Joyful Season Banter & Announcements

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Welcome to the Saints That Serve podcast, where each week your hosts dive into the crossroads of faith, culture, and the unknown.

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Christ is Lord, and the kingdom is now.

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We are the Saints That Serve. What's up, everybody? Welcome to Episode 64 of the Saints That Serve Podcast.

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Holiday Hoobie Wadi.

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That's right, Holiday Hoobie Wadi. It is the joyful season, episode three of Joyful Season 2025. I'm your host, Jarriss.

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Merry Christmas, you filthy animal.

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And on the ones and twos over the oh, I'll let it go.

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And a happy new year.

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Jump too soon. Jump too soon. And I'm Johnny, your co-host. We are co-co-hosts. We're co-hosting.

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That's right. I'm not any better than John, and John's not any better than me. We're co-hosts.

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Unless we have a fan base that is divided. Ooh. Depending on what uh side of the aisle you're on.

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Hey, in the comment section, let us know if you're a Jeristan or a Johnny stan.

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That sounds like we're trying to make fun of Middle Eastern country.

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No. Like, do you know what like being a stan for somebody is? No. It's like you are a huge fan of that thing. Like you are you're a stan. I think it's like a playoff of like an Eminem song.

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I am from Jeristan. I'm here for American experience. American experience.

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But yeah, it's like an Eminem song where it's like a song about a guy named Stan writing Eminem uh letters and Eminem not getting them. So he's getting more and more upset, but he is like Eminem's biggest fan.

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You know what I don't get? I don't get the whole phenomena around Eminem.

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He's a rapper who can rap really fast, I guess. I don't know.

Community Updates And Prayer Links

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Yeah, I feel like everyone has everyone's like, Eminem is the greatest. And I guess I mean I'm not a big rap guy, anyways. So maybe that plays into it. You are during the Christmas season. No. My wife does it all. Nope, not even during Christmas. I rap like one present. Uh, but anyways, yeah. Yeah. Do we uh we got any announcements? We are doing our mission ministry month in January. Heck yeah, we are. So make sure that you tune in for the month of January each week. We'll be talking about missions or ministry or a hybrid of the two. And then uh outside of that, we're just praying for you every Friday.

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Every single Friday. Pray for you Friday.

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Yep. 100%. 100%. If you need prayer, feel free to reach out to us. There's a link at the bottom of the description for this episode. And then we also have an email, saints at serve at gmail.com.

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And if you want it public, there is a comment section. Yeah.

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Or, you know, any social media. Yeah. Reach out to us that way. Or if you want to do an old-fashioned letter to Jaris, you can send to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Wow. Such an original joke that's never been told on this podcast before.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I'm pretty good. Pretty good. Wow. It's even crazier because that joke wasn't even told by you before. It was told by me.

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Yeah.

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I'm the funny one. They like me. So, yeah, they do. I have a lot of Jarrist stands out there. My thing froze up. Oh, your uh your stream deck?

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I was trying to do a bit and then it wouldn't respond. Alright. Real time repairs. Anyways, while I figure this out, what are we talking about today? Well. Oh.

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Nope.

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Ah, dang. Unplugged it. Did you try unplugging it and plugging it back in? That's what I do every single day at my job. You hear that?

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Yeah. What was that? You hear that? Oh what was that? Was that what why it beeped earlier? Because it probably disconnected.

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Want a sprite cranberry? Yeah.

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Yeah. So what are we talking about today? What are we talking about today? Uh press that button again.

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Want a sprite cranberry? What the heck is happening?

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Hey, do you want a sprite cranberry?

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What the heck? You did a bit.

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It is a sprite cranberry. One for you, one for me. Yes, sir. Heck yeah. Is that why you left the house?

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Yes.

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Context for everyone listening. Jarrus got here and we were like, dinner will be ready in a couple of minutes. And he's like, I've got to run. I'll be back. I was like, like you're leaving the house? And he's like, yes, but I'll be back in like 10 minutes. I was like, okay, so I just assumed that you went home. I was like, it's gonna take longer than 10 minutes, but that's fine. But no, you went to get a Sprite cranberry.

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All right, for more context, on the way to your house, I stopped at three different places and nowhere had them.

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You couldn't find them.

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I couldn't find them. Uh Walgreens or Kroger. I ended up stopping at three places. Walgreens and Kroger didn't have them. And then I got to your house, sat down on your couch, and started looking it up, and it said that they had some at the Dollar General down the street. Nice. And it's very close. Okay. So I said, I'll be right back. I went and went there. And I walked up and down those aisles of that store and could not spot it.

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Okay.

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They had two on a random like in-cap shelf, not where the sodas were at. What? That was all they had. Just two. Just two. So I'll talk about Ali is hard to find. Hold on. Don't try it yet. We're gonna, we're gonna. Oh, I should have put it in the sound in there. Oh well. You want a Sprite cranberry? I do. I do. Okay. Sprite cranberry toast. Yeah, I want to see how bad this is.

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Doesn't I don't really taste cranberry in it. There's a hint of something. There's a hint of spice. And it is a it says winter spiced cranberry. Yeah.

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But I'm getting a little hint of something right there on the on the tail of it.

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It's got a fruity bouquet.

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It's not bad. I see why they keep bringing it back and have LeBron promote it. Yeah. Does he does he anymore? Still? No. But he can on this podcast. Yeah, yeah.

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Want a Sprite cranberry?

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I did want one and I had one. Let's hope we don't get too big and then they sue us for using something.

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No, this is promotion. Yeah, yeah. No, like this is a sponsorship opportunity. Yeah, Coke. Take that, Coca-Cola. The funniest thing just happened where John drank that Sprite cranberry, sealed it up, picked up his coffee. And took a sip of coffee to get rid of the cranberry taste.

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No, not to get rid of that. I was drinking this and I looked back and I was like, oh yeah, I still have coffee down here. I better drink that before it gets cold. I'm one of those guys. I don't like cold coffee. Who does? I guess people who like pro brew. Yeah, people that drink cold brew.

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Anyways, that got a little off topic, but I thought uh, you know, bring a little Christmas gift to the table.

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Tis the season. You know what else we're talking about today? Well, hold on, before we get into that, we need an update. Oh yeah, yeah. Have you lost? I haven't. Me neither. I haven't heard the song once. Not once. I haven't heard Last Christmas by Wham a single time in this entire week.

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No, but what's so stupid is like it's stuck in my head. So I'm singing it out loud. You're constantly singing in your head in my head and out loud, like in the shower and stuff, but doesn't count. Doesn't count. It has to be the original.

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It has to be the original, so I'm psyching myself out, like hit hesitant to click on things. Me too. I'm like, what if it's what if it's got wham in it?

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What if I get whammed? I'll get whammed. Uh I was thinking about it's like, what if we just picked a very unpopular, popular song, so we'll never end up running into it? Yeah, maybe that is the case. Maybe should we change it to all I want for Christmas is you?

