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Speaker 5: Well, the weather outside is different depending on where you live.
Speaker 5: But happy holidays to all of you out there in
Speaker 5: the colder, in the snow or in the warm tropical weather.
Speaker 5: Who knows, maybe who knows? Holiday in Jamaica, Like, maybe
Speaker 5: you're just chilling.
Speaker 3: I think we all should have gone to Jamaica. Happy
Speaker 3: holidays everyone, Christmas and Hanukah and Kwanza and any and
Speaker 3: all things you're celebrating. Marry everything, Hi, kids, how are
Speaker 3: you marry all of it?
Speaker 5: Yes, Mary merriment, I'm glad we have it. We need it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Smith's still be Christmas for you if you were
Speaker 6: in a place like Jamaica where it was very warm
Speaker 6: and tropical and sunny.
Speaker 5: Yes, I think so, Yeah, I mean I do really
Speaker 5: so much of Christmas is about the ambiance and the
Speaker 5: evergreen trees and all of the cold coziness. I think
Speaker 5: because I feel permission to relax when it's cold outside,
Speaker 5: Like the weather gives me permission to relax. And if
Speaker 5: I'm out in the sun, I feel this immense pressure
Speaker 5: to accomplish things and get things done.
Speaker 4: But I don't know.
Speaker 5: If I'm in Jamaica, then I'm kind of on vacation.
Speaker 5: I would be, but you know, so I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I guess, So what about you, Rob?
Speaker 6: I grew up in southern California, so all I ever
Speaker 6: had were sunny Christmases, so it would still be Christmas.
Speaker 6: But I got to say, now here in Portland, where
Speaker 6: we actually have seasons, can we have a proper winter? Man?
Speaker 6: That's it's kind of next level when you wake up
Speaker 6: the house like snow on the ground, because I'm this
Speaker 6: huge joy as soon as the weather, as soon as
Speaker 6: it's raining. I feel like it's God's way of going, Hey,
Speaker 6: take the day off, not being productive, just relax.
Speaker 3: Why don't you sit at home and be cozy and
Speaker 3: make a stew. Yeah, there really is something nice about
Speaker 3: the cold in that way. I'm doing my first East
Speaker 3: Coast Christmas in a couple of years. I actually I
Speaker 3: brought my parents to New York for Christmas in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 3: you know, thinking we were going to go into twenty
Speaker 3: twenty and have this great year. All we got locked
Speaker 3: in our homes. But we had this really beautiful city
Speaker 3: Christmas and we went to plays and we did all
Speaker 3: these things. But it didn't snow, and so I don't know,
Speaker 3: it feels nice to be kind of getting this cold,
Speaker 3: woodsy moment.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, you guys. So are you guys going to
Speaker 5: continue that through the holidays? You're just going to stay there.
Speaker 5: Robert eustaing in Portland too, Are you guys going to talk?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, No, traveling with a four month old
Speaker 6: sounds terrible. No, we will be here, and it's been great.
Speaker 6: We've just been and having fun with the kids. And
Speaker 6: then Jenny has been baking up a storm, which is
Speaker 6: equal parts incredible and difficult. Because I have the self
Speaker 6: control of a dog. I will eat the food you
Speaker 6: put in front of me until I hurt my body,
Speaker 6: like I got a stomach ache. And she recently made
Speaker 6: a just a monster batch of rice crispy treats. And
Speaker 6: are you familiar with muddy buddies. Oh yes, what'sy so, buddy, buddy,
Speaker 6: let me walk you through with a muddy.
Speaker 4: Jenny Jersey girl.
Speaker 5: How does she know about money?
Speaker 6: She's an organ girl, but she's just a wizard in
Speaker 6: the kitchen. So it's when you take checks the cereal. Well,
Speaker 6: let's put those of the side first. What we're gonna
Speaker 6: do is we're gonna get some chocolate and we're gonna
Speaker 6: melt it down, and then we're gonna toss some peanut
Speaker 6: butter in that party, mix it and melt it down,
Speaker 6: probably some butter, because why not. And then after that's
Speaker 6: this like hot delicious concoction. You pour in checks mix
Speaker 6: and you mix sit all around and then get this though,
Speaker 6: here's where it gets real next level. So tell them
Speaker 6: here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take a big
Speaker 6: old plastic bag. We're gonna dump a ton of powdered
Speaker 6: sugar in, and then you pour the chocolate peanut butter
Speaker 6: covered checks in and you shake it up. So it
Speaker 6: is just like an insta cavity. But oh my gosh,
Speaker 6: it's got the crunch, it's got the sweet, it's got
Speaker 6: the salt. It's so good when I tell you like
Speaker 6: I have hurt my body. I woke up yesterday and
Speaker 6: my stomach wasn't right. Still isn't right, even though I
Speaker 6: took the day off. Sweets. It's so good. I can't
Speaker 6: help myself. You've got to get you some Muddy Buddies.
