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Weird World Variety with Matt and Jesse
Winter Camping Woes, Holiday Lights Spectacle, and Unusual TikTok Challenges: A Riotous Rumble into Revelry and Recreation
Are you ready for some belly laughs, camping nightmares, and festive cheer? We've got the whole package for you in our latest podcast episode. We kick things off with a fun exploration into the world of winter camping, taking you through our personal experiences with tents, cabins, and even RVs. But wait till you hear our hilarious debate on what 'real' camping means – believe us, it's no walk in the park!
We've got more than just camping stories and holiday shopping to share. We've scoured the nation to bring you the top 40 places to see Christmas lights in the U.S., with special shout-outs to Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri, and Denver, Colorado's Blossoms of Light. But hold onto your hats, because we're also diving into the wild world of TikTok challenges and the unexpected perils of using a Tesla as a getaway car. And as a bonus, we've got an intriguing tale about some rather intimidating cows in the UK.
It's a wild ride, and we want you to buckle up and join us. Remember, it's all about embracing your quirks and savoring the unexpected – much like the best camping trips. So, tune in, laugh along, and don't forget to share your own funny camping stories with us on our social media platforms. Here's to unforgettable stories and good company!
I don't know what stories are. What are stories?
Speaker 2:Figments of our imagination.
Speaker 1:Figment of your imagination, their imagination.
Speaker 2:Whose imagination?
Speaker 1:Whoever wrote it? But if they wrote it, how is the their imagination? Whoever posted it? Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:They're the figment of the figments.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm recording, by the way Are you really. We are already doing this. Yes, so it's in between the holiday season. Did you get any Christmas shopping done yet? Have you done any? I don't hardly ever Christmas shop.
Speaker 2:You hardly ever Christmas shop. Where are you, scrooge? I just I don't blow money on that, like just for no reason. I mean, if I have it to blow, yeah, I'll get people, stuff.
Speaker 1:But I guess we are Americans for guilty of blowing money for no apparent reason.
Speaker 2:No, I've, I've, I've focused more on needs and you know trivial stuff.
Speaker 1:I can say I have started Christmas shopping, but I'm not ready for Christmas yet. It is almost the Christmas season.
Speaker 2:I, unlike you and the masses, don't have children, so I ain't got a boy money that way.
Speaker 1:That's true you do have the advantage you don't have to lie for anybody. I have to be in the key words.
Speaker 2:Yeah, have to, which is nice.
Speaker 1:That is very nice. I don't have to lie for anybody. That's true. That's true. I'll tell you what, though you know we're talking about holiday season I don't know if I've never been I can tell you one thing I've never done. I know a lot of people have done this, Some of my friends, I know. I've done this.
Speaker 2:I've never been winter camping.
Speaker 1:Have you been winter camping?
Speaker 2:before it fakes no sense who, why?
Speaker 1:would you do that? I do. Well, people that you know climb mountains and stuff like that. They can't know all the time. Well, I just wondered if you've ever experienced that's purposeful.
Speaker 2:So no, it's purposeful If you're hiking a mountain and you have to. That's a necessity at that point. Not like oh yeah, let's get in the snow on a mountain. I know people that have been winter camping.
Speaker 1:Now I can say that one camp that I have been to is during New Year's, but it's in the southern states so it doesn't always get cold. Sometimes it does, but most of the time it's warm. When you go down there it was like a kids camp I did with my youth group, but I've never been like winter winter camping, even those even camping down at that camp. We were in warm cabins, like our cabins had heaters.
Speaker 1:That's not camping I mean for us it was camping. I mean it was a youth group, it's a building, though it's not camping, I mean. I don't see it that way. It's a shed.
Speaker 2:It was like literally a shack, it's wood, it's a. We got a roof. I don't count that as camping.
Speaker 1:So what defines camping? Then Tent, because then you're just saying that anybody that stays in RV is not.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not saying that isn't. I'm just saying that's not genuinely camping. If I'm breaking camping down to old school tents, you made the shelter that you're sleeping under.
Speaker 1:Bro, we're gonna start fights in the car with this.
Speaker 2:I mean I would, if I had the choice between tent and RV, heck yeah, pick the RV. But I'm saying, if you break it down to camping as camping, so really he would.
Speaker 1:He would sit out and pick the RV.
Speaker 2:Just because I don't like it? I never claimed to like it.
Speaker 1:Well, I went camping when I was younger. I could do that, but now I just don't like sleeping on the ground. I can't. I can't sleep on the ground.
Speaker 2:I can't, I was an assistant.
Speaker 1:Now, if it was like the end of the world type stuff, of course I'd be sleeping wherever you know, like whatever. But me personally, like my personal preference, I just can't sleep on the ground. No, I've tried that, Not like I used to.
Speaker 2:That's awful.
Speaker 1:But I have done it before. It hurts.
Speaker 2:When I was down in Florida, I literally fell asleep. I was so tired. I fell asleep in a field, In a field, and my brother was like he was aghast that I did it, he's like how the heck did you do that? And I was like I was tired, I didn't matter. Like if you're tired enough, you'll sleep anywhere.
Speaker 1:You will. No, that's true, the one thing I did. And when you're a kid you don't. It's not as bad when you're an adult, because when you're a kid you can almost sleep anywhere. But as I grew up, now we do have luxury camping now, so like you can literally get stuff to sleep on the ground and it doesn't feel like you're sleeping on the ground. We even have those cots you know those military cots.
Speaker 2:You get out. I actually slept on one of those once.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those are not bad at all.
Speaker 2:Like I've slept on cots.
Speaker 1:I've slept on cots, I've slept on and I'll tell you what. I'll take the cots and the mattresses and stuff over the sleeping on the ground any day. But yeah, I just can't do it like that anymore. I've never been winter camping per se. I know that a lot of my, some of my friends have gone winter camping. I just don't find any joy in that. I like to do summer stuff.
