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PiMC: Episode 127 - The Gift Of Dysfunction, or The Third Annual PiMC Christmas Special
Join Taylor, Taffy and Rodan as they share stories about their holidays past, present and future, ranging from toppled Christmas trees to wild dogs to some weird story about Taffy and a bear. No, a real bear. Thank you all for a wonderful 2009! We enjoy and appreciate all of you. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
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[ Music ] Happy Holidays from Potters My Co-Pilot with Taylor the Latte Boy, Taffy Carlisle Huppington, and Rodan. [ Music ] Ho, ho. Ho. You've just downloaded the third annual Christmas episode of Potters My Co-Pilot, settle back while we entertain you with tales of Taylor stuffing your stocking, Taffy wrapping your yule log, and Rodan licking the eggnog off of your jacknipped nose. I'm Taffy Carlisle Huppington, joined tonight with my co-host, Taylor the Latte Boy. >> How long did it take you to come up with that? >> I just come up with that. >> Did you really? >> I'm impressed. >> I really did. >> Okay. >> Gee, and Rodan. >> I didn't mean it like that. >> It's the nice elf. >> I just meant, I didn't know if you'd, I'm sorry, go ahead. >> Rodan, say hello to our listeners. >> Hello. >> Are you boys ready to talk and discuss this happiest time of year? >> Well, we all are sitting around your fireplace right now. >> Is that what we're calling it? >> The fire crackling. >> And I guess there's crackling coming out of it, so I hope to God it your fireplace. >> Well, it is warm. >> There is definitely smoldering going on. >> It's warm inviting. >> Educational puffs of smoke, so I'm going to take a crack. >> Nice, nice. How are you boys? Are you all ready for Christmas? >> Yes, I'm about as ready as I'm going to be. I just have the final trimmings that I need to do as far as gifts and that sort of thing. All of my gifts are wrapped and under the tree. With a little few stocking stuffings I have. I've been placed in Babaloo's stocking and the house decorated and cookies have been made and it's about as good as it's going to get. >> Referring to his ass as a stocking is starting to get old. >> I know, right? >> It's kind of creeping me out. >> It kind of creeps me out too. >> Yeah, trust me. And the whole white fur thing around the edge of it is I'm now walking the park for me. >> And dodging the big balls of coal. Well, he's waiting for them to become diamonds. >> That involves a tightness that I don't think Babaloo has anymore. >> Oh. >> I bet there's an element of Babaloo's ass that's quite tight. Right now, Babaloo's listening to this going, "Come on!" >> What? >> Yeah, right? >> Well, Rodan is not even remotely ready for Christmas. So I'm doing all my shopping when I get to Florida. So, yay. >> Mm-hmm. >> Wow. >> Okay, well, you haven't done any shopping? >> I bought one thing. I bought Professor Dr. Scott's, one of Professor Dr. Scott's gifts. That's it. So I bought. >> What'd you get him? >> Professor Dr. Scott, turn this off. >> Yeah, right. He won't be listening to it until after he gets it. So, I got him, I've gotten him one of the things I'm going to get him. So the first thing I'm going to get him is he loves Wheel of Fortune. And yes, he's only 36. He loves Wheel of Fortune. >> He loves Wheel of Fortune and soup. >> Professor Dr. Scott is my nana. [ Laughter ] >> Well, we were watching Golden Girls the other night. So I got him the deluxe Wheel of Fortune game where he actually spent a little wheel and he, you know, like does a little puzzles and stuff in the new electronic format. So yeah, I don't know what else I'm going to get him yet, but I saw that and thought of him. >> You're going to get him some Werther's candy and maybe a new hip. [ Laughter ] >> He will like this. He will absolutely like this. >> Tennis balls for the bottom of his walker. [ Laughter ] >> And depends. >> I promise you. >> And Metamucil, all people are fine. >> Oh, you got me the orange flavor. That's the best kind. >> Oh, I'm just -- I'm excited about -- >> Me love Professor Dr. Scott. Thank you for listening. >> You're right. >> I give certificate to Walgreens. >> I'm excited about seeing my nephews for the holiday because they're all starting to get to the age where they like transformers and GI Joe and they're playing with the same toys I'm playing with. >> Yeah, my nephew, apparently, he is very big into superheroes right now. In particular, he likes black Spider-Man. >> Nice. >> Take that how you want. And hi, Joe and Dallas. And he's -- [ Laughter ] >> So I got him a cool black Spider-Man bank and I got him an action figure that's -- I specifically looked for the black costume Spider-Man. So -- and I would love to see him opening it, but my sister decided to surprise me with an early gift of dysfunction this year, Christmas. So I decided I'm not going home. >> Yay. This function has -- >> Yay. >> Now, this year we are supposed to go home and Babaloo is supposed to meet the family and after a conversation that I don't feel like getting into with my family, I decided no, now's not the right time for me to introduce Babaloo to everybody. So, you know what, we'll do it another time. >> Well, and you know what, I think sometimes the whole meeting, the new husband, I think it's better to not happen for the big holidays. >> Yeah. >> Because that way you could spend more quality time versus the whole rush -- holiday rush kind of stuff. >> Which I can see because you'd want to show them your hometown. You'd want them to meet everybody and you'd want to take them here and take them there. >> Yeah. And I was getting, you know, so I was already getting pulled in multiple directions from, you know, my parents have broken up. So we -- I spend part of the time with my dad and part of the time with my mom. And, you know, my mom's usually at my sisters and it's just -- it was just too much this year. So last year, we kind of had to split up our time as far as I really didn't get to see Babaloo until Christmas evening because he was down in Miami spending time with his family. And so this year, we're doing Christmas Eve here, just the two of us. And I think Christmas night, I think we're going to the widow Carlisle's, is that correct? >> Of course, if you're -- well, you're absolutely outstanding invitation. So, of course. >> Okay. And yeah, so that's -- it should be -- it should be fun. And we're going to -- and we've both, you know, we're doing the whole -- we had a limit. We talked about this actually. I listened to our previous episodes and we talked about this last year with you, Rodan, as far as we had a limit on how much we could spend on each other for Christmas. >> Right. >> And we both have definitely gone over that. But we're doing the whole -- I'm spending this much money on you. Are you okay with that? And I'm like, you know, and then the other one says, yeah, sure, no problem. And then, you know, so then this one goes and spends extra money and it's going back and forth. But unfortunately, the amount of money that I've spent versus the amount of money he spent, I've gotten him more gifts so that apparently has created stress for him as far as the whole, well, you're not going to have as many presents under the tree and all that sort of stuff. And I'm like, I'm totally okay with that. Just, you know, don't spend any more money on me and -- >> Because you're not four no longer. >> Well, unfortunately, though, we have the same problem with the girls. I have one daughter who wants, you know, $300 jeans. And then I told her, I said, well, if you're willing to have, you know, seven things unwrapped under the tree, if you want those jeans, that's one thing. But when your sister is still sitting an hour later opening up stuff because, you know, she asked for $12 lip gloss, then you need to, you know, understand that that's the way it's going to be. If you're going to ask for really expensive things, then you're only going to get a couple of them. You're not going to get a multitude of things. Not that they need anything, for God's sakes, but you know how that goes. Actually, right now in the Huffington household, Babaloo has more Christmas gifts than Taylor. So, and I know that that just simply won't do. I know. >> The sins. >> That will not do. >> Last year, Babaloo was new. So we tried to, you know, you know, indulge him a little, but, and it was one of those things where, you know, Taylor opened up four gifts and Babaloo opened up six gifts, and then Taylor's like, that's fine. This time he's new and I was like, we love you Babaloo. >> Well, because