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Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tori Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. So every year

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Speaker 1: I say to myself, Okay, I am not going to

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Speaker 1: let Christmas sneak up on me. I'm not gonna let

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Speaker 1: it happen this year. And I say I'm going to

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Speaker 1: plan ahead. Yeah right, you guys knew me.

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Speaker 2: I don't plan. That would make life too easy.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, guess what, it's Christmas. Oh my gosh, it's

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Speaker 1: almost Christmas. And you know what that means. Its amount

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Speaker 1: of time. So it's interesting because my friend Macy said

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Speaker 1: to me this year, I'm going to help you. She

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Speaker 1: was helping me out while I was doing Dancing with

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Speaker 1: the Stars the finale, and she said, I'm gonna help you.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get kids to write their Christmas list, and

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Speaker 1: no joke. I said to her, it's no, what are

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Speaker 1: you talking about? And she goes, it's November. What are

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Speaker 1: Why do I do this to myself?

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Speaker 2: You're right?

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Speaker 1: So she got the kids to all right Christmas list

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Speaker 1: and then she said, I'm going to help you here

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Speaker 1: And I said, okay, that's great, and she said, when

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Speaker 1: can you go like next weekend. I was like no, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: no no, we have so much time. Long story short,

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Speaker 1: it's a days before Christmas. I haven't even put a

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Speaker 1: huge dent into the Christmas list and I never took

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Speaker 1: mac up on that.

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Speaker 2: May see if for listening, what are you doing Christmas Eve?

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Speaker 1: So Christmas time is stressful with five kids. Christmas time

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Speaker 1: is stressful with any amount of kids.

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Speaker 2: You know what's doubly it's doubly award.

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Speaker 1: You know what's double stressful this year is that we

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Speaker 1: do celebrate Christmas and Hanukah. And it's again I always

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Speaker 1: say this, it's not about a religious thing. It's a

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Speaker 1: holiday celebration thing. And while I am Jewish, always have

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Speaker 1: celebrated Christmas. You know, I grew up my mom went

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Speaker 1: all out for Christmas, but we all also celebrated Hanukah

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Speaker 1: and all Jewish holidays.

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Speaker 2: So but this.

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Speaker 1: Year, I'm not sure what happened, but Christmas and Hanukah

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Speaker 1: fall in the same day.

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Speaker 2: It literally never happens. Ritana. Is this true? Yes, that

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Speaker 2: is true.

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Speaker 3: They paul exactly the same time this year.

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Speaker 2: Which.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I mean, if you're a household that celebrates both.

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Speaker 1: It's well, it sucks for the parents, That's all I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say, because it's you know, first of all, Christmas

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Speaker 1: is about giving and giving and giving and giving until

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Speaker 1: you just are completely suck dry. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna candy can it here.

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Speaker 2: I'd love a Candican right now. The Cancan is espresso martini.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't that sound good?

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Speaker 3: That sounds amazing.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, with a sugar run.

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Speaker 1: I said, okay, well, I'm getting distracted by my own

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Speaker 1: self typical. So you know, kids make their Christmas list,

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Speaker 1: they're devastated if they don't get the things on their list.

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Speaker 1: And you're like, oh, sorry, I guess Santa couldn't get

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Speaker 1: you everything. My kids said to me last year, do

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Speaker 1: you think next year you could get me something? And

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Speaker 1: I wanted to say, like, oh, I got you everything

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Speaker 1: that you got, and he's like, because Santa got me

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Speaker 1: all these presents, and Mom, you didn't get me anything.

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Speaker 1: But I couldn't say anything.

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, that's true, that's true. So Christmas

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Speaker 2: gifts and then eight days to Hanka. So if you

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Speaker 2: do both, you do both. That's great.

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Speaker 1: That's great, and then of course it's just a lot,

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Speaker 1: and it's overwhelming. And when things get overwhelming and there's

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Speaker 1: a list for me to do, I tend to focus

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Speaker 1: on like number twenty on the list of top ten.

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Speaker 2: So wait, I have a question, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Are you going to buy each child a present for

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Speaker 3: each night of Hanukkah?

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Speaker 2: Fuck?

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Speaker 3: No, okay, because I was going to say, you may

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Speaker 1: No more of a symbolic I used to listen, I'm

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Speaker 1: a tired old mom. Like as my best friend Jess

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Speaker 1: always says, lame Stella got the best years of my life,

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Speaker 1: like bo being the fifth child, had him at forty four.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a poor guy. He just gets slumped.

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Speaker 1: And the good and bad news is he doesn't know.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't really really know, Euce if he watches that

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Speaker 1: damn YouTube and YouTube ruins things like there's so many Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I would make cookies, cookies, cookies from scratch.

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Speaker 1: I didn't stop di wining and baking until the well

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Speaker 2: I was younger then too, but I just don't have

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Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll put out our manora and we'll light

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Speaker 1: the candles every night, and perhaps a chocolate coin every night.

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Speaker 2: Boe got excited about those.

