Advent 2025 E1 - Grandma got run over by a Burro...

Josh Scramble: Just for you. A micro-dose of smart-ass notes to listen while it snows.

Josh Scramble: Hello, the Breakfast Bunch, and welcome to our holiday edition of the Miller Morning Madhouse.

Josh Scramble: And our gift to you this Christmas is an advent calendar, a minor daily dose

Josh Scramble: of all the wackiness here at the Miller Morning Madhouse, 24 days of our things about the holidays.

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Josh Scramble: this year the december game will be on the 19th it's a little bit early also

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Josh Scramble: things to do for the holidays if.

Jerry Pancake: You um use a thing called the internet you can go to SoCoolShirts.com and they

Jerry Pancake: have some weird ass shirts that you might like for Christmas and you can give them to people too.

Jerry Pancake: You can send them to people. We have the ability to do that.

Jerry Pancake: So SoCoolShirts.com visit them early and often.

Jen Pancake: And Miller Community Theater where we just wrapped Almost Maine.

Jen Pancake: A very successful run. It was great. An upcoming 2026 season.

Jen Pancake: My personal favorite Little Shop of Horrors, April. Um, you're in town.

Jen Pancake: This breakfast club is very fond of urine. So we'll be doing you're in town in July.

Jerry Pancake: I hope I can audition for that.

Jen Pancake: And also hope and gravity in November, a sweet play.

Jen Pancake: Um, so if you are not a singer, that one, that one might be right up your alley,

Jen Pancake: but also if you know any singers, please send them our way, uh,

Jen Pancake: and watch for auditions, audition announcements on social media or MillerCommunityTheatre.com.

Jerry Pancake: December 1st and

Josh Scramble: Now a childhood memory from jerry pancake about the holidays.

Jerry Pancake: All right i'm gonna tell you a little bit about the time we moved because of a christmas song

Jerry Pancake: and that time i was in kindergarten i

Jerry Pancake: was a little kid i wore a clip-on tie i wanted to

Jerry Pancake: be mr rogers like i put on

Jerry Pancake: that little cardigan when i got home it was probably super

Jerry Pancake: fucking adorable i had two different pairs of shoes all

Jerry Pancake: the stuff right so comes

Jerry Pancake: the time of the christmas program and all the parents and

Jerry Pancake: the grandparents everybody gets really excited because i'm like the like the

Jerry Pancake: kid like i'm i'm gonna be performing and we you practice back then for these

Jerry Pancake: programs like for weeks and weeks and weeks and i thought we sang beautifully

Jerry Pancake: you sang um like Deck the Halls,

Jerry Pancake: I think, and then Feliz Navidad,

Jerry Pancake: which is a Mexican Christmas song,

Jerry Pancake: apparently, which I didn't really even realize because I was just a kid.

Jerry Pancake: So then after that, we lived in Blue Island. This was about 1978.

Jerry Pancake: Almost all of my family, like we could go to any house on the block and it was like family.

Jerry Pancake: It was a DeSanto, which was my mother's maiden name.

Jerry Pancake: So we could go to um any relative we had a little candy store it was all walkable

Jerry Pancake: the school was literally less than a block from our house you know what happened

Jerry Pancake: after that felice navidad

Jerry Pancake: We moved like 20 miles south why

Jen Pancake: Did you move

Jerry Pancake: My grandma said that mexicans were taking over the

Jerry Pancake: We only had one Mexican kid, and his name was Scotty. So they gave him an American name.

Jerry Pancake: Fit right in. He was across the street.

Jerry Pancake: Everybody else was relatives of us. And we moved to fucking Frankfurt,

Jerry Pancake: which had one stoplight that was blinking.

Jerry Pancake: And it smelled like duck shit. The whole town?

Jerry Pancake: Our subdivision, because they had a water treatment plant in the middle of the subdivision.

Jerry Pancake: So it smelled like shit. I had to ride my bike like two miles to grade school.

Jerry Pancake: And then the middle school wasn't even close enough to ride a bike or walk to.

Jerry Pancake: You had to just take a 30-minute bus ride to it.

Jerry Pancake: So thanks, Mom and Dad, for moving because you didn't like Mexicans.

Josh Scramble: And that was a childhood memory from Jerry Pancake.