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Speaker 2: so I quit quit. I'm an ICU nurse and for

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Speaker 2: the last six years I have worked every Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Year's It was no.

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Speaker 2: Big deal to work all those holidays because I do

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Speaker 3: I'm John Oh, I didn't even get to introduce myself.

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Speaker 3: I'm newt se racker.

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Speaker 1: Ooh god, and I'm Riley.

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Speaker 2: We're here to give good advice goofiy, but we don't

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Speaker 2: have all the answers. We only know what we do,

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Speaker 2: so let us know what you would do in the comments.

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Speaker 2: I was widowed five years ago and have no children.

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Speaker 2: My parents and siblings have jobs in retail and public safety,

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Speaker 2: which require them to work holidays as well, so we

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Speaker 2: traditionally celebrate the holidays several days after the actual holiday.

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Speaker 2: This year, my parents retired and wanted to take a

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Speaker 2: In July of this year, I requested the week of

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Speaker 1: To work this year.

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Speaker 2: She made my boss aware of this point, so I

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Speaker 2: Are given priority so they could spend Christmas with them. Again,

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Speaker 2: I reminded her that my vacation was approved in July

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Speaker 1: And no work rules were broken.

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Speaker 2: Well, her plan backfired because I turned in my notice

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Speaker 3: Good timing, let's go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So since I quit, my coworker now has

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Speaker 1: You want to spend time with your baby, not gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: My other coworkers are saying that I'm a knucklehead for

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Speaker 2: All the holidays so people can have time with their family.

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Speaker 1: I have for the past six years.

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Speaker 1: Ooh aw right, you are mister Jakes.

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Speaker 3: Girl Bye God.

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Speaker 2: The one time I want to do something special with

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Speaker 2: Can I say, just to quickly put a little star

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Speaker 3: Yeah, could you imagine her disrespected every single time? You've

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you love it so much.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm just trying to give you what you love,

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Speaker 1: Yea, it's the white Water Rove.

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Speaker 3: Unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: And that's the end of his story. We're gonna go

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Speaker 2: My fiance got me a questionable gift, so I walked out.

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Speaker 3: What was the gift?

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Speaker 2: The only thing that I'll admit is that I'm black,

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Speaker 3: I'm John, I'm newt c racker, or you can call

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Speaker 3: me cheeky. I'm an elf right, I'm Riley, and you

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Speaker 3: just go Riley, Riley, Riley Yay, tiggy Wicky Riley, And

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Speaker 3: we're here to give good advice.

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Speaker 1: Goofully. But we don't have all the.

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Speaker 2: Answers, so we only know what we do, so let

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Speaker 2: us not what you would do in the comments below.

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Speaker 2: Dave and I decided to spend our Christmas with his parents,

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Speaker 2: the past Christmases where we couldn't really afford anything. He

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Speaker 2: much money he invested into this. He said eight thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: being materialistic. I told him all I wanted was a

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Speaker 1: On a monkey picture. He told me that he was.

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Speaker 2: Investing in our future together and that I just couldn't

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Speaker 3: I guess I'm blind. I guess we're blind. John.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll admit there were better ways I could have

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Speaker 2: but I was completely uncomfortable with the situation and did

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Speaker 2: am I the a hole here? My good friend?

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Speaker 1: What say you? Is Opie the a hole here?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 3: That is correct, Clear's Day? No, Clear's Day?

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Speaker 1: And why not? Pray?

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Speaker 3: Tell mister Newton, your fiance is an idiot.

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Speaker 3: This just showed you how dumb your fiance is. He's

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Speaker 3: also racist, yep. Remember when you said blatantly, oh, all

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Speaker 3: I want is this for Christmas? One thing? And he

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Speaker 2: This man misses the mark on everything, so so and

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Speaker 3: The fact that his family also called him out, like

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Speaker 3: That's bad taste and bat and we're also gonna laugh

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Speaker 3: at your gift. You spent eight thousand dollars on that idiot.

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Speaker 2: Everyone said the op he was not the ahole, thank god,

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Speaker 2: And we have an update. Before I start, I'd like

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Speaker 2: to clear up a few things. Some people were suspicious

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Speaker 2: about the fact that I knew what a Thurroway account

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Speaker 2: was if I've never been on Reddit. I called it

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Speaker 2: a throw away account to warn people not to follow

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Speaker 2: it because after this update, I'm probably not going to

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Speaker 2: use it anymore. Second, some were weirded out by the

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Speaker 2: in my post. I didn't think it was necessary, and

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Speaker 2: I did say I was going to be vague, but

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Speaker 2: for those who wanted to know, it was the Telfer

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Speaker 2: x ugg bag. I don't know what Dave is going

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Speaker 2: to do with the NFT. I told him that he

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Speaker 2: bought it, so it's up to him whatever he wants

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Speaker 1: I just didn't want to see it.

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Speaker 2: He said he's not going to sell it and will

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Speaker 2: delete the wallet and eat the costs.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no no.

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Speaker 3: Why are we eating? Have you not remembered the last

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Speaker 3: I don't know the past how many years we've been together,

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Speaker 3: and we've been stressing out about like we can't even

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Speaker 3: and now you gotta.

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Speaker 6: Just sell it. Don't don't delete it, that makes it worse.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm not going to sell this account.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why people thought this was a carmograph

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Speaker 2: when all I asked for was a judgment. I didn't

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Speaker 2: think many people would even care about this, to be honest.

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Speaker 2: So we're moving on to the story, the real updates.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: I agreed. The first thing out of his mouth was

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Speaker 3: I don't know, you should have started off with not

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not listening to me, or then calling, like shaming

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna miss Vanoauce's probably to a who who sketch

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Speaker 3: Ten years is a huge investment of your time, energy,

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Speaker 7: I crashed out over Christmas music and it made me

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Speaker 8: Well, the Grinch doesn't work and who will for a reason.

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Speaker 7: The title says it all. I worked in a very

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Speaker 1: So this is literally severance.

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Speaker 7: By the way, this comes from user de Morle ninety nine.

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Speaker 7: If you want to set your own stories, calle the

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Speaker 7: and we're here. I'll give you good advice.

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Speaker 1: Goofully. But we know nothing. No, I mean we don't know.

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Speaker 1: We don't know everything.

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Speaker 4: We don't know nothing, but you know stuff.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and Op says, all of my co workers were

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Speaker 7: It's like sixty five, sixty six, and seventy five. The

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Speaker 7: I think my other coworkers enjoyed the music, which is

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Speaker 1: Did we ask him to turn it down?

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Speaker 4: No, we just stole all of their Christmas instead.

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Speaker 1: Did you just see there silently like the Grinch?

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Speaker 4: You just hear a foll.

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Speaker 1: Fo march, whoa, I'm going to snap this man in half?

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Speaker 4: Yeah that's what he said. I heard it. I was there.

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Speaker 1: Oh dang, I just I really hit that mouse good.

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Speaker 1: It all blew up. When I asked my boss.

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Speaker 7: If he could either ask my coworker to wear headphones

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Speaker 7: He said yes, but ignored me. Was there no way

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Speaker 1: To do that? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 8: If you guys work so close together and there's not

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Speaker 4: Paper off?

