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| Okay, Jack Jack, you ready? | |
| Count us in. | |
| in five four three two one merry christmas everyone let's Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard to a very special Christmas edition of Human Events Christmas Day. | |
| Now, I'm not sure, are we the ghosts of Christmas past or the ghosts of Christmas future? | |
| Because we're recording this in Phoenix during AmericaFest, but it's not actually airing until Christmas Day. | |
| So does that, I think that makes us the ghosts of Christmas past right now, right? | |
| I think we are just Christmas. | |
| Just Christmas. | |
| We are Christmas. | |
| Well, we are. | |
| So we are the avatars of Christmas itself. | |
| I appreciate that. | |
| No, that's amazing. | |
| So so we are Christmas. | |
| And oh, gosh, someone's calling me. | |
| Oh, it's my brother. | |
| Hold on. | |
| Let's see what he wants. | |
| Let's see what he wants. | |
| Hold on. | |
| Hey, Kev. | |
| Hey, we're we're recording right now. | |
| We're recording the Christmas special. | |
| What's going on? | |
| And you are on air. | |
| You're live. | |
| Oh, cool. | |
| Merry Christmas. | |
| Merry Christmas, indeed. | |
| You want anything from CVS? | |
| No, I'm good. | |
| Good for right now. | |
| I'd rather have something from Wawa. | |
| Yeah, we'll have to work on that one. | |
| I heard Wawa is coming out to like 14 new states. | |
| You can make his Christmas wish come true. | |
| My Christmas wish is that Wawa would come 50 states of Wawa. | |
| Imagine. | |
| Kev, what do you want for Christmas this year? | |
| Oh boy. | |
| I want some... I want some new tires for my Ranger. | |
| I want some front end suspension. | |
| I want a lift kit, maybe a muffler. | |
| A lift kit? | |
| Dream big! | |
| Dream big! | |
| Do you want the spinners? | |
| Do you want the chrome rims with the spinners? | |
| No, no. | |
| I want the... What's it called? | |
| The lift kit. | |
| The full on lift kit. | |
| No, I'm sorry. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| I don't know if Mike Lindell covers that yet, but I'll have to reach out to him to see if we can get the Mike Lindell MyPillow lift kit that's specifically designed for you. | |
| No, no. | |
| The MyPillow seat covers. | |
| The MyPillow seat covers, that's true. | |
| We do have those. | |
| Yes, indeed. | |
| We have the seat covers, we've got the cushions, we've got everything. | |
| Excellent. | |
| Excellent. | |
| All right, well, you hurry back and we'll finish up the special here. | |
| Sounds good, love you guys. | |
| All right, love you. | |
| Merry Christmas. | |
| And fast rock on. | |
| Yeah, yeah, Merry Christmas. | |
| There you go, folks. | |
| Live, not planned. | |
| A little Christmas. | |
| That's what it's like with Christmas with the Postos. | |
| You did not expect Christmas to be like this, did you? | |
| Definitely not on my Christmas wish list, but I've learned that with you I have to be very flexible, so I'm used to adjusting quite a bit. | |
| I promised you when we first got together Many moons ago, and it's been, it'll be eight years since we met, right? | |
| It'll be eight years in January. | |
| Yes. | |
| It'll be eight years, so 15 to 23. | |
| So it'll be eight years since we met at, where did we meet? | |
| At the Bible study. | |
| Everybody thinks I'm making that up when I say that. | |
| Everybody thinks that I'm like, oh poso, that's some, you know, line that you use, like your MyPillow promos and everything. | |
| No, we really did meet at a Bible study. | |
| A hundred percent. | |
| And, um, but I did promise you, okay, I did promise you that it would never be boring. | |
| Ever. | |
| And have I delivered on that promise? | |
| You are exceeding my expectations every single day. | |
| And when I think we've actually reached the point where I could get used to some of your surprises and expect certain things, you just throw a curveball at me. | |
| A curveball? | |
| Me? | |
| Never! | |
| Never. | |
| I play it right down the line. | |
| Every time. | |
| Straight laced with the stitches. | |
| I mean, did we have any? | |
| Well, what were some of the surprises since we're supposed to be doing the, you know, Producer Angela was saying, you got to do the year in review. | |
| You got to talk about what were some of the biggest, some of the curveballs this year? | |
| What do you think? | |
| Many exciting curveballs. | |
| So some of them actually included us skiing in March. | |
| We did go skiing. | |
| So for my birthday, I got a very special gift. | |
| I got a pair of my own skis. | |
| And since my birthday is in March, well, as many of you know who are skiers or snowboarders... Not exactly the season. | |
| Not this season, but this guy right here, he made it happen. | |
| So I actually did ski after my birthday, with my own skis. | |
| So we're talking about skiing, tell everybody your story about skiing. | |
| tell everybody your story about skiing. | |
| Just what was it like skiing for you when you grew up? - So I come from-- - How big are the mountains back home in Eastern Europe? | |
| I was born in Belarus, and if anybody knows anything about it, it's as flat as it could be. | |
| So Belarus is just north of Ukraine, so it's directly... Ukraine and Belarus are directly north. | |
| So all those farms that you see in Ukraine and all the videos, that's... Belarus is pretty much the same thing. | |
| The only time I skied was cross country. | |
| I ran a five kilometer marathon and it was on a flat ground. | |
| Flat as you can go. | |
| So you did ski growing up. | |
| I did, I did. | |
| But never like, you know, down. | |
| Never went down. | |
| Just across. | |
| Just skiing across. | |
| So what was the very first time you ever went skiing downhill? | |