everything is a competition to Taylor. >> Well, no, and Taylor actually has more gifts in the house just Babaloo has more gifts that are wrapped. How's that? >> Oh, well, that's okay. That's fine. >> That's fine. There's still 12 days. As of this, as of this recording, there is still 12 days. So I-- >> Today is the first day of the 12 days of Christmas. >> Yeah. >> Oh, it is. >> Hooray. So you'll get a Partridge and a Pear Tree. You'll get a Harry and David's Pear. >> I was gonna say, I think Tank's gonna get his Partridge and your Pear Tree a little bit later on. >> Oh, got a willing. Would Tank actually sustained an injury giving me a Partridge and a Pear Tree on Friday evening? >> Oh. >> Ow. >> Yes. >> He-- >> How did he do on the rides today, then, if he-- >> Well, and I asked him the same thing, as I said, you know, are you gonna be okay, 'cause he didn't-- I thought he threw his back out, but apparently he had a little issue with his neck, because we were doing the whole, you know, chains positions quickly, and apparently didn't allow for, you know, the time to actually re-align things before we started thrusting, and it was bad. So I asked him, I was like, are you gonna be okay to ride everything? And he's like, well, I'll know after the first ride, and he ended up doing okay. He didn't-- we-- Lollipop and I rode dueling dragons twice, and he opted out a second time. So I-- but he hasn't complained that it's bothered him. He's sitting next to me, and he just shows-- he's no-- no worse for the wear. So-- >> Well, 'cause he's a real man. He doesn't complain about shit like that. >> Exactly. >> Why do I feel like that's a dick at me? >> I'm not kidding. >> Not everything is about you. I'm sure that was. >> [laughs] >> Mm. >> And who am I kidding? >> Almost everything is a dick at you. >> Oh, am I kidding. Everything is about him. But met with love. >> Well, yes. Met with love. So, okay, we have that-- I said what my plans are, Rodan, you're coming down to Orlando. >> I am. I'm very excited. Yay. >> Good. >> And you'll be actually-- by the time I release this, you'll be in Orlando proper. >> That pretells the hope. So unless something bizarre happens where I can't leave when I'm supposed to, but yes, I should be-- I should be able to listen to this podcast on the trip down. >> Good. Excellent. >> No. You won't listen to this one on the right down. You'll listen to the last week's. >> The last one. >> Yeah. >> Damn it, Rodan. Get it right. >> [laughs] >> I don't know. >> Stupid, stupid podcaster. >> I'm coming down next Monday. >> I know, but I won't release this probably until Monday or Tuesday. >> Oh. Yeah, I get complaints about that. >> Oh. Okay. From-- >> From like Wolfie. But I don't know how-- >> Well, I'm concerned about him right now, so-- [laughs] >> Please, have Wolfie give me a call so we can discuss that. I'd love to discuss that with Wolfie. >> Wolfie, I love you. Rodan loves you. >> No. >> That's two out of three. It's okay. >> I've never met Wolfie, so I can't say whether I love him or not. >> Yeah. >> Does he listen to our podcast? >> Yes. >> He does. >> Than he has love. >> Yes, he listens to our podcast while he drives to his ex-boyfriends. >> Oh, that's right. [laughs] God, Wolfie. >> I talked about that like two weeks ago, or two shows ago, didn't I? >> Yes, he did. >> I'm going to ask you again, Taffy. Do we care about Wolfie? >> Wolfie's an ass. >> Wolfie's not an ass. >> The title to our Christmas episode. [laughs] >> Wolfie's not an ass, he's just confused. >> Mm-hmm. >> Mm-hmm. Okay. >> Okay. >> Great. [laughs] So, okay, so, and Taffy, you're doing all of the family stuff here. >> Yes, we're not going anywhere. We're going to be here. Of course, because, you know, the girls are out of school officially as of Thursday. And they have practice Friday, a performance Saturday, and basketball games Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. So, you know, it's not really a break, but it's sort of kind of a break. No, from the second tank gets off of work on Christmas Eve until the day after Christmas at about five o'clock, I'm with them constantly, or at least one of them, or a mixture of all four of us together. And we act silly and lay around, and we have very specific traditions we do, and the girls always have lunch with tanks mom on Christmas Eve, so I can finalize my last minute wrapping, and then we go to my mom's house, and then the next day, it's the next morning we're all here, just the four of us, and then that night we have dinner with everybody. You include it. And you will probably come over to our house, I would think, too, exchange gifts, either after dinner or at some point, you know, in the day, but no, that's- I want nothing else. I don't understand people who- I mean, I, you know, if that's your thing to travel on- I mean, I understand why we're dance traveling. He's coming back to see his family, but, you know, like, people who say, "We're going to Hawaii for Christmas," or, you know, "We're going to our summer home for Christmas," or, "I don't- I want to be in my house. I like being home for Christmas," so I spend a week and a half decorating my house. I like to sit and look at the lights. Nothing makes me any happier than having a fireplace and a look at the Christmas tree. I don't know why, it just does. Feels good. You have to have the air conditioner cranked down. Oh, my God. Well, today it was 80 fucking seven degrees, so yes, you're right. She doesn't please me. It's been a yo-yo here, so. Well, and that's just it. You know, tomorrow the high is supposed to be, like, 86, and then the high on Thursday is 70. So, who knows? I don't know. Yeah. Well, this is the time of year in Florida where it sort of bounces around, and then it gets cool in the months of January and early February, and then it starts warming up again. So, I've just kind of learned to accept that this is, unfortunately, this is the way it is for the holidays and years some years past, I've been in jeans and a sweatshirt opening presents in the morning and other years I've been in shorts and a t-shirt. So, I do try to have the air conditioning on, though, and make it feel as cool in here as possible. That is true. Yeah. Good. Well, we have questions from our listeners. Excellent. I sent out a request a while ago earlier today for listeners because we were doing our holiday show tonight to ask if they have any questions for us so that we don't talk about the same things that we talk about every year for the last two years, figure we could get some new blood in. So, we, and I put the call out and our listeners answered, so... They're so good. They are so good. Yes. And our first question is from Joe and Alice. Hi, Joe. And this is probably more a question for Taffy than anybody else. Okay. And... Yes, Joe. I will do anal. Sorry. Well, I think that question could be answered by all of us who probably all be answered the same, but thank you. The question is what is your favorite holiday cookie to make? I actually...okay, this is a two-part answer because my favorite holiday cookie is not one I make. But my favorite holiday... No, I didn't say what is your favorite holiday cookie said what is your favorite holiday cookie to make? Gingerbread. The whole idea. I like the way they... Gingerbread is one of the few things for my listeners. I don't know if I've ever really mentioned this. I think we have a couple of times that I do not have a very strong sense of smell. I cannot smell things very well, but I can smell gingerbread. And so, I love the idea of making gingerbread because it's a really easy medium to work with. It always smells good. It makes the house smell great. You have a built-in decorative edge on it. You know, I mean, there's no... Every single conceivable candy in the world, including fruit by the foot, can be used to decorate gingerbread men and gingerbread houses. And we always make a gingerbread house. We always make gingerbread trees and all that other stuff. But I love baking gingerbread cookies. Just because I like the way... I love the way gingerbread feels in your hands. It's not that sticky, sticky dough and it's not a crumbly dough. It's just that nice, firm, almost like clay dough and it's very malleable and I just... I would say gingerbread is my favorite to bake. It's not my favorite to eat and it's not my favorite Christmas cookie, but gingerbread absolutely. Well, what's your favorite to eat? Tankmaids peanut butter blossoms. And they are peanut butter cookies rolled in coarse sugar with a Hershey's Kiss in the middle of them. And you have to put the Hershey's Kiss in when the peanut butter blossom