[SPEAKER_08]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hi, Ed, good to see you again.
[SPEAKER_05]: And now he'll be a quiet winner.
[SPEAKER_05]: We will start the show.
[SPEAKER_12]: TMOS, classic.
[SPEAKER_12]: Friday, flashback.
[SPEAKER_12]: As we are taping this show, kids are out in the kitchen.
[SPEAKER_12]: Carla is back from working out and they are making obviously bacon.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's coming.
[SPEAKER_12]: I woke up this morning and I got on the scale.
[SPEAKER_12]: And I swear to God, I looked at the f***ing number and I went, how have you done that in forty it?
[SPEAKER_12]: How have you accomplished that in forty eight hours?
[SPEAKER_12]: And I've always thought it's a big, it's a frustrating thing for me that what takes months to come off.
[SPEAKER_12]: literally you can sniff it and it comes but I'm not sniffing it I was pouring food into my I gave earlier in the week yeah I gave you the list of the stuff with the with all the crap that I put in my body and I looked on it I said okay yeah this is a this is a turning point right here as my friends at noon would tell me this is just getting back on and paying attention
[SPEAKER_12]: And I knew that based on the eating that I had done yesterday, when I had, I took the kids out to a restaurant and I had the Monday special at the, at the, I was a full rack of ribs.
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh my God, which I, which I, what do you mean?
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my God, never eaten a full rack of ribs.
[SPEAKER_09]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_09]: Not when I was trying to lose weight.
[SPEAKER_12]: Obviously, I fell off the wagon and I was having a problem.
[SPEAKER_12]: If they're not overly soft, it's actually not a bad option.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's not a bad option because it's all pro.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's coming off of one of the worst weekends he's had in months.
[SPEAKER_10]: weight that you gain fast, you can lose fast.
[SPEAKER_10]: Just get back on it.
[SPEAKER_10]: You can do it.
[SPEAKER_10]: All right.
[SPEAKER_10]: But also one thing.
[SPEAKER_10]: You got to choose your moments because I'd actually, you know, you were on my mind last night as I was driving home and thinking, if I was to really spin out, it wouldn't be on chocolate covered pretzels.
[SPEAKER_10]: It would be something better than that.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I think that you need to weigh your options against what's available.
[SPEAKER_10]: So to speak.
[SPEAKER_10]: But yeah, I mean when you have pies and gravies and and once a year stuff, that's the stuff.
[SPEAKER_12]: If you're not talking about the damn time about leading up to the day where I go out to the Costco and did one of those trips at Costco.
[SPEAKER_12]: We'd all like to do as I mentioned before, you know, and I ate it.
[SPEAKER_12]: It was stuff that I wanted to eat.
[SPEAKER_12]: By the way, last night, the stuff I had mentioned before, the toffee roasted cashews.
[SPEAKER_12]: That's got back into those.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, it's like sex.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a, you know, it's a, I mean, and now she was such a perfect nut to begin with.
[SPEAKER_10]: And when you talk, he coded, I can only imagine.
[SPEAKER_09]: Is there, I don't, but I'm trying to get back on it.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's still as the smell of bacon with with fifteen people in my house walks through the door of my studio.
[SPEAKER_12]: And I'm trying to focus on the show when, in fact, the little fact guy lives right down here behind my right ear is going, oh, man, I wonder if they're making power through it.
[SPEAKER_12]: And I mean, I'm sitting there Eastern time as we're taping right now.
[SPEAKER_12]: It is a twenty one minutes before twelve news.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, that's right.
[SPEAKER_12]: I have not had and food is not touched my lips this morning at all.
[SPEAKER_12]: So I've done a bit of the fasting things.
[SPEAKER_12]: So that's how I start now the other thing.
[SPEAKER_12]: water water everywhere.
[SPEAKER_12]: That's doing drugs as much water as I possibly can and perhaps just have one meal today, which makes the fast even more effective and then maybe get back into a normal.
[SPEAKER_10]: What about like, I mean, I know that your your back is still.