| So it was actually one of the first dates that we went on and you invited me to Pennsylvania, to your home state, to go skiing and As excited as I was to try it for the first time, I had zero idea of what I'm about to encounter with the skiing down the hill. | |
| Yeah, and of course, she's the one who goes and she says, oh, well, I'll just try the black diamond because I love diamonds. | |
| And she goes, no, no, no black diamond, no diamonds. | |
| We're going to go over here to the little bunny rabbit. | |
| That's for you. | |
| The bunny rabbit, that doesn't sound very exciting. | |
| I'm the person he always jokes about that I would run before I crawl. | |
| She runs before she crawls, yeah. | |
| So yeah. | |
| But then you ended up, and I'll give you credit where it's due, that you ended up getting, I've never seen you get into an activity like this, you know, other than Instagram, this much that you just love getting outside, you love going skiing, and we've skied in, how many places have we skied at this point? | |
| So what started as a date became sort of like a family tradition. | |
| So every year we would go skiing and we make fun trip out of it by going to different places. | |
| So, so far we skied in Colorado, Beaver Creek. | |
| Rockies, baby! | |
| We went up to upstate New York. | |
| Lake Placid. | |
| Lake Placid. | |
| We did some skiing in Pennsylvania. | |
| All over PA. | |
| We're planning a trip to Utah maybe. | |
| Well, Utah is the one that we keep trying to get to because we thought we were going to a wedding there, but then they didn't end up getting married, so we pushed it off. | |
| Still waiting. | |
| Still waiting to figure out what's going on with that one. | |
| And I have not been to Utah yet, ever, in my life. | |
| So I've never been to Utah, so we would absolutely love to take a look at that one. | |
| Don't know if we're going to get there this year, just looking at the schedule. | |
| But I don't know. | |
| I'm thinking of maybe maybe Stowe, maybe go up to Vermont this time or maybe even. | |
| That being said, I loved Lake Placid. | |
| I thought Lake Placid was amazing. | |
| I would totally go back there. | |
| Or maybe we can ski in Europe. | |
| In Europe? | |
| Well, so wait, wait, wait, wait. | |
| So we should tell people about that story this year, because everybody knows that I went to Davos and we had the, you know, I was detained by the World Economic Forum police out there. | |
| And then, but I don't know if people remember that if you actually look in the side of the video that you are there standing, you know, outside the, basically the police cordon where they've got all the guns focused on us. | |
| And, um, how did I, how did I pitch you on the, on, on the trip to Davos? | |
| So one day, beautiful morning, Jack comes up to me and, good morning dear, how would you like to go to the Alps? | |
| Trip to Switzerland, right? | |
| Yeah! | |
| Would you like to go to Switzerland with me? | |
| And me, growing up and seeing the beautiful images of the Swiss Alps and the beautiful landscapes, I was like, absolutely! | |
| The hills are alive! | |
| Little did I know that the trip to Switzerland included With the great resets. | |
| A car ride to Davos. | |
| With the sound of Schwab. | |
| And so how did our trip to Switzerland end up going? | |
| So Davos sounds very... Glamorous. | |
| Glamorous. | |
| It's not. | |
| There's very little glamorous about it. | |
| And Switzerland is so gorgeous. | |
| The nature of it, the beauty of the landscapes. | |
| Where is the Alps? | |
| Every picture you take could be put on a postcard. | |
| Davos, it seems like people got really bored and tired of working in Switzerland and they were like, okay, let's just put something together and we'll call it Davos. | |
| It's a little bit dumpy. | |
| Now, to be fair, and just by way of reference, we ended up going there in May. | |
| So it was outside of the skiing season. | |
| Now, if those slopes were set up at the time, I think that's more what it's there for. | |
| It's sort of like your C-list alpine ski resort. | |
| But the reason that Klaus Schwab and these guys targeted it was because they they knew that they're not going to take over Geneva. | |
| They're not going to take over Zurich. | |
| But something like Davos that everybody kind of looked over, that's the kind of town that you could go go in and basically run for about two weeks. | |
| And that's what they do. | |
| So when we were there, we even tried to go up the ski lift. | |
| We did. | |
| So how did your trips to the Alps end? | |
| Just like many of my trips go, there's a plan and there's a change of plan and we usually follow the second scenario. | |
| What was it like? | |
| Well, we're going to come up on a break here, but when I want to get back, I want to talk more about, you know, exactly what happened there. | |
| And I also want to talk about how there's a conspiracy theory about our Davos trip. | |
| You know this, right? | |
| About what happened. | |
| There's a conspiracy theory that potentially Leave Schreiber. | |
| That leave Schreiber may have been involved in the operation that led to the detention of me. | |
| And, you know, yeah, Ray Donovan operation style. | |
| And remember, you were there with Kevin, but then you ended up being at a different section of Davos. | |
| I didn't think that you would go that route on this Christmas festive episode, but here we are. | |
| We're going to review it. | |
| Look, we talk a lot about women's rights, but here we're going to talk about women's wrongs. | |
| Coming back, Jack Posobiec, Tanya Tay, Human Events Christmas Special. | |
| So the world has seen the video of me getting detained at Davos and, you know, not a very holly jolly moment. | |
| I know. | |
| But, you know, and they do. | |
| I mean, in many ways, Klaus Schwab is sort of like an evil version of Santa Claus. | |
