Speaker 1: I'm Honey Germy. My parents are Dominican. I was born
Speaker 1: and raised in New York City. I love speakers and
Speaker 1: I'm a body positive advocate.
Speaker 2: I'm Carolina Bermudez soy Nikata wins it. But I was
Speaker 2: born and raised in Ohio. I'm a wife, a mama,
Speaker 2: and a worker bee.
Speaker 3: This is life in Spanglish.
Speaker 1: The time has arrived, Carolina. We don't put in a
Speaker 1: full season of life in Spanglish. Can you believe this?
Speaker 2: No? You know what, I it's hard to believe. When
Speaker 2: we were talking about it this morning, I sat back
Speaker 2: and then I went back to our page on the
Speaker 2: iHeart app, and I was like, we really did that,
Speaker 2: Like this is really the end of the season. It
Speaker 2: just flew by, seriously.
Speaker 1: And it's so like just on point that it's like
Speaker 1: the fall right September, the holidays are creeping up on us,
Speaker 1: and here we are. Life in Spanglish is coming to
Speaker 1: an end for twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'm not ready for this to any
Speaker 2: You know that I'm not ready for the holidays, because
Speaker 2: why would I be? There are so many coming up. Actually,
Speaker 2: funny enough, this past weekend I said to Mark, I go.
Speaker 2: You better decide what you want to be for Halloween.
Speaker 2: It happens every year, this poor man. No, And actually
Speaker 2: I don't even like Halloween. I feel like I've talked
Speaker 2: about it before on this podcast. I don't get into Halloween.
Speaker 2: The only reason why I play along is because it
Speaker 2: gives Mark Grossman so much joy, and he likes to
Speaker 2: find the most ridiculous costume and I have to go
Speaker 2: along with it. So like one year he I do
Speaker 2: like to go Matchine because that girl.
Speaker 1: That's pressure because he gets to pick and then you
Speaker 1: have to figure it out, and then.
Speaker 2: I have to figure it out. Like last year he
Speaker 2: was a Pineapple and he wore a giant pineapple like
Speaker 2: cost So, yeah, well not being you, and I don't
Speaker 2: know why. He's like, it's just ridiculous. So I dressed up.
Speaker 2: I went to Amazon. By the way, I thank God
Speaker 2: for Amazon, and this is not an ad for them.
Speaker 2: Because we were so late to the game. I had
Speaker 2: to go to every Spirit Halloween store in the Tri
Speaker 2: state area to find him a freaking pineapple, to the
Speaker 2: point where I was even calling costume shops in New
Speaker 2: York City asking them, do you have a pineapple costume?
Speaker 1: Oh? No, no, no, my man, if you decide you're
Speaker 1: gonna be a pineapple, you don't have to find Yoshit too.
Speaker 2: I know, right well. I ended up finding him a
Speaker 2: costume like in Riverhead, okay, and it was like the
Speaker 2: last one, the island, the and a long island. I
Speaker 2: traveled near him far and then I went on Amazon
Speaker 2: and I was like, okay, what can I be? Like
Speaker 2: a pineapple? I thought, like, am I am? I like SpongeBob?
Speaker 2: Am I the squirrel from SpongeBob? And then I ended
Speaker 2: up being a pineapple princess like from It's called Princess Power.
Speaker 2: So I like modeled the pineapple princess and I put
Speaker 2: together like but that's what I'm saying. The pressure. So
Speaker 2: I said to him last weekend, you better figure out
Speaker 2: what you want to be for Halloween so that I
Speaker 2: am not scrambling the week before because we always go
Speaker 2: to this party and he has not decided yet, Like
Speaker 2: what do you and noone do?
Speaker 1: First of all, Karline, I need to give our listeners
Speaker 1: a Dominican translation to what you said to Mark Abdi?
Speaker 2: What what she said exactly? That is the tea, exactly
Speaker 2: what I said.
Speaker 1: We used to dress up. But why do you feel
Speaker 1: like I feel like this episode, Caroline, I feel like
Speaker 1: this episode we could take it as tips holidays because
Speaker 1: pasa Halloween. So I think let's do that. Let's let's
Speaker 1: give everybody, you know, tips. I'm preparing for the holidays.
Speaker 1: What do we have five holidays coming up? That's a lot.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we got Halloween right, and then we have Honkah,
Speaker 2: which is my you know, we celebrate Honukah. I will
Speaker 2: tell you. I'll get into that after. But we have Honukkah,
Speaker 2: we have Christmas, New Year's. What am I missing?
Speaker 4: And come on, Caroline, Oh my gosh, yeah, I've had it.
Speaker 2: These kids get an I said, forget it. You know
Speaker 2: what the Three can on Christmas?
Speaker 1: They get it, all the three.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But Halloween. Let's tackle Halloween, Carolina. So you guys dress up.
Speaker 1: We used to dress up, but not anymore.
Speaker 2: And you know what it is. I feel like this
Speaker 2: year it's going to be so typical, and I really
Speaker 2: really want people to think outside the box because we
Speaker 2: are going to see so many Ken and Barbie's. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be.
Speaker 1: Not Kenn Barbie. It's gonna be a lot.
Speaker 2: There's totally and all the little girls are gonna want
Speaker 2: to be Barbie. So I feel like that. For me,
Speaker 2: it's like a hard no. But I just told him,
Speaker 2: I said, look, I'll do whatever.
Speaker 1: That'll be cute. That would be cute, and you already
Speaker 1: got Ken anyway, so why not.
