Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Magical Rewind.
Speaker 2: We're doing a very special episode right now because we
Speaker 2: want to talk a little bit about Christmas.
Speaker 1: Is this one of your favorite times of the year, Sabrina?
Speaker 3: I love Christmas time. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: Is it a little crazy with what you do?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: What's so crazy is that every year I go, I
Speaker 3: think to myself, when I'm taking down my tree and
Speaker 3: Christmas is done and we're in the new year, I've
Speaker 3: got to decorate earlier next year. I got to decorate
Speaker 3: earlier next year. Well, guess what, it didn't happen again.
Speaker 3: It just it's such a crazy part of the year
Speaker 3: for me, and I do not like how the last
Speaker 3: two years, because Thanksgiving is so late, it really trumps
Speaker 3: into the Christmas time. So I love it. I love
Speaker 3: when my house is decorated, my outside. I love my
Speaker 3: Christmas lights outside. I love coming home at night and
Speaker 3: seeing them. Like everything, it's just good times and hot
Speaker 3: cocoa and more movies by the fire. I just absolutely
Speaker 3: love the Christmas time.
Speaker 1: What about you will, I'm getting better?
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: I was not always a Christmas tan, obviously, I liked
Speaker 1: it when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: And then, uh, you know, it was always a lot
Speaker 2: of travel and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I just it seemed like the I mean, I
Speaker 1: always called.
Speaker 2: It stress miss because it seems like you're always trying
Speaker 2: to just you know, I've got to buy this.
Speaker 1: And I've got to do this. And then Susan came
Speaker 1: into my life.
Speaker 2: And she's a big is she she loves Christmas. Okay,
Speaker 2: so she likes a very specific kind of tree and
Speaker 2: we decorate the same kind. So since she's come into
Speaker 2: my life, I'm getting better every year. I also, as
Speaker 2: the older I'm getting I feel like Christmas happens every weekend.
Speaker 2: Like I put away the I feel like I put
Speaker 2: away the Christmas decorations and the next weekend I'm.
Speaker 1: Pulling them out again. Like it just happens really fast fast.
Speaker 2: But this is also going to be the you know,
Speaker 2: the first Christmas with the grand kid, and we're actually
Speaker 2: celebrating you know, up in you know, up with the family.
Speaker 2: So we're traveling a little bit. We're going to get
Speaker 2: to see the grand kid with his first kind of
Speaker 2: his eyes wide open, and so that's going to be
Speaker 2: a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: And then I love all the kind of the food.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of the Christmas food, the cookies.
Speaker 2: My Susan is a wonderful baker, so she spends days
Speaker 2: on days on days.
Speaker 1: She loves making cookies.
Speaker 2: So she makes bags and bags and bags of cookies
Speaker 2: for people, and we're giving them out all over the
Speaker 2: neighborhood and.
Speaker 3: To friends and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So wow, it becomes kind of a cookie making factory
Speaker 2: around here. And it is it becomes very pretty to
Speaker 2: have the tree up and you get the smell of Christmas.
Speaker 2: And but it's also you know, I grew up on
Speaker 2: the East Coast where when it was Christmas it was cold,
Speaker 2: you would usually get snow if you get you know,
Speaker 2: so here where it's like, oh wow, it's seventy two
Speaker 2: degrees and it's Christmas.
Speaker 1: It just it's not kind of safe. But that's what
Speaker 1: you're used to.
Speaker 3: Yes, And I mean, as a matter of fact, we
Speaker 3: were thinking at one point and I'm still it's kind
Speaker 3: of up in the air of whether or not we'll
Speaker 3: be spending Christmas here down in Orange County or if
Speaker 3: we're going to go up to Big Bear. Okay, if
Speaker 3: we do go up to Big Bear, I'm hoping that
Speaker 3: there might be some snow. Oh there should be, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: because I really haven't had I don't think ever a
Speaker 3: white Christmas, which is something that I've always dreamed of,
Speaker 3: you know. And I've been on the road. I've been
Speaker 3: on touring and stuff during Christmas time, been in New York,
Speaker 3: you know, Rockefeller Center, I've done.
