Speaker 1: What's up Beck's heads.
Speaker 2: What you're about to listen to is something a little
Speaker 2: bit different from our usual. There are almost no flags
Speaker 2: in this. It's a winter holiday themed tabletop RPG adventure
Speaker 2: which is guided by our past guest Adam aka kick
Speaker 2: Aciitron if you remember him from early episodes. And what
Speaker 2: we do in this show is we basically improve our
Speaker 2: way through a Christmas game with hidden objectives and apparently
Speaker 2: try and cause as much chaos as we can while
Speaker 2: doing so. If you like this, I would love for
Speaker 2: you to listen to our other show, the other show
Speaker 2: I do with this group called.
Speaker 1: Spooky dice Bag.
Speaker 2: It's basically what you're about to listen to, but with
Speaker 2: different characters, and it's been going on for years. But
Speaker 2: in that one, I play an emo changeling called and
Speaker 2: we are currently trying to get out of a waffle house.
Speaker 2: If that tells you anything anyway, listen to Spooky dice
Speaker 2: Bag for more and I will go ahead and let
Speaker 2: Adam explain the rest.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for listening to the Spooky dice
Speaker 3: Bag one shot Holiday Special. This year's game is a
Speaker 3: little bit different. It's a game called Hometown Holiday brought
Speaker 3: to you this year in two parts because it was
Speaker 3: a pretty long session. Created by Nick Torvil. It's meant
Speaker 3: to be a sort of Hallmark Christmas movie style tabletop
Speaker 3: RPG does have a couple of cool features. First and foremost,
Speaker 3: you have three stats. You have the stats sweaters for
Speaker 3: all of your physical tasks, cocoa for all of your
Speaker 3: sort of mental task, and you have cheer, which helps
Speaker 3: determine your character's natural charm and general love of the holidays.
Speaker 3: All roles are made with two D six's and the
Speaker 3: game has a feature where if you roll doubles there
Speaker 3: is a plot twist. If you're interested in playing this
Speaker 3: game and trying it out, it's only five bucks and
Speaker 3: I will link it in the description of this episode.
Speaker 3: Please support small game developers as much as you can.
Speaker 3: Usually these people are just trying to make a couple
Speaker 3: extra bucks off of a hobby, and it's nice to
Speaker 3: support them anyway. I would like to thank you for
Speaker 3: tuning in downloading whatever the Spooky Dice Bag twenty twenty
Speaker 3: five Holidays special and I really hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 3: So we open up on the picturesque snow Dust the
Speaker 3: town of Evergreendale, probably Vermont, but we're not quite sure where.
Speaker 3: New Vermontshire, New Vermontshire, vermain Evergreendale, New Vermont, England, where
Speaker 3: the entire town seems to be a big hustle and
Speaker 3: bustle of activity as the town center, despite its normal
Speaker 3: looks of being covered in Christmas trees this year is
Speaker 3: covered in smaller Christmas wreaths and bows in preparation for
Speaker 3: the big Gingerbread Gala.
Speaker 4: A game of mad libs.
Speaker 5: I love it more like bad libs. Whoa, I will
Speaker 5: keep this up?
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Yeah, this is good time. So the day
Speaker 3: before the gala, everything is getting set up and Douglas Firth,
Speaker 3: the Christmas tree farmer.
Speaker 4: I've got a shop in town where I sell the trees.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, it's busy setting up the reeds. And
Speaker 3: we have Terry Singletary walking around with his son Dingles Singletary.
Speaker 5: It was Dingleberry Singletary, correct Dingleberry.
Speaker 1: His middle name has yet to be a re never
Speaker 1: guess I think I have.
Speaker 4: Sir Dingleberry pie ingle Bird.
Speaker 3: You don't know. Uh is walking around looking at all
Speaker 3: of the setup for the festivities. Oh wow, with his son.
Speaker 6: Wow, look at this son.
Speaker 1: What's the step they got ponies and everything we have.
Speaker 3: We have Sandra Bullock who is coming in from the
Speaker 3: big city to see what this whole gingerbread gallo thing
Speaker 3: is about.
Speaker 6: This is so cheap and low rent.
Speaker 7: I wish I was back in the big city.
Speaker 3: And the two town poltergeists. I guess civil point set
Speaker 3: at Larch.
Speaker 8: Every holiday story needs one.
Speaker 5: Sigmund large bloody hell nearly sixty years of this God.
Speaker 9: Darling, it's that one hundred Christmas. Try to be happy
Speaker 9: about it.
Speaker 5: Yes, dear what happened, dear christ.
Speaker 3: Using their extra extra powered corporeal forms to set up
Speaker 3: the large, single, large Christmas tree that has just grown
Speaker 3: in the center of town since before they got married.
Speaker 10: Originally they even when they got married.
Speaker 8: You can in question here are we aware that these
Speaker 8: poultergeist exist and we're just cool?
Speaker 4: Yes you are.
Speaker 3: You aren't totally aware of it. They are members of
Speaker 3: the town. They are valued, valued members of the.
Speaker 6: Town, specifically Christmas pulter guys.
Speaker 3: They're year round, they're year round poltergeist, but they are
Speaker 3: specifically very much into Christmas. No no, when they get
Speaker 3: the most.
Speaker 5: Excited bloody disease trees.
Speaker 9: Darling, study steady the light come.
Speaker 3: On now, and Jacques but is coming into town to
Speaker 3: sell his wares of winter harvests, including mostly cabbages in
Speaker 3: the winter. Honestly, there's not a lot of winter winter
Speaker 3: harvesting to be done.
Speaker 10: I never heard of a greenhouse.
Speaker 4: You do not have them in Perry, Perry.
Speaker 10: I'll sorry, I believe what's French?
Speaker 4: Hey? Jackets? How you doing?
Speaker 11: I am doing?
Speaker 4: I don't speak French?
Speaker 5: Sorry, do you know?
Speaker 10: Patayah yah?
Speaker 6: Take your pans?
Speaker 7: Try to talk back to the Europeans.
Speaker 5: The cabbage man down't a s L biblioteca.
Speaker 3: Anyway. So all of you guys in town, here the
Speaker 3: inmistakable sound of a small private aircraft making an emergency
Speaker 3: landing because it's flying too low into the town's airstrip.
Speaker 1: Look, son, it's Harrison Ford.
Speaker 4: And you have a Jones.
Speaker 7: Does the planet successful landing or does the craft landing?
Speaker 3: And the rest of you guys go about your business
Speaker 3: of setting everything up and at the at the town's airstrip,
Speaker 3: the one the one attendant of the airstrip greets the
Speaker 3: one attendant of the airstrip. They greet Charity and Chad
Speaker 3: from their emergency stop on.
Speaker 10: The plane to kind of say his last day. You
Speaker 10: gotta say his last day. I put all that effort
Speaker 10: to do.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Charity Beauregard and Chad money rich around their emergency.
Speaker 3: From their emergency. Stop. Charity and Chad are met by
Speaker 3: Miss Hally Thorne. Okay, says oh my god, it's so.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad that you guys were able to to
Speaker 3: make that, to make that landed. Okay, the weather's been
Speaker 3: kind of rough around here, hasn't it.
Speaker 10: Cherry will look at Chad and go. Our landing had
Speaker 10: nothing to do with whether, did it.
Speaker 3: Honey, I don't know what you're talking about. On it's
Speaker 3: we just gotta we just gotta refuel, we gotta.
Speaker 10: No, no, this had nothing to do with fuel. And
Speaker 10: you know it. You threw a tantrum over the brand
Speaker 10: of caviar. I don't think you even like caviar.
Speaker 3: It's just too salty, you know, like, can't they make
Speaker 3: an unsalty caviar?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 3: Is it that much to ask?
Speaker 10: When's the next flight out?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm sorry, darling, there ain't gonna be another flight
Speaker 3: out of here until well after the Gingerbread Gallo tomorrow.
Speaker 3: So hopefully you guys can uh can stay inside, stay
Speaker 3: stay in town. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it,
Speaker 3: our hotel's all booked up. Hopefully hopefully we can uh
Speaker 3: hopefully we can. We can get you know what you know,
Speaker 3: I'll let you stay at my house. How does that sound?
Speaker 10: It sounds like no red flag. It all completely and
Speaker 10: totally fine to stay with this ranger. I accept. Thank
Speaker 10: you so much for your kindness. I would love to
Speaker 10: stay with you. You said your name was Holly Thorn.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna look on my phone for a moment. How
Speaker 10: do you spell thorn?
Speaker 3: Oh? Well, thorn is spelled t h O r n E.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, unrelated and related. I just want to make
Speaker 10: sure you've you've you've stayed in this town your entire life.
Speaker 10: Mm hmmm, okay, okay, we'd love to stay with you.
Speaker 10: Thank you so much.
Speaker 9: All right, quick background checks mm hmm yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: So for this game, I'm gonna have you make make
Speaker 3: a cocoa check when you're checking your phone.
Speaker 5: Okay, do you roll above or below?
Speaker 3: You roll the mug and tell me what it is.
Speaker 10: Well, I get to add my cocoa because I get
Speaker 10: a plus.
Speaker 3: You add your cocoa, so I Cat nine okay. Cool.
Speaker 3: So a quick Google search for the town of Evergreendale
Speaker 3: and the last name Thorn brings up a bailed peppermint farm.
Speaker 10: Oh how you feel peppermint? Peppermint grows like weeds.
Speaker 3: Bailed peppermint farm that was bought out by big spice business,
Speaker 3: but it is still pledgeling called Thorn and Son's Peppermint.
Speaker 10: Okay, all right, I'm I feel comfortable staying with a
Speaker 10: complete stranger in a town that I've had to safe
Speaker 10: had to land in because my jerk boyfriend decided to
Speaker 10: throw a fit over caviar. I think this is a
Speaker 10: good life decision for me, and I'm going to stay
Speaker 10: at their house.
Speaker 3: Oh han, there's not even gonna be a hot tub. Sucks.
Speaker 10: Well, if somebody didn't throw a temper tantrum over Fitch eggs,
Speaker 10: this wouldn't be happening. But you know what, I didn't
Speaker 10: even want to go to Bali. This seems a lot light,
Speaker 10: nicer and Christmas here than where we were headed. So
Speaker 10: I'm honestly on board. Get on board.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go offer the pilot a million dollars
Speaker 3: and he'll bring us to Bali. It'll be fine.
Speaker 10: I'm pretty sure the pilot left, but okay, you do that.
Speaker 3: As you say that, you hear the plane taking off
Speaker 3: of him.
Speaker 10: She'll turn and smile back at Holly, her new friend,
Speaker 10: and ask her about this gingerbread gallop.
Speaker 3: Oh, well, it's just the best dang thing ever in town.
