The Christmas We Cremated: Holiday Mishaps and More

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Happy Thursday, greatest day of the week.

One of the greatest weeks of the year because you're anticipating things.

I'm a big fan of the anticipation versus the participation.

That is true just as long as you don't like, what's it called?

It's like Christmas.

What's the best part of Christmas?

Two weeks before Christmas.

Leading up to it.

Then you open the gifts and the gifts are done.

It's a let's burn the wrappers in the fireplace and have a drink You know what I mean?

I think you have I thought you didn't have a fireplace

years ago.

Oh

Which is something I never should have done burning Christmas wrappings.

Oh, yeah That is like number one thing don't do nobody ever told us that though.

Why?

Um, I think it's because of the poisonous

Ink or something?

There's like chemicals in that stuff.

And I also think because of the way it's made, it's very easy to kind of fly away.

Oh, that is true.

You

gotta throw something on top of it.

Yeah, that's true.

But we did that.

I had somebody, you know them both well, two brothers.

I'm not going to mention their names.

It begins with an O, begins with a V, ends with an O. They were trying to clean up for their mom after Christmas, and they had to get rid of the Christmas tree.

And they put it in the fireplace.

Oh,

God.

They said it was like a flamethrower coming out.

Wow.

The Mitrano brothers.

I can top that.

Go

ahead.

My sister, Ellen, my oldest sister, the one that passed away, was a teacher, second grade, for 40 years or something she taught.

And in their room, they had a hamster.

You know, not guinea pig.

Okay, a guinea pig then kids could learn that feed it and all stuff and she brought home and Was in a box and she brought it home and then you know, my dad's like, okay boys clean up this room You know put the stuff in the fireplace.

So threw everything in there and then get this so then No,

I'm a little bit worried where this is going

the next morning Where's Benji?

Oh, so my dad's like Where's Benji?

Oh boys, where's Benji?

Good honor to stick.

No.

Yeah.

No.

Yes.

No.

Yeah.

The Christmas we cremated.

The Christmas we

cremated.

That's terrible.

That

was, John, I bet you I was, I was young and we, we, we just don't, we didn't forget that one.

That's terrible.

It was, wasn't it?

But you get, right, first of all,

in our defense, in our

defense, in our defense.

There is no defense.

Ten

kids.

You can't kill the guinea pig and have a defense.

Was he dead already?

No.

It was in a box.

Just wait.

I didn't set

the

stage.

Oh, wait.

And he said, 10 kids, tons of gifts and boxes.

And my dad said, boys, go clean up that room.

And so I blame my sister a little bit.

She shouldn't have had the guinea pig Benji in the box in that room, right in the family room.

So he said, clean that

up.

It's just chilling.

It's like, man, this has been stressful.

20 people running around, patting me, scratching me behind the ear.

I'm just going to chill.

I'm going to take a nice nap.

I can relax.

It's getting a little warm in

here.

But one brother took it really

hard.

Turn down the heat.

My one brother took it really, really hard.

But how did you take it?

Look.

Bleep happens,

you know

That's how

I would take

it my brother Bill, you know put it like in a shoebox and took it to the priest and had it blessed he did a little late for that But I don't know or fourth or fifth sixth grade maybe that's

I know he took it on

his bike.

Okay.

I will say this anyway that is worse

Then my story of my dog Jet, when my friends came and said, hey, get your knife.

We're going to skin a raccoon.

Make a hat out of it.

And I grabbed my knife, and we run out there in the ditch, and it was my dog Jet.

It wasn't a raccoon that was dead hit by a car.

Ooh, I don't know.

That's close.

Yeah, but.

He didn't do it.

He didn't do it.

Right, right, right.

None of them actually killed the dog.

And we didn't skin him.

He didn't skin him.

Well, that's good.

Thanks, John.

I

told you though we buried him and then a couple years later tried to dig him up to see what the skeleton Yeah, and varnish him.

I think kids would do that kids do that.

Yeah, that's what you're with all the time

Did you

find him?

No, we couldn't find him.

