Speaker 1: Welcome to the Thanksgiving episode of Podmet's World.
Speaker 2: We're coming to you from a very.
Speaker 1: Special place, a place you've heard a lot about, a
Speaker 1: place you've seen occasionally on our socials. We are coming
Speaker 1: to you from Redwood Shire, writer's childhood.
Speaker 3: Home under the Weird Weird.
Speaker 4: I feel like it needs its own theme music. It does,
Speaker 4: it does, it would just it's like a Lord of
Speaker 4: the Ring.
Speaker 3: Game of Thrones opening kind of thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was absolutely shocked, pleasantly surprised by how much I
Speaker 1: did remember.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when we pulled up, I was like, yes, it's
Speaker 2: still the same house I remember from thirty years ago.
Speaker 1: Absolutely beautiful. The trees are incredible. Everywhere you turn there's
Speaker 1: another story and another. You know, your mom's art that
Speaker 1: she has, the sculpture she's built, that all represent little
Speaker 1: moments or memories from your life.
Speaker 2: It's so much fun.
Speaker 3: There's a pet cemetery, literal pet cemetery.
Speaker 1: A literal pet cemetery. Yeah, where every dog is described
Speaker 1: as sweet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it gets me is the perfect dog, Yeah,
Speaker 3: he was perfect. And then there's Gordy. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Gordy just gets a statue of himself at the
Speaker 4: life size statue of him, it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, it's so great to have you guys up here.
Speaker 4: I it's like, will you've only been here once in
Speaker 4: the Yeah, like thirty years ago.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so you probably don't remember much of anything.
Speaker 7: I didn't remember literally anything until I pulled up and
Speaker 7: got into the house, and then I started to remember things.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, okay, yeah I remember this. I remember that.
Speaker 7: What I did not remember because I was I'm in
Speaker 7: Shiloh's room, right, and there's so much gym equipment in there.
Speaker 3: Makes sense. Shiloh was in such good shape when he
Speaker 3: was growing up.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was that way.
Speaker 3: This is why Shiloh was so technically.
Speaker 4: That was our room that we shared at first, and
Speaker 4: then we both moved up to the third floor and
Speaker 4: we realized that because if third floor was just an attic,
Speaker 4: and then we we finished it, you know, like put
Speaker 4: dry wall and painted, Peter braded it, Peter braid. I
Speaker 4: guess I just want to get the reference. And then
Speaker 4: we moved up there, and then Shiloh was like, oh,
Speaker 4: I want my own room, and he moved back down
Speaker 4: to that and then I had the whole third floor
Speaker 4: of my SNS, and then I had like a minie
Speaker 4: pool table for a little while sharper image.
Speaker 6: So I had that. I begged my parents to get
Speaker 6: it for me.
Speaker 3: And then never learned how to play pool. Now still
Speaker 3: like we.
Speaker 4: Would sit there and like, you know, hit the balls
Speaker 4: like and I like, I definitely played it with my friends.
Speaker 4: Never got good at pool, and I was so I
Speaker 4: was just in Ireland and my friends were.
Speaker 3: Like, cool, let's go play pool because the.
Speaker 6: Local friend that we were like hanging out with, you
Speaker 6: gotta play. It's like and I'm like, no, if I play,
Speaker 6: like I will ruin the.
Speaker 4: Night because I'm so bad that it takes forever. So
Speaker 4: like I just opted out of pool, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: why did I.
Speaker 6: Never learn pool?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you had it, Like I grew up with a
Speaker 7: with a like a full sized pool table. It's one
Speaker 7: of the few things like we we didn't have a
Speaker 7: lot of toys and games.
Speaker 6: You were good.
Speaker 3: I even did the table.
Speaker 7: I mean the move on the show broke a world record,
Speaker 7: that's true, Yes, I know. I I then I had
Speaker 7: a pool table in my apartment in Burbank, but every
Speaker 7: time I touched one of the cues of the balls,
Speaker 7: the guy under downstairs would bang on the thing, knock
Speaker 7: it off up there.
Speaker 3: It's three o'clock in the afternoon and I'm playing pool.
Speaker 3: So yeah, he didn't.
Speaker 2: Never really get to do that.
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 7: I also have a correction, an apology for all Brady
Speaker 7: bunch of fans out there.
Speaker 3: It was Greg Brady that moved up to the Everyone's.
Speaker 8: The wrong, the wrong Brady because we've gotten ten email exactly.
Speaker 3: I felt it felt a disturbance, Brady Forest. If a
Speaker 3: Brady moves to the attict, does anybody hear it? Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's the question.
Speaker 1: So, because we're here to celebrate Thanksgiving together, we kind
Speaker 1: of just impede it on your family's Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 6: We always have people like you know, We've always been
Speaker 6: a house that we're like anybody we can come, come.
Speaker 6: But yeah, this, I'm so glad it worked out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, because we're here to celebrate Thanksgiving, why don't we
Speaker 1: talk about a few of our favorite and not favorite
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving traditions.