| Santa Claus wants to give you possessions. | |
| Klaus Schwab wants to take them away. | |
| Santa Claus wants to help you be happy. | |
| Santa Claus on the other, or Claus Schraub on the other hand, is ordering you to be happy no matter what. | |
| And an example, by the way, so they both live in snowy, ice-capped areas. | |
| Now, of course, Santa Claus uses the reindeers to fly his sleigh. | |
| Very eco-friendly, very green. | |
| He's got Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to cut through what? | |
| The pollution. | |
| The pollution of the North Pole that's come up from, you know, people driving their SUVs and their Hummers and Range Rovers. | |
| You're Klaus Schwab. | |
| Maybe that's what Kevin was working on. | |
| I'm sorry, Greta. | |
| And then also, you know, whereas as Saint Nicholas, you know, Greek, Bishop of Myra, then you've got Klaus Schwab. - Klaus Schwab, he wants to take over the world. - So, you know, Santa makes his list of all the kids who he wants to take over the world. - So, you know, Santa makes his list of all the kids who are naughty or nice, and then Klaus Schwab also I'm just saying. | |
| You know, there's lots of parallels there. | |
| Lots of parallels. | |
| So everyone's seen the video. | |
| Everyone saw the video of me getting detained. | |
| Savannah Hernandez shows up, and then you, actually, the one who brought Savannah there. | |
| So tell me the story, though, from your perspective, And I'll give people the background. | |
| So the lay of the land is we're, I'm at one end of the World Economic Forum conference and we're, you know, again, we're up in Davos, we're in the Alps. | |
| So it's on the side of this mountain. | |
| So the roads are kind of go in parallel to each other, almost like, like, like steps, you know, like the one of those step pyramids in a Graham Hancock video. | |
| And, and so in order to, you go across, but then the next street you have to kind of go up and now you're on the next, you know, parallel street that goes across the mountain. | |
| And so I'm at one section of it, but then you and Kevin were over at the Ukraine house, which was on the other side, because I said, hey, I'm going to go film some stuff with the guys and we're going to film the show. | |
| We're going to film, I think we did some war room interviews, some other interviews that we did live. | |
| And we knew that Malcolm Nance was potentially going to be speaking. | |
| And I wanted to see if Malcolm Nance was actually there. | |
| So I said, Kev, here's a picture of Malcolm Nance. | |
| Here's what he looks like. | |
| Here's the Ukraine. | |
| It's sort of like an exhibit house. | |
| Just go over there and wait for him. | |
| But that's all the way on the other side of the conference. | |
| And then you wanted to go to the Ukraine house at this point as well. | |
| And Praytel, why did you want to go to the Ukraine house at that specific time, sweetheart? - It's interesting that you should ask that question. | |
| It's an interesting question. | |
| Did not expect that coming from you. | |
| So you sent Kevin on a mission and of course I had my own mission because I heard that there is a Liev Schreiber talking in the House of Ukraine and I'm a huge fan of his work and I figured it would be a wonderful opportunity for me to go and meet him in person. | |
| She wanted a selfie with Liev Schreiber. | |
| And you did get to meet him! | |
| I did get to meet him, more so I was able to get to the front row, so he was sitting... Because these are small, there's only like, how many people? | |
| It was a very, it probably, the room is no bigger than your studio. | |
| Right. | |
| So, I mean, 30 people, maybe? | |
| Yeah, maybe 30 people. | |
| It felt like a very intimate setting. | |
| Oh, intimate! | |
| A very intimate setting to meet Liev Schreiber in, was it, darling? | |
| A very intimate setting. | |
| Not in that sense. | |
| In that sense that everybody present felt like they could really hear the speaker, could really relate to where they're coming from. | |
| And Liv Shriver, he is, um, the reason why he was actually there is because he has Ukrainian roots, so he felt like it was his rightful The look you're giving me, they see the words are not coming out. | |
| No, no, please go, please tell us about the rights of Lieb Schreiber, the rightful, the rightful place, the intimate room. | |
| Lieb was very outspoken about the issues in Ukraine and I was there and he gave a wonderful speech. | |
| At the time, I had my husband trying to text me, trying to call me, but unfortunately I made just a few too many videos at the time. | |
| She's making videos on Instagram of Liev Schreiber, meanwhile I've got... | |
| My battery dies. | |
| And her battery dies while I'm trying to call her. | |
| I had a good excuse. | |
| And I'm like, darling, the World Economic Forum police. | |
| Oh, we're spilling all the tea in here. | |
| People know this is the same studio where Alex does the spillover. | |
| So this is where the tea is being spilled. | |
| So the tea is being spilled. | |
| This is like Festivus when we have the airing of yearly grievances, the annual airing of grievances. | |
| So here we go. | |
| We're having the the the leave shrivences. | |
| Okay, the grievances of shrievances are coming out. | |
| It's all coming out, folks. | |
| So I'm out there getting detained. | |
| World Economic Forum police, they're around me. | |
| The MP5s start coming out. | |
| We're getting frisked. | |
| I'm wearing my under tacks. | |
| We're getting frisked around the corner. | |
| And she's taking selfies at Leigh Schreiber and her battery runs out. | |
| So, my phone did die. | |
| At that moment, your brother, Kevin, he found me and he told me that, well, you've been arrested or you've been detained, something's going on, there's people, there's guns involved and there's a lot of action. | |
