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He’s back and he’s got a sleigh full of gift ideas for everyone on your list! No one can get the aunties in the spirit quite like Santa Paul Scheer and he delivers again this year with a wide assortment of practical, pop-culture infused presents. Sure, there’s plenty of gadgets and nerdy stuff in there, but there’s also gifts for the people who have you stumped. Santa Paul discusses the patience and presentation needed to pull off the gift of a streaming subscription and why he may never need to buy another birthday card. This holly, jolly highlight of the holiday season proves, yet again, why Paul Scheer himself is the gift that keeps on giving.

He’s back and he’s got a sleigh full of gift ideas for everyone on your list! No one can get the aunties in the spirit quite like Santa Paul Scheer and he delivers again this year with a wide assortment of practical, pop-culture infused presents. Sure, there’s plenty of gadgets and nerdy stuff in there, but there’s also gifts for the people who have you stumped. Santa Paul discusses the patience and presentation needed to pull off the gift of a streaming subscription and why he may never need to buy another birthday card. This holly, jolly highlight of the holiday season proves, yet again, why Paul Scheer himself is the gift that keeps on giving.

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• Ku and Su’s teeth are singing with the Slate Rechargeable Electric Flosser. Go to Slateflosser.com/ADDTOCART to get 10% off your flosser

• Buck Mason has tons of elevated men’s wardrobe staples

• But it’s hard to top the Kirkland Signature white tee

• OnlyNY’s NYC collection has gifts for anyone who truly loves NY

• Uh oh. We’re still talking about Tom Bihn on this show. One of Paul’s favorite backpacks, the Synik 26, has gotten a few upgrades

• Adam Savage, from Myth Busters fame, is making all sorts of cool goodies, including the rugged and elegant Bucket Bag

• Hasbro Pulse is the place to check out adult action figures and toys that are reasonably priced

• Why not buy all five of these highly-detailed rapper garden gnomes?

• The hit, new, all-ages board game this holiday is Wavelength

• Play as Indiana Jones in an all new adventure in this buzzy video game, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

• Build your own droid in this wacky Star Wars LEGO set

• For the adult LEGO builder, there’s the new Jaws LEGO Set

• Don’t know what the heck to give someone? How about an indoor electronic s’mores maker

• Surely you need to gift someone the ZAZ Collection on 4K Blu-Ray, which includes Airplane, Top Secret and The Naked Gun

• Or the Peter Bogdanovich classic Paper Moon on Blu-Ray

• The ultimate Blu-Ray gift might be the Criterion Collection 40 featuring 40 of the most iconic films in the collection

• Speaking of iconic films, this unique, in-depth coffee table book chronicles the making of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining

• Give the gift of laughs with a subscription to the comedy streaming site Dropout TV, featuring the hilarious Very Important People

• You can also get access to the British comedy hit Taskmaster by subscribing to their streaming service

• These flameless lighters from Anthropologie will light up anything you’d like

• This mini flashlight is Paul’s favorite new gadget

• I’m walkin’ here!! And drinking my coffee in this classic New York City coffee cup from the MoMA Design Store

• Etsy is still the best place for customized, niche gifts. Like this Pedro Pascal to-do list

• The One with the Adorable 30 Year Anniversary Friends Ornament

• Add a pinch of salt from this Food 52 Salt Cellar

• And the best gift of all for fans of Santa Paul? You can get a personalized copy of his book Joyful Recollections of Trauma via Chevalier’s Books

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Transcript

SPEAKERS

SuChin Pak, Kulap Vilaysack, Paul Scheer

Kulap Vilaysack  00:07

Welcome back to Add To Cart my mistletoes. It’s your auntie Kulap Vilaysack.

 

SuChin Pak  00:13

And I’m your other auntie, SuChin Pak, carter’s. Let’s just get into it. We ain’t got time to mess around. The season is upon us. He’s the star on our tree. It’s the apex of Christmas season. He’s wiggling down the chimney as we speak. You know what time it is?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  00:33

He makes our shopping dreams come true every year. He’s the man, the myth, the legend. Please welcome back, Santa Scheer.

 

Paul Scheer  00:43

Yeah. I am so excited to come back and, you know, look, here’s the thing, which, with each passing year, I feel a larger pressure, but I want to throw down something to you. Yeah, today, okay, yes, I gave you a list. I shared a notes doc with you, which is something that I really want to normalize. Sharing the Notes app in your Mac like, I know we got Google Docs, but we all have these iPhones. Start sharing notes, start collaborating in notes.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  01:19

I do that really. I do all the time.

 

SuChin Pak  01:22

I that feels, it feels scary, because my notes app is such, there’s such personal info on there. Just a slip of a giant thumb.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  01:33

Don’t share that.

 

Paul Scheer  01:34

No, and here’s the thing you got. You got to click a couple ways through. It’s not just happening. It’s not you would have multiple chances to not, you know, share what.

 

SuChin Pak  01:44

Just make sure you’re not sharing, yeah.

 

Paul Scheer  01:47

Because it’s a note, you’re sharing a note. But even in putting this list together, I’m like, All right, where should I go? Over here? Should I go over here? Because my mind hasn’t been fully in gifts yet.

 

01:57

Paul, like you coming here every year ignites something in me, and you helped me so much, especially with Scott. Like, I have been doing okay, but it’s been tough for this year for me.

 

Paul Scheer  02:09

It’s, you know, it’s a tricky, it’s as we get to the lack of physical things, like, I think that a lot of people want, like, things that are, I don’t know. It’s hard to find the right thing. I’m even looking for myself. I don’t know what I want, you know? So this was an interesting I would say that this batch of goodies that I’ll be sharing with you today, it’s all over the map. I tried to keep it all over the map, but I don’t know how I feel about I mean, I know how I feel about them, but it’s like, there’s, there’s not like that one thing that like, I must tell you about this. I must tell you about this. I don’t know where you know, we’re gonna figure it out.

 

02:44

This is honest. This is real, I’m picking up what you’re throwing down.

 

SuChin Pak  02:48

In Christmas lists. Pass, you did a great and I still refer to it stocking stuffers for the kiddos. You remember that one?

 

Paul Scheer  02:56

I do.

 

SuChin Pak  02:56

Bible?

 

Paul Scheer  02:57

I mean, I love a stocking stuffer. I have a lot of stalking stuff for ideas, and that was really to me coming in here today, it was like, How do I not repeat myself? Because, look, if you’ve already listened, you know, I have. I’ve given you a couple tips and tricks. I don’t want to hit the same places. Those places are still valid.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  03:15

Valid.

 

Paul Scheer  03:15

Valid.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  03:17

Absolutely.

 

Paul Scheer  03:17

You know. But there’s, you know. So I’m trying to go in different spots this year.

 

03:21

Let’s talk about Buck Mason. You Paul Scheer a man of fashion, very well dressed. You like Buck Mason.

 

Paul Scheer  03:29

When I’m not, here’s what I’ll say. I think that Buck Mason is a nice go to for a man in your life that you’re not sure exactly where they fall, because they kind of encompass everything, right? It’s nice, it’s clean. It looks good to step up from a banana republic and a J Crew, right? And you can go based on your person, your man. You can go into different areas. Like, here’s the thing, this past year, I was touring around in with How Did This Get Made? And we got an invitation to go to the White House. We weren’t going to meet President Biden, but we’ve got an invitation to go and take a tour, which was truly an amazing thing. But we didn’t have clothes for that tour. Went to Buck Mason, got myself an outfit. Look at he split. Look damn good and.

 

04:21

Damn good, and you’ll be able to use those pieces, 365.

 

Paul Scheer  04:25

I do, and they are very big pieces that I love. And what I really would love to say is that they make a very simple shirt, and they make some great pants. So again, sometimes I talk to a lot of women who are like, I need to get my man some clothes because he does not a dress. And I want to put a staple in there too. Buck Mason is an elevated staple. And, and you look at it and you’re like, it’s jeans, it’s shirts, it’s T shirts, it’s, but it’s not trying too hard, but yet it’s elevated. And that’s, and I really, I thought it was important this year. And look, there’s women’s fashion and Buck Mason too. I, you know, I can’t speak that.

 

SuChin Pak  05:01

[…] The white tea. It’s legend.

 

Paul Scheer  05:04

This, though, this is the white tea. If we’re talking about white tea, there’s only one white tea, and I may have already talked about this. It is the Costco white Ts.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  05:14

We haven’t talked about this.

 

Paul Scheer  05:15

Okay, so this is.

