Tune in for a holiday-packed episode where we journey through eggnog aging with "sugar bug" Aaron Pete, reminisce about our fiery hot sauce challenge, delve into the heart of Christmas traditions and the meaning of gift-giving, share personal stories about supporting cancer research, and wrap up with an animated chat on Christmas movies, potential fasting challenges, and the intricacies of Christmas music, all steeped in the true spirit of the festive season.
Help Tim Raise Money for Cancer Research:
https://tourdecure.ca/participant/1736/1053/
Tune in for a holiday-packed episode where we journey through eggnog aging with "sugar bug" Aaron Pete, reminisce about our fiery hot sauce challenge, delve into the heart of Christmas traditions and the meaning of gift-giving, share personal stories about supporting cancer research, and wrap up with an animated chat on Christmas movies, potential fasting challenges, and the intricacies of Christmas music, all steeped in the true spirit of the festive season.
Help Tim Raise Money for Cancer Research:
https://tourdecure.ca/participant/1736/1053/
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Aaron Pete:Merry Christmas everyone. We are doing a tremendous episode Again. This is our last one of 2023, so we had to celebrate and we had to have the unforgettable, the magical Tim Srigley on the podcast again, Tim, thank you so much for coming back on.
Tim Srigley :Thanks for having me, man.
Aaron Pete:Let's cheers Merry Christmas. The other thing we should mention is that the voice at the beginning of the episode is actually your daughter. So when I was working on my rebrand and updating things, your voice is typically the one that starts all the episodes off, and then your daughter. How did that come about?
Tim Srigley :So she started when I do like YouTube videos and stuff, she's really like gotten into, coming down and she like puts on like I don't have a crazy studio like this, but I have like a little like box where all my audio goes into and there's like a headset that you can listen to on microphone and stuff. So she puts that on and stands in front of me while I'm making my YouTube videos and then it just kind of she always comes and helps with that stuff. And so when you asked me to do the voice at the start of your podcast, she was on board and so her and I went up to the room and just started recording those. And then she's like, can I do one? And so I think she did a couple. But yeah, so she did the one and I figured I'd send it across to you too, because it ended up pretty funny.
Aaron Pete:That's got to be so cool to have her interest in what you're working on.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, it's one. It's handy, because then I can kind of do what I want to do and she'll just come as long as you keep her busy. But two, it's neat that she's showing an interest in it and I don't know she. She did like I didn't make it public, but she recorded like an intro to a YouTube episode too. It's super funny. And so I have that like why haven't you heard this? I don't know. I have this weird thing about. I don't want to put her face on the internet. I don't know, it might go live at some point.
Tim Srigley :But don't ask me, I wouldn't know what that yeah, I don't know, I kind of feel weird about it. So it's private so far. But yeah, I have an episode, like a starting episode, of her like sitting at my like YouTube set and could you do that one for like premium subscribers?
Aaron Pete:I don't know I like that Cause. Then it's not really out there to the world. That's true, yeah.
Tim Srigley :Middle ground. Yeah, I don't know, it's not just my say either.
Aaron Pete:That's true. Yeah, interesting, that's got to be a balance.
Tim Srigley :It is, and I don't know what's appropriate in terms of putting kids on the internet.
Aaron Pete:It's yeah, that's far too complicated for me. Tell us about this drink.
Tim Srigley :So this is a weird kind of Christmas tradition that I started five years ago. Okay, so this is eggnog and this is five year old eggnog. What does that mean? So every year I make a batch of eggnog it has some alcohol in it, yeah and then we drink whatever eggnog we drink for the year, and then it goes into the fridge for that year and then the next year we make another batch of the same eggnog or similar eggnog, mix it all together and drink whatever of that that we will for the year, and then bottle it back up, it doesn't go bad.
Tim Srigley :No, cause there's a. Are you sure? There's a good amount of alcohol in it that kills anything that would cause it to go bad. So this is kind of like traditional eggnog, like it was originally aged cause it was a form of storing it, so the alcohol in it preserves it.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, I'm going to trust you and we're going to give this a try. You've had this before, right?
Tim Srigley :You know what? I do trust it, but I tried some last night just to make sure that I don't get poisoned. Yes, okay.
Aaron Pete:Are you sure your stomach hasn't acclimated to it and like a virgin stomach?
Tim Srigley :I think we're going to find out, Okay let's go, okay, merry Christmas.
Aaron Pete:Merry Christmas what?
Tim Srigley :do you think?
Aaron Pete:That's very pleasant, not bad. Hey, I was ready to do another one of those faces where I like squint and my eyes roll back to the back of my head. This is very smooth.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, and it's weird it kind of changes every year, like we kind of put different alcohols in it each year.
Aaron Pete:So it's kind of what are some of the common?
Tim Srigley :ones Often rum, some kind of whiskey.
Aaron Pete:Right.
Tim Srigley :I'm trying to think what we did last year. I can't remember. There was tequila in it at one point.
Aaron Pete:And what's in an egg nog?
Tim Srigley :This one is eggs. Yeah, eggs, got it. Nogs, nogs. It's basically eggs and sugar and milk and cream, and then whatever alcohol that you put in it, it's really good yeah thank you.
Aaron Pete:Okay. Not so bad, I was really ready to die again.
Tim Srigley :To run for the bathroom.
Aaron Pete:This is not ending up like a hot ones episode.
Tim Srigley :No, no, it's actually really pleasant to not be here and have to shovel back spicy stuff or ice cream. Last time you had a lot of ice cream. I think my favorite thing that you did was the loaves of bread and you were just licking them and then tossing them.
