SPEAKER_01]: special as you heard my sister beat me out of town.
[SPEAKER_01]: I could not believe we went to a gathering last night for everybody up here and you'll see you know it was not church.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a prayer breakfast It was it was a party a boxing day party is it that what it's called boxing Yeah, I don't really say boxing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you wear your big Bob Hope gloves?
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... nobody wore my big parka i could show you my parka uh... it's massive uh... where do you i would the thing i was you know if dealt with my father and cathy this winter they don't have winter clothes anymore so do you keep a parka up there how do you do that we kept a parka up here but uh... the parka up here was from uh... probably
[SPEAKER_01]: 65 to 70 pounds ago for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I could wrap it around myself a couple of times.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's still in my car.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then I went to a place called Martin's, which is like a railroad salvage.
[SPEAKER_02]: How want to tell you we got all the best clothes here at Martin's?
[SPEAKER_01]: Martin's M.A.R.
[SPEAKER_01]: D.E.
[SPEAKER_01]: M.S.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not Dean Martin then.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not Dean Martin.
[SPEAKER_01]: And $39.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll show it to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hold on a sec.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Rob, I went yesterday looking for a big winter coat because I've got that trip in Chicago in a month.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I went, I went to six thrift shops down here and no one had coats.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, they're like, they're like liquid gold down there.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one's going to part with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I thought to be the opposite.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought all these New Yorkers moved the Florida and they just get rid of all their winter stuff like I did.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't you get yourself a team who went to a coat?
[SPEAKER_02]: You have time.
[SPEAKER_02]: You give yourself a nice $6, a nice $6.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will look into that this afternoon.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wore T-moot jeans today.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh that's beautiful, Mike.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a nice look and for.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lanzan and this goes down past my knees.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is called a Squal Coop.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're always saying that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It always goes down here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Be for a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mark is great.
[SPEAKER_00]: The dogs out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you go to Lanzan, go to the Lanzan.
[SPEAKER_01]: catalog right and see and see it how much a swall park a cost that was Martin's going to the business now they're there a they're like a railroad that they're selling you know one of the they're there in the different ones where they take what pulls off the track okay so it's a little is it a little like tractor warehouse tractor supply and warehouse no it's more
[SPEAKER_01]: you over.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just kidding, one hundred nineteen ninety nine.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought he was I got it for thirty nine ninety nine.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a deal.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a great deal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thirty nine ninety nine.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just just work it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It goes all the way up to my knees.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll stand outside.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you know, Mike, you know what that means.
[SPEAKER_02]: That means we need to get a picture of you in that code and me and my massive long code.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we can be the long code brothers.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that coach, that coach that you've had for a million years to big for you now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it was honestly too big for me when I bought it, but I couldn't turn it down.
[SPEAKER_02]: But you'll love it because you know what people, when they're dealing with cold weather Josh, they ignore the thighs.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the thighs must be kept warm.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the squal coat will keep his thighs warm and toasty.
[SPEAKER_01]: I might too darker to get the background better there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like you closer to the camera.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, back better, yes, either way.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's Mike with his Toasty Warm Thighs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, but I will tell you, I'll give you the schedule.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've been up here since Saturday.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've been here in Wassau, week we leave to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're flying out at 7 o'clock at night, getting into Florida and late night.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're not going to Vermont?
[SPEAKER_01]: We're not going to skiing now.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was Sunday, are we going up here Saturday late?
[SPEAKER_01]: We get up here Saturday, 10 o'clock, Sunday night.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have dinner with my sister and my niece and her daughter and her son Sam, and me and Kathy and Paul, and everybody.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's, let me ask one question as you go through the schedule, because
[SPEAKER_02]: I know what it's like to have in 11-year-old or 12-year-old, any of those young pre-teens that are on fire for Christmas the entire month of December.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you are closing in on Christmas day and traveling by air and seeing family and literally going on a Christmas vacation is Michael out of control at this point or how you can.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now he's pretty chill, Carla had a ruse for him that he wasn't going to get his real
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's pretty great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, well, that's because that's because the ebike can't fit in the in the plane.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, right.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, he's like, no, he can't carry it on.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't check it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We were fighting that until Christmas Eve.