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Speaker 1: So that's what he knows in a dradle, and maybe

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Speaker 1: one small gift the first night.

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Speaker 2: That sounds good, That sounds doable. Going back to gifts,

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Speaker 2: Can I talk elf on the shelf? Please?

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Speaker 1: Elf on the shelf? Is just there's so many things now,

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Speaker 1: Like I mean, there's like, oh gosh, elf on a shelf.

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Speaker 1: There's minch on a bench. There's a fairy on the prairie,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, like Snoop dog on the roof, Snoop

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Speaker 1: I always say, I'm guilty mom, guilty working mom, and

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Speaker 1: oh my god, what a great idea, what a great

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Speaker 1: new tradition. Yes, yes, until I have to do the

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Speaker 1: this year the teenagers, I was like, hey, guys, I'm

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Speaker 1: So we do this thing and we go through the

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Speaker 1: run by Stella and be like, tag, you're it, and she's.

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Speaker 2: Like no, I'm like, yeah, yeah, you're it, and she's like,

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Speaker 2: oh no why.

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Speaker 1: And then Liam will do it one night, Patty'll do

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Speaker 1: it one night, Finn I'll do it one night. Which

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Speaker 1: I won't even talk Santa with them because I don't

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Speaker 2: We're just pushing through. We just celebrate as if he

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Speaker 1: You know, at this point, Bo's the only one that's

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Speaker 1: I always say, our elves are kind of naughty, and

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Speaker 1: They're mischievous, rebellious, they're me in an elf Zah.

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Speaker 2: Finn did this one.

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Speaker 1: Finn joined in on the fun down one morning and

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Speaker 1: the elves were all gathered around the stove and they

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Speaker 2: How do you like your reindeer rare, medium or well done? Wow?

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Speaker 1: When it comes to elves and reindeers, we're vegan. It's

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Speaker 1: funny when girls versus boys do it, because Stella and Hattie.

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Speaker 2: Do do the elves.

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Speaker 1: And it's like very creative and very artsy, and you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a better It's better than my elves that caught

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Speaker 1: heartbreaking when their skins started to catch on fire. It

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Speaker 1: Wolves and they've made it through, so can't wait for

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Speaker 2: Anyway.

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Speaker 1: It's very confusing Christmas dinner because it's Tonica dinner as well,

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Speaker 1: so if you celebrate both. Oh, I can't even say

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Speaker 1: what I'm about to say. We we typically have a

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Speaker 1: Christmas ham.

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Speaker 2: Wow. It would.

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Speaker 1: Only because it's you know me, I'm really big on tradition.

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Speaker 1: Growing up, we always had turkey for Thanksgiving my mom

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Speaker 2: So I just grew up with that tradition.

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Speaker 3: You know, you could do some potato pancakes and call

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Speaker 2: Definitely some potato pancakes.

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Speaker 1: But it's like, yeah, okay, so yeah, I told Stella

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Speaker 1: we can't have a ham. And I was like, I know,

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Speaker 1: but you guys love Hi bait tam for Christmas. She's like,

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Speaker 1: I know, but it's it's Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Christmas cu, Christmas cut, Christmacha, Christmas cut. What is that?

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Speaker 3: I like, Christmacha.

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Speaker 2: Christmacha, It's Christmacha. Yeah. So anyway, it'll be interesting to

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Speaker 3: Ham and Lacus a great Hanaka tradition.

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Speaker 2: So you know what you know when that big like

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Speaker 2: stuff a bird and a bird and a bird was

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Speaker 2: back was in like back in the day. I remember

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Speaker 2: I made a turn duncan turn duck in one year?

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Speaker 3: What is that?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 3: You put a duck in a turkey.

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Speaker 2: You're going to be so mad right now? You put

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Speaker 2: a duck in a you put a duck in a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not working for me on any level.

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Speaker 2: I know. So maybe this year I have a turkey.

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Speaker 2: I have a turkey.

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Speaker 1: I stuff it was get filter fish with the slab

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Speaker 1: of ham perfect right across the top of it.

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Speaker 2: Perfect. Get filter fish, like the nastiest Jewish food ever created.

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Speaker 2: Fair that concur I.

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Speaker 1: Don't know one Jewish human that likes it, or non

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Speaker 1: you know it's bad when you get it, because it's tradition.

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Speaker 1: You're like, oh, we have the gift filter fish, and

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Speaker 1: everyone's like, I don't want to filled of fish. And

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Speaker 1: and we're still just trying to survive Christmas, surviving the holidays,

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Speaker 1: like getting through it.

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Speaker 2: And it's like wow, and Bo said.

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Speaker 1: Mom, you haven't taken me to any of the places

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Speaker 1: because another this is another like a thing where the

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Speaker 1: lights are, where the Christmas lights are. We haven't gone

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Speaker 1: to a Christmas activity like one of those. And I

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Speaker 1: was like, I was like, but we made it to

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Speaker 1: the Christmas tree lot we did made it. I used

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Speaker 1: to cut down my own damn tree.