[SPEAKER_10]: But can you walk?
[SPEAKER_12]: I might do a bike ride today.
[SPEAKER_10]: I might do a bike ride anytime you get that cardio up is good now Mike.
[SPEAKER_10]: There was a story out this week from a new service called SWNS that says we as a nation America expects to gain five and a half pounds from now until January first.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, just accomplished already.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: So I did a part of that.
[SPEAKER_12]: I've I've gained six pounds.
[SPEAKER_12]: I have gained six pounds.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I want to say they're okay with it.
[SPEAKER_10]: So days.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then here are my.
[SPEAKER_10]: Forty two percent three admit to using the holidays.
[SPEAKER_10]: They use the holidays as an excuse.
[SPEAKER_10]: Here are some ways we go overboard.
[SPEAKER_10]: Tell me if this applies to us.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: Eating more than one dessert after a meal.
[SPEAKER_12]: Well, that count what counts for me is the sugary fatty snacks that I dove into the holiday mix, which is which really is for a fat person.
[SPEAKER_12]: You look at the packaging of this stuff.
[SPEAKER_12]: And you know, it's there is there whoever invented putting the sugary coatings on popcorn, you know, the cracker.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: Congratulations.
[SPEAKER_12]: So that's that.
[SPEAKER_12]: And then the combination of the cashews, which are not just nuts, which would be bad in and of themselves.
[SPEAKER_12]: Well, they put the toffee coating.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, it can't use or give you stick to the fourteen nuts serving, but no one does.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think it depends on on the household.
[SPEAKER_09]: Like my mom, like a drug dealer will push everything on you.
[SPEAKER_09]: It doesn't matter if you're dying, if you're, you know, going into some sort of diabetic shock, if you don't lose those.
[SPEAKER_09]: You're being disrespectful.
[SPEAKER_12]: The bleach stuff.
[SPEAKER_12]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yesterday, when I completely yesterday, I just.
[SPEAKER_12]: Completely.
[SPEAKER_12]: Sometimes you have to.
[SPEAKER_12]: The my daughter got in yesterday.
[SPEAKER_12]: Took him out to the the Yale house.
[SPEAKER_12]: The special the Monday special was the ribs.
[SPEAKER_12]: So the the mind which you know here over here over this part of the brain is the healthy part of the brain.
[SPEAKER_12]: This part is the rationalization part of the brain.
[SPEAKER_12]: So this part of the brain go whole ribs.
[SPEAKER_12]: You can't eat ribs anymore.
[SPEAKER_12]: There goes, well, it's the Monday special.
[SPEAKER_12]: I suck that down.
[SPEAKER_12]: Then Carla sent the kids home.
[SPEAKER_12]: Now I'm alone.
[SPEAKER_12]: No supervision all by myself.
[SPEAKER_12]: No time commitment.
[SPEAKER_12]: My job is to take some product that Carla, Carla has at her distribution center and bring it to her office.
[SPEAKER_10]: So I love friends.
[SPEAKER_10]: The ale house you were by yourself.
[SPEAKER_12]: I loved by my son goes off with the two other with his sisters and the bows.
[SPEAKER_12]: They're going back to the house and I I'm free.
[SPEAKER_12]: And I'm free and all I was thinking of what is is it a left turn or a right turn that takes me past the dairy queen.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, but I though the disaster would have been I'm still on guard today.
[SPEAKER_12]: Rest in today tomorrow and the holiday itself.
[SPEAKER_12]: That's what I do.
[SPEAKER_09]: What is the what is the what is the what is the what is the
[SPEAKER_09]: For me, there's a level of, I know that I have to shut it down, or it's gonna be a disaster this holiday.
[SPEAKER_09]: Because I already tell you what it is, right?
[SPEAKER_10]: So it's gonna, you have a bigger appetite, a bigger problem.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: Last night, after I went to hit those cashews again, I'm gonna tell you, I felt like so, oh, by the way, dinner was pizza.