Speaker 4: Not a fan of turkey, okay at all, It's just
Speaker 4: a waste of a meat.
Speaker 2: Oh I love turkey too, I love it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but then why don't we eat turkey any other
Speaker 6: time of the year?
Speaker 7: Because my wife says it's for Thanksgiving, and I'll say
Speaker 7: I want second Thanksgiving and third Thanksgiving, and she says
Speaker 7: that's not a thing.
Speaker 2: Well, here, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: My brother's birthday is in June, and my brother loves
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and he loves turkey so much, and for his birthday,
Speaker 1: he said, all I want is to have a Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: meal for my birthday.
Speaker 2: Yes, you cannot buy turkeys in June.
Speaker 3: What what there were.
Speaker 2: No turkeys to be had. That's it. There's just you
Speaker 2: turkey in June. She could not by a turcause.
Speaker 6: Everybody knows it's a crappy meat.
Speaker 4: It's not it's just worse chicken.
Speaker 7: It's like, so you don't like like a nice like
Speaker 7: even at the grocery store, like a turkey sandwich, you're not.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's fine, there's nothing wrong with it, but
Speaker 4: I would never select that over like, yeah, chicken sandwich
Speaker 4: or ham or.
Speaker 2: I love turkey too.
Speaker 6: I love turkey.
Speaker 3: Turkey's grown.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you're not a fan of turkey, that's a
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving tradition you don't love.
Speaker 2: Okay, what about when you do love stuffing?
Speaker 6: Okay, we're talking food, but traditions.
Speaker 3: I don't really have like many.
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess just the tradition of like, uh,
Speaker 4: people getting together and cooking stuff, you know, like when
Speaker 4: we cooked.
Speaker 6: Yesterday, Like it's so fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just like hanging out and you know, realizing that
Speaker 4: it's like three in the afternoon and you have nothing
Speaker 4: to do and there's like no responsibility, and you're like, oh,
Speaker 4: but we we have.
Speaker 6: A whole day together. Still they just eat. That is
Speaker 6: like truly relaxing. And I remember that as a kid.
Speaker 4: It was excited, you know, to see all the adults
Speaker 4: and everybody like in a house together and like having
Speaker 4: nothing to do.
Speaker 6: I just love that. So that's kind of generic answer.
Speaker 6: That's like the whole most Susan.
Speaker 7: Susan got sick and couldn't come, and so Danielle and
Speaker 7: I went to the other part of Redwood Chire, which
Speaker 7: is in where you're another cat, and we were on
Speaker 7: stuffing and I think I think we did.
Speaker 6: Okay, oh my god, that's stuffing is probably the best
Speaker 6: stuff you be.
Speaker 3: That's suit cook.
Speaker 7: So that I mean, that was but I think we
Speaker 7: did agree show pretty pretty darn well together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So yeah, I was I was happy with that.
Speaker 1: I was concerned that it was going to be a
Speaker 1: difficult recipe because I'm not I'm not great at difficult recipes.
Speaker 1: And then I read the instructions and we started doing it,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, this, if this is tasty,
Speaker 1: this is worth too bad, but this is worth the effort.
Speaker 7: Juice is worth the squeeze. Yeah, and you also took
Speaker 7: the recipe. You're like, I'm keeping that.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was a handwritten recipe, which I also appreciate. And
Speaker 1: I was like, you don't need to go home with
Speaker 1: this because it's your wife's recipe.
Speaker 2: So I'm just taking it.
Speaker 1: And then Sue asked me, I mean to Alex asked
Speaker 1: me to take a picture of it. Yeah, so I'm
Speaker 1: going to take a picture of it. We're all going
Speaker 1: to be making Susan keeping this.
Speaker 8: Or can we give this to the audience.
Speaker 3: I will have to ask the lady, the chef or something.
Speaker 2: I mean, my instinct is we've got a gatekeeper exactly.
Speaker 6: It it's merch.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's the only way you can get it is
Speaker 9: it's stuffing.
Speaker 3: Oh that's kind of great.
Speaker 6: I love that. Did you guys have any unique traditions
Speaker 6: growing up?
Speaker 1: I mean, we have a very unique one, which is
Speaker 1: that we actually celebrate Thanksgiving on Friday, which.
Speaker 3: Is why no matter when it falls, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: We celebrate on Friday. My cousins work in the service
Speaker 1: industry and they always have to work on things giving
Speaker 1: makes sense, or they work in a profession where it
Speaker 1: benefits them to volunteer to work on Thanksgiving and then
Speaker 1: they can get Friday off for sure, and then they
Speaker 1: get definitely get Christmas off.
Speaker 2: So we we.
Speaker 1: Have just decided as a family we're going to sell it.
Speaker 1: We do Thanksgiving on Friday. So for the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, we've had a free day on Thanksgiving. We
Speaker 1: used to spend them Thanksgiving Day with Jensen's family, but
Speaker 1: after his mom passed, we were then like what are
Speaker 1: we going to do with our day?
Speaker 2: So last year we.