Speaker 5: Insane. I don't. I do not like peanut butter and
Speaker 5: chocolate together. And Muddy Buddies are the one exception to
Speaker 5: the rule. I I am.
Speaker 3: A person who would prefer to have another dinner for
Speaker 3: dessert instead of a dessert for dessert. Like I'm such
Speaker 3: a savory kind of gal that when I first got
Speaker 3: back to the East Coast, i'd been in LA for
Speaker 3: work and you know, some projects out there. And I
Speaker 3: got home and walked in and Ash had made lasagna soup,
Speaker 3: and I was like, this is the best thing I've
Speaker 3: ever eaten in my life.
Speaker 5: Even know what that is.
Speaker 3: You guys, I will send you the recipe. I'm telling you,
Speaker 3: I'm unwell.
Speaker 4: It is so good.
Speaker 3: And we ate dinner and then I looked at her
Speaker 3: and I was like, I'm having another bowl of this
Speaker 3: before a bit. This is I'm absolutely I don't need it.
Speaker 3: I know there's dessert over there, but I don't care.
Speaker 3: I don't care. I just want this, So I think
Speaker 3: I need to venture into the world of the savory
Speaker 3: the savory suite and it sounds like a muddy buddy.
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 5: I think that's the answer.
Speaker 6: There's also a recipe floating around right now that's popular
Speaker 6: with I mean, first of all, rice krispytreats. I kind
Speaker 6: of feel like it's the it's the wheel of desserts.
Speaker 6: It was perfect from inception. Let's not try to make
Speaker 6: it better. That said, there is a brown butter rice
Speaker 6: crispy tree with pumpkin seeds and I think a little
Speaker 6: bit of rosemar something.
Speaker 3: What like a savory Yeah, boys for me.
Speaker 5: On, yes, I want one of those two. Mail them
Speaker 5: out to me. Uh huh.
Speaker 3: If Jenny's got the recipe for that, please drop it
Speaker 3: in the group chat.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, please just or just she could just make
Speaker 5: some and then just put them in a little rocks.
Speaker 6: She has that kind of time.
Speaker 7: Okay, Joey, what is your holiday go to?
Speaker 6: Baked? Good or sweet? Doesn't it to be baked?
Speaker 5: I guess yeah. I like meringue on on things like
Speaker 5: little peppermint meringues or oh you know what, No, you
Speaker 5: know what I really love? Oh this is This is
Speaker 5: definitely my favorite, and it's from Trader Joe's. They're Feffernoos cookies.
Speaker 5: I don't know if they're Dutch. I don't know what
Speaker 5: the deal is, but they're called Feafernoose and it's maybe
Speaker 5: has a I hate licorice. It's not a liquoricy, but
Speaker 5: it's like a heavy on the clove. It's a very
Speaker 5: Christmasy flavored cookie and sometimes they make it into a cake,
Speaker 5: but it's also covered in powdered sugar. I would just
Speaker 5: go to Trader Joe's and ask them for where the
Speaker 5: Feafernoos cookies are. They're so I just love coffee and
Speaker 5: a coffee and a cookie for the holidays. I'm not
Speaker 5: a big I mean, I love the food, but I
Speaker 5: love the savory food at the holidays, mostly because I
Speaker 5: just don't eat a ton of desserts. I don't really
Speaker 5: like cake or pie. It's just not my thing. What's yours?
Speaker 6: Well, I'm actually kind of more like Sophia. If it's
Speaker 6: a proper like dinner, and like if it's Thanksgiving and
Speaker 6: there's pumpkin pie and pecan pie, I might just skip
Speaker 6: those to do more dinner rolls and mashed potatoes.