Speaker 1: That New York around Christmas is school.
Speaker 3: It really is magical. I've done that kind of stuff,
Speaker 3: but not like on Christmas Day, you know, So it
Speaker 3: would be nice to be in some snow. I do
Speaker 3: think that we don't get that best kind of Christmas
Speaker 3: like the East or people that live in the areas
Speaker 3: of snow too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What are some of your like straight up Christmas
Speaker 2: traditions that you have to do every year?
Speaker 3: This one I was actually just someone just asked me
Speaker 3: about it. And it's been a Christmas tradition for as
Speaker 3: long as I can remember. As my family makes to
Speaker 3: Molly's Yeah.
Speaker 1: You told me about that. You were supposed to save
Speaker 1: me some last.
Speaker 3: Year, I know, and we went through and we barely
Speaker 3: made any because we only really had like half of
Speaker 3: a day to do them. And it's a long process, right,
Speaker 3: And now you know that has just been become so grueling.
Speaker 3: And my dad usually he calls it like the tweener time,
Speaker 3: and it's in between Christmas and New Year's that we
Speaker 3: try to get together. Then it started getting closer to
Speaker 3: November Thanksgiving because our schedules during the holidays have just
Speaker 3: gotten so packed. To get together and do like a
Speaker 3: it takes ultimately two days because my wee prep and
Speaker 3: that like a half a day. We put them all
Speaker 3: together for a day, and then the second part of
Speaker 3: that day that puts together is when they're cooking and
Speaker 3: the next day. So it's a long process when you're
Speaker 3: doing a lot. We used to do dozens and dozens
Speaker 3: like that was what like how Sue does cookies. That's
Speaker 3: what we would come to Christmas parties with or you know,
Speaker 3: give to our friends is bags of tamali's and you
Speaker 3: can freeze them.
Speaker 2: And now, okay, I don't know, stupid question. I don't
Speaker 2: know a lot about them tomal is do are they?
Speaker 2: Are they different? Do you have like a chicken tamali
Speaker 2: your beef tomorrow veggietas.
Speaker 3: We do chicken beef and veggiees.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite?
Speaker 3: I like, oh gosh, I I don't ever do the
Speaker 3: veggies because it just is it's nasa and like, I
Speaker 3: really like either the beef or the chicken, but it
Speaker 3: just depends on kind of mood I'm in. If I'm
Speaker 3: wanting a chicken and green or beef and red sauce.
Speaker 3: You know, it just kind of depends. I've tried my
Speaker 3: hardest to master a sweet tamali, which is something my
Speaker 3: eight grandmother, I guess I unfortunately never met her, but
Speaker 3: she used to make these like cinnamon and raisin, and
Speaker 3: then she had one with like chocolate and banana of
Speaker 3: some sort. I try and fail almost every year with them,
Speaker 3: kind of giving up on them. But yeah, that's mainly ours. Now.
Speaker 3: The new mainstream tradition that I have started now this
Speaker 3: is three years, is elf on the shelf.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, we just talked about this on Podmets World.
Speaker 2: How people can go crazy with that.
Speaker 3: I don't know why I trapped myself into doing it,
Speaker 3: because it is so stressful to like, because you know,
Speaker 3: make waiting until they go to bed and then getting
Speaker 3: or getting up early enough in the morning before they
Speaker 3: get out of.
Speaker 1: Bed before elf doesn't move itself.
Speaker 3: I know, it's wild and I just said that. And
Speaker 3: then luckily, when I was at jingle Ball for iHeart,
Speaker 3: there was one of the giftings. In the giftings, there
Speaker 3: was a thing and they just gave me like a
Speaker 3: They've got the And I had really no idea how
Speaker 3: great these packages are. They have twenty four days of
Speaker 3: ELF and it's like a wow, it's a box with
Speaker 3: all the little things and the notes and this, and
Speaker 3: you just put it together and it's great. Versus me
Speaker 3: scouring the internet looking for these top notch ideas of
Speaker 3: what to do for.
