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Speaker 1: We got some holiday drama definitely brewin.
Speaker 2: We're gonna help this guy out in just a second,
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Speaker 5: When your spouse says they refuse to come with you
Speaker 5: to your family Thanksgiving for the first time in five years,
Speaker 5: you know something is up.
Speaker 1: That that that was the first hit.
Speaker 3: Or maybe upside down.
Speaker 5: You know you're about to hear some drama that's been
Speaker 5: going down between a brother and a sister that's turning
Speaker 5: their Turkey day into Berserki day.
Speaker 3: And are you trying?
Speaker 1: Are you trying to coin that term?
Speaker 5: It is and the only possible way for them to
Speaker 5: fix it is by us doing a special awkward Thursday
Speaker 5: phone call.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna skip over that Berserki line.
Speaker 3: Okay, Brook, you come up with the joke.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: We'll do it.
Speaker 2: Coming out drama will be juicy, just like the Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: bird boom.
Speaker 6: It's coming up next.
Speaker 5: It's Awkward Thursday's Thursday.
Speaker 1: Our listeners love.
Speaker 5: That's right back by popular demand. It's the Awkward Thursday
Speaker 5: phone call.
Speaker 1: I love of our high end imaging that we have
Speaker 1: on this.
Speaker 3: I don't sense any sarcasm.
Speaker 5: Since Thanksgiving always lands on Thursdays, this is perfect because
Speaker 5: today's awkward call is about Turkey.
Speaker 3: Day's strange.
Speaker 5: It's usually such a peaceful, non confrontational holiday, just heard
Speaker 5: and football and constant hugs.
Speaker 1: Any drama coming out of that day.
Speaker 5: No, But apparently one of our listeners, Patrick is dealing
Speaker 5: with some family drama, so he's requested our help.
Speaker 3: Patrick, how does.
Speaker 5: It feel being the only family in America with an
Speaker 5: awkward Thanksgiving?
Speaker 7: I've fel sposed to like a normal day inding and
Speaker 7: why for me.
Speaker 1: It's technic all the time, he's being sarcastic. We all
Speaker 1: have family drama, so we got your back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's us and famies that probably don't talk at all,
Speaker 6: and that's the drama.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, Oh well I need help.
Speaker 5: Okay, I can't promise anything, but we'll try. So tell
Speaker 5: us about the situation that's going on with you and
Speaker 5: your Thanksgiving this year.
Speaker 7: All right, So my sister has been hosting Thanksgiving now
Speaker 7: for the past five or six years, and she's got
Speaker 7: a really nice house. She's an awesome cook, which honestly
Speaker 7: makes sense.
Speaker 1: Right, she's a successful one in the family. I hear
Speaker 1: what you're saying.
Speaker 5: She wants to bragg to all the other family members
Speaker 5: about how how great she is.
Speaker 6: Guys, I think logistically it normally is that a person's
Speaker 6: the bigger house.
Speaker 2: That's like, we actually have a guest room that's empty
Speaker 2: even though everyone's here.
Speaker 7: Well, we'll just call her the golden goose.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
Speaker 7: She apparently read some kind of news story in England
Speaker 7: about a woman.
Speaker 8: Who was hosting a family dinner and she.
Speaker 7: Was charging per person to attend.
Speaker 1: Goodness, Oh right.
Speaker 7: I guess my sister said, well, I should do that
Speaker 7: for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5: Oh no, we have heard other people before say that
Speaker 5: they are charging their families on Thanksgiving because of the
Speaker 5: extra costs that they have to do hosting and all
Speaker 5: that stuff, So it's not totally unheard of.
Speaker 1: I mean it's basically asking them to chip in.
Speaker 3: So how did your sister lay this out?
Speaker 7: Well, she didn't tell me directly. She sent me and
Speaker 7: my wife Evite with an RSVP option and there was
Speaker 7: a note that said our family of four would cost
Speaker 7: one hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 7: My wife thinks it's a joke. So she got on
Speaker 7: the phone with my sister and she found out she
Speaker 7: was actually serious, and they got into it. So now
Speaker 7: my wife's feelings are hurt and she doesn't want to go,
Speaker 7: and she's already on the plane ticket to go visit
Speaker 7: her family in another city.
Speaker 3: Go how much money is her family charging?
Speaker 1: Are you saying that.
Speaker 2: You and your my wife for right now splitting up
Speaker 2: for Thanksgiving? You would go with your family and she
Speaker 2: would go with hers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh that is a dream for you, right Brooke.
Speaker 1: Oh, I actually like being with my in laws. I
Speaker 1: mean I'd make fun of him a lot.