 

SuChin Pak  05:19

Costco brand? Or it’s sold Kirkland?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  05:22

Kirk baby?

 

Paul Scheer  05:23

Kirkland, crew neck white tea. I’m gonna give you three reasons why they’re the best. Number one, GQ says it. Number two.

 

SuChin Pak  05:31

Oh.

 

Paul Scheer  05:33

They’re cheap as hell.

 

SuChin Pak  05:34

Chords are out already.

 

Paul Scheer  05:36

They’re cheap as hell. What you want from your white Ts is a white T. We all know when we wash it a couple times, it’s not it’s gonna lose its shape, it’s gonna lose its color. It’s cheap enough to be like, Yeah, time to buy another pack of white T. Like, and it is truly the I love the fit of it. It looks great. I’ve worn it on television. No one note, it’s a great looking white tea, a Costco or Kirkland brand. You can get them on Amazon. This is Kirkland white Ts will not let you down. And like unlike Buck Mason, who I have, I just bought a blue tea from them the other day. I love their blue T. I love the I love everything about it. But white Ts, we’re sweating. Things are happening. You gotta move it through. So I have a whole you get practical. I have a whole drawer just a white tees, Kirkland brand white Ts.

 

06:28

Okay, Hot Tip, let’s talk about tip the New York City collection, City of New York.

 

Paul Scheer  06:35

Okay, this is another, another thing again. I went a little bit. I never really do clothes, because I’m always like, I don’t get people close. I love only newyork.com it’s only ny.com because.

 

SuChin Pak  06:46

Never heard of this.

 

Paul Scheer  06:47

Okay, I’m a New Yorker, so it definitely speaks to me in a way that is very specific. They do collaborations with very New York things like the MTA or like the New York Parks and Rec world. So you have these really cool looking things, and it changes all the time, right now, they have a marathon collection, right? So it’s all things that are New York City Marathon based, but they are based in like, the 80s logos and the typeface. So it is a throw back to old school stuff, like, I have a on my desk, a New York trash can that you would see in Central Park to hold my pens. I have an MTA light that you they bought this MTA light that is like that you see at the top of the subway platforms, like very specific New York stuff. That is great. But the MTA collection, I wear a jacket. It’s like a transit authority jacket that I got here, I get more compliments on this jacket. Where, everywhere I go, people like Will. Where’d you get this? Because it looks like something I got from a vintage store. Their MTA collection is worth it 100% so if you’re a New Yorker, or if you like New York it’s like, getting, like, merch from New York.

 

08:04

Yeah, but good quality stuff, SuChin Pak might be seeing some under her Christmas tree ring. Ding a ling, let’s get into bags.

 

Paul Scheer  08:13

Great.

 

SuChin Pak  08:15

Hold on, guys. Okay bags, okay, I’m here.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  08:18

Tom Bhin. We love Tom Bhin but we haven’t talked about this Tom Bhin bag.

 

Paul Scheer  08:23

All right, so the Cynic 26 is an upgrade to whatever the cynic before it was, I and your man of bags. Jason Mantzoukas both felt that the previous Tom Bhin cynic bag had some issues, things that we needed fix more pockets, more zippers, more compartments, all this sort of stuff. This Tom Bhin bag, fix it. This is like, not a glossy gift. This is not a glossy gift. This is more of a, I just got to put it out there. And got a I got to just applaud a good bag.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  08:53

Wow.

 

SuChin Pak  08:54

Okay, and it’s so good that, it’s just pre orders right now.

 

Paul Scheer  09:00

Right, that’s it.

 

SuChin Pak  09:01

It’s just mid so it’s out of stock, but they will, it says they will ship mid December, so I’m assuming that’s in time for the holidays.

 

Paul Scheer  09:09

Yeah, because it’s so good, is always going out of stock immediately, as soon as the bag comes out there on market. But I will tell you this much, it is a great backpack, especially for somebody in your life who travels and travels with a backpack again. Here’s my one downside on Tom Bhin, I don’t love the colors always it seems a little plain.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  09:31

Very bright.

 

Paul Scheer  09:32

Very bright. I get a black one, and it kind of keeps me good. Yeah, I don’t love that, but yeah, I have to give over to that, because everything else about it is a plus, like, truly, yeah.

 

09:46

SuChin uses a small pouch, and she fashions it with bungee cords. And that is like her wallet purse, and she carries that around.

 

Paul Scheer  09:56

I love it.

 

SuChin Pak  09:59

Stop me, traffic stop. Excuse me, hi. Where’d you get that bag? Sorry, I’m sorry.

 

Paul Scheer  10:05

It looks like something. Yeah, it looks like something. You might pick.

 

SuChin Pak  10:07

I have everything. If it’s everything,

 

Paul Scheer  10:10

Su, if I should show you my little fanny pack that I wear around like, like a Chewbacca Bandolero, you would see it. It’s fact, I got all my stuff in there. You got it all in there. I’m her, you know, as a matter of fact, I was kicking myself because, you know, I’m a contact wearer and and I keep contacts hidden all over, in all my bags, because inevitably, I’ll forget a contact one time and then be without contacts. And, you know, the one time I didn’t bring that bag, June’s like, don’t bring that bag. We don’t need it. Guess what? I needed it. I needed what was in that bag, because I needed it.

 

10:44

Now, Paul, I don’t I want to have I have a tip for you. I don’t know if you’re aware of this, is that I have surgically enhanced eyes. I don’t know if you knew that.

 

Paul Scheer  10:53

I okay. I want to talk to you about this, because now you didn’t. What is the you got? The you it’s not lasix anymore. It’s a different right it’s.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  11:03

I have lenses implanted in my eyes.

 

Paul Scheer  11:06

Okay, yes.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  11:07

I titty implants.

 

Paul Scheer  11:09

Okay, so I’ve heard about this, and my dad has this as well. I’ve been always super afraid to do the carving out whatever that is, you know, the laser cutting in the eyes. This seems something that I would be open to, but I’m also scared about it.

 

11:26

Yeah, it was so easy, buddy. I was scared too. Okay, it’s so, so easy, easy recovery. Yeah, I was freaked out about it. But it’s, you know, you don’t get dry eye. Okay, it’s, I had such poor eyesight, Paul, and it’s just been a game changer, okay.

 

Paul Scheer  11:45

We might have to talk offline, because, I mean, I’m on board with this. And when I heard it from my dad the other day, I would have heard it from you, I would have also been on board immediately. But I didn’t understand that this technology existed, and for 30 years, why were people cutting into their eyeballs then?

 

12:05

And I also want you to know that it’s not permanent. Question on tour, huh? It’s not permanent, yeah, because you can take, if you want to take them out, you can, whereas it is.

 

Paul Scheer  12:16

But your eyes are locked, right?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  12:19

Yeah, they’re locked in.

 

Paul Scheer  12:20

Well, no, because, like, here’s the thing.

 

SuChin Pak  12:21

I went back. Linked In two months.

 

Paul Scheer  12:23

I went back on my prescription last year.

 

12:26

My got better. You’re how that happened […]

 

Paul Scheer  12:30

I don’t know.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  12:31

You know what it is, cold, plunging this motherfucker, this, get me that cold motherfucker.

 

SuChin Pak  12:38

Oh, my God. I knew he was gonna find a way to talk about cold.

 

Paul Scheer  12:42

Oh, I got a new one.

 

12:45

You said I could have the old one. What happened?

 

Paul Scheer  12:49

I’m gonna wash it and give it to you. Got it 100% yours. I just want to clean it. I gotta, like, get put some soap in there and make sure it’s clean. Um, here’s the thing. And by the way, that’s, that’s, uh, but get take it at any moment. Here’s what I’ll say. I talked to my therapist the other day, and she said to me, she said, you’re still doing that, huh? And I said, I am. And she said, she said, I think this is like an amazing thing for you, because I have to tell you, not even of the the events of the last month or so, it just calms me down. It regulates my system and as a parent, as a person living in this world, as a person going from paycheck to paycheck, we need to regulate our systems, and it helps.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  13:32

Vagus nerve, submerged.

 

Paul Scheer  13:34

Submerged, baby.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  13:37

All men, manageable.

 

SuChin Pak  13:40

That’s the time Woman of the Year should be the vagus nerve.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  13:45

I’m in she is.

 

SuChin Pak  13:47

When I tell you people are inviting her to parties. She’s the talk of the town.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  13:52

She’s being oiled.

