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Speaker 1: I'll explain why I'm wishing you a merry Christmas like

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Speaker 1: Here in a second, bless us everyone, all of you,

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Speaker 1: thanks for being here at the New World, those whole

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Speaker 1: podcast welcoming in my beautiful wife and her smurfit outfit

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Speaker 1: Little Shadow take care of that, no problem, and shout

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Speaker 1: that out. Don't you don't have the Christmas sweater on

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Speaker 1: this week. But if all of you will make note

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Speaker 1: of the back of our table here, you will see

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Speaker 1: that we have a Christmas tree. Darryl is also wearing

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Speaker 1: is far more festive than mama is.

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Speaker 3: Christmas. Also, well, sometimes there's Hanukah.

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Speaker 1: What does that have to do with blue? Sure ye

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Speaker 1: shout shout out to all of our Jewish friends out there.

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Speaker 1: We had a Christmas party that we actually had the

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Speaker 1: honor of being invited to and that we attended last

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Speaker 1: night for CCC, the Childhood Cancer Coalition. So many of

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Speaker 1: Big thanks to all of you out there for supporting

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Speaker 2: So it was really nice to be able to do

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Speaker 2: So they're such a great company to support this Christmas.

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Speaker 1: might re evaluate who we have on how we go

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Speaker 1: about it. It can't just always be listening and I

443
00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,920
Speaker 1: in here. It can be. It's just less I mean, honestly,

444
00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,040
Speaker 1: full transparency. That's just less interesting for us because we

445
00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:48,960
Speaker 1: do enjoy getting to know other people and having the

446
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,920
Speaker 1: opportunity to speak to Ben Carson.

447
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's so many interesting people.

448
00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:54,600
Speaker 2: So if there's somebody that you guys want to see,

449
00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:56,879
Speaker 2: or there's a subject so you want us to tackle,

450
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Speaker 2: let us know, because we can start compiling the list

451
00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:00,719
Speaker 2: for next year, can start going out.

452
00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,199
Speaker 1: Also, just the general format of the show. Again, we

453
00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,119
Speaker 1: kind of do this for ourselves every year, but we

454
00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:08,120
Speaker 1: don't always wrap you guys into it as far as

455
00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,159
Speaker 1: trying to implement new changes. But with anything, let us

456
00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,040
Speaker 1: know down the conversation, whether it be just the general

457
00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:15,760
Speaker 1: format of the show, the schedule of the show, what

458
00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:17,880
Speaker 1: more we could be doing, what lest we should be doing,

459
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Speaker 1: should we be having guests on what types of topics

460
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Speaker 1: should we be tackling? Let us know down the comments.

461
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then on good Simple Living, we'ds it's kind

462
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,320
Speaker 2: of a full circle moment for us. So we started

463
00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:33,560
Speaker 2: growing our own food and being self sustaining and all

464
00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,840
Speaker 2: of that, and then that kind of fell the wayside

465
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Speaker 2: when we were building, and now I feel like we're

466
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Speaker 2: kind of going around and back to that, which I love.

467
00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,680
Speaker 2: But we've got some other builds that we have on

468
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Speaker 2: the horizon. Also, it's just the middle of winter right now,

469
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,520
Speaker 2: so we're going to be tackling a whole bunch of stuff.

470
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Speaker 2: And then as soon as spring comes, we have some

471
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Speaker 2: really interesting things.

472
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Speaker 3: And then we've contemplated starting this.

473
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Speaker 2: Whole nother big build, but we haven't totally decided on

474
00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:03,479
Speaker 2: it yet, so we have a lot of things up

475
00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:03,880
Speaker 2: in the air.

476
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Speaker 3: And it's just we've.

477
00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,040
Speaker 2: Always built this property to be what we want it

478
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Speaker 2: to be for the future, for our family, for our

479
00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,560
Speaker 2: family coming back to it. So it's kind of a

480
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:18,480
Speaker 2: legacy generational property, multi generation.

481
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is what we do. It's what we're dedicated to.

