Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. This is very exciting.
Speaker 1: I love our episodes of the Manner. And here we are,
Speaker 1: Amy and I are here doing a very special edition
Speaker 1: called Holidays at the Manner.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is a very special episode because I get
Speaker 2: to ask all my many, many holiday Manner questions. Shall
Speaker 2: I begin?
Speaker 1: You shall where? I feel like it should go back
Speaker 1: before the Manner though, because my parents still did epic
Speaker 1: stuff even when it wasn't bad. But the other house, Yeah.
Speaker 2: You're throwing me a curveball. I was not prepared for.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'm gonna jump in with one.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: It's my memory as far back as I can go
Speaker 1: thinking of spelling memories around Christmas. It is the year
Speaker 1: I was five years old that my dad had snow
Speaker 1: made in the backyard.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, this is worth the worth the pivot.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And before there was Kardashian, there was spelling.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I think nineteen seventy eight, nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 1: I was five six and it wasn't done then. Now
Speaker 1: you can find companies that come to your house in
Speaker 1: close snow, and no one did it then. And my
Speaker 1: dad found someone who had worked on one of his
Speaker 1: sets for a movie where they had to have snow
Speaker 1: and had them come to the house. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: a big area, but it was a little area and
Speaker 1: we made a snowman and my dad. There's a great
Speaker 1: photo I'll show you guys, my dad holding me and
Speaker 1: I'm dressed in my you know, winter sweater and snow boots.
Speaker 1: And it was probably like eighty degrees out and okay.
Speaker 2: The party or just snow for you?
Speaker 1: It was just for me.
Speaker 2: Was Randy Bourne? No, if you were.
Speaker 1: Five, Randy must I'm thinking he might have just been born,
Speaker 1: But no, that wouldn't make sense because they would have
Speaker 1: come out with a little holding bright born. He was
Speaker 1: born in October, so maybe it was nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 2: Then was there a sky slope or just snope?
Speaker 1: Not this one, Okay, that's later. This was recreated years later.
Speaker 1: Randy would be involved. This one was just like a
Speaker 1: little tiny area with a snowman, my dad smoking his
Speaker 1: pipe holding me. Yeah, and that house snow mittens. Where
Speaker 1: was that house on Mapleton where the manor is the
Speaker 1: manner but on the north side it's still there. It's
Speaker 1: almost so.
Speaker 2: It's really close. Yeah, how about was that house ten thousand?
Speaker 1: He said, Boulevard twelve thousand?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, so that's really where you grew up.
Speaker 2: It really is, And snow came back there later. Did
Speaker 2: snow ever go to the manor No? I know, so
Speaker 2: snow only came What was the Mapleton house called?
Speaker 1: She didn't name it?
Speaker 2: Ooh, it didn't own candy. Come on, speaking of the
Speaker 2: holidays and your mom being named Candy, Like, does she
Speaker 2: love the holidays?
Speaker 1: My mom loves the holidays? Oh my gosh, specifically wintertime,
Speaker 1: like Christmas. Okay, that was that was her big one.
Speaker 2: So Halloween was sort of a big.
Speaker 1: We decorated, but not no, no, no, no Christmas. She went
Speaker 1: all epically out.
Speaker 2: Now she went.
Speaker 1: Back to the snow. Okay, when we did come back back,
Speaker 1: when Rampy was like five, we moved it down to
Speaker 1: the tennis court and there was a slope, wow, climb
Speaker 1: in the back a bit, but it was a sledding hill.
Speaker 2: This is pretty iconic.
Speaker 3: Did your mom break the rule that I break, which
Speaker 3: is decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2: Or did she wait and then did a team of
Speaker 2: people come out with like like it was just like
Speaker 2: here comes trucks. That's what I envision and just like
Speaker 2: tons of people making it happen all in one day.
Speaker 1: Well, when he was alive, her best friend back in
Speaker 1: the day, Nolan Miller, who was also the costume designer
Speaker 1: Dynasty and Epic, like, he would always help her. They
Speaker 1: would do it together. It would be my mom and
Speaker 1: uncle Nolan always. But it would and this is like
Speaker 1: at the first house, but it would be a day.
Speaker 1: They would spend a day the two of them, and
Speaker 1: he would bring some people over to help for the day.
Speaker 1: But once it went to the manor, it was a
Speaker 1: team because I believe it was like I'm going to
Speaker 1: get this wrong. I have to ask my mom, like
Speaker 1: a twenty five foot to tree?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: Does that sound right? A twenty five foot tree?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that sounds reasonable. Lo, most people would
Speaker 2: have like a six foot tree.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So Brahm, was she like super involved, like that
Speaker 1: goes there and those boats there.
Speaker 2: And that nutcracker there, or was she like, hey, just
Speaker 2: have at it, Nolan Miller and team.
Speaker 1: No, my mom is a virgo, a double virgo, and
Speaker 1: she's a perfectionist, but in a good way. She has
Speaker 1: great style. So she yeah, everything. She had to watch
Speaker 1: everything where it was going and.
Speaker 2: Was all this stuff stored.
Speaker 3: Let's go to the Manor. Now we'll leave Mapleton for
Speaker 3: a minute. Was everything stored there or was it like
Speaker 3: in warehouses?
Speaker 2: And it would come in trucks.
Speaker 1: So at the Manor, specifically, there was one floor of
Speaker 1: the Manor, the very top floor. One would consider it
Speaker 1: an attic, okay, but it was not because it.
Speaker 2: Was almost like a storage facility.
Speaker 1: It was the same length as each mean the second yeah,
Speaker 1: So it would be like, okay, if let's say you
Speaker 1: had a fifty thousand square foot act Okay, So it
Speaker 1: was that, and she had it designed in different areas.
Speaker 1: So she had storage up there, but she had holiday storage,
Speaker 1: she had Christmas storage. Everything like it would be as
Speaker 1: if you went to a storage unit. But it was
Speaker 1: all beautifuf gun and labeled. And she has books like literally,
Speaker 1: I guess we can't say bibles anymore.
Speaker 2: Wait, books of what's in it?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: WHOA?
Speaker 3: So like you take the Christmas book and it would
Speaker 3: be like, here's all the nutcrackers, here's all the bows,
Speaker 3: here's all the ribbons, here's all the boxes, here's the
Speaker 3: wrapping paper. Well, that would probably be in the wrapping room.
Speaker 3: Here's the santas, here's the trees, here's the garden keeper.
