Christmas 2020

the one and only Queen of Extreme Fanccene. Are you getting ready to be a part of the mean girl scene where they sing jingle Bell Rock? I could shake it like that. Yes, I'm pretty festive in my I guess it would be my missus clause outfit because I'm okay you. But yeah, I love that part of the movie. That was great. I could definitely reenact that very fun. We put that on for the kids, you know, just as a goof, and I didn't remember like how suggestive some of the dancing was, so we had to cut

out of that one pretty quick. I'm sure, I'm sure. So did you get snow? Yes? We did. We were supposed to get eight to twelve inches. We got two. But it was a big two. The big two. We got about four, I would say. And so the kids wanted to play in the snow, and so I bundle them all up and I get them outside and I start frantically wrapping their Christmas gifts because you know, they're home and they're next to me every minute of the day, and I'm like, how am I going to wrap these gifts?

So I'm wrapping them, and then I'm running upstairs and I'm throwing them in my walking closet and trying to hide everything. And twenty minutes goes by, and I'm in the middle and my son comes walking in and he's like, oh jeez, He's like so dramatic. Right, Oh, it's so cold. I think I'm done for the day. And I'm like, wait a minute, you can't come in the kitchen. Hold on a second. So a guy I rushed him like upstairs. I threw him in a hot shower while he was showering.

I ran downstairs and I grabbed everything real quick and just got rid of all the evidence. But I mean I tried. I got some of it done. But I still have some more to do, So it's challenging, for sure. It is challenging. No, it absolutely is, because this is the least prepared that we've ever been for any Christmas ever. My brother and my uncle Brian are the only ones I ever like. Knock out of the way quick right. They're easy. They're my met guys. You know, they're the

autographed stuff like easy as hell. Everybody else I would sit at my old desk at work and I would shop all day online and I've been getting pickups at this place and deliveries every day and this and that. Well, now that I can't do that the way that I used to, it's, uh, it's been quite a different holiday season preparation wise. So we haven't wrapped a gift. We haven't even finished shopping as of this recording. And yeah, and now I you know, I'm a little bit less

inclined to be going to stores right now. So it's, uh, yeah, this is gonna be an interesting one. We're down to the wire. Yeah, you you really are. Amazon I think hates me. They They've been at my health every day in Cyber Monday, so I've been just ordering my ass off. There's always a box at my door. Yeah, it's it's been. It's weird because we're not seeing family this year, so I'm like, well, do I do I buy for them? Or can I wait until I see them and then

grab something later? And because God knows when I'm going to see anyone, but I definitely wanted to get the kids done. And you know what sucks about this year. We bought the kids a lot of big pieces that cost a lot of money. So it's rapping them. I'm like, it kind of looks like there's nothing here, yeah, because they like, you know, one items one hundred dollars, this

item is one hundred and fifty dollars. My son needed a new iPad that costs three four hundred dollars, and it's like we're putting all this stuff together and I'm just like, man, there's I feel it. I feel the exact same way. I really hope they understand that each gift was very crazy. That's hey, you know, we we've already said if you asked for the big item, Santa Claus can't always accommodate the rest of the little things that make up the big hauls on a Christmas morning.

But I am in the exact same boat with that the big ticket item. Last year I was very thrifty and now I don't know if you were. Last year I was very thrifty with my acquisitions for the gifts, and this year it went was more big ticket and it's like, what are you gonna do? Sorry, Santa didn't have enough room in the old slate. I know, I just I think my kids are old enough to understand, like, hey, you know one switch game is sixty nine to ninety five,

Like you know what, they're expensive. It's not it's not cheap to have children at Christmas time. So the switch so you mentioned that, so that will be you know, that was a very highly requested item this year. Is it something like do they like it or do they have it? Okay, they love it? So like what's the playability aspect of the of the switch? Tell me about

it here as I embark on it. So from what I understand, you can either play it on your television or it's mobile, so you can take it in the car, you could take it in other rooms. You can do two players on it while it's you know, all as long as it's charged. The cartridges are extremely expensive for it unless you buy them used, but it's still a

physical cartridge. Yeah, but they're like this big. They're little squares, and I'm telling you, you could lose it at the drop of a hat if it somewhere, you get about it, Like I tell my kids, please put it back in

the little box you snap it in. But no, they're they're left on because this house, I mean, we have a den that is now a video game room for the kids, and there's just we have a Wii, we have a Switch and we have a Xbox in there, and then in the basement, which is kind of our rec room, Hubbs has I don't even know how many video games on the computer, like thousands that you can play in the big screen. So there's video games like all over the place here and I just asked them

please put your games away. I even want to rack like a stand to put all the cartridges in and stuff. But the switch games are very small, very very small, so you have to be careful with them. But they're they're not cheap, Like they started sixty dollars and they just go up. So is it the good ones started that much? Because I've seen a few that are are cheaper. But it's like, you know, I have a cheaper I playhouse. You know, I think the ones that my kids want

just started sixty bucks in higher Like I don't tastes. Yeah, I've never seen a brand new Switch game lower than sixty dollars, so I don't know. But it's I mean, the kids love it. The graphics are great on it. I forget what. I played a racing game with them on there. I don't know what's super Mario is something one of those games, but it's really good graphics. They

really like it. We have a lot of video game listeners and Patreon members and people who are aficionados, so these this sounds like two uninformed people having a conversation. The best thing about this is, uh, you know, when I start Twitch in January, I'm going to try to game. I can't wait. I don't know how to game. So that's gonna be really fun. So you're getting new heat, You're gonna be gonna be running you down. I don't know what I'm gonna do. We we have, we have

a bunch of games loaded and ready to go. I don't even know how to turn it on. So let's yes, Twitch comeson you know you you very uh. You talked about a lot over the last couple weeks. Twitch was coming, only fans is going, and it's a year coming to a close that I think everybody's very happy to see leave.

