00:00:00: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to a brand new episode of Artie of the Fartie of the Immigrantes.

00:00:09: I hope you have a good time today.

00:00:10: Hope you're doing well.

00:00:11: Let's lock and load.

00:00:12: Got the guitar out today.

00:00:15: Well, that was out of tune, but I fixed it.

00:00:17: Let's have some fun.

00:00:18: All right.

00:00:46: Welcome to Artie McFartie's Immigrant's Guitar Day.

00:00:50: It's a very special episode and it's a very special episode because you're here.

00:00:56: You're listening right now.

00:00:58: And I'm grateful for you.

00:01:00: Not to channel too much of my Bob Ross, Mr.

00:01:03: Rogers.

00:01:04: Not to channel them too much, rest in peace, boys.

00:01:08: But yeah, sometimes you just gotta be grateful to be there.

00:01:11: Just be grateful to be, huh?

00:01:14: Put that on a bumper sticker, why don't ya?

00:01:16: Be grateful to be.

00:01:20: Yeah, I mean, there was just, I'm in a grateful spirit because we just had Thanksgiving.

00:01:24: So for those... I have not been able to see or be in contact with recently.

00:01:32: Happy belated Thanksgiving to you.

00:01:34: Happy birthday of the pilgrims.

00:01:38: lunch at Plymouth Rock.

00:01:42: I think that's what that's supposed to be.

00:01:44: But you know what?

00:01:45: What's most important is that Thanksgiving is whatever you want it to be.

00:01:52: I would say that's more important.

00:01:54: Thanksgiving is a very interesting holiday because it falls directly in between two of the most outlandish holidays in the entire universe.

00:02:05: Bear with me.

00:02:07: You know, Halloween is... I love it.

00:02:12: Look, I love it.

00:02:13: You know, I'm a long time listeners, all two of you.

00:02:18: Long time listeners will know that I'm a big Halloween fan.

00:02:22: I like horror movies.

00:02:25: I like scary video games.

00:02:28: I like my, you know, horror themed coloring book.

00:02:34: I, you know, have stickers that were gifts from my friend Moritz that are plastered all over my game room that are scary, you know, demented looking characters from games and stories that I enjoy.

00:02:50: It's the thrill.

00:02:51: You know what I mean?

00:02:52: And there's some, when people say they just, I mean, when someone says they don't like horror because it gives them nightmares or because it, because it, you know, they, because it just, it bothers them.

00:03:06: Like that I get.

00:03:08: But when someone says, I don't like it.

00:03:11: Nah, I don't get it.

00:03:12: Nah, who wants to be scared?

00:03:14: Like, what?

00:03:18: Like.

00:03:19: I get when someone says, yo, I love it.

00:03:22: Some things are cool.

00:03:22: Like, oh, that movie, The Ring, love that movie.

00:03:25: Can't watch it, man.

00:03:26: I just, I get nightmares.

00:03:28: I, you know, and I'm really, I'm being honest about that.

00:03:31: Like some people can't, like they may, they can appreciate the story.

00:03:36: They can appreciate the art that goes behind it.

00:03:38: Movies that I've, like the new one, like weapons.

00:03:41: Great movie.

00:03:43: Or like anything Jordan Peele does.

00:03:45: You know, I can, when someone says, look, I think that's great.

00:03:48: But, you know, watching a Jordan Peele movie like Us or Nope or Get Out and then playing a video game like Resident Evil, you know, well, there's images that like stick in my head.

00:04:04: And afterwards, deep in the night, I will see one of those images or have a feeling that a character had in the movie or game, which is normal.

00:04:17: They can't like.

00:04:18: it makes them feel sick or nauseous.

00:04:20: totally understand totally understand it's when people are like man.

00:04:25: Why you like being scared?

00:04:28: I don't know why he's like immediately a southern guy, but it's not meant to be like a southern joke, but let's make him French because We all know what those people are like, okay?

00:04:41: I'm kidding, but I mean I could imagine someone be like Oh, I can't, man, my French accent is terrible.

00:04:50: Whenever I do it, it turns into Pepe Le Pew.

00:04:55: Anyway, when people say that they appreciate it, they understand it, but they just can't watch it, I go, oh, well, I get that.

00:05:04: I get that.

00:05:05: Me and, apparently my dad also, but I also have... quite regularly like blinding violent nightmares.

00:05:19: Like, okay, let me just give you an example, and then I'll get into the horror thing, because I wanted to talk about Halloween a little bit just to get into how calm Thanksgiving is between that level of intensity versus Christmas, which is also intense for different reasons.

00:05:35: But I had a dream.

00:05:38: So this is not like nightmare, nightmare, but this is just anxiety, right?

00:05:41: Let me tell you about this dream.