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No, because then that would really mess us up. We've heard that three times in the past 20 minutes. That's not no. We're sticking to it. Last Christmas, specifically by Wham. I haven't heard it once.

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Neither have I.

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All right, we'll see what happens next week.

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I feel like getting closer to Christmas, we're gonna start trying to sabotage one another.

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Just send me. But then it'll be like a reversal. It'd be like, how did you know to send this to me without knowing what it was? That's true. And it'd be like, well, I guess.

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Well, I just searched. What I did was I just searched for Last Christmas by Wham on YouTube. Yeah. Turn my volume all the way down and then just copy the link. I didn't hear it. There you go. I didn't hear it. But then it's like, if I send you a link and it literally just says Last Christmas by Wham, it's like, you're gonna know. Yeah, exactly.

The Wham Challenge And Holiday Sabotage

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Yeah. It's gotta be a um like the Never Give You Up song here. Rick Roll. Yeah, the Rick How You Get Rick Rolled. Yeah. We're gonna have to figure out how to do that for Last Christmas by wham. Yeah. You've been Rick Rolled! You you've been whammed. Okay. Alright, now we're ready. What are we talking about tonight?

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We're talking about a topic, which we're gonna get into after this transition.

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Do you even read my Christmas list?

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So, Tyler, this is your transition into Christmas presents.

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Holiday hoobie waddy.

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Christmas presents.

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Christmas presents.

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Or gifts. The gifts received on Christmas Day.

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More specifically, the most popular gifts in the last 100 years.

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Jeez. Are we just in general or are we focusing on like toys?

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I searched when I did my research, I did the most popular gift. Okay. And the majority of them are toys, which makes sense because I mean the mass consumerism of it is going to be geared towards children. So I don't know, because it's like I mean, video games are on here too. So I mean, yes, you can classify that as a toy.

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Yeah.

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But it's a toy that is enjoyed by all ages. So so yeah, I don't think it's fully just children's toys.

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Okay, so I I pulled up I pulled up trending gifts on Amazon right now for 2025. Yeah. And the second top result is a book, and it's a bestseller on Amazon, and it's titled HR Approved Way to Say Things I Can't Say Out Loud at Work. What? So there you go. Apparently, people are struggling to verbalize things.

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Put it on my Christmas list. I need that book. So I wanted to start with do you what do you what do you have for 2025?

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Uh hand warmers.

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Hand warmers? You see just whatever you have on your Amazon?

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Yeah, whatever's trending on Amazon right now.

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Uh since we have like a hundred, I think we can kind of go through this fairly quickly and skip over things. And we don't have to go too deep into everything. Sure. But stop me if you want to talk about something. You know what I mean? Let's talk about magnetic fidget toy pins. Magnetic fidget toy pins.

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Yeah. That's what I want to talk about. What is that? It is. Oh, just it's a literally a magnet fidget toy, but it has a pen utensil at the bottom of it. Oh. That you can draw with. Does that actually come apart? Because like that pin. Oh, look at that.

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Well, where's the pen go?

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That's the casing. That's the pen casing.

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So you can't actually take it apart while the pen is in it.

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Yeah, you can't, apparently.

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So it's not really a fidget toy. Garbage. Utter trash. This is for the vagabonds. What do you think 2025's okay? So I got this list. And you've checked it twice. And I checked it quite twice. I'm gonna find out. I'm gonna find out. I'm gonna find out what's on this list. I've checked it twice. Yeah. Um, so obviously Christmas 2025 has not happened yet. Sure. But so I ran it through Chat GPT of like, hey, give me what you think is gonna be the most popular gift in 2025. And it gave me the most unbelievable answer. Oh yeah. The Apple Vision Pro accessories. But it's saying that it's predicted that it the accessories for that device is going to be the most sought after 2025 gift. I'm like, no, no, no, no. Uh that and then a Nintendo Switch 2, which is more believable.

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Yeah. I will say in the general masses, it seems like kids are being forced to grow up in a sense of like the things that they want. You know what I mean? Maybe their their attitude isn't mature, but the things that they're supposed to like are now mature. So it's things it's interesting.

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I want socks, a shirt, and groceries.

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No, but yeah, it is like they're they're leaning more towards like showy, flashy articles of clothing or yeah, like tech devices. You know, like the kids that are like, yeah, I want a toy truck. I feel like that's phasing out, unless it's really small kids.

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Yeah, like when we're talking about, I mean, Christmas can be enjoyed by anybody.

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Yeah.

2025 Predictions And AI Hype

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But like I feel like, like you're saying, is like that window of being able to enjoy the childishness of Christmas, that childlike wonder, is getting smaller every year, where it's like a 10-year-old is wanting, you know, school supplies or something like that. You know, something something that isn't actually like you would associate with a Christmas to me has always been like, you know, things that you really want, not things you need when you're talking about gifts. You know what I mean? Sure. I mean, I don't know, that's probably not everybody's viewpoint on it, but that's kind of how I've always viewed it.

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Yeah, I think it because the whole thing with the gift giving is it's you you want it to be exciting because you want to see the joy in someone's eyes and in their hearts, like when they receive a gift and they open it.

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Yeah. And again, that's from my point of view of what a child should get out of it. Not what I'm sitting here saying, get me the toys for Christmas as a 30-something-year-old man. But if you wanted a toy for Christmas, what would it be? Probably the uh the big 2024 gift, which was Barbie movie merchandise.

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See, okay, I've got for trending toys from 2024 was Bluey playsets, squish mellows, squash mellows, squishhmellows, and Legos. Yeah. Just Lego. We're probably gonna see Lego a lot on this list. Yeah, yeah, and then it apparently it this thing says that popular Christmas gifts in 2024 focused on functional fashion, right-away, Lululemon bags. How is that functional? Chunky gold jewelry. Tell me how that's functional. It's not, it's not. And then Nike slash Ug footwear. Literally, the two kinds of shoes that people don't wear for function. It's not it's not functional at all. This is why we shouldn't let AI take over, you guys. It doesn't make sense. Do you think AI is like telling us what we should be wanting? Oh, yeah, maybe the 1% who's trying to get free marketing. Like, hey, people are just gonna Google search, they're gonna AI search it.

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Hey guys, if you what everybody really wants this year is a is a$4,000 Apple Apple Vision Pro in a Switch 2.

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Listen, you better buy it because it's gonna be out of stock. Because everybody's getting it.

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Literally, everyone's getting it. 2023. I don't know what this is, but it's Bitsy. Bitsy? Bitsy was a holographic digital pet. Okay. Like a toy that, like a Tamagotchi? Kind of like a Tamagotchi, I think. Uh for me, and I'm gonna kind of go through the the 20s, like real quick. Uh 2022 was on my list Squishmallows. Okay. Uh, which is a super soft collectible plushie with thousands of designs and massive adult fan base. So apparently why did adults like it? I see them all the time. They're just like giant, like goofy looking pillows. What the heck? It's just like it's kind of like the um beanie baby craze, but with like people just use these pillows.