Speaker 2: No, No, he won't do it. It's not ridiculous enough.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: He likes to be silly.
Speaker 2: He likes to be silly. He was too Ken Sam
Speaker 2: from Fruit Loops and his beak kept hitting people in
Speaker 2: the head. It was so large, it was so ridiculous,
Speaker 2: and I ended up being Tony the Tiger from frost Flakes.
Speaker 1: That's cute. I like that. I like that. I like that.
Speaker 2: We like to think of like all of these, you know,
Speaker 2: just outrageous different things. I'm trying to think of another year.
Speaker 2: What were we? Oh, we were both ballerinas one year.
Speaker 2: He loves a good blow up costume.
Speaker 1: Oh those are obnoxious as hell, Carolina, don't tell me,
Speaker 1: And shit.
Speaker 2: I hate it. I hate them. No. What he was what?
Speaker 2: He was a giant animal of some sort one time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but that's what I'm saying. Like, whenever he shows up
Speaker 2: at the party, he wants to be the one that
Speaker 2: people are cracking up and being like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I can't believe he wore that. So yeah, Halloween it's
Speaker 2: still on hold for me. But we need to get
Speaker 2: that wrapped up immediately, because I do not want that
Speaker 2: stress or that pressure.
Speaker 1: Okay, Because I was looking at an article and like
Speaker 1: celebrity stylists were predicting already what the Halloween costumes are
Speaker 1: going to be in, Barbie was number one for sure,
Speaker 1: followed by Wednesday Atoms. Big shout out Naala, our digital
Speaker 1: content producer. I don't know why. Anytime I think Wednesday Adams,
Speaker 1: I think of her.
Speaker 2: Do you really? Oh my gosh, Now I'm never gonna
Speaker 2: unsee it. Nala. We need to do a side by side.
Speaker 1: Yeah for real. Now she looks like her. But this
Speaker 1: girl Carolina to talk about. Oh you gotta watch Wednesday Adams.
Speaker 1: I remember this is like when she first started last
Speaker 1: October and I'm watching this show. I'm like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: kill this girl. I just watched it. I just wasted
Speaker 1: like three episodes. This is for kids. I was like,
Speaker 1: turns it off.
Speaker 2: I am here for it. Nala, you need to dress
Speaker 2: up as Wednesday Adams as Halloween and we'll do like
Speaker 2: a side by side. I feel like, Honey, just did
Speaker 2: you a favor, because now you don't even have to
Speaker 2: think about anything.
Speaker 1: There you go, I always deliver. Another one was the
Speaker 1: Little Mermaid. They feel like a lot of especially with
Speaker 1: our black girls.
Speaker 2: You know, yes, because this.
Speaker 1: Will be amazing. All of our black little girls can
Speaker 1: be out here, you know, being the Little Mermaid confidently
Speaker 1: and owning it.
Speaker 2: I love that, Honey, I completely forgot and that's a
Speaker 2: good thing too. It's like you start to remember all
Speaker 2: of these things that happen in pop culture over the
Speaker 2: year when you start thinking about like a costume for yourself,
Speaker 2: and you like pick up on the things that maybe
Speaker 2: people forgot about. Do you know who wears the most
Speaker 2: insane Halloween costumes?
Speaker 1: The Queen of Halloween, Heidi Clume takes a carey you
Speaker 1: go level boom. Don't nobody do it biggot than Heidi.
Speaker 2: And she doesn't do like the typical cutesy princess sexy.
Speaker 2: She was a freaking worm last year and a disgusting
Speaker 2: worm at that. Like she gets prosthetics. I mean she goes,
Speaker 2: she tops herself.
Speaker 1: I feel like every year she tops.
Speaker 2: Herself, definitely, so she has one to watch. I would
Speaker 2: love for her to give a hint, but every year
Speaker 2: it's the most guarded secret. She never wants anybody to
Speaker 2: know what she's gonna be. But definitely, I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: keeping an eye on Heidiklume. Were there any other ideas
Speaker 2: that we can share with people, because I have no
Speaker 2: clue what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: Bridgerton, They said Bridgeton and Queen Charlotte are going to
Speaker 1: be two shows that people are going to be dressing
Speaker 1: up as this year.
Speaker 2: Okay, those two, so you gotta get the tatas out.
Speaker 3: Girl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I get that. I don't know where we're
Speaker 1: getting these dresses. But I feel like another big one
Speaker 1: here in New York is going to be Ice Spice,
Speaker 1: I feel like, and I want to do it. Girl,
Speaker 1: I just got to locate the right curly wig, because
Speaker 1: you can't have the wrong curly wig.
Speaker 2: No, you can't be out there looking like Ronald McDonald. No,
Speaker 2: you gotta do her right, you can't, like, you gotta
Speaker 2: find the perfect ice Spice wig, which I feel like
Speaker 2: you like people can accomplish it, But I would love
Speaker 2: to see you pull this look off. Well, I'm going
Speaker 2: to keep you guys posted. I'll let you know what
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do, and I will post it on my
Speaker 2: social media. I'm at the real Carolina, and then you
Speaker 2: can follow I am Honey German to see what she
Speaker 2: does for Halloween. But we got to get into like,
Speaker 2: see Halloween. To me, it's not that it isn't a
Speaker 2: real holiday. It said, I don't get pumped for it.
Speaker 2: So I'm just kind of like, Okay, it's there.