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Speaker 1: Can you quiet down?

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Speaker 4: Then you're good?

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Speaker 1: Straight up.

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Speaker 7: If I was your boss, I think I would ignore

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Speaker 1: A little bit? Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Day two rolls around and he turns it on at

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Speaker 1: Yet.

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Speaker 8: You see the boss talking behind the glass. You don't

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Speaker 4: What he's saying, Hey, I really like that Christmas music.

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Speaker 1: Turn it off, I really like it.

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Speaker 1: We're working on making op as you to turn the

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Speaker 4: Do you need to grow his heart by two sizes?

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Speaker 7: Somehow I'm sending this man to the hospital for an

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's problem actually.

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Speaker 7: So I asked my boss again to fix the issue.

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Speaker 7: I asked him if we could please wear headphones for music,

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Speaker 7: He said no. This began my crash out. At this point,

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Speaker 7: I was furious the crooning was still going. I was

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Speaker 9: And so, please don't stop the music.

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Speaker 1: Bump bump, that's all we can say.

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Speaker 8: Bump bump bump, I said, let the music continue, you

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Speaker 1: Let's keep the music going.

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Speaker 4: Dunk dunk dunk.

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Speaker 7: Dunk dunk dunk dunk dunk dunk dunk dunk dunk dunk

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Speaker 7: dunk dunk. My boss watched in silence as the man

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Speaker 7: it did not fix it. I think we just start

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Speaker 7: playing our own music. Okay, So you bring in your

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Speaker 7: You also bring earplugs, so you are muffling the music

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Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, yeah, you do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's finish this.

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Speaker 7: When my boss opened the door to ask me if

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Speaker 7: that helped the problem, and by opening the door flooded

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Speaker 7: my office again with full volume ancient Christmas music. I

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Speaker 7: like I was the source of the problem, Like, hey,

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Speaker 7: After that, I left the building. You just left work. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: of course you got fired. I am now unemployed from

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Speaker 7: But it's hard to explain just how much the constant,

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Speaker 7: good news is you're unemployed, so you don't have to

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Speaker 7: go back.

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Speaker 1: To work now.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're good.

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Speaker 8: You can listen to no Christmas music if you'd like,

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Speaker 1: It does almost feel like they were like, let's get

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Speaker 1: this guy out of here.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, let's make this guy lose his brain so he

447
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Speaker 7: will get fired.

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Speaker 1: We can find this guy the way.

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Speaker 4: We found what makes him literally tick?

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Speaker 1: And and it's old like.

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Speaker 7: He Shirre did talk well when you down the Christmas

452
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Speaker 7: tree and you're hanging ornament for you and me, and

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Speaker 7: then when we go back to our house, we shit

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Speaker 7: in separate rooms because it's ninety thirty and.

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Speaker 1: We're good and.

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Speaker 7: Exactly, and then they just go Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas,

457
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Speaker 7: Merry Chris, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Christmas.

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Speaker 4: Christmas, Christmas, Christmas.

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Speaker 7: Marri push me to the end of my rope and

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Speaker 7: made me lose my cool. I would have been reasonable

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Speaker 7: if maybe it had been like Christmas music during lunch

462
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Speaker 7: hour or something, but I'm just so confused how anyone

463
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Speaker 7: thought it was okay to operate in an office like that.

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Speaker 7: Christmas Christmas anyway, cross your fingers for my unemployment appeal.

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Speaker 1: Ah, And that is the end of that story.

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Speaker 8: I refuse to spend Christmas with my father and now.

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Speaker 4: He's guilt tripping me.

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Speaker 1: Well, you should refuse to let him do that as well.

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Speaker 8: For context, my parents are divorced. Mom has a fiance.

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Speaker 8: They've been dating for five to six years now, but

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Speaker 8: want to get married after both me and my brother

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Speaker 8: graduate so they can move to town most of my

473
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Speaker 8: family lives in, which is.

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Speaker 4: About one hour away.

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Speaker 8: My dad has a girlfriend with a kid from a

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Speaker 8: previous marriage. By the way, this comes from popular Love

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Speaker 8: seventeen fifty one, and if you want us to make

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Speaker 8: your own stories, go to the r slash Okay story

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Speaker 1: I'm Angie, I'm Dakota, I'm Riley.

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Speaker 8: And we're here to give good advice, goofly and with

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Speaker 8: as much Christmas cheer as possible. So we don't have

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Speaker 8: all the answers, though, Let's keep that in mind, and

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Speaker 8: we're just gonna guess what we would do in the situation.

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Speaker 4: So let us know what you would do in the gummns.

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Speaker 4: Stay all right, hope, he says.

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Speaker 8: Usually we spend Christmas with Mom and New Year's with Dad,

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Speaker 8: except Dad will be working this New Year's and we

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Speaker 8: only recently found out when I asked if we can

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Speaker 8: spend Christmas Eve at his place. We are spending Christmas

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Speaker 8: at my mom's boyfriend's parents due to majority vote. This

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Speaker 8: family is in a Democratic state. After all, we used

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Speaker 8: to celebrate Christmas and my mom's parents, but we don't

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Speaker 8: talk with them anymore.

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Speaker 4: This would be the first.

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Speaker 8: Year we hold Christmas at my mom's boyfriend's parents place.

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Speaker 8: It's kind of convenient for my sister, my mom's boyfriend's kid,

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Speaker 8: because she grew up there before the divorce, so she's

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Speaker 8: also hanging out with her friends this year's Christmas Eve,

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Speaker 8: except now as things are.

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Speaker 4: Neither me nor my brother will.

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Speaker 8: Be able to spend Christmas Eve as usual, since because

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Speaker 8: the rest of the kids will be there, she won't

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Speaker 8: be able to drive to and from while also looking

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Speaker 8: after them. On Christmas Eve, we usually go Caro Link

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Speaker 8: since it's a big thing in towns from where I'm from.

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Speaker 8: And what's their favorite Christmas song?

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Speaker 7: Christmas song is walking around the Christmas Room is no

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Speaker 7: copy right here inside.

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Speaker 10: And marry Christmas, Christmas, Chris, Chris, christ Christmas Christmas.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 8: Since both me and my brother are quite determined for money,

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Speaker 8: we end up with about one hundred to one hundred

514
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Speaker 8: and fifty dollars converted, but that's mostly because.

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Speaker 4: The people know us.

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Speaker 8: The town that my grandparents are at is a bit

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Speaker 8: more modern, is not that popular. Both me and my

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Speaker 8: brother have goals to achieve with that money that we

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Speaker 8: realistically won't get if we go there. We spent a

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Speaker 8: Christmas at our uncle's place like five years ago, and

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Speaker 8: we went caroling and barely anyone opened up. And also

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Speaker 8: that brings us back to the point we asked Dad

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Speaker 8: to spend even at his place, after which he argued

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Speaker 8: that we should spend the full Christmas at his place.

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Speaker 4: I do not want that. His house is dirty.

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Speaker 11: Fat is a dirty house, dirty house.

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Speaker 4: I don't want Christmas in a dirty.

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Speaker 10: Don't want Christmas in the dirty house. Habits into Baum

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Speaker 10: in the tree, the tree.

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, untranslated words yeah, have dirty house, dirty dirty house.