Speaker 2:I tell you what is good on the ground, though what Pine needles, true. If you have those, I recommend that. Yeah, true, I have slept on it before, or anything soft, anything, I mean leaves I mean they used to what was it?
Speaker 1:the old school mattresses in the 1900s, where stuff was straw, feathers, yeah. So yeah, like if you have straw or feathers.
Speaker 2:I don't see how, like I understand, like the feathers themselves are soft, but you still got that spine or whatever through them.
Speaker 1:Same with the straw, like, I think, if you hit it wrong.
Speaker 2:Straw would probably be better, because it's pretty weightless, I feel like, if you have a mass of it, then I feel like both of them.
Speaker 1:Okay, and this is just my imagination.
Speaker 2:That's probably why.
Speaker 1:I feel like both of them. This is my imagination, but I feel like if you rolled over wrong on straw or feathers, then poke you, it would, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:Like you'd come up through there and just jab you.
Speaker 1:You wake up the next morning and got holes in your back.
Speaker 2:That's probably why they stopped using it.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that's just my imagination. I don't know if that's true. I haven't done that. No no that's definitely true. But yeah, that's probably why they improved the pillow making system to where, if they make feather pillows, they have just the down thicker linen and I'm pretty sure they just use the down from the feathers and, but they actually make, they still make feather pillows and the stammer yeah. But they. What they do is the inside of the pillow has a thicker. Is that a bone lining? I want to say lining.
Speaker 2:Is that a bone through the middle there? I don't know. I mean, I was wondering for it. Wait a minute.
Speaker 1:It was classified as that. I'd have to look that up. It's like what is the stick? What is the middle of a feather. Do we call it a stick? Do we call it a bone? What?
Speaker 2:is the material. This is some random stuff Right in the middle. What is in the middle of a feather? What's it classified?
Speaker 1:as oh feather.
Speaker 2:I was just I've never, really I'm thinking bone like a bone of some sort. It's called the.
Speaker 1:Cartilage shaft Feathers are made from a tough and flex material called keratin. The spine down the middle, called the shaft, is hollow. The veins are. I mean you could kind of classify him as bones, a hollow bone. I mean that's what they're saying. It's a tough and flexible material, but I'm not really sure. To be honest, I've never looked this up. Even as a kid I didn't know what feathers were made out of. Is that sad?
Speaker 2:Sleeping on bird bones. In a way, you think about feathery bird bones.
Speaker 1:I mean, I would call it a bone, it's kind of like. It's kind of like a Halloween bed. There you go, it's a Halloween bed, bird bones.
Speaker 2:Bird bones.
Speaker 1:No, somebody in the comments will probably correct us. I'm not sure. Do you have comments? What the actual? Yeah, I'm not sure what the actual thing is called, but yeah, I don't know man.
Speaker 2:I'm glad I don't camp like we used to, bro.
Speaker 1:I'm glad we don't sleep on strong feathers anymore. We could, but I'm glad we don't.
Speaker 2:I kind of want to go, try to collect a bunch of feathers now.
Speaker 1:Try to collect and be like hey, pillow that isn't to say that isn't to say I don't think it's a case with them. I think there's a lot of cool things you can do during camping. I also like for winter this is just a personal preference of mine, but for winter Like the cabins, you know, like having a cabin in the mountains is really cool, like I think that's a lot of fun, and then you go outside and you put your snow gear on and then you just like snowboard down the mountain.
Speaker 2:I think that would yeah, but a cabin is essentially a house, so it's housing.
Speaker 1:Glamour, you're a glamour, but Super after all. But when it's like what's a glamp, or when it comes to some summer, summer, yeah, I can camp all day long, but I just can't sleep on the ground anymore. Tv AC Y if I do the nature and I have camped in tents. If I do camp in a tent, I try not to sleep on the ground if I can help it.
Speaker 2:I mean, how aren't you gonna be on the ground?
Speaker 1:Cots mats, they have it all you could suspend the have my own there.
Speaker 2:I have my own air mattress between some trees like a hammock, and then well, that would just be a hammock camp.
Speaker 1:You could just do a hammock camping. Dude, you ever seen those guys? They like, they like, climb the rock cliff face and then they just sleep in hammocks on the rock yeah.
Speaker 2:I literally had one stretched in the basement where I'm living in but I was like, had me going like this, like my Leg was bowing up.
Speaker 1:Well, this ain't as comfortable as I thought it would be. I just it needs to be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it needs to be taught.
Speaker 1:You know, I'd completely stretched excuse me, sir, this hammock is snapping my leg.
Speaker 2:Get in the couch and I'm like, okay, yeah, this is a little bit, otherwise you sleep like on your face and your legs go. It was kind of cute though, because Tesla was like in my arm and you know like.
Speaker 1:Well, okay, well, all that to say is welcome back to the WV guys, welcome back to world variety. I hope you all are still weird. I hope everything is staying weird. We are, we definitely are weird, and we have some fun Stuff for you today. So, speaking of camping, this is actually the subject of our first Section, so let's get into it.
Speaker 2:There was a point to that rent.
Speaker 1:There was. Let's get into it, alrighty. So I've got a few fun camping stories. I thought we would. We would tell some funny camping stories. I know that in my experience I've had a few. We've all had our fun Camping. What we call disasters and crazy things that have happened. So I thought I would go through this. I'm going to Read the first one and then we're going to I got some others for you and just go to read one. We're gonna take turns here. It's gonna be fun. So here we go. First one is Work trip turns soggy.
Speaker 2:You mean reader, you going to?