Speaker 3: You know, the whole town square gets lit up, and
Speaker 3: right in the middle we have the rec center, and
Speaker 3: everybody and their mama just makes gingerbread houses. And then
Speaker 3: other people come down all from all around. We got
Speaker 3: people from like two states over, sometimes even three states over,
Speaker 3: and they come here and they judge our gingerbread houses.
Speaker 10: Can I make one? Can I? Can I make? Can
Speaker 10: I make a gingerbread house? It's your kitchen. I understand
Speaker 10: that that you've offered me to stay there, but can
Speaker 10: I make Can I help?
Speaker 3: Oh? I just want to get some sleep, higher plane
Speaker 3: and go off the BALI come on, you're ruining my holiday.
Speaker 10: She just kind of ignores him and looks to Holiday
Speaker 10: to see if she's gonna let you don't have to help.
Speaker 10: I want to help you to go do whatever you want.
Speaker 10: I want to help.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course we can. We can make a make
Speaker 3: a gingerbread house. Ball. Yeah, yeah, we can do that.
Speaker 10: You can.
Speaker 3: You can sign up as a guest. Usually it's done
Speaker 3: by like house or something, but we can sign you
Speaker 3: up as a guest.
Speaker 10: Right, be perfect, very exciting.
Speaker 3: I'll call ahead and have my have my husband put
Speaker 3: in the gingerbread so that it's nice and warm when
Speaker 3: it comes out, and start making your house immediately. You know,
Speaker 3: stick together. It sticks together better when when it's still
Speaker 3: warm and you can get all the all the icing
Speaker 3: to kind of melt and stick together so it stays up.
Speaker 3: It's a structural things.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I hear that using hot sugar like a carameount
Speaker 10: works even better if you're okay with it and you
Speaker 10: don't mind potentially losing a pot. I would love to
Speaker 10: try that method.
Speaker 3: Oh I got a caramel pot. It's fine.
Speaker 10: I'm twice you. Oh my god, I love you. You're you're
Speaker 10: the beast.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. All Right, So you guys head
Speaker 3: into you and Chad head into town and you see, uh,
Speaker 3: you see all these You see a man setting up
Speaker 3: all the breaths on along the poles heading into the
Speaker 3: center of town. Uh. You see a butter farmer selling
Speaker 3: his wares.
Speaker 10: Well, wait, I need I need to know, like is
Speaker 10: it shaped butter? Is it herbed butter? What kind of butter?
Speaker 4: Butter? Letnuce butter? Butter?
Speaker 10: Letnuce?
Speaker 5: I what if expect your bread and butterdills? Honestly, like,
Speaker 5: I'm I'm wondering.
Speaker 10: Is it sculptural? Is a sculptural butter?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 11: Are you asking me?
Speaker 10: Yes, I'm wondering. I'm wondering over to the butter farmer
Speaker 10: and I'm asking, uh uh, tell me about your butter.
Speaker 10: I'm very intrigued.
Speaker 11: I have butter with a butty you want, I have it.
Speaker 11: It all comes with a free side of butter, free
Speaker 11: of charge. I have all kinds of the butter's.
Speaker 5: Not all of it?
Speaker 4: What the South American.
Speaker 10: I was specifically looking for, like a cow shaped like
Speaker 10: sculptural butter? Do you do you offer sculptural butter sculptures?
Speaker 10: Or is it is it purely like sticks of butter?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 11: We have many kinds of butter. But I can garb
Speaker 11: it for you if you like. It might take me
Speaker 11: some type.
Speaker 10: I would love to put it in order for a
Speaker 10: cow butter sculpture if if you're willing to do that,
Speaker 10: I'll pay extra.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, give me. Do you pick it up tonight?
Speaker 10: Okay, I'm fantastic.
Speaker 8: I'm just pinaturing a wheelbarrow full of loose butter with
Speaker 8: cabbages stuck in it.
Speaker 5: Does anyone else, Yes, No, the butt.
Speaker 11: You get the butt even if you don't want to.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 5: So it's like onions that went crystals or white Castle.
Speaker 12: Okay, but this French, but the American French butter is
Speaker 12: like non consensual butter.
Speaker 1: It's like pepper, but it is.
Speaker 8: Pep okayopreads like the clap, the clap, like crap.
Speaker 5: I thought you're gonna say the clap.
Speaker 4: No, no, the clap.
Speaker 11: I'm very clean French.
Speaker 10: As Charity buys her butter, she does get a little
Speaker 10: too close to you. She's kind of like looking at
Speaker 10: your skin and like tilting her head. She's just very
Speaker 10: very close to you. She's I don't know how you
Speaker 10: take this, but she's like, I love to order some
Speaker 10: butter in the shape of a cow.
Speaker 11: He'll be really confused, back up a little and and
Speaker 11: be He'll that's.
Speaker 3: This interaction is happening, Sandra Bullock. As you're trying to
Speaker 3: get more information on this festival, you come up to
Speaker 3: this conversation.
Speaker 7: Uh so, I see that you're selling a bunch of
Speaker 7: butter and stuff, like how much is that?
Speaker 6: Is it gourmet? Is it artisanal? Or is it you.
Speaker 11: Can get into shape? But I primarily said the cabbages.
Speaker 11: It's just the betta comes free of charge.
Speaker 6: It but it's a bit exqueeze and you miss Are
Speaker 6: you buying butter?
Speaker 10: I I am, I am buying butter. I didn't know
Speaker 10: that I also had to purchase.
Speaker 6: A cabbage, So with a cabbage.
Speaker 10: I hadn't planned on it. But you know, probably just
Speaker 10: I probably just get it to my wondering boyfriend over there.
Speaker 10: I'll give it. He can have the cabbage. I want
Speaker 10: the sculpture. Old butter is what I'm here for.
Speaker 7: That's your boyfriend. Your boyfriend is Chad money Rich. You know,
Speaker 7: Chad money rich. Yes, my company has been trying to
Speaker 7: get him to sit down and do an autobiography for years.
Speaker 10: You know what, Chad, Chad, get over here right now.
Speaker 3: Come on, babe, I don't care about butter and cabbage.
Speaker 10: He pushes. She pushes Chad towards Sandra and says, she
Speaker 10: wants to talk to you about an autobiography. You love
Speaker 10: to talk about you talk to all Oh about Yeah,
Speaker 10: I saw.
Speaker 7: That peace on you and Vanity Fair. I thought it
Speaker 7: was outstanding. You are one of the greatest thinkers of
Speaker 7: our time. It is so important that my publishing company
Speaker 7: gets to publish your book.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I'd love to. Yeah, yeah, we can
Speaker 3: go chat.
Speaker 10: Charity is physically pushing Chad towards Sandra.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 7: Let's go to back to my hotel room and chat.
Speaker 7: They're a little stated setting area. It's a terrible hotel room.
Speaker 7: Everything shabby and cheap. But the cabbage situation is kind
Speaker 7: of a deal breaker for me.
Speaker 11: All I like it great, Miss Salad, we good sighted.
Speaker 3: All right, So, as as this conversation is coming to
Speaker 3: a close, we have Mary, the mayor of the town,
Speaker 3: standing up on like a podium right in front of
Speaker 3: the rec center, you know, hitting like the microphone, making
Speaker 3: the loud uh feedback. Everybody welcome. Tomorrow is the big
Speaker 3: gingerbread Gala. Hope everybody's ready for that. And there's a
Speaker 3: big surprise back home after fifteen years in the big
Speaker 3: city making his app we have Liam Thorne returning to town.
Speaker 9: Honey, Liam's coming back. Why isn't that wonderful.
Speaker 5: Bloody bastard.
Speaker 9: What did Liam ever do to you, darling?
Speaker 5: Look at him, look to the sage.
Speaker 3: So Liam's just like, hey, super excited to be back
Speaker 3: in town. Uh really, just kind of hoping that we
Speaker 3: can have a big successful Gingerbread gallop, bring everything back.
Speaker 3: The reaths look great, and uh yeah, I hope you
Speaker 3: guys hope it'll have a great time. And he walks away,
Speaker 3: and Sandra Bullock, as you're walking out, you bump into
Speaker 3: you bump into Liam as you're walking away with Chad
Speaker 3: and uh yeah ahead, yeah you guys, you're Mark, and
Speaker 3: then Cybele and Sigmund we're just kind of following him around. Hey,
Speaker 3: how's how's it going. What you're new? You're new in town.
Speaker 3: I don't remember seeing you here fifteen years ago.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well my parents moved here when they were retired.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go back and talk about this autobiography. H
Speaker 3: who's this guy? Even he goes to like reach out
Speaker 3: and shake your hand, The name's Liam. I'll be uh,
Speaker 3: I'll be here. I'm one of the head judges of
Speaker 3: the Gingerbread Gala. Do you do you have a did
Speaker 3: you put a house in this year? For the for
Speaker 3: the content.
Speaker 6: I didn't do not put in a house this year.
Speaker 6: I am above it all.
Speaker 3: Ah, I we'll see about that, okay, And then he said, well,
Speaker 3: well it's been It's been great to meet you, and
Speaker 3: I hope you have a great time at the at
Speaker 3: the Gingerbread Gala and whatever's going on here between between
Speaker 3: you guys.
Speaker 6: You're judging.
Speaker 7: Nice to meet you, Liam, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3: Mary, what was your I missed your name, but Merry Christmas.
Speaker 6: Oh I'm Sandra Bullock. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Oh, very nice to meet. Nice to meet, and he'll
Speaker 3: wander off.
Speaker 7: So Chad, tell me about your latest developments in the
Speaker 7: business world.
Speaker 6: I heard you, how Marge you're coming up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know. Business world's all about mergers. It's that's
Speaker 3: really where the money's at, you know, stock options and
Speaker 3: business and you know it's just it's all very technical.
Speaker 6: That's fascinating. Chad. I want to hear all about it.
Speaker 7: Tell me more because we need insights like yours that
Speaker 7: are publishing company.
Speaker 3: So you know, sometimes like when a when a big,
Speaker 3: big company buys a smaller company, like the stocks change,
Speaker 3: and what you want to do is you want to
Speaker 3: make sure that your stocks are always going up.
Speaker 6: You know, that's brilliant important.
Speaker 3: It's important to have infinite growth.
Speaker 5: That growth so true. You hear the ghosts somewhere the
Speaker 5: back behind you go, Yes, like a cancer.
Speaker 9: I've never understood your hatred forlorn. Well, okay, he's a
Speaker 9: little off put in sometimes, but he's fine. We need
Speaker 9: to get to our gingerbread house.
Speaker 5: Yes, dear, fine, How are.
Speaker 9: We not going to win with the Rockefeller invention?
Speaker 5: Come on, m good you're going to give them diabetes again?
Speaker 9: And I know it not again?
Speaker 5: Well, what happened last year?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 9: It was more of a hot tag situation. Clos start
Speaker 9: a cream with a little curdled.
Speaker 5: Alright, it was literally turning in the sugar crystals.
