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Inflatable Santa Gets Taken Out in a Drive By

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0:00 but a couple months ago like one of our neighbors found out that his wife was cheating on him and so this year he doesn't really have any decorations so that's one [Laughter] [Music] down can you guys do Christmas decorations yep not this year I love Christmas I love it too I like to go visit the Christmas decoration places you drive by them dude I help my 75 y- old dad put up these lights and he gets on this big ass ladder and he climbs up and it makes me so nervous cuz it he like kind of loses his balance sometimes and then did your brother come over and pants him no he doesn't dud I my dad yeah I help my dad put up lights every year and he always wants to be the one to climb up the L why don't you do it it's full 75 no you know what he tells

0:50 me he's like no no I could do it better cuz cuz he could like nail it and do all the but parents they want to do it themselves like that's their Joy but he can't make a single mistake at that age yeah but that keeps it keeps him sharp yo yeah yeah yeah dude that ████ is scary though but I like helping because you should ZIP timee to the ladder dude I let my dad do his Pimon picking cuz you know like he loves to you get nervous right fell off the ladder he broke his rib and he didn't even know damn he's a gangster he went for weeks and this fool Works in x-ray I'm like why don't you check yourself dude my dad fell off the ladder too same thing he was gardening he's like I can't breathe that same ████ happened to my dad dud you got to let dads do it man yeah so why'd you ask that well it's like Nick said right like um you're you're driving you like to go driving by yeah the the Christmas

1:40 decoration I just took the the kids to some Christmas lights a couple days ago we drove around man ████ color blind they can't even tell they can see blue they can see blue they can't see ████ hey guess what when they saw blue they were ████ loveing they're just different shades of brown lights to them yeah but sometimes they need the variety they don't get the variety at home did they start barking at the Santa Claus float like Inflatables yeah a little bit but like chill so one one um one guy he he decorates his lawn right and then there's a car driving by to check out his decorations and then they opened fire on his Santa knew it it's Dy they shot up the sa they opened fire on his Santa cuz it was red you think that's why oh maybe he was he was Santa blo Santa blo Merry Christmas so yeah guy guy named Donald Nelson just finished putting up his Christmas decorations he just finished oh outside his family Home in Lexington

2:32 and then um and this is I believe in Kentucky yes that's crazy man the sh in the Santa Claus got shot up yeah he got he just he spent $200 on his father Christmas was it inflatable I knew it dude it had might have been a rival uh holiday like because I think some communities they get ████ we do oh they do beef compete the places that we go to go see the uh Christmas lights they go all out you could tell they're you could tell which houses are competing with each other oh like the whole street is decked out oh bro it's like like blocks shooting is overkill for that no is it is it Ryan no it's under it's underkill it's not enough so in my neighborhood we have a a competition every year same ████ remember last year I won yeah like the Christmas light oh yeah you did yeah so this year like did you bring the heat I

3:22 brought the ████ heat I brought the noise too like this year cuz to me it's like it's all about like last year I don't even think about last year it's all about like if I do it again that's huge and then if I three repeat it that's a dinos yeah dude that's forever you can't it can never take away from every year do you go buy even more decorations and you add it I try to get one more do one more thing than last year yeah just to cuz like if my neighbors couldn't keep up with me last year now I'm an extra step ahead of those ████ I'll say it is it's it's hard to stay on top yo what's the new what's the newest LED technology in Christmas lights did you get anything crazy where it had like patterns and ████ no cuz it was like ████ what looks like ████ what did you get LED he's like LED some people think that covering your house in those ████ dots is decorating your house by the way that's not what you do on dude I wrap all we

4:13 have palm trees and stuff oh I like those I like those yeah yeah I wrap all of them how dude like no no no I don't I don't mine aren't tall mine are like babies oh yeah they're coming up so I wrap them all and like I dude you ever like grab a palm tree before on accident it like stabbing your hands and ████ I don't give a ████ my arms were all ████ up I don't give a ████ it's all about beating my ████ neighbors especially my next door neighbor you have reindeers and Santa Claus that kind of I have a reindeer yeah my neighbor has two reindeer this year so I was like oh oh but you have an angel I don't have an angel damn no you going get a baby Jesus on there I have a ████ kitty cat though I have a light up kitty cat that's isn't that from Halloween though no it's got a little ornament on it so it's Christmas do you remember like back back in the day there'll be certain neighborhoods that go all out and every