 

Paul Scheer  13:53

She needs to be. You know, we celebrated the Vegas urban What’s that other thing that people put on their feet? Magnesium? Is that what people have been doing like magnesium spray.

 

14:02

Yeah, I take, I take magnesium at night. We’re doing we’re rubbing magnesium in. We’re doing all things.

 

Paul Scheer  14:08

Do it all, get it all going on. If we’re talking about bags, though, too. Like I was saying that this Tom bin bag is not a look. It’s a gift bag. If you know someone in your life likes a bag like this, this might be like, like, I think we all love Tom Bhin we get it. Why Tom bin is great. It might be a harder sell. I’m giving this gift to all of you out there who are on this train and want a good bag. But the gift bag that I want to talk about is the savage industry. Yes. Okay, yes, yes, yes. Okay, so Adam Savage, you remember Myth Busters. He has created his own line of things, bed rolls. He’s got like boxes that you can hold, like little gizmos and gadgets and but he has these things called bucket bags. Bucket bags are truly, they’re like, like a handyman bag, but they are the perfect. Right, like I would imagine, they are in the middle of a purse and a backpack. They’re not a backpack. They’re, you know, they are a handled bag you can pack in it. You can also just carry your wares in them when you’re going around. I love this I love this bag. This bag has made such a big difference in my life. And he has these canvas like, these little insert bags, kind of like Sue’s wallet there. I love the material. These are just the I believe the one that he has out right now is, like the EDC four. Now here’s the thing I want to tell you, it’s white. I showed it to June, and she’s like, I want it so that just goes to show you this idea. Like, you think, Oh, this is a Paul techie, like, bullshit like this, not for the ladies and tell you it’s real nice.

 

15:49

How are you using it? Paul, like, how does this fold into your life?

 

Paul Scheer  15:53

I don’t often use a backpack around. La, I’m not going full because backpack, to me, sometimes is tricky. Like, I use it like a modern person’s briefcase. That’s kind of I use it. And I will say that when I’ve been on tour, I use it a lot on tour, like, when I’m popping around and doing like, you could do it as an overnight bag. It will be a little over stuff. But again, depending on how you pack, it could be a great gym bag. It’s an all purpose type of bag. You know, think of it without.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  16:20

Being a duffel, without buying, yeah.

 

Paul Scheer  16:22

It’s a really, it’s a truly great. And I want you to also check out the pouches. The pouches are great looking again. And the pouches can go in the bag. These savage bags are truly great. And how I like to even up it a little bit more is each bag has like, a, like, a little bit of Velcro on it so you can put patches on it. So I go and look on Amazon, and I find my fun patches, like the Nostromo patch from aliens, or something like that, or a Nakatomi Corporation from Die Hard. And I put a patch right on the side, so it’s like, oh, it’s like a Nakatomi branded, you know, patch, or a Nostromo […]

 

Kulap Vilaysack  17:00

Pop culture. He’s going to.

 

Paul Scheer  17:02

Yeah, I’m gonna get it all.

 

SuChin Pak  17:03

Razzle dazzle, it.

 

17:04

He’s gonna wrestle. Which kind of swings is into the next category, which is nerdy stuff.

 

Paul Scheer  17:09

Nerdy stuff. I may have called this up before. I’ll hit this quickly and say that Hasbro pulse is like the toy manufacturer for adults without it being aggressively overpriced. So they allow you to finance some of their bigger ideas. So I helped back a Ghostbuster pro Tom pack and Ghost Trap, and then, and then we made our we made it, and now it’s like, it’s sort of, it’s sort of like a they Hasbro pulse. Does this kind of, how do you say, like, Kickstarter, but, but they own all the rights to things. So, yeah, so and so. I have now a real deal pro Tom pack that I helped kickstart, but they kind of have all these.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  17:56

I swear Paul, like, who knows?

 

Paul Scheer  17:58

I don’t know where I’m gonna I don’t know where I’m gonna put it, but I’ll tell you this much they do, like Marvel, Star Wars, Power Rangers, Indiana Jones, and even nerf it’s sort of like the bespoke version of these toys, right? Like they have these limited nerf things.

 

SuChin Pak  18:12

This is crazy and it’s very also, there’s a lot of nostalgic. I mean, this is just.

 

Paul Scheer  18:18

Well, it goes all over yeah. Nerf sneakers. They have, they that are great looking. They got these, like, nerf Nike shirts.

 

SuChin Pak  18:26

Nike, a nerf collab sneakers.

 

Paul Scheer  18:31

Yes, and then you got all your Star Wars and everything else. And, you know, like, there’s a brand new show out called skeleton crew from Star Wars. And they got your Jude Law characters. They they’re making bespoke toys, you know, and and, you know, like they even reprinted all the Dungeons and Dragons, like bubblegum trading cards. And right now, they’re also looking for backers for the new Ghostbusters Plasma series, ectomobile, where, you know, it’s just a toy ectomobile. So you can go, you can jump in on that. If you want doing that. Are you gonna do? I was going to and I was like, You know what? I really don’t have places for any of these things. My want is sure, but I like money better spent in other spots. So, so yes, yes, my want is there. I will not do it. And I think.

 

19:16

Speaking of money spent in better spots, I am so excited for you to tell us about these rapper garden gnomes. I was like.

 

SuChin Pak  19:24

Oh my god, this, I don’t know how you beat this on this list.

 

Paul Scheer  19:30

I mean.

 

SuChin Pak  19:30

This is describe it.

 

Paul Scheer  19:33

Yes, so first of all, what I’ll say is this, we all know what a garden gnome is. Now, just imagine Biggie as a garden gnome, or Tupac or Snoop, or easy E or ludicrous, or you can get all five. They’re only $19 each, but they are little garden gnomes that will stand in your garden. And they are the best. They look amazing. And I’m a big fan of wrapper garden gnomes. These are a really solid, a solid find of my favorite finds of this year.

 

SuChin Pak  20:05

Oh, my God. The Tupac garden gnome, I would imagine, has all of his tattoos.

 

Paul Scheer  20:13

Oh.

 

SuChin Pak  20:14

Rendered.

 

Paul Scheer  20:15

This is no messing around. You. Look at the images here. You’re gonna see, I mean, you like you see him there? Ludacris, looks great. Everybody looks good. But the tattoos are, are there? The tattoos are fully there.

 

SuChin Pak  20:26

Oh, that’s so good, yes.

 

Paul Scheer  20:28

And by the way, we’re talking about $19 per gnome. You can get all five. You got to get all five. You got to get five. Gotta get all five.

 

20:54

We’re moving on to games. Which Paul, I have to say, you have introduced so many games into my life that I’ve loved, that I’ve gifted. Got a shout out to Dutch Blitz. I believe that was you.

 

Paul Scheer  21:08

That it probably was, or my wife. I mean, we are. I’m sure I gave it to you last year and and this year I was wrestling like, what do I give you that I haven’t given you? Because board games aren’t like, coming out in like, a degree where it’s like, oh, you know, some like, oh, certain ones stick around. They stand the test of time, like something like code names and stuff like that. But I will tell you this wavelength game is super fun, and if I recommend it before, just listen to me again and say this. It’s basically like a you’re trying to communicate something to your team. I’m trying to figure out how to even describe. It’s like a party game. You don’t have to be smart, you just have to be kind of reading the clues. It’s like, kind of like a Scattergories type of game, where you’re You’re everyone’s trying to help out like or like, a what’s like, a Win, lose or draw, like, you know, it’s like, yeah, you’re working together to kind of guess something. But you don’t have to be smart. It takes two seconds to learn how to play.

 

22:02

Yeah, so it works in groups from two to 12 plus people. They taste great for large parties, off sites, family gatherings, anywhere you need instant fun, five seconds to set up, one minute to learn, 30 minutes to play. Wire cutter said it’s the best board game, one of the best board games.

 

Paul Scheer  22:18

It’s really just fun. It’s like a mind reading game, right? No one will get upset. Because I find that sometimes when you bring a party game in, I’m upset you didn’t get this thing right. This it’s all there’s no right or wrong, and I think that’s an important thing to bring to a party game.

 

22:32

Especially like I’m looking for games for both Thanksgiving and Christmas to play, and when you have different age groups and different skill levels that that comes up. So I think this sounds perfect.

 

Paul Scheer  22:44

It’s a little hard to conceptualize if you’re not seeing exactly the cards.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  22:49

And the pieces.

 

Paul Scheer  22:50

Yes, but it’s very.

 

22:52

You’re playing it with your your son, you’re playing it with everybody.