Speaker 5: Yes, just a dinner roll and some butter, some salted butter.
Speaker 4: That's what I want.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say, though. My mom traditionally makes raspberry
Speaker 3: pie for Christmas, and because I love sour things, over
Speaker 3: the years, she's made her raspberry pie really tart. Oh, Mariene,
Speaker 3: it is the kind of thing, Rob, We're much like you.
Speaker 3: If if I'm left alone in the house with it,
Speaker 3: good luck, it'll be got.
Speaker 4: I will try to stop.
Speaker 3: My dad and I now fight over them, and my
Speaker 3: dad sometimes will be like, I hate it, just so
Speaker 3: I can't finish it before him. And so now my
Speaker 3: mom makes two, and she's like, you're like children. You
Speaker 3: can each have one.
Speaker 4: Don't touch. Don't touch each other's pie dish like it.
Speaker 4: We're absurd, we're grown.
Speaker 5: I don't whip cream or ice cream with no, no, no,
Speaker 5: I don't want to touch it.
Speaker 3: I'm a I'm very much a purist in that way, like,
Speaker 3: don't mess up my my perfect dessert with vanilla ice cream.
Speaker 5: I'm set.
Speaker 4: I don't want it.
Speaker 6: I love a crunch. I'm a big fan of a crunch,
Speaker 6: just textually in anything really, But that's what I'm telling you.
Speaker 6: These muddy buddies, they got that crunch. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I have a question because it sounds as
Speaker 3: though I know we're all home for the holidays, which
Speaker 3: feels really nice. It sounds like perhaps our favorite part
Speaker 3: of the holidays is the food. But is there something
Speaker 3: else I'm missing? Is there a holiday tradition perhaps that
Speaker 3: you love or are you making any new ones this year?
Speaker 3: I ask only because I've started sort of gathering from
Speaker 3: family all their favorite traditions. I don't know why I
Speaker 3: got inspired to ask about it this year, but I
Speaker 3: was like, what does everybody love to do the most?
Speaker 3: And I want to know what you guys love to
Speaker 3: do most tradition wise, and if there's something else that's
Speaker 3: your favorite part other than the food, obviously tell me,
Speaker 3: but I don't know.
Speaker 6: Two, we went to a farm this year as a
Speaker 6: family and actually like went into a f field of
Speaker 6: trees and we found our Christmas tree. And then I
Speaker 6: saw it down myself.
Speaker 5: Oh, come on, you're a walking Hallmark movie. Get out
Speaker 5: of here.
Speaker 6: It was it was so cool, it was it was
Speaker 6: I was I had a very cool, surreal moment where
Speaker 6: I was like, I'm down on my hands and knees
Speaker 6: sawing a Christmas tree, looking up at my wife and kids,
Speaker 6: and I was like, this this is my life. Oh
Speaker 6: my gosh, wow, we come a long way.
Speaker 5: And the other.
Speaker 6: Tradition is Jenny decided she's going to every Christmas morning
Speaker 6: make cinnamon rolls, come scratch and buddies. She does it right,
Speaker 6: So that'll be another like I will wake up happy
Speaker 6: on Christmas morning and be in a small diabetic coma
Speaker 6: by probably a leven.
Speaker 4: How about you?
Speaker 6: Joy?
Speaker 5: Okay? So I went to the Goodwill and I found
Speaker 5: this plate that had it was a drawing of Clark
Speaker 5: Gable in Gone with the Wind, and I thought it
Speaker 5: was really cool. So you know, it's one of those
Speaker 5: decorative plates that goes on the wall, and you know,
Speaker 5: of course the famous line is Frankly, my dear, I
Speaker 5: don't give a damn well. I also happened to have
Speaker 5: this box full of homemade ding dongs from a bake,
Speaker 5: a local bakery where they do their like local version
Speaker 5: of ding dongs, and I was like, oh, what could
Speaker 5: I This would be kind of fun to incorporate this
Speaker 5: plate and Christmas or it was a New Year's It
Speaker 5: was a new Year's thing, like how are we going
Speaker 5: to start the new year? And my sister was in
Speaker 5: town and her kids and my parents, and so I
Speaker 5: was like, let's and I had just the right amount
Speaker 5: of ding dongs for everybody, and so I was like,
Speaker 5: this would be kind of nice. We'll all take a
Speaker 5: moment to pass the plate around. And if you if
Speaker 5: you did something that hurt somebody's feelings in the year,
Speaker 5: you just you didn't get a chance to apologize for
Speaker 5: you pass the plate and you say, hey, I'm sorry
Speaker 5: for being a ding dong, and the person you know
Speaker 5: then says, frankly, my dear, I don't give it.