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Speaker 1: In Stein, I go into Tallenbaum instead. In Stein.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I speak to German.

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Speaker 8: A few years back, when we still visited him regularly.

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Speaker 4: I would clean around.

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Speaker 8: I would backum the floors, rewash the dishes because they're

537
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Speaker 8: always suspiciously sticky, even though he claims there clean. I

538
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Speaker 8: would stock up on bathroom necessities, but I just haven't

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Speaker 8: seen a point to it after a while of nothing changing,

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Speaker 8: so I just started spending a single night bringing my

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Speaker 8: sheets from home and then leaving as soon as the

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Speaker 8: sun rises with some excuse. After his girlfriend started coming around,

543
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Speaker 8: the house looked better. It was clean, it was nice,

544
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Speaker 8: it was sugar and spies. She implemented trash cans so

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Speaker 8: I didn't have to go all the way around to

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Speaker 8: the back of the house to throw stuff out, and

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Speaker 8: she repainted the walls.

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Speaker 4: What a genius addition to the house.

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Speaker 8: The trash can, My goodness, being able to throw the

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Speaker 8: trash in the trash.

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Speaker 4: Way trash cans. It wasn't it was a noble genius edition.

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Speaker 7: I wonder did she paint over all of the crap

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Speaker 7: on all of the walls?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 4: It didn't the walls.

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Speaker 8: But you just see like a crinkle of a like wrapper,

557
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Speaker 8: like a candy wrapper.

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Speaker 1: On the wall, a trash dirty.

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Speaker 4: It's all falling off because it's so much dirt underneath.

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Speaker 1: It isn't that true?

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Speaker 7: If you paint a dirty wall, the paint will come off,

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Speaker 7: and that is true.

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Speaker 8: So both me and my brothers started coming around more

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Speaker 8: often now the things are clean. And then he had

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Speaker 8: a fight with her. I'm guessing the dad to the girlfriend,

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Speaker 8: the reason which neither informed me of, although I do

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Speaker 8: suspect it's cheating, and she didn't show up again, so.

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Speaker 4: They had a fight. Do we suspect cheating?

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Speaker 1: Oh goodness?

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Speaker 4: The house continue getting dirty.

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Speaker 7: Again, even dirty, and the cheating dirty, scandalous, scandalous pain.

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Speaker 4: And wish you point. We haven't stayed over since.

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Speaker 8: We still have out and go on vacations, just not

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Speaker 8: in his house, and so when he said we would

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Speaker 8: spend Christmas at his place, I said that if he

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Speaker 8: cleaned up, then sure.

577
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Speaker 4: As in the first day of Christmas.

578
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Speaker 7: My true love came to me house, one person cheating

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Speaker 7: on me, and it was my uncle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And on the second day, I true love. She

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Speaker 1: painted all the walls, and then I cheated on her.

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Speaker 1: And it's the uncle singing this song.

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Speaker 4: The uncles singing this song. And that's changed perspective.

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Speaker 6: Not confusing at all.

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Speaker 1: No, it's everyone knows the classic.

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Speaker 4: You just have to get different voices and then they'll understand.

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Speaker 8: He said that if I wanted to make it clean

588
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Speaker 8: so badly, that I should clean to myself, that he

589
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Speaker 8: knows that I'm lazy, and my mom is the one

590
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Speaker 8: that cleans my room, which is like half to I suppose,

591
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Speaker 8: and that for a woman, I don't concern myself with

592
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Speaker 8: my womanly responsibilities.

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Speaker 4: My dude, it's your place, it's your filth.

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Speaker 8: Why should I spend the weekend before Christmas cleaning your

595
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Speaker 8: house because you want me to stay in there for Christmas,

596
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Speaker 8: even if I told you I.

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Speaker 4: Don't want to.

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Speaker 8: And then he suggested that we go in the mountains

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Speaker 8: on Christmas. It is arguably worse because it goes against

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Speaker 8: the whole reason.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to spend Christmas Eve there in the first place.

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Speaker 7: He wants to sing the song Chrismass Christmas mount ten near.

603
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Speaker 7: I am like a pie near when I ben to

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Speaker 7: the mountain night dump my trash out.

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Speaker 4: I mean, who wouldn't want to sing that song on

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Speaker 4: Christmas mountain?

607
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Speaker 1: They call it mountain Christmas.

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Speaker 8: Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't normally be against

609
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Speaker 8: spending Christmas with him, despite him being arguably the least

610
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Speaker 8: festive person ever, but it would all just work against

611
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Speaker 8: what I have planned. No, if his girlfriend was there,

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Speaker 8: it would be a nice Christmas because she is very

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Speaker 8: festive and I like her. If he didn't make her

614
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Speaker 8: mad a few months ago, if he manned up and

615
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Speaker 8: clean his house, I wouldn't object to staying there the

616
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Speaker 8: first or second day even.

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Speaker 7: I mean I want to stay so it was grossy, roast, filthy,

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Speaker 7: garbage dump house.

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Speaker 1: He literally is like gross.

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Speaker 4: He split up the Grinch's house.

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Speaker 8: He said, we got mountain, and we got filth, and

622
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Speaker 8: filth is down there. We can either stay in the field.

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Speaker 4: Or you can say, oh, the mountain no filth and

624
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Speaker 4: what both of them are mad. So it's a boohoo

625
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Speaker 4: Christmas for me.

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Speaker 7: This Christmas feels like a booo Christmas.

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Speaker 4: You shouldn't say bob.

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Speaker 7: He said, boo hoo, doo doom.

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Speaker 1: It's goon be little boo Christmas. Gooon be a little

630
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Speaker 1: boo hoo Christmas. And it stinks.

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Speaker 4: There's a little bit more to the story.

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Speaker 8: It's not even that hard to clean the house in

633
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Speaker 8: his opinions, so I don't get away.

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Speaker 1: He wouldn't just want to do it.

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Speaker 8: My brother agrees with my dad that if I want

636
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Speaker 8: to be clean so bad, I should just clean myself,

637
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 8: which like, wow, bro, thanks. At this point, I'm considering

638
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Speaker 8: just not getting any money this Christmas and spending my

639
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Speaker 8: Eve with my siblings at my grandparents. But at the

640
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Speaker 8: same time, I kind of feel guilty if I say no,

641
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Speaker 8: because he's my dad and he'll spend Christmas alone.

642
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 4: If that's the case. My brother said, whatever, and then

643
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 4: he'll just go where I go.

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Speaker 1: He won't spend it alone. He'll be there with his filth.

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Speaker 8: So final question, would I be the a hole for

646
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Speaker 8: saying no?

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Speaker 4: And that's the end of the story. We're going on

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Speaker 4: to the next one.

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Speaker 1: Hey it's Sam.

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Speaker 2: We'll get back to the stories, but here's three minutes

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Speaker 11: My family gave me only joke gifts while they all

653
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Speaker 11: enjoyed real present.

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Speaker 1: Well maybe they just thought you were so funny you

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Speaker 1: needed joke gifts.

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Speaker 11: Some background, My family likes to play pranks with Christmas

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Speaker 11: and Birthday gifts.

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Speaker 4: The worst kind of family. It's nothing new.

