Bonus #160 - Kushmas Brothers Vol. 1 [PATREON PREVIEW]

Patreon preview. Unlock full episode at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld We wish you a Merry Kushmas!! Liza Treyger returns to the pod (after requesting to do Kush Brothers specifically for months lmao) with JP McDade for this festive new subseries where the gang tokes up so many Christmas Treez that they forget to even look at the news, and discuss their favorite holiday traditions from childhood like getting wasted with your Irish family on Christmas Eve, trying to catch Santa, the best presents being videogame consoles, and much more. Liza, JP and Stav help callers including a grown man whose family friend is pissed at him after learning that he pissed in their pool for years, a woman who discovered through a DNA test that her dad ain’t her brother’s dad, and a good old Baltimore boy who wants tips on proposing to his wife at a local holiday hotspot. Watch Liza Treyger's special Night Owl on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81766092 Follow Liza Treyger on social media: https://www.instagram.com/glittercheese https://youtube.com/@LizaTreygerStandup https://tiktok.com/@lizatreyger Follow JP McDade on social media: https://twitter.com/jp_mcdade https://www.instagram.com/mcdadebaby ☎️ Want to be a part of the show? Call 904-800-STAV and leave a voicemail to get advice! 🎟️ See Stavvy live on the Dreamboat Tour 🛥️💕!!! https://stavvy.biz/ for tickets ‼️ Bonus episodes every week! Unlock exclusive, Patreon-only episodes at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld

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• 0:01Speaker 00

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• 1:31Speaker 02

  No, I remembered one of my favorite Christmas traditions, Jewish. We obviously did the Chinese food movie.

• 1:37Speaker 03

  What?

• 1:41Speaker 03

  Bring in the stand-in.

• 1:43Stavros Halkias?

  No, I know, I'm so envious of the traditional Jewish Christmas.

• 1:47Speaker 03

  So I did some, my family did Jewish outreach for much of my life, because the big focal point was Christmas Eve. But Christmas Day, we started going to a movie and a hibachi restaurant every Christmas day. Wow, hibachi. And it turned out to be awesome.

• 2:00Stavros Halkias?

  Finish your tradition, I'd love to get back in.

• 2:02Speaker 02

  So there's neighborhoods around us that went hardcore. So we'd get in our car and we would drive around and look at all the Christmas lights. Yeah, but we were in Lincolnwood, I feel, is where all the lights were, and these giant houses and the whole little cul-de-sac was committed.

• 2:18Stavros Halkias?

  Some Home Alone vibes?

• 2:19Speaker 02

  More like animatronic, multiple floor things in a window, like, like, like it's pretend going through the roof, like, really creative.

• 2:28Stavros Halkias?

  That's awesome.

• 2:29Speaker 02

  And so we would like drive around and look at the lights.

• 2:31Stavros Halkias?

  That's cool.

• 2:32Speaker 02

  And I do, I did, I just remembered that and I really enjoyed it.

• 2:34Stavros Halkias?

  How old were you when you came to America?

• 2:36Speaker 02

  I was, I was really young, three.

• 2:38Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, three, okay, so you don't have like pre, you don't have Christmas memories as a baby? All your memories kind of happen, three, I feel like is the cutoff for where your memories.

• 2:47Speaker 02

  My first memory though is before I was three, I will be honest. It's the only memory I have young, but I fell into a fountain with a bunch of like fish when I was like two something. And I remember being in the fountain, I do.

• 2:57Stavros Halkias?

  That's awesome.

• 2:57Speaker 02

  I remember being in there.

• 2:59Stavros Halkias?

  You remember a baby.

• 3:00Speaker 02

  I think it was traumatic enough, like, I think it was just like, I don't know, or people said it enough that it's in my brain, but I really feel like I remember it.

• 3:07Stavros Halkias?

  That's fucking cool. A fountain with fish? A baby memory is fucking sick.

• 3:12Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 3:14Stavros Halkias?