Aaron Pete:Not one of my finer moments.
Tim Srigley :It was. It was good. Yeah, that was a fun episode.
Aaron Pete:What else is in here like nutmeg? Yeah? It's something that we put in here.
Tim Srigley :Nutmeg, a whole bunch of sugar. I like sugar. I think there's cinnamon. I think we did vanilla last year.
Aaron Pete:Rebecca has called me a sugar bug. Are you? Yeah, do you or a sugar bug? Like when I have coffee? I like sugar Really. That's like we could. We could go with less cream, but it needs lots of sugar Really.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, I'm kind of a black coffee year round sort of guy, until you look like it. Until you hit October, yeah. And then I go like, yeah, I love the stupid pumpkin spice and I pumpkin spice everything. And then, going into November, then I switched to like, yeah, the fancy Christmas drinks, the peppermint mochas and stuff like that. But, then the rest of the year, like New Year's hits, and then I'm black coffee again until October.
Aaron Pete:But do you like? Look at yourself in the mirror and go like this is how I want to present myself, because you look like a person who's like black coffee. For me, like you've got that essence.
Tim Srigley :There's a black coffee.
Aaron Pete:I have an essence of sugar, please.
Tim Srigley :You know what? I didn't like coffee for the longest time and I had this roommate that loved coffee and then he started me on these, like starting at Tim Hortons. It was like I guess that's a mocha. It's like half hot chocolate, half coffee. I would drink those. And then he, then I started doing the double, double thing and then removed a sugar, removed a sugar, and then it just kind of progressed to black coffee at some point. But there was an origin story where I was a sugar bug as well.
Aaron Pete:Really Okay. Good, we're on the same page about that, and I'd also like to say that I'm very grateful that you've come home to me, son.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, I'm happy to be home.
Aaron Pete:Your daughter thinks that I'm your father.
Tim Srigley :Yes, I don't know at all where it came from. She started talking about it a few months ago and then she just I thought she had dropped it and then, like was it last week? I texted you, yeah, and she said something about going to do something with your father, aaron, and I was like, yeah, that's weird. How old are you? I'm 37. I'm 28. Yeah, my daughter's four, to be clear.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, she's like 20 years old.
Tim Srigley :But she's convinced that you're my dad.
Aaron Pete:And I was gin from the Abominable, abominable.
Tim Srigley :Abominable.
Aaron Pete:Abominable, abominable.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, for a while. Where did? We saw you at some event and she thought you were gin from the movie Abominable. That's the movie she was watching at the time. Yeah, but although you do kind of look like him, you don't look like my dad.
Aaron Pete:You don't think so, to be fair, no.
Tim Srigley :Is it the skin? It's a bit of everything, oh no beard as well.
Aaron Pete:I couldn't grow that. If I tried, yours is pretty miraculous. Thank you. I'm surprised you didn't do anything where you could have made it. Maybe white, you know what. You pulled it off.
Tim Srigley :So I'm sure that's coming for me, right? I haven't had to be Santa yet, right, but I feel like that's in my future in the next couple years.
Aaron Pete:You're made for it. You've got the hair for it.
Tim Srigley :It's El Naturel. I think so. I think that's going to happen, yeah, I think so.
Aaron Pete:This is dollar store. The white fluff for me for life. You could grow it. I don't have, you know, I don't think I could pull it off. The other thing we need to try are these Starbucks drinks. I thought, what would a white girl do? And so I have the caramel brulee and you have.
Tim Srigley :I have the chestnut praline.
Aaron Pete:Okay, what's praline?
Tim Srigley :I asked my wife this because this is like her, that's her favorite. I think it's her favorite one at Starbucks Up there anyway, and Praline, I think, was like a cookie, oh, or like a crumbly cookie, like not a spice or anything.
Aaron Pete:No, no, okay, okay, give it a try. Give us your feedback. Put your white girl hat on.
Tim Srigley :You know it is pretty good, but it's no pumpkin spice.
Aaron Pete:Okay, okay, okay, caramel brulee.
Tim Srigley :It is good, though it doesn't taste like chestnut to me.
Aaron Pete:I don't know what mine tastes like. They kind of taste like licking a gingerbread cookie or something. That's okay, yeah, not bad, too sugary for me. So there's a sugar max.
Tim Srigley :Okay, and has it come down to. Maybe you like sugar more. Maybe you're on the same path that I was on. I don't think so.
Aaron Pete:I don't know. I don't know. Black coffee is terrible, terrible. You wait?
Tim Srigley :Next year's Christmas episode, we'll be drinking black coffee.
Aaron Pete:We'll see about that. Yeah, You've come back with your YouTube channel and you're back to life. Catch us up on what we've missed. Yeah.
Tim Srigley :So I haven't really been doing much with other YouTube since April. I think it's the last time I posted, and then now I'm just sort of getting back into it and making some things. I haven't done a YouTube video yet, but I've been, I don't know, working on some leather things and just kind of making things that I feel like making. Yeah, fair enough.
Aaron Pete:And what did you think of the live event? You came out, it was so much fun.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, okay, tell us about it, yeah.
Aaron Pete:How'd I do, you did great, I liked your.
Tim Srigley :What was the thing you said? Ask better questions? Yeah, yeah, I like that. That kind of makes sense, cause you were like I don't know. Well, we were talking the other day about where you started and where you are now, and so I'm happy that I've got to do one of these in every studio that you've had. Yeah, but, like, thinking back and looking back, you can see that you continue to ask better questions as you go, so you can see that you're evolving as an interviewer and now you're like well, you were amazing then and now you're like unreal now and it's. It was cool to see the live event and it was I don't know. It was neat to like see all the people sitting here and there's like there's like your little I don't know it was like a party, but it was like food and mingling and stuff before. I liked your introverts lounge upstairs.
