Christmas Movies We Actually Want, 122-Foot Snowwoman & a Waikiki Heist 😂🌴 | Sunburnt Podcast Ep. 44

**Thomas** (00:00:00:00 - 00:00:08:04): What a burnt ones! This is the Sun Burnt podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. Happy holidays! This is the Christmas episode, huh Chip. **Chip** (00:00:08:05 - 00:00:10:11): It is happy. Happy holidays. **Thomas** (00:00:10:12 - 00:00:24:04): Happy holidays. To my right, as always in this yuletide season. You know, I'm from Netflix. You know him? From his amazing stand. A special move closer. It's Philadelphia's own chip chantry. **Chip** (00:00:24:06 - 00:00:34:10): And over here to my left is Emmy award winning writer and producer. He puts the surge in, sir, just a minute, please. Take those candy canes out of your pocket, Mr. Thomas O'Brien. **Thomas** (00:00:34:10 - 00:00:36:06): I've got sticky fingers. **Chip** (00:00:36:06 - 00:00:54:03): But they are peppermint smelling, which is. That's the nice part about this time of year. Happy holidays. Merry Christmas. Thomas. I am as unexcited as I am to be in my basement in Philadelphia and not on the beach in Waikiki. I know we are a mere few days from Christmas, and I'm. I'm starting to feel it. I'm starting to feel the spirit. How about you? **Thomas** (00:00:56:22 - 00:01:13:21): Yeah, it's it's washing over me. I'm really enjoying it. Last night we watched, elf. It's great when we watched it with the baby. Baby's first time seeing elf. And I will tell you, almost two years old, certain parts of the movie, she got very scared. **Chip** (00:01:13:23 - 00:01:22:08): Okay, I'm trying to think, is it the. Let me guess, is the sea a is is the scenes with Andy Richter and Kyle? **Thomas** (00:01:22:10 - 00:01:23:04): No. **Chip** (00:01:23:06 - 00:01:23:16): No. **Thomas** (00:01:23:16 - 00:01:35:08): Okay. No, no, no, it was any time. I'm guessing there was a man over 50 years old on screen. She went, no, no. Too scary. **Chip** (00:01:35:08 - 00:01:39:06): So the Bob Newhart's of the world, like James James Caan. **Thomas** (00:01:39:06 - 00:01:41:07): James Caan and Santa. **Chip** (00:01:41:09 - 00:01:48:08): There is a curmudgeon attitude about Ed Asner, Santa Claus that I could agree with your daughter. **Thomas** (00:01:48:08 - 00:01:52:23): I think what she actually was scared of is mortality. **Chip** (00:01:53:04 - 00:02:10:01): Okay, I will be honest with you. I did have a talk about the circle of life with her in Hawaii. We were just sitting. We were watching the sun go down. I was like, speaking of the sun going down. What happens to all of us as we age? And then I went into the full spiel. I, I'm not saying that had anything to do with. But I'm just saying maybe it had a little something to do with it. **Thomas** (00:02:14:06 - 00:02:17:05): Yeah, as long as it was all Lutheran, it's all. **Chip** (00:02:17:05 - 00:02:27:13): Good. Yes, that's. That's all it is. And that's what I. That's how I kept it, you know, I did, but, did she enjoy the rest of the movie? Did did you. Okay. Did you enjoy Will Ferrell or did she find him weird and off putting? **Thomas** (00:02:27:13 - 00:02:30:13): I think she found him weird and off putting. **Chip** (00:02:30:13 - 00:02:46:19): I love Will Ferrell. I think he's a national treasure. I think it's great. I, by the way, for better or worse. I'm not saying, this is something to brag about. I get, compared to him a lot as far as looks people like. Did anybody ever tell you you look like Will Ferrell? Because we got the weird eyes and the. Yes. And just our demeanor sometimes, like I come off stage, people. Did you ever tell you look like Will Ferrell? Well, yes. They tell me a little like Will Ferrell. He is a national treasure. Now he's Ron Burgundy, he is elf. He is all these great characters. I remember the first number of years when he was just on SNL, just being like, he is strange and off putting, man, and I didn't I? Not that I didn't get the humor, I just didn't it just didn't hit me right away because I only saw little snippets and I was like, this guy is strange. And then to see him the first time is elf, and he wasn't a name. Then when elf came out like he had not really broken through. And I think old school is what really? Then I saw him. I was like, okay, I get Will Ferrell now, but that was kind of how the world happened because the studio was not excited about him. A James Caan apparently did not enjoy working with him. He's like, this is a weird man. Yeah. And I don't like him tickling me. And then he finally later on got it. So he is Will Ferrell is is I think was an acquired taste to America. **Thomas** (00:03:47:04 - 00:03:58:11): I think he might have been more of an acquired taste to Chip Chantry because you know how when like the most annoying thing somebody can do generally is something you do yourself and don't like about yourself? **Chip** (00:03:58:13 - 00:04:05:04): Oh, sure. Of course that's that's that's specifically why I didn't have children. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:04:05:06 - 00:04:24:03): Just. Yeah. No, it's it's like when, when my if my little brother ever gets on my nerves because he's, he's a just a wonderful dude. But if he gets on my nerves, I'm just like, oh, I just hate the way he talks. He sounds like me. And, I just couldn't be more annoyed by anybody else on the planet than myself. **Chip** (00:04:24:08 - 00:04:41:02): Because you see the moves, you know, it's like. It's like when George would fight Oscar on Arrested Development. Yeah, they just knew what the. Because they were twins. Like, I remember seeing when I would, when I had kids, when I was teaching fourth grade, like, I would see a kid do something. I was like, you're doing the same thing I do. You're making the same mistakes I did. Yeah, and it would just make me so much angrier because I'm like, I, I can fix this. I know, because if a kid was acting totally crazy or something, that I was just foreign to me, you're just like, all right, something strange. You don't get it. But when you when you lock in on that thing, you're like, I used to do that too. That's not good. And then you just get mad at yourself, and then you get mad at that kid through you. **Thomas** (00:05:03:21 - 00:05:19:05): Yeah. Anything I do can I find very annoying? Most of the things I say, like, yeah, you leave a conversation or like, you're in the shower the day after going to a party and you're just like, why did I say any of the words that I said last night? Why do I do that? **Chip** (00:05:19:06 - 00:05:30:10): Oh, by the way. And I might even have to address it. I and again, I don't think it was anybody's fault. But it's okay. Just just a thing that happened to me. **Thomas** (00:05:30:12 - 00:05:31:07): Yeah. **Chip** (00:05:31:09 - 00:05:38:15): I was I'm not going to name I'm not going to say the club, but I was, I was, I was at a club this past week performing. **Thomas** (00:05:38:15 - 00:05:39:16): Was it a sandwich? **Chip** (00:05:39:17 - 00:05:45:17): It had hit a turkey. It had, little decorative toothpicks in there. So yes. **Thomas** (00:05:45:19 - 00:05:49:05): All right, mayor, don't tell us which one. But you were performing at a sandwich. **Chip** (00:05:49:05 - 00:05:56:12): That was performing at a sandwich, and it was. I was the last comedian on the show. Like I was closing the show. A lot of people. **Thomas** (00:05:56:12 - 00:05:57:13): Would call that the headliner. **Chip** (00:05:57:18 - 00:06:01:01): But it's just. I'm not the. It's just a sort of a showcase. **Thomas** (00:06:01:01 - 00:06:03:08): Yeah, yeah. So. **Chip** (00:06:03:10 - 00:06:28:00): I always, I always do, you know me, I always try to be polite. I always try to be nice. And I come walking in. There's a lot of security in this, in this club. And, not a lot of it's a new staff. So they they don't necessarily know me. And, I walk in and I say hi to people and I, you know, I get in and then I walk back stage into the green room area, and I go, and I sit down and there's one of the other comedians who was there, and we're just having a conversation. And this young woman who was like part of the staff kind of follows me back, I guess, because, like, I'm just in there for like 10s or so. Yeah. And she comes back and she's like, excuse me, what's what's your name to me? And I was like, oh, I'm Chip. That's all I said. Right. And she's like, oh, okay. Because like, I think sometimes they're worried that like a civilian comes backstage like she's coming. She wanted to make sure I was on the show. Right? **Thomas** (00:06:52:12 - 00:06:53:04): Yeah. That's nice. **Chip** (00:06:53:04 - 00:07:19:10): So I was she's like, excuse me, what's your name? And it was a little accusatory, but it's also like, that's her job, you know. Yeah. And I always try to mention I was like, oh, I'm Chip. And she's like, okay. And she turns and starts walking out of the room. And the other comic, who else who kind of sounds like me, just goes, the headliner, like in a jokey during but like also like he's the headliner, which I'm the closing comedic for whatever it's like. It doesn't matter. I'm just on the show and I to this. It was a couple nights ago. I still am worried that that woman thought that I said that, do you