Speaker 2: But for rapper keeper, crapper keep it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now you everything, and you could like it was
Speaker 1: a catalog basically, now the Christmas wrapping room, because you
Speaker 1: know there was in my wrapping room downstairs, Christmas wrapping room.
Speaker 1: Stop us up in the attic.
Speaker 2: Stop it. It was a separate wrapping room for Christmas,
Speaker 2: just for Christmas. Now, why did she not want to
Speaker 2: use the regular wrapping room for Christmas?
Speaker 1: This is a question I've never asked her, But I
Speaker 1: would write these things because Christmas was such a beloved
Speaker 1: holiday for my family, Like I think she had so
Speaker 1: much stuff for Christmas or that she put up there.
Speaker 1: And also she needed the space, I think because my
Speaker 1: mom would always like she shopped all of my dad's
Speaker 1: gifts for all of his cast and crews. So she
Speaker 1: did all that personally, yeah she ds oh yeah, like
Speaker 1: that time of year, I feel like, but she never
Speaker 1: seemed stressed.
Speaker 2: Could she just go into a store like Julia Roberts
Speaker 2: like and they would just like bow down, like she's here,
Speaker 2: she's coming.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure Eurie's or whatever. I bet she loves Geary.
Speaker 1: I could see her mom about curious Definitely, definitely that.
Speaker 2: Feels like her. Maybe Neiman Marcus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all this sounds right. But she wouldn't let them
Speaker 1: wrap it. She wrapped it herself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh my gosh, I would never if I it
Speaker 3: was of means of the spellings, I would never cook
Speaker 3: or wrap a gift ever.
Speaker 2: Again, somebody would do love all my wrapping.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm not going to say that. As the years
Speaker 1: went on, she didn't start to have people there.
Speaker 2: Helping her helping, but she.
Speaker 1: She would oh everything, and it would be like a
Speaker 1: lineup of her. And like if someone would come to
Speaker 1: wrap gifts so that she could tell them exactly how
Speaker 1: she wanted it, she would make the sample one and
Speaker 1: then they would whoa.
Speaker 2: And can she do all kinds of bows?
Speaker 1: Oh god, her bow game is off the charts, like it's.
Speaker 1: Her bow game is so good. I've never seen anything
Speaker 1: like it. She can make little ones or big ones,
Speaker 1: and she has the technique that she does.
Speaker 2: Whoa.
Speaker 1: You tried to teach me and I actually wasn't good
Speaker 1: at it so much so that I've gone the opposite
Speaker 1: way and I do stick on bos.
Speaker 2: But yeah, You're lucky if you're getting that for me,
Speaker 2: because really, for me, that's going to ruin the chance
Speaker 2: that I can reuse the box and the gift bag.
Speaker 2: So it's like you're probably not.
Speaker 3: Getting a bow, and you're definitely not getting like, you know,
Speaker 3: the little gift tag that comes on the bag. I'm
Speaker 3: not going to write on that because then I can't
Speaker 3: reuse that. I could just write it and cut it,
Speaker 3: cut it off.
Speaker 2: I do not like wrapping at all. Now.
Speaker 3: I used to do gift bags, but then I started
Speaker 3: to not like those. So now at home Goods you
Speaker 3: can buy the box wrapped, meaning it's like TV style,
Speaker 3: you know, on TV they just nicked up the lid.
Speaker 2: They sell those at home. It's probably more than the
Speaker 2: gift Home Goods and they're like twelve dollars, which is
Speaker 2: probably more than half the gifts I'm giving. But whatever.
Speaker 2: So yeah, my niece is getting like a five dollars
Speaker 2: toy and a twelve dollars box, but whatever, Okay, who
Speaker 2: cares about me? Back to this.
Speaker 1: I'm with you because I saw so much wrapping growing up.
Speaker 1: I think it like, put me on the other end
Speaker 1: of it, and I can wrap if I really tried to,
Speaker 1: but I choose not to. So yeah, I'm fucking scotch
Speaker 1: tape like not folded edges and she just looks like
Speaker 1: a hot mess. Some one would suspect. And also up
Speaker 1: in that attict, my mom had it like a barber.
Speaker 2: Shop, no yeah, for people to get their hair cut.
Speaker 1: So it was a beauty salon slash barber shop.
Speaker 2: With a professional would come in.
Speaker 1: Well, like my mom and dad would get their hair
Speaker 1: done at home, like you know when you have a
Speaker 1: hair stylist, like make a house call or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: blow out. So she put in like the proper washing
Speaker 1: bowl that you win it slans. But also she put
Speaker 1: in a barber chair and everything because my dad he
Speaker 1: had this barber named Little Joe for years and my
Speaker 1: dad up until his dath had the best head of hair.
Speaker 1: He had to have his hair cut like every two weeks.
Speaker 1: So much hair.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so she put that up there, wow in
Speaker 2: the attic. But wasn't it not a creepy attic. This
Speaker 2: is a full done attic.
Speaker 1: It's fully done. Yeah wow, but like done.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, let's go to the tree. Let's start with
Speaker 2: the tree. Where did the tree go?
Speaker 1: It went in the formal living room. Well is it formal? H?
Speaker 1: I think there was a hidden TV, which makes it
Speaker 1: not formal. You know what? There were way too I
Speaker 1: don't know the terminal room. There were too many living
Speaker 1: rooms in that house, so I don't even know what
Speaker 1: to call them all.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's room and just give it a name.
Speaker 1: Let's call it the living room.
Speaker 2: Was it where you came in the front door?
Speaker 1: Would you in the front door, like in the foyer,
Speaker 1: you would see right into this little living room that
Speaker 1: nobody ever really used. But it is right the backyard.
Speaker 1: You could see a whole view of it. She probably
Speaker 1: put a tree in there. I don't really remember. But
Speaker 1: then you would make a rate and go down the hallway.
Speaker 1: My dad's office would be on the left, and then
Speaker 1: you would come to the living room that we had
Speaker 1: Christmas eve at and Christmas every year, and then through
Speaker 1: that door would be the projection room.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, so many doors. Real tree or fake tree?
Speaker 1: Real tree? So I never grew up with fake trees.
Speaker 1: I didn't understand them till my friends like taught me.
Speaker 3: Like, so, somebody cut down a twenty five foot tree
Speaker 3: and brought that thing in, dropping the pine needles all
Speaker 3: over the beautiful floor and set that puppy up.
