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00:00:50 ◼   ► number 207 before november 2015 [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► welcome back everybody to be [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► uncomfortable podcast on your host Jason [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► Steele we are here to celebrate the [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► holiday season in that period allotted [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► to us before the new Star Wars movie [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► comes out and talk about Star Wars so to [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► talk about classic holiday TV specials [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► i'm joined by a fine panel people Steve [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► Lutz is not one of them but he's here to [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► my studio i'm also present up 5 4 a's [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► dog food or raise to you Jason still [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► thank you i will test you with my [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► two-and-a-half foot pole later David [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► lower also there hello [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► I i wish you all a holly jolly podcast [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► very very nice Glenn Fleischman is out [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► there [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► hello hello we're talking about woohoo [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► serious or is it yahoo Jorge tonight at [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► last rack we're celebrating Christmas [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► commercially oh yeah even commercially [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► even commercial might I was going you [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► didn't have your aluminum tree [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► I got a festivus pole and i'll show you [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► where that's going should have a [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► half-foot I hope Shannon others also out [TS]

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00:01:58 ◼   ► hello hello silver and gold all this is [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► very good and she just wants to be a [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► dentist in saline sims hi i hope my [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► heart grows two sizes this day [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► oh I have some bad news for you wow that [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► leads to an enlarged heart and it's a [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► fatal convention that i recommend a [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► standing desk [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► yeah that's how the grinch did it so [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► where we're going to talk about three [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► classic TV specials that were released i [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► did not even realize this when we pick [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► them in successive years success of [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► Christmases interesting isn't it isn't [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► it's it's a so few classic christmas [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► specials and they all kind of came in a [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► clump in the middle 60 like another done [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► what was it in the water that caused [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► this i don't know but 1964 'he's Rudolph [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► the red-nosed reindeer a rankin/bass [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► production in claymation there is a [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► Charlie Brown Christmas which is [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► celebrating its 50th anniversary this [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► Christmas from nineteen sixty-five and [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► 1966 is how the grinch stole christmas [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► with an exclamation point [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► those are the the [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► three specials that we're going to be [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► talking about all classics [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► you know you could you could say there's [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► sort of an inflection point where the [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► way Christmas is celebrated and marketed [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► really shifted in the early sixties [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► after television really hit and all of [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► these kind of have that same theme of [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► it's not it's not the toys it's not the [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► marketing its here's what Christmas is [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► all about right what is what is the true [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► yes in fact the plots of at least two of [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► these specials are really similar as was [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► pointed out to me earlier [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► really yeah and you know an overarching [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► it turns out well we'll get to it also [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► I'm always amused by how how much in [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► jeopardy Christmas is Christmas is a is [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► a is a holiday that is right on the edge [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► of being ruined at all times [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► there's always been a war on Christmas [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► yea verily it is it's true you could it [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► could it could fall apart any minute [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► except in Whoville but we'll get there [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► because we're going to start with [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer we're [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► gonna go chronologically 1964 this this [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► stop-motion animation rankin/bass they [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► did a whole lot of specials but this was [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► the one that that is I think the most [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► famous in that and then made their made [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► their careers actually Jules bass and [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► artists such as they were so well you [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► know your year without the Santa Claus [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► your your frosty the snowman your [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► hospitals is coming to town yeah there [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► they did a bunch mad monster party this [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► one so this one of course chronicles the [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► story of of Rudolph the red-nosed [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► reindeer as taken from the popular song [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► you may not realize the from the book [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► written by his brother-in-law and you [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► have been 37 huh yeah it's a real threat [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► was reading your article not a classic [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► song a relatively at the time relatively [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► recent kind of holiday novelty song and [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► turned within like 25 years yeah yeah [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► and turned into this story of what would [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► really have been like to flesh out the [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► story of that of the origin of the [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► red-nosed reindeer and how he came to [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► guide Santa's sleigh that night and the [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► answer is that the North Pole is a [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► terrible place full of all judgmental [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► people who will brook no difference and [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► everybody must be exactly the same to [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► the point where his father Donner up [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► on Rudolph being born and showing his [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► glowing nose says well he's never gonna [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► amount to anything now but he knows [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► that's true because he's dealt with all [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► the a-holes at the North its energy is [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► like it's all the creatures my god i [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► mean the elves are judgmental the your [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► judgment my sanity is awful [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► he knows exactly what Santa is going to [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► say about it when he discovers it which [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► is daughter you should be ashamed of [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► yourself which is exactly what Santa [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► said yeah you gotta worry about the big [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► hole that's full of all the other [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► reindeer with like green noses yellow [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► noses infra red noses they load your [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► ghost of they're all gone and not [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► humanely [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► yeah that's where reindeer meat comes [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► from oh the guy i actually got an x-men [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► vibe i tweeted about this i said earlier [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► right rootin tootin and he's hated it [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► for his mutant power and this isn't know [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► where there are flying reindeer that's [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► fine that's fine but you better not be a [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► mutant with a glowing nose because then [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► there is no place for you in this it [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► just struck me that any obviously the [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► message of this is one about like you [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► can you know you we want to enjoy the [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► fact that people are different and p [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► it's okay to be different that is the [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► message it's a very almost free to be [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► you and me kind of message but while [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► sending it also since the message that [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► the North Pole is horrible i forgot [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► watching this this time I forgotten how [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► annoying the noise was too [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► it's one thing that is nose closed but [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► it also makes an incredibly noising [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► annoying piercing noise [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► yeah it has to suspect that might be [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► part of that yeah it's true yeah because [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► mom and I can't be selfie with with that [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► noise that's right but they never bring [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► that up do they [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► the other very annoying those very noisy [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► I like that Sam the Snowman actually [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► points out how awful all of the going on [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► at the North Pole is when you that he [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► pointedly early on calls Rudolph's nose [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► a nonconformity mmhmm yeah like he's [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► pointing out this awful in a sort of [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► 1984's society where everyone must [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► follow suit and have a normal black [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► noses and you don't know what the elves [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► do in room 101 well you know big brother [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► is watching you that's how he knows that [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► you've been not even [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► good exactly it's all connected big [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► Santa yeah yeah I also forgotten that [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► Sam as a friend mechanism of the burl [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► ives character is a he started talking a [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► framing mechanism right but it sounds [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► narrator he's completely it's just sort [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► of this strange no other talking stuff i [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► mean so we've gotta talking [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► self-propelled snowman and that's okay [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► too yeah we're talking both worlds [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► snowman this world always apparently the [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► only one of those so there's no one to [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► not conform with his kids yeah [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► Burl Ives can get away with a lot 3 i'm [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► pretty sure the snowman is only an [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► excuse to have somebody as good as Burl [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► Ives