[SPEAKER_12]: What about the rack of ribs?
[SPEAKER_12]: That was lunch.
[SPEAKER_09]: That was lunch.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my God.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, oh my God, it's right.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I felt like,
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, because you've probably been almost free of carbs for a long time, right?
[SPEAKER_12]: Not as carbs as much as just I've been on two thousand calories a day.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: So this is just like, you know, it's like a jailbreak like my inner fat.
[SPEAKER_12]: has escaped from a penitentiary and he's running through the field just like with reckless abandon not really carrying in last night was a first example where I'm sitting there going oh my god the front of my forehead feels like it's gonna explode yeah it sucked with that said and then you know just eating the idea when you when you stay on a low calorie program for a long time and by the way that's the way I should eat forever yeah when you do that you become intensely aware when you have a blip
[SPEAKER_12]: of empty calories.
[SPEAKER_12]: And let me give you the greatest example of empty calories.
[SPEAKER_12]: The greatest example you could possibly have is a fast food hamburger.
[SPEAKER_12]: You can eat it and it is like you have eaten nothing because you have put pure crap into your body.
[SPEAKER_12]: TEMOS classic.
[SPEAKER_12]: I digress there, Rob.
[SPEAKER_12]: I know you wanted to do something else.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, I was going to say more than one dessert after a meal, forty one percent of America say they'll do that.
[SPEAKER_10]: I will do it on Thanksgiving.
[SPEAKER_10]: We have to.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: Um, I'm debuting a new dessert at my house.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, have you seen on your feed?
[SPEAKER_10]: And I don't know if I'm just targeted for it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Uh, an outfit in based in New York called Milk Bar.
[SPEAKER_09]: No.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a it is a really sort of specialty hit me too.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think there's a certain maybe above two, fifty is when they find you, but they have something called the Milk Bar pie, which used to be called the Milk Bar.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: Is very popular.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I got the recipe for it and I'll be making that from scratch for the foot is the milk bar pie it is basically and Assalted wise your hand on your forehead because I don't know I'm just excited yeah, I'm a little excited to be eating this stuff.
[SPEAKER_10]: I can as long as I monitor my blood sugar and keep it down and if I exercise and I'm keeping on my blood sugar the milk bar pie slice is gonna go to his liver
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, I don't know enough about diabetes to know.
[SPEAKER_10]: Do you got a minute?
[SPEAKER_10]: You got a monitor your blood sugar.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's a whole different thing.
[SPEAKER_10]: But that's actually been in very good shape.
[SPEAKER_10]: I've had a couple desserts along the way.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: And it's been, I'm doing okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm just asking.
[SPEAKER_12]: But it's a great Debbie down or back to the milk bar pie.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, this is, you want my friend true fat guy behavior.
[SPEAKER_10]: I started planning for this three weeks ago.
[SPEAKER_10]: I had an ordering ingredients online.
[SPEAKER_10]: I just tell me what the pie is.
[SPEAKER_10]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a salted oatmeal cookie crust.
[SPEAKER_10]: with a rich vanilla custard filling baked while it's still a little wobbly frozen than thought then served, dusted with powdered sugar.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a custard pie.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a custard pie, but it is amazing looking.
[SPEAKER_10]: And it ate egg yolks, I believe, or anything.
[SPEAKER_10]: And it's going to be, I'll make two of them.
[SPEAKER_10]: And we shall see what happens.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'll report.
[SPEAKER_12]: Elizabeth is making also along with the turkey, a honey pumpkin pie.
[SPEAKER_12]: That's got a honey thing.
[SPEAKER_12]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_12]: I mean the recipe and the sheet of crust from scratch or does she will see the crust from scratch.
[SPEAKER_12]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm jealous.
[SPEAKER_10]: I've never.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, we got some of the first time I put that out.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my God, one of these cakes from the actual milk bar is sixty two dollars before anything else goes down.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, and that's for a six inch attention is a hundred and forty dollars.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, size matters.