| So, I did have to leave the room with Liv Schreiber and I did not hesitate for a minute. | |
| See that, folks? | |
| Let that be a lesson to you. | |
| When you need somebody there lickety-split at the drop of a dime, when you need something done right, you need to make sure that you ingest a little vitamin M-A-N. | |
| into the situation, inject a little vitamin M-A-N into the situation. | |
| So then you come by, you get there. | |
| I was on the way. | |
| And that's when I. | |
| That's real quick. | |
| That's the conspiracy theory is that is it possible leave Shriver, Ray Donovan, set out the whole thing as a way that he would have extra time to spend with Tanya Tay. | |
| Did not happen. | |
| Cotton-weary. | |
| Totally, totally just a theory. | |
| None of that, none of that was taking place. | |
| So that's when I was heading to see you and see what was going on with that whole situation. | |
| That's when I ran into Savannah, Savannah Hernandez, and we actually We proceeded together to get to the scene of the crime where you were getting detained. | |
| And I think we actually got there when they almost finished whatever it is that they were doing. | |
| It had been about an hour at that point. | |
| And of course, I couldn't film anything. | |
| I couldn't get any shots of it because my phone is dead. | |
| Yeah, it doesn't happen at the right time. | |
| So now I make sure I charge my phone all the time. | |
| Actually, I make sure I charge my phone. | |
| You do, yes, you do. | |
| And I keep drilling it every time we travel somewhere, it's always be charging. | |
| Always be charging something. | |
| Always be charging. | |
| You get into the hotel room, you don't take your shoes off, you start charging your phones, you set everything out to charge, then you get settled. | |
| Then you lie down. | |
| Always be charging something. | |
| But no, that was an interesting moment. | |
| But probably, probably, you know, my favorite part of that trip, though, as. | |
| You know, and there were two extra moments of that. | |
| First of all was the night in Rome. | |
| Yes. | |
| So we've only got a couple of minutes left in the segment, but tell people in a very quick way what we did in the night in Rome. | |
| Um, you know, we're, you know, we're both Christians being able to go to St. | |
| Peter's Basilica. | |
| We went to the Castel Sant'Angelo, but what ended up happening when we started walking around? | |
| So we both really wanted to see Rome and the schedule was just being so tight we were not sure how much of it we will see. | |
| We got in very late at night. | |
| I believe we saw 1 a.m. | |
| and needless to say despite being Super jet lagged and very tired from the travel, we decided to go out because we were really pressed for time. | |
| And our hotel was not too far from Castle of St. | |
| Angelo and what started to be just a walk to see the castle to then maybe get closer to the Vatican at night. | |
| Ended up being one of the most unforgettable nights in my life because as we were walking towards the castle, we saw those scooters just randomly parked on the side of the streets. | |
| And we were with Kevin, Jack's brother, and he just randomly suggested or made a comment about the scooters and we're like, well, Maybe we should give them a try. | |
| We had the entire city of Rome, the Eternal City, to ourselves, scooting up and down the cobblestone streets for hours. | |
| We went to every single monument, landmark, and postcard picture spot of Rome All within, it's actually not that big, and we did it all within the span of about three to four hours with no traffic, no crowds, no tourists, all the way right into the point where we gotten at the end was what? | |
| The Coliseum. | |
| We actually saw the sunrise at the Coliseum. | |
| Just as we got to the Coliseum, the first rays of the rising sun started to come up over it. | |
| And then we realized we'd probably get back because of course, you know, this is where, and we were doing the show every day. | |
| So, you know, we had just done the show in Ireland on the way there because we had a layover. | |
| And then we got out and we did a layover in Ireland. | |
| And then we did the show from like a farm. | |
| And then we went and did the show in Rome. | |
| Then we did the show in Budapest. | |
| After that, we did the show in Davos, obviously in Davos, you know, for the whole thing with Switzerland and then Zurich and Geneva. | |
| and then eventually Poland, and then finally Ukraine. | |
| So we'll talk about that in a minute, but here's what I wanna do because it is Christmas day and we have a very special treat for everybody because I remember last year, Last year we talked about our Christmas traditions and Midnight Mass and opening the presents on Christmas morning and just all the things that we do together, the way that we also celebrate Old Christmas, AKA Orthodox Christmas on January 6th. | |
| So for the kids, they kind of get two Christmases. | |
| But when we come back, we're going to have a very special treat for you because we've got two very special guests that taught me everything I know about Christmas. | |
| Stay tuned. | |
| Be right back. | |
| Two very special guests, both of which for the very first time here on Human Events, the Human Events special. | |
| Some folks who know a little bit about Christmas and certainly taught me everything that I knew about Christmas. | |
| That's my mom and dad. | |
| We have my mom, Lori Posobiec, and my dad, John Posobiec. | |
| Merry Christmas, everybody. | |
| Thank you so much for joining us on the show. | |
| Hello! | |
| Really appreciate you making time out of your busy schedules as grandparents spoiling my boys. | |
| That's right. | |
| That's right. | |
| You know, for this. | |
