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Part One of: Leverage Season 3, Episode 14, The Ho Ho Ho Job, Audio Commentary Transcript

Hi friends! So quick mod note here. The Google Doc for this transcript was 51 pages long, and when I tried to paste this over, Tumblr told be that there can only be 1000 'blocks' in a post? Which I'm assuming means lines/each person speaking here. So I am splitting it into two posts. Here are the first 25 pages of the transcript; I will post the second half in just a sec.

Marc: Hi, I'm Marc Roskin, director of this episode.

John Rogers: I'm John, executive producer.

Michael: Michael Colton, co-writer of this episode.

John Aboud: Aboud, co-writer and talented half of this episode.

Michael: Woah.

Chris: Chris Downey, executive producer of this episode, The Ho Ho Ho Job.

John: Our first holiday job, cause it’s the first time we aired in December around Christmas. Colton and Aboud, preferably Aboud-

[Laughter]

Michael: He was sorta the primary writer of this-

John: Why don't you tell us how-

Michael: I was like, shotgun.

John: Why don’t you tell us what really started this episode.

Aboud: The origin of the episode-

Michael: You said, “Can we find the most cold hearted writers and see if we can warm their hearts by making them write a Christmas episode?”

John: It was, it was a way to make you personally transform.

Michael: Yeah.

Aboud: Failed utterly.

John: For the show.

Aboud: Failed utterly.

Michael: If we can get a Jewish writer and a Jewish director-

[Laughter]

Michael: To make a Christmas episode.

Aboud: To bring Christmas to life.

John: There you go.

Michael: What did we start with? It was-

Aboud: We started with the idea of Christmas Eve, what is a job that they could pull on Christmas Eve. And that led to-

Michael: Well who is-

Aboud: The mall.

Michael: Who is-

Aboud: Who is your bad guy.

John: Yeah.

Michael: Started with- we wanted to have Santa be the client.

John: Yes.

Aboud: Yeah.

John: That's right. And then all the attitude sorta came out of that. And then the other two things were, we were hacking around with the bad guy once you guys had come up with the crime, and then it was a chance to bring back Wil Wheaton's character Chaos.

Aboud: Absolutely.

John: Because the idea of Wil Wheaton as the Grinch Who Stole Christmas made me laugh for maybe seven minutes straight.

[Laughter]

John: And then of course Eliot in a Santa suit.

Michael: Yes.

John: This is a great take by the way. That's a lovely- and that's Mark Lewis as Santa.

Marc: That's Mark Lewis, famed storyteller of the pacific northwest.

[Laughter]

Chris: Would you show rack on tour?

Aboud: Troubadour!

Marc: Rack on tour.

Aboud: Troubadour.

Marc: Yes, he's actually wearing the beard and wig from Evan Almighty.

[Laughter]

John: Really?

Chris: Wow.

John: I did not know that.

Aboud: Oh god!

Marc: Yes, because he had a beard but Dean said it wasn't-

Chris: That is a pop up video worthy effect.

Marc: Wasn't big enough, so we flew in the beard and wig!

Michael: And this episode cost about as much.

John: Just like Forbes used to do. And thank you!

Marc: Exactly! Yes.

[Laughter]

John: Just for you. Yes, and the chance to make Nate be cranky and pissed off for Christmas was awesome.

Michael: We were worried actually that Christain was not going to be happy being in a Santa suit the whole time, but he was kinda giddy on the set. He was actually like “I get to wear a Santa suit!” He was excited.

Aboud: Loves it.

John: He loves this stuff.

Chris: The Santa fight, I mean think they were sort of key elements of this.

Aboud: Spoiler warning! Spoiler warning!

[Laughter]

John: They usually watch it first, John, and then come back later.

Aboud: Oh is that how this works?

John: Yes, exactly.

Aboud: Gotcha.

John: And great fellow Canadian Dave Foley, Kids in the Hall.