[SPEAKER_11]: That depends on what you're doing with the call.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's great Davidson.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, that's a B. B. By the way, they're there.
[SPEAKER_12]: You know, just so just a little tip in saw some video saw some video of them.
[SPEAKER_12]: They are a thing.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: So he's done it again.
[SPEAKER_12]: The pattern has been repeated.
[SPEAKER_11]: He's he's truly going to have a wonderful Thanksgiving and as well and the way he'll be he'll be having sure I can be he'll be eating lots of pie.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, he will.
[SPEAKER_11]: Or maybe he doesn't.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a shame as the as the players on the brewing said is she seems like a cool girl.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, all right eating the same meal more than once a day like to another way people.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, yeah, thirty five.
[SPEAKER_12]: Like a full turkey dinner again.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then going at.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, and then hitting it again.
[SPEAKER_10]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_10]: So some would say
[SPEAKER_12]: having a rack of ribs at lunch followed by pizza and a McDonald's hand multiple piece of pizza and a McDonald's hamburger with french fries at dinner followed by.
[SPEAKER_12]: Doesn't count because it's don't look at me.
[SPEAKER_12]: You've been there.
[SPEAKER_12]: You've eaten like this.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's not.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm not talking to him.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm talking to you.
[SPEAKER_10]: I know I was going to say like it doesn't count because it's not the same meal.
[SPEAKER_10]: This is the same.
[SPEAKER_09]: You stack McDonald's on to a pizza.
[SPEAKER_12]: Carla, uh, somebody want to pick up.
[SPEAKER_12]: I said, do you want to take the kids out to Texas?
[SPEAKER_12]: Right.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_12]: By the way, we're a classy family.
[SPEAKER_12]: And so the, I said, no, we went out for lunch.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: Let's just pick something up.
[SPEAKER_12]: I said, and I said, not her.
[SPEAKER_12]: I said, why don't you pick up some pizzas from Marcelo?
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: knowing full well that that has nothing to do with anyone else in the home other than me me me me and I'm the one that likes that pizza from us well apparently there was a run shocker in the land of the entitled old person there they didn't have any that that were ready and she didn't want to wait the forty minutes to get the pizza so she stopped by making these picked up some little you know regular cheeseburg sure
[SPEAKER_12]: And you know, I didn't ignore that.
[SPEAKER_12]: It was, it was an, it was an eat-fest last night in here.
[SPEAKER_10]: Eating a mic?
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm not proud of myself.
[SPEAKER_10]: Thirty-five percent of Americans say that around the holidays, they will eat more than three meals in a day.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm going that that today and tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm going to try to break that pattern and then I'm going to try to break it on Thanksgiving as well.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm going to try to break that pattern.
[SPEAKER_12]: Just want me to hate myself.
[SPEAKER_10]: Maybe not want me to do something to make sure that your metabolism stays up.
[SPEAKER_12]: I don't like the I am trying to cite myself up in the fact that I don't care for that feeling.
[SPEAKER_12]: after Thanksgiving dinner.
[SPEAKER_12]: I don't like it.
[SPEAKER_12]: Most people don't like it.
[SPEAKER_12]: You love stuffing it in there, but nobody likes that.
[SPEAKER_12]: Carby, heavy, saucy, feeling, I love it.
[SPEAKER_11]: Help me with your milk, milk bone pie.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, no, no, no, no, not milk bone.
[SPEAKER_10]: Like twenty six percent of America say they will have during the holidays bigger late night snacks.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, that's huge.
[SPEAKER_12]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_12]: If you go for the I like Darren McGavin in Christmas spirit, if you had if I a little gravy and just the bird, yes, I would be perfectly content.
[SPEAKER_12]: Perfectly contesting.
[SPEAKER_12]: I know a lot of people like all the sides.
[SPEAKER_12]: I, the, the flavor of a roasted turkey, a real roasted turkey.
[SPEAKER_12]: That's what I'm all about.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: You know, just roast the thing, put, send me the bed and just throw it on my stomach.