Speaker 1: Don't get canceled, Carolina, be easy on the Halloween situation,
Speaker 1: because these people are I was in Disney a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago and they had like Disney Halloween Nights. Girl,
Speaker 1: I was shook. It was I was just people watching.
Speaker 1: I didn't even want.
Speaker 2: To do anything. No, that's an event.
Speaker 1: These Disney adults are sick wid apparently. I was like,
Speaker 1: what do they work here? Are they patrons?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What is happening?
Speaker 2: Wait? And they look at you crazy. If you show
Speaker 2: up just in your jeans and your sneakers, They're like
Speaker 2: what what that was me?
Speaker 3: Gird?
Speaker 2: That was me?
Speaker 1: I have bike the shorts on in some ones? That
Speaker 1: was it? That's all? Yeah, getting And then I looked
Speaker 1: to my right, and there's Jasmine and Aladdin on a
Speaker 1: ride with me. Then I looked to my left. Pirates
Speaker 1: of the Caribbean is to my red. I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: what is happening? These are regular humans?
Speaker 2: Yeah. And also the fact that they take the time
Speaker 2: to pack these things. You know me and we've talked
Speaker 2: about it before in this season. How much of a
Speaker 2: packer I am imagine having to like pack your costume
Speaker 2: to go to Disney to wear it one night to
Speaker 2: only like, no, it's too much for me. So no,
Speaker 2: for me, I'm really not the person that goes all
Speaker 2: out for Halloween. But I can appreciate the people who do.
Speaker 1: I love them. They could do it because I ensure
Speaker 1: as how I ain't gonna do it.
Speaker 2: No. Well, now, when we come back, we got to
Speaker 2: get into like what I was saying is like these
Speaker 2: are like the real holidays to me, like Thanksgiving is
Speaker 2: where it all kicks in, and I want to know
Speaker 2: some of your traditions. Money. When we get back from
Speaker 2: the brig, got you. I can't believe I forgot it.
Speaker 2: The namosci la Paul, we have to talk about Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: What do you guys typically do do have you ever
Speaker 2: hosted a Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Honey, Yeah, I've done Thanksgiving before. You know, when I
Speaker 1: first moved in, when noon, I was like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: an adult. Now I'm gonna do Thanksgiving. Girl. I used
Speaker 1: to tell like his mom, like I got Thanksgiving. Now,
Speaker 1: thinking back on it, I'm like, the fuck was I thinking?
Speaker 2: What were you thinking? No, I do not want to
Speaker 2: ever have to host a Thanksgiving again. It is so stressful.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I'll have you all know I
Speaker 2: have two ovens, I have a warming I have a
Speaker 2: warming drawer, I have a full range.
Speaker 1: This is how heavy you do it up. Talk to me, Carolina.
Speaker 2: No, I'm saying the choreography and the timing that has
Speaker 2: to go into making the perfect things giving meal is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Like I had to sit out the night before and
Speaker 2: be like, Okay, I'm gonna well, let's talk about like
Speaker 2: the preparation. First of all, just going even writing the list,
Speaker 2: you always forget something. I don't care how meticulous you are,
Speaker 2: how diligent you are, You're gonna forget something from the store,
Speaker 2: the shaved almonds for the cranberry. You're gonna forget that,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, there's always something that
Speaker 2: you forget. So I'm the type of person that I'm like, Mark,
Speaker 2: go pick this up for me, Mark, I don't have
Speaker 2: enough green beans. We have more people coming, you know,
Speaker 2: So it's like it the pressure for me is what
Speaker 2: really gets.
Speaker 1: Me, especially with the latinos. You know, we gotta go
Speaker 1: to Terre, Supermacalia, Key Food, Yeah, Walmart, then m Ok, yeah, Weagmans,
Speaker 1: like we just we pick from everywhere. So that's even
Speaker 1: another layer of stress just the shopping alone.
Speaker 2: Right, because you can't get certain ingredients at certain stores,
Speaker 2: like for example, my mom who lives in Miami, she
Speaker 2: goes to Sadano's for certain things. But then it's like
Speaker 2: you go to public, so you know, you're spending that cash.
Speaker 2: So she tries to go to the other stores that
Speaker 2: are yeah and that that are selling like the ingredients
Speaker 2: that we need, you know, for whatever it is that
Speaker 2: she wants to make. Oh wait, and by the way,
Speaker 2: don't even get me started on the nakatemalas. My mom
Speaker 2: used to make us prepare for nakatemalas that we would
Speaker 2: make these to freeze them for Christmas for Thanksgiving. So
Speaker 2: when we're sitting there chopping and our little fingers are
Speaker 2: so tired because we chopped all the carrots, all the
Speaker 2: celery for the recalo.
Speaker 1: My mom calls well, call us, but that's the equivalent
Speaker 1: of the pastillas and the Puerto Ricans and dominicanmates. Tamala
Speaker 1: is kind of like the same concept.
Speaker 2: Right yeah, well yeah, naktamalas. They're made with like a banana,
Speaker 2: a banana leaf and the masa chan cho.
Speaker 1: You gotta make it.
Speaker 2: Oh, it is. It is a production. The thing is,
Speaker 2: it's just so delicious when you're having it. But it's
Speaker 2: like the guys don't sit there and stuff that tamalas.
Speaker 2: It's all the girls. But I feel like that's what's
Speaker 2: the beautiful part about it.
