We almost did it there and we start dancing.

And then we dance for the entire hour.

There's no interview.

There's no jokes.

It's just a freak.

Out for a neat Wouldn't it be great?

Let's go.

That would be some bad television.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you so, so much.

It's my favorite place on Earth to be.

That's crazy.

That's insane.

True.

Have you ever been to a four star restaurant?

This is the best place on earth.

Thank you.

That's nice.

Is the best time I've ever had my life.

Incredible.

It's amazing.

Especially in this enchanted time of year.

Isn't this Oh, yeah.

Look at these ornaments, aren't they?

I mean, on TV, they may not look like much, but in person you can tell that they're spun gold, spun gold, spectacular, gorgeous.

And you're always in such a good mood.

Now talk about your personal life, your ethnicity or your life, your religious beliefs.

Uh, you are Jewish.

You were raised in a Jewish family, so I'm guessing.

Very nice.

Very nice.

My people, Uh But so I'm guessing no Christmas tree for you as a child.

No, no.

You You guess wrong.

You guess wrong there?

Um, here's what we did.

In fact, we were the Onley.

My dad was a doctor and we served the non Jewish neighborhood.

We grew up in Pittsburgh, mostly Hungarian and Polish and Slovak steelworkers.

Kids in the E.

I was the only Jewish fellow in my school.

I think that my sister and in our neighborhood, in fact, what we had at Christmas, You know, we kind of did both.

We were, you know, I went to Hebrew school, and it was that, in fact, unorthodox the place where I went.

But then at home, we were kind of split, you know, at home.

At Christmas we had Hanukkah, right?

But then we mostly had Christmas.

But in the basement You in the basement.

You were secretive about celebrating Christmas.

You went down to the What did you have in the basement?

Wasn't secretive.

Exactly.

They didn't say.

Don't bring anybody down here.

You must have shown anybody that we bring.

Our friends don't play pain points.

But it was It was in the basement.

We didn't have any lights, like everybody else Did you know?

Displaying?

Hey, we're celebrating Christmas or anything in the window of the living room.

Nor did we have a menorah in the window of the living room.

But in the basement, we had the most elaborate Christmas display and deck and alter and decoration that I've seen in any of my friends houses.

We went out.

I remember we went through a whole ritual getting the tree and decorating it very elaborately and had lots of presents from Santa Claus.

Supposedly you even you Even I bought that.

Yes.

You believe in Santa Claus?

We had trains.

Those those Lionel trains that were great.

Great, great.

I was all this happening in the basement.

This is the strangest thing I've ever heard.

It was a little bit undercover, but yes, I believe in Santa Claus.

I was just remembering recently that they you know, I believed in it.

And I was kind of enchanted by it, because I remember the day I vaguely remember the day when we were in the breakfast room.

We were talking about my sister, my younger sister, two years younger, with my two older brothers and my mom G.

Do you think this is the year to break it to her?

That there's no Santa?

And I said, What do you mean?

Hey said, Well, you know that there's no scent And I said, Wow, I think I was crushed in a way.

And then I said, But really, they said, Ah ha ha Jeff doesn't know I said G then does that mean okay?

Really?

And so you just got the presence and you wrap the presents and stuff.

Holy cats.

And I said, Does that mean the Easter Bunny?

No Easter Bunny on the tooth Fairy?

Because I guess I had believed.

Look, I got a tooth and she came.

And she nobody believes in the tooth fairy.

I mean, people by Santa and they in the rabbits a little stressed, like, there's a 9 ft rabbit that's gonna break into our house on throw eggs around.

But I don't even even when I was like three, I was like, There's no being tooth fairy la la la You know, I didn't I didn't know I was a boy of special imagination.

I suppose I needed my I needed my myth and I was telling something.

I was dreaming in a half sleep last night because I knew I was gonna talk to you.

I thought, you know, it's true that I may not have the Santa Claus myth, but if somebody would have told somebody before television or airplanes had been invented that I was gonna fly over the clouds once or twice a year and see a tall redheaded man in New York City and we would have a conversation full of laughs and beverages and there'd be a machine to send it at the same time all over the country and people, if you could listen, would be laughing all over the country.

It would be very fun.

And then you fly back over the clouds, right?

That's equally as powerful and delightful.

Event, I think, really screwed.

Things show should replace Christmas.

I really believe that may sound a little deluded there, but I do think that I should be the new basis for the Christian religion.

We'll talk later about that.

You are You're into the holidays, you enjoy them, but you're against receiving gifts.

You don't like receiving gifts.

Why?

I'm not, You know it's not against it.

I just not I'm not a big consumer.

And in my house, I'm a minimalist demeaning.

If I'm not wearing clothes, I give them away.

I don't like to have stuff around and I don't go out.

I don't shop much.

I don't like the latest thing.

And I'm kind of anti.

I have an allergy to commercials much and being sold stuff.

People call you at your house now, and they sell you stuff on your fax machine.

I hate all that stuff.

Uh, don't get me started.

So So what a wonderful, joyous mood you have, right?

The holiday.

Maybe you should go back into the basement.

Yes, I'm a very split in dark character.

So So if somebody gives me something, there's not ah lot that I really want.

And if I get it, I'm like, Well, now I have to, like, put it somewhere and store it someplace.

So I'm like, Well, thank you, but it's really not a delightful thing to me.

If I could talk sense into any adult person, I go, Please don't give you I don't know.

What I don't like is the pressure of having to act like this was the greatest thing you ever got.

There's this expectation when you're handed Hand me this right now and you have to just be like for you, please.

Like Oh, did you really that was You know exactly what you mean.

It z kind of horrible.

Horrible.

Let me ask you about your your sporting life.

You you went to Giants Stadium?

I'm told the other day.

But you rooted loudly for the Steelers at the game where it was your life in danger where you threatened at any point your big Steelers fan, but steals found from Pittsburgh.

So I went to Giants Stadium and saw them beat beat the Giants.

But I was I haven't been to a regular season game ever.

You know, I used to go to the season tickets for the Steelers.

You know, when I was a kid and then I have gone to a couple of Super Bowls.

We're just kind of like a ridiculous kind of event in kind of a wild American, extravagant since stomach.

But I've never been to a regular season event and never as since I was a kid and never as a visiting fan, right?

So I didn't know what to expect.

I didn't research and I didn't ask anybody.

But I thought, you know, Is this gonna be It is fighting about.

There's You know You know how how visible should I be?

And then I was a little ashamed as I saw hordes of people with stealer, you know, shirts and stuff going in because I was wearing nothing.

You were naked and I wasn't a kid.

I was warm, but I wasn't wearing anything.

And but then is the game go?

I went on.

I realized, what what could take place?

I was very happy, very excited.

Was like a great party.

Had a great time and bonding with my stealer cohorts even, you know, you know, reaching over some giant fans and going Yeah, look what we did in that.

But I was also I was also going Yeah, way we're going out.

Yeah, congratulations.

But I was also making sure that I bonded with many of the giant fans to and going because they recognize me too.

And I was making pals all around.

I was going Oh, good play when they did something and good for you, I was good, son.

Very.

Isn't it possible, Jeff, that that could come across the sarcasm.

Good.

Really good on you.

Get pounded.

That's what's gonna happen.