be in the special LOL yeah that's [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► true [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► no yeah yeah this is my favorite [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► christmas special when I was little I [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► remember like because it only aired once [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► a year we didn't have it like on VHS or [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► whatever and it was the thing I had to [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► watch and now it's been several years [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► since I've seen it and so I sat down to [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► watch it tonight in preparation for the [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► show and oh what a let you [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► oh my lord what a letdown but I kept [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► thinking what whatever it off was gay [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► like is this yeah that's interact as [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► long as his nose isn't great i think [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► you're really okay with that they are [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► elves different the first thing the [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► first thing that he's encouraged to do [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► when he meets the adolescent reindeer [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► for the first time to go talk to a girl [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► and so right but what was happening in [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► this world it is awful it is often but [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► it was not saying it's okay to be awful [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► to route off its expressly pointing out [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► that it's okay to be a misfit I mean [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► that's the whole point of the special [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► it's true they're just throwing all of [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► the beloved things about Christmas in [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► the North Pole and Santa Claus under the [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► bus to do it which is an interesting [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► choice for a 21-8 you didn't catch all [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► of that you're just like all these [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► people are being pretty awful but come [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► on it's Santa I know he's good deep down [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► he's just mentioned it even as he rolls [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► his eyes at the elves he has to deal [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► with these damn elves trying to sing [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► songs to him and a wife shoving food [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► down his throat just as he just as he [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► lost all the way he's gonna make weight [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► yeah i mean if you want you all the [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► later ranked and [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► as things are like the year without a [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► santa claus the story of Santa Claus he [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► starts out as a young thin guy and he [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► has been tortured by mrs. Claus all of [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► these years clearly just fattening them [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► up [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► let's talk about the elves because you [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► said that the elves I i enjoy Santa's [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► again it's like two aliens point kind of [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► enjoying it on a level that i did not [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► enjoy it before but there is that level [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► there which is why for example i enjoy [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► States is contempt for the elves i think [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► that is fantastic yeah the scene where [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► they sing to him [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► they're very proud of their songs [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► they're doing their best to sing it the [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► best possible way and just Santa reacts [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► just with utter disdain the holes are [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► looking away arms crossed and the whole [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► thing ends and they look to him for his [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► assessment he says well it needs work [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► I have to go I'm out of here he's gone [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► he's although I i also noticed in my [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► family knows this too this is basically [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► where will Ferrell is from in l.a yeah [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► it's very clear that itself is taking [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► this North Pole story from from this [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► special as like the most I think it's [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► the biggest influence on that movie [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► because i can see i could see the this [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► is the same characters although they're [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► less the adapter is much less awful that [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► then this Santa is but you don't spend [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► much time with that as nurse oh it's [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► possible he's just as I'm they make that [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► obvious with the opening of elf wear it [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► where it's all the stop-motion stuff [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► yeah it sounds direct there is no yeah [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► an elf they're actually caught their [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► kind though it's like actually elves [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► really feel bad for a matter their kind [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► of him but not here because they're not [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► because their way we meet Hermey the elf [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► who just wants to be a dentist and and [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► he doesn't fit in just like will ferrell [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► doesn't fit actually an elf and and this [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► leads to our body our buddy comedy are [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► mismatched buddy comedy with her me and [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► rudolf who did who basically are pushed [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► out onto an ice flow they decide to [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► leave the north pole in the middle of [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► the storm and because they are there's [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► no place for them there we gotta get [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► back up a second though because we [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► missed up miss Clarice [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► hello police [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► if you made it creepy glen and well yeah [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► with a bit where he's she's very [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► interested in him and he makes this [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► giant leap he's thrust ya there [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► there's no symbolism well the reason [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► that she's she's into him is at that [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► point he's wearing that enormous fake [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► black nose yes and you know they say [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► about the size of reindeers note now I [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► don't want to say it I don't know [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► actually was hoping you could tell me no [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► okay [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► this clearly predates self because by [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► that point the elves have learned the [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► lesson of Rudolph so they're nicer too [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► buddy [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► mhm okay all right at least someone [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► learned headcanon wonder is is the [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► enormous black fake nose and the speech [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► impediment really better than the tiny [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► glowing red nose is like the jimmy [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► durante of reindeer Jimmy Durante [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► narrated a different one [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► he did well I think they felt bad after [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► this of all the things they have a [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► single out about his difference but [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► that's the point of this right it's just [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► it doesn't even matter it's just he's [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► different from all the others he stands [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► out and then and conformity is the order [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► of Sam klutzes cruel northern eugenics [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► and conformity daughters self-respect is [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► more important than comfort [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► yeah it's a I'm gonna I'm gonna throw in [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► a sixties cartoon aside here by the way [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► I grew up on the classic totally weird [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► spiderman cartoon and while I was [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► watching this I I turned to my wife and [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► I said you know [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► Wow rules dad is like Jay jonah Jameson [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► from the spidey cartoon and then I went [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► on IMDb it is the voice agility and some [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► of the spiderman cartoon and in fact her [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► me is the voice of spider-man from the [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► spiderman cartoon network oh yes there's [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► more I looked it up there's actually I [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► think there are a bunch of people in it [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► who are in the spidermans but next time [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► you watch it just think the Donner is [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► actually just charge mrs. grant from now [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► on make sure Peter Parker place takes no [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► part in our reporter game yeah i'm tired [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► of these teenagers like Rudolph the same [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► guy [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► hermie senses tingling Oh Glenn no all [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► right let me tell you about a sponsor on [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► the uncomfortable this is it is a good [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► one [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► it's a kickstarter project from max [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► Temkin co-creator of cards against [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► humanity [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► it's got an interesting name are you [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► ready here it is its secret Hitler [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► that's right now you may be saying to [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► yourself why would you put Hitler in the [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► name of a product but you've got here [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► with this product is and it'll make [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► sense and i also subscribe to the mel [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► brooks line of thought which is the more [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► things we can say to demean or mock [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► hitler the better anyway secret Hitler [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► is a game it's a inspired by classic [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► party games like mafia or werewolf or [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► the resistance if you know those it [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► introduces some new mechanics to the [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► genre anyway if you're familiar with any [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► of those sort of social deduction games [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► you will get a little bit about what [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► secret Hitler is all about the liberal [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► team is trying to keep control of the [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► government this is definitely inspired [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► by the rise of the Nazis in World before [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► world war two and they are a majority [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► group right but they have distrust and [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► they need to learn to work together to [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► overcome fascism and assassinate Hitler [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► before he can take over the government [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► so it's super intense but it's also [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► really interesting and how it tries