Michael: Yes.

Aboud: There he is.

John: Being unctuous which is really one of his great skills is unctuosity. Unctuosity-?

Aboud: We love- one of the early appeals of the story was having his character be redeemed.

John: Yes.

Aboud: In a kind of Scrooge type of way.

Michael: Yeah well we even called him-

Aboud: Eben Dooley.

Michael: Eben, there was one reference to Ebenezer.

Chris: There was a fair amount of debate about it, and it was- I think the challenging part was having it- was earning it early enough in the episode so that we have room for the heist.

Aboud: Yeah, right, right.

John: Exactly. It's tough to do that double turn with the bad guy, because we are 42 minutes and 30 seconds.

Chris: Yeah.

John: But this one is plotted really tightly. This one really flies.

Michael: It's very well written, it’s extremely well written.

[Laughter]

Aboud: Pretty well.

Michael: It's probably the best written-

Aboud: Half of it! Half of it!

John: Plotting is from Chris and I.

Aboud: Yeah, half of it.

John: You just fill in like mad libs, the script really.

[Laughter]

Marc: This is the second party we've had in McRory's. One was a celebration for the death of the owner, his funeral.

John: Yeah [laughs] and the other is a drunk unemployed Santa Claus.

Marc: John McRory's, yes. And then a drunk and unemployed Santa Claus.

[Laughter]

John: What were the challenges in directing this particular one, Marc?

Marc: The challenge was directing Christmas in the summer.

Michael: Christmas in July?

Chris: Yeah.

Aboud: July.

Marc: Christmas in July. So I threw the idea to Colton and Aboud, the idea that let's not try and hide it. Let's address it, that Parkers bummed because there is no snow.

John: Nice.

Marc: And we just address that in dialogue, so when you see exteriors with no snow it wasn’t something we'd have to try and cheat with snow blankets, or-

Michael: Which then led to the ending, which turned out to be sort of the best ending we could have.

Marc: Yeah it's fantastic.

John: Yeah, really sweet. And then the mall was tough.

Marc: The mall was tough.

John: Cause it’s a real mall.

Marc: It is a real mall that was open and-

Michael: Jansen Supercenter.

Marc: Yeah, Jansen Supercenter; they were very helpful.

Aboud: Jansen Beach.

Michael: Jansen Beach. Named for the Jansen Swimwear Company.

Chris: Wow.

Aboud: Good tribute.

Marc: We were able to use some of the storefronts and you'll see that Becca, our production designer, built about four or five different storefronts as well.

Chris: Now can I just say something-

Aboud: Oh wait Regency Square Mall, I should add.

Chris: Oh Regency Square Mall.

Aboud: Regency Square Mall. Becca Molino the production designer-

Marc: And there's a lovely family!

Aboud: Look at that! Who’s that!

Michael: Lovely family, horrible actor!

Marc: That’s the director right there! His hand on an elf!

[Laughter]

Marc: My kids! My wife!

Michael: Do they get residuals?

John: Wait, that's not the woman I see in Portland all the time.

[Laughter and Jeers]

Aboud: Woah, wait a minute.

John: Now I'm confused!

Chris: That's the Portland wife!

John: Oh, the Portland wife, alright.

Chris: Yes.

Marc: And our evil Santa is Charlie Brewer, famed stunt coordinator, who was the stunt coordinator on our pilot, and on season-

John: On season one, yeah.

Marc: Season one.

Chris: No, I was gonna say one of the things that amused me the most [laughs] about this episode was we had to come up with fake mall stores.

Aboud: Yes.

Michael: That was fun, yeah.

Chris: I think you guys made a page of fake mall stores.

[Laughter]

Chris: Do you remember any of them?

Aboud: There was an email that like- from Carrie Glover, one of our producers, who said we need names for clearance. This email- Mike was- you were busy with something with family so you said you know, we gotta generate this-

Michael: I didn't wanna do it.