5:03 single house does it and then people would like go drive by and like check it out and then you would just go from City to City people still do that they do they still do that I just did that I just did that with his kids with I took my kids bro there they have some houses this one guy had a pro projection screen and he was shooting elf He was elf was playing but then get this there's a little sinus is go to 88.9 so you go to FM and you9 watch it bro and it's good ████ Hest you got like a short wave like throwing it out bro you're sitting in the ████ car Watching Elf that's ████ cool you know and then there was there's another one where there was a light show and then they they tell you to go to the radio station and then the radio station and the light show is all like it's all matching it's like the B sick dude that's just laser noises is Star Wars you know what I want to try is that uh

5:54 drivethru light thing oh yeah that experience yeah cuz I don't want to get out bro you know what I mean walk around I remember doing that as a kid though going to neighborhoods and then we would just walk around the neighborhood it's real fun it's Reales we went to this one neighborhood for uh Halloween and I guess like yearly they all get together and they have a plan the whole ████ Community is probably like maybe like a mile by a mile they caution tape it so I think they let all the neighbors know after 5 we don't want any ████ cars on the streets cuz we want kids to be in on the streets and everybody agree to that agre to that so when we went there um no ████ it looked like ████ Coachella with kids like it was just like a massive everyone's three everyone's everyone's ████ 3et tall and then they had ████ ████ projecting and I'm like crazy can you

6:46 imagine the one the one guy that doesn't agree and then when a car does pull through like a ████ Postmates or whatever like all the parents are like dogging them and like get out of here my get are here that's a strong neighborhood man yeah I was like this is f ████ crazy dude it gets competitive everywhere cuz like in my neighborhood like so I have a lot of competition obviously and people are trying to come up and get me and stuff but a couple months ago like one of our neighbors found out that his wife was cheating on him and so this year he doesn't really have any decorations so that's one down Steve is like The Art of War oh my divide and conquer he plays a long game he got them the Steve is planting evidence in emails I don't know I don't know who told I don't know who

7:36 told where's your Christmas cheer this year Steve is like that guy on the Block where he's happy cuz he's the only one with decorations and no one else participated Steve steps outside drinks his coffee and he's like win by forfeit a win is a win dude seeing their dark house it makes me hard and all the other Christmas decorations cuz I know they're home too I know they're home there's there's just no cheer there's no cheer in there isn't it funny how you find this out like the older you become you're like the parents now like with the neighborhood gossip dude that's so healthy competition dude unhealthy no it's it's healthy it's it's fair game baby it's fair game all fair yeah y we had a the opposite thing happen in Downey next to my parents house there the the neighbor ████ decorates their house like crazy now just out of nowhere

8:28 but the strange I swear I'm not making this up cuz it's going to sound perfect the ████ dad committed suicide oh W after he did it my parents next door neighbor wait so he decorated it like crazy no no no my parents nextdoor neighbor the father they were like a thae family the dad committed suicide so now it's just the so they're happy about it now they have but now they decorate a lot what the ████ maybe he was a real Scrooge oh maybe yeah he's the dad they didn't want to let anyone buy any lights or whatever like y now we get to have lights and he's like that's going to increase our power we can no we're not doing that it was too practical and she goes son now that your daddy is gone we can have fun yeah he was a real py Scrooge crazy yeah isn't that sad kind of happy but it ended up with bigger Christmas Che we went to um I'd be like

9:19 how I can't beat these guys their Che too strong how does he beat them is the question someone needs to commit suicide in this house I send him letters every day tell him to kill him ████ backfired oh no it's a great you're the oh no trying to ruin their Christmas does your whole block get involved though like everyone does the christm is are there kids though like you know how like some neighborhoods right like it becomes like like a young 20s or like it becomes like senior and it's kind of like a collection of the same age group do you have like families or like the lot of families a lot of retirees I noticed like a lot of family like family streets have Christmas ████ going on mhm that makes sense and a lot of like young families though I just have cats dude and I got my my house is lit yeah but all of your neighbors do it they go in y

10:10 all go in the ones the ones that I we see is uh either young families or old families where their kids are like grown and they moved out of state or whatever so they're trying to build a gingerbread house to be like come here children yeah so they miss like the kids so they'll have crazy Halloween or crazy Christmas so like the uh kids can come by cuz they got time to do it and ████ they got like the bird feeders trying to bring the birds come here or like the book club yeah the book I told my neighbor I was like I was like you know we because we watch football together I was like we'll do it together we'll do lights together this year so we can help each other cuz you got to be on the ladder and all this kind of ████ and then um and then he was going out of town I was like yeah we'll do it when you get back and then when he got back my house is done loser another loser intimidation is the greatest and then the other day I pulled one of his lawn steaks from one of his reindeer and and it blew over cuz were having a windy day it blew right

11:00 the ████ over so I was like if the judges were going by today yeah it's over it's over it's over

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