 

Paul Scheer  22:55

Yeah, it’s a everybody game. You just have to read a little bit and then read in such a way that my eight year old can play.

 

Paul Scheer  23:01

Okay, great.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  23:02

So it’s, yeah, this is not, this is not a tricky one.

 

23:05

And then the Indiana Jones and the great circle, Xbox series edition.

 

Paul Scheer  23:11

You can get any version of it, right? There’s a million versions of this was the one that’s like 100 bucks if you, if you have someone in your life as an Xbox this is the, the new hot game that is gonna be coming out. It is Indiana Jones. People are saying it’s one of the best games already. The buzz on it is really hot. But it’s like, basically, it’s an Indiana Jones Adventure. I think it plays a little bit like Tomb Raider and and that game, Wolfenstein like that. Like, it’s a very every I’ve seen the play through. It looks great again. If you have some in your life, who has an Xbox, this is going to be right, and then, like, Indiana Jones right up their alley. I mean, 100% up their alley. Okay, don’t have to spend more time on that, but just say it’s a good game that’s coming out mid December, so the chances that they would have it are low.

 

23:53

Okay, great, you know. Okay, so this toy that I’m looking at, it’s, uh, a droid builder from LEGO. Like, oh yes. I mean, we’ve said this over and over again. Paul is my Lego Father.

 

Paul Scheer  24:05

Love a Lego. And this one’s a really fun one, because, look, they always gonna have great Lego things that are coming out that got Christmas ones. I got everything. But this is like a fun one, because I think it’s also a little creative. You have enough pieces in here to build your own droid. So it can kind of be like a fun party game. It’s not like a great it’s not like, look, we’ve talked about before. The Home Alone house is one of the best Lego builds I’ve done, and in recent memory, it’s amazing. I’m all for it. But this is maybe more of like you have a kid in your life, or it’s like, a fun way for the kids to get around. Like, okay, like yesterday they were off for Veterans Day, so I brought the kids in. If I had like this, there’s four of them. Four of them could all. They could all share pieces, build their own droids. Show what they made, break it all down, start it all again, right? Fun, easy, yeah. Like a very active, creative. And I think if you have nerdy adults, it works the same way, right? It’s, it’s just. It’s like, it’s like a card game. Everyone gets to build their own little Lego. So I’m a big fan of that, and I will also recommend here. I didn’t put it in, but the jaws play set is my new favorite play set. It’s Jaws coming out of the water attacking the ship you got Quint you got everybody on it. It’s a beautiful, it’s a beautiful, beautiful Lego. So if you’re a fan of jaws in your life. You’re gonna need a bigger Lego boat.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  25:24

You did it.

 

Paul Scheer  25:26

so, yeah, you got chief Martin Brody, you got Matt Hooper, you got Sam Quint, you got the shark. Everyone’s there for the Lego that’s now, that’s a fun build.

 

25:35

A fun build. Okay, this next category, what the fuck I don’t know what to give this person.

 

Paul Scheer  25:40

Yes, I’ve tried to give us something that was a  little bit different. I thought, this is good. I’m gonna tell you about it. I saw it the other day, and I was like, This is great. It’s a s’mores maker. It’s an indoor, electric s’mores maker, right? Who’s gonna be upset with this? No one super fun. I give it to you. You have a dinner party. You go, yeah, right. Paul gave me that s’mores maker. That would be fun, right? We don’t have to go outside. I’m not asking you to get a fire pit. I’m just saying we put it on the table. It’s a fun, extra little dessert. And it’s, I think it’s for the price 23 bucks. We’re just s’mores.

 

SuChin Pak  26:15

Immediately add to cart. So what it’s flameless heater, is you just plug it in?

 

Paul Scheer  26:20

Yeah.

 

SuChin Pak  26:20

That’s what it looks like.

 

Paul Scheer  26:21

Yeah, you don’t need a big thing. And they got, and they got bigger ones too, that, you know, they got more room for your s’mores making and stuff like that. You got mini ones. You got, there’s a bunch of different ones. They even have a caramel apple one that you can like that, like no one’s gonna do the caramel apples. Let’s just do the s’mores. Keep it simple, keep it fun, keep it light.

 

26:38

And how you present it, too, you can present it with all of the ingredients to make it?

 

Paul Scheer  26:44

Like it’s a great gift. And at $23 get a couple of these. You go on to the store, you get a couple of chocolate bars, you get a couple of graham crackers. You give this up. It’s a night. It feels personal, feels nice, it feels like you did something that’s a little bit, you know, and it’s not like, it’s not aggressive, it’s not taking up a ton of space. So I love this gift as a I thought about you, but I also don’t have to know you that much. You’re gonna appreciate it like it’s, you know, like I give, I’ve given pizza people a pizza oven. I gave that to my dad. He loved it. He’s gonna make pizza, but I give you a pizza oven. I don’t know if you like pizza that much to have an oven, and you’re like, ah, mother, fuck. I have to do this whole thing. So that’s what I got there. Um, yeah, we’ve skipped over one of these things.

 

27:24

Yeah, we skipped over blu ray. And I, I want to ask you, you brought up zazz, the collection airplane, top secret, the Naked Gun. Now, is this new to this year, Paul, or has this been around?

 

Paul Scheer  27:35

Brand new, brand just not, not even at the time of this recording, not even out.

 

SuChin Pak  27:40

All right, there’s a Scott right there, right there.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  27:42

I know, but that’s I gotta stop him from buying it. That’s the problem.

 

Paul Scheer  27:45

This is a great year for re releases in 4k blu ray, because you got the zazz collection, which is all the airplane top secret, Naked Gun, but you also have, like, Blazing Saddles coming out in 4k for the first time, I wanted to call it this one, because again, let’s put this in the category of dad, comedy person. Look, do they need it? Maybe not, but they’ll appreciate it, right? It’s a nice again. Stocking stuffer, it’s 40 bucks. You got a ton of movies, and they’re all good. And as matter of fact, Scott and I, we talked about top secret on Scott hasn’t seen Yeah, so I know he’s a fan. And I think you watch that one too. You may have walked in in the middle that, yeah, I remember hearing remember hearing about that. So I try to highlight a couple of them. The other one I want to highlight in this is a great movie that is finally getting its criterion release. I think criterion is the elevated gift. And that’s Paper Moon. Peter Bogdanovich is Paper Moon finally coming out on criterion. So that’s I just wanted to call that out as something that out as something that is coming out a little bit later, but before the holidays, so you can get on criterion and kind of and grab that up. I was looking for, like, bigger things like, yeah, there’s a John Wick steel book, sure, the ultimate gift. And I didn’t want to even put it in here. But the ultimate gift this year, if you for your blu ray loving person, if you got the coin, go to criterion.com and you order the criterion 40. It’s a 40 film box set that celebrates the entire Criterion Collection. So it’s a mix of classic and contemporary films. It’s like your film education in a box. It’s a pre ordered thing. It is coming out November 19, so it’s brand new, and it’s for the first time ever. They’ve never done anything like this. So it’s a, it’s a box set of the best criterion Now, here’s where it’s tricky, okay, does a person in your life collect a lot of criterions? Because maybe they do, and you gotta, and you gotta balance. You got to look, yeah, you got to look at what they’re offering. You got to look at what they have. But for a person who like likes movies, has a Blu ray player.

 

29:49

I mean, is basically has a cottage industry regarding movies.

 

Paul Scheer  29:52

yes, yeah, well, there, I mean, there you go. And look, I’ve been wrestling with this purchase myself. It’s a little expensive, but there’s a lot and. We’re talking right now before the discount is on right now, right? $639 now you’re gonna say, Paul, that’s very expensive. Well, I’m telling you 40 movies. It’s 40 criterion movies. Criterion movies are already expensive, right? So let’s just do the math. Here go. Uh, 639 divided by 40, we’re coming in at $15 a criteria.

 

SuChin Pak  30:26

Now we’re Add to Cart math. Okay, back in the cart.

 

Paul Scheer  30:30

And here’s what I’m saying, and the average Criterion Collection is going for 30 plus dollars, so you’re getting.

 

SuChin Pak  30:38

half price, right at the top, you’re making money. You’re making money. I have to invoice someone money. I have to invoice someone for the other $600 now.

 

Paul Scheer  30:52

Look, it’s not for everybody, because I know it’s a steep price tag, but I also would tell you that anyone you give this to is gonna be like, Whoa. This is awesome. Yeah, it’s impressive. It’s an impressive gift. It’s a big gift.