Aboud: Didn't wanna do it. We gotta generate some names. I said, “OK, no problem.” I think twenty minutes later I sent you fifty-nine names.

[Laughter]

Michael: They were great!

[Laughter]

Michael: The worst puns.

Aboud: And you just, you wrote back “Jesus, you had fun with this.”

[Laughter]

Chris: That's an assignment you don't wanna give to a writer.

[Laughter]

Marc: What was the name of the one- not linens and things but the other one-

Chris: A recipe for disaster.

Aboud: Towels and Such.

John: What's amazing is how many of them didn't clear.

[Laughter]

John: It’s like hackiest possible names, going with stores like- nope it’s a real store, nope it’s a real store.

Aboud: All real.

Michael: Oh yeah, there was a frame shop that had some pun and it turns out in Portland-

Chris: I've Been Framed.

[Laughter]

Aboud: I’ve Been Framed, can't use it. But I was just gonna add that Becca Molino, the production designer and I, grew up moments from each other, and about fifteen minutes from the Regency Square Mall.

Chris: Ohh.

Aboud: In Richmond, Virginia.

John: So that was a little shoutout.

Aboud: We had a bit of a chuckle over that.

John: [Sarcastically] Tough scene for Christian, always tough. I don't know how he motivates himself through these scenes.

Chris: He soldiers through.

Marc: Yeah it’s very difficult.

John: Yeah, he does, he's a brave man. And again a real challenge to figure out different moveable objects that we can cram Beth Riesgraf into.

[Laughter]

John: We've put her in a lot of things over the course of three years of the show.

Aboud: What other means of conveyance can she hide herself in?

Chris: Now I'm pretty sure that I had a poster on my wall of Cheryl Ladd in this outfit?

[Laughter]

Michael: I like it! It's almost like Sergeant Pepper.

Chris: I may be dating myself here, but she kinda had hair blown back.

[Laughter]

John: Nice.

Michael: You had a poster of Mae West, didn’t you?

[Laughter]

Aboud: You know, on a plot level, this is a very heavy Nate and Eliot episode. They do a lot of the heavy lifting in terms of stopping our bad guy. But spiritually this is a Parker episode.

John: Yes.

Chris: Yeah.

John: Yeah, she's carrying the emotional weight pretty much all the way through.

Aboud: Very much so.

Michael: The childlike innocence who believes in Santa, and in God, really.

[Laughter]

John: Really?

Michael: What? Did I say that?

Aboud: You just said that.

John: I didn't really get that. This is also interesting. It's amazing the stuff that we come up with in research. There are these mall consultants, these people go through and do consulting on malls on flows, on security, and it's an enormous amount of research we wind up blowing on a character that we never actually repeat in the entire episode.

Aboud: Right, right.

Michael: Well we named him Anton Underhill because there's a shopping consultant named Pacco Underhill?

Aboud: Pacco Underhill.

Michael: But several people said “Hey, I love that reference to Fletch.”

[Laughter]

John: Oh?

Michael: Yeah, so I said sure, yes, it's a Fletch reference.

Aboud: Fletch reference, why not.

Marc: Who came up with Tela Ricos?

Michael: I think that's like the name of a-

Marc: Check out the sale at Tela Ricos.

Michael: Some comedy writer.

Aboud: He’s a writer friend of ours.

Michael: It sounds like some place that would sell, like, denim jackets.

John: Yeah, it's a comedy word.

Chris: That’s the Nate cranky seat. When he's cranky in a briefing, that's where you put him.

John: That's where he winds up.

Marc: And he wanted to be eating soup!

Aboud: He was very specific.

Michael: And reading the New York Times book review.

Aboud: Yeah.

John: It's very grown up, that's the thing.

Michael: Yeah.

Aboud: He's the dad!

John: Oh, the great bit, this- the fact the ornaments were valuable objects, I really love this bit. Where did we- cause we were talking about Sophie had her little hideaway, and the idea that Sophie keeps them for the future and Parker just takes things she likes.