  I have, I have like, I think I was four, my three and a half, I remember my, looking at my little brothers on a chair. I remember a specific, like, chair and the light is hitting their heads in a specific way. I have that memory in my head still, uh, but.

• 3:30Speaker 02

  But we do New Year's gifts in my family. Like, we have a New Year's tree, that's like the Russian Soviet vibe of us, I think.

• 3:36Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that is, that is.

• 3:36Speaker 02

  There's Papa Frost.

• 3:37Stavros Halkias?

  Greek people do that too.

• 3:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, so we.

• 3:39Stavros Halkias?

  But we just got so Americanized that we were just like.

• 3:42Speaker 02

  Well, it's awesome, because we get all the ornaments and all the fun on sale. And we get all our gifts on sale. And then we kind of have a great time on New Year's. And then my sister would go out with her friends all night afterwards.

• 3:52Stavros Halkias?

  On New Years?

• 3:53Speaker 02

  Yeah, like, we would do, we celebrate the old year, we do like an 11 o'clock dinner of the old year. And then at midnight, you know, we party a little bit, and then I was a kid, so I'm always like, "Gifts!"

• 4:02Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Our parents tried that, but we just, when you're a little kid and everyone, it's like, I don't know, everyone was talking about their Christmas gifts. There was a year where my parents tried New Years.

• 4:14Speaker 02

  But we also have Hanukkah.

• 4:15Stavros Halkias?

  Right, you, it's, as, like, for Jewish.

• 4:18Speaker 02

  I love Christmas.

• 4:19Stavros Halkias?

  For a Jewish family, it makes sense, because it's like, you don't care, it's not really your gift giving holiday anyway, but like, it's not your identity anyway. And for us, it was like, Christmas is the biggest deal, and then.

• 4:31Speaker 02

  So why didn't you do it?

• 4:32Stavros Halkias?

  We did do it, our parents tried to do it on New Years, because Greek people do it on New Years, but we were like, all our friends at school were talking about their Christmas gifts, and we're like, "What the fuck, I want my gifts." And literally lasted like one year, and we were like, "We're not doing this bullshit. Give us our shit on fucking Christmas." But we didn't really have any, honestly, we didn't really have traditions. Like, my favorite Christmases were like, the years we got a gaming system.

• 4:56Speaker 02

  Oh, that seems fun.

• 4:57Stavros Halkias?

  And it was like, playing Playstation.

• 4:58Speaker 03

  1998, N64.

• 5:01Stavros Halkias?

  N64 was a big, N64 was huge.

• 5:04Speaker 03

  Massive.

• 5:05Stavros Halkias?

  And then there was a Christmas-

• 5:06Speaker 03

  Maybe the biggest Christmas ever.

• 5:07Stavros Halkias?

  Well, remember the Christmas, the console wars on Christmas? There was one Christmas that GameCube and Xbox came out the same Christmas.

• 5:13Speaker 03

  Right, but wasn't Dreamcast also in the mix?

• 5:16Stavros Halkias?

  No, Dreamcast had already come and gone.

• 5:18Speaker 02

  The one was the obvious winner.

• 5:19Stavros Halkias?

  Was, yes, but I was a GameCube guy. Like, my family was Nintendo, and so we held out.

• 5:24Speaker 02

  I only got an NES. I had a Nintendo Entertainment System.

• 5:28Speaker 03

  Respect, you're playing Duck Hunt.

• 5:30Stavros Halkias?

  Thank you for saying the NES. No one has ever, like, said the whole title. I had the, I had the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

• 5:42Speaker 03

  I have the Extreme Box. I have the Extreme Box 360.

• 5:47Stavros Halkias?

  Then we switched to, we eventually ended up going to all of them, but we were GameCube. We held the Nintendo line until, until it was so clear Xbox and Playstation.