[SPEAKER_12]: What a day.
[SPEAKER_12]: And give me a knife and fork.
[SPEAKER_10]: And let me.
[SPEAKER_12]: Seventeen percent of Americans will eat until they feel sick or unwell.
[SPEAKER_12]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_12]: All right.
[SPEAKER_12]: Well, that, that is, yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: Well, I mean, I don't know if I would call it sick, but I would feel not comfortable.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_12]: That's how I would describe it there.
[SPEAKER_10]: All right.
[SPEAKER_10]: I like this one.
[SPEAKER_12]: Comfortable.
[SPEAKER_10]: Eighteen percent of America admitted during the holidays.
[SPEAKER_10]: They hide their favorite treats to save for later.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm in that category.
[SPEAKER_12]: I've done that.
[SPEAKER_12]: And by the way, living with what I call her the squirrel, Carla, where there'll be a particular confection that she occasionally enjoys it.
[SPEAKER_12]: She will hide that there is there's been in this house hidden for years where I'll look behind it.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'll stumble upon it trying to make something.
[SPEAKER_12]: Look at the, are those, is that the large size P not M and M's?
[SPEAKER_12]: Hello, and yeah, that planter.
[SPEAKER_10]: That tree is growing out of reason.
[SPEAKER_10]: I have to get a handle and Mike I hold in my hand the final greatest you had guys statistic of them all.
[SPEAKER_10]: Nineteen percent of America and I have not even done this.
[SPEAKER_10]: I would do if I had I'd say.
[SPEAKER_10]: Nineteen percent of America says they have deliberately worn stretchy clothes to accommodate overeating.
[SPEAKER_12]: Really.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, really.
[SPEAKER_12]: Uh, I just, uh, what I do, I take uh, my pants and underwear off that I wrap a blanket around.
[SPEAKER_12]: T. M. O. S. Classic.
[SPEAKER_12]: And now we're going to take a look back because it's time for Rob Spiewack to take a trip down memory lane.
[SPEAKER_12]: This week, I believe Christmas is the theme of this week.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes, Mike, let me tell you this.
[SPEAKER_10]: Christmas is a frame of mind.
[SPEAKER_10]: Maybe you saw Richard Attenborough in nineteen ninety four or Sebastian Cabot in nineteen seventy three or Thomas Mitchell in nineteen fifty five.
[SPEAKER_10]: But if you want to see the real Santa Claus, look no further than Edmund Gwen in nineteen forty seven.
[SPEAKER_10]: He is Chris Kringle and the film is Miracle on thirty-fourth Street a nineteen forty-seven point.
[SPEAKER_09]: I haven't seen it and I live on thirty-fourth street.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh you do.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oscar.
[SPEAKER_12]: If you want to treat.
[SPEAKER_12]: I you look.
[SPEAKER_12]: I picked and I hope you wouldn't roll your eyes.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's black and say nothing.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's color.
[SPEAKER_12]: There's colorized version.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's best in black and white.
[SPEAKER_12]: Well, I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_12]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, I think man.
[SPEAKER_12]: I mean, that's there's it's a wonderful life in this one.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, miracle on thirty four street.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's the definitive puts me in a house.
[SPEAKER_10]: And if I was forced to choose, I think I would choose miracle.
[SPEAKER_10]: They are really both great films, but I'll tell you some things about this movie.
[SPEAKER_10]: The cast is unbeatable Edmund Gwen who plays Santa Claus, Moreno Hera, Beautiful, John Paine, William Frawley, who you know as Fred Merz on I Love Lucy has a great role in the judges' henchmen.
[SPEAKER_10]: Exactly, Jack Albertson has his film debut in it, film a writer, future Oscar winner, Percy Helton, you would know his voice, and Natalie Wood, who is only eight in this movie, and plays like a grown-up.
[SPEAKER_10]: Her performance is sensational.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hot, when did she fall off that boat?
[SPEAKER_10]: What kind of wood doesn't float, Oscar?
