Speaker 1: Call It What It Is with Jessica Capshaw and Camil Luddington,
Speaker 1: an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello Call It crew, and welcome to
Speaker 2: another episode of Call It What It Is. Why are
Speaker 2: we yelling?
Speaker 3: We're we're an extra pep in our step.
Speaker 1: It might be from the brisk breeze outside the walk
Speaker 1: from Grand Central station to the iHeart studios here in
Speaker 1: New York City. Yeah, I have you in person, I
Speaker 1: r L.
Speaker 3: I have how's a feel to be with me?
Speaker 2: Decided to grace you with my presence in person and
Speaker 2: we're having we've been talking. We've been having a little
Speaker 2: Mary Kate and Ashley.
Speaker 1: Morning, our New York minute, our New York minute or
Speaker 1: maybe many my it's hours and in the.
Speaker 2: Studio and we haven't been together in the studio since
Speaker 2: well since you came to LA for something. So it's
Speaker 2: been a hot second.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And when we got to when we got to talk
Speaker 1: to Beanie and Julianne.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, exactly right, And now we're here together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we are.
Speaker 2: Perfect time of year.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the walk was so magical. You get
Speaker 1: out of Grand Central, you get out of the train
Speaker 1: and you go into that big Grand Room that's been
Speaker 1: there for I mean, this is where I sound not smart.
Speaker 3: How long has Grand Central been around. I'm gonna call
Speaker 3: it hundreds of years.
Speaker 2: It's thousands, been around for thousands of years. It's actually
Speaker 2: in Gladiat or two. They come out from there, they
Speaker 2: travel from there to the coliseum.
Speaker 3: They take the horse and buggy downtown on the tracks. Yeah. Suit.
Speaker 1: Anyways, we uh we we got derailed during that story.
Speaker 1: Come out into that beautiful room, and we took a
Speaker 1: lot of pictures with ourselves and with others.
Speaker 2: I'm okay. I'm okay being a full blown tourist in
Speaker 2: New York. Yeah, because even when I lived here, I
Speaker 2: never stopped taking pictures. Yeah, the city is like, come here,
Speaker 2: take a picture.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you because every time you turn a corner,
Speaker 3: you're like.
Speaker 2: What, oh, it's so good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The light, the lights. I just I also think it
Speaker 2: is the holiday season already in New York. There's no
Speaker 2: way you can't come into the city and feel so festive.
Speaker 1: You're wearing a red snowflake on your sweater side holiday sweat.
Speaker 2: This is the first time I'm wearing one this year. Actually,
Speaker 2: I saved it for me.
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving does it matter no, but the city is telling me,
Speaker 1: actually it's it's you know what though, it's it's only
Speaker 1: it's only halfway there really, because so we so we'd
Speaker 1: come on a Grand Central, we exit, we start walking
Speaker 1: up Fifth Avenue. Some of the storefronts are ready for
Speaker 1: the holiday season, some of them are not, so some
Speaker 1: of them are still in progress, as you might say
Speaker 1: in England.
Speaker 3: I uh, I was a little bummed.
Speaker 1: We came around the corner and I actually was really
Speaker 1: waiting for the Aha moment or the Rockefeller Tree and
Speaker 1: having gone up because I followed the Instagram account that yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw it being like truck loaded on the truck
Speaker 1: and driving through the city streets. So I saw the
Speaker 1: tree on its way here, and I thought we were
Speaker 1: gonna come around the corner and the tree was gonna
Speaker 1: be lit up and you were gonna have this.
Speaker 2: Yeah you were, you know, you were hoping for the
Speaker 2: Paris Mountain moment. Yeah, yeah, with the towers all sprinkly
Speaker 2: yea yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sprinkly or twinkly, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah a sprinkle twinkle.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was not and it wasn't that she was
Speaker 1: she's still naked, she's got scaffolding all around her, and
Speaker 1: it looked like there was a bunch of people getting
Speaker 1: her dressed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they'll be a reveal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just won't be here for it.
Speaker 3: You won't be here for it. I'll take a video,
Speaker 3: yeah yeah. Yeah. So we kept going and then like
Speaker 3: all the.
Speaker 1: Department stores, the fancy department stores like Sasmith Avenue, the
Speaker 1: windows still have like the blackouts up.
Speaker 3: That'll get revealed. There was.
Speaker 1: A lot of stores, I mean like there's anyways pick
Speaker 1: your pleasure, all the fancy stores. Yeah, are starting to
Speaker 1: come alive with the holiday spirit.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So we got here today and this is it's perfect
Speaker 2: timing because we have decided to dedicate this episode to
Speaker 2: being a festive theme.
Speaker 1: Yeah sorts, yes, because it's never too early to start,
Speaker 1: clearly not. I mean Josie decorated her room before Halloween
Speaker 1: for Christmas.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, the lights are up. Yeah yeah, so let's go.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I've already listened to Mariah Carey all I Want for
Speaker 3: Christmas multiple times in my house.
Speaker 1: And so we're ready. So we came in New York City.
Speaker 1: It's feeling festive. We get to be together and you know,
Speaker 1: we got Thanksgiving coming up and just a hot minute
Speaker 1: in a New York minute.
Speaker 3: So what do you do for the holiday? Do you
Speaker 3: have things that you always do?
Speaker 2: Well, here's what I love about Thanksgiving. I didn't grow
Speaker 2: up with it, so I just got to inherit. All
Speaker 2: of you know, friends giving traditions around me. And I
Speaker 2: love cooking the turkey on the day. I say cooking,
Speaker 2: but really I get it from Whole Foods. I get
Speaker 2: the one that's pre cooked.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because you just shoved that bad point. You
Speaker 2: can't go wrong. Honestly, you could serve it as is
Speaker 2: cold and then it's almost like a microwave situation.
Speaker 3: Uh huh. It'd be hard to fit it in there.
Speaker 3: But yeah.
Speaker 2: And the reason I did that is because one year
Speaker 2: I was cooking a turkey from scratch. I actually have
Speaker 2: pictures of that year, so I'll post them on Instagram.
Speaker 2: And I was, they absolutely lie to you on a
Speaker 2: package for how long the turkey's going to take? Yeah,
Speaker 2: multiply that by three. They're like, yeah, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: three hours.
Speaker 1: Well but okay, wait pause, because it's my understanding that actually,
Speaker 1: to understand if you've cooked a turkey properly, you need
Speaker 1: to have an internal thermometer. Yeah, and I had you
Speaker 1: need to be able to register the inside temperature of
Speaker 1: the turkey to understand if salmonelle is not in your future.