So hopefully for you twitches, now you're outlet and you're what I feel like, like addicted to gaming, and then like twenty four to seven, your eyes are all bugging out of your head, like I can't do that because I have responsibilities at home. They'll you guys will have this racket. They'll be you know, like their homeschool course will be racing you. Yeah, my kids will be dirty, unfed, they won't go to school for for days on end. It's gonna be chaos here. Now. I just hope I

get the hang of it. I've watched several people do it, and it just reminds me of YouTube. It just it's like the same thing I did on YouTube, but now I'm adding, like I'm trying to add different aspects to it with the gaming, maybe makeup tutorials. I'm going to try different things, so we'll see. We like to call you an innovator. We like to call you, you know, somebody who's always thinking outside the box. I just try.

I'm trying because I just I have this feeling that twenty twenty one is not going to bring me much work outside of the home. I just know. I just had that feeling. So if I could keep doing things here and helping out, then that's what I'm gonna do. So you don't know unless you try, No, you don't. You throw stuff to the wall. You see what sticks exactly. That's what we like to to see. But you know, otherwise, it's you know, it's an interesting Christmas time. I feel

like we just like had Thanksgiving. Like I feel like we were just talking about Thanksgiving and Brent and preparing and turkey and YadA YadA, YadA. And it was a short time between Christmas and Thanksgiving to begin with. But it's like out of nowhere, Like this tree. I feel like this tree has been up for like a week.

It's been up for longer than that buddy you had that Uproaly I ended up two weeks before Thanksgiving, and it just it's I hate, you know, think I gotta take it down and the room's gonna look big, Like I like having the tree, and you know, yeah, I like that. How was your holiday party. Oh it was awesome. It's a lot of fun, a lot of fun. I did not you did not. I was wondering if you were going to have still dry Okay, still dry. Well that was the morning I woke up with my heel

issue that I'm going through. So on top of the pain that I was in, it was a good part. It was fun. You know. We had a lot of a lot. We had a collection of neighborhood people come over and it's just it was a good time, good food, you know. But he stayed late, kids stayed up extra late like that they've never been before with like zombies at the end because they didn't know what to do with themselves being awake at you know, twelve forty five. Yeah, but it was funny. So, you know, my my little

one is she's very particular. Again, I always talk about those people born on February nineteenth, there's something about them. She is such a unique little person. So she didn't want to play with the kids because she just wasn't liking the games that my older one made for the kids. She wasn't feeling in it. So she sat on a couch and watched the Grinch movie right, The New Grinch and then this Mariah carry All I Want for Christmas movie, So it's based off of the song, and the little

girl in the movie's name is Mariah. She watched it four times over and over. She gets a dog. It's this whole thing. The dog gets lost, and she watched that in The Grinch back to back to back. It was unbelievable, but funny enough. I got a kick out of her, you know, being like a zombie at twelve forty five minute, I'm so tired. Yeah, she should have just put them up to bed. It wouldn't go. I said I would do it one hundred times, and you

know I had to. You know, it's it's not fun being the sober person around a bunch of people who were drinking. That is that is not fun. No, not at all. Yeah. We are having my best friend Betty over Nice and her husband not till January. I think January second, we're gonna have We have them every year.

We usually do it before Christmas, but this year we're going to do it afterwards and we just have a dinner and we exchange gifts and they sleep over and have a couple of cocktails and treats and that's that's the extent of who I see this year. So love some Betty. She was on a month and a half ago. It was great stuff that Bob Becklan's story still makes her lest I think about it. Yeah, she's such a blessing to me. She's like a sister. I love her so much, so I can't wait to see her and

looking forward to it. Very nice, very nice. Well, it was an interesting year. We still have one more week of shows for technically, you know, New Year's drops, This will drop Christmas week, all these shows they have come in on, so you have a nice little lead up and then the following will lead up to New Year's Day news eve. So we still we don't have to

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dot com and looking forward to a new year. All right, well, get ready for d Yeah, get ready for DC to pop up. That's good because that's a long read. And uh, I also look forward to whatever their new little uh you know, gimmicky things that they say. I love the how they can work their ball lingo into each copy. Yeah, we I think we should do an official commercial for it. Absolutely. I think they want to hear you talking about balls being trimmed. I like trim balls. Yeah, yeah, I do know. Nice.

I'm very happy to hear that. I think I'm going to try and be creative and come up with a funny, funny little skip. If you like clean balls, that's your game. I'm Francy, the Queen of extreme Come on, no, what time is he coming on? You should be here any minute, So stretch it out there, kid, Well what else you got? I can't show my but maybe I can show my boot. I can chow my outfit. Yeah that's different than the boot. Very nice part of the part of the Christmas collection.