00:05:44: I'm talking like last week.

00:05:47: I had this dream and it wasn't as if anything even took place during the day where I would have an immense amount of Anxiety that I would be needing to deal with.

00:05:58: it was just a Thursday where I had a dream.

00:06:06: It's it's so many layers of stress that I think it's actually funny because it's crazy.

00:06:11: So, okay The goal of my goal at my dream characters goal right in this Moment in the dream was that I need to Cut up this.

00:06:26: cut off this live squids tentacles.

00:06:32: Let me repeat that the goal might.

00:06:34: what I knew I needed to do was cut off a living squids Thrashing tentacles in order to make calamari, which I do all the time On the yacht in between the caviar and pushing the pushing this the maids off of Portsite Cut a living Squids tentacles off right already.

00:07:05: That's enough.

00:07:07: Hey, that's enough stress.

00:07:08: stop there pal My brain goes, let me give it another shot.

00:07:13: Let me see what I, let me see how many logs I can add to the fire.

00:07:18: So trying to cut off the tentacles of a thrashing squid whilst having headphones in, sitting in my car, mind you, I'm going to get to that.

00:07:34: But like in a car seat that's so cramped.

00:07:37: So uncomfortable.

00:07:39: headphones in that because I'm holding a thrashing squid I Can't take him out.

00:07:48: My hands are too icky so I can't for.

00:07:52: and for some reason didn't.

00:07:53: They didn't want to or I was like no no no it but no it's so gross and I don't want to touch my.

00:07:59: and for some reason the headphones are blasting the most obnoxious music on planet Earth.

00:08:07: and hey at full volume.

00:08:11: So thrashing squid, wrapping itself around my arm, me holding a sharp knife in a close quarters tight compact space, a car, with headphones in that I can't remove blasting something that's like purposefully, you know, obnoxious.

00:08:35: And someone in the seat next to me, is trying to talk to me about a serious issue going on in their life.

00:08:44: I'm being given drama from an additional person in the car.

00:08:51: Headphones in, playing something like, living la vida loca.

00:08:56: Not that there's anything wrong with that song.

00:08:59: Everyone likes a little Ricky Martin.

00:09:01: But imagine that full volume.

00:09:04: Can't can't remove the headphones, you know something like that.

00:09:07: It wasn't that song.

00:09:08: But you know you get the idea like.

00:09:16: And then the person next to you is like.

00:09:18: and then we broke up and it was like.

00:09:20: I told me he has cancer and you're there like whoa, whoa, and then you're and you're holding a living squid in your car Trying to chop off the tentacles.

00:09:31: other person no help.

00:09:34: And then, in addition to that, this is the last thing, in addition to that, as I'm trying to chop off an animal's legs, for some reason, next to me, I'm like, oh, I can just chop off these squid legs, throw them in the floorboard or something.

00:09:57: The car, as my brain like turns inside the fictional car, the car, full of trash up to my knees like Like in the first like in Star Wars like when the trash compactors like Moving in on everybody and they're like walking through like swamp trash water like that.

00:10:24: Now here's the cherry on top.

00:10:26: It's isn't it crazy that it's not even done.

00:10:29: It's not even stressful enough with the squid.

00:10:33: Here's the last thing Trash water up to my knees person dumping drama.

00:10:41: I don't even remember who it was like dumping drama on me.

00:10:44: I can barely hear them because my earbuds which are Irremovable are blasting a song that I don't like something obnoxious like some German schlag at something that I'm like.

00:10:55: I wish I could just take these out, but I can't take them out.

00:10:59: Live squid.

00:11:00: Don't forget that guy.

00:11:02: Don't forget old Squidward Wrapped around my arm like literally trying to you know, not die.

00:11:09: and then And then all of that's happening.

00:11:12: and as I'm cutting tentacles in a car I Take I think I guess I cut them or something I cut one at least and was put was about to put it into a trash bag inside the trash waterpile and the trash bag was full of Rose Bush thorns.

00:11:42: I mean, that's a dream for the therapist.

00:11:44: Am I right?

00:11:45: I mean, like what?

00:11:46: I didn't, I don't, like, yeah, sure, I have anxiety.

00:11:50: Sure, sure, I get stressed out.

00:11:52: You know, I overthink things.

00:11:54: Not that day, you know?

00:11:57: I don't actually get, I mean, the thing is it's so obtuse, you know?

00:12:02: If it was like, oh, Jordan, you have a meeting with your agency and... Yeah, it turns out that the big project they were offering to you is not going through, so it's not gonna happen, but you're still gonna have to go and do a presentation.

00:12:15: And I'd be like, okay, that's reasonable.

00:12:19: That makes sense to like, I'm chopping a squid up in a Hyundai Sonata somewhere with someone being like, oh.