Speaker 2: And was there some sort of a tree skirt? I
Speaker 2: would imagine your mom would never see the watering thing.
Speaker 1: She would not, No, it must have been covered. I
Speaker 1: was there a.
Speaker 2: Presence all around it?
Speaker 3: Were these show trees or like you could actually put
Speaker 3: presents under it, and like on Christmas morning you would
Speaker 3: actually sit by this tree.
Speaker 1: We would sit by this tree and there would be
Speaker 1: presents all around it, and we would always delineate like
Speaker 1: everybody's area, so like it'd be like my mom had
Speaker 1: a section, my dad, my brother Randy, me like.
Speaker 2: My goodness, And it was kind of.
Speaker 1: Cool because the bigger the house we moved to, the
Speaker 1: bigger the tree we went moved to, like it had
Speaker 1: to look the part, so like our present area got
Speaker 1: bigger and bigger, So that was good.
Speaker 2: So did Okay? I just don't even know where to begin.
Speaker 2: So on Christmas morning?
Speaker 3: Was their staff that worked on Christmas making bacon and eggs?
Speaker 3: And was it just the four of you or did
Speaker 3: you ever have like grandparents and cousins and uncles and
Speaker 3: ants join in?
Speaker 1: Okay, are we skipping Christmas Eve? We'll go back.
Speaker 2: Oh, no, we're going back.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, We're going all over because I'm not
Speaker 1: even nearly done. Okay, okay, So Christmas morning, my family
Speaker 1: really believes in tradition and the tradition, however, it is
Speaker 1: different to everybody. So breakfast, we always had Natenles ordered,
Speaker 1: which is a very famous deli in la in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1: My mom would order Nate Nows and we would have
Speaker 1: like a fish plotter, what do you call it? It
Speaker 1: would have sturgeon And are you Jewish? Yes? Half or
Speaker 1: full full?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, but this is all about Christmas.
Speaker 1: We had a little Hanukah. We'll get to that, but
Speaker 1: is Christmas.
Speaker 2: Christmas was the one more because of like less religion
Speaker 2: to it, but more because of because my.
Speaker 1: Brother and I would say it, you know at times,
Speaker 1: like kids at school are saying to us, like how
Speaker 1: can you celebrate Christmas? And you guys are Jewish, like
Speaker 1: what you know? And we would bully us, and my
Speaker 1: mom was like, you know, let them know that it's
Speaker 1: about a holiday and being with the family and about
Speaker 1: tradition and it's not about religion to us.
Speaker 3: What was your high school if you went if you
Speaker 3: went to high school? Was it Beverly Hills High.
Speaker 1: I went to Barborough. I went to.
Speaker 2: So you went to private Okay.
Speaker 1: Got it? And then JT D before I D did
Speaker 1: Randy go. Randy went to Brutland and then he transferred
Speaker 1: to Montclair, which is in the valley which no longer exists.
Speaker 1: But a lot of my friends went to.
Speaker 2: Okay, back to Okay, Okay.
Speaker 3: Bread, fish, plantter, bacon, pancakes, the basic stuff.
Speaker 1: No, no bagels, fish, flatter, the spreads, you know, like
Speaker 1: the cream, cheese.
Speaker 2: The lock spread, all that we're not getting like a Cinna.
Speaker 1: Slice, tomatoes slice. So this is not it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a Jewish Christmas Okay, here we go. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And my mom always had this loose sight or acrylic bagel.
Speaker 1: It looked like you know, a paper towel holder, yep,
Speaker 1: but it was a smaller one and it was this
Speaker 1: beautiful like acrylic loose site one and the bagels cutting
Speaker 1: off would go on it and stack and pull them off,
Speaker 1: and she would have one for the tops one for
Speaker 1: the bottoms, because she always believed people either like the
Speaker 1: top of a bagel or the bottom bagels were very important.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, stop. Yeah, Number one not toasted. I'm just
Speaker 2: so toasty I can't My head starts to explode during
Speaker 2: these conversations. Okay, so there was two paper towel holders,
Speaker 2: so you didn't take the whole bagel. You'd take your
Speaker 2: top or your bottom, but you could have more than one.
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm not sure I know the.
Speaker 2: Difference between a top and a bottom bagel. I'm kind
Speaker 2: of like they're interesting.
Speaker 1: Cut it off the bottom one. It's a little bit slusiers,
Speaker 1: a little curvier.
Speaker 3: Now, what if Homegirl wants like an English muffin? Is
Speaker 3: that happening or no?
Speaker 1: Well, I guess you could take what if I wanted
Speaker 1: one of the hundred drawers?
Speaker 2: Is there somebody that I could say I want pancakes?
Speaker 2: Or no, that's not happening.
Speaker 1: I mean, technically yes, but we didn't operate that way,
Speaker 1: like I never felt you know me, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to ask anyone one for anything. But if I had
Speaker 1: a friend sleepover and we wanted something, we would just
Speaker 1: go into the kitchen.
Speaker 3: This isn't a white house, I understand. This is spelling
Speaker 3: man or not the white House where you can just
Speaker 3: get whatever you want.
Speaker 1: But of course, if someone really like wanted it. There's
Speaker 1: people there, yes.
Speaker 2: Okay, So now was anyone sleeping over just the four
Speaker 2: of you? Were there ever? Relatives?
Speaker 1: What about your dad's brother, going way way back, Yes,
Speaker 1: there were times when Uncle Danny would come out, my
Speaker 1: dad's brother. I think Uncle Sam had come out.
Speaker 2: Uncle Sam, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: My cousins who were Uncle Sam's kids and then their kids,
Speaker 1: so it would be like our second cousins. They would
Speaker 1: come buy sometimes but usually later in the day and like.
Speaker 2: Okay, so not for the morning, for the morning.
Speaker 1: It was just family. And going way back before he passed,
Speaker 1: it was my mom's father who we call. He would
Speaker 1: always come over.
Speaker 2: Now are we are we Christmas Eve people, Christmas Eve
Speaker 2: dinner people? Or are we Christmas Day people? Or we
Speaker 2: all the above?
Speaker 1: What are we the above? Because my parents would grow
Speaker 1: like the most epic Christmas Eve party that was known
Speaker 1: all over town on Christmas Eve like wavy.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, but it was celebrities got to come.
Speaker 1: They would, but it was on a smaller level like.