Speaker 1: My mother in law still makes balls from scratch. I'm like,
Speaker 1: go girl, do your thing. I love yours, Yes girl,
Speaker 1: because go off girl, Yeah, do your thing, because guess
Speaker 1: who's not gonna be guayando juga yami all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Because it's like seven different starchy vegetables that we put
Speaker 1: in hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, and we do a massa. But like my mom,
Speaker 2: I've tried a million times to get her to tell
Speaker 2: me her recipe. Do you know that I even recorded
Speaker 2: her okay. I uploaded it to YouTube and I unlisted
Speaker 2: it and I put it on private because I want
Speaker 2: to be able to watch her make it. My mom
Speaker 2: cannot give you the recipe on how to make anakatamal.
Speaker 2: She just can't do it. Like I've sat there and
Speaker 2: I've tried to, like, Mom, you got to measure it out.
Speaker 1: She's like, no, it's it's me the Carolina a yuca
Speaker 1: dam Like. It's just I feel her because I kind
Speaker 1: of cook the same way. I don't have recipes, I
Speaker 1: don't follow measurements. I just do my thing and boila.
Speaker 2: What I love is my mom goes eh, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: what is a the hoogle? Mom? You know, like.
Speaker 1: Carolina talun Chin. Ain't no measurements, girl, I know.
Speaker 2: And then she'll say and then she'll go in and
Speaker 2: she'll go wait and she'll grab like a massive handful.
Speaker 2: I'm like, mom, Mom, that's not what it is though,
Speaker 2: you know. So like yeah, for Thanksgiving, we typically go
Speaker 2: to Miami and it's a beautiful thing because my mom
Speaker 2: had always said, like I know she has six kids,
Speaker 2: and she said, I know, when you guys start your
Speaker 2: own families, Christmas is so special and you want to
Speaker 2: share that with you know, your families and your kids.
Speaker 2: You want to see them and the joy that they have,
Speaker 2: like when Santa comes and everything. She's like, but will
Speaker 2: you all just give me Thanksgiving? And she's like, and
Speaker 2: I know you're gonna have to rotate one year at
Speaker 2: your in laws one year with me, But whenever we can,
Speaker 2: we go to our moms for thanks I go every year,
Speaker 2: you know, because Mark's mom is in Florida and we
Speaker 2: invite her. So I'm oh, that's prepper lucky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm dope. It works out really nicely for you. Plus,
Speaker 1: you know, you have your turkey and your little bikini.
Speaker 2: If mom allows for it, you think I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: showing off this this I know no, So like it is,
Speaker 2: it ends up being like a nice little vacation for us,
Speaker 2: and we're forming those memories and those traditions for our kids.
Speaker 2: Like I see my my sons when we go down
Speaker 2: to Miami and the morning of Thanksgiving. Uh, you know
Speaker 2: when it's like the music is on, there's footfall on,
Speaker 2: they're they're going in and out. The kids are in
Speaker 2: the pool, you know, the the are hanging out with
Speaker 2: the boys outside. We're all inside prepping and helping my mom.
Speaker 2: And okay, like my sister Elizabeth, I do have to
Speaker 2: give her credit. She is amazing in the kitchen. She's
Speaker 2: got two instant pots going. We have bokitas, you know,
Speaker 2: like we're putting out little appetizers for everybody as the
Speaker 2: day goes on. So it's such a It gives me
Speaker 2: such a warm feeling because I know that my kids
Speaker 2: are gonna remember, wow, like we used to go to
Speaker 2: wheat this house, you know, like when they're older, and
Speaker 2: hopefully they'll like continue with those traditions.
Speaker 1: And so how do you blend like your your I guess,
Speaker 1: your Jewish traditions with your Latino traditions When it comes
Speaker 1: to let's say Thanksgiving, do you make certain plates that
Speaker 1: Mark grew up eating?
Speaker 2: No, not necessarily, you know. And that's the thing that
Speaker 2: I feel like I have it so much easier than
Speaker 2: other people because like, look, like I said, his mom
Speaker 2: doesn't really cook, and we invite her every year. We
Speaker 2: say I am plato, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 2: she can come in atienna sulugar like she has her chair,
Speaker 2: and my mom loves to cook and to do like
Speaker 2: a feast, so we I never really got any recipes
Speaker 2: like from my mother in law, but I mean the
Speaker 2: fact that she's there and my kids get to see
Speaker 2: both of their grandma because you know, my husband's father
Speaker 2: passed away a long time ago, but they get to
Speaker 2: see both of their grandma's in the same space, which I.
Speaker 1: Think, Yeah, that is the reason I ask is because
Speaker 1: my sister, you know, her husband is white, and when
Speaker 1: we go for Thanksgiving, this woman has, you know, all
Speaker 1: of the dishes he grew up with. I'm talking fresh
Speaker 1: cranberry sauce, wowing bean espabo a girl, it is a lot.
Speaker 1: That's the reason I ask you, because she'd be cooking
Speaker 1: for like three days bless No.
Speaker 2: You know, my mom does a good mix though, like
Speaker 2: I will say, you know, we have like I mentioned riccalo,
Speaker 2: but she'll also have like asparagus with hollandaise sauce, and
Speaker 2: she'll make like a mashed potato pro you know, like
Speaker 2: because we rice with everything. My father has to have rice,
Speaker 2: so it's like a you know, it's like bab exactly,
Speaker 2: and then also like h and salada for the people
Speaker 2: who don't really love to eat the searchy things. But
Speaker 2: then we have like my sister will make like sweet
Speaker 2: potato casse roles, so we we really do. We cook
Speaker 2: it up. And I, of course, you know, I'm just
Speaker 2: there to help. I chop, I do, and I watch.