00:12:26: And then he cheated on me and I can't remove my earbuds that are like.

00:12:33: And then all around me is trash water like in the Star Wars trash compactor.

00:12:37: and then when I finally do get one of those squid arms off I put it into a trash bag full of thorns.

00:12:42: That's that's the real horror.

00:12:47: That's that's scarier than like the conjuring.

00:12:52: I think stress and anxiety are scarier than the ring.

00:12:58: like.

00:12:59: I would rather be a completely functional like life balanced person and see an ambiguous.

00:13:10: I would rather be like a completely life balanced person and see like an ambiguous Japanese girl with no eyes roaming like floating through my hallway and Whom.

00:13:22: I could maybe solve her inability to move on to the other plane or something by like you know copying VHS tapes and like finding her.

00:13:32: you know the root of all evil like oh her mom you know like fine like I could I could solve that crime and get away with being haunted by a blind like by the shining twins or something like alright who murdered you.

00:13:52: let's figure this out.

00:13:53: you know what I mean.

00:13:54: I'd rather that than the dream I just described.

00:13:57: For me, that's the nightmare.

00:14:00: The worst part was the headphones I couldn't take out.

00:14:04: Have you ever had headphones on?

00:14:07: And for whatever reason, just for a second, you can't take them out.

00:14:15: Maybe your hands are literally in mud.

00:14:21: I don't know.

00:14:22: there's a lot of reasons sometimes that you like your hands are occupied like you know in deep in the sink clean and dishes you know whatever and you got something in your headphones and all of a sudden there's an ad like a youtube video ad or a song that is just unnecessarily too loud but it wasn't like it's louder than the previous thing that you'd put on.

00:14:46: so all of a sudden you are literally losing your ability to hear Big and it's and you can't like.

00:14:54: there's a second where you're like looking for a rag or something And you're using your shoulder, you know, like you're trying to fly Like you're like flapping your elbows trying to like fly just to get the damn things out of your ears.

00:15:08: And it's all.

00:15:08: and then you know, it's just.

00:15:09: it's horrible for me.

00:15:10: That's there's nothing.

00:15:11: I would rather have Samara from the ring as my next guest On artsy.

00:15:19: I'd rather be like artsy fartsy murder.

00:15:21: So Samara should be like you have seven days until this posts and then could you exit.

00:15:26: could you tag me?

00:15:30: I'd rather have that than have the headphone thing, but I mean also holding the squid.

00:15:33: we got all.

00:15:34: we got onto this because of Halloween.

00:15:36: it was Halloween's fun, but uh, yeah, but that's that's the real horror.

00:15:41: is the anxiety?

00:15:43: the real horror?

00:15:45: anxiety Or at least in my case, my god, I've done like sixteen minutes on this bit, but I love it.

00:15:57: Ooh, what a nice, sultry, smooth transition into a different part of the podcast that was recorded on a different day.

00:16:06: Look at that, nice and smooth.

00:16:08: So from what I can obtain from me skimming the previously recorded segment, the first fifteen minutes of this podcast, is that I focused tremendously too much on a dream I had about chopping a squid in a car with trash when someone was trying to give me some dramatic information with headphones in.

00:16:31: It's a lot.

00:16:32: It's a lot.

00:16:33: But.

00:16:35: That's who I am, baby.

00:16:36: So that's that's.

00:16:38: that's how things go.

00:16:38: I think I you know, I was setting up all of that to basically get into the.

00:16:44: the whole point I think of all that was just to basically talk about the holidays Which on paper that's actually kind of hilarious.

00:16:53: so yeah, I think you know, we all had a very good really fun Halloween and Christmas is coming up real fast real quick and in a hurry like And Thanksgiving is kind of this, you know, calmer middle zone thing where it's more compressed and low key and, you know, it's a lot less like, you know, bells and whistles and flashiness, but it's more like just putting people together into a room to hopefully just give thanks on the things that they can.

00:17:31: I don't know what I like about Thanksgiving is it is like a strange holiday of self-reflection, but you know the history behind it's pretty absurd.

00:17:42: Like, you know, everyone in American schools, including myself, was taught like, well, there was one day when the colonizers approached the Native Americans, who back then, they thought were people from India, because that's where they thought they were going.

00:17:58: Like, where they approached the Native Americans, and then they sat down at a table.

00:18:04: And they shared a meal of macaroni and cheese and turkey and green beans and cornbread and stuffing.

00:18:12: and it's like well, I mean not really though Like that whole that whole section of American history is so dark.

00:18:21: It's so absurdly dark.

00:18:23: But what I am grateful for at least you know at least what I can be thankful for and turn into a positive mentality is that it has become something different for me, which I think that Thanksgiving is the perfect holiday to do that.