Speaker 2: You, John Forsyth, what are we talking? Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It depended on the year. And I always wondered later
Speaker 1: on in life, like I wish I could go back
Speaker 1: and ask my dad. I guess I could ask my mom, like,
Speaker 1: does depend on like a good standing with your like
Speaker 1: you have your shows on if one of your stars
Speaker 1: is not behaving as well and then they don't get
Speaker 1: that invite that your day.
Speaker 2: Era awset not to come after she left Charlie's Angels.
Speaker 1: I'm sure not. It was very like in the but
Speaker 1: it was more about Heathercklayer. I feel like Heather. I
Speaker 1: wonder if she ever came. He loved her, but maybe
Speaker 1: she had plans. Also, most people had plans right right
Speaker 1: rights call and they have an epic party at the
Speaker 1: manner you should cancel him.
Speaker 2: But you know, I'm Rocado Mantelbon.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure they were very close. They were, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I'm very close. And all of the executives
Speaker 1: from ABC and then Fox when nine.
Speaker 2: Times, oh wow, okay on.
Speaker 1: What network he was with, and then family friends would
Speaker 1: always come. As my brother and I got older, we
Speaker 1: were allowed to bring all of our friends. If we're dating,
Speaker 1: there would be So.
Speaker 2: This is Christmas Eve dinner, a catered.
Speaker 1: Christ not dinner. It's a party, a party Christmas.
Speaker 2: Appetizer's not a sit down buffet.
Speaker 1: Correct past there would be a buffet, but the buffet
Speaker 1: was only like a seafood mega seafood tower and paviar.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking anything like any little thing of caviar.
Speaker 1: And if you know caviar, it's a fortune. And a
Speaker 1: tiny tin that you have like four bites and can
Speaker 1: feed one person is like two hundred dollars. My mom
Speaker 1: would have the biggest can. It had to have been,
Speaker 1: and she had multiple ones that they were replaced on
Speaker 1: the It would be a big caviar holder and it
Speaker 1: was either in silver or crystal, and there would be
Speaker 1: like crushed ice and then the caviar tin placed, and
Speaker 1: then all the condiments for the caviar, and then bleanies
Speaker 1: and toast points and the cat. My mouth's watering. I
Speaker 1: love gosh, see this is all food.
Speaker 2: I don't want any of it, but very fancy bear.
Speaker 1: It would have been pissed, like I would have liked this.
Speaker 2: I would have been like, where's the like, oh, she
Speaker 2: fresh turkey in a like a Hawaiian roll with some mayonnaise,
Speaker 2: like I want that, ask me that or maybe damn yeah,
Speaker 2: you know those yummy turkey mini turkey sandwiches, but with
Speaker 2: the good turkey, not like Deli turkey.
Speaker 1: It's your mouth water you right now for the turkey,
Speaker 1: not for the caviar. No, I know, I know, I
Speaker 1: know your basic stuff like oh, the shrimp cocktail.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm fine with shrimp cocktail.
Speaker 1: But she did have past like pigs in a blanket.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, little like old school, like very
Speaker 1: not Jewish pigs in a blanket. Doubled eggs, what.
Speaker 4: Hellse like the little Philo double legs, double legs, devil
Speaker 4: leggs are real?
Speaker 2: Like people really love those, but I really do?
Speaker 1: Do you not? Like you don't like it?
Speaker 2: It's not something I would ever think of, but like okay,
Speaker 2: I'm okay to eat it. But it's like great eggy.
Speaker 2: I get I get that I can't get eggs for
Speaker 2: Christmas morning, but I can get eggs in the afternoon
Speaker 2: on Christmas Eve at the spelling Man. Oh garlands? Are
Speaker 2: there is every fireplace having a garland over it? Are
Speaker 2: there are there lights on the trees outside?
Speaker 3: Like what's I'm sure we've never had a blow up
Speaker 3: Santa in the yard?
Speaker 2: What kind of outdoor?
Speaker 1: I like moved into my apartment. I got all the
Speaker 1: like the fun like yeah, like I don't know, blow
Speaker 1: up stuff, plastic stuff, like I got all of that
Speaker 1: to make not to make fun of it, but to
Speaker 1: be like we're doing a different type of Christmas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but.
Speaker 1: The nutcrackers and the nutcrackers, oh gosh, like full on,
Speaker 1: I don't I think like a forklift had to bring
Speaker 1: them in. I'm not like they were taller than us.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And they would go up the front steps from the
Speaker 1: course the wheeler driveway so as you walked into the
Speaker 1: part party. So as you would walk into the party,
Speaker 1: there would be nutcrackers on every step. There had to be.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's happening with our outdoor lighting situation?
Speaker 2: Are we doing that?
Speaker 1: I feel like that wasn't a big issue.
Speaker 3: Not like I don't know, you know Caruso, you know
Speaker 3: the like, so Caruso owns them all and his house
Speaker 3: in Brentwood is lit up like you would not believe.
Speaker 3: But the spellings were not doing that. So was there
Speaker 3: any that was a thing back then? Like I don't
Speaker 3: think it was like it is now, Like those people
Speaker 3: in the Palisades that are paying ten thousands right to
Speaker 3: light their houses, right.
Speaker 1: But imagine at the time a fifty six thousand square
Speaker 1: foot house to light it on the outside. How much
Speaker 1: would that have been?
Speaker 2: Probably a lot, I mean okay, So what about like
Speaker 2: your room? Did you have a tree in your room
Speaker 2: or was there only was this in the downstairs? Is
Speaker 2: this the common rooms?
Speaker 1: We always grew up having like a little many. I
Speaker 1: guess we did have a little any fake tree that
Speaker 1: we would pull out of storage every in your rooms. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, what about the candy bowls? Are they immediately being
Speaker 2: switched to holiday candies, holiday kisses, candy canes? What are
Speaker 2: we doing?
Speaker 1: Super good question? Duh? Of course she did. She swapped
Speaker 1: them out for red, you know, silver, gold, and green. Okay,
Speaker 1: of course, so the candy kisses, the little many like hershees, yeah, everything,
Speaker 1: And I even believe she was. I think I've told
Speaker 1: you this before. The silver almonds were a big deal,
Speaker 1: always there a year long in big candy dishes. She
Speaker 1: would swap those out and there would be red, white,
Speaker 1: and green ones.
Speaker 2: I think, oh wow, Yeah.
Speaker 3: What about a dessert spread, like is there homemade fudge
Speaker 3: and brownies and a.