Speaker 9: Woman, Oh it's this time of year.
Speaker 5: You couldn't indulge, indulge that death. We need more ghosting, Well.
Speaker 9: We need more gum drun follow me, come on, come now?
Speaker 3: So, uh, Sybil, you notice a you notice Jacques the
Speaker 3: butter farmer.
Speaker 1: Can we get Sybil out of the way.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's Sybil.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, it's Sibyl. You know, like I was just
Speaker 5: gonna let it go.
Speaker 1: We're gonna regret it later.
Speaker 5: Like the one over the multiple personalities.
Speaker 3: Sybil, you you split off from Sigmund and you head
Speaker 3: over to the butter farmer Jacques to see if you
Speaker 3: might have any gum drops or anything to add to
Speaker 3: your gingerbread house.
Speaker 5: Butter drops, brilliant, brilliant and uh.
Speaker 3: So. Charity is still over there talking about the the
Speaker 3: It was a cow butter sculpture that she was looking
Speaker 3: to get anything, So take.
Speaker 4: A menotaur, Seoan.
Speaker 3: Good to see you again.
Speaker 10: That's good, Sean.
Speaker 9: Good to see you again with your whares friend.
Speaker 4: Oh I mean, how are you?
Speaker 9: Oh so good? I'm going for like the two side kisses.
Speaker 9: I need to do my famous butter cream again this season.
Speaker 9: You know who I come for. That came out wrong.
Speaker 9: You have butter.
Speaker 6: I have, but I'm not going to say it.
Speaker 4: I love though, tell me, tell me my love. What
Speaker 4: do you need?
Speaker 9: I need your creamiest concoction I need to take.
Speaker 3: The ghost is flirting with the butter farmer in front
Speaker 3: of a new customer. Liam comes up to the group.
Speaker 9: Liam, welcome home, darling. It's been too long, Sybil.
Speaker 3: Oh you haven't left?
Speaker 9: Oh not? How could I leave you? Folks here?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Oh? Curs? Oh?
Speaker 10: Can I see them.
Speaker 3: In shock.
Speaker 9: And who is how are you?
Speaker 3: Oh? I've been doing pretty good. You know. I successfully
Speaker 3: created an app and it sold to one of those
Speaker 3: one of those big companies. So I'm just coming back
Speaker 3: home trying to, you know, set my roots back down.
Speaker 3: Was this? What's this lovely looking lady right here?
Speaker 9: We're so rude? Hello? Nice? Are you known town?
Speaker 10: I am? I am actually stopping through and we were
Speaker 10: on our way to Bali, which sounds like a driving
Speaker 10: way to spend the holidays when we happen to land here,
Speaker 10: and I just love this town. It's precious and I
Speaker 10: can't wait to make a gingerbread house for the gingerbread Gala.
Speaker 9: Oh somebody's guest, darling? Love it for you? Nope? So
Speaker 9: this is our This is our Liam, a prodigal son.
Speaker 9: So what is this app?
Speaker 3: Darling? Oh? Well the app I created? It's very interesting.
Speaker 3: So what you do is you wrap a Christmas present right,
Speaker 3: and you take a picture of it, and we wrote
Speaker 3: a program that let you that will tell you the
Speaker 3: best bow, the best tags, and the best ribbons to
Speaker 3: put on your present so it looks perfect on Christmas morning.
Speaker 10: You created perfect rap?
Speaker 3: I did? I created perfect rap.
Speaker 10: My life has changed since perfect rap.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I'm so happy to hear that. That's great.
Speaker 10: I have to shake your hand, and she's like, I
Speaker 10: have to shake your hand. I cannot thank you enough
Speaker 10: for how amazing, because you know, I get I'm terribly
Speaker 10: indecisive when it comes to my gift rapping. I want
Speaker 10: the perfect bow and I'll look at a bunch of them.
Speaker 10: And it's so nice to have my wrapped present take
Speaker 10: a picture of it and it knows exactly which boe
Speaker 10: I need, and I thank you so much. Revolutionary.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad it worked out. Unfortunately, we sold it
Speaker 3: to you know, the world's largest wrapping company, actually the
Speaker 3: world soldiers Christmas Wrap Company, and uh, they're they're trying
Speaker 3: to kill it because they want people to just buy
Speaker 3: all of the bows and try them out so they
Speaker 3: can make more money. Actually, so unfortunately it's going to
Speaker 3: be going away. Just don't update your app, okay, and
Speaker 3: and the rest should work mine.
Speaker 10: Well, that's awful. Is there a way to save it?
Speaker 3: I mean they bought they bought everything, they bought the rights,
Speaker 3: they bought all of it. I guess we could we
Speaker 3: could make our own, all right, Me and my team
Speaker 3: we could we go around and make our own, but
Speaker 3: it's it's going to be an uphill, uphill journey for that,
Speaker 3: because you know, we can't make it look too much
Speaker 3: like the other one or else. Still, they'll shut us down.
Speaker 12: Look, son, a cheese shopow dad, that's really good.
Speaker 1: To looks like they got cabbage too.
Speaker 12: Oh hey, it seems like we're all meeting up here.
Speaker 1: Huh you like the cabbage?
Speaker 9: Oh, Terry, good to see you.
Speaker 1: Oh, good to see you as well.
Speaker 3: Sybil.
Speaker 4: Who's the stinky frenchman? Susan? Wah, yeah you.
Speaker 11: I said, I said the cabbage, and you get but
Speaker 11: the French.
Speaker 5: But the I like the child.
Speaker 12: He said, Now, Son, you can be a little bit
Speaker 12: more cutting than that.
Speaker 1: Next time.
Speaker 4: I know you can't.
Speaker 8: He's gonna grab a handful of butter and throw it.
Speaker 8: Let's se who's gonna throw it at? Who's gonna throw
Speaker 8: at the ghost?
Speaker 5: So it goes straight through the ghost. We're corporal guys,
Speaker 5: corporal oriole bloody a.
Speaker 12: Were in the army, Son, They dressed like corporals.
Speaker 1: Maybe don't throw too much at him.
Speaker 9: I am covered in costume, jewelry and velvet. There is
Speaker 9: no no war here. Anymore, though, I get a pigment.
Speaker 9: It's a bit of a store situation.
Speaker 4: Well, how did you hear the Christmas?
Speaker 1: I thought those were metals. I'm sorry. Now I'm looking close.
Speaker 1: I see it.
Speaker 4: I see it now?
Speaker 9: Is this little Dingle all grown up?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: Dingle Jerry? Do you want to introduce yourself?
Speaker 4: Hi, Dingle Jerry?
Speaker 1: How old are you? The lady asked, how old are
Speaker 1: my dad?
Speaker 4: I don't do math.
Speaker 12: Well, well, let's see, your mom was killed by that
Speaker 12: mal Santa three years.
Speaker 4: Ago when I started homeschooling, right when you.
Speaker 12: Was twelve, which makes you makes it a little odd
Speaker 12: you still got this.
Speaker 4: Boy dropped at my jingle balls.
Speaker 12: If they were although we didn't start homeschooling you until twelve.
Speaker 1: Apparently, so around a little bit of.
Speaker 12: An arrested development path, if you will, anyways, not throwing
Speaker 12: stuff at ghosts.
Speaker 3: Liam turns to Terry. Terry, Oh is this this?
Speaker 7: This?
Speaker 9: This is?
Speaker 3: Oh? Is this the the little baby Mary was pregnant
Speaker 3: with when I left? This is?
Speaker 1: Are you asking?
Speaker 3: What child?
Speaker 1: Is this?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: God, Yes, this is Dingle. This is Dingle. This is
Speaker 1: that baby you remember?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Ringle or jingle or Mingle or Tingley.
Speaker 1: It's because we had him in July. We weren't feeling
Speaker 1: this year at then.
Speaker 8: Dad always Dad always judgsment dingle because I'm always hanging on.
Speaker 3: Yes, Erry, we're gonna have to We're gonna have to
Speaker 3: get get back together. We're gonna have to see each other,
Speaker 3: meet each other.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, totally totally make.
Speaker 3: It back in touch with each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you want my number?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'll take your number.
Speaker 12: I'll text you, Okay, Yeah, totally totally all right here
Speaker 12: here it is, there we go.
Speaker 3: My number is five five five by five by five
Speaker 3: by five five.
Speaker 1: Oh you haven't.
Speaker 12: Changed it since high school when I couldn't get in
Speaker 12: touch with you then. But I'm assuming you got it
Speaker 12: all figured out in the meantime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know how you know how the towers work
Speaker 3: around here? You can really get a good signal.
Speaker 11: Oh I could never forget that.
Speaker 3: That is.
Speaker 12: God damn it, those famous plural French hours.
Speaker 10: That was the right planate park.
Speaker 9: Just what Frindcus.
Speaker 3: Well, Terry, it's been. It's been great to meet up
Speaker 3: with you. I hope we can get together sometime and
Speaker 3: you know, talk a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got so many business ideas for you.
Speaker 3: You go, that's great.
Speaker 10: I should introduce you to my boyfriend if you've got
Speaker 10: business ideas, because he's got so much money.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, have we met?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 10: My name is Charity and I'm just visiting kind of spontaneously.
Speaker 10: I just overheard you say that you have some business ideas,
Speaker 10: and I just want to let you know that if
Speaker 10: you have business ideas, my boyfriend Chad would love to
Speaker 10: hear them. You should tell him all about them for
Speaker 10: a long period of time away from me. And I'm
Speaker 10: sure if he likes one, he'd be more than happy
Speaker 10: to give you some money.
Speaker 1: Well, he sounds fantastic. Just here, give him my card.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, you're yeah.
Speaker 4: Tell me about the sexy ornament ide yet?
Speaker 3: Son?
Speaker 1: That one's a trade secret.
Speaker 4: Oh sorry, Dad, We.
Speaker 1: Don't tell it till we sell it, right.
Speaker 4: That's true. I'm learning so much from you.
Speaker 5: What has balls dropped?
Speaker 4: Full of the holiday spirit?
Speaker 1: They say every time a bell rings?
Speaker 9: Oh god, oh you.
Speaker 4: Have the car.
Speaker 12: Oh goodness, we're here already, boy here, drop back to
Speaker 12: the stand, leave me alone.
Speaker 3: So as most as most of you are leaving the stand,
Speaker 3: Sybil is going to stay around to talk with Jacques.
Speaker 3: About the butter cream and uh, the Christmas tree farmer
Speaker 3: Douglas Firth is coming right by to set up a
Speaker 3: wreath at the bowl that Jacques is set up at. Oh,
Speaker 3: oh my god, I'ma's still there.
Speaker 8: Oh, oh gosh, I'm so sorry about the lack of
Speaker 8: Christmas trees. We had a beetle blight. We had to
Speaker 8: pivot to pre made gingerbread houses, cranberry sauces and wreaths.