know what I mean? Like like I'm Chip, the headliner, and now she's going to just be angry at me and then tell everybody else at the club that I'm a jerk. **Thomas** (00:07:39:22 - 00:07:40:15): Yeah. **Chip** (00:07:40:17 - 00:07:51:04): Even though I didn't say it, it was the other guy who said it, and he and he was kidding around. But now I'm going to be haunted by that and see if I ever get booked at that club again. Just because they think I'm a jerk. **Thomas** (00:07:51:06 - 00:07:53:07): Yeah. No you can't. You can get a stink on. **Chip** (00:07:53:09 - 00:08:11:12): The staff at comedy clubs, like, like a waiter or waitress or whatever. It's like they have, they got, they got some pool because it's a, it's a, it's a tight knit little thing. And they and they talk, baby. They, they talk. But on to bigger and better things at Christmas time because yeah, I don't want to talk about negativity. I only talk about positivity. **Thomas** (00:08:12:16 - 00:08:15:02): You want to talk about the nativity. **Chip** (00:08:15:03 - 00:08:23:05): I want you know what I want to talk about? I want to talk about, not getting any son tivity. That's not a good that's not a word that I used. **Thomas** (00:08:23:06 - 00:08:23:19): Yeah, but. **Chip** (00:08:23:19 - 00:08:39:19): We should we should slather on a little. Let's get a little sunblock right now. Get the smell. It's. It's that time of year. I got a little, I think I got a little bit of the sniffles. I think this might open up the sinuses just a bit. Yeah, just to get that smell. A little, little coconut. It's it's. We call a little, it's coconut. Is, is. I believe they call coconut nature's Sudafed. **Thomas** (00:08:46:02 - 00:08:47:02): Really? **Chip** (00:08:47:04 - 00:08:55:04): I believe so, yeah. And they actually do call. They do call coconut nature's Sudafed. The kind that you have to get behind the counter. **Thomas** (00:08:55:04 - 00:08:59:08): If you don't have to show your driver's license, that ain't the coconut that's going to help you out. **Chip** (00:08:59:09 - 00:09:00:21): No, it is not. **Thomas** (00:09:01:00 - 00:09:17:02): I'm so cold right now. Yep. I'm freezing to my friggin bones. But, this is when I slather goes the furthest when it's really, really cold outside. It brings me right back. It puts me in a good mood. I'm really, really glad we do it. **Chip** (00:09:17:03 - 00:09:23:23): By the way, what is your, what is your pharmacy of choice out there in LA? Is it CVS or what do you got, rite aid? **Thomas** (00:09:24:00 - 00:09:28:04): We've got them all, baby. But, I like a I cvs for my money. **Chip** (00:09:28:04 - 00:09:47:15): My wife is such a huge CVS fan. Like, one of the biggest changes during the pandemic was that she could no longer just walk around the CVS and browse, because we weren't going into stores very often, especially a pharmacy where you find sick people often. Yeah, but like one of her favorite things, she just loves a CVS. I mean, talk about I mean, she's she women be shopping Thomas at CVS. **Thomas** (00:09:54:21 - 00:09:57:02): Shopping for wellness goods that she. **Chip** (00:09:57:02 - 00:10:20:10): Loves. And she does the thing with the big long receipts. And yeah, she will literally I think it's illegal. Like I think the the FCC is going to show up to our house someday to because like, we will get two bags worth of, of home and health care goods. Yeah. And she will spend $4 total. Like she knows how to do these. The gymnastics of the coupons. Yeah. It's amazing. How are they doing it. Is it. You know at the CVS near there is a lot of the stuff behind glass and you have to push the button. **Thomas** (00:10:29:17 - 00:10:34:15): Not as much. When I went to, DC in New York though. **Chip** (00:10:34:16 - 00:10:35:06): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:10:35:08 - 00:10:40:02): This summer and, everything was locked down, baby. **Chip** (00:10:40:02 - 00:10:47:05): Yeah. It's really. And then you got to push the button, and you got to wait for somebody to show up. And the place is always understaffed, so you have to wait five minutes just to get your shampoo. **Thomas** (00:10:47:06 - 00:11:03:17): They're just pushing people towards Amazon. Dead. Yeah. It's just water that stuff. It'll be at your house tomorrow, but at least you're not waiting around for 15 minutes while somebody coughs next to you in a CVS. Right. I have seen your wife do the receipt. Does the ABC store ring a bell? **Chip** (00:11:03:17 - 00:11:25:04): Chip? Tommy. I just had coffee out of a hula girl mug this morning. Oh, because of her, we talked about the ABC stores in Hawaii last week, by the way. Oh. In prepping for this episode, I did a deep dive into the ABC store. I found some stuff out we're not going to do with this episode, but in an episode coming up, we are going to talk. There is there is a lot of information that I learned about the ABC stores that I can't wait to share with you, something. **Thomas** (00:11:30:00 - 00:11:47:06): I'm so excited to hear about that. That looks awesome. Well, let's talk about what we're going to talk about this chip. So this episode stick with us. We're going to have a wonderful holiday time. We're talking about new holiday movies, holiday classics. **Chip** (00:11:47:07 - 00:11:48:02): There is a classic. **Thomas** (00:11:48:02 - 00:12:11:12): There has been a new classic in a minute. My rotation has been very similar from year to year. We're talking about elf. We're talking about Christmas vacation. We're talking about a Christmas story, but we're talking about new ones that are coming out that are going to make your list. We're talking Christmas traditions. And, I'm sure we're going to talk a little bit more about who I. **Chip** (00:12:11:14 - 00:12:11:20): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:12:12:00 - 00:12:33:01): I mean, we we got back a couple weeks ago. I'm still riding high. Plenty of stories. We have talked about a whole week with a couple of buddies paddling around the island. We've got some stuff to talk about. This is the Sunbird podcast, where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. If you think those two things should go together, stay tuned. Front desk and Merry Christmas Eve. **Chip** (00:12:35:10 - 00:12:40:17): Hi, this is Mr. Chandler in room 308. I was wondering, does Santa visit this hotel on Christmas? **Thomas** (00:12:40:17 - 00:12:42:07): Of course he travels the whole world. **Chip** (00:12:42:07 - 00:12:53:07): Okay. Does he also wear a ski mask and grab your wallet and laptop and run out of the room? No. Okay, well, then go ahead and call the police, because somebody just made that naughty list. Charlie Thomas Christmas. **Thomas** (00:12:53:07 - 00:12:54:12): Is right around the corner. **Chip** (00:12:54:12 - 00:13:14:14): Dude, that. That's one thing I we were in Hawaii a little bit longer than usually we set up our Christmas tree, like, right at Thanksgiving because we live in South Philly now. That's where when we put it up on Thanksgiving weekend, we're like the last people on our block to put up our Christmas tree. Yeah, in South Philly, it's like a day after Halloween is when it gets kicking around. It's while, sure, like, I feel like we got a little bit of a truncated Christmas season, but we were in Hawaii. **Thomas** (00:13:19:18 - 00:13:27:05): There were Christmas trees aplenty in the islands. Like they get into the swing like many places don't. **Chip** (00:13:27:05 - 00:13:38:07): I was really excited to see that because like you, you want tropical, but especially in your hotel lobby. It was just Christmas threw up everywhere in the most delightful way. **Thomas** (00:13:38:09 - 00:13:38:17): **Chip** (00:13:38:21 - 00:13:49:20): Yeah. And then I actually you know I had to post some pictures, remind me the morning that we went to rent our car to go drive the island. We got our little convertible Mini Cooper. **Thomas** (00:13:49:21 - 00:13:50:05): Yeah. **Chip** (00:13:50:05 - 00:14:01:11): We we, we took a picture in front of a Christmas tree and, Malika like a sign, which was, I believe, outside of the Sheraton where the Brady Bunch stayed. **Thomas** (00:14:01:11 - 00:14:22:04): Where the Brady Bunch said, famous, famous hotel, famous location. And like, just even, you know, I had to stop by target a couple of times. As wild and exotic as that sounds. Yeah. And they just had Christmas music blazing even before Thanksgiving. I love it. They take it serious out there. **Chip** (00:14:22:04 - 00:14:27:10): I used to get annoyed by that, but the older I get, the more I'm like, just spread some joy, spread some joy. **Thomas** (00:14:27:10 - 00:14:48:11): Last year there was a show, I forget what's. Maybe it was on Fox called, Rescue High Surf. Yeah. And it was about the lifeguards on the North Shore of Oahu. And they had, Christmas episode. And it's just like, yeah, Hawaii does Christmas up big? They do it early, they do it long. And I think it's because they just like having a good time. It's positive. **Chip** (00:14:49:05 - 00:15:07:15): It really is. You know, and I can be a snob sometimes. And I don't want to do what, what everybody else is doing. And let's go. Everybody's watching this dumb show. I'm not going to watch it. We