I will be doing my last photo shoot today for only fans. So this is the outfit that I'll be wearing. And it's like a weight off my shoulder. I can't express. I mean, I met such good like a lot of good guys on there, don't get me wrong, and hopefully a lot of them will come on over to Patreon because they said they'd follow me wherever I go. So I'm hoping January first you all come over to our Patreon page. But you know it's it's been uh, I've

mentioned it before. It's been a little a little crazy. Let me ask you a question before I d Now, do you hear me through my mic or you hear me like talking to the computer? Do you hear me clearly that you normally do? No? What do you hear? I just it's like a faint. It's not as loud and vibrant as okay, all right, all right, just check it. All right, here's the here's our buddy DC. Hey Santa, Hello, franccene, Hello,

how are you? I am fantastic franccene. You know you were once again at the top of the nice list. I didn't mind looking at your only fan page a few times and seeing you be a bit naughty. Yeah, not too naughty, but just uh, just naughty enough. How are you guys? We're good. How are you doing well? Doing well? I am doing fantastic, fantastic. I'm glad you dressed for the occasion. Yes, it's the holiday season, it is the holiday series. May I ask her? Are you

going to tell us what's in the bag? The costume was in the bag, That's what was in the bag. What's in the box? What's in the box? I was wondering. I was like, what does he have about his sleeve? But that was cute? So you guys all ready for Christmas? Or what? Now? Getting there? Definitely some mic problems on your side, Chadwick. Oh no, there's not. Oh there's not. Can you hear me now? Now I can? Yeah, of course she can. I saw what the problem was. Okay,

so now we're back in action here. Yeah, we're ready, I guess as ready as we're going to be a lovely partner coming on. She is not going to be here today, no, no, oh, okay, just us three. But I have a little Christmas trivia. I'm gonna go over some books movies, traditions, food, and uh, maybe we'll speak about our traditions as well. Maybe you'll let us into the extreme household on what you guys do Christmas Eve,

Christmas Day? Singapore canes across the board. Here you go, you fake out the kid, they open up the box, they get a cane right between the eyes, a stocking full of quarters, perhaps a chain, a chain slowly pulled out of the of the stocking at the end. No, my kids are too good. Husband. Are you more of a Christmas Eve or a Christmas Day? Gal? It really depends because we don't I don't have it at my house. I mean, this will be the first year that we're

having everything at home because of the pandemic. My niece, my one niece, usually has everything and she has it there both days. So we just, you know, if we're feeling like we want to travel Christmas Eve, we go Christmas Eve. If we don't feel like leaving the house Christmas Eve, we go Christmas Day. Just really a toss up.

Any present opening on Christmas Eve? No? No, well yes, if we go to her house, they usually get to open something because then we don't see them on Christmas, so they'll like we'll do an exchange with the family members that we won't see Christmas Day because you know, whatever day we don't go there. It's just the five of us here. So if we go there Christmas Eve, then they get to open presents. If we're home Christmas Eve, they don't get to open presents. What about you, Chad,

what's it like in the Barclay household. I do love me some Christmas Eve, but we do everything Christmas Day. You know, kids get the pj's on Christmas Eve. That's like the big draw to after dinner antics. Usually church also Christmas Eve, but we have been told by the church please don't come. They're expecting record numbers of people, so they're urging folks to tune into the church's YouTube channel. This could be a ployed. They spike subscribers. I don't know,

but you monetize. They got to get the money up. Yeah, now they do. I think they actually had like two thousand subscribers. I was pretty impressed for church. But yeah, we do the church thing usually followed by dinner. The last few years we've just gone solo of just the four of us doing the Christmas Eve stuff. We used to meet up with my parents or go to their house. And we lived in Jersey. Oh, it was all feasted, the Seven Fishes, it was everything. But now it's a

little lighter. It's just you know, Italian food and Christmas music, and then then Christmas Day it's I will not I don't like to travel at all. Christmas Day it's everything as local as it can be. And it would usually go back to Jersey. But again, I don't think I can this year. I'm wearing a boot, so I don't think I can travel, unfortunately, and I think if I walk through the Jersey state lines, I might get booted out by the governor. So you know, the boot meets

the boot. You're working injured, huh, I am, yes, I have a boot on right now. I have a wicked heel spur. My achilles tendon is all inflamed and it's a it's a mess. So I'm a hobbling fool right now. All right, So let's start with some trivia. We're gonna do Christmas movies and books. We'll start off with an easy one for you. All right, dude, who was the star of the Christmas movie Jingle? All the way you want to go? You want me to go? Is it whoever goes first? Yeah, whoever wants to ring in? I

don't know it. It's Arnold Schwarzenegger, it is. Yeah, we just watched it last weekend. Okay, did you know there was a number two? It was Sorry Larry the Cable Guy. Yes, and produced by w W Studios. There you go. I didn't know it, all right, you'll know this one though, Franny, who was the star of the movie titled White Christmas bing Crosby. That's correct. Yeah. Have you seen that one? No? No, me either. I have. It's a snoozer. I also I kind of promo and it's a Wonderful Life last week too,