Speaker 2: But the pack one hundred percent, but the packet is
Speaker 2: assuming that you have the thermometer. And they're saying, hey,
Speaker 2: guess what, it's a quick three hours that twenty pound turkey,
Speaker 2: and you're like, great, great, so we're having dinner at four. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll put it in at one and it'll be done live.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yea yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: The turkey I got that year was an asshole and
Speaker 2: took I don't know twelve hours, and by like the
Speaker 2: twelfth hour, my family members and friends that had come
Speaker 2: over were over it. Yeah, it was a ten I
Speaker 2: was like at ten pm. I'm not even kidding. It
Speaker 2: was like that late. And I was like, I'm taking
Speaker 2: it out. It is what it is, it's been whatever,
Speaker 2: it has been cooked as cooked, yeah, and we're all
Speaker 2: going to eat it. And I thought, genuinely, there's no
Speaker 2: way that people are going to actually get sick. I
Speaker 2: gave food poisoning that year to everyone that had a turkey.
Speaker 2: Oh see, I'm not kidding. I've never given food poisoning
Speaker 2: anybody for but people were caulling up that night.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad I wasn't there.
Speaker 2: So now I get the ready the cooked turkey.
Speaker 3: Yes, let's yes, get it done right. Yeah I have.
Speaker 1: I hosted it when or I cooked when you're And
Speaker 1: I thought, especially with my Missouri roots, having washed my
Speaker 1: grandma ny and to make mashed potatoes five trillion times,
Speaker 1: to which, by the way, go get a video, it
Speaker 1: looks really easy. Not for me, wallpaper paste like the
Speaker 1: actual really discuss every time. I don't know if my
Speaker 1: ratios were off, I don't know if my my my
Speaker 1: my method, I don't know what it was, but it
Speaker 1: was truly disgusting mashed potatoes.
Speaker 3: And I wouldn't think you could mess those up.
Speaker 2: Do you do like the instant package on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, are you at are you really cooking on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3: No? No, no, yeah no.
Speaker 2: I just realized in this moment that this you don't
Speaker 2: cook for that.
Speaker 1: In our family we have, We've done it a bunch
Speaker 1: of different ways.
Speaker 3: We we will cook some dishes.
Speaker 1: And sometimes certain members of our family will get you know,
Speaker 1: you'll get allocated like you're on the mac and cheet
Speaker 1: it cheanges a lot too, Like we we definitely give
Speaker 1: like the feedback. There's feedback, there's there's a suggestion box
Speaker 1: at Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: Oh really Yeah for people that are like, oh I
Speaker 3: really didn't like that.
Speaker 2: Oh, they'll tell you. They'll straight up it's Almoso the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Like they'll throw up a number.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, meshed potatoes. Yeah no, no, no, that's stressful.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, it doesn't feel like a stressful experience.
Speaker 1: It's more just like what did we get right? And
Speaker 1: what could we where could we improve? That's just it's just,
Speaker 1: you know, simple, it's not personal the spirit of Thanksgiving. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what's surprising to me when I cook for
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving is just how much.
Speaker 3: Butter is involved. I love butter.
Speaker 1: I know there's so much good, but it's every dish, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean really everywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't go wrong, though.
Speaker 3: I could have a butter turk.
Speaker 2: Nobody's but no. Oh I put a lot of butter
Speaker 2: on that turkey.
Speaker 3: I'm serious.
Speaker 2: You gotta smother the turkey and butter, and you gotta
Speaker 2: do a little salt pepper, and you gotta throw those
Speaker 2: herbs on to make it all goll pretty and throw
Speaker 2: it in see.
Speaker 1: I could talk about this forever because truly I love
Speaker 1: the holidays me too.
Speaker 3: I really do.
Speaker 1: They were a magical time When I was younger, it
Speaker 1: felt like such just ugh, exciting, full of possibility, a
Speaker 1: little magic in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so much that I love the holiday movies. I
Speaker 3: could watch the same ones over and over again.
Speaker 2: What do you think it's like Thanksgiving movie for the holidays?
Speaker 3: I don't know that.
Speaker 1: I have a Thanksgiving movie that comes top of mine.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about The Family Stone.
Speaker 3: Do you see that one? Really that's holidays? Yeah? I
Speaker 3: think it is it Christmas?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think of trains, planes, and automobiles.
Speaker 3: First. It's been a while, it's been it's been a
Speaker 3: while since I've seen that.
Speaker 2: That's kind of a yeah, we need more Thanksgiving movies.
Speaker 3: Oh, new genre. I'm on it. Yeah, don he's watching
Speaker 3: Christmas movies. Listen.
Speaker 1: I would watch you stuff get cape.
Speaker 2: Over stuffing a turkey this opening scene.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm in told me your sister. Yeah, I love this.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, I will get onto the genre of a
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving movie.
Speaker 3: So much to be grateful for. Yeah, I love Thanksgiving,
Speaker 3: I love Christmas.
Speaker 2: What's the dish you could do without.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, let's name them. I love mashed potatoes when done correctly.
Speaker 1: Do you my favorite?
Speaker 3: The hero dish is stuffing for me. Hero.
Speaker 1: I could eat stuffing all day long. Stuffing with a
Speaker 1: little bit of cranberry. Yeah, like stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes.
Speaker 3: And gravy.
Speaker 1: I don't I Actually this is gonna be sound crazy.
Speaker 1: I could do without a turkey on.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say the turkey can get a little dry.
Speaker 2: I absolutely hate the cranberry sauce that has it berries in.
Speaker 2: I don't want to see you at the.
Speaker 3: Want the canned one, the clear can. Yeah yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Want to be able to see through it. Jelly.
Speaker 1: You wanted to you wanted to move and yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm in. I'm in.
Speaker 2: New Year's is where.
Speaker 3: You start to lose my holiday spirit.
Speaker 2: Get it out of here.
Speaker 3: I just am like, h it's you're done.
Speaker 1: A kin to It's a kin to Valentine's Day, A
Speaker 1: little bit like the expectation versus the event.
Speaker 2: Do you like Valentine's Day?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I decorate and I get all excited about it for
Speaker 1: my kids now, But it was never like I was
Speaker 1: not yeah, I'm not like making like a cozy, romantic
Speaker 1: dinner for two somewhere out on February fourteenth. Nothing's driving
Speaker 1: me towards that.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, man.
Speaker 2: I actually like two years ago forgot it was Valentine's
Speaker 2: Day and the only place that could take us was
Speaker 2: the bar at Benny Hottoes.
Speaker 3: That sounds delightful.
Speaker 2: She was great.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The cocktails were strong, yeah, and the sodium was giving, yeah,
Speaker 2: giving an extra twenty pounds.
Speaker 1: You had some shrimps, and this is what loves all about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yes.
Speaker 2: Could you a favorite holiday song?