is still warm and you push it and you pull it just a little bit and it looks like a nipple and I love them. I can pop this. Do you have to make everything? No, that's... He even tells the girls when they are putting the Hershey's Kisses on you have to push it in and pull it up just a little bit so it looks like a nipple. And that's what you want. That's the look he's going for. And they are... He's going for the nipple look for the holidays. And he actually does the cookies to where there's just enough cookie on the outside of the kiss. He wants almost a cookie kiss ratio because he wants that big burst of chocolate and when you can put a whole cookie in your mouth, oh my God, they're so good. And they always stay soft and you have to make peanut butter blossom soon. Make it happen. Okay. Mine is... Actually, well, we talked about making chocolate chip cookies on the last episode and I made some earlier tonight and I just want them to be like taste like my moms, which unfortunately I don't think... I think there's something about mom has the extra ingredient that make chocolate chip cookies taste the way they do and you can't really necessarily replicate that. Bitterness. No, no, no, no, no. That's your mom's. Well, that's true. You can chip a tooth on that bitterness, but... I don't know what they're called, but my step grandmother, my dad's wife's grandmother, who incidentally is the same age as my mom and dad, but that's another story altogether for a show. She makes these like bow tie things that have just a little bit of raspberry jam in the middle of them. I don't know what they're called. I specifically request them when I go home for the holidays, if I know I'm going to see them, and shovel as many of them as my mouth as I possibly can, because again, my family decides to give the gifts of dysfunction every year and that's my way of handling it as I cram as much food in my gullet as I possibly can and those are always the first thing I go for on the dessert try. Are they soft or are they crumbly? They're more softer than crumbly. Hmm. Now, have you ever... Okay. They're very Martha Stewart-y. That they've got the crystallized sugar on them and they have the not the scalloped edges, but the, you know, where they sort of are just the, "Oh, shit, what do they call?" Not criss-crossed, like zigzag edges, but they're shaped like bow ties because they take the one to corners and they press them together and they fold them over one another and they're really good. They're delicious. And she makes them with apricot jam and raspberry jam and I leave the apricot jam for other people and I eat as many of the raspberry jam as possible. Interesting. So. Rodan, what about you? What's your, what's your favorite? Um, I am kind of a basics kind of guy. I love frosted sugar cookies. That's... There's nothing wrong with that. I have to say, that's very lollipop too. So love the frosted sugar cookies. My grandmother used to make them every year. They're not as good as they used to be when she used to make them when she was, you know, a little less, when she's a little bit more spry, I guess I should say it that way. But she makes them every year and they're so good. So. You should get the recipe from her. I would make them for you. Aww. Absolutely. I think they're just really basic sugar cookies with frosting. Yeah, but again, there's something about when it's a mom or a grandmom that makes them, there's something different about it. Now, when you say... Okay. So there's always some secret ingredient that nobody knows about. Talk me through your frosting. Like Tank's mom makes butter cookies, which I personally do not like, but they have a specific frosting on them. And that's not a frosting you use for anything else. It's not like cupcake frosting or cake frosting. Is it a frosting that stays soft? Is it a frosting that gets hard? It's frosting that gets a little bit hard. Just a little bit. Not a lot. Right. But when you buy into it, there's almost like a crunchy film, but then it's soft? Yes. I know exactly how to make that icing. So you give me the recipe, I'll make you the cookies. That sounds dirty. You see, spreading holiday cheer all around. We try. And using icing to do it. That's Tappy's way. If she can put, she'll put icing on anything. How is it that you said spreading and icing, and again, it sounds dirty? Well, that was kind of the point. And again. So, all right. Well, our next question is from a friend of mine, actually a friend of the show. He's met all of us. Okay. And he was one of my dearest friends in high school. And that would be Paul. Hi, Paul. Hi, Linus. Hi, Linus. Yeah. The little, the little muscle cub. Yeah. And he has, he has Linus the dog. Linus the bulldog, who's pictures I occasionally post. And I, Paul, if you want to get me a Christmas present, give me Linus, because... Paul, if you want to get us a Christmas present, I can think of something else to ask for, besides Linus. Mm-hmm. You can give Taylor Linus. Okay, um, Paul wants to know, and again, this is more Tappy, because Tappy's said this about 19 times over the last five days. Taffy. What's the difference between Santa and Tiger Woods? Santa stops at three hoes. Yes. Wow. Did you get that in like the circle where you pick up your kids? No. Bobaloo texts me that. Bobaloo texted you that one. Bobaloo texted me that one. That little jam. Bobaloo probably got that from the parking lot where he picks up the kids. Bobaloo got that from Lowell's Huffington. And that's as much as we're going to talk about Tiger Woods ever on the show. Thank you. But thanks, Paul. Yes. Thanks, Paul. Cheryl, our listener Cheryl, wants to know the best gift we've ever received as a child or an adult, which we've actually answered this before. The best gift we've ever received for Christmas or ever in general. I'm going to assume Christmas just because it's Christmas time. It's Christmas time, yeah. Marty, and what's your best gift? Unless you've gotten something for Kwanzaa, in which case I'd be more than interested in what is the guy. I can't remember if I said this last year, but I think I'd probably dig. So I got a little TV and a TurboGrafx-16 for one birthday when I was younger. And that was probably my favorite gift. Because it was actually what I wanted. And my parents actually got me what I wanted. So I was really excited. Okay. Taffy. I'm thinking about that. And I'm sure that I've answered this question before, but for Christmas, my favorite gift I've ever got for Christmas. The Christmas part throws me. Because I can think of my favorite gifts I forgot for my birthday and stuff. I'm just trying to think of them for Christmas. You go next. Let me think about it. Well, you said, I think it was on our first episode, you said Atari was your favorite gift that you ever got. And you were so excited and you started crying. I did. I was going to say, I got Atari when I was in the sixth grade, and I thought it was, I thought I was the shit. Because I only knew like two people who had an Atari at that point. And I thought that was the coolest thing ever. I remember sitting in my grandmothers where she had like the Wedgewood Blue, you know, suede couches. And I can remember ripping it open and seeing the Atari. And just, you know, we know how when you're a kid and you open that gift and you think I'm looking at it, but it's not registering yet that it's really mine, but I know what it is. Yeah. Yes. I can remember that was the feeling of, oh my God, I have an Atari. Of course, you know, I, and I, and I really didn't, I only think I had ever played on Atari at that point was Pong and Pitfall. And I just thought that was the coolest, the coolest things I've ever seen in my whole life. So yeah, no, you're right. You're absolutely right. Mine would be video. So we have a common theme here because mine was Coleco Vision. I think Coleco Vision was probably one of my favorite that I ever got that I remember in the weeks preceding there was discussion between my sister and I as to which one to get because she wanted an Intellivision and I wanted Coleco Vision because I kept saying the graphics are better on a Coleco Vision. They have a better selection of games. So I was a nerd even way back in 1983. And I remember the morning of we got Coleco Vision and they didn't have the, they didn't have the license to Pac-Man. So they had a bunch of like, you know, ladybug and mouse trap and all these other different things like that that you could play. Right. And we got Smurfs, the Smurfs game. I remember that. Oh, wow. And then for, I think for my birthday, the next year, I think I got Popeye and I was, I was, I was really good at Popeye. Hmm. I don't even remember even seeing that game. I mean, like even really, that's really cool. Coleco Vision, you mean? Yeah. I'm trying to think about it. I don't remember Coleco Vision at all. I mean, either. Oh, the controllers actually had a numeric pad on the bottom of it. Oh, yeah. I've seen pictures. Yeah. I'll see if I can, I'll see if I can find a picture. I'm sure I can find a picture online. I found some program on computer nine computers ago where you could actually play Coleco Vision games. So which, yeah, I think there's like emulators and things like that. You can do on your iPhone now or your eye touch your eye. What are you kidding? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why would you tell him that? I know he's going to be gone now. He's going to be like, Oh my God. We need to, we need to go through the rest of these questions really fast. Hold on. Hold on. I have an amendment to that question. You answered it as a child and as did I, what was your favorite gift as an adult that you got at Christmas? Because I know mine, even though it's completely, and it's in the vein of what we're talking about. I'm not talking about like a hard strings gifts because, you know, the girls write me heartfelt notes, but my true, honestly, one of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten that I use every single day was when I got my Mac that that was a Christmas gift. And I, I love this thing. It's ridiculous to feel that way about a computer. I love it. So I would have to say my Mac. Okay. Um, as an adult, the best gift I ever had. Not hard strings gifts because those are separate. Those are different. Well, okay. Can it be a group of gifts? Sure. Of course. No. I will. Okay. Well, hard string. Okay. The hard string gift. I got a nice one from Babaloo last year. So I want to say that one. Oh, well then. Okay. He gave me a little bottle, which is still on my mantle. It was a stocking stuffer actually. And it was, um, it's filled with sand and it is sand from the beach from the, it was Passacro beach. And then the sand represents the night that we met. We went and walked out on Passacro beach. And it was the place where I told him I loved him for the first time and the place where we talked about him moving into the house. Oh, I think that's great. So he poured all that into a vibe. So I, you know, I'm pulling out, you know, deodorant and toothpaste and all of a sudden there's this vial of sand. And he told me that and I was just like that was a really good one. He got me really good with that. So yeah, that's very sweet. That's cool. We love Babaloo. We do love Babaloo very much. Rodan, I don't really have any great hard string gifts, just because my ex-sprout was not very good at that because now apparently he's a felon. But, um, sorry, it's stuck in my thought process for a second. So, um, I would say, um, couple of years ago, I got a iPod Nano for Christmas. And I, it was the one gift my mom got me, that my mom's got me as, you know, as an adult that actually was useful. And, you know, I used it every day until it died about a month ago. So, okay. So I definitely say that. Well, okay. The reverse side, Nico. Hi, Nico. wants to know what's the best gift we've ever given. I gave my children life. Okay, that's good. Merry Christmas. Yeah. Merry Christmas. You get to continue breathing. Actually, one of the best gifts I've ever given I'm giving this year, I think. Oh, to who? My mother. And I say that, you know, I though, let me take that back because it isn't the best gift I've ever given because I'm giving it begrudgingly. But it is a great gift. So, I'm giving her this gift and I know it's going to make her happy. And I swear to God every time I think about giving her this gift, it makes me a little sad. In fact, I wrapped the gift and I did not put a name tag on it because there's still a chance I might change my mind. Okay. So, you need to understand that my mother and I can enjoy each other's company in very limited small amounts. And I have to, I need a buffer. And her big thing all the time is that we never take a family trip, family trip, family, family, family, family trip. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. For years since we've lived here, we've never taken a family trip and it drives her crazy and that is fine. So, at the school auction this year, I bought one of those Gatlinburg, Chalet, you know, sleeps eight people in the middle of Gatlinburg for a week. And with the premise of when I purchased it was that, you know, it was going to be the Babaloo Taylor Huffington vacation until, you know, once again, I get the, you know, I just wish that we could go some places of family. And then they bought a motorhome. And so, I was like, you know what, I talked to Tank and Tank is like, do you really want to spend a week with that in an enclosed environment, let alone in a motorhome? And I'm like, no. But however, wait a minute, wait a minute. So, you're telling me about a potential vacation and then you're snatching the vacation away from me all in the same sentence? Pretty much, yes. And so, I was like, okay, well, you know, I could, I could be the bigger person in this case. And we could give it to her as a Christmas gift. You know, on the pretense that all of us would go, but we won't tell her it's for a week, we'll only tell her it's for three days. And that way, she gets the, you know, she gets the whatever and I only have to be there for three days with her. So, I know that sounds ridiculous and all of our listeners right now are going, God, she's a bitch, but you don't know my mom. Anyways, but though that's so, that's, yeah, that's all. Okay. But I'm still not giving you. Wow. I know. That's a great story, Taffy. Thank you so much for sure. I know. Merry Christmas. Oh, stop it, Taylor. So, if I understand correctly, there's more presence wrapped for Babaloo than for me, currently in your house. And we were going to get to go to the mountains. And now, we're not so that you could be grudgingly spend time with your mother. But I'll make you another grilled cheese. It was made. See, your gifts were given with love. There's the difference. I poured my heart into your grilled cheese, which is why it was the best grilled cheese you've ever had, whereas her trip will be filled with bitterness. See. Nice. All right. Rodan, what is the best gift you've ever given? I would say probably last year, actually. Because it didn't end well, but the gift was great and the reaction was amazing. So, I'll go with that. The last year for Christmas, I can't remember if I talked about this or not, but I got lucky two tickets to the Jeff Dunham show down in. You talked about that on the show. Yeah. Down in Mississippi. And got us to tell reservations and kind of made a whole weekend out of it. And so, when he opened the box, he was crying. I've never seen anybody so appreciative of a gift ever. So, that's nice. I have to say, I think the best gift I've ever given, the biggest, maybe it's not the best, because we all benefited from it at some point or another was my first year withdraw my God, I'm a KitchenAid mixer. So, and we all benefited from his mac and cheese and various other accoutrements that he made with it. So, that was probably, that was the first time that I ever spent serious money on somebody. And that's what I got him. So, that would probably be my best one that I ever gave him. Well, you know, Ricky. You know the scene in Sweet Home, Alabama, where he takes her to Tiffany's and they turn all the lights and he says, "Pick one." Taylor and I had a scene like that last year at Christmas, where he took me to Best Buy and he just took me in front of the iPods and said, "Pick one, Merry Christmas." You forgot about that, didn't you? And then she yelled at me. And then I yelled at him. But you forgot about this. See, I remember that because I thought that was very sweet, but then I yelled at it. Well, thank you. So, see? And then I just gave you my old one, which you love. Which I love and still use every day. Yeah, so. Yes. Even though it looks like a dinosaur now, when I pick it up, I'm just like, this thing was ridiculous. It's cold and clunky. And I don't care. And to say that about an iPod is actually kind of gross. I get that. All right. Go ahead. Ricky has a question. Ricky from FAL Monkeys, Mr. Ricky B. says, "Have you ever received a gift that was so wrong for you or awful that you couldn't play it off that you liked it?" Yep. Like a nervous laugh or something. Yep. Yeah. I'm still bitter about it. Oh, what's yours? My brother is a jeweler. I do not wear colors or anything