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Beanie baby.

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And then in that same vein in 2021, the reversible octopus plushie. Reversible? Reversible octopus plushie. Where it's like you would be able to turn it inside out and it'd be something different.

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Okay. I was gonna say, how do you reverse an octopus?

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Yeah, you just take it and fold it inside out and be like mad on one side and then happy on the other.

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Oh, okay. I was gonna say, I guess my follow-up question was, what is the reverse of an octopus?

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It's emotions, I guess. And then uh 2020, which I feel like is like from 2020 to 2025. Oh sorry, from 2021 to 2025, I feel like we re regressed as a society to like baby toys for adults almost. But then 2020 is the actual like the child, Grogu, Baby Yoda, like that kind of merchandise for baby Yoda, you know.

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This AI prompt one of the options for 2023. Are we in 2023?

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Oh want a sprite cranberry?

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That was good. What was your question? Are we in 2023 right now?

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No, we're in 2020 now. Oh. Sorry, we're we're also we are starting in 2025 and rolling our way backwards.

2020–2024 Trends: Plushies And Tech

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Gotcha. Well, for 2023, one of the prompts was experienced focused gifts. And then it lists things like cookware and coffee makers. I wonder if like mine is more child and you know young. This just does a like a summary of like popular things that were bought, but I'm just saying, like, the way that it titles them doesn't make sense. Tell me how cookware and a coffee maker is an experience gift. It's not. That doesn't make any sense.

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It's not, but I get that, right? I feel like more and more as I grow older, I want less things. I want to be able to go do more things. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. It's true. Like getting a cra uh getting a sprite cranberry. Go ahead.

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Oh. Want a sprite cranberry?

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Yes, I want to exclude it.

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Read my Christmas list.

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Actually, I think you did read my Christmas list because you got me a Sprite cranberry.

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Yeah?

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You're such a sweetheart.

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I am. That's me. That's uh more points towards the Jeristans. The Jeristans. Uh, what do you think the top gift was in 2019?

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I'm gonna go with some sort of gaming console.

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Nope, it was baby shark puppets. What? Yeah, baby. I'm not gonna say I'm aware what it is. How much do you think a baby shark puppet? I got prices on these, by the way. Not adjusted for inflation. How much do you think a baby shark puppet was? Puppet? Yeah. 20 bucks. 20 bucks. Nice. Yeah, that was me confirming it. Exactly. 1999. Oh. I mean, yes. Yeah, pretty much. I mean, what's a penny? You know? I'm pretty good at this. Mm-hmm. And uh 2018, it was a board game called Don't Step In It.

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What the heck? What?

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Uh a silly unicorn poop blindfold game riding the gross outtrend.

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Okay.

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And how much do you think Don't Step In It will cost?

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Uh, and it's a board game?

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Yeah.

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I'm gonna.

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I thought you were gonna look it up for a second. You're gonna get$20 again. It's$20. All right. Because that sounds like a uh one-time played board game, like all those one play at once board games.

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Yeah, like there was one I remember always advertised called Doggy Doo, where like you put like this like play-doh it like brown play-doh in this dog toy. And it was just kind of like you remember Don't Wake Daddy? Do you remember that where you'd press a button? Do you don't remember that? No. Okay, it was like a board game from the 90s where like you were trying to sneak to the fridge as a kid, and like every like you'd land on a spot, and then like if the spot had a number on it, you'd have to press like this button like a certain number of times. Uh-huh. And then like it's randomized, but then eventually, like this like centerpiece of a dad in a bed would like come flinging forward and wake up, and then you'd have to start over. That's pretty much what doggy do was was like you had to pull, like you pull a number, squeeze this thing, and if you made the dog poop, you lost. Interesting.

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So, yeah, don't step in it. I assume it was very similar as well. So I got on the tangent to go look at the Lego sets. Oh, yeah. And I I pulled up because we talked about Johnny Thunder. We did our Lego episode. So there's a Johnny Thunder on eBay. There's a Johnny Thunder Temple of Anubis set. That was like the big set. It's selling right now, like fresh, still in the box, unopened, for eleven hundred dollars.

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So anybody who's those big Johnny stands, uh, we know what's on Johnny's Christmas list right now. Yeah.

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If anyone's got eleven hundred dollars they're willing to drop on a Lego set, you let me know.

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If you're a big fan of the show. If you're a big fan of the show, huge. Um, 2017. I have never heard of this, and I need you to look this up. It's called Fingerlings.

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I don't know if I want to look that up.

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Fingerlings is a small interactive animal that clung to your finger. How much did you think that cost in 2017?

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Uh I'm gonna say like$12. You are close.

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It was$15. Oh, okay. Why did you actually bring it up? I mean, I I've seen stuff like that. How is that the biggest toy of 2017? Someone posts something on the internet, man. Somebody posts one thing and then everybody's everyone's like, heck yeah, I want that.

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I want to get a fingerling and I want the cage for my fingerling. They have a cage for your fingerling. Yeah, fingerling untamed jailbreak playset.

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So that your fingerling can be free. Do you remember those little like balancing eagles that you like put on your fingertip? Like it would like you put the beak of the eagle and it'd balance on your finger?

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No.

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No? It was like a like a little like gimmicky toy that you'd have. I it was just balance like those. Like search like uh like a balancing eagle finger.

2017–2019 Fads: Fingerlings To Baby Shark

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Balancing eagle finger. A balancing eagle finger toy works by shifting its center of gravity or center of mass directly beneath its beak.

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Okay. Okay.

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So like oh yeah.

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Yeah, just like that. Uh for those who listening at home, John tried to show me the image and it didn't work. And then it screwed it off. Yeah, that that. Exactly that. Alright. So what do you have for 2016? I I don't have anything for 2016. Uh for all listening at home, John didn't come prepared for this episode. I didn't. He brought the humor, all you Johnny Stans. Yeah. Hatchimels? Yeah, that's what I have. Hatchimels. Do you remember Hatchimels? Not at all. Really? Sounds like somebody didn't have Christmas. Coat. Code a pillar? Do you have that? A codapillar? Codapillar? That sounds familiar. Furby connect. Is that codapillar like one of those STEM toys? I think so, yeah. That stuff's actually really cool.

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Yeah. We just had a child. So congratulations. 2016. I was not in the loop for what was going on in 2016. Yeah. Yeah, it was a STEM toy. Fisher Price. Yeah. Fisher Price. Uh what's a Furby Connect?

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Like, I think it was just like a more high-tech Furby.

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Oh, dangerous.

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Yeah, right. I think it was kind of like right before the age of uh of Amazon Alexis. People are gonna be putting AI inside Furby toys. They kind of already were to some degree.

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But I mean like autonomous AIs. If there is such a thing. Yeah. I'm still not fully convinced. I'll buy one and bring it to your house.

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And just leave it here. They'll be like, whoa. Hello, Johnny. Do you want to bring me all the money from the bank?