[SPEAKER_00]: We really thought it was a kind of be a surprise.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: So was there disappointment after he realized the real thing was I think we now I think we got past so that wasn't disappointment by knocking it out and reinforcing it every day leading up to Christmas.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean I'm in glad that that dissipated quickly.
[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't have that problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: week.
[SPEAKER_01]: So dinner with the family on Sunday night, then they're Monday night out Tuesday night was the cocktail party at my sister's house where some of the people were at us and cousins from people we know up here.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's Tuesday.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we have one night where we didn't do anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's the cocktail party do you have a theme?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'd had a theme of people that were freezing to that and that's just Tuesday nights the night the snow came in I thought the theme would be super chats.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: my hand out, you know, four of the years.
[SPEAKER_01]: And are we doing this live or are we doing no, no, no recording this, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, so Tuesday and a cocktail put a big thing get ready, five o'clock, blah, blah, blah, Tuesday.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wednesday.
[SPEAKER_02]: What was the best, what was the best heavy appetizer at the cocktail party?
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a guy that I had never met before.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a guy that lives up here full-time.
[SPEAKER_01]: His name is Jamie, and Jamie brought, and Jamie brought a...
[SPEAKER_01]: I would describe it as kind of a Keesh main crab meat thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god, that sounds fantastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Unreal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just like all I wanted when I got up here was main crab meat and not easy to find.
[SPEAKER_01]: Faber life here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because you know, you're known for...
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the crap made up here is the greatest crap that you will have in the world in my opinion.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have more Josh.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, the crap made, it's all better than Florida.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cut down here is the absolute worst.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's terrible.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's made of haddock down there.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's stripped and floored up is the bomb.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a, you come down to four miles, you're going to go to 50 different restaurants and get great shrimp.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's all great for Costco.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Costco gets it probably locally sourced.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's why it's in the northern Virginia.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have got the greatest rice crispy treats.
[SPEAKER_02]: You must try them if you're in town.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let me continue.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've got to go through the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's two said.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then Wednesday night, my niece's house, be beautiful, wonderful Christmasy farmhouse type place.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she has Christmasy dinner at her place.
[SPEAKER_01]: and it was fantastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: At this point everybody's up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Her husband's up with his son and his son has two friends from his school who are from Malawi, Eman and Dowd who are up there and they're great soccer players.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's Northern Maine, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Was this also their first snow?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, because they go to school in the Boston area.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they're they're they're they've seen the snow be before this then we go to my sister's house for dinner on Thursday Thursday night dinner.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a big heavy That's the first day Christmas day at this point you need a vacation from vacation.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's just it's
[SPEAKER_01]: Eating, drinking, eating, drinking, then Friday last night was the Boxer Party.
[SPEAKER_03]: Boxing Party.
[SPEAKER_01]: Boxing Party.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, and the Boxing Party was...
[SPEAKER_01]: everybody brought a dish.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if there were 200 people in this house and I don't know they're not enough cars.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to generate 200 people.
[SPEAKER_01]: And see all the places I saw my cousins by the way.
[SPEAKER_01]: I saw, and that's where the first time I saw my cousin Teddy, my cousin Johnny, and their ladies.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they're there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Billy lives up here full time.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I saw Billy,
[SPEAKER_01]: Sunday night.
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw Billy at the restaurant with this party's already scheduled or were they just in honor of you All in honor of me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, both times Josh when they found he was coming then the planning began It was phenomenal I've had a whirlwind week.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been amazing with the exception of having to bring something to the boxing Day dish supper.
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you have to cook anything?
[SPEAKER_02]: It sounds like everywhere you went there was food
[SPEAKER_01]: There was food everywhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: We made my fave, or during devil eggs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, no, nothing fancy, just straight ahead, normal recipe of devil eggs.
[SPEAKER_01]: We went out to governors, which is our chain restaurant, the official, the denies of Maine, really, so I would describe it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we did that a couple of times.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the only thing I can tell you,
[SPEAKER_01]: is that we went to a joint hearing town.
[SPEAKER_01]: I won't mention them by name.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're a small business and they don't deserve any heat for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, you get there, it's a mom-and-pop, and we went there yesterday morning for breakfast.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we walked in and first thing you see is cash only, no credit cards.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's okay because I get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: They don't want to play the fees for the credit cards.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had to take a run out to the ATM, so I wasn't naked, and I had to get cash to sell it to cash.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, Michael has, Carla has a blueberry pancake.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: Michael has, yes, Michael has two, and I have a short stack of three.
