Speaker 1: Every year.
Speaker 2: It tops the list for many people as their favorite
Speaker 2: Christmas movie. Talking about Home Alone.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1: Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if you saw this, but there's
Speaker 2: a video on TikTok that's got over six million views
Speaker 2: of a guy breaking down the cost of groceries back
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety versus today.
Speaker 4: Oh, when Kevin goes grocery shopping.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was that famous scene if you remember, where
Speaker 2: Kevin goes to the grocery store and buys himself a
Speaker 2: bunch of items for the house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's getting stuff.
Speaker 2: Like tied detergent, orange juice, wonderbread, saran wrap, a TV
Speaker 2: dinner and then he throws down a bag of toy soldiers.
Speaker 1: At the very end.
Speaker 3: That's the lady's like, how do you have all this?
Speaker 3: Where do you live? And he's like, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to tell you. You're a stranger. Yeah. She's smart, kids smart. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And in the movie, his entire hall comes to a
Speaker 2: grand total of nineteen dollars in eighty three cents.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: That's all it costed that movie. If he pays with
Speaker 1: a twenty dollars bill.
Speaker 4: One thing of laundry detergent costs.
Speaker 3: I think tids costs more.
Speaker 2: And so in the TikTok they go out and find
Speaker 2: the exact same items at the store today and minus
Speaker 2: the TV dinner because that brand from the movie's been discontinued. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so they just added five bucks for that. But the
Speaker 2: grand total of Kevin's grocery trip, if it was purchased today,
Speaker 2: would come out to be seven hundred dollars even Oh no, sorry,
Speaker 2: seventy bucks. There's still a lot of money, almost four
Speaker 2: times close to two hundred and fifty percent inflation on
Speaker 2: supplies in.
Speaker 4: Like what twenty five years or something. How old is
Speaker 4: this movie?
Speaker 3: Thirty three years thirty three years ago?
Speaker 2: Kevin would have about to search for more loose change
Speaker 2: around the house if he was left alone there this year.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, this movie came out before Alexis was born.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, it's an old movie. That's weird. Breaks
Speaker 3: me out.
Speaker 2: I guess, I don't know if that gives us something
Speaker 2: to be appreciative for this year or not appreciative.
Speaker 4: You know what, though, even if he was buying it now,
Speaker 4: Kevin's family could afford that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd be like, can I just fidget Spinner.
Speaker 1: I don't feel bad for him.
Speaker 2: Now let's throw it over to our favorite child star,
Speaker 2: the McCaulay Culkin of Radio, our own digital Jake.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Jake.
Speaker 3: It's getting close to Christmas, and while it should be
Speaker 3: a very joyous, exciting time, it's actually kind of stressful.
Speaker 3: And I don't mean for families getting gifts or organizing travel.
Speaker 3: I mean stressful for me trying to come up with
Speaker 3: different holiday themed trivia questions. We've covered Christmas movies, Christmas songs,
Speaker 3: Christmas sayings, even Connor the frat boy reindeer. It feels
Speaker 3: like we've done it all.
Speaker 4: We all know that Connor was the one bullying Rudolph.
Speaker 3: Right questionindeer drinking games. So I know this is going
Speaker 3: to be unpopular in the middle of December. But we're
Speaker 3: moving on to Valentine's Day's ski. Yeah, it's a special
Speaker 3: day honoring Saint Valentine. And what was Saint Valentine's favorite holiday? Christmas?
Speaker 3: So we're back for another Christmas scraping the bottom of
Speaker 3: the Barrel edition of Story and a Half Seconds with
Speaker 3: alexis very valid Christmas? All right, Brook, you're first? Okay,
Speaker 3: your category is Christmas wishes and holiday kisses Alexis or
Speaker 3: against Alexis.
Speaker 1: What kind of category is that?
Speaker 4: I mean the thing with wishes, Like everyone has a
Speaker 4: different Christmas wish.
Speaker 2: Sometimes when you go to Mal Santa you can get both. Oh,
Speaker 2: you just gotta pay a little bit extra.
Speaker 4: I think since you brought that up, I mean Alexis
Speaker 4: loves a hot sugar daddy wishless.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sanda not.
Speaker 4: I mean he is that right, He is the sugar
Speaker 4: daddy all of us. Yeah, so I'm going to say.
Speaker 3: She gets it right, Brooks betting on Alexis. Here's your question.