had, some family over last weekend, and their son, young kid, likes a couple shows. It's on Netflix. We had Netflix on. Yep. And he turned on. Is it cake. **Thomas** (00:15:11:14 - 00:15:12:16): Okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. **Chip** (00:15:12:17 - 00:15:14:14): Mikey Day, have you seen it? **Thomas** (00:15:14:14 - 00:15:16:20): Have you ever seen it? But I understand what it is. **Chip** (00:15:16:22 - 00:15:36:04): It's the dumbest. It's show where it's these bakers or whatever they. Yeah, they bake these cakes and. And you, they want to make them look real, and then you have to cut into it to see if it's cake or not. That's the entire show. It's ridic. I was like, all right, let's watch this. It's delightful. Thomas, it is just it's not high brow television. Yeah, but everybody's just sort of happy. They're sort of rooting for each other. It's nice. Is it, Mikey Day, I think is Mike. **Thomas** (00:15:42:16 - 00:15:44:11): He's a yes. That's. No, that's he's. **Chip** (00:15:44:11 - 00:16:01:22): Delightful. It's just it was just like okay I get it. Like I it's not my favorite show in the world, but it was just, it was just sweet for a half hour. And then there's the one called Nailed It, which is basically the same thing. Is it cake? Pretty much. But it's people who are not bakers, and they just do a terrible job. **Thomas** (00:16:01:22 - 00:16:08:08): Yeah, bad bakers, equally delightful. Yeah. Nicole Byer. Yes. You host that one? **Chip** (00:16:08:10 - 00:16:15:09): Yeah. Nicole Byer and I don't know if they, they have like, guest host sometime, but the episode that I saw was, Jason Mantzoukas. **Thomas** (00:16:15:11 - 00:16:16:03): Yeah. **Chip** (00:16:16:05 - 00:16:24:00): Who was just the perfect person just to just to rip everybody apart and in the, in the funniest, most delightful way. **Thomas** (00:16:24:03 - 00:16:31:01): You know, I love Jason and everything, but he did, this season of a British show called Taskmaster. Have you heard of this? **Chip** (00:16:31:01 - 00:16:33:04): I've heard it's a great show, but I haven't seen it. **Thomas** (00:16:33:04 - 00:16:43:13): So the Jason Mantzoukas season, it was on when I was in New York, DC. So, like, I think it was on this summer. Dude, it's they're all on YouTube. Go check it out. **Chip** (00:16:43:13 - 00:16:45:22): Is that a British show or did they Americanize it? **Thomas** (00:16:45:22 - 00:17:02:22): There was a version of it a long time ago that Reggie Watts hosted in the States. Okay. But this is like the original, and it's like it's my little brother got really into it. He's the one that turned me on to it. Okay. And, it's just like, kind of, delightful way to pass an hour. **Chip** (00:17:02:22 - 00:17:04:17): Yeah, I've heard lots of great things about it. **Thomas** (00:17:04:20 - 00:17:21:02): A bunch of comedians doing silly tasks to try and win a prize over the course of a season that nobody really cares about. And, I don't know, it's just it's just really fun and light kind of in that vein of, you know, it's not going to change the world, but it's it's actually a nice way to spend some time. **Chip** (00:17:21:04 - 00:17:40:18): That's the way you do change the world, though, Thomas. But yeah, little, little pieces of joy. Little, little, little chunks of joy, little, little hunks of joy. Just stuck in your carpet around your house. Just little, little joy hunks. Write that down. That's going to be a that's going to be a poster with a mountain someday. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:17:40:18 - 00:17:48:07): Well, I mean, hunks of joy is the, you know, seminude all male revue we're going to do once we get jacked. **Chip** (00:17:48:09 - 00:18:06:05): Okay. Well, speaking speaking of which, you think you're you think you're joking here, Thomas, this is a very serious podcast. Obviously. That's why listeners tune in for. Okay. I was doing a show, the night before I told that story about where I was at the comedy club. I was in a different comedy club. **Thomas** (00:18:06:07 - 00:18:07:15): Don't name it. **Chip** (00:18:07:17 - 00:18:19:01): I'm not going to name it. It's a bigger venue. There were three. It's it's this big. It's I I'll say, I'll say it was sold. Joel's soul. Joe's out in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. My village. **Thomas** (00:18:19:02 - 00:18:20:15): Pottstown. **Chip** (00:18:20:17 - 00:18:36:18): Owns this place at the Sunnybrook Ballroom. It's like these big venues, these small. But it's got this whole complex. It's amazing. He's done such a great job with it. And I was actually texting back and forth with him afterwards, like joking about it. But literally there were three big events or I would say big events, three events going on. Last Wednesday night when I was there, there was in the smallest room, standup comedy. **Thomas** (00:18:43:00 - 00:18:43:20): Yep. **Chip** (00:18:43:22 - 00:19:01:20): And it was just a local show. There was a couple local comics, and then we sort of did a panel where brand new comics came. So each performer then did a panel, a brand new comics came up and did it, and we sort of, we made it nicer than a, let's just say a certain show that's on now where, there's a panel and they let new comedians do things. But that was in the small room. **Thomas** (00:19:04:10 - 00:19:05:11): Yeah. **Chip** (00:19:05:13 - 00:19:30:05): And then in the gigantic room, the big ballroom was bingo. So they do bingo there. It's a regular thing. Giant bingo. I think it was their Christmas bingo night. They had Santa Claus there. And then in the regular, what is usually a comedy club room, there was an all male revue and ladies screaming and, carrying on, with male strippers. So it was bingo, strippers and comedy. I mean, what else do you need at Christmas time? Thomas? **Thomas** (00:19:36:14 - 00:19:45:14): That's everything you need. That's the full circle of life. That is. And it's it's nice to know that laughs was the least desirable commodity. **Chip** (00:19:45:14 - 00:19:50:23): Being really does make me feel good about that gambling harangue. **Thomas** (00:19:51:04 - 00:19:57:11): And a couple of yak yak. And, by far though the least palatable. The yaks. **Chip** (00:19:57:13 - 00:19:59:03): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:19:59:05 - 00:20:05:15): Did you see, did you get a glimpse at the crowd? Like who? Who goes to those things? I literally have no idea. **Chip** (00:20:05:17 - 00:20:20:17): It's down the hall. It's shut off in. It's dirty, dirty little thing. I can pretty much picture it. I think it's like, you know, 50 year old women from the suburbs, I think, like, that's I believe. Yeah. That seems to be who's, who's going there. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:20:20:19 - 00:20:29:06): I just can't even wrap my mind around like what? That what that crew is like, what these ladies are, you know, they're they're going with their friends, I assume. **Chip** (00:20:29:08 - 00:20:30:06): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:20:30:08 - 00:20:34:09): I'm guessing not a lot of solo tickets sold, but maybe. **Chip** (00:20:34:11 - 00:20:42:16): Yeah, man, just a solo ticket to it. That's maybe. Okay, that's the beginning of a there's the beginning of a Christmas movie right there. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:20:42:16 - 00:20:46:18): Even if you're going by yourself, do you order to at the box office? **Chip** (00:20:46:20 - 00:20:55:10): I think you have to just to cut. You're like, oh, somebody's got strep throat. Couldn't make it. Yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (00:20:55:12 - 00:20:57:03): She's too sick to get it up. **Chip** (00:20:57:03 - 00:21:17:18): I will say, Thomas, I am not a medical expert. I don't know a lot about strep throat. Yeah, but I, I can say with a certain amount of, certainty that, women, don't get it up. I don't believe again. I'm. I'm not a doctor. I didn't take too many biology classes, but I don't believe ladies get it up. **Thomas** (00:21:17:23 - 00:21:22:13): If that's something you truly believe. I feel sorry for your wife. **Chip** (00:21:22:15 - 00:21:27:00): Those. Those are my facts. Those are my facts that I have. Some are alternative. **Thomas** (00:21:27:00 - 00:21:30:17): You got to be real confident in that bod for that to be your job. **Chip** (00:21:30:19 - 00:21:31:02): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:21:31:07 - 00:21:33:13): And all male review. **Chip** (00:21:33:15 - 00:21:40:04): You know they always say like all male review. It's like we have a review where it's like mostly male, but then we throw a lady in because you never know who's in the crowd. **Thomas** (00:21:40:08 - 00:21:42:15): Yeah. You don't know. I mean, yeah. **Chip** (00:21:42:16 - 00:21:54:18): Maybe that's what we need to do. Maybe that's our calling. It's a mixed like like a mixed gender review. So it's a reviews. It's some lady, some men. Yeah, I don't know, just, just go for it. **Thomas** (00:21:54:23 - 00:22:07:11): Or what about just, like, maybe that's a new podcast. Maybe it's the all, male review, and it's just, you know, you get the opinions of only males reviewing things. **Chip** (00:22:07:13 - 