Speaker 1: Rolina be the soux chef and ship. I know who
Speaker 1: you are. You're Bella. Okay, you get you know what.
Speaker 2: Actually I was about to be offended, but no, you
Speaker 2: know what, Bella and I have our space and we
Speaker 2: we're essential workers.
Speaker 1: Okay, well yeah, they'd be like you people look parched.
Speaker 1: Let's pop up and let's get this party going.
Speaker 2: The mimosas are flowing, okay, And I will not let
Speaker 2: anybody I hydrate everyone. I will say that if that
Speaker 2: cup is getting low, your girl is gonna fill it up.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: I knew it.
Speaker 2: I knew it, our tender sou chef, all of it.
Speaker 2: I I am not afraid. But no, you know you
Speaker 2: did mention how do I blend like the Jewish cultures
Speaker 2: and traditions with you know, Thanksgiving? But we do celebrate
Speaker 2: both Hanukah and Christmas, and it does get interesting, so
Speaker 2: we can get into that after this. Well, now, honey,
Speaker 2: you were talking about Thanksgiving and how you spend it
Speaker 2: like your sister sounds like she puts out an amazing spread.
Speaker 1: Bless her soul. My sister is like Mother Teresa of
Speaker 1: our family. And you know what I you know what
Speaker 1: I hate about the holidays. She tries to get dressed up,
Speaker 1: but then she starts sweating, and then her hair becomes
Speaker 1: a mess. And I want her to one time just
Speaker 1: look gorgeous and sit in the living room and let
Speaker 1: me and Bella and my mom take over the kitchen,
Speaker 1: because yes, she does the most.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine? I don't think that she would have
Speaker 2: the ability somebody like that.
Speaker 1: You'll have a nervous breakdown, Caroline. I'll have to put
Speaker 1: it on a straight jacket to sit in the couch.
Speaker 2: Even just watching you guys, I feel like would be
Speaker 2: a challenge for her. So I don't think she would
Speaker 2: enjoy it as much. Truthfully, I don't think that she
Speaker 2: would be able to like sit there and allow you
Speaker 2: guys to do that for her, because there are certain
Speaker 2: types of people, for sure.
Speaker 1: God bless her soul. I'll be there for Thanksgiving, girl.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, as long as she's cooking, I am there.
Speaker 2: So then what do you guys do for Christmas? Do
Speaker 2: you and noony, like have your own separate thing or
Speaker 2: like do you guys go and get together with your sisters?
Speaker 2: Like how does that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we always either go to his mom or go
Speaker 1: to my older sister, Like for the last year we
Speaker 1: were in Florida, we went to my mom's. Last Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: we did in Miami. But we travel wherever the most
Speaker 1: amount of people are. That's what we try to do
Speaker 1: because since we don't have kids and it's just to
Speaker 1: two of us. I'm not making I'm not making up
Speaker 1: a need. I'm not making a whole turkey. I'm mnsa
Speaker 1: spend the block. I'm gonna see what a food is
Speaker 1: at Carolina, and I'm gonna bring whatever they tell me
Speaker 1: to bring. People love my potato salad. I'll bring the
Speaker 1: potato salad. I'll bring as many bottles of wine as
Speaker 1: you want. I'll bring all the dessert you want. But girl, no,
Speaker 1: we gonna crash the older women's houses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they know what's up and that's what we
Speaker 2: need to follow. But then the thing is is one
Speaker 2: day we are going to be the older women and
Speaker 2: people are going to expect this from us. And I
Speaker 2: don't want to see you at shop, right, picking up
Speaker 2: a turkey, you know, the week of Christmas or Thanksgiving,
Speaker 2: you know, and trying to figure it out. So we
Speaker 2: got to start like slowly beginning to to you know,
Speaker 2: like put these things on. Like for example, so for well,
Speaker 2: Russia Shana was last week, but Russia Shana mark I said, Mark,
Speaker 2: I go, so what do I need to do? And
Speaker 2: He's like, oh, we need a brisket, we need a noodle.
Speaker 1: Google how long ago is this that you asked this question?
Speaker 2: Like how when we first started dating? When we first
Speaker 2: started dating, because like he we were both still single,
Speaker 2: well no, not single, but we were both still kind
Speaker 2: of like just dating, you know, and I wanted to know, like,
Speaker 2: how does one celebrate this stuff?
Speaker 1: She said, put me on because listen to me, I
Speaker 1: want to show up all confused, and shit, I do
Speaker 1: not want to do that.
Speaker 2: I needed to go to the source, you know, because
Speaker 2: it's like you've been living this life hello, you know,
Speaker 2: this is just my first exposure to it. So over
Speaker 2: the years now we've been together, gosh, fifteen years, I've
Speaker 2: learned how to make a really good noodle coogle, you know,
Speaker 2: I've learned how to make explain that you don't know
Speaker 2: what noodle coogle is. It's kind of like a dessert.
Speaker 2: It depends on how you make it. Like some people
Speaker 2: make it really sweet. Some people make it with like
Speaker 2: cottage she's. It's basically like a casserole and it's sweet. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's so good. It has noodles, eggs. Some people
Speaker 2: put cottage sheees in it. Some people put sour cream.