Speaker 1: Went to a friend's house and did another friends Giving
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving Day, But then we had a full blown
Speaker 1: next day also Thanksgiving with our family, and it was like,
Speaker 1: guess what forty eight hours too much? Is too much Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3: When you say free.
Speaker 7: Day, you mean like the purge, like no rules, Yeah,
Speaker 7: murders legal.
Speaker 2: Exactly, That's what we do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the actual Thanksgiving days when we commit all
Speaker 1: our crimes and there are no consequences.
Speaker 3: All. Yeah, that's awesome, that's cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so the actual Thanksgiving Day is kind of just
Speaker 4: a relaxing Yeah, well, I.
Speaker 1: Can start prepping. I can start I start doing these
Speaker 1: before in your family at gathering then so, gosh, it
Speaker 1: used to be more, but some people have passed. But
Speaker 1: it's my aunt and her husband and then her two sons,
Speaker 1: their families, my brother, myself, my mom, it was up
Speaker 1: until this year, my grandfather who was ninety nine and
Speaker 1: a half, right, yeah, and then Jensen's mom.
Speaker 2: So yeah, a little little bit of a smaller group.
Speaker 7: And you do the cooking for everybody. Absolutely not, That's
Speaker 7: what I was wondering. I was like, wow, you're cooking
Speaker 7: for twenty people.
Speaker 2: No, my aunt, my aunt does most of the cooking.
Speaker 1: My mom brings pies, and everybody kind of, you know, similar,
Speaker 1: everyone kind of brings the thing they love my family stuffing.
Speaker 1: Because my mom's side of the family is Maltese. It
Speaker 1: isn't stuffing, it's dressing. But we always called it stuffing.
Speaker 6: What does that mean.
Speaker 8: It's flavorful grease, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: So you meet it's like meat and rice and celery,
Speaker 1: and it gets stuffed inside the turkeys, cooked inside the turkey,
Speaker 1: inside the turkey, so it's got all those juices. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: which is really good, delicious, all the juices and whatever.
Speaker 1: So it is kind of greasy, but it's also meat.
Speaker 8: It's like, what type of grease. It's very greasy. It's very.
Speaker 2: Carefully careful, so it's okay.
Speaker 9: What I'm saying is like when I saw a very
Speaker 9: tipang of Christmas, I was like, wow, what what a
Speaker 9: what a mean girl forcing everyone to do her traditions.
Speaker 9: And then I realized the first time I ever went
Speaker 9: to official holidays, well, you know, you can't do this
Speaker 9: stuffing now that someone a non alien is here. It's
Speaker 9: It's truly it was an insane way to celebrate. And
Speaker 9: now I think I fixed it.
Speaker 1: I told that he's still the only person who I make.
Speaker 1: I make regular stuffing for him, and he's the only
Speaker 1: person who eats it. No one else eats it, No,
Speaker 1: no one else cares at all. Old top like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: he just stuffing. Yeah, he just likes box like stovetop.
Speaker 2: Well, now I'm going to make you yeh.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I would rather have Susans. But I'm saying, yeah,
Speaker 8: that's the style.
Speaker 3: Right right, yeah, stuffing, stuffing, Yeah, I get that. We
Speaker 3: didn't do that.
Speaker 2: Wow, it's dressing, yeah, but we we don't call it dressing.
Speaker 2: We call it stuffing. So it was also very confusing
Speaker 2: because it was like, yeah, we're gonna.
Speaker 3: Have stuffing, and is that maltesean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's like I think it's a Maltese dish. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 7: We were as kids when we hit a seven or eight,
Speaker 7: were stripped and put in loincloths and then sent out
Speaker 7: to hunt our own dear.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 3: That's a tradition with just a butter knife.
Speaker 8: I did.
Speaker 3: I had another brother who disappeared to wild turkeys that
Speaker 3: you and so funny.
Speaker 7: I was talking to your dad because we were last
Speaker 7: night having which is another debate we can talk about.
Speaker 7: We're having a dark meat light meat conversation. Yeah, and
Speaker 7: what family you know who grabs the dark meat and
Speaker 7: who grabs a light meat. And your dad was so
Speaker 7: funny because he's at the kitchen and he's just like, well,
Speaker 7: obviously people aren't talking about wild turkeys.
Speaker 3: He's like, because dark meat is disgusting. He's like you
Speaker 3: don't want to the darkt Wilkey in general is disgusting. Well,
Speaker 3: he says, really, maybe that's.
Speaker 6: What turned me off.
Speaker 4: Of yeah, I mean having to clean your own animal too,
Speaker 4: Like it was never fun, Like I just never.
Speaker 2: I wonder you were a vegetarian, well, you know, honestly.
Speaker 4: Like, so I was raised a vegetarian and then started
Speaker 4: eat trading lunches and eating meat when I was like
Speaker 4: twelve or thirty.
Speaker 6: My parents didn't really care, you know, they weren't like
Speaker 6: enforcing it. So I started eating.