• 5:56Speaker 03

  Dude, the energy, just the raw-

• 5:57Speaker 02

  But I can't handle, like, my brain can't handle that much technology. Like, even now, my go-to, I, I play Tetris on my laptop.

• 6:04Stavros Halkias?

  Hell, yeah.

• 6:05Speaker 02

  Like, I need simple-

• 6:06Speaker 03

  That's a good one.

• 6:06Speaker 02

  And then I just did Beat Super Mario 3 on the Switch, and that was like, a childhood dream come true.

• 6:11Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that's fun.

• 6:12Speaker 02

  It felt really cool.

• 6:13Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that is fucking awesome.

• 6:14Speaker 03

  But the hype, the energy of just like, the pure capitalism in your veins when a new video game system was coming out and it was Christmas time.

• 6:20Speaker 02

  My friends that had Nintendo 64, I mean, I was over there. I was over there.

• 6:24Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, fuck, that, the Nintendo 64 Christmas was awesome. A GameCube Christmas was great, too. I was, I think I was a freshman in high school or some shit. And literally, I don't think I've ever felt closer to my brothers. Like, we just fucking were playing Madden, we were playing FIFA together, we were doing co-op Star Fox games. Yeah, that was fucking-

• 6:44Speaker 03

  Come play backyard baseball with me, George.

• 6:46Stavros Halkias?

  We literally were bro-ing out, that's like, one of my most, that's one of my most beautiful Christmas memories. Me in my, me in my little brother's room. They had the slight, they had a bigger room because there was two of them sharing it. And that's where the TV, like we had a TV there. We just, when, when our parents for Christmas would be like, all right, you can take the thing into your room instead of playing on the main TV. And we stayed up like till fucking 3am. We wake, we woke up at like eight, had like pie and like roast, you know, leftovers for breakfast and chocolates and shit. Immediately got to playing, truly, I think that might've been the happiest I've ever been in my life, maybe.

• 7:26Speaker 02

  I'm happy hearing this. I'm like, wow, this sounds beautiful.

• 7:31Stavros Halkias?

  It was fucking awesome. And yeah, but we didn't really have a specific, I think that's why I took over the cooking because we didn't, this is what happens when you're like addicted to food. You're like, this isn't up to my liking. I'm not able to rela, I'm not, it's like, imagine if you went home and you had to like do your parents cocaine. You're like, you don't know good drugs. That's kind of how I felt about the cooking, which is like,

• 7:55Stavros Halkias?

  you know, let me handle this shit. So I've been making that rib roast in the sides for a while now.

• 7:59Speaker 02

  You know what's cute? So my close friends, they have two daughters and they got the Nintendo Switch with, and we got to play Mario Kart all together.

• 8:08Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, hell yeah.

• 8:09Speaker 02

  So now like, uh, we get to play with these kids and that's fun. So they're experiencing the new games.

• 8:16Stavros Halkias?

  I can't wait to game with my nephew.

• 8:17Speaker 03

  That rocks. We did that with, with my girlfriend's nephews and one of them's like six. And I just kicked the shit out of this kid, Mario Kart. It was awesome. What a beautiful experience.

• 8:28Stavros Halkias?

  That's a sacred relationship is the guy dating your, your aunt.

• 8:33Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 8:33Stavros Halkias?

  You're, because you're not really close. You're kind of just like a, the coolest young guy he has access to. Like that was the thing. It's like, when we were growing up, it was like my mom's, we didn't have any blood relatives here, but you know, my, the immigrant thing where it's like, your mom's best friends are your aunts.

• 8:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 8:50Stavros Halkias?

  And so it was like her, the, we would go over to one place for Christmas sometimes and her daughter, the guy she started dating when she was in high school was like, We didn't have access to like bros. And so he was like, he was like 16 and when you're like eight, a 16 year old in a leather jacket, you're like, oh, you're the fucking coolest guy of all time. Can we fucking play? Yeah. Can we play video games? Can we play catch?

• 9:14Speaker 03

  Oh my God. He went to Wilson's House of Leather and got that jacket in the mall.