Aaron Pete:Yeah.
Tim Srigley :We went and sat up there for a bit and talked to a couple of your previous guests that you've had on. I had a number of people come up to me and say, hey, you were the guy that did the hot sauce with Aaron, so I was good at the music. I can't remember how to say her last name Rebecca Cichon Perfect. Is that it? Yeah, yeah, she was awesome. Yeah, my wife has followed her on Spotify and has been listening to her since, and then my wife actually won a prize here, which was which was awesome. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I'm glad. Yeah, I hope you do another one.
Aaron Pete:It was surreal to bring everybody out and have it go, I think, really smoothly. I lost my bet with him about how much food were people are going to eat.
Tim Srigley :I tried to help you out, man. I was so full. I know it was a lot of food.
Aaron Pete:What was your favorite? Banek turkey sandwiches when did we buy?
Tim Srigley :it. The Banek was really really good and I'm not like the biggest Banek fan.
Aaron Pete:Right, wow but.
Tim Srigley :I ate a lot of Banek.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, yeah, no jam, though I forgot the jam.
Tim Srigley :It didn't matter, it didn't, didn't eat it, it didn't eat it.
Aaron Pete:Wow, that's a compliment to the chef.
Tim Srigley :But you're the sugar bug, right.
Aaron Pete:I am the sugar bug. I do like sugar a lot.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, it was really good. The whole thing was awesome. I'm definitely coming out for the next one.
Aaron Pete:And then we're also talking about potentially doing a cold plunge episode.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, it was going to be today, but I had prepared myself. But I'll continue to prepare myself for that.
Aaron Pete:Senor McKelpine is down for it. He's going to do it, he's in for it, he's team us. I think I think so. Yeah, he did. He decorated all of this. I'm blown away it looks amazing.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, yeah, it looks amazing. I think he should have some eggnog as well.
Aaron Pete:I agree, I think he come out for some eggnog. Do you think we could charm him to come out?
Tim Srigley :I don't know. Yeah, I like to think so.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, I feel like it would be amazing, like a Christmas miracle.
Tim Srigley :A Christmas miracle, a Christmas miracle.
Baby Srigley:Yeah, there will be no eggnog consumed by me. Thank you very much. Oh, wow, okay, wow.
Aaron Pete:I feel like the audience needs this. I feel like it would bring us all together. We would be able to sing a song of Mary.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, I think so. To be clear, we're not singing, though, today.
Aaron Pete:You don't think so I hope not. I feel like you have the vocals for it?
Tim Srigley :I definitely do not. No, yeah, that would be embarrassing.
Aaron Pete:And what are some of your Christmas traditions? What are key things in the Strigley household?
Tim Srigley :Nothing too crazy other than old eggs and dairy Mainly. I don't know. It's just like family time for us. This year I've managed to take three weeks off at Christmas, so I'm like a big child at Christmas. And then what does that mean? I don't know. I'm just like giddy and happy for Christmas. I like all things Christmas. Like I'm driving here today, I can see the snow lines coming down. It was three degrees when I left, a little bit chilly. I'm like getting excited for snow because I want all the snow in December. So just last weekend we went and got our Christmas tree, put our Christmas tree up and decorated and I don't know what. The whole thing's just joyous. But yeah, in terms of traditions, we have a couple we um. A friend of ours has a big Christmas party every year and it's I don't know if it's kind of morbid or not, but it honors a celebrity death from the year and so it gets like themed, like oh well as that person.
Tim Srigley :So I don't remember what last year's was. It might have been Norm McDonald, but then it just gets a theme. So this year is Bob Barker and the party is a big um, who's, who's that? Oh man, really. Wow, here we go.
Aaron Pete:Here we go, everybody's gonna start chiming in.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, they, they are on this one. He was the host of the Price is Right, so so the party is like a Price is Right party this year. Oh yeah, and then somebody's like built like big podiums to like stand behind, like it's like a game show thing.
Aaron Pete:Wow, that is a big party.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, so there's that this year. And then, um, we go, we got a real tree every year and cut that down and decorate that.
Aaron Pete:Why? Why do we cut down trees For Christmas? Right, but what's the logic behind this?
Tim Srigley :I don't know it's, it's an odd tradition.
Aaron Pete:Do you? Did you think it was so? I just showed you a video before we started um by after school. Did you ever think about it prior to that?
Tim Srigley :Yeah, I like like question what are we doing here? I've thought about it and I like I never understood why you bring it, cut down a tree and bring it in, Cause they die, yeah, so why do you cut down a tree and bring it inside?
Aaron Pete:Only to grow like we grow it, literally to kill it.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, put it in our house, yeah, and like a lot of them, and they're expensive now too. It was like 75 bucks and they're selling a lot of trees, so it's like a lot of people are buying these things and yeah, so you never thought about it Like really. I had thought about it but I had never like driven sorry, dove deep into like figuring out why.
Aaron Pete:Right. So, how do you process? So? I showed you this video and they basically explain that one of the theory is not the definitive theory, but one of the theories is that it comes from the, the Amonita Moschia mushroom, and shamans delivering that to people's homes in the wintertime at the winter solstice. How do you process this information?
Tim Srigley :I mean it, it. You know I love to be fair. I think it's the only like theory I've heard as to where this comes from, so but it kind of makes sense. Like it's weird, the mushroom really looks like Santa.