Aboud: Yes.

John: And her entire- the thing we introduced in episode five, with Richard Chamberlain, the big warehouse of stuff.

Aboud: Yes.

John: There's probably 20 million dollars worth of crap in that warehouse.

Aboud: Right.

John: Just lying around like paper weights.

Aboud: It's a fun, organic way of showing their different approaches to what they do.

John: Yeah.

Michael: I was actually surprised we got in the line ‘Happy Birthday, Jesus,’ I just thought you couldn't mention Jesus.

John: You absolutely can.

Chris: No, you can't exclaim it as a-

Aboud: Can't use it in vain.

Michael: You can't say, “God Damn and Happy Birthday Jesus”?

Aboud: Oh that just got censored.

Michael: Ohhh god damn it.

John: No, I know-

Michael: Oh, again!

John: I know you had a hard time, we passed out the liberal media rules for-

Aboud: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

John: For Christainity, but you gotta look at the specific clauses. It's interesting, everyone- you know the great phrase ‘idiot ball’? Everyone passes the cranky ball in this episode; everyone’s got a little Christmas crank going all the way through.

Chris: Yeah.

Aboud: Just like real life.

[Laughter]

Michael: Just like the movie Christmas with the Kranks.

John: That is an angry eating of soup.

Chris: He really did.

Aboud: He's grinding it.

[Laughter]

John: They're almost- Christain almost loses it there, there's really-

Aboud: Yeah.

Marc: Yes.

John: Beth can manage to get everyone to laugh, and actually having shot a bunch of them late night, Beth and Christain are the worst combination. There- he gets her more often than not. And then a crying baby.

Michael: It took a while to get here.

Marc: Crying baby!

John: What did we do to the baby to make it cry? Did we poke it?

Marc: Baby wouldn't cry in rehearsal, baby wouldn't cry in rehearsal, baby wouldn’t cry. Finally I had mom walk away from baby during the shot.

Chris: Ohhh.

John: Wow, nice.

Aboud: Does it every time.

John: Nice, that's actually a psychological experiment.

Chris: I mean, you didn't have to backhand her; I mean, that was the next step.

Aboud: Yeah.

John: For those of you for child welfare in Portland the number is 173-

[Laughter]

Michael: This kid was great.

Marc: This kid was good.

John: This kid was really great. It's tough, you know what, Portland child actor, right? Portland actor.

Aboud: Yeah, yeah.

Michael: No, no, no Portland- that guy’s 34!

John: Really?

[Laughter]

John: Wow!

Chris: He's got that disease.

Michael: That's not a child actor.

Chris: Oh that's great, that works really well.

Marc: I haven't seen Scott Baio in a long time.

[Laughter]

Aboud: Casting him was fun because you realize- now this kid, not twerpy enough. This kid, not twerpy enough. Oh this guy’s a jerk.

Marc: Oh, yeah.

Aboud: This is the one.

John: Yeah, in the season finale when we have a little boy point and scream, it was very weird in casting to just keep telling moms: “Have your kid point at me and scream.”

Chris: Yeah.

John: Scream louder!

[Laughter]

John: Mean it!

Michael: I like Beth's elf voice in this, that was her improvisation.

Marc: Yeah, respect the suit.

[Laughter]

John: And Lucille 2.0.

Chris: Yeah. That was another thing that came in, his love of Lucille. Wasn’t that something that sort of evolved during the filming?

Aboud: Well, it-

Chris: It became a character, right?

Aboud: It built through the season actually, yeah.

John: Yeah, because what was great was when we shot the season finale, the way he dug in on Lucille the van, the first one-

Chris: Yes, that's right.

John: Was really unexpected, because he really gave the van death scene a true pathos.

Aboud: Right.

John: And then of course that created a little improv where when they were getting ready to blow up the van, Beth kissed it.

