WEBVTT - Eyes Up Here: New Year, New Show 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:12.320 All right, you get it going right here, right now. 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:17.520 This is thousand and twenty two, and you're listening to 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.680 an all new eyes up here exclusively on Patreon as 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.680 well as on the Creative Controlled Network. If you didn't 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.080 know by now, my name is Chad and every single 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.479 week I'm joined here by the Bibblehead. You're shaking your 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.239 head at me, what twenty twenty two? You can't you 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.360 can't let that process in. Well, it's the Queen of 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:40.320 extreme fancy. Well, hello everyone, greetings and us salutations, Happy 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:45.600 happy New year, Happy twenty twenty two to you all. Yeah, 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:50.279 I can't. I can't believe how quickly this year went by. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.080 I tend to say that about a lot of things, 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.400 like things just go by quickly, but this year literally 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:01.280 flew right by, really really did. And it's a very 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:07.000 cliche thing to say, but it's true. I know, And 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.399 I just I was sitting here the other day and 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:13.840 I just I was thinking about like things throughout the 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.280 year that I was anticipating doing and the anxiety I 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.440 was getting and they're all over with, and I'm like, wow, 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.640 I wasted so much time worrying about things that are 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.760 they're done and they're gone, and we have a new 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:30.480 year ahead of us. So I am praying that twenty 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:34.759 twenty two is better for everyone. Way I do too. Yeah, 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:39.200 I mean it seems like this last surge was a 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:43.040 little little Craig Craye for the holidays. I saw testing 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:48.560 centers with lines wrapped around the corner, police officers dictating 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.560 traffic flow. We were literally at we were out to 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.920 eat at Longhorn, you know the steakhouse. Yeah, out back 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:00.600 style steakhouse. Plase and uh it's he's on a hill 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.240 and it was looking down and it was looking right 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.320 on one of those like urgent care places, and the 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:08.840 line was wrapped around their building and up the street 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:13.120 into a parking lot of of a supermarket. Gosh, you 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.560 know what's crazy. I'm not gonna mention names, but I 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:22.240 have a friend who felt sick right went to his primary. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.400 They said, oh you have you have the new variant 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:32.360 go quarantine. Never took a test, Okay, I said, I said, 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.919 how does he know? Oh my gosh, how are they 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.440 The people are just saying they're positive and they're not 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:42.080 even taking tests. They did the Johnny Parson they did 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:46.760 like they put the thing up in there. They said 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.120 to myself, good cord yet, I mean, you could have 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.720 a cold for all you know, are the flu there 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.880 right away? Oh you have COVID? Come on. Yeah, there 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.919 was some stat I saw. It was like of like this, 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:02.600 the hundred in sixty thousand cases they reported, and like 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.560 a certain span of time, it was really only like 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:09.920 nineteen thousand. I just it's a nightmare. I just wish 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.760 all of this would be over, you know, just go away, 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.640 get out of here, get out of here. Well, we 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:22.480 survived Christmas, we survived the New Year. Well, yeah, it's 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:26.560 technically pre New Year's Eve as we're talking. But let's 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.119 go back a little bit. We didn't get to talk 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:33.079 after Christmas. So how was your Christmas? How the kids 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.800 like their stuff? Oh? The Christmas was wonderful. It was 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.880 really a it was a great it's great, great holiday. 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:44.080 I can't say it wasn't filled with joy. It was. 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.320 It was fantastic. If you recall, I did attend a 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:52.480 wedding the week before Christmas that I was dreading. Yes, 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.080 that I was dreading. But you know, I have to 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.800 say it's not that I had a bad time. It 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.640 was the anxiety of the trip that was really getting 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.800 to me. It was the drive from Virginia to Connecticut 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.720 that was really like kind of hanging over me. Now 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.000 we did not have the children. The children stayed with 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:13.720 their grandparents. My uncle who's a faithful listener of the show, 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.320 and his family stayed with us on both ends of 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.440 the trip. So coming from Florida, they came to us 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.640 the day before we all left, and the day we 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.679 left Connecticut they came back and stayed with us. Great 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.920 time with them, so much fun. We got the open 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.400 Christmas presents with them a few days early. We always 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.800 have to do it via pictures and video, you know, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.120 and it was nice to experience that. But I think 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:40.200 my anxiety was the trip and the drive and the 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:44.239 drive there led up that held up to the hype 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:49.280 of going that was horrible. Was it worse than us 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:54.279 driving to Albany? Yes, it was because not only was 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.200 it an immense amount of traffic. Remember when you just 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.720 went up to Rhode Island, it was basically the same route. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.800 So all those those traffic spots in New York to 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:07.239 George Washington Bridge, even getting off in Fort Lee, New Jersey, 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:12.520 like just the traffic mixed with like a misty very 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:16.839 annoying rain. And it was seven eight o'clock or so 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:21.520 six seven o'clock on a Saturday, traffic rain, my windshow wipers. 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.039 I didn't realize it needed to be changed, so it 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:28.159 was streaky. I couldn't see the road. It was so bad, 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.240 and it took forever to get there that by the 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.240 time we were there, it was like, there's the bar 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.240 eggs in the room, and we went right to the bar. 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.599 Tell me about it. I would have done the same thing, 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.320 Oh my god. But at least you once you got there, 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.239 you had a good time because you were actually dreading 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.800 the wedding. I was. I was because I was in 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.440 the wedding right, so I was dreading it, and I 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.600 had an okay time. I'm not going to say had 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.320 the greatest time in the world. I had an okay time. 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.800 You know, I didn't really know the groomsman. It was 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:03.000 my cousin who who's so my family tier. He would 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.120 be technically under me in age. He's there's a seven 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.520 year difference, not a lot, obviously, but you know his 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.120 buddies were all like these young you know, like upstart 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.159 career guys. You know, I was like the veteran of 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:19.919 the crew, but you know, once they found out what 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:25.039 I do, it was a million questions about podcasting stuff, wrestlers, autografts. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.760 You know, so your name might have been mentioned a 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.919 couple of times throughout the day. Yeah, you know, I 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.960 was definitely talking about my experiences talking about WWE because 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.320 drove by the building, you know, all that good stuff 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:41.200 to get there. So it was it was okay the wedding. 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:45.880 The reception was better. Obviously, had a big contingent of 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.120 family there. My Grandma was there out on the dance 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.680 floor chopping it up. So it was that part of 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:52.800 it was fun. And then Lizzen and I got to 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.320 spent a lot of time together driving and laughing. That 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.680 was my favorite part. Good. Well, I'm happy it worked 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.800 out for you. I knew you were dreading it, but 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.920 I was hoping that you would have a positive that 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.040 came out of it. So it sounds like you did. Yeah. 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.120 And you know, how was your lead up into Christmas? 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:10.880 Because I know, you know, the week before you had 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.000 a lot of stuff going on too. So yeah, so 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:21.160 the Christmas here was very quiet and very nice. We 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.640 no family, just us, just the five of us, my 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.840 whole family of course, got together. They have been getting 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.720 together all through COVID, but you know, because of my 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:38.360 mom and traveling and getting her to and from, it 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:42.440 wasn't worth going for just a day to see them 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.040 because it takes a lot out of her. So we 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.320 yopped it. And plus with with COVID, you know, I 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:52.640 especially now you know, being vaxxed, you could still carry it, 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.920 still pass it on. I didn't feel comfortable having her 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.640 in a room with like thirty people coming in and out, 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.080 and friends that I don't know that they would have 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.240 had invited, you know what I mean. It was just 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.400 it was too much. So we just stayed here and 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:12.200 we baked, and we got a ton of food, too 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.760 much food for five people. But I didn't cook at all. 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:20.640 We catered cause okay, why not. It's Christmas. So we 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:24.240 had it catered and it was nice, you know, and 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:28.080 and the kids woke up Christmas morning and at a 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:31.760 respectable time. It was like seven o'clock. I was wokay, yeah, 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.440 you were done. Yeah. I was like, this is great, 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.400 you know. And I think my daughter woke up at 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.160 like six thirty and I was like, well, we have 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.520 to wait because your brother's still sleeping, and then it 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:42.520 was like seven and I heard him running around. I 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.360 was like, okay, and you know, they opened their gifts, 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.440 we put stuff together and they just played all day 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.480 and it was just I sat there with my coffee 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.920 and just just relax, didn't have to run anywhere, stayed 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.960 in our pajamas all day, and it was Yeah, it 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.360 was one of those relaxes, peaceful days, and I love those, 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.079 you know, I love that time and I love spending 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.920 that time with just us. It was nice. No, that's great. Yeah, 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.320 we were up. We were at six, so not that 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:16.200 much before. Yeah, we had alarms set from what we 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.680 were instructed by the children, unless we're going to the airport, 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.440 we had six o'clock, I believe was the alarm set. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.440 I woke up at six o three with anxiety because 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:27.800 I thought I was gonna get yelled at by the 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.160 children because you were minutes because I was three minutes late. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.600 And you know, I heard the little one ran into 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.600 older ones room and they were waiting together, and it 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:41.360 was it was great. But by seven o'clock we were done, well, 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.559 the kids were done, Me and Liz were We were 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.400 probably at our stuff at that point, but we didn't 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.480 have to leave until two o'clock, so we had a 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:54.200 good time to decompress and put stuff together. The Disney 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:58.120 Princess Record Ralph Comfy Castle is what we put together. 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:02.360 You sent me a picture of that. Very nice, very nice, 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.679 and it's big. It actually is very spacious. Now did 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.200 you get this isn't Did you get this isn't the castle? 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:12.040 I wanted no, no, because that was a late addition 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:16.320 to the Christmas list. So it was. And when we 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.520 were up at the wedding, my mom went to so 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.480 where I have my IVY Exclusives office is this really 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.680 cool looking older building in the town of Warrenton, Virginia. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.640 And inside the building they had this thing called what 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.480 was it? It was a gum drop Square. So there 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.720 was a back store that was transformed to like really 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:41.000 Christmas land, you know, like they had decorations everywhere, but 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.840 in this one room, lights off, all lit by trees. 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:48.080 They had Santa Claus and the little ones who were 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:53.200 scampering around. They they didn't see any straps for a beard. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:57.160 This was the real deal. This was the guy. And 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:03.439 the last thing mentioned was the record Ralph Comfy Squad Castle. Okay, 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:10.160 he listened. We have a visitor. Oh those were the elves, right, Oh, okay, 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:16.120 got it, Okay, thank you, she's clarifying it was yes, 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:21.480 thank you, love, she knows what's up. I find funny 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:25.439 about these kids. Kids are so observant, right they they 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.600 pick up one every single thing Christmas time. They must 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:33.160 see ten different Santas. They don't care, No, they don't. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.240 They don't even question it. It's just like that he's coming. 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:38.839 But there's one at the mall, there's one on TV. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.680 None of them look the same. No, these kids realize 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.640 what they have to. One place that we went, you know, 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.119 where we live is very rural, it is very country. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.080 We went to like the Lions Club, you know, the 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.720 local Lions club in the area. Had a breakfast with Santa. 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:58.000 This guy was like the Leonard skinnerd breakfast. He had 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.920 on like rock and roll like you know, like like 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:04.360 those colored yeah yeah, yeah, like red tinted glasses. He 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.960 had like a long, scraggly beard. And I'm like, this 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:11.600 is the Southern rock Leonard Skinner sand It's hilarious. That's great, 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.080 Oh my god. Well yeah, it was a nice, nice holiday, 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.360 nice way to end off twenty twenty one. You know, 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.120 up and down all year. For the most part, we 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:25.040 were fine, thank god, another year without catching COVID for 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.680 myself and my family in this house. So yeah, you 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.839 and us airhouse, right, yes, right, we're good, thank the 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.400 little good. And we've we've mixed companies. We were together, 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:39.320 you know, we worked together. I've been doing appearances, I've 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:43.120 been out there and nothing, thank thank God. And I 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:47.760 continue to pray that at lasts, you know, uh, just 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:52.280 taking my supplements and staying healthy and trying to uh, 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:57.480 trying to dodge and matrix and yeah, that's all we do. 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.880 And we will be reunited and live and a living 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.360 color in March. Oh in March. Yeah, that's that'll be 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.480 right around the corner. Yes, now there, it's on the website, 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.760 but they haven't made the official announcement because they're going 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:13.560 through all the I mean we can because it's on 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.440 the website. But Francine will be appearing at the Big 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.240 Event in Queens, New York on March fifth, and IB 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.120 Exclusives will be there in full effect as well. So 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.520 Big Event has it on their website under the IVY 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.559 Exclusives banner. But they just haven't messed. They haven't put 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.839 out like an official post yet are we going to 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.040 say who else is coming with us or is not yet? No, 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:41.160 we're still clearing that he's not. He's in, but he 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.200 just hasn't given me the full you know, like all right, 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.400 go with it. But he's in, He's fully in. I 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:51.320 was trying to like think when the last time, like 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.600 when I was there last and I swear it was 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.000 like four years ago, big event. You did a big 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.840 ECW reunion at the Big Event. And the reason I 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.560 know this is because when I was moving, I came 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.840 across a picturehow last time, well, one of the last 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.600 times I worked with saman in Philly. People come up 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.760 and they give you guys stuff all the time. Sometimes 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:16.080 it's left at the table. Sometimes it's you know, sam 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:17.760 Man goes, I don't want this stuff, just take it. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.880 And it was like a portrait drawn of him. It 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:21.640 was like all this stuff and one of them is 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:25.920 this picture of you guys, it's you, Shane Raven, Jerry Lynn, 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:30.960 Saman like Saboo at the big event. It was a 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.480 big reunion. That's the last time you were there. So 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.560 what year was that? In had to be twenty seventeen. 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.200 I went, wow, Okay, so it's been a while so 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.240 New York. I don't get there much. Come out and 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.760 see me. Oh, I'm pumped. It's my first time I've 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.720 booked people there. You know, I've had my talent there. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.080 John and I when we were doing shows together. John 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.920 would go because he lives closer. But I'm trying to 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.760 do one show a month in twenty twenty two. And oh, 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.960 thank you very much, Shopkins. Very cool. I'm trying to 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.800 do one show a month, and March is the third 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.480 month of the year. So I have booked the big 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.280 event with you, and it's gonna be It's gonna be 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.120 a good time. We're gonna have something good, very great. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.560 It's very great. It's gonna be a great time. Well, 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:20.800 New York. We did Albany. Go elsewhere next, next trip, 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.440 Let's go somewhere else. You gotta get you to Virginia next. 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:27.000 That's enough. You know what I want to do, and 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:31.280 I think it would be wonderful for me and Shane together. 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.840 Is the Steel City Con in Pittsburgh, Yes, that's the 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:38.400 one I want to do April. Is that April? It's 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.240 in April. They just booked Chevy Chase as the headline. Well, 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.640 if they could have Chevy Chase Shane Francine on the 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.880 day is I would book that. I just every year. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.280 I tell Shane, you know, we have to. I haven't 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.760 been in Pitts. I have good Lord, I don't think 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.560 I've done his signing in Pittsburgh since CCW. I would, 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:02.040 I would probably can. It's probably true. Yeah, I think 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.000 I need to go to Pittsburgh. So I think that 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.000 that's a no brainer we should look into I will 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.600 look into that later on today and let you know 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.840 what I can see. I have my thoughts about it, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.920 so we'll talk later on. When you say that there's 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:24.080 a negative negative, it's just a perhaps an inquisitive question 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.120 as it relates to the calm itself. Write it down 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:33.000 because you're gonna forget. Write it down right now, Write 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:34.840 it down right now, because you will write it down. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.320 But yes, but I'm just saying, close out Christmas. So 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:43.040 it goes by so fast, right, all that preparation, every 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:44.800 you know, even though you guys had a chill one, 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.760 what do you feel like afterwards when it's over, It's 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.400 like all that preparation, now it's done. Here's how I 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:56.040 take it. Right. This year, I decorated early because of 0:16:56.080 --> 0:17:01.680 Russell Caid. Okay, every year, I usually great the friday 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:06.000 or the weekend after Thanksgiving, but because Russel Kaid, this year, 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:10.440 I decorated the week before Thanksgiving, like the like, well, 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:14.000 not the week but Monday. I think it was before Thanksgiving. 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:18.280 So I had the decorations up an extra week this year. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.840 Christmas night, I'm standing there and I'm looking at my 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.800 tree and I'm like, you're coming down. I can't take 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.760 it anymore. I'm done. I didn't even want to put 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.720 my lights on anymore. I was over it. I'm so 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:36.119 excited when I'm decorating because the holidays and it's coming up. 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:41.960 My sweetheart, she's in her heaven today. But as soon 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.520 as it was done, like everything's down here, I took 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:51.480 everything down on Tuesday. It's gone. I can't, I can't 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:55.199 be bothered. I'm done, holliays are over. What about the 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.080 superstition of taking it down before New Year's? Never heard 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:02.679 of that? So in there is a superstition. I forget 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:06.440 what it's called, but there's some like Catholic related superstition 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.680 about taking down your Is it? What the heck is it? 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:13.600 I can't I can't get it in my head at 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.919 the moment, church aren't really getting along right. Guy's got 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:21.080 heat right now, jeez. So I'm not really concerned about 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.359 what they say about taking my decorations down. Oh I 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.199 went to church, did you? I did. We went to 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.320 Christmas Eve Mass. It's the first time in two years 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.800 that we've been to church sans COVID right right. People 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.879 wore masks. It was a mandatory and they did you know, 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.160 like and I never observed this before. Listen, I must 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.360 have not been paying attention, which could happen while I'm 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.840 at church. I tend to drift. But they made this 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:51.760 whole thing about like communions, like don't even bother getting 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.480 up if you're not Catholic and you haven't received your sacraments, 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.240 stay in your seat and politely move. What would you 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.119 get up if you, I guess people get up and 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.760 try to get contic I never I never thought that 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:04.520 it was like a free for all that like people 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.119 try to come up and get communion like unauthorized. I 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.679 was like, it would do that, Yeah, Like if you 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.480 haven't received communion, why would you go and get it? 