[SPEAKER_02]: blueberry paint are they all the same size so it's just incremental I have a map.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have more than I could.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm guessing from my time in Maine though limited the blueberry pancakes were maybe nine to ten inches in diameter.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were big okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were big and then Michael has an orange juice
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a cup of coffee, and then they bring a little, you know, those little cups that they put ketchup in, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: They bring that up maple syrup.
[SPEAKER_01]: They said you want regular syrup or maple syrup or maple syrup, some maple maple maple maple syrup.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're up and then they bring a little symbol of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure, it ain't cheap.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a 250 upcharge for each one of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god, really?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: they as Carla pointed out if you get a pancake you should get one yeah if you get two pancakes you should get two and so I get two more five dollars after seven fifty for sir notice these old I've been so dry I'm allergic to syrup and Mary Chris was
[SPEAKER_01]: The most expensive for the three of us, the most expensive breakfast, these are pancakes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: They saw you coming.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dollars.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next time, twice as early.
[SPEAKER_01]: 80, 80, 0, 11 dollars a whole.
[SPEAKER_01]: With the blueberries, it was an upcharge, with the pancakes.
[SPEAKER_01]: With my syrup, it was an upcharge.
[SPEAKER_01]: The orange juice was like 5.95.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right, here I am in the wilds of Maine.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have to go to get my most expensive reference.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where?
[SPEAKER_01]: And we live through it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We do the waitress of the small town up here to 10.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we had to give her a 20% tip.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it a place we've been together?
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because I remember there was a place that was, it was charming, but they were not shy to ask for money.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is there any attempt to justify the cost?
[SPEAKER_01]: But here's the thing, we ordered wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: They obviously were taking advantage of tourists, but with blueberries and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you ordered like the normal fair, you probably would have done a lot better.
[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, outside of that, I don't have any more negatives.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've had a phenomenal, oh, one negative, you know how I got that, a Jeep from Turo to drive up here, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, not what you drive while you're there once you got up there We wait for the fort Smith new hamster.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pick up a Toro Jeep was couldn't be better.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would have paid a fortune for it Rental torrosing is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Toros, Toro Rocks
[SPEAKER_01]: As we are, we're either at the airport in Fort Myers, or, yeah, before we took off, we get a message from the owner of the car.
[SPEAKER_01]: As listen to the car, is at the airport for you waiting.
[SPEAKER_01]: It'll be steps across from the airport, for this airport, in Fort Smith, there's teeny, tiny, beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: What a joy it is to kill you ever?
[SPEAKER_02]: I need an airport.
[SPEAKER_02]: You had you flown into Portsmouth, because you normally don't find a Portsmouth, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's an old air force, basically.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's easier for a space.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as there's a hairline fractured along the bottom of the windshield from the previous rinter and caught a road rock, and so it was outside of that, no fuss, no fuss, I have no complaints.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have absolutely, I'd love to bitch, I you know I like to bitch, but I'm going to be honest about, I normally bitch if I've got something and there's plenty of time left.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was going to say the bright side you've got a flight today.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can still ruin the vacation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there's also, and then there's a, you know, a happy valley, a very, very Republican, uh, New Year's Eve.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's that come.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we've got that right.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then, uh, and then next week, happy blue here, Mike.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next week Carla opens her brick and mortar store and yours truly will be Manning the front desk because she's got real hours now.
[SPEAKER_02]: So are the director of first impressions?
[SPEAKER_01]: I will be for two days.
[SPEAKER_01]: We might go down on the street with the like spin in the sign or we'll have to be I'm going to work in no my children and like a little after like Vationalist Michael being the lobby with a crush and he'll say help my mother Carlos Carl you calling me Some down here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't hear you
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a butt dial.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, butt dial, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I got these, I can't.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't hear it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you know what would be a great way to make some extra money at the brick and mortar store?
[SPEAKER_02]: Could she sell syrup?
[SPEAKER_01]: You're a great up-christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: What the?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Mike, your phone's blowing up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: What was all right?