Speaker 1:I got the first one and you get the next one. Dan from Wolverhampton had a camping nightmare a few years ago while on trip for work. Myself and two former colleagues, he says, who were also very close mates, had put up a tent in the blazing sunshine already for a weekend Working in. How do you say that?
Speaker 2:Landudno.
Speaker 1:Landudno, Landudno, Landudno, Landudno, Landudno. No, it's. It's probably pronounced something different.
Speaker 2:Yeah and then yeah. Yeah and then no, yeah, and maybe we are so white, all right.
Speaker 1:With a few beers and food. A couple of days later we had torrential rain that came in off the sea when we were camping at from just moments before. Water came pouring through the roof into the other single room to my left and On to the head of a six foot five inch guy who was squeezed into a sleeping bag way too small for him. We woke up the next morning cold, soggy and stinking of wet cheese and onion pringles. We had left them in the porch area. As it turns out, we'd forgotten to put up the proof of the tent on, and the guy who had water dripping on him all night Was actually using the roof as a pillow. Oh, he instantly became a Nonsensical rant, blaming the queen for being all high and mighty in her palace and not having to camp for her job. It was absolutely hilarious, but we managed to have a great weekend. It was always a perfect story to drag up over a pints at the pub.
Speaker 1:Go to this guy, I don't know okay the, so what he did was an appellate so yeah, so what he did was balled up the roof and used it as a pillow. Didn't think about it. They didn't. They didn't it was. He said it was sunny earlier, so they didn't think about putting the roof on earlier. I mean, listen, being from Ohio, you got to be ready at all times anything.
Speaker 1:Ohio, as you know, is bipolar when it comes to weather, so you got to be ready for the cold. You could have all four seasons in one day, that's cuz we're right between below the Great Lakes. It's got to be. It's got to be go to Uninvited guests on camping trip.
Speaker 2:Ah. Reddit user Stahl freak shares his story of a camping trip with his dad. I was living in southern Colorado at the time, going to a college, and my dad and I decided to go camping for a night. We picked our spot, set up camp and made dinner. Nothing unusual there. Dinner was cooked just as the sun finished going down and I was food stuffing my face with a plate of noodles, my dad doing likewise. When we suddenly hear this deafening roar, we look around and by now it's almost so dark that we wouldn't be able to see our hands in front of our faces If it wasn't for the campfire. We were both dead silent, scared to even move. Neither of us could see any eye or tree movement or anything that would indicate wildlife, but we were both certainly heard of war. It was so close to fit. We were both certain it was a bear, whereas the mountain lion would have had him work at like wow.
Speaker 2:Let's go. My dad said toss this plate into the fire. I did the same. We hopped in his truck and took off petrified. My dad is a total cheapskate, so for him to leave his tent or his camp tent and all Out where anybody could grab it plus waste $15 and gas to go home and then had to come back and go home again. Says Again, says a lot, okay. I.
Speaker 1:Don't know about you, but if I was out camping, even if it was just one of us, and there was a loud cuz I've heard this story before many times and there was a loud roar next to our campsite, I'm booking it. I have not staying there.
Speaker 2:I'd be like come on, don't be a wuss, let's go see what it is.
Speaker 1:Just Jesse would be the guy in the horror.
Speaker 2:I would venture. It would venture into the darkness.
Speaker 1:Where that roar come from. You know all the dumb decisions and horror movies. Yeah, that's just.
Speaker 2:Looking around hey, I roar too like roar. Let's see if they roar back again.
Speaker 1:He would be like, hey, come here, come here.
Speaker 2:Or if it was a mountain lion, he'd be like here kitty, kitty, yeah, my luck, it wouldn't. Nothing would appear, though, because I want it to happen.
Speaker 1:What was it? They always say don't feed the bears.
Speaker 2:I will wrestle the bear, okay, oh.
Speaker 1:I ain't scared, I Would wrestle the bear. I'd wrestle the bear. Okay, I just saw one that I think we should read, if he shows me his belly, I'll try to pet it. This is a bonus story. It's called held hostage by cows. I don't know, but I'm ready to read this read that All right it's from user Rabbit hole gatekeeper. All right, what?
Speaker 2:I would hold gatekeeper.
Speaker 1:I went camping. I went camping alone and planned what should be an awesome route. I left late in the day and the views were spectacular. I live in the UK and the most scary animal You're going to come across is a cow there you go, that's great. Yeah, I mean because they don't have a lot of scary animals in the UK, so there you go. There's been lots of stories in the news the last few years of people being attacked by cows, so I'm pretty nervous about around them.
Speaker 2:Anyway, cuz you know what old dampen, a camping trip, cow attack.
Speaker 1:Oh, Well, you know what. Do you know what we do to cows here in America if they attack us?
Speaker 2:We don't even have to attack us, we just like.
Speaker 1:At the end of my route I had to go through a farm. Long story short, there were no gates. On the walls that contained many, many cows with calves and one big bull. They surrounded me, eyeing me up. I guess the funny part was the photo I got from the tree that I climbed to escape them, had to improvise and spent the next three hours in the dark in six-foot tall I want to say it bracket. Okay, so in the, in the tree, in the six foot tall tree, because it says brakken trying to find a way around the farm. No luck slept in the bracket.
Speaker 2:So the yeah, oh, it's like a thicket yeah.
Speaker 1:So next day the cows were still there and the bull charged me when I thought I'd be braved, okay, and I tried to go through them again so had to hike seven extra miles down a busy narrow country road back to civilization. So that can't be. Trip got ruined. I.
Speaker 2:Never thought I'd hear about a cow attacking somebody, Except in a pin.
Speaker 1:You know, I don't think they plan to sleep in a tree, away from away from the cows. Usually you're. You know you're in a tree, you're trying to escape a bear or lion. Nope, I mean old cows are at it again. They must have some attitude over in the UK like I mean the the cows attitude. Tent turns into swimming pool. That's all you bro.