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Speaker 11: I female twenty one, as well as my five siblings

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Speaker 11: from twenty nine to thirty seven years old, have all

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Speaker 11: been pranked on our birthdays and on our Christmas, usually

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Speaker 11: with one or two gifts. By the way, this comes

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Speaker 11: from throwaway account four nine nine zero and if you

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Speaker 11: want to smit your own stories, go to the r slash. Okay,

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Speaker 11: storytime suppered it this Christmas, though, I was the only

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Speaker 11: person to get all joke gifts. For example, I unwrapped

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Speaker 11: a MacBook from my brother, but when I opened it,

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Speaker 11: it was just some chocolate, which I don't eat, so

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Speaker 11: I gave it away and the MacBook was actually given

670
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 11: to my sister inside a bag.

671
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: She wanted, what your MacBook?

672
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 11: Wait, I'm sorry, so you got a MacBook box. We're like, oh,

673
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 11: my God, you got me a MacBook. It's chocolate, and

674
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 11: then someone else got the MacBook.

675
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 7: That's actually that's that's that's truly.

676
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: Like they don't like you. Another Yeah, why don't they

677
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: like you?

678
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 4: And why don't they like you?

679
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: What happened? What did you do?

680
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 11: Another gift was what I thought was a book I

681
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 11: put on my Christmas list, but it was actually just

682
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 11: the book cover.

683
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 4: On a dictionary.

684
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 11: When I asked my mom about the book, she told

685
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 11: me she gave it to my sister in law, the

686
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 11: book that you asked for.

687
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: These aren't even like joke gifts.

688
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 7: This is just like they're being like they're treating you

689
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 7: like Harry Potter. Oh my God, like Harry Potter under

690
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 7: the stairs.

691
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 11: This pattern continued with each present my siblings or parents

692
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,959
Speaker 11: had given me. AirPods turned out to be just a charger,

693
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 11: block or adapter. Gift cards were used with a zero

694
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 11: dollar balance. One card even had Monopoly money. This totaled

695
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 11: about twelve joke gifts. I realized I'd gone out of

696
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 11: my way to get everyone something they wanted or would like.

697
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 11: How many family members Jeff I didn't expect I.

698
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 7: Would legit take it all back, give me i'd be like, nope, no, no,

699
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 7: you don't get that anymore. If you're seeing them in

700
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 7: the middle of the night, you're crazy for that.

701
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 11: Do anything in return. Yet I didn't receive anything real.

702
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 11: They're all getting coal. I'm going I'm sneaking into their

703
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 11: house in the middle of the night. I'm stealing their presence,

704
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 11: and I'm grinching the heck out of the place.

705
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not even getting cold. They're eating fire.

706
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 4: They're getting fire.

707
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 11: I'm burning their house down with coal, with coal in fire,

708
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 11: real fire. At this point, I was bummed, So I

709
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 11: went to the living room to watch TV with my boyfriend.

710
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 4: Your boyfriend was there. That's good at least at dinner.

711
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: Maybe they're just jealous.

712
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're like, oh god, I wish I had a boyfriend.

713
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 4: Let's all get her joke gifts show how angry we are.

714
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 12: Yeah.

715
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 11: At dinner, they were all talking about how much they

716
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 11: loved their gifts. When my dad asked why I hadn't

717
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 11: said anything about mine, I said there wasn't much to say.

718
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 11: Everyone but my boyfriend laughed and my mom said it

719
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 11: was no big deal as everyone else also got some

720
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 11: joke gifts. I told her every gift I got was

721
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 11: a joke, while the ones they received were followed by

722
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:02,959
Speaker 11: the real ones.

723
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 7: Like, the only time this is acceptable is if like

724
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 7: you end up getting like a car yeah or something yeah,

725
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 7: or like an all expenses paid trip to like you

726
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 7: get a cruise some other yeah, exactly.

727
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 4: Yeah they pay for a new family.

728
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 7: And even that, dude, some of those cruises are pretty

729
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 7: pretty cheap if you buy tickets.

730
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: Like so it's like it's not even worth it to

731
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: me that that level of anguish.

732
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 11: Yeah, my dad told me I needed to relax so

733
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 11: I was making a big deal out of it, and

734
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 11: that I'd have next Christmas to get the stuff on

735
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 11: my list. He's like, relaxed, kid, you didn't get anything

736
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 11: this year.

737
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: Just wait another year, Just wait a whole other year. Yeah,

738
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: relaxed kid, There's always next year.

739
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 4: Yeah.

740
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 11: It pats you on the back. You kind of like

741
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 11: fallover because he pats you a little too hard.

742
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: Oh no.

743
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 11: Not wanting to go back and forth. I told my

744
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 11: boyfriend I wanted to leave and spend the rest of

745
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 11: Christmas break.

746
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 4: With his family, then go home.

747
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 11: My family got mad and told me not to go,

748
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 11: insisting I stay because it wasn't serious, I left and

749
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 11: put my phone on Do not Disturbed during the drive.

750
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 11: By the time we got to my boyfriend's parents' house,

751
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 11: I had several missed calls and texts from them, calling

752
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 11: me names like ungrateful, sensitive, and childish. Ungrateful for what?

753
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 11: What was there exactly to be grateful for?

754
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 1: How funny they are.

755
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 4: They're like, you just.

756
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 9: Don't understand our comedic talent. Anyone else would be lucky.

757
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 4: We were asked to be on the Jimmy Fallon show.

758
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: You're just like you would have seen the look on

759
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: your face. You'd understand, You'd understand if you only could

760
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:33,800
Speaker 1: have seen the look on your face.

761
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 11: We have a talent that no one quite understands, and

762
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 11: you're just.

763
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,839
Speaker 4: Not ready for it, they said.

764
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 11: I ruined Christmas and made my parents upset because I left.

765
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 11: The next day, I exchanged and open gifts with my

766
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 11: boyfriend and his family. One of the gifts I got

767
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 11: was the book I had wanted, the same book my

768
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 11: mom had pretended to give me. I posted it on

769
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 11: my Instagram story, and not even ten minutes after posting,

770
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 11: my sister sent a screenshot of my story to the

771
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 11: family group chat. They basically got mad at me for

772
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 11: leaving and told me I ruined Christmas over some presents.

773
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 11: They said I owed everyone, especially my parents, an apology

774
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 11: because my mom spent New Year's sad due to my actions.

775
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 4: Again, I hope you're sad.

776
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 11: I hope you're crying in your little New Year's pajamas

777
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 11: wearing one of those weird New Year's glasses.

778
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: Dog, I spent Christmas sadness.

779
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

780
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 11: Now, I just want an outside party to tell me

781
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 11: if I'm the ale here. Am I in the wrong

782
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 11: for being upset about the gifts and for leaving. After

783
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 11: reading their messages and sitting on this for a few days,

784
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 11: I'm now feeling like maybe I was upset over nothing,

785
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 11: and then I need to apologize to them.

786
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 4: Don't apologize.

787
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: I would have been smashing and crashing.

788
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 4: I would be destroyed. This would be me.

789
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 11: I would have pulled a hammer out of hammer space,

790
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 11: smash MacBook.