 

SuChin Pak  31:03

Yeah, it’s also one of those gifts where it’s perfect for maybe a group of people to go in knowing that there’s some special person. Oh, yeah, that’s all that would just their jaw would drop, getting 40 of the best criterion films.

 

Paul Scheer  31:17

In a special box. It sounds just coming in like a cardboard box. I mean, this is a, this is, like, a big deal. This is a big one. This is, you know, this is coffee table material, right, you know, so that that’s, you know, and it’s got all the special features on there. They got new special things on there. This is high level.

 

31:34

High level of coffee tables, yes, TASH and high level TASH and the Stanley Kubrick archives.

 

Paul Scheer  31:44

I love this. This is like a very simple, great gift. Uh, Tasha makes great books. We all know the passion coffee table books. There is a Stanley Kubrick. This is, I just believe the shining, right, is just shining. So it’s a giant passion book that is only the shining. It’s, goes for 125 bucks. It comes out in December. It’s like a scrapbook of people collecting information about what happened at that hotel, at the Overlook Hotel. Then there’s all these like behind the scene things as well. The stuff in here is unlike anything else. And I know it’s written by a very famous person. And yeah, Lee on Lee. Lee Unkrich wrote it, and who? Leon critch, I believe is Toy Story, right? Cool, yeah, he’s Toy Story. He’s Coco Finding Nemo Monsters, Inc. And I believe it’s the other person who wrote it with him is JR rinsler, who is behind all the big Star Wars books that you know, all these Compendium books. So a plus for anyone again, a geek in your life, a film nerd in your life that wants this sort of stuff, I think this is a good one.

 

32:46

Your next category is subscriptions, which I’m so glad you brought, and it’s actually making me I’ve been you dropout TV. There is a show on dropout TV that I see clips of which is very important. People with Vic Michaelis. It is like, one of the almost only things that make me laugh. I’m only seeing clips, and I’ve been going like, you gotta subscribe. You gotta subscribe. So you bringing it up right now is like, Okay, I’m gonna subscribe for myself.

 

Paul Scheer  33:12

All right, listen to this right now. You can get a full subscription for 20% off. That’s 4999 for the full year of dropout TV. You can gift it to somebody that’s nothing, right? And you’re getting you’re getting all this great comedy content. You’re getting comedy specials. You’re getting comedy shows. The show that you’re talking about with Vic Michaelis, the premise of the show is she’s an interviewer. You show up to be interviewed. They make you up. You don’t know what you’re being made up as, and then you come out on stage dressed as whatever, a full rock person or whatever, and you have to do an interview, very elaborate. Yes, she’s the interviewer. Yeah, okay, well, welcome to the show. Now you are and then you have to improvise a big, I am, little Johnny the rock person. Okay, well, where do so like she is improvising an interview with you? Yeah, she’s not trying to guess, but you are like, so you’re both working together, right, to create an individual. It’s really cool. They have tons of shows on this, like this.

 

SuChin Pak  34:05

This is a great idea.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  34:08

I’m gonna send you clips of it, such, and you’re gonna love it.

 

SuChin Pak  34:10

Yeah and then, how would you Okay? So then you how okay? Because I this, I have to get this for Mike. So how do I present it to like you?

 

Paul Scheer  34:19

I think you do two things, which is, I’m a big fan of my kids aren’t around. I’m looking around for my kids. You know, I don’t buy physical media games anymore, like for the Xbox or anything like that, or the PlayStation. I just download them. So on Christmas Eve night, I download all the games. I get it all ready, it’s all signed in so they can play it the next morning, right? And then I kind of make that part of the fun. Like, go check out the PlayStation. What’s on the PlayStation? Well, this game, that game, this game, yeah, so we can do is, you know, whatever you have, you have a Roku, you have an Apple TV, you get it all on there. It’s all ready to go and look again. This is not like, you got, like, right? It’s tricky. How do you give this, you know, like, and you. You just, this is kind of one of those things you have to kind of explain. And it’s going to be, I think I talked about this last year, one of those in three months, right? I’m so glad that you gave me drop like, drop out TV. It’s going to be like, you set the it’s a time bomb. It’s going to be a go. That’s cool. Thanks. I like that, right? But it’s not going to, you’re not going to feel the effects of it.

 

SuChin Pak  35:18

Yeah, from until you really get into, and start getting into some of these shows.

 

Paul Scheer  35:22

Right, I love, but I think,  but I do think that, like for people, it’s, you can watch it on your phone, you can watch it on your TV, whatever you do, but you can get it like pre set up for them, so they feel like they’re in and they’re watching it, and then they feel like, okay, let’s go check it out. So again, it’s always hard to give these subscriptions, but I want to also call out this other subscription that I really love, which is the task master subscription.

 

35:43

Okay, the only reason that I’ve even heard of the show is because I know a mutual friend of ours will be appearing in it. Yeah, never heard about it until that So, could you explain?

 

Paul Scheer  35:52

Really?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  35:53

No, I yeah.

 

Paul Scheer  35:54

this is truly my favorite show.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  35:58

Really?

 

Paul Scheer  36:00

June hates it. Okay? My kids love it. The premise is so simple and fun. It’s like the show that we’d all want to be doing so but basically, what it is is you have a task master, right? And he is giving a group of comedians, four comedians, five comedians, a series of challenges that they have to complete. So it could be as simple as melt this giant block of ice without creating a puddle, right? Or get rid of this giant block of ice in less than an hour. So you have five or six comedians that are trying to figure out how to creatively solve this problem by themselves, and then they intersperse how each person does it, and then at the end of each challenge, they are graded on it, and then through the course of the season, they get points. Now may Martin has been on it, James a caster. Many of your favorite British comedians have been on it, but it’s super fun. It is like a reality show with a comedy bent. One challenge which is so funny, is they blindfolded people, and they made them walk into a room of stacked cans and and they couldn’t knock down anything. But then you see people walking, they don’t know what’s around, and they hit a can, and then the can starts to fall, and then they move to try to catch the can, and then they knock down more cans. So it’s like, whoever knocks down the least amount of cans, it’s like, it’s not, it’s, iyou know, they have to make a snuggle machine. There’s all over the place.

 

SuChin Pak  37:27

This is the kind of show that my kids, yeah, gonna become so obsessed.

 

Paul Scheer  37:33

And here’s the best part about it, yes, taskmaster has been going on the UK for a very long time. I believe 17 seasons. This app gives you all of that, but it also gives you every other country. I’m talking Australia, Germany, so you get every country’s taskmaster. It’s been out all over the place, and this year, just on Friday, taskmaster Junior started, which is taskmaster with kids, and it’s great. The first task was a guy with a giant top hat on, and he’s on a lazy Susan. That’s like going around and going around a circle. And the task was, get as many things into my Top Hat without crossing this line, which is far away from him. And the kids had brilliant ways of figuring it out.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  38:16

That’s fantastic. That’s great.

 

Paul Scheer  38:18

That’s one that’s gonna give you, yeah, and that’s also a family friendly show, like, like, we can all, I mean, well, sometimes it gets a little dirty, but it’s also, like, everyone can watch. It’s pretty, pretty safe. There’s a couple fucks and shits and stuff but overall.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  38:37

There always is, isn’t there, Paul?

 

Paul Scheer  38:38

I mean, that’s it, right? What can we do? What can we do modern you know? So I mean again, and I understand that subscriptions are tricky, but these are like, You got to just wait your time to be told that you’re a genius. That’s all .

 

Kulap Vilaysack  39:11

Okay, carters. Christmas came early for Auntie Su this year when slate flosser came on as a sponsor of our show.

 

SuChin Pak  39:19

Okay? So I want to give everyone the origin story of what I will say right now, early on, this is one of the best add to carts for me this year. Now, did it originate on a late night scroll on Instagram. Now, did I save this post, send it to our fairy godmother, Cece, to see if they would send us one to try and did i Yes, think it was a little bit scammy. All of these things are true things. These are things that happened, and now I sit here. I sit here on my auntie throne with my gorgeous teeth to tell you that this little device, this little electric flosser, is. Take your tired old teeth to a new level. I want you to get your pencils out Carters, because we are about to blow your minds.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  40:09

I mean, I’ll be the first to admit Sue gets weirdly excited about everything that involves teeth, teeth stuffs, if you will. I was a bit more skeptical, like, I just she’s so hardcore about flossing, you know, and I floss not as much as I should. So friends, when I started to dig into it and use it, it’s a no brainer. Over 50% of adults in the US have gum diseases. That’s actually a staggering number, and no wonder dentists are always telling us the same thing, floss every day.