• 9:18Stavros Halkias?

  Dude, he wears gel and is there. I can't wait to be like him.

• 9:21Speaker 03

  I bet he has a zipper lighter. Let's ask him.

• 9:24Stavros Halkias?

  But you're, you might be doing that for that kid.

• 9:26Speaker 03

  I would be honored to.

• 9:27Stavros Halkias?

  I think you might be.

• 9:27Speaker 03

  I seek to fill that. Oh yeah. We went to the lake. I was like trying to get the kid on the water ski thing.

• 9:31Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Get him on the, yeah. Toss him in the ocean.

• 9:34Speaker 03

  I was throwing him in the pool.

• 9:35Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 9:37Speaker 03

  That's key.

• 9:37Stavros Halkias?

  That's big.

• 9:38Speaker 02

  Going in the pool. Yeah.

• 9:39Stavros Halkias?

  That's big.

• 9:40Speaker 02

  I just, the thing with a 1064, the thumb swirl never got, I can't, I just need to, I just can't do it.

• 9:46Speaker 03

  It's imprecise.

• 9:47Stavros Halkias?

  It is a badly designed controller.

• 9:50Speaker 02

  Oh wait, did you ever play Doom?

• 9:51Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 9:52Stavros Halkias?

  On your computer?

• 9:53Speaker 02

  That was fun.

• 9:54Stavros Halkias?

  Oh yeah.

• 9:55Speaker 03

  Doom ripped.

• 9:56Stavros Halkias?

  Doom was fucking awesome.

• 9:58Speaker 02

  Hell yeah.

• 10:00Stavros Halkias?

  Um, fuck. What was, what was some of his, what were some of Doom's, or no, fuck. Yeah. What was the guy, what were the guy's sayings?

• 10:07Speaker 03

  No, I'm thinking of Duke Nukem where he's like.

• 10:09Stavros Halkias?

  Duke Nukem. That's what I meant. I played Doom.

• 10:11Speaker 03

  I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum.

• 10:12Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 10:13Speaker 03

  And I'm all out of gum.

• 10:14Stavros Halkias?

  Duke Nukem was awesome.

• 10:15Speaker 03

  Balls of steel.

• 10:16Stavros Halkias?

  I've got balls of steel. That's right. Balls, balls, balls of steel. And then when you got the Duke Nukem soundboard, that was good stuff. Uh, but yes, Doom and Duke Nukem were very, very related.

• 10:30Speaker 02

  Oh, you know what? Is it weird that I keep bringing it to Christmas or is it okay?

• 10:33Stavros Halkias?

  It's Christmas. That's the whole point. You're doing a, you're doing a better job hosting than I am. I'm like, fuck dude.

• 10:39Speaker 02

  I just love a theme.

• 10:40Stavros Halkias?

  I think we could put sliced cheese and mac and cheese. I would still be talking about that. If you guys hadn't moved this forward, I'd be like, come on guys, don't you think as part of it, it could be good? Anyway.

• 10:51Speaker 02

  I just love a theme, but my mom became close with this Guatemalan family through work. And so we got to go to their house for Christmas and I got a Christmas fucking Barbie doll. And I was like, this is the best.

• 11:02Speaker 03

  One of those like free footers that you don't?

• 11:04Speaker 02

  No, it wasn't life size, but she had this gorgeous red and gold dress.

• 11:07Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, it was Christmas themed.

• 11:08Speaker 02

  It was like the Christmas Barbie of the year. I mean, it was just like.

• 11:11Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, that's big.

• 11:11Speaker 02

  Because even though we did gifts, my parents, like we were kind of poor, like we, I loved all my gifts, but they weren't high ticket items. So this to me, I was like.

• 11:20Stavros Halkias?

  It was survival gifts.

• 11:21Speaker 02

  What the fuck is this Barbie? I remember my parents got, I got a Tweety shaped pillow. And that like, that really rings into my-

• 11:30Stavros Halkias?