Speaker 2: Some people put raisins in it, like you can, you
Speaker 2: can really like hush it up, you know, like, and
Speaker 2: I've tried different recipes, but now the most rewarding thing
Speaker 2: for me is when we are celebrating the Jewish holidays
Speaker 2: and the boys look at me and they're like, Mommy,
Speaker 2: this is the best brisket ever. I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: you know, because then they're gonna one day be like, mom,
Speaker 2: I need to come home for Russiashana, or I need
Speaker 2: to come home for won't pass Over. Not really, but
Speaker 2: like I don't I wouldn't make a brisket for Passover,
Speaker 2: but you know, just for those certain holidays that they
Speaker 2: will remember like that was my mom's cooking, you know,
Speaker 2: so they're.
Speaker 1: Gonna be like, mom, I need the apple noodle Koogle
Speaker 1: recipe for my new girlfriend. I'm trying to put onto
Speaker 1: your recipes. Yes, Caroline a wapper, it will happen.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent, and I will. I'm generous. I am
Speaker 2: not petty like that. Like there's an apple honey snack
Speaker 2: cake like cause for Russia, for Russia, Sshana, you have
Speaker 2: to dip the apples in the honey. That's the one
Speaker 2: where you dip the apples in the honey. And so
Speaker 2: sometimes you can make like a different cake or something.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I am by no means a
Speaker 2: Jewish authority. I'm just telling you how we do it
Speaker 2: in our house. And we're interfaith, so you know, some
Speaker 2: of the things that we do may be more relaxed
Speaker 2: or different from people who fully observe Judaism. But I
Speaker 2: just think it's like a beautiful thing to expose the
Speaker 2: kids to both religions and to the high Holy days,
Speaker 2: you know, so we give everything its importance.
Speaker 1: And so much tradition, you know, just the meaning behind
Speaker 1: you know, dipping the slice of apple and the honey
Speaker 1: and just them knowing that it's it's it's refreshing.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: You're not letting tradition and customs die down.
Speaker 2: No, definitely not. And I think that they are going
Speaker 2: to grow up remembering and like they don't appreciate it now,
Speaker 2: they don't see it now, but I think eventually, when
Speaker 2: they are older, they'll be like, wow, like how did
Speaker 2: they do that? You know what I mean? Because it
Speaker 2: isn't easy, Like there are times where Hanukah overlaps with Christmas.
Speaker 2: I've seen that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, how do what's going on in these interfaate families?
Speaker 1: Are you just partying for like two weeks straight?
Speaker 2: What's going on here partying? No? I am exhausted, I
Speaker 2: am dragging myself. I am clawing my way to the
Speaker 2: finish line. Honey, I'm telling you like I did tell
Speaker 2: my husband. I said, look like we because we celebrate
Speaker 2: both and it's such a materialistic holiday. I said to him.
Speaker 2: I was like, we need to like figure out a
Speaker 2: place and for Hanukkah and Christmas as like the kids
Speaker 2: get older, right like when they're younger, you can give
Speaker 2: them toys and things like that. So like for example,
Speaker 2: for Hankah, like we'll give them for one night, We'll
Speaker 2: give them a book that they've really wanted. It doesn't
Speaker 2: have to be like an extravagant gift, you know, another
Speaker 2: another night wet. Like we gave them soccer balls last year.
Speaker 2: You know, they're really into soccer. We give them their
Speaker 2: own designated soccer balls, you know, like and what what
Speaker 2: does a soccer ball cause? Like fifteen twenty bucks you know,
Speaker 2: depending on where you get it. So we want to
Speaker 2: make it more Yes, they do receive something each night,
Speaker 2: but we try to be more thoughtful about it, like.
Speaker 1: So you get to talk about it for like it's
Speaker 1: eight days, right, so then yes, nights, then you get
Speaker 1: to talk about it like this is the meaning behind
Speaker 1: this gift. This is not just a bunch of stuff,
Speaker 1: like you open all this up and then there's no
Speaker 1: meaning behind it. That's good.
Speaker 2: I like that, right, Or like we see things that
Speaker 2: they need and we say like, okay, you know tonight,
Speaker 2: for example, Noah's tennis rackets was like beaten up, you know,
Speaker 2: and they take tennis lessons and so it's not like
Speaker 2: we're just buying them things to buy it for them,
Speaker 2: and I think that that's like the important part. Or
Speaker 2: like things that they can wear that are you know,
Speaker 2: for their school, like to show their school spirit and
Speaker 2: stuff like that, you know, because I just I have
Speaker 2: a real hard time because I didn't I didn't get
Speaker 2: as much. Like my parents think that I was spoiled,
Speaker 2: but like in my mind, I always recognize that, like
Speaker 2: there were kids in my class that would come laced
Speaker 2: out the next like two weeks, they would get all
Speaker 2: new shit, you know, And so it's like I just
Speaker 2: want my kids to appreciate what they have, and I
Speaker 2: want them to recognize that like this is not the
Speaker 2: way that most people like that, this is not their life,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So I don't know. We
Speaker 2: tried to do our best and and really truly, like
Speaker 2: for Christmas and Hanukkah, we try to give an experience.
Speaker 2: So one year we took the kids to a Knicks game,
Speaker 2: and that right there, that's the reason why we did
Speaker 2: all of these little gifts, right like I got ash
Speaker 2: for a pack of poke on cards and know, a
Speaker 2: pack of like basketball trading cards.
Speaker 1: Because so that's why they probably loved it, and they
Speaker 1: probably loved it. It's just more about the tradition itself
Speaker 1: than the materialistic things, and.