So I hope that comes up in discussion. Well, what is your favorite Christmas movie? Franny? Me? I like Christmas Vacation. Yeah, yeah, that's definitely. Absolutely Yeah, three or four times a year we watched that one. I just want, well, not just but like as an adult, I finally saw Christmas Story. Okay, I just saw that was cute. Hey, the the A E. W Superstars will be doing a re enactment of story

in between the commercials. That's adorable. I did see the one thing where he was on San Chris laugh of Santa. That was really cute. Now, if you were going to guess what you what Jim Cornett thinks about that, what would you say? He thinks he probably hates it. You are correct that kind of stuff. Didn't hate their little song and dance number. I hated it. He hated it. I didn't like it either, but I loved it. That

goes with that. So no, I love Gaga and out of the box things, and you know, the stuff that is not wrestling, that that is done just intrigues me. So that stuff, to me was brilliant. You also got to give a nod to the fact that m j F is Jewish playing you know, Ralphie who's obsessed with Christmas. He gotta that's a little bit of a wink wink, you know. I would think, I love it. Yeah, great movie. We watch the marathon every year. Yeah, that's the only

time I watch. Yeah, Chad, what about you, what's your favorite christ I would I would say Christmas Vacation. But I'll tell you one that I discovered last year that's been around for a long time and it's gonna work its way into the rotation. It's mixed nuts I've heard of it. I haven't. It's a Steve Martin movie and it takes place during Christmas. But he works at like a self help like telephone line. You know, you know I have seen it, Okay, and like, you know, calamity happens.

All the people in the building. That's happening. You know, a guy gets killed. They have to cover up the murder like it's it is hilarious called oh but see, but no, But the thing is, it's the music is all Christmas music. I would think, I would think you do, but I I could be wrong. I would put it at the top of the list. It's here's why I liked it so much. I had zero expectations of what it was. I just saw, you know, calamity happens during Christmas.

I always knew the movie title, never saw it. Watched it last year. Hilarious, huh Okay, Yeah, we did the same thing a couple of years ago. Just by chance, we watched it, and you're right, it was. It was pretty funny, unexpected. Yes, I'm gonna put that on my list if I ever watch another movie. Yes, because you know, made up my movies. But yeah, we'll check that out. How about the diehards. Do you consider those Christmas movies? Yes? Or no? No you don't No, No, just action, just

an action movie with Christmas setting. No, it's not all right. I have to be honest with you. I've never seen them, but I don't think it's themed around Like does it have a Christmas message? Yes, it's it's definitely themed around Christmas. Definitely Christmas theme the whole movie. Then why is there a discussion on whether it's a Christmas movie? It's to me, it's an action movie with Christmas elements. It's not a

Christmas movie. But if you were to look up probably top ten Christmas movies, I bet you it's in there. It's probably in there in the top I'm not I'm not on board with the discussion. I would have to view it and then give you my My husband is adamant that it is a Christmas movie and it's just a classic all around. And as much as I respect his his views on things, I have to politely disagree because I just it's just an action movie. I think

one of the lethal weapons takes place during Christmas? It does? Yes, Yeah, I don't know. Whatever do you guys think it is? Leave a comment. Yeah, let's let's see what everybody thinks. Yeah, all right, let's see what else we got here. Add mixed nuts to the list. By the way, added to the listing. It's not there. I just checked. Alright, No, he's downloading it right now. All right? What made Frosty come to life in the movie Frosty the snow Man? Easy? It's hot the hat of course. And he said, how

birthday pops my four year old every time? I love it. We watched this year. Yeah, you got to watch all those with the kids, right, the Peanuts, My kids pop when he goes missy, miss I love that part. That the big heel of the of the show. Well, what's his name is it? It's not? Is it Merlin? Oh man? But he's such a little with the show. And what a dick bag he is? All right? How about foods queen, you like to cook? What's your favorite dish for the

holiday season? Do you have one? We usually have a lot of Italian food, you know, we're we're Italian over here. One tradition we have is my husband always makes his monkey bread nice, which we love, love love, But we usually have like a nice like maybe a z dish, baked z d or stuff shells, meatballs. Sometimes I make agg plant parm my plant parm. Yeah, it's it's just a lot of the campion food on the table. So my wife makes these meatballs. We call them cracked meatballs

because they're addictive, like crack. So she takes the meatballs, puts them in the crock pot, ketchup apple jelly and like this orange jelly and it is delicious. Yeah, what a concoction. Yeah, that is very that is very metagone of you, which is very American of delicious. Never never tried it. I'm very traditional with my uh my Italian meatball recipe, but I'm open to trying new things. I would definitely try those. All right, Well, let's see if

you know this answer. Are they sweet? They are sweet? Yes, sweet? They use beef yeap. Yes, they're wonderful. We usually make them on Christmas, wonderful cook and uh usually Christmas morning we're breaking them out, believe it or not, eight o'clock in the morning and that's what we're eating. That passes in one of the foods I can't eat in a certain period of time. Things have to be eating at certain times of the day. I couldn't eat meatballs at

eight o'clock in the morning. Really, you're like the breakfast person. It has to be, you know, it can't be. And I could have sausage. I could have you know that kind of meat sausage? Correct, I've always been that way. If it belongs in a different part of the day, I can't have it in the morning when you wake up a meatball in the morning, No way. But it's Christmas, right, Christmas, New Year's, Thanksgiving, Arbor Day, Flag Day. I don't care

all right. Well, speaking of foods, which Christmas food is it considered good luck to eat one of each day of the twelve days of Christmas. I didn't know this answer, so never either, any idea, Chad, no clue. It's mince pies, which I don't even know what a mince pie is. Pie. Yeah, mince pie is a meat pie. So you definitely not have an app for breakfast. I've never had a minced pie in my life. I would. I'd rather eat a shit pie than a mince pie. I think more of