Speaker 2: Log roll a mule? What is the things called? You
Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3: Those cakes that are like a log, Those are great
Speaker 3: was there some baker doing all the baking.
Speaker 1: Later on. I mean I'm talking a party. That's gosh,
Speaker 1: because the part would change and grow and they would
Speaker 1: start in that living room where there would oh my gosh. Okay,
Speaker 1: so there was a Okay, I'll talk about deserts. Okay, Wait,
Speaker 1: I have so much to tell you. So I remember Stella,
Speaker 1: who is now sixteen. I think she was like a
Speaker 1: year old. We went to one and Liam was two.
Speaker 1: We went to a party at the manor and she
Speaker 1: had a dessert room. So remember the room, Remember the
Speaker 1: breakfast room we've talked about, Yeah, where there's a huge
Speaker 1: rown table and it's not like everybody else's breakfast room
Speaker 1: is still a buzzer under the table to tell them
Speaker 1: when to come in and out to take stuff. She
Speaker 1: turned that entire room into the sweet room, like the
Speaker 1: candy room, and she had desserts everywhere. And I think
Speaker 1: there was a train going through that was filled with
Speaker 1: like these amazing it looked like something.
Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't think of trains.
Speaker 1: Whoa green that was like filled. It was like on
Speaker 1: a chocolate mountain. It was beautiful.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it was. This is in the dessert room.
Speaker 2: And now was this going on a month long or
Speaker 2: just for the Christmas party?
Speaker 1: It was just for that would have been cool, just
Speaker 1: for the Christmas Eve party, just Eve, not Christmas gone
Speaker 1: by Christmas. Yeah, and then bolt like you know, there
Speaker 1: was candy jars everywhere and the guests could you know
Speaker 1: taste Oh but there were.
Speaker 2: Going about to go backs to go could we take?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And I think they were stamped the Manor a
Speaker 1: Christmas at the Manor or something like that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it was gosh, okay.
Speaker 1: There were always chirllers, even like back in the day when.
Speaker 2: It was squirllers, I didn't even think of this. So
Speaker 2: so carollers would show up at the party and it's
Speaker 2: you know, oh yeah, god rest you marry gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh I can't. And my mom, who is
Speaker 1: a really good singer, would always join in towards the
Speaker 1: end with them. That was always we were excited, like
Speaker 1: and as we got older teens were like, okay, wait
Speaker 1: for and my mom's going to join in, And then
Speaker 1: she eventually did and we're like, yeah, yeah, there was that,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. And we would always everyone would kind
Speaker 1: of deck out for the Christmas Eve part with like
Speaker 1: their outfits. Oh yeah, and there was someone passing champagne
Speaker 1: in beautiful Crystal, oh the past champagne. Because you would
Speaker 1: start talking and everything. And this obviously didn't affect me
Speaker 1: when I was younger, but once I was twenty one
Speaker 1: and there with my friends, oh my gosh, we she
Speaker 1: and she would just come by and you'd be talking
Speaker 1: to everyone and she would just slip around next you
Speaker 1: and just fill it up, so you never really knew,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you're like, whoa wasted? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and my nanny like, did you okay?
Speaker 2: Keep going? Keep goingep going.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: And my nanny would always either be there for our
Speaker 1: whole lives, during Christmas or when we were older, she
Speaker 1: would always come for Chris. She would stay for Christmas,
Speaker 1: said Christmas Eve, and she always wore like a Christmas
Speaker 1: sweater and jingle ball like ear rings, and we would
Speaker 1: She'd always bring her own stuff, and she wanted to
Speaker 1: bloody Mary and she'd bring her bloody Mary mix and
Speaker 1: she would hand it to the bartender there and be like,
Speaker 1: can you put this behind? This is mine? Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I just remember she was like eighty two at the time, No, eighty.
Speaker 2: Two, eighty two oh my gosh, like.
Speaker 1: Eighty two, and I remember her being there and we
Speaker 1: were like, oh my gosh, in her twenties and my
Speaker 1: brother and me and all of our friends and we're
Speaker 1: like Nanny, Nanny, and she was like drinking with us
Speaker 1: and getting drunk with us. And then oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: we're like Nanny, you gotta smoke weed.
Speaker 2: With oh my thank god.
Speaker 1: In her eighties and she was like okay. And it
Speaker 1: was like such a fun thing, like I was her
Speaker 1: daughter truly and like right of course to have that
Speaker 1: full circle. And my friends had grown up with Nanny
Speaker 1: since we were young, and they were like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: we're now adults and were partake and and he's like
Speaker 1: smoking with us. It was like crazy, gosh. There was
Speaker 1: an infamous fight that happened at one of the Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: probably between when I had the bad boyfriend.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is.
Speaker 1: It is and he.
Speaker 2: Who did he fight? Luke?
Speaker 1: Luke fought him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Jason, I'm like, get out of here, man,
Speaker 2: fight Jason broke it up. What caused it?
Speaker 1: It was the way he treated me. It was just
Speaker 1: like it was like everyone had had enough. And Luke
Speaker 1: was truly like a big brother to me when I
Speaker 1: was young, and he was like he and I started
Speaker 1: we had a period and we used to talk about
Speaker 1: it that on set, like we started like not talking
Speaker 1: for a while because he was like, I couldn't watch
Speaker 1: you go through this and it's like your family to me,
Speaker 1: and like seeing this guy the way he tweated you
Speaker 1: just wasn't okay. And I couldn't stand by anymore. And
Speaker 1: this happened after the Christmas thing because I would say, like, please,
Speaker 1: don't say anything to him. They tried to have like
Speaker 1: an intervention on set, like to get me out of
Speaker 1: this relationship, and you know, when you're young, you don't
Speaker 1: listen to people, and it was bad. So anyway, I
Speaker 1: brought Nick to this guy to who's fine. Now we're
Speaker 1: on speaking terms. He's been sober for like over twenty years.
Speaker 2: Okay. So this is Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: This is Christmas Eve, and this is.
Speaker 2: The Christmas Eve party, and this is early nineties.