Chris: Yeah.

Aboud: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

John: And so the idea that it was like his dog that you are affectionate to, yeah it really turns into something big.

Marc: I don't know, I mean, I've seen Gina in lots of dresses and she's a knockout in everything, but there was something about her in this limo driver suit and tie.

Michael: I think that says something about you.

[Laughter]

Aboud: It's the British thing.

Chris: The Cato

Marc: The Cato, nine and half weeks, I don't know what that was.

John: This is very Miranda Zero that's what this was.

Chris: You can leave your hat on, right?

John: It's very Miranda Zero. And then the EM gun which shows up, which was planted by Albert Kim.

Aboud: In Boost.

John: Reinforced here and then pays off mighty in the season finale.

Michael: Does he get prop payments?

John: He does not get prop payments.

Chris: No, you don’t get that.

John: No, like all writers, we ruthlessly steal his intellectual property and then use it to our own whim.

Aboud: Next negotiation.

John: Yeah, but he's on another show he's on Nikita with- so he's got girls in short shirts with EM guns, so he's doing fine.

Aboud: He's fine.

John: Yes, exactly. And we trap another man to suffocate slowly to death in a limo.

[Laughter]

John: Really, I feel- we really do horrible things.

Aboud: The chauffeur- I mean obviously his audio is cut, but he was saying things obviously during the shooting and he sounded so genuinely sad to be locked in the car, he was crushed that he couldn't get out of his car.

John: And what is that-

Michael: That's good acting.

John: What is that character's thing as he's looking and seeing the sexy British chick pick up his client, is he like “I guess this is some sort of role play thing, I don't know.” I was like where is-

[Laughter]

John: I always am fascinated by these secondary characters' internal monologue.

Aboud: Right, right.

John: Tough shot, what- did we do trays here?

Marc: This was all greenscreen.

John: Okay.

Marc: This was shot in the-

Chris: Oh, looks great.

Aboud: Parking lot.

Marc: Parking lot, outside the stage with the green screen and plate shots.

John: Driving is a pain in the ass.

Marc: We had to make all the plate shots- we turned all of the green, brown.

John: What?

Marc: So it didn't look like green trees.

John: Oh alright. Oh, of course, ‘cause it's winter.

Aboud: Wintertime.

Marc: Cause it's winter.

John: There you go.

Marc: Christmas in summer time.

John: And how did we do the crash here?

Marc: Um, the crash we did-

Aboud: With difficulty.

[Laughter]

Marc: Yes, with difficulty.

John: I always ask when I know something’s gone wrong, it gives the people listening to the DVDs something to hear other than me drinking.

Marc: Done practically, and we did it outside the exterior of the sanitation plant while we were underground filming, Charlie Brewer and company crash the car.

Aboud: Took multiple attempts, and the car’s getting more and more bent.

[Laughter]

Aboud: But the barrier that it's supposed to move is not moving at all. [Laughs] It was deflecting off.

John: It’s amazingly hard- it's difficult to crash a car.

Aboud: You wouldn't think.

John: You know what, safety standards have really ruined the ability to have the good 1970s fireball that we’re so used to.

[Laughter]

Marc: That's right.

Chris: You know, I just watched The Blues Brothers last night, but you should mention it, they wreck cars.

John: The car rolls down the hill-

Chris: They know how to wreck a car back then.

Aboud: Tore that car up.

John: Also the sinister seatbelt unfastening button, available at the SkyMall magazine.

Aboud: Here we go.

Michael: Boom!

Aboud: Finally, yes.

Chris: There we go!

Marc: Yeah.

John: Finally. Isn't on that approach actually the bumper is already detached?

Aboud: You can tell, yeah.

Marc: Yeah, from take one.

John: And that's not Dave actually, that is-

Michael: That’s Mark McKinney, one of the other-

[Laughter]

John: We actually flew a different-

Michael: He's off in the- he’s double for Foley.