It reminded me of remember the Stand by me movie Yeah, once you bury something someplace, you're never gonna find that again.

Isn't that crazy?

Do you put cross over him?

We actually had it.

Oh, I told you that story.

We actually had a funeral procession

And we built a cross out of barnwood and we're walking and the girls were like what they used to have to wear in church veils Yeah, the girls all were the finola girls that there's a gig girls and Rappasini girls They all wore the veil.

They tried to be funny.

Were they serious

right?

Okay, that's what

I thought So we're going with the big cross.

Yeah, am I Nona eighty eight nine-year-old Nona grandma.

So, you know, she lived across it

Because we're doing the thing she said somebody in the family died.

So we're doing a physician for jet my dog

Yeah,

I'm sorry Jim.

I you taught me

that that is

that you tell you

what if you would call my mom who's listening right now She would call it like yesterday, and I'll bet you Johnny that was hold on my

60 years, right?

My people quick Paul who's

Incident was more traumatic.

Me going to skin my dog, Jack, because we thought it was a raccoon.

It was hit by a car.

Or Jim's sister.

Benji was the

cremating their pet.

Well, we didn't really cremate him, John.

We killed him.

We murdered

him.

We murdered him at the stake.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that was murder.

That was beyond.

Yeah, you were great.

It was not.

I

hit him.

That was like a Joan of

Arcade.

What Todd said was, yeah.

No, he wasn't cremated.

That was Joan of Arc.

He was not dead before he went into the...

What was

he thinking?

I know, right?

Christmas.

How

can you do this to me at Christmas?

I know.

You know?

For

life!

God, turn the heat down!

I'm sweating in here.

What have I done to you?

What did I do to deserve this?

Wow.

Jim says 100 per...

Oh, okay.

What's that, Todd?

Whose incident was more traumatic?

Jim's or John's?

Yes.

100% Jim.

Yeah.

I would think so.

Wasn't

that something?

Wow.

That's amazing.

And I told you about my dog's incident.

That wasn't as bad, but that was, um... Nope.

What?

You didn't tell me.

I think I told you.

Todd, I don't remember it.

Okay, so we had a dog, a Bajon.

Baker a great dog.

He was he was a great

dog.

Can you say something a little bit funny?

I mean a little bit a little bit coincidental I'm right last night actually at three o'clock three thirty this morning when I was writing because that's when I like to write, you know Okay, so quiet.

You don't have anything to do and I'm writing this story about this guy who was in the Navy in the early 60s and one of his thing was at Pensacola Air Force Base and He was into medical and that's when they're doing lots and lots of experiments for the space program with monkeys

and their favorite monkey, their chimp, was named Baker.

And when guys would harass him, he would throw his excrement in their faces.

But it's just funny that the chimps, I was just writing this a couple of hours ago, our favorite chimp was named Baker.

And here you come up with, your dog's name is

Baker.

Our dog's name was Baker, yes.

Okay, so go

ahead.

A bachon.

Bachon.

Which

I

hate.

Why?

Those are great dogs, John.

Oh, God.

Oh, no, man, Baker was

awesome.

I had a bachon.

We had a bachon.

I told you that story.

You had a bachon?

I'm a

little bit surprised because you guys were a little,

you know, we only had hunting dogs.

We didn't have dogs.

Yeah, but Bajans don't hunt and

they're all super expensive.

No, no, no, no.

This is like not that long ago.

I got up.

I wanted my daughter to go to leave the school she was in and go to a different school.

I wanted to go to resurrection, which was right at the end of our street.

It was right there at the university.

Okay.

So I promised I'd get her a dog.

So I got her a dog.

Bishan

Bishan, that's

thing Did his thing all over the kitchen all over you know what I mean?

It wasn't trained.

Okay.

So

I

bought the dog's fault

I bought a VHS and a book on how to train your Bishan and said Earl first thing in the morning You must take him outside let him under.

Okay.

I get it was the middle after Christmas Coldest winter we've ever had 42 below zero windshield and I'm out there at this dog walking around Yep, and I'm taking them six in the morning

Okay, you know, I worked till late at night.