Aaron Pete:And the elves piece makes sense.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, flying reindeer. And yeah, it was interesting.
Aaron Pete:For people interested. You just type in Santa Claus mushrooms and it'll be like the first video that pops up on YouTube.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, you should for sure link it or something.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, yeah, cause it blew my mind. But then you even think like I grew up in a Catholic household and there's no explanation for Santa, or you just do it, you just participate, and I feel like most people participate and just like walking around in the community, you start to see people who get really involved. Like for Halloween, there was this one house and they just went all out, like every spot was filled up with stuff, and then it's like then there's the other people who don't do anything and there are people who have those stupid lights, that kind of light up the whole wall. Yeah, and it's not. There's no effort put in, it's like a $30 item. What makes somebody more excited about the season then?
Tim Srigley :I don't yeah, I'm not sure. I think for Christmas you have to kind of like figure out like what Christmas is to you and figure out what makes you excited and what you want to do and participate in and stuff. I don't know. I remember as a kid always we always went and cut down a tree, like not like went into the woods and cut down a tree, but we went to like one of these tree farms and cut them down and brought them in and I always loved doing that and just like smelling the Christmas tree in the house and stuff is it's arguably not arguably it's definitely less convenient to go and cut one of these things down and bring it in and get pine needles all over your house than it is to get a fake one that you can just put up and they're like pre-lit now.
Tim Srigley :Like fake ones are actually really. They look really good now, yeah, but I don't know. It's just something about that tradition that makes me like feel like it's Christmas.
Aaron Pete:There's something I love about the fact that the winter solstice is the darkest day of the year, of the whole year, and what we do as human beings is we do the exact opposite and we light everything up.
Aaron Pete:And I think there's something like meaningful about whenever, like we were just up at sun peaks. And the cool thing is like we, as humans, like to figure out a way to enjoy something despite all of the challenges it brings. So, like you go skiing, you go to a place that's freezing cold, filled with snow, and somehow you're warm and you have a hot tub and you've got all the gear to stay warm and you have a fireplace and it's all cozy, and so we do the exact opposite of what you would do in the winter, previous to fireplaces and hot tubs. And so, like I like that we do the exact opposite, for when it's hot out, we go to the beach and we stay cool using freezes and ice cream, and like we just we work very hard to do the exact opposite of what should be the norm during these seasons. That's interesting, I like it.
Tim Srigley :Like, I like what you just said, but I never knew, like I never thought of that before.
Aaron Pete:You've never seen the like, the weirdness of human beings in that way that we like work very hard, like my favorite thing to do is go for a drive in the middle of summer, crank the AC and roll down the window, just this much and like that fresh air. And then, when it's cold, I like the heat on the heated seats, the heated steering wheel, and then you roll down that window and you get a little glimpse of how cold it is outside. But it's like, as humans, we like to master things and we like have to, we want to control it.
Tim Srigley :Yeah.
Aaron Pete:I see that in people a lot.
Tim Srigley :Definitely.
Aaron Pete:But we don't like think about it. It's just like a tradition and you just do it and you don't know why. Yeah, that was a big tragedy, like for me, seeing people give gifts and the mindset can be like I'll give you a $10 gift and you give me a $10 gift. Well, why don't we just know it?
Tim Srigley :and we could just save ourselves the money. I hate that, like we we talked about that probably Five or ten years ago my family and, well, my siblings and we just decided I don't do sibling gifts, it's. It's exactly that I give you a gift card, you give me a gift card and like who cares? Just you'll spend your money. So we stopped doing that and just kind of enjoy Christmas. And then there's like I don't know, there's like stress of finding gifts for people too, and so part of it was that like we just removed the one. Like I hate it.
Aaron Pete:This is wrong.
Tim Srigley :I don't need a gift from my, my brother.
Aaron Pete:I would rather just like hang out with him at Christmas and but then, like the gift is like showing that you know another person.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, that's like, that's the kindness, it's not like, but it got to a point where we were just exchanging arbitrary yeah which I don't really Need another gift card.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, don't do the gift cards. But, like it is when they say that it's the thought that counts, it's like, think about the person. So if I know you, then I know some of your interest in what you like to do and what you enjoy doing, yeah, and then I try and find an area where you could use more support or you're interested in, and I support your endeavor and that's a way to show that you care.
Tim Srigley :But it's not, yeah, buying a gift card like I'm not like trying to crap on gift cards, gift cards that like Put, like that. But I mean, like my siblings and I were like just buying like I don't know best buy gift card yeah, I'm exchanging them out of obligation, versus like going and finding something that that person would want and and giving to them I don't know. It seemed like the the purpose was off, so we were just like Don't eat that.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, I'm notoriously against lists, Like people like send me like what you want. I won't do it. Really, if you know me, if you think of something cool. If you don't think of anything cool, I like that. I don't want. I don't want to get like give you a $15 item that you can find and then you just go buy that like where that's good, too, is, then you're truly surprised when you do open gifts, because you didn't have a list.
Aaron Pete:Rebecca just got me the most amazing birthday gift I've ever received and it is a painted Portrait of my grandmother, who I lost, and she was the person who raised my mother up and supported her. She was worked at a coca-lita Indian hospital, took care of her, made sure she had everything she needed, took her into her home and then raised her up and then ended up raising me and supporting my growth, and so she's a person who showed that one person can make a difference and she's always inspired me in that way. And she got that portrait and now I get to see her Every day and that's that's my favorite gift. But like I would never put that on a on a list, yeah, yeah, that's amazing because it's like personal when you get it.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, and somebody put thought in. It took her three months to plan and figure out who the the artist was going to be, who's going to paint it and who's going to put it together and who had the right style for it. It didn't happen overnight, but like I can't force Someone to do that for me, like that's, that's somebody's heart being put into that. That's the idea.