791
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 5: Your superpowered Yeah, wherever you are, you could summon hammers

792
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 5: out of You're like Clops, Yeah, but with hammers instead

793
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 5: of just unlimited energy.

794
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:05,240
Speaker 4: I'm like Thor, but with hammers.

795
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 6: Bro, That's just Thor.

796
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: You got the joke. Someone give him a prize. Five

797
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: dollars on him.

798
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 11: Yeah, a rash smash smash. I'm not passing any of

799
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,760
Speaker 11: these gifts. I'm smashing them all smash smash smash.

800
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:25,439
Speaker 7: No, I would either get my my vengeance immediately or man,

801
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 7: I would plot them.

802
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 4: Most all year.

803
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 11: They said, well, well you'll get them next year. You plot,

804
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 11: You do like Brooklyn nine nine level heist. You wait,

805
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 11: you bide your.

806
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 4: Time, you say, oh, I'm so sorry. You know, I

807
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 4: really feel bad.

808
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,240
Speaker 11: But all the while you have like one hundred henchmen,

809
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 11: all elf workshop style working on your plot.

810
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, one million little one inch elves. Yeah.

811
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 11: Gonna edit as there may have been some misunderstanding. My

812
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 11: Christmas lift didn't include expensive gifts. Nor was I upset

813
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 11: I didn't receive expensive gifts. I was merely upset because

814
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 11: I've pranked with everything I got and was the only

815
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 11: person who didn't get a real present. Another thing I

816
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 11: want to address is that I didn't do anything to

817
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 11: my family that would warrant this treatment. The last big

818
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 11: argument I had was with my sister, which was over

819
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 11: a year.

820
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 4: And a half ago. Thank you for the replies.

821
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 11: I will try my best to respond to comment spond

822
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 11: at work editing once more to add. I participated in

823
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,399
Speaker 11: joke gifts when I was a kid, but I haven't

824
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 11: participated in the last ten plus years because I didn't

825
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 11: enjoy it or find it funny.

826
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 4: They do know this.

827
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 11: I will reply with more info if needed when I'm

828
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 11: on break or have time to reply. And that's the

829
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 11: end of that story.

830
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 7: My best friend is only after my wallet and I'm

831
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 7: tired of it.

832
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 9: Oh no, no, no, that's not a best friend.

833
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 7: I forty three female, have a very good friend, also

834
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 7: forty three female, and we've known each other for almost

835
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,919
Speaker 7: twenty years. I even want to call her my best

836
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 7: friend on occasion, but she has this one characteristic that

837
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 7: rears its ugly head from time to time, which really

838
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 7: makes me unable to. By the way, this comes from

839
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,240
Speaker 7: user Rasatuban, and if you want to submit your own stories,

840
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 7: go to the r slash okay story.

841
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 1: I'm subered it. I'm Dakota.

842
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm missus Claus, I'm Keon, I'm Riley, and we're

843
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 3: here to give you a little good advice.

844
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: Goof leeve.

845
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 7: We don't have all the answers. We normally don't have

846
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,399
Speaker 7: any answers. We don't know how old missus Claus is.

847
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: Why do you keep bringing that up? Tell us how

848
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: old you think?

849
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 6: Missus?

850
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 7: Clause is in the comments and Op says the thing

851
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 7: is Aside from that one bad habit of hers, she

852
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 7: is a wonderful friend. I have countless hours of fun

853
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 7: with her, and she also helps me anytime I need it.

854
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 1: I help her too, of course. It's a really great friendship.

855
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,800
Speaker 7: She also has three kids, one already grown up female

856
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 7: and two younger ones, thirteen male and eleven female. I

857
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,320
Speaker 7: am child free and have always made it very clear

858
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 7: that I don't like children. I have never harmed or

859
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 7: even been unfriendly to any child, but.

860
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: I do try to steer clear of them.

861
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 7: The characteristic she is very good at and likes to

862
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 7: get people to finance stuff for her and her loved ones.

863
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 7: She only ever asked me for money outright once and

864
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 7: paid it back within a month, so she isn't just

865
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 7: out to get money. But her ever resurfacing hinting of

866
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 7: wanting this or that, or getting me into situations that

867
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 7: make me buy stuff for her through basically social manipulation,

868
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 7: really gives our friendship a bad aftertaste. She has done

869
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 7: it since I've known her, and at least. I suspect

870
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 7: she is very much aware of what she's doing. I

871
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 7: suspect she very much knows what she's doing. She's very

872
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 7: good at keeping the balance of not overdoing it. She's

873
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 7: done it regardless of me earning more or less than her.

874
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 7: We've both had our ups and downs in life, just

875
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 7: like most people. Over the years, I've gotten better at

876
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 7: deflecting some of her advances, but I hate that I

877
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 7: have to do it constantly, and when I do or

878
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 7: don't manage to, it often ruins my good mood. Here

879
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,439
Speaker 7: are some memorable EXAs samples. Back in the day when

880
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 7: calling someone on the phone was actually expensive, no free minutes,

881
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 7: et cetera. She used to call, let it ring once

882
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,959
Speaker 7: and hang up, so I would call her back missed

883
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,760
Speaker 7: call on the phone. We would talk for two hours

884
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 7: at a time on my dime, just because she wanted

885
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 7: to chat. When I stopped calling her back because I

886
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:24,760
Speaker 7: noticed the pattern, she suddenly reduced her jest for chatting

887
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 7: calls from nearly daily to maybe.

888
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 1: Once every week or two.

889
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 7: That's so scummy, so she calls you hangs up immediately

890
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 7: so that you see the miscall. Then you call her

891
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 7: and they get to talk on your mint. What a

892
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 7: scumbag move.

893
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 9: Naughty, naughty list of sands? Ever ever did that to me? Done?

894
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 9: Go sleep with the elves?

895
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 3: You want to stand to the sleep with the elves?

896
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: Yeah? Make yeah, I mean there's a lot of them.

897
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 7: I've heard eight million little one inch elves as the

898
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 7: last number I've heard.

899
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 3: I don't know the North Pole exactly, but more and

900
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 3: more I hear about the North Pole. The more and

901
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 3: more on a pear healing, it sounds well for a

902
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,240
Speaker 3: health make sure to check on us. All your friends

903
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 3: under five seven, they're working real hard right now.

904
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 4: It's true, It's true. I've witnessed it.

905
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 12: Sometimes I get really naughty with WHOA, Right.

906
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: We're gonna pivot off. We're gonna pivot off of that.

907
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna pivot off of that into

908
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 7: the next sentence here.

909
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 4: Oh yeah.

910
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 7: She invited me to her husband's birthday once and told

911
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,320
Speaker 7: me what gift I should bring. At first, I thought

912
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 7: that was cool, since I didn't really know him that well,

913
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 7: because while we were always on friendly terms, we just

914
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 7: weren't close. Turns out that thing cost sixty euros, which

915
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 7: might as well be eight thousand dollars if my conversion

916
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 7: rates are correct, so basically off. She wanted her husband

917
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 7: to get what he wanted to have, but not pay

918
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 7: for it herself.

919
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: How do I come to this conclusion?