[SPEAKER_00]: The flight delay?
[SPEAKER_01]: It was, uh, it was Margie Green, uh, just tell me, she's resigning.
[SPEAKER_01]: Empty.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what she's doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: See you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, other than that, it's gonna, uh, really nice, uh, time.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a really nice time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, no injuries?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, a potential several times of falls for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you saw my post on either Christmas or Christmas Eve, I fell on my last step, I missed it on a couple of minutes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I saw it all eight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the age, I don't fall like that when I'm 35.
[SPEAKER_01]: That doesn't happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm by the way, when you get into winter weather,
[SPEAKER_01]: You become a cutely aware of just how deep that you are.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like where I am the flat state of flow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Mike, I have to tell you, I can't outdo you want a beautiful Christmas, but I can outdo you want to fall.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because I slipped on my steps in my home and landed on my coxics, bounced and then bounced again.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I have been in pain for six consecutive days now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that a new Christmas, uh, oh, I'm Mellie, Mellie, oh my god, that's my favorite Christmas song.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's us.
[SPEAKER_01]: You gotta start, dude.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have to start wearing size appropriate t-shirts, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: You're wearing, you're wearing, you're wearing, you're wearing, yeah, you're wearing five XL's in Europe, you're almost an XL, dude.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just didn't have any appropriate Christmas garb that was size appropriate.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is it from prior Christmas's?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a great t-shirt.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like it too.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the size make, the blue makes my eyes pop.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you see what I put the string band from Philadelphia up playing that song?
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't look at my Facebook page, but it's got the string band from what do they do?
[SPEAKER_01]: The mommers parade up here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do they have mums or mums?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's mommers.
[SPEAKER_01]: The mommers parade.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're doing, uh...
[SPEAKER_01]: Many clicky whatever the it's great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the original single was being caused be in the ender sisters But the papini sisters do a great version of it and I like to do a great version.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, you're right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mike.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is the mummers parade So Josh have you had a good one Yeah, I went to I went to probably wanting a favorite places right before Christmas went to great well-flodged last weekend and
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, oh my god, I didn't want to play mine's either peaks That's a win yeah, you know, I don't know how anyone would get sick Yeah, so your skin burns in the water, but I found out through Josh Mike if you go no matter where you go and great Well, watch they don't sell any chocolate boats
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I made sure my wrist band worked so I could purchase things.
[SPEAKER_01]: So last night there was one party we didn't go to, and if we had managed to go, I didn't because it was the daughter of my sister's friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'd gone to their house earlier at that another party, but if we'd gone, we might have seen my pal Graham who's running for Senate up here.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I didn't get a chance to go to that one.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this has been pretty amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a potato.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't stop.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, hey, hey, yeah, but I've got I've got the arts and I'm in front of my house up here So I put that in there which was campaign headquarters.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, you know what he got.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was a good boy.
[SPEAKER_02]: This year Josh and Santa brought him some cover up makeup Just like our president uses on his hands, but he put he doesn't need that he just think I was shirt that button's up.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's true
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, there you go.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's very nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a nice sticker.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's just like the one thing he's gonna put.
[SPEAKER_02]: Go ahead.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that the state of Maine in the letter P?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: They used to have that sticker on all the message myths, didn't they?
[SPEAKER_01]: Whoa!
[SPEAKER_01]: What the hell is your problem?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't need to pile on too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, just a joke.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a joke.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're having fun, Mike.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's Christmas.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know that Josh is Christmas.
[SPEAKER_00]: Careful, Rob.
[SPEAKER_00]: People are starting to think you're turning and Republican.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I forgot.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was, yeah, it was me being kind of the people hated.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rob's more left than I am.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Rob is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Josh had, uh, his Christmas was up in the air even as far as Christmas Eve, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: You didn't know who would visit and what was going on, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: It was still when we recorded.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of new, but I knew Kelly and I did Christmas separately because it's complicated with split custody Of course, yeah, and deal with two different families.
[SPEAKER_00]: So her now and we're in Georgia because he has to spend some time with his dad But I did get For the first time and probably a couple years.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had all three my girls over Christmas Eve and Christmas day.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a beautiful picture You looked really really happy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was so glad that was it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was really it's been a really nice time
[SPEAKER_02]: Because as you said, you know, that's the plan, but it don't know what's going to happen and tell it happens.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I got to college girls.