| So let me ask you, what, you know, how has Christmas changed going from, you know, being like the mom and dad of Christmas to sort of being, you know, to having the grandkids? | |
| Well, we don't have to worry about putting stuff together on Christmas Eve as much as we did before. | |
| What do you mean, putting stuff together on Christmas Eve? | |
| What are you talking about? | |
| Well, the presents that would have been from us, not the presents from Santa, of course. | |
| Right, because Santa would bring the presents from Santa, right? | |
| Exactly. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Right. | |
| So, yeah, Jax never heard anything other than that Santa is real. | |
| No, I mean, there are idiots out there who deny the existence of Santa, but here's what I have to say. | |
| If Santa Claus was a PSYOP, imagine how many people would have to be in on it, right? | |
| Doesn't make any sense. | |
| Imagine being a Santa denier. | |
| We had to ask our kids to write their Christmas list early and not two days before Christmas because we didn't have internet back then to get There wasn't next day shipping. | |
| So we used to have to call relatives if some item was not available. | |
| Well there was a Ghostbuster headquarters that actually we had to get on the phone because it wasn't available at any of our local Toys R Us's and there's no internet. | |
| So, we found a cousin in Florida that was able to find it at a Sam's Club, and they actually mailed it to our house. | |
| Really? | |
| Yes. | |
| That's how we got the Ghostbusters? | |
| Yes, and that's the only thing you wanted for that Christmas. | |
| Only thing. | |
| And my cousin came through. | |
| I remember that. | |
| Oh, it's so stressful. | |
| Well, I remember getting it. | |
| I don't remember the... Oh, yeah. | |
| It was the last thing behind the tree. | |
| It was number one on the list. | |
| I remember it being behind the tree. | |
| Yes. | |
| I do remember that, yes. | |
| Yes, at our old house. | |
| We hid it real good. | |
| That was my dad was big on that that the the final president that you so what she would always do is like the first presence that you would see would be like the sweaters and the underwear and the socks and you know all that business which is you know always nice and yeah and this and by the way my mom dad Huge stockings. | |
| Massive stockings. | |
| Well, that's because your Nana made them. | |
| Full of everything. | |
| Right. | |
| My mom would knit stockings. | |
| Dad's mom. | |
| So my grandma, my Nana. | |
| Yeah. | |
| We had no choice in that. | |
| Knit. | |
| That we still have. | |
| Yes, we do. | |
| Which are enormous. | |
| And they're amazing. | |
| We still have them. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And then you, well then you made some extra ones. | |
| Well, your Nana still had a few that when she passed away, she still had a couple of the squares, so I was able to incorporate those into your children's stockings. | |
| So Jack-Jack and AJ have stockings from the same... From the same template. | |
| Template, right, as the original. | |
| And Tonya. | |
| And Tonya, too. | |
| Oh, that's awesome. | |
| Yeah. | |
| That's a base, yeah. | |
| Stockings are big with us. | |
| Oh, they're arm's length too. | |
| Yeah, like arm's length, full on. | |
| You could actually put your, you could actually wear it on your feet kind of stocking. | |
| We'll have to get like a photo of this so people can see what we're talking about. | |
| But then yeah, then back behind the tree is where the good stuff would be right there. | |
| I remember specifically one Christmas, you guys were, I don't know, around 10 ish. | |
| And you woke us up at 6 a.m. | |
| You're like, hey, can we go, you know, go downstairs? | |
| And we're like, you know, we made them sit at the top of the steps till we woke up. | |
| Well, they asked. | |
| Six o'clock. | |
| We're like, okay. | |
| Yeah, I remember, because we could look and we had this railing in the old house where you could kind of peek down. | |
| So where we grew up was this house in Norristown, right outside of Philadelphia, that had been built in 1900. | |
| So at this point, it's already You know, 80, 90 years old. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And this gorgeous old home that, you know, the whole area is. | |
| And it's just it's it's breaks your heart to see what's happened to the town now, which I talk about on the show a lot. | |
| The tree would be in like in the bay window. | |
| Yeah, the huge bay windows, giant wooden railings, just gorgeous. | |
| Yeah. | |
| But my point is, so so six o'clock we said, all right, we'll get up with you, you know, and literally 6.15, they were done opening all the presents. | |
| So we were like, can we go back to bed now? | |
| Back in the day, we had these monster VCR camcorders, the old camcorders, the name brand. | |
| You stuck the whole full-size VHS tape into it. | |
| I set it on the tripod and I give them the cue to go. | |
| Fifteen minutes later, I still had an hour and a half of tape to go. | |
| It was really cool editing all that out. | |
| Because we got it right before you started walking. | |
| Since I was a little toddler. | |
| We took the camcorder. | |
| I didn't love it so much because I would forget it was there because he would just set it back in the corner and you had to be camera ready, you know, as soon as you walked in the room. | |
| And I would always forget and have my back turned to it. | |
| You want to catch that great moment. | |
| And it was just 15 minutes later, it's all gone. | |
| The whole time. | |
| I still remember there's one video that we have from it. | |
| And you guys have gone and put them onto DVDs now. | |
| Yeah, they're on DVDs now. | |
| So we have it all. | |
| Now we got to get them onto digital. | |
| And there's a great video of, you know, and I must have been like one. | |