 

SuChin Pak  40:42

I mean, I would say skip the brushing if you have to, but do not skip the flossing. It’s controversial. I’m not a dentist, but this is what I tell my kids, flossing is so important to me. Okay? Gum Disease, you’re like, Huh? Snooze button, if you don’t already know this, oral health is directly related to overall health. It’s our it’s been studied. We’re talking about connections between gum disease and issues around heart health brain health, like dementia, plus, you don’t want that old mouth smell.

 

41:20

Man, you know what? Until you said it just now, I’ve never heard that term. I know and smell exactly what you’re talking about. It’s like, it’s kind of visceral.

 

SuChin Pak  41:31

If you’re thinking that it could be you, yeah, I’m telling you, it’s you, that’s what I’m telling you. And only an auntie would tell you, straight to your face, a stranger, Hey, your mouth smells old.

 

41:46

Yeah. And I think I feel like I need to say this now. I got the slate flosser. I love it. I’m flossing more than I ever have before, right? It is a pleasure. If you didn’t need any more reason to actually start flossing, then maybe you can change up routine with a slate three in one electric flosser. And some of you probably want to go look this up right before you even finish talking about it. So go get 10% off at Slate flosser.com/addtocart.

 

SuChin Pak  42:16

Yeah, give us the credit. Will you if you go so slate flosser.com/add, to cart, because I know people are going to be adding this. I just, I have a feeling, okay, now, coup, of course, I ripped open the box the second I got it, did not read the instructions. Have no idea if they come with instructions, and I didn’t realize that there were levels to this flosser, right? So now, or do you know that there are levels?

 

42:42

I didn’t know that there were levels until we read an ad.

 

SuChin Pak  42:46

Ads right? And we were like, wait, level now, have you discovered the levels?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  42:49

I’m on level two.

 

SuChin Pak  42:50

I’m on level two. Oh, my level. God, I’m on level two. I didn’t know. So if you hold down the button a little bit longer, it’ll push you up a level? Can I just say there are more levels? How do you are you thinking? I don’t think I can ever get past level two.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  43:09

I’m not ready for three.

 

SuChin Pak  43:10

That’s what I get strong. Because when I pushed it and it went to level two, I dropped it, it was just so powerful. I couldn’t believe it. And I’m thinking in my head, some people are going up on these levels, like, maybe I will go up, I don’t know, but I’m saying there are many levels to this thing. Okay? And it’s not for the faint hearted, but it has my mouth singing, you know, it’s, it’s so simple to use. Okay, here’s how it works. You push a little button, the floss starts to vibrate, so satisfying, and that’s how you know you’re gonna ride to the moon. You know you use it like you would normally floss. And the biggest difference is that you don’t have to put your disgusting fingers into your mouth. Ku, I’m gonna say it. This is the truth. I went for a cleaning new technician, by the way, two weeks ago. And this professional, she’s been doing this for a long time. She’s seen mouths in fact, it’s Michael’s technician, and Mike insisted that I go to her after a bad cleaning last time. And she said, quote, excellent.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  44:23

Wow, when do they get to say that? Hardly ever.

 

SuChin Pak  44:27

They don’t give that out.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  44:29

No.

 

SuChin Pak  44:30

Even if your mouth is good, they want to encourage you to keep doing what you’re doing or do better. They’re not going to give out. Excellent. No. And let’s think that you, you’re gonna, you’re gonna get lazier about it.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  44:41

Let’s be honest, most of the time they’re contending with bloody mouths as people lie to them and say that they flossed even once a week. Let’s just Let’s okay. And I wanted them to say, fantastic, excellent to you.

 

SuChin Pak  44:54

Excellent. And I want to say this is especially satisfying because I was the. Person, I was that person that had to do my cleaning in two sessions because there was so much junk. Jeez. Suja, so is it my slate flosser? Yeah, I think the dental records prove something. I’m just gonna leave it there.

 

45:16

She goes four times a year. Everybody, this is serious. Okay, wait, there’s more more. There’s more. Okay, there’s even a tongue scraper on the other side. And the way they’ve designed it, the flosser actually sweeps your gums when you floss. So they’ve thought of everything, because the brand was founded by a dentist, actually a husband and wife duo. You know, we love supporting love.

 

SuChin Pak  45:40

And I’m going to tell all my teeth nerds this that slate is the only three in one electric flossing device on the market that is non toxic. What does that mean? I looked it up. They use chemical free floss. I didn’t even know there were chemicals on floss. Now I know. So it’s obvious why dentists are recommending this device. Plus, I think it’s worth mentioning that you end up using way less floss, because the floss heads last up to five days. Bu, at the end of the day, how do I know it’s working? Because my teeth are sharp, razor edge sharp. I’m running my tongue right now over my teeth, and just the corners the edges are sharp. You know what I mean? I do know. And the fact that that they came to us, that they sent us this, and now they’re here supporting us on Add to Cart. This is what we call restored and renewed for 2024.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  46:36

This is honestly a great Christmas gift for friends and family. I know, what you’re thinking, but this is there. It is a game changer. It’s something that people might not splurge on for themselves, yes, but I know everyone would be excited about getting this device. It makes flossing actually fun.

 

SuChin Pak  46:54

Totally like we said before, listen to your aunties and be sure to use our discount code to go to slate flosser.com/addtocart to get 10% off your flosser.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  47:11

We got to talk about stocking stuffers. Let’s talk about Paul shear, recommended stocking stuffer, yeah.

 

Paul Scheer  47:17

I am a big fan of a flameless lighter. I feel like they’re not being used that much. Again, I believe in, like, utility and fun in this world, and this flameless lighter is just a perfect thing. It’s like, you know, it’s like all those little lighters that we use to light up everything. You light up a joint, you light up a stove, you whatever you want to do. It’s just you plug it in, you charge it so we’re gonna run out of a flame. And you’re also not carrying around gasoline, you know, it’s like, you’re not carrying a little Zippo in there. It’s bespoke. I put the link to the anthropology one because they’re cuter. But there’s a lot of these. Yeah, great colors. A lot of these flameless sliders around you put in your purse. Not gonna you know, your smoker put in your purse, you know? Yeah, there you go. Right? Easy, easy, easy, easy. I don’t know if I talked about flashlights last year, but I would I have, I have some flashlights that I like to recommend as well. Okay, I do.

 

SuChin Pak  48:06

Flashlights in this house.

 

Paul Scheer  48:07

It is, I would say, 1/4 of the size of a playing card, okay, and it is, it’s got lights coming. It’s super powerful light. It’s like a very, you know, it’s gonna give you that kind of mag light, light. It’s got a light on the side. It’s got a light in the front. It just will knock your socks off. It’s a little mini light, the little mini light that you can keep in a purse, apart. And I know we all have our iPhones that have a light on it, but this you can have a lot more flexibility, you know, this is a lot more of, you know, like, the iPhone lights are great, but this is going to be, I like I believe that we should all have mini lights in our cars and our bedside table. I believe that light flashlights should be all around us at any given point, because we we’re going to need them, and we don’t want to run out our batteries on our cell phone. Like the cell phone light is great, and this is also a rechargeable thing. I’m going so I’m going to give you the link for it. But these mini flashlights, there’s a lot of powerful ones out there, and I highly provide, okay, this is verified. This is verified. As a matter of fact, I thanked Adam Savage for hosting one of my events, and I gave him one of these flashlights because I was like, This guy’s gonna like, this fucking flashlight because it’s like, it’s too cool, yeah, it’s like, yeah. I was like. This is gonna impress this guy who loves gadgets. He’s gonna like this gadget. And it’s like, by the way, it’s like a $70 flashlight. So that’s why, you know, it’s also good too, yeah? And that’s say, that’s, you know, not to say that price is indicative of everything, but it’s not like, this crappy little Energizer thing. This is, like, a real deal. No messing around.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  49:38

It’s substantial.

 

Paul Scheer  49:39

Substantial. That’s we all need right now, some substance we do. I also put this, which I really like again, I have some kind of a New York vibe going on and stuff I don’t know. I know I look you have a person in your life who loves New York. You have a person in life who’ve been to New York. These are recreations of the traditional. No New York coffee cup. It’s like the Greek coffee cup, like the to go coffee cup that you would see like in diners all around New York, probably more in the 80s and 90s. But MoMA has remade them as, like, real cups, and they are great looking, beautiful looking cups. They’re a coffee cup. They’re a morning coffee cup without them. Handle on the side.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  50:20

They’re ceramic.