[SPEAKER_00]: They exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anything could happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did either one of you fellas get any good stuff for a Christmas?
[SPEAKER_02]: Julia is the most creative gift giver you've ever seen.
[SPEAKER_02]: She made Robert has a
[SPEAKER_02]: Among a Japanese cartoon he watches religiously and the logo for it is he got tattooed because he loves it And Julia sat down and knitted him a stocking cap or as the kids these days call them a beanie That has that pattern in the knitting she made it by hand out of wool for him and it looks like something you'd pay $600 for in a store
[SPEAKER_02]: I was marveling at it and then for me and Carrie, she found all this beautiful vintage King's Dominion stuff that she found in thrift stores and stuff all around the area.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it was so much fun to open and Carrie said something very, very poignant, which is it's great when kids grow up because your gifts get so much better.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's so wonderful.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, and that's so, so wonderful and so untrue in my case.
[SPEAKER_00]: My daughters, my daughters, they got me a monopoly game, but the three of them took the board and cards and everything, and painted over every piece of land and property you could buy with things relevant to my life.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm guessing is boardwalk and park place.
[SPEAKER_02]: What is is that one of them camping yards?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like a big camping yards is on there.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Raven Stadium is Lido pizza is on there because it's my favorite pizza.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's so I'm not surprised also my favorite.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's places like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's all the all the different schools the kids went to are on there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, there's landmarks from there.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a little miss mark from here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know, it's I ordered a frame immediately.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to get framed and hung up back here on the wall.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is so great because then you don't have to playman, hopefully.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, I had to play it with them yesterday.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, it was lucky I got a flipping call.
[SPEAKER_02]: What were the tokens in the game?
[SPEAKER_02]: Were they custom tokens or were they same tokens?
[SPEAKER_00]: The tokens?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, they were custom.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like a dinosaur because my kids are really in the dinosaur.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: A cat because they love cats and it was different things representing them.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: My mom got me something really cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: A pair of wireless cameras so I can watch the dogs during the day, but then I had a reminder, I'm always home.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't really need that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's not scary.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can watch you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't watch me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Would you check on him?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, because she takes the car though.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you literally are on that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm homebound.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've as a matter of fact we should have to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is nobody better.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is nobody better for to be homebound than Rob.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't care.
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: We need to wind up in the next 10 or 15 because mass for shut-ins is coming on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did any of your presence come with a note that says, don't sell it on Facebook?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've been very.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to thank everyone for all the advice they've often.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is the case.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to do that here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to do that one.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get back because there may
[SPEAKER_01]: So, dedicated to what will be a henceforth refer to as the great Spiewak grift?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: What my life, Mike, is it that you know this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's that?
[SPEAKER_00]: You start that radio show that was the call-in auction?
[SPEAKER_00]: Traidio.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we bring that back.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know Rob stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's funny you would say that, Josh.
[SPEAKER_02]: I pitched the people at WJFK would take a medium idea and give it a weekend slot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just because they needed to fill out that idea.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and so I did pitch them with Tradio and they never let me do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I thought, Mike, don't you think if you occasionally got the host to a Tradio episode on Radio, it would be fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't you think I'll be a fun show to do?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah!
[SPEAKER_01]: Trudeo is hysterical.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got the, uh, we got a night scene, uh, 75 of appears to be, so this dresser, this dresser does not have any dresser marks on it whatsoever.
[SPEAKER_01]: It appears to be almost brand new.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bye for the one other on the eastern shore, and I heard this one hand to God.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've got a, uh, a used mattress box ring with limited staining that, uh,
[SPEAKER_02]: And I got I said the carry I said you know what it takes a lot of work to stay in a box bring because it's got a mattress on top of it Yeah, people are doing so nasty.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had a so nasty.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's something there for a podcast rub.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh Yeah, I didn't do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Traidio exactly
[SPEAKER_01]: So, the last thing I wanted to leave you with regarding Rob, Rob will be a big part of our first show back in the new year, and it involves Rob getting caught doing something that was a little hinky, but the person in Hipped him to have was probably both save it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Rob gave it a love when she hit it too.