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:18.359 Very odd, but COVID wise, very safe, very safe. Well here, 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.480 here's my stance. Now. I don't know if we talked 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:25.600 about this before, but my kids, well we've talked about 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.240 this part. My kids are now homeschooled, right, so they're 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:32.400 pulled from school. We do we do everything here. They 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:37.600 have not been in CCD Okay, okay, because when when 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:42.160 we pulled them, when COVID first started and we pulled them. 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:48.719 My daughter has received communion okay, and she's received reconciliation okay, 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.320 so the next the next thing for her would be confirmation, 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:55.639 which they get. I believe in eighth grade. Eighth grade, yep, Okay. 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:57.239 Now when I was a kid, we got that in 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:02.240 fifth grade. Really yeah, I had it in fifth grade. Okay, 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.399 it's eighth grade for them. So she's in seventh grade 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.680 this year now. My son's in fourth grade. My son 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.080 never went to Catholic school because of his apraxia. He 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:15.920 was always in the public school system. He has yet 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:21.720 to receive reconciliation or communion. So we're not loving the 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:25.280 Catholic Church right now. But I want my kids to 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:31.000 get their sacraments. I feel like there's that little bit 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.320 inside me that's still that Catholic girl who says if 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:37.720 you don't get your sacrament, you're going to hell. And 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:40.880 there's right now, I will not be the reason that 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:46.840 my children are condemned later in life. Yes, whether it's 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:49.359 a true or not, whether you believe or you don't believe, 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:56.000 it's better to be safe than sorry. But there's a 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:58.520 part of me now we still you know, we still pray. 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:03.320 We teach them religion in their studies. You know, we 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:08.080 do Bible study, We teach them religion. We there's there's 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.360 still God in the house, right. We just haven't been 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:16.080 to church in a very long time. Part of me 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:20.000 misses it. Part of me wants to go back. But 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.520 then the other part of me looks at the way 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:24.800 the church is and what they're doing and the way 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:29.640 it's being run and all the backstage stories, and I'm 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.440 disgusted by it. There's a lot of stuff. It could 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:35.199 be a dark side of the ring. I'm not going on. 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:40.000 And I said to my husband, do we change, like, uh, 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:44.560 I don't know what is it called. Do we not 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:48.920 be Catholic anymore? And changed to a different religion which 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:51.640 I don't even know what I would be interested in, 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:54.560 like a non denominational place where you could just go like, 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:57.000 I like the happy churches where they sing and they 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:01.119 dance and they have a good time. That's fun. Catholic 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:05.760 church is very somber. It's very to me, it's very sad. 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:13.119 It's always like it's kind of like down, very down. 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:16.400 It's not very happy to do all this for when 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:21.800 you die. Basically, well, I told my husband we have 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:24.720 to find another church, and I want to get the 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:28.840 kids their sacraments and then when they're done that we'll 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:33.480 see where we're at, to which he replied he couldn't 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:38.479 care less. Well, at least he's honest. He's so against 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:41.080 the Catholic Church right now, and he grew up Catholic. 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:44.680 Alter boy, you know, his parents are devout Catholics. During 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:47.280 the church choir, my mother in law always calls me 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:50.159 and says, please come back to the Catholic Church. And 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:53.280 I'm like, well, I didn't really leave it. I'm still 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:55.959 kind of there, but I don't know. I don't know 0:22:56.000 --> 0:23:00.439 what to do. I'm torn. That's an interesting quand I mean, 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:03.159 you know again, you're you're gonna do what you know. So, 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:09.359 you know, growing up Catholic, you know what the stands for. Yeah, 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:14.280 it's true. Everything is sin. You do sound very much 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:19.680 a candidate for the non denominational churches, because even if 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:22.120 it's not something you want to pursue and you would 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:25.439 prefer to go back to the Catholic Church, this is 0:23:25.480 --> 0:23:29.320 at least giving you that kind of like overall, look 0:23:29.359 --> 0:23:31.760 at what else is out there though, I mean, look, 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:34.480 I know guys that are now pastors of these non 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:38.000 denominational churches who were raised Catholic or Presbyterian or whatever, 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:40.080 and they live and die by it. They love it. 0:23:40.200 --> 0:23:41.840 They think it's the greatest thing. Ever, you might think 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:44.560 the same. I don't know, Like, I still have faith, 0:23:45.080 --> 0:23:47.040 you know, I pray in the morning. I pray when 0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:49.199 I go to bed. Like I said, we teach our 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:52.680