Speaker 1: In the nineties, and Luke and Jason were there and
Speaker 1: I came in with Nick. And I'm sure my parents
Speaker 1: didn't like none of my friends liked him. Some people
Speaker 1: would tolerate him just because it was out of respect
Speaker 1: to me, but Jason, you know, you could probably like
Speaker 1: Jason was more like neutral even though he didn't like him,
Speaker 1: and which sh and high and very Jason, you know,
Speaker 1: yeah kind of you know, I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2: This, just like he did to Colin in the episode
Speaker 2: we talked about recently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Luke couldn't hide it, and if Nick would
Speaker 1: say hi to him, he would just look away and
Speaker 1: walk away, like and at the times that you know,
Speaker 1: a teen girl, I was like, oh my god, like please,
Speaker 1: I'm going to get in trouble when I get home
Speaker 1: and I if my friends aren't nice to him. It
Speaker 1: was that stupid mentality. And I don't know what exactly happened,
Speaker 1: but I think Nick approached Luke to be like, you know,
Speaker 1: what's up, Like like he didn't get like, why don't
Speaker 1: your friends like me? What are you telling them? He
Speaker 1: would say, right, right, of course they see it. I'm
Speaker 1: coming to work in tears, like there's so many it's
Speaker 1: they see it. Anyway. I don't know what happened next,
Speaker 1: but there was literally like a brawl and Jason had
Speaker 1: to break it up and they went outside, and it
Speaker 1: was awful because Nick was like I'm leaving. I'm out
Speaker 1: of here, and I was crying. I'm like, please don't leave,
Speaker 1: Please don't leave. I'm sorry. My friends are made and
Speaker 1: it was not a good situation. And then Luke and
Speaker 1: I s yeah Christmas Eve and Luke and I didn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, in all fairness, like Nick instigated it, but
Speaker 1: Luke was like, loved me so much. He was like,
Speaker 1: I can't take this anymore. I can't watch you treat
Speaker 1: her this way.
Speaker 2: Oh my, did your dad and mom know this was happening?
Speaker 1: They had to have There was only like forty people
Speaker 1: at this party, Like it was crazy. It was really embarrassing,
Speaker 1: and I, yeah, as my family does that. We went
Speaker 1: back and celebrated Christmas and was like okay, everyone just okay,
Speaker 1: let's move on. But Luke and I didn't talk for
Speaker 1: months on set and yeah, because he I was pissed.
Speaker 1: I was upset. Yeah, and then of course he was
Speaker 1: right and he was just trying to protect me and
Speaker 1: save me from this. And yeah, I'm young, but that's
Speaker 1: the infamous fight that went down on Christmas Eve one year. Wow,
Speaker 1: star sudd It fight.
Speaker 2: Does Santa come to these parties?
Speaker 1: I mean he came from me one year and I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, no, I'm just kidding. But like a year
Speaker 1: or two after that, when I was single, my dad
Speaker 1: would always like court. I would say, like new talent
Speaker 1: that he was trying to show, so they would come,
Speaker 1: this is before Sex and the City. But John Corbett
Speaker 1: keep oh good one, and he and I totally hit
Speaker 1: it off, and I remember having kiss with him Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2: Yeah this is before Bo Derek.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, you kissed John Corbett before he was Aiden? Correct,
Speaker 3: But he was John corbetty.
Speaker 1: I mean he had been on what was it North Exposure?
Speaker 2: Northern Exposure?
Speaker 1: Was Northern Exposed?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he was a big star already, and my
Speaker 2: dad like big TV star.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My dad wanted to use him in something, and
Speaker 1: I think he never did because I think.
Speaker 2: Sex and sex something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I was like, I never could tell anyone you.
Speaker 2: Had a kiss with John Corbett. What kind of kiss?
Speaker 1: A kind feel so foolish because I was kind of
Speaker 1: dating but not dating Noah who was Vince Young?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And because of that, like John would call me and
Speaker 1: we were SOPs to go on a date, and I
Speaker 1: didn't reciprocate because I was like.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's not with this kiss. What kind of kiss?
Speaker 1: It was a full kiss where it wasn't a long kiss.
Speaker 2: It was like it's okay. Where it was.
Speaker 4: I believe it took place like outside at the man Yeah,
Speaker 4: like he was leaving the party and I walked him
Speaker 4: out because we've been hanging out all night and getting
Speaker 4: to know each each other, and yeah.
Speaker 1: Whoa was there valet?
Speaker 2: No, there's just parking.
Speaker 1: Well here's the thing. It was so massive that they
Speaker 1: could just park. Yeah, in the beginning, maybe her last
Speaker 1: few ones before she like sold it, she might have
Speaker 1: had valet, But no, you know, anywhere you can get
Speaker 1: and ring.
Speaker 2: The doorbell, or would there be a person like welcome,
Speaker 2: mister Corbett, come on in so you don't feel like
Speaker 2: a weirdo ringing the doorbell.
Speaker 1: I feel like the door was just open. There'd be
Speaker 1: people standing there with trays, you know when you arrive
Speaker 1: at a resort.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like that if you got.
Speaker 1: To like a fancy resort and they're like standing there
Speaker 1: with a tray, and as soon as you walk in,
Speaker 1: they're like champagne.
Speaker 2: Great.
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, pigs and a blanket. Great, meatball, swish, meatball.
Speaker 2: Great, wo, meatball is a nice appetizer.
Speaker 1: Friend stick maybe yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, MANI four. It started.
Speaker 1: It started with the little toothpicks that had the little
Speaker 1: Frillian ends.
Speaker 2: They would be like oh Sam as lambs almost kind.
Speaker 1: Of basically yeah yeah, like tinsel wow.
Speaker 2: And was there ever like a toast or was it
Speaker 2: just like a party like it?
Speaker 1: Did your dad ever.
Speaker 2: Say welcome everybody? He was, you're here because you're one
Speaker 2: of our close friends.
Speaker 1: There's always a magic Every year there was always a
Speaker 1: magician that came.
Speaker 2: A magician unexpected.
Speaker 1: Same, it still feels random, like I did that.
Speaker 2: You know, fancy adults love magicians.
Speaker 3: I was at a fancy fancy adults like the generation
Speaker 3: before us or one before that. I was at a
Speaker 3: fancy party and there was a magician and it was like,
Speaker 3: it's not like he's like pulling a corner out of
Speaker 3: your ear, but kind of but a lot of like
Speaker 3: pick a card, I have your card.
Speaker 2: Over here behind this tree like that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But he did. I mean in the when she made
Speaker 1: the party like epic huge Yeah, after my.
Speaker 3: Dad had passed, like it, yeah, so your mom still
Speaker 3: had parties for a couple more years after just a
Speaker 3: couple I believe.