00:18:42: You know, Easter is hyper, you know, Christian, Christian, Christian, it's a very Christian holiday.

00:18:51: You can't really do too much like mixing and, you know, messing up.

00:18:55: Like you can't really mix and mash too much about Easter.

00:18:59: I mean there is the whole thing about the bunny rabbits and plastic eggs, which don't get me wrong I like that.

00:19:05: It's innocent.

00:19:06: It's sweet.

00:19:06: I enjoyed doing it as a kid and as far as I can tell kids love it to this day, but Easter you can't really mess with too much Halloween.

00:19:15: you're gonna get what you're gonna get.

00:19:17: Christmas Wonderful, you know.

00:19:20: Christmas is really, you know Maybe maybe my favorite holiday.

00:19:25: I'm not sure it depends.

00:19:27: I mean Halloween and Christmas.

00:19:29: I loved them both a lot for very different reasons, but I would say Thanksgiving has this really interesting middle zone where you can Kind of create it like you can.

00:19:41: you can make it what you want it to be.

00:19:44: You know You can't really like.

00:19:46: I was saying you can't really change the traditional.

00:19:52: I don't know.

00:19:52: you can't change the things that people are gonna do Not that you'd want to, I guess.

00:19:56: The point being Thanksgiving is a really cool holiday, in my opinion, because you can take the simple premise of having people that you love at your home, eating a meal, and saying out loud what they're thankful for.

00:20:15: And I love that.

00:20:16: I think that's very beautiful.

00:20:18: You know, it has nothing to do about, you know, age or race or gender or, you know, nationality.

00:20:25: It's just about like eating food and saying, I'm grateful to be here.

00:20:31: I'm grateful, you know, for my mom and dad and I'm grateful, you know, to have to be healthy and like you can kind of choose, you know, like, oh, if someone has a really incredible year of success.

00:20:45: Or or if they had a bad year of success, but they had a partner that supported them.

00:20:50: or they have like, you know healthy beautiful children and things like this, you know Whatever there if they're thankful for having ten fingers and ten toes.

00:20:59: It's still the point of like reflection that I find so So interesting and so so beautiful and that's kind of become my my Thanksgiving particularly just sitting down with nice people people that you love people that you care about and just basically before you.

00:21:21: you know before or after you Cram your body with all the carbs in the universe Like just exclaiming gratitude and I don't know I I think it's slowly becoming like maybe my favorite holiday and in a sense because of that, you know because it It's it's an interesting.

00:21:45: It's an interesting thing how those perspectives shift as you get older Because I feel like when you're a kid, right when you're a kid Christmas is Incredibly dominant, you know in the best way like in a very positive way.

00:22:00: It's like the most dominant besides your birthday, right?

00:22:04: It's a very dominant holiday.

00:22:06: that Is as you learn as you get older completely managed and organized by your parents.

00:22:17: And then you get into, maybe you get into, you know, Easter, you know, if you're into Easter, then it's like, you know, it's very Christian and it's like, you know, it's more like things you do with your church friends and church groups, which is also a cool thing.

00:22:33: but then you get in like sometimes you people get into Halloween and then like as you're a teenager it's more about your friends and like not so much about dressing up but maybe as a kid for Halloween you go and you trick or treat and um you know you have events like in your like local you know kid friendly events in your town and then as you get a teenager you know then it becomes something else and then in college it becomes something else which I do like that about Halloween that it kind of shifts like from kid like kid kid Halloween is like oh my god candy you know like mommy mommy look you know.

00:23:10: and then uh then as like a teenager like in high school uh Halloween becomes um a bit more of like just being around your friends like yeah I cut some eye holes into this bed sheet and so like I'm a ghost I'm gonna go see Cody you know or whatever you know.

00:23:32: And just maybe there's one event in town or it's or maybe you maybe you even like push it away.

00:23:37: But then in college there's like a whole different stage Which was like my I think in hindsight my favorite stage of Halloween.

00:23:45: I mean don't get me wrong I loved Halloween as a kid, but I'm closer to the age I was in college than the age that I was as a child.

00:23:55: Jordan's very good at math.

00:23:58: That like the point being The chapter in college was like, especially in New Orleans, was, and I think for a lot of college towns and whatever, is like this adventure.

00:24:13: It's like, it's kind of a funny one-eighty.

00:24:17: Like when you're a kid, it's like costumes, costumes.

00:24:20: What are you gonna be?

00:24:21: I'm gonna be a ghost.

00:24:21: And like, what are you gonna be?

00:24:23: I'm gonna be a scary waiver.

00:24:27: I'm going to be a scary little spider and I'm so excited to hang out with Butch and Mackenzie and go out to Rusty's house and trick or treat because I'm a scary little raccoon.