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My wife refrains from using a gun in the house, but she will not hesitate to shoot that thing. Oh man. Did you say rob a bank?

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Yeah. Essentially. The joke was Furby Furby would get you to rob a bank.

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Hey, Johnny, you wanna go spray paint the side of a building and then drink some beers that we got illegally in the back alley? What? Jeez. Just general bad boy stuff.

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I'm a general bad boy Furby.

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How did I get the bad boy Furby? Where where do I get the tack do my taxes Furby?

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Jeez. I'm gonna go fast on these last, I mean these next uh five. Okay. Uh 202 2015 Shopkins. I don't even know what that is. Shopkins.

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I had that on 2016.

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Really? It must be like something popular, kind of is yeah, kind of circulating a couple years. You have drones for 2015? Yeah. Cool, cool. I have a drone.

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Yeah, I know.

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Yeah, this is pretty great. Uh uh 2014, frozen. Just frozen. Just anything that has to do. Is that the year it came out? I think so. Frozen peas, frozen broccoli, frozen mashed potatoes. You don't freeze mashed potatoes, guys. That's goofy. Or maybe you do. Maybe y'all have been doing it. Uh 2013. 2013.

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November 27th, 2013.

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That would make sense then.

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It's probably still the hype of it. I don't know.

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I mean, it still has hype. You can still sell frozen stuff. Yeah. Uh I've got 2013. Do what? What say it one more time? You can still sell frozen stuff. Yeah. Like because you're preserving it because it's preserved. Yeah, I got it. 2013. Yeah, yeah. 2013. Techno robotic puppy. What's a Furby boom? Probably like an old Furby. No, this is from 2013. Like a no, a Furby boomer.

SPEAKER_03 30:22

Furby boomer.

SPEAKER_04 30:24

I don't know. I had a Furby back in the 90s. Back when they were like, did like two things. And after that, I have no idea. Alright. Uh, 2012, the year the world ended.

SPEAKER_06 30:37

Real quick, do you want to hear the dis the explanation for what a Furby boom is? Yeah, go ahead. An interactive electronic toy from Hasbro. That's it? No, there's a little bit more, but like this, like trying like to distinguish it from all other Furbies. No. But the evolution of the original Furby released around 2013, featuring more personalities, colors, and enhanced integration. Oh, with a smartphone app.

SPEAKER_04 31:08

Oh. Well, what about the other one that sounded like it came with a smartphone app? Furby Connect? Yeah, I would think that would connect to something. I know that there's one that had like screens in its eyes, so it actually like showed emotion.

Gaming Waves: Consoles, Motion, And Toys-To-Life

SPEAKER_06 31:24

Uh via Bluetooth. It connects via Bluetooth. Hmm. Oh wow, I don't like that. A version of the interactive toy that connected via Bluetooth to the Furby Connect world.

SPEAKER_04 31:38

Oh, so it's just like a game and it just connected to the game.

SPEAKER_06 31:43

Allowed it to learn songs, watch videos, and get updates.

SPEAKER_04 31:47

It would learn your schedule and figure out where it would watch you in the background. It would figure out where you keep the money in the house.

SPEAKER_06 31:55

It just would collect all your data, why monitor all your searches on the It would send it all over to the Furby King. Send it to the Furby Overlord. Alright, so when the world ended.

SPEAKER_04 32:09

Uh Leap Pad Explorer. I remember Leap Pad. And then like starting from this point, going back is like, so like everything from that point till now, going from 2025, I had no idea. Like some of the stuff I've heard, I couldn't relate to most of that stuff we called out. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. But then it's like you getting back to like when I was like str so much younger and like actually still keeping up with stuff. 2011 Skylanders. Heck yeah.

SPEAKER_06 32:41

Why can I not think of what Skylanders are?

SPEAKER_04 32:44

It is the toy, physical toys that you'd put on a base, and your characters would come into the game. Oh you had like physical DLC. It was like amiibo before amiibo was really big, I think. Yeah, yeah. Let's rock Elmo. Let's rock Elmo. I feel like that was not related to toys, just that's John's new catchphrase. Hey everybody, let's rock Elmo! 2010 iPad. Motion controlled gaming. Uh what year is that you have that for? 2010. Yeah. The Connect, uh the Wii Xbox Connect. Yeah. I mean, what uh the PlayStation Move. Yeah. The Wii kind of had it. Yeah. But the Wii came out in 2006. So it was already around for a little while, but yeah. But it was like controller, controllerless motion gaming. Which did not last very long. It didn't. Because it was great technology. It was such great technology that like museums were taking Kinects and using them to like have like interactive exhibits and stuff. Yeah. But the developers for the games were not making good games for the Kinect. No. Because it was, it was a good gimmick device. I mean, the only good game was the dance games. Yeah. Like who's all really getting all the game the dance games, you know?

SPEAKER_06 34:07

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, really hard to play like uh Indiana Jones on Kinect.

SPEAKER_04 34:15

I remember the one of the big things was like Skyrim Connect, and it was just using the microphone built into the Connect so you could do your shouts. Yeah, that's so you try to be quiet in your house full of ten siblings and you're, you know, downstairs very quietly. I said quietly. Bum bum bum. Want a sprite cranberry? Sure, I'll take another sip.

SPEAKER_06 34:38

Bum bum bum. Speaking of Skyrim.

SPEAKER_08 34:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 34:44

For all those who wanted to know, Jerusalem just recently started playing Throne in Liberty again.

SPEAKER_04 34:49

That's right. Picked it up. And we're gonna start playing again. So if you want to play with us, doing it again. We're playing it. 2009. What do you think the big property was? 2009? I don't know. Angry Birds. Oh yeah. 2008, uh Wally Toys. 2007, Guitar Hero 3. Whoa. That was a big one.

SPEAKER_06 35:21

When did uh when did the actual i like Apple touch screen stuff happen?

SPEAKER_04 35:29

That had to be like I feel like we're right in the territory, probably around iPad by time, like the 2010s, 2011, 12.

SPEAKER_06 35:39

Well, because it was because I remember people having it when I was still in high school. So it had to have been like 2008, right?

SPEAKER_04 35:47

I got one after high school, the iPod uh iPod Touch. So after 2009. Alright, I'll do it. And while you do, I'm gonna go rapid fire through a few of these. Because we have a hundred years to go through. Uh 2006, the Nintendo Wii. 2005, Xbox 360 was the hot topic item. Uh, love me some Xbox 360. It was a good system.

SPEAKER_06 36:18

January 2007. January 2007. That's when it began. The iPod Touch. Uh began with the first iPhone launch in January 2007, popularizing the user-friendly stylus-free multi-touch interface.

SPEAKER_04 36:36

Yes, but when did the iPod touch come out? And while you look that up, 2004, RoboSapien. It was like a like remote-controlled robot with 67 moves. Oh, wow. I think I had one of those. Uh September of 2007. September of 2007, the iPod touch. Correct. I guess I just got one like three or four years after it came out. Yeah. Uh 2003 Cranium Hula Hull Holo. A movement-based game mixing twister and musical chairs. That sounds like fun. Yeah. Twister and musical chairs. 2002 Beyblades. Did you ever play with Beyblades?

