862 - Colette & the Boyz

A Mediocre Time with Tom and Dan

Tom Vann & Dan Dennis

Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

• Holiday food, fellowship, and Hollerbach's holiday events
• Krampus vs. St. Nick wrestling and stoner-Santa jokes
• Photos with St. Nicholas, gifts for kids, German décor, holiday market, and Haribo talk
• Colette Fehr joins the Friday Free Show
• Thanksgiving camping recap and Giant Recreation World promos
• RV rentals, luxury setups, and modern RV color trends
• Jokes about Tom's ancestry, DNA-test surprises, and secret-family discoveries
• Emotional impact of unexpected biological relatives
• Promotion of Colette's book *The Cost of Quiet* and her packed launch schedule
• Challenges of book promotion, media spots, and hosting two podcasts
• Love Thy Neighbor podcast rankings and availability
• Book themes: expressing needs, avoiding self-abandonment, changing harsh self-talk
• Everyone—including therapists—struggles with self-doubt
• Colette's appearance on a hostile debate podcast and the misogyny she witnessed
• Troll backlash toward her and OnlyFans creators on that show
• Silver lining: landing a Godmothers bookstore event
• Reality of non-celebrity book promotion and publisher expectations
• Idea for a behind-the-scenes radio-era book
• Inspiration for her book: 14 years of therapy work and personal divorce
• Traditional publishing gatekeeping and landing a Penguin Random House deal
• Traditional vs. self-publishing and the benefits of a major publisher
• Visiting the PRH building and joking about real penguins
• Upcoming podcast with her husband and his anxiety about it
• Couples therapy experience, communication work, and opposites-attract dynamics
• Remote recording setup (Winter Park vs. Dubai)
• Normalizing messy but functional marriages
• Critique of "too perfect" self-help gurus and Liver King deception
• Scandals rarely ending creators' careers
• Ethics and the choice not to scam audiences
• Persona amplification online: wrestlers, radio hosts, trolls
• Perez Hilton's shift away from aggressive trolling
• January 29 book-launch event details and book-purchase ticketing
• Purpose of the book: helping people communicate, not chasing fame
• Complaints about Tracy's gift-bag photo incident
• Introduction of metal band Ousted and marijuana-card sponsors
• New Tom & Dan merch announcements
• Kids listening to the show and Elf on the Shelf traditions
• Increasingly elaborate elf setups and AI-generated elf videos
• Debate about AI "magic" vs. childhood imagination
• Ethical concerns about realistic Santa/elf AI footage
• Parents' fear of lying, trust issues, and when kids learn the truth
• Commercial AI services selling holiday overlays
• Escalation worry: parents overextending the magic
• News about Frosty voice actor Jackie Vernon having secret families
• How secret families form, motives behind them, and emotional fallout
• DNA tests revealing hidden relatives and identity crises
• Debate on whether someone with two families can be a "good dad"
• Childhood memories of sneaking out and risky teen behavior
• Modern over-monitoring vs. allowing independence
• Phones as anxiety amplifiers, GPS glitches, and negative alerts
• Desire for unplugged family vacations
• Tromp family shared-delusion case and folie à plusieurs explanation
• Emotional contagion, fear contagion, cult-like dynamics
• Transition to therapy topics: clients falling for therapists and transference
• Therapists maintaining strict boundaries and ethical rules
• Reasons for firing clients and confidentiality limits in couples therapy
• Misconception that couples therapy is about "winning"
• Etiquette of seeing clients in public and HIPAA challenges
• Therapists declining gifts and the feelings that creates
• Colette wrapping up, promoting her book, and plans to return
• Show reminders about next Thursday's episode and upcoming BDM show

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0:00.0	When we dip into the holidays, for me and my family, it's kind of like food and fellowship time. I mean, I start eating. And one of the places I start thinking about is the historic German restaurant right up the road, our good friends, at Hollerbox German restaurant. Yep, they're constantly doing holiday celebrations. I mean, last night they had Crampus versus St. Nick wrestling match. Did you see what happened? No, I did. You see what happened? Grinch came out of the crowd, started beating everybody. Oh, yeah, and then Chef Pat, at the end, they did a toast, and then Chef Pat gave Santa Claus the stunner. And knocked him out. See, this is the kind of fun that our clients have. This is the kind of fun that Hollerbox German restaurant is. If you
0:38.5	don't like fun, then don't go. Because it's the most fun place you can find. Tomorrow,
0:42.3	December 6th, they got live poker pictures with St. Nicholas, gifts or children. They have
0:48.2	constant things going on at Hollabox. The market is slammed right now with all the holiday
0:52.7	stuff. Oh, you want some traditional German Christmas decorations? The market is slammed right now with all the holiday stuff. Oh, you want some traditional German Christmas decorations? The market has it. Food, Harbo, wall of gummy bears. All of the gummy bears. Yeah, that's great for stocking stuff. Oh, and confirmed. I had some Harbos. I mean, because these are the ones that come from Germany. Left over, I gave them to Mazy. She goes, these taste better than the regular ones.
1:11.9	I'm like, I'm like, I'm first lady.
1:13.0	Yeah, because they're the actual one. Yeah, they're the actual real ones from Germany, and you can only get those at Hollerbox. So go have some delicious food. Go check out their market, their outfitters. It's Hollabox German restaurant in downtown Sanford. Grandpa's is coming, he's got his bag of sticks
1:27.1	For if your kids do not behave
1:28.5	Who whip them on their dicks
1:29.5	Live from the injured on the go restaurant in downtown Sanford. Grandpa's is coming. He's got his bag of sticks. For if your kids do not behave, you whip them on their dicks.
1:33.2	Live from the injured on the go, just call Mo Studio.
1:34.4	It's a blast.
1:36.7	It's Orlando's own Tom and Dan.
1:43.6	Hello, this is your mediocre time with Tom and Dan program.
2:27.3	We hope that you will find our presentation, precise, joke heavy, and just right. Thanks. Thank you. I'm going to Welcome to the Friday free show of a mediocre time.
2:34.4	It is another, A Mediocre Time with Tom and Dan.
2:34.9	I'm Dan.
2:35.6	I'm Tom.
2:40.6	And joining us today on the couch, our friend and neighbor, Coette Fair here.
2:41.3	How you doing, Collette?
2:41.9	I'm great.
2:42.9	I'm already laughing.
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