| And you had me in the wagon. | |
| And you're just kind of like going back and forth. | |
| I must have been the first one, yeah. | |
| And it's just amazing to see how young I look, and of course you look exactly the same. | |
| Of course! | |
| Him, not so much. | |
| And it's really cool to have videos of that and realizing, you know, all the technology that went into it and goes into it from now. | |
| I don't know, what are some other differences or things you remember from back then? | |
| Well, obviously, you know, mass, midnight mass was the best, you know, if we could, once you guys were old enough to stay up for midnight mass. | |
| Yeah, see, our kids, two and four, I feel like, I feel like even Jack-Jack, I don't know if he could handle midnight mass. | |
| Yeah, that's a lot. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Because they don't shorten it at all, it's the full mass. | |
| No, it's the full thing, yeah! | |
| All the candles, all the incense, everything! | |
| That was a lot. | |
| I enjoyed putting up the Christmas decorations outside, and they would come and help me tweak them just right. | |
| Well, some of the wrapping memory is, I remember you asking, how come Santa used the same wrapping paper as we did? | |
| Attention to detail, folks. | |
| Attention to detail. | |
| Day one. | |
| I said, Mom, why is it that Santa and you use the exact same kind of wrapping paper? | |
| True story. | |
| It's very interesting to me. | |
| But then I was able to tell you that it was because Santa had seen the wrapping paper when he got to our house, and then he wrapped the presents at our house. | |
| And Santa had his own special signature, you know, little swirls on the ass, everything. | |
| Yeah, so mom and dad would just have like a nice little, you know, mom and dad, but then Santa would have this huge looping, swirling from Santa, which is this huge deal, which is how you know that it wasn't from my mom and dad. | |
| Because when I would conduct the handwriting, I would say, well, obviously handwriting is totally different. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Totally different. | |
| And there was one mall Santa story. | |
| So you were little, maybe Jack Jack's age, maybe a year or two older, but you came home after seeing Santa and you said, I know that that wasn't the real Santa. | |
| And we're like, oh no. | |
| And we were like, well, how do you know that? | |
| Yeah. | |
| He said, oh, well, the, um, the boots, they weren't really boots. | |
| They were just like plastic covers over his sneakers because the real Santa is up at the North Pole making Obviously, very busy. | |
| Yeah, so I was like, okay, okay, got through that. | |
| Dab, what do you remember most from Christmas? | |
| Well, we were talking about the train sets a little bit, and I was very selfish about making sure that You're very particular about your train sets. | |
| Particular that they didn't get stomped on when they're chasing after all their gifts around the tree. | |
| And it ended up that the train set and the miniature village that she likes to put together ended up on my pool table. | |
| Yes, the one year you agreed to that, but most years, yeah, you won't even let us put it up, so I don't even know. | |
| I did notice the little village around the studio, by the way. | |
| Yes, I have put the village up. | |
| The little village is up now, and I get it, by the way, with having little kids of my own now, I get it. | |
| Yeah, I mean, they're from when you were little, right? | |
| The Lionel trains? | |
| My first train set in 1968. | |
| It's a nice set, yeah. | |
| Wow. | |
| It needs to be put up. | |
| And it still works. | |
| Oh yeah. | |
| It still works because that's real electricity. | |
| You would get the engine fixed. | |
| Jack-Jack knows how to turn the engine and make it work. | |
| He used a transformer to make it work. | |
| It was a year or two years ago we set it up. | |
| Yeah, so it needs to be set up. | |
| So we've got a couple of minutes left in the segment here. | |
| What kind of traditions would be important that you want to make sure that I continue with Jack-Jack and AJ? | |
| Well, obviously the birth, you know, of Jesus, that's what the reason for the season is. | |
| You know, a lot of kids don't get that, you know, seeing the live nativity and understanding what that all is. | |
| Well, we did take them all the way to Jerusalem this year. | |
| To Israel, yeah. | |
| I would say we're doing alright with that. | |
| Yeah, they're getting the base, where a lot of kids don't get that these days, and it's sad. | |
| It's all commercial. | |
| You know, I see all the decorations out on everybody's house, and I kind of do little grades for them, and they get extra points if they have a nativity scene, you know, on their lawn. | |
| Not just, you know, whatever. | |
| Read them the night before Christmas. | |
| Night before Christmas. | |
| Yeah, that was read every night since you were little. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Every night? | |
| Oh, Christmas Eve! | |
| He would memorize them. | |
| Kevin would memorize the words. | |
| And if I tried to rush through it to go to bed, he'd say, Dad, that's not what it says. | |
| That's not right, Dad. | |
| That's not right, Dad. | |
| No, yeah. | |
| Obviously, you were only 10 days old on your first Christmas, so Silent Night. | |
| I remember singing him that specifically, and we had this little song. | |
| Well, and then AJ ended up being a Christmas baby, too. | |
| Yeah, he's a Christmas baby, too. | |
| Not quite as close, thankfully. | |
| Well, we thought he was due on the 15th, and then he ended up coming two weeks earlier. | |
| Yeah, and you were due on the 12th. | |
| You were actually three days late, so you were even closer to Christmas. | |