  It pissed me off when I found out Tweety was a boy.

• 11:33Speaker 02

  Honestly, I think she's like gender fucked. Like, I think she does whatever she wants. She's like RuPaul. Like Tweety, you know? RuPaul's like- You can call me he, you can call me she, you can call me Regis or Kathie Lee. Yeah, like it doesn't fucking matter.

• 11:47Stavros Halkias?

  It pissed me off as a little boy, and I think, I was just thinking about this. I think it's because I wanted to fuck Tweety, and I was like, what the hell? They made me gay. Come on, Tweety's cute.

• 11:59Speaker 03

  But to wanna fuck-

• 12:00Stavros Halkias?

  When you're a little kid, Tweety's got eyelashes, you have a crush on Tweety. I don't mean I wanna fuck the bird, like physically. I mean, when you're like five, you're like, I have a crush on every girl cartoon. And then when they're like, actually Tweety's a boy, I'm like, what? I'm not fucking gay, dude.

• 12:17Speaker 02

  Yeah, okay, okay, yeah.

• 12:19Stavros Halkias?

  I think so. I think, I don't know, but I think that's why it made me mad.

• 12:23Speaker 03

  The female cats that were made to look like Skunksa Pepe LaPew was harassing were pretty sexy.

• 12:27Stavros Halkias?

  She was hot, the cats.

• 12:29Speaker 02

  I actually have been doing a bit lately, because I have a joke about it, so then I've been asking audiences, because it's fun, what cartoon character they'd like to fuck. And it all stemmed because I played the-

• 12:39Speaker 03

  Marvin the Martian.

• 12:41Speaker 02

  Ooh, nice penis JP. The Mic Drop Clubs are like-

• 12:45Speaker 03

  Stop fucking my ass! In my pants!

• 12:51Speaker 02

  I really don't have a connection with him.

• 12:53Stavros Halkias?

  That's okay.

• 12:54Speaker 03

  That's why I said him, because no one has a connection with Marvin.

• 12:57Speaker 02

  Oh, got it, got it, got it, got it.

• 12:59Speaker 03

  Least sexual.

• 13:00Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, let me see her dick.

• 13:04Speaker 02

  Sorry, that went over my head.

• 13:05Speaker 03

  What are the popular answers that you get when you ask this question?

• 13:07Speaker 02

  Well, what started this was the Mic Drop Club in whatever state I was in. I can't fucking remember, but it's Robin Hood themed. And that fox is like very sexy.

• 13:16Stavros Halkias?

  I've heard that a lot from a lot of girls.

• 13:18Speaker 03

  Showing a lot of legs.

• 13:18Stavros Halkias?

  They wanted to fuck Robin Hood.

• 13:20Speaker 02

  Oh, the fox in Robin Hood, he is really hot. I like all the, but it's beautiful animation, and so like-

• 13:24Stavros Halkias?

  I love Robin Hood.

• 13:26Speaker 02

  That's what started it all. But people like, Jessica Rabbit's a constant.

• 13:30Stavros Halkias?

  I mean- I'm, I mean, as a child, I was-

• 13:33Speaker 03

  Designed to be a hot lady.

• 13:35Stavros Halkias?

  Sure, but dude, as a little kid-

• 13:38Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 13:39Stavros Halkias?

  That legit might be the, that might be the first time I was overtly horny. Like I was over like, I want to like,

• 13:46Speaker 02

  She's very hot.

• 13:47Stavros Halkias?

  See her tits and touch them. I don't know if I was horny for Jasmine, but I was just, Oh, true. Fell deeply in love. I love Jasmine, you're right. Yeah, they just had a, Absolutely.

• 13:56Speaker 02

  Jasmine's gorgeous. But, um, so my best friend Julia, like I started going home to her family and they fucking do Christmas. American Christmas. And I just like, love the pajamas. I love the snacking. I love the movies. And I love gifts. Giving, getting, like I like, love it. I love all the little, I just enjoy the lounging.