Speaker 2:Hannah from Brighton shares her story of a tent fall failing to keep her dry while she was at a festival. Oh, that sucks. I went to secret garden party a few years back and borrowed my friend's pop-up tat At a slight issue is one of the tent holes, or tent poles Sorry, had broken slightly, making it look a bit floppy, but it seemed fine, or so I thought. On the first night the heavens opened and I woke up at 6 am To find I was actually lying Submerged in a pond inside my tent. Oh no, it had completely flooded and had rained so much that I was basically swimming in my sleeping bag. It was only thanks to my incredible brother-in-law, who went and brought me a tent from one of the festival shops, that I didn't had to sleep in a puddle for the rest of the festival.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, and they got a picture of it. Did you see the picture?
Speaker 2:Uh yeah, Little tent pole.
Speaker 1:I mean I wonder if she had a dream at all that night, because you imagine like going to sleep. If you have a dream and you wake up in a in a pond, you wake up in your own little pool.
Speaker 2:Well, my question is where the fish?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, I know, like right, that they'd be like not even a single goldfish in there.
Speaker 2:No, not even.
Speaker 1:That's kind of sad, not even one. You gotta go to the store for that one. But yeah, dude, I don't. That would be crazy. If you guys have some funny Camping disasters or funny camping stories, please let us know. You can always talk to us on our Facebook community.
Speaker 2:That's more Instagram or?
Speaker 1:Instagram world world variety with Matt and Jesse and all you have to look for is weird world of variety with Matt and Jesse. As soon as you type that in, it'll pop up and you can guys can share your camping stories. If you have a funny comment or whatever else you guys want to tell us, please contact us there. We would love to hear from you. That is Hilarious. And, speaking of hilarious, I have something else for you today. It is now time for our dumb criminals of the week. We talked about some funny stories. I have some funny dumb criminal stories for you, and number one I'm gonna go through and then I'll give you the second one. Bro, they there's people are just crazy. Okay, this happened in February of this year, 2023, and I thought it was hilarious because we all know the. We all know social media is nuts, right? So social media has blown up and gone crazy. Everybody knows about tick-tock. There's a Lot of people acting crazy on tick-tock because they just want the fame, and I thought this was an interesting story.
Speaker 2:Right in that ballpark.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so let's just get into this tick-tock challenge. Drove teens to act like the Kool-Aid man. Remember the Kool-Aid man from the 90s? Oh yeah, the commercials of him doing crazy stuff, busting through walls. All right, well, here we go.
Speaker 2:I surprised more people didn't ask to drink some of his Kool-Aid. Well, here's what happened.
Speaker 1:Here's what happened Another day. Another stupid tick-tock challenge. This time it involves a group of Long Island teens who allegedly decided to emulate the Kool-Aid man's moves of busting through walls, except in their case they're accused of kicking down local fences. Oh my gosh. Fox News reports that Suffolk County. Suffolk County Police arrested five minors and one adults all males between the ages of 12 and 18 after homeowner in Center. Each heard a commotion outside of his house around 1 am. What are they doing out at 1 am?
Speaker 1:That's not that way on a Monday. I mean you're talking about Five kids an adult, but don't they have school? Like what's going on? All right, it sounded like a gun. Go off your dad's coming out.
Speaker 1:It sounded like a gun go off. Retired corrections officer Charles Damiani tells NBC New York, noting that he ran outside and found multiple sections of his fence broken. Surveillance video showed a group of teens breaking through the fence. Damiani called the cops and they showed up at the residence about three hours later so he can make a statement. As they were talking, he again heard clatter coming from somewhere near his fence. This time I ran into the road and I jumped in front of the car and stopped them. He says police found six suspects in the vehicle, called their parents and ticketed them. They were just driving around kicking fences down. So remember, the guy used to go around snipping trees. This is kind of the same energy right here. They were driving around kicking down fences. You're 12 years old. You're out at three o'clock in the morning. Where are your parents? That's, that's exactly what I was saying. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:We like don't dance, go.
Speaker 1:I mean something like what is going on police?
Speaker 2:Hey there anymore man?
Speaker 1:I guess not. Police say it appears at least four other homes in the area we're hit by the same perpetrators through. An investigation is still underway. So Both incidents appear to be linked to a tick-tock challenge which participants try to bust through walls, doors, fences and other structures. Okay, let's start there, all right. First of all, you see the cool ain't my man? Bust through a wall Number one. What makes you think that's a good idea?
Speaker 2:They don't have the girth usually.
Speaker 1:So I mean for the strength or the that's like those a old AF video, afv videos we used to watch and people running into walls like yeah, thinking they're a superhero. You do not reenact this stuff. Number two Okay, we turned it into a tick-tock challenge. As you know, most tick-tock and YouTube videos are Fake. Spoiler alert. If you don't know that, I'm sorry to ruin your day foam walls or soft sugar or whatever.
Speaker 2:Exactly so most of those creators.
Speaker 1:Most of those creators buy their own stuff. Yeah, okay for the videos. If you're gonna reenact a video, do it on your property with your own stuff that you bought, don't be, you're just a delinquent. Don't be running through the neighborhood at three in the morning busting people's houses and fences.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, but how dumb can it get you know, every week, apparently you can get number every week we are Saying the same thing.
Speaker 1:You know, people can't get any dumber. It does, it just gets crazier.
Speaker 2:There is no end down dumb people can get.
Speaker 1:So if there's any families listening to this, do not reenact everything you see on tick-tock or YouTube, please your kids. And if you do reenact it, do it with your own stuff, because otherwise you will get arrested, guaranteed. That's called vandalism, kids, let's learn about it.