a UK tradition. I think you're right, that's probably right. Which type of tree was the partridge sitting in? According to the well known Christmas song A pear tree, A paar tree. Yeah. What beverage is known as milk punch eggnog? It is? Are you a fan? Hell no? Not either version alcohol or non alcohol version. No way and no way. Yeah. To me, it never made sense to mix something like that with alcohol because if it comes back up, that's

gonna be bad. Right. I just think I think a cousin Eddie and Christmas vacation drinking it in the moose the moose cup and he's dipping it in there. That's what I think. I'm assuming rum would be good in uh eggnog? Right, I guess. I don't know what type of alcohol they use. Is there a specific one that's supposed to go in there? I don't know. I don't know either. We have it in the house because my husband loves it, but he doesn't put spiced drum is what he's said. But I I think I just think

it's a gloppy mess. I don't like it. Not a fan, all right, So let's talk Christmas traditions. A lot of traditions going on stockings. Do you guys open your stocking presence before or after the regular presence? Oh? We do ours before before. Really we do it after after. Me and my wife have had this argument for years because it was split, just like that, we always religiously afterwards

her she swears it has to be done before. See, I do ours before because the smaller gifts are in the stocking and then the more expensive guests are under the tree. So I figure if they open the more expensive guests and then they go to the little gifts to the PlayStation, I don't know, that's such the way

I do it. So we go right to the fireplace and take the stockings down, and of course they want to check if the milk and cookies are gone right, and then we go back into the living room and go to the one tree with all the present all right, So we got a split decision there. What was the first Christmas card sent? And who designed it? You mean this year? No? Ever, No, that's a good one. I could have told you both. But I designed it. I

took the photos, designed it. And the first you want, the first person it was said to, is that we were asking, like, this is a historical question. Oh you said tradition. He said traditions. No, it's like who, like is it Hallmark? I don't know Father Christmas on Christmas Day, oh, eighteen forty three. And John Horseley who he is? But he just got a plug here on eyes up here. You know what your offense to? That? The Horseley family? Who is he? You know who else take offense to?

Delbert E. Klegg he takes offense to that returned? Damn it. I forgot. I wanted to make my name this week, Dave, and I forgot. I wrote it. I actually wrote, I wrote it. I wrote it down. He was my mom's, one of my mom's like first real serious boyfriends. And the name popped up on the show. So now Chat's infatuated with that name. I'll tell you what. Wait time out.

So I so somebody told me one of our listeners, uh said that they worked with a guy named Delbert, and I just was like, holy oh, you know it was Chris Carum. He said he worked with a guy named Delbert, and I I've never heard the name before. Francine uttered those those letters in one collection. So there are two Delberts out there. I'm sure there's more than two. But yeah, what was Christmas like in the wrestling business? Frannie? What did you guys? Do you guys worked a lot

of those days. Right, was it festive around those holidays in the locker room? Any Secret Santa is going on? Yeah? We every year. We all exchanged Christmas gifts every year that I can remember. I don't believe there was a year that went by that we didn't buy gifts for each other. Maybe the year that the checks bounced, but other than that, yeah, it was, uh, you know, because

we were usually on the road around that time. We never I don't think we ever missed a Christmas being on the road, but we were definitely, you know, around that around the December time we were working. And that's how close we all were. We always I mean I would have to buy thirty Christmas gifts every year for people. Oh no, Secret SA. You bought for everybody. Oh yeah, we bought for everyone. Oh wow, just give a T shirt? Like you couldn't just give your shirt. Hey, here's my

Francine T shirt. Now let me ask you this though, So you guys never worked Christmas Day, right that I remember? I remember working. I think we worked like an ea still are a Thanksgiving, But I don't remember working at Christmas because I mean, traditionally the NWA well run on Christmas Day starcades. I believe we're actually on Christmas Day at one point, and the WWE, I believe still up to last year. Maybe they stopped last year, but we're

every year December twenty sixth. Madison Square Garden never failed. And I couldn't imagine like guys having to leave the family right like that on either Christmas night or the next morning and just be out of there. But it was always a tradition Christmas and the next day after Christmas at Madison Square Garden. I disagree with that one hundred percent. I feel like they're already on the road

three hundred days a year. Give them a weekend or a couple of days off with their family for God's sakes, Like Christmas is a special time, and I just don't think anybody should be working, and I don't think anybody should be attending wrestling shoes. Well, you know, you get it for you get the tickets for Christmas. Hey, guess where we're going tomorrow. We're going to the Garden to see wrestling. Now, I'll tell you what. Here's where they gave you the big fu that they normally do on

the way, you know, to the forum. You know how they broke up brand splits. You're on this brand, You're on that brand? Oh no, no, no. The Madison Square Garden shows were super shows, so everybody had to be at the Garden. So it wasn't like the Raw crew or the SmackDown Crew. Everybody had to be at the Garden the day after Christmas. And I don't like it. I'm sorry. Just one of the many reasons why I am so glad I am an independent contractor over here.

Do you remember any particular gift you got from a wrestler one year or was there a gag gift that you remember. I remember one year the weirdest, strangest gift that I've ever received was from Buella McGillicutty. And she gave me, and God bless her, it was very sweet of her. But she gave me ear candles, ear wax. Yeah, yeah, okay.