| But there was this little silver bell, and when you, you know, we would, you know, ring it or whatever, you would stop crying. | |
| So that was always a special ornament, and we still have it. | |
| Now we just make all the libs cry. | |
| That's our favorite ornament. | |
| We will make sure to ring that bell every year. | |
| Christmas is the season of giving, and if you don't know what to give, Give a smile. | |
| Aww. | |
| And we're like, we're trying to give experiences more so than just a ton of presents under the tree. | |
| The one thing I remember, of course we're running out of time, but we would always do like a Christmas family... Like a play. | |
| Like a play or a show. | |
| We did like David Copperfield one year. | |
| We went to Cats one year and we all fell asleep. | |
| Yes, you fell asleep. | |
| We all fell asleep because it sucked. | |
| I know. | |
| I thought it was good. | |
| And yeah, she's a good nurse. | |
| I'm like, where did you guys sleep before? | |
| It was terrible. | |
| It was really bad. | |
| Merry Christmas, everybody. | |
| But Merry Christmas from my mom and dad. | |
| And I'll say this, you know, every once in a while I get some lib comment and they say, what are your mom and dad? | |
| I bet you they're very proud of me. | |
| I said, you kidding? | |
| My mom and dad watch like everything I do. | |
| Like always. | |
| Pretty much. | |
| It's hard to keep up. | |
| All right. | |
| Well, thanks mom and dad. | |
| I love you so much. | |
| You're welcome. | |
| I love you too. | |
| Merry Christmas. | |
| Merry Christmas. | |
| Okay, Jack Jack, you ready? | |
| Count us in. | |
| Five, four, three, two, one. | |
| Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. | |
| We're here and we've got a little infiltrator. | |
| An uninvited guest is joining us here to talk about the true meaning of Christmas. | |
| And what is your name, sir? | |
| What is your name? | |
| Jack Jack. | |
| Your name is Jack Jack. | |
| And how old are you? | |
| Four. | |
| You're four. | |
| And do you have any brothers? | |
| I have a baby AJ. | |
| You have a baby AJ? | |
| Yes. | |
| And how old is AJ? | |
| Two. | |
| Two, okay. | |
| Now, what day is coming up very soon? | |
| Christmas. | |
| Talking to this one. | |
| Talk right here. | |
| What day is coming? | |
| Christmas. | |
| And how many days before Christmas? | |
| Remember we were counting? | |
| Eight. | |
| That's right. | |
| Now, tell me whose birthday is Christmas? | |
| Jesus. | |
| Jesus' birthday? | |
| Yes. | |
| And who was Jesus' mom and dad? | |
| Joseph and Mary. | |
| Joseph and Mary? | |
| And baby Jesus. | |
| And they had baby Jesus? | |
| Yes. | |
| Yes. | |
| And did we go to Israel? | |
| Yes. | |
| Do you remember? | |
| Yes. | |
| So, Christmas is coming and tell me, what do you want for Christmas? | |
| A giraffe. | |
| A giraffe? | |
| How? | |
| You want a big giraffe or a small giraffe? | |
| A small giraffe. | |
| Oh, just a small one. | |
| Okay. | |
| That's good. | |
| And where's the giraffe going to live? | |
| I'm going to play with it. | |
| Where's he going to sleep? | |
| In my room. | |
| He's going to sleep in your room? | |
| And in your bed. | |
| In your bed? | |
| Yes. | |
| Oh, in your bed. | |
| Okay. | |
| And what's he going to eat? | |
| Pasta. | |
| Pasta? | |
| Just pasta? | |
| Yes. | |
| Just pasta? | |
| Okay. | |
| And then, is he, who's going to feed him every day? | |
| Me. | |
| You're going to feed him? | |
| Yes. | |
| Okay. | |
| And what does AJ, what about AJ, what does he want for Christmas? | |
| A train and a monkey. | |
| A train and a monkey? | |
| Yes. | |
| A train full of monkeys? | |
| No, not a train of monkeys. | |
| Just a train, Daddy. | |
| Okay, so you want a train of monkeys, and AJ wants a giraffe. | |
| No, no, no! | |
| No, so one giraffe for Mama, one monkey for Jack-Jack, and one train for Dada, and AJ gets nothing? | |
| No! | |
| What do you mean? | |
| You mixed it! | |
| I mixed it! | |
| Okay, tell me right. | |
| Tell the right way. | |
| What's the right way? | |
| Giraffe, or me, and AJ, train, and monkey. | |
| And what about mom and dada? | |
| What do we get for Christmas? | |
| What do I want for Christmas? | |
| What do you want to give Mama for Christmas? | |
| I don't think Mama knows what she wants for Christmas. | |
| By the way guys, that's a true thing. | |
| Nothing for Mama and Dada! | |
| Oh, but I was good this year! | |
| Wait, hold on. | |
| I have to give my advice to the young kings out there. | |
| I have to give my advice to the young kings out there. | |
| Is that never try to understand what women want because even women don't want themselves. | |
| They don't know what women want themselves. | |
| And so it's your job just to essentially give them things and make them happy. | |
| Otherwise, but if you sit there and try to ask them, you're never going to. | |
| But I'll give you example. | |
| Sweetheart, where would you like to go to dinner tonight? | |
| Look, look at the face, look at the face. | |
| You did not tell me this question is on! | |
| That's not fair! | |
| That is not fair, Jack-Jack! | |
| You're right, Jack-Jack. | |
| It's not fair. | |
| That's women. | |
| That's life. | |
| You put me right on the spot with that one. | |
| Jack-Jack, remember. | |
| Jack-Jack, do you remember what I taught you, right? | |
| There's no simping. | |
| Why? | |
| Because simps are losers. | |
| Because all they do is simp all day! | |
| Oh no! | |
| I know, right? | |
| Do you want to simp all day? | |
| No. | |
| What do you want to do all day? | |
| Kiss mama. | |
| Kiss mama! | |
| Jack Jack, do you like girls? | |
| Yes. | |
| Yes. | |
| Do you want to kiss girls? | |
| Yes. | |
| Who do you want to kiss? | |
| That's right, Mama Nana. | |
| Jack Jack, I have a question for you. | |
| What? | |
| Are there girls and boys? | |