Speaker 2:The property, the structure of property.
Speaker 1:But yeah, it's just. I thought that was hilarious man. I instantly saw the Kool-Aid man and I'm like what the heck the Kool-Aid man is in the news we?
Speaker 2:can probably thank family, guy and other things for that probably.
Speaker 1:My gosh. Anyway, we have the holidays coming up. You know that we're in between the seasons right now. I thought this one was interesting because this next story that we're gonna talk about has a little bit of a home alone flair and, if you look, I'm sending it to you now home to anyone no, it's one.
Speaker 1:You got there, you go, all right, cool. So here's what the title reads and I'll let you judge. Just cops robbery suspect fled home alone moment and sued afterward. Gainesville police say he slipped on a patch of ice as he was trying to flee a botched robbery and he looks pretty messed up.
Speaker 2:Swollen, bloody face, all right. Why don't you tell us what happened? What happened to this story man? An alleged armed robber, was fought in the early hours of Christmas Day, and this is so. This wasn't last year.
Speaker 1:This is 2022, december 29th.
Speaker 2:Yes, and what police say was like exceed from home alone. Police say Louie, louis, I don't order on us, I don't know I was bocho or don't as concealed himself behind a business in Gainesville, georgia, which has been experiencing unusually low temperatures, and demanded cash from an employee who left the building around 1 am Sunday. Fox five reports. Police say a physical altercation followed and when a second employee left the business, sadge bocho were done as was startled and fired a shot that didn't hit anybody. He then tried to run off but slipped on a patch of ice and hit his head.
Speaker 2:Police say yeah like here, or is it Harry or more?
Speaker 1:yet Harry.
Speaker 2:I think Harry's the one that slipped and fell in homelift police say, that's true. Say witnesses took two guns from Sabge said judge. But this is a hard name just a bocho or don us. While he was on the ground he was taken to the county jail in charge with the armed robbery and aggravated assault. Wjbf reports. Gainesville police lieutenant Kevin Holbrook tells the Gainesville Times it is not clear whether facial injuries seen in the suspects mugshot Happened from the fall or an altercation at the scene.
Speaker 2:Okay, so we know that that is how officers found him when they arrived.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing All right. First off, if you are robbing somebody Not to survive I'm not talking about just trying to survive but if you are robbing somebody on Christmas, they deserve to be.
Speaker 1:You are the worst. I'm sorry, but I have seen this every year people getting robbed at Christmas time, people taking packages off others. I've seen this every year and I'm sorry, but if you are robbing people, you are the worst of the worst. Because, number one, christmas is not about material things. It shouldn't be. It shouldn't be. And if you are out here saying you hate Christmas because of all the commercialism, well, yeah, everybody dislikes commercialism, but eat Christmas is not about the commercialism. First and foremost, you are not allowed to rob people. You are not allowed to rob people. You are not allowed to rob people because of all the commercialism. It's about time with your family.
Speaker 1:So if you're out robbing somebody instead, of spending time with your family and the birth of Jesus, yeah, and the yeah, but you know what I mean, for for people who don't believe in Jesus, it's still Time to spend with your family. That's it. There's no like materialism that should be involved. Now, the presence is a fun thing that everybody does. It's a kind of like pagan traditional Thing that everybody does just for fun.
Speaker 2:Fine, but so the Christmas stuff is pagan too.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of, there's a big, there's a lot of yeah there's still plenty of remnants from yeah, but if you do your research like you should know again. It's about spending time with your family, it's about the season I'm giving, not Taking, and if you're out here robbing people at Christmas.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:You're pretty low. The next part I wanted to say was the picture of this stick.
Speaker 2:The picture of this dude. He kind of looks like you're mauled by a cat, more like Actually got in a fight with that.
Speaker 1:There was an altercation and the patch of ice. That's it. There was just an altercation and a patch of ice. This dude looks like he's been through the war, I Don't know like what he went through, but man, it's safe to say he got what he bargained for. I mean, oh my goodness, what was that? What's that old saying you know doing to others what you would have them doing to you, or the one it's like you reap what you so that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1:This guy got messed up. It's crazy. But another moral the story don't be robbing people, man. Like, and especially around Christmas, come on, if you can't afford to get each Other gifts, give each other the time of seeing each other. Like, honestly, that's the main thing. That's the main thing. Like the people that love you the most are gonna be happy spending time with you, not just for the gifts, and that's that's the whole point of Christmas. Um, you're alive, you're healthy, you're with your family, you're very blessed. I think people get it wrong is crazy. With the holiday season coming up, I just wanted to go over that one cuz, the way they put it in the title being a home alone reference. I'm a big home alone fan. I grew up in that era wanted to is best for sure, yeah, love the home alone.
Speaker 2:I like three, but it's not the same without McCulloch, that's true.
Speaker 1:That's true. I think one was literally the gym. That was the gemstone. You know, like a lot of Christmas movies, the original, yeah, usually the best, but New York was pretty pretty great. It was decent too. Yes, I agree, there was a lot of. You know what made that one great.
Speaker 2:He had so much more. Just, yeah, disposal, not just his house exactly the variety of stuff. He could go to the park, he went to his uncle's house they, there was so much more he could do the variety stuff that he, the hotel I mean.
Speaker 1:Yep, I agree.
Speaker 2:I have durable. Decide which one's my favorite out of those two, because To just he had more access to things.
Speaker 1:It's true, it's true, and it was just insane and funny and hilarious.
Speaker 2:Anyway, moving on, but I mean you would have the second one without first one, right? So no oh, gee, you got to have Still got an original.
Speaker 1:Yeah, here's another one. I thought was great, so just to add another laugh to your day. Let me just read the title for you, and this will explain everything. When you choose your getaway car and it's an EV, make sure you charge it first.