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Speaker 2: That's a lie to make my kids cut down the tree,

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Speaker 2: and I videotaped it, but no, I did. I did.

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Speaker 1: And now I'm like, oh my gosh, it used to

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Speaker 1: be a fake tree, girl, Like I wasn't faking it.

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Speaker 3: There's no shame in a fake tree. No, they're great,

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Speaker 3: they're awesome. And gift bags and anything that simplifies the

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Speaker 3: holiday process, there is no shame in that.

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Speaker 1: So it's just the tradition is a real hard thing

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Speaker 1: for me to let go of, especially we tried to

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Speaker 1: create something for your kids and then things are different

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Speaker 1: and you don't want them to feel like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: look what happened. Our lives fell apart, our parents divorced,

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Speaker 1: and then even our Christmas wasn't the same, like on

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Speaker 1: some level. So I'm still kind of making up. So

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Speaker 1: we got to follow a tradition. Gotta follow tradition. I

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Speaker 1: know I need to let it go, but or find

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Speaker 1: a happy medium. Twenty twenty five Christmas, it's going to

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Speaker 1: be the one. I'm not going to be surviving twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five Christmas. I'm gonna be diving into twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: five Christmas starting in September.

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Speaker 2: There, I said that or I could make this real easy.

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Speaker 1: Guys, hey, the hoard at heart here, I could just

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Speaker 1: not take anything down, and by next Christmas I will

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Speaker 1: be winning because I'll be.

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Speaker 2: So far ahead.

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Speaker 1: You know the people like when you go like fourth

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Speaker 1: of July and suddenly you go to like a store

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Speaker 1: and it's like, already they have Halloween, and then like

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Speaker 1: the day after Halloween, already they have Christmas. So the

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Speaker 1: day after Halloween, I'll be like, okay, focus here, we'll

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Speaker 1: pick one room and we'll decorate for Halloween, and then everything.

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Speaker 2: Else in the house. I'll just leave Christmas.

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Speaker 1: So by the time we get to November first, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: Christmas is on perfect.

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Speaker 2: It's a thought.

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Speaker 1: So you guys, whatever you do, try not distress.

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Speaker 2: Don't stress. It's just Christmas.

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Speaker 1: You know what I am gonna miss though, you know

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Speaker 1: what's given me a lot of solace during this last

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Speaker 1: month of stress. Or Christmas movies like Bow and Bo

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Speaker 1: is funny. Bo loves Christmas movies, but not just Christmas movies,

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Speaker 1: like of course, you know, we went through all the

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Speaker 1: new ones that came out this year and he watched

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Speaker 1: it like Red One and like and he loves Spirited

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Speaker 1: with you know Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell. But we

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Speaker 1: go through all of them and then we go to

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Speaker 1: the like you know, Old School one. So he watches

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Speaker 1: Home Alone and Elf and like, you know, Christmas Story,

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Speaker 1: like all the ones I grew up with and everything.

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Speaker 1: And then once that's all done, I'm not kidding this,

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Speaker 1: like creative seven year old, genius, little man, old soul.

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Speaker 1: He will go through and watch all the Hallmark movies

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, what seven year old is interested in

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Speaker 1: a Hallmark movie? And he's like, oh mom, and he oh.

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Speaker 1: This kid talks through everything and I'm like, oh my god, stop.

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Speaker 1: But I can't make him stop because he's so smart.

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Speaker 1: He will be like, oh, you understand what's happening here.

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Speaker 1: She's sad on Christmas, but he has come into her

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Speaker 1: life and by the end of the movie they're going

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Speaker 1: to be together and she's no longer going to be sad.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, how does he know this? And I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a Hallmark movie. You know you can

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Speaker 1: figure it out, but not at seven. But there's no

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Speaker 1: like fun like Christmas elves. And it's not like Grinch,

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Speaker 1: and it's not like fun. It's just like you know,

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Speaker 1: the Hallmark romance, Like middle aged women like me watch

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Speaker 1: it and cry like a seven year old. He's like,

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Speaker 1: but you know, in all fairness, he ran out of others.

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Speaker 2: But he'll watch it.

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Speaker 1: Anything Christmas, he will watch That's all I'm saying. So

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Speaker 1: I'll be sad when those are done. But anyway, whatever

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Speaker 1: you do for the holidays, don't stress or stress too much.

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Speaker 1: Try to enjoy yourselves because we're always told to live

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Speaker 1: in the present.

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Speaker 2: Get at the presence. Oh how am I gonna wrap

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Speaker 2: those damn presents?

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Speaker 1: But you know what the good news is, guys, next

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Speaker 1: time we talk, ugh talk, I'll talk.

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Speaker 2: You'll listen. It's like therapy for me.

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Speaker 1: It'll be twenty twenty five and twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be the one. It's gonna be the one.

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Speaker 2: You guys, don't you say that every year? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm pulling for twenty twenty five. Happy Holidays,