Speaker 2: The experience is what we all look forward to because
Speaker 2: it's something that we can do together, like whether it's
Speaker 2: a show like an artist that they're obsessed with, or
Speaker 2: if it's like like I said, like a NIX game
Speaker 2: or something that we can look forward to, you know,
Speaker 2: that's what we try to like base our presence on
Speaker 2: so that they have more meaning to them, you know.
Speaker 1: And it definitely makes sense because to me, my life experiences,
Speaker 1: the places I've traveled, the concerts I've seen, have much
Speaker 1: more meaning than any piece of clothing or shoes or
Speaker 1: anything like that that can all go into trash. I'll
Speaker 1: exchange every material thing for every experience that I have lived.
Speaker 1: So I understand you.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna they don't even know where those Pokemon
Speaker 2: cards are in the last year, I mean real talk,
Speaker 2: they probably at traded them with their friends. And that's
Speaker 2: the whole point. It's like they'll forget all of the
Speaker 2: other things, but they'll definitely remember that time that we
Speaker 2: went to see the Denver Nuggets, you know, and they
Speaker 2: were playing the Knicks and where we sat and what
Speaker 2: the actually Asher remembers the score and that's so crazy
Speaker 2: to me because he was so little, you know, and
Speaker 2: they remember who came out like So those are like
Speaker 2: the special parts of mixing the two religions that that
Speaker 2: I really truly appreciate.
Speaker 1: I'm here for it. And I've got good news for you, Carolina.
Speaker 1: There's going to be some separation this year between Hanukkah
Speaker 1: and Christmas. You're going to get like a break. I
Speaker 1: think like a two week break in between, like a
Speaker 1: ten day break.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, sweet Jesus. Oh my gosh, yes, I just.
Speaker 1: Made your day right now. I said, let me look
Speaker 1: at these days and make sure my Carolina is not
Speaker 1: going to be dead by New Year's.
Speaker 2: Eve, I'm telling you. And New Year's Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I am always crying on New Year's. Mark said, He's like,
Speaker 2: I want to see you not cry one New Year's
Speaker 2: Eve and I said, you're happy tears of joy?
Speaker 1: Okay, good, I'm I'm like, what is happening in this
Speaker 1: howl on your years?
Speaker 2: No, I always look forward to like actually last year
Speaker 2: we went to d R. We went to the DR
Speaker 2: and I looked at him and I was just like like, what,
Speaker 2: like thank you, you know what I mean, Like we
Speaker 2: get another year together and our family, like we were
Speaker 2: all together. So the traditions for us, But like what
Speaker 2: about you, do you guys plan a trip or do
Speaker 2: anything for like New Year or like Christmas to market.
Speaker 1: Well, let's go back. Last year, we spent the whole
Speaker 1: month of December in Miami. We did a lot of
Speaker 1: dope stuff. You know, we spent a lot of time together.
Speaker 1: We were just it was a different type of vibe.
Speaker 1: Usually we're with family, bad navidad betto. I'm Annuevo Cattolina
Speaker 1: my birthday December thirty. First, I know it already, No
Speaker 1: vibes know it. The vibes have got to be on
Speaker 1: point no matter where I'm at. I just like to relax.
Speaker 1: On New Year's Eve. I end up going out at
Speaker 1: the end of the night because it's weird. Then I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's my birthday too, and I didn't do anything. And
Speaker 1: then I put the pressure on it and even find
Speaker 1: me a club. We actually went to Club eleven with
Speaker 1: Cardian Offset last year for New Year's Eve. It was
Speaker 1: a crazy New Year's Eve to say the least.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Well, you know what, there are probably
Speaker 2: people who are wondering right now, like or maybe there
Speaker 2: are traditions that have been lost in your family. You know,
Speaker 2: I think it's so important for us to just try
Speaker 2: to think back and and remember, like the happy times
Speaker 2: of your childhood. Yeah, give me some, give me some ideas.
Speaker 1: They're you know, they're Latinos. We have a lot of
Speaker 1: like very curious like New Year's Eve traditions, like the
Speaker 1: twelve grapes as the clock strikes midnight. You know, a
Speaker 1: lot of Spanish speaking countries, like Ula Espana, they make
Speaker 1: sure that they sitcom uwas for good luck of each
Speaker 1: month of the next year. That's a good one. Another
Speaker 1: one is los pantis. You got to pick the right underwear.
Speaker 1: In many Latin American countries, the underwear you wear on
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve has a big impact on how your
Speaker 1: year ahead is going to be. Yes, Mario, right, it's
Speaker 1: supposed to bring good luck and good fortune in the
Speaker 1: new year, edible or otherwise, those are worn for luck
Speaker 1: and love. So see touquio marito.
Speaker 3: Par okayay right now now.
Speaker 1: Our one thing you do not want to do on
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve is pontos pantis negro because try bad luck.
Speaker 1: So no so pantico Mario. If you want good luck,
Speaker 1: let me write a no caro. I'm not gonna make
Speaker 1: sure to check my panties on New year'st it.
Speaker 2: I am all about it.
Speaker 1: We got to tell Bella, we got.
Speaker 2: Somebody's gotta lock that up. And yeah, I will say
Speaker 2: the grapes we do every single year. I remember the
Speaker 2: people that would used to leave the luggage outside are
Speaker 2: Cuban friends. They would uggage it would run around the
Speaker 2: house with the luggage.