Speaker 2: No, I was talking about the family, But where's your
Speaker 2: problem because I feel like you have a problem now
Speaker 2: with your wife and adultso with your sister.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well I went and I told my sister about the
Speaker 7: situation and tried to make her feel guilty.
Speaker 1: Oh okay.
Speaker 8: Her response was good.
Speaker 7: We don't need her and it's still be one hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: Oh oh wait, shouldn't it only be seventy five if
Speaker 2: you're bringing you in the two cads?
Speaker 7: That's that's what I asked her. I told her, but
Speaker 7: it's only three of us now, it should be twenty
Speaker 7: five dollars per person.
Speaker 8: And my sister just says, no, it's one hundred dollars.
Speaker 7: Her family.
Speaker 3: Oh, she's her family, not her plate. Okay.
Speaker 7: Well, even to the woman that she read about in England,
Speaker 7: that was just for a dinner party, you know, it
Speaker 7: wasn't a family gathering where everyone's supposed to be together
Speaker 7: for a happy, joyous Thanksgiving. So obviously my sister is
Speaker 7: a little she's a little out of control, and now
Speaker 7: I need help talking some sense into her. And I
Speaker 7: just could use some advice guys.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you want to call your sister?
Speaker 7: Yes, because my wife says she's already done with this
Speaker 7: situation and the whole Thanksgiving thing, and I'm just wanting
Speaker 7: to kind of mend defenses here and just try to
Speaker 7: save Thanksgiving essentially.
Speaker 1: Can I ask what it would take for your wife
Speaker 1: to that? I was going to say, can come to
Speaker 1: come back?
Speaker 3: Yeah? How much money do we have to pay your wife?
Speaker 3: Book out?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm curious, like, are we wanting your sister? Are
Speaker 2: you asking her to apologize? Or are you asking her
Speaker 2: to drop the fee?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: What what would it take to keep things peaceful?
Speaker 7: Basically, just look at the situation and say, this is
Speaker 7: a family gathering. We need to be together as a family.
Speaker 7: This isn't a paid per plate kind of deal.
Speaker 4: Has anybody else in your family complained about it?
Speaker 7: Several people have talked about it.
Speaker 1: Yes, have they already paid her?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 8: Yes, some of them have have actually paid for this?
Speaker 8: Oh wow what hey? I told them, don't do it
Speaker 8: because I have friends in radio.
Speaker 7: Who are the experts?
Speaker 3: Who are they?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh you dad the wrong number?
Speaker 3: Oh oh you're talking about us? Oh god?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yah, Patrick, Okay, we can do this Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: And there's nothing more that Alexis likes in asking people
Speaker 2: for money.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe just have the hundred bucks ready in case.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but we need to try to think of some
Speaker 5: advice to give to Patrick before he calls his sister
Speaker 5: and asks her to see reason before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Here, Yeah, drop the charges sis.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Patrick, are you cool with cursing because that may
Speaker 5: affect Brooks advice.
Speaker 7: If she has the ears. I got the tone.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've never heard that saying I don't know heard that,
Speaker 2: not even sure what it means.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of into it.
Speaker 5: But we'll come back with your advice to let you
Speaker 5: make your awkward Thursday phone call.
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving edition coming up right after this.
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Speaker 5: Nothing says Thanksgiving like charging your family money to be
Speaker 5: in your presence.
Speaker 3: That's when it's not good. It's sweet.
Speaker 5: It's not totally unheard of because it is a pretty
Speaker 5: expensive meal. But our listener Patrick is in a unique
Speaker 5: situation where his sister is charging one hundred dollars per family.
Speaker 5: Even though Patrick's wife is already backed out of the
Speaker 5: event and frustration, his sister's still hitting him with the
Speaker 5: full one hundred dollars fee for him and his two children.
Speaker 2: To attend, and mind you, how she sent the news
Speaker 2: be a bite, Yeah, it wasn't like a text threat.
Speaker 5: Even I'm impressed by it too, don't get me wrong. Aggressive, yes,
Speaker 5: but clearly it is disturbing the entire family vibe. So
Speaker 5: Patrick is desperate for some advice on how to get
Speaker 5: his sister to see reason. Maybe lower the fees, just
Speaker 5: do something to get this holiday back on track. So
Speaker 5: it's more about giving again. So Broke, what's your advice
Speaker 5: for Patrick?
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, Patrick, she's your sister.
Speaker 2: You need to explain to her this is dividing the family.
Speaker 2: Is that what she really wants? Make her see that
Speaker 2: and listen. If that doesn't work, to reason, you just
Speaker 2: let her know that you may or may not be
Speaker 2: sharing a very embarrassing story from childhood at the thing.