[SPEAKER_10]: Natalie.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_12]: No, no, come on.
[SPEAKER_12]: Here's a little girl.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's horrible.
[SPEAKER_12]: She wasn't going to want you fell, right?
[SPEAKER_12]: No, no.
[SPEAKER_12]: No, she was growing up.
[SPEAKER_12]: Come on, stop with the boat, please.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_10]: I can't bear may not have pushed her.
[SPEAKER_12]: You really, you really messin' up my, my Christmas.
[SPEAKER_10]: All right.
[SPEAKER_10]: Now listen, the movie starts, Oscar.
[SPEAKER_10]: Does she swim in the movie?
[SPEAKER_10]: No, it's in the wintertime.
[SPEAKER_10]: They have, they're at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, and the Santa Claus is drunk.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, Chris Pringles.
[SPEAKER_10]: He's hammered.
[SPEAKER_10]: And he has a great license.
[SPEAKER_10]: A man has to do something to keep warm.
[SPEAKER_10]: And he's just found another bad drunk.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: So he comes in and the real Santa Claus, Edmund Gwen sees him and says he is not going to allow this man to portray him.
[SPEAKER_10]: So in a last minute effort to save the parade, they put him on the float.
[SPEAKER_10]: The real Santa Claus.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, just just quick question.
[SPEAKER_09]: Mattie, have you seen the movie you're the youngest of all of us?
[SPEAKER_00]: I have not.
[SPEAKER_09]: You'd love it, God.
[SPEAKER_10]: What is wrong with them?
[SPEAKER_09]: But I'm not in voice.
[SPEAKER_12]: No, I haven't seen it either.
[SPEAKER_10]: Whoa!
[SPEAKER_10]: This is horrifying.
[SPEAKER_12]: You know, it's not as available as it used to be.
[SPEAKER_10]: You're right, because you know why?
[SPEAKER_10]: Because the local stations don't have it in like syndication.
[SPEAKER_10]: And that used to be the way we would all see it.
[SPEAKER_09]: But it's a one of tragic.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now what's something is cool.
[SPEAKER_09]: I have viewing part of here.
[SPEAKER_10]: These opening shots where you see it.
[SPEAKER_10]: I will you see it.
[SPEAKER_10]: It looks very accurate and the reason is this was very uncommon for the time.
[SPEAKER_10]: they shot this movie the parade sequences on location at the nineteen forty six macy's parade during the parade during the parade and it was it was the coldest parade on record to that point macy's the biggest department store in the world did not have enough electricity to do the shoot they had to bring in generators to make it
[SPEAKER_12]: Let me say this too.
[SPEAKER_12]: If you're going to watch a movie that's a time capsule.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yes, that really shows New York back in the forties.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's spectacular.
[SPEAKER_12]: Wonderful capture.
[SPEAKER_12]: So it's such a great capture.
[SPEAKER_12]: They're very few movies that do it as well.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_10]: Now, you're fine.
[SPEAKER_10]: And so what what you have to think about this is before the days of televised in the parade.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's nineteen forty six people that were along the parade route on Thanksgiving morning.
[SPEAKER_10]: We're actually watching Edmund Gwen as Santa Claus in the parade, but no one knew it at the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_10]: They just sort of snuck in and did it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Really, the lady who hired him to be on the float, her name is Mrs. Walker, and he is gets such a great reception that they hire him to be the Santa Claus in Macy's, all right?
[SPEAKER_10]: So there's so many magical moments in the movie where he's seated on the Santa Claus throne and being Santa Claus, one of which, when he talks to Natalie Wood, and tells her that he is Santa Claus, and Mrs. Walker's no nonsense.
[SPEAKER_10]: She doesn't have any faith, doesn't have the Christmas spirit.
[SPEAKER_10]: So she calls Christ down to set the record straight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Susan, the reason I asked you to drop down.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's a little confused, and I thought maybe you could help to straighten her out.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'll be glad since it's no great answer.