I was doing TV.

Okay.

Take him in.

He would hold it, hold it, hold it.

As soon as we got to the house, he'd run to his favorite corner and do his thing in the kitchen.

He'd already learned that.

He would hold it and that was his

place to do it.

That's what he said.

So we couldn't like break him off that.

So we had to give him away or sell him.

Well, and my daughter resented that like forever.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So Bichon's.

This just stuff you could have done put him in a cage and just make it

really

small.

No make it really really small So if he's gonna go he's gonna go on himself.

They won't do that and then you take

him

outside There's a lot

of listen what you can do is put him in a box and then a Christmas

I should have treated him the way we treated our dogs our hunting dogs build a pen outside Let him do his thing right in his thing

You know what I mean?

Here's your choice.

You can have this or you can have that.

But you started it a little bit late too.

What do you mean?

You had the dog and then you started training him later.

Well, as soon as we got

him.

I thought you said that he was doing that in the house and then you...

Oh, well, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We just assumed he would... I never had a house stuck before.

I didn't know the routine of having a house.

That's a lot of work having a house

stuck.

Totally.

It is.

Oh,

man.

So what happened with your dog though?

You're

fishing.

Okay, here we go.

Christmas Eve.

Okay.

All right.

He's also like put him in the freezer or

something.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

And their house is like a ranch house and you open the door to the living rooms right there.

There's no foyer or anything.

So Laura, my youngest daughter, put Baker outside on the leash.

you know, to just like play, go to the bathroom.

So, and I had set up to have Santa come at seven o'clock, bring the gifts and everything.

And I had this guy for years, paid him, tipped him well.

I could pick the time.

It's not like, you know, some of those guys.

So anyway, seven o'clock, we're waiting and we're all sitting there, Donna's parents and her sister and their family.

And of course, my family and my kids, seven o'clock.

The door, I'm like, who is that?

Who's going to answer the door?

And who's going to get it to open the door?

Guy's standing there.

You guys have a white dog?

I'm like, yeah.

Well, I just ran him over.

He got off the leash in the backyard because the chain leash lured and hooked it because of the ice.

And he ran the dog over.

So I go out there.

Oh my god.

So tire marks.

And this was on Christmas too?

This is Christmas Eve.

Seven o'clock, the knock at the door, it's that guy.

I'm out there looking at Baker, he's laying on the ground with a tire mark on him.

Santa pulls up.

I'm like, Santa, this ain't gonna work.

I said, tonight's not the night.

You

win.

You

win.

I'll

tell you the rest of the story when we come back,

but we'll be

right back.

Wow.

Cracker box, Jimmy, but I ain't never cracked up yet.

The more I try to make a buck in this beat up truck, the more semi-crazy I get.

Yeah, I'm semi-crazy.

I gotta be half nuts.

They keep running up and down the road in these semi-trucks.

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Trucker Thursday Get out out there keep the shiny side up keep the bugs off the windshield all the respect to the world for our truckers doing their thing Every day of the year.

Do they take any days off?

I mean truckers, you know what I mean?

They're just like they're always on the road.

I was doing something

Yeah, and early.

Yep.

No, I like they said last weekend I've been

how what do I need to do to become a trucker Todd?

Gotta get your license right okay through some training, but I don't

I think they really need truck drivers now, so I

think they pay for that.

Every truck you get behind says, hey, look, hiring drivers, the whole thing.

But I don't want to drive an 18-wheeler.

I want something smaller.

I wouldn't be good at backing up with an 18-wheeler.

I wouldn't be good at turning with an 18-wheeler.

Don't think

you're going to get that, because I think I would assume that you're not the only one.

So I think there's probably some seniority.

And don't you think even a guy with an 18-wheeler would like to drive something smaller?

I guess.

But once you can drive an 18-wheeler, you'd think anything else is kind of old but not a trap I'm gonna talk about something tragic here about something we were talking about the other day Remember we're actually only had Sean here from for Marinette.

They're talking about the bolt races speedboat races which could be awesome But remember we were also talking about some of these fishing tournaments the way these guys take off.