SPEAKER_06 37:26

No, but I've seen stuff about that. I've seen where the guys who got it when they were little, now they're adults, they're working in machine shops. Yeah, I saw that. So they get like actual saw blades and weld them together with tops and stuff. And yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:40

And use like impact wrenches. Yeah. And just like rev them up. Yeah. To very dangerous speeds.

SPEAKER_06 37:47

Yeah, impact wrenches and uh grinder. Yeah. Grinder. Um Xbox for 2002. Apparently it launched in 2002.

SPEAKER_04 37:59

Yeah, but Beyblades are cooler than the original Xbox.

SPEAKER_03 38:02

Yeah, Beyblades are way cooler than Halo.

SPEAKER_04 38:05

Name besides Halo 1 and 2. Name a good game on the original Xbox.

SPEAKER_06 38:12

Um I wasn't really playing anything else besides that.

2000s Phenoms: Wii, 360, Guitar Hero

SPEAKER_04 38:16

Exactly. Was there even any other exclusives that was just Xbox? Uh I'm sure there was plenty, and I'm probably making like Xbox stands mad for saying that. But it's like I feel like when the Xbox first came out, it really was Oh.

SPEAKER_03 38:39

Oh yeah, duh duh duh.

SPEAKER_04 38:41

Such an idiot. Marrowin was on the 360, I thought.

SPEAKER_05 38:46

No, it came out in 2002.

SPEAKER_04 38:47

Oh, okay. Yeah, but it's just like I feel like Halo really drove sales for that machine. And then people played the games that weren't like exclusives. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like the Call of Duties and whatnot. The Call of What is the Call of Duty. Ha ha. Uh 2001 Bratz Dolls. The year 2000s. The year 2000. No, sorry. The PlayStation 2, which I had and played a lot. We had a PlayStation 2 at one point. Yeah. Played that, yeah. You know who has that now?

unknown 39:28

You.

SPEAKER_04 39:28

I do. I have your PlayStation 2. Uh 1999. Pokemon cards. Whoa, that was a big deal. It was a big deal. I still I still get them from time to time.

SPEAKER_06 39:41

And you go and get the virtual ones too. Yeah. Well, not the cards. Not the cards.

SPEAKER_04 39:45

Well, there is a Pokemon Go, uh Pokemon trading card game where you can get cards virtually. I don't play that anymore. I play Pokemon Go. Pokemon Go with his mommy and his daddy. Yeah, we all go play. Me and my wife and my parents all go play Pokemon Games. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that. 1998. Furby, the original one.

SPEAKER_06 40:06

Whoa. Okay. Now we're in the era of younger children for us. Like, you mean like when we were kids? When we were kids. Yeah. What was your what is your most memorable Christmas present uh from your childhood?

SPEAKER_04 40:23

I think getting the Nintendo DS. Okay. I think that was a pretty big deal. Okay. Uh I gotta place it's all video game stuff. Yeah. Just like as a kid, whenever you didn't buy it, you know what I mean? You couldn't just uh like as an adult, I can just go out and get the things I can afford, right? At any point. But like as a kid, it's like you don't know. Like you asked for it, and you don't know that you're gonna get it. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06 40:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 40:49

And then when you get it, it's like the coolest thing in the world.

SPEAKER_06 40:52

Yeah, I can get on that because we had uh we got Game Boy Color for One Christmas. Me and my two two of my brothers. Um, and that was like the big deal. But no, no shade on my parents. Love them, they're awesome. Uh one brother got Mario Bros. cartridge. One brother got Lego Island cartridge, and I got Monster Zinc. Monster Zinc.

SPEAKER_04 41:29

Silly, but and you're talking about like not not the quality, but like talking about like the replayability, like you got the bottom of the totem pole there.

SPEAKER_06 41:37

Yeah, like and no one wanted to swap cartridges because they were playing the good games, yeah. They're like, Well, I'm gonna switch out with you, but uh no, it was fine. But that and then the sound ungrateful. Yeah, the uh we talked about this already, the Fisher Price Great Adventure Castle. Yeah, that was I had one of those as a kid. Killer, dude.

SPEAKER_04 41:59

Mm-hmm. Pull it up, pull it up, yeah. Just so I can confirm that is the one I had.

SPEAKER_05 42:04

That is the one that I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_04 42:08

100%. I had that exact thing.

SPEAKER_06 42:11

Yeah. Fisher Price Adventure. I had one of those castle playset. Nine nights, four boulders, four boulders. One great time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:25

I had the castle, the pirate ship, and the cowboy set. Oh, yeah. Forgot about the I forgot about the other stuff. Yeah, there were several other Fisher Price sets. Fisher Price, my guy. Fisher Price. Uh speaking of Fisher Price, 1997, Tamagotchi. What is that? Nothing. I'm just moving on. Okay. I was like, what are we talking about? Uh 1996, tickle me Elmo. No, thank you. No, thank you, Elmo. No, thank you. Uh 1995, Beanie Babies. Huge craze. Huge.

Late 90s Craze: Pokemon, Furby, Beanies

SPEAKER_06 43:01

Man, I feel sorry for anyone who invested in beanie babies. Right? They're worthless. They are worthless. But that was the selling point. It was like, oh, these are gonna be worth a lot of money someday.

SPEAKER_04 43:14

Yeah, so that like talking about something that was really tried to force a market growth on something that was worthless. Like they really pushed to say these are worth something, and everybody bought in and they're not worth what you paid for them anymore.

SPEAKER_06 43:33

Yeah, it almost feels like whoever created them like regretted it. He's like, I gotta get rid of these. How do I get rid of them? I'll just stop making them and then tell everyone that they're the craze and that they're gonna be super expensive one day.

SPEAKER_04 43:46

I feel like just the only people who want Beanie Babies now are the people who are nostalgic for them. Yeah, who bought into the idea that they were being like they're still under the illusion that they're worth something. They're like, I gotta get them. It's their Pokemon. It's their Pokemon, yeah. Which is crazy because like Pokemon is what Beanie Babies was trying to do. Yeah. And Beanie uh Pokemon took off, and Beanie Babies didn't even get off the ground. 1994 Power Rangers.

SPEAKER_06 44:20

There is a Beanie Babies Rare Retired Glory that's listed on eBay for$800.

SPEAKER_04 44:27

I got out of a pack for free.

SPEAKER_06 44:31

Yo! What? I don't know if this is legit or not, but this says Princess Diana, baby, bear beanie. That's what it's listed as. Uh-huh. The price is$25,000. There's probably like one of them then.

SPEAKER_04 44:51

Yeah, it's gotta be. Do you think if she didn't die, that would have been worth more or less? I mean, yeah, it would have. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like it's only the only reason why that's valuable is because of the situation around the person that's based off of.