Tim Srigley :Oh, that's awesome, I like that.
Aaron Pete:Yeah.
Tim Srigley :I have a Christmas list.
Aaron Pete:What's on your Christmas? List Tell me about your Christmas list.
Tim Srigley :No I.
Aaron Pete:I normally do, I don't. Is there socks on there? What's going on? You know what?
Tim Srigley :Socks are not on my Christmas list, but I always get them and they're very much appreciated. Like I don't know that I've ever bought my own socks.
Aaron Pete:Really yeah, I always buy my own socks.
Tim Srigley :What kind of socks do you like?
Aaron Pete:We're not going there, we're not going down on like what socks do I like Are we finishing this? Do you want to? I kind of want to. I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have this again, and we've been talking about this for two years.
Tim Srigley :I have lots of this, so if you want to have some of this again, that's not an issue.
Aaron Pete:It's better than the caramel brulee.
Tim Srigley :So shout out to Starbucks. I was going to say just to be fair. You said my drink is better than a Starbucks drink.
Aaron Pete:Correct, I think it's the fact that it sat in the back of your fridge for a while five years. That's a romantic place.
Tim Srigley :I'm happy that you like it.
Aaron Pete:And we got these cute mugs.
Tim Srigley :It was nice, this was funny. So at your live event I was sitting with Matt, your whiskey guy, yeah, and um, I was talking about this with him and uh, last year so I guess, when we drank the eggnog last year so I guess that's the eggnog from two years ago we had put a Jamaican rum in it and when we had it it tasted like this eggnog, tasted like bananas, like it was like banana eggnog, right. And so Matt went into a big long thing about uh rum and how it has I'm gonna butcher what he said, but uh, banana Like kind of like the essence of banana in rum inherently, and went into like tasting notes on rum and stuff. So it's not just whiskey, he knows about all things alcohol, I think.
Aaron Pete:I agreed. Isn't it crazy to see how far he came over the past year?
Tim Srigley :Yeah, it's so exciting he's killing youtube.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, I'm excited for him really figuring it out and and moving forward. It was cool that we got to play some small roles in him getting started as he sales passed us. Yeah, he's going on trips now to he traveled for it and stuff. Yeah, he went to Scotland yeah.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, it's very cool. It was. Yeah, it's it's cool to see him do that. It was awesome, like that was. The first time I met him was At your podcast there, so I've talked to him a bit online and stuff, but yeah, um, yeah, that was a lot of fun. That was a good event.
Aaron Pete:I agree, I think we got to do more of those new year's resolutions. How do we feel about them? You think new year's resolution Um?
Tim Srigley :I'm not like a resolution fan, in that like you make a resolution and if you don't accomplish it you should feel bad about yourself. And but I do kind of like different people really so.
Aaron Pete:I just interviewed Amon Zahabi. Yes, and that will be airing. It'll be our first episode back from from hiatus and man, he makes a really good point that who cares about your start date? What is your finish date? When are you going to complete your goal?
Tim Srigley :Yeah, david Goggin says there is no finish, so that's true. Um, it's a lot of pressure. I don't. I come up with goals for the year for me every year and, um, um, this year I kind of fell short. My goal was to hit 20,000 youtube subscribers and I'm at 19 five, so you're close. Could happen, but I doubt it. But I also didn't post anything, so that could be a big part of it, but that's a big mistake. Yeah, but I'd like to come up with a goal at New Year's, just kind of like I don't know something to focus on for the year.
Aaron Pete:And what are you thinking? You were biking like crazy, right, yeah, like an animal.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, I don't look like an endurance athlete. So I mean, you know, but I haven't like shared it. But my wife has cancer and so I'm then riding in the tour de cure, so I have to. There's like a requirement to raise money and then you ride. It's 200 kilometers over two days.
Aaron Pete:Wow, and what is that?
Tim Srigley :It's in August, wow. So myself and a buddy of mine is doing it with me, right, and so we've been training pretty hard for it. It's kind of dropped off a little bit coming into Christmas here, but that'll be my goal for the New Year's. I think I'm up to 60 kilometers a ride right now, or 60 something, and then, yeah, by August I have to be doing 100 and then do two days of it.
Aaron Pete:So that's crazy.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, so that's probably my main goal this year is to keep getting in shape for that.
Aaron Pete:Admirable too.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, thank you, yeah, how much do you have to raise? Well, there's like there's no upper limit. You have to. You have to raise a minimum of 2,500 to ride in the event.
Aaron Pete:Right, and when can people start donating? Right now? How would they like? Do they donate to you or do they donate to tour de?
Tim Srigley :It's through tour de cure. There's a page like a donation page. You go on there, donate however much you want, and it goes straight to them there. I don't think every the tax receipts do everything. I basically just have to promote it and bring in donations, but it goes straight to them. I think they're run by BC Cancer, so promote it.
Aaron Pete:Tell me why is it important to support?
Tim Srigley :Why is it important to support cancer research? Yeah, because cancer sucks. Yeah, I had cancer. I was diagnosed with cancer the month after my kid was born, so that kind of sucked and I'm. I think I have my last checkup in two weeks now and then I'm five years, clear of it. Four years, yeah, I'm almost clear of it anyway.