• 14:20Stavros Halkias?

  It's a very lounge forward holiday.

• 14:22Speaker 02

  And the gifts. And the stuff, it's cute. I like, love it. I love American Christmas.

• 14:28Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah. Bar none, the best holiday. Yeah. I think so.

• 14:34Speaker 02

  Not for me.

• 14:35Stavros Halkias?

  What would you put over Christmas?

• 14:37Speaker 02

  Well, I'm just humiliated. I don't want to be this person.

• 14:40Stavros Halkias?

  Christmas at Halloween?

• 14:41Speaker 02

  But I won't, I also love the Fourth of July, not for America.

• 14:44Stavros Halkias?

  I had a dalliance with the Fourth of July as my favorite. Fucking barbecue versus Christmas?

• 14:49Speaker 02

  But you get to be at a pool. No, I love Christmas. You're right. You're right.

• 14:52Stavros Halkias?

  Lakes, pools, beaches, things of that nature. I get it.

• 14:54Speaker 02

  Yeah, summertime.

• 14:55Stavros Halkias?

  I, I, cause it's all, basically the ultimate summer hang.

• 14:59Speaker 02

  And the most people hopefully have off.

• 15:02Stavros Halkias?

  True.

• 15:03Speaker 02

  Or it's like something, cause I like performing on Christmas. Um, but now that I do Christmas with Julia and her, we have like a friend group that's been doing it for the past five, six years, I think. That's in New York. So I just perform Christmas Eve, but performing on holidays all night at the cellar, I really do love. And everyone's getting kind of drunk. It's a lot of Jews are weirdos. Um, or like people, it's like,

• 15:23Stavros Halkias?

  I'd like to do that one day. Yeah.

• 15:25Speaker 02

  It's so, I enjoy going, uh, doing spots on the holidays.

• 15:29Stavros Halkias?

  That is fun. I mean, I found,

• 15:31Speaker 02

  And when I waitress, like since I was Jewish, I would like take the shifts. So, or so, any, any type of job, I would take everyone's Christmas.

• 15:39Stavros Halkias?

  I do like doing a weird thing on a holiday. I like, like traveling on the actual holiday is fun. One time I literally on a, I wasn't gonna go home,

• 15:48Speaker 02

  The pilot wearing a Santa hat? You love it.

• 15:49Stavros Halkias?

  Sick. That's awesome. Yeah. They're gonna treat you better. The stewardesses are like, they're like, you know, they'll have little, there's probably like a cake or some bullshit, like a Christmas dessert or like an extra Christmas little thing. A little Hershey kiss. Yeah, they'll do something nice. Red and green wrappers. Um, I drove on actual Thanksgiving. That was actually the most insane thing I ever did. I went to LaGuardia and rented the last car. It was a minivan with a check engine light on. I drove it. I said, it had both the check engine and the like change oil lights on. And it was literally the only car they had left. No, I just lived in Queens. I drove to Baltimore the day of Thanksgiving.

• 16:31Speaker 02

  Oh, wow.

• 16:31Stavros Halkias?

  It was, it was kinda crazy.

• 16:33Speaker 02

  Did you have to wait in line?

• 16:34Stavros Halkias?

  I did.

• 16:35Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 16:36Stavros Halkias?

  And I literally, I was like, good luck. And like, people were getting like, like box trucks when they wanted like.

• 16:42Speaker 02

  I think you'll like to know this, but I had the best cooked egg I've ever had in my life in Baltimore a few weeks ago.

• 16:47Stavros Halkias?

  Really? Where?

• 16:49Speaker 02

  The Blue Moon.

• 16:50Stavros Halkias?

  Blue Moon's classic.

• 16:51Speaker 02

  The like egg. I, I cut into this poached egg and I went, what?

• 16:56Stavros Halkias?

  Cause it's great, but I would never think of it as the place that really executes.