Speaker 2: Was your dad allowed to smoke his cigars in the house?
Speaker 1: Mm? Hm his pipe?
Speaker 2: It was a pipe. He wasn't a cigar. Sorry, his
Speaker 2: pipe he was.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Are they not so stinky?
Speaker 1: Maybe because I grew up with it. But like I
Speaker 1: told you, my mom also till I was a certain
Speaker 1: age's cigarettes and it would be in the house. So
Speaker 1: I grew up not to.
Speaker 2: Do that in her bathroom, just doing it.
Speaker 1: And by the time we got to the Manor, she
Speaker 1: no longer smoked. And although she did have one relapse
Speaker 1: of smoking when I was with a bad boyfriend.
Speaker 2: No, your mom had a boyfriend.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, when I was with that bad boyfriend.
Speaker 1: O my god, one relapse. She had stopped smoking four
Speaker 1: years and she had boyfriend. I know.
Speaker 2: I felt, Oh, oh my god.
Speaker 3: By the way, I was gonna do New Year's in this,
Speaker 3: but we're gonna have to do a whole different New
Speaker 3: Year's episode because I can't even do New Year's I
Speaker 3: don't have time.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we should totally chow another episode for now.
Speaker 1: We'll do a separate because the New Year's we had
Speaker 1: would probably surprise everyone. Oh and that's where I can
Speaker 1: tell the story about the chef I dated because it
Speaker 1: involves New.
Speaker 2: Year's Let's let's not do that now. Let's finish Christmas first.
Speaker 2: So Santa shows up at this party or not usually
Speaker 2: like a so ho ho.
Speaker 1: At my old house, Santa Maple came every in Mapleton
Speaker 1: one eleven Mapleton, North Mapleton, Santa came every year. It
Speaker 1: was the same Santa. Oh wow, and yeah he was
Speaker 1: the same Santa. My brother and I was sitting on
Speaker 1: his lap and tell him like our wishes and yeah,
Speaker 1: was there.
Speaker 2: Any kind of basic stuff like were you writing a list?
Speaker 2: I read it twice.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was like Barbie dream House.
Speaker 2: Oh Barbie dream House. Of course did you get usually
Speaker 2: everything you wanted?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Was there like bikes under the tree and like no bikes? Wow,
Speaker 2: I'm on candy. There's the bikes.
Speaker 1: But keep in mind, like there was something like what
Speaker 1: would it be that was like the big ticket item?
Speaker 1: Well then Madame Alexander or.
Speaker 3: Maybe in an Atari or a Nintendo or something, Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: or yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Just can't see you. You know those cars like did
Speaker 2: you ever have those like ride on cars or you
Speaker 2: could like ride around on the you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: To Europe which should be an entire episode. We have
Speaker 1: to do that, like a.
Speaker 2: Trip to wait what what were the.
Speaker 1: Oh my god in vacation? What is their names? The
Speaker 1: Chris Like, there's several episodes, so we have to do
Speaker 1: a whole episode, which took a week to get there.
Speaker 1: But I have epic stories. But when we we saw
Speaker 1: it in Europe in London, and when we came back,
Speaker 1: what I got it? I'm gonna tell you. But it
Speaker 1: was like a driving like an electric car, but not electric.
Speaker 1: It had gas. I feel like, let's liken it to
Speaker 1: the one an ATV. Let's let's like, what are the
Speaker 1: ones that kids get. They have a little doors.
Speaker 2: It's probably like like a range Rover.
Speaker 1: They have like real real seas. Now Bo said to me, Mom,
Speaker 1: all I want this year is a Lamborghini one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get him.
Speaker 1: They run between one hundred and three hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not terrible. They're surprisingly not terrible.
Speaker 1: You charge them and they go yeah, yeah. So I
Speaker 1: got a Mini Ferrari.
Speaker 2: They were battery. I don't think they had gas. I
Speaker 2: think you'd lug it in.
Speaker 1: This one was not whoa So I got this one.
Speaker 1: I was like twelve, I don't know what happened.
Speaker 2: Oh you're older, okay, so this was not This was
Speaker 2: like more of a golf cart type of deal.
Speaker 1: It was a fray, but a little small one only
Speaker 1: like a two seater like me and my brother could
Speaker 1: go in it. And I feel like it went up to.
Speaker 2: I don't think you were and it feels like you
Speaker 2: were really old.
Speaker 1: Thirteen kids have now.
Speaker 2: Well I guess, yeah, this is the.
Speaker 1: Golf carse they drive like on properties.
Speaker 2: Do you have any like spelling traditions? Like we write
Speaker 2: it wrote our list and then you put him in
Speaker 2: the fireplace and Santa can read the smoke signals like
Speaker 2: any weird quirky things, and we would always read twas
Speaker 2: the night before Christmas.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, like, yeah, we always did like
Speaker 1: and Santa always called Usta called the actor that played
Speaker 1: Santa that came who I didn't know till years later
Speaker 1: was an actor. After he had passed away, his wife
Speaker 1: got in contact with me and said, wow, like photos
Speaker 1: in a letter, like it was really cute. Oh, but
Speaker 1: it was an actor that I guess my dad had
Speaker 1: used several times and he was like, hey, for Christmas
Speaker 1: one year, we dress up and then it became a tradition.
Speaker 1: He was like, she knows your face, it has to
Speaker 1: be the same thing I say. So he ended up
Speaker 1: coming till I was like, oh my god, like sixteen
Speaker 1: like and then yeah, and then he would call us
Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve and be like, hope you're going to
Speaker 1: bed like good, and they would like ring the bells
Speaker 1: in the background, like there could be years.
Speaker 2: So what's your happiest Holiday memory at the Manor?
Speaker 1: HM at the Manner It would probably be one of
Speaker 1: my last memories at the Manor for Christmas. It wasn't
Speaker 1: the very last party that I was at with Stella
Speaker 1: and Liam once they were born, which was an epic party,
Speaker 1: but it was when my dad was alive and Nanny
Speaker 1: was alive, so that year was really special and all
Speaker 1: my friends were there, all my friends I've grown up with,
Speaker 1: and yeah, that's the night we smoked weed with Nanny,
Speaker 1: whoa still your favorite.
Speaker 2: Was not expecting that. Well, wow, I don't even know
Speaker 2: what to say. It seems somewhat normal and somewhat not,
Speaker 2: is what I'll say.
Speaker 1: We did try an, I know, I know it's the
Speaker 1: lock Christmas Day.