Aaron Pete:Can you talk about how scary it was? It's scary.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, I don't know. Just kind of, when you're diagnosed with it, it's like hearing like the C word and like, oh shit, this kills people, right, and so yeah, it's weird. And then now I'm free of it and now my wife has cancer as well and she's battling that and going through chemo and stuff. So that's, yeah, cancer really sucks. So I I also feel like there's nothing really that I can do to help other than raise money for the, for people that can help. Like I'm no doctor or cancer researcher, I can't go in the lab and be like, okay, guys, let's cure cancer today. So, yeah, it's important to raise money for the people that could possibly cure cancer.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, what would you want people to know about it and the benefits of supporting this work, and know about raising money for it, or know about like the weight I feel, like if people know, like me, I know what you've been through from a distance.
Baby Srigley:Yeah.
Aaron Pete:But like what would be something you would want, someone who might not have had an interaction, who's interested in supporting, but like giving us a little bit more context as to the weight, the weight, the heaviness of it all.
Tim Srigley :I was like wait for one. It's hard to describe. We've had a ton of support from friends and family, which has been huge. Friends and family is a massive help when you're going through this stuff, yeah. But it's like a roller coaster man. It's good days and bad days, and the bad days really really suck. I don't know if I could do anything. If raising money and riding a bike is enough to maybe help stop this thing so that other people don't have to go through it, I think that's worth it. It really sucks. I don't know how to describe it.
Aaron Pete:It's got to be meaningful to be able to like. There's sometimes when you're on a run you're like, why am I? I could go home, have something to eat. That seems like a huge motivator.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, yeah, definitely. You know what? I have a couple of times in my life been pretty fit because I was like training for something, like one of those I did Tough Mudder a few years and that was a big thing and I just find it easier to train for something. So that's definitely been a motivator for training on the bike, getting out there on really cold days when you don't really want to be outside, and stuff.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, have you thought about like vlogging that or like documenting that journey?
Tim Srigley :I have. Yeah, I haven't started yet, but I'm going to try to, I think, start doing that this year. There's another goal Maybe just start another channel and doing that. I was thinking about how I would do that and grow an audience and I don't know, I'm like not the best cyclist or anything, so I don't know if anybody would follow that, but I was gonna try to do some funny stuff or I feel like that would be why people would tune in.
Aaron Pete:It gets different hearing from somebody whose A-months-a-hobby was talking about the fact that there's this person who did like an ultimate fast and he did like a year of like fasting, holy crap, yeah, and like he was having like just he was something like 300 or 400 pounds, yeah, and like lost a bunch of weight as consequence. But the reason people wanted to tune in was because he was overweight and they wanted to see, like the effects.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, it's different.
Aaron Pete:if you're like a pro, what's that guy Hanson?
Tim Srigley :Yeah, oh, lance Armstrong, there you go. Yeah, I'm not gay. Well, I feel like I'm similar to Lance Armstrong. Oh, perfect, I had the same cancer and they chopped one of mine off too. Right, so, right, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so so. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so. Actually, such as your Gene T Would you.
Aaron Pete:It would resonate with me more, if I'm being honest, than leather videos, because I don't know how to make leather and I don't have the space for it yeah, but we'll still get you doing that at some point, ok. Ok, I feel like that would be something where I'd get like motivated by that, yeah, and get like excited about Because Amon convinced me to do a three day fast yeah, that I have to do in the next before I have him back on.
Tim Srigley :A three day fast.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, I think you could do it.
Tim Srigley :I think so Well, I mean you 100%, could do it.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, I don't think it's impossible. But and then the cold plunge, those are my two kind of things I want to do in 2024.
Tim Srigley :You should end the three day fast with the cold plunge.
Aaron Pete:That would be tough. I'd be really hungry after that. Yeah, yeah.
Tim Srigley :What would you eat after immediately following your three day fast? What would be the meal?
Aaron Pete:Nothing Like something very small. What Because you get like the benefit of a fast is that your stomach gets smaller. So if you had to plan this big meal, you really just wasted three days.
Tim Srigley :Oh, I'm like the opposite. I would get like the biggest burger I could find.
Aaron Pete:That's what I'm saying, but then you're back in the same boaty word You've got to utilize and stay on that path.
Tim Srigley :Mm.
Aaron Pete:You know Any other big Christmas things? Christmas movies, favorite Christmas movie oh.
Tim Srigley :I have a bunch. I think obviously the favorite is Christmas vacation. Please tell me you know what Christmas vacation is.
Aaron Pete:Do you mean Home Alone?
Tim Srigley :No well, that's a good one too OK because that seems like Christmas vacation. Have you not watched Christmas vacation? I have not. This hurts me, ok.
Aaron Pete:I'm a company minors. Have you watched that?
Tim Srigley :I don't think I have I know what it is, though. Yeah, it's really good, is it?
Aaron Pete:It might be my favorite Christmas movie Really Daddy's Home 2 is up there.
Tim Srigley :It's funny. Yeah, yeah, it's better than the first one.
Aaron Pete:You're going to get flack for not saying Elf.
Tim Srigley :Elf is funny, but I like, yeah, it's damn funny actually.
Aaron Pete:Yeah.
Tim Srigley :I don't know. I don't know. That's one of my favorites, but I watch it every year.
Aaron Pete:It has to be the top five.
Tim Srigley :It's up there, christmas with the cranks. That's a good one. I like that one.
Aaron Pete:That one's like that would be top 20, maybe Top 10. Top 20 for me, ok, maybe.
Tim Srigley :I don't know. We watch a bunch. We actually the newest animated Grinch with, is it Benedict Cumberbatch is the Grinch's voice.
Aaron Pete:OK Is really good. I haven't seen that either.