[SPEAKER_03]: Please tell her that you're not really Santa Claus, but there actually is no such person.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, I'm sorry to disagree with you Mrs. Walker, but not only is this such a person, but here I am to prove it.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_03]: You misunderstand.
[SPEAKER_03]: I want you to tell her the truth.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's your name?
[SPEAKER_08]: Chris Crinkle.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'll bet you're in the first grade.
[SPEAKER_03]: Second.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you're real name.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is my real name.
[SPEAKER_10]: And my favorite scene we ever see like I was hammered.
[SPEAKER_10]: He has a brief at the front of it at the front of he's got one seat.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, now, maybe there was like a redemption story.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, no, it's real years.
[SPEAKER_11]: No, back then drinking like bad Santa.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, they got together and they became friends.
[SPEAKER_10]: Drinking was okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's a Christmas.
[SPEAKER_10]: The most magical moment for me in the movie is when
[SPEAKER_10]: A Dutch orphan is brought to Santa Claus's throne.
[SPEAKER_10]: And the lady who adopted her said, you're not going to be able to speak to her.
[SPEAKER_10]: She only speaks Dutch, but in a big wooden crib.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, she was probably three or four years old.
[SPEAKER_10]: And she said, when I saw you in the parade, I knew you had to be Santa Claus.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, young lady, I'm what you're doing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: She doesn't speak English.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's Dutch.
[SPEAKER_02]: She just came over.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's been living in an orphan's home in Rotterdam ever since.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've adopted her.
[SPEAKER_12]: Do you pause it there?
[SPEAKER_12]: Can you pause it for a second?
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: This is also a reference to World War II.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, I just talked about World War II.
[SPEAKER_12]: It is.
[SPEAKER_12]: Well, she, and it doesn't because they're careful in those days.
[SPEAKER_12]: They don't want to tell you, right?
[SPEAKER_12]: She was living in an orphanage because appearance were probably killed.
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_12]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_12]: So this is played again.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, by the asses.
[SPEAKER_10]: Brought, Brought State side, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, young lady, I'm what you're doing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: She doesn't speak English.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's Dutch.
[SPEAKER_02]: She just came over.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's been living in an orphan's home in Rotterdam, ever since.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, we've adopted her.
[SPEAKER_02]: I told her you wouldn't be able to speak to her, but when she saw you in the parade yesterday, she said you were a center-class, as she calls you, and you could talk to her.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I didn't know what to do.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hello!
[SPEAKER_08]: I've been glad that you're a common man.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, who?
[SPEAKER_05]: Ben's in the class.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, I guess.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's visited Belle.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was Zekar that he would double-chriping.
[SPEAKER_08]: Not sure, Dick.
[SPEAKER_08]: Say more about you so we'll end up in the class.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nick, you can't pronounce it.
[SPEAKER_05]: It will elame my day to leave the down the sign.
[SPEAKER_08]: Will you want more amazing?
[SPEAKER_05]: Sing to class, cook for me, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_10]: So he does speak Dutch.
[SPEAKER_10]: And again, that makes Natalie wood believe in him even more.
[SPEAKER_10]: It does.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, it does.
[SPEAKER_09]: It does to me.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't think a spy film.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a mystery to it.
[SPEAKER_10]: I suppose you can take it out of where you want.
[SPEAKER_10]: There are no transformers in it, but it's pretty good anyway.
[SPEAKER_10]: So as it goes on, there are many, many classic scenes, including the one we've played many times with Mrs. Shell Hammer.
[SPEAKER_10]: We'd love to have Santa Claus come and stay with us.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, Rob's played that a million times.
[SPEAKER_12]: The drunk lady on the couch.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's a great movie.
[SPEAKER_12]: You know what you're selling me.
[SPEAKER_10]: They're bringing it really it comes to the end of the movie.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's a wonderful life.
[SPEAKER_12]: I think you might be right about it.
[SPEAKER_10]: At the end of the movie, it's brought into question whether or not he is mentally fit and whether or not he really is Santa Claus.