00:24:41: And then as a teenager, you're like costumes are like pretty lame.

00:24:47: I don't want to dress up.

00:24:48: I just want to be me.

00:24:49: because like the costume so like emo.

00:24:56: The costume is the person I always have to pretend to be.

00:25:01: I'm afraid of my parents, you know?

00:25:04: Like, when I talk to someone at the grocery store, or like when I talk to my mom, she just like doesn't get me and that she gets like upset, you know?

00:25:14: And then like, the costume is society.

00:25:18: That's the teenagers who are like, okay, like we're not going to dress up this year, right?

00:25:22: Okay, let's go smoke cigarettes at the gazebo.

00:25:27: And then funny college happens and then you're like, okay guys, what are we gonna do?

00:25:30: What do we want to be?

00:25:31: And then everyone gets really pumped about it and sure you have like it's college So you're having.

00:25:36: there are people who are like just trying to get laid, which is also a funny part of it in hindsight.

00:25:41: like when you get older You look back on these Halloween parties and you see the same costumes that you saw people having as a kid but now they're like twenty and they're like.

00:25:52: so I'm actually like a pretty sexy beaver.

00:26:01: Yeah, um, I'm a sexy raccoon and I'm gonna get up all in your garbage, okay?

00:26:09: If you want my number, you can take me out just like you take out the trash.

00:26:15: On Tuesdays, right?

00:26:18: Every Tuesday morning, nine a.m Yeah, I'm a sexy raccoon.

00:26:25: I'm a sexy beaver.

00:26:27: I mean, you see me, you look at me and you just go, damn.

00:26:33: Good Lord, I need another career.

00:26:36: Anyway, okay, so.

00:26:43: sexy bear with me here because I'm the.

00:26:46: once the puns start they they rarely stop anyway.

00:26:50: so that's the funny cycle.

00:26:52: right kid love costume.

00:26:54: innocent teenager costumes are dumb and then you get in college and like costumes rock but it's like trying to get laid and then you get in your thirties and you're like I'm going dude this is the funny thing too.

00:27:06: then you get in your thirties and you're like I'm going to to commit to the most impressive costume my group of constituents have ever laid their eyes upon.

00:27:20: yes i have a family and just like everyone's like forty and they're like.

00:27:28: i will convince you that this was the best costume you've ever seen in your entire life anakin.

00:27:43: Yes, I can let the evil fill your soul.

00:27:49: But then you have a. you know, it's a funny thing like the costumes come back around but in your twenties It's just to get laid or just to have an excuse.

00:27:55: cuz I'm really like really fun parties are like fun events are costume only and then you're like I kind of like this again And then your thirties and forties are like I'm gonna spend so much money that it's gonna be a conversation I'm gonna.

00:28:11: I'm gonna like commit to this.

00:28:13: I'm gonna look up the most niche outfit I can possibly find and then I'm gonna make eye contact with everyone at the party to make sure that they know that.

00:28:22: I know that they know But I'm not gonna bring it up.

00:28:25: You know what I mean?

00:28:28: And again, I think I'm losing my voice.

00:28:30: That's why it's so deep and raspy today.

00:28:34: Man, who is that guy?

00:28:35: I can't believe I forgot his name at.

00:28:37: again Come to the Dockside.

00:28:43: Anyway, what a roundhouse of an episode this one has been as I sit here shuffling cards, but this was all just to say that Thanksgiving is cool because it's very malleable.

00:28:55: Halloween has those stages, which I've just realized as I've been yapping this whole time, which I think it's a really cool thing to like recognize, but Thanksgiving is a very malleable thing.

00:29:04: And at the end of the day, what I'm just so happy for, so what I'm really thankful for this Thanksgiving is the fact that it is malleable and like you can just, you can duct tape your friends to a chair and, you know, feed them some, you know, some slop.

00:29:22: and say what are you thankful for and then you can if they don't say your name.

00:29:28: well there's the road bud you know which they can be duct taped to.

00:29:34: uh not that i you know.

00:29:35: not that i would know about anything about that.

00:29:37: um no but it's nice.

00:29:40: every year there's like one or two or more people that um always surprise me with what they bring up like.

00:29:52: Also, okay, this is the other thing like on exactly on that topic is it's always interesting when people start reflecting inward where they take their gratitude because it's.

00:30:04: it also shows you that because life happens very fast and because Maybe also like on the day-to-day I'll meet a lot of people don't get asked or no, they're like they're too busy.

00:30:20: but first off Yes, a lot of people don't get asked about.

00:30:23: you know personal things like you know work chit chat and stuff.

00:30:26: And then there's like oh and then I'm home and then there's the kids and blah blah blah.

00:30:29: But also there's a lot of people that Because of that don't get the chance to think deeper like more inward about their their lives and their their.