920
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 7: I was never invited to his birthday before that or

921
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 7: ever since then. This was also nearly ten years ago,

922
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 7: so in today's money that would probably be more around

923
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 7: eighty to ninety euros. She once called me to lure

924
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 7: me out to join her at our favorite bar, even

925
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 7: though I didn't want to go out that evening. She

926
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,240
Speaker 7: worked me for a good ten minutes on the phone

927
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 7: to not be a spoil sport.

928
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: And the reason is so I could pay her tab.

929
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 7: I found out only after I had already ordered something

930
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 7: for myself from the waiter. I suspect I was not

931
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 7: the only friend she pulled that one on, So like,

932
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,240
Speaker 7: why did we continue to hang out with this person?

933
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 3: Dang, she's a master manipulator. Sounds like Riley Woo.

934
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 9: You guys should fight and then maybe kiss?

935
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 3: Could we kiss?

936
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 7: Fight?

937
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 1: Yeah?

938
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,959
Speaker 7: Kiss fight, kids fight, kids fight, kids fight.

939
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 1: I'll just beat her hanging out kiss.

940
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 9: Him, kiss fight him.

941
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 4: I want to see it.

942
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 3: I don't need to see things like I kiss fight you.

943
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 13: No, no, no, no, she does it with the reindeers

944
00:42:55,560 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 13: about I don't know really what she does more news.

945
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, maybe I should write a Reddit story.

946
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: Maybe we bought that.

947
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 6: Yeah.

948
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 7: She asked me if I wanted to go shopping for

949
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 7: some interior stuff since she was refurbishing her apartment. Of course,

950
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,439
Speaker 7: she sees stuff she likes, picks it up and puts

951
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 7: it back, saying something like no, that'll go over my budget. Okay,

952
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 7: sure that sucks, I guess, And it's always only when

953
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 7: I'm near enough to see and hear. So of course

954
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 7: she ended up getting some items she wanted that I

955
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 7: paid for in the end, Why did you do that?

956
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 7: Why everyone? Let this be a lesson?

957
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 3: Her tactics aren't even tactics. She's just doing it. She's

958
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 3: really good.

959
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 7: You're just like willingly doing this. Just don't pay for

960
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 7: her things. If she goes, oh, she'll pick up the

961
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 7: tab You go, no, I won't. What made you think

962
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 7: I would just do that?

963
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 3: She'd be like, yeah, my portion, Yeah, I'll.

964
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 1: Pay for this stuff I ordered.

965
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 9: This girl's not very nice.

966
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 3: What would you say she is? Then?

967
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 4: Well, see we have.

968
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:59,320
Speaker 9: We have some different languages in the.

969
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 3: North Pole she's not nice? What is she?

970
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: Oh?

971
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 9: Naughty?

972
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:02,760
Speaker 4: Naughty?

973
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 9: Is that where're going with?

974
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 1: Oh?

975
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 9: Oh oh, I see, I was thinking that you say.

976
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 1: Something in Elfish.

977
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,720
Speaker 3: I was, yes, yea Elfish.

978
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 13: Elfish.

979
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 3: Look, sometimes I'm Elfish, some days I don't.

980
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: I don't speak Alfish.

981
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 13: You know you remind me of a young sat I

982
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 13: can't stop thinking about it ever since I sat down.

983
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:22,840
Speaker 4: It's just what's in the eyes?

984
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: Where Senna from Hoboken?

985
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, kalamazoo am.

986
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 9: I supposed to answer that.

987
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 6: I mean, you're the only person I think would know

988
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 6: that answer.

989
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:31,280
Speaker 9: He's from New Zealand.

990
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,800
Speaker 6: Oh wow, I mean that's close to an island.

991
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: I would have never thought that it's pretty southern.

992
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 9: Well, I don't know. Talk to him about it.

993
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 4: Apparently likes to talk to people.

994
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 3: And that's how the cookie crumbles right into me.

995
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: Walter. I'm a little boo boo Walter.

996
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 7: She always brings up occasions of her kids where one

997
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,399
Speaker 7: would be expected to bring gifts, such as birthdays, back

998
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 7: to school days, Easter, et cetera, even though I have

999
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 7: literally told her that I have no interest in becoming

1000
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 7: a gift auntie for her kids. Who is expected to

1001
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 7: be showered with gifts on every occasion. That last one

1002
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 7: is actually the reason for this rant. I invited her

1003
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 7: to a pub quiz with some friends last Thursday, since

1004
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 7: she hasn't been to one in ages. We both loved

1005
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 7: them and used to go regularly years ago. While on

1006
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 7: the way to our table, she casually brought up that

1007
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 7: next week.

1008
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: Is her daughter's birthday.

1009
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,320
Speaker 7: I didn't say anything, and she didn't try to follow

1010
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 7: up either, but I caught myself thinking, man, not again,

1011
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 7: how many times are you going to try and get

1012
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 7: me to buy expensive gifts for your kids? Because of that,

1013
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 7: I can also never be sure if we're just having

1014
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:38,360
Speaker 7: a casual conversation about life getting more expensive in general

1015
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 7: when we talk and I get it and it does,

1016
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 7: or if she is trying to soften me up for

1017
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 7: her next attempt to weasel out stuff from me again.

1018
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 7: It is just so tiring to always be on the

1019
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:53,359
Speaker 7: lookout for that. My suspicion is that is exactly what's

1020
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 7: happening right now. Because she just had to get a

1021
00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 7: new car. The old one was basically non functioning. We

1022
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 7: made a little test drive to a restaurant out of

1023
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:06,280
Speaker 7: town with her new one, A few weeks ago, I paid,

1024
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 7: but that was my choice why And she complained about

1025
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 7: what a huge hole it cut into her budget on

1026
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 7: the way, So maybe she actually cleverly manipulated me into paying. Again,

1027
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 7: she's not really cleverly manipulating you into anything.

1028
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: To be clear, you are just paying.

1029
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 3: Well, why are you still falling for this?

1030
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 1: You're just deciding to give for your money.

1031
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:31,280
Speaker 13: I could tell Santa to get you a brain for Christmas.

1032
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe that might be good for you, because it.

1033
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 13: Seems like to me, at least, I think that you're

1034
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,359
Speaker 13: just letting this girl step all over you.

1035
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 4: And I'm not really sure.

1036
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 9: Why what has she done for you?

1037
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:44,240
Speaker 4: Darling?

1038
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,320
Speaker 1: What what have you done for me lately?

1039
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 3: Pay for my things?

1040
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 9: It seems like whoa, you look like a thumb?

1041
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 4: Right there?

1042
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: Did you see that?

1043
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 7: No?

1044
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 1: I didn't look like a thumb. Misclause, Stop you look

1045
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: like thumb.

1046
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 3: No, you look like thumb.

1047
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,240
Speaker 4: You look book done with thumb.

1048
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: No, I don't take that back.

1049
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 3: Please look a handsome thumb, please please.

1050
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean anything coming from you.

1051
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:06,840
Speaker 9: I have to hear from his clothes, all right, I

1052
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:07,800
Speaker 9: take it back.

1053
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 1: Psuch, I evaporate.

1054
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at that look at that her carpor total's cured.

1055
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: All right.

1056
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 7: It was a nice outing, and she wants to do

1057
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 7: something like that again while it's still summer, possibly together

1058
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 7: with her kids, reassuring me how well behaved they are

1059
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 7: and that it won't turn into a babysitting chore to

1060
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 7: the same restaurant.