to [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► take a page out of history and [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► understand the dynamics that led to the [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► rise for somebody who did not have the [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► support of the majority but that person [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► ended up taking control of the [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► government so it is a little bit of [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► history and a little bit of social [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► commentary and also it falls into this [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► social deduction category for played [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► werewolf you know what i'm talking about [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► very fun and very cool it's on [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► Kickstarter now it's already funded [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► 3,500 people have already backed it so [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► when you back it on Kickstarter which [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► you can do through december 23rd you're [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► going to get the game you're going to [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► get the game and you can learn a lot [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► more about it see it in action watch the [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► videos at secret Hitler dot-com that's [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► where you need to go secret Hitler com [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► max Temkin who created co-created cards [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► against humanity smart guy funny guy [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► this is a great idea for a game he's [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► done some other game design in the last [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► few years that I've really enjoyed i [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► encourage you to check it out especially [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► if you played any of those social [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► deduction games like mafia or werewolf [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► I think you will find secret Hitler a [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► really intriguing spin on the concepts [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► go to secret Hitler calm and thanks to [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► max and everybody else pine secret [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► Hitler com [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► for sponsoring the uncomfortable and by [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► the way Glenn was the secret Hitler all [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► along they go off and end up almost [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► being killed by the about the abominable [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► snowman snowman who is the cutest [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► monster ever I that poor things that [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► we're not there yet but that poor thing [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► they have a scale problem also and [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► losers [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► this is all my son notice that wasn't [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► figure them out the size of a mountain [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► and then later he he's just standing [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► inside an hour that's that's a feature [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► of rankin/bass like that so it's just [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► gonna grate some sweet day their spatial [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► awareness is terrible i mean towards the [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► beginning daughter like takes off her [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► flight and he's still inside the cave [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► different like how did he not get stuck [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► in the ceiling with his antlers he can [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► he can shrink which is unlike the other [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► reindeer and that's really freaky I've [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► put a lot of thought into my Rudolph [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► headcanon heavily now this is only [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► appropriate he does start enormous and [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► then and then get smaller when he needs [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► to be smaller but they avoid you know [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► what they say about reindeer with small [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► nose now I don't what do they say did [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► you might even say he grows oh so anyway [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► they end up they literally end up on an [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► ice floe in order to avoid the the [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► abominable snowman and and they end up [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► on the island of misfit toys which is a [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► whole set piece where there are there [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► are other nonconformist like them [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► including a Charlie and in the box [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► William which is skipper yeah exactly [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► Marianne on the rest and and and there's [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► a musical number about the about the [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► island of misfit my voice not going to [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► do something here though I'm few apps [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► which is so just sent like at first my [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► memory my headcanon was their abandoned [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► their that they're imperfect in the [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► elves like send them off there but in [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► this I realize there's a this Lots [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► flying lion of course and the flying [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► lion yeah goes around the world to [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► collide and so are they damaged by [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► children is this kind of toy story [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► scenario and then King what's-his-face [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► goes in the the the lion is as land the [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► there is actually there i'm telling the [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► same cameras you know [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► is yeah so yeah the the the facility [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► flying line this is it there is a toy [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► story thing I think I think I toy story [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► is inspired by this in some ways to [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► there is in fact a line in here about [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► how toys will always want to be played [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► with that that is a direct antecedent of [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► of the entire concept about how the boys [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► story world works [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► this is my thinking and and they don't [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► go into it for some reason but I'm [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► pretty confident that all the misfit [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► toys are actually the awful rejects that [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► hermes been making all these years I [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► heard that too yeah so it's really his [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► fault they're there in the first it [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► would be creative to get to the island [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► and Hermes worshipped as a god [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► fantastic no but this is my this is my [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► issue though is are these toys liver to [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► children and then King moonracer goes [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► open oh and he goes and collects them so [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► they're giving out and you make that [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► they failed the quality control is [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► really cool research going around the [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► world you know finding some of them so [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► maybe so [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► hey what he says that but you'll notice [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► he lives like half a at Arctic Circle [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► away from the North Pole right it's [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► pretty obvious where he's getting the [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► toys from low i said i think I've [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► thought a lot more about my headcanon [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► than they thought about the script yeah [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► it did not sound like cute little [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► elephant with polka dots in the sixties [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► is this a new invention because I [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► couldn't figure out why the cute polka [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► dotted elephant was a rejected toy [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► elephants don't have spots tour I know [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► that's what I thought but see we come a [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► long way back then had a nonconformity [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► was not allow always do you want to [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► accept that yeah you will at least admit [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► that the train with the square wheel [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► caboose is under garbage right but oh [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► yeah we're not there yet but it had to [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► be an aluminum tree haha i'm just saying [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► when they eventually deliver that kid [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► the the square wheel caboose train at [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► the very end when the misfit toys are [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► handed out that's get kids got to be on [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► the naughty list right Cole or square [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► real trade your choice [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► it's not that it's just like [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► aesthetically unpleasing square wheels [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► don't work is true just dragged along i [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► mean i've seen teddy bears from from [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► like the twenties and thirties and they [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► were not photorealistic so i just i [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► don't know like i have questions I guess [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► no one ever explained what's matter with [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► the doll either [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► yeah she's kind of fucking yeah so I [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► just assumed you had like one of her [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► buttons was in the wrong place or [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► something but you're right it's weird [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► weird [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► the judgmental but this whole thing is [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► about that right that's the whole thing [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► is weirdly its gentle yeah so they go so [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► they go back and and and they kick it [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► back into gear to the things that are [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► actually in the story and the and the [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► song because again speaking of your head [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► canon this whole thing is like [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► somebody's head canon of the song [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► Rudolph the red-nosed wait how would [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► that work [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► the what if there's an island of misfit [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► toys that's not mentioned at all in the [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► song but just throw it in there but they [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► get back on the plot where there's a [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► foggy Christmas Eve and Santa's has to [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► come to Rudolph and and use his glowing [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► nose in order to get the get the the [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► sleigh to because Christmas is ruined [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► otherwise again xmas on the precipice of [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► being ruined at all times and saved by [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► by rudolf who who's deformity has [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► suddenly become an asset conveniently [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► now I question the supposed utility of [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► Rudolph's hideous mutation and actually [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► the elves who are expert craftsmen could [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► quickly fashion some sort of head lamp [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► for the lead reindeer surely faster than [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► it takes to rejigger the harness know if [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► its seventh team nope they they tried a [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► whole