 

Paul Scheer  50:21

Yeah, gorgeous.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  50:22

Scott got it for me one Christmas it’s great.

 

Paul Scheer  50:25

Oh, I see. Look at this. All right, so there you go. You’re already on it. I wanted to also shout out, I love an Etsy Deep Dive, and this one is so good. There’s a part of me that’s like, I could go really for a deep dive on Etsy. But I also think it’s very much based on what you want. Like, did I find some Mariah Carey, all I want is you wrapping paper on Etsy? Yeah, I did. You can get that on Etsy? Like, what floats your boat? Did I get my wife a Keith Morrison ornament? That’s like, they were all, you know, tucked in tight in their beds. Or were they great? I’m a big believer in finding your unique ornaments again, gifts that you’re giving to other people, stocking stuffers. I could sit here and tell you, oh, I like this. I like that. I don’t know what you like. I don’t know what the other person likes. My brother in law, wing loves the Knicks. I found some very cool bespoke Knicks ornaments you’re not gonna find that anywhere else. So I’m highlighting here this Pedro Pascal, a to do list that I found. And this is more like a call to action to be like, go take a look around. What do you like? Type it in. Type in Notepad. Type in Pedro Pascal.

 

SuChin Pak  51:35

What are you all for? By the way, this Pedro Pascal, there’s Britney Spears. I mean, they’re so good.

 

Paul Scheer  51:42

This is a, this is like a fun little notepad, again, a great stocking stuffer, fun, easy, light, you’re not thinking too much about it, that’s sold by popcolt paper, which, again, like you said, they got great cards. What I like to do on Etsy is, beginning of the year, I go around and I find a bunch of funny cards like this, you know, whether it’s Cass McQuaid, whether it’s this pace, and I just keep them, and then when a birthday is happening or something, I just, I’m ready to go because you can’t.

 

52:12

Either you’re favoriting them, they’re like you’ve done the search already the year.

 

Paul Scheer  52:18

I’m just getting a handful of cards ready and waiting.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  52:22

Come to you.

 

Paul Scheer  52:23

They’re gonna sit here and then, okay, you have a May birthday that’s coming out, like, I’m gonna just do, I’m gonna, instead of going like, oh, it’s close birthday, I need to get her a card. I’m just getting random cards. I’m going on I’m getting a bear Christmas card. I’m getting a Sabrina carpenter Christmas card. I’m getting a, you know, bridesmaids card, uh, housewives card, whatever it is. And just, I’m throwing them all in there, and then I think, okay, who is this going to be good for? Oh, I need something fun. It makes it look like I didn’t just go to Target there.

 

52:50

Yeah, it’s true. Because I, I’ve been backed up into a quarter at Target. And there’s just, it’s slim pickings guys by our house.

 

Paul Scheer  52:59

Spend it. Spend 45 minutes just going hog wild on a fun card, run, put them in your closet and you got it. I mean, I made the mistake of buying 1000 birthday cards from Hallmark. It was cheap. It wasn’t that expensive, yeah.

 

Paul Scheer  53:16

Should I show you my cards?  Hold on, stay right here. Hold on.

 

SuChin Pak  53:18

Wait, 1000 cards. Why would someone even offer that?

 

Paul Scheer  53:25

Why really see this.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  53:29

Well, there’s at least one person who bought it. Su so.

 

Paul Scheer  53:32

But so here’s what I want to tell you, like I made the mistake of buying 1000 birthday cards from Hallmark here. This is the.

 

53:41

You saw this. And you said, Absolutely, 1000 cards?

 

Paul Scheer  53:46

You know. I was like let’s go to town. What kind of cards? They’re all birthday cards. I was like, I’ll never need or want a birthday card again. I have them all ready to go. They’re all different. They know, some are more romantic, some are more, you know, friendly.

 

SuChin Pak  54:05

Were you in when you hit purchase?

 

Paul Scheer  54:07

I was like, God damn it. I’m always struggling to get birthday cards, like, I just need to have a surplus in the house. And that was the thought behind it. Yeah, and look, it’s paid off. It’s definitely paid off in parts, but this is the better way to do it. I mean, well, was this cost effective? Absolutely this big.

 

54:25

Well, it’s good for me, because if I’m in a bind, guess where I’m going?

 

Paul Scheer  54:28

I’ll give you a handful. I mean.

 

SuChin Pak  54:32

She’s going over there to get a cold plunger. And 20.

 

Paul Scheer  54:37

Yeah, we need these things. We do. We need to have, like, birthday cards at the ready. Oh my god. We gotta go over there. I gotta do something. I gotta get this.

 

54:44

Okay, hold on, so Paul’s math, okay, so Jason […]  is established, one equals 02, equals one, three equals two, and Paul, Paul’s math is 1000.

 

SuChin Pak  54:58

One equals 1000.

 

Paul Scheer  54:59

I yeah. Be ready. Be prepared, I got a flashlight and I got 1000 birthday cards, and I’m ready. I’m ready to moments notice, you need me that birthday party, where in the woods you got it.

 

SuChin Pak  55:12

We started off talking off Mike, how the holiday season just it’s been, it’s been tough this month to get excited about it, and.

 

Paul Scheer  55:21

I worry that we’re putting too much on our Christmas trees this year. I think we’re we’re asking too much of them for support. I think our Christmas trees like, hey, I can’t do it all for you. I’m trying. I can’t do.

 

SuChin Pak  55:33

1000 Hallmark birthday cards that just that just set me to the moon. I’m in outer space, like, that is.

 

Paul Scheer  55:44

I got him right off the boat. I got him like, I got it in a giant like crate, like Indiana Jones, like, where’s the lost? I believe that it was one day I was sitting on and I was like, I in my house, and I was like, birthday cards, bulk, and.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  56:06

That’s such an aggressive search.

 

SuChin Pak  56:09

Wow, but I’m just like, wow, Hallmark, really the god I’m looking right to get out 1000 cards.

 

Paul Scheer  56:18

You can get 100 cards, guess, for how much? Hundreds.

 

SuChin Pak  56:24

$100 so it’s $1 a card.

 

Paul Scheer  56:26

$20 for 100 I think I only paid like, 40 bucks for this thing too. Um, you know, so.

 

56:35

Because all my cards are like, five, six bucks, like.

 

Paul Scheer  56:38

But you buy in bulk, you know? And that’s it. I mean, I’m looking online. These bulk prices are good. Good prices on both, $20 for 20 bucks, 20 bucks for 100 cards at that never.

 

SuChin Pak  56:51

Opening up a card store like

 

Paul Scheer  56:53

No, you’re never having to worry about it. Somebody say, Sue. We gotta get to that birthday party. I didn’t get a card. No problem.

 

SuChin Pak  57:00

No, then that person goes, Dear God, don’t bring out one of your Hallmark Cards.

 

Paul Scheer  57:04

Well, here’s the best part.

 

SuChin Pak  57:06

We’re not doing that this year.

 

Paul Scheer  57:08

Here’s the best part about these Hallmark cards. They’re all different as a family, each one of us give one, and they don’t really look like.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  57:14

We realize you thought it was the same card. 1000 of the same card. There are 1000 different cards.

 

Paul Scheer  57:20

1000 different cards.

 

SuChin Pak  57:22

Wait a minute. Hold on, wait, different cards. They’re like 20 different cards in there, and there’s 50 of them, or something like that. […]

 

Kulap Vilaysack  57:36

It’s a card, like it’s a pack of cards.

 

Paul Scheer  57:39

Okay, ready?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  57:40

Let’s see if you see a dupe.

 

Paul Scheer  57:41

All right, hold on. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13.

 

SuChin Pak  57:54

Wow, this is the podcast where he’s gonna count to 1000 you guys.

 

Paul Scheer  57:57

17, I’m already in the 20s, and no dupes. All right? Well, I am in I’m in the 30s. No dupes.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  58:04

No dupes. Su, do you feel different now?

 

SuChin Pak  58:06

I feel this is totally different. I thought that maybe at most there were like five different cards in there, you know. And so, yeah, it’s just like […]

 

Paul Scheer  58:16

50 no dupes. That’s just like the handful I took no dupes.

 

SuChin Pak  58:20

Look at all the cards.

 

Paul Scheer  58:24

No dupes. And here’s the best part. They’re all blank on the inside, so you can really go hog wild.