Speaker 1: I do well, I've succumbed to them. I've succumbed to them.
Speaker 1: I've just given a surrendered to Mariah Carey.
Speaker 2: You have to pick something other than Mariah all I
Speaker 2: went for Christmas.
Speaker 1: I have to pick something different. Yeah, oh, I mean
Speaker 1: I go old school then, yeah, like like, oh gosh,
Speaker 1: all the names have escaped me right.
Speaker 3: Now, silver bells.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I sang a Christmas song. Krista Vernoff wrote
Speaker 1: me singing a Christmas song with Jim Pickens and Kevin
Speaker 1: McKidd on the couch at Meredith and Derrek's house one year,
Speaker 1: and I was I was just a regular, like maybe
Speaker 1: like my first season as a regular, did it or no?
Speaker 3: Did not?
Speaker 1: Camilla and I white knuckled throughout that entire experience. I
Speaker 1: never sang on films song baby it's cold outside.
Speaker 2: I love silver bells, I love rude to make it
Speaker 2: to down.
Speaker 3: Oh, that would be my least favorite. That felt like.
Speaker 1: Wow, no no, no, no, no, no no, I'm saying no, we're
Speaker 1: comparing notes.
Speaker 3: I love that you love it. It's not mine.
Speaker 2: So I just happened to pick your least of all
Speaker 2: the one hundred Christmas songs. I just sung a song like,
Speaker 2: that's the absolute least.
Speaker 1: Have to disagree. Sometimes it's the spice of life. We
Speaker 1: cannot agree on all things. It's inevitable. It's more entertaining
Speaker 1: that when you make fun of me and when we disagree.
Speaker 3: Once in a while.
Speaker 2: I just felt a little disrespected.
Speaker 3: Oh I sang sorry, it's okay, I'm sorry. I do
Speaker 3: I just friend, we'll.
Speaker 2: Talk about it later. When do we decorate for what?
Speaker 3: Christmas?
Speaker 2: What do you Easter? What do you think I'm talking about? Literally, like, I.
Speaker 3: Just told you we are. I just told you we
Speaker 3: already decorated for Christmas. In Josie's room. That will just
Speaker 3: spread like a contagion throughout.
Speaker 1: The while I'm asking starts. Okay, the Christmas tree gets
Speaker 1: picked up on the day after Thanksgiving if I'm in
Speaker 1: my own home.
Speaker 3: But if I'm out Friday, Black Friday is Christmas Tree
Speaker 3: Day if I could.
Speaker 1: But I'm usually not home then, so I'm usually with
Speaker 1: family and usually away. So then I usually come home
Speaker 1: on Saturday or Sunday night, and then the first thing
Speaker 1: on Monday, when the kids are at school, I am at.
Speaker 3: The Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what we did last year that was
Speaker 1: actually fantastic. I'm gonna need to make a note about
Speaker 1: this because I want to do it again. We had
Speaker 1: a living Christmas tree.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just thought it.
Speaker 2: You mean, you made it sound dramatic, but you just
Speaker 2: bought a tree. No living. It was a tree.
Speaker 1: It's potted, it's a live You don't have to think
Speaker 1: about all the Christmas trees that get killed during Christmas. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the die for your entertainment. This one got to live.
Speaker 1: I said to this Christmas tree after he went back
Speaker 1: into the ground.
Speaker 2: That's cute.
Speaker 3: That's my point.
Speaker 2: That is very cute. So how big is that bucket.
Speaker 2: You got to save the root.
Speaker 3: It's really big.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it gets it comes and again we don't live
Speaker 1: in the city, so they deliver it and it's like
Speaker 1: if you bought a eight foot tree.
Speaker 3: It's like the roots all wrapped in the That is
Speaker 3: really cute. I like, yeah, it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: But then do you get to pick him again? And
Speaker 2: you're like, Bob, why.
Speaker 3: Do you name everyone and everything?
Speaker 2: Bob is? I feel like you're a little bit jealous
Speaker 2: of the name. Why is Bob?
Speaker 3: Can Bob come back? I think Bob is still at
Speaker 3: my house?
Speaker 1: Just replanted, I don't know. This is a good question.
Speaker 1: Can you dig Bob hang on?
Speaker 2: You don't know where he went.
Speaker 1: Un manage that project. I don't remember where he went afterwards.
Speaker 2: That's a little bit about elves.
Speaker 3: Be elves took him away.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean what if he's on What if they
Speaker 2: just shoved.
Speaker 1: Him outside a Walmart and he's like, no, he's at
Speaker 1: my house, like in the ground.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, okay, but what okay? Yeah, No, I
Speaker 2: just have questions about, you know, his safety.
Speaker 1: Bob is fine, okay, And Bob might just get picked
Speaker 1: up by its roots again.
Speaker 3: His roots again and come back and I.
Speaker 2: Just picked up again.
Speaker 3: He's like, off, ao sake, I have to go my share.
Speaker 3: And they listened to that one song so much.
Speaker 2: He's like, hey, yeah, sill bells whatever.
Speaker 3: Along, Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: What about you?
Speaker 3: When do you get your tree?
Speaker 2: I honestly, okay, I'm ferocious about getting a tree. I
Speaker 2: like a very specific shape, a very specific needle. You
Speaker 2: know when people like smell, you know, they're smelling their
Speaker 2: wine then tasty. That's like me looking at trees. I'm smelling,
Speaker 2: I'm touching and whispering to it, fering it. Well it
Speaker 2: gets a little of this, I can see how it responds,
Speaker 2: you know, gonna sense of humor or not. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: so ridiculous, an insane person. If you see me picking
Speaker 2: out a Christmas tree on a Christmas tree lot, it
Speaker 2: is a military operation.
Speaker 3: I'm like Matt.
Speaker 2: North North to the left to you know, it's like,
Speaker 2: I'm crazy about it.
Speaker 1: So you're asking, So you're asking the people at the
Speaker 1: tree lot to pull the ones that you're you're one.
Speaker 2: Of those like pull that out, pull that out. You
Speaker 2: got like six of them lined up and I'm like
Speaker 2: I still and then I had them spin them because
Speaker 2: you got to see like the side, like that side's
Speaker 2: YANKI this side's good. So it honestly was so stressful
Speaker 2: for me that I ordered a tree from This is
Speaker 2: not a plug from King of Christmas. And and so
Speaker 2: now I'm not stressed. So that bad boy sits on
Speaker 2: our he's very cozy in our garage, and I will
Speaker 2: pull him out the weekend after. I mean a lot
Speaker 2: of times it's a Friday. I'm away this year too.
Speaker 3: Wait, this is a fake tree.
Speaker 2: This is a fake tree because the stress of the
Speaker 2: real tree, the tickling, the dinner, other stuff, yeah, all
Speaker 2: the other things, the shenanigans was.
