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Speaker 1: Hete listeners. We are going to talk about the holidays.

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Speaker 1: So if you have little people in your car that

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Speaker 1: knows stand to personally or write hind letters, this might

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Speaker 1: be one that you want to skip. Yeah, More, more, better,

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Speaker 2: More, a little more better more. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to More Better, a podcast where we stop pretending

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Speaker 1: to have it all together and embrace the journey of

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Speaker 1: becoming a little more better every day, or at least

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Speaker 1: trying to. That's most of the Meryl and that's Stephanie

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Speaker 1: Beatrice and here we are. Welcome back. What's going on? Man,

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Speaker 1: you know, man about to leave? Just live in life

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Speaker 1: and just in that. Uh. But I'm I'm more better

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Speaker 1: at this time than pet times in the past. Okay,

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Speaker 1: okay of keeping myself organized mm hmmm hmm. And I

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Speaker 1: I've got all my packing pretty much done. Cool, cool,

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Speaker 1: so that I can enjoy the weekend with the family

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Speaker 1: and not spend all of Saturday and Sunday packing and

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Speaker 1: stressed out and overwhelmed. I love it. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: be really intentional about that because I'm not gonna see

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Speaker 1: them for three weeks, and I didn't want the last

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Speaker 1: two days, like the last weekend, to be that Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's organized. I was like, very on my shit, Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, sure, I blocked out time to get the

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Speaker 1: rest of my packing done. Let me tell you something. Okay,

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Speaker 1: speaking of packing, when I told Brad this afternoon that

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Speaker 1: I had to I was reminded him, well, I have

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Speaker 1: to record at five. He got this look, blanched, he

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Speaker 1: had this look on his fees and I was like,

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Speaker 1: I already packed all your recording stuff. And I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: so I started drafting an email to you and everyone

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Speaker 1: else on the team and I was like, hey, so

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Speaker 1: I can't record today. And then as I was writing it,

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Speaker 1: I was like, I can't do this. Her like he

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Speaker 1: has to find he has to find it, like he

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Speaker 1: has and he did. He figured out what box it

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Speaker 1: was in, pulled it all out, set it all up,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, delete email. If I have to

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Speaker 1: record on that weekend, she's gonna be fuck, She'll do it.

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Speaker 1: She'll be first. I would have done, and I would

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Speaker 1: have been pissed. Yeah, I would have been. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: still a tag on my sweater. I just want to

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Speaker 1: so I'm getting more better at not taking the tags

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Speaker 1: off my clothes. Wow, it's a cute sweater though, thank you.

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Speaker 1: It's very cute. It's like very I think it's like

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Speaker 1: a Marino wool blend and it looks like vintagey like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it does. The sleeves are kind of this like belt

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Speaker 1: not like it's like Dolman. I don't know what that's

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Speaker 1: exactly right, but I don't you're asking the wrong person

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Speaker 1: and more better. Today's pod is about one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite topics in the whole Wide World and slash universe,

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Speaker 1: getting ready for the holidays. The holiday season is my

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Speaker 1: favorite time of year. It's the most wonderful time of year.

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Speaker 1: Some people would say some people would say that, what

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Speaker 1: do you think We can't we can't afford that. No,

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Speaker 1: we can't. Don't do that. Cut Okay. I do love

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Speaker 1: the holidays. I really love the holidays. I also sometimes

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Speaker 1: get a little too stressed about them. Ah, yes, well

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Speaker 1: you're not unlike what is it like? Forty percent of

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Speaker 1: people go, yeah, I think we have like a yes

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Speaker 1: here it is from the American Psychological Association. Forty one

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Speaker 1: percent of people surveyed said that their stress increases during

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Speaker 1: the holiday season. The APA also found that thirty six

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Speaker 1: percent of people said the holidays feel like a competition.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't like that. I don't like that.

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Speaker 1: This is specifically we're talking about, like preparing for the holidays.

