David: My parents adore Christmas, they love Christmas, and they can't wait for more grandkids, so they can enjoy Christmas all over again. Is that true? When you have kids, it's another revival of the memories of Christmas? Keith: Yeah, my kids are actually getting to the age now where I'm capable of remembering back to, or the eldest one. Like, prior to last year. Last year I started recalling memories of the same age. Prior to that, they were too young and I didn't remember when I was four and three, and what not. Yeah, the same sort of things, and I find myself doing sort of the same things to my kids as my parents did to me, but my wife doesn't agree with torturing them with extra cups of coffee in the kitchen, and what not. Actually, more often than not, we spend time with the grandmas and grandpas who don't agree with that anymore. My parents don't do that to my-yeah, they're soft and kind, unlike what they used to be when I was a child. Mean, nasty, horrible human beings that they were. Anyhow, Christmas is-you live Christmas all over again, and then when you spend it with the grandparents, grandparents love it because, well, they just sort of-the grandkids destroy their house, but they just sit there and go "Ho, ho, ho, that's so cute, duh, duh duh." David: It's the grandparents' job to spoil the kids. Is there a particular movie that is primary watching around Christmastime? My father watches one movie every Christmas, and if he doesn't, he thinks he's going to die. It's the one with Alastair Sim, A Christmas Carol. Is there one that you particularly need to watch, otherwise it's not Christmas? Keith: I think my favorite is a movie I got a long time ago, that I watch on a regular basis-Terminator II. [laughter] Jill: How festive! Keith: It's a very touching movie about a boy and his cyborg. [laughter] Jill: What a freak! David: Jillian, do you have one?
Jill: I love A Christmas Carol as well, but the one I remember the most from my childhood, watched it every single year-or the two that I remember-are The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and Charlie Brown's Christmas. Those are the two that I watched every year growing up, and- Keith: It's not Christmas until you've watched those two. Jill: Yeah, and they'll be forever etched in my mind, those two movies. David: Do you remember what Linus says? "Lights please!" Because I did a play when I was a kid, and I played Linus.
Jill: You'd be a good Linus. David: Thank you. And I had a blanket just like you have, and we did the play, we did the whole thing, and I remember those lines. We did this when I was probably in grade two, just a child, but I still remember my lines. I'd probably make a very good actor. Keith: I was in a Christmas play once. I got to play the drunk wise man. I was such a good actor, they just told me not to speak, sit there, hold onto this thing which I was going to-assume now, as an adult, it was probably a carafe for wine or something, and I just sort of like sat there, propped. That was at church, believe it or not. It was sacramental wine, it's different. Yeah, this Christmas, let me see. I'm just looking forward to going to Jasper and hanging out, on Grandpa's nickel. I'm not spending a cent. David: Well, God bless us every one. Merry Christmas.