like that on my shirt because I can't have anything around my neck. It freaks me out. So, one year in front of the entire family, I open up a gift. And by one year, I mean like last year. And it's a necklace. And I literally opened it and I looked at her and I said, "I think you put the wrong name on the box." And she looked at me and she goes, "No." And so I spun it around and I showed it to her. And she was like, "No, that's for you." I said, "Have you ever seen me wear a necklace?" And the look at her face was like, "Well, but it's really pretty." And I thought you like it. I said, "Have you ever seen me wear a necklace?" And she was just like, "Well, I just assumed that you didn't wear a necklace because you didn't have necklaces." And I'm looking at her like, "You can't be serious. This is not a real conversation you and I are having. I've never worn anything around my neck." Sure enough. She really got me the necklace. So, yeah. I couldn't control it. I knew for a fact that she had called her secretary and had to wrap something and bring it. That's fine. I have no problem with that because usually it's good. But the idea of getting me a necklace knowing I don't wear anything around my neck. So, apparently your family and my family shop at the same dysfunction outlet. I told you really did. Just no one knows how. Oh, yes. That's the one I couldn't. So, should I tell the story? Yes, please. Because it is a great story. The Christmas story, the Christmas present story. My favorite Christmas present story I've had. I'm probably going to get a phone call about this. But it's been enough going. It's true. It's passed. So, the last year that Drum and I were together. This is a great story. Sorry, yes. Go ahead. We went up to see my family. Now, this was the first time that Drum was going to be with my family for Christmas morning. And this was the first time like growing up, you know, my sister and her boyfriend, who's now her husband, he's come over during Christmas day and they'd exchange presents. And of course, me being, you know, pacey and gay and alone. I just like sit and watch them and everything. So, I was going to do this big thing, this big production this year about how I wanted to, you know, there'd be all sorts of presents and it'd be all this sort of thing. Because, you know, I had to get back at my sister, even though, you know, she doesn't realize that there's competition, but there's always a competition. You know, paging Dr. Freud, whatever. So, we, I go and I spend all sorts of money, all sorts of gifts for Drum, and Drum gets me a couple of things. But, as we're packing the car to go up to Philadelphia, Drum walks out with this huge bag, this huge Christmas gift bag, that I was very like, what's in the bag? And he goes, well, it's one of your Christmas presents. So, I am like super excited. Like, I'm going to get some big gift from Drum that I'm going to be able to show it all to my family. And I'm going to rub it in my sister's face. All this like, just ridiculous dysfunction. So, I'm all excited all week. Yes, happy Christmas. So, I'm excited all week and I, you know, it's, it's in the back of the trunk all week and everything. But I keep looking at it, but I don't want to pick it up and I don't want to look at it or anything because I want to be all surprised Christmas morning. So, we go through and we're exchanging presents and everybody's taking video and taking pictures. And my niece, my nephew was like literally days old at that point. And my niece was, you know, maybe two or three. So, she was fun to watch open presents and everything. It gets to where Drum and I are opening presents. And everybody's watching us open presents. And finally, he hands me the big bag. And I take the, take the tissue paper off the top of the bag and I see a towel. And I'm like, oh, okay. So, he's got, so he's got a towel as a protective cover for whatever is the big gift in the bag, right? So, I pull that out and it's another towel. And I think, oh, okay. So, there's two towels. So, it must be, okay. So, and this is what he's doing is he's picking this big bag and then there's something small. Like, maybe there's jewelry or something, you got the one on it. So, I start pulling in another towel and another towel and another towel. And then there's the bottom of the bag. And I went, you got me towels? And he said, well, yeah, you said you like them at Target. So, I thought I'd get them for you. To which my mother says under her breath, wow, you know, you've been with somebody a long time when they get your towels for Christmas. Okay. Now, nine months later, we broke up. Now, in his defense, I don't know if this is defense or not, but drum was never really that great about buying gifts. Drum was good if I said I want this specific thing for Christmas. Drum was always really good about getting it for me. Right. It's just that, I guess, unfortunately, he was too good at it because a couple of weeks before Christmas, I went, wow, those are really pretty towels. They look pretty in the bathroom. Yeah. And that he did that. And I, I still use the towels and they're wonderful and drum's probably going to be angry when he hears this. And I don't want them to be, but it's just, it was very just sort of funny that this, I got myself all worked up over four or five days and then it was, oh, towels. Yeah. Wow. I actually, I remember that story. Yeah. Okay. Everybody remembers that story. So don't think of ever actually told drum that story. I think I was just sort of, no, no, I thought you did. No, I don't think I did. You know what, we'll find out. I think we'll know like that. I think we'll know. When I get a tersely written email to me or a text message, we'll know whether he knows my feelings. The last towel I buy you motherfucker. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's it. And, you know, I probably shouldn't have told that story, but whatever it's, no, it's a funny story. It's a funny story. It's a funny story. Now, it sent me into years of therapy, but it's a funny story. Well, I would say mine, my, I, for about four or five years growing up, I think between like 20 and 24, my mom had no clue what to give me for Christmas. So she was buying, and as you know, my mom, yeah, I have a mixed family now. And so my mom kept buying me these, like, probably the right way of saying this without being offensive. But it was like, she was buying me like these thug clothes for Christmas. I mean, just close to the office. But it was like, you know, formal wear, you know, it was like, you know, stuff that in her mind, I would be wearing to the office. If I was, if you were Mackay Pfeiffer. Maybe, maybe if I was Mike Pfeiffer. Nice. Oh, it was bad for four years. I'm just one of those layer, I'd open stuff. I'm like, oh, it's great. I'm just like, oh my God, save me. And my mom knew that every year. She's like, I just, you know, do you mentally think of someone you can give those things to? We're like, oh my God, that's really nice. I'm totally going to give this to film the blank. Yeah, no. Those were, those were going to JCPenney's and exchanging them for like under shirts or something. Right. Those were, it was bad. So are you a good exchanger? I mean, do you exchange things a lot or do you just suck it up and keep them or do you donate them or? I exchange when I can, especially some of those gifts, like my mom got me, I learned how to become a better exchanger from my mom, actually, just because of those gifts. Jeanie wants to know, what was the greatest or funniest Christmas memory? Did grandma's pants fall down while she was cutting the turkey? Did dad get drunk and knock down the Christmas tree? Wow, Jeanie, thanks for that. Wow. Christmas means to you. Wow. Did I tell the story about the Christmas tree when I was little coming home from the party? Have I told that on the show? I don't, I don't, I don't know if you told it on the show or not? I was probably about, I was probably about four years old because my sister was alive and she was old enough to understand what was going on. And we used to spend Christmas Eve's when I was really little at my great grandfather's house. And he was like, he was a fresh off the boat from Italy sort of where he would sit in his, you know, cheesecloth undershirt and y'all go home and Italian at everybody once he was tired of everybody being there. And we would go over there and he used to scare the hell out of me. So I was always very scared of him, but until he would hand everybody a dollar and then we were all his buddies. But we came home one night and our Christmas tree downstairs fell down during the