[SPEAKER_10]: This is the penultimate scene in the movie.
[SPEAKER_10]: This is not a spoiler alert because it's not the actual end of the movie that's the total payoff.
[SPEAKER_10]: But this is how very clever they prove the fact that he is indeed Santa Claus.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your honor, every one of these letters is addressed to Santa Claus.
[SPEAKER_01]: The post office is delivered to them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Therefore, the post office department, a branch of the federal government recognizes this man Chris Kringle to be the one and only Santa Claus.
[SPEAKER_01]: Since the United States government declares this man to be Santa Claus, this court will not dispute it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Case dismissed.
[SPEAKER_10]: And there's still a great payoff after that, but there's some things you need to keep in mind when you watch this movie.
[SPEAKER_10]: Natalie Wood, who is so great as Little Susan Walker, once as I said eight years old, she spent most of the movie believing that Edmund Gwen really was Santa Claus.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, they know that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, they're seen in this movie where there's a small gingerbread house that nobody wants to put frosting on.
[SPEAKER_09]: Is that code for my little house too far too deep?
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm sorry, thirty-fourth street rewind.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I'm really deep.
[SPEAKER_10]: This beard was real, Mike, did you know that?
[SPEAKER_10]: And when really grew as beard support, Macy's in gimbal in Russia, Santa fine view.
[SPEAKER_10]: They actually had final script approval.
[SPEAKER_10]: So if this movie had been made and either Gimbals or Macy's, the two department stores in New York City had disliked it, they could have stopped it from being released.
[SPEAKER_10]: So it was a major role of the dice.
[SPEAKER_10]: How about this?
[SPEAKER_10]: The Catholic Legion of Dacency gave the film a B. As morally objectionable, because Doris Walker was a divorce say.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, it's Gimbals.
[SPEAKER_10]: Gimbals is the department store that was the main competitor of Macy's in no longer exists.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh my God.
[SPEAKER_10]: It was also in the same shopping district.
[SPEAKER_10]: Darrell Zannick who ran twenty literally.
[SPEAKER_10]: Fox.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, kind of like what he's in Hex would be a similar relation.
[SPEAKER_09]: But a Montgomery Ward.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: Darrell Zannick who ran the studio insisted on releasing the movie in May because he said this movie is too corny.
[SPEAKER_10]: It'll never sell and more people go to the movies in May.
[SPEAKER_10]: Darrell Zannick was a prick.
[SPEAKER_10]: So they had to redo all the posters without Santa Claus.
[SPEAKER_10]: So just like it looked like a love story.
[SPEAKER_10]: It returned four times, it's shooting budget.
[SPEAKER_10]: It was a massive hit.
[SPEAKER_10]: It won Best Actor for Edmund Gwen, two awards for writing and nominated for Best Picture but lost to gentlemen in agreement.
[SPEAKER_10]: But the bag's a question, why is this movie so great?
[SPEAKER_10]: And why after all these years doesn't hold up, I think it is because
[SPEAKER_10]: The holiday subject matter is strong.
[SPEAKER_10]: It is a genuinely clever story with a couple plot twists.
[SPEAKER_10]: You don't see very funny, but mostly this film attacks fantasy subject matter with real life reasons and motivation.
[SPEAKER_10]: Macy's is in it for the money.
[SPEAKER_10]: Mr. Galey wants to marry Mrs. Walker.
[SPEAKER_10]: The judge wants reelection.
[SPEAKER_10]: So he's got a motivation and also Chris equals faith and happiness and the universal theme that if you have faith and the ability to believe in something that is not necessarily tangible, you're going to be happier overall.
[SPEAKER_10]: And that's why it works.
[SPEAKER_10]: In any case, if you want some Christmas spirit, I say, go ahead and watch the original, nineteen forty seven.
[SPEAKER_10]: The article on thirty four.
[SPEAKER_12]: Hey, man.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm going to watch it.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm going to watch with my son.
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