482
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Speaker 1: But to go back to our point, like I told Melissa,

483
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Speaker 1: I'm all for taking on a really massive, like brand

484
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Speaker 1: new build so long as it falls into like our

485
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,359
Speaker 1: grander vision for what it is that we want to

486
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Speaker 1: shape this place into becoming eventually. But all of that

487
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:40,399
Speaker 1: needs to fall within this plan of making sure that

488
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Speaker 1: we are keeping our priorities in check. Like I said,

489
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Speaker 1: so even with taking on new builds and new, big,

490
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,960
Speaker 1: big projects, that doesn't mean that like taking the boys

491
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,480
Speaker 1: fishing can fall to the wayside, or going for a

492
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 1: hike or taking a family road trip somewhere along the way.

493
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Speaker 1: It's it's just a different mindset. And I'm a little

494
00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:58,280
Speaker 1: concerned with you when it comes to this because you

495
00:21:58,320 --> 00:21:59,399
Speaker 1: are a missus busybody.

496
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Speaker 2: I like to be busy, but I think I could

497
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,320
Speaker 2: be busy with different things. So before I was always busy,

498
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,639
Speaker 2: before we even did any of this. With the garden, everything,

499
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 2: we had a pristine garden. I didn't let no weeds

500
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,199
Speaker 2: were safe when I was marching around in my boxer

501
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:14,600
Speaker 2: shorts and my coffee.

502
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Speaker 3: Cup, and because I had the time to do that

503
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Speaker 3: kind of thing.

504
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Speaker 2: But then I feel like gardening became not as enjoyable

505
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 2: over the last couple of years because it was always

506
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Speaker 2: a mess because we were always building. We were always

507
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Speaker 2: working on the house, and then when I would finally

508
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,760
Speaker 2: wander into the garden after three or four days, it

509
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,679
Speaker 2: was a disaster. And then it just wasn't this. The

510
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,639
Speaker 2: garden was like our church. We walked through there. I

511
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 2: mean it's literally like where we found God. It was

512
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 2: our beautiful happy place, and it was so fun to

513
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,040
Speaker 2: go out there and the cool of the evening, yeah,

514
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Speaker 2: and pick things and grab weeds.

515
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Speaker 3: We'd see we'd be like, oh, you know, like mid conversation, our.

516
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Speaker 1: Fellow gardener's out there. You will understand. Our routine was

517
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,160
Speaker 1: a Melissa and I would wake up. I would remain

518
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,160
Speaker 1: in my underwear that I slept in, and I would

519
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,119
Speaker 1: grab my coffee and we would go out nature to

520
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Speaker 1: the garden and we would take our quote unquote your walks.

521
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:02,960
Speaker 1: I would keep my box of briefs on and I

522
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 1: have my cup of coffee, and we'd go around and

523
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 1: we would just all and revel at like the change

524
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 1: in the garden.

525
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,439
Speaker 2: We'll everything would grow. And then if if there was

526
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,359
Speaker 2: like a single pee that didn't come up, I'd be like,

527
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 2: pee didn't come up, And then I would keep seeds

528
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 2: in my pocket and then i'd you know, replant. And

529
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 2: then we just haven't had that since moving here, and

530
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Speaker 2: I miss it. So I'm excited to get back to

531
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Speaker 2: that kind of stuff and have time for it.

532
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Speaker 1: Speaking of some of our ceilings, and the shit are

533
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,120
Speaker 1: currently struggling. We need to deal with that.

534
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, the growing is this has been We'll talk about it.

535
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 2: It's been a living I'm sure this has been a

536
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 2: bit of a challenge. It's a learning experience.

537
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, But we want to get back to I

538
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 1: think I mentioned it on that video, like I want

539
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 1: to find that love and passion that we had once

540
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Speaker 1: again for the things that we are genuinely passionate about,

541
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Speaker 1: and I'll make sure that work doesn't necessarily infringe upon

542
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 1: those things. In fact, we just need to change our

543
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Speaker 1: mindset and incorporate it into what it is that we

544
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Speaker 1: are doing when it comes to our work.

545
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Speaker 3: Yep, yep, I agree.

546
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Speaker 2: As you guys know, over the past few weeks, I

547
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,520
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548
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549
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Speaker 2: The more I read the labels of the health foods,

550
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552
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562
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563
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564
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Speaker 1: Speaking of things that are sort of sucking, piggyback upon

584
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: all our garden huggles. Here, we went out after attending

585
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,640
Speaker 1: this Christmas party yesterday, and so we went out to dinner.