Speaker 4: Oh and then I also discovered fast food when I
Speaker 4: was around that age, like I would get whatever. But
Speaker 4: then in biology class, so this is when I was
Speaker 4: like fourteen fifteen, we dissected a rabbit and I was like,
Speaker 4: this is disgusting. I was so turned off, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: if I can't do this, I don't have the right
Speaker 4: to eat meat like that was. I should be willing
Speaker 4: to kill an animal and eat it or just ethically.
Speaker 4: And so I became a veginarian because of that, you know,
Speaker 4: because of my disdain for you know, I.
Speaker 1: Could help you the animals that we eat, that we
Speaker 1: get from the stores and stuff, they've all died from
Speaker 1: natural causes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of old age, usually being loved by a family.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: They died of being too loved yea, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Too well fed, too well fed to love, to close
Speaker 5: their eyes, they give their friend. They're like, it's natural,
Speaker 5: Please use my body to sustain you. And then as
Speaker 5: they die, they automatically are cut into pieces. Yeah, and skinned.
Speaker 3: They it's only that's the circle of life.
Speaker 4: That's so much creepier and like like any of the
Speaker 4: actual factory farming vicious, that's worse.
Speaker 6: Like that exactly.
Speaker 4: It's so funny because I sacrificial animals, like happy meat animals.
Speaker 4: What that's our company, Happy animals. You know, we're growing
Speaker 4: synthetic meat, Like that's like chicken. I guess it wouldn't
Speaker 4: even be synthetic. It doesn't that make.
Speaker 6: Sense, Like if you could just grow meat and blockers
Speaker 6: like gas.
Speaker 3: And they can grow diamonds. I mean, I guess they
Speaker 3: can grow meat, right, but I.
Speaker 6: Mean if they can perfect that, that makes so much.
Speaker 6: If it's not a sentient bean, but it's still producing
Speaker 6: the flavors and the like. I guess. So I did.
Speaker 7: I dissected something in school and I was just the opposite.
Speaker 7: I was like, I didn't want to stop. I was
Speaker 7: so fascinated by everything that I seriously wanted to be started,
Speaker 7: Chili Cats, I, the Body Works. It was just, you know,
Speaker 7: everything was incredible. And so I thought to myself, like,
Speaker 7: I'm going to be a surgeon. That's what I'm going
Speaker 7: to be. And my mom was like, you got to
Speaker 7: get really good grades. And I was like, I'm going
Speaker 7: to be an actor. That's the best thing I'm going
Speaker 7: to do because I just you know, you but the
Speaker 7: the actual cutting into a body and fixing something and
Speaker 7: then closing it is so fascinating to me.
Speaker 6: So I can't I can't even watch like people. I
Speaker 6: know people watch like videos or like medical stuff.
Speaker 3: No, no, that doesn't bother me. It doesn't bother me
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 2: You know, that doesn't The videos and stuff don't bother me.
Speaker 1: And my dad's had multiple surgeries and we get the
Speaker 1: videos of inside, you know, like, and I can watch them.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, look at the carte.
Speaker 6: Such a whim.
Speaker 3: You never watch your Kolonoy videos. They're awesome every year
Speaker 3: every year.
Speaker 8: About writers, I love.
Speaker 3: Merchant.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't like them. I don't like everybody's but
Speaker 8: but writers videos are very good.
Speaker 6: Aren't they amazing?
Speaker 3: There's always that twists and turns.
Speaker 2: All right, well, what's one of your favorite Thanksgiving tradition?
Speaker 7: You know, I think it's it's it's okay. So I
Speaker 7: realized this again last night, and this is so stupid,
Speaker 7: but it's something again. Your dad and I were talking
Speaker 7: about some people have a love of this, and I do.
Speaker 7: I love cleaning the kitchen afterwards. Oh yeah, I love
Speaker 7: washing dishes every night. I do. I just I like
Speaker 7: hum away and my hands are in the warm water
Speaker 7: and I'm cleaning everything up. I don't there's something about
Speaker 7: it that I just I enjoy and I usually clean
Speaker 7: up the kitchen at our house. My wife and I
Speaker 7: cook together, and then I'm always doing the dishes. But
Speaker 7: there's something I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3: And it's funny. Your dad was like I was.
Speaker 7: He told me He's like, I was a professional a
Speaker 7: dishwasher for a while and he's like, I.
Speaker 6: Just enjoy it.
Speaker 3: And I'm the same way. I just kind of enjoy
Speaker 3: the process of cleaning up the kitchen.
Speaker 6: Totally, so totally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then all the little.
Speaker 7: Stuff, the conversations that break out in different groups, and yeah,
Speaker 7: it's just the whole day is pretty magical. And I
Speaker 7: was never a huge Thanksgiving person because when I moved
Speaker 7: out to LA I didn't go home at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Speaker 3: I just went home for two weeks at Christmas.
Speaker 7: So Thanksgiving a lot of the time was me by myself,
Speaker 7: doing like a fast food or Marie Calendars or something
Speaker 7: like that. And then when my brother and I moved
Speaker 7: in together, we started cooking a real Thanksgiving dinner and
Speaker 7: having a couple friends over and that became more of
Speaker 7: a thing.