Speaker 3: I would literally be.
Speaker 2: On the floor like I had a nervous break down
Speaker 2: the middle.
Speaker 3: Of you know what I got.
Speaker 2: I think I have a fake tree that looks beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that I would.
Speaker 1: I think former Jessica would would have had an issue
Speaker 1: with a fake tree, and current Jessica evolved. Jessica would say,
Speaker 1: I think that's actually great because you're not killing a tree.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a perfect looking tree.
Speaker 2: It's perfect. It I scented, it's not scented, Okay, But
Speaker 2: to be honest that I do love the scent because
Speaker 2: growing up never a fake tree wouldn't have come within
Speaker 2: six feet of the house, you know, it wasn't even
Speaker 2: in consideration. And I do love the tradition of going
Speaker 2: out and picking the tree. I do too, and so
Speaker 2: there's a little bit of that missing. So sometimes we'll
Speaker 2: just go out and get a mini tree for their room.
Speaker 2: That's real, right.
Speaker 1: I put smaller trees in my kids' tree, the ones
Speaker 1: that want them, Josey and Poppies still want them this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so they get that feeling. But that makes
Speaker 2: me feel so spoiled, like that is just like to
Speaker 2: have a mini tree in your kid's room.
Speaker 1: And there's just something about you and I talked about
Speaker 1: this because when you walked into Josie's room last night, yeah,
Speaker 1: and she had decorated. You said something that you and
Speaker 1: I agree on that I didn't know, which was you
Speaker 1: have to have the right Christmas tree lights because the
Speaker 1: Led Christmas lights.
Speaker 2: I cannot It's not the same stand in the Led lights.
Speaker 2: The colors are off. The blue is gross. I hate it.
Speaker 2: It has to be the I'm going to give you
Speaker 2: an example of what they look like. They look like
Speaker 2: the twinkle lights and stranger things. It has to be
Speaker 2: a pinky color. It has to look like nineties warm.
Speaker 3: Glowy warm. Literally, yeah, I know. So Josie has them all.
Speaker 1: And then over one window there wasn't a plug, so
Speaker 1: she had to get the led and they stick.
Speaker 3: Out like that.
Speaker 2: I had to lie. I said, they looked good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you do? You like because she's you know, she's cute.
Speaker 2: And I was like, they look good over there, and
Speaker 2: then I was like, lie to a.
Speaker 3: Child, Yeah, I get it. Does she appreciate it?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 3: She did?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I do have a question because I think
Speaker 1: a lot of money is made around this. What is
Speaker 1: your favorite winter beverage?
Speaker 2: Oh, eggnog and whiskey? I love it?
Speaker 3: This makes sense.
Speaker 2: Spiked, what about you?
Speaker 1: I was you went to alcohol. I went to more like,
Speaker 1: you know, like a peppermint mocha.
Speaker 2: What about a peppermint martini.
Speaker 3: I'll take one of those, yeah for sure? Yeah? Okay?
Speaker 3: And when did you do your shopping? Do you do online?
Speaker 3: Do you go in person? Do you know, go to
Speaker 3: the mall.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you what really pissed me off, and
Speaker 2: I mean this whole heart look serious, I am really serious.
Speaker 3: I know your eyes are narrowing.
Speaker 2: I am so mad that Toys Rust does not exist
Speaker 2: because as a kid going to Toys r Ust, going
Speaker 2: through those aisles, and it was like the most it
Speaker 2: was like being in toy Land, Like it was like.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Well take that experience, and if you compared it to
Speaker 1: Fao Schwartz New York City, like early two thousands, yes,
Speaker 1: like it was.
Speaker 3: I mean and they that time that lasted a long time.
Speaker 2: But now I do feel like like you could have
Speaker 2: gone into Toys r Us and you could have gone
Speaker 2: a buzz light Year, a little Hot Wheels, a Barbie.
Speaker 2: If you go in there in New York City, it's
Speaker 2: a little like here's a really cute bear.
Speaker 3: That's not true about time, No, no, no, no, there
Speaker 3: was a.
Speaker 2: Whole lot of buzz light Year and Hot Wheels.
Speaker 1: No way, I'm trying to think of where it is
Speaker 1: now because now it's near rock Flower Center. Well, it's
Speaker 1: honestly genuine, I'm answering this question actually legitimately, like seriously.
Speaker 3: It depended because the Fao Schwartz wants are an.
Speaker 2: Evolution I'm talking about now. If you go in.
Speaker 1: Now, my last experience was that they have they kind of.
Speaker 1: I could be using this the right way or the
Speaker 1: wrong way. Don't hold me to it. I feel like
Speaker 1: they private labeled all the toys they sell. Now that's
Speaker 1: what I feel like too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they do.
Speaker 1: Like the baking department is like by fo shorts and
Speaker 1: the department is That's That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, I'm with you. I'm on book
Speaker 3: ye yeah.
Speaker 2: Back in the day maybe different. I didn't know, but
Speaker 2: I but I but I don't. I don't want to
Speaker 2: Amazon the toys.
Speaker 3: No, I know. It's I don't want.
Speaker 1: You know, what's a great, great shopping experience. And I'm
Speaker 1: not paid to say this. Walmart American Girl doll. Okay,
Speaker 1: my daughter.
Speaker 2: Just not give as dolls. It's great if you have
Speaker 2: that kid, but my daughter just does not.
Speaker 3: Hash. Were gone to the long with her doll and
Speaker 3: got this and I'm.
Speaker 2: Going to tell you exactly what happened. We went to
Speaker 2: this really cute American Girl doll birthday party, right, so
Speaker 2: she had lunch with the doll. So we didn't have
Speaker 2: a doll. In fact, no, that's a lie. We had
Speaker 2: a doll. I'm going to post a picture on Instagram
Speaker 2: that doll looked like she'd seen some it. Okay, she's
Speaker 2: been through it. First off, she was naked and her
Speaker 2: hair looked like she looked like she'd been electrocuted. Right,
Speaker 2: So we were like, she can't she's one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: We were barbing. I have the picture and I was like,
Speaker 2: we can't bring her, and so we got there early. No,
Speaker 2: she was not appropriate. She would have ruined. She was
Speaker 2: a tea party. She was like, she needs tequila, right,
Speaker 2: so that doll's out. We arrived early. We bought a
Speaker 2: new doll. Dn't got the doll's haired one, and then
Speaker 2: two seconds later we had lunch. It was such a
Speaker 2: cute birthday party. We had lunch at the grove. No,
Speaker 2: it wasn't the grove. It was in Sandry City, and
Speaker 2: she had the doll, and she thought it was really
Speaker 2: funny to just like throw the doll on a bush. Oh,
Speaker 2: so we just go from me to his hair done,
Speaker 2: and then the dolls like sticking out legs upside down
Speaker 2: like this underwear showing, and that doll. I mean, so
Speaker 2: she's about.
