Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: Podcast, Happy Thanksgiving. We are so thankful for all of
Speaker 1: you listening with us each and every week, and we
Speaker 1: hope you're having a wonderful holiday so far.
Speaker 2: And I'm thankful for you, Jenna.
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for you. Kevin, not as thankful as I
Speaker 1: am for you. We could do this all day. This
Speaker 1: is our favorite holiday. Yes, we get to eat.
Speaker 2: And I'm doing it differently this year. You are so
Speaker 2: Normally I go back to Texas and the only time
Speaker 2: I didn't go to Texas to be with my entire
Speaker 2: family was because of COVID one year, right right, So
Speaker 2: I don't know. Something struck me this year and I
Speaker 2: was like, you know what, I want to stay in
Speaker 2: LA And randomly a lot of my friends who are
Speaker 2: from other places they also are doing the same thing.
Speaker 1: Love it.
Speaker 2: We all just happy to be doing this. So I'm
Speaker 2: great having like one or two Thanksgivings at my house.
Speaker 1: Oh at your house one or two? Yeah, got it.
Speaker 2: But I'm just very excited because I feel like the
Speaker 2: time we did it during the COVID of it all,
Speaker 2: Austin and I made enough for like fifteen people, but
Speaker 2: there were only four of us to be so really
Speaker 2: excited to run.
Speaker 1: It back and yeah, yeah, I see.
Speaker 2: You know. It's just nice and also just a lot
Speaker 2: of time for Catan.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of time for Catan. That's really fun.
Speaker 1: I have spent most of my Thanksgivings since I moved
Speaker 1: to La in La and not traveling home. So we
Speaker 1: are doing the same this year. Usually we go see
Speaker 1: a lot more family, but this year we're keeping it
Speaker 1: kind of small, which I'm actually kind of excited about.
Speaker 1: I like switching it up a little bit. This year.
Speaker 1: We are doing something different though I'd imagine you and
Speaker 1: Austin are going to cook all of your Thanksgivings again,
Speaker 1: Still we are not. We are ordering this year.
Speaker 2: I really respect that we're.
Speaker 1: Giving it a shot. We've done Friendsgivings in past years
Speaker 1: where it's not the actual Thanksgiving that we've ordered. We've
Speaker 1: done like pot luck or you know, everybody kind of
Speaker 1: brings a dish and we've ordered before. We've also ordered
Speaker 1: like chicken before. But I will say I'm pretty excited
Speaker 1: about it, Like I know that the food will be
Speaker 1: good and it'll still be Thanksgiving, so I'm pretty I'm
Speaker 1: pretty stoked that I don't really have to do Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't have to do anything, like, yeah, you have
Speaker 1: enough going on? Yeah, yeah, for sure, we do. We do.
Speaker 1: We have a baby and toddler, and there's just it's
Speaker 1: a weird and obviously it's a weird rest of the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four years. So I'm just like, I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm going with like less is more.
Speaker 2: It's like trim where you can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly trim the Turkey.
Speaker 2: Yes, I know.
Speaker 1: Obviously we can't ever forget our Thanksgiving episode one and
Speaker 1: only Thanksgiving upsode.
Speaker 2: And we got to watch it since like last Thanksgiving,
Speaker 2: we hadn't been reminded yet of the genius of Turkey.
Speaker 1: JP Turkey Lurkey Kingdom style rip. But I will say
Speaker 1: watching the Friends Thanksgiving episodes is a judition of mine
Speaker 1: around the time of Thanksgiving, maybe not always on it,
Speaker 1: but and then also this year, I'm very excited that
Speaker 1: there's a mini balloon. In addition to Mickey Mouse going
Speaker 1: up for the Thanksgiving Day parade, Macy sank Give Me
Speaker 1: Day Parade. Yes the first time, yes, ever, she's joined
Speaker 1: the troop.
Speaker 2: It's about damn time.
Speaker 1: So they've shown us what she looks like. My daughter's
Speaker 1: going to be thrilled.
Speaker 2: That's so cute. I used to love watching the macy
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving Day parade.
Speaker 1: We and now we do again, you know. I mean
Speaker 1: I still watched it growing without a kid, but I
Speaker 1: I think it becomes even more important now, like to
Speaker 1: sit in front of our on our couch in the
Speaker 1: morning and watch some of the balloons go by and
Speaker 1: some of the performances, and of course, you know, all
Speaker 1: the Broadway shows of that year get invited to come perform,
Speaker 1: and so it's just like I love the integration of
Speaker 1: like the art and the tradition of it all, and
Speaker 1: it's like a part of our new you know, tradition
Speaker 1: in morning. Now.