• 16:59Speaker 02

  I took a photo of the egg. I took a photo of the whole dish.

• 17:02Speaker 03

  I'd never eat there sober.

• 17:04Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that was the place you go like, cause they were up, they were like a meme restaurant a little bit. They had like the Captain Crunch French toast.

• 17:11Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 17:12Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, their cinnamon roll makes your dick go.

• 17:14Speaker 02

  Okay, so this is the big thing.

• 17:16Stavros Halkias?

  That's awesome.

• 17:17Speaker 02

  Sweet baby Jesus. Look at that egg.

• 17:18Speaker 03

  It's jammy.

• 17:19Stavros Halkias?

  It's a great egg.

• 17:20Speaker 03

  It's very, very jammy.

• 17:20Stavros Halkias?

  It's a great egg. Show that to the elders.

• 17:22Speaker 03

  Love that.

• 17:23Stavros Halkias?

  So, hold that to the camera.

• 17:24Speaker 03

  That looks awesome.

• 17:29Speaker 03

  Damn. Did you get those big ass biscuits?

• 17:32Speaker 02

  No, I got, I got a short stack of peanut butter and jelly French toast and I took it back to the hotel. And I had that at the end.

• 17:40Stavros Halkias?

  Great move.

• 17:43Speaker 03

  We would always be jumping into the French toast because we were recovering, because like Christmas Eve was the night that it really went off.

• 17:48Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, really?

• 17:49Speaker 03

  We would go to my great aunt and uncle's house in Queens and it was just like, you know, that scene in the, in Titanic where it's all the Irish people like dancing. It was like that.

• 17:56Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 17:57Speaker 02

  Nice.

• 17:58Stavros Halkias?

  You motherfuckers are going da, da, da, ba, da, da, da, ba, da, da, da, da, da, da.

• 18:02Speaker 03

  Randall and guitars always came out and my.

• 18:05Speaker 02

  That's crazy.

• 18:06Speaker 03

  My uncle Dick, who was like a theatrical guy, he like, he just would do like little performances and everyone would do performances and shit.

• 18:12Stavros Halkias?

  Theatrical? He was closeted?

• 18:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, probably.

• 18:15Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, you're just like your uncle, JP.

• 18:17Speaker 03

  Respect Uncle Dick. He was a veteran.

• 18:19Speaker 02

  I know like a cool.

• 18:19Speaker 03

  Is he actually theatrical? You know? He played like the king in The King and I and probably some problematic production of The King and I.

• 18:26Stavros Halkias?

  Taped his eyes back.

• 18:29Speaker 03

  You want to commit or not?

• 18:32Speaker 02

  I knew a fun family, um, different state, like a, and they did a huge party, Christmas Eve, and tons of people came over. I'm like, oh, your parents are popular. Like, that's pretty fun. And then they did Family Christmas Day, and I kind of liked the idea of getting lit on the eve.

• 18:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, right.

• 18:45Stavros Halkias?

  That's so, it was like a proper fucking, they're getting fucked up.

• 18:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, people pounding Bud Heavies, grandma's drinking whiskey and stuff, you know, yeah.

• 18:51Stavros Halkias?

  Now, what are we?

• 18:52Speaker 02

  What was, where were you?

• 18:53Speaker 03

  In Queens, you know, in Breezy Point, uh, it's like, on the Rockaways.

• 18:57Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, hell yeah.

• 18:58Speaker 03

  Beach community out there.

• 18:59Speaker 02

  Nice.

• 19:00Speaker 03

  The Irish Riviera.

• 19:01Stavros Halkias?

  Did you guys do like, uh, like, the Italians will do the seven fishes or whatever. Do you have a Christmas Eve Irish thing?

• 19:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, we did the seven Bud Heavies.

• 19:09Stavros Halkias?

  Seven potatoes?

• 19:12Stavros Halkias?

  You had the seven types of whiskey?