Speaker 2: Myself, I saw one of the funniest ones that just said,
Speaker 2: I'm never letting my husband do elf on a shelf again.
Speaker 1: What it was they had taken a mixer like so
Speaker 1: you know the mixers that spin.
Speaker 3: And made it into it, put a barb on it.
Speaker 1: He put you.
Speaker 2: He put a barbie on it so it looks like
Speaker 2: she's full dancing, and then the elf is sitting there
Speaker 2: with dollar bills all over the place.
Speaker 3: I know, I really want to do that. You know
Speaker 3: why I begged. I will not beg I put this
Speaker 3: incredibly ridiculous expensive mixer on my wedding registry right and
Speaker 3: I got it for a really great price because it
Speaker 3: got kept getting downsized in price and cut. But Jordan's like,
Speaker 3: what is this with this mixed or You've never I've
Speaker 3: never seen you do you don't make you know? And
Speaker 3: I'm like, I need this mixer. And then I also
Speaker 3: got the extensions for the homemade pasta and all these
Speaker 3: extensions you can buy. We've been married now to seven
Speaker 3: years and never once have I pulled it out. Never
Speaker 3: once have I used it. But I really want to
Speaker 3: do that elf and not do a Barbie, but do
Speaker 3: the elf like help and it'd be a cookie day.
Speaker 3: I really want to just so I can look at
Speaker 3: Jordan's c C.
Speaker 1: I used it, I used it, the mixer has been used.
Speaker 1: Oh god, that's funny.
Speaker 3: But then I'd have to actually make cookies and that
Speaker 3: just seems something.
Speaker 1: Yes, who's got all the like the old school. She
Speaker 1: does the way her mom did.
Speaker 2: So she's got like the old It's like this big
Speaker 2: metal gun that you you turn the top and then
Speaker 2: you pop the cookies out for these old kind of
Speaker 2: journal Oh yeah, yeah yeah. So she makes those and
Speaker 2: then she makes like the best cookies in the world.
Speaker 2: So she picks every year. She's like all right, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do these three or four cookies and then she'll pay,
Speaker 2: and they'll change every year, like one or two of
Speaker 2: them the same, but then she'll add two new ones. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's just it's wonderful.
Speaker 3: I love it. I'm such a cookie monster too, I'd
Speaker 3: be eating all of them.
Speaker 2: She's the other one we do is every year when
Speaker 2: we decorate our tree, she pours a glass of wine,
Speaker 2: puts on the same exact music, and then cries with
Speaker 2: every ornament because it's like, oh, this is the one
Speaker 2: of our dog who's not with us anymore, and this
Speaker 2: is the one of my mind.
Speaker 1: My grandmother gave me this.
Speaker 2: So that's our joke. Is it's like, well, there's a
Speaker 2: glass of wine and tears. We are ready for Christmas.
Speaker 3: I put Jordan and I put the elf on, and
Speaker 3: we've done this since we've been together, since our first Christmas.
Speaker 3: We put elf on and we decorate our tree, and
Speaker 3: then he holds our dog and puts the star on
Speaker 3: like that of it. Every year.
Speaker 1: Is that gonna change now with the little ones?
Speaker 2: Does one of the little ones get to go on
Speaker 2: his shoulders and put the star up?
Speaker 1: No, because you can't pick which one of the kids.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be no, it just remains the dog. The
Speaker 3: dog is held and it's the same picture every year.
Speaker 3: We'll just keep it that way. So because we get
Speaker 3: high trees, we get like then eleven where we go
Speaker 3: go big. We go big with them, especially now that
Speaker 3: we've got a higher ceiling, and so we love doing that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's the thing. I love that. And you
Speaker 3: have I remember you told me you watch a Christmas
Speaker 3: story myself presence.
Speaker 2: Yeah, every year in my little theater I watched, I
Speaker 2: watch put on the same movie and it's so funny.