John: Yeah, exactly.

Michael: I have never seen Dean Devlin, our boss, so amused as on the set hearing Dave Foley tell the origin stories of Kids in the Hall's skits.

John: Yeah.

Michael: To Dean.

Aboud: Big fan, big fan.

Chris: He's a big fan.

John: Yeah, everyone’s a big fan, it's a great, really great great group of guys and the new thing is good. There's Charlie!

Marc: Charlie Brewer first acting lines.

John: No, no- is this his first acting gig?

Marc: Not the first, but with us, I mean.

John: Oh, yeah.

Marc: Normally Charlie’s, you know, coordinating stunts.

John: No, the vague hostility here. And this was fun actually, coming up with the- where was the origin of the credit card scam? Cause we’re coming into the crime story now.

Michael: Well it is real that in the last few years, like, the Salvation Army takes swipes.

Aboud: Yes.

Michael: Which just seems like a crime waiting to happen.

John: That's how you wind up thinking on the Leverage writing team. You get something that helps charity and you go: “How can this be corrupted?”

Aboud: I know, I know, exactly.

Chris: The great fake fact, and I know for those of us who- those of you listening to these before we talk about some of our fake facts, but my favorite fake fact is that on Christmas Eve, the traffic in credit cards over the line is so heavy that they can’t keep track of fake transactions.

Aboud: They just let everything go through, in the logic of the episode, they just let the transactions go through because the volume is so high, they can’t, you know, flag everything that's suspicious.

Chris: Right.

Michael: That's our logic, but it sounds credible.

Aboud: That's our logic.

Chris: That's our logic, but sounds utterly convincing, and makes-

Michael: Well you would think on Christmas Eve.

Aboud: With all the last minute transitions.

John: That's a legend.

Michael: No, it's a very well written show.

[Laughter]

Michael: No holes.

John: No holes, it's seamless.

Michael: And it makes you think.

John: And, by the way, it does speak to the casual cruelty with which we treat the characters in this world, that this entire- that we have put a man in a car crash, given him head trauma, and now we’re going to heavily medicate him.

Aboud: We’re gonna dope him!

Marc: With morphine.

Michael: And now we’re-

Chris: No, no, he's medicating himself!

John: No, no, later on.

Aboud: True.

Marc: Later on.

Aboud: She pushes the button later.

Michael: We gaslight him.

Chris: Oh that’s true.

John: We gaslight him with the fake Santa. It's not as bad as in the finale, we actually take the one honest man in a small European country and corrupt him to the point where he can be evil enough to become president.

Marc: Even Christain dressed as Santa gets to hit on extras.

[Laughter]

Marc: Unbelievable.

John: Unbelievable.

Aboud: Yup, yup.

Michael: I wanna point out there's a hat shop in the background that gave discounted hats to the entire cast and crew.

John: Oh that’s nice, that’s very nice.

Michael: Marc Roskin in fedora. The Jewish Sinatra.

[Laughter]

Marc: There you go.

John: Now this RFID thing is cool, we’d done a lot of research on RFIDs because, you know, right this year we were working on this stuff, that guy had built that great device where he could drive around the city and pick up peoples passport information.

Chris: Yeah.

John: Off the RFID in their passport just in his car, and then the latest big hacking conference, a guy built a device he could bring up on stage with him and read all of the RFID in the audience.

Aboud: Right, right.

John: So yeah, most people have no idea there's a web of invisible information. Bruce Sterling calls them spines.

Michael: You're basically telling people not to give money to charities.

John: Absolutely do not give money to charities, you'll be brutally ripped off.

[Laughter]

John: No, no.

Aboud: Well the thing about the RFID is like, it's in your debit card now.

John: Yeah.

Aboud: You had no say in the matter, they didn't ask you if you wanted it, you have it.

John: And that's why you should give out- we should go back to the gold standard and people should repeal the seventeenth amendment.