00:22:13:19): Yeah. Reviewing movies. I think it was called Siskel and Ebert. But yes, technically Siskel and Ebert was an all male review. **Thomas** (00:22:13:21 - 00:22:15:06): Makes you think. **Chip** (00:22:15:08 - 00:22:19:04): I'm just thinking about those ladies getting up right now, that's all. **Thomas** (00:22:19:06 - 00:22:19:19): All right, well. **Chip** (00:22:19:19 - 00:22:21:09): Let's let's get the literally get. **Thomas** (00:22:21:11 - 00:22:41:13): Trend. Let's get the thought train back on the movies. We're talking Siskel. We're talking to Ebert. Yes, we've got some new holiday classics. And, you know, they're not yet made. They're coming to a theater near you, maybe 2026, 2027 at the latest. Right. But. **Chip** (00:22:41:14 - 00:22:53:15): Here's the thing, though. I and I want to because I think we're in need, like you said, in need of a new classic. There. In my eyes, there hasn't been a new one. What is your rotation? What's what's your Christmas rotation every year? **Thomas** (00:22:53:16 - 00:22:57:00): The go tos. We're going to hit elf early on. **Chip** (00:22:57:05 - 00:23:03:17): That's interest because that's always our our tradition is we put up our tree and then watch elf like that's that's how it starts. **Thomas** (00:23:03:17 - 00:23:21:21): Oh it's a great one. It's a great one. It's an it makes it gives you the warm fuzzies. It gets Santa on the tip of your tongue, I really do. Okay, so that's first. Next is Christmas vacation. That is the one. That's the one that can't be missed. That's always there. I really, really like that one. Still holds up for me. Followed by a Christmas story that's just been been on the list for since I've been teeny tiny. Yeah. And then, my dad loves one of the older versions of A Christmas Carol. The one with Alastair SIM from the 1930s. I want to say quality one. **Chip** (00:23:41:05 - 00:23:41:12): Yes. **Thomas** (00:23:41:12 - 00:23:59:23): Yeah, yeah. I think it's like the second one they made. I think there was one before that. That predates it. But yeah, that's, that's the, the four that we, we kind of grind on every year. And then, you know, there's a couple other ones that float in and out, but nothing that has that kind of consistency. That's really the, before. **Chip** (00:24:01:16 - 00:24:07:20): I kick off with, with elf, got to do Home Alone didn't. **Thomas** (00:24:07:22 - 00:24:08:19): Yeah, I love home. **Chip** (00:24:08:20 - 00:24:16:13): Might not be a home alone guy, which is. Which is fine. I I've become a little guy. I will say I always watch Christmas vacation. Generally a couple of times. **Thomas** (00:24:16:14 - 00:24:17:08): Yeah. **Chip** (00:24:17:10 - 00:24:33:09): I'll be honest with you. I don't really care for it, but I watch it every year. It's it. It gets you in the Christmas year. It gives you something. Do you know what I mean? Like it's it's there. It's a lot of times what I'll have to do is I'll watch Christmas vacation and then I'll go back and watch the original. Yeah. Because I just have to sort of cleanse the palate. But it does it. I don't think there is a movie that gets you in the Christmas spirit more than that. Like it's it just it puts it there so that elf, Home Alone or the big three. And then I will say, I highly recommend if you can find it. Some years it's streaming, some years it's not. Please, please please everybody watch the 1989, maybe 88, 89 A Very Brady Christmas. **Thomas** (00:25:04:11 - 00:25:09:06): Okay. Well, maybe we'll have to do it. It maybe going. **Chip** (00:25:09:09 - 00:25:32:13): Back to our, our Christmas, our Brady, in Hawaii sometime, the Brady Bunch was a family sitcom in the late 60s, early 70s. And then about 20 years later, in the late 80s, they decided to do. There was other iterations to do. They had a they had a variety show for a little bit. They had this other dramedy thing, and they decided to make this dramedy, like two hour special. I think it's an hour half long and they were they bring all the kids back for Christmas. **Thomas** (00:25:37:12 - 00:25:38:02): **Chip** (00:25:38:04 - 00:26:04:00): But there's no laugh track, but it's still sort of written in that jokey way. And then there's just this weird vacuum of silence. And I have to say, it's the late 80s. I'm sure the budget wasn't big. They had to get everybody back. And there are some of the craziest, most unnatural, unhuman lines of dialog in that film. It's it is it. It boggles my mind how, insane A Very Brady Christmas is. Please watch it. You're just gonna. You're in. Really? Wait, did did that just come out of a human being's mouth? That's not how people talk. It's. It's incredible. **Thomas** (00:26:19:15 - 00:26:37:01): Oh, dude, it's got to be so wild without the laugh track. That's, That's got to be shocking. Even if they did write it to be a, you know, like a modern single camera drama. Yeah. Well, that that's going on the list. Let's go on on the list. But as we know, not all Brady things are always available for streaming. **Chip** (00:26:37:03 - 00:26:55:14): I have to say, one of my favorite memories of Home Alone. I remember seeing it in the theater when it came out. Yeah. And I was, I was, I think I was like 11 or 12 when it came out. In the theater, it was Christmas week. So like everybody, you know, kids are off school. So like, everybody was there and it was my whole family. My dad never went to the movies with us. Like he was not a he's not a sit in the movie theater type of guy. Like just, you know, he'll watch a movie at home. But so but he went as did my aunt and uncle, my little cousins. So there was a bunch of was there the play. The place was packed because it's like December 28th or whatever. **Thomas** (00:27:11:10 - 00:27:12:09): Yeah. **Chip** (00:27:12:11 - 00:27:30:22): And we're all excited. We're enjoying the movie. I'm sure my dad is half heartedly enjoying it. It's it's kids. It's a family movie. It's obviously it's sweet movie. Whatever. It gets to the part at the end where Joe Pesci and, whatever it that, I forget the other guy's name, but where the burglars, Daniel Stern, where they come in the. **Thomas** (00:27:30:22 - 00:27:32:09): Sticky bandits or Wet Bandits? **Chip** (00:27:32:09 - 00:27:58:14): The the weapon. It's the weapon. It's where they all start to, you know, the high jinks happens and it's a packed theater. There's an old man right behind us, like, I'm. I'm putting in his 70s, 80s, probably at least with a snow shovel. With a snow shovel. Just. And, just a looming, just foreboding look the entire time, standing there, blocking other people's views. No, this old man is watching Joe Pesci fall on the stairs and get hit with paint cans. Every Looney Tunes gag that happened, this old man, along with the rest of the audience. But this old man, especially howling, laughing, just it's he. This man is full of joy. He has never seen anything so funny in his life. And my father was irate. He was incensed. He was literally turning around and looking at the man because my dad was sitting right in front of him. My dad was so angry that this guy was so loudly enjoying this movie, and he's like, it's not that funny. It's not that funny. Like, it's not, it doesn't like and it didn't necessarily warrant that. Laughter. Yeah, but all this man is doing, he's not talking. He's not being a jerk. He is just loving life and laughing. And my father was so annoyed at him for that. And like, if he could have my, my father would have walked out of the theater. Just be just for somebody else. Show and joy. **Thomas** (00:28:57:18 - 00:29:01:17): Oh, man. Oh, Paul. Come on. Dude. **Chip** (00:29:01:19 - 00:29:02:14): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:29:02:16 - 00:29:04:08): The Grinch was there. **Chip** (00:29:04:10 - 00:29:10:11): Yes. In our hearts. Absolutely. Okay, so do we want to. Yeah, we got. **Thomas** (00:29:10:11 - 00:29:28:10): To talk about we got these new classics they're going to be coming out, and I'm going to, you know, kind of kind of tell you the name. And then Chip, you're going to fill them in on some of the details about what's going on here. But like, it's just for our money, these are the next crop that are really going to make it into that rotation. **Chip** (00:29:28:10 - 00:29:30:02): It's a crop. **Thomas** (00:29:30:04 - 00:29:31:19): It's got a nice crop. **Chip** (00:29:31:21 - 00:29:38:13): Go next crop. Okay. So and just so that people know I have not heard you've come up with some titles. I have not heard these yet. **Thomas** (00:29:38:15 - 00:29:39:06): Yeah. **Chip** (00:29:39:08 - 00:29:44:10): We're but I think, I think we're going to find a, an instant classic. I think. **Thomas** (00:29:44:10 - 00:30:02:23): Yeah, yeah. These are all instant classics. And I think, you know, I, I've come up with some names that I know can't mess. And then I just need you to fill in some of the details. So here we go. Okay. Number one is, Santas Cube and Hall pass. **Chip** (00:30:03:01 - 00:30:11:12): I mean, hallmark written all over it. All right. There. Get get the people on the hallmark on the horn right away. Yeah. Santas Cuban hall pass. **Thomas** (00:30:11:15 - 00:30:12:17): **Chip** (00:30:12:19 - 00:30:16:13): All right. Santa. As portrayed by David