00:30:43: Yeah, I mean not like not existential stuff, but like they just don't get the It's life, you know life is busy life happens fast and like if there's not someone asking there's oftentimes the Situation that you some people aren't looking inward because they're you know their lives are so external.

00:31:06: There's the work schedule, there's the alarm, I gotta brush my teeth, I gotta take a shower, gotta take this person here and oh this traffic is terrible.

00:31:13: and like oh man I spilled mustard on my shirt and then like oh talking to the guy so and so and then they gotta you know.

00:31:19: then there's like lunch and like oh no okay this place is closed like oh but this one's fine.

00:31:23: and then they eat like oh I gotta get back.

00:31:25: And what I like about Thanksgiving I think the most more than ever is that there's always a few people each time that you can tell they've either one not been asked in a long time about deeper things or like had the opportunity to realize what they've got because of the reasons I just said.

00:31:49: and there's a lot of.

00:31:50: there's a lot of.

00:31:53: it's a lot of beauty in that You know you have like a few people who seem to have I Don't want to say like prepared statements, but you have people who like kind of stick to their Script so to say maybe they thought about it because you go in a circle and they're like really happy to have that contract.

00:32:13: It's just you know glad for my wife, you know happy to roll healthy and Happy that we could you know put some money aside for that new truck and yeah Thanks.

00:32:23: All right.

00:32:24: And they just cut it off and I'm like, Hey, man, that's beautiful.

00:32:27: I'm happy for you.

00:32:28: That's a great thing.

00:32:30: It's, you know, it's men and women.

00:32:31: It's everybody who, who can, you know, kind of pre-plan a sort of gratitude script.

00:32:37: But every year there's a few people that surprise me a lot.

00:32:41: And it's, it's so like touching because of the reasons I said, like they don't really think about that stuff.

00:32:50: And it's the people you sometimes least expect.

00:32:54: you know maybe because they're hard shelled or just so distracted or whatever.

00:33:00: and then it gets them.

00:33:00: it's like what are you thankful for?

00:33:02: you know whatever toby and then you have a like a guy or a girl or whoever a mom or or anybody.

00:33:11: you know our group our friend group is i think that on average like ages thirty five to like fifty which wow getting old anyway.

00:33:28: um but there's yeah there's always one person who's like who sits there for a second like who didn't who thought maybe it would be like just a throwaway like gimmick like okay the emiracans won't do thanksgiving and then they have like a pause and you're like okay okay this could be something And then you can see it in their eyes.

00:33:52: Like maybe there's a fear of being very vulnerable in front of their friends, which I completely understand.

00:34:01: And also the challenge of like speaking publicly, like being and talking to everyone at once, also completely understand that.

00:34:13: But then something really magical happens again just to like a few.

00:34:16: everyone says something really nice But they're thankful for.

00:34:19: and I don't mean that that script thing is for everybody.

00:34:21: of course not of course not.

00:34:24: It's just a magical nice sweet human moment when one of these people you know taps into something deeper.

00:34:34: And you know last year there's a couple people that you know cried as they started to say what they're thankful for.

00:34:39: and you know it happened also this year.

00:34:42: And I think that's beautiful and I think it's important.

00:34:46: and Yeah, I guess that's all I was trying to sort of get to was just.

00:34:54: It seems that in this extraordinarily strange Hyper digital fast-paced short form, you know attention deficit world that we're living in that these kinds of human-to-human heart-to-heart interactions and moments of reflection are more and more far, you know, few and far between.

00:35:19: and That's what I really like a lot about Thanksgiving, you know turning it making it very specifically about that and being together, you know and Yeah, so that's that's all I won't say about that.

00:35:34: I feel like Forrest Gump and that's all I got to say about that.

00:35:40: But then there's Christmas coming up and that's also like a really cool special thing if we you know can collectively understand and omit that Krampus is a part of German Christmas to such a horrific extent that I'm going to be seeing it soon.

00:36:01: In a couple of days there's going to be like This the run of the crampos the run of the.

00:36:06: you know in this particular small town Where I'm going to be in a couple of days The crampos like monsters are called Clowson Not to be confused with Santa Claus.

00:36:23: These are Anything but sweet jolly, you know jelly-bellied white bearded men who bring gifts and chocolates.

00:36:32: These are horrendous murder monsters that I always have disliked, except for when I am in a locked house on a balcony looking down, watching teenagers brave the streets and get chased for fun.

00:36:49: That's cool, but if you've seen any of my stand-up comedy or the videos or things I've mentioned or talked about on this show, Then you'll know that when you're attacked or like Assaulted personally by these guys it it sticks with you.

00:37:12: There's a really interesting episode.

00:37:14: I wanted to see how far back that was.