I I remember opening and I was looking at them and I was just like and then I remember we went back to it because we were you know, we used to room together all the time, and we went back to the room and she did them to my ears and I was just like, okay, it was it was just I don't know that I was grateful for the gift, but I just thought it was a little strange. But you knew fast forward twenty something years that I'd

be so addicted to watching. Yeah, that's true. If you could come on, that would be the perfect show for she knew. I think she knew back then that that was something that I would love in the future. Watch that candle. No, for all the fans out there, just put that image in your head of the two of them in the room together but doing the ear laying on the bed. Ever, so strap can candle in my ear? Yeah, very very second times back then? Not that's funny. Yeah,

all right, how about this one? What are two other names for Santa Claus? You want me to go? Sure? Chris Kringle and Father Christmas. That's that's a good one, yep, Saint Nick. Also, yeah about how about Topos Jesu. What I heard him in the background is that diehard? You got it completely worth saying it now. I don't even know what that means. But okay, when Santa Claus is getting interrogated, when they arrest him in the Santa Claus

and they say what's your name? And he goes through all the you know, the versions of Santa Claus from around the world. He does proposes Is that a Japanese I think? I don't know what it is. It could be, but whatever it was, it makes me laugh every time I hear it, and I'm glad he got it. Number one of that movie fantastic. The rest of them all crap. Oh they're terrible. They were on the other night. They are the biggest steaming pile of crap the other Yes,

that was it. I couldn't Yes, you're right, couldn't remember that. Yeah, he hit it on the head knowledge over there? All right? All right? The legend of Santa Claus is associated with which saint or monk? We did that one kind of yeah. Or you could go watch the Netflix movie Klaus and you can find out a little more origin story. Watch it. It's a little I think the animation is a little freaky, but the kids loved it. Which is the last US

state to declare an official holiday for Christmas? I'm going going to say Hawaii. I was not only because they were the last two. That's so I was saying. Is that true? It's actually Oklahoma? Believe it or not? Why they took so long to get on the bandwagon. Who knows? Uh? All right, let's let's look too busy husking corn to Christmas. Oh, here we go. According to the Italian tradition, who delivers

gifts to the good children on the eve of Epiphany? Shoot, I know this, Shoot, I know this one, and I can't I can't remember I know it, Tony soprano close, Uh, an old lady? Which named be fauna? Am I saying that? Right? Is that? Who you were thinking of? What's the one with the shoes where you put the shoes outside or something? What's that? Is that the same thing? An orange in the shoe or something? Isn't that German? I think right now? I have a cousin from Germany, and she taught us

in grade school. She was my art teacher, and she used to go get your crowns and your crew. I only one. I just thought she had the thigkest accent. They can tell you anything, and I'd listen because they just mean business whenever they open their mouth. I want to know why the Oklahomans are so stingy and not recognizing Christmas? Okay, that's that's really putting an old bug in my craw here ask j R. Well, Francina, I hate to tell you, I have no clue. I was

too busy. All right, let's do one more. Let's see what we got here? All right? Can you name the eight original reindeer? Original? So the ones that are current are not the not they are, I think that they don't count. Maybe Rudolph as an original reindeer, believe it or not, Well, he would be the ninth, right. Why isn't he in there? There's always eight of them because he just leads the sleigh. He's not on the regular crew of reindeer that practiced pulling to play all year round.

He just came in to save the day. No, if he's leading them through the darkness with his nose, he should be the ninth reindeer at the front of the past. Right. But it was the original rain right right. But it also says then one foggy Christmas Eve, not every Christmas Eve. It was like, Rudolph, have you done with this? You're retired? Okay, only that night because of the fog. Rudolph got to go. Right.

Every Christmas Eve's been clear afterwards. I mean, it was just one foggy Christmas eve that you all know and love. It's just gonna be a swerve and it'd be like, you know, happy, sleepy, dopey doc bashedball know, is that what to be? Dancer and Dasher? No, yeah, Dancer and Dasher, Donner and Blitzen comment and cupe it. I think you're only missing blood Donner and Blitzen. But you gotta say it like Arnold and Jingle all the way, Prance a

vixen comic cop. But Donna Blitzenasher, Dancer Donner, I don't faking known and Blitzen Ridolf should be in there. Or as Bart Simpson would say, Donna Dixon, Donna Dixon is married to uh that guy from uh the Blues Brothers, dan Ackroyd. Still yeah, interesting, Yeah, it's true love. I'll tell you that. It's so pratty. Your guys kids watch this program? Or can we talk about kids gifts on here? Like what you're Oh? Yeah, loyal subscribers pat members. I

charge each child ten dollars share a subscription. They would sign up for Patreon just to cancel it. Have you had to try and find the Xbox not the Xbox, the PlayStation five? No, No, they mentioned it and I politely said, we add forty two box in this house. We don't need another one. They're they're near impossible to get anyway you can't get I know, Troy, our great listener, Troy always ends up. He's been lucking out and getting

a couple. He's flipped a few. So yeah, I know, if you got you gotta you gotta play the old charts, right, I guess, I guess it doesn't appeal to me. I mean, I I'd like the PlayStation two. I had fun with it, but I'm just so out of the video game loop. It's just uh so the kids, you know, they're they're wanting to explore the Nintendo Switch, and I guess that has to be a little bit more juvenile that, you know.