 

SuChin Pak  58:31

There’s so many best parts.

 

Paul Scheer  58:33

Oh no. It’s like best wishes for a wonderful birthday. Who’s that for my wife? Maybe you know what exactly.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  58:41

Maybe, you know, honestly, this is a gift. This is a Christmas gift.

 

SuChin Pak  58:45

Yeah, good thing, yeah, yes. For that person that I mean, for that person, who do you that? By the way, this could be in the category of like, WTF do I get? All right, how about

 

Paul Scheer  58:59

This office manager, somebody you know as an office manager, somebody you know as an office manager, and be like, hey, yeah, whenever it’s somebody’s birthday, just you’re going to have.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  59:08

Teacher gift […]

 

Paul Scheer  59:09

Yes, so there you go.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  59:11

Wow, well, we’re, since we’re talking Hallmark, let’s talk about this ornament.

 

Paul Scheer  59:16

All right, so I again this, this ornament is going to be a indicative of a larger thing. I believe that if you are a Christmas tree decorator like I am, which means that I do a lot of fun stuff on the tree. There are trees in our house that have theming, but I also like a fun tree that has a bunch of different pop culture things. Every year, I take a look at what hallmark is offering in the ornament department, and here’s what I’m gonna tell you, I always get them. I always get at least one every year from I try to only buy one or two ornaments a year because, you know, they build up quick. And I am holding this one I’m focusing on this year is the friends 30th anniversary ornament with light and sound. It is the friends fountain with the couch. It plays the song. Yes, and it’s just that, it’s just the fountain. I mean, I also like how weird it is. It’s just the the empty couch and the fountain that plays the song. And it’s large. It’s quite large. Yeah, not the cast. And, you know, look, they got, they got a the friends TV said they got the Central Park couch, whatever it is. I love this. An ornament is a great again, stocking stuffer, but it also is a great place for you to look around again. What do you like? You like Star Wars, you like Charlie Brown. You like The Simpsons. You like, you know, national inputs. Christmas vacation. They got it. Xbox, they got it. Look in there. It’s a pop culture ornament thing. Again, I don’t know what to get you. Put this on your tree.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  1:00:37

Absolutely delighted that every year you’re going to hallmark.com I think you may be my only friend that does that, and I love that about you.

 

SuChin Pak  1:00:48

Viable, I had no idea. I thought this company had been bought by other companies.

 

Paul Scheer  1:00:52

No, they, by the way, they got great they got great deals with, like Disney and like I’m saying, claymation, classic, Star Trek, Star Wars. Snoopy look, they gotta. They got a Dodgers, a world championship Dodgers, ornaments, that might be good, that might be good, right? People, they know. They got the old Adam West Batman stuff. They got very specific things. They got. They have the Darth Vader in vintage case from the 1970s like the toys it looks like you have, like you’re hanging up a little, you know, like the little box with the Star Wars figure inside, like you got one of those, My God, what are you doing here? You guys are doing it.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  1:01:28

Oh, my God, okay. One last thing before we let you go, Paul, and this is a very classy gift. Now, has it been established that Paul can cook? Do you know, Su that?

 

SuChin Pak  1:01:38

Oh, I had no idea he bakes cookies. He does day three.

 

Paul Scheer  1:01:43

I like to get in there. And this was like one that I just thought was a nice gift. This is, like a very simple again, it’s not like a fancy one, but it’s a salt seller seller, like a basement seller. It’s, you know, I like to keep my salt out near my where I’m cooking, right? Basically, it’s wide enough to put your hand in there, give yourself a little pinch, right? But it’s also not gonna get, it’s not gonna dry out your salt. It’s just a nice little salt holder for account. It’s, we have one right now. I don’t love it. This is like, more like, you have to take a top off. You have to go get it. This is a, this is a beautiful one. As a matter of fact, I’m gonna buy it right now.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  1:02:26

This can go to the category of what the fuck too. I think.

 

Paul Scheer  1:02:29

Right? Oh, 100% it’s cute, it’s small. It’s like, it’s like, yeah, you’re not worrying about too much. Now, I don’t want you to kick me off before I reveal the best gift. Did you click on this link? This is, I want to see reactions to it when we click on this is, I save the best for last.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  1:02:44

Okay, so it’s an Instagram link. Paul, is that?

 

SuChin Pak  1:02:48

We’re clicking on it together. What is this?

 

Kulap Vilaysack  1:02:51

It’s not real, Paul, it’s AI come on.

 

Paul Scheer  1:02:57

Not AI, that is.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  1:02:59

It is .

 

Paul Scheer  1:03:00

What we need. We need this.

 

SuChin Pak  1:03:03

The tree can’t do it alone this year, is what Paul said. And so what Paul is bringing to the table, Kulap. Please describe to everyone.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  1:03:11

It’s a video from on Instagram of Gorilla sectional sofas with their AI. It’s not real.

 

Paul Scheer  1:03:17

You can order these.  A gorilla sectional. It looks like a giant gorilla. You’re in its arms, holding you while you’re on the sofa. I’m having gorilla section right now.

 

SuChin Pak  1:03:32

Looming over you. You can lay on a giant pictorial on a six pack, and this.

 

Paul Scheer  1:03:41

By the way, guys, it’s not AI. I’m on it right now. I’m gonna send you right now for $6,000 you can get your bargain, a bargain. You can get yourself a gorilla sectional sofa. This is just typing gorilla sectional.

 

SuChin Pak  1:03:57

Everyone to click on. Go to our Instagram immediately and click on this thing. In your wildest imagination, you will not be able to understand what this looks like. In your wildest imagination.

 

Paul Scheer  1:04:09

Sometimes you’re cuddling up on the gorilla’s abs. On this one I’m looking at, you’re in the abs.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  1:04:14

And sometimes his arms are like out so that he can kind of embrace you like they’re a little loose, and so they can.

 

SuChin Pak  1:04:20

I mean, go wild, mount his head. You know what? I mean, sorry. On top of that.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  1:04:25

Going on with you, what are you talking.

 

Paul Scheer  1:04:27

We need his head.

 

SuChin Pak  1:04:29

And sit on his head.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  1:04:30

Oh, okay, like you’re out of chao, got it. I thought you meant from the front.

 

Paul Scheer  1:04:34

No, we all have all, yeah, look, we want to be held by a gorilla.

 

SuChin Pak  1:04:42

You know, they do want to be held by a girl.

 

Paul Scheer  1:04:44

Yeah, you look at it for just a little longer. You’re like, you know what? This is actually not a bad idea. This is a, wait.

 

SuChin Pak  1:04:50

They’re selling it on Amazon. Yeah, they’re selling another soft gorilla, soft couch.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  1:04:56

If you guys bought this and this got installed in.

 

SuChin Pak  1:05:00

Oh, my God.

 

Paul Scheer  1:05:00

You never let me have gorilla sectional, although I could probably sneak it in. I could probably, like, get her to if I really made a case, I think that she would like to be cuddled up by Gorilla. I mean, that’s what she likes. She wants to be held by a gorilla. So she’s married me.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  1:05:22

You know. Thank you once again, you saved Christmas.

 

Paul Scheer  1:05:28

I brought a lot of Christmas spirit to me. I appreciate being here. I loved every moment of it. Took notes. All right, there’s a lot of good stuff.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  1:05:37

I mean, it’s another year of Santa. Paul Scheer in the bag. You can find more add to cart on our Instagram at Add to Cart pod. It’s the place to be this holiday season. We have so much holiday content beyond the main feed. Paul, what else are you up to that people should know about?

 

Paul Scheer  1:05:51

Well, I’m gonna tell you, I can advertise a Christmas gift that I’m giving, which is, if you’d like, you can go to chevaliers bookstore, and I will personalize books for people whatever they want me to do. I’ve they’re doing a special holiday thing where they’ll ship it out before the holidays. They’ll gift wrap it, and I’ve been personalizing them to the craziest thing. I’ve asked people to marry them. I’ve told people that they’re good lovers. I have told people that I want to hang out with them. Whatever you tell me to put in there within reason, I will write, and then you get that gift. So it’s like, you get a chance to do it, and you can go on my website and just click there instead of figuring out what link on your volume. Smart ID. I love it. It’s important bookstores, you know. And it’s a, you know. And that’s, I think that that’s important.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  1:06:37

See you soon.

 

Paul Scheer  1:06:40

Bye.

 

Kulap Vilaysack  1:06:40

Bye.

 

SuChin Pak  1:06:44

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