586
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,359
Speaker 1: We kind of did like our own little family Christmas outing,

587
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,199
Speaker 1: and the dinner wasn't that great, And that kind of

588
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 1: brought about a discussion amongst Melissa and I about how

589
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 1: everything in the world of quality wise, service wise, and

590
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,880
Speaker 1: quality wise just doesn't really seem to be up to par.

591
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 1: And I don't know if this is just us because

592
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 1: we are such reclusive sort of people.

593
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Speaker 3: I don't think it is. My mom loves loved the

594
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 3: olive garden and now she's like, you know, it's not

595
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 3: very good anymore.

596
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 1: The olive salad and bird steaks.

597
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 3: So I mean, like, what's happening.

598
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 2: I don't know if I thought everything going out to

599
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 2: eat used to be really special, and I remember it

600
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 2: just being amazing.

601
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: It was always look forward to me.

602
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you would get food that was just so

603
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 2: flavorful that you didn't get it home, and and it

604
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 2: was fun.

605
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Speaker 3: And now when I go out to eat, I would

606
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 3: just rather eat it home.

607
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, the food. So you ordered like this, what did

608
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:34,919
Speaker 1: you get yesterday?

609
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 3: I got some kind of.

610
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,640
Speaker 2: I don't know, it was a steak, and Cure gout

611
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 2: the same thing, some kind of like a restaurant steak.

612
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,159
Speaker 1: It was a steak. I mean it looked like a steak,

613
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 1: but it was like Tony Roma's it.

614
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 2: The x's on it and everything, but you could tell

615
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 2: it came that way from the freezer.

616
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,120
Speaker 3: And they both looked identical.

617
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 2: They looked like Plato steaks, you know when you put

618
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 2: the plato in the steak and then it or the

619
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 2: and the little stake mold and then.

620
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: It made it perfect real marks. Yeah, And I'm not

621
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to. I don't want to knock this

622
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 1: restaurant that we've gone on too, But this is the

623
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 1: place that we actually really enjoyed when we first moved

624
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,120
Speaker 1: here to Idaho. If we were going to go out,

625
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: this was one of the restaurants on the very short

626
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 1: list of places that we enjoyed going out to eat at.

627
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 1: And now the quality.

628
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 2: Is just well, you can tell all the lettuce is

629
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 2: bagged all of or like if it's sad.

630
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, And was that always the case? I feel like

631
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: it was decent.

632
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know maybe, but and then Eli got

633
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 4: some kind of fish and it was definitely like you

634
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,239
Speaker 4: could tell it was just like this frozen piece of

635
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 4: afie that's rolled in the sesame seeds and just.

636
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 3: Awful, Like it's just not good.

637
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: And then Blend.

638
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 2: The prices have skyrocketed everywhere, all the restaurants and hotels

639
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 2: and everything.

640
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 3: Prices are way up.

641
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 1: Over to quality.

642
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 2: Well, there's so many of us, but then quality goes down.

643
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 2: So we were out about and we were like, we

644
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 2: need to find a place to eat, and everyone was calling, Oh,

645
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,679
Speaker 2: like nobody wanted to go out and eat because it's

646
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: just not that good anymore.

647
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 3: When was the last time you went to a restaurant

648
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 3: went this was excellent?

649
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 1: Beverly, Yeah, a long spot here, But we're wondering if

650
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 1: this is maybe just us like did we miss something.

651
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 1: For those of you who go out to do things

652
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: or a regular basis, have you noticed this or again,

653
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 1: is it just us? Because this is such a rarity

654
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 1: in our lives. It's not just restaurants, it's not.

655
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, like when you go to a hotel or an airbnb,

656
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 2: Like hotels used to be clean, remember, like it was like, oh,

657
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 2: luxury hotel, pillows and clean, and now I feel like

658
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 2: hotels are just kind of.

659
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: Gross and still getting over the Houston experience.

660
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 2: Like keep your shoes on, kids, don't fit your feet,

661
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 2: like it should not be like that in a hotel,

662
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 2: they're just not cleaned very well.