Speaker 8: I'm hoping we could have a good, happy holiday. God,
Speaker 8: I wish my wife was still alive.
Speaker 5: What happened to your dead?
Speaker 3: What happened? Oh, I've been gone for so long, I
Speaker 3: didn't know.
Speaker 8: Oh it was Christmas Eve three years ago. You know
Speaker 8: our our You know I'm a I'm a terribly old
Speaker 8: fifty five years old, already a grandfather. She had gone
Speaker 8: to our children's house to drop off, you know, presents
Speaker 8: for the grandkids, and oh god, she was walking home
Speaker 8: from their house on Christmas Eve and she got trampled
Speaker 8: by a reindeer.
Speaker 9: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: Oh, you know, I'm surprised.
Speaker 8: You're all surprised by this because it was in the
Speaker 8: news they described her body is cranberry chutney.
Speaker 9: We did our best to not imagine the chutney. Darling,
Speaker 9: you did.
Speaker 4: Oh wait, wait wait you're the two poultry guys. Yes,
Speaker 4: have you seen my wife lately?
Speaker 5: I've not seen your wife. I'm sorry. She was blessed
Speaker 5: and went to the hereafter.
Speaker 13: We were a little bit of a different situation, so
Speaker 13: we don't really, we've just been here a long time.
Speaker 13: It's like, how aur, Well, it's more than's a mission
Speaker 13: for my dear, dearly departed husband that I seemed to
Speaker 13: be connected with, or else I would be in the
Speaker 13: great beyond, isn't that right?
Speaker 5: Well I hadn't stood there laughing at your corpse, perhaps
Speaker 5: i'd still be alive.
Speaker 9: Yes, that Christmas pageant didn't go a bit awry. But
Speaker 9: but darling, we're so sorry for your lost Yes, now
Speaker 9: the trees situation, I'm sure everybody understands that the gingerbread
Speaker 9: alley was a perfect pittance.
Speaker 3: It's fine, it's perfectly fine. I understand that beetles can
Speaker 3: sometimes be bad for trees.
Speaker 8: Yeah, then they were British beetles in particular. It was
Speaker 8: an invasion, British invasion. Oh no, I just I just
Speaker 8: hope I can get us through one more Christmas because
Speaker 8: I've gotten word from the I R S that they
Speaker 8: are going to be arriving on Christmas Eve and they
Speaker 8: may repossess my farm.
Speaker 3: And no, not not the not another farm gone away.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, these big corporations keep acting like vampires on
Speaker 8: the American populacey.
Speaker 4: Anyway, that's for another discussion.
Speaker 8: So please buy bloody of gingerbread kits and wreaths and
Speaker 8: cranberry sauce.
Speaker 3: Liam Liam grabs. Liam grabs Douglas's hand as like a handshake,
Speaker 3: but do you notice that it is a little bit
Speaker 3: more tender than your normal handshake? He says. I'm so
Speaker 3: sorry to hear about all of this, Douglas.
Speaker 4: I haven't had this saw since my wife died.
Speaker 3: Hope. Yes, well, perhaps we can meet up sometime and
Speaker 3: talk about how things are going.
Speaker 4: You don't mind that I'm an older gentleman with.
Speaker 3: Family, not if you don't mind that I'm a failed
Speaker 3: Christmas wrapping application entrepreneur whose application has been shut down
Speaker 3: by the Holiday mark company.
Speaker 8: That's okay, I don't do the Facebook, okay, yes, yes, no,
Speaker 8: that would be wonderful. Maybe you can help me figure
Speaker 8: out my issues with the tax man.
Speaker 4: I really appreciate that. I did.
Speaker 8: Want to remind everyone that we are having the annual
Speaker 8: Tannin Bomb Farm's Christmas part tonight. I know that we
Speaker 8: won't have any Christmas trees. God, I hate that that happened,
Speaker 8: but again, please come to the party. We're gonna be
Speaker 8: auctioning off several really interesting Christmas items and I'm gonna
Speaker 8: make my way around town and just make sure everybody.
Speaker 4: Knows we can have a half happy Christmas this year.
Speaker 3: It will be the happiest Christmas even without Christmas trees. God,
Speaker 3: will we ever said you needed whoever said you needed
Speaker 3: a Christmas tree for Christmas?
Speaker 5: Everyone sigment.
Speaker 9: We are going to need a lot of tinsel, hot glue,
Speaker 9: and some sticks, and we are going to make something happens.
Speaker 5: None of Charlie Brown's situation. Fine, dear, fine, I'll fine sticks.
Speaker 3: Liam looks over and sees Sigmund. Sigmund, you haven't aged
Speaker 3: a day in the last fifteen years. Yes, how are you?
Speaker 5: I'm fine, of course I haven't been dead. Chance.
Speaker 3: Yeah. He shakes your hand just as cold as ever,
Speaker 3: just the way I like you, Sigmund.
Speaker 5: Yes, well, that is how it works when you lose
Speaker 5: a body. You lose body heat, but of a problem.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's a necrophiliac.
Speaker 5: Christmas, Hey, scary ghost stories and tales of the glories
Speaker 5: of Christmases long long ago.
Speaker 10: There is an actual Hallmark Christmas movie. Uh, I think
Speaker 10: it's like The Spirit In or something like that that
Speaker 10: is about a ghost.
Speaker 3: Get with.
Speaker 5: Is it a gay ghost?
Speaker 10: It not in that iteration?
Speaker 4: Okay, but it does it doesn't breaking new ground here?
Speaker 5: Yeah, a bisexual king.
Speaker 3: Let's do this? Can I go up to ok No,
Speaker 3: go ahead, as.
Speaker 9: As Sigmund is talking to Liam, go up to Jock.
Speaker 9: Do you think anybody in this town is good enough
Speaker 9: for our young Leo? He's such an entrepreneur, he's so smart,
Speaker 9: and I just don't want somebody who's not good enough
Speaker 9: for him to be part of this. What are your
Speaker 9: thoughts on the new people? Oh, some of the old
Speaker 9: people that have been around.
Speaker 11: I think I think she should buy my cabbage, and
Speaker 11: that should with enough energy to think on their own.
Speaker 11: I think perhaps, I think I think perhaps, let me
Speaker 11: see where where did the people say they were staying?
Speaker 3: Again?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 3: That will?
Speaker 9: I mean we only really have one in so I
Speaker 9: assume there and you took the order for the butterpig ladies.
Speaker 9: So I think she's set up probably Holly's house. Holly
Speaker 9: has a pension for picking up the trace. We'll just
Speaker 9: keep an eye.
Speaker 11: Lets me see if I can perhaps try to get
Speaker 11: there and admit there and I can ta to see
Speaker 11: to to talk to them.
Speaker 9: As everyone mingles, all right, yeah, we just keep an
Speaker 9: eye on our close good friend. See what we need
Speaker 9: to do next.
Speaker 3: Very good.
Speaker 9: All right, I'll take my creamy butter and be on
Speaker 9: my way. Off you at the party tonight. As you're there,
Speaker 9: get back over to my husband, my butter and gabbage.
Speaker 9: I always take your cabbage.
Speaker 3: So Sandra Bullock, we go back to your house at
Speaker 3: the to your room at the end, not not your house,
Speaker 3: your room at the end with Chad money rich uh
Speaker 3: so yeah, like like I was saying, you know business
Speaker 3: acquisitions and stock options, and you know the key is
Speaker 3: to pay the people who worked for you as little
Speaker 3: as possible so you could make as much money as possible.
Speaker 6: What a fascinating business insight. You must have so much money?
Speaker 3: Oh, I got you know where we were going before
Speaker 3: we stopped here where AVR made our plane to have
Speaker 3: to make an emergency stop. We were heading off to Bali.
Speaker 6: Wow, that's elite. You are so rich.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm very rich. Yeah, I got I got
Speaker 3: a lot of money.
Speaker 6: So tell me, Chad money rich?
Speaker 7: When you inherited tens of billions of dollars from your
Speaker 7: deceased father, how did you confront that terrible challenge?
Speaker 3: Well, what I did is I put my hard work
Speaker 3: in mind to working hard and making more money.
Speaker 6: You truly are an inspiration to us.
Speaker 3: All. Yeah, you know, I started with.
Speaker 7: Sandra Bullet puts her hand on his knee while they're
Speaker 7: talking and gives him a meaningful look.
Speaker 4: Oh shits war.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my my, my dad he left me and now
Speaker 3: we're only down to nine billion. So really, Wow, I'm
Speaker 3: making some good money. I'm doing a good job.
Speaker 6: Anyone with nine billion dollars must be doing something, right.
Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah, that's what That's what they've said.
Speaker 7: Yeah, tell me what were you going to be doing
Speaker 7: in Bali?
Speaker 3: Oh? You know, they got they got the coolest beaches
Speaker 3: and I don't even think I don't even think they
Speaker 3: make people wear shirts. They're old.
Speaker 6: Wow, And who are you going with?
Speaker 11: I was going?
Speaker 3: Uh? I think her name was Charity, Yeah, Charity Open.
Speaker 6: Which sounds ugly. You know, we you should get with
Speaker 6: someone powerful and hot like me. Yeah, please tell me
Speaker 6: more about.
Speaker 7: Your book idea changing the subject rapidly my book.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I was thinking about writing, you know, a
Speaker 3: book about business, about making deals and you know, all
Speaker 3: the skill that it requires to make deals. So I
Speaker 3: was thinking like we could, uh you know, start with
Speaker 3: like you see something that you want that you got
Speaker 3: enough money for, and then you buy it like a
Speaker 3: whole company. And then what you can do is you
Speaker 3: just you fire everybody who works there, and then you
Speaker 3: make more money because you don't got to pay him.
Speaker 7: Anymore, right, amazing, Yeah, that's how that's that's just one way.
Speaker 6: One idea.
Speaker 7: You're gonna help so many managers make so much money
Speaker 7: by firing people.
Speaker 3: You know. It's it's when you take that it's when
Speaker 3: you really take that surplus value that the labor force
Speaker 3: is created and then just arbitrage.
Speaker 9: Right yeah, yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Just pocket it and it's great, it works. Amazing.
Speaker 6: I'm so proud of you. You're an exemplary American. You
Speaker 6: give inspiration and hope to assault.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean just like every American. We got to
Speaker 3: go to Bali for the holiday.
Speaker 6: Just like every American exactly.
Speaker 3: That's where Americans deserve to have Christmas.
Speaker 7: What's it going to take to lock you down on
Speaker 7: a book deal? Because I have a proposal for an
Speaker 7: autobiography for you.
Speaker 3: Oh you do?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think we could weave in your idea of management
Speaker 7: solutions and your own personal history to create a best seller,
Speaker 7: a mass market bestseller.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that'd be that'd be great.
Speaker 6: We're willing to offer you two million dollars.