Speaker 3: Two hundred plus dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because she's like, oh.
Speaker 3: It's real expensive. Toss into the bushes.
Speaker 2: It's it is us, please come back, toys or us.
Speaker 2: What is your best tip to stay calm and unstressed
Speaker 2: during the holiday.
Speaker 1: Oh, this answer is very easy for me, and it's
Speaker 1: come hard one, but I'm very proud of it.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna surprise you. Preparation. I start preparing.
Speaker 2: Your a psychopath.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I start preparing for the holidays quite early because
Speaker 1: when I was just in charge of you know, myself
Speaker 1: or like my family members when I was younger, that
Speaker 1: seemed manageable. And then you have kids, and I was like, babies,
Speaker 1: first Christmas, It's so exciting whatever. Then you have another
Speaker 1: and then you're working outside the house and you've got
Speaker 1: your family life, and then they start school. You go
Speaker 1: from taking care of like I don't know, four people
Speaker 1: during the holidays. As far as gifts go to, I mean,
Speaker 1: it becomes I mean depending on like, choose your own adventure,
Speaker 1: it could be.
Speaker 3: Plus, it could be forty plus. Yeah, because you.
Speaker 1: Have teachers, you have coaches, you have people that are
Speaker 1: in your life every day that genuinely mean something to you.
Speaker 1: And I absolutely, so so much want to show my
Speaker 1: appreciation and my gratitude during a time that does feel
Speaker 1: so magical, and yet I was finding that this wonderful
Speaker 1: thing that I was doing started to feel really bad,
Speaker 1: like too much pressure.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's so much pressure.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I just I was under it, not over it,
Speaker 1: and it was not working for anyone. And my answer
Speaker 1: I had to have a little talk with myself, and
Speaker 1: I was like, self, you're either cutting this list in
Speaker 1: a really meaningful way, or you're going with one gift
Speaker 1: that you give to everyone, right, yeah, or you're gonna
Speaker 1: start earlier.
Speaker 3: And so I went with starting earlier.
Speaker 2: What is the start time? Here? Are we talking about
Speaker 2: a July?
Speaker 3: I started. I started a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: That's not too early.
Speaker 3: Well that's before Halloween. That seems a little early.
Speaker 2: I don't think. So I've already started googling some.
Speaker 3: Stuff, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: And then and then basically I just have an area
Speaker 1: in the house that no one's allowed to go into,
Speaker 1: and you start like creating piles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I do, and then I do.
Speaker 1: I do end up getting similar things for you know,
Speaker 1: the teachers and.
Speaker 3: Oh the last year, I do remember I should I
Speaker 3: forgot to follow up on this.
Speaker 1: I do actually think that teachers and.
Speaker 3: That kind of like teachers, teachers and coaches and all that.
Speaker 3: I feel like you really should just give them money.
Speaker 2: Well let's ask, yeah, yeah, what do you guys want?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I always get stuck.
Speaker 1: How many robes? How many cups with their name on it?
Speaker 1: How many to go cups with their name on it?
Speaker 2: I don't know though, because like, does a gift cards
Speaker 2: seem like kind of like whatever? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It does, for sure it does, but it also it
Speaker 1: could be like whatever I want?
Speaker 2: True?
Speaker 3: Right, they get to get.
Speaker 2: Whatever they want, true, true, true. Well, okay, if you
Speaker 2: are listening to this and you are a teacher, please
Speaker 2: help Justina, I know, yes, please what you guys really
Speaker 2: do want?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because we will give it to you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, call it cru submissions, call it chritmsubmissions.
Speaker 2: Okay. Isabelle says, I always learn a Christmas piece on
Speaker 2: the piano and buy tons of Christmas candles.
Speaker 3: That's really cute.
Speaker 1: I wish you were in my family because I would
Speaker 1: like to hear you play that Christmas piece on the piano.
Speaker 3: And and I do love a Christmas candle.
Speaker 2: I have so many Christmas candles.
Speaker 1: The ones that smell like something real though, like once,
Speaker 1: like you're the ones that are like gingerbread spiced punkin
Speaker 1: latte with.
Speaker 3: A dash of mocha. Yea, yeah, no, that's not a
Speaker 3: real scent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you need depression? Like what do we talk?
Speaker 2: What's what's real? You need that? That's what you need?
Speaker 3: No, I like a cedar candle. Fine. Wow.
Speaker 1: Gianna wrote in and she said I make a Google
Speaker 1: doc with Christmas list decorations needed at links and photos.
Speaker 2: That's fun. That would bring me joy, love it, Okay.
Speaker 2: Jesslyn said, my anniversary and birthday are in November, so
Speaker 2: we don't decorate or get into the spirit until after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: I think that's pretty common. Yeah, tradition for a lot
Speaker 2: of people.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Jay roden And said, I'm from Poland, and we put
Speaker 1: a coin and a dumpling and whoever finds it will
Speaker 1: be lucky for the whole year we have.
Speaker 2: We we have a tradition like this in England. You
Speaker 2: put a little in the Christmas pudding.
Speaker 3: That's not a cake, it's an actual pudding.
Speaker 2: Uh. It's like it's confusing because like yeah, it's kind
Speaker 2: of like a fruitcake almost, and then like light it
Speaker 2: on fire. Oh yeah, and you shove like ten p
Speaker 2: in there, a twenty p in there, and whoever finds
Speaker 2: that you're talking about doesn't choke pe a pence.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, you just you said a pete. You're not
Speaker 1: talking about like a round green pea. You're talking about
Speaker 1: a pence.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we call it ten p p.
Speaker 3: I was just trying to help the American listeners.
Speaker 2: Okay, sorry you don't yeah, yeah, So anyway.
Speaker 3: I don't know how I feel about money and my food.
Speaker 2: It's gross, but growing up, like I mean you, it
Speaker 2: is gross, and I there's no way my dad washed
Speaker 2: that penny. That's what I'm so you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: Irene says, I dressed my kittens up like their little
Speaker 2: Christmas Eus.
Speaker 3: That's cute.
Speaker 2: I love that cute. It's really cute. I think the
Speaker 2: dogs are going to be Christmas elves now this year.
Speaker 2: I've been inspired.
Speaker 3: O ooh abe.
Speaker 1: I am aligned with your thinking. It's the first year
Speaker 1: that we are doing this. I give my nieces and
Speaker 1: nephews their Christmas gift after Thanksgiving and their new holiday pjs.
Speaker 1: So I think you get your holiday pjs after Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: so that you can wear those bad boys every single
Speaker 1: night up until Christmas.