663
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Speaker 3: Or air travel, air.

664
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Speaker 1: Travel, but anything service oriented. We were also talking like

665
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: we can reflect upon the time where air travel used

666
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: to be. It was like you, at least for myself

667
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: and my family, we got dressed up to go on,

668
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: the plane would come down, they'd give you the hot

669
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: towel and this is a domestic flight granite it was

670
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: from Hawaii, but you were treated.

671
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 3: So well as a little tongs.

672
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: The dessert tray would come out, You got to make

673
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: your selection, and everybody just now there's queue to each other,

674
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: including the staff. Why is it that you as a customer,

675
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: are now viewed as being a burden of some kind

676
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Speaker 1: of inconvenience.

677
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 3: It's like that pretty much everywhere you go.

678
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 2: If you went to a department store in the eighties

679
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 2: and you had a return or something and you didn't

680
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 2: have the receipt, they'd be.

681
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 3: Like, yes, ma'am, we'll take.

682
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Speaker 2: Care of it, you know, And now it's just not

683
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,239
Speaker 2: like that. If you, I feel like shopping used to

684
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 2: be an event. You would go into the department stores

685
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 2: and there'd be a live pianist playing, remember.

686
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 3: That, Yeah, And there'd be live piano music.

687
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Speaker 2: Can you imagine going to a mall now and they're

688
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 2: being live piano music And then everyone was very It

689
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 2: was it was an experience to go school shopping and

690
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 2: they ma'am, what.

691
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,959
Speaker 3: Size shoe do you wear? And oh, we have this

692
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Speaker 3: in blue too.

693
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 2: They would be showing it to you. Everything was I know,

694
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 2: but it was just different. There was customer service and

695
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 2: they even they treated even children. Yeah, with a certain

696
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 2: level of.

697
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: Because I feel like it's gotten worse, But then I'm

698
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: like questioning, is.

699
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 3: It just us no customer service?

700
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: Am I missing something now?

701
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 3: And the phones.

702
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: That made it worse because literally, you don't even have

703
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: to contact an employee at a sort and appear as

704
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 1: though you maybe have a question about something, and you're like,

705
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to ignore you, and if you

706
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: manage to get to me in the like in the

707
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: middle of me making this effort to ignore you, I'm

708
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: going to act so incredibly inconvenience. It's it's amazing just

709
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: the way people react and respond to you. It's it's

710
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: the opposite of what it is that I once recall

711
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: as being the norm.

712
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, even I mean the grocery store is hit and

713
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 2: miss like that. You've always got the amazing, really friendly,

714
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 2: nice checkers, and then you have the other ones that

715
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 2: are like.

716
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Speaker 3: Why do you have so much stuff?

717
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: So if they're on their smartphone, you just broke their

718
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: dopamine rush, and so they're very irritated with you. Also,

719
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: ironically enough, it's the holidays right now. I feel like

720
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: the holidays also amplifies all of this and makes it worse.

721
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: I always hate to go into work, but I was

722
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: a police officer, so i'd see like really bad, ugly

723
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 1: software in the holidays. But I feel like even your

724
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: retailers remember the word this time. They're so just irate

725
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: and inconvenienced by your very presence while shopping at.

726
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Speaker 2: Their Yeah, well, I mean I think the holidays can

727
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 2: bring out the worst in people. It's supposed to bring

728
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 2: out the best in people, but I think people feel pressure,

729
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 2: the financial woes, the having the shop for people that

730
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 2: you don't even really like, but you know they're probably

731
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 2: buying you something, so then you have to reciprocate and

732
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 2: buy them something.

733
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 3: And there's just so much pressure.

734
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: Has your holiday spirit been crushed because I feel like

735
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: in looking.

736
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 2: At people's spaces, mine hasn't been because I stay out

737
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 2: of public.

738
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Speaker 1: Looking at others, nobody has this same like it's a

739
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: special time of year. Everyone looks like down and depressed.

740
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 2: That's because we put so much dame pressure on ourselves

741
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 2: to make the holidays perse and all the shopping, and yeah,

742
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 2: it kind of is. I mean it started when we

743
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 2: were kids. But Christmas is supposed to be families getting together.