• 19:13Speaker 03

  Eventually, we just started ordering Italian food catering, because we didn't feel like cooking anymore.

• 19:19Speaker 03

  It got in the way.

• 19:19Stavros Halkias?

  You motherfuckers like, ah, who has time to eat? We're here to get fucked up.

• 19:23Speaker 03

  Chicken parm, who cares?

• 19:27Stavros Halkias?

  Make sure the booze is here.

• 19:32Speaker 03

  There's a lot of Bill Clinton jokes in my party piece this year, so I'm trying to perform.

• 19:40Stavros Halkias?

  That sounds fucking awesome, dude.

• 19:42Speaker 03

  Do you like this limerick-based game where like?

• 19:44Speaker 02

  Wait, you're really, you're really Irish?

• 19:46Speaker 03

  Pretty, yeah.

• 19:47Stavros Halkias?

  That's, okay.

• 19:48Speaker 03

  Hundred percent.

• 19:49Stavros Halkias?

  You're, this is making me incredibly happy that you're doing it this like, like, that's like Lisa.

• 19:55Speaker 02

  Like, limericks is nuts.

• 19:56Stavros Halkias?

  Limericks is crazy.

• 19:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 19:58Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, anyway, keep going.

• 19:59Speaker 03

  No, it's like, one person writes the first line of a limerick, you pass it down, they do the next line, and then like, you read them all. It was very.

• 20:06Stavros Halkias?

  Was there one?

• 20:06Speaker 03

  Whimsical shit like that.

• 20:07Stavros Halkias?

  Who was the first person in your family to get sober?

• 20:10Speaker 03

  Oh, God. So my grandpa, with my same name, my dad's dad, he quit drinking and smoking on the same day. And no one knows why. He just cold-turkeyed them both.

• 20:19Speaker 02

  I bet, I wonder what happened the night before.

• 20:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, I wonder too.

• 20:23Stavros Halkias?

  He, and he stayed cold-turkeyed his whole life?

• 20:25Speaker 03

  He was a mysterious guy. He had a tattoo from World War II of a skull and crossbones on his forearm. No one, he never talked about that. He was that, that style of individual.

• 20:33Stavros Halkias?

  That's awesome.

• 20:34Speaker 03

  But, yeah, he was probably the first. Everyone else kind of stayed pro their entire career, well, until their eighties.

• 20:39Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, really?

• 20:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 20:40Stavros Halkias?

  Are you the first, but of your generation? You're not the first, right?

• 20:43Speaker 03

  Of my generation, I think I am, yeah.

• 20:44Stavros Halkias?

  Wow, look at you, dude.

• 20:46Speaker 03

  Yeah, because I was 25. I was pretty young.

• 20:48Stavros Halkias?

  Everybody else is like, boozy. Well, I guess JP's gay.

• 20:53Speaker 03

  I thought he was gay. He never brought a girl to Christmas.

• 20:56Stavros Halkias?

  It broke my heart. He, I thought, if he was gay, I could handle it.

• 21:01Speaker 03

  And now he must have quit drinking because they like to have abs.

• 21:07Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, fuck, dude. That's fucking beautiful.

• 21:10Speaker 03

  Christmas went off crazy. And then you're driving back late at night, you're looking for Santa out the window. Every, every plane that flies by, you think it's Santa?

• 21:19Stavros Halkias?

  Oh, yeah. My dad, one year, because I was a fucking, I was like, I'm gonna sit. I literally, I took my comforter and I was like, I'm sitting next to the tree. I'm gonna catch Santa. And my dad waited till I was asleep and had like sleigh bells and shit. And he just had like, he rang the sleigh bells and he slammed the door.

• 21:37Speaker 03

  Terrifying.

• 21:38Stavros Halkias?

  And he was like, ah, you fucking just missed Santa, dumbass. He was just, I was like, what the fuck? I heard the sleigh bells, god damn it. I was fucking pissed. I was like, are you fucking kidding me?

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