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Speaker 1: So I think that that's a good thing to talk about,

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Speaker 1: like the feeling of getting stressed or the feeling like

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Speaker 1: it's a competition. Yeah, how can we How do you

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Speaker 1: holiday prepping? Like when do you start like doing or

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Speaker 1: do you holiday prep? Do you prep at all? I

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Speaker 1: because I've learned in the past, especially since I've had kids,

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Speaker 1: do you mean like specifically, like food, Like what do

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Speaker 1: you know, it's Christmas Eve and maybe we've had a

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Speaker 1: lovely Christmas Eve, but now I'm wrapping fucking presence until

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Speaker 1: And because then what do we do tiredesday? And how

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Speaker 1: they arrive. So when they arrived presents, where do you

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Speaker 1: we hide that ship? Everywhere we have, uh, we have

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Speaker 1: Because I used to like pop the tape off the

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Speaker 1: I could never find where my mom hid our Christmas

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Speaker 1: Christmas presents. Fucking pissed, yes, if she would get so

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Speaker 1: So yeah, he's not really looking. He just kind of

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Speaker 1: Uh oh, so it's all over the place, but I

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Speaker 1: love it. It's all over the place. But I try to,

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Speaker 1: So that's good advice about wrapping them. Kind of as

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Speaker 1: it's a partnership, my relationship as a partnership. However, however,

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Speaker 1: So there's a negotiation, a compromise that takes place. Christmas

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Speaker 1: tree goes up on the day after Thanksgiving. When does

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Speaker 1: their Thanksgiving trip, he needs to start bothering his father

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Speaker 1: to get a Christmas tree. Nice? Nice? Would you guys

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Speaker 1: get a real one? Yes? Wow? Does it last just

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Speaker 1: last holiday season? Oh my god? I always kill my

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Speaker 1: real ones? I always really, Yes, they dry the fuck out.

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Speaker 1: too many of these things going on, But you just

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Speaker 1: He's the one, He's the one that remembers to water them.

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Speaker 1: I mean they do get a little dry by Christmas,

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Speaker 1: but I mean it's fine. A great dry Christmas tree

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Speaker 1: Do you have a I have a fake Christmas tree

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Speaker 1: because I love putting it up and not worrying about it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I When I was a kid, I had these. We

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Speaker 1: fill them with a little rap, tiny little wrapped presence

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Speaker 1: and then stick like a number on them. I think

429
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Speaker 1: that's how it's played. But then you take a ping

430
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Speaker 1: pong poll and you try to bounce it into the cup,

431
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 1: into the muffin pan cup, and then whatever's in there

432
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,199
Speaker 1: you get to open, and that's your gift. Sometimes it's

433
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,120
Speaker 1: like a dollar bill. Sometimes it's like, oh, I love

434
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Speaker 1: that's like a little toy or a keychain or something

435
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 1: like something little and small, or like a piece of

436
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Speaker 1: candy or something. And yeah, and like people will miss

437
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Speaker 1: and then they have to take another turn or whatever.

438
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 1: But I thought that would be cute. The ones that

439
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Speaker 1: I've seen is like involving the whole family and then

440
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Speaker 1: if you miss, you have to take a drink, right,

441
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Speaker 1: which I thought was very clever as well. But may

442
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Speaker 1: I'll do that for the whole family so that they

443
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Speaker 1: can all play together, and then the guys that are

444
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Speaker 1: watching the football game will feel like losers. I like

445
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Speaker 1: this plan. Yeah, I like this plan. And if you

446
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Speaker 1: want to have something for like when they miss you

447
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,919
Speaker 1: could do something like you have to run a lap

448
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Speaker 1: or something. You have to run a lap, you have

449
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 1: to do a silly dance or oh I like the dance. Yeah,

450
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Speaker 1: oh I love the silly dance. You have to make

451
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: up a song about me, yeah, using the words beautiful, talented,

452
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 1: and smart and not in that order. Go Kid's seven eight.

453
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Speaker 1: Oh I love I love that. That's really fun. That's

454
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:17,440
Speaker 1: really fun. Yeah. I feel like the magic of the

455
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:24,200
Speaker 1: holidays is like individual specific to everyone. But I think

456
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Speaker 1: the thing that makes me feel like the connection to

457
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: home and like hunkering down and feeling like we're all together.

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Speaker 1: You know, this has been a big one for me

459
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Speaker 1: because we've traveled for some Christmases and I just came

460
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Speaker 1: to the realization where I was like, no one is

461
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Speaker 1: going to work as hard as I am to make

462
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: the holidays magical for my kids. Yeah, Like it's important

463
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Speaker 1: to me. I want to do it. I want them

464
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Speaker 1: to have it. I want them to have those memories.