744
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 2: The presence shouldn't matter, the gifts and all that. It's

745
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 2: like my sister and I decided a long time ago

746
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 2: she's not gonna buy for me and I'm not going

747
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 2: to buy for her. And we're very very merry about that,

748
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 2: and it's just kind of nice, Like I feel like

749
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 2: Christmas gifts and stuff were for children.

750
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: That's fine, but there should still be this baseline level

751
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: of gratefulness that we all have for sure.

752
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 2: But it's hard to be I feel like it's hard

753
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 2: to be grateful when you're feeling stressed, especially financially stressed.

754
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 2: A lot of people can't afford the standard that is

755
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 2: the holidays.

756
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: Nowaday, I get it, but we mentioned on here that

757
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: are somewhere Christmas is sucked as kids. Did you ever

758
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: feel like that put a damper on your holiday spirit?

759
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 3: Because it wasn't about that.

760
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 2: We had movies that we watched, We went and saw

761
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 2: my grandma, all my cousins were there.

762
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: It was a feel right, That's what I'm saying that

763
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: no longer exists. It seems like and it's a real

764
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: bummer it is. It's even even for our kids. I

765
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: feel like they pick up on it too, Like they

766
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: watched these holiday movies and it sets an expectation that

767
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: is completely unreasonable. But when they venture out in the public,

768
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: even some of the feedback. I don't want to say

769
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: which kid, but one of our kids is like, I

770
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: don't even want to leave the house anymore because everything's

771
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: such a letdown.

772
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 3: It was like, I think I'm just going to stay

773
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 3: home till after the New Year.

774
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 1: And I was I was like totally bummed out by

775
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: nothing living up to the hype.

776
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he was like really excited to go do

777
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 2: some Christmas stuff, and then he didn't really seem like

778
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 2: he was having that bunch of fun. And then he

779
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 2: went ice skating and he fell and he was like,

780
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 2: I pose my whole had and then he was all

781
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 2: like and then on the car right home, he's like,

782
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 2: I think I'm just going to stay home till after

783
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 2: the holidays.

784
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: So even last night we were leaving, we went ice

785
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: skating after our mediocre dinner, and then a bunch like

786
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: droves of people were showing up for holiday lights and

787
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: the like. Everyone had this law face on, like they

788
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: were stressed out and miserable. I'm like, this isn't what

789
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be.

790
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 3: They're just checking stuff off the holiday list.

791
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: And I don't either either. I totally missed it when

792
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: I was a child, like in the eighties and nineties,

793
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: where it was a magical time.

794
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:12,879
Speaker 3: Maybe it was just me and I I thought it's

795
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 3: more magical when you were a kid. I don't know.

796
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 3: My dad was always in kind of a bad mood.

797
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe so. And I mean, the holidays can't be

798
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: a bummer as an adult, but it just doesn't. I

799
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: don't know. It makes me sad that it is stressful

800
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: for all it's not. It's so rampant, though, And I

801
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: feel like it was the exception when we were kids.

802
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I'm wrong on that.

803
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 2: I feel like Christmas was probably better one hundred years

804
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 2: ago when people just got the you know, like back

805
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 2: in the Scrooge days, when little kids got a pair

806
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,399
Speaker 2: of handmade mittens and a hat that their mom made them.

807
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: And I guess that's what I'm saying. That's my thing,

808
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: Like I get that people aren't feeling necessarily the best

809
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: during the holidays, But what's the reasoning behind that? Is

810
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: it because we are just so much abundance. We're blessed

811
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: with an overabundance of everything all the time.

812
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 2: Cress people that just buy themselves, Like that's the number

813
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 2: one complaint is I don't know what to get them

814
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 2: because they just buy.

815
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:58,399
Speaker 3: Themselves whatever they want.

816
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 2: Or these kids just at whatever they want all year long,

817
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 2: so they're not impressed by getting a couple new gifts.

818
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 2: You know, if you're a grandma and grandpa and you

819
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 2: come over with one gift and then they just have

820
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 2: this massive room full of stuff. Or some kids are

821
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,720
Speaker 2: only just smartphone kids, like they're just literally just playing games.

822
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: I guess I'm like the thing that confused me yesterday,

823
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: Like I'm referencing all these people that were stringing up

824
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 1: to the holiday holiday light thing looking just miserable and

825
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: sad and kind of bummed out.