Harbor. Just coming off of Stranger Things. **Thomas** (00:30:20:06 - 00:30:21:06): Yeah. **Chip** (00:30:21:08 - 00:30:28:14): Okay. Goes to Cuba with his wife of many years. **Thomas** (00:30:28:15 - 00:30:29:11): **Chip** (00:30:29:13 - 00:30:52:03): They're taking their second honeymoon over Christmas, and he spots his hall pass. The woman that they've decided that if you know the opportunity ever presented itself. Yep. That he will be able to sleep with. And, that woman is. Help me out, Thomas. It's got to be. It's got to be somebody good. Flo from the progressive commercials. **Thomas** (00:31:02:06 - 00:31:05:18): Oh, yeah. I flow from the progressive commercials. **Chip** (00:31:05:18 - 00:31:26:08): Is playing and by the way, it's not that actress. It is literally the character flow. And, like, he literally calls her the entire time. Oh, my God, that's Flo from the progressive commercials. Yeah. Because, like, and like, that's how she. Because it's because hallmark has a branding deal with hallmark with with progressive. So like it's a product placement kind of thing. Yeah. And then, you know, she checks into the hotel, you know, like right in front of them and they're like, can I get your name? And she's like Flo. And she's like, what's your last name? And she's like from the progressive commercials. That's her last names. She gives the credit card and it's like it as just Florence J. From the progressive commercials. And then he just he sort of obsesses over her, realizes that the wife, of course, the wife is a very high functioning, you know, business gal in business. She's very Type-A. He just he just wants to let loose a little bit, but he needs a little security. What's more secure than home and auto insurance? **Thomas** (00:32:07:09 - 00:32:08:11): Yeah. Nothing. **Chip** (00:32:08:13 - 00:32:13:11): And the embrace of, a sweet lady, who's pushing those things. **Thomas** (00:32:13:13 - 00:32:40:00): Yeah. And you know, him and him and the Mrs.. Him and Mrs. Claus have spent many a night watching broadcast television. Yes. He likes he likes channel four, five and 12. He has not gone digital. He didn't ever have a cord to cut. He watches over the air. North pole television. And just like, you know, he they're watching sometimes even steamy nighttime soaps. **Chip** (00:32:40:02 - 00:32:40:17): Yes, but what. **Thomas** (00:32:40:17 - 00:33:08:01): Really captivated him was the progressive commercials. Yeah. And that's when he changed his hall pass from Heather Locklear to flow. And Mrs. Claus is just like, whatever. Like you're ever going to see flow in real life. And boom, here they are on a Cuban getaway. Caliente de it's a Caliente movie, but it's also funny. There's a lot of comedy in it. And, in the end, I think it's important to know that he learns a lesson, about insurance, about love, and most importantly, about what matters. And that as Mrs. Claus, they end up stronger than ever after he really fumbles the bag trying to pick up flow. **Chip** (00:33:28:19 - 00:33:54:02): Right. And then I think we also have to reveal Mrs. Claus is Hall Pass, because of course, she gets a hall pass, too. Yeah, her hall pass. You ready for this? Here's here's the twist. Her hall pass. Here's his flow from the progressive commercials. Her hall pass is the guy who plays Chief Hopper in Stranger Things. David Harbor. **Thomas** (00:33:54:04 - 00:33:55:15): Right. Right. **Chip** (00:33:55:17 - 00:34:02:08): So then towards the end, David Harbor playing himself in a separate role. **Thomas** (00:34:02:08 - 00:34:03:05): Yeah. **Chip** (00:34:03:07 - 00:34:07:22): Then has a brief tryst with Mrs. Claus. **Thomas** (00:34:08:00 - 00:34:29:08): And I think I think there's also one third meta twist where David Harbor in that Santa movie where he plays Santa that kills all those people. It's called, like Deadly Night or Silent Night or something like that. Yeah. That version of Santa Claus also shows up. It's a very exciting. Very. It's a. **Chip** (00:34:29:08 - 00:34:32:19): Free heart. It's a it's what we call a three harbor cruise. **Thomas** (00:34:32:21 - 00:34:50:00): It's a three harbor cruise. It's from the, the Santa verse. You know, all the different verses of Santa stacked up on each other. I mean I think it can't miss. And it's fun in the sun at the end of the day it's fun. And the **Chip** (00:34:50:02 - 00:34:50:20): Yep. **Thomas** (00:34:50:22 - 00:34:53:09): Yep the Santa I would watch this. **Chip** (00:34:53:11 - 00:34:56:06): Do we just make $1 million? I think we did. **Thomas** (00:34:56:08 - 00:34:58:05): Send the check. Hollywood. Send the checks. **Chip** (00:34:58:09 - 00:34:58:23): Send the check. **Thomas** (00:34:59:05 - 00:35:01:12): Sunbird pod at sun root pod sound. **Chip** (00:35:01:12 - 00:35:04:23): They just make it out. Just make it out to at sun burnt pod. **Thomas** (00:35:05:02 - 00:35:15:16): Yeah. Send it to Instagram. Send it to YouTube. You can get us at all those places. Okay Chip that was great. Like I'm, I'm like literally excited about this movie. **Chip** (00:35:15:16 - 00:35:16:21): Yes. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:35:16:23 - 00:35:32:10): But not as excited as I am about the next one. Okay. It's holiday meets tropical. It's this podcast. It's the Christmas episode. This feature film is called Forgetting Sarah Marshall's White Elephant Gift. **Chip** (00:35:32:12 - 00:35:44:09): Oh, so this is the sequel to Forgetting Sarah Marshall? It's Judd Apatow produced. Yeah, it's most of the original cast. **Thomas** (00:35:44:11 - 00:35:45:09): **Chip** (00:35:45:11 - 00:35:51:17): Minus, Mila Kunis, who's, you know, going through some issues of her own right now. So it's like, you know. Yeah, like. **Thomas** (00:35:51:19 - 00:35:55:20): Know this is, the long haired British fellow. **Chip** (00:35:55:22 - 00:36:12:04): Oh, yeah. So, yeah, he wouldn't be an idiot. Well, he's he's also although. Okay, I will say. All right. If this was a, if this was like, maybe like some sort of Christian movie. He is, he is now a, what's his name? **Thomas** (00:36:12:06 - 00:36:14:07): Russell. Is it Russell? **Chip** (00:36:14:09 - 00:36:17:01): Yeah. Russell. Brand. **Thomas** (00:36:17:03 - 00:36:18:10): Russell. Brand. Yeah. That's it. Russell. **Chip** (00:36:18:10 - 00:36:24:02): Brand. Devout Christian now. Devout. He is better than either of us right now. **Thomas** (00:36:24:04 - 00:36:31:03): Mean it's going, Yeah. Yeah, it's, it goes hand in hand with some some troubles. I think so, some. **Chip** (00:36:31:03 - 00:36:43:01): Troubles of his past that. Yes. Yeah. So. Yeah. So I don't think he's shown up either. So this is actually going to end, you know what? I'm going to be honest with you. Yeah. I don't think that, that Veronica mars is showing up either. **Thomas** (00:36:43:01 - 00:36:44:06): Sarah Marshall is out. **Chip** (00:36:44:08 - 00:36:47:11): This is just Jason Segel in Paradise. **Thomas** (00:36:47:11 - 00:36:48:01): Yeah. **Chip** (00:36:48:03 - 00:36:51:18): He's dumped Mila Kunis. He's back with Sarah Marshall. **Thomas** (00:36:52:00 - 00:36:53:08): Okay? **Chip** (00:36:53:10 - 00:37:11:05): They fly home, they go. They go to Hawaii. Pre-Christmas. Yeah, they fly home to Los Angeles, back to their home where they do share a, a marital bed together. They're now now married. Okay. He does the thing where he still dances naked with his, this wiener. They have a an all male revue, the all male revue. They go to the white House, they have a white elephant party. Like the next day when they get back. Yeah. She buys the present in on Oahu. **Thomas** (00:37:23:15 - 00:37:24:07): Yep. **Chip** (00:37:24:09 - 00:37:43:02): But leaves it there. Jason has to fly back because she's. She's still kind of demanding. Yeah, she still has to fly back. He has to fly back because she's got to work. He flies back to pick up the white elephant gift. And Thomas reveal to us what that white elephant gift is. **Thomas** (00:37:43:04 - 00:37:59:06): It ends up being a, oversize novelty tee that, shows a, just wildly exaggerated female figure airbrushed on to it. **Chip** (00:37:59:08 - 00:38:00:04): Yes. **Thomas** (00:38:00:06 - 00:38:03:02): And on the back, it says sun's out, buns out. **Chip** (00:38:03:04 - 00:38:19:11): Right. And so that's her white F1. Yeah. She's like, this is my signature. If everybody knows Sarah Marshall they know that that I buy this. So he goes back. He has to go to this little town where they they sell trinkets. They sell the airbrush stuff. He goes there, falls in love. **Thomas** (00:38:19:13 - 00:38:20:03): **Chip** (00:38:20:05 - 00:38:25:09): Again with yet another local from the island. **Thomas** (00:38:25:11 - 00:38:26:21): I left out one thing. **Chip** (00:38:26:23 - 00:38:27:11): Okay. Go ahead. **Thomas** (00:38:27:11 - 00:38:37:07): I left out one thing about the t shirt. It's a beautiful figure. There's no bathing suit, though. And it is Sarah Marshall's actual likeness. **Chip** (00:38:37:09 - 00:38:38:03): Okay. **Thomas** (00:38:38:05 - 00:38:45:16): So it is. You know, it's basically a nude, right? And if he doesn't go back and get it, it's going to get out. **Chip** (00:38:45:18 - 00:38:58:12): So he's going to save her. So he did save her