Speaker 1: Walk me in a circle too with a suitcase like
Speaker 1: you if it's too cold and you're still trying to travel,
Speaker 1: and right inside the house.
Speaker 2: You can do that absolutely. But no, you know, I
Speaker 2: feel like these traditions and these things are so important
Speaker 2: to keep alive in our families. And you know, even
Speaker 2: if there's twelve of them in your family, right, even
Speaker 2: if you just do two, even if there's two of
Speaker 2: them that every year the kids can look forward to.
Speaker 2: This has nothing to do with any of the holidays.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you something that I have done since
Speaker 2: the kids were little. On Noah's first birthday, I got
Speaker 2: him a crown. Okay, and it's like it's had to
Speaker 2: be from party City. But it wasn't like a flimsy
Speaker 2: paper crown. It was like a gold crown with like
Speaker 2: the little string or whatever. On his first birthday, he
Speaker 2: wore the crown. On his second birthday, he wore the
Speaker 2: crown because Astra wasn't here. Yet every year on their
Speaker 2: birthday they have worn this crown and it is not
Speaker 2: anything that I spent a ton time.
Speaker 1: I love this.
Speaker 2: It is ever and I play las Manya Anthas and
Speaker 2: now they know every single birthday they're like, oh, here
Speaker 2: comes mommy, you know, and they've got to wear the crown.
Speaker 2: I said, you guys are gonna wear this crown twenty
Speaker 2: eighty years old. I don't care how old you are.
Speaker 1: This is amazing.
Speaker 2: I love the crown. And now it's so funny because
Speaker 2: they're only they're ten and eight years old, but they
Speaker 2: have the expectation where's the crown? Mom They get it,
Speaker 2: you know. And so I said to them, I said,
Speaker 2: you know, one day you're gonna want your babies to
Speaker 2: have a crown. I said, because this is you're my
Speaker 2: little kings, you know. And I picture some of them
Speaker 2: with it every single year. So it's something that I
Speaker 2: look forward to and I just know that it's like
Speaker 2: left that impression on them. You know.
Speaker 1: I love this. I need to see pictures of the
Speaker 1: boys in the crown.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I will send it to you, because girl,
Speaker 2: by the time.
Speaker 1: You are twenty. We're gonna have a whole sequence, and
Speaker 1: then we're going to pass the crown down to the
Speaker 1: boys for their boys. That's so I love this, Carolina.
Speaker 1: I love tradition, and we have a tradition too. When
Speaker 1: it comes to Ananovo in la casa Mia, I kill Pia.
Speaker 1: We got to clean the whole house. Listen, we cannot
Speaker 1: let the new year come in with a dirty house,
Speaker 1: solim Pia, I get compra floor de blanca, I get
Speaker 1: pred Bela. We gotta get out with the old, in
Speaker 1: with the new. Any bad juju, any bad vibes. We
Speaker 1: got to get rid of it. And me and Bella
Speaker 1: go to the Botanica and we buy a white candle.
Speaker 1: We get this little thing that's called al camfort and
Speaker 1: we put it in water ona pa to malo salga,
Speaker 1: and we buy white roses. And that's how we make
Speaker 1: sure we bring in the new year gasa Limpia, oh
Speaker 1: yea casalympia, panti rojo, because we're gonna have us a
Speaker 1: good twenty twenty four. Carolina, I am manifesting it right now.
Speaker 2: Oh we sure are? You know that's right. But also
Speaker 2: I love the purity of it. I love that everything
Speaker 2: is white, everything is clean. There's something that can Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's no noise saying pasalo. You know, it's like you've
Speaker 2: got to make sure that you set yourself up for
Speaker 2: greatness every year. And you know there are some people
Speaker 2: who will say, oh, that's ridiculous, but you know what,
Speaker 2: we believe. You believe and that's all you need.
Speaker 1: That is all you need. Look for New Year's they
Speaker 1: write money around the house and it's believed to bring
Speaker 1: them prosperity.
Speaker 2: I love that. Well, you know what, let us know
Speaker 2: your traditions. Put them on our Instagram at l Spanglish
Speaker 2: because we want to know. Listen, the more the merrier,
Speaker 2: I'll try it all.
Speaker 1: Me too, girl. Listen, if it's a positivity, prosperity and
Speaker 1: a better year, we're down for it.
Speaker 2: We're totally here for it. And we are so so
Speaker 2: appreciative that you guys have been writing with us this
Speaker 2: season and that you've allowed us to keep you company.
Speaker 2: Thank you so so much for listening to another season
Speaker 2: of life in Spanglish.
Speaker 1: We love you, man. It's been a dope, dope season.
Speaker 1: We've learned so much from our listeners, and I hope
Speaker 1: that they've learned a lot from us too, Carolina, because
Speaker 1: we do this with the hope of connecting, you know,
Speaker 1: projecting relatability and letting people know that we're all the
Speaker 1: same people. We just have different jobs, we live in
Speaker 1: different homes. But at finalehinte, I love that.
Speaker 2: You know, and we want to send you guys all
Speaker 2: of our love and positivity for the new year ahead.
Speaker 2: And hopefully if you guys have missed other seasons, you
Speaker 2: can go back and listen on the free iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 2: I'm at the real Carolina, and we can always keep
Speaker 2: the conversation going.
Speaker 1: That's a fact. Hit me on the Gram. I am
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Speaker 2: Let's do it, guys, and have a great year, everybody.
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