Speaker 3: That's that's that. That sounds good. I think.
Speaker 7: Center Bullet sticks her hand out to shake his hand.
Speaker 3: He reaches out and shakes Central Bullet's hand.
Speaker 6: It's a deal. Awesome, It was great meeting you money rich.
Speaker 6: Would you like a blowtop?
Speaker 3: And oh.
Speaker 5: He's all business straight up.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: I think someone just completed their objective.
Speaker 9: And that's certain call on Sandra Bullock making.
Speaker 3: All right, So we are gonna cut back to We're
Speaker 3: gonna cut back going back into town, and we are
Speaker 3: going to go into the Thorn's House where Charity and
Speaker 3: Ollie are busy, uh putting together charities gingerbread house. So
Speaker 3: we got we got the we got you the caramel
Speaker 3: and all the all the parts are just the ret
Speaker 3: temperature for the caramel to stick perfect. Is this enough
Speaker 3: to you? We got, we got candies, we got frosted.
Speaker 3: Is there anything else we can get for you?
Speaker 10: No, h do you have many marshmallows? Because I saw
Speaker 10: on the ground that you can make a mini snowman
Speaker 10: out of many marshmallows and a toothpeck. And I have
Speaker 10: always wanted to try, but Chad won't let me bring
Speaker 10: many marshmallows into the house because he says they're inferior.
Speaker 10: So if you have some, that would be amazing.
Speaker 3: Of course we have many marshmallows. Dear, let me let
Speaker 3: me okay. She brings you over so many marshmallows. And
Speaker 3: there's just like you know, uh, like pull and peel twizzlers.
Speaker 3: There's all these little different different colored candies, many emin ms,
Speaker 3: little TUTSI rolls for like logs or whatever. So setting
Speaker 3: up your house, h Liam, Liam comes home, Oh you're
Speaker 3: you're staying here?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 10: Oh hi, And she'll she'll look between between Holly and
Speaker 10: Liam and and say, yeah we are are I storready
Speaker 10: told you that our plane had land quickly, and I
Speaker 10: was offered to stay. How do you know each other?
Speaker 3: Uh, this is my mom.
Speaker 14: Oh oh okay, Well I hope, I hope it's okay
Speaker 14: with you as well, that Chad and I stay here.
Speaker 10: I don't really know where Chad's gone off to, but
Speaker 10: I hope it's okay with you. It'd be an honor
Speaker 10: to stay in the home of an amazing app creator
Speaker 10: who literally changed the way I wrap for the rest
Speaker 10: of my life. So that would be amazing if you're
Speaker 10: okay with it as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got we got a guest room. That's perfect.
Speaker 10: Well, that's great. I am that's great. So I am
Speaker 10: working on my gingerbread house and I'm having a hard
Speaker 10: time figuring out exactly where this little reef I made
Speaker 10: should go. You're you're at the expert. Would you mind
Speaker 10: helping me?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, of course of course.
Speaker 10: So she'll kind of like motion him over, and she's
Speaker 10: like so that he's standing behind her, and she puts
Speaker 10: like the wreaths. She's like, should go here or here
Speaker 10: or here. She's kind of leaning ino go here, maybe here?
Speaker 6: What do you think?
Speaker 3: Kind of reaches like around behind you, grabs your hand
Speaker 3: and he just places it perfect. I think it should
Speaker 3: go right here, and she'll so.
Speaker 10: Turn behind her and go, you're right, that's just perfect.
Speaker 3: He'll look down at your Yeah, yes, it is very perfect.
Speaker 10: And then so there's that moment and then she goes
Speaker 10: and I made a little snowman. I was thinking the
Speaker 10: snowman could go right here, and then she just continued
Speaker 10: making her Jenner Hills.
Speaker 3: I have to go help Douglas with the with the
Speaker 3: Tanna Baum party tonight. Are you gonna be there? Are
Speaker 3: you going to be at the Tanabam party?
Speaker 6: I'd like to go.
Speaker 3: It's like a little mini get together with just a
Speaker 3: couple of us before the big gingerbread Galla tomorrow. You know,
Speaker 3: It's like.
Speaker 10: I wouldn't miss it for.
Speaker 3: People of the town to kind of mingle and visit
Speaker 3: with each other.
Speaker 10: And oh, well, I'm.
Speaker 6: Not from the town.
Speaker 10: Would it still be okay if I came along?
Speaker 3: Well, of course, of course, yeah, yeah, I mean anybody
Speaker 3: can come. It's just it's just a matter of you know,
Speaker 3: it's not as big as the other event.
Speaker 10: I will be there. I look forward to seeing you there.
Speaker 3: And as as you continue building your gingerbread house. Liam
Speaker 3: leaves to go to Douglas's tree farm to help them
Speaker 3: set up the pen and balum party. Oh hey, hey Douglas,
Speaker 3: how you doing?
Speaker 8: But I want yeah, yeah, yeah, kind of.
Speaker 3: Do you need a hand setting all of this up?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Actually I want you to take a look at something.
Speaker 8: I've been trying to figure out this whole tree situation.
Speaker 8: My kids are screaming at me. Anyway, So what I
Speaker 8: have here? I took this cardboard box, I cut off
Speaker 8: a side and I shaped into a tree and painted
Speaker 8: it green.
Speaker 4: What do you think I mean?
Speaker 3: That's a good start. That's a great start.
Speaker 4: I'm a lot of ideas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean we can. We'll shoot. Do you
Speaker 3: have do you have white spray paint? Well we can.
Speaker 3: We can take some white spray paint and some like
Speaker 3: red ribbon, okay, like candy canes.
Speaker 8: I've got hacking tape, and I have got the the
Speaker 8: the foam that you put on the tree to make it.
Speaker 8: I've got a surplus with that foam. But I have
Speaker 8: a lack of trees. Goddamn it. Anyway, here we go. Yes,
Speaker 8: I got that, and I got that for you. What
Speaker 8: are you thinking?
Speaker 3: Let's just let's let's try to make some like let's
Speaker 3: try to make candy cane decorations. What do you think
Speaker 3: of that?
Speaker 4: Okay, that sounds great.
Speaker 8: Remember we're gonna need seven hundred of these if I'm
Speaker 8: gonna be able to pay off the farm.
Speaker 3: So let's get wor not selling Douglas, We're not. This
Speaker 3: is for the party. We're not selling them.
Speaker 4: Man, that's have You've got to lose my place?
Speaker 3: No, you're not. How do you know we'll find a way.
Speaker 3: It's Christmas. We always find a way at Christmas.
Speaker 4: My wife certainly didn't. I miss her.
Speaker 3: And he just reaches over, grabs your hand. He puts
Speaker 3: his hand underneath your hand, and then he puts his
Speaker 3: other hand on top of it. Make like a hand sandwich.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take my other hand put it on top.
Speaker 4: Looks like I won this one. You're a good kid.
Speaker 4: How old are you?
Speaker 3: Oh? I'm I've been gone here for fifteen years and
Speaker 3: I had already graduated high school, so whatever, graduating high
Speaker 3: school plus fifteen is at.
Speaker 8: Least okay, So the gap isn't too weird.
Speaker 3: No, I mean there's it's fine. It's fine. My profernal
Speaker 3: cortex has already been completely completed, so it's not weird.
Speaker 8: I'm glad that we're negotiating this now. I just I
Speaker 8: need to let you know I think you're very handsome.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, Douglass. I think you're very handsome as well.
Speaker 4: You like the silver, it's just you know, it's a
Speaker 4: little silver and gray and.
Speaker 3: Like a little like a silver fox. Dude. That's great.
Speaker 4: You've you've really like elevated my mood. So let's go
Speaker 4: erect some Christmas trees.
Speaker 3: When you say how, uh, yeah, we can. We can
Speaker 3: if you don't have any Christmas trees though, Well.
Speaker 4: That's what we were doing is we're making them. We're
Speaker 4: making them out of the cardboard. Unless you think that's
Speaker 4: a terrible idea and it's not going to convince anybody.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think it's going to convince people.
Speaker 3: But maybe we can have some cardboard Christmas trees and
Speaker 3: some like do you have anymore? Uh? Like? I know,
Speaker 3: I know you were making reads out of just the
Speaker 3: the okay looking parts of all your dead trees.
Speaker 8: Do you have any Well, there there were no there
Speaker 8: were no needles on those reeds. Unfortunately, again, I've been
Speaker 8: just been scrambling. It has been rough this season.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: But I guess we can do kind of a di
Speaker 4: y punk Christmas. Do you know any bands? Is there
Speaker 4: going to be a band playing?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: We hadn't really thought about a band playing. You know.
Speaker 3: I think I think the jingle Bell Rocks might be
Speaker 3: getting back together.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, okay, doesn't uh Singletary, No, no, was it
Speaker 8: wasn't one of his kids in that band.
Speaker 3: Uh? Oh Singletary's no Singletary. I thought Singletary only had
Speaker 3: one kid.
Speaker 4: Child. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Oh, you know he does fuck around, that's true. I'm
Speaker 8: surprised you remember that. Oh no, wait, yeah, because he
Speaker 8: oh yeah, he stole your girlfriend.
Speaker 3: And right, yeah, I remember that in high school. Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, it was weird.
Speaker 8: I was a full grown man talking to these teenagers
Speaker 8: about their sex lives. But you know, everybody trust the
Speaker 8: Christmas tree guy.
Speaker 9: Oh boy, I'd like to knock on the door in
Speaker 9: a moment.
Speaker 4: Well, we're outside, but okay.
Speaker 3: As you knock on the doors, we're walking around the
Speaker 3: dead Christmas trees around the farm.
Speaker 5: Perfect.
Speaker 3: Oh, Douglas, it looks like it looks like Sybil's here.
Speaker 4: And she really hots the place, doesn't she. Hi?
Speaker 9: Oh God, like that's darling.
Speaker 5: It's come on, I'm coming.
Speaker 9: We know you're having, we'll help help you. We know
Speaker 9: you're having your body and we want to help with
Speaker 9: what we can.
Speaker 5: So is that what we're doing here.
Speaker 9: You should what we're doing together for helping here is
Speaker 9: we have put together and you see what is probably
Speaker 9: the most nineteen sixties aluminium Christmas tree made from easily
Speaker 9: the most fire hazard like light bulb lights tinsil. It's
Speaker 9: silver and and like with little green bobbles like this,
Speaker 9: This might be the way to do it.
Speaker 3: Just from when we realized that asbestos was bad, but
Speaker 3: realize how to make things fireproof again.
Speaker 5: Dude. The cord is like braided cloth and if you
Speaker 5: plug it in there will be sparks.
Speaker 8: Oh you know, my my father almost lost this farm
Speaker 8: to those fake Christmas trees fifty years ago.
Speaker 4: And you bring that to my front porch.