Speaker 3: You ran that down.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm not writing it down. I tweeted
Speaker 2: this out into the Twitter sphere and there was very really,
Speaker 2: really cute on this subject. Danielle wrote, every year, on
Speaker 2: Christmas Eve before bed, I used to get to open
Speaker 2: one present that would always be new Pj's. It's something
Speaker 2: my nan, my grandma always did, and when she died,
Speaker 2: my mom started doing it. And I'm thirty six now
Speaker 2: and I still get them. Really, I like the PJ
Speaker 2: gift before Christmas.
Speaker 3: I might have to do.
Speaker 1: That because this reminds me. I love traditions. I love
Speaker 1: something that happens every year and that you can rely
Speaker 1: on it. You do it, you know it, you see
Speaker 1: it coming, you look forward to it, you cherish it.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lizzie said, holidays are hard for me because my
Speaker 2: parents divorced and my dad moved out, so it's always
Speaker 2: an awkward family reunion for us on Christmas Eve. I
Speaker 2: think a lot of people listening to this have this experience.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I get that. Yeah, my parents were divorced, and
Speaker 3: I remember it could be a hard time of the year.
Speaker 1: It could be a hard time of the year, and
Speaker 1: I remember still finding the magic in it and just
Speaker 1: sort of trying to stay hopeful that everyone was going
Speaker 1: to behave themselves and we were all going to be
Speaker 1: filled with the Christmas spirit and that it would be
Speaker 1: it would be okay, because everything's gonna be okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also I also think sometimes you take comfort in
Speaker 2: just knowing, like listen, today is gonna be not the best,
Speaker 2: not so fun. Yeah, take the pressure off it being perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and just know that there's millions and millions and millions
Speaker 2: of other people sitting here on this day feeling like
Speaker 2: this is annoying. Yeah, Like I find comfort in things
Speaker 2: like listen, I'm not the only person in the world
Speaker 2: going through this for sure. By the way, there are
Speaker 2: people that are together their families, are not divorced, and
Speaker 2: it's still super.
Speaker 3: Annoying and they're miserable. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Just a little lighthearted comment for the holiday season, No.
Speaker 1: But I think it's worth saying that people talk about
Speaker 1: what it's like to still be in their situations or
Speaker 1: in their in their you know, still dealing with the
Speaker 1: same issues that they're dealing with any other time of
Speaker 1: the year, but during a time of the year that
Speaker 1: everyone wants everybody to be happy and sometimes you're not happy,
Speaker 1: and that's okay. If you're bullied by the Christmas spirit
Speaker 1: and you can sort of like park those problems somewhere
Speaker 1: and be like, I'm gonna get back to you after
Speaker 1: the new year, then great. But if they're still there
Speaker 1: and they're still you know, holding on to you, then
Speaker 1: you have to just sort of honor that moment too
Speaker 1: and try your hardest to be around people who make
Speaker 1: you feel good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it's I think Christmas is hard because of
Speaker 2: the pressure, right, the pressure to feel so much.
Speaker 3: People are spending a lot of money, which is hard.
Speaker 3: It's a lot. The holidays can be a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two things can be true, Nayak said. Argentinian traditions
Speaker 1: are epic for Christmas because it's summer here. You need
Speaker 1: to look it up on TikTok.
Speaker 2: I've always wondered what the summer Well does the summer
Speaker 2: Christmases look like? Yeah, yeah, I know, it would be
Speaker 2: very weird to it's just not Yeah, yeah, okay, Jason.
Speaker 2: Every year my family does filet mignon and baked potatoes
Speaker 2: for Christmas dinner.
Speaker 3: Ooh yeah, Well.
Speaker 2: We were talking about the turkey not being our faves,
Speaker 2: so maybe it's a Filet Mignon change out.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Morgan wrote in and said getting older, realizing your family
Speaker 1: is toxic and still having to spend Christmas with.
Speaker 2: Them sucks again. There you go, nog and whiskey. Morgan
Speaker 2: makes everything a little bit nice.
Speaker 3: You're not alone.
Speaker 1: See, this is where you can come to understand that
Speaker 1: all perspectives and feelings are welcome.
Speaker 2: I gotta say, I've just so that I'm relating and
Speaker 2: being honest and calling it what it is. The biggest
Speaker 2: art events my family has had, not me and Matt,
Speaker 2: like I'm talking about you know, your family of origin,
Speaker 2: the Luddington's yep, have always been on Christmas Day. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in fact, and they're ridiculous. Like I remember there was
Speaker 2: an argument that started over whether the Beatles or Oasis
Speaker 2: were better. And I'm not kidding my subjective it got
Speaker 2: dark cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's unfortunate, I know. Yeah, well it's funny.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm glad that people wrote in about their
Speaker 1: their real feelings and their real experiences because it is
Speaker 1: reminding me that I can definitely do a little revisionist
Speaker 1: history because I like to move towards the light and
Speaker 1: the and the joyous, but yeah, yeah, there's some there
Speaker 1: were some dark. There's some moments, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And also when you get older because actually my grandparents
Speaker 1: and my parents were divorced, so I actually.
Speaker 3: I bopped around. Yeah yeah, and when.
Speaker 1: People are there's so much pressure for people to feel
Speaker 1: like they're with a ton of people during the holidays
Speaker 1: or be some part of some like you know, jubilant
Speaker 1: celebration that they've seen in a movie or television show.
Speaker 3: But that's not everybody's reality. You know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're alone and guess what it's. It's a Christian tradition.
Speaker 1: It's a Christian holiday. That's that's not what everyone else
Speaker 1: is celebrating. And so you kind of have to just
Speaker 1: make some room for where everybody else is coming from.
Speaker 3: And that's okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Eden said, for Honkah, we light the manora together
Speaker 2: and eat and sing. It makes me so happy.
Speaker 3: These were some good.
Speaker 1: Celebrate I do the whole thing, all of it, all
Speaker 1: of them, I know, some of my favorite favorite favorite
Speaker 1: memories as a teenager, especially because I was the oldest
Speaker 1: and so we always had it felt like all the
Speaker 1: youngers and the babies and just all the lights in
Speaker 1: their eyes and was celebrating Hanukah and.
Speaker 3: I love love love, like right after you light.
Speaker 1: The candles and and then there was just the singing
Speaker 1: it is we did, we did, We sang a lot
Speaker 1: and we danced and then we would get that dance.
Speaker 1: That dance would go on for a lot longer than
Speaker 1: just you know, the lighting of the candles.
Speaker 3: My mom, it was really a congo line. Going back
Speaker 3: to thee. It was a congo line. It was a
Speaker 3: Jewish congo line. God, please take a video. I will.