Speaker 2:Use an electric car without charging.
Speaker 1:This was March 6th of this year, 2023. Georgia police say they busted thieves not far from the crime scene charging their Tesla.
Speaker 2:Wait a minute, hold on, hold on, hold on if you're, if you have enough money to buy a Tesla. What are you doing? Involved? In crime is what I don't know.
Speaker 1:No, I don't know. We're gonna find out, because I have no idea what's going on here. All right, here we go. When endeavoring to avoid headlines for criminal idiocy with a green flare or green thumb, you'd be best to remember one simple rule Charge the EV in which you are attempting to flee the scene of the crime with. As Fox 5 reports, police say two would-be criminal masterminds robbed gaming systems from an unnamed store in the Gwinnett County, georgia. Responding officers were told that they fled in a Tesla, put out a description to fellow cops and wouldn't you know it? The divas, to some, were located not far from the crime scene. Charging the aforementioned Tesla. Police say they recovered the gaming systems, along with several guns and what they believe is two pounds of marijuana. The suspects were not identified and a tweet applauding the work of officers from Gwinnett County Police Department. Bro, okay, so talk about. Okay, I would think and hear me out. I would think that Tesla's are the worst Getaway cars you could ever do. Here's my reasoning.
Speaker 2:Electric. They are electric number one.
Speaker 1:They have a very short range, only 300 miles, sometimes a little bit more, but let's face it, that's that's, that's that's it. And even if they have a longer range. Number three beats a mall, whereas it is a smart car. You know how easy it is to locate a smart car the entire car runs from a computer, the entire car.
Speaker 1:So if they, if they knew the not only the like license plate but the model number of the car, anything about the car, they could literally Located it if they wanted to, no matter where it was.
Speaker 1:Definitely makes me not want to Tesla because electric cars they're run off the computer, they're run off that main system. So everything has to do with that computer system. Now Somebody in the comments can prove me wrong or say something. They probably know more about Tesla's than I do, but from my experience of selling cars and I sold electric vehicles, that's what I know is that they're all connected to the central computer in the car.
Speaker 2:So I Know where there's electric, where there is a computer.
Speaker 1:It is hackable and locatable. Yep is my point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the problem see, they want us to go, all go to electric cars, but that'd be so much easier to do.
Speaker 1:Here's the other issue. They're sneaking it in. I mean, if you, if you see any of the new cars from 2023, even your regular cars now, are all controlled by computer systems or have computer, you know, not just computer chips but a whole unit inside, yeah, the car. So Not the best getaway car in my opinion.
Speaker 2:Now fast fast.
Speaker 1:Yes, probably could get away from a crime scene in a hurry. Make sure you charge it, make sure you charge the vehicle. I Thought I would brighten some people's day with those criminal stories. Bro Cuz, it's just. It's just one thing you know like. First of all, don't, don't pursue a career in crime. It never pays off. Number two charge your car, charge your car. That's all I gotta say. And with electric cars Come something else electric that we must talk about. Last week we got into the top 40 places to see Christmas lights. We did 15 of them.
Speaker 2:We stopped at 15.
Speaker 1:Yep, this week we're gonna do another 15. So we are going to continue. If you live around the states, these are all inside the states and we're gonna tell you the top 40 Places to go Christmas light watching which, by the way, you don't always have to have money for, like I said in the last show, so it's something fun Everybody can do. Here we go. Oh, I Top 40. We're on number 16. I have been to this one myself, so I can say that this one's pretty impressive. This is number 16, branson, missouri.
Speaker 1:No matter what holiday, silver dollar city is dressing up for, whether it be Halloween or Christmas, whatever they go all out. So here we go, branson, missouri. There's a picture there. As you can see, the entire building, or set of buildings, is covered in lights. Long regarded as offering one of the best Christmas lights displays in the nation, branson's 1880 style themed park Silver Dollar City will be decked out in a whopping 6.5 million lights for its old-time Christmas festival. This season, branson also boasts more than 1500 Christmas trees not one, not two, fifteen hundred, including a new community tree sure to dazzle Everybody, with nearly 10,000 genuine cut crystals and more than 20,000 lights.
Speaker 2:Crystal sounds nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it would be fancy. It's gonna be fancy because I'll tell you what Branson, missouri, big tourist area, missouri and Arkansas and a couple other places in general big tourist areas.
Speaker 2:What'd you get a Missouri for?
Speaker 1:I was down there visiting some friends actually, and we went to Silver Dollar City. Anyway, it was fun.
Speaker 2:Number 17 Nacho to cheese.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure how to say that Anybody from Louisiana can help us out with this.
Speaker 2:Not not to toches not sure, not sure, not yours.
Speaker 1:Not your Louisiana Not sure Tochies they know what we're trying to say and they're probably laughing their butts off.
Speaker 2:Maybe no other small town is lovely at Christmas as historic. Not you to cheese, which has I'm probably not saying that wrong. Not you to cheese whatever, which has been producing its Christmas festival of late. Spurn it's downing 95 years Whoo for 45 big nights. Nacho to cheese listens with 300,000 lights and a hundred set pieces. Well dishing out special celebrations aplenty, like the old-day Christmas Festival with its Marty growl like festival of lights parade.
Speaker 1:Now that's one place I'd love to go visit. I've never been down there for Marty growl or their Christmas festivals or anything. I'd like to do some visiting for Louisiana. I think it'd be fun. The picture they have there is beautiful fireworks and then a bridge with a tunnel light system. That is pretty epic. So they have this bridge and it looks like a walkway bridge and they have like a tunnel light system above it, or that might be a carpet. I'm not sure I can't tell what's a car bridge or walkway.