Speaker 7: That's only reason.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to beat you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little blackmail in a sibling relationship is healthy.
Speaker 5: Healthy Patrick, I'm not hearing from me. You are you
Speaker 5: down for a little family extortion to save Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: Can you a good story.
Speaker 8: If it saves Thanksgiving?
Speaker 7: Absolutely?
Speaker 5: Okay, let's remember that one. And Jose, what's your advice?
Speaker 6: Well, you're not gonna get very far in the discussion
Speaker 6: if she's already like gotten into it with your wife, right, Yeah,
Speaker 6: I know, which adds drama. So maybe just to keep
Speaker 6: the peace, you tell her I'll slide you one hundred bucks,
Speaker 6: but just tell my wife it was free.
Speaker 3: Just say, hey, I took the fee off.
Speaker 7: I'll use that if it's a last resort.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: What's your sister's name? Patrick?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, Angela.
Speaker 5: Hopefully we're gonna melt Angela's cold, cold heart.
Speaker 6: He sounds like a.
Speaker 1: Very lovely he's definitely the oldest sibling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no question.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a little hot in there though, so maybe
Speaker 5: a little melting action could be in the store.
Speaker 3: Here we go, I'm gonna down the number. Patrick, you've
Speaker 3: got this man?
Speaker 8: Hello, Hey, Angie, it's Patrick.
Speaker 9: Wait, sorry, do you change your number? This was like
Speaker 9: some random.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know, I kind of dropped the old phone
Speaker 7: and the toilet and I just had I just had
Speaker 7: to get a new phone.
Speaker 9: So yeah, no, I thought it was one of those
Speaker 9: stam calls of getting so many completely it's ridiculous.
Speaker 7: Well, trying to extend your car's limited warranty, Yeah.
Speaker 9: Something like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've been getting those two.
Speaker 8: Gotta talk to you about something.
Speaker 7: Okay, it's about this whole Thanksgiving fee.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I think it's gonna be one of the best Thanksgivings
Speaker 9: we've had.
Speaker 7: Okay, how do you figure that? Like, you're well, charging
Speaker 7: your own family to spend time at your house.
Speaker 9: Well, sure, I mean with the stress of money and
Speaker 9: the grocery bills and the cleaning bills afterward. I mean,
Speaker 9: this year, it looks like I'm actually gonna have a
Speaker 9: bit of a surplus here.
Speaker 7: What huh, you're making money off of this?
Speaker 9: I mean at first they thought, you know, I was
Speaker 9: just barely gonna break even. But then it came to me.
Speaker 3: What did well, Baba and Papa, what are you talking about?
Speaker 9: Well, okay, they're old. You know, they're gonna need priority parking,
Speaker 9: So the driveway is just going to be roped off
Speaker 9: just for them so they can get in and out easily.
Speaker 9: And it's just going to be like fifty dollars a pop.
Speaker 7: What are you talking about? You're charging our grandparents.
Speaker 9: For an important service. I think it's going to be
Speaker 9: one of our most successful thanksgivings. And if you don't come,
Speaker 9: you're gonna you're gonna miss out. I mean the food's
Speaker 9: going to be next level.
Speaker 7: I mean it's always like really good, but.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well this year it's going to be even better.
Speaker 9: I mean I've had like three people, I think pay
Speaker 9: for upgrades for the pies this year.
Speaker 3: Is What is that?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 9: Okay, it was on the evite If you would care
Speaker 9: to read it, you you get a bigger slice with
Speaker 9: more witch cream for seven dollars.
Speaker 7: WHOA, what are you going to do next? Pay to
Speaker 7: use the restroom?
Speaker 9: Look, don't be ridiculous. I mean I'm being practical. The
Speaker 9: whole reason that I'm doing this in the first place
Speaker 9: is to help pay for a new garage door. Okay,
Speaker 9: wait what a garage door?
Speaker 7: Angie? Listen to yourself.
Speaker 9: I accidentally hit it last week when I was watching
Speaker 9: a TikTok while I was driving. What is who are
Speaker 9: all these people?
Speaker 1: Family?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I can't afford to be in this family.
Speaker 5: We're a family radio show, Angela, We're a morning show called.
Speaker 1: Brook and jeffreyel Patrick.
Speaker 9: What is this?
Speaker 7: You're on a radio show. I wanted to get the
Speaker 7: whole premise of why you think this is a good idea?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean he needed a little help obviously.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so, Angela, this is called an Awkward Thursday phone call,
Speaker 5: extremely popular segment nationwide.
Speaker 3: You should listen.