00:37:16: actually people who have listened for a long time Knowing that I'm about to go back into my like video List here are already understandably rolling their eyes.

00:37:30: But I did want to see how far back was this really, really, really special Krampus episode, like Krampus-Klausen episode that we did on this show back when Moe was still regularly a part of the programming.

00:37:51: If you haven't heard it, once I find the... Oh, here it is.

00:37:56: Yeah, look at that.

00:37:57: Okay, it wasn't so bad, guys.

00:37:58: You can unroll your eyes now.

00:38:01: The Klausens special part one, it's called the Klausens special part one, and that came out on December third, twenty, twenty.

00:38:15: So that's pretty cool.

00:38:16: And then Klausens special part two was the next week, December tenth.

00:38:24: so wow five years ago man we've been doing this show for a while but that's yeah.

00:38:32: I'm really happy with that.

00:38:35: that combo I think.

00:38:37: the first one we had some I don't I forgot.

00:38:41: let me see if we had like if I wrote down who we spoke to on part one of two.

00:38:47: Jordan breaks down not only his own fears and experiences, but the German holiday, normally taking place every December sixth.

00:38:54: So two days from this release date.

00:38:57: But he also gets the insider scoop from an old timer who's been around the Clowsen blog more than once.

00:39:02: And to top it off, we have a great story from a hilarious friend about her inability to process Clowsen talk.

00:39:08: Well, it is traumatizing, so no judgment there, sister.

00:39:13: And then Clowsen part Two, I forgot what we had here.

00:39:21: Oh, yeah.

00:39:21: On the second and final installment of the exploration into Clousin Talk, Moe breaks down what the Bavarian holiday means to him and shares what some consider to be the highly overlooked, quote unquote, beautiful side of Clousin Talk.

00:39:35: We also hear two firsthand experiences from Clousin themselves.

00:39:38: That's right.

00:39:39: We had this, yeah, we had this guy.

00:39:41: We had this guy on there.

00:39:42: I forgot his name.

00:39:44: One of whom was a woman who takes part in the Saint Barbara run every December fourth.

00:39:50: So that's today, the Bebele.

00:39:52: And one is a guy who just ran.

00:39:54: the quote-unquote canceled Opus Torph Clausentag of twenty twenty only a few days ago.

00:40:00: Canceled not like a celebrity who drugs women, but canceled because it was the pandemic.

00:40:06: Here you can find the song from the show.

00:40:13: I'm not gonna pretend.

00:40:16: I have no idea what this says.

00:40:21: So that's back from December, yeah, third and tenth of twenty-twenty, which you can check out today if you're interested in hearing some further information about the good old clouds and the good old crampus.

00:40:38: Yeah, we have that coming up.

00:40:40: in a couple of days, and that should be interesting.

00:40:43: It's always something.

00:40:44: It's always something to experience.

00:40:47: But I do love about Christmas time in, what I do love about Christmas time in, especially in Bavaria is, are the Christmas markets.

00:40:57: You know, it's like the feeling of looking at Kevin McAllister's home in Home Alone.

00:41:07: You know, it's just.

00:41:07: it's just like the Christmas markets.

00:41:09: give you this vibe of like oh something.

00:41:11: something like sweet and magical and pure and like Man, I love that song so much.

00:41:33: It has that feeling.

00:41:34: It has exactly that feeling.

00:41:35: John Williams.

00:41:37: You son of a bitch!

00:41:43: That's the composer of the music for those who don't know.

00:41:48: I'm obsessed with him.

00:41:49: How can one man have so many good songs?

00:41:52: But yeah, the Christmas markets, especially in Bavaria, have... a real magic to them.

00:42:00: It's just this sparkle, this glamour, this glitter, this sweetness, this purity, this hope.

00:42:08: And it's something, yeah, connecting back to the Thanksgiving thing, like finding peace and solace and connectivity.

00:42:15: It's something I think we all need.

00:42:21: And I loved Christmas as a child.

00:42:26: and loved, you know, that we always decorated the tree together and that we had or, you know, we would do it a little bit together when I was a kid and then as I got older, I would like, I mean, my brother would do it, putting it in the right spot that mom liked and then like setting up the stockings and, you know, being, being woken up Christmas morning.

00:42:49: Either waking up early myself or having my brother like I remember my brother one time like running into my room.

00:42:56: It was like get up get up.

00:42:57: There's big gifts here from Santa and and it was so sweet.

00:43:03: And it's yeah, just the lights and the the cold and the the steam coming off like the boy at song about boy at song boy at song about it.

00:43:13: It's like this Like hot Steamy liquor bowl.

00:43:19: It's really a nice warm drink.

00:43:23: I remember.

00:43:24: I think it was my first like I think so, twenty thirteen.