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Speaker 1: And that just happens the most when we have Christmas

466
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Speaker 1: at home and there is It's just something about waking

467
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Speaker 1: up in your house on Christmas morning when you're a kid,

468
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Speaker 1: and the idea that you know, Sanna was in your

469
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Speaker 1: house the night was before, and like all that magic

470
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: that is just hard to replicate when you're not in

471
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Speaker 1: your house. Yeah, yeah, I can see that. I feel like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I spent a lot of Christmases

473
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Speaker 1: away from home when I was little. I definitely have

474
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Speaker 1: as an adult a lot me too. Yeah, that's been

475
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Speaker 1: my experience as a kid. No, it certainly has been.

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Speaker 1: You know, for example, the last four months, I've been

477
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Speaker 1: on this job and I've been here, and although we're

478
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Speaker 1: so lucky to be all together in this lovely house

479
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 1: that we rented, it's not our home. Yeah. And that

480
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 1: mattress isn't my mattress, and that bed's not my bed.

481
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Speaker 1: And you know, the other day, Roz said, I can't

482
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Speaker 1: wait to go home to my room with all my

483
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Speaker 1: pictures on the wall, and I was like, oh, yeah,

484
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Speaker 1: her pictures, like all the things that I hung up

485
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Speaker 1: for her when she was a baby. You know, she like, yeah,

486
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Speaker 1: mbers them and loves them. And there's something about I think,

487
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Speaker 1: decorating your own home and I don't know, like the

488
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: history of Christmas and stuff although we could probably do

489
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Speaker 1: it more better on that, But there's something about like

490
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Speaker 1: being home and that the time and the weather changing

491
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Speaker 1: and the sort of the wheel of the year being

492
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,880
Speaker 1: on this part of like it's cold and the days

493
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Speaker 1: are shorter, and you know, the sun's not up as long,

494
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Speaker 1: and you want to be inside, you want to hunker down,

495
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Speaker 1: you want to like, you know, get that and hold

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Speaker 1: onto that, you know what I mean, like and hold

497
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: on to it, honestly, because like there's there were times

498
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Speaker 1: when there wasn't that much abundance during that part of

499
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Speaker 1: the year, the year you were eating stuff that like

500
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 1: you'd saved from the harvest and you hoped it got

501
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Speaker 1: you through to the spring. Name your top three holiday movies.

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Speaker 1: Top three go go ooh, ooh ooh, like just holiday

503
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Speaker 1: or holiday, any holiday movie that you're you're top three.

504
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Speaker 1: Like if I was like, can only watch three this

505
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:02,479
Speaker 1: season and you can watch them on repeat, you can

506
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: only watch three? I mean Nightmare four Christmas is a

507
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: big one in our house, and I have grown to

508
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: really you love it. I love it and Axel loves it.

509
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I used to be love actually, but

510
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 1: that film has not dated really problematic but I will

511
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 1: say I do enjoy watching it. I used to watch

512
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: it every Christmas. I know, I don't I still do,

513
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,400
Speaker 1: I watch it. I do love it. There are parts,

514
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: there's some really great parts in it.

515
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know.

516
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: But the whole end, it just happens. And the running

517
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Speaker 1: through the airport, Yeah yeah, I get you there, I

518
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 1: get you there. Okay, what else? What else? What that

519
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: can be? Like a half choice? That could be an

520
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: honorable mention, an honorable mention. I don't know why I

521
00:27:53,840 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 1: can't think of Christmas movies. Oh home alone, love homelan Homel. Yeah.

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00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: One to me is yeah, classic, classic, classic, Here's here's

523
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 1: mine Elf number one Elf. I know, yeah, el Elf.

524
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: I love Elf to the day I die. It's so

525
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: freaking good. It's like the perfect story. What I want

526
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: in my career is to do a Christmas movie like

527
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 1: Elf that becomes this like iconic that is on my back.

528
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: Plasic film like that would be a dream come true.

529
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 1: Christmas vacation, another iconic Christmas vacation either it's okay, yeah,

530
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: it's all right. And then a Christmas story. Christmas story forgot.

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Speaker 1: I can never get into a Christmas story be completely honest, girl,

532
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: I love it too much. I'm sorry here, you sorry, listen,

533
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: and not everything's for everyone, you know, some people have

534
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: tastes and some people don't. Ah, it's just so sweet

535
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: to me. It's so sweet. And I loved when I

536
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: was especially like as an adult, but even when I

537
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: was a kid, the parts where he would have those

538
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: like imaginary stories that he was telling himself, like his

539
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: little imagination would go oh, and they would like cut

540
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: to his like internal you know, monologue or story or

541
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: you know, his little film. H oh. I just loved,

542
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Speaker 1: I loved, loved. The only thing that bothered me about

543
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 1: that movie as a kid. Side note was the mom's hairstyle.