Speaker 9: Really, I know there was going to be some resistance,
Speaker 9: but we I feel that if we, if you lean
Speaker 9: into that sort of vintage field that's been coming up,
Speaker 9: vintage GoF at that term, then we can get the
Speaker 9: funds for your trees. And then because they all burned
Speaker 9: down so quickly, these little little do dads will go
Speaker 9: into the go into the either to some sort of plastics.
Speaker 9: I don't know. The young folk would tell me that
Speaker 9: plastics go in the ocean. Whatever.
Speaker 5: I thought that was car batteries there, car batteries, Yeah,
Speaker 5: in the ocean.
Speaker 9: Right, So maybe signal can help you fix your Christmas.
Speaker 5: Look, here's the here's the thing you sell. These two
Speaker 5: people their houses burned down, they turn against the big
Speaker 5: Christmas trees next year.
Speaker 8: Yes, all you sit, I am selling gingerbread prefab house kits.
Speaker 8: So maybe I can work that in as well as
Speaker 8: our house is burned down.
Speaker 4: But I don't know. Do I do I betray my
Speaker 4: do I betray.
Speaker 8: My belief in like a good old fashioned Christmas tree
Speaker 8: for this temporary artificial solution that may ultimately cause more
Speaker 8: harm and cancer.
Speaker 4: Than traditional trees. Here's the question here to save my farm.
Speaker 5: Here's the question. How much do you want to eat
Speaker 5: and have a home?
Speaker 8: Uh, that's true, I do I I You're right, all right,
Speaker 8: I'm going to.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna feel great about.
Speaker 5: It, but thank you of the children. He has children, right,
Speaker 5: think of the children.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, no.
Speaker 9: Just it's a big adjustment, but I think will help
Speaker 9: the part.
Speaker 3: Did you say you were inviting Jacques over to help
Speaker 3: with the catering.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, absolutely. He serves the most wonderful butter.
Speaker 8: He has tomato butter, he has celery butter, he has
Speaker 8: potato butter.
Speaker 4: Yes, so many, so many great butters.
Speaker 5: I saw him working on a sculpture of butter in
Speaker 5: the shape of a man's bottom one day. I don't
Speaker 5: know what that was about.
Speaker 9: I believe that was a custom order for something called
Speaker 9: a Pachlorette very bazaar.
Speaker 4: I think he's going to be meeting meeting me at the.
Speaker 8: Storefront in town though, for that, you know, So we
Speaker 8: can go ahead and bring some of these supplies hop
Speaker 8: in my truck and we can now do ghost riding
Speaker 8: trucks or do you just float? I'm sorry if that's
Speaker 8: a racist question.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 5: We in trucks.
Speaker 9: We brought, Oh, Darling, we brought the model Tea. Don't worry.
Speaker 9: We were furbished a year after year after year.
Speaker 3: We're fine Tea.
Speaker 9: Well, you didn't want to bring what was that fancy
Speaker 9: call from Europe that you had from that that spy
Speaker 9: movie I want to bring, asked Martin.
Speaker 3: Did you I had.
Speaker 5: An ed sel. What are you talking about, Oh God.
Speaker 9: Darling, We'll meet you at your storefront, and I believe
Speaker 9: we'll see we can gather to help plan for the party.
Speaker 9: And I'm sure we have multiple people like this.
Speaker 8: This really shows Christmas togetherness and communities. And I'm just
Speaker 8: I'm so appreciative that of these two dead people, it
Speaker 8: added so much to the Christmas season year. After all,
Speaker 8: I'm gonna start hurling boxes into the back of my truck.
Speaker 9: Now, now, sigmad if you do this, good deed, you
Speaker 9: know what we can try. You've always wanted to the
Speaker 9: George Bailey.
Speaker 5: Oh God, we tried that in nineteen eighty nine, dear,
Speaker 5: if you remember, it turned out the world actually was
Speaker 5: her without him, and he shot himself in the bloody head.
Speaker 9: I'm into that position from the what are you talking about?
Speaker 5: Oh God, don't talk about in public.
Speaker 9: We'll see you at the house.
Speaker 3: My god, Sigmund, what what are you? You seem so angry?
Speaker 3: Where's your holiday spirit?
Speaker 5: I am a holiday spirit.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid he comes from the crampist school of things.
Speaker 3: Oh that makes sense.
Speaker 5: Have you ever been killed by a flying concrete baby? Jesus?
Speaker 5: It ruins the holiday. It tends to put a damper
Speaker 5: on the holidays.
Speaker 3: Oh look, there's Jack right now.
Speaker 5: Yes, let's butt out of this awkward situation the subject.
Speaker 8: Yes, when you got hit by the baby Jesus, did
Speaker 8: you like die immediately or did you bleed out for
Speaker 8: a bit, because that would.
Speaker 5: Change Oh it was Jesus. I didn't know I was dead.
Speaker 5: My body flew, my body flew backwards. I was standing there.
Speaker 5: My last words were, oh God, did it look like chutney?
Speaker 11: You carry that to God before you died?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, no one dies and atheist.
Speaker 3: He's gonna William's going to tap the Jacques on the
Speaker 3: shoulder there, and you're like, but it's it's okay. We're
Speaker 3: gonna we're gonna help you find the true meaning of Christmas.
Speaker 3: If that's okay, Okay, I want this for you. I
Speaker 3: want this for you.
Speaker 4: Wait, so the Frenchman is trying to find Oh okay.
Speaker 5: No, no, said Jacques.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there we go. We're all there.
Speaker 3: Now we're gonna pab Sigmund on the shoulders and we're
Speaker 3: gonna help you find the true meaning of Christmas.
Speaker 5: Oh, don't do that on my account. Let's all pay
Speaker 5: attention to the man that deals with buttered bottoms make
Speaker 5: very good. But the buttoms it was bizarre but interesting.
Speaker 8: Jackets, jackets because those businesses here, it's a very good
Speaker 8: you know, we're both on the.
Speaker 4: Chamber of commerce.
Speaker 8: Like do you know if any government assistance programs and
Speaker 8: I can I can into here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you have any of those those pamphlets from Pueblo, Colorado.
Speaker 11: I'm afraid they took most of our people work because
Speaker 11: I down.
Speaker 8: I'm still schlepping boxes into the back of the truck.
Speaker 8: It's like comically high like the Grinches, like the Grinches,
Speaker 8: like Sleigh with all the presence packed into it.
Speaker 4: Mmmm.
Speaker 11: I would help you, but I'm very tired. I'm pecking
Speaker 11: all my cabbages and my button.
Speaker 4: Can you loan me thirty? I was up here, this is.
Speaker 3: Let me let me, let me help you with this.
Speaker 3: And he'll like put his hand over yours and the
Speaker 3: hand on the other side and help push it push
Speaker 3: everything up.
Speaker 5: Oh, Sigmund, Yes.
Speaker 3: Could you help us? Could you help us out?
Speaker 5: Yes? Do you have a top and some ratchet straps?
Speaker 3: He's gonna take some. Yeah, he's gonna So we're gonna
Speaker 3: need you to fly up with this tart and help
Speaker 3: put it over all of this to help keep it in.
Speaker 4: I don't have ratchet straps, but I do have chains
Speaker 4: from the dungeon.
Speaker 1: Hey, y'all need ratchet straps?
Speaker 8: No, a carpenter, right, are you?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 4: Why do the carpenter need ratchet straps? You ever know?
Speaker 5: Carrying what?
Speaker 3: I mean to show up at just the right moment
Speaker 3: with the racket straps.
Speaker 12: A Christmas miracle will be walking by and overheard that
Speaker 12: it's a bloody empty miracle.
Speaker 5: But I suppose we'll take it anyway.
Speaker 1: Here you go, Thanks?
Speaker 4: Do you want to come for a ride?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 5: The ghost awkwardly floats up to drape the tarp over
Speaker 5: the giant hass pile of things and drapes the uh
Speaker 5: and and and help hook up the ratchet straps.
Speaker 8: It's like a Beverly Hillbillies thing, like just the ship
Speaker 8: piles into the truck everybody, and then.
Speaker 5: We put Granny on top.
Speaker 4: She's dead.
Speaker 5: Sybil get on top with a rocking chair.
Speaker 9: Oh don't you dare. I'm fat dignified to be riding
Speaker 9: up there, but I will help.
Speaker 5: There's anything you need to do.
Speaker 9: For the party is dingle with you, I can drive
Speaker 9: him over. I don't want him on top of all.
Speaker 3: Of the bucks. Your friend as as a sigmund As
Speaker 3: you're trying to get the you're trying to get the
Speaker 3: tarp over everything. I'm gonna need you to make a
Speaker 3: sweater check. Oh boy, a sweaters check.
Speaker 5: Now? What do I roll? Two D six?
Speaker 3: Two D six? And tell me what you rolled.
Speaker 5: With my plus one for sweaters? Yeah, strong host, I
Speaker 5: rolled an eight eight?
Speaker 3: All right, so you successfully are able to get the
Speaker 3: tarp over everything. Oh boy, Terry, Terry singletary, could you
Speaker 3: please also make a sweaters check for your ratchet traps?
Speaker 1: That is a thirteen.
Speaker 3: Thirty? Damn wait did you roll double sixes? No, but
Speaker 3: for sweaters plus your sweaters? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I rolled a ten and my sweaters a three.
Speaker 3: Okay. Wow wow. If you if you ever rolled doubles,
Speaker 3: let me know, because doubles come on the plot twist.
Speaker 3: No point, Okay, that's why I got excited about the thirteen.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, be double six? What it was?
Speaker 9: Was it two fives?
Speaker 1: It was a six and a four?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You think I would have just sat on that for
Speaker 1: a minute.
Speaker 3: Oh maybe, I don't know. This is a new game.
Speaker 3: Probably this is a new game, so it's a little different.
Speaker 3: Well that that just looks perfect. What great teamwork everybody
Speaker 3: put in.
Speaker 8: Meanwhile, he's choking to death underneath the tarp and in
Speaker 8: the pile of boxes because he was strapped in.
Speaker 3: Dangle.
Speaker 1: Get out of there right now?
Speaker 4: You got a fish out?
Speaker 1: Dingle, dingle? Is it? Dingle? Are you being cute again? Huh?
Speaker 4: All right, I've been cute for a long time.
Speaker 1: Dad here, let me grab your ankles. That's true, fifteen
Speaker 1: year old man. Now you own a business.
Speaker 8: Pull him out and oh wait, we're gonna have to
Speaker 8: have to roll to see if you can pull up
Speaker 8: that dingle.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, make a make a sweaters check to see
Speaker 3: if you can get get the dingle out?
Speaker 4: Can I resist the role?
Speaker 1: Look sweaters?
Speaker 3: No, yeah, it's two D six plus sweaters.
Speaker 1: Oh that's only a six.
Speaker 5: Oh nope, okay, is still okay? Real quick? I would
Speaker 5: like wait, wait, we're both spirits, right? Okay?