bunch of them and they went up on [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► the island of misfit toys before he went [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► to go super tall so there's like a whole [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► like yeah they just filled with [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► headlamps they don't do I the lamps like [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► that the circuitry just doesn't work [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► they ran out of batteries of it it's a [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► really detailed headcanon rato of [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► malfunctioning headlamps is in here in [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► GV weekend but the lorry Alice as we [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► know interferes electrical signals and [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► prevents effective use of anything yeah [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► but then you can see things with the [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► aurora borealis we can't we can't ignore [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► the abominable snowman and my guidance [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► to him lets his let's talk about him [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► he's so he's so cute and then then the [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► weird dentist elf pulls all his teeth [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► how is he supposed to live I don't [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► armies almonds has the bumble devoured [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► other people we keep hearing about it we [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► don't see where's the evidence we do see [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► him attempting to eat one of the rain [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► he just waved it around [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► carried by that we like to savor his [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► food and it kind of looks like he was [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► trying to talk to them they're all the [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► cave [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► they're all gathered around him and he's [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► just kind of looking at him and I don't [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► know I call shenanigans they remember [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► they're all monstrous they are i mean [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► even our heroes are awful i mean her me [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► rips out all the snow monsters teeth and [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► ensure that surely breaks the dentist's [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► code of ethics by the way you constantly [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► throwing around that pickaxe encouraging [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► children to lick pics at pickaxes in the [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► middle of winter is not all right don't [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► worry because he will be able to feed [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► himself because there are four main food [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► groups candy candy cane candy corn and [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► syrup so he'll be able to take care of [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► yourself with some friends [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► that's why they need dentists in our [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► members only maybe that's where all the [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► sacrificed misfit reindeer in the future [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► will go just chose movie yeah yeah great [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► Yukon Cornelius after all of the teeth [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► have been ripped out of this poor [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► unassuming snow monster his first [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► instinct is to push him off a cliff [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► oh my god our hero is I think we need a [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► new version of Rudolph that's told from [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► the abominable snowman is perspective [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► like bailable you know and in Grandal I [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► think we need a grand ol because you [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► need bumble all Envy bubble and he only [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► does it [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► that's right Ellie just in the end he'll [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► II is happily living with the elbows [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► right is because he's gone through some [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► sort of reformation and training he's [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► somebody's gonna need a common l's [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► coming at all right uh any any other [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► thoughts about about Rudolph in general [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► lien has expressed her disappointment in [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► my childhood little rash [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► unlike the other two specials we're [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► going to talk about this one goes on 44 [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► double Lincoln hour-long special and and [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► that is one of my problems with it is [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► it's so slow and had they cut it in 30 [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► minutes they could probably have done a [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► fairly straight retelling of Rudolph the [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► red-nosed reindeer filler stuff and it [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► would have been a better special [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► together [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► well ranked invested that I mean almost [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► all other specials were an hour or 90 [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► minutes long [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► yeah I'd I knew that things over the [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► years have been cut as commercials had [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► become more and more plentiful but I had [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► forgotten there's like two song of [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► recaps that you know totally you don't [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► see anymore these days that you know [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► like you said [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► all the stuff doesn't need to be there [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► to tell the story I think the island of [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► misfit toys as part of its appeal and [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► that's not in the song and all that but [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► boy [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► yeah they're so there's an awful lot [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► that that goes on that this maybe not [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► not necessary it doesn't it space it is [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► pasted from a from a different time [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► perhaps but they had a whole hour to [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► fill and the song glass or three minutes [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► so what you're going to do it definitely [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► a different time I had forgotten just [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► how just how firmly delineating the [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► sexes the role of the sexes no other [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► boys played the reindeer games while the [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► girls watched and you know women don't [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► get to go to a doctor tries to tell his [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► wife you know do you know this is no [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► place for a woman I'm going to go find [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► it off his wife Shannon do you mean mrs. [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► Donner she has no name [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► she is a nameless female reindeer but [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► you'll note that when Donner heads off [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► looking for Rudolph telling her is man's [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► work she immediately says screw you [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► yes your honor of that is the way [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► history yeah couple things I want to [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► point out first of all you know for all [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► the talk of how great the misfits are [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► you'll note at the end that Santa [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► doesn't bother to hand-deliver the [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► misfit toys no he just keeled over [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► outside with an umbrella you don't want [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► to them there's probably even a house [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► down there is a hundred miles out over [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► the Pacific like firing t-shirts route [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► off i'm john gonna deliver these misfit [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► toys splash this jet engine other thing [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► it and this is only interesting as a [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► potential barbette but i don't think [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► we'll get to this but i don't think that [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► Charlie Brown ever says good grief in [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► his christmas special but the elf [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► Foreman and Rudolph lays out a good [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► hearty good grave at one point so you [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► know next time you're in a bar on [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► Christmas Eve [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► there you go Tyler's knowledge [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► let me take a break to tell you about [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► one of our sponsors it's the ministry of [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► supply you know dress shirts should be [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► better [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► they should work with your body and not [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► against it should keep you comfortable [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► all day long that is what drives [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► ministry of supply it is a menswear [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► company that launched out of the [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► Massachusetts Institute of Technology [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► three years ago that's right they're [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► using science and technology to make [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► office-appropriate professor [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► and all where it fits better it has [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► technical benefits it will manage your [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► body temperature to keep you from [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► overheating it will manage the moisture [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► in the shirt [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► it will keep you dry and is resistant to [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► wrinkles so you can stay away from [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► ironing I hate ironing it's the worst [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► the most tech forward drescher they've [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► got is called the Apollo like the space [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► capsule and it's made with sweat-wicking [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► fibers infused with NASA engineered [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► phase-change material for temperature [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► regulation is a high-tech shirt it's [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► gotta lighten it construction so it's [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► breathable and four-way stretch for [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► mobility the people at ministry of [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► supply believe in continuous improvement [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► there refining and improving the [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► products through human-centric iterative [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► design process so every iteration gets [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► better that's right they are smart [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► people at MIT coming up with very smart [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► methods of making cloves so shop them [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► online ministry of supply dot-com and if [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► you use the code let's do a draft my [TS]