It's crazy man That's nuts three people killed in Alabama at a fishing tournament

Could they hit each other yeah, yeah

That is

they're going wide open spot or something and they hit something and one of the guys was killed right away the other two drowned because again, of course, you're not going to have life preservers.

Yeah, they should

hear the man.

I know.

Do you see that?

Well, three people killed at a fishing tournament in Alabama.

And it's exactly what Sean was talking about.

And we were talking about with with these fishing tournaments.

Sometimes these people just go nuts trying to get to their spot and they collided.

Three killed he's not

too bad.

That's two guys drowned because

you

don't have to be wearing I know those aren't comfortable

nobody wears them at those tournaments I almost think it's a little bit of a macho thing

Unless you know, I mean that's not the law you have to wear them, but you have to have you know, and we've got that guy coming on my show and it

I don't know that's

when that's what we're talking about.

There's even what do we have on here the other day?

We're talking about that where it's like there are no like minor accidents on the water if you're collision on the one now somebody's going pretty fast and then somebody you know what I mean

and two things right I mean you'd be you can have the the injuries but then you got the water

there right absolutely

yeah

Yeah.

Unbelievable.

Got another thing here.

Whose incident was more traumatic?

Mino going to skin his dog or Jim's sister burning their guinea pig on Christmas?

My sister didn't do it.

I thought it was your sister.

She was a teacher.

She brought the guinea pig home because it was

winter break.

It was a classroom?

Yes.

So she had to go back and explain what happened to her kids?

She did.

Just keeps getting what yeah, I was explaining a lot of things you peel back the layer of the owner the

the the gang that killed the Benji the guinea pig was

My brothers and I, because my dad said boys go down there.

I understand that.

Okay, so she didn't do it.

I don't

wanna say she didn't

do it.

No, but she had to go to class.

And explain where Benji

was.

Mrs. Schmidt, where's Baker?

That's not Baker, it's Benji was his name.

Baker was the one that got run over by

the car.

I could just see these guys, oh, it's so sad about Benji, but at least we still have Baker.

Well, it's probably 20 years apart.

Next day on that one, kids.

There's two stories for 20 years

apart.

Yeah, I'm just saying.

Wow.

Whoo, so

so Paul whose story was more traumatic of the three stories, which is the most traumatic me going to skin my dog Jim sister burning up Benji or burning Baker or Santa Claus running over Baker

No, no don't that wasn't Santa Claus showed up right like because they're supposed to be there at seven so

the guy ran over Okay, I said mentally there will always be this connection

between

Santa Claus and thinking of I'll

say that that's not the worst story

So then we took, so then kill grandma.

No, no, no.

So then the grandma in the fireplace, he was.

So then I had to take him and put him in the back seat of the car and the only 24 hour emergency center for dogs is an Appleton and it

was a snowy night.

From two rivers.

No, no, I was.

It

was.

Yeah.

But the one opened up.

on Ornita Street next to Heavenly Ham.

There's a 20, there's a, it opened

up at seven

o'clock.

But I want to tell you, the reason I remember that, this is how nice people are.

So I went there and they opened at like, no, eight o'clock or nine o'clock at night.

So I went and I sat in the parking lot waiting for them to open.

And they, somebody came over from Heavenly Ham and said, can I help you?

And I said, you know what, I'm waiting for that clinic to open.

I

got a dead dog in the back seat.

No, I

said my dog got run over by a car and she came and brought me a bag of ice.

For what?

to

put

up a dog.

Oh,

I thought you're having drinks.

I thought you said that.

I thought that was, I remember that.

Okay.

Isn't that nice?

Yeah.

So they took X-rays of the dog, put him on an IV.

Um, he was there all night and I brought the kids over there.

They're all crying, but then they had to serve master at the cathedral.

I made him do that.

So they had to do that.

Happy Christmas.

When they come in, ask them about that.

Yeah.

Oh, I'm

putting that down

in the log.

Absolutely.

Captain's vlog.

So he lived.

He lived, but he

lived.

He lived, but he had just really super bruised and he slept.