Tim Srigley :My kid was watching it. As I left to come here this morning, she put that on and made her an egg and then left. Ok yeah, that's a good one. When I was a kid I think it was like my grade eight year we went down to California and they were actually designing the set for the Jim Carrey Grinch movie, right, that was super cool to see.
Aaron Pete:Really. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, favorite Christmas album? Oh God, it has to be. Michael Buble Does it. Well, he's Canadian, I don't know, and it's very classy, I feel like. Classy, I feel like.
Tim Srigley :I should have a favorite Christmas song.
Aaron Pete:What's the thing called a monocle? When I listen to that album.
Tim Srigley :You should wear a monocle anyway.
Aaron Pete:I think I could pull it off Me, and the Monopoly are hanging out.
Tim Srigley :I don't know that I have a favorite Christmas album.
Aaron Pete:Wow, yeah Nothing.
Tim Srigley :I've never really thought about it. Just random Christmas songs, just random Christmas songs, ok yeah.
Aaron Pete:Favorite food at Christmas dinner? What has to be on the table?
Tim Srigley :We switch it up all the time, Like what do you guys do for Christmas dinner? A?
Aaron Pete:traditional Christmas dinner Like just turkey dinner. Yeah, stuffing mashed potatoes, gravy, lots of gravy for Rebecca, so gravy themed Really she's a gravy animal man, really. Yeah, oh, that's interesting, she'll have potatoes with her gravy.
Tim Srigley :That's what you're supposed to have with your gravy.
Aaron Pete:No, I'm saying like she'll have all gravy and then like a little bit of potatoes to mix it up.
Tim Srigley :Like you with sugar and coffee. There you go, I see.
Aaron Pete:No, we're talking.
Tim Srigley :So we should call her gravy bug.
Aaron Pete:Gravy bug, that would be a good name. She's laughing in the back.
Tim Srigley :We, I think it might be. So we have Thanksgiving in October like a Canadian one, and then we do that like a family Thanksgiving, like a normal turkey dinner and stuff, and then we usually do like a friends Thanksgiving around the time. American Thanksgiving is in November and so we don't end up always doing a turkey dinner at Christmas. We've done. We did a big lasagna one one year we did a lasagna one. Yeah, lasagna Christmas. You're a bad person. It was good.
Aaron Pete:You're a bad person. It was good, I'm sure it was. It was amazing, lasagna's great. You're a bad person. This is irresponsible.
Tim Srigley :That's fair. Ok, we did that one year. We've done roast like a nice roast beef a bunch of years we did.
Aaron Pete:That one passes by like this much, this much.
Tim Srigley :We did a porketta one year which is like pork belly, like that you would make bacon out of rolled up and roast it. Oh, that's so good.
Aaron Pete:A pork bella Porketta, porketta, yeah, porketta, yeah. It's like where would you even buy that?
Tim Srigley :You just buy a pork belly. I think we got it from Costco. Have you ever had porketta? Oh, that's good.
Aaron Pete:I don't even know where I would Like. I'm thinking of myself in the hardware section saying that word Really Porketta.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, that was good Pork belly. It's a pork belly and you put some like garlic and herbs and stuff, you roll it up and then you just do it like a roast.
Aaron Pete:Mr McAlpine, am I crazy? Have you ever heard of this word before Porketta? I have not. Have you ever? Do you cook? Are you a big cook guy? No, you're not the person who makes the tricky dinners no, or the eggnog no, no, do you want to make that. What's your signature meal, that you?
Baby Srigley:make. Are you asking me, or I think my contribution is nil at this point.
Aaron Pete:What have you made for yourself that other people would eat?
Baby Srigley:I make a mean macaroni lasagna.
Aaron Pete:Macaroni lasagna.
Tim Srigley :Would you eat it for Christmas?
Baby Srigley:No, and back to you.
Aaron Pete:My last question for you, though is not for you, for Mr McAlpine is there any Christmas traditions that stand out to you?
Baby Srigley:Christmas dinner at my parents. It's been always.
Aaron Pete:Wow, ok, never specific on the turkey, whether or not it's Because it doesn't always have to be turkey, it needs to be turkey.
Tim Srigley :Turkey is fine.
Aaron Pete:I'm part of big turkey industry. This is sponsored by turkey industries. Then I'm just going to stop saying what I'm saying.
Tim Srigley :No, I think turkey is good because you don't have it often Agreed. I think if turkey was a regular thing, I think the chicken's better Agreed Both friends. So I think that turkey's healthier. I'm sure it is, yeah, but I think what makes turkey good is that it's several times a year.
Baby Srigley:Yeah.
Tim Srigley :But by the time we've had a few turkeys in a row. I don't always want turkey for Christmas, so I think this year we're doing pork crown roast.
Aaron Pete:Right. My big proposition is I think we need something between February and summer. I think we need a stronger holiday that stands out. We have Easter, but we need something with a little bit more je ne sais quoi.
Tim Srigley :OK, what do you propose?
Aaron Pete:I have no idea. Something spicy. I think I could pull that off.
Tim Srigley :A spicy holiday.
Aaron Pete:There you go yeah.
Tim Srigley :I'm on board for the record.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, I just find that that's the time where it's the most vanilla. Yeah, like, christmas is the one where we all seem to get on the same page, and this is my most controversial question of the day.
Tim Srigley :OK, ok.
Aaron Pete:So you've got to get ready for it. Ok, how do we feel about really working and just being like happy holidays, removing any specificity to the specific event?