course of the time that we were gone. I guess it was lopsided. So when we walk in the door, the tree had fallen down and all of the ornaments had fallen off. And I remember specifically we had a cardinal ornament that hung on one of the trees. And I remember that sort of laying off to the side and everything. And my father in his eternal wisdom decided to tell us that Santa Claus saw the tree and decided he didn't like how he decorated it. So he kicked it over and decided he wasn't leaving. Oh my God. Are you to say I was hysterical would probably be an understatement. And I remember my mother yelling at my father and my sister and I like holding on to one another. And this is why I am the way I am today. People wonder sometimes we listen to the show. How could he be like that? This is totally why stories like that. And we wonder why you're not going home for Christmas. Jesus. Exactly. And the story that I told last year about Bobaloo's Starbucks cap is probably that's another. Yeah. Again, it's funny now it wasn't funny at the time. You were a howler monkey at the time. Oh my God. Yeah. That was pretty crazy. Yeah. Everybody who was who's relatively new listeners to the show go back and listen to last year's Christmas show because I told a story or no it wasn't it was the it was the episode after the Christmas show about an unfortunate accident with Bobaloo's Santa hat which sounds dirty when you just say like that when you leave it cryptic like that but really really that whatever. Yeah. Do you guys have any funny stories that you can think of? I have a Christmas story kind of story where growing up we used to live out in the country like out in the country country out by you know I think we talked about this after the show last week we used to live out in the Ocala National Forest and which is central Florida near the St. John's River. We were going to my grandmother's house for Christmas dinner or Christmas lunch or whatever to like unpack gifts or something and they were coming home for dinner and so my mom made a turkey which you know I hate so whatever I didn't really care I was no investment there so you know you kind of bake it and she'd taken it out and then from when we got home for to put it back in so she left it on the counter with like a foil covering or whatever and so we go to you know Christmas with my grandmother whatever come home and there's a big red dog standing on the counter eating the turkey. Oh my god so it's a Christmas story. Yeah that's what I said it's a Christmas story story. The Pappas's yeah I mean it is Pappas it is. It is this giant red dog and just Clifford howling at us as we walk in the house so yeah it was it was it wasn't your dog? No. How did I get in your house? It was we lived in the forest and every once in a while like the door would pop open like the wind blew really hard or something and so we'd have this issue every once while where dogs would get like come through the house or whatever it was weird. Jesus Christ how deep into the woods did you live? I was just gonna say I did a little tree house for Christ's sakes. Jesus. No but but we were probably the only house for like four or five miles. Oh Lord. Oh my god. That one. Yeah no we were we were back in the woods so I mean bears rattlesnakes all sorts of weird stuff so. Well I guess it's better that you didn't have a bear in your house. Yeah better a dog than a bear. That was that was the last time many food got left out like that. It's funny that you use the word bear because my story directly involves bear an actual bear for Christmas. Okay. When I was six years old my mom and dad for Christmas got me tickets to go to the circus at the University of Dayton Arena in downtown Dayton, Ohio and the Christmas or and it was Christmas night was the circus because you know that's really good planning but whatever. So we go to the circus after we'd open all the gifts and I was exhausted because obviously it was a long night and a long day and we go to the circus and I'm very excited and I distinctly remember I had on a brown turtleneck and a pair of tan and brown plaid pants because you know it was 1975 and that would partridge family was very cool and the on the center ring was bears that would come out and they would do the whole thing where they you know it was the proverbial bear in the tutu holding the ball and then standing on you know the one foot and you know how I feel about circus's but this might have something to do with that. So I wanted to see the bears and I did. I went underneath the gate and I went out and I plopped down on the bears lap and my mother about how to heart attack and someone took a picture of it and I ended up being the cover of the Dayton Daily News the next day of me plop down in the front of this because no one wanted to. This happened twice in my life once in a theme park not with a bear but with a lion and in this particular case it was at Christmas and I ran over and just sat down on the bears lap and they took a picture of it. I don't know if they were taking a picture of it for you know medical reasons for you know this is what she looked like before she was ripped. So what her face would look like once they know they reattach it. Exactly. Why have I never heard this story before? Well and the other story that goes along with it was six months later we're walking through King's Island the amusement park in Ohio and they used to have a safari where they had like you know you take the tram and there was you know lions and tigers and zebras and everything and they were moving one of the lions from one side of the park to the other side of the park and he was on a you know a leash for a lack of a word and he happened to have that's when they were had they muzzled lions and his handler was walking him and I ran up to him and grabbed him around the neck and was doing the kitty oh I'm rubbing my face in his mane and the handler about had a heart attack because again don't make any sudden movements toward the child who's got her arms wrapped around the lion's mane and they finally got to where they had his handler was holding his leash and then they had a group of handlers that had worked with him and and it was a male lion obviously with a huge mane and they had to wait until they got there on and they're all on the you know the proverbial walking talkies to get security over to try to pull the small child that's literally hanging with the arms and legs wrapped around the lion's body going kitty oh kitty kitty kitty and they're pulling me off of this lion without it you know attacking me yeah twice in six months but the first time was in my mother tells that story much better because she has the big dramatic swell of music that comes up behind her as she's telling it but yes oh wow you would you think I would have learned by now and what and what who do I who do I yes around myself with now bears there you go well that that's that's an inch i've never heard that story before i'm a little wow okay you don't know everything there's to know in the the waterworks that is taffy carla happened no apparently not apparently i've only dipped my toe in lake taffy okay Cassie in Montana well fuck me fuck fuck what's to know what is our favorite Christmas carol and artist i say artists because there are four million versions of songs so mine all-time favorite song would have to be the Christmas song by Nat King Cole that's my favorite Christmas carol i don't want to say mine to go ahead with the animal i'm trying to think i mean i don't know i mean i would probably say silver bells but i don't even know by who an older version i hate silver bells i've been so anti-Christmas carol the last few years that i don't even know taffy just shut up and say what ears is it depends on what mood i am too i hate to say this and i know you're gonna give me grief i really really like the chipmunks Christmas song i do i can't help it it makes me just smile every time i hear it i don't know why well that's okay it's stupid but that's okay hey now like do you have the song that you want to listen to that makes you like wistfuline nostalgic and you know i'll be home for Christmas kills me i don't care who sings it it kills me when i hear it and i love all the anxiety by when chris isek sings it well yeah that's that's just that i guess that would be considered a Christmas carol i mean that's more of a new year's but it's like you know when sarah mclaughlin sings christmas time is here i i want to kill myself it's a beautiful song but i want to know myself yeah yeah no i i mean there's definitely songs that are more nostalgic than anything but i i the