But

did he recover, recover?

You know, was he ever the same?

You know, yeah.

You know, if he was run over by a car, John Detracks were on him.

Wow.

The guy that hit him, though,

I just want to say

this.

It was a Bajon.

A little thing like that and he survived.

Yeah, that's amazing.

I know Wow and the guy the guy offered me money who hit my dog.

I'm like, no, you've done enough.

Oh, I would have taken it.

No, I said look that's I did really bad I wish I would have got his phone number to call him and say look it because he felt really bad I said not everything's fine.

I wish I would have called him.

So maybe he's listening Wow Wow, and these all happen at Christmas.

I know well those those two things.

Well, yeah Yeah,

three things.

We had a

great Christmas is

Other

like whoever

sent this text and we did this too.

We would sit around the bonfire burn the Christmas tree in single town and bomb.

We did that too.

Okay.

So I just want to say we had good Christmas.

It's not like someone died every Christmas at our house or were maimed.

Wow.

Anyway, whoo strangest start to any show.

I know that was ever anybody out there got some This is our day for all

you truckers out there.

What do you got?

Got a text here from Brian.

I'm afraid to make fun of Jim anymore No more linen or Milton text Brian Brian whatever it takes

Wow Anyway, yes,

I just I'm just gonna open up the poll just open up your just comments.

Just hope just your comments on

What just transpired over the last half an hour just just your

comments.

Everybody's got their stories and okay,

but your sister

I

know I mean that had to be kind of traumatic

God.

Yeah, that was yeah,

I mean But it but okay.

Can I just say one thing was it like a cardboard box?

Yes, you didn't think of shaking it

John

I'm going to tell you with 10 kids, there's boxes all over and you just take the wrapping paper and you just throw it into the boxes and my dad said, just burn this stuff.

I want that room cleaned up.

And yo, he's a little bit of a stop.

We just like, okay, dad.

You didn't hear the

screaming coming from the box.

Just ask

him.

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Now back to my...

Here's John Minow and Jim Schmidt.

Hey,

welcome back.

Todd.

Sir, we're never, there's no chance that during the break

thing.

Trust me, I always try to double check everything.

Thank you.

Yeah, I see you guys going off in there.

I'm like, well, not

that we're gonna ever talk about people, but oh my God.

But yes, there's.

We got some texts here.

Why, this is a three-way tie.

We got that in regards to the most traumatic Christmas ever or the most traumatic things.

Me going to skin my dog Jim sister.

What's the word immobilize not immobilize it immolating when you set something on fire emulsion emulsion.

No, no, it's close though setting something on fire was just Like

her dog her Benji or her her guinea pig engulfed.

Yeah engulfed.

But yeah, there's another word something but it's the word that they used to use when the monks the Buddhist monks in Vietnam would set themselves on fire.

There's a term for that Remember that to death

Yeah, I know I'm

just saying

though.

There's a word for it.

We'll get to it So people say it's a three-way tie somebody else says this is the most shocking thing I've ever heard Jim turned down money

Now that is funny

That is really funny.

I tell these great, these traumatic stories and that's the one thing they got out of it.

That

the guy

offered you money and you didn't take it.

That's true.

Okay, what do you got?

So the dog lived and Jim chose to sit around in a parking lot instead of taking the drive to Appleton to get immediate care.

Okay, I knew somebody may say that.

If you listen to the details, it was a snowy night.

And by the time I think I would have got to Appleton to their emergency pet center, I think it may have, it was kind of a tie.

Okay.

All right.

So that's why I thought I would take the one.

And then after masks, because the kids had a serve, like 10, 30, 11, we went back there.

To see them?

Okay.

All right,

but he survived and he was fine.

We're not fine.

He had been here.

We'd never leave the house again,

right?

And he would sleep under the table.

He didn't want a car driving over him.

Yeah.

You know,

just stay out of cardboard boxes there, Baker.

I'm just saying.

Wait a minute.

I know he's.

Wait a minute.

What was that?