Speaker 2: That parade was my favorite thing as a kid. And
Speaker 2: a couple months ago, I was walking in New York,
Speaker 2: rushing to get to Penn Station, and I look across
Speaker 2: the street and I go, is that the Macy's And
Speaker 2: my sisters like you that's never seen and I got
Speaker 2: I probably had passed it, but it's never Yeah, but
Speaker 2: for some time I looked over and I caught it
Speaker 2: from the right angle. I was like, I know this
Speaker 2: building in this street like this is it.
Speaker 1: It's just not decorated yet. No, but that's the one.
Speaker 2: Magical, very exciting. Yeah, it's very exciting.
Speaker 1: So I have a little game. I love a game.
Speaker 1: This or that? Yes, okay, okay, turkey or ham turkey, turkey,
Speaker 1: mashed potatoes or soet potatoes, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie or
Speaker 1: pecan pie.
Speaker 2: Pumpkin pecan Oh, well, you know I want to like
Speaker 2: pecan pie. I want to It just taste to meat
Speaker 2: different than how it looks like how I wanted to
Speaker 2: taste is just different.
Speaker 1: I understand. I understand. Pumpkin will never steer you wrong
Speaker 1: with the way you look at it and the way
Speaker 1: it tastes consistent. Yeah, I get that stuffing or cranberry
Speaker 1: sauce stuffing, But do you like cranberry sauce? I love
Speaker 1: can cranbers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it has to be the canned. Also, do you
Speaker 2: always have the same kind of stuffing?
Speaker 1: Yes? So I've started now the tradition of it. So
Speaker 1: when I moved to La, it wasn't my mom's stuffing,
Speaker 1: And now I've actually just taken her recipe. In the
Speaker 1: past few years, I have started making her stuffing. I
Speaker 1: actually may make it this year, even though I'm ordering
Speaker 1: because I have to have it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yes, I've consistently found that I need the same
Speaker 1: stuffing because not everybody makes it the same, and I
Speaker 1: feel like stuffing.
Speaker 2: Stuffing is so personal.
Speaker 1: Such a personal reference. Do you eat the same stuffing
Speaker 1: every year? Yes?
Speaker 2: But because I normally spend it in Texas my brother's
Speaker 2: wife's family, we have it together, right they bring a
Speaker 2: corn bread stuffing. Yeah, there's another dish they have that.
Speaker 2: I love the corner stuffing. It's fine, It's not my favorite,
Speaker 2: but open to experiencing other stuffings as long as I
Speaker 2: have my main one.
Speaker 1: I'm a basic bee. I love a white breadstuff Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I feel like it's the new England stuffing.
Speaker 1: I gotta have it. Yes, yes, yes, exactly. Family dinner
Speaker 1: or friends giving.
Speaker 2: I've never had a friends giving.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have friendsgiving this year? Yeah? Wow? Exciting, I
Speaker 1: would say. Growing up, it was definitely a family dinner
Speaker 1: because we would go to Florida and go to Disney
Speaker 1: World and spend Thanksgiving there.
Speaker 2: I have met a couple people this year who their
Speaker 2: tradition is going to Disneyland in La the day after
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving and I thought of.
Speaker 1: You, Wow, that seems brave. It seems like they'd be
Speaker 1: a lot of tourists. I don't know, I know, did
Speaker 1: they say if it was going to be crowded or not?
Speaker 2: I don't know. The one thing in particular as a
Speaker 2: big Disney fan, okay, and has like a club thirty
Speaker 2: three membership.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so it's different.
Speaker 2: They have like a different and they bring their kids
Speaker 2: and it sounds like so like fun and fun and yeah.
Speaker 1: That actually does sound fun. Okay, a couple more. I
Speaker 1: could do this all day football game or Thanksgiving Day
Speaker 1: parade pread I.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's something that makes me. Growing up in Texas,
Speaker 2: there's always a cowboy game on Thanksgiving morning, and it
Speaker 2: makes me angry.
Speaker 1: I don't like football fair enough. I like the breade too.
Speaker 1: I like football, but I prefer the breade. Cooking or
Speaker 1: cleaning up, cleaning up.
Speaker 2: For Thanksgiving, cooking every other day the year, cleaning.
Speaker 1: Up green bean castrole or mac and cheese.
Speaker 2: Oh that's I know. This shouldn't be hard, but it's hard.
