00:00Amber has an interesting tradition. I'm going to go to her. Amber, good morning.
00:05Hey, good morning, guys.
00:06Hey, what's up, Amber?
00:08Well, my, I just, the Christmas tree, the prices have been so crazy the last, like, 10 years or so.
00:16Yeah.
00:16We kind of start a new tradition in our family.
00:19When we go out to get the Christmas tree, we go up to them and we just ask them for, you know, show us the ugliest Christmas trees that you can.
00:27And we kind of make a game and see how pretty we can make it.
00:29So you, you, you, you like, you like Charlie Brown it up then.
00:33Yeah.
00:34I love it.
00:34As soon as we can get it.
00:35And, you know, I tell my daughter, every Christmas tree, or every tree deserves a Christmas.
00:41That's a good thing.
00:41Yeah.
00:41I like that.
00:42No, that's cool.
00:43If you can do that, that's, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm down with that.
00:46So you take an ugly tree and you try to make it a beautiful tree.
00:50So.
00:51Yeah.
00:51And you have not, I mean, like they always, they come out awesome.
00:54But when, you know, we first bring them in the house, it's like, oh my God, they have like three needles on them.
00:58My, my wife tells the story of my father-in-law.
01:02You know, they were nine kids and a huge family.
01:04And they'd get like a, a lesser level tree.
01:07And my father-in-law would get a drill, very handy.
01:11He would remove branches from the back of the tree, drill holes.
01:15Wow.
01:15And put the hair replacement.
01:17Basically is what he was doing.
01:19And fill out the tree.
01:21All right.
01:21And so they would get the tree up to, uh, up to decorating level and it'd look great.
01:25Um, that woman, Amber, said something that I think could be turned into a Christmas story.
01:31Every, every tree deserves a Christmas.
01:34Yeah.
01:34I think that could be a, like a kid's book.
01:36Don't you think?
01:37Okay.
01:37Or the loneliest tree at the lot.
01:39The one that it, that doesn't.
01:40Yeah.
01:40Right.
01:41Right.
01:41That's overlooked all the time.
01:42But then a wonderful thing happens.
01:45It gets thrown into a wood chipper.
01:48Whee!
01:49Ah!
01:51No!
01:53It's like a turn.
01:55But then a wonderful thing.
01:57Jimmy Durant.
01:58Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:58But then they chuck it into the wood chipper.
02:01Ah!
02:03They start with its feet.
02:05Oh, dear God!
02:07Make it stop!
02:08You see its little animated head with its mouth gaping open.
02:12And it's the last to go in.
02:14But Ranchy was the last tree in the lot.
02:15Ranchy.
02:17He was all dried up.
02:19Hardly anything left.
02:21But then Bill, the kindly owner, slowly fed him into a wood chipper.
02:26Ah!
02:33If someone has the animation capabilities to turn that last little segment into an animated
02:41short, I would greatly appreciate that.
02:44Because I, I don't know about you guys, but I had a vision in my head of what that
02:47looked like.
02:51Ranchy.
02:51So many.
02:53Ranchy.
02:54Does it look like your year this year, Ranchy?
03:00And it happened on, you know, Christmas Day.
03:03But I got you a surprise.
03:05A brand new Fuji wood chipper.
03:07Ranchy.
03:12Well, what am I going to do with this?
03:14Oh, my God.
03:15Just go to sleep.
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