[SPEAKER_01]: from my love icon on that note as you get.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rob, should we ask for something else?
[SPEAKER_02]: Isn't the, isn't the, isn't the love icon next to the two exclamation points?
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe I missed.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know how.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it got pointed out to me as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I decided not to say anything to Rob after seeing the heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate it so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I finally did, just because,
[SPEAKER_01]: It'll be a great story, folks.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's another, let's just say 2026 will start with the great Christmas controversy of 2025.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I hope I, let's bury that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
[SPEAKER_01]: everything in their power.
[SPEAKER_01]: And unfortunately, you gave them an opportunity to make other people not happy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did, but this whole projection thing of the unhappy people of say, oh, let me randomly select a town Sacramento.
[SPEAKER_02]: This whole thing was predicted by Dickens and a Christmas Carol because not only was Scrooge a Dick, he wanted to ruin stuff for everybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I'm blessed with this because he had a heart of the light for the past father and all that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So by the way, with the present day that is he's just that's all all you dicks out there.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're just transferring your dickishness and may I say to you all Merry Christmas.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we're going to wrap this up now and I have to say that we will be heading back down to the warm time, a week was fine, perfect, a week up here, perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can say it's beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wouldn't you like to linger up there?
[SPEAKER_02]: Mike, it is like science fiction to hear you talk about this for a trip to Maine.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've known you forever and it's not going to hold it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're getting older and just, just good times, oh, here comes a boy.
[SPEAKER_01]: you want to lean in, say, uh, Merry Christmas.
[SPEAKER_00]: Happy New Year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Merry Christmas.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: There he is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Josh has to live with me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even in vain, no sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, Merry Christmas.
[SPEAKER_01]: Happy New Year, Ted.
[SPEAKER_01]: Merry Christmas.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's the camera, dear.
[SPEAKER_01]: Merry Christmas.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that bass ball comes looking good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the bass ball got stuck in great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you want to tell everybody what you got?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm going to lead it for a second.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tell everybody what you got.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I got it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, he's quite disnova.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, he just got out of the shower.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go ahead, tell him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He got it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Victus Nova.
[SPEAKER_01]: baseball bat.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's great.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's one.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's one out of stratic fishing.
[SPEAKER_01]: There he got those.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a big presence.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: And our son just went PG13 based on that towel shot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you tell him about my stupid idiot error of mailing his gift to the wrong place?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no way a little company comes.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't get them a gift anyway, sir.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I mean, I want to do, but I mean, I felt I literally felt it as I click send I said this is going to a house that he's not going to be at But no, no, no, that's way better than shipping it to Maine and it not getting there.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's very true Amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, do we still have some day as a sponsor the lawn care company?
[SPEAKER_02]: They're, they are a seasonal.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wouldn't say that we are currently carrying their schedule, but they offered up the moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know Pestine, dude.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a ton of Sunday up here, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that
[SPEAKER_01]: fall from some, some stolen goods.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I've got a roll around in money like Scrooge McDuck down here.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's how I'm going.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the first, I already have a title of the first show of 2020 set.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the fence.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, listen, gentlemen, uh, love to you and your families.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love us up here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: to all of our listeners who have supported this thing, we will be back in 2026 and wonderful new things for everybody's world and all that and the API okay and despite Mike despite the holidays the Michael Marisho merchandise store opened 24 hours for your convenience.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and soon to come while we sold out a lot of our stuff we wanted to get our inventory was pretty cleaned out at the end of the year so wait for next year who knows what I can find in my house to sell
[SPEAKER_01]: And we have not yet begun to talk about the fun things that are coming up in 2026.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it should be a good time for all.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I hope you had a wonderful Christmas.
[SPEAKER_01]: Happy New Year from Maine, from Virginia, and from Florida.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we will see you guys in 2026.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll be able to tell you all about certain petty theft.
[SPEAKER_01]: And also a...
[SPEAKER_01]: A New Year's Eve celebration that I probably didn't belong in, even though I haven't been there yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, we, Carla, do you want to say I'm Merry Christmas Happy New Year to everybody?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to lean in and say that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, don't, don't, don't run over here.
[SPEAKER_01]: My God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take a good time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's the camera.
[SPEAKER_01]: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, that's right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty.
[UNKNOWN]: Bye!