SPEAKER_06 45:07

Yeah, everybody everybody loved her, but I think that the reason that everybody loves her is because she she was killed.

SPEAKER_04 45:16

Yeah. This one's funny to me. Uh 1993, who is wanting a super soaker in the middle of December? Who's going out and having water fights?

SPEAKER_06 45:27

We're ramping up uh Florida, Miami. Just Florida and Miami. That that was the only people that bought bought presents that year was Miami, Florida.

SPEAKER_04 45:37

Uh 1992, The Talk Boy. Do you know what that is? What the heck is a talk boy? Have you ever seen the movie Home Alone? Is it emotional support? Have you ever seen Home Alone 2? You know the little thing that he has in Home Alone where he's talking? Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a talk boy. Okay, gotcha. We had one growing up. It was so cool. It was just a tape recorder. It was all it was. It was so cool. Man, we're running out of time. Maybe we go every five years or every decade.

SPEAKER_06 46:05

Maybe every decade.

SPEAKER_04 46:06

So yeah, let me go through. So hold on, let me hit. So 1991, the Super Nintendo, right?

SPEAKER_06 46:13

Naturally.

SPEAKER_04 46:14

And then 1990 was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So what I'll do now is for the 80s, I'm just gonna read them all off and then we can kind of discuss it quickly. Ninjas and I have so turtle power. 1989, a Game Boy, 1988, Trolls Dolls, 87, Jenga, 86, the Nintendo Entertainment System, 85, Teddy Ruxpin, 84, Transformers, 83, Cabbage Patch Kids. What's funny about that? I don't know. Uh 1982, My Little Pony. My Little Pony. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Go ahead. No, I don't. I don't know the rest. I didn't even realize that that's how old My Little Pony is. Yeah, My Little Pony is pretty old. They just rebooted it with that new series, and it got very big.

SPEAKER_06 47:10

The pony bros makes more sense now. The bronies. The bronies. Pony pony bros. Pony bros. Uh I just assumed it was grown men that just for some reason got lost in a child show, but no, they probably were kids.

SPEAKER_04 47:25

Yeah, back then.

SPEAKER_06 47:26

And now they're and now they've grown into it and they're just it's like the the Lego guys today. Yeah, but not but super creepy.

SPEAKER_05 47:34

I mean yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:35

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 47:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:37

We just lost a few po uh pony rose. All of our listeners are gone now. Thanks. Uh 81 He-Man, uh, 80 Rubik's Cubes. That was the 80s.

SPEAKER_06 47:49

Rubik's Cube has been served solved faster and faster each year. We're gonna get to a point in time where the Rubik's Cube is solved in negative time. Have you solved one before? Creating time travel. Have you seen that video? No, I haven't. Is this guy explaining how the Rubik's Cube manufacturer is gonna take advantage of people being able to solve Rubik's Cube in negative time? And they're gonna use it as a time machine to go back in time, grab all their Rubik's Cubes from the past, and bring them to present to sell them for a much larger profit. What the heck? Yeah, it's it's funny.

80s Classics: NES, Transformers, Cabbage Patch

SPEAKER_04 48:28

It's funny. Go through the 80s real quick. I mean, sorry, geez, not the 80s, the 70s. Uh 79, Simon. You remember Simon? Cow? Yes. 78 Star Wars figures, 77, Atari 2600, 76, Stretch Armstrong, 75 Pet Rocks. Stretch Armstrong, 74 skateboarding. Did you say pet rocks? Yeah. 75 pet rocks. People wanted pet rocks more than skateboards. Hold on, hold on. Let me get through these. I want to go back to pet rocks. Okay. Uh 74 skateboards. 73 shrinky dinks. Uh 72 Uno. 71 Weebles. Egg-shaped. Oh, Weebles wobbles, but they don't fall down. That's it. I remember that. How do you remember that? Yeah. Weebles wobbles, but they don't fall down. You weren't even alive. 70 70 nerf ball. Um, I was. I had one, like, you know, like past like an old toy. Sure. And they still make them. You know what I mean? It just wasn't popular. Okay. It's just not popular now. It peaked in the 70s. It peaked in the 70s. Pet rock. Have you seen these videos of the it's a prank where they say it's an anthropology rock? Have you seen these videos? No. It is the funniest thing where, like, it's such a good prank where like a daughter will give her mom a gift right in front of the dad. Yeah. And say, the mom will overreact. Oh my gosh, where'd you get one? And they open up and it's just a rock. Uh-huh. It's just a rock from like they found outside. Uh-huh. And she goes, Oh, I found it on sale. I got a huge discount. I only paid$400 for this one. Oh my gosh. Okay. I think I haven't seen it. And the dad is just sitting there, there's like,$400 for a rock? And it's just this prank, consistent prank that they pull. And it's so funny to watch the reaction of these dads thinking that their daughter or their wife went to the store and fell for this gimmick that they're paying this astronomical amount of money for a rock. Oh my god. It's so funny, dude. That's hilarious. It's so funny.

SPEAKER_06 50:43

But the way that we're going, everything's so expensive now.

SPEAKER_04 50:46

Yeah. Have you seen I could go sell some anthropology rocks? Yeah, for real. I've got a lot of mini anthropology rocks. I'm selling$10 a pop. If anybody's interested.

SPEAKER_06 50:59

If anybody's looking for them.

SPEAKER_04 51:02

I got 'em. The 1969 Legos were big. They existed before, but they were big. For Christmas gifts. Uh 68 Hot Wheels, 67 Light Bright, 66 Twister, 65, Frisbee, 64 G.I.

SPEAKER_06 51:22

Joe. Wait. So G.I. Joe came out, and then the next Christmas, the more popular than G.I. Joe was a frisbee.

SPEAKER_04 51:34

Yeah. It only cost 79 cents for a frisbee, but a G.I. Joe cost$1.95. What year? What year did the Frisbee come out again? It didn't come out. It was a popular gift.

SPEAKER_06 51:46

Okay, it was popular in 1965. I was gonna say, what year did The Grateful Dead get founded? What does that matter?

SPEAKER_04 51:52

It will just you wait. 1963, Easy Bake Oven 62, Chatter Telephone.

SPEAKER_06 52:00

The Grateful Dead started in 1965.

SPEAKER_04 52:04

So you think they pauperize frisbee?

SPEAKER_06 52:06

Yeah, because that's like that's the part of the whole thing. It's like you show up for the concert and you play and it's all cool and hip and hang out and throw the frisbee around. Yeah, dude. That's really funny.

SPEAKER_04 52:19

Oh man. Alright. I just need to like we're gonna have like an like a series where we deep dive in each one of these, and before we even go into it, you just gotta tell us why that toy was popular.

SPEAKER_06 52:32

Come on. I mean, that one's pretty like that one's on the nose.

SPEAKER_04 52:36

All right. Why was G.I. Joe popular in 1964?

SPEAKER_06 52:39

Probably because the sh there's probably a show. G. Or do they they came out after the no?