Speaker 5: But basically, your brother is a little bit frustrated with
Speaker 5: how this whole Thanksgiving fee is going over.
Speaker 2: Okay, and he's not the only one, like you're dividing
Speaker 2: the family.
Speaker 1: His wife is refusing to come. You got in a
Speaker 1: fight with her. Other family members are upset.
Speaker 9: No one else has talked to me about this. It
Speaker 9: seems like it's just his wife.
Speaker 3: Oh okay.
Speaker 2: You don't think that your family's talking behind your back
Speaker 2: right now, Angie.
Speaker 1: I have on Grandpa for sure.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Charging they're just definitely a thread that you're not on.
Speaker 5: Just because they're not saying something directly to you doesn't
Speaker 5: mean they're not a little bit uncomfortable with the situation unfolding.
Speaker 9: I think it's entrepreneurial, Okay, Okay, it's a little.
Speaker 5: Business savvy, but it's against you. Nobody's here saying we're
Speaker 5: not going to steal that idea for ourselves and do
Speaker 5: it at our own thanksgivings. We're not saying that, but
Speaker 5: we are saying that clearly, your brother is struggling with
Speaker 5: the whole concept.
Speaker 2: And he's not very good at talking for himself clearly.
Speaker 5: I mean, Patrick, you should jump in and talk to
Speaker 5: your sister about this. This is between you and your family.
Speaker 7: I'm just trying to figure out what the hell is
Speaker 7: going on with this whole situation. Angie. You know you
Speaker 7: don't need to rope anything off. You don't even need
Speaker 7: to charge.
Speaker 3: That's not what Patrick's saying.
Speaker 1: Angie.
Speaker 2: You don't want your brother and his family to miss dinner,
Speaker 2: do you, So.
Speaker 9: He should pay the hundred and.
Speaker 5: Be there, Okay, Patrick, I mean, look, it sounds like
Speaker 5: not a lot is working here, so maybe.
Speaker 3: It's a good time to go with Jose's advice.
Speaker 7: All right, Angie, I'll slip you the one hundred dollars.
Speaker 7: Just just don't tell Amanda. Okay, you're right, I'll just
Speaker 7: tell her it's free.
Speaker 9: M You know what, make it one fifty?
Speaker 1: Have a deal? Is there a fifty dollars line? Surcharge?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 9: Fifty dollars? Put me on the radio?
Speaker 7: Searcharge? Now, Angie, that's just exploitatious.
Speaker 1: It was Patrick.
Speaker 3: It was exploitatious to put her on the radio. Patrick,
Speaker 3: it's big if you admit the radio feed.
Speaker 2: I don't think they think Angie's really in the boss
Speaker 2: in this situation.
Speaker 1: I think you should take the deal.
Speaker 4: Before it goes up into one and get your wife
Speaker 4: the pie up grade you got to add.
Speaker 7: Come on a good husband there, all right, all right,
Speaker 7: I'll the one hundred and fifty dollars and throw in
Speaker 7: a pie upgrade for my wife.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 9: Good doing business with you, brother.
Speaker 5: Oh it's a happy Thanksgiving after all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we failed him so hard.
Speaker 7: I regret calling in.
Speaker 5: The experts, rooking Jeffrey in the morning.
Speaker 3: So what did we learn from all that?
Speaker 5: Other than don't call us with your family problems because
Speaker 5: we'll probably make them worse.
Speaker 2: We learned that the older sister in that family has
Speaker 2: like quite the business line she is.
Speaker 1: She's a boss.
Speaker 5: I mean, we definitely learn people who are greedy trying
Speaker 5: to profit off of family during the holidays. Those people
Speaker 5: seem to come out on top. Yes, probably worth trying.
Speaker 2: It, you know, I will say, though, even if she
Speaker 2: profits a little, if she's hosted all of this and
Speaker 2: done all the food for the last five years, I
Speaker 2: mean she's still kind of losing money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, that's why you always get.
Speaker 1: A different family member to host.
Speaker 3: You gotta switch it up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, something tells me that drama hasn't quite ended for
Speaker 5: Angela and her family. She's gonna have a venmo QR
Speaker 5: code up in the middle of the dinner table to
Speaker 5: up charge gamgam for her second serving of greenach.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 5: Best of luck to Angela and Patrick and their entire
Speaker 5: family this Thanksgiving. But if you ever need some help
Speaker 5: in your personal life, you can always email the show.
Speaker 3: We can do an Awkward Thursday phone call.
Speaker 5: Awkward Tuesday, Awkward Wednesday are open now. Yeah, we'll do
Speaker 5: it for you. Just find us online at Brooke and
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