Speaker 3: I've got some for sure. No, we made it the best.
Speaker 1: And you know what, my my family just that going
Speaker 1: back to what I just said, right, it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be a big family.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you have a small family.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of times I was around a
Speaker 1: big family, and so there's some there's some shit that
Speaker 1: comes with that, you know, people disagree or whatever, but
Speaker 1: there's also just tremendous togetherness and light and everybody can
Speaker 1: pretty much hold on for that one conga that line
Speaker 1: just there's the conga line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe that's maybe.
Speaker 1: Party all dance a whore. I can't stop it. The table,
Speaker 1: I give you a treat.
Speaker 2: Hate amazing Kristen The Day the tree goes up.
Speaker 1: We watched the nineteen fifty one Black and White a
Speaker 1: Christmas Carol, and it's a wonderful life.
Speaker 3: I love it. There's a great business.
Speaker 2: I hate a wonderful life.
Speaker 3: Hate is a strong word.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I find it so depressing, and some of my members
Speaker 2: of my family love it. I just can't.
Speaker 1: I don't like it, you say, I can't tell you
Speaker 1: the last time I watched it in its entirety.
Speaker 2: There's a reason, okay, as you Lily, Lily said, my
Speaker 2: church has Thanksgiving and Christmas services and we serve food
Speaker 2: and sing. I always loved midnight Mass. Did you do
Speaker 2: the midnight Mass? Yeah, yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 3: We did.
Speaker 1: We did all the masses in all the different ways.
Speaker 1: You know, something is brought up in Lily's uh right
Speaker 1: in and it's we serve food. I don't know if
Speaker 1: she's talking about just serving her family food. But one
Speaker 1: of the most rewarding things that I've done with our family,
Speaker 1: like now our our our Gabagan family, our family is
Speaker 1: be of service. So we have gone to do, you know,
Speaker 1: serving Thanksgiving meals to those who are party of ones
Speaker 1: right where they go to a local place where they
Speaker 1: can be at a dinner table and you dress up
Speaker 1: the table really nice, and the kids have been servers,
Speaker 1: and it's funny, they've always been really nervous about doing it.
Speaker 3: They've always been very nervous, like am I going to
Speaker 3: do it right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And pushing through that discomfort and not knowing or even
Speaker 1: just you know, talking to.
Speaker 3: People they don't know or whatever. I've never my heart
Speaker 3: is so full when we leave experiences like that. I
Speaker 3: almost have been.
Speaker 1: I've almost had the thought that service might actually be selfish,
Speaker 1: like you feel so good about having helped someone else.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of opportunities to do that.
Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of opportunities to do
Speaker 1: that during the holidays. And I also think for those
Speaker 1: who are feeling a little lonely or feeling like maybe
Speaker 1: they don't have that you know, picture perfect holiday celebration
Speaker 1: ahead of them, I would encourage you to look for
Speaker 1: ways you can help people.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like that a lot.
Speaker 1: Jess yeah ood, Yeah, I like that distracts you from
Speaker 1: your worries too.
Speaker 3: If you want to look for how it helps you.
Speaker 2: Can I just skip straight to Natalie.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Nallie says I get drunk at the airport before I
Speaker 2: treat myself to a trip.
Speaker 3: I wonder if Natalie always makes her flight.
Speaker 2: I bet she does. I bet she loves it. I
Speaker 2: just there's nothing. No, we don't even need to make
Speaker 2: a comment on that. Good job, Nallie, as you should.
Speaker 1: Becka says, I just want to meet the love of
Speaker 1: my life so we can start our own traditions. Is
Speaker 1: that too much to ask?
Speaker 3: Nope, and guess what you will get it.
Speaker 2: I think that like friends giving and friends miss you make,
Speaker 2: making the traditions with your friends is really fun too.
Speaker 3: Though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't just have to be love of your life,
Speaker 2: oh for sure. Yeah. Jenny said, we do a gingerbread
Speaker 2: house competition with my kids, who are in their twenties.
Speaker 2: We love to bake. I love this too, I love it,
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 1: Casey said, I get two trees, a cute one for
Speaker 1: the living room and and.
Speaker 3: An ugly one for my kids room. That's cute.
Speaker 1: That's like the Charlie Brown Christmas tree, right, that's very funny.
Speaker 3: That's cute.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Maya said, I try to catch a
Speaker 2: cold to avoid going to my family for the holiday.
Speaker 3: This makes me just think she's like licking, like licking.
Speaker 2: You know, an elevator, Yeah, all the things buttons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Maya.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you a little secret. You can just
Speaker 2: say you have a cold. I don't have to get it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, here we have the Charlie Brown and.
Speaker 1: Christmas Tree Aslan Ashlin. Yeah, Ashlyn says, we purposely try
Speaker 1: to find a Charlie Brown tree that needs love.
Speaker 2: I think I'm going to get one. I think I
Speaker 2: gotta go get that tree. Yeah, cutesy, cutesy. After eating,
Speaker 2: we all say one thing we love about the person
Speaker 2: to the left of.
Speaker 3: Us, like my birthday. But they're all about me.
Speaker 2: They're just all about you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I'd like everyone to go around the table and
Speaker 3: talk about, yeah, how much they love me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no justice about other people.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, anyways, Mimi says, a shot of tequila before
Speaker 1: the family comes over.
Speaker 2: It's a must, agreed, can't go wrong with a shot
Speaker 2: aut tequila.
Speaker 3: Mai said.
Speaker 2: We go to the cinema, the movie theater on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2: There's no one there and it's something we love doing.
Speaker 2: I can see that being really cute. Always good movies
Speaker 2: out of Christmas time. Mm hmmm, great.
Speaker 1: Thoma says, growing up, I stayed up late making to
Speaker 1: Molly's with my mom.
Speaker 3: On the twenty third and twenty.
Speaker 2: Fourth, Rina said, we do our annual Christmas karaoke. We
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 3: That's fun.
Speaker 2: That's fun.
Speaker 3: Ella says on December first, my younger siblings sprinkle glitter
Speaker 3: outside to show Santa that my kids live there.
Speaker 2: That's very cute. When do your kids write their Christmas
Speaker 2: letters to Santa?
Speaker 3: There's not like a formal tradition around it.
Speaker 2: There's not.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and you know now that the world, I mean,
Speaker 1: as we have all things get a little more digital.
Speaker 3: I feel like I've got you know.
Speaker 2: What they're emailing Google docs. But what are they doing?
Speaker 2: Snap chatting?
Speaker 1: Sannah, Yeah, there's nothing, okay, all right, snapping them with
Speaker 1: the Santa snap Sannah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Laura said, my mom makes my sisters and I
Speaker 2: sing Christmas songs on the video so she can send
Speaker 2: them to friends and family.