Speaker 3: Are both spirits?
Speaker 5: We can try this if you want.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, first, then Ruth, you say your idea.
Speaker 5: Okay, I was gonna use hollow day magic to pull
Speaker 5: the child out. I think that's what I think that's
Speaker 5: what Sybil was going to do as well, Christmas, I
Speaker 5: have I have the.
Speaker 3: Pep Sybil, what do you have? What were you going
Speaker 3: to say?
Speaker 9: I have I have pep talk and I was going
Speaker 9: to gently talk through the situation. Uh, the grands a
Speaker 9: plus two once perceived. So it depends on which one
Speaker 9: if you want to use your magic or say, you know.
Speaker 3: What you can you can make a pep talk, make
Speaker 3: a make a cheers check.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's see how you do first before we get
Speaker 5: make a cheer.
Speaker 3: On your pep talk.
Speaker 9: Oh, double force.
Speaker 3: Wat twist for nine, but it's a total of nine. Okay,
Speaker 3: so it passes. Oh what did I do? And as
Speaker 3: as you as you are trying to help out with
Speaker 3: your pep talk, A gentle snow begins to fall, and
Speaker 3: the suddenly ease just befalls all of the tension between
Speaker 3: all of you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this kid is dying and we're all sitting here going.
Speaker 4: Oh, what's the pep talking sist of? Let's play this out?
Speaker 9: Okay, All right, now, I know this seems dire. I
Speaker 9: know it seems like this child might be suffocating the
Speaker 9: longer I talk. But what we need to believe here
Speaker 9: is that with our strength combined, that Dingle will survive
Speaker 9: another Christmas because this poor boy has fallen down so
Speaker 9: many wells, and he has gone into so many booted
Speaker 9: areas and.
Speaker 5: No significant hell.
Speaker 9: He of courage and constitution. So together, Terry, we can
Speaker 9: yank your child from this leg.
Speaker 5: Yank that boy, yank that boy.
Speaker 3: Die.
Speaker 4: My body's changing and I'm uncomfortable all the time.
Speaker 1: You know what I say? Y'all?
Speaker 3: Try it all right?
Speaker 5: So you need to use my holiday magic.
Speaker 3: Sigmund, to use your holiday magic. All right, hang out
Speaker 3: holiday magic? Do uh?
Speaker 5: Basically before I roll, I can spend a magic point
Speaker 5: to add my cheer stat to my role, which is
Speaker 5: a plus four h twelve. It was not double.
Speaker 3: Well, you are able to magically pull young Dingle out
Speaker 3: of the pile of things in the back of that truck.
Speaker 5: Okay, when I do it, there's like this fairy spray
Speaker 5: of confetti as it happens, but it smells stale, like
Speaker 5: it hasn't been used in like almost sixty years.
Speaker 3: And the fairy spray of confetti of stale confetti mixes
Speaker 3: with the light fallen snow, and everybody around you just
Speaker 3: has a little bit more cheer and there in their
Speaker 3: stry right.
Speaker 5: Now, Yeah, Sigmund, well, I don't want him hanging around
Speaker 5: for a toy with me.
Speaker 4: Dingle's gonna go up to his father, Terry Dad.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I just where did babies come from?
Speaker 3: Dingle? I don't hold you.
Speaker 1: You remember that elf on that shelf.
Speaker 8: Oy, the one that always watched me wherever I went,
Speaker 8: that one.
Speaker 1: That always watched you, that stayed in your room too.
Speaker 1: Well still now he brought you to me one day.
Speaker 15: Here have this, and you had He said, here take this.
Speaker 15: I said, fine, biological and.
Speaker 1: I don't know how this is. I'm telling him as
Speaker 1: far as what I know is the truth.
Speaker 12: As this mother a mom, Well, he ain't got a mother.
Speaker 4: What I thought My mom had been dead for years.
Speaker 4: You're just telling me I was a miraculous birth.
Speaker 15: Well, you had a mother, Ankle Barry Christ who.
Speaker 12: We called your mom. Remember she died three years ago.
Speaker 12: Remember how we both remember that?
Speaker 11: Do you know if it's is mother, if you got
Speaker 11: bought by definition.
Speaker 12: Well she later she showed up and she was like, oh, hey,
Speaker 12: that's mine on the shelf.
Speaker 11: When he got me, yeah, him from the mother.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she moved in. She was like oh, hey, that
Speaker 1: elf to done. Took that from me.
Speaker 4: I've been looking for him.
Speaker 12: You want to shack up because I'm I'm flat broke
Speaker 12: right now. I said sure, I said, can we toss
Speaker 12: the elf at least?
Speaker 1: She said, well, he still means something to me.
Speaker 12: I said, all right, we'll put him on a shelf
Speaker 12: for something else at rhymes.
Speaker 1: And that was all we could think of, the rhymes,
Speaker 1: So we just kept him there.
Speaker 4: That'd be it was the mother a myf.
Speaker 3: There was one or.
Speaker 12: Two times I put the elf on myself, but that
Speaker 12: was just as a gag.
Speaker 4: Oh, you said, I get that.
Speaker 1: Well that too.
Speaker 5: You are that we're never making these deliveries, are we?
Speaker 3: Look it is.
Speaker 1: His parent is confusing to me.
Speaker 3: As we are discussing the parentage of dingle More people,
Speaker 3: people start to arrive for the Tannenbaum party.
Speaker 4: We haven't made the trees yet. God, I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 4: lose my farm.
Speaker 9: It's okay, We're gonna myself, my husband, all of us
Speaker 9: will start doing the trees. Well, you introduce yourself, and Liam,
Speaker 9: maybe you helped you. I believe our friend's charity, she's new.
Speaker 9: We'll bring them all in and we'll start making the trees.
Speaker 9: You be the host, you need to be all right.
Speaker 8: Okay, I need a chain saw. Terry, he got a
Speaker 8: chainsaw with you.
Speaker 1: I'm a carpenter, if you well, I.
Speaker 4: Mean I'm a Oh you also do those wood sculptures
Speaker 4: in the public square occasionally a lot of bears and fish.
Speaker 5: So yeah, some single terries, fish and berries.
Speaker 1: I have to spell bear. Real weird.
Speaker 4: I'm hacking through cardboard with chain sauce trying to like
Speaker 4: make a bunch of Christmas tree shapes.
Speaker 12: Yeah, the cops called on me for both violence and
Speaker 12: wellness checks.
Speaker 6: What some violence check.
Speaker 5: To make sure he's violent?
Speaker 6: Bounce happening to him?
Speaker 4: Oh man, okay, what are we doing?
Speaker 6: Bullet is now in the gingerbread festival.
Speaker 7: She's surveying all of the gingerbread houses and looking disdainfully
Speaker 7: at their imperfections.
Speaker 3: So Xandra Bullock has broken into the rec center where
Speaker 3: the gingerbread the gingerbread, Ye happening, the thing started, the
Speaker 3: party started, different stuff.
Speaker 8: Okay, well we all walk off get over to the
Speaker 8: rec center in the snow to then go see the gingerbread.
Speaker 6: All right, she's arriving for the party then.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you broke in thought all the way there
Speaker 5: the way the criminal break through the window.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, Sandra Bullock's arriving with with Chad money Rich.
Speaker 7: And then don't forget they came together?
Speaker 5: Did they come together?
Speaker 3: As Sandra Bullock and Chad money Rich are getting settled
Speaker 3: in the Tannenbaum? Uh, you see this big smile on
Speaker 3: Chad's face as Charity and Holly come in through the party.
Speaker 3: Come they arrived for.
Speaker 10: The Charity is going to approach Chad and say, where
Speaker 10: have you been? You've been gone a really long time.
Speaker 10: We made an entire Jimmy bread house without you. What happened?
Speaker 3: Chad's face goes from smile to like a kid who
Speaker 3: just got caught.
Speaker 4: Uh, babe, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3: Just gonna talk about that. Then the autobio, right yeah,
Speaker 3: then then autobiogra it's, uh, you know, it was just
Speaker 3: a lot of a lot of business questions stuff like that.
Speaker 7: Under Bullock jumps in to save them and it's like, yes,
Speaker 7: we had a very productive business discussion. We've got a
Speaker 7: handshake deal on the table and we're just gonna draw
Speaker 7: up the lawyers next week.
Speaker 3: Okay, a million dollars, that's that's more money than you have.
Speaker 10: Hang on, that was very, very very hurtful. So she'll
Speaker 10: kind of she'll turn like really really red and very
Speaker 10: embarrassed and be like, I guess that, yeah, you're right,
Speaker 10: that that is that is more money than than I
Speaker 10: have working as a veterinary as a veteran, working as
Speaker 10: a as a veterinarian on kittens and puppies, I do
Speaker 10: make less than that year. You're right, Well, I don't
Speaker 10: know that it's right that we completely ignore our hosts.
Speaker 10: So maybe we should together talk to our hosts since
Speaker 10: we've been invited to this party, or or or if
Speaker 10: you would rather, I can just go by myself.
Speaker 3: Don't want to go to the party. I like party
Speaker 3: You don't I like parties. Salty caviar is fine.
Speaker 10: Okay, So she'll you know, kind of like slip her
Speaker 10: hand through his arm and guide him back too, back
Speaker 10: to Holly to say thank you for letting us stay
Speaker 10: at your home, strange person that we don't know. That
Speaker 10: was really nice of you.
Speaker 16: Yeah, oh, it's just it's the least thing that I
Speaker 16: could do. I mean, it's it's Christmas. What was what
Speaker 16: were we supposed to do? Let's just stay at the
Speaker 16: just stay at the airstrip. No, stay at my house.
Speaker 10: That's fine, It's greatly appreciated. And she'll ch'll is there
Speaker 10: still are people still trying to put together trees and
Speaker 10: and set things up?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah they are. They are clearly just throwing this
Speaker 3: ship together as the book started.
Speaker 10: So Charity will turn to Chad and say, it looks
Speaker 10: it looks like they need some help. I'm gonna go help.
Speaker 10: Do you want to come with me?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go see if they have any anything, right, mabe,
Speaker 3: maybe I can spike lunch.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's fine too. And Charity, okay, they've opened their
Speaker 10: their town to us and invited us to an intimate party.
Speaker 10: But yeah, yeah, okay, I'm gonna go help them now.
Speaker 10: And and Charity will walk away from Chad and go
Speaker 10: to the group setting things up and say, how can
Speaker 10: I help? What can I do?
Speaker 4: Let me to work? Oh?
Speaker 8: Thank Christ more hands. We need all hands on deck.
Speaker 8: We're building Christmas trees and this motherfucker.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I have two I can use I have two
Speaker 10: of them, so.
Speaker 4: You can take you can take care of two trees
Speaker 4: at the same time. Good, all right, let's go.