Tim Srigley :I'm not opposed to happy holidays, but I feel that everyone should be able to wish somebody that holiday of their choosing. I don't feel like it's a big like if somebody you know happy Hanukkahed me. I would be happy that they're just like greeting me with anything Like I don't. It's like almost like polarizing, like if you say happy holidays to me, that's great, that's nice, that's a nice thing to do. I don't care what you wish me.
Aaron Pete:My only thing is it feels like you're afraid to say what you mean. That's the only thing I do, like just say what it is, yeah, why you're happy. That's what I want to hear. Merry Christmas, that's fair. Like we never say the word merry, I like the word merry holidays.
Tim Srigley :It sounds weird.
Aaron Pete:Okay.
Tim Srigley :Well, I like it Sounds kind of weird. Yeah, you don't. You don't say merry, though, like you wouldn't say merry birthday.
Aaron Pete:Like this is going to be called a Christmas episode. It is yeah.
Tim Srigley :I like it, like Christmas in here.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, not a December episode. What is with the pointe sedits? Can somebody explain that to me?
Tim Srigley :I don't know. You explained to me the origin of the Christmas tree.
Aaron Pete:Can't explain the pointe. Sedits man.
Tim Srigley :No, I don't know.
Aaron Pete:They've got the red and the green man. He did such a good job on this.
Tim Srigley :It's kind of weird. I like the fire burning.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very cozy in here. It is good yeah.
Tim Srigley :I don't know, Christmas just feels cozy. But I think you're right about that. Um, missing holiday. Because there's like this lead up to Christmas and New Year's and stuff, where it's like I don't know just that build up. You can feel it and even like going into like Halloween is kind of exciting and then from Halloween you start just kind of building to Christmas and it gets happier and happier and then that's there, and then there's just nothing again. Yeah, Just after New Year's, yeah, Just like.
Aaron Pete:Levels out.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, it's just as dark and stuff after New Year's as it was leading up to it, so it's, I don't know. I think you're right, I think you're onto something, but you would need to have like it would still need to be a merry time at your proposed holiday.
Aaron Pete:Exactly what would you want people to know? Oh, here we go.
Baby Srigley:So, based on your research department, it wasn't until the 17th century that the plant first became associated with Christmas. This was from the Franciscan monks in the town of Taxco del Arcan First used the shrub in nativity processions.
Aaron Pete:Wow, man, I kind of like to have just like Wikipedia come through the walls.
Tim Srigley :Having Tim come through there One. It's kind of like my conscience or God is speaking to me or something. Just the voice comes through. But it's almost like the Rogan podcast, with Jamie in the background.
Aaron Pete:Yeah.
Tim Srigley :Like the guy in the chair doing the research and jumping in with the In the control room.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, it's awesome. Okay, let's end this off. What would you want to wish people genuinely as they head into the holiday season? Merry Christmas. We'll say more. It's very general.
Tim Srigley :What else would I wish somebody?
Aaron Pete:Like personally, I would hope that everybody is able to spend time with loved ones who care about them, who are there for them throughout the year, that they're able to share gifts with the people who've supported them over the course of their year, celebrate good times and then really come up with a good plan for their next year on how they're going to take care of themselves, how they're going to make a difference in their community, how they're going to grow as an individual mentally, physically, in all the different ways. Those are some of the things that I hope people go into 2024 with.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, that's what I meant. Yeah, you were getting there. You were getting there. Yeah, I wish all those things. Can I do that? You're much better spoken than I am from talking to people for work.
Aaron Pete:But that's a job.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, I would just wish people a good time in the holidays, a better I mean a better year every year. Do the next year one better than the last one, whatever that is to you.
Aaron Pete:That's very general and the worst Christmas card I've ever heard of.
Tim Srigley :That is your Christmas card actually. I wish you a happy whatever. Happy, whatever that means to you, yeah.
Aaron Pete:Well, I really appreciate. Every time we get to sit down together, it's always memorable. It's a little wild, it's a little gnauggy, if you will.
Tim Srigley :A little gnauggy. Thank you for drinking five-year-old eggs.
Aaron Pete:It was fantastic. I'm glad you liked it Way better than I thought it was going to be. It was a pleasure doing the Hot Ones episode with you. Oh, it was fun being in all these different studios and it's always fun to just cause shenanigans together.
Tim Srigley :Yeah, Merry Christmas buddy.
Aaron Pete:Merry Christmas. Can we get some of that Christmas music going on? I'd like to dance us out, if that's at all an option.
Baby Srigley:They might demonetize you.
Aaron Pete:Yeah, they can demonetize my face off. We can dim the music a little bit, or I could talk over it so they can't hear it as clearly, but I feel like we need a little music to play us out, you know.
Baby Srigley:I think you can add that in post and make sure it's royalty-free. But what I will add is Christmas, the only time of year in which one can sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of socks.
Aaron Pete:That was a savage way to talk about Christmas.
Tim Srigley :It is but Accurate, Delicious Wow.
Aaron Pete:Bring in the facts today, Tim.
Tim Srigley :I really like that.
Aaron Pete:Yeah. Yeah, it's a good mixture. We've got a few looks into the camera before we close out. Something dramatic that we can use as a thumbnail A thumbnail.
Tim Srigley :I don't do dramatic for you. That was very good.
Aaron Pete:Thank you. Making faces is one of the only ways I can be able to tune in every time.
Baby Srigley:So make sure you turn the stair right into the one under the TV. This one. I was looking at this one, the one with the red light on it, yeah.
Tim Srigley :Oh, that makes sense.
Aaron Pete:And give a smile, Giba.
Tim Srigley :How did I do?
Aaron Pete:Beautiful, perfect. Thank you, we did it, thank you.
Baby Srigley:Thank you.