Speaker 3: I hope Laura's under fourteen. Can you imagine?
Speaker 2: But you know what's cute about this is like every year,
Speaker 2: if you do it as a tradition, you see yourself
Speaker 2: growing older. Like it could it could be a really
Speaker 2: cute little mashup later in life.
Speaker 3: Hm hmm.
Speaker 1: Sophia said on Thanksgiving, me decorate paper turkeys with a
Speaker 1: theme and we vote for the winner.
Speaker 3: Oh. I remember making turkeys, real paper turkeys as a kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't even know what that is. How do
Speaker 2: you make them? Well?
Speaker 1: Remember the ones with the were your hand, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: outline of your hand. I remember doing those and cutting
Speaker 1: it out, and then I remember it's getting you paper tissue,
Speaker 1: tissue paper, yes, getting tissue paper and then getting little
Speaker 1: dots of glue and like you would like make it
Speaker 1: the feathers.
Speaker 3: Yes, not that artistic.
Speaker 2: I love the parade.
Speaker 1: You how are we not hosts for the parade? That
Speaker 1: was what a bucket list thing for you?
Speaker 3: You really wanted to host you guys giving this podcast.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm very excited about the podcast, but
Speaker 2: also we need to be hosting the parade. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: we can make it happen for next year. And then
Speaker 2: I think that that's what I'm saying right now. I
Speaker 2: think this is twenty twenty five. We're going to make
Speaker 2: sure that we're we have a float. If that's how
Speaker 2: it happens, Oh my gosh, god, I'm not sure I
Speaker 2: want to do on the sidelines, being like, and here
Speaker 2: comes the barney like that, I think we'd be really good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think we would too. I think
Speaker 3: we would too.
Speaker 2: Do you guys want to see us help host the things?
Speaker 1: Yeah, start the start petition, Let's find the powers that
Speaker 1: be and let's just start, you know, a deluge of requests.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm like how people like really want to be in
Speaker 2: Marvel movies. I want to be on the sidelines of
Speaker 2: that parade. Here we do, Jessica, amazing, I'm not getting
Speaker 2: all right. You end with Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Charlotte says, we blast Christmas music and put up our decorations.
Speaker 3: Way too early.
Speaker 2: You know, they're blasting Christmas music on the streets of
Speaker 2: New York right now. Yeah, then, Jessica and I have
Speaker 2: full on this is not a joke. We've been dancing
Speaker 2: in the middle of the street. Yeah, we do that.
Speaker 2: We do do that.
Speaker 1: We say we want to live a low key life.
Speaker 1: We say we just want to blend in. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then that cus to us.
Speaker 3: Dancing in the middle of the street.
Speaker 2: A lot of blending.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: No, you know what I'm remembering about what the holidays
Speaker 1: and Christmas list is that a lot of times they'll
Speaker 1: be well, I think it's probably a marketing scheme, but
Speaker 1: there's a there's like the thing to get and I
Speaker 1: remember when I was a kid, the thing to get
Speaker 1: there was a cabbage patch.
Speaker 2: I know that. Do you know why I know this?
Speaker 2: I know this because Matt always talks about this too.
Speaker 1: And they were nowhere to be found, no, and my
Speaker 1: mother reports like going to I mean like a secret
Speaker 1: room somewhere. Yeah, yeah, to get a I mean it
Speaker 1: was a it was a it was a it was
Speaker 1: an official cabbage patch, yeah, doll, but it was like
Speaker 1: you couldn't find them on the shelves of toys r
Speaker 1: us so you had to.
Speaker 3: I don't know how they did this.
Speaker 2: Back Alley, back Alley deals.
Speaker 3: With the cabbage patch of patches. I love that doll though.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they were huge. But I have the memory.
Speaker 2: This isn't something that I wanted. But I do have
Speaker 2: the memory of my little brother. He's born in nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety so I don't know what this was, maybe ninety
Speaker 2: five whatever. Whenever the first toy story came out the
Speaker 2: buzz light years that Christmas, they literally did not make
Speaker 2: enough and it was the toy in fact, I think
Speaker 2: that's why they jingle all the way. The movie with
Speaker 2: Arnold Schwarzmacker is based on that Christmas Oh they're all
Speaker 2: after this like action toy and it was the same
Speaker 2: thing like the lions outside toys r us to be
Speaker 2: the first one in there to try and grab a
Speaker 2: buzz light Year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's real.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we cannot end this episode without me giving a
Speaker 1: special shout out to my favorite Christmas movie.
Speaker 3: Do it? No one makes me laugh like Will Ferrell Enolf.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, that's your very favorite.
Speaker 1: Well for comedy and for sheer enjoyment, and I could
Speaker 1: watch it a million different times.
Speaker 2: Yes, this episode made me so happy.
Speaker 1: Well you should be so happy because we get to
Speaker 1: leave this episode and walk out onto the streets of
Speaker 1: New York City where Christmas music is already blasting, and
Speaker 1: are going to be amusing dance.
Speaker 3: In the streets.
Speaker 2: But I'm just excited to spend it with the call it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, me too, I know.
Speaker 2: Can you guys send us all your pictures? Do you
Speaker 2: want to see what you're decorating? Well, you know what,
Speaker 2: we'll be on the Instagram.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, send us, send us all your
Speaker 1: things and you know what, only because we started with
Speaker 1: the joy and thanks to you all, we were reminded
Speaker 1: of some of the parts of the holidays that can
Speaker 1: be really tough. And I just want to say that
Speaker 1: it's very easy to think that something's going to be
Speaker 1: a certain way for forever, and when we're stuck in
Speaker 1: a thing, a fear, a challenge, a situation of a
Speaker 1: relationship that's not going the way we want it to,
Speaker 1: it's it's just really easy to think it's going to
Speaker 1: be like that and it's never going to change. And
Speaker 1: I think one of the greatest things that we can
Speaker 1: remember is that nothing stays the same forever. Things are
Speaker 1: constantly changing and evolving, and having hope is something that
Speaker 1: you can have in any situation. And hoping for something
Speaker 1: that's better and closing your eyes and maybe even thinking
Speaker 1: about what it's going to look like when it's better
Speaker 1: or sound like is not a bad idea.
Speaker 3: And I also would love to say that we are all.
Speaker 3: We're here with you, so whatever that means to you,
Speaker 3: please know that I feel that it's true.
Speaker 2: I agree, I like that. I like that For our
Speaker 2: sign off, bigger picture.
Speaker 1: Bigger picture, bigger picture, This two shall pass YEA and
Speaker 1: for those of you that want to play Christmas music
Speaker 1: all year round.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this too shall stay. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Let's call I love being with you here, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you all, and let's call it the end of
Speaker 1: the episode.