Speaker 3: But Thanksgiving was never really a thing.
Speaker 7: And then when Susan I got together, it's her favorite holiday,
Speaker 7: so it really took off and now it's like now
Speaker 7: I love it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, three years while you.
Speaker 9: Were taping, boy means world, you would sit a load
Speaker 9: of Ree calendars on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: No God, that's sad. They would deliver it to our house,
Speaker 3: deliver it to my house.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I wouldn't even leave the house.
Speaker 3: No God, that would never leave.
Speaker 7: It usually because then it was like we'd have because
Speaker 7: then I'd fly home again, like what, it's a three
Speaker 7: weeks later because.
Speaker 1: We'd have a well, and we weren't usually off for
Speaker 1: two weeks at Thanksgiving. We'd be off for just the
Speaker 1: one week, right, And so, I.
Speaker 7: Mean I think I did occasionally, but it was rare.
Speaker 7: Thanksgiving was just kind of another day. I watch football
Speaker 7: and I'd hang.
Speaker 1: Out in a minute, now that I think about it,
Speaker 1: how would that be possible with our weeks starting on
Speaker 1: a Friday. We had to have been off for two
Speaker 1: weeks at Thanksgiving because they weren't going to make us
Speaker 1: go back to work the day after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: So we must have had.
Speaker 7: I don't know, because it was like me come back,
Speaker 7: I wasn't rider was flying, you know, going home for
Speaker 7: lunch like so yeah, no, but yeah, we'll talk about Christmas.
Speaker 3: I have a great Christmas.
Speaker 7: Tradition Susan than I have, which is a giant NERF
Speaker 7: gun family NERF gun fight, oh, which takes place on
Speaker 7: Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll go and everybody.
Speaker 2: Because everybody who comes, right.
Speaker 7: So the last time we did it, it was my self, Susan,
Speaker 7: my stepdaughter Lexi, my son in law Ben, and Susan's
Speaker 7: ex husband, Lexi's dad all get along very well, and
Speaker 7: we buy each other different guns and then you get
Speaker 7: off into the house and there's times where it's like
Speaker 7: Sue and I one year hid the fact that we
Speaker 7: each got like giant rifles where everybody have these little
Speaker 7: like pop pop and then we're coming out like Rambo
Speaker 7: Lakes spraying the living room so stuff we're diving behind
Speaker 7: and then we take our.
Speaker 3: Picture of everybody holding up our nerf guns. So that
Speaker 3: stuff like that was cool. But yeah, it's been it's
Speaker 3: been nice.
Speaker 7: I'd like to go back and do a nice Christmas
Speaker 7: in Connecticut, which I haven't done.
Speaker 3: In years, so that would be cool.
Speaker 6: Really, you haven't gone home.
Speaker 3: To no, because you know you Now, I live in
Speaker 3: la and I've got a wife out here and have
Speaker 3: our own traditions. That's the thing about traditions.
Speaker 7: It's so interesting is you kind of incorporate some, but
Speaker 7: then you start your own right and it becomes a
Speaker 7: whole new things.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it's great.
Speaker 4: So nobody's had any like like like, do you go
Speaker 4: around and say what you're thankful for kind of traditions
Speaker 4: or any of that.
Speaker 3: We do that, Yeah, we do that just before.
Speaker 7: But again it's like last night, there's fourteen of us
Speaker 7: around a table, so go around and say what you're thinking?
Speaker 2: Well, getting forty.
Speaker 3: Minutes without eating, Yeah, where there's four of you around
Speaker 3: the table. It's easy. Yeah, I'm happy for you. Let's eat,
Speaker 3: you know, let's eat your cranbery sauce.
Speaker 1: You know what's a good idea that I might start
Speaker 1: doing this year is that asking everyone to write down
Speaker 1: something they're grateful for on a little piece of paper,
Speaker 1: putting it into a bass get. Then after dinner, before dessert,
Speaker 1: everyone pulls one out and reads idea.
Speaker 4: I also like the idea of that of something that
Speaker 4: you could save having like a book or something that,
Speaker 4: like at the end of the meal, because it would
Speaker 4: be nice to like commemorate totally, like here's what everyone
Speaker 4: wrote down in the Thanksgiving journal?
Speaker 1: What it is Thanksgiving journal? But especially when you have
Speaker 1: small kids, because it's cute to be like, what is it?
Speaker 1: What are they going to be thankful?
Speaker 3: Four?
Speaker 2: At five? You know, like, what's he gonna what's he
Speaker 2: gonna say?
Speaker 3: I loved what we did last night. I loved your
Speaker 3: family's tradition.
Speaker 6: I thought that was great, just holding holding hands and
Speaker 6: saying like we're so happy to be together. Yea very simple.
Speaker 4: But I also like, if you guys ever been to
Speaker 4: a cafe gratitude Yes, no, yes, Gratitude.