The PlayStation five wouldn't appeal to them at this point. Yet, maybe it will soon, who knows on the clearance rack. The games are so hard to play now. I was off from work the other day and said to my ten year old one, don't you come out and I'll try and play a game with you. Just to get a two player game, it's ridiculous. You have to set up a whole PlayStation account, and it's not just go and pick two players at the beginning of the menu like we used to do it. So you have the five, No,

we don't have the five. I haven't been able to find it. Grandpa has been everywhere looking for it online. He's he's even had the kids try and get it online. Amazon doesn't have it with an outrageous price tag. With people trying to resell it, They're going to read it that you could. Yeah, you can secondhand market if you want to pay three times as much. People on selling

them for fifteen hundred two thousand dollars. Yeah, that seems like it seems like fifteen hundred bucks is like the low end of the of the of the second hand or second dary market sales is fifteen hundred bucks. So what does it actually retail for? Seven or six? I thought it was five hundred. What a relief that it's five hundred. Probably nothing except that, you know, they hype it up and you know they get these kids to to want it. You could buy a case of Francene

figures or five. I'm sold out. Sorry, I do have. I do have a couple in my possession and I'm giving one away Sunday on OnlyFans as a prize. Hey, I'll tell you what you you you set the record because Vince Russo has been trying to sell his and he still has a couple left, and yours were like, geez, they're good when they're gone. They're gone. They were who they were gone. Yeah, I mean everybody waited decades for that, decades for that, including me. Yeah. Well that's all I

have for for trivia questions and day traditions. How about I got one? How about what what was your favorite gift of all time growing up? For me? Yeah, over my cabbage Patch doll sod your mom and dad beat the snot out of somebody to get a cag My sister, My sister did, My one sister, Joy, she's about twenty years older than me. She just celebrated her birthday, so happy birthday, Joy. But I remember her going to the store and my oldest niece and I are seven months apart.

I don't know if you guys know that, so we're basically the same age, and she had to get two of them, and she got them. She went I don't know what store she went to, but Christmas morning, when I opened that gift, I cried like a baby because I didn't think I was getting one, and I had my little I don't even remember what her name is. I don't remember. She was bald, and she was beautiful and I loved her so much. So it's my characters style.

That's great. How about you, DC. I don't know if I had one, but probably the fact of get being able to get music. I loved music, so that was the way to get the newest cassettes or CDs or the Walkman or a stereo. That was that was how I would cash in for Christmas. You know, put that list of music out. Yeah, the music was a big deal, especially you know post Santa Claus, you know twelve thirteen,

the boom Box, the cassettes, you know the CDs. I remember like five CDs all on Christmas morning and the very nondies. Ask if you look back at you know, your Nirvana's and Green Days and Offspring not not really charged at the top of the charts. But I don't know. I think might are more about disappointments of stuff I didn't get. I think that's what I remember more well. That was you know, My thing was I had one superhero named Firestorm, who was my favorite still is my

favorite action figure of all time. And he got lost, buried at sea, literally buried at seven Presidents Beach in uh in New Jersey, and I asked for him for Christmas, and unfortunately was left on the work bench according to the note. So I'll never forget it as long as I live. I wrote you a note he was left on the workbench. So but my uncle would come through a few years later and I would reclaim Firestorm. But nonetheless,

that's one of my outstanding memories. But then you know Nintendo and whatever like those are the other ones too. You got to put up there. I had. I remember I had a Barbie that I really wanted. I think she was called I don't know if she was called Western Barbie or it must have been Western. I don't think I would have called her Texas Party. But she winked, oh yeah, she had blue eyeshadow and she went like that, and you put when you pushed her button on her back,

she gave you a little wink. And my mom got me that or Sanna got me that. That was it. The pink Corvette. Did you have the pink Corvette to go with Barbie? I don't know. If I had the pink Corvette. I never had the Big dream House. No, No, I didn't have the Big dream House. I remember I had something like it held the barbies, but when you opened it up, it was like her condo or something like. It was just a background, right, it was just on

like the inside of the wall. No, it had several different like slots, I guess you would say, but they had they had different scenarios, different scenes in them, and you could like put different things and then you can hold everything in it and close it. I know I had stuff like that, but I never had the Big dream House. I don't have girls. Is Barbie still a big deal nowadays? It's just among the many, right would you say, of brands out there? But it's still pretty strong.

My daughter never got into Barbies really interesting, and I bought them. I bought several of well, never got into them, So I had a bunch of Barbies like she might have played with them five times. And toy fanatics here, I mean we got the Barbies well represented, all the weird off brands of princesses and television shows that have a doll. I mean literally we probably have like sixteen Jojo dolls and it's literally just Jojo in a different outfit. So the girl from YouTube, Yeah she got a doll,

literally got her doll before I got my dollars. It took you decades. She got it like literally the same just picture every outfit you were on a pay per view. Well she's got that. If she Wren on a YouTube video and it's the same doll, like the same question. Way to market, that's great, she's a brand. But yeah, that's cool. Well, look, you know a lot of fun

Christmas ey stuff DC. You know, before we get to your plugs and before we we say goodbye for this week, let's just run down the Patreon list for the week. Excuse me, I have to clear my throat. There we go, no corona, Just clear my throat. Don't be concerned. Uh, it's a doozy. We're going to continue the Christmas as we bring back finish the lyrics Christmas edition. Oh this is gonna be good because you're going to be belting them out because you impressed the hell out of everybody

with the last round. So now we're going on Christmas. Can't sing, people, but I will try, and I know I'm not going to know a lot of these songs, so it should be uh, it should be fun just based off the preview. Harder than you would think because it's not picking the traditional you know, finish the lyric fall la la la. No, it's not that. It's like, it goes a little bit deeper. So this is going to be interesting. We might even need to have the old Google up just in case we run to problems.