1061
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: Food for two cost me a hundred euros.

1062
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,439
Speaker 7: So while it sounds kind of nice, I can't shake

1063
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 7: the sinking feeling that she expects me to pay for

1064
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 7: it all and will socially pressure me into doing exactly that,

1065
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 7: this time for her and her kids, while entertaining them

1066
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 7: at the same time, knowing full well that I do

1067
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 7: not like children.

1068
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: So that's it. Thanks for lending me your digital ears.

1069
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 7: Do you have a friend or family member like that, Hey,

1070
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 7: girly pop, that's not your friend.

1071
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 3: That's your leech mmmm.

1072
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 7: That Yeah, not unless you were like a bajillionaire, you know,

1073
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 7: and it was like that was your decision.

1074
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, But y'all are relatively equal.

1075
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:15,879
Speaker 7: Like if you had a bunch of elf feet, if

1076
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:19,399
Speaker 7: you were just drowning inn l feet m, that's one thing,

1077
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 7: but you're not.

1078
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 9: That's a lot of currency right there.

1079
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 4: Not gonna lie.

1080
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 7: I mean if you yeah, because they're already so small,

1081
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 7: if you could drown in that, that's we're talking about billions.

1082
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 9: I think, oh, Pete, you know what to do. You're

1083
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 9: just not doing it. I don't know you're You're sitting

1084
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,280
Speaker 9: here complaining and you know that's wrong.

1085
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 3: You just keep letting her do it to you.

1086
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 9: I'm just I fel bad for you. I want to

1087
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 9: hug you all you need to do.

1088
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 4: Cookies.

1089
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 7: Thanks everyone, but please don't oversimplify our relationship into her

1090
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 7: mooching off me every chance she gets.

1091
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:53,320
Speaker 1: But that's what she does.

1092
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 7: Aside from the instances I mentioned, we really do have

1093
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,359
Speaker 7: a good friendship. The rest of the time. We have

1094
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 7: fun together and help each other out like normal friends do.

1095
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 7: A week ago, when we ate out, she even paid

1096
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 7: for both of us. It isn't as clear cut as

1097
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 7: many commenters think. You certainly wrote it in a way

1098
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,879
Speaker 7: that was pretty clear cut at a number two. I'm

1099
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 7: very much aware that I need to say no or

1100
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 7: not engage in her hinting, and I do that more

1101
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 7: often than not.

1102
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:19,359
Speaker 3: There you go.

1103
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:23,439
Speaker 1: It doesn't change that. It's still frustrating. Hence my vent.

1104
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 7: Many here give very well meant tips that boil down

1105
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 7: to basically faking that I don't have the money to

1106
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 7: pay for whatever the flavor or of the favor might be.

1107
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 7: This will never work. As she knows, I'm doing well

1108
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 7: for myself financially. I'm not rich by a long shot,

1109
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,399
Speaker 7: but I'm comfortable. And that is the end of that story.

1110
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 1: John here og host.

1111
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:45,399
Speaker 2: We're gonna get back to these stories, but a quick

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Speaker 2: three minute break from hops from our sponsors.

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Speaker 3: I was left alone to do all the holiday meals,

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Speaker 3: so I retaliated, as you should, darling for holidays. My

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Speaker 3: family usually takes turns hosting, and it's a pot Look.

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Speaker 3: We call each other, just sign on a menu, were

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Speaker 3: and what's and decide who brings what everyone contributes. Sounds cute,

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Speaker 3: by the way. This comes from user gold Mary Gold

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Speaker 3: six four nine, And if you want to submit your

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Speaker 3: own stories, go to the r slash Okay story time

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Speaker 3: separate it. I'm Keon and.

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Speaker 9: I'm missus Claws.

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Speaker 6: I'm Riley, and.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for being here. Missus Clau's first and foremost, we yishchools.

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Speaker 9: I would never miss this for the world.

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Speaker 3: Amazing and we're here to give good advice. Goofly, we

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Speaker 3: don't have all the answers. We only know what we do,

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Speaker 3: so let us know what you do in the comments. Pretty,

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Speaker 3: please do it for missus Claws.

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Speaker 4: Oh, please do it for me.

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Speaker 3: Over the years, we bought a house. One sister call

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Speaker 3: her Alice not her real name, got divorced, and other

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Speaker 3: family members couldn't host because their homes were too small.

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Speaker 3: So the last couple of years it has been falling

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Speaker 3: on us and my other sister we'll call her Carol

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Speaker 3: not her real name, to host over and over because

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Speaker 3: your houses are better for large gatherings.

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Speaker 9: Okay, for now, you said that, just like mister Claus.

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Speaker 4: That was hot.

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Speaker 3: I have a girlfriend.

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Speaker 9: I understand that.

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Speaker 3: Jiled, You're too sweet, like your cookies.

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Speaker 9: So I'm going to turn into this background you not

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Speaker 9: see me.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to be so read.

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Speaker 3: By the end of this phenomenon. Man, I'm just jolly.

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Speaker 3: But a couple of years ago it got too much.

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Speaker 3: Just like between me and missus Claws, we all decided

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Speaker 3: on the day time and other details as usual. However,

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Speaker 3: Carol called about a week early saying she can't bring

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Speaker 3: any food because I have an important appointment and won't

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Speaker 3: have time to cook. I said, okay, Carol usually cooks

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Speaker 3: a lot of things, so I didn't mind this one

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Speaker 3: time she honestly couldn't cook. I said, I will take

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Speaker 3: over what you can't make this year, except the vegetarian entree.

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Speaker 3: She made alental dish every year. So the time for

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Speaker 3: the meal arrives and nobody is there. My sister, who

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Speaker 3: can't cook because of an appointment, showed up thirty minutes

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Speaker 3: late and said her appointment had actually been canceled.

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Speaker 4: I no, oh, what happened?

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Speaker 3: Did it is surprisingly canceled? Like an hour ago or

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Speaker 3: like a day ago?

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Speaker 9: Mm seems a little sus. That's right, So I know

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Speaker 9: that would look at you?

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Speaker 6: What about fishy? You guys have fish over there.

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Speaker 4: In north Yeah? Yeah, you know this fish? Yes?

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Speaker 6: Does it smeller? Because it's so cold you can't really

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Speaker 6: smell it.

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Speaker 3: What do elves eat?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 9: Elves?

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Speaker 4: Elves? Actually did that?

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Speaker 3: You just give him slop?

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Speaker 1: No tree bok?

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Speaker 13: But like it's so, the trees are candy cane trees

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Speaker 13: that eat the box off the candy cane trees.

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Speaker 9: Tree box candy cane.

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Speaker 3: I can't call it candy wood.

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Speaker 9: No, no, darling, that's weird.

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Speaker 13: I don't call it candy wood caddy gang bock tree bark.

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Speaker 3: She still didn't bring one thing to contribute. She never

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Speaker 3: brought her dish. She then said she arrived late because

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Speaker 3: she had talked to Alice, who said she was arriving

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Speaker 3: even later. I called Alice and she said her daughter

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Speaker 3: had just started cooking the potatoes and she lives one

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Speaker 3: hour away. Infamously late in my family, shout out to me, Alison,

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Speaker 3: her niece arrived three hours late with the mashed potatoes,

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Speaker 3: and Alice made the salad in my kitchen when she arrived.