SPEAKER_04 52:44

So there was a span Transformers, G.I. Joe, My Little Pony, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were all shows created to sell toys. Yeah. Strictly. Okay. So the toy came out first. Sort of. They were kind of side by side. Gotcha. It was like a whole entire, you know, the cartoons really were nothing, and they'd introduce new characters. Yeah. It would just.

SPEAKER_07 53:11

Ooh. What? Joe.

70s–60s Icons: Star Wars, Pet Rock, Frisbee

SPEAKER_04 53:15

Yeah. It's just like this whole thing of like this massive amount of characters in these shows because they would have more and more toys to sell. Okay. That's all that was. Like it was a whole thing in the in the 60s, 70s, 80s type of thing.

SPEAKER_06 53:30

Do you think it had to do with because the country was at war? In the in the in the war? Yeah, probably. Pretty terrible how long it took me to get.

SPEAKER_04 53:43

Is that the war? What is what what what's the word? In the war? The war. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 61 slip and slide. Again, a water toy in the middle of winter.

SPEAKER_06 53:58

I don't know what to tell you, man. I don't know what to say.

SPEAKER_04 54:02

Uh 1960 etch a sketch. 59 Barbie again. Well, Barbie first, because we're going back in time. 1958, hula hoop. 57, water balloons.

SPEAKER_06 54:14

What the heck?

SPEAKER_04 54:15

Again, what is up with these water toys in the middle of winter? 56 Play-Doh. 55 silly putty. 54 Scrabble. Scrabble. How much do you think Scrabble cost back in 1954? 10 cents. You're pretty off on that one. Oh really?$2? Jeez, who would buy that? I would right now. In 1955? No, with 2025 money, I'd buy it for$2 in 1954.

SPEAKER_06 54:49

In 1954 for$2, you could feed a family of four for like a week. Or play Scrabble for Or play Scrabble. Or your last day because you didn't eat. Or one final night of wonderful Scrabble.

SPEAKER_04 55:05

1953 model cars, which were cost a dollar to two dollars.

SPEAKER_06 55:10

Well, kids, we're not gonna have any heat for the rest of the winter, but we're gonna get to improve our spelling now.

SPEAKER_04 55:17

1952, Mr. Potato Head. Nice. Which cost 98 cents. 1951, Color Forms, reusable vinyl stickers that stuck to smooth surfaces. Oh, we have those still. You know what I mean? Like the things that you stick in your windows and they just come off because they're not they just kind of Oh yeah. Yeah. 1950, the Magic 8 ball, 1949. Satan! Yeah, Satan's in that ball. That's a Satan ball right there. Do you think that that is like legitimately like witchcraft? Or is it just like it's obviously just a random question, but do you feel that like falls under the Ouija board toys? Like it's like Yeah, it's a divining toy. You think so? Yeah. It's like a crystal ball.

SPEAKER_06 56:02

Well, you're trying to get your your Yeah, you're trying to get a reading. That's like yeah, that's that's true. Yeah. That's uh that's Soothsain. Sooth saying.

SPEAKER_04 56:15

1949 Clue. Oh uh 48, a toy piano. 46 now, not a real piano, Billy. No, what is it?

SPEAKER_06 56:26

Linus? No Linus. No Linus. You get your toy piano. Learn to play well on the toy piano, and then when you're seven, I'll let you play on the real piano.

SPEAKER_04 56:36

Me and uh me and Ashley watched uh the Peanuts Christmas special last week. Because you we talked about it on the show. Well, was it walnuts or was it almonds? What 47 Tonka trucks?

SPEAKER_03 56:52

You're an idiot. You're an idiot.

SPEAKER_07 56:55

It's literally peanut in the title.

SPEAKER_03 57:00

But what's crazy is this they're just a bunch of kids that don't even have anything to do with the plant. Why is his name Snoopy? What? He's a dog. Why is he affiliating with a bird in public? Why is his name Woodstock? This isn't a musical festival. This is a CIA plant in a children's group. Why is he named Charlie? Why will that girl not let him kick the football?

SPEAKER_07 57:40

Why is she suppressing his natural manly mask who's trying to mature into a man?

SPEAKER_03 57:48

Why is she charging so much for therapy sessions?

SPEAKER_07 57:52

Why do all the adults speak Chinese? What?

SPEAKER_06 57:58

Just lost our one Chinese listener.

SPEAKER_04 58:00

Yeah, our Chinese stand.

SPEAKER_03 58:02

Our Hong Kong guy. Wa wah wah wah.

50s–30s Originals: Barbie, Slinky, Monopoly

SPEAKER_04 58:07

Is that what you think Chinese sounds like? No, obviously not. Jeez. Oh man. Uh 46 lionel trains, 45 slinky, 44 soap bubbles, 43 little green army men. Hey, that's iconic. That is iconic. People still do that today. Slinkies aren't though. Yeah. Iconic. No, they're more oh o'conic. Oconic. Why? Because they're round. Yeah. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 58:42

Whoa, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. Stop it. Stop it. Jeez.

SPEAKER_04 58:47

Uh 42 little golden books. 41. What's a little like you've never seen those? It's like a little children's book and it has the golden spine.

SPEAKER_06 58:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 58:58

And it's like just like a book line and like a line of books. Do you know what all of these things are on this list? Yes, I do. This is alright. Okay. We should like just like go back through and be like, do you know what this is? Yes, I do. A hundred percent.

SPEAKER_06 59:16

Actually, you didn't know what the fingerlings were.

SPEAKER_04 59:18

Yeah, because like that's back when I was 30.

SPEAKER_06 59:24

You heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen. Jarrus doesn't know everything.

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Alright, keep going.

SPEAKER_04 59:30

41. Beach balls.

SPEAKER_03 59:32

I bet you don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_04 59:33

Ah, shucks, you got me. Uh 1940, uh, Red Rider BB gun. Uh. To support the war effort. To support the war effort. That yeah. Yeah. Uh 39. Viewmaster. Viewmaster. So it's so it's the little the view thing that you look through and you fli like pull the lever down, and it gives you another 3D image, and it's little, it's red. It's like a Plastic toy.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:02

I hate so much of the things that you choose to be.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:06

Hell, like it's just like it's common knowledge. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_06 1:00:10

But everybody knows what this is, John. Why are you so dumb?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:16

1938. Microsoft Microsoft Word. Microscope set. Uh 1937 Monopoly. Hey. What the heck? So it's so it's you've never seen these?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:37

Do you even read my Christmas list?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:40

So it's like you pop them out and you kind of slide the pieces together, and it's like little wood pieces. Like it's like a model set, but it's just like you just slide little wood pieces together instead of gluing and whatnot. Yeah, I got it. Okay. Uh 1935 Shirley Temple dolls. 34 Buck Rogers Ray Gun.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:59

Did you ever watch a Shirley Temple movie?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:03

Animal Quackers in my throat. Lucky Rabbits Loop de Loop.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:09