| Yes. | |
| There's girls and boys. | |
| OK. | |
| Can girls become boys? | |
| No. | |
| Can boys become girls? | |
| No. | |
| Why? | |
| Because there's boys and girls. | |
| Exactly. | |
| That's right. | |
| High five. | |
| High five. | |
| Can I have one? | |
| OK. | |
| Bye-bye. | |
| Down low. | |
| Too slow! | |
| Got you, Jack-Jack. | |
| Oh, no, Daddy. | |
| I got you good. | |
| I got you. | |
| So, Jack-Jack, wait, wait, wait. | |
| Why did you say Mama and Daddy get nothing? | |
| Because I didn't know. | |
| You don't know? | |
| Why you not know? | |
| Because I didn't know what you and Mama take. | |
| But we were so good. | |
| Were we good to you this year? | |
| Did we take good care of you? | |
| Yes. | |
| Did we take you to Israel and Florida and Arizona? | |
| Yes. | |
| Yes, I did. | |
| And was it fun? | |
| Yes. | |
| And did you learn swimming this year? | |
| Yes, but I don't know what can you and Mama take for Christmas. | |
| What do you want us to take? | |
| What do you want to give us? | |
| Maybe make it a surprise for Mama and Dada. | |
| What surprise do you want to give Mama and Dada? | |
| Oh, it's a surprise. | |
| He doesn't want to tell us now. | |
| What are you doing, Jack-Jack? | |
| What are you doing? | |
| What's he doing? | |
| Sweetheart, what's going on? | |
| Jack-Jack? | |
| Oh, it's a sugar crash, isn't it? | |
| A big robot for daddy and a big bird for mama. | |
| Oh, wait. | |
| Oh, we've got an answer here. | |
| So you were thinking. | |
| You were thinking? | |
| A robot for daddy, and a bird for mommy. | |
| And a bird for mommy! | |
| I want a big robot. | |
| Wow, thank you. | |
| Can I have a whole army of robots? | |
| Yes sir, you can. | |
| Yeah! | |
| I want 1,000 robots. | |
| 1,000 giant robots. | |
| Maybe just 38 robots. | |
| Alright, we'll start with 38. | |
| Okay. | |
| And then how many next year? | |
| Maybe... | |
| 39. | |
| 39? | |
| Okay, sounds good. | |
| So you gotta start somewhere, folks. | |
| Your robot army can't begin with only, with a thousand. | |
| You gotta, you can't start at the top of the mountain. | |
| You gotta work your way up. | |
| Mama, you want some birds? | |
| So Mama's getting a bird? | |
| I think bird is a really nice surprise for Mama. | |
| Tell me more about this bird. | |
| Maybe Mama can have three, five birds. | |
| Uh-huh. | |
| Okay. | |
| And then, that many birds? | |
| I thought it was just one. | |
| And maybe four giraffes for me. | |
| And four giraffes. | |
| And what about AJ? | |
| Two, two, two trains for AJ and two monkeys for AJ. | |
| What about Uncle Kevin? | |
| Was Uncle Kevin good this year or bad? | |
| Bad! | |
| Bad! | |
| Uh oh! | |
| Sorry, sorry Uncle Kevin. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Naughty ass. | |
| We had somebody taking notes here and he came in a little short. | |
| If Uncle Kevin was bad, what does he get? | |
| Nothing! | |
| Did Uncle Kevin get a new truck? | |
| Yes. | |
| Did he give you a ride in his new truck? | |
| Yes. | |
| And where did you go? | |
| To Legoland. | |
| You went to Legoland with Uncle Kevin in the new truck? | |
| That sounds like fun. | |
| What? | |
| That's not fair! | |
| I went to Mama's Caravage in Legoland! | |
| Oh, but you also went with Uncle Kevin, right? | |
| To the car. | |
| To the car, yes. | |
| After it was night. | |
| After it was night, yes. | |
| Do you want to go back to Legoland with Uncle Kevin? | |
| Yes, and Mama too, and Nana, and Papa, and Dada. | |
| That's a nice Christmas wish. | |
| That's what you want for Christmas? | |
| Yes. | |
| For Christmas, do you love spending time with family? | |
| No! | |
| No? | |
| Are you tricking? | |
| Remember we did with Mama and AJ? | |
| We and you, we went and picked up a Christmas tree. | |
| No Christmas trees! | |
| We have a big Christmas tree. | |
| And you helped me put on the lights and all the toys. | |
| No, I stabbed the Christmas tree! | |
| And what else does our Christmas tree have that's very special on it? | |
| Um, I'm mom on top. | |
| No. | |
| No, a certain kind of dried item. | |
| Yes. | |
| Angel! | |
| No. | |
| At the top of the tree we have an... Angel! | |
| That's right, because you need an angel at the top of every Christmas tree, every proper Christmas tree. | |
| But what else do we have that's a sort of a traditional item as an ornament? | |
| Which one are you referring to? | |
| We have that dried fruit that you caught up? | |
| Yes, we have. | |
| Okay, this year I put on some dried oranges on the tree. | |
| How do you make those? | |
| So, it's actually very easy to make. | |
| No! | |
| You just take an orange, you slice it, and you bake it in the oven. | |
| No! | |
| No, no, no! | |
| Did you help Mama bake the oranges and put them on the tree? | |
| Yes, I think you did. | |
| I think you did it together, remember? | |
| And you were helping me putting them on the tree, remember? | |
| You had a little Christmas toy. | |
| This is why they say never work with kids and animals, folks. | |
| Jack Jack, do you like any Christmas songs? | |
| Yes. | |
| You do? | |
| What Christmas song do you like? | |
| I don't know. | |
| Do you like the one that goes jingle Bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. | |
| Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh. | |
| Hey! | |
| Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. | |
| Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh. | |
| Deck the halls with Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. | |
| Tis the season to be jolly. | |
| Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. | |
| Done we now our gay apparel. | |
| Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. | |
| Tore the ancient yuletide carol. | |
| Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. | |
| Merry Christmas from our family to yours. |