from because it is almost like it's you know, it's almost. Yeah. It's like getting some, you know, some naughty pictures revealed like this is actually this is anatomically correct. **Thomas** (00:38:58:14 - 00:39:16:00): Yeah. This can't this can't be leaked. No, this can't be leaked. He's he's got to go save it once again. He's making big adjustments to save her career. And the shirt was her idea in the first place. She had it commissioned. She had it made by a, Hank Azaria type. **Chip** (00:39:16:02 - 00:39:41:06): Yeah, yeah. Hank Azaria type. Yeah. Would would do that. Had some sort of accent and so now he's chasing it around the island because it's being passed around from person to person. They don't know that it's Sarah Marshall's likeness. They just think it's a pretty lady. And they're they're passing around and it's getting sold. So he's he's going all these exotic locations, botanical gardens, shave ice places, you know, downtown Waikiki. Yeah. All of these places. He's on this mad, just wild goose chase. Yeah. Trying to find this picture, but really what he's finding Thomas ready? Yeah. Is himself. He is finding himself again. **Thomas** (00:39:55:07 - 00:39:55:21): Yeah. **Chip** (00:39:55:23 - 00:40:16:06): And he realizes you know what. These people really seem to be enjoying this shirt. They haven't posted it online yet. He doesn't think they will because there are more of a closed society there. They're not going to flaunt it to the world. Maybe, maybe that's what this island needs is just a naked t shirt of Sarah Marshall. **Thomas** (00:40:16:08 - 00:40:36:22): And I think, you know, we haven't mentioned he's getting some help from, a radiant Sydney Sweeney who happens to work at the hotel he's staying at. And he also uncovers during this quest that the, the person who made the shirt had been having an affair with Sarah, with Sarah Marshall. **Chip** (00:40:36:22 - 00:40:41:11): That's how he knew how. That's where he knew that, that mole came from behind her knee. Right? **Thomas** (00:40:41:13 - 00:40:58:23): Yeah. So as as he's uncovering this mystery, as he's trying to train and get it back, finding himself at a certain point, he has to go to an open mic at the Blue Note in Hawaii and do, stand up comedy for the first time, really pushing his boundaries. Sydney really pushed him to do it. She was very supportive. So he's growing. He's filling back into the man he always knew he was. He's in Paradise. He's with this, younger, a very vibrant young woman, full of life. Yeah. Who is, also in need of something that he has to offer to a little stability, a little kindness. Yeah, a boatload of cash and, Yeah. All's well that ends well. He's, you know, back. He's with Sweeney. Him and Sarah Marshall are over, and he has, a choice as he stand on the island. Or is he going back home? **Chip** (00:41:37:12 - 00:42:04:10): And what happens is the final scene is Christmas morning. Sarah Marshall sitting at the Christmas tree alone. A knock comes to the door. She gets all excited, runs to the door, expecting it to be Jason Segel. She whips it open. It's just a Fedex delivery driver with a package. She opens it up. It's the naked, t shirt of her. **Thomas** (00:42:04:12 - 00:42:05:18): Her naked t shirt? **Chip** (00:42:05:20 - 00:42:06:09): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:42:06:11 - 00:42:12:02): I mean, this is a winter that this is a winter through and through. **Chip** (00:42:12:04 - 00:42:16:02): All right. Take that. To take that elf. **Thomas** (00:42:16:04 - 00:42:18:20): Are you ready for the next one? **Chip** (00:42:18:22 - 00:42:22:23): I mean, we've already hit two home runs. Let's see if we can make it three. **Thomas** (00:42:23:01 - 00:42:31:12): Okay. This one is simply called cookies and milk. Milk lemonade. **Chip** (00:42:31:14 - 00:42:34:04): Okay. Let me just say it with us. We just stick with that for a moment. Cookies and milk. Milk? Lemonade? Yeah. **Thomas** (00:42:40:23 - 00:42:42:13): That's the title of the movie. **Chip** (00:42:42:13 - 00:42:50:06): Chip cookies and milk. Milk lemonade. Okay. Edward Norton. **Thomas** (00:42:50:08 - 00:42:52:20): Oh, yeah. **Chip** (00:42:52:22 - 00:42:58:12): Is a urologist. A renowned urologist, up in Vermont. **Thomas** (00:42:58:14 - 00:42:59:23): Yeah. **Chip** (00:43:00:01 - 00:43:27:03): But he's just seen the amount. The amount of penile that he has seen this year has far eclipsed any previous year, because everybody wants to go see him with their urology problems. Yep. And he's just seen too many wieners this year. He needs to get away. He is a widower, unfortunately. And, he decides to go down to the Caribbean. Yeah, to just get away from it all. Yeah. You get away from the snow. **Thomas** (00:43:30:20 - 00:43:31:12): Yeah. **Chip** (00:43:31:14 - 00:43:43:00): To get away from the the ice and even just the family reminds him of his, his ex. And he just needs to he needs to break away. So this urologist goes down to, Antigua. **Thomas** (00:43:43:02 - 00:43:44:03): Yep. **Chip** (00:43:44:04 - 00:43:45:14): To an all inclusive resort. **Thomas** (00:43:45:16 - 00:43:46:11): **Chip** (00:43:46:18 - 00:44:10:15): Where he decides to drift off the resort some days, even though they sometimes tell you not to. Yeah. And he makes it to this town and there is a, young woman who works for a family business, where they serve, just dairy products. It's it's an ice cream shop. They have a few cows, so they sell cream, ice cream, milk, butter. That type type thing. It's a dairy, basically. And, he just he just he falls for. **Thomas** (00:44:19:05 - 00:44:20:00): Yeah. **Chip** (00:44:20:01 - 00:44:28:16): Okay, so that's the I mean, that's the kick off. They you think that's where the movie goes. Okay. So Christmas cookies and milk. Milk lemonade. **Thomas** (00:44:28:16 - 00:44:29:17): Right? Yeah. **Chip** (00:44:29:18 - 00:44:55:01): So you have a urologist going to this, this local dairy farmer, but her father, you know, as portrayed by, Edward James, almost. He is very. He's not happy about this relationship. You know, he she she's supposed to marry this dashing but kind of jerky, you know, local, ne'er do well, but also happens to be from a good family. From a rich family. That's who she supposed to be marrying, right? Yeah. It's. It's just not happen. It's kind of a soul glo situation. You coming to America? Kind of thing? Yeah. But Edward Norton wants to whisk her way to Vermont, to be a part of his life and urology practice. Okay. Yeah. Now they go through all the high jinks and she shows him what, a Caribbean Christmas traditions are. Okay. They go to, you know, there's there's different festivals and there's the shopping, and, you know, all the people come in for their Christmas cream. **Thomas** (00:45:30:20 - 00:45:33:08): Yeah. I got I got the cream. **Chip** (00:45:33:09 - 00:45:37:06): I think the kicker is Christmas Eve night, they go to church. **Thomas** (00:45:37:12 - 00:45:38:02): Yeah. **Chip** (00:45:38:04 - 00:45:50:00): They're walking back from the chapel. As they're walking back from the chapel, the family there, the father has doubles over in pain. **Thomas** (00:45:50:02 - 00:45:51:13): Yep. **Chip** (00:45:51:15 - 00:46:04:04): The pain is really radiating from his crotch. Yeah, just crotch radiation. Pain. This is where Ed Norton has to spring into action. **Thomas** (00:46:04:10 - 00:46:06:12): Yeah. Yeah. He's trained. **Chip** (00:46:06:14 - 00:46:21:03): He's got a catheter, a little Christmas catheter in his back pocket and in front of the entire village, whips this father's pants down and gives him the lifesaving wiener treatment. **Thomas** (00:46:21:07 - 00:46:22:22): You know. **Chip** (00:46:23:00 - 00:46:32:03): As we know that that I mean, that is problem down to the Caribbean, but it is it strikes men across the country where they just especially this time of year, they just drop dead from Wiener disease. **Thomas** (00:46:32:03 - 00:46:34:02): Wiener disease. **Chip** (00:46:34:03 - 00:46:40:05): And he performs wiener surgery on this man. Yeah. Saves his life. **Thomas** (00:46:40:09 - 00:46:41:22): Yeah. **Chip** (00:46:42:00 - 00:46:46:06): And then I just I think there is that moment in the holiday. It's Christmas evening. **Thomas** (00:46:46:08 - 00:46:47:00): Yep. **Chip** (00:46:47:01 - 00:47:10:04): They're having turkey, just sort of in the dayroom in the waiting room of that. But then they go in and just Ed Norton's there with the with the girl, and then with, the father in law, and he's just father in law to be maybe he asks the father in his father bed, do I have permission to marry your daughter? And he said, he just looks at him and grimaces. You could tell that he's a little haggard, but he's going to be okay. We learn from the stable beeping of his heart rate on the monitor. You know, everything's going good. But he just said, **Thomas** (00:47:26:14 - 00:47:27:23): He just leans in. **Chip** (00:47:28:01 - 00:47:41:20): He just leans in and says, I thought that you were a loser. Yeah, but I now know that you are truly a wiener. And. Scene credits. **Thomas** (00:47:41:22 - 00:47:45:03): Yeah, dude, that's another. **Chip** (00:47:45:05 - 00:47:47:06): Just another installment. **Thomas** (00:47:47:08 - 00:47:48:13): Holiday classic. **Chip** (00:47:48:15 - 00:47:49:07): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:47:49:09 - 00:47:54:23): This one. It's it's another sequel that's actually that third. **Chip** (00:47:54:23 - 00:47:55:17): Love it. **Thomas** (00:47:55:19 - 00:48:04:05): It's anchorman three. Ron Burgundy meets tan. Rather. **Chip** (00:48:04:07 - 00:48:17:21): Okay. I mean, Will Ferrell is coming back to make not only a third anchorman, but he is also making another Christmas classic. It's already got elf under his belt. **Thomas** (00:48:17:22 - 00:48:21:05): Yep. Yeah. No. Put those put those two together. **Chip** (00:48:21:07 - 00:48:27:11): Yeah. All right. So it's it's it's anchorman three. **Thomas** (00:48:27:11 - 00:48:32:02): Ron Burgundy meets tan rather. **Chip** (00:48:32:04 - 00:48:59:18): Okay. Okay. So Ron Burgundy again is on. He's on high. He has now made it to national news. He's the anchor for the national news. He's doing great. But life has just gotten too wild for him again. He's a single man again. He heads to Hawaii for Christmas break just to get away again. Get away from it all. He goes to a jazz club in Hawaii. Not unlike what we did. Yeah. Brings his jazz flute. Okay. Does the whole shtick. He plays a flute, sits down, and then the next act, because it's sort of a, at this club, it's sort of a, variety show kind of situation. **Thomas** (00:49:21:10 - 00:49:22:03): Yeah. **Chip** (00:49:22:04 - 00:49:31:00): There is a burlesque, drag performer. Yeah. Named tan rather. Okay. **Thomas** (00:49:31:00 - 00:49:33:05): Yeah, yeah, this this checks out. **Chip** (00:49:33:07 - 00:49:35:08): He falls madly in love with her. **Thomas** (00:49:35:10 - 00:49:37:07): Okay. **Chip** (00:49:37:08 - 00:50:03:07): There is a scene where she does an evocative dance as he is playing his jazz flute. And honestly, that scene happens a number of times throughout it just. Yeah, it keeps coming back to that. And he decides that he realizes that there is a rather dastardly executive in charge of one of the local news networks, the local affiliates in Honolulu. **Thomas** (00:50:03:07 - 00:50:05:01): Yeah. **Chip** (00:50:05:02 - 00:50:13:13): And decides that he is going to take over that studio and give it the journalistic integrity that it deserves. **Thomas** (00:50:13:15 - 00:50:28:16): I love it, I love it, yeah. No, it's it's a guaranteed it's a gosh dang hit 100%. All right. This is the last one. This is the last one. And I think this is, It's really set up to do well in the marketplace and to do well in our hearts. You know what I mean? Yeah. This one is called all I want for Christmas is girl. A reverse vasectomy on Carla Cuca Avenue. **Chip** (00:50:48:06 - 00:50:52:07): Okay, so Carla Keuka Avenue is the main drag in Waikiki, correct? **Thomas** (00:50:52:07 - 00:50:55:15): Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. **Chip** (00:50:55:17 - 00:50:57:07): I don't know who you're picturing. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:50:57:08 - 00:50:58:05): Oh. **Chip** (00:50:58:07 - 00:51:07:07): Okay. But I am picturing. A Jack black type. **Thomas** (00:51:07:09 - 00:51:09:00): Oh, beautiful. Yeah. **Chip** (00:51:09:01 - 00:51:21:09): Okay. Jack black has, two children from a previous marriage. Who, who are now? They're pretty much grown college age. **Thomas** (00:51:21:11 - 00:51:22:16): Yeah. **Chip** (00:51:22:17 - 00:51:32:02): And he's over it meets but he goes again. He goes off with his new girlfriend to Hawaii for Christmas. They're taking the beautiful Hawaiian vacation. **Thomas** (00:51:32:08 - 00:51:33:08): Yeah. **Chip** (00:51:33:09 - 00:51:41:07): And he runs into a bunch of scamps in the lobby of the hotel. **Thomas** (00:51:41:10 - 00:51:41:19): Yep. **Chip** (00:51:41:20 - 00:51:56:23): Where there's just these. There's these children just having a great time. And at first, they're very annoying with him, and they're like, Mister, Mister, can you help fix our go kart? They're doing kid things like kids used to go karts. They're playing kick the can. One of them has a frog in their pocket. **Thomas** (00:51:57:04 - 00:51:59:12): Yep. **Chip** (00:51:59:14 - 00:52:15:09): And after being annoyed with them, he decides, hey, these kids really have a lot to offer. I should help them start a rock and roll band. But then he remembers real quickly, wait a minute, I've done that in a movie already. I probably shouldn't do that. **Thomas** (00:52:15:12 - 00:52:16:21): Yeah, yeah, I. **Chip** (00:52:16:21 - 00:52:18:00): Got to do something else. **Thomas** (00:52:18:00 - 00:52:18:17): Yep. **Chip** (00:52:18:18 - 00:52:38:11): But he realizes that these kids, But then they start a ragtag baseball team. Little League team, where they're really not very talented, but somehow they win. And he's like, oh, that's a whole other movie series that I wasn't a part of. But it's already been done. So he's like, it's got to go somewhere else. Then he realized that these kids. So he finally one day, he goes down to the lobby expecting to see the kids again. He's like, all right, we're doing our we're building the world's biggest sandcastle. That's what we're going to do. And he comes down and they're not there. They're nowhere to be found. So he goes to the concierge of the hotel and says, excuse me, concierge, can you tell me where all the kids are that that have been hanging out here every day? And she's like, sir, this is an adult's only resort. There are no children allowed on this premises. **Thomas** (00:53:08:14 - 00:53:09:12): What? **Chip** (00:53:09:14 - 00:53:15:14): And then he thinks, who have I been seeing these last few days? Yeah. He realizes it's all been an apparition. **Thomas** (00:53:15:16 - 00:53:16:06): Wow. **Chip** (00:53:16:12 - 00:53:33:16): It's all been his subconscious. It's been a message from, let's just say, a high, higher power. I don't say this is a completely Christian movie, but let's just say it comes from a higher power, that he needs to have more children. He tells his girlfriend she's not into it. She's like, I didn't want kids. You tell me this. I don't want to deal with your college kids. She gets off the island, he flies home. Now he's alone and decides to get a reverse vasectomy on Christmas Eve. **Thomas** (00:53:49:07 - 00:53:50:07): Yeah. **Chip** (00:53:50:09 - 00:53:52:16): Where he falls in love with the nurse. **Thomas** (00:53:52:17 - 00:53:53:12): **Chip** (00:53:53:14 - 00:54:03:23): Sydney and Sydney Sweeney and, they decide that they are going to start a family right there on the avenue. **Thomas** (00:54:04:01 - 00:54:05:09): Oh my God. Yeah. **Chip** (00:54:05:14 - 00:54:13:10): That's he is, he's giving up his high powered job as an architect in Austin Texas. **Thomas** (00:54:13:10 - 00:54:14:14): Yep. **Chip** (00:54:14:16 - 00:54:23:01): He is now opening up a shop for tourists where they can buy. Very realistic naked airbrushed t shirts of themselves and their significant others. **Thomas** (00:54:30:14 - 00:54:44:10): We're creating a universe here, Chip. I think we creating a universe. I'm so excited about all these movies. Thanks for walking us through those. So this is the this is the future of Christmas cinema. Everybody just laid it out for you. Christmas Chantry himself. **Chip** (00:54:44:15 - 00:54:47:00): Thomas. Yeah. Oh. **Thomas** (00:54:47:02 - 00:55:01:04): Wow. Good. That feels good, man. That feels really nice. Well, we are kind of kind of moving along here. We got one more thing. Yeah, that I desperately want to do before we go. And that's. Get back into the good book, buddy. **Chip** (00:55:01:04 - 00:55:02:07): Open that. Go. Good book. **Thomas** (00:55:02:08 - 00:55:23:04): The good book. The Guinness book of World Records. This is our last time, in good faith for 2025. The 2025 version 26 is out. We got to figure that out. We'll get them going, but we've got two Christmas themed world records for you. We do hit us with your record, baby. **Chip** (00:55:23:06 - 00:55:40:17): Well, we've been talking about the tropics. We're going to go to a very different place. We're going to go to Bethel, Maine, which is, I mean, it's not on the coast to Maine. It's it's up there. It is in, you know, it's up there in Maine. Maine. It is cold up there. Perfect opportunity for this. In 2008, the people of Bethel, Maine and surrounding communities, because it couldn't just be the people of Bethel, Maine. They needed a larger scale workforce. They built the world's tallest snowman. Okay. **Thomas** (00:55:58:15 - 00:55:59:05): Wow. **Chip** (00:55:59:05 - 00:56:01:15): 122ft, one inch. **Thomas** (00:56:01:16 - 00:56:05:06): That's insane. That's like a ten story building. **Chip** (00:56:05:06 - 00:56:31:05): Apparently just a little smaller than the Statue of Liberty. What? Yeah. In Maine, it took a one month over a one month period. That's how long it took. It was. This wasn't just an afternoon. It took an entire month for them to build a 122ft snowman. And here's the thing. This snow man, all of you sexists out there thinking it was, is actually a snow woman. Wow. Just just like the surgeon who could not, perform surgery on their son. It was not a male doctor was a female doctor. This is a female snow