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00:28:03 ◼   ► you use the code let's do a draft you [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► will get fifteen percent off or if [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► you're in Boston San Francisco or New [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► York visit him in person at one of their [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► stores mentioned the uncomfortable [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► podcast and you will get fifteen percent [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► off your first purchase ministry of [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► supply really cool science technology [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► shirts ministry of supply menswear made [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► smarter [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► let's move ahead to 1965 to a Charlie [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► Brown Christmas Charles Schultz's uh [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► Peanuts characters appear and a [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► Christmas special with with a music by [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► Vince Guaraldi and the plot of this [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► well Charlie Brown good old Charlie [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► Brown everybody hates him he gets talked [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► into directing a Christmas play by Lucy [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► who's really the director of the [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► Christmas play as some sort of elaborate [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► prank so but she doesn't have to do the [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► dirty work but can still say that she's [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► in charge behind she's a producer [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► perhaps I'm overlaying a little bit on [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► here and and they don't wanna listen to [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► Charlie Brown it's chaos they sent [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► Charlie Brown out to get a tree he goes [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► to a Christmas tree lot that's full of [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► like multicolored aluminum Christmas [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► trees and buys the saddest homeless [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► christmas tree you'll ever see [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► they mock infected then leave [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► needles are constantly coming off they [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► mock him for it when he returns it but [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► in the end he takes it back to to his [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► house i guess and and the it it's a [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► pretty nice tree after all and they all [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► see it and they wave their hands around [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► it becomes a much larger tree that is [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► well decorated magic [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► meanwhile in the beep lot of a Charlie [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► Brown Christmas Snoopy enters a [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► Christmas lights contest and winds and [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► that's the light for Charlie Brown [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► Christmas basically yeah [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► yes so i think i think this one still [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► more or less holds up [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► oh yeah absolutely old up because it's [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► insane [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► it is well the pace of it is crazy [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► because it you can you when you watch it [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► you realize you're just watching like [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► weekly comic strips that's it's the [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► wonderful thing about it is how gentle [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► it is i think and that's why yes just [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► sit back and sort of let it wash over [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► you and and that the slow pace you just [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► kind of you know kind of get in the [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► groove with the garage as soundtrack is [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► the MVP here because it really is always [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► there [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► I i listen to a year-round I was one of [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► my may be in my top 10 albums of all [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► genius [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► it's amazing Schroeder can get that jazz [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► trio out of his little piano well he's [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► good this is good but yeah it is it's [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► totally the music the couple days ago I [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► had students working on something and [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► somebody was like you know what [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► Christmas music I'm ready for christmas [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► music the center put on some Christmas [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► music and so I fired up Pandora and [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► vince guaraldi and you know here starts [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► the linus and lucy theme and the next [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► thing you know three for three quarters [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► of my kids they're working and their [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► heads are popping because they're and [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► dana and then of course the most [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► energetic one gets up and starts [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► imitating all the dances but can also be [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► the state you're doing it's just amazing [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► how mean everyone is Charlie Brown which [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► I realize the stick but somehow in the [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► strips it comes across the slightly more [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► gentle or it's a gag and she watched it [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► once you want and left a bunch of it [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► here in the last few weeks and i am just [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► like yeah everyone is a total jerk to [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► him like big there's no respect for his [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► feelings even in the slightest degree [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► but then then it's like the redemption [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► is all yeah I guess you're okay [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► he's like alright he's got PTSD the poor [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► kid so what I've said about this on at [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► the point of our previous holiday [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► episodes is that the the individual [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► elements of this should totally not work [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► together [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► I mean the animation is halting at best [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► the fact that the jazz music as great as [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► it is is mixed in with this particular [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► show is really weird [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► yes they the use of kids who couldn't [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► even read so they had to feed them one [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► line at a time should have been a train [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► wreck [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► Sally especially is like can barely even [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► get the words out [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► ok which is the best she's the best part [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► I know I know I know it's just funny [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► because it is all it is genuinely a [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► little kid [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► yeah and it's I mean it comes out so [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► natural even though it's so unnatural [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► and and but somehow the the the [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► combination of these weird disparate [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► things that should totally not work [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► makes such a beautiful pie i guess but [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► yeah I mean it just it works so well and [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► it really shouldn't I mean and you can [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► kind of understand like what I mean [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► everything was done in six months I [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► guess we're gonna stretch it i guess [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► they finished in a couple of weeks [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► before it was supposed to air and I [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► imagine the animating the peanuts gang [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► must have been just this totally [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► difficult undertaking since I mean [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► strips the characters don't follow any [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► of the known laws of physics right their [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► heads change shape when they turn and [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► all sorts of weird stuff and somehow [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► they managed to do it in this short [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► period of time and make it all work [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► which is crazy that there's a there's a [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► great onstage there's a camera shift [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► where you go from straight onto to side [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► like you're looking out from the wings [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► and it's really funny because it's like [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► well we only really have these two [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► angles of the characters being drawn so [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► we're there either from the front or [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► from the side and they do it and it it [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► works [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► yeah it's it's it's it works that they [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► make it look like a moving version of a [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► comic strip which is what it is so [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► that's fine i also this this is actually [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► a very strange Christmas special because [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► it actually involves Christ I know that [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► sounds bizarre but actually I was gonna [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► wreck the thing to once i know there's [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► like because it goes off and starts [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► reading from the bible the bible reading [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► right in the middle of this thing to say [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► in those [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► not my religion I like the fact that [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► actually in a Christmas special where [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► Charlie round starts the thing off [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► unhappy with the commercialization that [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► you get the payoff that Linus actually [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► you know read from the Bible and like [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► you know even not being a christian i [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► preciate that in a show that they're [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► actually you know this is going on it's [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► cool and the reading is so simple and [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► sweet [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► yeah yeah yeahs Linus voice that it even [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► as a non-believer it actually sort of [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► moves me a little bit exact well i know [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► that the nice thing is it doesn't it [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► doesn't force any religion on you it [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► doesn't specify that any of them are any [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► particular religion [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► it just says here's why this holiday is [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► here and that's why we're here and it's [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► about this baby and that's that and and [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► it's okay you can take from that [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► whatever you want and it's just it's i [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► mean it it really answered like a tabula [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► rasa it's wonderful that way and and [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► then you know at the very end they all [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► come together and sing hark the herald [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► angels sing which again you don't often [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► hear real Christmas carols in a [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► Christmas special app and it's just I i [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► tier of every time i hear Linus now [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► likes place it's you know it's just that [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► moment yeah yeah and I'm and from that [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► point on I'm gonna I'm done you know how [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► Fred Rogers there's the fred rogers [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► quote about look for the helpers when [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► bad things are happening me look for the [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► helpers I look for Snoopy and in [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► especially the special because he's just [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► hilarious throughout the whole thing [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► he's just you know he gets he makes [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► everybody lighter you know he's playing [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► on the ice and you get everybody two [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► together