What was the hamster's name or the guinea pig?

was it big Benji Benji Benji was the hamster okay because Baker is funny

I know oh

no

that oh my god

see sometimes I feel bad

yeah twisted twist yes

that he would normally not go places yeah

And then we bring them into those places.

All right, we gotta lift this up a little bit.

We're gonna reboot here.

Yeah.

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That was a nice win for them.

Forecast today.

Uh, cloudy with showers, high in the mid to upper fifties.

Take it.

Oh, yeah.

Absolutely.

Um, what's going on today?

National, there's, there's the term.

Immolation.

Right, Todd?

Yeah, I believe so.

Immolation.

Wow.

Self-immolation.

That's what the monks used to do in Vietnam.

Thanks, TJ and Oshkosh.

Okay.

Thank you, TJ.

Okay, but I don't

think that's appropriate for this because

it, that,

I think self-immolation is like suicide.

Benji didn't do it himself.

Right.

Yes.

Your sister.

Encouraged it.

No, no, no.

Nothing.

She's sleeping.

She facilitated it.

She had nothing to do with it.

She

was sleeping

by

brothers.

Who put the box

in the fireplace?

I don't think it was me.

I'm sure it was one of my other four guys.

Which was?

It wasn't me.

That's all I know.

And I think it was... Okay,

this is what I think.

Sounds like shaggy.

It wasn't

me.

No, this is what I think.

Okay.

So the next morning, we're having breakfast.

Where's the energy?

Christmas morning?

Yes.

Christmas morning.

Where's Benji?

Who asked that?

I think one of my sisters is, you know, we're just, where's Benji?

I'm not trying to interrogate.

No, no.

I was trying to get some information.

Benji, where's Benji?

Who asked that first question?

Who's in the

living room?

Where's Benji?

Where's Benji?

And then my dad looks over at us.

I'm like, oh.

So, but I think my brother, my younger brother, felt the worst.

He's the one who took, got the shoebox and took the carcass.

to the priest.

So I would think it was him.

Was there even a carcass left at that point?

Yeah.

Or was it just

bones?

Well, that is a carcass.

But

yeah, I

think it was, but it was, you could, you know, that's what it was.

Wow.

What did the priest do?

I didn't go.

You didn't go.

No, I go to the funeral.

Okay.

Wait

a, I sure got that one.

It's made a donation.

Okay.

That's a nice light of candle.

Okay.

Recorder it.

And somebody take it out because you don't deserve.

Yeah.

All right.

So national high five day.

You know, it's funny.

I was watching a thing on from like the 70s of football, college football thing.

And you want to know guys that look dorky and at the time thought looked really cool was when, yeah, I don't know.

I can think of it.

Well, I'm going to say, white guys trying to back us up when they were trying to do the because it was the slap of the hand.

Oh, yeah,

yeah,

yeah,

yeah.

Right.

And two white.

But that wasn't always a thing high-five no not at all.

I mean that was

But thank God the high five came around so it didn't have that stupid two-hand put your hands out type thing.

National kickball day, love kickball.

I remember they started up some leagues around here.

Didn't really last too

long.

No, they tried

though.

I know.

I give them credit.

Because you know what's kind of fun?

I went to one one night.

They said, hey, come on up.

And they had like a bonfire.

And people would sit around the bonfire and then go play and stuff.

But like 30 people.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah.

That was that was a fun.

That was a fun

sport.

I wish I do kick bone dodgeball are still two greatest things.

This guy's like a gym class when

they were first, but when they tried to do a league, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And this guy's like, oh, he came to my office and you come and promote

this

thing.

And I'm like, yeah, I'll come to that thing because, OK, you know, we're really looking to get this thing going.

And so I went there and I walked in there and I thought, am I that early?

Because I'm never early for stuff.

And you know, there was

I'm

telling you, maybe.

Eight people there, guys, come over here.

Would you mind keeping

score?

I'll tell you, there are some leagues coming to Titletown this fall.

Oh, really?

That is great.

There's nothing better than the sound.

We need to get

a

team.

Well,

I actually did a tournament one

time.

I

hosted a tournament at Joannys.