I'll just wing it like I always do. Call it in the ring. Now, how about this. So we did Fan Appreciation Month, you know, we did meeting everybody you know for that period of time. But I think that's something we're going to continue more of as we go into the new year. So I kind of switch it up. I'm gonna call it Patreon Member Spotlight, as we welcome

in the Elusive Craig Hey. Greg is going to join us for the Patreon Member Spotlight, and it's gonna be Look, if you've been on with us for the Fan Appreciation Month, we'll come back to you sooner or later. But we want to meet everybody. We want to get to know everybody. If you're a new member and you come in, we want you to come on, introduce yourself, tell us more about you, why you're here, what you want to hear, blah blah blah blah blah, and we'll call it Patreon

member Spotlight. But we want to go back to doing some more roundtables, etc. Yeah, and really quickly, we have a new Patreon owen that I want to welcome to our little family here. I don't know if I welcome Cherish and James already they signed up a week ago, so if I didn't, welcome to the three of you, and I hope you're loving the content so far, and hopefully they can come on and chat with us. Yeah, no, absolutely, that's and that's what it's all about. So just continue

to keep uh, you know, the conversation rolling. I mean, obviously DC can attest to you know, how open we are and the conversations that we get to have, and it's just and the Tuesday Night discord too, that you know, I know has been picking up a little bit the last couple of weeks, right, Franny, But yeah, I'm just a little quiet. Well, we've had some new twenty five dollars members come on, so we uh, there's more to discuss and it's nice. So I'm enjoying it. So now

this one I personally love. Okay, So this is a you want to talk about, Rando. I follow this YouTube channel called Pro Wrestling Rarities. Okay. They take indie content from all over the world that hasn't seen the light of day in forever and they put it on there, they upload it. It's fantastic. We are going to take a trip. You ready for this New Jack City Wrestling in Freehold, New Jersey from January nineteenth, nineteen ninety seven.

As we see Tommy Dreamer with Beulah McGillicuddy taking on the franchise, Shane Douglass with Francine in his corner at New Jack City Wrestling. I was gonna taint it and I ever work for this? Yes, you did, now in nineteen ninety seven. Now, I believe I wanted to send him an email, but I didn't have time. I believe Donnie b Nova's brother either booked this show or own the promotion. I don't remember specifically, but this is one

of my local indies from back in the nineties. I had no clue that you ever appeared on a New Zack City show. Me neither. Famously, I can honestly say, I've probably never seen this footage, so this is going to be exciting. I'm gonna run down the card with you. You're gonna see guys with this stuff like you find me, dude crazy. I was going nuts when I found this.

I was so pumped. New Jack City Wrestling had one of the best commercials in the central New Jersey area where they'd be like New Jack City, New Jack City, and they'd be like, you want to come to play, come play in our hood, and it would be very like dead open because you know, we were under contract in ECW, so we really didn't do like indie shows outside of you know, going to Japan and stuff like that. Well,

I can't imagine how we work this deal. January nineteenth, ninety seven at the Freehold National Guard Armory in New Jersey. I got the whole card, and if she goes anywhere, she's in the main event. So I'm just gonna tell you that right now. Of course, it was question at this point in the game, but the finish is what I like the most, and I can't wait to show you the finish. So I have no idea what we did, so bringing on Love, it can't wait, but that's that's

all going on this week, Patregon, DC. What's going on with your podcast and everything in your neck of the woods. Over the Guardrail getting ready to start back up. We've been on a little hiatus for the end of the year here a lot of stuff going on, but starting in January we'll be back with a new format. So if you go to YouTube, subscribe to Over the Guardrail podcast, and of course on Facebook and Twitter, Instagram, parts of

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am at ECW Diva Francine. Big things are happening here in my household. We're going to start Twitch in the new year, so hopefully I'll have more info on the next podcast, and you know, hopefully you all come follow me over to Twitch. OnlyFans is going to be no more. So I'm hoping all of you people that are on only Fans will come on over to Patreon and hang out with us here because this page is way more fun than the only Pants Excuse me, the only Fans page was, I think, and we would love to have

you all as part of our family. And to DC, I just want to say, because this is your last appearance for this year, You've been a delight. I've loved getting to know you better, know about your family better, and I just feel like you added so much more to the program. So I thank you for your loyalty to myself and to Chad and two Eyes up here, and I'm looking forward to more of you in twenty twenty one. Well, thank you so much, and Merry Christmas

to you, Chad and both of your families. And I can't even express how great this has been for me. So I'm so glad it's you express it, I want to hear it. I'll just cumble all over my words. So it's been it's been great. I'm just I'm so excited about twenty twenty one for this Patreon that we have going on here and we just want you all to be a part of it, So please check out our page. Hope everybody's staying healthy, happy and safe. And with that said, that is a wrap.