on this like I don't know I [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► skating conga line decorates his his his [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► house he's you know dancing on the piano [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► and and I think that that Snoopy might [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► actually be one of those connecting [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► threads that makes it all work because [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► he's their agent of chaos and you didn't [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► yeah I think wisely hear the rain in the [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► snoopy shenanigans a little bit where [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► you don't I mean as much as I love the [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► great pumpkin that sequence with the Red [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► Baron is interminable yeah yeah i want [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► to point out that i think- we're just [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► talking about it i know but i think he's [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► actually underrated here and elsewhere i [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► mean i think he gets the spotlight [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► literally but he's the only one who [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► respects Charlie right listens to us [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► he go [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► it's always when we goes tree shopping [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► with him right everybody else is just [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► sending them off to get rid of him [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► the Atlantis is not a jerky actually [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► genuinely may feel sorry for me actually [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► generally like to spend time with no he [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► said he's the sidekick and analyst and [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► and he's like charlie brown toyota yeah [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► I understood for the first time ever [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► having seen this probably hundreds of [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► times as a reason I yelled come on [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► earlier i realized that Lucy actually [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► does Charlie Brown a genuine act of [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► kindness [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► yes ug actually asked questions i think [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► completely on ironically to direct the [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► Christmas play and then she offers to [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► help him do it [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► I mean it happens that it's gonna be a [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► train wreck and we know that going in [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► but it's sheet you really does do a nice [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► selfless thing for Charlie Brown and [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► they're walking away she sort of [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► commiserates with him and and I realized [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► that she Lucy's not all bad either [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► no I was thinking that must have been [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► really hard for her although this is the [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► same world who later tries to punch a [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► dog in the face right yeah but wouldn't [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► you know [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► no not Snoopy I commercialism right so [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► here we get the you know it's so [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► commercial this holiday so commercial [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► and I guess this was the thing to talk [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► about in the mid-sixties that's the name [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► of this and and the grinch in a way I [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► think it [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► the theme is like christmas has become [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► this thing that isn't it isn't what it [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► used to mean man [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► which is funny because now you know what [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► is left but commercial hit something [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► Christmastime commercialism yeah it's [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► it's black friday weekend thanks getting [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► yeah exactly so so I think it's on one [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► level I think it is pressure on another [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► level I think it's kind of quaint that [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► this is the concern but that's what [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► that's what leads to the power of minus [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► giving his reading is that you know that [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► the whole message here is that it's easy [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► to get caught up in all of the things [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► that are around christmas and the [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► trappings of it without you know and [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► then you lose perspective about what [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► it's really about whether it is very [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► specifically about this religious [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► holiday or even more generally the [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► meaning behind it rather than the all of [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► the mechanisms of you know get a present [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► and go over here and and do this and do [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► that instead of the celebration and the [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► love and the family and all those things [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► I just I go back to Sally you know like [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► we talked about earlier [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► earlier and how I actually looked up on [TS]

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00:38:10 ◼   ► old she was in this I figured like three [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► or four you know and just just like that [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► she knows you know if you've ever [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► written a christmas list or gift list [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► for a little kid like they know exactly [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► what we want [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► how about tens and twenties maybe it's a [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► minute [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► I wanted to call it how great i think [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► the the background art is in some of [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► these specials particularly the [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► watercolors that they use for the night [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► skies the blandishments there they're [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► beautiful i mean that the coloring is [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► fantastic i love when they go out [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► shopping for Christmas trees and if ya [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► gettin into the sunset at the opening of [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► the great pumpkin tooth they're just [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► somehow perfectly evocative of the [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► season that they're trying to represent [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► one of the things I love about the music [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► is how a lot of it wasn't meant as [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► christmas music and it was bill melendez [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► listening to some of the some of the [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► girls just random stuff i mean he didn't [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► even write a score specifically for this [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► they picked some random stuff and the [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► song we all know as christmas time is [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► here he just went events would be right [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► if i write some lyrics for this because [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► it sounds kind of Christmassy and that's [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► how that [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► oh that's was born now it's gonna really [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► yeah i think of the jazz piano stuff now [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► is being kind of innately Christmassy [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► which of course it isn't but but for HCL [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► even Christmas yet [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► yeah this is my favorite I i would say [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► this is probably my favorite Christmas [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► album that when when thanksgiving passes [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► and the moratorium was lifted vince [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► guaraldi comes out and he's being played [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► by me [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► pretty much yeah like constantly for [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► this is your present wrapping music now [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► and forever [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► yep I could I could probably skip every [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► other Christmas album and just leave [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► this one [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► yeah i think so i really like that every [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► small movement that Pigpen makes even [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► just turning his clouds billowing up [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► around is it a lot of nice little [TS]

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00:42:24 ◼   ► whoville in 1966 is how the grinch stole [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► christmas how did he do then a dr. Seuss [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► book come to life like like a like a as [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► if in your imagination at what would a [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► dr. Seuss book like it'd be like if it [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► sprung to life and through the director [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► Chuck Jones classic cartoon director [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► Chuck Jones we get this and narrated by [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► Boris Karloff and as as the narrator and [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► of course the voice of the grinch [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► evidently speaking through a heavily [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► muffled Trump so i was i was going to [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► say I wonder what the story is it sounds [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► it sounds like he did this narration on [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► the phone [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► yes and I will not understand it isn't [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► that when he speaks is the Grinch the [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► trumpet is also filled with mud like [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► it's already horrible and it becomes [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► sometimes world and it's not i used to [TS]

00:43:13 ◼   ► think it was it was in my mind I'm like [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► well that must be the crappy sound of [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► the thing but no there's plenty of [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► dynamic range in all the other sounds in [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► this it is adjust the voice of Boris [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► Karloff and a very sometimes it's worse [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► sometimes it's better I wonder if they [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► only could get him for like one [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► recording session that wasn't that good [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► or there was a technical problem or or [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► he did phone it in there using yet it [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► was on its dying breath yeah exactly [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► there's something terribly wrong with [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► exits [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► yeah it's just something is very bad [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► it's it's a shame because it and it's [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► it's great but yet he he does sound like [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► he is calling on the phone to read you [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► the story he was very very old at that [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► point [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► yeah well that that's why I wonder if he [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► was unable to unable to do it or they [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► had to bring some equipment somewhere [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► and it was in in less than perfect [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► circumstances to record it [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► I mean it was like he passed away three [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► years later she is not it's a the the [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► singing is by what's getting thorough [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► Ravens right there or great Souls I tony [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► the tiger [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► I can't do it that low no one cooler in [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► warrant mr. Grinch also well featured in [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► The Haunted Mansion [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► oh yeah he's low voice singer in the [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► graveyard scene and his head is one of [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► the bus as somebody who has read many [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► many dr. Seuss books to my children I i [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► enjoy this story I enjoy the fact that [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► there [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► so many Seussian aspects to it the fact [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► that that there at one point is a list [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► of nonsensical things that goes on and [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► on and on [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► that is the most dr. seuss thing ever [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► the list of various nonsensical things [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► that are in that rhythm with those [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► rhymes made-up words it's so it's so [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► great and that the grinch I'll what I [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► love about the plot of this is it is [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► just he is just the inverse Santa Claus [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► he sneaks into everybody at buddy's [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► houses on Christmas Eve and takes all [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► their stuff i think that's so great [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► addressed to Santa Claus and once he's [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► done with everything else he's eating [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► the food is taking all the presence then [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► he then he drags the Christmas tree over [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► to the gym need to throw that thing up [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► there and only then is he spotted by [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► little Cindy Lou Who I so i love i love [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► the the story of it and in the end the [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► plot resolution is basically that the [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► grinch realizes the Christmas is ok [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► after all and then we just fine but what [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► I like Charlie Brown did but what I like [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► about about it is unlike unlike so many [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► of the Christmas specials christmas is [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► never in jeopardy because the grinch [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► essentially does do his you know the his [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► evil plan to ruin Christmas and it [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► doesn't work because the whos in [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► whoville are just super happy and they [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► get what Christmas is all about about [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► like Charlie Brown and so it's all fine [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► and that's when his heart grows many [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► sizes in the Grinch's defense the who's [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► at least in televised form are utterly [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► horrible with their infernal flu flu [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► bezane they're awful tartan don't hate [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► the following their hooves and banging [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► their cart Incas yeah they are you [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► geology that makes absolutely no sense i [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► mean when you've got like it apparently [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► a fully adult thing handing this giant [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► strawberry to a two-year-old who dwarfs [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► him [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► they're just so loud and off-putting [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► whose are not sympathetic characters we [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► never had a problem with Christmas [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► spatial relations space [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► yeah this is Gail I'm just saying that I [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► too would feel compelled to take their [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► Popguns Pamplona Spain to Kazan drums [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► checkerboards bizzle banks popcorn and [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► plums it so I understand what the Grinch [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► is coming from here I can think is I [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► think you started right I don't know [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► about agree with his methods but i think [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► his attitude is correct [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► interesting i also wonder why does cindy [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► lou who sit at the head of the table are [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► they ruled by her she's yeah she's like [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► Anthony in that Twilight's I just [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► to say is this anthony suggestion is [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► mind control them all with your creepy [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► antenna what's it's good that she's in [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► charity it's real good [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► mr. Grinch so this is actually my or was [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► growing up my least favorite Christmas [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► special [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► oh and I didn't grow up my mom didn't [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► read dr. Seuss to me and I had books but [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► she didn't she didn't read them to me [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► I I remember her refusing to read the [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► spring but I didn't like like he kind of [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► scared me the grinch kind of scared me [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► and the fact that he had begun of that [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► low weird voice through the tuba and [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► that kind of freaked me out and and like [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► I don't know it and even still I can [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► watch it and it brings up of course this [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► childhood feelings are like I don't this [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► makes me uncomfortable and I really [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► don't know why is an adult and but yeah [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► maybe I'm i think i'm one of the very [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► few people who actually doesn't really [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► have an affinity for dr. Seuss [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► oh you're breaking my heart your [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► personal guard [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► I'm sorry the creatures you know and [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► he's screwed like character right he [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► just doesn't want this and he's got his [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► and he's got his dog sidekick who is [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► adorable and funny x long-suffering all [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► yeah yeah he's like her me [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► Oh although we never removes anyone's [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► teeth forcibly so it's true strong point [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► yeah i'll agree with the lien that this [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► was not my favorite christmas special [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► when I was very young that you know I [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► was all about Charlie Brown and the [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► rankin/bass and stuff like that up but I [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► still watched it because I was a dr. [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► Seuss fan and it was later on the older [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► I got and the more experience i had [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► seeing Looney Tunes cartoons and they're [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► different areas this is the visuals are [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► so Chuck Jones berry and you know that's [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► a problem I have with us yeah and i [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► think it's it's just that i grew up i [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► think seeing Chuck Jones animation every [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► damn day but it's it's not a rare [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► commodity like the peanuts specials that [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► something is all the time to the grinch [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► always friends just a little bit i don't [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► know generic and kinda like a road [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► runner cartoon a few points right yeah [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► for me I love it I love that the context [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► that I associate with Chuck Jones being [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► in this totally different environment [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► and yet you know some of the things come [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► out the the evil grin that grows until [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► it's impossible [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► and the extra beat of the Santa Claus [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► the tip of the cap falling after [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► everything I was yelling you know all [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► those things as as i get older and know [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► more about art and cartooning and all [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► those sort of things I appreciate that [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► now and I like the greatest thing for me [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► is the peak of Mount crumpit which is [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► awesomely terrifying is this letter [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► there that's a great sequence right then [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► and the whole balancing and [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► teeter-tottering yeah I like it better [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► now than I am I did as a kid for some [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► reason and I think the ring that stuff [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► doesn't I don't like as much now because [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► now i look at mega really come on and it [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► but with a green chili I appreciate it [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► more and I think maybe that is because [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► of liking dr. Seuss and and and reading [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► it to my kids and and appreciating the [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► whole kind of weird package of chuck [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► jones and and Boris Karloff with the [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► narration and the music with that [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► they're especially the repeating you're [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► a mean one mr. Grinch throughout the [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► right thing which is a great song but [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► that's alright god lyrics [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► yes but from garlic in your soul of [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► arsenic sauce that's like you know the [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► more you can hear it as an adult and you [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► can pick out all the big words that you [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► don't know as a kid and it's just [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► funnier every time I just like your [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► heart is full of unwashed socks your [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► soul is full of gunk you have fantastic [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► nauseous super nauseous [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► you're freaking dirty jockey and you [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► drive a crooked hall and again it's one [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► of those that things that you know [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► commercial sort of started squeezing [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► things in and you've lost like a verse [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► or two and a couple of the transition [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► scenes where he still busy taking [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► everything and up from everybody I was [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► not crazy about the book when I was [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► little but I loved the chuck jones [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► animation and and again it's those [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► little touches that he threw in there [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► and i love the song the song is such a [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► good song and it's it's you know [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► ravenscraft to such a wonderful job with [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► it you know and so even even when I was [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► little I wasn't crazy about the show or [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► the story but I watched it for the art [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► and the music and and i'm happy i just [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► found this out this is bugged me for [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► decades in Snoopy come home he's also [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► the voice of no zone [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► Oh [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► and you know it's it's one of those [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► things that never occurred to me to look [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► up but now that we're all talking about [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► it's like oh let's see what else he did [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► look up so is it as a song I mean [TS]