christmas carol the christmas song is definitely one that i when i listen to it it makes me feel it that that's one that warms my heart and honestly there's a lot of christmas carols that i don't like and i know we've talked ad nauseam on previous christmas shows about it but i that that is one that any time i hear it that's one that actually annoys bobaluna because any time i hear it the thing out of it comes out of my mouth is why don't they make music like this anymore which makes me sound like i'm ad and should be watching wheel of fortune with professor dr scott but that's i'll tell you i'll tell you one honestly probably one of my truly favorite ones that isn't you know sung by animated you know chipmunks would probably be there's no place like home for christmas but only the one by the carpenters i her voice is just so freaking pure it's so good and i don't know i like that one there's a lot of christmas songs i like i don't know well we need to start wrapping up some i know we we still have a bunch of questions to go so maybe we'll have to share that for the fourth annual christmas as far as talking about christmas cars a little bit more um hunt who taffy and i met at disney world hi hunt wants to know hi hunt uh what's on top of our trees do we have angels stars spirey things or something more unique i just have we have a star i have nothing you have no tree i know but maybe by the time this air is you'll have a tree no i have like three trees i'm just not putting them off by humbug i will say and i talked about this on the first holiday show that we did i didn't put up a tree that year and it made me really sad that i didn't put up a tree i didn't think it would bother me because i went home for christmas that year i really i i if you if you get the inkling some night this week yeah put up the tree even if you just put up the smallest of the trees and put you know a minimal amount of christmas more and it's on it i really think it might help you to get out of this christmas grumpy run yeah so all right taffy what do you have on your tree ceiling it touches it touches the ceiling i can't we can't put anything on top of it we've tried i mean we decorate all the way up to the top of of the tree but there's actually nothing on the top of the tree i hate to be a debbie downer but there's not although i do love what bobaloo did to one of their trees and i've actually we we tried to do it we actually couldn't reach the top of it but they hung an ornament that causes it to tilt over like the charlie brown tree and i love the way it looks it's so it's a perfect ornament for this particular tree i think he posted pictures of it actually on the blog and it's it really is very cute so i might have to try that one year because i think it looks really neat okay um george says that somebody told him that rodan has a december birthday and his george's is december 11th which actually is rodan's birthday yeah so and that was more of a comment than a question but that's cool but george yes rodan rodan's birthday is december 11th so you and he share a birthday so happy birthday very belated yes does that mean you're a Sagittarius yes okay all right crystal wants to know what our taffy and tank's favorite uses for the christmas custard taffy and tank do not explore the world of food sex very often years years of practice on that particular that right now tank is shaking his head no years of practicing with various different accruity mont as it were left left us not happy with that decision so um that's not something if that's if that's the answer you're going for it that's not probably even in the realm of reality however i'm i'm willing to you know there's four play involved with custard not the kind of custard rodan has but yeah that's all oh hey sorry no the whole okay sorry sorry candy canes are an entirely different subject we'll talk about that later oh god oh oh just i would think that would tingle and not in the good way okay good way and then it says seriously though what are your favorite holiday traditions i don't really have any holiday traditions as a as a bobaloo and i are a relatively new family so we're in the process of this is the first year that i think we're really going to try and create other than last year and this year we bought christmas ornaments for each other at disney world but that's a good tradition to start yeah yeah that's pretty cool yeah i really don't have any christmas traditions yet so yes we have family traditions coming out our butts and uh it would take forever and every day classy that that was lovely that's christmas class for you know we there's tons of them that go on for you know well i start baking the first day of december so that that's how long they go okay well scottie oh wants to know if the three of us will be getting together over the holidays yes yep yes yes yes we are going to try and so this is the last official episode uh for 2009 that being said we are going to tape something that three of us together whether it's a video podcast or some sort of audio on the i-talk or something but you know it's very rare that rodan and taffy and i get in the same room and we will tape something for all of you guys and whether it gets released next year with all of the new stuff or whether release it kind of as a little bonus thing i don't know but we will do something i have some ideas because we have a milestone coming up soon being our 50th video episode is coming up the episode after next oh wow so i yes i know i can't believe it right so i'm working on a little something but i'm not ready to share just yet but i'll share with you when we talk later on mm-hmm mm-hmm and and taffy kind of already knows what it is of course i do and we'll tell you about it later on yes oh so okay so that was a question from scottie and our next question is from bjorn bjorn bjorn and he says do you like over packaged gifts which is a big box and small gifts then he says sorry ricky and he also says what is the best way to hide gifts so i like i would much rather have rather than one big gift i would rather have a bunch of smaller gifts see i don't necessarily care there i just i'm good either way i mean as long as some thought was put into it i don't like tricks just to have tricks but if it's okay i was just going to say i don't want gifts just to have them no yeah he said tricks yeah i'm in tricks i mean i don't like you know the whole like i'm going to trick you and put your present you know give you a box of rick because we know you like to have tricks wow yeah hush that's not what i mean though no it was too easy i would i mean as long as it's stuff i want it doesn't matter to me but i don't want a lot of gifts just for a lot of gifts sake does that make sense right yeah i don't know it's i mean i don't want it where they individually wrap you know i get silverware so they individually wrap each serving fork no i i but if i rather than if i want if i have the you know with the choice of a playstation or a bunch of books and movies i would almost rather have the books in the movies just because there's more different individual things versus one gift that that you get i'll keep that in mind okay great so i what is the best way to hide gifts my skirt i think it depends on where i'm living at the time yeah i don't know where bobaloo hides my gifts really yeah last year he hid them in his car he had them in the trunk of his car all the time and it caused him so much drama every time i would have to get in his car that he decided not to do that this year but it i don't know i don't know where my gifts are they're somewhere in this house i know that now are you a snooper no i'm not either i want to surprise christmas morning i remember one year i accidentally came across my mom wrapping christmas presents um the year that thriller came out the when when the video thriller world premiered on mtv we had watched it when it came on at like three o'clock and then that night it came on again and i ran upstairs to do something and i started running my mom's room to get something and i opened the door and saw the gifts and then closed the door all fast and i remember being completely crestfallen just because i knew i know what one of my gifts is yeah no i'm not i'm not a paker no i am i'm a paker i like having that satisfaction knowing what i'm going to get really why i have no idea it's just i like knowing what's going on okay well that that's a control issue i realize that which is ironic the taffy doesn't like to know then no i like to be surprised i like i like it i absolutely believe it's better for me personally it is better to give than