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Speaker 3: One nephew arrived two hours late with a bag of

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Speaker 3: salad greens from the store. Missus Claus, I know you

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Speaker 3: just got internet. Have you seen that one lady on

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Speaker 3: TikTok that sees everyone's dishes when they bring it to

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Speaker 3: the pot luck? No, Oh, she's amazing. Does anyone if

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Speaker 3: you know who were talking about? Oh, she will like

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Speaker 3: rate your dish or like oh I was like ah,

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Speaker 3: I brought like literally like a bag of salad and

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Speaker 3: she's like you get to throw right now. It's amazing.

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Speaker 6: It was like how you used to react back in

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Speaker 6: the days. That's what she was doing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, One nephew arrived two hours late with the bag

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Speaker 3: of salad greens from the store. Another nephew arrived three

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Speaker 3: and a half hours later, then started cooking vegan burger

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Speaker 3: patties on the stove for only himself.

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Speaker 13: Okay, I have never once cooked something just for myself,

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Speaker 13: never ever in my lifetime. It's always been for everyone,

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Speaker 13: So I don't understand that me too.

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Speaker 3: I don't know as of right now, everyone's getting throw

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Speaker 3: If I were to judge this pot luck, yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: pretty weak. Yeah, who lives with us didn't contribute either,

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Speaker 3: and I ended up cooking one hundred percent of the meal.

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Speaker 3: I ate. We ate with whoever and whatever was there

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Speaker 3: at thirty minutes late, when we realized everyone else wasn't

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Speaker 3: coming for hours. The food that was brought later was

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Speaker 3: only eaten by the few that were late, because sakes

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Speaker 3: of the eleven people coming had already eaten. There were

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Speaker 3: no apologies for being so late and being disrespectful, no

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Speaker 3: apologies for not bringing something to contribute after the appointment

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Speaker 3: was canceled. Nothing all the work of house cleaning, preparation,

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Speaker 3: buying enough food for twelve to fifteen people, even if

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Speaker 3: it was just my menu items. Dinner prep, cooking, after

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Speaker 3: dinner cleanup fell entirely on who me.

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Speaker 13: Oh no, see, I at least have like the woodland

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Speaker 13: creatures to help me. Yeah, oh really, yes, yes, I

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Speaker 13: am always in contact with them.

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Speaker 3: Actually, who's your top woodland creature?

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Speaker 12: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I was gonna say, who's your best helper? Yeah.

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Speaker 9: I didn't like to play favorites, but there is that.

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Speaker 4: It's true. Everyone does of this.

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Speaker 3: Like me, I'm like your favorites.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's true.

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Speaker 1: It's true.

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Speaker 12: I wasn't gonna say my number one help her is

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Speaker 12: her name is Filippy and she's she's a squirrel. Oh

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Speaker 12: and she she always sometimes she'll come and like sit

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Speaker 12: on my shoulder and just whisper sweet nothings and it

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Speaker 12: just really helps me throughout my day.

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Speaker 3: That's sweet.

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Speaker 4: And then she cleans the dishes with her tail.

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Speaker 9: It's really it's such a sight to see.

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Speaker 4: It's really impressive.

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Speaker 3: It sounds unsanitary, but very sweet.

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Speaker 4: It is.

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Speaker 1: It was too much.

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Speaker 3: I felt entirely taken advantage of and sent a message

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Speaker 3: the day after that I am never hosting again and

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Speaker 3: that the rest of them will need to make alternative

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Speaker 3: arrangements for future holidays. The next holiday, they called to

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Speaker 3: make plans and were shocked when I said, no participating

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Speaker 3: in the dinner. We were just going to have our

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Speaker 3: own dinner with only my immediate family, so much less stress.

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Speaker 3: While arguing about it with Alice, I explained exactly what

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Speaker 3: happened and why I had stopped. She said something like, oh, okay,

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Speaker 3: I see your point of view, and we didn't really

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Speaker 3: think anything of it.

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Speaker 1: You always do it.

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Speaker 3: Since then, the rest of the family has just had

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Speaker 3: holiday dinners in ones and twos by themselves. I still

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Speaker 3: get inquiries if we are going to host, and I

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Speaker 3: turn it around and ask them if they are going

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Speaker 3: to be hosting. Always the answer is no.

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Speaker 9: I you know what we should do a sequel? I

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Speaker 9: would love that. I love getting out of the house.

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Speaker 9: I don't do it often, but I when I do do.

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Speaker 3: Sannah let you out of the house. Like, does he

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Speaker 3: say you can't leave? No?

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Speaker 9: No, it's not that I can't leave. I'm not like

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Speaker 9: held there against my will.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, okay, but I'm a lazy Mary sometimes and sometimes

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Speaker 13: I just like to surround and just do my own thing,

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Speaker 13: and you know, but but then other days I have

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Speaker 13: to work really really hard, and so you.

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Speaker 9: Know, a vacation once in a while. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 9: say no.

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Speaker 3: To all Right, Well, you know what, missus Claus, you

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Speaker 3: deserve a vacation. You deserve to be treated like the

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Speaker 3: queen you are. Boys agreed, I'll put in a good

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Speaker 3: word with Santa that you should get like a spot. Ay.

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Speaker 9: You know, I've been asking him for years. Years I've

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Speaker 9: been asking him.

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Speaker 3: Hear he like Millennias, are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: Right now? You're gonna break up age and the times

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Speaker 1: like this?

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Speaker 3: Keeme on, man, come on, missus Clauses twenty five and

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Speaker 3: Favorite Street Time?

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Speaker 1: What true? It's man?

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Speaker 3: My son just asked me, uh, if you had changed

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Speaker 3: your mind about having the whole family over for Christmas dinner?

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Speaker 3: And he thought it was because of him and his

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Speaker 3: dad they were working on the truck. He had forgotten

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Speaker 3: the whole family story. When I told him, he understood.

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Speaker 3: But now remember my husband and he decided that that

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Speaker 3: was the day, the day we were having about twelve

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Speaker 3: to fifteen people for the holiday meal, that they had

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Speaker 3: to work on the truck.

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Speaker 6: Come on, you can work on the truck whenever.

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Speaker 1: That's true.

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Speaker 9: This is a holiday. Why are they not spending it together?

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Speaker 4: That hurts my.

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Speaker 3: Hont Why are they also not helping you with anything? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they were working on the truck all day. What's wrong

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Speaker 3: with that truck? They had to park it right in

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Speaker 3: front of the front door, No, they didn't. There was

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Speaker 3: lots and lots of room elsewhere. Anyone coming to the

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Speaker 3: house had to walk around the truck, through puddles and

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Speaker 3: squeeze between a planner and the truck to get in.

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Speaker 3: They wouldn't even consider moving it elsewhere if they did

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Speaker 3: nothing to help make the meal or assist with house

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Speaker 3: cleanup or prep. I was so mad at everybody. It's

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Speaker 3: all coming back and I'm mad all over again. That's

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Speaker 3: the end of that story.