Speaker 8: Did get investigated for being an actual what I am without.
Speaker 6: Them telling you. We have to order.
Speaker 4: All the things on the menu are called I am,
Speaker 4: I am something and so so they you would hate
Speaker 4: this place, say I am blessed.
Speaker 6: They have to tell you what you have to say
Speaker 6: what you're grateful for before you can order.
Speaker 8: You can skip it.
Speaker 6: Where is this there's I think it started.
Speaker 2: There's one in Large, there's one in Orange County.
Speaker 3: I'm grateful. I have never been the exactly. It's your nightmare.
Speaker 2: It's like the food is so good.
Speaker 8: Though.
Speaker 9: It's a pretty famous story is that the owners were
Speaker 9: these like hardcore vegans and they created really truly was
Speaker 9: investigated as a cult, like it's a it's a pretty
Speaker 9: big deal, a lot of cleansest whatever, and one.
Speaker 8: Day they woke up and now all they do is
Speaker 8: eat me. Really yeah, they run a full farm like
Speaker 8: they It obviously affected the restaurant, like people picketed outside it.
Speaker 6: I mean I'm only in there like once or twice.
Speaker 6: But the food is good.
Speaker 4: It's actually a good, you know, and like you know,
Speaker 4: the water is blessed or like you know, been like
Speaker 4: had a ritual over it kind of thing.
Speaker 2: It's I don't know about that. I think you just
Speaker 2: made that part up.
Speaker 6: No, maybe I'm confusing with another restaurant.
Speaker 4: I definitely remember like somewhere getting like the person bringing
Speaker 4: the water and being like it's been somewhere, like.
Speaker 8: Gratitude to medieval time.
Speaker 3: Can you believe I've never been to medieval time? What? Well,
Speaker 3: now the trip, I have never been?
Speaker 2: They back up and running or not?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, I think so since the strike? Yeah there?
Speaker 3: What when did the nights strike? Oh god, a yie
Speaker 3: old strike, old strike.
Speaker 6: Old Junion collection like organizing. Yeah, no, man, it was
Speaker 6: it was yeah when we went, so that was like
Speaker 6: three years ago.
Speaker 4: I guess it was post COVID that because they were
Speaker 4: they were like picketing outside in full armor.
Speaker 3: Please tell me, Oh god, that would have been great.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a great. It's a good show.
Speaker 4: It's incredible horseback riding. Yeah, like that's the part that's
Speaker 4: the most impressive. Like watching them sword fight.
Speaker 6: It's it's a little hard, you know.
Speaker 3: It's like they're heavy weapons and the heavy armor. God,
Speaker 3: I do want to go though.
Speaker 2: We should do that. We should do a pod trip.
Speaker 6: Yes, there's one in Vegas, right, is there's one in.
Speaker 2: Your nots very farm.
Speaker 3: Okay, oh yeah, yeah, that's a crazy horse.
Speaker 8: You guys ever had bad Thanksgivings?
Speaker 7: I mean I've had thanksgivings where that all the food
Speaker 7: goes wrong. You know, I've had thanksgivings like that. Well
Speaker 7: it's like, you know, you go to you try something
Speaker 7: slightly different, like oh, we're going to smoke a turkey,
Speaker 7: we'll be it'll be ready at three, and it's eight.
Speaker 3: O'clock and you're still not even close to being done.
Speaker 7: I've had stuff like that, or you pull the turkey
Speaker 7: out and it's you've overcooked it by two hours. I mean,
Speaker 7: I've had stuff like that happen, but never anything like
Speaker 7: somebody gets drunk and angry. I've never had any of
Speaker 7: that kind of stuff happened.
Speaker 4: I definitely have had like sad thanksgivings, like where I
Speaker 4: couldn't go home or was separate, But those are not
Speaker 4: being kind of nice. Yeah, like the one I'm thinking
Speaker 4: in particular, we were shooting cabin Fever and our schedule
Speaker 4: got completely screwed up because we were shut down because
Speaker 4: we unionized, and anyway, the whole schedule got messed up.
Speaker 4: And like me and Eli and a couple other cast
Speaker 4: members like got stuck into North Carolina. Well, none of
Speaker 4: us could go home, but like a lot of the
Speaker 4: crew was having Thanksgiving with their family because they were local.
Speaker 4: So we had like this like kind of sad cabin
Speaker 4: fever Thanksgiving. I don't even remember where we were. Somebody
Speaker 4: and like took us in, like us orphans, and I
Speaker 4: remember being sad, like missing my parents and Shiloh and
Speaker 4: like not being home because it was like probably the
Speaker 4: first Thanksgiving I had missed. But that it's also like
Speaker 4: in retrospect, it was really cool because it was like
Speaker 4: we were together as like this film, you know, trying
Speaker 4: to make this movie, and it was just like that
Speaker 4: in weird way, like the sadness makes it a good memory.
Speaker 8: We had a Thanksgiving at my aunt's house.