to receive i i like that i like giving the gifts that makes me very happy i'm not a good gift getter you know yeah that i was really an article today about that's really a control freak thing yeah that's and that's what i was going to say is that's where my control freakness comes into it and to play is a fact that i am not a good gift getter and i'm sure that there's a whole you know big line of Freud crap that has to do with that but i'm sure i said for years you will be my doctoral dissertation when i decided to go back to school so that's that's where my control play comes in when it comes to to gifts is the fact that i am a much better giver than getter that would be but you know unless it's involving head apparently okay that's gonna happen that's a ask a question that makes me a little sad okay why so and i already know how i already know how taffy is going to answer this question oh god nessa asks how old were you when you stopped believing in santa nessa what what are you implying nessa are you implying that there is no such thing as santa clives i don't know if i can continue with this podcast right now continue okay apparently we're not allowed to answer that nessa i'll email you my answer later um you can you can answer the question i would word your words very very carefully well okay i okay i believe in the spirit of christmas thank you i believe that children are the future teach them how to let them lead the way show them all the beauty they possess inside right um i would have to say as far as the actual knowing that it may not necessarily be some overweight man sneaking into my house in the middle of the night uh i would have to say i was probably about maybe eight or nine yeah i would say i think i was just a little bit younger than that but yeah about the same time and our final question is from Bjorn again and that is what was your biggest christmas surprise i went into false labor did you really i really did yeah i really who the littlest hopping dinner no no no with lollipop i went into false labor i had Braxton Hicks and what was bad is that that night oh it was christmas and we lived in germany and it was christmas um night and we had been invited out to dinner and we had and i wasn't i was on bed rest i wasn't supposed to really leave and take very very begrudgingly um agreed to let me go out to dinner and i slipped on the ice and yeah now we're talking okay to say the tank is overprotective of me it would be an understatement and to say the tank would be overprotective of me pregnant you know seven and a half months pregnant and i went down on the ice and i really i generally thought he was going to have a heart attack but um and it to cause me to go into premature labor which was hilarity ensued it took me no i'm sure yes it was it was the keystone cops there's no question but um everything was fine i mean she wasn't you know but yeah it was that would certainly be my well you have met lollipop so i don't know that we can say well that is also true yes but no i i went into false labor on christmas day night so would be i i don't know that i have a huge christmas surprise i i'm sure there's one that i'm just not thinking of but yeah i'm the same way i can't think of anything right now well false labor and two answers but they don't know whether they've never been surprised christmas what a great way to end our christmas episode sorry when you think surprised do you think like you know did someone ask you to marry them or was you know did you get a new car with a big red boat you know is it that type of surprise or is it the type of surprise where i mean what i'm trying to try to think is you know i don't i don't really know if anything like that has ever happened i think and this is kind of a well this is the i don't know that this is necessarily how we want to end the show but i was by myself for christmas eve last year for the most part and i was surprised at how well i did well no that's because i thought yeah i mean i was i met up with you know i went over the Huffington's for a little while for with the the hat incident and then it was home and then my my my neighbors had a party and i went over there but then actually coming home and being by myself i was sort of like you know what i've got i got ginger ale in the fridge i got chicken bog on the stove i got a new playstation i'm good yeah so i did that and i was up to one and then christmas morning by myself was not quite as much fun that was the first time i was alone christmas morning but i knew that i was seeing bobaloo later that day in the huffington's and that made everything okay but i was surprised at how well i i did because i kind of half expected myself to be fetal at some point and i really wasn't now do you think there was a time in your life that you would not have been okay with that yes absolutely look at you growing no i i i know i think that's awesome yeah no i mean and that's and that's you know and i think that i'm very fortunate to have people in my life where i can you know go later and spend time with them and you know even if i'm not necessarily with them on christmas eve or christmas morning that you know like again bobaloo was on his way home the next day and and you know so so i'm very fortunate in that way and it's been a hell of a year this year so i'm i'm looking forward to seeing what 2010 has to offer this is the end of a decade too i know i know i know if i when i think back to where i was 10 years ago versus where i am now that it just amazes me where did you all spend your new years eve for the millennium i was with drum we were i was at drums house with him and his crazy landlord i was gonna say sprout and i started our relationship new years eve 1999 really yep well our first date was my birthday and then our relationship started new years eve that's cool i didn't know that yeah i remember because of all the y2k stuff and they were saying it was under control but nobody really knew if it was going to be under control and everything right i remember the last five or ten seconds wondering if when it hit midnight if all the lights went out and everything what was going to happen i remember crying like i remember getting like so worked up that i was i was really i was more scared going into 2000 than anything else which again speaks to what a big sissy girl i am but i remember i remember that actual genuine like beer of like what's really yeah and then it was 12 o'clock and one second and the light stayed on and everything was fine and time squared didn't blow up on the tv so i was like oh well i guess everything's fine and then i would then i was normal but i remember being terrified that i totally bought into all of that y2k stuff i i never i that was not something that i was i didn't i don't even remember giving that even a second thought for the most part because you live with a man who's two steps away from a malicious so you knew that you were prepared actually i knew that we were good i wasn't too worried i was with you steps away from a militia you're insane nice my lord he as i'm sitting here watching him blow things up so on his death on a video game on a video game right you make it sound like he's ready to you know go to war at any moment no but i know he knows how to take care of himself in any particular situation no question okay but enough about your sex life well all right so well let that we are going we're way over an hour at this point so i have no we've had we've had technical issues and and clicks and worlds and all sorts of stuff so i have no idea how long this episode is actually going to be but thank you for all your questions yes thank you yes thank you all very much we we very much enjoy this as we enjoy doing the holiday show every year and you know we want to wish you all a very merry christmas a very happy quanza happy hanaka happy new year whatever it is that you celebrate fester solstice yes was with i think that's called the yule and uh everything that you guys celebrate just be sure to be safe and be happy and be with people that you love and and pot is my co-pilot we'll be back in at some time in mid to early january 2010 yay and hopefully we'll have something with the three of us yes yes whether that's i'm not going to promise that during the break but definitely keep your feeds open you may get something just a little something with all of us just being silly and all of us want to be in your feed well i can't think of any other way to end it than that so uh merry christmas everybody we'll see you next year this is taylor and taffy Andrew Dan. 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