Speaker 1: I'm going greenman castrole. I never had mac and cheese
Speaker 1: growing up for Thanksgiving, and.
Speaker 2: I'm so lactose in tolerant now that I can't. It's
Speaker 2: a green bean castle. Do you want to hear a
Speaker 2: horror story real quick? A couple of Thanksgivings ago, Austin
Speaker 2: came to Texas with me and we are all in
Speaker 2: charge of different dishes, and he was going to make
Speaker 2: the green bean cast role and he made his mom's
Speaker 2: recipe and I've had her recipe.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 2: We're all sitting down to eat and we all start
Speaker 2: eating the green bean casserole and it tastes so bad,
Speaker 2: like weird, like there was it was the strange I
Speaker 2: can tell cut, yes, And it was the strangest flavor.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't like something was rotten or you know what.
Speaker 2: It tasted like chemical.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, okay, or.
Speaker 2: Something like I don't know if you guys don't know
Speaker 2: what it is. No, we used canned green beans and
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was there was something with those.
Speaker 2: But it was the oddest and everyone was trying to
Speaker 2: be really respectful because it was the first time like
Speaker 2: Austin had cooked or Thanksgiving. No one was saying anything.
Speaker 2: I was like, wait, what is wrong with this? And
Speaker 2: everyone's like, oh, are you tasting that too, and he
Speaker 2: was so horrified, but it wasn't on him. Like we
Speaker 2: went through everything something with If anybody listening has any
Speaker 2: I idea that's ever happened, we still do not know
Speaker 2: what it is to this day, but something was awesome
Speaker 2: and it was very weird. Anyway, Sorry, keep going.
Speaker 1: I love this Black Friday or Cyber Monday.
Speaker 2: Cyber Monday. I'm not trying to leave the house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. Traditional Thanksgiving food or new
Speaker 1: holiday recipe traditional traditional one more sweater and jeans or
Speaker 1: like dress up for Thanksgiving or comfy sweats.
Speaker 2: Or pjs, sweats and pjs all.
Speaker 1: Day, agreed, elastic week spand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you're going to be around family or like
Speaker 2: close friends, so like, keep it cash, keep it comfy.
Speaker 1: Agreed, agreed. Okay, I have one more question for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: if the New Directions had a Thanksgiving pot luck, who
Speaker 1: would bring the best dish?
Speaker 2: That's hard to separate from what we know in real.
Speaker 1: Life, because what we know in real life everybody's actually
Speaker 1: everybody really can cook some Yeah, I would like to
Speaker 1: have an Amberiley dish.
Speaker 2: I would like to have an Amber Riley full Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Yes, she does do that, so yes, I agree.
Speaker 2: I mean it's Amber Riley. I have a question for you,
Speaker 2: as like a friend question. Since you're ordering everything and
Speaker 2: we're going to be cooking, is there anything you want
Speaker 2: we can drop it off?
Speaker 1: Oh you're so nice.
Speaker 2: Austin can bake something for you. I know sweets aren't
Speaker 2: really your thing, but no.
Speaker 1: That's nice because we have a piemaker in the family,
Speaker 1: so we're good. There.
Speaker 2: You think on it and you just text me.
Speaker 1: Oh, thanks, I appreciate that. Okay, well, you let me
Speaker 1: know what kind of stuffing you guys make.
Speaker 2: Figure it out. I may need to get your recipe. Actually,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: The problem is my mother doesn't have any measurements, so
Speaker 1: you have to eyeball. God. It's actually stuffing is actually
Speaker 1: pretty easy to eyeball because it's just a bunch of
Speaker 1: the same stuff. But this one is really good. And
Speaker 1: it was like, she was like, just go with it.
Speaker 2: I have zero cooking instincts, so I can't eyeball anything.
Speaker 2: Say me neither, And I was terrified.
Speaker 1: But this came out. Okay, so we did it. We
Speaker 1: did it. Send me that please, Okay, I will have
Speaker 1: to find it.
Speaker 2: I got to get to cooking immediately.
Speaker 1: And who's Thanksgiving outfit would you want to see from
Speaker 1: the new direction? I have my answer, Sugar, Yes, me too,
Speaker 1: Yes for sure or Brittany for sure.
Speaker 2: Brittany or Sugar.
Speaker 1: I still make Sugar well. We hope you we made
Speaker 1: you hungry. We hope you're all having a wonderful and
Speaker 1: safe and happy holiday. We are so grateful for you.
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