Speaker 9: Well, and through marriage, like kind of like an in
Speaker 9: law situation, like we don't have a whole lot of
Speaker 9: places to go back in the day with not a
Speaker 9: lot of family, and so someone married into a family
Speaker 9: that we could then join. That makes sense, yeah, and
Speaker 9: always enjoyable, always a good time. And then halfway through
Speaker 9: dinner one year, the phone rang and that person's grandma died.
Speaker 8: We all just stopped eating and went home.
Speaker 2: That's not idea.
Speaker 8: Obviously. Yeah, we stopped, got in the car. I think
Speaker 8: we may have picked up like a KFC all the
Speaker 8: way home.
Speaker 3: Did you have a bad Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: Not really, not that I can think of years ago,
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, there's still there's still a chance they're
Speaker 1: still to have a bad one.
Speaker 3: There's still time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say.
Speaker 1: I'm not as I'm not as into the Thanksgiving meal
Speaker 1: as a lot of people are.
Speaker 2: And it's not because of the turkey. I actually love
Speaker 2: the turkey.
Speaker 8: What is what?
Speaker 3: What is too much? Start? Too much carbs? But I
Speaker 3: don't understand where you're going.
Speaker 1: I think I just always fill up on snacks. I
Speaker 1: like snacks, I know, I like snacks and sides. And
Speaker 1: so there's always chips and dip at my family's house,
Speaker 1: and there's also bowls of eminem's and I go over
Speaker 1: there and so much chip and dip and so many
Speaker 1: m and ms. Yeah, and then by the time dinner
Speaker 1: rolls around, I'm like, I kind of.
Speaker 3: Get the chips and dips, but where are the what's
Speaker 3: pilgrimy about the eminems? I'm just curious.
Speaker 2: Oh no, it's not pilgrimy. They just know I'm coming
Speaker 2: over the.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 8: They sit in a bowl in front of her and
Speaker 8: they just they do yell her name.
Speaker 2: I admit that peanut, peanut butter.
Speaker 3: I love pretzel. Okay, I have a question. I already
Speaker 3: know your answer because it's turkey obviously. No.
Speaker 7: Actually, I'm gonna work strike that. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 7: switch it forget the stuffing, because we all agree. What
Speaker 7: if you sat down at somebody's Thanksgiving table and they
Speaker 7: didn't have a specific thing.
Speaker 3: What's the thing that would make you go like, wait, what?
Speaker 3: Who doesn't do that for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2: I don't have one nothing, nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, Jensen already told you when you have
Speaker 1: a family that calls something stuffing and then people come
Speaker 1: over and they go, what the hell is this fluid?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, the stuffing is the one thing I
Speaker 4: would be like, I'd be potato, really really mashed potatoes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're right, mashed potatoes would be one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I'm also I'm not a big fan of it, but
Speaker 9: I would be surprised if your Thanksgiving spread was lacking yams. Yeah,
Speaker 9: like I find with yams. But also like it's supposed
Speaker 9: to be there.
Speaker 2: We do corn and peas, which we can get rid of. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's just get rid of those. Let's do something else.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm I'm judging on no pumpkin pie.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, absolutely no pumpkin pies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense too. I didn't have any.
Speaker 2: You didn't.
Speaker 3: I couldn't do desert so full.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm never never too fun.
Speaker 3: I had the one marshmallow last night that ended up
Speaker 3: on the back of my pants.
Speaker 2: That was so funny. So that is a tradition that
Speaker 2: if you guys don't do it, do you do the
Speaker 2: fire pit every year on Thanksgiving when you can.
Speaker 1: After dinner last night, we went out into the gorgeous
Speaker 1: woods where they have a fire pit, which I also
Speaker 1: loved the story of your mom.
Speaker 2: Where did she go visit the whole reason she had
Speaker 2: a fire pit she went to?
Speaker 3: She said, She told us last night, she said she
Speaker 3: went to.
Speaker 6: Betsy Randall's house and they.
Speaker 1: Had a fire pit, and she said they came back
Speaker 1: up here and she said, King, build me a fire pit, please,
Speaker 1: And he built that fire pit. And so last night,
Speaker 1: after we had this amazing dinner and Will had cleaned
Speaker 1: the dishes, and we had put away all of our stuff.
Speaker 1: We all went out, put our jackets on and went
Speaker 1: out to the fire pit and sat under the stars.
Speaker 1: I of course was itching everywhere, thinking there must be
Speaker 1: spiders crawling all over my God, and we played charades
Speaker 1: by the fire.
Speaker 6: Indies loves the charades, you guys.
Speaker 4: If anybody else had wanted to sing, it would have
Speaker 4: turned into karaoke, because that's.
Speaker 2: Where that would never will and I would have been
Speaker 2: like a night every.
Speaker 6: Time we're up here within the last couple of years.
Speaker 4: That's what it becomes, is like, you know, hopefully somebody
Speaker 4: can play a guitar or whatever and you can actually
Speaker 4: have live music, but now we have the karaoke speaker,
Speaker 4: so it becomes a big singing.