826
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 3: It was kind of cold out.

827
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 1: The contrast between that and seeing these kids and the

828
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: families of the holiday party yesterday, like it's it's there's

829
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 1: an element of just baseline gratefulness. Like I said a

830
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: second ago, there are people in in what most would

831
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,040
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832
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: who are far more grateful for their time, their.

833
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 3: Days, that they're there right their kids.

834
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 2: Right, as opposed that the kids are those kids were

835
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836
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: Their hospital, yeah, as opposed to those who are so

837
00:35:55,960 --> 00:36:01,000
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838
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839
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,640
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Speaker 3: Because we're out of the house. I don't know, it's

899
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 3: just it's us.

900
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I think that we put too much pressure

901
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 2: on ourselves to go do all the holiday things, to

902
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 2: attend all the parties, to go to all the little

903
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 2: kid things.

904
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 3: I mean, people are bringing their.

905
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 2: Little tiny babies to experience holiday stuff, and it's like

906
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 2: baby doesn't care, Like, just you know what your.

907
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 3: Baby wants to do. They want to sleep on your

908
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 3: chest while you watch.

909
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: A Christmas The pressure and obligation, Yeah, we have a

910
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,879
Speaker 1: lot to put ourselves, like we burden ourselves with get

911
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: the photo. Yeah, Like there's this checklist of things, and

912
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,280
Speaker 1: if you don't manage to check every box on that list,

913
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: and I guess everything's all let down.

914
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 2: I kind of like Eli's idea of like, let's just

915
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 2: stay home till after the holiday.

916
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: For it, like, don't tempt me.

917
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's He's like, I just want to wear pajamas

918
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 2: and watch movies and make pop corn. And I'm like

919
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 2: that sounds really nice. We don't have to go out

920
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 2: and find Christmas because the spirit of Christmas and what

921
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 2: Christmas is all about is family and faith in God.

922
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 2: And we could stay home and we could dive into,

923
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 2: you know, doing a Bible study and watch some sweet

924
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 2: Christmas movies and eat some good food, and that's going

925
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 2: to feel so much cozier and more christmas y and

926
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,399
Speaker 2: less fluey.

927
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 3: There's so many people coughing and sneezing yesterday.

928
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 2: It was like, you know, that's what ruins That's that's

929
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 2: what dampers my Christmas spirit.

930
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: We were in our booths and I was eating, and

931
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: the wages walk by and like ripped out a coffee

932
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: when she was taking a bite, and I was like,

933
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 1: oh no, I'm surprised you didn't pick up on that.

934
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Speaker 3: Kira saided that our server was sick.

935
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Speaker 1: Good.

936
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Speaker 3: I love that our kids noticed, Like, who's sniffling? She's

937
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:53,280
Speaker 3: like she was a mighty sniffily.

938
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: I was like, oh no, being so exclusive has made

939
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: us a family full of weirdos.

940
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 2: I know, we're definitely introverts, all of us. Like Nevella

941
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 2: was our social butterfly. As a little kid, she was

942
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 2: social and now she's not.

943
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 1: She's come around.

944
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 3: She's now that she's an adult.

945
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 2: She went to the sleepover. Like when she got a

946
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 2: little older, we allowed her to go to sleepovers. We

947
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 2: don't do little kids sleepovers. But once she was sixteen seventeen,

948
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 2: she did a couple sleepovers with some girls.

949
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 3: And she didn't have fun. One time she really wanted to.

950
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 2: Call us to come pick her up stun but I

951
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 2: was like, you should have just called, it would have

952
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Speaker 2: gone and got cha.

953
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a really weird thing. I'm always forced to

954
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: ask myself whether or not this is just us, given

955
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Speaker 1: how we are.

956
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 3: I don't know.

957
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,399
Speaker 2: I think that I think it's fifty to fifty. I think, yes,

958
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 2: we are us and we're very introverted. But at the

959
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 2: same time, if everyone would just get on board, they

960
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 2: would realize that home is very happy and germ free

961
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 2: and cozy, christmasy, festive place you can find Christmas in

962
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 2: your own home.