Speaker 3: There's a tradition where there's a certain plant that hangs
Speaker 3: from the ceiling and if you're under it, you're supposed
Speaker 3: to kiss the person next to you. That plant is
Speaker 3: called missletoe. Please please let me The plant is called mistletoe. Okay,
Speaker 3: may have never occurred to you to reach up and
Speaker 3: snack on it. But is it safe to eat? What?
Speaker 3: I don't think it's safe to eat. No, it's like
Speaker 3: a tree.
Speaker 1: Plants are safety.
Speaker 3: I'll forget that. It's not safe to consuming. Mistletoe is poisonous,
Speaker 3: and European missiletoe is more toxic. Much on the Brook
Speaker 3: bet on Alexis, and she got it right. He's the
Speaker 3: person that had to figure that out. Rat boy radio
Speaker 3: one of his fingers. Rick is safe for moving on
Speaker 3: to Jeffrey. Yeah, Jeff, your category is this Yule Tide
Speaker 3: is lit?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Maybe this is sort of like a gen Z type
Speaker 2: of Christmas question if it's going to be lit or.
Speaker 4: It's just about Christmas lights for some reason or fire?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the yule log?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Can you eat the mule log? Is it safe to consume?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go back to my old classic and say, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: she's not going to get old reliable.
Speaker 3: Jeff's betting against Alexis. Here's your question, Alexis. There's a
Speaker 3: tradition whose origins are a bit unclear, but in general,
Speaker 3: if you spot a specific green fruit ornament hanging in
Speaker 3: your Christmas tree, if you're the first person to spot it,
Speaker 3: you get an extra gift. What kind of fruit is it?
Speaker 4: Pickle?
Speaker 3: Digital Jake's house, It is a pickle, and the tradition
Speaker 3: traces back to Germany, where someone hides it in the tree.
Speaker 4: Oh, my kids have been practicing fighting the pickle for weeks.
Speaker 4: They keep hiding it from each other to train for
Speaker 4: Christmas morning.
Speaker 3: Wow, Jeffy invites me to find the pickle once a day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Christmas pickle, jeff.
Speaker 3: You bet against Alexis. She got it right, So you're
Speaker 3: getting shocked learned.
Speaker 2: I don't even know Christmas pickles were a thing.
Speaker 3: I'll gift you a pickle. We're onto you. Your category
Speaker 3: is why be clause? I said, so.
Speaker 4: Beclause?
Speaker 3: Be clause.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming it's about santy or Missy's clause.
Speaker 1: Or white clause.
Speaker 4: Oh, I was thinking of kitty claws the same like
Speaker 4: a little cat.
Speaker 2: Ooh man, Well, I think Alexis knows and loves all
Speaker 2: those things, so I'm gonna say.
Speaker 4: She gets she does love claus.
Speaker 3: Jose's betting on Alexis. There's another popular Christmas tradition where
Speaker 3: everybody gets a certain type of fruit placed inside their stocking.
Speaker 3: The person with the biggest fruit has to eat it
Speaker 3: right there before they can open any of their presents.
Speaker 3: Is like getting iced, but with free. What kind of
Speaker 3: fruit is it? Oh, maybe we're going.
Speaker 4: To save shape.
Speaker 3: It's a banana.
Speaker 1: Why is Christmas so perverted?
Speaker 3: It was not banana, it was an orange. The tradition
Speaker 3: goes back hundreds of years, and it's supposed to reflect
Speaker 3: the generosity of Saint Nicholas.
Speaker 4: Oh, we used to always get an orange in our stocking,
Speaker 4: but I think it was because good old Saint Nick
Speaker 4: just wanted to fill it up.
Speaker 3: So after all that, Jeffrey's getting shocked, jose is getting shocked.
Speaker 3: And that was three and a half seconds with Alexi.
Speaker 2: All right, well it came back to bite me and
Speaker 2: Jose so we're going to get shocked while singing, have
Speaker 2: yourself a merry little Christmas. All right, have yourself marry
Speaker 2: little Christmas.
Speaker 1: Let your heart be love.
Speaker 3: That was good.
Speaker 4: You guys should go Caroline together.
Speaker 2: I love it, just you it, Chap whatever, that's your
Speaker 2: shot collar question of the day.
Speaker 1: We got your Phonesap coming up in just a few minutes.