Speaker 3: It was fun, you know, I'm really but daniel doing
Speaker 3: wild Cats was one.
Speaker 7: I just was watching Danielle and Jensen because they were
Speaker 7: just both It's like you can see a couple that
Speaker 7: knows each.
Speaker 3: Other well because they're both.
Speaker 8: Just losing it.
Speaker 3: I thought for sure it was just cats the music right,
Speaker 3: because she was doing a cat.
Speaker 6: We all got it, and she's like they all got
Speaker 6: a cat.
Speaker 4: It was one word wild, but she jumped up went
Speaker 4: away from the fire and to starting praying, and I.
Speaker 3: Was like, yes, cats the music, and then she pointed
Speaker 3: to your and then she pointed the house and.
Speaker 2: This cat does not live in a house.
Speaker 3: This cat is.
Speaker 2: And then I would prance around wildly, but then just.
Speaker 6: She wouldn't be able to continue because she'd be so
Speaker 6: like laughing at herself.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I was gonna be my pants.
Speaker 1: I was laughing so hard, and everyone, truly, everyone was
Speaker 1: yelling things like homeless cat, this cat cat.
Speaker 3: She keeps like wife like waving us off like it's
Speaker 3: one word.
Speaker 2: It's one word, guys. One were not homeless cats, unhoused cat.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, man, that was fun though, Oh that was so
Speaker 3: much fun.
Speaker 2: Well, I wanted to say new things Giving tradition. We
Speaker 2: come up here every year. It's not gonna work. We're
Speaker 2: not gonna be able to do it every year.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: But I do think we could do it once every
Speaker 2: five years.
Speaker 4: You know. I mean we tend to celebrate Thanksgiving here
Speaker 4: early like we do, so you know it wouldn't intrude
Speaker 4: on other Thanksgiving plans.
Speaker 6: I'm all for it, man, I think.
Speaker 7: No, wait, do you guys will there be a regular
Speaker 7: Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving Day here too or no, this was.
Speaker 4: Actually I think my parents might do something with other friends.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure, but the reason we do it is
Speaker 4: so we can have Thanksgiving in La because Alex likes
Speaker 4: to do a big friends giving. Yea and her parents
Speaker 4: are down there. So this way we've all you know, yeah,
Speaker 4: we've We've done this for like the last basically.
Speaker 6: Since Indie's born.
Speaker 4: I think I'll come up here for a pre Thanksgiving
Speaker 4: and Thanksgiving, then go down there if we can't scheduleise, you.
Speaker 1: Know which, so great, Thank you so much for having
Speaker 1: us up here. A special thank you to Lennon King
Speaker 1: allowed us to come up here, had all of our
Speaker 1: rooms already picked out for us, with where we were
Speaker 1: going to stay, clean, towels, sheets, comfortable beds. What you
Speaker 1: didn't speaking of, which will you take your sheets off
Speaker 1: your bed because I'm going to start laundry?
Speaker 3: I didn't know if I wanted to.
Speaker 7: It's fine, I already made my bed, but I can
Speaker 7: definitely strip. And I was curious do we strip or
Speaker 7: strip or not?
Speaker 1: I would strip, strip, and I'll want don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: It'll be so much easier for you if all you
Speaker 1: have to do. I was thinking we can get it
Speaker 1: done before we leave. But if all you have to
Speaker 1: do is take it out of the dryer and put
Speaker 1: it back on the bed, that's easy.
Speaker 3: Let us do it. I'll figure this.
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Speaker 1: We also have a Part two at the Redwood Shire,
Speaker 1: which is a walk around the property from the day
Speaker 1: we first arrived. It has some funny moments and some
Speaker 1: things you're not gonna want to miss, so make sure
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Speaker 3: Susie's bar, Justice for Susie, Justice for Susie. Daniel wouldn't
Speaker 3: even go in. She she literally said, I assume there
Speaker 3: are spiders in there are not.
Speaker 2: So many spiders in there. It's very narrow and I
Speaker 2: wasn't doing it.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I had just been attacked by a spider as
Speaker 1: it dropped down from the roof of this strong van.
Speaker 6: So nacked attack like the spider had a vendetta.
Speaker 2: Indeed, I dropped down directly in front of a little
Speaker 2: mine and its mouth.
Speaker 3: You screamed like like a random shot had taken you
Speaker 3: in the shoulder.
Speaker 5: In the.
Speaker 3: It was like, what's happening?
Speaker 8: What's happening?
Speaker 2: Will was stopping his feet next to me.
Speaker 7: He was like, what.
Speaker 3: The what am I supposed to be scared of right now?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was a complation of you wanting to save me,
Speaker 1: but also knowing what you needed to be scared of.
Speaker 8: I want out, but I'm so scared.
Speaker 6: Do you want Do I swing?
Speaker 3: What direction am I swinging in? What's happening? Oh god?
Speaker 8: It was funny.
Speaker 2: Okay, writer, send us out?
Speaker 6: We love you all. Pod dismissed.
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