963
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Speaker 1: I completely agree with you. It was just an interesting

964
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 1: observation that you know, it was just like I said,

965
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 1: it was some like a very star contrast in our

966
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 1: day yesterday between attending that Christmas party and seeing some

967
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: of the happy families, like genuinely grateful, happy families, and

968
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,720
Speaker 1: then leaving and finding people that are again, does blessed

969
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: in abundance be so miserable the fact that they're having

970
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: to attrag their families and kids around to go see

971
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: some Christmas lights don't have to when the reality of

972
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: is is like, you know, you're so incredibly fortunate to

973
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to do this, and you not have

974
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: you don't have anything serious to sweat in the meantime.

975
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's just standards standards, and consumerism has

976
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 2: just gotten worse and worse and worse every year. And

977
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 2: now media the yeah, social media the standard of Christmas

978
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 2: and when you get on Instagram and everyone has these

979
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 2: perfect little Christmas reels and everything, and you're like, ah, shoot,

980
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 2: I'm dropping the ball with my kids, Like we have

981
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 2: to go do this, and we have to go see this,

982
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 2: and we need to go find every single twinkly Christmas

983
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 2: light that exists, and you don't have to do that.

984
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 3: We all grew up in.

985
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 2: You know, the eighties, and we didn't do all of

986
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 2: those things, but we did load up in the car

987
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 2: and go look at Christmas lights. But we stayed in

988
00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 2: the car and we love doing that.

989
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, so's time. Maybe it's just childhood, I suppose.

990
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe, But I just think that the free stuff

991
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,280
Speaker 2: is so much more special than the expensive.

992
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: Simpler times. If you keep it simple and you don't,

993
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 1: you don't have this this comparison with social media or

994
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: like just media in general making you feel like you

995
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: need to do X, Y and Z to have a

996
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: successful holiday season.

997
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 2: Then I don't even think it's the kids. I don't

998
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 2: think it's the kids that have this standard. It's the

999
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 2: parents that think they that their kids have the standard.

1000
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 2: But if it were up to the kids, or if

1001
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 2: you just made a point out of keeping it simple

1002
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 2: and keeping it at home special, I don't mean don't

1003
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,879
Speaker 2: do Christmas and don't do all that stuff, but keep

1004
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 2: it special and more home based. It's going to be

1005
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 2: a lot cheaper and your kids are going to have

1006
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 2: way more fun and you're not going to feel stressed because.

1007
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 3: You don't even have to put a brawn to do that. Okay,

1008
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 3: I'm just saying when you're at home.

1009
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Speaker 1: I wasn't planning on it, but yeah, sure you don't

1010
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,479
Speaker 1: have to do jeremmy On that note, hope you guys

1011
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: have a grand and holiday season yea Christmas. Yeah you know.

1012
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 3: I'm a relaxing one.

1013
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: Grateful, be grateful for what you got. Hope you have

1014
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: your friends and family around. We are going to make

1015
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: sure that we keep our priorities and check moving forward.

1016
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold you to this no matter how we'll

1017
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Speaker 1: stressed out you get in the process of trying to

1018
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 1: take some time off, I'm.

1019
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:21,879
Speaker 3: Going to do good.

1020
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:22,879
Speaker 1: I'm going to hold you to it.

1021
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:24,879
Speaker 3: Just put on the Christmas movie, give me.

1022
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 1: A baby, move beyond that though. Moving forward, yes, I

1023
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 1: don't believe you do it all right. God bless you guys.

1024
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 1: Thank you for being here once again, Like once again,

1025
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Speaker 1: let us know just your input. We value it tremendously.

1026
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Speaker 1: Let us know where you're at on many suggestions you

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Speaker 1: have for us.

1028
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Speaker 2: Yeah, on to anything Saturday, very special video.

1029
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll catch you guys over there, and then for

1030
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Speaker 1: the podcast. We'll be back in twenty twenty six. Yes,

1031
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Speaker 1: crazy as that sounds.

1032
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Speaker 3: Thanks guys.

1033
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll see that you guys.

1034
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Speaker 2: Take care even then the New World with and how so.

1035
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Speaker 3: The Richmond knows, the Richmond Lord knows.

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Speaker 1: How do