00:51:19 ◼   ► there's not a lot to it what what is [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► great about it is the words that are in [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► it and the fact that repetition is it [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► gets you know you you get to what's [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► going to come was gonna say this time [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► around and that's the just as a as a [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► thing to pull you through the story it's [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► it's so great i mean they're they're [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► delightful words it yet it's not it's [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► not like a song it's not fully [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► constructed song but he he's kind of the [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► the MVP of the song because he acts it's [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► so thoroughly and he pulls you along I [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► mean that you can be good just saying it [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► you're a mean one mr. Grinch but it's [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► like you're a mean one [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► I mean you can peel his mouth wrapping [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► around every word it'sit's the the [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► religious aspect here is a little bit of [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► a prodigal son is a mix up the prodigal [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► son doesn't usually steal everything and [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► then come back with that but is that [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► it's like that that was in the apartment [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► first people you know you be roast the [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► category the fatted calf and you serve [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► it out of the cabin a prodigal sons at [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► the right side right and so Susan Ballou [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► who is the added humour blue Matthew [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► must be some roast beast you wrote the [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► roast beast but I think there's a there [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► is a biblical thing is like he commits a [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► kind of wrong with no one is aware of it [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► so it's actually odd more thing that he [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► comes back and they accepted as if he's [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► giving them a gift because they are so [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► free from materialism and then he sat at [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► the right hand of God you know the city [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► like he's a this is the truth of Santa [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► Clauses he steals all your stuff and [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► just give it back to you and detests [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► roast beef initially because he's on the [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► side of the roast beast easily gifter [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► vegan but he's turned to the good side [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► then he's happy to carve the Beast [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► himself [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► what kind of animal does that come from [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► it had no bones throughout the beating [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► so yeah it's Abby's it's a place with [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► roasted a boneless beasts of the whose [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► they don't talk about it it's a flim [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► hammer flugel it had a glowing no older [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► they get [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► and then they become the feasts car by [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► slim school it's how the cycle of [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► who-ville continues the ones who walk [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► away from Whoville I got dark side [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► so here's the here's the question of [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► these three what one now who haven't [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► really watched them is the one that you [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► like the best [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► Charlie Brown saying yeah Charlie Brown [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► natural around Steve Charlie Brown [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► without a doubt because in addition to [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► still be entertaining as more than just [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► nostalgia it also still works i think [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► i'm an emotional level which which the [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► others well Rudolph's simply doesn't and [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► the grinch does to a lesser extent I [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► think but Charlie Brown still works on [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► me like gangbusters and it's still love [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► yep the kids of today still enjoyed my [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► kids would this was all the selected [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► when we were driving for thanksgiving or [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► christmas to to various relatives houses [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► long long distances the video that would [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► get watch the most would be the Charlie [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► Brown holiday videos the Christmas and [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► and the great pumpkin and thanksgiving [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► and they would just just endlessly in [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► fact i think my daughter would just [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► watch charlie brown thanksgiving all [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► year round which is baffling to me but [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► it was there was something about it just [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► she found it very soothing the peanuts [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► are soothing just in general and I was [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► just thinking about it this morning that [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► you know if you think about a lot of [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► classic Christmas stories and even even [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► things that have been adapted over and [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► over again like you know what sitcom [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► hasn't done a christmas carol and you [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► know mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► everyone talks about who i used to watch [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► that when I was yeah and it's wonderful [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► life that and but but they're all about [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► one person changing even it's a [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► wonderful life is about George Bailey [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► changing right and and discovering his [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► own goodness and all that how important [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► it is to be good and whatever and and [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► the thing that's really interesting [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► about Charlie Brown Christmas is the [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► lesson there is everyone else change [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► oh he never changes really he gets a [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► little more confidence but its line is [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► saying it's okay Charlie Brown you're [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► right we've all lost sight of this [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► you're the one who's got the ion on [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► Christmas [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► that's a really interesting thing and [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► that's very inclusive to everybody in [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► the audience right because we sort of [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► you know we're all watching the [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► commercials for target and setting up [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► our house and doing all the things but [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► we still kind of identified with Charlie [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► Brown and then it's at the end where [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► Linus calls everybody announces yeah [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► that's all extra stuff here's here's the [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► deal i do love the bit where he goes [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► outside and he looks up at the stars and [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► a rehears Linus's little sweet yeah and [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► he just has that happy little smile on [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► his face it's like I know what brief [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► moment of of joy in Charlie Brown's [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► awful awful life you know it's yours [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► everybody still hates you and you're [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► still bald and you have that one [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► distressing piece of hair but you're not [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► going to house so it's all right and [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► there's a wonderful moment where you [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► know that he takes the the ornament and [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► puts it on the tree and it collapses and [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► he goes right back to it's like oh I [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► killed it and that's when everybody else [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► has figured out what Linus was saying [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► and they come together and they want to [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► translate very sweet you know and so [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► great yeah the Grinch has a song or [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► everybody sings everybody's happy at the [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► end of this one actually has a point [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► so that's why I that's what Charlie [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► Brown's Christmas is all about Charlie [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► Brown Charlie better [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► well I we were in shocking agreement [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► here that's good because you know it [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► wouldn't be the holidays if we didn't [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► gather around the table and not argue [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► Christmas miracle I know Jewish and [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► vegetables while the Jewish cartoon [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► specials where the Jewish girl turns but [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► grats come on crazy nights Glenn come on [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► grunts hey hebrew hammer a more general [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► a non-denominational question why have [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► they failed to come up with a more [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► classics like this since roughly around [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► 90 years of the other reindeer and was [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► trying to do this and it actually is [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► kind of fun and parts but I don't think [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► it started [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► it's a little bit too much Jason but [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► it's too long trying too hard to it's [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► too commercial [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► dammit yes it's about the commercialism [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► I was wondering cuz i don't watch TV so [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► so what are the kids watching nowadays [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► are there new well they still they still [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► rerun these occasionally there are new [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► specials made and they were in the [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► seventies there was a raft of new [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► specials some of which are okay most of [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► which are our kind of like diminishing [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► returns like the rankin/bass I mean abs [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► baby did they did the year without a [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► santa clauses to the grande and then [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► they did yes it's the new years one with [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► the New Year's baby which is just just [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► ridiculous [TS]