00:43:29: I visited Germany for the first time in the summer and then I think it was Christmas time.

00:43:36: it was Christmas of twenty fourteen Christmas of twenty fourteen.

00:43:45: when Was it Christmas?

00:43:48: Twenty-fourteen Wow, I guess it was.

00:43:52: I Think it was Christmas twenty-fourteen that I came back.

00:43:55: it was yeah, cuz it couldn't have been twenty-fifteen because that was like the Christmas I was living here, but or maybe it was maybe it was after I had oh You know what?

00:44:04: I think it was twenty-fifteen.

00:44:05: I had just freshly moved.

00:44:06: I don't know it doesn't?

00:44:07: it really doesn't matter Jordan But I remember like being at a Christmas market with if you and her sister And it just feeling.

00:44:19: so, what do you, I don't know, like, not holiday-ish, there's a word, it's festive.

00:44:26: It felt so festive, like everyone out in like beanies and jackets and scarves and gloves and there's like steaming hot like sweet wine and there's like a fire, fire bowl thing.

00:44:40: It's just, it's just cool.

00:44:41: It's just a nice thing to, and.

00:44:44: And then also in the main area of Munich, the touristy part, like the Marineplatz area, which is so beautiful.

00:44:52: I'm glad when I can show people that area for the first time because it is something that you kind of take for granted until you go experience it with someone who's never seen it.

00:45:01: And in that area where there's beautiful, gorgeous Christmas markets that have been in tradition in that area for longer than America has been a country, Right next to it are these just gorgeous churches and they have choirs singing and oh man I would love... I mean they do very very traditional like classical Christmas music like you know very very very traditional stuff.

00:45:33: but wouldn't it be so sick if you walked into one of these gorgeous old churches after having like a hot glue vine from the Christmas market?

00:45:43: And you hear, you just hear in the background, you just hear this.

00:46:00: I can't tell if this podcast is getting more creative or worse every single episode.

00:46:09: Oh my god.

00:46:11: Well, I wanted to just think about any more things I wanted to mention.

00:46:17: I don't, I can't remember at this point.

00:46:18: I've broken this episode into like different days.

00:46:21: So who knows what I've already talked about, but I will be expanding.

00:46:24: into a longer form YouTube content.

00:46:28: So please comment what you would like me to discuss.

00:46:31: I have a new camera, so I'm excited about that.

00:46:35: I had a recent discussion with my booking agent about the next events for like, twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven.

00:46:42: I think we're going to probably push like a main tour into spring twenty twenty seven as opposed to doing another October, November for twenty twenty six.

00:46:53: It's a very complicated, very stacked window in that in that like October, November.

00:46:59: And it's also very difficult to to book things now because those things are they book out like a year and a half before.

00:47:05: So it was already hard to get last year's tour or this year's tour.

00:47:09: Sorry.

00:47:10: So doing it now for next year's tour would be pretty much impossible to get the places that we want.

00:47:15: So we're going to push a big tour to spring twenty twenty seven.

00:47:18: But in the meantime, I will be doing some special event things and doing some travel.

00:47:24: you know when you're at my level you have to kind of you know work towards building the audience and breaking even so it's not like it's for tons and tons of money but but that's totally fine because I just love traveling and seeing the world.

00:47:40: so I might be doing some shows like at the cologne comedy festival that that's here in Germany and of course some military some American military bases in Germany.

00:47:48: that'd be fun.

00:47:50: But then there will be like some opportunities that we've looked at in like London, Amsterdam, Basel, Switzerland, and maybe even like a couture referendum, like a culture blah blah blah in Budapest.

00:48:04: So I'm very excited also to... I've never been to Budapest.

00:48:07: I've only been to Amsterdam once when I did this social media stuff for Tony's Chocolonely.

00:48:15: I don't think I've ever been to Basel, Switzerland.

00:48:17: I've been to Switzerland, but I don't.

00:48:19: I don't think I've been to Basel and then of course I've been to London But just one time and I've never been there to perform.

00:48:25: so that could be sick.

00:48:26: I do have some.

00:48:27: I do have an audience in the UK for some reason Auto no more.

00:48:33: That's Australian.

00:48:34: I tell you I have to.

00:48:36: I have to work on some accents.

00:48:38: But anyway guys, I I love you so much and I hope this wasn't too chaotic.

00:48:44: And in the meantime, if you have not had a moment of self-reflection or given thanks for the beauty, love, joy, and health in your life, if you were lucky enough to have it, then take this as an opportunity to do that.

00:49:01: I will give you guys a big story about the clousin after my weekend away.

00:49:10: And in the meantime, keep rocking keep rocking in the free world and take care of yourselves.

00:49:17: and Yeah, love you guys.

00:49:21: Bye.

00:49:44: Bye.