544
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: I was like, what is going on with your hair?

545
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: It's like this perm. It's a very very eighties perm, okay,

546
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: and it looks so anachronistic and it bothered the fuck

547
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 1: out of me when I was a kid. And then

548
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: I read as an adult that she insisted that they

549
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 1: not do anything. She like brought her own hair person

550
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: and wanted her hair the same way that she always

551
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: wears it. Oh girl, and that's why it looks like that,

552
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: and that's why it bothered me. Is that crazy? Isn't

553
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: that crazy? Do you know what? Uh? Actually thought of

554
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: another one that I loved just so much as a child,

555
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: that I would look for and watch every year. What

556
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: were those stop motion Rudolph, Rudolph and Frosty movies? Fucking

557
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: obsessed with those animated Frosty one fucked me up? Oh yeah,

558
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: that one is a little that one. Sad man. There's

559
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 1: so many like sad Christmas movies for kids, like I know,

560
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: usually involving snowmen like melt and don't get away and

561
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: don't come back. They're fucking sad. I also love watching

562
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: the Harry Potter movies at Christmas time. I love watching

563
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: Harry Potter Christmas movie. I do too, because they always

564
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: celebrate Christmas in them. Yeah, this is such a big

565
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: deal in particularly London, I feel like, but probably all yeah,

566
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: all of I mean all the UK, I guess believe. Yeah.

567
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: I think that's the visuals that like put that particular

568
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: specific sort of English visual of Christmas. There's a pleasant yeah,

569
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: old cuddliness, the walking this, all the bows, like there's

570
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: just certain little things that are yeah, really beautiful. I've

571
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: been shopping online trying to find a giant bow to

572
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: put on the front of our house because I've seen them.

573
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: I've seen other people do it, and I'm like, that

574
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: is such a great idea. I love that idea so

575
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: much so, but I haven't found anything good. I decorate

576
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: the inside of our house so much for Christmas, Like

577
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: it's just everywhere that I'm pretty sure David's probably relieved

578
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 1: that I'm not going to be here this year to

579
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: do it. Yah, yeah, he might. He might be to

580
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: decorate this year for Christmas. Oh, speaking celebrating, Brad just

581
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: brought me a little glass of prosecco to toast the

582
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: end of the time here. Nice, thank you baby. That

583
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: is so sweet. It's really funny when he does something

584
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: that he's like kind of proud of, Like when he

585
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: walks away, he kind of like swaggers. He's got like

586
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: a little a little thank you. It's very It's quite

587
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 1: attractive to me. That is attractive right to Canada celebrating.

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00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: Here's to Canada's your show, cheers, do you start on yours?

589
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: It's gonna be really fun and exciting. Thanks girl, I'm excited,

590
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: nervous and all the things you feel before you start

591
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,959
Speaker 1: a show. Yeah, well you feel those things afterwards. Too,

592
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: which is really weird. I know, yeah, because then you're like, well,

593
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: people gonna see it. It looks as good as it felt,

594
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: all the real fury and matches up to the visuals.

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00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: Oh what don't I don't know. Hopefully they can edit

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00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: around it. Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be great. No, it's

597
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: gonna be great. It's gonna be so great, more better.

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00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: Oh yay. Happy, happy beginning of the holiday seas, happy

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00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: beginning of the holiday season. Make your lists, make your

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00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: use your notes app, make your listen, check it twice. Okay,

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Speaker 1: can your list and check it twice? Space things out,

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00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: don't leave everything for the last minute. Play you can

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00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: do it. You can do it. Got this, We've all

604
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: got to do it. I find yes, I can enjoy

605
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: the holiday season as long as I stay on my

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00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: ship and stick to the list and stick to the operation.

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00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: See to the list, and so you know, if the

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00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: list fails you, there's always next year. There's always next year. Yeah. Okay, guys,

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Speaker 1: keep hitting us up with your questions and leave us

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Speaker 1: some voice notes and tell us what you want to

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Speaker 1: get more better at. Because I feel like I'm ready

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00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: for the holiday season. I'm ready to like start prepping.

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Speaker 1: I feel I feel pretty good about it on the

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00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: side too. I know to It's gonna be good. We'll

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