Speaker 2:I think the goal for everybody to go to one state at least wants each state at least one, for I'd.
Speaker 1:I've been to Every state except eight of them. I would love to go to all of them. Yeah, so I've been to a lot of them. But man, that would be a fun one to do. Louisiana, especially during like Marty growl time or during Christmas, that would be crazy. Number 18, denver, colorado. This one looks epic. Double the holiday fun when you're in the mile-high city by visiting to Denver Botanic Gardens. Displays. Blossoms of light at York Street location and the trail of lights at Chatfield farms in Littleton. The former focuses on fanciful light creations, including great glowing globes filling watcher, great glowing globes filling water features yeah, that's a tongue twister. The latter takes visitors on a one-mile stroll Through light tunnels, singing Christmas trees and many more.
Speaker 2:Lighted water balloons. That's cool, those are good.
Speaker 1:Didn't that remind you? Like Japan almost.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like the red glows lanterns.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, kind of like the red lanterns, but it's, I would definitely go there. That looks fun number 19, albuquerque, new Mexico.
Speaker 2:Founded in 1997 as a fundraiser for a bq Biopark, a consortium that includes Four separate facilities, including the city's aquarium, zoo and botanic garden. My goodness, albuquerque's River of light has grown to feature millions of lights and 600 holiday displays, now the biggest walkthrough holiday light production in New Mexico. It still raises money for a bq Biopark projects, so you'd have something to do all day there. I never. That's four facilities. There's a fountain in the middle that's covered in lights, looks like or it looks like a fountain at least aquarium, a zoo, botanic garden.
Speaker 1:That's crazy. Yeah, that felt looks cool. I like how they did that. That's a that's. That's not like even a real fountain, though, is it I?
Speaker 1:can't tell it looks like a metal frame, but it could be a fountain. Actually, you know what that does look like a real fountain. That's crazy, that's awesome. Number 20 Never thought I'd see this one. Daytona Beach, florida. Put the pedal to the metal Metal, get it metal. Okay, get over to the legendary Daytona International Speedway for magic of lights, one of the nation's finest Christmas light displays. During this thrilling 1.5 mile drive-through extravaganza, more than 1 million lights and high-tech digital animations Help create a beloved holiday. Characters and scenes such as joy to the world, 12 days of Christmas and snowflake forest. That picture doesn't do it justice, but I bet.
Speaker 2:I bet it's a lot of one compared to what it could be probably.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's probably a really cool one, but that picture does not do it justice. But yeah, okay, that sounds fun. 1.5 mile drive-through, I do it.
Speaker 2:Number 21, richmond, virginia. Tacky Christmas lights on homes are a big deal in Richmond. Enough so that companies including James River Transportation discover, richmond tours and Richmond limousine all feature their own guided jaunts of the sensational sites. Or you can always pull up On your favorite over-the-top holiday sweater and sign up for the annual 6k car max tacky light run. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:That's interesting. So it's like just tacky they're like a little tacky. Okay, that, okay by the picture what they mean by tacky there's a lot of stuff in that front yard Like it is crammed. That's probably what they're talking.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, interesting okay it looks like just a bunch of stuff crammed together on one house, like it's probably why it's called tacky.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it looks like a garage sale, but with Christmas lights. All right, that's what it looks like. 22 Baltimore, maryland still going strong after more than 70 years. Miracle on 34th Street in Baltimore's funky Hampton neighborhood serves up row house after row house of decked out with glittering lights. Annual Tongue-in-cheek wonders include a Christmas tree decorated with hubcaps and a snowman made from bicycle wheels. What it's kind of cool. Yeah, so this whole, this whole, all these streets get together and do this light show. Basically, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Where's the snowman made on a bicycle wheels? I?
Speaker 1:don't know, I want, I want to see that I guess we'll have to go.
Speaker 2:I don't have a picture of that.
Speaker 1:We'll just have to go to Maryland bro.
Speaker 2:How you gonna call it out and then not put it in a picture.
Speaker 1:I mean, they're just making you come there, so you can go to Maryland and see it.
Speaker 2:And jerks All right. Number 23, pierre, south Dakota. The stunning Christmas in the Capitol celebration kicked off in 1981 with just a few dozen tree, or just a dozen trees, but train Features. Nearly a hundred elegantly lit evergreens gracing the historic rotunda and three floors of hallways. Keep an eye out for a wooden nativity on the second floor, the thought to be well over a century old. Oh sweet. So this is like an indoor one, basically. From my Intel looks like it's a.
Speaker 1:Building. I don't know if it's yeah, cuz the picture is it shows an indoor part, but there's probably different levels to it. That's pretty cool. That's neat. I don't know, that one's cool. No, we've seen some crazier ones, but that one's pretty cool. 24, helen Georgia, with architecture that looks like it was lifted straight out of an alpine village in Bavaria and Labored holiday lighting the boot. It's no wonder the lifetime movies of Christmas, love letter and a taste of Christmas were filmed in Helen Georgia. The displays include 8,000 lights gracing towns Christmas tree, while another 250,000 outline the downtown structures.
Speaker 1:That's pretty right there, that's free I can go down there and see it for free. That's awesome. Yeah, that's a walkway bridge Looks like that's awesome. Yeah, hey, that that looks neat. I would definitely go see that.
Speaker 2:Number 25, rochester, michigan, dude. These buildings look entirely covered.
Speaker 1:That's that nighting light I told you about. That's just insane. I think they double it up or something.
Speaker 2:I kind of want to get some of those. The big bright light show is exactly what the name describes 1.5 million shining Christmas bulbs lighting up a four block section of Main Street in Rochester. Founded in 2006, the celebration is now the biggest downtown Christmas light show in Michigan and a joy for the entire family to experience.
