#160 - Oops All Santas! Christmas Special w/ Mike Mitchell, Zach Cherry and Jon Gabrus

December 22, 2025

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

The Format: This rowdy, unfiltered holiday special features four fat comedians dressed as Santas bantering like long-lost brothers in a chimney-stuck frenzy, blending chaotic improv comedy with live call-in advice on life's absurdities. Chaotic and self-deprecating.
The Key Players:
- Stavros Halkias (Host): Charismatic Greek-American comedian driving the fat-guy humor engine.
- Mike Mitchell, Zach Cherry, John Gabris (Guests): Fellow big-bodied stand-ups (from Doughboys, Joe Pera Talks, etc.) forming a "fat cabal" takeover plot with explosive chemistry—constant roasts, overlapping jabs, and shared trauma bonds over weight and gigs.

🗝️ Key Themes & Topics

The episode explodes with fat pride absurdity, holiday nostalgia twisted dark, movie theater chaos, and savage call-in roasts, all wrapped in Santa suits and jingle bells.

Topic 1: Fat Comedian Santa Trauma. The crew laments typecasting as "Fat Santa" on IMDBs, childhood roles as the fattest kid playing dad/Santa, and private gigs turning awkward (e.g., drunk Santas at parties).
Topic 2: Movie Theater Nightmares & Behaviors. Wild tales of rowdy NYC/LA theaters—talkers, sleepers yelling at screens, stabbings, smoking cigs mid-film, and Mitchell's vigilant enforcer mode shushing teens.
Topic 3: CPAP Machines & Fat Life Hacks. Deep dive i

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What you'll learn

1 **(00:00) 🎙️ Introduction: Mike Mitchell, Zach Cherry, John Gabris**
2 **(02:41) Fat Comedians as Santa: PTSD and Career Toll**
3 **(06:50) Absurd Bits: Mouth-Watering Gum/Gun, Cop Interactions**
4 **(09:00) Santa Suits in Pop Culture and Personal Use**
5 **(11:16) Recent Santa Gigs and Movie Tangents**
6 **(13:15) Dark Humor: Santa Mass Shootings, Fat Shooters**
7 **(14:45) *The Long Walk* Movie Discussion**

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Show Notes

Mike Mitchell, Zach Cherry, and Jon Gabrus join the pod for a very special Christmas edition to discuss the indignities of being expected to dress as Santa when you’re fat, the sick freaks who would enjoy seeing this crew dressed up as Santas, being pound-for-pound the heaviest podcast episode in history, CPAP experiences, buying holy water off Amazon, the sad reason Zepbound is saving society from senseless tragedies, asserting yourself against movie nerds in theaters, and much more. Mike, Zach, Jon and Stav help callers including a guy whose girlfriend’s friends hate him after falsely accusing him of cheating, and a woman whose good lifelong friend only hangs out and parties with her boyfriend’s mom.

Follow Mike Mitchell:

https://x.com/bdayboysmitch

https://www.instagram.com/mynamesmitch

Follow Zach Cherry:

https://www.zachcherry.com/

Follow Jon Gabrus :

https://gabrus.com/

https://twitter.com/gabrus

https://www.instagram.com/gabrus/

https://letterboxd.com/gabrus/

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