[Laughter]

Chris: Oh back to this!

Michael: Only took 15 minutes to get to the gold standard.

Aboud: Mark it! Mark the time.

John: [Sarcastically] Get your dry beef stroganoff and get a shack and move into the shack!

Chris: Ohhh.

Aboud: Welcome to the survivalist podcast.

[Laughter]

John: [Sarcastically] Obviously Santa Claus and Christmas are a plot to deprive you and get information about you for the corporation that will rule the world.

[Laughter]

John: This is a great- this is a four-hander. this is always-

Aboud: Yeah, a challenge.

John: This is one of the things we discovered during the course of the season, it's always easier to go to a four-hander cause you do two and two. The five handers - just that one extra human being the-

Marc: One extra is just-

John: Brutal bit of coverage.

Marc: So this is fun part of the script where, you know, the plot is-

Aboud: Oh they're all fun parts.

Marc: The plot is changing.

Michael: Yes!

John: This is the bit where we realize it's a totally different con. I mean this is- it's a standard thing in every episode where the episode turns into a different episode, or a different crime or a different con right in the middle of the second or third act.

Aboud: Right.

Michael: The bigger than we thought.

Aboud: Bigger than we thought moment.

John: Bigger than we thought, yeah. Is that- there you go.

Aboud: And she doses him.

John: And Gina's kind of really sexily, brutally, coldly ruthless as she fills this man with morphine.

Aboud: There is a dominatrix vibe at work here.

John: No kidding.

Chris: And you know-

John: This is great.

Michael: I love this, the random Christmas footage we have on the screen, it's just a sleigh going across.

[Laughter]

Michael: That's all it is!

Aboud: There it is!

Chris: That’s good! I didn't even notice that till now.

John: Why?

Aboud: He’s apparently watching some Rankin/Bass specials.

Marc: Rubbery Robby!

Michael: Rubbery Robby.

John: There you go. How long did it take to come up with that toy that would clear?

Michael: Not to be be confused with Stretch Armstrong.

John: No, legally not to be confused with Stretch Armstrong.

Aboud: No, no.

John: Stretch Armstrong is perfectly safe while Rubbery Robby is filled with toxins.

Michael: That was John's nickname in high school.

Aboud: Rubbery Robby.

John: Try saying that too many times. Yeah this is a great- we don't usually give guest stars this big a scene, but you know Mark and Dave Foley were pretty great.

Michael: Well, troubadours.

Aboud: They did it.

Marc: They were fantastic.

John: Yes, exactly.

Chris: And again, you're playing off the idea that Santa knows when you've been naughty, I mean-

John: Yeah.

Chris: You know, it doesn't take that much morphine for you to buy into this.

John: And we relentlessly dump it into him.

[Laughter]

Aboud: Oh, yeah.

John: The entire city, dead.

Aboud: High pressure [unintelligible] morphine.

John: There are world war one soldiers who look more together than he does right now.

[Laughter]

John: There are dudes off Flanders Field who don't have that much morphine in them. Make the call!

Aboud: Make the call.

Michael: Make the call, he’s-

John: We haven't even introduced Wil yet, this is insane!

Michael: Right now look, he gets the phone and he says-

John: It's an incredibly dense-

Marc: He wants to talk to you!

John: He's calling Woodstock, Apollo Storm has picked up and then Jonathan Coltan’s on stage.

Aboud: Jonathan Coltan, not to be confused with this Colton.

Michael: Yes, very different. He's got a u.

John: And a following.

Michael: Ohh!

[Laughter]

All: Ohh!

Michael: Oh.

John: He wants to talk to you, that's great. It was- there was a nice turn here by the way guys, he really-

Marc: Yeah, he wants to talk to Sophie Deveraux.

John: You really plotted the hell out of this. And the-

Chris: Here's our big reveal, there we go!

John: The reveal.

Marc: That guy.

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