Speaker 3: Charity.
Speaker 9: Have you met uh? Mister, mister fur over here. I
Speaker 9: feel like you get along as well. Both have the
Speaker 9: trees to come over here help helping them with the trees.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hi, Hi, I'm sorry. What's your name?
Speaker 10: My name is Charity, Charity, no ship awesome.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you're here to help. Just I'm so sorry.
Speaker 8: It has been a rough Christmas season, like it hasn't
Speaker 8: been this bad since my wife died run over by
Speaker 8: a reindeer. Don't ask. We could really use some help.
Speaker 8: We're assembling these trees because you know, it can't be
Speaker 8: christ without Christmas trees. And I feel like I failed everyone.
Speaker 8: You ever feel like you failed someone before?
Speaker 10: I don't think you can ever truly fail unless you
Speaker 10: don't try. And it looks to me like you're trying.
Speaker 10: So I don't think you failed, and I don't think
Speaker 10: the negative self talk is going to help you. What
Speaker 10: will help you is putting up this tree. So let
Speaker 10: me help. I'm gonna get it and I start helping.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much. Here's some packing tape. We were
Speaker 8: using it to stick the cardboard branches on. I'm out
Speaker 8: at the glue. I heard marshmallows and caramel may work,
Speaker 8: but I have no caramel on me? You have do
Speaker 8: you know where I can get some caramel?
Speaker 3: Oh? I have some.
Speaker 10: We have some in in in the truck. Holly, Holly,
Speaker 10: we were, we were. We had this backup in case,
Speaker 10: you know, the in case the gingerbread household apart. I'll
Speaker 10: run and get it. So she'll run into the truck
Speaker 10: and bring in the caramel.
Speaker 4: Oh, do you need help because I can go with you.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 10: I mean it's a small pot, but I mean snowing out.
Speaker 10: I don't want to slip and fall because that would
Speaker 10: be you know, sugarbirds.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, so I'll go with you. Let's go get
Speaker 8: that caramel. Okay, all right, hop in my truck. Unfortunately,
Speaker 8: the front seat is full of beer cans, so you're
Speaker 8: gonna have to get into.
Speaker 4: The bed of the truck.
Speaker 10: Do you do you drink while you drive?
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, this is all dingle. I want to
Speaker 4: borrow my truck sometimes.
Speaker 3: Have you.
Speaker 10: How how old? Was really good?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 8: You know we live here in the country, in Vermontshire
Speaker 8: or whatever the fuck we call this place.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know people drive.
Speaker 3: A little ral vermont Shire.
Speaker 17: Yes, it's not the driving that uh it appeared to
Speaker 17: me the dingle was around twelve or thirteen years of age.
Speaker 10: It's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 4: Let's just make he learned it from his father. I
Speaker 4: can't raise the kid. Where are you? Did you just
Speaker 4: hear from the local. Well, do.
Speaker 3: As you guys. As you guys are heading out, you
Speaker 3: see if.
Speaker 4: There's anybody else who wants to join our party?
Speaker 5: Though?
Speaker 10: Oh I did William? You want to come along?
Speaker 4: How about the French guy?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, use a lot of but you.
Speaker 10: Don't you know what we do? We need butter for
Speaker 10: the caramel.
Speaker 1: Can you drive? I've had a little bit eggnog.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: As you guys are getting up in your truck.
Speaker 10: We're in the bed of the truck.
Speaker 3: Just you remember, we're in the bed of the truck.
Speaker 10: Yeah. Friends, full of beer cans. We can't move them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, those are structural beer cans.
Speaker 4: You ever get old beer on your hands, it's gross.
Speaker 12: Never let beer get old.
Speaker 3: A van comes up on the side, it says the
Speaker 3: Rolling Pin Bakery, and out of it steps Carol with
Speaker 3: a bunch and she's like, can anybody help me with these, uh,
Speaker 3: these baked goods? And I brought my special spice cider.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, Now Carol's at alcoholic cider.
Speaker 3: I have two different types actually one is one is alcoholic,
Speaker 3: one is all.
Speaker 1: Ages, because Dingles driving that first.
Speaker 8: So now Douglas is spiraling emotionally because the other thing
Speaker 8: that you know you have to have at Christmas beyond
Speaker 8: a Christmas tree, is baked goods. So now he is
Speaker 8: just fucking torn about what to do here. Does he
Speaker 8: help unload the baked goods and make sure everybody is
Speaker 8: fed with wonderful Christmas treats? Or is it the Christmas trees?
Speaker 8: He's stuck? He's he starts visibly shaking and rocking back
Speaker 8: and forth.
Speaker 5: You know, awesome, It's like a real Christmas. Now someone
Speaker 5: had a crash out.
Speaker 10: So Charry is very aware of her surroundings, so she
Speaker 10: sees what's happening, and she goes, you know what it
Speaker 10: looks like you have there's but four people in the
Speaker 10: bed of this truck to go get one thing of carameunt.
Speaker 10: I think that's maybe just a two person job. So
Speaker 10: here's what I'll do. I'll hop out of the bed
Speaker 10: of this vehicle and I will help bring in the trees.
Speaker 10: That way, we have some people getting the caramel for
Speaker 10: the trees, and we have other people doing the bake goods.
Speaker 10: And you know what, I'm gonna ask the nice lady
Speaker 10: who brought the bake goods. Maybe she has some parable
Speaker 10: Maybe she does. So I'm gonna go talk to Carol.
Speaker 10: Is your name? And she's already out of the truck
Speaker 10: walking over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my name's Carol Baker. Right to meet you.
Speaker 10: Oh, let's keep Your name's Baker and you're a baker.
Speaker 10: It's adorable.
Speaker 4: So Douglas gonna come up.
Speaker 3: I thought about that.
Speaker 1: That's so funny.
Speaker 8: Douglas's gonna come up to you and he's gonna grab
Speaker 8: your hand and he's gonna put his other hand on
Speaker 8: top of that.
Speaker 4: He's gonna shake and say, who is charity? You are
Speaker 4: so giving?
Speaker 10: I thank you anytime, anytime. She'll like any time.
Speaker 4: And then I put my hand on top of your
Speaker 4: hand as he goes.
Speaker 10: Okay one from under end and be like okay, I'm
Speaker 10: gonna go help her now.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 5: You have of course good.
Speaker 8: Friends, and we're gonna we're gonna peel out on the
Speaker 8: truck like really unsafely.
Speaker 10: I'm glad I'm not in that truck. I'm over talking
Speaker 10: to Carol now, hell yeah, get.
Speaker 3: It what did you say you were looking for? You're
Speaker 3: going to get caramel.
Speaker 10: They were going to get caramel, do you You don't
Speaker 10: happen to have any, do you?
Speaker 3: I always keep caramel in the back of my van.
Speaker 3: That is so wise. You know what.
Speaker 10: I don't know anybody's phone numbers here, but I'm sure
Speaker 10: we can bring some of these boxes of delicious baked
Speaker 10: goods that you've made inside and someone there.
Speaker 3: Because the bakery's phone.
Speaker 10: Yes, I was more thinking somebody could call the gentleman
Speaker 10: that just left to get caramel and tell there is
Speaker 10: some here. But it is a beautiful van. I know
Speaker 10: I've got your number, and so like, what boxes can
Speaker 10: I take?
Speaker 3: Oh, well, you can take here. Just just take these ones.
Speaker 3: These are these are build of cookies and it's called
Speaker 3: pepper Cocaine. It's a special mini like bread cookies.
Speaker 10: I love pepper Coconde.
Speaker 3: Part of it.
Speaker 10: They're so crisp. They're so crisp and light. And there's
Speaker 10: a lot of butter. You should meet that well, you
Speaker 10: probably know you're from this town. You probably know Shock.
Speaker 10: It makes you get your new source your butter from him.
Speaker 3: Shock Jaques is the best butter farmer the side of that.
Speaker 10: He is a He is a butter farmer. Now could
Speaker 10: you break down butter farmer for me? Just because he
Speaker 10: he's made of butter or he makes the butter, you know,
Speaker 10: I like this is.
Speaker 3: The best source for butter around. He also warms other things.
Speaker 10: Okay, that was super.
Speaker 4: Dirt comes out of the dirt. Just use us up.
Speaker 10: So all right, well, I would love to take these
Speaker 10: pepper cover in. We're gonna have to chat.
Speaker 6: I need to.
Speaker 10: Can I try one?
Speaker 3: Of course? Of course?
Speaker 10: I pop one in and I go that is delicious.
Speaker 10: You're gonna have to give me the recipe, of course?
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 9: Do you all need help bringing the rest of this in?
Speaker 9: Oh hello, miss Baker and come come, come with Douglas
Speaker 9: with douglascope, Sybil.
Speaker 10: He went to get caramel, but it turns out this
Speaker 10: lovely gorgeous baker here pas caramel.
Speaker 3: So could you please grab the electrically the electro dooble boiler.
Speaker 3: There's well in it and we just have to plug
Speaker 3: it in for a few minutes and we'll let.
Speaker 9: What Why did he leave? All right?
Speaker 3: So do we need to get them back?
Speaker 10: Yes? I don't know anybody's phone numbers here, So if
Speaker 10: someone could call him and assure him that there is
Speaker 10: caramel present.
Speaker 9: Sig Man, Yeah, could you get could you get Douglas
Speaker 9: back here?
Speaker 3: I'm busy.
Speaker 9: I'm going I'll help you carry the boiland, but I'm
Speaker 9: also making money.
Speaker 5: I was going to try to put caviar in that
Speaker 5: man's drink.
Speaker 9: Put fine, I don't, I don't. I'm not disappointed by
Speaker 9: that at all. That is great, helps lead folks inside.
Speaker 9: I don't know if the Bullock is.
Speaker 3: On our way in.
Speaker 5: I guess Sigmund is going to go look for uh
Speaker 5: for Douglas. Person. I can't believe I said that out loud.
Speaker 7: Thunder Bullock is standing in the corner with an oat
Speaker 7: milk latte, sort of placidly surveying the chaos.
Speaker 6: She's above roll.
Speaker 4: How do you make an out?
Speaker 5: Don't ask, don't tell. Yes, all that.
Speaker 10: Charity is going to chat up and flirt a little
Speaker 10: with the baker and try to ask like, do I
Speaker 10: see a ring?
Speaker 3: You know what? You know what? Make it? Make a cocoa,
Speaker 3: Make a cocoa, check coco check coat check, make a
Speaker 3: cocoa chack.
Speaker 10: I got double five, oh ship.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's a twelve total.
Speaker 10: But I got double five.
Speaker 3: Here we go. Awesome, all right, so there's a lot twist.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for listening to the Spooky dice
Speaker 3: Bag Holiday Special Part one. We hope you'll come back
Speaker 3: next week for part two. In the conclusion of our
Speaker 3: hometown holiday playthrough