Speaker 2: So then yeah, so halfway.
Speaker 1: Through the day, like around we slept in so my
Speaker 1: family loved. My whole family.
Speaker 2: Sleeps, so like till ten or like t.
Speaker 1: Like ten, my dad would be in his robe and
Speaker 1: go down like and probably around one o'clock, I would say,
Speaker 1: the lock station was cleaned up and a deli station
Speaker 1: came out and it was all those you know, pre
Speaker 1: meat sandwiches.
Speaker 2: Okay, now now you're talking. Now you're talking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like roast beef sandwiches, turkey sandwich, all of that.
Speaker 1: We would have all those, like from Nate Nell's again.
Speaker 1: So then there's yeah, like the ones with like the
Speaker 1: Thousand Islands and coal slaw and potato salad on the
Speaker 1: side and all of that. So we had that for
Speaker 1: hours and then we had a proper Christmas dinner service.
Speaker 1: It was turkey stuffing.
Speaker 2: Sweet Thanksgiving okay Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Luffy marshmallow. Yeah, Thanksgiving. And there's always like the things
Speaker 1: that my mom did. So she would chill navel oranges,
Speaker 1: the big ones, slice them and put a slice of
Speaker 1: cold jellied cranberry on it, having on a huge silver
Speaker 1: clatter and everyone wow. So I know it sounds funky
Speaker 1: like like cranberry sauce. I grew up thinking that's cranberry sauce.
Speaker 1: It was like the jelly from a can. No idea.
Speaker 1: But there's certain things like she would do that. I
Speaker 1: still do that. I've introduced night kids to that. We
Speaker 1: make every year for Thanksgiving. It else she would like
Speaker 1: things like there were great things like homemade stuffing and
Speaker 1: like that, the fixings, but things like the frozen green
Speaker 1: frozen green peas, the small green peas in a bag.
Speaker 1: She would make those with sliced black olives or diced.
Speaker 1: It must have been like an old fashioned thing and
Speaker 1: you would make it with like salt and butter. It's
Speaker 1: really good. Whoa. And then my mom's a big baker,
Speaker 1: so yeah, she would really get into the baking. So
Speaker 1: apple pie, pon pie for my dad. She always made
Speaker 1: which kind of pie for your dad? Con con okay
Speaker 1: or pecan pumpkin pie. We would always have sweet potato
Speaker 1: pie as well. Sweet potato pie a.
Speaker 2: Dessert or like a dish. I've never had that.
Speaker 1: It's good, it's like but not as bitter.
Speaker 2: Oh sweet, okay, so it's like a dessert. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But we made sweep to casserole with the big marshmallows
Speaker 1: like porched on top of it and gosh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We always had the Christmas poppers so what they call them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, with a little prize or something in there.
Speaker 1: Stick each twist them or you pull it out and
Speaker 1: everyone gets a crown and you get a little fried
Speaker 1: and a fortune. I learned that from my parents. Always
Speaker 1: had that, even though they were like, you know, cheap ones,
Speaker 1: Like they would have this elegant, beautiful like candelabras and
Speaker 1: like the most gorgeous like long table, like twenty foot
Speaker 1: table that she would like do all the flowers. And
Speaker 1: my mom loved floral arranging, so she would do all
Speaker 1: the flowers and like and beautiful like dark colors and
Speaker 1: burgundies and orange and green and anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is it a happy time? Those memories.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Holidays always really great because we celebrated it was
Speaker 1: my dad worked a lot. We weren't all always together,
Speaker 1: you know. Once I was sixteen, I started working a lot.
Speaker 1: It was just and Thanksgiving and Christmas always brought us together.
Speaker 1: And while it grew in size, I still remember it
Speaker 1: when it was on the smaller side with just our
Speaker 1: family and like, I have those memories. So as it grew,
Speaker 1: it wasn't weird for me, it was enjoyable to see
Speaker 1: my mom be able to celebrate everything we had on
Speaker 1: another level and have fun. And it was always a
Speaker 1: fun time. Yeah, Like my friends would come and drink
Speaker 1: with my mom and my mom like, my mom's not
Speaker 1: a big drinker at all, but on holidays she will
Speaker 1: have some drinks. And I love when my mom drinks
Speaker 1: because she totally loosens up and we had a similar
Speaker 1: sense of humor when she allows herself to be like that.
Speaker 1: And we would just be cracking jokes with my mom
Speaker 1: and she'd be funny and dirty, and we loved it
Speaker 1: and it was so cool. And one year, my mom
Speaker 1: had this amazing dress. It was a blue tartan dress,
Speaker 1: which is like green and I love Tartan. Half at
Speaker 1: a huge long gown and the top part was like
Speaker 1: a half of a white blouse, but it was all
Speaker 1: one thing, and she was moving gracefully and were laughing
Speaker 1: with her because we'd had some drinks, and I kept
Speaker 1: going up to her and whispering in her ear, Mom,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fart on your dress, and she'd be like,
Speaker 1: don't you dare, don't you far on my dress, and
Speaker 1: like laughing, I know this is so random, but picture
Speaker 1: her in this amazing, huge game. But she was getting
Speaker 1: silly at that point too, and I was like, what
Speaker 1: can I do? This is gonna like freak her out
Speaker 1: and like just shock value. So id. And then there's
Speaker 1: one point where my friend Maron would be like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, and you were literally like chasing your mom
Speaker 1: around like in this big, huge party, be like fuck
Speaker 1: and she'd be like, don't my dress and she was
Speaker 1: like sashing her like half down everywhere. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's memories like that that I would see my parents
Speaker 1: in a different lights. I'd see them relaxed in having
Speaker 1: and they really like my mom loved entertaining, but my
Speaker 1: dad was a total home but yeah, yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was like her one time a year Christmas Eve that
Speaker 1: she did like really entertain and do her thing that
Speaker 1: meant so much to her, and he enjoyed himself too,
Speaker 1: and it was a safe place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he would get to be at home too.
Speaker 1: So I'm telling the stories today.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's okay. They could say, I think you're good.
Speaker 2: He didn't really tell any tales too bad. Well, okay,
Speaker 2: I mean I think we got to continue the manner
Speaker 2: series because I have a lot more. We didn't even
Speaker 2: touch on Thanksgiving. We didn't even touch on the ears.
Speaker 2: Got more to do, years with the chef. Yeah oh yeah.
Speaker 2: We will to be continued