man. It's a snow woman. Her name is Olympia. They called her. **Thomas** (00:56:47:16 - 00:56:48:11): Wow. **Chip** (00:56:48:15 - 00:56:57:20): And I will say they're very progressive, but some people still were a little sexist. Like, they would cat call it this, you know, yell things like, you know, check out the snow globes on this one. **Thomas** (00:56:57:20 - 00:56:59:11): There's always a couple. There's always a. **Chip** (00:56:59:11 - 00:57:21:15): Couple, always a couple bad seats. But Olympia, the snow woman, is 122ft tall. It was built over a one month period in 2008. And finally, Thomas, why do you think there was a financial crisis in 2008? Is B if you look back, if you really dig into the numbers, it's because the people of the town of Bethel, Maine, really shut down for a month. They weren't doing their work, the surrounding communities either. They were all focused on building the world's biggest snow woman, which I think is a very noble pursuit. But they dropped the ball and you can see the domino effect throughout the rest of the year with their economy really taking a tank. And then that goes to Portland, Maine, and that goes to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, down to Boston, down to New York. Throughout the world we have a financial collapse. We have, mortgages going belly up. All of this stuff. And I think a lot of it had to do with Olympia 122ft snow woman. But was it worth it? **Thomas** (00:57:57:15 - 00:58:09:05): Yes. In order to do amazing things, you have to make sacrifices. And if the U.S. economy is all that you had to sacrifice to get a gigantic snow woman. Yep. You made the right choice, I think. **Chip** (00:58:09:05 - 00:58:10:11): Yes, you did that stuff. **Thomas** (00:58:10:11 - 00:58:12:11): And it gets you in the good book. **Chip** (00:58:12:13 - 00:58:16:11): It does. Come on. And that's that's only going to make the economy better. **Thomas** (00:58:16:13 - 00:58:20:14): Yeah, that's a big lady. Ooh. The Good Book loves a tall woman. **Chip** (00:58:20:14 - 00:58:22:01): As it does. Yes it does. **Thomas** (00:58:22:02 - 00:58:25:04): Let me take you through my Christmas theme fact. **Chip** (00:58:25:05 - 00:58:25:19): Very excited. **Thomas** (00:58:25:19 - 00:58:31:16): My Christmas themed record. It is for the world's largest nativity collection. Chip. **Chip** (00:58:31:18 - 00:58:36:17): Whoa. All right, so not that. Not the world's largest nativity scene. This is a section of Nativities. **Thomas** (00:58:36:17 - 00:58:38:07): It's a volume game. **Chip** (00:58:38:07 - 00:58:41:08): As I always say, Christmas is a numbers game. **Thomas** (00:58:41:10 - 00:58:52:08): It really is. Santa says it to the UN. Mind boggling amount of math that guy has to go through to get to everybody's house with all the gifts. You know, that's a lot of calculations. **Chip** (00:58:52:08 - 00:58:53:10): Triangulation. **Thomas** (00:58:53:10 - 00:59:11:13): Yeah. This is Michaels, from Washington, Iowa, who holds the record for largest collection of nativity sets in the world at. Drumroll, please. 2324 qualifying nativity sets. Chip. **Chip** (00:59:11:15 - 00:59:14:03): You got 2300 nativity sets. **Thomas** (00:59:14:05 - 00:59:49:11): That's not even it, okay? He actually owns over 2500. But Guinness has very specific rules to count. Each nativity set has to include a Mary, a Joseph, a baby Jesus, plus additional traditional elements like shepherds, wise men, animals, a star or a stable. It's got to have all these things to be counted. So like he has over 2500 of these things, but only 2320 for the rigorous standards. **Chip** (00:59:49:12 - 00:59:53:19): Do you have any idea what would not count. **Thomas** (00:59:53:21 - 00:59:55:11): Like just having complete sets. **Chip** (00:59:55:11 - 01:00:00:00): Just each year? It was like, oh, I lost the baby Jesus on this one. So it doesn't really count. **Thomas** (01:00:00:01 - 01:00:03:22): You've got Mary, Jesus, but you don't have like a, **Chip** (01:00:04:00 - 01:00:04:19): There's no Joseph. **Thomas** (01:00:04:20 - 01:00:06:09): You don't have a wise man. **Chip** (01:00:06:14 - 01:00:09:02): There's only two wise men. The one guy. **Thomas** (01:00:09:04 - 01:00:11:15): Yeah. There's no frankincense. **Chip** (01:00:11:15 - 01:00:13:21): For Goddess Myrrh. **Thomas** (01:00:13:23 - 01:00:32:03): It's got to make frankincense. It has to make frankincense. He also has collected these nativity sets from over 100 countries. He put up the display, he put it on display, his whole collection on display as part of a holiday tour of homes. **Chip** (01:00:32:05 - 01:00:33:00): Okay, **Thomas** (01:00:33:02 - 01:00:36:21): And it took six weeks just to set it up. **Chip** (01:00:36:23 - 01:00:41:20): You would think so. I mean, where do you set it up? I mean, that has to be a big home. Unless it's. **Thomas** (01:00:42:00 - 01:00:47:20): Oh, no, it's it's yeah, it's got to be out in the open or it's just a stop on a home tour. I'd have to imagine. Yeah. **Chip** (01:00:47:20 - 01:00:49:01): Like just a warehouse. **Thomas** (01:00:49:01 - 01:01:02:16): And I think that just points us back to our, our main point that if you or a loved one have lost nativity set this holiday season. You might want to check Washington Iowa. Yeah. That's all I got to say. **Chip** (01:01:02:16 - 01:01:14:15): I mean could you imagine being like let's just say like a 60 year old lady. It's a Sunday in early December. You and the gals from church decide that you were going to go on this fun Christmas tour. **Thomas** (01:01:14:20 - 01:01:15:14): Yeah. **Chip** (01:01:15:16 - 01:01:37:00): You go out to a lunch where they have the group lunch in the back room. There's a prefixed meal, a menu. You go, you have your lunch in, and then they put you on a little trolley, you know, in these little busses, and they take you from house to house to see these beautiful Christmasy houses. And you're like, boy, that was so quaint. Oh, Doris, don't you like this? Doesn't this reminds you of Christmas from 1958 when we were growing up? And. Oh, this look how. Oh, this one's more, you know, it's more modern, but it has a classical feel. You're looking at the beautiful trees and the light show. And then after about the fourth house of the ten that you're going to that afternoon, they just take you to a warehouse. **Thomas** (01:01:58:14 - 01:02:00:02): **Chip** (01:02:00:04 - 01:02:10:04): Okay. And they're like, go ahead inside. And like, you're looking at your friends, these other ladies, and you're thinking, is this a trap? And they're like, no, please just enter. **Thomas** (01:02:10:09 - 01:02:11:06): Just enter. **Chip** (01:02:11:08 - 01:02:15:09): And you just walk into this darkened, darkened warehouse. **Thomas** (01:02:15:13 - 01:02:16:12): **Chip** (01:02:16:14 - 01:02:35:18): That is just illuminated by just rows and rows of nativity scenes and just one after the other. Yeah, they don't necessarily get more dramatic. They're just more of them. Yep. And you think it's over and you turn the corner and there's a whole other aisle where you think, okay, maybe this will be a Santa Claus scene or something like that. Nope. More nativities. And then you just sneak through this dark warehouse with these nativities that have the little lights in the back, and they're all glowing. That has to be one of the most jarring experiences I think, of anybody's life. **Thomas** (01:02:51:06 - 01:02:56:18): It's repetition on repetition, 2500 sets worth showing. **Chip** (01:02:56:20 - 01:03:17:02): And ironically, he travels with these. I believe he travels with these. He actually has to get two separate hotel rooms, one for him to sleep and one for him just to put all of the nativity boxes in because you can't keep them out in the truck. And sometimes, the hotels are sold out by the time he gets there, and they literally have to tell him. Sorry, sir. No room at the inn. **Thomas** (01:03:20:01 - 01:03:22:06): Yeah. And he's like, I've heard this story before. **Chip** (01:03:22:06 - 01:03:26:19): I've heard it over 20, 300 times. **Thomas** (01:03:26:21 - 01:03:37:05): All right. Yeah. Well, it's our time, man. Thanks so much for, spending a little bit of your holiday season with us. Chip. Merry Christmas, buddy. **Chip** (01:03:37:07 - 01:03:53:00): Merry Christmas. Mike, back at you. Happy New Year. I'm so excited to, hit some tropical locales in 2026 with you and with all the listeners and viewers out there from all of us here at the sunburn podcast, from our family to your family. Merry Christmas. **Thomas** (01:03:53:04 - 01:04:08:15): Merry Christmas, and a happy New Year. No new episode next week, but we'll be back the week after. This is the summer podcast. We talk about comedy and tropical travel. Merry Christmas, front desk and Merry Christmas Eve. **Chip** (01:04:08:15 - 01:04:13:22): Hi, this is Mr. Chandler in room 308. I was wondering, does Santa visit this hotel on Christmas? **Thomas** (01:04:13:22 - 01:04:15:12): Of course he travels the whole world. **Chip** (01:04:15:12 - 01:04:24:13): Okay. Does he also wear a ski mask and grab your wallet and laptop and run out of the room? No. Okay, well, then go ahead and call the police because somebody just made that naughty list.