Speaker 1:Dude, I am blinded by the picture.
Speaker 2:There are so many lights each building next to each other.
Speaker 1:Tell me why it looks like there's a UFO in the picture. It's a triangle shape UFO.
Speaker 2:I just saw two lights, but it definitely looks like good.
Speaker 1:That's funny. Oh man, 26. Pigeon Forge, tennessee. Now I've been to pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg and they are big tourist areas, so the fact that they go crazy for lights that's no surprise. Honestly Known as the home to Dolly Parton's theme park, pigeon Forge offers the Spectacular Winterfest every season. More than five million lights illuminate the six mile pigeon Forge Parkway, while some 80 attractions pitch in with their own displays. Yeah, it's crazy. Don't miss the 40 foot tall tree at the island and pigeon Forge. That's one you got to see that one's probably insane.
Speaker 2:I'm almost talking about going to Tennessee.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's insane. And you can see probably all the lights for free just by driving down the main strip at pigeon Forge. It's, it's crazy. And all the attractions are on both sides of you, so if everybody put up Christmas lights you would just be driving right through the center of it. It's, it's insane.
Speaker 2:Tennessee ain't super far away either.
Speaker 1:No, it's not. It's not too far away and it'd be worth it just to go down to see that. 27.
Speaker 2:Washington DC. There are more than 500,000 LED lights shimmering throughout Smithsonian's national zoo in DC come the holiday season. But that's not all that delights at zoo lights look for laser light shows, set to music, live musical performances, food vendors and much more. Last year the national zoo took the event on the road with a zoo lights truck that visited all the cities eight wards.
Speaker 1:So what I think is really cool is that our courthouses this year in several cities around us All decided to have a musical light show, not just a light show here. So now, like all the lights on the building and we're around the building, could be around the building too. They're set to music, so they either have music playing or the lights are going crazy. It's music, it's pretty nuts. 28, stanwood, washington. A holiday fixture in the Pacific Northwest community of stanhope. Since 1997, the lights of Christmas wows with more than one million lights. The drive-thru event traditionally features favorites like the spectacular Cascade Splendor Mountain scene, the larger-than-life nativity and costume characters like Santa and mrs Claus.
Speaker 2:I like that, that one has angels in the picture right, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:I like the mountains. Like if you look at the lights on the mountains, that's pretty sick. It's going up the edge there behind them oh.
Speaker 2:Yeah that lighted mountains, that's awesome, that's sick 29, your mountains.
Speaker 1:Oh, have you been in the mountains? No, I've seen them 29 boys.
Speaker 2:Idaho Gardens in the snowy season can have their own special beauty, very different than summer, luscious, or summers lush charms, and that's certainly true of winter garden. A glow at the Idaho Botanical Garden. Founded in 1997 when employees hung 2,000 strands of white lights around the property, the display now features 4,000 strands illuminating the garden's walking path. Local food and drink vendors and a holiday photo booth selfie station also add to the good times. Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1:Okay, can we get more light celebrations where people are just selling hot chocolate and other things, like my? I don't know if you know this, but like back when we used to, we used to do. I don't know if your family does this, but instead of getting a, you know you have the choice between a fake tree and a real tree my family's so boring.
Speaker 1:We, we go up, well, we decide to go out and get a real tree. So Back when Everybody used to sell trees not everybody sells them anymore, but there was a lot of places you would walk in. You could cut down your own tree, but they would have a free apple cider and cookies or hot chocolate you could buy, or Things like that for all their customers. It was the coolest thing ever. I would love it if more of these light displays just had hot chocolate, apple cider vendors like Stuff to keep you warm as you were doing it. It's so fun. It just makes it.
Speaker 2:You can always take the initiative and do yourself.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you what. There, I heard legend of a heard legend I heard legend this is a legend and I'm I think it's true of a railroad that does the polar express thing, where they come out with the hot chocolate and they dance around and stuff and they give you like the big hot chocolate.
Speaker 2:Wow, really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I don't know where it is, I only know the train to. I think so. I think you can ride the trains. I've heard stories of it.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's true, but if it is true, I'd be pretty surprised I would love to find out trains aren't running much for people and, like we, talked about last episode.
Speaker 1:If they do, it's expensive. Yeah, it's very expensive to ride a train now, all right.
Speaker 2:number 30 there's a Cleveland there.
Speaker 1:There is oh, okay, not Ohio, cleveland, mississippi.
Speaker 1:That's news to me this sweet little town in the heart of Mississippi Delta boasts big lights come Christmas time, during 50 nights of lights. 100,000 lights shine brightly through the downtown and local walking trails, with more than 350 holiday displays Contributing to the joyful atmosphere. Cleveland also holds special holiday events Some days and during the weekends during the celebration. So there you go. That's 15 more. We still got 10 more they. We don't have enough time today, but we still got 10 more. If you want to look this up yourself again articles from the Pioneer woman it is 40 best Christmas light displays. And if you live in one of these cities or even near one of these cities, guess what you can see some of these for free. Or you can go with your family and see one of the events. Go for it, because it's one of the most fun things to do. Usually, light displays don't cost a lot and it's something the whole family can enjoy. So I for one, we'll be checking out some of these, and I might drag Jesse along with me.
Speaker 2:Rag you make it seem like I wouldn't want to go Once over that.
Speaker 1:You'll, I'll drag him kicking and screaming no. Kicking excitedly kicking and screaming excitedly. All right, honestly, everybody, that is all the time we have this week. We have a bunch more for you, so stay tuned until the next episode. We have a lot more. I didn't even get to have the stuff that we were supposed to get to today, so oh. Really, the really really really WWV.
Speaker 2:Stay weird, stay weird. Everybody keep watching with your ears, keep watching with your ears later you.