I don't know why, but we had a bunch of Shirley Temple VHS tapes. Hmm. And so those movies would be put on all the time, but it was like exclusively like for some reason, Shirley Temple was a big deal to my mom.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:27

I mean, isn't like well for that, yes, but also isn't like your family dominated dominated by females, like your siblings? There are more females than males.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:40

So yes, the Shirley Temples would win. I mean, in an arm wrestling competition, the males would win. Sure, but strong.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:50

1933, I don't know what this is. Finally. A Marks wind up toy. Oh, that's uh Mark's windup toy. Mm-hmm. 1932 sock monkey. Okay. So a sock monkey is shut your mouth. Legitimately, you hit do you not know what a sock monkey is? Yes, I know what a sock monkey is. I was like, I feel like that one's iconic. Uh 31 finger paint, 1930, Mickey Mouse dolls, 29 pop-up books. So a pop-up book is where you open a page and it becomes more 3D based off of how the pages are intertwined with one another. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Keep going. Uh 28. So a yo-yo is when you Here's a wind up toy for you. Yeah, it's a wind up toy. 27 Radio Flyer Wagon. Oh. So, like I guess a little red wagon. Right? Yes. Yeah, that's it. 1926, Crayola Crayons, 25 Teddy Bear. And this one I when I looked at it, I was like, what? A erector set for 1924 would be our last one on our list. Which is the it says the newly redesigned erector set added motors and became the first toy with a national ad camp campaign. So I don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:16

Oh, it's like the STEM game where it's like a bunch of different pieces that you connect together.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:22

Oh. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So like Legos before Legos. Yeah. Nice. American Legos.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:33

They're made of steel. They're made of steel. Not that Swedish nonchinch. None of that Swedish plastic. So I wonder. The reason the Ozo layer is fallen is because of the dang Swedes and their construction jobs.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:48

Amen, brother. So that's that's all of them. That's like the last hundred years. And I kind of wanted to go ahead.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:56

No, it was just the last hundred years of gift-giving toys. Of gift-giving toys and gifts in general.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:03

And gifts. Uh, but I wanted to start in 2025 and work our way back because I wanted to kind of prove a bit of a point of like, dude, where did we what happened? Yeah. What happened? Like, we look at the this list of stuff and it and it's like just the absolute nonsense from like the year 2000 to 2025, the last 25 years. It's just like so heavy consumer stuff. And then like as you go backwards, it's more and more just a small little thing that was given out of the goodness of your heart, like a teddy bear and yeah, you know, like a yo-yo, just stuff that brought joy because you were there, but it wasn't needed to give a gift. Like the point was to get together with people, and the biggest point was Jesus. Yeah. Still is, but a lot of people have gotten away from that.

Reflection: From Simple Joy To Consumer Rush

SPEAKER_06 1:05:04

Well, I think that the naturalists and the like human secularists they don't believe in God, they don't believe in absolute truth, or they say they don't. So everything's relative. So since there is no purpose, like create your own purpose. And so it's like, oh well, I like getting things. So I'll be happy with getting stuff. And so we've just progressed in that direction. Where it's like, well, if I can get the next thing, or if I can get the newest thing, or the flashiest thing, or if I can get a lot of something, I'll be happy. But we just weren't created to worship things, things that are dead that aren't a that aren't living. We were created to worship the living God. You know, he even brings that up in the Bible. I can't remember what book it's in. But they he talked about how you worship idols of wood and stone and metal, they're dead, they're not alive. I am a living God. So that's a paraphrase, it's not exactly how it's said, but the point is it's like you make all these idols out of these inanimate objects and you treat them like they're your God, but they're they're not even living. The only true God is Yahweh, creator of the universe. Amen. So I think that's what it is, is that people are they're just because they don't believe in the existence of God and absolute truth, that it's just relative, and so it's like, well, I'll just try and fill the void and be happy with something. So maybe stuff, stuff will make me happy, you know? Yeah, good. And I I think though I and I think a little bit the church kind of gets caught up in this a little bit too, just because of the commercialized side of Christmas. But we need that healthy reminder every year, like, hey, giving gifts to people to show your care and love for them and for the joy of the season is good, but let's not let it take the place of remembering the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:19

You know, like you know, you don't have to give something flashy, you could give something as small as a sprite cranberry.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:26

Want a sprite cranberry?

SPEAKER_06 1:07:28

Yes. I'm almost done with mine. Are you almost done? Uh I've got a little bit more to go, but I was like, you know what? I want to save some of this for later tonight. So what for what occasion later on tonight? I don't know. Maybe I'll play a little throne in Liberty.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:40

Help me stay awake. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:42

No, it won't.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:43

It won't. So before we close out this episode, what's your uh on a scale of one to ten, how do you rate the uh Sprite cranberry?

SPEAKER_06 1:07:53

As a Sprite cranberry, I'm gonna rate it as like a three because I cannot taste cranberry in it at all. Oh, you're rating Sprite as a Sprite a 10 out of 10.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:05

Hold on, the way you worded that was uh rating it as a Sprite cranberry, it's not a Sprite cranberry, like as the exclusive brand winter spiced cranberry.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:16

I can taste a hint of spice, but zero cranberry. Yeah. So really, I guess I should rate it as zero because it does taste nothing like a cranberry.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:28

But as a flavor, it is really good. It is good. I I like Sprite. I'm not a big Sprite fan.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:34

I'm not a big Sprite stan. No, it's good. I can't really do soda anymore. So I'm sorry. Every now and then I no no Sprite is the one that I can do. Awesome. So every now and then I do Sprite. Uh but hey, we talked about Jesus right here at the end. If you have not listened to last week's episode, go back and listen to it. Go back. We talk about the nativity, which is the birth of Christ.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:02

All right, well, so in the comment section, uh let us know what your favorite Christmas gift was. Most memorable Christmas gift growing up. Yep. And then also let us know are you a Jarrest stan or a John stan?

Faith Lens: Idols, Purpose, And Christ

SPEAKER_06 1:09:18

Yeah. But be honest, have you lost the game or are you still in it?

SPEAKER_04 1:09:25

Also put in there, have you heard Last Christmas by Wham? Yeah. We're keeping track. Find out. And whoever hears it first has to give between me and John has to give the other a Christmas Lego set.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:44

Christmas Lego set. That's right. So. All right, well, uh Merry Christmas. Yeah. Merry Christmas. Looking forward to next week's episode. It's the last episode before Christmas Day.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:58

Yeah. So. All right, Christ is Lord. In the kingdom as now. And we are the saints that serve.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:27

Outro music, outdraw music, outdraw music.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:30

How does that go? I don't know. I thought that's how it went. Outro music, outdraw music, outdraw music.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:38

Yeah, we should just do an a cappello outro song. Okay, here we go. Ready? Ready?

SPEAKER_07 1:10:41

Well um, she's got a time to go back home. So she's leaving now to make that happen. And this is the song that we sing at the outro. This is the outro stop. This is the outro stop. No, we should probably stop before you.