Speaker 2: I was at a convention last weekend and they had
Speaker 2: a whole Christmas story set up where it was the
Speaker 2: actual fire truck that that came to help the guy
Speaker 2: who put flick who has his finger on the art.
Speaker 2: And then there's the all the kids that were in
Speaker 2: the classroom with Ralphie were all there signing autographs and
Speaker 2: it was their picture and then the line they had
Speaker 2: so it was like the guy who said, oh man,
Speaker 2: it's the fire department, Like that guy was there signing autographs.
Speaker 2: So it was the Red Rider set up, and then
Speaker 2: Higbee's the store that they go to, like that whole
Speaker 2: thing was set up so it was it was a
Speaker 2: fun little thing. So yeah, really got that always gets
Speaker 2: me in the Christmas mood.
Speaker 1: But yes, that's not a single gift yet, not a single.
Speaker 3: Okay this well, actually, now I guess become a tradition.
Speaker 3: I don't mean to do it, same thing as my decorating.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna start buying presents, However, I am a person
Speaker 3: that typically starts. Actually, it might get something here and there.
Speaker 3: If it just pops up in front of me somewhere,
Speaker 3: December nineteenth, December twentieth is when I start doing it.
Speaker 3: I'm not kidding. And if I can't get it on
Speaker 3: Amazon and delivered fast enough, it's just not a present
Speaker 3: that's going to get hit. And I will tell you
Speaker 3: I save money on the holidays because I do that.
Speaker 3: These people that go to Black Friday and they start
Speaker 3: buying them in September, in October, you still get to it.
Speaker 3: You forget about everything that you bought so early on
Speaker 3: and you keep going because the Christmas spirit just drives
Speaker 3: through you throughout the entire time, and you end up
Speaker 3: spending I just talked to a girlfriend. She ends up
Speaker 3: spending so much money. I go how much do you
Speaker 3: think you spend? And she said, I think last year
Speaker 3: I spent between five and six thousand on present. I said.
Speaker 2: Dollars.
Speaker 3: I said, I didn't spend near that much, not even
Speaker 3: that much. I unless it was unless it ever is
Speaker 3: like for Jordan, like two years I got him his trigger.
Speaker 3: He really wanted a trigger, like if it's a big
Speaker 3: gift like that, or like a golf club set or
Speaker 3: something like that. But on my kids, no, I'm not
Speaker 3: spending that much money. There's no room to put that
Speaker 3: many toys. They've got so many toys unless they're willing
Speaker 3: to donate all of their toys that they have. Now,
Speaker 3: am I gonna spend that much money on Christ's? And
Speaker 3: she goes, I go wow. She goes, well, you know,
Speaker 3: I start in September, I start doing some things. And
Speaker 3: I go, well, that's why. She goes, Yeah, by the
Speaker 3: time I forget all the things, by the time I
Speaker 3: go out to start wrapping them, pull them out every
Speaker 3: year and go, holy cap I forgot I bought this.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. And I'm like, no, see last minute,
Speaker 3: is it's there or it's not? You get it or
Speaker 3: you don't. You guys, I love you I will still
Speaker 3: get you gifts throughout the year. This is not the
Speaker 3: only time you're getting gifts, So this is it? Like
Speaker 3: I'm not, I don't need to do a thousand gifts
Speaker 3: under the tree.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you everybody for joining us on this well
Speaker 2: magical night. Frankly, and hopefully the new tradition you can
Speaker 2: start is going back and watching old episodes of Magical
Speaker 2: rewind and screaming at us about how we could possibly
Speaker 2: think that brink Or or Double Team disn't as good
Speaker 2: as it was when you watch it, when you're a.
Speaker 3: Triumph, when you find out that the Johnny Tsunami is
Speaker 3: in fact.
Speaker 1: A great man. Yes exactly. So thank you everybody.
Speaker 2: Have a wonderful, safe holiday, and don't forget it's not
Speaker 2: just your family that you're gonna be with, but if
Speaker 2: you can also do something nice.
Speaker 1: For a stranger, Hey, how's that bad thing? Thanks everybody,
Speaker 1: and have a great holiday.