Speaker 4: I don't give it time.
Speaker 5: And then you just like let it go. So that
Speaker 5: went over like a lead balloon. But I thought that
Speaker 5: it would be really fun.
Speaker 6: I would so.
Speaker 5: What I mean, like, I don't know, maybe it was
Speaker 5: the kids. The kids were just like and then they
Speaker 5: weren't allowed to say damn. So I don't give a darn.
Speaker 5: But I thought that was really cute anyway. So it's
Speaker 5: a tradition. I still hold out hope for I have
Speaker 5: the plate on the shelf. I just don't know that
Speaker 5: I've been brave enough to bring it out again because
Speaker 5: I know I don't want to get made fun of.
Speaker 4: It's never too late.
Speaker 5: I'm going to try. Maybe I'll just try again this year,
Speaker 5: just see, you know, take a risk.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so ding dongs happen?
Speaker 5: Yeah, like what the heck? I also really love mulling spices,
Speaker 5: and like Christmas sets in right around Thanksgiving, I start
Speaker 5: putting those Williams Sonoma mulling spices on the stove and
Speaker 5: it's just a pot simmering all day long, makes the
Speaker 5: house smell amazing. That's one of my favorite things to
Speaker 5: do too.
Speaker 4: I love you well.
Speaker 3: So a couple of years ago I actually got in
Speaker 3: on said tart raspberry pie baking process with my mom,
Speaker 3: and I really enjoy that. That's something I'd really like
Speaker 3: to contin you. And then I was trying to think
Speaker 3: last New Year's about great ways to mark the New Year,
Speaker 3: and my best friend Kenny sends all of us this
Speaker 3: booklet that is this thing that you sort of sit
Speaker 3: with for a few days going into the new year
Speaker 3: and fill out and it's so inspiring and it's also
Speaker 3: such a pain in the ass because it takes like
Speaker 3: three full days to do and I want to be
Speaker 3: the person who has the time to do this, and
Speaker 3: I'm often not, and so this year I have discovered
Speaker 3: a cool way to do it more easily. Somebody last
Speaker 3: year sent me an idea where everyone in the family
Speaker 3: gets a jar and once a week you put something
Speaker 3: great that happened to you that week in the jar.
Speaker 3: It can be more often, but it's a minimum of
Speaker 3: once a week, and you're supposed to look at them.
Speaker 3: You start on New Year's Day, and then the next
Speaker 3: year you read them on New Year's Day. But I
Speaker 3: thought to myself, I actually want us to sit and
Speaker 3: read these jars on Christmas, because that's great. Walking down
Speaker 3: that kind of wonderful memory lane is a gift. And
Speaker 3: then you get a whole week to kind of mull
Speaker 3: over your year and then enter the new year in
Speaker 3: so much gratitude for all the good things that have happened,
Speaker 3: because you know, there's a lot that's really tough, but
Speaker 3: why not put your energy toward being thankful for what
Speaker 3: was beautiful. So that's my brand new tradition, And I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think the holiday jar it's a jar of merriment
Speaker 3: if you will.
Speaker 4: Hey, the marriage jar and you.
Speaker 5: Can have it out all year round. Yeah, sewing into it,
Speaker 5: waiting for the day it arrives, when you get to
Speaker 5: read it all. I love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's special.
Speaker 6: Well, however, you and yours celebrated and are continuing to
Speaker 6: celebrate this holiday season. From all of us at Drama Queens,
Speaker 6: we hope that it's been a one wonderful season for
Speaker 6: you and an even better and more prosperous year to come.
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, And just to thank you, you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean to both of you, I love you so much,
Speaker 3: and to our whole shot of family and our fans,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, our listeners.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 3: We get to do this because of you and with you,
Speaker 3: and we're so looking forward to what's to come in
Speaker 3: the new year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you all.
Speaker 4: Happy holidays, Happy New Year.
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